Lørdagslisten - nr. 3

15 favorittsitater - ingen særlig seriøse. Bonuspoeng for å gjette hvilke bøker de kommer fra =) Den som har flest rette blir en dagsvinner i mitt quizopplegg, og er et steg nærmere å vinne en valgfri pocketbok.

1. "Og den som anlegger en flytende bro over Europas største elv, vil vel også kunne lykkes med å gjemme en dverg inne i et møbel?"

2. "If my life could be contained in a word it would be this one: accidents. Not only do I share in a notorious family history of calamity and accident, not only was I involved in a life-altering accident at age seven, not only would I be involved in a few more accidents in my time, I actually was an accident; as you might have imagined, my birth was not a planned one."

3. "Og da (elg)kalven dukket opp igjen kort etter, hadde jeg ikke mer å gi. Jeg kapitulerte. I natt sov vi sammen inne i teltet. Kalven bidro med overraskende mye varme. Jeg brukte den som hodepute store deler av natten, og da jeg våknet i dag, ble vi liggende og se på hverandre på en nær og intim måte som jeg sjelden har opplevd med mennesker. Jeg tror ikke jeg engang har opplevd det med min kone. Selv ikke i starten av forholdet. Det var nesten i meste laget."

4. "Han var vår Sauron, vår Arawn, vår Darkseid, vår Evige Diktator, en så besynderlig, så pervers og så fryktelig person at ikke en gang en science fiction-forfatter kunne ha funnet ham opp."

5. "You're a gentleman," they used to say to him. "You shouldn't have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that's no occupation for a gentleman."

6. "The gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it. Even my best mate, Marvin, knows it, and he's more useless than the gunman. The worst part about the whole thing is that Marv's car is standing outside in a fifteen-minute parking zone. We're all facedown on the floor, and the car's only got a few minutes left on it."

7. "There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind."

8. "I don't know, apathetic bloody planet, I've no sympathy at all."

9. "In my desert vocabulary I tried to find some words of condolence and apology, but all I managed to do was massacre her parents and rape her sister. I really wasn't made for social life."

10. "Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside."

11. ”At dommedag kunne være avlyst var gode nyheter, men dette gikk slett ikke inn hos en mindre forsamling som omtrent samtidig hadde møte i et hus kalt Lysets Tempel lenger oppe i gaten, der holdt nemlig endetidsmenigheten Lysets Ord til; disse hadde med mindre hell spådd verdens undergang og Jesu komme hele fjorten ganger de siste tyve årene, men mistet slett ikke håpet, en gang ville det klaffe”

12. "Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say that it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen."

13. "All the children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though that is what they are."

14. "De første menneskene kom til Norge omtrent 12 000 år før Kristus. Denne påstanden blir tatt for god fisk av de fleste historikere. Likevel må det dreie seg om en misforståelse. Kristus kom aldri til Norge."

15. "All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done."

Quiz - nr. 9

Riktige svar fra forrige quiz er:

1. Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
2. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou

Det var kun en deltaker sist quiz, og hun vinner dermed. Men med tre riktige svar på fire vanskelige spørsmål er hun så absolutt en verdig vinner. Gratulerer til Oda.

Dagens quiz blir den siste, forutsatt at det er mulig å kåre en vinner i morgen. Oda og Christine står begge med to seire hver, og hvis en av dem vinner denne quizen får de en valgfri pocketbok i posten snart =) Hvis en annen vinner fortsetter jeg med quizen til noen har fått tre seire. Lykke til alle sammen.

Her kommer dagens spørsmål:

Using the sentences listed below, identify the novel or short story started by each sentence and the author of each work.

1. "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
2. What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?
3. He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.
4. When Mrs. Frederick C. Little's second son arrived, everybody noticed that he was not much bigger than a mouse.
5. A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.
6. One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it - it was the black kitten's fault entirely.
7. Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.

Quiz - nr. 8

Nå har jeg bestemt meg for å (endelig) fullføre quizen jeg begynte på i sommer. Jeg legger ut så mange som jeg får tid til i løpet av denne uken, og så kåres en vinner på søndag. Riktige svar fra forrige quiz kommer her:

1. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
3. Two Gentlemen of Verona
4. A Tale of Two Cities
5. The Three Musketeers
6. The Three Sisters
7. The Sign of Four
8. Slaughterhouse-Five
9. Ten Little Indians
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Vinneren, med 10 riktige svar, er Natalie Normann. Listen over vinnere ser dermed slik ut:

Oda (1 seier)
Bokelskerinnen (1 seier)
Julie (1 seier)
Lena (1 seier)
Natalie (1 seier)
Christine (2 seiere)

DAGENS QUIZ

Identify the title inspired by each literary passage below and its author.

1. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
Their Sober wishes never learned to stray;
Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

- Thomas Gray, "ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD"

2. Away! away! for I will fly to thee,
Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of Poesy,
Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:
Already with thee! tender is the night.

- John Keats, "ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE"

3. The best-laid schemes o'mice an' men,
Gang aft a-gley,
An'lea'e us naught but grief an' pain
For promised joy!

- Robert Burns, "TO A MOUSE"

4. It is not a carol of joy or glee,
But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core,
But a plea, that upward to heaven he flings -
I know why the caged bird sings!

- Paul Laurence Dunbar, "SYMPATHY"

Quiz - nr. 7

Jeg har vært slapp med å legge ut ny quiz, men nå skal jeg skjerpe meg. Først tar jeg en liten gjennomgang over dagsvinnere, for den som har vunnet flest ganger når jeg avslutter quizen får en valgfri pocketbok. Så langt har disse vunnet hver sin gang:
Oda
Bokelskerinnen
Julie

Christine har vunnet to ganger, og leder dermed så langt. Jeg har litt over to uker igjen til jeg drar på ferie, og da avslutter jeg quizen. Skal prøve å legge ut nye spørsmål hyppigere disse siste ukene.

Riktige svar fra sist quiz var:



1. Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. Oscar Wilde
3. Mary Shelley
4. Jules Verne


Og vinneren av quiz nr. 6 ble dermed Lena, med alt rett! Gratulerer =)




Dagens quiz:

Using the name of each author and each embedded number below, provide the title of each work.

1. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1)
2. Ken Kesey (1)
3. William Shakespeare (2)
4. Charles Dickens (2)
5. Alexandre Dumas (3)
6. Anton Chekhov (3)
7. Arthur Conan Doyle (4)
8. Kurt Vonnegut (5)
9. Agatha Christie (10)
10. Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

Lykke til =)

Quiz - nr. 6

Her kommer svarene fra min (basert på kommentarene) hittil vanskeligste quiz:

1. The Importance of Being Ernest, by Oscar Wilde
2. Idylls of the King, by Alfred Lord Tennyson
3. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving
4. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
5. Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
6. The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper
7. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
8. The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy
9. The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
10. Planet of the Apes, by Pierre Boulle


Quiz nr. 5 sin dagsvinner ble Julie, med fire riktige svar. Gratulerer =) Husk at den med flest dagsseire i slutten av måneden vinner en valgfri pocketbok!


Dagens quiz blir som følger:

Use the following anecdotes to identify each author below.

1. When this Russian writer's first novel was well received in 1846, he joined a revolutionary group that was infiltrated by the authorities. Together with several associates, he was tried and sentenced to be shot. The execution was a cruel hoax and, at the very last minute, the sentence was commuted to years of hard labour in Siberia. Ten years later he returned to St. Petersburg as a conservative and became one of the greatest of all Russian authors.
2. When this Irish playwright was stopped by U.S. customs in New York, he proclaimed, "I have nothing to declare except my genius."
3. The poet Lord Byron challenged a group of his friends to create their own ghost stories. From that challenge came The Modern Prometheus (more famously known by a different name), written by this twenty-one-year-old wife of another romantic poet.
4. The science-fiction stories of this French author were called "dreams come true". So prophetic was his description of a periscope in one of his books that a few years later the actual inventor of the instrument was refused permission for an original patent.

Lykke til =)

Quiz - nr. 5

Nå er det en stund siden sist, men her kommer ny quiz. Men først, svarene fra forrige quiz:

1. William Shakespeare
2. Sinclair Lewis
3. J.K. Rowling
4. Miguel de Cervantes
5. Homer
6. Jonathan Swift
7. Lewis Carroll
8. Carlotte Brontë
9. J.R.R. Tolkien
10. George Eliot

Christine er dagsvinner med 8 av 10 riktig! Gratulerer =) Hun er første med to dagsseiere.

Så over til dagens quiz:

Use the initial clues to identify the titles and authors below.

1. The I of B E, by O W
2. I of the K, by A L T
3. The L of S H, by W I
4. L of the F, by W G
5. L of G, by W W
6. The L of the M, by J F C
7. L of the R, by J R R T
8. The M of C, by T H
9. The N of the R, by U E
10. P of the A, by P B

Lykke til =)

Quiz - nr. 4

Tid for ny quiz. Svarene på den forrige finner dere i kommentarfeltet til quiz nr. 3. Bokelskerinnen hadde nemlig alt rett, og ble dermed den forrige dagsvinneren. Gratulerer til henne =) Første person med riktige svar på alle spørsmålene. Så langt har det blitt tre ulike dagsvinnere på de tre quizene.

Her kommer dagens spørsmål:

Match the literary locale listed in the left-hand column with the name of its creator listed in the right-hand column below.

