Author Topic: Blanko! (Read 512441 times)

JoanP · « **Reply #960 on:** February 22, 2011, 10:21:19 AM »

Welcome to our newest brain teaser: BLANKO

The rules are simple:

The Challenger posts either a title or the name of an author, but not both.

Ex:

Title of Book: three words, a prize winning novel:

___ ___ ___ ___ ___ T __ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

What is it?

The Contestants guess the title or author (if it's a challenge on an author's name) and post their answer. If they can, the solve the entire answer. If not, they can also suggest one of the title words or a letter to fill in one of the blanks. One guess per "day" (between appearances of the Challenger) for each contestant.

At the end of the day if the puzzle is not solved, the Challenger will then add only one of the suggested letters the Contestants have suggested, everywhere it appears.

The winner becomes the new Challenger.

Good Luck !!

List of Winners and Book Titles or Authors:

1. Pat H for Rabbit Run Post #27
2. Ginny for Hound of the Baskervilles Post #45
3. Joan P for The Winter of our Discontent # 51
4. Ginny for Aesop's Fables # 54
5. Frybabe for The Caine Mutiny # 68
6. Ginny for Seven Pillars of Wisdom #75
7. Gumtree for Lost in America #100
8. Frybabe for King Solomon's Mines #138
9. Gumgree for Thus Spake Zarathustra # 174
10. Frybabe for All Quiet on the Western Front # 193
11. Joan K for Seven Years in Tibet # 205
12. Gumtree for all Quiet on the Western Front # 210
13. Frybabe for The Scarlet Pimpernel #221
14. PatH for Two years Before the Mast #225
15. Gumtree for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner #229
16. PatH for HMS Surprise #232
17. JoanP for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea #241
18. Frybabe for The Life of Pi #249
19. pedlin for Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass #264
20. Frybabe for Undaunted Courage #281
21. pedln for Ice Station Zebra #292
22. Gumtree for The African Queen #304
23. pedln for Alias Grace #319
24. Frybabe for Stephen Crane #333
25. JoanP for Is Paris Burning? #343
26. Ginny for Zeituon #350
27. Frybabe for S*** My Dad Says #371
28. JoanP for Ghosts of Vesuvius #384
29. pedln for The 39 Steps #407
30. Frybabe for The Namesake #430
31. JoanP for Awakenings #447
32. pedln for The Left Hand of Darkness #471
33. JoanK for The Elegance of the Hedgehog #481
34. Gumtree for Gone With the Wind #491
35. PatH for That Old Cape Magic #511
36. JoanP for The Woman in White # 523
37. deems 2 for Faceless Killers #554
38. JoanP for The Known World #587
39. deems 2 for Don Quixote #601
40. Gumtree for The Shipping News #616
41. deems 2 for The Count of Monte Cristo #628
42. JoanP for Bel Canto #651
43. pedln for USA #656
44. Fran for A Redbird Christmas #678
45. Nobody got Faith and Betrayal #696
46. Gumtree for Kristin Lavransdatter #705
47. JoanP for A Room with a View #716
48. Gumtree for Metamorphosis # 731
49. JoanP for Mansfield Park #741
50. Frybabe for Empire if the Summer Moon #756
51. PatH for The Sketch Book #772
52. JoanP for The Last of the Mohicans #783
53. deems2 for Anne of Avonlea #792
54. PatH for Wuthering Heights #803
55. deems2 for Snow Falling on Cedars #810
56. JoanP for Let the Great World Spin #821
57. deems2 for A Novel Bookstore #839
58. pedln for Juliet, Naked #858
59. deems2 for The Devil in White City #878
60. JoanP for The Invisible Bridge #901
61. pedln for The Lacuna #909
62. deems2 for To the End of the Land #917
63. JoanP for Wolf Hall #933
64. pedln for Any Human Heart #944
65. JoanP for Ordinary People #955
66. deems2 for The Weird Sisters #963
67. JoanP for Cry the Beloved Country #973
68. deems 2 for Cymbeline #984

"T" it t'is, Gum - two of them -

T _ _ _ E _ _ _ _ _ _T _ _ _

Clues - fiction, new, by a woman, her first novel. I think. I'd better check that - don't want to steer you wrong again, tho, Pedln got it last time even tho...

JoanK · « **Reply #961 on:** February 24, 2011, 03:35:23 PM »

Whe need some vowels. How about an "E"?

JoanP · « **Reply #962 on:** February 24, 2011, 03:45:18 PM »

E's - two of them -

T _ E _ E _ _ _ _ _ _TE _ _

Clues - fiction, new, just released in January - by a woman born and raised in Washington, DC, her first novel.

deems 2 · « **Reply #963 on:** February 24, 2011, 10:40:25 PM »

Is it The Weird Sisters?

