Food featured in classics - how well read ... and attentive to detail! are you? *grin* (Guardian UK quiz)-

[MK]

Food featured in classics - how well read ... and attentive to detail! are you? *grin*


2."While plying our spoons in the bowl, thinks I to myself, I wonder now if this here has any effect on the head? What's that stultifying saying about chowder-headed people?"

A taste for fiction – food in literature picture quiz

When the designer Dinah Fried started cooking and photographing meals from classic fiction she found a new appetite for her favourite novels. But how well do you know literature's most memorable meals? Test your literary tastebuds with a smörgåsbord of images and quotations from some of the world's greatest novels

theguardian.com, Thursday 5 June 2014 10.35 EDT

source - http://www.theguardian.com/books/quiz...

[MK]

Hmmm .... I faired poorly (fared? *grin*), but STILL better than average :D


Your results
4 out of a possible 8

Not bad. Maybe you could do with another visit to the library – or the kitchen


How do you compare?
Congratulations! You beat the average score of 3 for this quiz

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You answered incorrectly
1. "By this time he'd opened a new bottle of tequila and was quaffing it down. Then he grabbed a grapefruit and sliced it in half with a Gerber Mini-Magnum – a stainless-steel hunting knife with a blade like a fresh-honed straight razor."

Correct answer: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S Thompson
You answered: In Cold Blood – Truman Capote


You answered incorrectly
2. "While plying our spoons in the bowl, thinks I to myself, I wonder now if this here has any effect on the head? What's that stultifying saying about chowder-headed people?"

Correct answer: Moby Dick; or the Whale – Herman Melville
You answered: Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson


You answered correctly
3. "I'm a very light eater. I really am. That's why I'm so damn skinny. I was supposed to be on this diet where you eat a lot of starches and crap, to gain weight and all, but I didn't ever do it."

Correct answer: The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger


You answered incorrectly
4. "On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold."

Correct answer: The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
You answered: Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell


You answered correctly
5. "In order to test his taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out on an old newspaper."

Correct answer: Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka


You answered correctly
6. "Roasted eggs were a previously unknown luxury and very hot potatoes with salt and fresh butter in them were fit for a woodland king – besides being deliciously satisfying."

Correct answer: The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett


You answered incorrectly
7. "There were pleasant feelings, and she walked about and indulged them till it was necessary to do as the others did, and collect round the strawberry-beds..."

Correct answer: Emma – Jane Austen
You answered: Little Women – Louisa May Alcott


You answered correctly
8. "Those secret tastes, defeated in the past by oranges and rhubarb, broke out into an irrepressible urge when she began to weep. She went back to eating earth."

Correct answer: One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez

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[Melanti]

3/8, and two of those were a educated guess. I haven't read a majority of those books!

Yay! I"m average.

[Kelly B]

5/8, but most of it was lucky guesses.

[Julie]

3 of 8 - guesses except for the last one :-)

[Alissa]

I got 5/8. but yep, lucky guesses haha

[Maarit]

4/8, mostly guessed answers.

[Lesley]

4 out of 8 for me too.

[Claudia]

6 out of 8 but guessed a third of them and got help of a friend for one of the questions

[MK]

Hey, pretty good scores :)


Yes, some well-placed guess helped me too ;-)

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

5/8 several I did not have to guess at.

[Michael]

I got five of eight. Several were somewhat educated guesses. Now I need to read the books that go with those that I missed.