Cumulative quiz...Literature

[Az]

I don't know if this will work; it depends on how many of you are interested by literature...

I'll try it anyway and we'll see...

Question #1: He received the title of "Chevalier du Lys" when he was 14 years old by the Comte d'Artois, brother of Louis XVIII. But still he is a fervent admirer of Napoleon I. He was also a talented carpenter, a member of the parliament, admired for his painting talents, and of course his writing talents.

Who is he?


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[Az]

Nobody knows?
Nobody's interested?

What?

 

[CornMaster]

I think we are growing tired of these "quizes".

Lets try to only have one open at a time. So your Geography quiz should be enough.

It seems to be more popular.

 

[starlifter]

Nobody knows?
Nobody's interested?

What?

Probably both of the above

. This historical stuff is more interesting to me, esp. when compared to ancient & obscure French literature.

 

[thedirk]

It's me of course.

 

[Az]

You are right Corn....

Let's leave this quiz....
No need to close it let's just leave it.

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[duke o' york]

Az, is it Chateaubriand? First name Rene and second name rather excellently de.

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[Az]

you're close....

I'll give a really easy clue: Exile in Guernesey

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[Andu Indorin]

Didn't Victor Hugo spend time on Guernsey in a self-imposed exile from Napoleon III?

 

[Az]

yup!

your turn!

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[Andu Indorin]

(If it weren't for the Guernsey clue, I'd never have gotten it!)

Okay, I'm going to try a different tack to the literature quiz ... a la "Name That Tune."

Written originally in English:

"No more firing was heard at Brussels -- the pursuit rolled miles away. Darkness came down on the field and city; and Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart."

Author and Book?

[This message has been edited by Andu Indorin (edited July 20, 2001).]

 

[duke o' york]

A complete shot in the dark, as I only read some of it, but is it Vanity Fair by Thackeray?

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[starlifter]

Author and Book?

Samuel Longhorn Clemons (Mark Twain), "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"?

 

[Andu Indorin]

Yep, it's the end of the classic Waterloo passage from Thackery's Vanity Fair.

Your up, Duke!

 

[duke o' york]

Oh god, I forgot to check this. Sorry about any delay anyone.
Right,

An easy one to get everyone into the swing of things then.

What job did George Orwell do in Paris in Down and Out in Paris and London, his semi-autobiographical account of his youth?

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[animepornstar]

write?

 

[duke o' york]

I'm sure he did write, but it wasn't his job then.

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[animepornstar]

i found this book and checked. he worked in a kitchen in a hotel. he was washing i think.

a easy question, very easy, but i love this book:

'But man is not made for defeat,' he said. 'A man can be destroyed but not defeated.' I am sorry that I killed the fish though, he thought. Now the bad time is coming and I do not even have the harpoon. The dentuso is cruel and able and strong and intelligent. But I was more intelligent than he was. Perhaps not, he thought. Perhaps I was only better armed.

Author and book?

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[Simon Darkshade]

Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea?

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Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
- N.S.Khrushchev

 

[duke o' york]

Damn right Animé. He was a dish washer, just like I was when I used to work in this French hotel. I didn't write a bestseller, but it was just as bad for me.

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