Silliness Quiz - Page 1041

doubleshuffle · 08-01-2016, 08:32 AM

2. Oedipus?
3. Albert Einstein.

doubleshuffle · 08-01-2016, 08:34 AM

6. Victor Hugo.
7. Project Gutenberg?

doubleshuffle · 08-01-2016, 08:35 AM

14. Schindler's Ark. By Thomas Kenneally?

doubleshuffle · 08-01-2016, 08:36 AM

11. Jean-Paul Sartre?

doubleshuffle · 08-01-2016, 08:37 AM

1. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence?

orlok · 08-01-2016, 08:42 AM

5. Adventure?
6. Victor Hugo (beaten to it!)
12. Dracula
13. Dorothy Parker?
14. Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally (and again!)

doubleshuffle · 08-01-2016, 08:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by orlok

14. Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally (and again!)

Well, perhaps you're the one who spelled the author's name correctly.

drjd · 08-01-2016, 11:14 AM

4. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby

drjd · 08-01-2016, 11:16 AM

8. QWERTY keyboard. (?)

drjd · 08-01-2016, 11:18 AM

10. St. Petersburg Russia.

drjd · 08-01-2016, 11:21 AM

13. Charles Dickens (?)

(Here I have a disagreement with orlok, perhaps.)

orlok · 08-01-2016, 01:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by drjd

13. Charles Dickens (?)

(Here I have a disagreement with orlok, perhaps.)

Pure guess on my part

Bilbo1967 · 08-01-2016, 02:49 PM

5. Pot boiler?

Bookpossum · 08-01-2016, 08:14 PM

Good to see you have been hard at work while I was asleep! Here's where we are currently:

1 Laurens van der Post's prisoner of war experiences, described in his books The Seed and the Sower (1963) and The Night of the New Moon (1970) inspired what film? Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence - doubleshuffle

2 With which troubled son are parents Laius and Jocasta associated? Oedipus - doubleshuffle

3 Which great thinker collaborated with Sigmund Freud to write the 1933 book Why War? Albert Einstein - doubleshuffle

4 "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice which I've been turning over in my mind ever since," is the start of which novel? The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald - drjd

5 In the early 1900s a thriller was instead more commonly referred to as what sort of book?

6 Who wrote the books Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame? Victor Hugo - doubleshuffle

7 What is the name of the first digital library founded by Michael Hart in 1971? Project Gutenberg - doubleshuffle

8 What was Christopher Latham Scholes' significant invention of 1868?

9 Which American philosopher, and often-quoted advocate of individualism, published essays on Self-Reliance, Love, Heroism, Character and Manners in his Collections of 1841 and 1844?

10 In what city does Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace begin? St Petersburg - drjd

11 Which French writer declined the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964? Jean-Paul Satre - doubleshuffle

12 Jonathan Harker's Journal and Dr Seward's Diary feature in what famous 1897 novel? Dracula - orlok

13 "Make then laugh; make them cry; make them wait..." was a personal maxim of which novelist? Charles Dickens - drjd

14 What was the original title of the book on which the film Schindler's List was based and who is the author? Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally - doubleshuffle (with correct spelling by orlok!)

For No 8. drjd is in the right ball park. No right answers for No 5.

So that gives scores of:

7 - doubleshuffle
3 - drjd
1 - orlok

and only leaves 5, 8 and 9 to answer. I'll leave it for the Southern Hemisphere day shift to look at, and finish it up in about 12 hours' time. doubleshuffle has an unbeatable lead and will be our next quiz setter. Congratulations!

Shayne Parkinson · 08-01-2016, 08:32 PM

8. 1868 seems about right for the typewriter.

08-01-2016, 08:42 AM	#15606
orlok Close to the Edit! Posts: 9,797 Karma: 267994408 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis, Amazon Fire 8", Kindle 6"	5. Adventure? 6. Victor Hugo (beaten to it!) 12. Dracula 13. Dorothy Parker? 14. Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally (and again!) Last edited by orlok; 08-01-2016 at 08:44 AM.

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08-01-2016, 08:32 AM	#15601
doubleshuffle Unicycle Daredevil Posts: 13,944 Karma: 185432100 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Planet of the Pudding Brains Device: Aura HD (R.I.P. After six years the USB socket died.) tolino shine 3	2. Oedipus? 3. Albert Einstein.

08-01-2016, 08:34 AM	#15602
doubleshuffle Unicycle Daredevil Posts: 13,944 Karma: 185432100 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Planet of the Pudding Brains Device: Aura HD (R.I.P. After six years the USB socket died.) tolino shine 3	6. Victor Hugo. 7. Project Gutenberg?

