22/24. Couldn't get Graves or Roth. I only knew Kesey, Wallace, Herbert, Morrison, and Plath because I'm in quiz bowl, and I'm pretty surprised I remembered Herbert.
Nice quiz, got caught up on Ovid for Metamorphosis, and my mind refused to accept that it was wrong. (Yeah, I know, no 'The' in the translation of the title...)
I still feel like anyone who knows of the "Metamorphoses" by Ovid should receive credit for this question. Like either/or. Ovid's obscure enough to merit some sort of points for just knowing it....yes, I missed that one; how could you tell?
It really bothers me when my average for a quiz shows that on previous attempts I missed certain answers that I could never get wrong, and credits me for others I've never heard of. My results here show that I previously missed Tolkien, Twain, Capote, etc., which is NOT possible. It also shows that last time I correctly answered Morrison, Graves, Marquez, etc., which is also not possible. Seems to happen to me a lot, and there is little point in having cumulative scores if they are meaningless.
Probably too much time on this quiz. You could cut a minute off it, easily. I got 16 fairly quickly, but the others i had no idea about. Four of them i've never heard of, the other four I wasn't too likely to guess given the sheer volume of authors out there.
I've actually never read 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'. My familiarity with Kesey largely comes from Tom Wolfe's 'Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test', which is a fantastic work of New Journalism on the '60s counter-culture, following Kesey and his 'Merry Pranksters' around America as they ingest startling quantities of LSD.
I think it's wrong to have Marquez as a possible last name for Gabriel Garcia Marquez and not Garcia. Garcia (his father's main last name) is the name he passed onto his children, not Marquez (his mother's main last name). I understand keeping Marquez, although no Spanish speaker would ever call him Marquez because understanding Spanish naming conventions is not the point of this quiz.
Spanish-language newspapers used Garcia Marquez, unlike most people with Spanish last names, such as Vicente Fox Quesada, in which they mainly used the paternal last name. But if they had to choose one, they would almost certainly choose Garcia, not Marquez.
(If you wanted to be very fancy, you could add Gabo, his nickname, as an acceptable answer.)
I got Twain, Tolkien, Dahl, Lee, London, Capote, Austin, and Milton by myself.
Spanish-language newspapers used Garcia Marquez, unlike most people with Spanish last names, such as Vicente Fox Quesada, in which they mainly used the paternal last name. But if they had to choose one, they would almost certainly choose Garcia, not Marquez.
(If you wanted to be very fancy, you could add Gabo, his nickname, as an acceptable answer.)
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