Can you name the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales?

Prologue placement	Pilgrim
Fifteenth
Sixteenth
Seventeenth
Eighteenth
Nineteenth
Twentieth
Twenty-first
Twenty-second
Twenty-third
Twenty-fourth
Twenty-fifth
Twenty-sixth
Twenty-seventh
Twenty-eight

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Canterbury Tales Pilgrims Quiz

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Created by: me777 -
Contributed: November 13th, 2009
Published: November 17th, 2009
Category: Literature
Plays: 17,108

Tags: placement, tale, prologue, canterbury, pilgrim, Canterbury Tales

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	sheep:	Nov 17th, 2009 at 21:43 GMT	10 points
	Great quiz, I come from Canterbury and there are loads of streets and pubs named after these.

	Yersinia:	Nov 17th, 2009 at 21:56 GMT	6 points
	Slightly harsh not to accept 'doctor' for 'doctor of medicine', or 'wyf' for 'wife'

	Patisteas:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 01:28 GMT	5 points
	And Nun's priest for priests?

	Speenatch:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 03:38 GMT	5 points
	I'm pretty sure it's known that although the narrator is not necessarily the author himself, his name actually is Chaucer. I think you should allow "Chaucer" as an acceptable answer for "Narrator."

	IanW:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 13:47 GMT	6 points
	Should accept ploughman for plowman - whatever Chaucer used, modern British English spelling has to be acceptable, right? And I also tried the nuns priest which is what I have heard the tale called. Don't know where the apostrophe should go but sporcle never seems to require them.

	me777:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 21:02 GMT	2 points
	i'm sorry. i tried to include as many alternates as i could think of, but obviously i didn't add enough. does anyone know if it's possible to edit the answers after a game is published?

	Teary_Ennui:	Nov 19th, 2009 at 14:46 GMT	-2 points
	Anyone else notice the freaky placing of Shipman / Doctor of Medicine - creepy!

	RebeccaAMax:	Nov 19th, 2009 at 18:52 GMT	1 point
	Needs "Chaucer" for "narrator," "Harry Bailly" for "host," "second nun" for "nun," "nun's priest." (I don't think it's possible for you to add now - we can hope Sporcle gets on it.)

	raine:	Nov 20th, 2009 at 19:09 GMT	2 points
	I second "nun's priests" as a viable option, and perhaps sailor for Shipman.

	erant:	Nov 23rd, 2009 at 05:31 GMT	1 point
	I always thought it was the "arras-maker", not a tapestry maker. I guess I read the non-abridged and footnoted version back in high school.

	tinajoehnk:	Nov 23rd, 2009 at 23:55 GMT	4 points
	After reading the comments, some people are asking to have 'Chaucer' be accepted for 'narrator', but please ignore this because they are two completely different things. Chaucer, when writing this tale, created a third-party person, the narrator, that is writing about these people on the pilgrimage.

	boredteacher84:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 15:14 GMT	2 points
	You should accept sailor or seaman for the shipman, the clerk is also called the student or oxford cleric.

	Dmitri:	Aug 19th, 2010 at 13:55 GMT	2 points
	I was expecting sea captain (instead of shipman). Isn't that what Nevil Coghill used in his modern verse setting?

	johnlk:	Aug 21st, 2010 at 03:04 GMT	1 point
	The third party person, the narrator, is named Geoffrey Chaucer.

	pyromaniacqueen:	Jun 10th, 2011 at 01:12 GMT	1 point
	gdi- shipman instead of sea captain? wth

	TerraTheTerror:	Aug 25th, 2011 at 23:48 GMT	3 points
	@Speenatch, RebeccaAMax, johnlk, and future people who ignore tinajoehnk's comment: A narrator is not the same thing as an author. It never says in the Tales that Chaucer is the one on the journey. The narrator is nameless.