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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 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.

Greyling
Greyling

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 :)

Paranoid_Android
Paranoid_Android
Story Teller

May-30-2006 01:57

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

Paranoid_Android
Paranoid_Android
Story Teller

May-30-2006 01:58

now posts link *sighs*

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

Rosamund Clifford
Rosamund Clifford
Tale Spinner

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

Rosamund Clifford
Rosamund Clifford
Tale Spinner

May-30-2006 02:16

I apologize for "swallowing" e in "answered" and "borrowed", my fingers sometimes don't follow the brain.

Greyling
Greyling

May-30-2006 02:44

*lol* - I know that too well, it happens even if I'm writing with a pen and my brain has thought of the words ahead then I'll starting writing the letters of the words I'm thinking of instead of the one I'm writing :D

Oh, and so funny with the names from Tintin - in Dutch they apparently changed all the names except Haddock :D
- but also a little strange together with the funny aspect to see the names of these characters, that you'd think couldn't be called anything but what you got to know when growing up, not having an exact match in other countries :)


1. It's in there, but far far away - ahhh, I can't remember
2. ?
3. Sons
4. Wives?
5. Brothers
6. Sons
7. ?
8. Mother
9. ?
10. Son
Bonus: ?

Greyling
Greyling

May-30-2006 02:46

* "not having an exact match in other countries" should have been "not being universal"

Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

May-30-2006 05:07

well a classics scholar i aint! to add 1. Three Sisters is the best I can do :) I knew 3, 4, 5 & 6, but won't lay claim to any more than that!

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