PUZZLE - Book Quiz

[determindator]

4. The Bureau and the Mole?

 

 

ooops didn't 'av me glasses on

 

 

I meant num 6!

[Maggie_moo]

Are these last two books ones we will have heard of (I've never heard of the Wasp Factory)?

[determindator]

4. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy?

 

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another num 6!

[Tezcatlipoca]

Are these last two books ones we will have heard of (I've never heard of the Wasp Factory)?

 

One of them is one of the most famous and well known books ever written. The other, by no means obscure, will perhaps be better known to those who like detective stories...

[charleyfarley]

Are these last two books ones we will have heard of (I've never heard of the Wasp Factory)?

 

 

Me neither, but it exists, although it sounds weird:eek:

 

The Wasp Factory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[charleyfarley]

6, A Study in Scarlet?

 

clutching at a broken straw here

[KnellyK]

06 Red Riding Hood

[Crapstone]

6. Study in Scarlet..Has to be a Sherlock one.

[SOD'EM]

No4 The Da Vinci Code?

 

 

Please say yes.

[SOD'EM]

14 - The Wasp Factory??

 

 

I may be really thick, but I still can't see the relevance at all in the clue:confused:

 

 

I've read all about it on Wikipedia as well:lol:.

[Crapstone]

A wasp is an apocrita ..so the last bit is an anagram

[Tezcatlipoca]

One more to go guys. Now that A Study in Scarlet has been guessed, I am happy to tell you that this last one is one of the most well known - and in my opinion, best - books ever written.

 

The clues need to taken on face value, and Google will probably be your friend when hunting for the answer. Note that each of the three parts of the green clue -

 

1 Public mask..an alternative face or name, perhaps?

2 And MacCormack who?

3 Lucky he's so vocal!

 

- can form three search words which, when punched into Google, lead to the answer very quickly...

Edited September 25, 2009 by Tezcatlipoca

[Maggie_moo]

04 The American Pastoral?

[PGH7447]

04 war and peace

[nowayjose]

4. the Invisible Man

[Tezcatlipoca]

04 war and peace

 

Well done! Yes, Geoffrey MacCormack (a famous vocalist) uses the pseudonym Warren Peace, which is a pun on War and Peace, Tolstoy's immortal epic.

 

Thanks for playing everyone.

[Maggie_moo]

Famous vocalist?!! Well I've never heard of him, that was a very ambiguous clue, naughty Tez I would never have got that in a month of Sundays

[charleyfarley]

04 war and peace

 

Tez, Just wanted to say thanks for doing this quiz, :D

[Tezcatlipoca]

Famous vocalist?!! Well I've never heard of him, that was a very ambiguous clue, naughty Tez I would never have got that in a month of Sundays

 

The vocalist part was just an extra clue to give you the correct MacCormack. The original clue, 'MacCormack's public mask' gave you MacCormack and Pseudonym.

 

Even without the vocalist part, just punching 'pseudonym maccormack' into Google gives you his wiki page, the pseudonym and the punned title of the book, as the first search result..

 

Tez, Just wanted to say thanks for doing this quiz, :D

 

My pleasure. I write a lot of these things for fun, so may do another one at some point in the future...

[Spamalot]

Thanks Tez.... too clever for me by half...

 

Enjoyed the challenge but realised just how much my brain has rusted from lack of use over the years..

[Maggie_moo]

I have to admit I loved this, but didn't even get one of Films one , how about a 'Song Titles' one?

[Tezcatlipoca]

I have to admit I loved this, but didn't even get one of Films one , how about a 'Song Titles' one?

 

Perhaps you'd care to write one, Maggie_moo, or somebody else? They're a lot of fun to construct...