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8. Howard Philip Lovecraft?
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Names from Initials. One point per name.
1. Herbert George Wells: HIMS - 2 points 2. Lucy Maud Montgomery: HIMS - 2 points 3. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: doubleshuffle - 1 point, Shayne - 2 points 4. Edward Frederic Benson: poohbear_nc - 2 points 5. Joanne Kathleen Rowling: doubleshuffle - 1 point, Shayne - 1 point 6. Robert A Heinlein 7. Benoit B Mandelbrot 8. Howard Phillips Lovecraft: orlok - 2 points 9. Henry Rider Haggard: doubleshuffle - 1 point 10. Gilbert Keith Chesterton: doubleshuffle - 2 points 11. Edith Nesbit: doubleshuffle - 1 point 12. L Frank Baum 13. S M Stirling 14 R A MacAvoy 15 T K F Weisskopf 16 Ursula Kroeber LeGuin: poohbear_nc - 1 point 17 Carolyn Janice Cherryh: poohbear_nc - 2 points 18 E C Tubb 19 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse: HIMS - 2 points 20 Clifford Donald Simak: poohbear_nc - 1 point HIMS: 6 points doubleshuffle: 6 points poohbear_nc: 6 points Shayne: 3 points orlok: 2 points (Philip was close enough!) |
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Ok, some pure blind guessing:
6. Robert Anton Heinlein 7. Benoit Bruce Mandelbrot 12. Leonard Frank Baum 13. Stephen Marc Stirling 14. Ralph Alfred MacAvoy 15. Thomas Kevin Frederic Weisskopf 18. Ernest Charles Tubb |
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7. Nowhere near right. 12. You probably won't get this one by guessing 13. A point! Stephen is right! 14. No. Wrong sex. 15. No. Wrong sex. 18. Another point! Charles is right. |
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[QUOTE=pdurrant;2868415]Names from Initials. One point per name.
1. Herbert George Wells: HIMS - 2 points 2. Lucy Maud Montgomery: HIMS - 2 points 3. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: doubleshuffle - 1 point, Shayne - 2 points 4. Edward Frederic Benson: poohbear_nc - 2 points 5. Joanne Kathleen Rowling: doubleshuffle - 1 point, Shayne - 1 point 6. Robert A Heinlein 7. Benoit B Mandelbrot 8. Howard Phillips Lovecraft: orlok - 2 points 9. Henry Rider Haggard: doubleshuffle - 1 point 10. Gilbert Keith Chesterton: doubleshuffle - 2 points 11. Edith Nesbit: doubleshuffle - 1 point 12. L Frank Baum 13. Stephen M Stirling: doubleshuffle - 1 point 14 R A MacAvoy 15 T K F Weisskopf 16 Ursula Kroeber LeGuin: poohbear_nc - 1 point 17 Carolyn Janice Cherryh: poohbear_nc - 2 points 18 E Charles Tubb: doubleshuffle - 1 point 19 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse: HIMS - 2 points 20 Clifford Donald Simak: poohbear_nc - 1 point doubleshuffle: 8 points HIMS: 6 points poohbear_nc: 6 points Shayne: 3 points orlok: 2 points Guess away! There are still nine points available, so it's anyone's game. |
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OK, time to call this one to a close. The missing answers:
Robert Anson Heinlein (so close, doubleshuffle!) Benoit B Mandelbrot: It doesn't stand for anything, although it has been suggested it stands for Benoit B Mandelbrot. Lyman Frank Baum Stephen Michael Stirling Roberta Ann MacAvoy Toni Katherine Flora Weisskopf (OK, the Toni is Antonia, but those are the initials she writes under.) Names from Initials. One point per name. 1. Herbert George Wells: HIMS - 2 points 2. Lucy Maud Montgomery: HIMS - 2 points 3. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: doubleshuffle - 1 point, Shayne - 2 points 4. Edward Frederic Benson: poohbear_nc - 2 points 5. Joanne Kathleen Rowling: doubleshuffle - 1 point, Shayne - 1 point 6. Robert A Heinlein 7. Benoit B Mandelbrot 8. Howard Phillips Lovecraft: orlok - 2 points 9. Henry Rider Haggard: doubleshuffle - 1 point 10. Gilbert Keith Chesterton: doubleshuffle - 2 points 11. Edith Nesbit: doubleshuffle - 1 point 12. L Frank Baum 13. Stephen M Stirling: doubleshuffle - 1 point 14 R A MacAvoy 15 T K F Weisskopf 16 Ursula Kroeber LeGuin: poohbear_nc - 1 point 17 Carolyn Janice Cherryh: poohbear_nc - 2 points 18 E Charles Tubb: doubleshuffle - 1 point 19 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse: HIMS - 2 points 20 Clifford Donald Simak: poohbear_nc - 1 point doubleshuffle: 8 points HIMS: 6 points poohbear_nc: 6 points Shayne: 3 points orlok: 2 points I declare doubleshuffle the winner! Over to you! |
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All right. Next quiz: Match authors and the jobs they worked in at one time in their lives (or some of them their whole lives).
Douglas Adams William S. Burroughs John Clare Don DeLillo William Faulkner Zane Grey Thomas Hardy Joseph Heller Langston Hughes John Keats Stephen King Philip Larkin Harper Lee Hilary Mantel Herman Melville George Orwell Anne Rice J. D. Salinger Kurt Vonnegut William Carlos Williams architect blacksmith's apprentice bodyguard car dealer customs inspector dentist doctor entertainment director on a luxury liner exterminator high school janitor hotel busboy insurance claims examiner librarian lime burner parking attendant police officer reservation clerk for an airline social worker surgeon's assistant university postmaster |
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Kurt Vonnegut - car dealer
Douglas Adams - bodyguard probably the only ones I know anything about other than reading books |
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George Orwell: University Postmaster
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Thomas Hardy: architect.
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07-10-2014, 05:23 PM | #14294 |
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