Answered: Which fictional character is known for fighting windmills?
The Microsoft Rewards Bing Home Trivial quiz is: Which fictional character is known for fighting windmills?
The options given are listed below:
- A Don Quixote
- B Cyrano de Bergerac
- C Sherlock Holmes
The correct answer to this Microsoft Rewards Bing Home Trivial quiz is: Don Quixote.
Mistaking windmills in a field for ferocious giants, the title character of Cervantes’ 17th-century novel attacks them. The scene gave rise to the idiom ’tilting at windmills,’ a phrase used to describe an act of attacking imaginary enemies (or an act of extreme idealism).
