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GREATEST LITERATURE CONTEST #7
With what
great literary works are these (All the works are mentioned in Editor Eric's commentaries on this website.) Answers and winners below. |
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| 1 | FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BAD. | Depends on how many legs the person making up the rules has, we guess. | |||||||||
| 2 | Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? | We don't need the exact reference, just generally where it's from. | |||||||||
| 3 | Master of the Universe. | A vain boast, about to go down in flames. | |||||||||
| 4 | Fifteen men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! |
Wonder if you could get a pirated copy of this song on the Internet? | |||||||||
| 5 | DON'T PANIC. | Good advice for interplanetary travellers. | |||||||||
| 6 | Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. | You shouldn't have a difficult time figuring this one out. | |||||||||
| 7 | WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. | So says Big Brother—and we don't mean the reality TV show. | |||||||||
| 8 | O brave new world. | The original Trivial Pursuit had this wrong by claiming Aldous Huxley came up with it. | |||||||||
| 9 | A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. | This one's too easy. I, for one, don't need to give you a hint. | |||||||||
| 10 | riverrun, past Eve and Adams, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth, Castle and Environs. | There's no waking from this stream of unconsciousness. | |||||||||
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The winners are Mike Johnson of DeForest, Wisconsin, David Driscoll of Aurora, Illinois, and Alex Ong of New York, New York. They chose as prizes the books Treasure Island, The Tempest and The Mayor of Casterbridge. Answers: 1. Animal Farm 2. Shakespeare's Sonnets 3. The Bonfire of the Vanities 4. Treasure Island 5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 6. Hard Tmes 7. Nineteen Eighty-Four 8. The Tempest 9. I, Robot 10. Finnegans Wake |
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