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Quiz#10 - Books 'n stuff

  • 11-09-2008 9:58pm
    #1
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    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





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    4.
    5.
    6.
    7.
    8.
    9.
    10.


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Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Sent!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,408 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    PM sent...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,174 ✭✭✭mathias


    PM sent


  • Registered Users Posts: 363 ✭✭Edser


    PM sent


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 447 ✭✭shinobi


    PM sent. Thanks.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,459 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    Sent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,344 ✭✭✭Thoie


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    pm sent


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭patrickc


    pm sent thanks as always ponster


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    PM sent


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 480 ✭✭genie_us


    Done - thanks


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭Baby4


    This post has been deleted.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 801 ✭✭✭jobucks


    PM Sent, thanks Ponster:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    Done,

    Q8 is hard...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,783 ✭✭✭Mark Hamill


    Sean_K wrote: »
    Done,

    Q8 is hard...
    There's a wikipedia list here
    ;)

    PM Sent


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    There's a wikipedia list here
    ;)

    PM Sent

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

    /edit: She is now:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 527 ✭✭✭Spike440


    Entered.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    PM sent - thank you Ponster, great quiz!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,844 ✭✭✭Honey-ec


    PM sent, thanks Ponster!

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    PM Sent, gg etc


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    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.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,110 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dizzyblonde


    pm sent, thanks Ponster :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭ecaf


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 980 ✭✭✭SuzieWong


    pm sent


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,074 ✭✭✭rgiller


    PM sent. I have a good feeling about this one


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 264 ✭✭cacio


    PM sent


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,005 ✭✭✭Creature


    Done.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭jaffa20


    Pm sent


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭Aisling(",)


    pm sent


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭lorweld


    pm sent thanks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,120 ✭✭✭shrapnel222


    sent


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 816 ✭✭✭eliza64


    pm sent thanks


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    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


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,344 ✭✭✭Thoie


    Wow, I really suck at this game!


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,589 ✭✭✭patmac


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 264 ✭✭cacio


    Woo top three! Best I've ever done.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,459 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    Second. Alright!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,005 ✭✭✭Creature


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭patrickc


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    ffs - I never even thought of the fantasy master :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭Aisling(",)


    why wasnt i included?
    i pm'd


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭patrickc


    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...:confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭Baby4


    This post has been deleted.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    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).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


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


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