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Can you name the works of literature that contain the associated word?
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William Shakespeare
(1597)
Jane Austen
(1813)
Edgar Allan Poe
(1842)
Fyoder Dostoevsky
(1866)
Leo Tolstoy
(1869)
Dan Brown
(2000)
KING
William Shakespeare
(1603-1606)
H. Rider Haggard
(1885)
Rudyard Kipling
(1888)
Mark Twain
(1889)
Robert Penn Warren
(1946)
J. R. R. Tolkien
(1955)
LITTLE
Charles Dickens
(1855-1857)
Louisa May Alcott
(1868-1869)
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
(1943)
Laura Ingalls Wilder
(1935)
Erskine Caldwell
(1933)
E.B. White
(1945)
TALE
Geoffrey Chaucer
(1387)
William Shakespeare
(1623)
James Fenimore Cooper
(1823-1841)
Edgar Allan Poe
(1843)
Charles Dickens
(1859)
Beatrix Potter
(1902)
HOUSE
Edgar Allan Poe
(1838)
Nathanial Hawthorne
(1851)
Charles Dickens
(1852-1853)
Kurt Vonnegut
(1969)
John Irving
(1985)
ROAD
L. Frank Baum
(1909)
Robert Frost
(1916)
Erskine Caldwell
(1932)
Jack Kerouac
(1957)
Richard Yates
(1961)
SEA
Rachel Carson
(1951)
Jules Verne
(1870)
Jack London
(1904)
Ernest Hemingway
(1952)
Jean Rhys
(1966)
TOM
Henry Fielding
(1749)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
(1852)
Thomas Hughes
(1856)
Mark Twain
(1876)
Victor Appleton
(1910)
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dolebanana
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Jul 31st, 2010 at 13:59 GMT
2 points
A lot of fun! Don't know if you've seen it yet, MarkTwain is one word on your quiz.
ctbrainiacs
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Jul 31st, 2010 at 14:18 GMT
4 points
And Hemingway only has one 'M'. This was a good challenge and a departure from the regular literary quizzes.
soxfan1
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Jul 31st, 2010 at 14:29 GMT
2 points
@dolebanana and ctbrainiacs: Good catch! It's fixed now -- glad you enjoyed the quiz!!
jotorr
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Aug 1st, 2010 at 10:26 GMT
6 points
Enjoyed this quiz! For the Shakespeare one in the 'And' category, you could also accept 'Antony and Cleopatra' and 'Troilus and Cressida'.
soxfan1
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Aug 1st, 2010 at 21:40 GMT
0 points
@jotorr: I believe 'Antony and Cleopatra' and 'Troilus and Cressida' were written a few years later...
ohbecca
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Aug 1st, 2010 at 21:58 GMT
0 points
Is there a reason that Little House on the Prairie isn't accepted also for Laura Ingalls Wilder?
ohlala8
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Aug 2nd, 2010 at 15:19 GMT
2 points
Can you also accept slaughterhouse 5? That's how I always type it.
soxfan1
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Aug 2nd, 2010 at 22:09 GMT
2 points
@ohbecca: I believe 'Little House on the Prairie' was not really the name of the book that was written in 1932...
soxfan1
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Aug 2nd, 2010 at 22:12 GMT
1 point
@ohlala8: No problem. Both five and 5 will now be accepted. Thanks for the suggestion!
RebeccaAMax
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Aug 9th, 2010 at 22:13 GMT
2 points
A large number of Shakespeare plays contain "King"; even taking as a given the shorter titles for most of the histories, there's still "King John."
soxfan1
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Aug 14th, 2010 at 20:27 GMT
0 points
@RebeccaAMax: I tried to avoid confusion as to the various "King" plays by including the year. "King John" was written a few years earlier -- 1594-1596.
samivel
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Aug 26th, 2010 at 18:33 GMT
1 point
Great quiz - really enjoyed it.
Flatlined
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Feb 8th, 2011 at 21:45 GMT
2 points
Even though I missed a ton, I still loved it. =)
Game published: Jun 7th, 2012 at 16:03 GMT
Geo1
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Jun 7th, 2012 at 16:15 GMT
2 points
I never knew that there was a book called Little House in the Big Woods, so I thought that I was mispelling "prairie."
alex27
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Jun 7th, 2012 at 16:25 GMT
-4 points
you missed a Vonnegut book, Welcome to the Monkey House
Josh:
Jun 7th, 2012 at 16:28 GMT
2 points
"Wines. Sorry, King Solomon's Wines."
Marix
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Jun 7th, 2012 at 16:47 GMT
5 points
How is the Little Prince so low?
TrumpetPlayer
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Jun 7th, 2012 at 16:56 GMT
1 point
The answer shown at the end of the quiz is something about peppers for the Saint Exupery book. The quiz doesn't accept The Little Prince, which needs to be changed.
Stran
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Jun 7th, 2012 at 17:04 GMT
3 points
Good quiz, though quite challenging.
