Brit the Elder’s quizzes are notoriously fiendish, but this one is a bit of fun for all book-lovers. Simply identify the book (or short story) and author from the initials. A few are slightly obscure but you’ll know most. There’s also a clue for each one. Readers are free to post answers in the comments, so don’t read those if you don’t want to spoil it. Solution and part 2 to follow next week…
1. TSC by JJR …born free…
2. GWTW by MM …tomorrow is another day.
3. TWB by CK Tom, the little chimney sweep
4. TO or TS by AC Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don’t know.
5. BMHAWK by DB They made us many promises…but they never kept but one. They promised to take our land, and they took it…
6. CWR by LL Huge and squat, the jar lay on the grass like an unexploded bomb.
7. W-T-P by AAM These are the wrong sort of bees!
8. TSG by RD Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it works out the reason for its existence.
9. GT by JS Luggnagg
10. MAC by PO’B Sophie
11. TAQ by CSF Allnutt and Rose
12. TL-P by LW The world is everything that is the case.
13. TWITW by KG Uptails all!
14. TM by FK What has happened to me?
15. D by SH Then Bella did something very kind.
16. SV by S Do one thing for me, SV.
17. TR by P “So opinion and knowledge must have different correalates corresponding to their difference of faculty.” “They must.”
18. TDOAF by AF I want to go on living after my death.
19. MD by HM Call me!
20. POTAAAYM by JJ Hero
Right, on a first look, I’ve got Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell), Winnie the Pooh (AA Milne), Master and Commander (Patrick O’Brien), The wind in the Willows (Kenneth Graham), Dogger (Shirley Hughes), Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
I feel I should know a lot more…
The Social contract (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
and Gullivers Travels (Jonathan Swift)
plus:
3. The Water Babies – Charles Kingsley
4. The Outsider (L’Etranger) – Albert Camus
11 The African Queen- CS Forester
14. (The) Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
17. The Republic – Plato
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee — Dee Brown
Cider with Rosie — Laurie Lee
The Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Moby Dick — Herman Melville
Sredni Vashtar (Saki)
Which leaves only one…
… The Diary of Anne Frank.
Diary of Anne Frank
Got all but 2 (10 & 15) .. thanks for the missing answers.
No idea on 3, 6, 8, 9, 15, 19.
16 seems to me to border on a trick question.
Okay, strike 9 from the list.