Can you name the pseudonymous authors?

Real Name	Pen Name
François-Marie Arouet
Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin
Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto
Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Kimitake Hiraoka
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
Brian O'Nolan
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë
Daniel Handler

Real Name	Pen Name
Samuel Clemens
Mary Ann Evans
David John Moore Cornwell
Eric Blair
Theodor Geisel
Aron Ettore Schmitz
Hector Hugh Munro
William Sydney Porter
Marie-Henri Beyle
Karen Blixen
Alice Bradley Sheldon

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Pen Names Quiz

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Created by: RebeccaAMax -
Contributed: September 29th, 2009
Published: October 5th, 2009
Category: Literature
Plays: 19,000

Tags: Novel Quizzes, real, pen, pseudonymous, author

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	InsertCleverName:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 17:30 GMT	2 points
	Tough quiz, but enjoyable. Nice mix of authors in terms of time period and geography.

	paoletti:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 18:23 GMT	-2 points
	nice quizz

	wistfulabacus:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 19:19 GMT	1 point
	Thanks so much for a great quiz. How wonderful to see the likes of Neruda and Svevo in Sporcle of all places. Excellent mix of nationalities, periods, and writers. Please try to sneak another literary quiz of this standard onto the site.

	Rifsun:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 19:54 GMT	3 points
	If you read a Lewis Carroll book you are reading whimsical fiction and clever word play. If you read something by Charles Dodgson, then it is most likely math and logic and matrices.

	MissInformed:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 21:48 GMT	2 points
	Not when the colour scheme renders it nearly unreadable, I'm afraid, sorry...

	RebeccaAMax:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 22:14 GMT	-1 points
	Sorry, I can't edit it now that it's published.

	Arbutus:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 23:19 GMT	0 points
	I only got 9, but I had great fun doing it! Thanks for writing this quiz! :)

	awesomegerbzy:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 23:56 GMT	0 points
	Wow, that was hard, but very interesting :)

	kingstony:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 01:16 GMT	2 points
	ditto, well bleedin' tough I got 2. Time to learn, yippee!

	Scorn:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 10:28 GMT	3 points
	I only knew 5 or so, but I typed in George Sand before even reading the questions because I knew it would be there, and I didn't even remember what her real name was... ;)... A bit of a fault with this kind of quiz desing I guess.

	MissInformed:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 11:44 GMT	6 points
	Thank you to whoever changed the colour scheme! :-)

	mrgenova:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 18:48 GMT	2 points
	Richard Bachman?

	magicpebble:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 00:41 GMT	1 point
	Wish the Bronte sisters had been split up...took me forever to remember Ellis.

	RebeccaAMax:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 02:21 GMT	1 point
	Acton is the one I have trouble remembering. ;) I didn't want to split them up because they all had the same pen last name, and there would seem to be an overabundance of Brontes in the table.

	lalalala:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 07:07 GMT	1 point
	My mind did Eric Blair -> Harry Houdini. Of course, that was Ehrich Weiss...

	jessbowen:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 22:42 GMT	2 points
	I was all ready to come to the comment section and suggest some major ommissions, but then when the answers were revealed, it was just my bad spelling. Big love for O. Henry!

	Esme:	Dec 26th, 2009 at 03:40 GMT	1 point
	Yes, it would be great if the clue for the Brontë sisters could indicate that only the last name is needed, not the full pen name of each, since you wouldn't necessarily assume that considering the subject.

	RebeccaAMax:	Jan 8th, 2010 at 20:20 GMT	1 point
	Last names only acceptable is the general rule on Sporcle, but I'll add a note.

	RebeccaAMax:	Jan 8th, 2010 at 20:21 GMT	1 point
	...no, I can't do that now it's published. Ah well.

	dominiquef:	Feb 7th, 2010 at 15:40 GMT	-2 points
	Ayn Rand was a name used in all aspects of life, not just writing.

	Visimore:	Mar 27th, 2010 at 20:53 GMT	1 point
	Good quiz, although I did rather poorly on it. I'm kicking myself for not getting Isak Dinesen and Mishima Yukio.

	janeite1813:	Jun 2nd, 2010 at 17:18 GMT	1 point
	Nice quiz, it's fun seeing Lemony Snicket included in something like this. (Also, Jane Austen always was published as "a lady" while she was alive, I don't know if that would count or not.)

	Getoka:	Oct 20th, 2010 at 07:01 GMT	1 point
	I think requiring an accent for John Le Carre is asking too much.

	glynndah:	Jan 29th, 2012 at 18:27 GMT	2 points
	I tried about ten different ways of spelling "Dinesen", but none of them worked. Too bad I spelled the first name "Isaac".