Correct answers to these over/under questions (please read game note) (volume 2) Quiz

Can you name the correct answers to these over/under questions (please read game note) (volume 2)?

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You're given a category and a number. The real number is over or under the number given- you just need to guess which one. You're guessing whether the ACTUAL number is over/under the one given.
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Question and Number	Actual is Over or Under	Actual Number
Books in C.S. Lewis' Narnia series: 12		7
Length, in days, of Fogg's circumnavigation: 40		80
Year in which 'Big Brother is Watching You': 2001		1984
Crichton books turned into movies: 7		10
Harry Potter DADA teachers: 9		6
Unique words in 'Green Eggs and Ham': 176		50
Dewey Decimal call # for Literature: 400		800
Leagues Nemo is Under the Sea: 3,000		20,000
Pevensie children: 6		4
Days covered by Anne Frank's diary: 455		781
Years Crusoe spent on the island: 21		28
Dwarves of 'The Hobbit': 11		13

Question and Number	Actual is Over or Under	Actual Number
Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot novels: 51		33
American winners of Nobel for Literature: 8		11
Year of Shakespeare's death: 1564		1616
Age, in years, of Juliet: 16		13
Age of Holden Caulfield when narrating: 25		17
Habits of Highly Effective People: 10		7
Answer to the Ultimate Question of life, etc.: 58		42
Books in Homer's Odyssey: 14		24
Yossarian's circular Catch: 42		22
Sisters of Peter Rabbit: 2		3
Baker Str. address of Sherlock Holmes: 123A		221B
Temp. (F), per Bradbury, where paper burns: 801		451
Dwarves of 'The Hobbit': 11	451
Harry Potter DADA teachers: 9	451
Days covered by Anne Frank's diary: 455	451
Books in C.S. Lewis' Narnia series: 12	451
Age of Holden Caulfield when narrating: 25	451
Sisters of Peter Rabbit: 2	451
Answer to the Ultimate Question of life, etc.: 58	451
Yossarian's circular Catch: 42	451
Year of Shakespeare's death: 1564	451
Crichton books turned into movies: 7	451
Year in which 'Big Brother is Watching You': 2001	451
Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot novels: 51	451
Books in Homer's Odyssey: 14	451
Unique words in 'Green Eggs and Ham': 176	451
Age, in years, of Juliet: 16	451
American winners of Nobel for Literature: 8	451
Habits of Highly Effective People: 10	451
Leagues Nemo is Under the Sea: 3,000	451
Length, in days, of Fogg's circumnavigation: 40	451
Temp. (F), per Bradbury, where paper burns: 801	451
Dewey Decimal call # for Literature: 400	451
Pevensie children: 6	451
Years Crusoe spent on the island: 21	451
Baker Str. address of Sherlock Holmes: 123A	451

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Over/Under: Literature Quiz

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Created Aug 9, 2011 in Literature
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	moviegoer74:	Sep 12th, 2011 at 16:23 GMT		24 points
	I realize this won't come as a revelation to anyone, but something just struck me about these over/unders while looking at the results. Over time, all of the answers should be above 50% correct (bottom 3 are all currently under). Because everyone who knows it will get it right and everyone else has a 50/50 shot. There will always be a few people who "know" it but get it wrong but they will be more than cancelled out by the people who know it and get it right. The point, I suppose, is that there will never be a really hard answer that runs at about 20% (or worse) correct. The ones that are hovering just around 50% will be the really hard ones because if it's right at 50 that means nobody knows it and everyone is just flipping a coin on that one. Again, I realize I'm stating the obvious but for some reason it just struck me now.

	kristifree:	Sep 12th, 2011 at 16:34 GMT		1 point
	@moviegoer74 Yup, that's why it's great that your initial answer can be marked incorrect, thereby locking the question so you can't just guess the opposite of your original answer.

	kristifree:	Sep 12th, 2011 at 16:36 GMT		7 points
	I also really love these clues -- the books/works are not given away, so you actually have to know who Fogg, Yossarian, etc. are, not just titles! Had me reaching back in my memory which was great.

	Blimpyboy:	Sep 12th, 2011 at 16:37 GMT		7 points
	There were actually 7.25 DADA teachers in the Harry Potter books - you can't ignore the contributions of the disfigured face of Voldemort on the back of Quirrell's head. :P

	burywmore:	Sep 12th, 2011 at 16:47 GMT		5 points
	Harry Potter did not have a DADA teacher in the 7th book. He doesnt attend school at all so he has no teachers. So we have Quirrell, Lockhart, Lupin,Fake Moody, Umbridge and Snape. Thats six, not seven. Doesnt affect the answer any, but its good to keep the old facts straight.

	Cerdog:	Sep 12th, 2011 at 16:47 GMT		18 points
	I saw "Leagues Under The Sea" and accidentally put "under", as I was thinking about it physically being under 3000.

	Bradley:	Sep 12th, 2011 at 16:58 GMT		14 points
	It's not a matter of how many leagues under the sea Nemo is. It's how many leagues Nemo travels while under the sea. 20,000 leagues is several times around the Earth, it's not a depth measurement.

	bostonbeliever:	Sep 12th, 2011 at 17:03 GMT		5 points
	really not sure whether or not I should be proud that I know the Dewey Decimal call # for literature...haha I am such a librarian's son.

