Silliness Quiz - Page 445

issybird · 04-08-2012, 07:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by orlok

They are the names of my three daughters, from eldest to youngest

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Beautiful! Of course now inquiring minds want to know the loathed middle names bestowed on them by their mum.

issybird · 04-08-2012, 07:56 PM

6. Villette, Charlotte Bronte
10. Much Ado about Nothing, Shakespeare

Shayne Parkinson · 04-08-2012, 08:01 PM

All correct, Issybird.

1. "Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?"

2. "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?" Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - Issybird

3. "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

4. "When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole."

5. "We are never told what would have happened."

6. "No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato.... " Villette by Charlotte Bronte - Issybird

7. "I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."

8. "She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else."

9. "A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes."

10. "How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see him but I am heart-burned an hour after." Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare - Issybird

poohbear_nc · 04-08-2012, 08:16 PM

7. Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome

poohbear_nc · 04-08-2012, 08:18 PM

9. Vanity Fair - Thackery

poohbear_nc · 04-08-2012, 08:35 PM

3. Got to be Tolkien - The Hobbit?

Shayne Parkinson · 04-08-2012, 08:41 PM

I was hoping you'd get here in time for this one, Pooh! All correct.

1. "Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?"

2. "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?" Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - Issybird

3. "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien - Poohbear

4. "When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole."

5. "We are never told what would have happened."

6. "No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato.... " Villette by Charlotte Bronte - Issybird

7. "I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours." Three men in a Boat by Jerome K.Jerome - Poohbear

8. "She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else."

9. "A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes." - Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray - Poohbear

10. "How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see him but I am heart-burned an hour after." Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare - Issybird

Issybird and Poohbear are current neck-and-neck, with six points each.

poohbear_nc · 04-08-2012, 08:57 PM

5. Golden Compass - Pullman?

poohbear_nc · 04-08-2012, 08:57 PM

1. One of the Raj novels? - Paul Scott?

Shayne Parkinson · 04-08-2012, 08:58 PM

No and no.

poohbear_nc · 04-08-2012, 08:59 PM

*dang*

*activating thinking cap*

#1 is British - I know I've read it .....

poohbear_nc · 04-08-2012, 09:00 PM

#4 - I almost thought Virginia Woolf - but no .....

Shayne Parkinson · 04-08-2012, 09:03 PM

#1 is indeed from a British writer.
#4 is indeed not from Virginia Woolf.

SneakySnake · 04-08-2012, 09:11 PM

not a clue! I have a headache.

(hoping not going to be migraine) And I have been out of bed for hours, but had to go out so all references to me sleeping in are false. Maybe for today only. Anyway Carry on, my brain is not working very well today. Good Q Shayne!

Shayne Parkinson · 04-08-2012, 09:29 PM

I hope you feel better soon, Sneaky! And I hope it doesn't turn into a migraine - I get those, too.

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04-08-2012, 07:56 PM	#6662
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,367 Karma: 235205657 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	6. Villette, Charlotte Bronte 10. Much Ado about Nothing, Shakespeare

04-08-2012, 08:01 PM	#6663
Shayne Parkinson Author Posts: 1,532 Karma: 5447804 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: New Zealand Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab	All correct, Issybird. 1. "Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?" 2. "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?" Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - Issybird 3. "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." 4. "When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole." 5. "We are never told what would have happened." 6. "No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato.... " Villette by Charlotte Bronte - Issybird 7. "I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours." 8. "She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else." 9. "A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes." 10. "How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see him but I am heart-burned an hour after." Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare - Issybird

04-08-2012, 08:16 PM	#6664
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,719 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	7. Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome

04-08-2012, 08:18 PM	#6665
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,719 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	9. Vanity Fair - Thackery

04-08-2012, 08:35 PM	#6666
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,719 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	3. Got to be Tolkien - The Hobbit?

04-08-2012, 08:41 PM	#6667
Shayne Parkinson Author Posts: 1,532 Karma: 5447804 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: New Zealand Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab	I was hoping you'd get here in time for this one, Pooh! All correct. 1. "Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?" 2. "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?" Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - Issybird 3. "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien - Poohbear 4. "When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole." 5. "We are never told what would have happened." 6. "No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato.... " Villette by Charlotte Bronte - Issybird 7. "I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours." Three men in a Boat by Jerome K.Jerome - Poohbear 8. "She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else." 9. "A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes." - Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray - Poohbear 10. "How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see him but I am heart-burned an hour after." Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare - Issybird Issybird and Poohbear are current neck-and-neck, with six points each.

04-08-2012, 08:57 PM	#6668
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,719 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	5. Golden Compass - Pullman?

04-08-2012, 08:57 PM	#6669
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,719 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	1. One of the Raj novels? - Paul Scott?

04-08-2012, 08:58 PM	#6670
Shayne Parkinson Author Posts: 1,532 Karma: 5447804 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: New Zealand Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab	No and no.

04-08-2012, 08:59 PM	#6671
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,719 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	dang activating thinking cap #1 is British - I know I've read it .....

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04-08-2012, 09:00 PM	#6672
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,719 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	#4 - I almost thought Virginia Woolf - but no .....

04-08-2012, 09:03 PM	#6673
Shayne Parkinson Author Posts: 1,532 Karma: 5447804 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: New Zealand Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab	#1 is indeed from a British writer. #4 is indeed not from Virginia Woolf.

04-08-2012, 09:11 PM	#6674
SneakySnake I'm watching you! Posts: 6,113 Karma: 22344652 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Sunny Coast Qld, OZ Device: Sony PRS-900(unused lately) iPadAir2, want me Kindle Oasis	not a clue! I have a headache. (hoping not going to be migraine) And I have been out of bed for hours, but had to go out so all references to me sleeping in are false. Maybe for today only. Anyway Carry on, my brain is not working very well today. Good Q Shayne!

04-08-2012, 09:29 PM	#6675
Shayne Parkinson Author Posts: 1,532 Karma: 5447804 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: New Zealand Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab	I hope you feel better soon, Sneaky! And I hope it doesn't turn into a migraine - I get those, too.