It was Violet Beauregarde who got turned into a blueberry in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, not Veruca Salt. But at least they both start with V. :)
Who says that "Americans think Veruca is a nice name for a person"? Just because it is the character name in a fairly popular novel/film doesn't mean that everything thinks it's great.
Have a look here: http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager#prefix=veruca&sw=both&exact=true
That moment when the anti-American sentiment on this site gets so virulent, that the U.S. is blamed for the naming traditions of other countries and cultures, including characters in books written by a Welshman.
Oy. I think many more than 23% know what "SVO" all stand for, but were totally thrown by the context, as I think it's really stretching it to expect we'd make a link to "literature"! How about expanding the clue a bit to make it clear it's talking about sentence structure/diagramming, or at least that it relates to proper grammatical format in writing?
Violets are blue, ancient materials, and 2 questions about Norse mythology on a literature quiz? Having trouble coming up with V answers? What about Valjean? Or the manner of creature that Bram Stoker became famous writing about?
I just took the "Vikings" quiz and on that quiz it asks for the hall (answer Valhalla) in the region of Asgard. After I took that quiz I did a little refresher search on Norse Mythology and it looks like the Viking quiz is correct. It doesn't look like too many people are having trouble with the question the way it is, just thought I'd point it out.
Frankenstein was not a doctor, he was a second-year university student who never finished his studies. This is a literature quiz, not a movie quiz, right?
Interesting question. If scripts written for the stage (Shakespeare, Wilde, O'Neill, etc.) are considered literature, why wouldn't scripts written for the screen (Mankiewicz, Goldman, Zaillian, etc.) also be considered literature?
I'm a linguist and I know what SVO is, but was completely thrown by it in this context.
It would be nice to see, say, Villon here (où sont les neiges d'antan?), or Verlaine perhaps, at any rate something that is more literature than linguistics.
Not a criticism! Just a suggestion as I've really enjoyed this quiz series!
I guess they must have a different word for the foot wart thing
Have a look here: http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager#prefix=veruca&sw=both&exact=true
All I can say is, if google doesn't see it . . .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject%E2%80%93verb%E2%80%93object
It would be nice to see, say, Villon here (où sont les neiges d'antan?), or Verlaine perhaps, at any rate something that is more literature than linguistics.
Not a criticism! Just a suggestion as I've really enjoyed this quiz series!
It goes like this:
If you have an infinite row of 0's and gave them a number, it will look like this:
0 0 0 0 ... 0
1 2 3 4 ... ω
ω is Omega
If we have
0 0 0 0 ... 0 0
then
0 0 0 0 ... 0 0
1 2 3 4 ... ω ω+1
If we have
0 0 0 0 ... 0 0 ... 0
then
0 0 0 0 ... 0 0 ... 0
blah blah blah ω2
ω.2 = ω+ω (ω*2)
ω.2 + 1 is
0 0 0 0 ... 0 0 ... 0 0
ω2+1
We can have this
ω.3
ω.4
ω.5
and every . is a * (multiplier)
ω.5 = ω*5
We can even have ω*ω = ω^2
For people not familiar with exponents (^)
x^2 = x*x
x^3 = x*x*x
x^4 = x*x*x*x where x represents a number, including omega (ω)
We can have
ω^3
ω^4
ω^5
ω^6
even ω^ω. This is equal to ω*ω*ω*ω with infinite multiplications and omegas (ω's)
For people who don't know what omega is, it is the last letter in greek.
With ω^(ω+1) it gets a bit tricky
The rules of exponents-
So ω^(ω+1) is equal to ω^ω * ω
or ω*ω*ω....ω*ω
and ω^ω be ω*ω*ω....ω
so ω^(ω+2) be ω*ω*ω...ω*ω where
ω * ω * ω . . . . ω * ω * ω
1 2 3 ω ω+1 ω+2
the ω+2 in the line
so ω^(ω+2) be ω*ω*ω...ω*ω where
and 1 2 3 ω ω+1 ω+2
are linked.
we can have ω^(ω*2)
and ω^(ω*3)
ω^(ω*4)
ω^(ω*5)
ω^(ω*ω) = ω^ω^2
ω^(ω*ω*ω) = ω^ω^3
We can even have ω^ω^ω and ω^ω^ω^ω
ω^ω^ω^ω^ω.... infinite times? Epsilon zero