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4-Letter Literature Chain

For each hint, enter a 4-letter word. The last letter of this word will be the first letter of the next word.
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First submittedSeptember 17, 2015
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Hint
Answer
Aladdin had a magic one
Lamp
Body of water such as Walden
Pond
Sci-fi novel by Frank Herbert
Dune
Jane Austen novel
Emma
Captain who searched for Moby Dick
Ahab
Venerable 8th century English monk,
author, and translator
Bede
Brontë: Jane ____
Eyre
The color black, poetically
Ebon
"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" captain
Nemo
May the ____ be ever in your favor
Odds
Heroic story of Norse literature
Saga
Hemingway novel: A Farewell to ____
Arms
What's sold in a Faustian bargain
Soul
Hint
Answer
Shakespearean king
Lear
By any other name it would smell as sweet
Rose
Steinbeck: ____ of Eden
East
Hardy: ____ of the d'Ubervilles
Tess
Drug from "Brave New World"
Soma
Prefix that often comes before nemesis
Arch
What gave Samson his power
Hair
Woolf: A ____ of One's Own
Room
Othello's ethnicity
Moor
Place for David to spy on Bathsheba
Roof
An Achilles heel is a fatal ____
Flaw
Mitchell: Gone with the ____
Wind
Author of "Matilda" and "The BFG"
Dahl
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27 Comments
LawrenceToo
+1
Level 20
Nov 25, 2015
There needs to be some way to skip over a word. I knew all the answers in column one except Bede. Never got to column two.

If there is a way to skip, I never found it.

stone222
+4
Level 48
Oct 6, 2018
you can answer any question you want, in any order...then use what you have to fill the gaps, sometimes i start at the end, just for fun
Sifhraven
+1
Level 73
Aug 15, 2019
I think this one was a yellow box one before, then you can not just fill in the answers at random order. But you can click them or (on computer) use the tab-key
Quizmaster
+4
Level ∞
Jun 22, 2024
No, it was never a yellow box quiz. Answers can be typed in any order.
plattitude
+9
Level 95
Nov 25, 2015
Having Woolf and Othello next to each other made me smile.
Quizzer6794
+4
Level 66
Nov 26, 2015
even better: their respective answer are mirrors of each other!
plattitude
+4
Level 95
May 19, 2016
Yes, that's why it made me smile
Sifhraven
+2
Level 73
Aug 15, 2019
haha this made me smile
ander217
+2
Level 75
Nov 25, 2015
Never heard of Bede, and I read Brave New World decades ago in high school and had no idea what the drug was called, even with two letters supplied. Oh, well.
smartcookie17
+1
Level 45
Apr 1, 2016
The only reason I remember it is because a drug called Soma was in other books I've read as well, no doubt inspired by Brave New World.
Algernon
+2
Level 73
Aug 16, 2016
And Soma is the name of a Smashing Pimpkins song!
blinky
+5
Level 58
Feb 11, 2017
Love the Smashing Pimpkins!
AchillesFirstStand
+4
Level 79
Jul 28, 2018
There's also a Strokes song called Soma
hampterGD
+2
Level 45
Mar 2, 2022
soma deez nuts lmao
britinaus
+3
Level 87
Nov 26, 2015
Bede is a saint from Jarrow in the north east of England - the town next to where I grew up. He wrote an early history of England. My brother has Bede as a middle name after him.
stone222
+2
Level 48
Oct 6, 2018
also known as the Venerable Bede
Sifhraven
+2
Level 73
Aug 15, 2019
bede means prayer in dutch or plea. (archaic though)

Actually I was gonna say seeing as that word is old for us it, probably means a similar word excisted in old english. But I looked it up instead:

The word bede was around in the 14th century from the old english word gebed (which is the word we stíll use for prayer).

Interesting how it is the name for a saint. Edit: ah his name was originally B(a)eda, Bede is the modern anglicised version.

FadKrashmor
+3
Level 71
Apr 3, 2020
What do you mean "Anglicised"? He already was "Anglo". You can still hear the term "bidding-prayer" in church actually, but yes it is an archaic usage.
MiracleMax
+2
Level 74
Feb 13, 2018
I ended up getting "tess" and "bede" by using the two on either side and randomly filling in the middle. Whether that's cheating or clever use of mechanics, I'm not sure. I'm also amazed so few people got soma.

Great quiz regardless, some of them really made me dig through vaguely-recalled high school lit classes.

kitkat90009
+1
Level 21
Jul 28, 2018
glad I'm not the only one who didn't have a clue who bede was!!
Dml123
+2
Level 70
Aug 1, 2021
So my English Catholic school education was finally useful(?!) for something - we had to learn far too much about Bede and classical literature for my liking, but it's all stuck in my brain well enough that I can get 100% on a quiz website 25 years later!
Jango
+2
Level 63
Apr 25, 2022
The Norse question was off-putting as I was trying to think of an actual title. The given answer could refer to literature from so many different places and cultures
kogatora
+2
Level 94
May 18, 2022
it's a norse term for story, still used in icelandic
RobNobody
+1
Level 79
Oct 16, 2024
Informally, yes, but as an actual literary term "saga" does refer very specifically to Nordic stories (Icelandic, if you want to be fully accurate.)
JackintheBox
+2
Level 80
Jul 19, 2024
The correct spelling should be 'd'Urbervilles'.
KiloNova
+2
Level 56
Jul 19, 2024
*Mockingjay whistle*
TheodoreE45
+1
Level 93
Aug 19, 2024
Technically Samson's power came from God, not his hair.
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