Can you name the number by solving the literary math equations?

Hint	Answer
Dickens Tale of __ Cities + Dumas' __ Musketeers
Hanff's __ Charing Cross Road - Clancy's Rainbow __
Marquez's ___ Years of Solitude / Tolkien's __ Towers
Heller's Catch-__ x Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse __
Bradbury's Fahrenheit ___ - Pynchon's Crying of Lot __
Hawthorne's House of __ Gables x Albom's __ People You Meet in Heaven
Orwell's ____ + Verne's _____ Leagues Under the Sea
Christie's __ Little Indians + by Verne's Around the World in __ Days
Kesey's __ Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest + Hornby's __ Songs
Hosseini's ___ Splendid Suns / by Shakespeare's The __ Gentlemen of Verona
Mortenson's __ Cups of Tea + Hunt's Across ___ Aprils

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Literary Math Quiz

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Created by: Ben -
Contributed: May 3rd, 2010
Published: September 2nd, 2010
Category: Literature
Plays: 39,126

Tags: Numbers Quizzes, Math Quizzes, solving, Editor Pick, equation, literary

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	XCBoss:	Sep 2nd, 2010 at 23:59 GMT	5 points
	Really fun quiz.

	Golden:	Sep 3rd, 2010 at 00:15 GMT	11 points
	Someone, somewhere, missed the two cities/three musketeers one but got something else. But only one. Whoever you are, I hope you feel unique.

	tmxicon:	Sep 3rd, 2010 at 00:35 GMT	9 points
	@Golden: Actually as I write this (1477 takers) up to 14 people may have missed it. So, perhaps they could start a club. I just hope they don't try to name it after how many of them there are.

	lostinnc:	Sep 3rd, 2010 at 01:00 GMT	7 points
	# of Plato's Dialogues = # of Sporcles awarded

	kromclovinfasho:	Sep 3rd, 2010 at 01:11 GMT	0 points
	A lot of these are WAY too esoteric.

	tvfan2:	Sep 3rd, 2010 at 01:25 GMT	1 point
	The only one I found esoteric was Hanff. I've never heard of that one. All the others I've at least heard of although I couldn't hink of how many songs Hornby wrote or how many people you met in heaven. There might be too much time on this quiz. I finished with enough time to just start plugging sequences of numbers into the ones I had no hope of figuring out

	yippeeyappee:	Sep 3rd, 2010 at 01:58 GMT	12 points
	Would be nice if a hidden third column gave us the two numbers!

	drone:	Sep 3rd, 2010 at 02:39 GMT	1 point
	@kromclovinfasho: which ones are esoteric? hunt's was the only one i'd never heard of, and there's only one or two others i'd call sort of obscure (like hornby, but that's only because it isn't one his best known books; he's a well-known writer). all the rest i'd at least run across at some point or another.

	triviahappy:	Sep 3rd, 2010 at 02:41 GMT	4 points
	How original! And fun. :)

	chikka2:	Sep 3rd, 2010 at 02:59 GMT	4 points
	A balanced mix of authors and an original idea. Especially liked the new titles, diverging from the same tired old classics. Super quiz.

	Sporcla:	Sep 3rd, 2010 at 09:38 GMT	4 points
	Got so cross on the first one trying 6, then six, then 8, then eight and repeated numerous times thinking quiz is broken.....ended up giving up and realised that is was a plus sign not a multiplication eign.... :-S

	Sporcla:	Sep 3rd, 2010 at 09:39 GMT	4 points
	@Golden....yeah that would be me!

	austin5string:	Sep 3rd, 2010 at 13:40 GMT	2 points
	This was a fun quiz. Possibly too much time, though. I got all of them correct, but there were several that I had absolutely no idea on, but with some fast ten-key action, I just motored thru entering consecutive numbers until I hit the right answer.

	aherlowbogs:	Sep 3rd, 2010 at 16:21 GMT	1 point
	Great fun. Got caught out a couple of times by not checking what the operator was.

	thejoker15:	Sep 3rd, 2010 at 23:14 GMT	0 points
	it was pretty annoying. i knew one of the two for about half but not what the other one was. so i only got two. still fun tho.

	FIFAfan:	Sep 4th, 2010 at 17:33 GMT	2 points
	Glad to see Mortensen make it on, wonderful man he is.

	CaptHayfever:	Sep 4th, 2010 at 19:43 GMT	3 points
	I kept misreading "Hornby" as "Hornsby" & wondering "What do Bruce Hornsby songs have to do with literature?"

	Meltha:	Sep 8th, 2010 at 02:06 GMT	3 points
	I feel deeply stupid for missing the Orwell one now. I just never think of that as number!

	reliv1908:	Sep 8th, 2010 at 05:55 GMT	2 points
	@aherlowbogs operator? i barely know her!

	RomanDrake:	Sep 21st, 2010 at 02:36 GMT	2 points
	My initial thought was Hawthorne's "House of Green Gables," but you can't multiply green by five.

	moopickle:	Apr 10th, 2011 at 18:42 GMT	4 points
	it really would have helped if I didn't think that they were all addition

	HippieSlay:	Jun 18th, 2011 at 21:24 GMT	1 point
	@golden: Guess I'll have to join the club :(