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David Wilson's Literary Quiz
The Quiz is back, up, and running! Smoooooch!
The rather pathetic space-limitations of my server prevent me from continuing to offer the entire back-list of Quizzes: a
few, including of course the most recent, will still appear clickably in the usual place, but the remainder will require a
little more effort before they can be savoured. Below you will find a complete list of extant Quizzes (the Guest-Quizzes are
marked with an asterisk). Make a note of the number of the Quiz (or Quizzes!) you would like to see, and e-mail them me. Just
the number (or numbers) in an e-mail with QUIZ in the subject-line is sufficient. And then, in a matter of microseconds (or,
perhaps, a little longer) I will send the Quiz or Quizzes to your in-box. Sancta simplicitas!
 
01 LETTERS 1 - Fictional letters (mostly from Jane Austen).
02 FIRST WORDS - The first words (or word!) from ten novels.
03 JACK & MABEL - Cunning nominal substitutions obfuscate the otherwise easy ....
04 FIRST LUST - Autobiographical accounts of early infatuations.
05 CRITTERS 1 - Some are pets. Some are not.
06 DOWN TO DUSTY DEATH - We've all gotta go. But .... not like this!
07 FIRST ENCOUNTERS - Important first meetings.
08 POETRY 1
09 OBJECTS - Beautiful and/or strange and/or memorable.
10 TRIVIA 1 - 100 points possible, if you're a nutter.
11 BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS - The sweetest of the sweet.
12 PLAYS - Are the things.
13 LIVES OF THE AUTHORS - Are you a biografiend?
14 SETTING THE SCENE - The bits the slacker skips.
15 TRIPE WITHOUT ONIONS - Blotted pages.
16 SHORT STORIES - Small packages.
17 DICKENS 1
18 THE DIRTY BITS - A deeply popular Quiz.
19 GRUB - Feeling peckish?
20 MOPPETS - Sweet little kiddies!
21 A SHOT WAS HEARD
22 ELEVEN PHILOSOPHERS
23 STEWARD! A BASIN - A sailor's life for me - NOT.
24 AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
25 TRIVIA 2
26 LETTERS 2 - Non-fictional.
27 QUEEN JANE - Jane Austen.
28 JOHN UPDIKE
29 POETRY 2
30 CRITTERS 2
31 PICTURES - Name that author.
32 HAPPY DAYS - School ....
33 OTHER WORLDS - Or rather, alternate worlds.
34 DROPPING THE PEN - The deaths of great writers.
35 SECOND TEAM - Debutant exemplars.
36 *KIDS' STUFF - My dear wife's choices.
37 CHICKS - Non-testicled writers.
38 *VAMPIRES!
39 MAKE 'EM LAUGH - Comic capers.
40 *RUMOURS OF WAR
41 DICKENS 2
42 BLOOMSDAY BAFFLER - For the Hundredth Bloomsday.
43 LAST LINES - A companion-piece to No. 2.
44 DICKENS 3 - Dickens's women.
45 SHAGGING - The dirty deed in literature.
46 *DROPPING OFF - Falling asleep ....
47 COMING TO - And waking up.
48 HENRY THE GREAT - The Master, Henry James.
49 *EYES - An ocular theme.
50 PAINTINGS - Name that artist!
51 *FROGGYCIDE - The deaths of ten Frenchmen.
52 POLE STAR - Joseph Conrad.
53 LIVES 2
54 CHAUVINISM - Spot the chick writers.
55 *GEOFFREY CHAUCER
56 PACKING - For literary journeys.
57 GOOD OR EVIL - Can you tell gold from straw?
58 EVERYTHING WHICH IS THE CASE - Science.
59 *MORE THINGS - The supernatural.
60 TO INSTITUTE NEW GOVERNMENT - The War of 1861-65.
61 JOHN LE CARRE
62 POETRY 3
63 *SEX AND SHOPPING - Well, just shopping, actually.
64 NAME THAT FORUMITE 1
65 ODDITIES - From odd corners of my bookshelves.
66 *THE NAVY - Which made England great!
67 SAUL BELLOW
68 *GEE-GEES - Equine tales.
69 PHILIP ROTH
70 NAME THAT FORUMITE 2
71 *HITLER'S WAR
72 SHAKE-SPEARE IN BLOOM - Which play is the Professor talking about?
73 BY ROYAL COMMAND - Soon, there will be only five Kings left in Europe ....
74 THE RETURN OF THE HERO - And not before time.
75 PICTURES II - More fun with writers' piccies.
76 CHICKPIX - Less fun, with pix of chick scribblers.
77 DECENT PROPOSALS - Will you marry me?
78 *MORE TEA, VICAR? - Ferret invites you ....
79 *I DO, I DO - Literary weddings. Another Ferret special.
80 *BIRDS AND BEASTS - Ferret passes the baton to 'rora.
81 *SECRET, BLACK, AND MIDNIGHT - Ferret returns to cast a spell ....
82 THE CURSE OF BABEL - Not the tongue of Milton and Shake-Speare.
83 *FAMOUS LAST WORDS - Ferret dices with death.
84 *IN CORPORE SANO - Bicyclette gets sporty.
