Picture round: movies by Richard Attenborough
… the worst ever. I only got 2 right (TWO!). And I call myself a booklover…
- Who was the feminist author of “The Women’s Room”, “The War Against Women”, “Women’s History of the World” and “From Eve to Dawn”? [Answer: Marilyn French]
- How many days did it take Phileas Fogg to get around the world? [79]
- What was the title of A. A. Milne’s second collection of stories about Winnie The Pooh? [The House at Pooh’s Corner]
- In which novel by Tolstoy does Konstantine Levin appear? [Anna Karenina]
- What is the name of the omniponent head of state in 1984 by George Orwell? [Big Brother]
- In which Charles Dickens novel does the character Alfred Jingle appear? [The Pickwick Papers]
- What did George Eliot described as “Snowy, Flowy, Blowy, Showery, Flowery, Bowery, Hoppy, Croppy, Droppy, Breezy, Sneezy, Freezy“? [The months]
- To which literary figure was Anne Hathaway married to? [William Shakespeare]
- From which former province of Spain did Cervantes’ Dom Quixote come from? [La Mancha]
- Which well-known children’s story was written by Swiss author Johann Weiss? [Swiss Family Robinson]
How many would you’ve gotten right?
The Sleepless Reader 
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April 21, 2015 at 11:26 pm
farmlanebooks
Tricky! Well, I would have guessed 80 for number 2. Then I’d probably have got 4, 5 and 8 right – so only one more than you 🙂
April 22, 2015 at 1:00 am
debbierodgers @Exurbanis
#2 was tricky – I would have gone for 80 as well. I guessed at #3 & #4 but got them both right, and then gave the correct answers for 5,8, & 9.
So , really, – just 3. fun1 😉
April 22, 2015 at 1:40 am
Jenny @ Reading the End
I’d definitely have gotten 5, 8, 9, and 10, and I might have gotten 3 and 4. Maybe. Depending on how much I’d had to drink. :p
April 22, 2015 at 3:40 am
Jay
Those are pretty tough. I probably would’ve only gotten two or three also. With more time – or multiple choice – I maybe could do better. I fell for “80 days” hook, line, and sinker too. 🙂
April 22, 2015 at 5:55 am
heidenkind
That’s a tough quiz! I’d probably gotten 2-0 correct, depending on how much I’d had to drink. :p
April 28, 2015 at 1:00 am
Susan D
It was actually 80, because to finish the circumnavigation, he had to show up at the club where he began his journey, and he fiddled around in London for a day before finally completing the journey.
It’s hard to tell if we’d get the answers or not, because they’re already on the page.
So, there would be 2 or 3 I might have missed.
April 29, 2015 at 4:03 pm
Holly
I’d have gotten 3, 5, 8, and 10. I wouldn’t have guessed on Don Quixote because I’ve never read it, but of course I did actually know if because of the musical. And I’d have answered wrong on Phileas Fogg because I forgot about how it ends (though I agree with Susan D that the real answer is 80 because that was the terms of the deal).
May 21, 2015 at 3:48 pm
Elsa
🙂 I would have guessed 4. I got 2 (I remembered the end of the book), 4, 5 and 8. I’m very frustrated with 9, instead of La mancha I thought the province was Andalusia…. 😦 my spanish geography is miserable.