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Do you know what the initials stand for in the following authors' names? Time to test your literary knowledge. Put down your iphone and see how many you can get. Answers below.
1. S.E. Hinton
of The Outsiders fame
2. J.M. Coetzee
Nobel Prize winner
3. J.K. Rowling
Wrote that wizard thing
4. J.D. Salinger
Loner
5. E.E. Cummings
Only poet of the quiz
6. C.S. Lewis
It's the Chronic(what?)cles of Narnia
7. W. E. B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk
8. J.R.R. Tolkien
Who you turn to if you want to speak Elvish.
9. L. Frank Baum
Not affiliated with HBO's Oz.
10. T.C. Boyle
East is East, Tooth and Claw, The Tortilla Curtain, The Road to Welville
11. Phillip K. Dick
The King of Sci-fi
12. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Perhaps the only one people will get right
13. H.P. Lovecraft
The King of Horror
14. R.L. Stine
Goosebumps
15. E.B. White
Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little
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Answers:
1. Susan Eloise
2. John Maxwell
3. Trick question. Her name is Joanne and JK is just a pen name.
4. Jerome David
5. Edward Estlin
6. Clive Staples. Staples!
7. William Edward Burghardt
8. John Ronald Reuel
9. Lyman
10. Tom Coraghessan
11. Kindred
12. Francis
13. Howard Phillips
14. Robert Lawrence
15. Elwyn Brooks
Number of correct answers:
0-3 Don't feel bad. It's a tough quiz and we can't all be smart.
4-8 Hey, nice job. You probably do well at Trivial Pursuit.
9-12 Maybe you need to go outside more; see a show, go dancing. You're reading too dang much.
13-15 Yeah right.