85 *A STROLL IN THE COUNTRY - Phunter goes walkies.
86 *THE DEAR OLD SCHOOL - Whitehawk wallows once more.
87 *IT'S A MYSTERY - Bosslady weaves a web of intrigue ....
88 EVEN MORE LIVES - The third Biography Quiz.
89 *AN DIE MUSIK - Tuneful tidbits from Bicyclette.
90 *RUM, BUM, AND CONCERTINA - Jolly jack tars from The Oracle.
91 *UNNATURAL LITTLE BASTARDS - Ferret strikes another blow against nippers.
92 DON'T LET'S BE BEASTLY - to the Germans.
93 STATION OF FOG - English as She is Googled.
94 SUICIDE IS PAINLESS - Or so one, in all charity, must hope.
95 AITCH GEE - Wells, of course.
96 *SATURNALIA - Ferret's Christmas Quiz!
97 *EVENING ENTERTAINMENT - SP revisits a gentler age.
98 *PHUNTER WALKS AGAIN - A Walk in the Country II
99 EPHEMERA - From tree, to paper, to chip-wrapper.
100 GRAND CENTENNIAL - What more need be said?
101 *IS THERE A DOCTOR? - The Oracle returns.
102 ELEVEN PRESIDENTS - Pom pom pom-pom ....
103 *THE PITS - Zolah displays her literary taste.
104 POETRY IV
105 MOVIES
106 *ELEVEN SOLDIERS - Once more, The Oracle!
107 *OPEN WIDE - Phunter has his boots on again.
108 *FERRET'S PHANTOMS - Ghosts!
109 AMERICANA - The best of the West.
110 DETAILS - Where the devil is.
111 *FANTOMAS - Skywatcher's fantastic voyage.
112 *BEAR WITH ME - Ferret and the Ten Bears.
113 *WHOA THE FAIRIES! - Ferret's Folk.
114 *THEY WERE WOLVES - Ferret's four-footed fiends.
115 *DRESSED TO KILL - Segue attacks the dressing-up box.
116 *LOOK UPON THIS PICTURE - Bicyclette's Piccies.
117 *CHOO-CHOOS - Bicyclette takes ten trains.
118 *STARTERS - The Oracle picks ten openings.
119 *GOOD (and other) GODS - Ferretian blasphemies.
120 *WHAT THE DEVIL? - Ferret goes to Hell.
121 *VILLAINS AND THIEVES - Ferret goes wrong.
122 *MESSING ABOUT - Bicyclette is all at sea.
123 *STRIPPING OFF - Segue shows us all she's got.
124 *THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN .... - 'clette takes to the air.
125 *FELIX - Ferret's Cat Quiz.
126 SUPERCONDUCTIVITY - Tyrants of the Orchestra!
127 ECLECTICITY - All right, there's no such word.
128 *THE GRINCH OF CHRISTMAS PAST - Ferret's Chrissy Prezzie.
129 JOHN UPDIKE - Memorial rerun of No. 28.
130 *TRENDY NOSH - First guest Quiz from Baggins!
131 *IN THE DRINK - Fricka makes a splash.
132 *CHIMAERA I - A monstrous Phunter/Ferret coupling.
133 *CHIMAERA II - And again!
134 *ANGELS UNAWARE - A Ferret solo.
135 *CLEANING UP - Hygiene with Bicyclette.
136 *EPITAPHS - The final review, by Ferret.
137 *GREETINGS - Bicyclette says hello.
138 *PARODIES - Skywatcher, or a skilful imitation ....
139 MURIEL SPARK - The best of the penisless.
140 *MODEST PROPOSALS - Ferret's take on women's dream moment.
141 *GOOD ADVICE - A gentler, kinder Ferret.
142 *LONDON - Bicyclette, the Tooting Temptress.
143 *DREAMS - Of a better world, from Ferret.
144 *MINISTERS OF GRACE - The Oracle takes (on) Holy Orders.
145 *OTTER NONSENSE - Ferret's Quiz about her relatives.
146 *TO THE WOODS! - Ferret stays below the tree-line.
147 *GOTTA TRAVEL ON - Skywatcher's itchy feet.
148 *A WHIFF OF GRAPESHOT - Ferret contra mundum.
149 *SEXUAL ORGANS OF THE ANGIOSPERMS - A bouquet from Bicyclette.
150 *WHEN THE SAINTS .... - A Ferret Halloween Frightener.
151 *JENNY - Eleven Jennies (ten of Ferret's, one of mine).
152 DOGGIES - A Quiz about .... doggies.
153 *MARCHING IN. - A Ferret Quiz about Saints.
154 *WHILE SHEPHERDS WASHED - Ferret's Chrismussy Quiz.
155 POETRY V - No surprises ....
156 *A BOTTLE OF RUM! - Ferret's pirate Quiz.
157 *DOWN TO THE MIGHTY SEA - The Oracle's river-Quiz.
158 *AH! FRUIT! - Bicyclette goes up the apples and pears.
159 *EAT YOUR VEGGIES! - 'clette's veggie Quiz.
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Last Updated: 12 March 2010
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