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Post by barbelman on Mar 20, 2020 11:45:30 GMT
As you are all mouldering in isolation, I dug this out from my archive of quizzes used in the Witney program. I may have pinched it in the first place so be kind! Only three answers per person per calendar day please! First prize will be a whole roll of Andrex's finest. Second prize will be a three minute supermarket dash  Simply identify the books (2nd column) and their authors (3rd column) from their initials.
NO GOOGLING 'cos it's pointless and you're only kidding yourself that you are supersmart! Correctly solved = ABCD1 TLRB MT
2 TK A
3 ATOTC CD
4 SFB RB-P
5 TLOTR JRRT
6 ATTWN AC
7 TH JRRT
8 TDVC DB
9 TCITR JDS
10 TCSBOBACC BS (double points!)
11 AOGG LMM
12 BB AS
13 TTOPR BP
14 HPATDH JKR
15 AAD DB
16 WAP LT
17 TDOAF AF
18 TWITW KG
19 NE-F GO
20 TG MP
21 J PB
22 TH-HGTTG DA
23 CATCF RD
24 TKR KH
25 MK AH |
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Post by Chris_Sav on Mar 20, 2020 12:11:08 GMT
5 The Lord of the Rings - J R R Tolkien
7 The Hobbit - J R R Tolkien
3 A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Nice one Tony
All correct
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2020 12:29:52 GMT
Smart quiz, Tony !
9. The Catcher In The Rye - J D Salinger
18. The Wind In The Willows - Kenneth Graham
14. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - J K Rowling
all correct
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Post by bigtj on Mar 20, 2020 14:43:06 GMT
23 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Rohl Dahl
Correct
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Mar 20, 2020 14:50:52 GMT
16 War and Peace Leon Tolstoy
12 Black Beauty Anne Sewell
22 The Hitch hikers Guide to the galaxy Douglas Adams
All correct
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2020 0:42:03 GMT
8. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
13. The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter
19. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
All correct!
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Post by Chris_Sav on Mar 21, 2020 13:07:36 GMT
4 Scouting For Boys Robert Baden-Powell
11 Anne of Green Gables (half a point?)
25 Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler
All correct..half a point for Anne of green gables and and extra half for spelling Kampf properly!
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Mar 21, 2020 20:24:52 GMT
JAWS Peter Benchley
Correct
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2020 11:22:38 GMT
11 (For the other half point of Chris's answer) Lucy Maud Montgomery
Arthur Point
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2020 16:44:45 GMT
1 The Little Red Book - Mao Tse-Tung 17 The Diary Of Anne Frank - Anne Frank
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2020 0:08:40 GMT
10 The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Dr Benjamin Spock.
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Mar 23, 2020 6:51:53 GMT
10 The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Dr Benjamin Spock. is Margo Pregnant? |
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Post by barbelman on Mar 23, 2020 11:26:13 GMT
Tommo 10.5 points
Sav 5.5 points
Gandalf 4 points
TJ 1point
These are left;
2 TK A (clue T = the)
6 ATTWN AC
15 AAD DB
20 TG MP (clue T = the)
24 TKR KH (clue T = the)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2020 12:25:49 GMT
10 The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Dr Benjamin Spock. is Margo Pregnant? No but my first wife had no maternal instinct and for the first few months I had to be father and mother to my son. The breast feeding really hurt !  |
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Mar 23, 2020 12:32:21 GMT
No but my first wife had no maternal instinct and for the first few months I had to be father and mother to my son. The breast feeding really hurt ! thats a mental image few of us wanted tommo  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2020 10:44:53 GMT
6. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (to give the politically correct name for the book)
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Post by barbelman on Mar 30, 2020 9:12:19 GMT
More clues to get rid;
2 TK A (clue T = the) (Clue 2 - Religious)
15 AAD DB (Clue; Da Vinci predated this)
20 TG MP (clue T = the) (Clue 2 = the Mafia)
24 TKR KH (clue T = the) (clue 2 = based in Afghanistan)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2020 10:40:45 GMT
15 Angels And Demons - Dan Brown ...... excellent movie made of it, Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon, Ewan McGregor as the Camerlengo (goody or baddie ?)  20 The Godfather - Mario Puzo
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2020 14:44:24 GMT
2 The Koran - Allah (handed it down to Mohammed)
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Apr 2, 2020 17:53:54 GMT
24 The Kite runner Khaled Hosseini, saw it at the Theatre Royal Brighton a few seasons ago
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Post by barbelman on Apr 3, 2020 15:55:49 GMT
All done...
Tommo 13.5 points
Sav 6 points
Gandalf 5 points
TJ 1 point
Well done all
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