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jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Jan-4-2005 18:37

See if there is interest for this.

1. Each day I will post 10 questions, at random times of the day.
2. Each Quiz runs exactly 24 hours.
3. The first person that has all 10 questions right, wins. Or if no one has all questions right, the best one wins.
4. You can only post answers ONCE for the same quiz.
5. No cash involved. Just glory. :)

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Della Devine
Della Devine
Well-Connected

May-29-2006 00:41

And now my answers, (such as they are) to your quiz.

1. Mark Twain
2. Don't know
3. Antoine de St. Exupery (one of my favorites as a child and as a grandmother)
4. Don't know
5. J.K. Rowling (another favorite author)
6. C.S. Lewis (childhood favorite and grandma favorite)
7. Not sure without running upstairs. Alan Dean Foster?
8. erg. Not sure on that one either. Homer?
9. The Brothers Grimm (originally titled The Frog King)
10. Don't remember that line in Snow White, so Snow White Rose Red?


Greyling
Greyling

May-29-2006 03:38

What a great idea borrowing your great-aunt's face, Della, she looks really sweet, and it's nice with that extra bit of story to go with a picture :)

In regards to the gem/stone/rock quiz, I think it just takes a little longer to get people going during the weekend, and even if it was a little hard, then we just got to learn something new and that's always nice :)


Oki, on to Squirrel's regal questions - *mumbles under her breath that "fairly easy" is a relative term considering translators don't always go with an exact title match :p*

1. Mark Twain
2. Oscar Wilde - you must really like this one ;p
3. Saint-Exupéry - rereading it for I don't know which time
4. Machiavelli - thanks Rosamund, couldn't quite get my mind around it at first, because the title has a little "twist" in regards to the word for "prince" in Danish.
5. J.K. Rowling
6. C. S. Lewis - yeah, also a childhood favourite here :)
7. Marion Zimmer Bradley?
8. I'm tempted to say Margaret Atwood, but having seen Rosamund's knowledge on this subject I'm guessing she's right ;)
9. The Brothers Grimm
10. William Goldman?

Greyling
Greyling

May-29-2006 03:51

Oops, "Android's questions" - hmm, maybe one of you guys ought to dye your moustache

Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

May-29-2006 05:56

same diff... :) Like detective Thomson twins from Tin Tin... in my next sleuth life I'm either coming back as Secret_Android or Paranoid_Squirrel [mmm the latter has a definite ring to it.]

I'll leave this up til my morning in case a fantasy nut comes up with the answers to 7 & 10. And yes I'm a big Oscar Wilde fan and do rem. using it before, much like the Frog Prince :)

Greyling
Greyling

May-29-2006 06:03

May I just add that Dupond and Dupont don't have the exact same moustache hence making it easier to spot the difference ;p

Greyling
Greyling

May-29-2006 06:12

Oh, and recycling is a good thing + it's a good way of testing if people have actually learned anything from the previous quizzes, and if not then they can always profit from it when they don't know the answer off the top of their head if for instance the only fairy tale they know by Oscar Wilde is the one about the garden and the children and the giant :D

Mumsy
Mumsy

May-29-2006 09:54

ugh. Looked at my book collection this morning and now know that I have #7 wrong, as I have that series in my collection. Shows how brain dead I was. Noticed also that I gave a title instead of an author for #10. :p *shakes head*

Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

May-29-2006 17:02

well... della/mumsy/rhiemma lol

I thought Feist was an easy one too with the Magician ref. but I spose just coz it (Magician) makes the top 100 book list in English speaking countries doesn't mean it necessarity translates.

I find that really interesting too, all the 'lost in translation' moments. Like obv. Dupont twins are the originals from Tin Tin, and Thompson twins are just an English aberration. :)

1. Mark Twain
2. Oscar Wilde
3. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
4. Niccolo Machiavelli
5. J.K. Rowling
6. C. S. Lewis
7. Raymond E. Feist
8. Shakespeare
9. The Brothers Grimm
10. Roger Zelazny (I would have accepeted Robert Sheckley as well since he co-authored, but Zelazny was the well know author.)

Greyling you win :) 8/10 *bells and whistles sound in the distance*

Della Devine
Della Devine
Well-Connected

May-29-2006 22:44

*grin* figures, I don't have that particular one by Zelazny/Sheckley. Have the Magician series by Feist. And Foster did write a series on a magician. I must have really been brain dead last night (and still was this morning)

Rosamund Clifford
Rosamund Clifford
Tale Spinner

May-29-2006 23:26

About "lost in translation" thing, I was also in doubt regarding Machiavelli because in Croatian it is translated "Vladar", which means the ruler, but I remebered the original title, "Il principe", and it helped. In Italian it obviously means both.

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