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Literature Quiz!

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    #92
    Talliesin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    Sgt. Sensible wrote:
    No not that one. Tis one by a foreigner which was an influence on Dorian Gray.
    That book was mentioned in the first of the trials though.


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    #93
    Sgt. Sensible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭Sgt. Sensible


    Talliesin wrote:
    That book was mentioned in the first of the trials though.
    Yes my fault for not being specific enough.

    Clues: Emile Zola was disappointed by it and called it a blow to naturalism. Hopeless indie jingle jangling junkie Pete Doherty named a song after it.


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    #94
    Sgt. Sensible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭Sgt. Sensible


    Oh ok, it was Against Nature by JK Huysmans.

    Carry on.


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    #95
    Esmereldina
    Registered Users Posts: 444 ✭✭Esmereldina


    another question to start this thread off again...
    What was the name of the armoured bear who was a friend of Lyra's in the His Dark Materials trilogy?


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    #96
    Chinafoot
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    A: Iorek Byrnison

    Q: In 'Emma' by Jane Austen, who paints Harriet's portrait?


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    #97
    tSubh Dearg
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    A: Emma

    Q: Who is the woman in Poe's poem "The Raven"?


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    #98
    Chinafoot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭Chinafoot


    A: Lenore (thought to possibly represent Poe's wife who was sick when he wrote the poem. Can't remember her name.)

    Q: How many publishers rejected 'Dubliners' by James Joyce before it was finally published in 1914?


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    #99
    BossArky
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    Q: 22

    A: What did the owner of the first published version do with it?


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    #100
    BossArky
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    A: Dumped it in the fire(!)

    Q: Whilst Humpity Dumpty was sitting on the wall surveying the surrounding countryside, what did he have?


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    #101
    doonothing
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    A: a big fall?

    Q: frank's first victim in the wasp factory by iain banks?


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    #102
    Sgt. Sensible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭Sgt. Sensible


    doonothing wrote:

    Q: frank's first victim in the wasp factory by iain banks?
    Is it a dog?


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    #103
    /Andy\
    Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭/Andy\


    It's actually his cousin, Blyth.


    Q: In Stephen King's acclaimed short novel "The Long Walk", who is the last person to receive their "ticket"? (i.e, runner up of the Long Walk)


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    #104
    /Andy\
    Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭/Andy\


    Sorry guys, just realised what the poster before me meant, I presume we're talking human victims?


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    #105
    BossArky
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,521 Mod ✭✭✭✭BossArky


    ... ok moving on past the thumbleweed.

    Q: What is strange about the style of speech which Lee, the chinese servant, uses with Sam Hamilton versus others unfamiliar with him in John Steinbecks "East of Eden".


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    #106
    Crucifix
    Registered Users Posts: 3,437 ✭✭✭Crucifix


    BossArky wrote:
    Q: What is strange about the style of speech which Lee, the chinese servant, uses with Sam Hamilton versus others unfamiliar with him in John Steinbecks "East of Eden".
    Pidgin.

    Q: What was Holden's roommate's name in "Catcher in the Rye"?


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    #107
    Anton17
    Closed Accounts Posts: 265 ✭✭Anton17


    Ackley.

    What were the twins names in The Secret History?


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    #108
    Esmereldina
    Registered Users Posts: 444 ✭✭Esmereldina


    Charles and Camilla


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    #109
    Anton17
    Closed Accounts Posts: 265 ✭✭Anton17


    Yep!


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    #110
    Esmereldina
    Registered Users Posts: 444 ✭✭Esmereldina


    oh... and to post my next question, i forgot that bit before.

    Name one famous literary figure that Hemingway befriends in Paris in A Moveable Feast...


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    #111
    Skellington
    Closed Accounts Posts: 783 ✭✭✭Skellington


    joyce?

    how did simon die in lord of the flies?


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    #112
    Esmereldina
    Registered Users Posts: 444 ✭✭Esmereldina


    PunK05 wrote:
    joyce?

    how did simon die in lord of the flies?


    Yup, Joyce was one!
    Fraid I can't answer the latest question, it's been far too long since I read Lord of the Flies...


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    #113
    BossArky
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    Was Simon drowned?... or hacked to death in the water with rocks? ... something like that?? :rolleyes:


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    #114
    Skellington
    Closed Accounts Posts: 783 ✭✭✭Skellington


    BossArky wrote:
    or hacked to death in the water with rocks? ... something like that??

    close, it was spears, not rocks.


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    #115
    doonothing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭doonothing


    cant believe i missed the secret history question.. its like, my speciality!

    who does patrick bateman often get mistaken for in american psycho?


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    #116
    Crucifix
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    Anton17 wrote:
    Ackley.
    I was looking for Stradlater.


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    #117
    Anton17
    Closed Accounts Posts: 265 ✭✭Anton17


    Oh right, Ackley was the pimply guy who lived next door. Sorry :)

    Is it Paul Allen (or Owen ) Patrick Bateman gets mistaken for?


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    #118
    doonothing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭doonothing


    nope... keep tryin


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    #119
    Anton17
    Closed Accounts Posts: 265 ✭✭Anton17


    Marcus Halberstrum?


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    #120
    doonothing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭doonothing


    correctomundo


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    #121
    Anton17
    Closed Accounts Posts: 265 ✭✭Anton17


    Sticking with Bret Easton Ellis,

    How did Chloe die in Glamorama?


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