Silliness Quiz - Page 955

HomeInMyShoes · 07-11-2014, 05:34 PM

Hmmm..

j.d. sALingER - HOTel busbOy ?

doubleshuffle · 07-11-2014, 09:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

Hmmm..

j.d. sALingER - HOTel busbOy ?

Interesting approach - but sorry, no. I meant that quite literally, without any letter magic: Author and job just don't seem to go together at all.

Shayne Parkinson · 07-11-2014, 11:39 PM

The hint makes me think this:
J. D. Salinger - entertainment director on a luxury liner

doubleshuffle · 07-12-2014, 01:05 AM

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

poohbear_nc · 07-12-2014, 07:54 PM

DeLillo - parking attendant

doubleshuffle · 07-12-2014, 11:03 PM

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...

Douglas Adams: bodyguard. HIMS
William S. Burroughs: exterminator. pdurrant
John Clare: lime burner. pdurrant
Don DeLillo: parking attendant. poohbear_nc
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
poohbear_nc - 3 points

Bookpossum- 2 points
Shayne Parkinson - 2 points

Bilbo 1967 - 1 point
Orlok - 1 point

pdurrant · 07-13-2014, 08:37 AM

Time for some more gueses!

William Faulkner
university postmaster

Joseph Heller
blacksmith's apprentice

Langston Hughes
hotel busboy

doubleshuffle · 07-13-2014, 09:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Time for some more gueses!

William Faulkner
university postmaster

Joseph Heller
blacksmith's apprentice

Langston Hughes
hotel busboy

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.

pdurrant · 07-13-2014, 09:32 AM

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?

orlok · 07-13-2014, 09:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pdurrant

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?

1. 39
2. 2
3. 451
4. 3
5. 101
6. 13 and three-quarters
7. 2000 leagues
8. ?
9. 3
10. ?

pdurrant · 07-13-2014, 09:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by orlok

1. 39
2. 2
3. 451
4. 3
5. 101
6. 13 and three-quarters
7. 2000 leagues
8. ?
9. 3
10. ?

All right except for 2000

7 points to orlok. More points for full titles and authors.

orlok · 07-13-2014, 09:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pdurrant

All right except for 2000

7 points to orlok. More points for full titles and authors.

20,000 leagues

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. ?

doubleshuffle · 07-13-2014, 10:16 AM

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?

pdurrant · 07-13-2014, 10:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by orlok

20,000 leagues

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. ?

All correct. 23 points to orlok, and orlok wins the competition.

Quote:

Originally Posted by doubleshuffle

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?

Yes! A very honorable three points to doubleshuffle.

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.

orlok · 07-13-2014, 10:54 AM

10. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller?

07-11-2014, 11:39 PM	#14313
Shayne Parkinson Author Posts: 1,532 Karma: 5447804 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: New Zealand Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab	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.

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07-11-2014, 05:34 PM	#14311
HomeInMyShoes Grand Sorcerer Posts: 19,226 Karma: 67780237 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	Hmmm.. j.d. sALingER - HOTel busbOy ?

07-12-2014, 01:05 AM	#14314
doubleshuffle Unicycle Daredevil Posts: 13,923 Karma: 185041098 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	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
poohbear_nc Now what? Posts: 58,801 Karma: 135181808 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	DeLillo - parking attendant

07-12-2014, 11:03 PM	#14316
doubleshuffle Unicycle Daredevil Posts: 13,923 Karma: 185041098 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	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... Douglas Adams: bodyguard. HIMS William S. Burroughs: exterminator. pdurrant John Clare: lime burner. pdurrant Don DeLillo: parking attendant. poohbear_nc 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 poohbear_nc - 3 points Bookpossum- 2 points Shayne Parkinson - 2 points Bilbo 1967 - 1 point Orlok - 1 point

07-13-2014, 08:37 AM	#14317
pdurrant The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠 Posts: 71,496 Karma: 306214458 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle Voyage	Time for some more gueses! William Faulkner university postmaster Joseph Heller blacksmith's apprentice Langston Hughes hotel busboy

07-13-2014, 09:32 AM	#14319
pdurrant The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠 Posts: 71,496 Karma: 306214458 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle Voyage	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?

07-13-2014, 10:16 AM	#14323
doubleshuffle Unicycle Daredevil Posts: 13,923 Karma: 185041098 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	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?

07-13-2014, 10:54 AM	#14325
orlok Close to the Edit! Posts: 9,797 Karma: 267994408 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis, Amazon Fire 8", Kindle 6"	10. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller?