Can you name the adjective, noun, and author triplets to make literary titles?

created by zigfreid

Enter a title and author in the box below
Correctly named titles and authors will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Choose an adjective from the first column and a noun from the second to form a title, then pick the author from the third column and type it in on one line. For instance, THE ENGLISH PATIENT ONDAATJE.
Also try: Wordwise Movie Titles

Popular trivia games today

The Killer Quiz

20114

Germany's Borders

17216

Hunger Games Death Row

8201

Word Ladder: NFL Draft

7879

Missing Word: 'D' Songs

7712

Geography Bunker

6529

Ridiculous Quiz

6511

Celebrities in Family Guy

5433

And more...

08:00

Show Missed Answers

Answer Piece	Title and Author
Bald
Black
Black
Famished
Glass
Golden
Golden
Good
Hairy
Imaginary
Incredible
Invisible
Killer
Little
Magic
Open
Satanic
Scarlet
Scarlet
Secret
Silent
Silver
Thin
Tin
Two

Answer Piece	Title and Author
Angels
Ape
Boat
Bough
Cat
Chair
Cry
Drum
Garden
Invalid
Journey
Letter
Man
Man
Menagerie
Mountain
Notebook
Pimpernel
Prince
Road
Soldier
Soprano
Stallion
Towers
Verses

Answer Piece	Title and Author
Burnett
Burnford
Crane
Farley
Ford
Frazer
Grass
Hammett
Hawthorne
Ionesco
Lessing
Lewis
Mann
Molière
Ōe
Okri
O'Neill
Orczy
Poe
Rushdie
Saint-Exupéry
Shaara
Tolkien
Wells
Williams

Javascript is not currently enabled on your browser.
If you do have Javascript enabled:
This site uses javascript to make the magic happen.
Please turn on javascript and reload this page, or use a more current browser (like Firefox)

Titles: The (Adjective) (Noun) Quiz

by zigfreid

Created Oct 4, 2010 in Literature
Featured Oct 29, 2010
Game Plays 26,308

Report a Mistake

Friend Scores and Standings

Loading friend results....

Top Games Today in Literature

Top Games with Similar Tags

Top User Games in Literature

Archived comments: show them

	Hejman:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 17:15 GMT	12 points
	Awesome quiz. Congrats on your first publication!

	GoodRiddance856:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 17:30 GMT	6 points
	I could have sworn Poe wrote something about Satanic Invalids....

	Koltrane:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 17:33 GMT	8 points
	I kept typing invisible man ellison to no avail. Darn you, H.G.!!!

	BonnieH:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 18:06 GMT	6 points
	Tough one! I'd kind of like to read about The Bald Angels. :)

Comment below threshold: show it

	Penny:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 18:53 GMT	18 points
	The very first entry in Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary for the word "two" lists it as an adjective: "being one more than one in number." If its position in a sentence is adjectival, it's being used as an adjective in that case. "Two towers" is not talking separately about the number two as a thing, or the word two as a stand-in for people or things ("The two talked late into the night"), it's talking about how many towers there are, and its position in the sentence clearly indicates that.

	egernunge:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 18:55 GMT	8 points
	@Exobius: Numbers are adjectives. They modify nouns. Thus, "The Two Towers" fits very well in this quiz.

	Quinto:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 21:23 GMT	1 point
	I got confused when there was no Longfellow to go with "The Two Angels".

	JayHankEdLyon:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 21:28 GMT	-2 points
	I know I'm not the first to mention it, but as much as I love Wells, Ellison's is the far more influential (and frankly better written) book. Moreover, it's more correct in regard to the basic format of the quiz as there's no article. You can't change it, I'm aware, but it's a shame to see a classic undermined by a story that isn't even in Wells's top five. Oh well, decent quiz.

	Moldemort:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 22:00 GMT	6 points
	The Silent Soprano sounds like a great book to me.

	AlexRandom:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 22:01 GMT	6 points
	@ Jay: I disagree; Wells' book (not Ellison's) is of the form "The [adjective] [noun], which is the form all other answers have and the theme of the quiz.

	mellybmel:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 22:02 GMT	4 points
	Great quiz! I agree with those who would prefer Ellison (I, too, typed in vain, till I actually read what was there), but I LOVED the mix of authors, children's books, genre fiction, international classics. Hope to see another one of yours soon!

	kbelle:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 22:14 GMT	3 points
	This was actually difficult. Usually I can recognize all the titles and guess at the authors I may not know, but there was quite a mix of words here that could have been titles if the right author was there. Very good.

	peterpan55:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 22:14 GMT	3 points
	I've never heard of The Black Cat by Poe, but got it right cause I just assumed... Lol!

	zigfreid:	Oct 30th, 2010 at 01:46 GMT	7 points
	I'm am definitely stoked about having my first published quiz! To all of you thinking "What about Ellison?", as I was making this quiz I thought to myself that one of the novels has a "The" and the other does not, but couldn't recall which. Since only the Wells work is in fact "The Invisible Man", I opted for that. @mellybmel Thanks for the encouragement! I am already thinking about new quizzes that blend my love of literature and obsession with words, and I hope you will enjoy those too. =)

	kingstony:	Oct 30th, 2010 at 08:19 GMT	4 points
	This was well hard, I loved it, entertained myself halfway through by going through different and more interesting title, eg: the glass cat and the silver soprano....

	object_holder:	Oct 30th, 2010 at 13:32 GMT	5 points
	It's really nice to see a literature quiz that ventures outside of the high-school English class canon. Well done!

	BadRobott:	Oct 31st, 2010 at 15:47 GMT	1 point
	We read most of these throughout my high school.

	dicko:	Oct 31st, 2010 at 17:25 GMT	1 point
	nice quiz, some new books introduced to the Sporcle canon. Ionesco's work is usually called The Bald Prima Donna.

	peterpan:	May 22nd, 2011 at 06:06 GMT	1 point
	yes, ellison: "Invisible Man", but wells: "The Invisible Man"

	Dumble:	Aug 25th, 2011 at 22:59 GMT	1 point
	The Scarlet Pimpernel(sorry) is the MOST underrated book ever.