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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-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

May-30-2006 02:16

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

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: ?

May-30-2006 02:46

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

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!

May-30-2006 05:41

Back to Tintin and the various names while waiting for someone to come fill in the blanks. Now with practically all the names being changed in Dutch, I can't help wondering what he and the other characters are called in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium since Hergé was afterall Belgian?

On a different note, I think I sprained my tongue trying BadAss' "red lorry yellow lorry" :D

May-30-2006 06:15

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

May-30-2006 06:16

Yes, I'm still muttering to myself "led lolly, yellow lolly".
Squirrel, I read on a long-forgotten Sleuths bookshelf that you are a period piece fan, and so am I. Josephine Tey's book is about a detective who lies in a hospital and tries to solve a "murder in retrospective". The suspect is Dick III and the victims are the princes in the tower. I'm sure you'd like it.