That was so weird. I went to type "Lord of the Rings" and accidentally hit the letter "t" on my way to hitting the "r"....resulting in "lotr"...which was the correct answer anyway.
I'm very surprised by the Madonna one. That book over all of Shakespeare? I'm not putting any sort of hierarchy here but we had to read Shakespeare every year in middle and high school so it surprises me that there aren't a ton of searches for, like, "Romeo and Juliet" for instance just based on the sheer number of school children that must be looking it up for information.
I've seen that the wikipedia lists Inferno and Divine Comedy separately, but since the Inferno is part of Divine Comedy maybe it should be allowed as a type-in?
Of Mice and Men was on the UK literature syllabus and it may be the same in the US which may make a difference. As mentioned above, I'm a little surprised that Shakespeare isn't here for the same reason
Haha. That did not occur to me while taking this quiz. A lot of classic school-mandated novels on here. I wonder what percentage of views comes from students looking up the plot instead of reading the book.
FWIW, the source lists the Bible as having 112 million views, but they adjusted it down to 19 million since ~95% of views in 2020 and 2021 were on desktop. Apparently this means most of the views were "non-human," but they seem to just be guessing.
Anyone knows how wikipedia counts this? I mean, is this only in english pages or does it considers if you looked up the Bible in both in english or any other language? Just curious and I was not sure just by reading the source.
When I saw the name E. L. James, I thought, wasn't this the one who wrote that crappy romance story that was so popular in the last years, so I wrote Twilight. Close enough.
Inferno is just a part of the Divine Comedy, even if it's referred to as a "book". LOTR is also divided in "books", but you would never talk about book 3 in The Two Towers as a standalone book, would you?
But if "Inferno" is a separate Wikipedia page which has been viewed considerably more than the page for "Divine Comedy, then it counts as a book for the purposes of the quiz. Similarly, if the page for "Two Towers" had been viewed considerably more than the page for the LOTR trilogy as a whole, it would be counted.