JoanP · « **Reply #964 on:** February 25, 2011, 08:53:42 AM »

WINNER - WINNER - WINNER!!!

I'm going to check the Library hold list and see where I am on the queue for this one! How did you guess it, deems2? Did you read the review in the Wash. Post a few weeks ago? Did you read the book?

Gumtree · « **Reply #965 on:** February 25, 2011, 10:45:44 AM »

Well done Deems2

JoanP: What an intriguing title - can you tell us a little more about it please

JoanP · « **Reply #966 on:** February 25, 2011, 08:47:18 PM »

A brand new book, Gum. Just came out in January. Eleanor Brown's first novel. I'm way down on the hold list, waiting patiently for my turn. It sounds really good, from all I've heard.

Here's Eleanor Brown's Homepage - and a brief description of the novel -

Quote

A major new talent tackles the complicated terrain of sisters. A winsome novel that explores sibling rivalry, the power of books, and the places we decide to call home.

“See, we love each other. We just don’t like each other very much.”

The Andreas sisters were raised on books – their family motto might as well be, ‘There’s no problem a library card can’t solve.’ Their father, a renowned, eccentric professor of Shakespearean studies, named them after three of the Bard’s most famous characters: Rose (Rosalind – As You Like It), Bean (Bianca – The Taming of the Shrew), and Cordy (Cordelia – King Lear), but they have inherited those characters’ failures along with their strengths.

deems 2 · « **Reply #967 on:** February 25, 2011, 09:56:11 PM »

I didn't read the review...I only read reviews after I read the books and I haven't read this one yet. But I saw the book and thought that it was an interesting title. Now to think of a book...

deems 2 · « **Reply #968 on:** February 26, 2011, 05:15:14 PM »

Oops. Sorry for the delay.

Let's try...
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ R _

JoanP · « **Reply #969 on:** February 26, 2011, 05:16:58 PM »

Here we go! How about an "S"? (please?)

deems 2 · « **Reply #970 on:** February 26, 2011, 09:17:21 PM »

Sorry JoanP, quite surprisingly, there are no S's

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ R _

Clues:

Fiction
Modern but not as new as JoanP's latest

pedln · « **Reply #971 on:** February 26, 2011, 09:26:00 PM »

Are there FOUR words, Deems2? My screen is showing it two different ways.

How about T, please?

Gumtree · « **Reply #972 on:** February 26, 2011, 10:37:39 PM »

And I'll ask for an E - thanks

JoanP · « **Reply #973 on:** February 27, 2011, 12:23:46 AM »

Is it Cry the Beloved Country?

Gumtree · « **Reply #974 on:** February 27, 2011, 12:51:14 AM »

Amazing JoanP !! I'm stunned - haven't thought of that book for years.

deems 2 · « **Reply #975 on:** February 27, 2011, 09:04:42 AM »

WINNER WINNER WINNER!
Excellent job, JoanP!

pedln · « **Reply #976 on:** February 27, 2011, 10:33:36 AM »

Holy Smolies, JoanP. Congratulations!

PatH · « **Reply #977 on:** February 27, 2011, 10:46:13 AM »

Good grief, JoanP, you're psychic.

JoanP · « **Reply #978 on:** February 27, 2011, 03:54:51 PM »

It's funny how the mind works, isn't it? When the "S" didn't work at the end, I tried to think of another letter that might follow the "R" at the end of the last word. Thought of a "Y" - and then Pedln mentioned a "T" - so I saw TRY at then end. From there, I got Country - and then...the title!

OK, this one is a PLAY - a not-so-well-known play, by a well known playwright... Do you see it?

_ _ _ _ E _ _ _ _

pedln · « **Reply #979 on:** February 28, 2011, 11:07:27 AM »

How about an S, please.

What's that show where you spin the wheel -- Price is Right? Just made for JoanP and Deems2.

JoanP · « **Reply #980 on:** February 28, 2011, 06:53:58 PM »

I feel as if that's what we're playing, Pedln!

Only one guess today? Sorry to say there is no "S"...in the title of this play. Another clue? The title is someone's name...

_ _ _ _ E _ _ _ _

pedln · « **Reply #981 on:** February 28, 2011, 08:07:51 PM »

No S. That probably lets out the Greeks?

How about T, please.

Gumtree · « **Reply #982 on:** March 01, 2011, 01:11:11 AM »

Someone's name? Guinevere fits but don't think that's a title of a play -

Are there more Es?

