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PatH · « **Reply #1280 on:** July 03, 2011, 10:30:49 PM »

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
69. JoanP for Blood Meridian #1004
70. deems 2 for Awakening the Buddha Within, #1022
71. Pedln (plus gumtree) for A Prayer for Owen Meany #1032
72. JoanP for A Covert Affair # 1049
73. Frybabe for The House at Riverton #1071
74. deems 2 for Ten Days That Shook the World #1074
75. pedln for The Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Wao # 1090
76. JoanP for The Paris Wife # 1110
77. Gumtree for Old Filth #1113
78. Pedln for David Copperfield #1134
79. JoanP for Tabloid City #1150
80. PatH for Caleb's Crossing #1157
81. Frybabe for Unbroken #1169
82. PatH for The Android's Dream #1178
83. JoanP for Treasure Island #1186
84. pedln for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn #1204
85. Frybabe for Winter's Bone #1227
86. JoanP for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1234
87. Pedln for A Novel Bookstore #1237
88. pedln for Dancing at the Rascal Fair #1247
89. PatH for The Hunchback of Notre-Dame #1260
90. pedln for Slaughterhouse Five #1269
91. deems 2 for Eternal on the Water #1278
92. Frybabe for The Cookbook Collector #1299

Wow, I'm glad you got it, deems 2. I'd never heard of it.

JoanP · « **Reply #1281 on:** July 04, 2011, 02:49:03 PM »

Me neither! Tell about it! A fascinating title. I was seeing the "Eternal on the" part, but ...

jane · « **Reply #1282 on:** July 04, 2011, 03:54:16 PM »

E, please

deems 2 · « **Reply #1283 on:** July 05, 2011, 10:07:28 PM »

I haven't read it. I've only seen it. But I will pick it up now that I know it is good.

Here's an easy one.

T _ _

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

JoanP · « **Reply #1284 on:** July 06, 2011, 08:03:17 AM »

Easy for you - you know the title!

OK, let's see how easy for the rest of us - how many E's?

Frybabe · « **Reply #1285 on:** July 06, 2011, 12:10:40 PM »

Maybe an N or two?

deems 2 · « **Reply #1286 on:** July 06, 2011, 10:37:11 PM »

$:-\$ Well, I guess knowing the title does help a little.

Here are two e's, JoanP!

T _ E

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

_ _ _ _ E _ _ _ _

Letters guessed:
E

JoanK · « **Reply #1287 on:** July 07, 2011, 04:10:48 PM »

We need more vowels. how about an "I"

Frybabe · « **Reply #1288 on:** July 07, 2011, 05:33:18 PM »

An S?

deems 2 · « **Reply #1289 on:** July 07, 2011, 10:26:57 PM »

Frybabe, there are no N's and there are no S's.

T _ E

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

_ _ _ _ E _ _ _ _

Letters guessed:
E, N, S

PatH · « **Reply #1290 on:** July 08, 2011, 12:54:05 AM »

Hmmm.

pedln · « **Reply #1291 on:** July 08, 2011, 11:11:32 AM »

I think somebody asked for an I and I'll ask for one too. But I really expect this title will come to me in my dreams.

deems 2 · « **Reply #1292 on:** July 08, 2011, 02:27:22 PM »

JoanK and pedln, there are no I's.

T _ E

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

_ _ _ _ E _ _ _ _

Letters guessed:
E, N, S, I

Frybabe · « **Reply #1293 on:** July 09, 2011, 08:51:21 AM »

An L?

pedln · « **Reply #1294 on:** July 09, 2011, 10:39:56 AM »

Well, that let's out Milkmaid.

How about a D?

deems 2 · « **Reply #1295 on:** July 10, 2011, 12:40:37 PM »

There are two L's, Frybabe!

T _ E

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

_ _ L L E _ _ _ _

Letters guessed:
E, N, S, I, L

Frybabe · « **Reply #1296 on:** July 10, 2011, 01:29:13 PM »

C please.

Gumtree · « **Reply #1297 on:** July 11, 2011, 01:07:57 PM »

Could I have an A please miss

deems 2 · « **Reply #1298 on:** July 11, 2011, 10:02:12 PM »

Here's a two-fer.
No, I am sorry, pedln. There are no D's.
Here are a lot of C's, Frybabe!
(Gumtree, I will post your answer tomorrow - if needed. You asked SOOOOO nicely.

)

T _ E

C _ _ _ _ _ _ _

C _ L L E C _ _ _

Letters guessed:
E, N, S, I, L, D, C

Frybabe · « **Reply #1299 on:** July 11, 2011, 10:09:53 PM »

The Cookbook Collector?

Gumtree · « **Reply #1300 on:** July 12, 2011, 04:41:10 AM »

Wow~! that title is way off my radar...

pedln · « **Reply #1301 on:** July 12, 2011, 11:06:11 AM »

Ho ho ho. You beat me Frybabe. I just now saw those C's and it hit me. I'm reading it NOW. Oh duh, duh, duh. Congratulations! Have you read it? It sure goes off on a bunch of different tangents. Have read more than half and am just now getting a clue to the title.

Frybabe · « **Reply #1302 on:** July 12, 2011, 12:36:55 PM »

No, I haven't read it yet Pedln. It came to my attention though, because I have a rather large collection of cookbooks bought over the years. Not as large as before though, because I gave a bunch to my sister when I moved to Allentown way back in 89'.