	Hejman:	Sep 12th, 2011 at 17:07 GMT		7 points
	@burywmore- There are seven DADA teachers over all in the Harry Potter series (the words 'Harry Potter' can refer to the character or the book series) so I listed the answer as 7. However, I intentionally put the given number high enough that it didn't matter either way. @Bradley- You're absolutely right, but the question, like the book title, refers to the distance traveled while under the sea.

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	deugea:	Sep 12th, 2011 at 17:28 GMT		6 points
	So, I know things were different in the late 16th/early 17th century, and people lived shorter lives, but Juliet was only 13? That's pretty young for maybe the most famous love story of all time, don't you think?

	Hejman:	Sep 12th, 2011 at 17:32 GMT		8 points
	@Pogues- Holden Caulfield is the protagonist narrator of J.D. Salinger's 'The Catcher in the Rye.'

	dancastro:	Sep 12th, 2011 at 17:51 GMT		4 points
	To be nitpicky, Phileas Fogg's trip around the world lasted only 79 days and 5 minutes (from 8.45 p.m., Oct. 2nd to 8.50 p.m., Dec. 20th 1872, although he thought that it was Dec. 21st). And I always thought that the plot of the novel is very unlikely. Phileas Fogg had a good knowledge of navigation (sailing through the Atlantic, he actually measures the ship's position with the sextant), so how couldn't he know that the date changes when crossing the meridian of 180º?

	Dolewhite:	Sep 12th, 2011 at 17:56 GMT		6 points
	I thought Neville says in Book 7 that DADA is "just Dark Arts" and that it is using dark magic to torture other students. Ergo, I don't see how you can count Carrow as a teacher of Defense Against the Dark Arts. DADA essentially doesn't exist at all in Book 7.

	Hejman:	Sep 12th, 2011 at 18:14 GMT		6 points
	@Dolewhite- D'oh! You got me there. You're exactly right. Carrow teaches the Darts Arts themselves not defense against them. I give- you're right and I'll change the displayed answer to 6.

	cocky:	Sep 12th, 2011 at 19:53 GMT		3 points
	Fogg started his journey at a specific spot (his club?), so the journey would not be complete until he returned to that exact spot, even if he had already been in London for a few hours.

	severian:	Sep 12th, 2011 at 20:56 GMT		3 points
	In order for anyone to be "20,000 leagues under the sea," the earth would have to be several times its current size! See Bradley's comment above - it's a measurement of distance traveled, not depth.

	M_C_HAMEL:	Sep 12th, 2011 at 20:56 GMT		2 points
	would YOU eat green eggs and ham? is it moldy or something?

	Bobman1:	Sep 12th, 2011 at 21:00 GMT		2 points
	Regarding Fogg, there are two ways to look at it--the TITLE of the book really sets us up for the obvious answer (duh), but then again what about birthdays? By that, I mean that not until you complete 20 full years are you 20, even though on your 20th birthday you start your 21st year nobody says "21" to you for 364 more days. So measured by "birthday time" (AKA how we normally count integers) Fogg's trip is just 79 days. And in reality, it's somewhere in between. I LOVE the DADA discussions above--I was thinking Carrow too until reminded of Neville's comment. I suppose it all hinges on the wording--in my memory, having read that one three or four times, he said "It's more like just Dark Arts," with sort of a sarcastic laugh, but he may have actually been correcting Harry with a "No, nowdays it's just Dark Arts." Tone is everything there--straight or sarcastic? Given Neville's battered underground hero state at that pont, grim gallows humor fits. We all know Carrow taught DA, but his title may have still been DADA Prof. I'll have to re-read to verify, and will do so gladly, though I have 4,000 pages to go in the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey/Maturin books. So it'll have to wait a bit.

	jago706:	Sep 12th, 2011 at 21:55 GMT		4 points
	Interesting that you picked 2001 for the "Big Brother" question. That was the year of 9/11, and the subsequent births of Homeland Security and the Patriot Act.

	kagomeshuko:	Sep 12th, 2011 at 22:44 GMT		5 points
	I like that you revealed the correct answer when the question was answered!

	rdhaley:	Sep 12th, 2011 at 23:38 GMT		1 point
	I can't believe I missed Fahrenheit 451! I thought it was 951 for some reason, then I facepalmed when I read the correct answer. 951 degrees is a completely illogical answer, so I feel stupid.

	Scurra:	Sep 13th, 2011 at 01:01 GMT		2 points
	How much do I hate these quizzes?! Not because they aren't very well constructed and fun, but because I literally can never ever work out what I am supposed to put in the answer space! I frequently know what the correct answer is, but I seem totally unable to work out how it relates to the "wrong" answer. (I wonder if it's related to my inability to get right/left correct?!) Excuse the moan, because as I said, it's a fine format. I just can't do it, that's all...

	roguetrader:	Sep 13th, 2011 at 02:16 GMT		3 points
	Habits of Highly Effective People? Just because it's a book doesn't mean it's literature. Harrumph. Kidding! Sort of.

	dancastro:	Sep 13th, 2011 at 05:19 GMT		2 points
	@rdhaley: actually, as the author of the quiz pointed in an archived comment, paper burns at 450 degrees Celsius or 842 degrees Fahrenheit. So 951ºF wouldn't be completely illogical. Maybe Bradbury confused both temperature scales when he decided to title his book "Fahrenheit 451"?