JoanP · « **Reply #983 on:** March 01, 2011, 09:00:11 PM »

a PLAY - a not-so-well-known play, by a well known playwright. Not a modern playwright, though he has never gone out of fashion.

No S's, no T's either...
no Guinevere, thoughI see it fits - but yes, another "E"...

_ _ _ _ E _ _ _ E

deems 2 · « **Reply #984 on:** March 01, 2011, 10:41:10 PM »

I think Guinevere sounds like a great play!

Cymbeline?

JoanP · « **Reply #985 on:** March 02, 2011, 12:13:49 AM »

There you go! Winner! Good job, deems2!

I thought Pedln was going to get this because I told her last week that I was going to see Cymbeline - at the Shakespeare Theater last night. (It wasn't great, but now there's only one of Shakespeare's plays I haven't seen.) What was your clue, deems2? Was it the "E" at the end of the title?

pedln · « **Reply #986 on:** March 02, 2011, 10:25:47 AM »

Well, duh, some things just roll over the barrel. Like memory. At one point I thought it might be Agamemnon -- 9 letters with an E in the middle. (And his name has just been popping up all over the place.)

Congrats, deems2. Did you see the play too?

Gumtree · « **Reply #987 on:** March 02, 2011, 10:42:24 AM »

JoanP - so what's the Shakespeare play you haven't seen?

JoanP · « **Reply #988 on:** March 02, 2011, 05:22:09 PM »

I was going to say "Merry Wives of Windsor" - which is coming to Washington next season. Bruce just reminded me that we haven't seen Henry VI Part I , PartII. or Part III..because they are seldom staged. He said that if I can find a production of any of these - ANYWHERE - we can plan a trip to see them.

I'm going to start hunting, right now!

deems 2 · « **Reply #989 on:** March 02, 2011, 11:30:18 PM »

Ooo ooo ooo! Look for stagings in Australia, JoanP! That's a great offer! Yes, it was the second E that did it. That and the fact that I was pretty sure it was Shakespeare.

Gumtree · « **Reply #990 on:** March 03, 2011, 02:53:28 AM »

No good looking for Henriad stagings here -The Bell Shakespearean Company is our foremost S company - anyway during 2011 they're planning Julius Caesar, Marlowe's Faust and Much Ado. The principal of the company, John Bell is a superb S actor. I think he did a composite Henry some years ago - sadly, it didn't tour here.

I think the best live production of S I've seen was Othello with Keith Michell - he was sublime. The very worst was the Merchant with Timothy West as Shylock - I've seen better interpretations and insights from student groups.

JoanP · « **Reply #991 on:** March 03, 2011, 10:57:44 PM »

Rats! I had hoped to get a trip to Australia out of that promise! I think the Shakespeare Theater in Washington DC is having a reading of the Composite of the three plays - and all day reading- their schedule says - ■Henry VI, Date to be announced. Composed of Henry VI, Part 1; Henry VI, Part 2 and Henry VI, Part 3

I suppose that counts - a READING, almost as good as a performance, no? Not much of a trip though - ten minutes from my house!

Deems2 - don't forget us. Love your titles!
It's your turn...

deems 2 · « **Reply #992 on:** March 03, 2011, 11:17:23 PM »

Sorry, JoanP, busy busy day...

Let's see.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I _ _ _ _

Clues:
Fiction.

JoanK · « **Reply #993 on:** March 10, 2011, 12:30:56 AM »

How about some E's?

JoanP · « **Reply #994 on:** March 10, 2011, 09:31:03 AM »

Oops, I didn't see your title, Deems2! Sorry. I'm looking for a "T"....

deems 2 · « **Reply #995 on:** March 10, 2011, 06:59:11 PM »

Thank you, Joan's K and P. I thought I had killed this game too! Now to remember the book. Oh, yes...

There are no T's, JoanP. Here is your E, JoanK.

_ _ _ _ _ _ E _ I _ _ _ _

Clues:
Fiction.
An epic tale.

Letters guessed:
T, E

JoanP · « **Reply #996 on:** March 10, 2011, 07:11:11 PM »

Not yet...how about some more "I"s?

deems 2 · « **Reply #997 on:** March 10, 2011, 10:11:24 PM »

One more I for you, JoanP.

_ _ _ _ _ _ E _ I _ I _ _

Clues:
Fiction.
An epic tale.

Letters guessed:
T, E, I

pedln · « **Reply #998 on:** March 10, 2011, 10:29:56 PM »

How about an N, please.

JoanP · « **Reply #999 on:** March 11, 2011, 03:49:14 PM »

"N" looks good, Pedln...
And how about a "V"?

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Author Topic: Blanko! (Read 512441 times)