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Old 02-20-2013, 06:48 PM   #10921
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Old 02-20-2013, 06:49 PM   #10922
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Old 02-20-2013, 09:29 PM   #10923
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Old 02-21-2013, 12:12 AM   #10924
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What a brilliant lot you are! The answers so far:

1. Ursula K Le Guin - A Wizard of Earthsea (pdurrant - 2 points)
2. Jane Austen (pdurrant - 1 point - but not Mansfield Park)
3. Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep (Fbone - 2 points)
4. ? ?
5. Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bilbo for author - 1 point, pdurrant for title - 1 point)
6. Henry James - The Turn of the Screw (pooh bear - 2 points)
7. Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere (maianhvk - 2 points)
8. Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca (Fbone - 2 points)
9. Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird (poohbear - 2 points)
10. ? ?

pdurrant - 4 points
Fbone - 4 points
Bilbo - 1 point
poohbear - 4 points
maianhvk - 2 points

Still 5 points to be claimed.
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Old 02-21-2013, 12:25 AM   #10925
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2. "Emma" (the deficiencies including a sad want of lace, IIRC)

10 is on the tip of my tongue! Precious use it is there, though.
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Old 02-21-2013, 12:42 AM   #10926
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And 1 point to Shayne - I knew you or issybird would get it!

I won't hand out any clues on 4. and 10. yet.
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Old 02-21-2013, 08:04 AM   #10927
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Old 02-21-2013, 05:36 PM   #10928
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No - right sort of period but English. A hugely popular writer in his time but perhaps not read much now. I reread this book recently and thought what an unforgettable ending the book has, which made me think of putting this quiz together.

The other book is also English, more recent, a Booker Prize winner.
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Old 02-22-2013, 02:55 AM   #10929
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Time to wrap this one up I think, especially as we are going away for a few days.

4. Random Harvest by James Hilton, author of (among others) Goodbye Mr Chips and Lost Horizon.

10. Possession by A S Byatt, winner of the 1990 Booker prize.

So that makes a three-way tie by pdurrant, Fbone and poohbear. Over to whoever comes in first with the next quiz.
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Old 02-22-2013, 04:31 AM   #10930
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I'll come in with a few random clues to some authors and illustrators mostly associated with children's books.

1. Screenwriter on The Wizard of Oz, and A Christmas Carol (aka Scrooge), also a successful author. Noel Langley (Fbone)
2. Illustrator of many children's books, including Stig of the Dump and two books by Noel Langley (The Land of Green Ginger and Desbarollda, The Waltzing Mouse). Also a successful author of his own children's books.
3. Notable illustrator of the works of two of the Inklings
4. Author with an alliterative name, wrote a "wizards in the real world" series long before J K Rowling.
5. Illustrator of many of Roald Dahls' books. Quentin Blake (Bilbo1967)

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Old 02-22-2013, 04:33 AM   #10931
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Old 02-22-2013, 04:35 AM   #10932
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5. Quentin Blake?
Yes, indeed. I thought someone would get that one quickly!
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Old 02-22-2013, 04:38 AM   #10933
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1. Screenwriter on (...) and A Christmas Carol (aka Scrooge), also a successful author.
Are you talking about the musical version of Scrooge? His name was Leslie something something, but there are a number of versions of film-adaptations of A Christmas Carol
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Old 02-22-2013, 04:44 AM   #10934
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Are you talking about the musical version of Scrooge? His name was Leslie something something, but there are a number of versions of film-adaptations of A Christmas Carol
If the screenwriter for that version of "A Christmas Carol" wasn't also a screenwriter on "The Wizard of Oz", then it's the wrong version.

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Old 02-22-2013, 06:55 PM   #10935
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1. Noel Langley (who hated the final Wizard of Oz script)
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