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Can you name the pseudonymous authors? Enter a name in the box below Correctly named names will show up below Answers do not have to be guessed in order This game contributed by RebeccaAMax on 09/29/2009 You have 6 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 5190 TV Shows (U.S.) 3506 Broadway Opening Lines 3470 You Do Know Jack 1497 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 1444 Same Last Name 1214 And more...
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Real Name	Pen Name
Karen Blixen
Mary Ann Evans
Alice Bradley Sheldon
Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin
François-Marie Arouet
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
Brian O'Nolan
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë
Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto
Kimitake Hiraoka

Real Name	Pen Name
David John Moore Cornwell
Marie-Henri Beyle
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Aron Ettore Schmitz
Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov
Eric Blair
Theodor Geisel
Samuel Clemens
Hector Hugh Munro
Daniel Handler
William Sydney Porter

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	InsertCleverName:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 21:30 GMT	2 points
	Tough quiz, but enjoyable. Nice mix of authors in terms of time period and geography.

	paoletti:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 22:23 GMT	-3 points
	nice quizz

	wistfulabacus:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 23:19 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 23:54 GMT	2 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 6th, 2009 at 01:48 GMT	0 points
	Not when the colour scheme renders it nearly unreadable, I'm afraid, sorry...

	RebeccaAMax:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 02:14 GMT	0 points
	Sorry, I can't edit it now that it's published.

	Arbutus:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 03:19 GMT	0 points
	I only got 9, but I had great fun doing it! Thanks for writing this quiz! :)

	awesomegerbzy:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 03:56 GMT	0 points
	Wow, that was hard, but very interesting :)

	kingstony:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 05:16 GMT	2 points
	ditto, well bleedin' tough I got 2. Time to learn, yippee!

	Scorn:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 14:28 GMT	2 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 15:44 GMT	4 points
	Thank you to whoever changed the colour scheme! :-)

	mrgenova:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 22:48 GMT	2 points
	Richard Bachman?

	magicpebble:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 04:41 GMT	0 points
	Wish the Bronte sisters had been split up...took me forever to remember Ellis.

	RebeccaAMax:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 06:21 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 11:07 GMT	1 point
	My mind did Eric Blair -> Harry Houdini. Of course, that was Ehrich Weiss...

	jessbowen:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 02:42 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!