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finesse
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Jun 7th, 2012 at 17:12 GMT
-9 points
a bit random; agree with above (king john) etc and why not troilus and cressida? Instructions should say "Can you name the works of literature that contain the associated word that I'm thinking of...?" Reminiscent of Peter Ustinov's story: "Name a Russian composer" "rachmaninov" "No, the answer is Tchaikosvsky" Disappointing publish.
OnyxSkye
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Jun 7th, 2012 at 17:25 GMT
1 point
The three instances of Edgar Allan Poe's name are misspelled Allen. Good quiz, nonetheless.
gwynn19
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Jun 7th, 2012 at 17:26 GMT
12 points
@finesse - Did you miss the part where the quiz gives the year? It's not random at all. Disappointing comment.
Guinevere
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Jun 7th, 2012 at 17:40 GMT
11 points
Great, great quiz! I don't know why I always have so much trouble remembering just how many leagues under the damn sea Jules Verne's boat (submarine?) was.
chikka2
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Jun 7th, 2012 at 19:19 GMT
3 points
Props for accepting le Petit Prince. Great balance of European and North American titles
gellchom
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Jun 7th, 2012 at 19:54 GMT
5 points
I couldn't get it to accept "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" for some reason. I tried typing out the words. Maybe I omitted the comma? I figured out about the dates, too, but I'd prefer it if you left them out and accepted all the possible choices by the author. PS - Go Sox!
Word_Nerd99
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Jun 7th, 2012 at 20:40 GMT
0 points
anyone else try lion king?
tseroff
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Jun 7th, 2012 at 21:01 GMT
3 points
I kept trying Antony and Cleopatra and wondering why it wouldn't work
yruu113
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Jun 7th, 2012 at 21:10 GMT
3 points
Why doesn't Troilus and Cressida work for Shakespeare? Fun quiz otherwise though.
iamausername
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Jun 7th, 2012 at 21:32 GMT
7 points
When I tried Sense and Sensibility, I got a bonus answer pointing out that the year was wrong. Is that a recent addition, or does it not happen for the other not quite right answers people are commenting about here?
HeatMcManus
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Jun 7th, 2012 at 22:11 GMT
18 points
Shakespeare, Austen, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy.....Dan Brown...One of these things is not like the other!
diplomatt
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Jun 7th, 2012 at 23:05 GMT
13 points
I agree with finesse. I am fully aware that the quiz gives the year, but it seems a little arbitrary. Why not accept all Shakespeare titles with "and"? You're right, Gwynn19, it's not random. But it is arbitrary.
confused
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Jun 8th, 2012 at 00:08 GMT
4 points
I'm just too ignorant - had little problem because I went for the obvious answers. If soxfan tried to include every possibility, there's a good chance he'd run into the character limit on several, and he'd open himself up to endless comments on what he didn't include. Giving the year is a nice solution. Enjoyable quiz!
CraigBerger
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Jun 8th, 2012 at 00:15 GMT
5 points
Wait, Little Expectations is not a book?
StrobesAU
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Jun 8th, 2012 at 00:57 GMT
1 point
I kept wondering why "The Road Not Taken" wasn't accepted, but then I noticed the years. That's fine. However, you might consider accepting "The Miller's Tale" for Chaucer since it's contained in Canterbury Tales.
Jrh0007
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Jun 8th, 2012 at 01:19 GMT
0 points
Rachel Carson also had a book called "Under the Sea-Wind" and one called "The Edge of the Sea" that aren't accepted. You should really fix that.
Kitimat88
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Jun 8th, 2012 at 01:30 GMT
0 points
Agree with @confused. Yes, it's slightly arbitrary, but the whole *concept* is arbitrary, as are a lot of the quizzes on Sporcle! The point is the more knowledge you have (such as publication years), the better you do. @gellchom- me too. It didn't matter how I wrote 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (I tried typing out the number in words), it wasn't having it.
Hamlet
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Jun 8th, 2012 at 02:25 GMT
2 points
This has "The Winter's Tale" written seven years after Shakespeare died. 1623 WAS the year of its first known printing, though, in the First Folio.
Bobman1
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Jun 8th, 2012 at 03:03 GMT
1 point
Great quiz. Loved it. I tried Troilus and Cresida a half dozen ways, but never got it. Clearly the wrong year. duh. Somehow I hit the 99th percentile and yet MISSED R&J for Shakespeare. Captain Obvious kicks my punk ass once more....
itsacon
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Jun 8th, 2012 at 03:20 GMT
4 points
I think the requirement with the year is pushing it a bit. Most of the words are only in one work by an author, whereas words such as 'and' are just way too common and requiring one specific book is pushing it. Also, I don't think Slaughterhouse 5 should be acceptable because the word is not 'house', it's 'slaughterhouse.'
statephone
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Jun 8th, 2012 at 04:30 GMT
2 points
I have seen the words Wide Sargasso Sea so many times, and yet, this was the first time I ever realized the first word was not "Wild". I must have tried it 5 times. All these years, I have been seeing the title incorrectly.
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