If we're nitpicking, the narrator says "God bless us, everyone" at the end of A Christmas Carol. Tiny Tim says it in the middle, he is only referenced at the end.
Yea, I tried oatmeal and porridge to no avail. I googled gruel and learned something, I guess. I'm cool with QM not affording that much latitude on this one.
I can't believe that only 48% of the people who took this quiz knew that Pip was the main character of Great Expectations, yet somehow 71% knew the first six words of A Tale of Two Cities.
ATOTC is one of the best-selling books of all time and it’s a very famous first line. unless you’ve read great expectations, you could very easily not know the character’s name (and 48% having read it is actually very impressive)
Yes, but Great Expectations is easily one of Dickens most popular novels as well. Shouldn't more people know the main character of a novel, rather than the first few lines (even if they're famous)? Plus, I should also point out that 51% of people know about Madame Dafarge passing time by knitting, compared to 50% who know about Pip. So the main character of Great Expectations is about as known as a small detail about a minor character in A Tale of Two Cities. That just baffles me. By the way, I haven't read Great Expectations, and I still know the main character.
Accepting a short but still correct version of the full answer is extremely common on this site. For instance, on this very quiz you can get "Debtors' prison" just by typing in "debt." Even though "debt prison" is not a correct term, answering "debt" demonstrates fully that you know the correct answer, as you are essentially saying "He went to prison for having debt." Similarly, this question is basically asking "What would Madame Dafarge do while sitting, etc.?" to which a perfectly reasonable answer is "She would knit."
Edwin Brude? Boothe? Crood? Druthe? I tried all of those. I hate it when the answer floats in my brain just out of reach. It's been decades since I last read Dickens - it may be time to dust off the old boy's tomes.
100% - but I do love Dickens - especially his creative character names. For those who struggle to read his books, you should try watching any of the BBC productions of them. Most are well done, with plots and characters intact.
If you actually know, you'd try "knitting" I think, but if you're just guessing, you might stop at "knit", like I did.
"We are so poor, we don't even have a language! Just a stupid accent!"