1. The Forest of Arden                     Charlotte Brontë
2. Gopher Prarie                             Lewis Carroll
3. Hogwart's School                        Miguel de Cervantes
4. La Mancha                                 George Eliot
5. Land of the Lotus-Eaters               Homer
6. Lilliput                                       Sinclair Lewis
7. Looking-Glass House                    J.K. Rowling
8. Lowood                                      William Shakespeare
9. Middle Earth                               Jonathan Swift
10. Middlemarch                             J.R.R. Tolkien

Lykke til =)

Quiz - nr. 3

Riktige svar fra onsdag er:
1. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
2. Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
3. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
4. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
5. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling
6. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

Onsdagens dagsvinner ble dermed Oda, med fem og et halvt riktige svar. Gratulerer =)

Den som har flest dagsseiere i slutten av juli vinner en valgfri pocketbok. Det er ikke for sent å delta!

Så over til dagens quiz:

The following authors are all better known by their pseudonyms, or pen names, than by their real names. From the brief biographies provided below, identify each nom de plume.

1. Eric Arthur Blair wrote a long fable about a society in which some animals are more equal than others. In 1948 he published a novel about a nightmarish society of the future, one in which everybody has a Big Brother.
2. Samuel Langhorne Clemens was a steamboat pilot before he became a writer. In 1863 he took on the pen name that was a nostalgic reminder of his riverboat days.
3. In March 1836, what has been described as the most successful writing career in history was launched with the publication of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. The author, of course, was Charles Dickens. In 1833, when he was only twenty-one, Dickens began contributing stories and essays to magazines and published them pseudonymously in a collection called Sketches by.______.
4. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was fascinated with words, logic, and little girls. Out of these interests he fashioned a wonderland of characters - Humpty Dumptys, Jabberwocks, Mad Hatters, and White Rabbits.
5. Famous for her novels describing life in nineteenth-century England, including Adam Bede, Silas Marner, and Middlemarch, Mary Ann Evans adopted a masculine pen name, by George.

Lykke til =)

Quiz - nr. 2

Ny dag, ny quiz. Men først, riktige svar fra mandagen:

1. Quasimodo
2. Chingachgook and his son Uncas
3. Sir Thomas More
4. Dr. Charles Primrose
5. Oliver Mellors
6. Philip Nolan
7. Athos, Porthos, and Aramis
8. Dimitri, Ivan, Alyosha, and Smerdyakov
9. Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March
10. Bigger Thomas

Og quizens første dagsvinner blir dermed Christine med fire riktige svar (1, 4, 7 og 9), pluss Ivan på nr. 8. Gratulerer =)
Den med flest dagsseiere vinner bok! Selv kunne jeg kun svare på nr. 1, 7 og 9.

Så over til dagens quiz:

Using the sentences listed below, identify the novel or short story started by each sentence and the author of each work.

1. Call me Ishmael.
2. Nothing to be done.
3. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
4. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
5. Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.
6. Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether the station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Konkurransen varer i en måned, så hvis du ikke deltok i forrige runde er det bare å slenge seg på nå. Lykke til =)

QUIZ

Jeg befinner meg for tiden i en koselig liten by i Rogaland - Stavanger - og på Norli i denne byen fant jeg Lit Wit, som er kort med litteraturtrivia. Siden jeg ikke kjenner noen som har lyst å prøve det ut med meg tenkte jeg å ha quiz-måned her på bloggen.



Hver dag legger jeg ut spørsmål fra ett av kortene. Det blir forskjellige typer spørsmål. De som vil delta skriver en kommentar med svarene de tror er riktig, og når jeg skal poste nye spørsmål (poster hver dag, med mindre noe kommer i veien) skriver jeg de riktige svarene fra gårsdagen og utroper en vinner. Vinneren per dag blir den som hadde flest riktige svar. Når det har gått en måned (ca 21. juli) trekker jeg ut en hovedvinner, som er den personen som har stukket av med flest dagsseiere i løpet av måneden. Denne personen vinner en valgfri pocketbok (en som ikke er altfor vanskelig å få tak i, og helst under 400 sider, siden den skal postes). Jeg kan ikke sjekke om noen jukser, men prøv å la være =)

Her er månedens første dagsquiz:

Provide the name for each character referred to in each title below.

1. Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame
2. James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans
3. Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons
4. Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield
5. D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover
6. Edward Everett Hale's The Man Without a Country
7. Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers
8. Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
9. Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
10. Richard Wright's Native Son

Husk at de som har svart før deg ikke nødvendigvis har svart riktig, så det hjelper ikke nødvendigvis å kopiere andres svar. Jeg stoler på at dere er ærlige!

Lykke til =)