08-01-2016, 08:35 AM	#15603
doubleshuffle Unicycle Daredevil Posts: 13,944 Karma: 185432100 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Planet of the Pudding Brains Device: Aura HD (R.I.P. After six years the USB socket died.) tolino shine 3	14. Schindler's Ark. By Thomas Kenneally?

08-01-2016, 08:36 AM	#15604
doubleshuffle Unicycle Daredevil Posts: 13,944 Karma: 185432100 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Planet of the Pudding Brains Device: Aura HD (R.I.P. After six years the USB socket died.) tolino shine 3	11. Jean-Paul Sartre?

08-01-2016, 08:37 AM	#15605
doubleshuffle Unicycle Daredevil Posts: 13,944 Karma: 185432100 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Planet of the Pudding Brains Device: Aura HD (R.I.P. After six years the USB socket died.) tolino shine 3	1. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence?

08-01-2016, 11:14 AM	#15608
drjd The Couch Potato Posts: 34,509 Karma: 230999999 Join Date: Aug 2015 Device: Kobo Glo, Kobo Touch, Archos 9, Onyx Boox C67ML Carta	4. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby

08-01-2016, 11:16 AM	#15609
drjd The Couch Potato Posts: 34,509 Karma: 230999999 Join Date: Aug 2015 Device: Kobo Glo, Kobo Touch, Archos 9, Onyx Boox C67ML Carta	8. QWERTY keyboard. (?)

08-01-2016, 11:18 AM	#15610
drjd The Couch Potato Posts: 34,509 Karma: 230999999 Join Date: Aug 2015 Device: Kobo Glo, Kobo Touch, Archos 9, Onyx Boox C67ML Carta	10. St. Petersburg Russia.

08-01-2016, 11:21 AM	#15611
drjd The Couch Potato Posts: 34,509 Karma: 230999999 Join Date: Aug 2015 Device: Kobo Glo, Kobo Touch, Archos 9, Onyx Boox C67ML Carta	13. Charles Dickens (?) (Here I have a disagreement with orlok, perhaps.)

08-01-2016, 02:49 PM	#15613
Bilbo1967 Not scared! Posts: 13,424 Karma: 81011643 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Midlands, UK Device: Kindle Paperwhite 10, Huawei M5 10	5. Pot boiler?

08-01-2016, 08:14 PM	#15614
Bookpossum Snoozing in the sun Posts: 10,146 Karma: 115423645 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: iPad Mini, Kobo Touch	Good to see you have been hard at work while I was asleep! Here's where we are currently: 1 Laurens van der Post's prisoner of war experiences, described in his books The Seed and the Sower (1963) and The Night of the New Moon (1970) inspired what film? Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence - doubleshuffle 2 With which troubled son are parents Laius and Jocasta associated? Oedipus - doubleshuffle 3 Which great thinker collaborated with Sigmund Freud to write the 1933 book Why War? Albert Einstein - doubleshuffle 4 "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice which I've been turning over in my mind ever since," is the start of which novel? The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald - drjd 5 In the early 1900s a thriller was instead more commonly referred to as what sort of book? 6 Who wrote the books Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame? Victor Hugo - doubleshuffle 7 What is the name of the first digital library founded by Michael Hart in 1971? Project Gutenberg - doubleshuffle 8 What was Christopher Latham Scholes' significant invention of 1868? 9 Which American philosopher, and often-quoted advocate of individualism, published essays on Self-Reliance, Love, Heroism, Character and Manners in his Collections of 1841 and 1844? 10 In what city does Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace begin? St Petersburg - drjd 11 Which French writer declined the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964? Jean-Paul Satre - doubleshuffle 12 Jonathan Harker's Journal and Dr Seward's Diary feature in what famous 1897 novel? Dracula - orlok 13 "Make then laugh; make them cry; make them wait..." was a personal maxim of which novelist? Charles Dickens - drjd 14 What was the original title of the book on which the film Schindler's List was based and who is the author? Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally - doubleshuffle (with correct spelling by orlok!) For No 8. drjd is in the right ball park. No right answers for No 5. So that gives scores of: 7 - doubleshuffle 3 - drjd 1 - orlok and only leaves 5, 8 and 9 to answer. I'll leave it for the Southern Hemisphere day shift to look at, and finish it up in about 12 hours' time. doubleshuffle has an unbeatable lead and will be our next quiz setter. Congratulations!

08-01-2016, 08:32 PM	#15615
Shayne Parkinson Author Posts: 1,532 Karma: 5447804 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: New Zealand Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab	8. 1868 seems about right for the typewriter.