The Literature Feud [Closed]

The Game Room
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[QUOTE=Scribble]

  1. Raskolnikov
  2. Madame Bovary
  3. Asta
  4. Mary Lennox
  5. Camelot
  6. Big Brother
  7. Tristam Shandy
  8. White Noise
  9. Salman Rushdie
  10. End Game

Why do you care so much if people add parenthetical remarks after their answers? Just asking.
[/QUOTE]

Because I have to delete the parenthetical remarks from every answer. It’s more work.

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  1. Sherlock Holmes
  2. Lady Chatterly
  3. Marley
  4. Pollyanna
  5. House of Green Gables
  6. Moriarty
  7. Pride and Prejudice
  8. Hirchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
  9. Stephen King
  10. The Odd Couple
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  1. Mr. Darcy
  2. Elizabeth Bennett
  3. Lassie
  4. Heidi
  5. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
  6. Iago
  7. The Scarlet Letter
  8. To Kill a Mockingbird
  9. Shakespeare
  10. Hamlet
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  1. Sherlock Holmes
  2. Jane Eyre
  3. Cujo
  4. Oliver Twist
  5. Middle Earth
  6. Professor Moriarty
  7. Don Quixote
  8. The Great Gatsby
  9. Charles Dickens
  10. Romeo and Juliet
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  1. Harry Potter
  2. Hermine Granger
  3. Snuggles
  4. Harry Potter
  5. Hogwarts
  6. Voldemort
  7. The Prince
  8. Harry Potter and the Philospher’s Stone
  9. JK Rowling
  10. Hamlet
    I am NOT a Potter nut! I’m just trying to match the replies of other people. This should be a very low scoring game all around.
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  1. Nicholas Nickleby
  2. Jane Eyre
  3. Old Yeller
  4. Oliver Twist
  5. Green Gables
  6. Bill Sykes
  7. Canterbury Tales
  8. The Firm
  9. John Grisham
  10. The Constant Wife
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[QUOTE=Zebra]

I am NOT a Potter nut! I’m just trying to match the replies of other people. This should be a very low scoring game all around.
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What makes you think the participants would be so Potter-centric?

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[QUOTE=anyrose]
What makes you think the participants would be so Potter-centric?
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I’m usually in the bottom 5, do you really want stratedgery from me?

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  1. Sherlock Holmes
  2. Mrs. Coulter
  3. Lassie
  4. Harry Potter
  5. Hogwart’s
  6. Randall Flagg
  7. Robinson Crusoe
  8. Catch-22
  9. Charles Dickens
  10. Hamlet

Gotta think the answers for this game are gonna be all over the map…

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  1. Robinson Crusoe
  2. Emma Bovary
  3. Toto
  4. Holden Caulfield
  5. Bleak House
  6. Iago
  7. Robinson Crusoe
  8. The Catcher in the Rye
  9. Mark Twain
  10. Hamlet

It’ll be interesting to see if the English majors (whose ranks include me) do better than, worse than, or about the same as the scientific types…

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For a play, why did Shakespeare not even cross my mind? I was busy trying to pick a non-musical.

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[QUOTE=Eleanor of Aquitaine]
For a play, why did Shakespeare not even cross my mind? I was busy trying to pick a non-musical.
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likewise

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  1. Hamlet
  2. Lady MacBeth
  3. Big Red
  4. Tiny Tim
  5. Gotham
  6. Dr. Moriarity
  7. The Tale of Genji
  8. 1984
  9. William Shakespeare
  10. Hamlet

(Yeah, I know Tale of Genji isn’t precisely a modern novel, but…)

ETA: And I adjusted 80% of my original answers to try to come up with something that would be more popular.

I think there might be a reason why I’m always towards the bottom of these things… :wink:

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  1. Hamlet
  2. Jane Eyre
  3. Toto
  4. Harry Potter
  5. Hogwarts
  6. Voldemort
  7. Don Quixote
  8. The Great Gatsby
  9. Shakespeare
  10. Hamlet
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  1. Frodo Baggins
  2. Alice
  3. Marley
  4. Wendy Darling
  5. Tara
  6. Sauron
  7. The Odyssey
  8. Call of the Wild
  9. Stephen King
  10. The Taming of the Shrew

#2 refers to Alice of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

#3 is the dog from Marley & Me

#4 is Wendy from Peter Pan

#5, of course, refers to the estate in Gone With the Wind.

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  1. Huck Finn
  2. Anne of Green Gables
  3. Old Yeller
  4. Oliver Twist
  5. Wuthering Heights
  6. Fagin
  7. Don Quixote
  8. The Da Vinci Code
  9. William Shakespeare
  10. Hamlet

BTW, Dolores – what exactly is your beef with the list coding? (Just askin’.)

ETA: OK, now that I’ve posted my list, I went back and saw your post regarding parentheticals and such–now I understand. Sorry if I sounded a bit peevish.

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  1. Stephen Dedalus
  2. Molly Bloom
  3. Blood
  4. Milo
  5. Elsinore
  6. Simon Legree
  7. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
  8. Gravity’s Rainbow
  9. Thomas Pynchon
  10. Waiting for Godot

Blood is the dog in “A Boy and His Dog,” Milo is the kid in “The Phantom Tollbooth”

[I took this as a word-association exercise, which I now realize is not the point. Oops.]

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Does anybody else feel incredibly relieved when someone else matches an answer you were worried about?

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[QUOTE=garygnu]
Does anybody else feel incredibly relieved when someone else matches an answer you were worried about?
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I find myself giving a :smack: looking at other people’s answers. I answered quickly. Why did I say Taming of the Shrew when so many more people know Hamlet? How did I miss all these good answers?

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  1. Harry Potter
  2. Juliet
  3. Spot
  4. Harry Potter again
  5. Narnia
  6. Voldemort
  7. The Bible
  8. The DaVinci Code
  9. J.R.R. Tolkien
  10. Romeo and Juliet.

(shut up I’m pandering to popularity!)