Unutterably Silly Quiz

[Gazella]

Originally Posted by orlok

Lots?

I mean not like 256, 289, etc. But 500, 600, etc.

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Was it a notebook of Leonardo da Vinici sold to Bill Gates?

Yes! What's it called??

[Glorfindel]

2. 300

[Gazella]

Originally Posted by Glorfindel

2. 300

Correct!

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I think the only question left (not counting bonus) is the quote from "Hamlet".

I'll end this in about 10 minutes so if there are any last guesses ...

[Glorfindel]

ghost of Hamlets mother?

[Gazella]

Originally Posted by Glorfindel

gost of Hamlets mother?

I'm pretty sure there's only one ghost in the play, and it's the ghost of Hamlet's dead father

[Glorfindel]

ok

[Gazella]

And the answers ...

Question 1: An early draft of John Steinbeck’s novel was eaten by his dog. Which novel was it? Of Mice and Men


Question 2: How many pencils did Steinbeck use to write "East of Eden"? 300


Question 3: How many lines are there in a traditional English sonnet? Fourteen


Question 4: "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” is a quote found in which play by Shakespeare? Who is the speaker of the quote? Play: "Hamlet" ; Speaker: Marcellus (one of the officers who was with Horatio at the time of seeing the ghost)


Question 5: Name one Shakespearean tragedy and one Shakespearean comedy.

Shakespeare's Tragedies

Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida

Shakespeare's Comedies

All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure
Merchant of Venice
Merry Wives of Windsor
Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado about Nothing
Taming of the Shrew
Tempest
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter's Tale


Question 6: Which play by murder-mystery writer Agatha Christie has been showing in London since 1952? The Mousetrap


Question 7: In the early 1900s a thriller was instead more commonly referred to as what sort of book? Shocker or Shilling Shocker


Question 8: What was Samuel Langhorne Clemens' pen-name? Mark Twain


Question 9: What controversial novel opens with the line: "[a person's name], light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, My soul," ? "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov


Question 10: Which Alice in Wonderland character says "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” Cheshire Cat



BONUS: What is the world’s most expensive book? (worth three points!) The "Codex Leicester"

[Gazella]

Bookpossum 6
Orlok 1
Poohbear 1
Glorfindel 1

And it's over to you Bookpossum

[Bookpossum]

Okay: taking a leaf out of Gazella's book with the question about Mark Twain...

By what name do we know:

1. Francois-Marie Arouet
2. Virginia McMath
3. Eric Arthur Blair
4. Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin
5. Archibald Alexander Leach And a bonus point for the name of the film with a character called Archie Leach as a tribute to him.
6. Domenikos Theotokopoulos
7. Cecil Smith
8. Allen Stewart Konigsberg
9. David John Moore Cornwell
10. Margarita Carmen Cansino
11. Music critic “Corno di Bassetto”
12. And finally, name the English composer and music critic, who used his real name for one pursuit and a pseudonym for the other. One point for each name and a bonus point for identifying which name was used for which pursuit.

[orlok]

3. George Orwell

5. Cary Grant. A Fish Called Wanda.

[Bookpossum]

1. Francois-Marie Arouet
2. Virginia McMath
3. Eric Arthur Blair George Orwell - orlok
4. Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin
5. Archibald Alexander Leach And a bonus point for the name of the film with a character called Archie Leach as a tribute to him. Cary Grant, A Fish Called Wanda - orlok
6. Domenikos Theotokopoulos
7. Cecil Smith
8. Allen Stewart Konigsberg
9. David John Moore Cornwell
10. Margarita Carmen Cansino
11. Music critic “Corno di Bassetto”
12. And finally, name the English composer and music critic, who used his real name for one pursuit and a pseudonym for the other. One point for each name and a bonus point for identifying which name was used for which pursuit.

And that's three points to orlok.

[issybird]

1. Voltaire
2. Ginger Rogers
4. George Sand
8. Woody Allen
9. John Le Carre
10. Rita Hayworth

[Bookpossum]

1. Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire - issybird
2. Virginia McMath Ginger Rogers - issybird
3. Eric Arthur Blair George Orwell - orlok
4. Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin George Sand - issybird
5. Archibald Alexander Leach And a bonus point for the name of the film with a character called Archie Leach as a tribute to him. Cary Grant, A Fish Called Wanda - orlok
6. Domenikos Theotokopoulos El Greco - Stitchawl
7. Cecil Smith
8. Allen Stewart Konigsberg Woody Allen - issybird
9. David John Moore Cornwell John Le Carre - issybird
10. Margarita Carmen Cansino Rita Hayworth - issybird
11. Music critic “Corno di Bassetto”
12. And finally, name the English composer and music critic, who used his real name for one pursuit and a pseudonym for the other. One point for each name and a bonus point for identifying which name was used for which pursuit.

3 - orlok
6 - issybird
1 - Stitchawl

[Stitchawl]

#6 El Greco



Stitchawl

[Bookpossum]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

#6 El Greco



Stitchawl

Exactly right!

1 point to Stitchawl.