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Can you name the works that share a title?
created by
RebeccaAMax
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Author 1 (Year)
Title
Author 2 (Year)
Dante Alighieri (1308)
August Strindberg (1896)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1860)
Lillian Hellman (1934)
Marcel Proust (1921)
Cormac McCarthy (1998)
Henry James (1892)
Tom Stoppard (1982)
H.G. Wells (1897)
Ralph Ellison (1952)
Sophocles (442 BCE)
Jean Anouilh (1943)
William Shakespeare (1597)
Luigi Pirandello (1921)
Sir Philip Sidney (c. 1580)
Tom Stoppard (1993)
Author 1 (Year)
Title
Author 2 (Year)
William Golding (1955)
Harold Robbins (1969)
(c. 960 BCE)
Toni Morrison (1977)
Thomas Paine (1794)
Jean-Paul Sartre (1945)
Aristophanes (414 BCE)
Daphne du Maurier (1952)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1833)
James Joyce (1922)
Christopher Marlowe (1593)
Bertolt Brecht (1924)
Aphra Behn (1677)
Joseph Conrad (1923)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1860)
William Faulkner (1924)
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Titles in Common Quiz
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Created Nov 12, 2009 in
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RebeccaAMax
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Nov 13th, 2009 at 01:39 GMT
2 points
Eager for suggestions! (There are a few I left off because I don't want to repeat authors on such a short quiz - for example, Stoppard's and James's "The Real Thing.")
Chocolatl
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Nov 13th, 2009 at 04:39 GMT
0 points
You've got to change those colors, at least on the right-hand side. I can't see a thing!
RebeccaAMax
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Nov 13th, 2009 at 05:11 GMT
0 points
I lightened the right-hand column - did that help?
Chocolatl
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Nov 25th, 2009 at 04:18 GMT
0 points
Yeah, a little.
zigfreid
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Nov 25th, 2009 at 09:38 GMT
1 point
What about Faulkner's and Hawthorne's "The Marble Faun?" Also, "Troilus and Cressida" may be more gettable than Henry IV for Shakespeare (and would be matched Chaucer in this case).
RebeccaAMax
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Nov 26th, 2009 at 07:32 GMT
2 points
I tried to go for works that were different, for the most part - I already had a Shakespeare that wasn't actually the same story as the work with the same title, so I used that. (Another Marlowe or Brecht work, or Sophocles or Anouilh, would be fine too!) Will add "The Marble Faun."
dicko
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Dec 29th, 2009 at 00:10 GMT
2 points
The Inheritors - a title used by Harold Robbins and William Golding. The title Angel has been used by at least 3 authors, probably more. There's a Cormac McCarthy title which was previously used by another author - can't call it to mind, but I remember noting it when McCarthy's book came out. Must be loads more.
dicko
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Dec 29th, 2009 at 00:14 GMT
1 point
I've remembered it: Cities of the Plain also used by Marcel Proust
abanazerb
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Jan 16th, 2010 at 10:34 GMT
1 point
Yow this is obscure! Of the 8 i didn't get, 6 i'd never heard of! Kudos to anyone who gets most of 'em first time.
Game published: Jan 25th, 2010 at 17:50 GMT
rk559
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Jan 25th, 2010 at 18:25 GMT
11 points
Maybe the most difficult quiz on the site.
awesomegerbzy
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Jan 25th, 2010 at 18:45 GMT
9 points
Man! This was really difficult
Gravey
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Jan 25th, 2010 at 19:21 GMT
7 points
Tom Stoppard needs to be more original. How would he like it if I wrote a book and stole one of his titles?
photogirl
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Jan 25th, 2010 at 19:42 GMT
2 points
Definitely a hard quiz. A couple more I should have gotten, but at best I would've had 7/16. My brain hurts!
hunny10
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Jan 25th, 2010 at 20:43 GMT
2 points
I loved that I was reminded that The Birds was written by Du Marier
jessbowen
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Jan 25th, 2010 at 20:58 GMT
2 points
Holy mackerel that was hard!
WorldWhiz
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Jan 25th, 2010 at 21:01 GMT
13 points
Elie Wiesel wrote a book entitled
Twilight
in 1995. Take that, Stephanie Meyer!
Skydog
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Jan 25th, 2010 at 21:08 GMT
4 points
Cool quiz, and WorldWhiz I'm 100% sure it was better than Meyer's too.. those books are soo boring...
AtoneMENT
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Jan 25th, 2010 at 23:47 GMT
3 points
I loved this, brilliant, make more, you know what you're talking about, BUT geez, Harold Robbins? Ah, before I get voted down, maybe I should say, oh, Harold RobBINS, I thought you were talking about that awful man, Harold Robinson...:)
acadec
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Jan 26th, 2010 at 02:20 GMT
1 point
Cities of the Plain is a VERY creative translation of the fourth volume of In Search of Lost Time. At the very least, Sodom and Gomorrah should be an acceptable answer.
RebeccaAMax
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Jan 26th, 2010 at 03:06 GMT
1 point
@acadec: Cities of the Plain may be creative, but it's the title of the English translation in at least some editions, just as "Remembrance of Things Past" is a "creative" translation of "A la recherche du temps perdu." @WorldWhiz great idea, if I could edit the quiz now I'd add it. @Atonement: Ha, I'm not familiar with him, but another commenter suggested it.
RebeccaAMax
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Jan 26th, 2010 at 03:07 GMT
2 points
also @acadec, Sodom and Gomorrah, though an exact translation of the French title, is not also the title of a Cormac McCarthy book, and thus does not fit the "titles in common" theme
cheezguyty
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Jan 26th, 2010 at 04:01 GMT
3 points
What? You mean the title "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" hasn't been used before? Tom Stoppard actually came up with an original name? ;)
Martin
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Jan 26th, 2010 at 07:08 GMT
1 point
It's Bertolt, not Bertholt.
sammyb
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Jan 27th, 2010 at 10:59 GMT
4 points
I was expecting to kick myself afterwards, and then I didn't....
daHOOK
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Aug 7th, 2010 at 18:47 GMT
1 point
Antigone and Antigone aren't pronounced the same, but would still qualify.
RebeccaAMax
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Aug 10th, 2010 at 22:29 GMT
2 points
daHOOK, that's why they're on the quiz. ;) Sophocles and Anouilh.
cavaliergirl18
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Jan 17th, 2013 at 02:52 GMT
2 points
You could also use "The Lost World" - Crichton most recently, and Doyle.
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