Grab all your friends who were English majors in college and gather around this book! Who Killed Iago? by James Walton has a literary quiz show within its pages. Fun for browsing or actually following the author's system, this book is packed with a variety of quizzes that will help you figure out just how well you know your literature.
My favorite ones are the literary connection quizzes. For these you get a list of four clues to an answer. Once you get the four answers, you then have to figure out their connection to each other. Here's an example: 1) author of The Big Sleep (answer: Chandler) 2) Holden Caulfield's sister in The Catcher in the Rye (answer: Phoebe) 3) Founder of the New Yorker magazine (answer: Ross) 4) Daphne du Maurier's "cousin" (answer: Rachel). So, what do Chandler, Phoebe, Ross and Rachel have in common? The characters on the TV show Friends, of course.
The author is the host of a British radio show that follows this format called "The Write Stuff." He has quizzes about famous authors, literary rivalries, characters who appear in multiple books, and even uncovering author mistakes in various book excerpts.
My favorite ones are the literary connection quizzes. For these you get a list of four clues to an answer. Once you get the four answers, you then have to figure out their connection to each other. Here's an example: 1) author of The Big Sleep (answer: Chandler) 2) Holden Caulfield's sister in The Catcher in the Rye (answer: Phoebe) 3) Founder of the New Yorker magazine (answer: Ross) 4) Daphne du Maurier's "cousin" (answer: Rachel). So, what do Chandler, Phoebe, Ross and Rachel have in common? The characters on the TV show Friends, of course.
This book is great fun or greatly frustrating when the answer is just out of reach. You'll find out just how well-read you are (or aren't!)
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