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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. :)

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

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

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*

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*

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)

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.

May-30-2006 01:37

Yeah, in Danish it's translated "Fyrsten" which is also a title but for the ruler of a principality.

As for Dupond and Dupont, that's what they're called in Danish as well so it comes more naturally for me to call them that than "the Thompson twins" - *lol* - "the Thompson twins", that sounds like a completely different cartoon :D - actually, I think the one character who's name was changed from the original might have been the dog, who's called "Terry" in Danish.

Oki, back to the quizzing. I actually only had 7 right (I didn't borrow the answer to the one with Shakespeare) so that makes it a tie with Rosamund, who if she wants, is welcome to the new quiz :)

May-30-2006 01:57

eek i'm such a geek, check this out greyling :)

May-30-2006 01:58

now posts link *sighs*

http://www.tintinologist.org/guides/characters/names.html

May-30-2006 02:06

Thank you, Grey, like our friend Paranoid Squirrel I like asking more than I like answering, so with your permission I'm posting the new quiz, but it's really easy and will be answerd "in a jiffy" (I borrowd the word from one of the authors who wrote fifty years ago and I don't know if it's still in use, but it was obviously the slang of the time).

The theme is relatives in the titles of famous novels in plays.

1. A.P. Chekhov: Three ...
2. H. de Balzac: ... Goriot
3. D. H. Lawrence: ... and lovers
4. L.M. Alcott: Good ...
5. F. M. Dostoevsky: The ... Karamazov
6. A. Miller: All my ...
7. H. de Balzac: ... Bette
8. B. Brecht: ... Courage
9. T. Dreiser: ... Carrie
10. C. Dickens: Dombey and ...

And a bonus question for sleuths who love historical detection:

Josephine Tey: The ... of time