Authors Quiz!

[650lb Sumo]

Can you name the authors of these books and plays?

I've also put the publication years in the answers, if you want to try to get those, but they aren't part of the quiz.

(1) Dracula
(2) Macbeth
(3) Frankenstein
(4) The Silence of the Lambs series (Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal and Hannibal Rising)
(5) The Lord of the Rings

(6) Moby Dick
(7) Don Quixote
(8) Crime and Punishment
(9) White Fang
(10) The Name of the Rose

Spoiler

(1) Bram Stoker - 1897
(2) William Shakespeare - 1623
(3) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (dubious) - 1818
(4) William Thomas Harris III - 1981, 1988, 1999 and 2006
(5) John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - 1954 and 1955

(6) Herman Melville - 1851
(7) Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - 1605 (Part One) and 1615 (Part Two)
(8) Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky - 1866
(9) John Griffith Chaney, aka Jack London - 1906
(10) Umberto Eco - 1980

The pass mark is 6/10! How did you do?

 

[MichiganMMA1978]

5...

 

[mb23100]

Got all but 4 and 10

 

[VulcanNervPinch]

Got all but 4 and 10

same

 

[Spam On Rye]

Stoker, Bard, Shelley, ?, Tolk, Melville, Cervantes, Dostoevsky, London???, Eco

No clue who did Silence. Don't read much modern fiction. Should give it a go though.

 

[aerius]

I'm pretty sure they're all written by Kenny Florian.

 

[crabmeat]

8/10. Missed Silence of the Lambs and The Name of the Rose.

Those Illustrated Classics and a basic high school education really paid off for this post.

 

[ChickenBrother]

Passed 7/10. Missed 4, 8 and 10. I actually read the Silence of the Lambs book years ago and loved the movies but drew a blank on that one

 

[mozfonky]

only got half, never read any but macbeth in HS but am familiar with the rep of some of them. The other ones aren't literary legends though, they were movies that are popular but not the books.

 

[Possum Jenkins]

6/10

Got the easy ones and missed on Silence of the Lambs, Crime and Punishment, White Fang, and Name of the Rose

 

[HenryFlower]

first nine were easy. Foucault’s Pendulum is the only Eco novel i’m familiar w/ off the top of my head though, so Name of the Rose stumped me. thought it was Danielle Steele or some shit lol

 

[Tone C]

10/10 .

Spellings would have been wrong on a couple of them although I know the author's name.

 

[fungi]

Straining my brain, whilst tryna 'member some author of a book I had read decades ago?..
Pass.
Literally & figuratively.

6/10.

 

[Osculater]

4

 

[LEWIS540]

Pretty easy for bibliophiles I’d imagine.

I can barely read and still got 8.

 

[AFanNotAFighter]

9/10

Missed the last one.

 

[Jackonfire]

8/10.

Like others, I missed #4 and #10

 

[SirRealKiller]

I'm well read, got 9 out of 10. Never heard of The Name of the Rose.

 

[Fedorgasm]

8/10 but I'm really pissed that I couldn't remember Thomas Harris' name.

The other one I missed was name of the rose. Never even heard of it.

 

[650lb Sumo]

10/10 .

Spellings would have been wrong on a couple of them although I know the author's name.

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Recommend posters grab a copy of TNOTR from their local libraries if it has passed them by thus far.