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Quiz#10 - Books 'n stuff

Ponster · 2008-09-11 20:58:58

The point of the game is pretty simple. In a PM to me, answer each of the 10 questions below. Try to think of the most popular answer. Don't bother entering for the sake of entering without thinking about how best to reply. If you need to comment or clarify a question then do it in thread please. And if you could reply…

11-09-2008 8:58pm

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The point of the game is pretty simple. In a PM to me, answer each of the 10 questions below.

Try to think of the most popular answer. Don't bother entering for the sake of entering without thinking about how best to reply.

If you need to comment or clarify a question then do it in thread please. And if you could reply once you've sent a PM it'd keep the thread alive Thanks!

Write your answers like this...

Do not repeat the questions, no full-stops at the end of answers, no spaces between lines, no comments, no fancy list coding. Thanks.

JUST LIKE THIS:

1. Dr Maria O' Brien
2. Kathy Wells
3. XXXX

Those who don't reply like this will be ignored.

The game will end when we have 40 entrants or after 5 days, whichever comes first.

Please, no full-stops after the answers and put a space in between the 1. and the answer ok?

1. Name a novel/novella/short story written Stephen King and published in his name, or under a pen-name, which has been made into a major motion picture or TV movie.
2. Name one of the books from The Barrytown Trilogy.
3. Name an Irish-born winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
4. Name a Shakespearean tragedy.
5. Name a Jane Austin novel which has been adapted for screen.
6. Name a writer of fantasy-based novels
7. Name a series of travel guides
8. Name a writer of 'chick-lit'
9. Name a published of dictionaries.
10. Name a fictional detective who originally appeared in novels/novelette

PM HERE

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#2 11-09-2008 9:08pm

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Sent!

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#3 11-09-2008 9:11pm

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PM sent...

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#4 11-09-2008 9:23pm

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#5 11-09-2008 9:41pm

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PM sent

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#6 11-09-2008 9:56pm

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PM sent. Thanks.

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#7 11-09-2008 10:46pm

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Sent.

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#8 11-09-2008 11:08pm

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Done. Had to think about a few of those though.

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#9 11-09-2008 11:12pm

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pm sent

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#10 12-09-2008 12:03am

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pm sent thanks as always ponster

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#11 12-09-2008 1:51am

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PM sent

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#12 12-09-2008 7:37am

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Done - thanks

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#13 12-09-2008 7:56am

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#14 12-09-2008 8:51am

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PM Sent, thanks Ponster:)

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#15 12-09-2008 10:20am

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Done,

Q8 is hard...

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#16 12-09-2008 10:40am

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Sean_K wrote: »

Done,

Q8 is hard...

There's a wikipedia list here

PM Sent

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#17 12-09-2008 10:45am

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Mark Hamill wrote: »

There's a wikipedia list here

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ffs the one I said wasn't even on that list:pac::p

/edit: She is now:p

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#18 12-09-2008 10:46am

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Entered.

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#19 12-09-2008 10:59am

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PM sent - thank you Ponster, great quiz!

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#20 12-09-2008 11:02am

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PM sent, thanks Ponster!

I thought Q8 was hard simply because there's so many people peddling that shoite these days...

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#21 12-09-2008 11:16am

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PM Sent, gg etc

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#22 12-09-2008 11:35am

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Honey-ec wrote: »

I thought Q8 was hard simply because there's so many people peddling that shoite these days...

Even so, out of the 14 or so answers I have, 8 people have all given the same person

This one is going to be *very* close I bet. There are 2 questions that almost everyone has given the same answer to so should you answer something different your chances of winning are slim.

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#23 12-09-2008 11:59am

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pm sent, thanks Ponster

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#24 12-09-2008 1:20pm

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PM Sent - Thanks,
I don't think I did too well this time! .

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pm sent

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#26 12-09-2008 2:48pm

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PM sent. I have a good feeling about this one

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Done.

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Pm sent

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sent

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#34 15-09-2008 9:37pm

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1. The Shining 10
1. the shawshank redemption 9
1. it 5
1. Misery 5
1. Carrie 1
1. The Body (Stand By Me) 1
1. The green mile 1
1. The Running Man. 1

2. the commitments 16
2. the snapper 13
2. The Van 2
2. The Mammy 1
2. Doyle 1

3. Seamus Heaney 21
3. George Bernard Shaw 5
3. WB Yeats 5
3. James Joyce 1
3. Samuel Beckett 1

4. Romeo & Juliet 17
4. hamlet 7
4. Macbeth 6
4. Othello 2
4. The Merchant of Venice 1

5. pride and prejudice 28
5. Sense and Sensibility 3
5. Emma 2

6. J R R Tolkien 16
6. Terry Pratchett 6
6. JK Rowling 4
6. Terry Brooks 2
6. douglas Adams 2
6. alfred hitchcock 1
6. Bill Bryson 1
6. Dean Koontz 1

