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Can you name the books with a name in the title?
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ntnon
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Author
Book
Published
Jonathan Swift
1726
Jane Austen
1815
Mary Shelley
1818
Charlotte Brontë
1847
Charles Dickens
1850
Gustave Flaubert
1857
Lewis Carroll
1865
Leo Tolstoy
1877
Oscar Wilde
1890
Thomas Hardy
1891
H.G. Wells
1896
Bram Stoker
1897
Joseph Conrad
1900
L. M. Montgomery
1908
Hermann Hesse
1922
Author
Book
Published
James Joyce
1922
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1925
Virginia Woolf
1925
Robert Graves
1934
C.S. Lewis
1951
Kingsley Amis
1954
Vladimir Nabokov
1955
Boris Pasternak
1957
Roald Dahl
1961
Muriel Spark
1961
Roald Dahl
1964
Richard Bach
1970
Toni Morrison
1978
Anne Rice
1985
John Irving
1989
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00ZeRo00
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 17:49 GMT
-23 points
They forgot ROBINSON CRUSOE by Daniel Defoe
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jellisting:
Jun 7th, 2009 at 17:52 GMT
-20 points
They also forgot Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens
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tripleplay181
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 17:54 GMT
-22 points
how about ethan frome, huck finn
el_barto
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 17:55 GMT
46 points
I'm pretty sure this list isn't all inclusive.
[Deleted]:
Jun 7th, 2009 at 17:55 GMT
37 points
Dickens could practically have a quiz like this by himself. There's Nicholas Nickleby, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Oliver Twist, Martin Chuzzlewit, and probably some others I'm forgetting.
[Deleted]:
Jun 7th, 2009 at 17:55 GMT
10 points
This is still an excellent quiz though.
mennoknight
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 17:56 GMT
1 point
I think this would be a lot better if it was more specific (i.e. first names in book titles). As it is, it's mildly poopy.
pastryflour
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 17:57 GMT
14 points
There's two Roald Dahl books but you forget a third one, Matilda? I thought that book was a lot better than James and the Giant Peach & more well known.
magister
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 17:59 GMT
13 points
Yeah, likewise I'm having problems with multiples. "Beloved" for Toni Morrison was a big one. Also, a number of these are titles with names, yes, but not the names of characters. I know that the directions say nothing about that, but it's kinda loosy-goosey. No title character for Joyce, no title character for Morrison, etc.
desafinado440
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 18:02 GMT
11 points
Charles Dickens could also be "Oliver Twist" and John Irving could also be "The World According to Garp"
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beatrixkiddo
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 18:04 GMT
-14 points
too random - some are very common, some are invented. for example i wouldn't call frankenstein a name, but i would call david one.
Bethannie:
Jun 7th, 2009 at 18:06 GMT
13 points
Very frustrating - but a great idea. As well as the Dickens and Dahl options already noted...L.M.Montgomery also wrote the Emily of New Moon series....and Charlotte Bronte also wrote Shirley...and Hardy wrote Jude the Obscure. These could all be added as acceptable answers.
sporcloid
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 18:08 GMT
17 points
I always enjoy literature quizzes, so this one was great. With hundreds of years of novels to choose from, though, I'm confused as to why two Roald Dahl books were included.
Moo
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 18:14 GMT
4 points
Dickens has way more than one book with a name in the title, i tried like 3 that didn't work
shmick
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 18:17 GMT
7 points
ugh i kept thinking of matilda... charlie and the chocolate factory didnt enter my mind for some strange reason.
thefooman
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 18:18 GMT
14 points
Well, there is an entire quiz devoted to Dickens - http://www.sporcle.com/games/dickens.php and I assume the year is meant to help in the cases where more than one answer could work, but perhaps that is too nuanced.
magister
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 18:24 GMT
2 points
@thefooman: I'll be honest, I didn't even notice the date there, and I'm going to chalk that up to input overload. Now that you mention it, though, 1877 should not be between 1970 and 1978.
