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Gpfr your number 13 was born in Devon
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That's what comes of going too fast 😒
Now, after thinking again:
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Your number 13 did not die until the mid eightiesNumber 15 the other author lived in a place that I think you like to visit - if I remember correctly. Usually a Festival is held there Each year and there is an award for the best joke among other things.
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Berkeley. Some of your wild guesses are correct.
CCCubbon wrote (#11): "Berkeley. Some of your wild guesses are correct."I cheated and looked up 5. Very interesting - I'll definitely will give them a go at some point (I remember your own comments about one of their novels). Thanks for the quiz CCC!
I expected that some looking up would be needed! I tried to put a clue in the question about where one could start looking.
I prefer to look as dumb as I naturally am and only post answers I think are correct without consulting Wikipedia or other sources. But that is a matter of taste.
Now, fran, you’re not dumb at all. You can treat the quiz in any way that you feel comfortable.
number 8's the only one I feel pretty sure about.
These questions certainly tested my Googling skills rather than my literary memory - never a strong point! Suitable search terms have now only left Qs 15 and 17 'unsolved'...The only one I got right was Q14, and part of Q16... I should have got a few more with more time and thought (maybe 4, and 6 - the railway station was a big clue, 7 - just skipped over that one somehow, 8 - misread county for 'country' which of course was confusing. )
I'd claim to have had good guesses at a few more - all wrong! Simenon was worth a try for Q9, for example. Others may have thought that Agatha Christie was worth a shot for Q13... and so on.
Never mind - I enjoyed it, and as I tell my wife: "I've forgotten more stuff than most people will ever know!"
That’s what we do, isn’t it, scarlet, squirrel away bits of information . Crosswords provide some, too. Recently I puzzled for ages about a politician, ambassador what have you with the first name Stamford. Took me ages to get it. Not a literary figure so I couldn’t work it into the quiz but there’s one for you. Who was he?(The is an old inn in Stamford in Lincolnshire, posh, called The George, where I love to dine as a special treat. It’s a lovely old stone town complete with stately home, Burghley House. It was built for William Cecil, Elizabeth l ‘s man, and has wonderful painted ceilings, a hell staircase and a heaven room - and some horsey goings on in the grounds.) I don’t know of any reason why the man in my question was called Stamford - the town is not a clue.
Without googling I am only sure about #14. No idea how to do this html thingy, but there are 4 words to his/her name (or even more).Great quiz!
Sounds right. I thought that question one of the hardest,Georg. Sorry I cannot help with the html, perhaps someone will post the method here. I would be grateful
CCCubbon wrote: "Sounds right. I thought that question one of the hardest,Georg. Sorry I cannot help with the html, perhaps someone will post the method here. I would be grateful"Sure thing - you can either copy/paste it from what is at the top right of the comment box ["(some html is ok)"], or alternatively, you can simply type, bookending the comment you want to hide:
< spoiler > the text you want to hide < / spoiler >.
What is between < and > signs needs to be all attached, no spaces.
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Gpfr wrote: "9. Over 700 books - amazing number!"My (wrong) guess has apparently written the same amount: !
Only Number 11 has been missed so far, how brilliant . I came across a reference to this recently somewhere else and followed it up.
The writer is far better known for another work which is a collection of stories. There is another bird featured in one a fancy colourful, vain cockerel with nails � whiter than the lily flower Who is pursuing a hen
Enough for now. I will give another clue tomorrow but I think some will guess it now.
I forgot about number 10It seems some are misreading the question which is about the two authors who have received the most nominations, not who has won it most.
And number 15 has only ever been partly guessed at.
CCCubbon wrote: "A Quiz. Reading for long periods is difficult for me at the moment and to amuse myself I made up this quiz which might amuse you, too.Who are these writers and other related questions? You may nee..."
Great quiz! Only a few answers I know for sure, and a few educated guesses.
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Who are these writers and other related questions? You may need to do a little searching!
1.Who was first English Poet Laureate. In which year did this happen and who appointed him? Who is the present UnitedKingdom Poet Laureate?
2.Who died in France in 1930, was buried there but later, in 1935, was exhumed and the remains cremated and the ashes re-buried in New Mexico?
3.Elizabeth Stevenson is better known by her married name. What is it?
4.Whose mother had the unusual name Zilpah?
This person’s most famous work is loosely based on a real character. The real person succeeded in uniting the five nations of the Iroquois.
What is the work called?
5.Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921? All of his books were put on the prohibited list by an organisation , can you say which organisation.?
6. Which author fathered thirteen legitimate children, eight surviving childhood? He advised Mahatma Gandhi on his protest movement. He died of pneumonia at Astapovo railway station in 1910.
7.Peggy Mitchell was the pen name of the writer of this book of five parts later made into a film. Can you name the author, the book and the four main stars of the film?
8.The writer of this 1938 novel which has never been out of print, described by its author as a study in jealousy lived mostly in Hampstead, London as a child but is associated mainly with another county. One of her short stories was made into a scary film by Hitchcock. Who was the author, the novel and the title of the short story?
9.Who wrote and published 723 novels.?
10.Which two authors have been nominated for the BookerPrize the most times, one winning twice the other once? How many times were they each nominated?
11. Who wrote a funny poem about birds on St Valentines Day? Three male eagles all want to mate with the same female but she is reluctant. The duck, goose and cuckoo tell them to stop their ‘cursed pleading� and the sparrow hawk is sarcastic. In the end all the birds agree that the female eagle can wait another year and sing together.
12 Which man of letters married Elizabeth, who was known as Tetty, when he was twenty five and she forty six?
13. This lady’s work has been translated into 90 other languages and I expect most of us has read at least one of her books at some time. She was born in East Dulwich, London and died in 1968.
14. This Princely author’s only novel was published posthumously a year after his death in the 1950s.
15. An American author named a sinking boat after another novelist from a different country who wrote historical books. Can you name both authors and their most famous books?
16. Unusually this illustrator is almost as renowned for his drawings of characters in celebrated children’s books as the author. The first of these was published in 1926 and introduced the title character and his friends. How many can you name? Name the illustrator and the author.
17. The second famous book illustrated by the answer to Question 16 was published in 1931 written by a different author. This book has four main characters for you to name along with the author.
18. This writer entitled his autobiography Here Lies