How Well Read Are You?

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I had to put together some quotes for a trivia thing my English Organization was doing on campus. The selection is obviously biased, but I still have a decent variety on there. Some are silly, and some are serious.

 

Try to put down both the author and work if you know them. And no Googling them! Just guess! I'll post the answers in a couple of days.

 

 

 

1. "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes . . .”

 

2. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”

 

3. “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”

 

4. “I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--

I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference”

 

5. “It begins like this:

Listen:

Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

It ends like this:

Poo-tee-weet?”

 

6. “I meant what I said,

and I said what I meant.

An elephant's faithful,

one hundred percent.”

 

7. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair ..."

 

8. "Call me Ishmael."

 

9. "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

 

10. "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."

 

11. "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."

 

12. "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody"

 

13. “(Frankly) my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

 

14. “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."

 

15. “Who is John Galt?”

 

16. “But when he looked out across the crowd, the sea of faces, the thing happened again. The thing that had happened with the apple. They changed.”

 

17. “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.”

 

18. “It was a pleasure to burn.”

 

19. “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

 

20. “It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.”

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1. "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes . . .”

Macbeth, William Shakespeare (one of the witches said it)

 

7. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair ..."

Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

 

8. "Call me Ishmael."

Moby Dick, Herman Melville

 

14. “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."

"The Raven", Edgar Allan Poe

 

17. “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.”

1984, George Orwell

 

 

 

Just the ones I recognized. :P

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7. "A Tale of Two Cities" - Dickens (decent)

8. "Moby Dick" - Hery Mellville (a little boring to read)

10. "Catcher in the Rye" JD Sallinger (terrible book)

11. "To Kill a Mockingbird" Harper Lee (the book is better than the movie)

14. "The Raven" E.A. Poe (nevermore :lol: )

16. "The Giver" don't remember the author... (strange)

17. "Fahrenheit 451" Ray Bradbury (propaganda)

20. "The Bell Jar" Sylvia Plath (propaganda)

 

Let's see, two classic novels, one piece of poetry and...oh, four "classic" books assigned to me by my ultra-leftist English teacher in high school. It's amazing what we remember. :P

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6: Horton Hears a Who - Dr. Seuss

 

13: Gone with the Wind - don't know the author

 

19: Hamlet - Shakespeare

 

Those are just the ones I know that others haven't beat me to yet.

 

Ironic that Dr. Seuss and Shakespeare fall into the same category, but when you think about it there is an ionic pantameter to both authors.

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1. Shakespear's Macbeth

 

6. Dr. Seuss's Horton... hears a who I want to say, but it might be the other Horton one...

 

8. Moby Dick?

 

13. Gone with the wind

 

14. Edgar Allen Poe, can't recall what piece (great)

 

16. The Giver, and I should know the author!

 

19. Hamlet (also by Bill)... of course when I read it the first thing I thought was Omlet... sigh..

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Gee, nobody got #5? "Slaughterhouse 5" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

and #3 has to be "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson

 

Those are the ones I know that haven't already been spoken for.

 

 

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Gee, nobody got #5? "Slaughterhouse 5" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

and #3 has to be "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson

 

Those are the ones I know that haven't already been spoken for.

 

 

both were also.....made into really good movies A9....as well as a movie based on

the last author you mentioned..........the actor of course was bill murray...and the

movie was where the buffalo roam....a truly hilarious offering..the book it was

based on wasn't too bad either.... :lol: :P

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both were also.....made into really good movies A9....as well as a movie based on

the last author you mentioned..........the actor of course was bill murray...and the

movie was where the buffalo roam....a truly hilarious offering..the book it was

based on wasn't too bad either.... :lol: :P

Johnny Depp was a much better Hunter Thompson in the more recent version. But neither of them can rival the man himself and that book was truly twisted (a compliment, believe me). May he rest in peace - well, actually in pieces, as he was cremated and fired into the air over his ranch.

 

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::sighs and shakes head::

4. Robert Frost- The Road Not Taken

Aother than that I just recognized Shakespeare and Dickens and of course Moby Dick.

I have to read more.

Edited September 29, 2005 by Nicolas Lepage

[Seiben 0]

::sighs:: I need to read more too.. the only ones I got was #7, #8, and 13. (I don't know the author either for 13). :P

Edited September 29, 2005 by Seiben

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Got 1, 4, 6, 7, 8 (though I've never read it), 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19. Probably should have gotten 11, I've certainly read it, but that's not a line that stuck in my memory.

 

I'm surprised no one's gotten #2 yet, though -- Pride and Prejudice.

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I'm surprised no one's gotten #2 yet, though -- Pride and Prejudice.

Finally! :lol:

 

 

And I know I titled the post "How Well Read Are You?" but it's not really a measure of that at all. I tried to put at least five quotes on that I thought most people would recognize whether or not they had read the work and could identify it. With the rest of them, well, we all have different tastes in reading and different lines stick with different people.

 

To be honest, I probably wouldn't have been able to get most of them myself. :P

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7.  "A Tale of Two Cities" - Dickens (decent)

8.  "Moby Dick" - Hery Mellville (a little boring to read)

10. "Catcher in the Rye" JD Sallinger (terrible book)

11. "To Kill a Mockingbird" Harper Lee (the book is better than the movie)

14. "The Raven" E.A. Poe (nevermore :D )

16. "The Giver" don't remember the author... (strange)

17. "Fahrenheit 451" Ray Bradbury (propaganda)

20. "The Bell Jar" Sylvia Plath (propaganda)

 

Let's see, two classic novels, one piece of poetry and...oh, four "classic" books assigned to me by my ultra-leftist English teacher in high school.  It's amazing what we remember.  :P

 

That's really ultra leftist literature let me tell you :lol:

 

17: Is 1984 B) 18: F451

 

Actually...I think I've had to read all of these at some point or another.

 

The Author of the Giver is Lois Lowery. And it's a great book, though not really a "high school" novel.

 

9. "Anna Karenina" - Tolstoy

 

15. "Atlas Shruged" - Ayn Rand [Captialist Manifesto]

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::checks the various answers against the original list, then cheats and googles the one no one's given an answer to::

 

.... is it possible there are 2 quotes from the same book on here?

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Yep! I actually meant to put a different one on when I was making up the poster for our org, but I messed up and put on one of the "reject" quotes instead. I wanted to stick Twain on there but he got left off.

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2. Pride and Prejudice

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And now for the answers!

 

1. William Shakespeare, "Macbeth"

 

2. Jane Austen, "Pride & Prejudice"

 

3. Hunter S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"

 

4. Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken"

 

5. Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse-Five"

 

6. Dr. Seuss, "Horton Hatches the Egg"

 

7. Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities"

 

8. Herman Melville, "Moby Dick"

 

9. Leo Tolstoy, "Anna Karenina" (the only one of the quotes that is a translation, I believe)

 

10. J. D. Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"

 

11. Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird"

 

12. J. D. Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"

 

13. Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind"

 

14. Edgar Allen Poe, "The Raven"

 

15. Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"

 

16. Lois Lowry, "The Giver"

 

17. George Orwell, "1984"

 

18. Ray Bradbury, "Fahrenheit 451"

 

19. William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"

 

20. Sylvia Plath, "The Bell Jar"

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you did good....kiddo......real good :P