07-11-2014, 05:34 PM | #14311 |
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Hmmm..
j.d. sALingER - HOTel busbOy ? |
07-11-2014, 09:41 PM | #14312 |
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07-11-2014, 11:39 PM | #14313 |
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The hint makes me think this:
J. D. Salinger - entertainment director on a luxury liner Last edited by Shayne Parkinson; 07-12-2014 at 01:50 AM. |
07-12-2014, 01:05 AM | #14314 |
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Correctamundo. Indeed Salinger seems to have served as entertainment director (Wikipedia has it as "activity director and possibly as a performer") on the M.S. Kungsholm in the Carribean for a short time in 1941. That's one I'm surely going to read up on in the near future. Must have been a barrel of laughs.
Douglas Adams: bodyguard. HIMS William S. Burroughs: exterminator. pdurrant John Clare: lime burner. pdurrant Don DeLillo William Faulkner Zane Grey: dentist. poohbear_nc Thomas Hardy: architect. Shayne Parkinson Joseph Heller Langston Hughes John Keats: surgeon's assistant. Bookpossum Stephen King: high school janitor. Orlok Philip Larkin: librarian. Bilbo1967 Harper Lee: airline reservation clerk. HIMS Hilary Mantel: social worker. Bookpossum Herman Melville: customs inspector. poohbear_nc George Orwell: police officer. HIMS Anne Rice: insurance claims examiner. HIMS J. D. Salinger: entertainment director on a luxury liner. Shayne Parkinson Kurt Vonnegut: car dealer. HIMS William Carlos Williams: doctor. pdurrant 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 HomeInMyShoes - 5 points pdurrant - 3 points Bookpossum- 2 points poohbear_nc - 2 points Shayne Parkinson - 2 points Bilbo 1967 - 1 point Orlok - 1 point |
07-12-2014, 07:54 PM | #14315 |
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DeLillo - parking attendant
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07-12-2014, 11:03 PM | #14316 |
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Correct. DeLillo had a summer job as a parking attendant when he was a teenager. Boring job, so he got into reading. Perhaps he wouldn't have become a writer without that job, ultimately...
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07-13-2014, 08:37 AM | #14317 |
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Time for some more gueses!
William Faulkner university postmaster Joseph Heller blacksmith's apprentice Langston Hughes hotel busboy |
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A last-minute hat-trick! Three correct answers, which makes you the winner with 6 points over HomeInMyShoes' 5! Over to you for the next quiz.
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07-13-2014, 09:32 AM | #14319 |
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Goodness me. It was a 50:50 with those last two guesses.
OK, another quiz. Let's see.... I think we'll go for numbers in book titles. A point for each number, a point for each full title and a point for each author. 1. How many steps? 2. How many cities in this story? 3. How hot is that? Burning hot! 4. How many Musketeers? 5. How many spotted dogs? 6. How old was that boy diarist? 7. How far did they go in that submarine? 8. How many were there at the end of the book? 9. Ignoring the dog, how many men were in that craft? 10. It something seems to good to be true, there must be one of these, but how many could be found in this book? |
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2. 2 3. 451 4. 3 5. 101 6. 13 and three-quarters 7. 2000 leagues 8. ? 9. 3 10. ? |
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1. 39 - The 39 Steps by John Buchan 2. 2 - A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 3. 451 - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 4. 3 - The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 5. 101 - 101 Dalmatians by ? 6. 13 and three-quarters - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 and three-quarters by Sue Townsend 7. 20,000 - 20,000 Leages Under the Sea by Jules Verne 8. ? 9. 3 - Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome 10. ? |
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07-13-2014, 10:16 AM | #14323 |
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All right, Orlok's won anyway (bad time I picked for having an ice-cream), but here's my guess for #8:
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie? |
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Dodie Smith is the author of 101 Dalmations. There's one vital word hinted at in question 10 which you need to guess. I suspect that no-one here will have any trouble with the number once they guess the word. I'll leave Q.10 for anyone to guess for fun, but over to orlok for the next quiz. |
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10. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller?
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