callheralaska
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 18:31 GMT
12 points
I think this would be better if they made it a quiz of books with ONLY names in the title, perhaps. I kept typing things like "Matilda," "Oliver Twist," and "Sula" and going WHY NOT?! ;-) There are so few limiters that we could be here all day naming books for this list.
mmmdonuts90:
Jun 7th, 2009 at 18:56 GMT
0 points
"Sula" not being on there for Morrison and "Lady Windermere's Fan" not being on there for Wilde frustrated me.
lulubelles
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 19:08 GMT
0 points
Don't forget George's Marvellous Medicine, I was really disappointed that wasn't one of the two!
lulubelles
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 19:11 GMT
6 points
I partly agree with Mennoknight, the quiz isn't poopy it's great but a bit tighter control on names would be better.
janet
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 19:11 GMT
2 points
Lucky Jim is the best book ever.
fluffy
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 19:14 GMT
-1 points
What about the Importance of Being Earnest for Oscar Wilde?
tamazin
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 19:14 GMT
6 points
the dahl questions in particular made this all the more challenging, I thought....I guessed Matilda, George's Marvelous Medicine, Danny, the Champion of the World, Henry Sugar, and even My Uncle Oswald before I remembered Charlie. Funny how sometimes the most obvious answers escape you on Sporcle, isn't it?
milkmeister
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 19:40 GMT
1 point
Charles Dickens couldn't be Oliver Twist etc, as they weren't published in 1850!
cstravagante
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 19:46 GMT
8 points
Yeah, this quiz would have been so much better if the titles were ONLY names. Only Oliver Twist or Emma or Mathilda, for instance. Perhaps all the possible answers for an author should be accepted? That would solve a lot of the Dickens complaints. And yeah, there are the years of publication, but how many people on Sporcle have those memorized?
milkmeister
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 19:55 GMT
1 point
@estlin: Yeah sure, but isn't the idea of this site that it's a mixture of original knowledge and then acquired learning?
Haunter
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 20:04 GMT
-2 points
Thomas Hardy could also accept Jude the Obscure.
Haunter
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 20:05 GMT
-1 points
@janet: no, A Prayer for Owen Meany is the best book ever!
sdh
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 20:10 GMT
8 points
I'm going to be distressing pedantic and point out that the Oscar Wilde title called for is a short story and not a novel. The alternate Oscar Wilde titles suggested in the comments are plays, which are also not novels.
micah
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 20:19 GMT
6 points
Also, The Importance of Being Earnest doesn't contain a name--the name in the play is spelled Ernest.
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darth_shrimper
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 20:46 GMT
-12 points
@ the first three people to comment - you're all retarded I presume?
deej
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 20:52 GMT
4 points
This isn't a very good quiz. I'll always give credit where credit is due, and I love 90% of your quizzes, but this one is a real clunker, sorry.
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Frank:
Jun 7th, 2009 at 21:42 GMT
-12 points
When did Dracula become a name?
OldSpotPig:
Jun 7th, 2009 at 21:48 GMT
2 points
I wanted 'The History of Mr Polly' for the HG Wells answer.
davidr
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 21:50 GMT
6 points
@Frank: It's Count Dracula's name.
davidr
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 22:05 GMT
6 points
This is a great idea for a quiz. However, nearly half of Dickens's novels have names in their titles so that part of it becomes `Guess which of Dickens's novels was written in 1850.' Some of the other seem terribly obscure and, while `What about X?' comments always suck,
Robinson Crusoe
and
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(or
... of Tom Sawyer
) do seem like big omissions. Perhaps
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
, too.
zalagreensbury
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 22:24 GMT
-1 points
This quiz would've been a lot better if just the person in the title's name was acceptable, just sayin'
Julian
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 22:26 GMT
-1 points
Conrad could also be Nostromo . . .
Niques
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Jun 7th, 2009 at 22:32 GMT
4 points
@fluffy - TIOB Earnest is also a play, not a book.
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