7. lonely planet 25
7. Rough Guides 5
7. Baedecker 1
7. Bill Bryson 1
7. Dorling Kindersley Travel Guides 1

8. Cecilia Ahern 15
8. Marian Keyes 9
8. helen fielding 3
8. Amanda Brunker 1
8. Barbara Cartland 1
8. Cathey Kelly 1
8. Maeve Binchy 1
8. Sophie Kinsella 1
8. Sue Townsend 1

9. oxford 24
9. collins 8
9. chambers 1

10. Sherlock Holmes 23
10. Hercule Poirot 8
10. Miss Marple 1
10. Sam Spade 1

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#35 15-09-2008 9:38pm

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And the winner this week is a common sight in the Top Ten each quiz....

Spike440 572,73

1. The Shining
2. The Commitments
3. Seamus Heaney
4. Romeo & Juliet
5. pride and prejudice
6. J R R Tolkien
7. lonely planet
8. Marian Keyes
9. oxford
10. Sherlock Holmes

Blisterman 557,58

cacio 554,55

lorweld 539,39
patmac 530,30
square_igloo 527,27
Larianne 527,27
Creature 521,21

Honey-ec 509,09
Macros42 503,03
mathias 493,94
jaffa20 490,91
Edser 487,88

genie_us 481,82
Mark Hamill 475,76
Dizzyblonde 460,61
ru34nl 448,48
See Ye 439,39

rgiller 439,39
ecaf 436,36
jobucks 436,36
Sean_k 433,33
Shinobi 430,30

tony 2 tone 396,97
shrapnel222 378,79
Seamus 369,70
Suziewong 354,55
eliza64 351,52

dulpit 345,45
pseudonym1 339,39
patrickc 318,18
baby4 269,70
Thoie 245,45

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#36 15-09-2008 9:39pm

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Wow, I really suck at this game!

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#37 15-09-2008 9:41pm

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Thoie wrote: »

Wow, I really suck at this game!

Not really. This one was extra difficult as a lot of people got top answers so if you didn't answer the most popular answer given for more than 2 questions then you couldn't win.

You're 2 answers that let you down were :

1. The Body (Stand By Me)
7. Baedecker

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#38 15-09-2008 9:44pm

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YAY 7th, best yet!!! Whoo I was 2nd last in the last quiz I did. Stoopid Cecilia Ahern, The Shining and R&J!!

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#39 16-09-2008 12:57pm

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5th this time so high up I'm getting a nose bleed!

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#40 16-09-2008 4:00pm

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6th place - pretty good!
Had all the top answers apart from Tolkien (I said Pratchett) and Romeo & Juliet (I said Macbeth)
Well done spike!

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#41 16-09-2008 5:42pm

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Woo top three! Best I've ever done.

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#42 16-09-2008 8:56pm

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Second. Alright!!

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#43 16-09-2008 10:02pm

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Bah Sherlock Holmes! Can't believe I didn't think of that!

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#44 16-09-2008 11:03pm

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thought i would of done better i gave a few top answers

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#45 16-09-2008 11:06pm

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ffs - I never even thought of the fantasy master

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#46 17-09-2008 12:35am

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why wasnt i included?
i pm'd

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#47 17-09-2008 6:36am

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Aisling(",) wrote: »

why wasnt i included?
i pm'd

Because my Excel sheet for scoring doesn't like the strange characters in your name

Seamus 364,71
Suziewong 350,00
eliza64 347,06
dulpit 338,24
pseudonym1 335,29
patrickc 311,76
Aisling 305,88
baby4 267,65
Thoie 238,24

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#48 17-09-2008 7:21am

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Ponster wrote: »

Because my Excel sheet for scoring doesn't like the strange characters in your name

Seamus 364,71
Suziewong 350,00
eliza64 347,06
dulpit 338,24
pseudonym1 335,29
patrickc 311,76
Aisling 305,88
baby4 267,65
Thoie 238,24

now you've reduced my points ponster...

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#49 17-09-2008 7:48am

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#50 17-09-2008 8:13am

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That's the way the quiz works. The Excel sheet rebelled against Aisling(",)'s name so her scores weren't included. I entered them again and now it's changed peoples scores (though really only the people around her position).

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#51 17-09-2008 8:22am

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Wow. It's funny how you think that you must have all the most popular answers

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