Speaking of cookbooks, George is still sorting through stuff he inherited from him Mom. He had some buyers in to look at the cookbooks; she had several shelves full in two cabinets. Some of them, he was told, are quite valuable. I've seen them. Some are absolutely ancient. Unfortunately, she did not have the only one I look for, a early 1960's Fanny Farmer. My paperback fell apart. I replaced it with a new Fanny Farmer, but it was in a new format (which I didn't like so much) and some of the recipes had changed. The only way I could get a great pie crust was to follow the FF recipe faithfully. As many pies as I made, I still got that recipe out and read it first. A variation was a whole wheat crust which was great for apple and pumpkin pies. I also used the recipe to make individual spinach pies in fluted tart pans. Yummy!

JoanP · « **Reply #1303 on:** July 12, 2011, 05:57:32 PM »

Frybabe, the Fannie Farmer - eleventh edition, right? 1965. I'm holding it in my hands right now. What should I do with it?

Frybabe · « **Reply #1304 on:** July 12, 2011, 06:07:29 PM »

Bake a pie, JoanP.

That's the one.

(Or, you can send it on up to me.

)

JoanP · « **Reply #1305 on:** July 12, 2011, 08:50:26 PM »

The pie....or the book?

PatH · « **Reply #1306 on:** July 12, 2011, 10:59:41 PM »

Tee hee, JoanP.

I have the same Fanny Farmer, but I don't see the whole wheat crust, so maybe you want an earlier edition, Frybabe. I never bothered with a recipe for pie crust, since my mother taught me how to make it when I was quite young, but it's the same proportions as Fannie Farmer. I'd love to have the whole wheat recipe if you still have it.

I'm a cookbook nut, and have many that I bought to read for pleasure and haven't cooked much from.

deems 2 · « **Reply #1307 on:** July 12, 2011, 11:52:19 PM »

I'll take a pie, JoanP!

Um, just to make it official:

WINNER! WINNER! WINNER!

Great job, Frybabe!

Frybabe · « **Reply #1308 on:** July 13, 2011, 12:35:26 PM »

I could be mistaken on the whole wheat pie crust, but I thought I remembered it being under the primary as an alternative. Since the 12th Edition didn't come out until 1979, the 1965 Edition has to be the one I used.

Frybabe · « **Reply #1309 on:** July 13, 2011, 12:53:07 PM »

Okay, I just when down and checked my cookbooks. The one I have is the 12th Edition, which according to the cover, was completely revised. My 11th Edition paperback did not have all the illustrations the newer hardback does and it certainly didn't have instructions to make pastry in a food processor.

Quote

I'm a cookbook nut, and have many that I bought to read for pleasure and haven't cooked much from.

In my collection, I have books that are not just cookbooks, but a bit of history (Jeff Smith), garden tips (Betty Crocker), or recipes from menus/dishes talked about in novels (Sherlock Holmes, The Cat Who series), not to mention Euell Gibbons foraging for wild edible plants. My favorite Euell Gibbons recipe is the Violet syrup for pancakes.

Frybabe · « **Reply #1310 on:** July 13, 2011, 01:09:16 PM »

Okay, here is a new quiz.

T __ __

__ __ __ __ __ __

__ __

__ __ __ __ __

JoanK · « **Reply #1311 on:** July 14, 2011, 12:47:39 AM »

An "E" please. fry, do you have the book that gives recipes for all the food mentioned in the "master and Commander" series?

Frybabe · « **Reply #1312 on:** July 14, 2011, 10:48:51 AM »

No I don't, JoanK. Confession - I have never read nor seen the movie for Master and Commander.

T __ E

__ __ __ __ __ E

__ __

__ __ __ __ __

PatH · « **Reply #1313 on:** July 16, 2011, 06:38:22 PM »

Quote from: JoanK on July 14, 2011, 12:47:39 AM

An "E" please. fry, do you have the book that gives recipes for all the food mentioned in the "master and Commander" series?

I have it. (Lobscouse and Spotted Dog, by Anne Chotzinoff Grossman and Lisa Grossman Thomas.) It's a good example of a reading cookbook--a real hoot. They take every food mentioned in the books (that's a lot) and give quotes tying each to the stories, charmingly explain how they figured out what was the appropriate recipe, and what it tasted like, for good or ill. All recipes are given. They discover to their horror that the monstrously fatty dessert puddings are absolutely delicious, and are even better fried up in butter the next day.

Gumtree · « **Reply #1314 on:** July 17, 2011, 06:38:22 AM »

Indeed they are

JoanP · « **Reply #1315 on:** July 18, 2011, 10:04:59 PM »

How bout an "O"?

Frybabe · « **Reply #1316 on:** July 19, 2011, 07:12:35 AM »

JoanP has her one and only O

T __ E

__ __ __ __ __ E

O __

__ __ __ __ __

JoanP · « **Reply #1317 on:** July 19, 2011, 08:48:20 AM »

OK, good. How about a "C"?

Frybabe · « **Reply #1318 on:** July 20, 2011, 06:24:54 PM »

No C's. Sorry.

JoanP · « **Reply #1319 on:** July 20, 2011, 06:39:19 PM »

So not Prince of Tides, then...

OK - how about an "I"?

ps No whole wheat pie crust recipe under the "primary"...

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