Daily forum quiz thread

[Wrathbone]

Did the quiz, clicked submit and it said it’s in maintenance mode. No result. This may not end well.

EDIT - No, it did not.

[Snowy]

[Sly Boots]

So you ALL know which Edwardian bloke wrote a book about fairies...

[Wrathbone]

Surprisingly, yes! I did a mini project on it at primary school and somehow, nearly three decades later, it triggered a memory.

[Sly Boots]

Fair do's, it's always nice when a piece of esoteric knowledge comes in useful.

[Strudel]

I'm pretty sure that was a question fairly recently.

[Stormbringer]

Andrew Lang, right? I know this because I once had all his fairy books in my Amazon cart. About nine years ago I went through a "collect as much classic literature as possible" phase. My book-shelves are still heaving as a result.

I've not read most of them. ¬_¬

[Sly Boots]

Andrew Lang, right? I know this because I once had all his fairy books in my Amazon cart. About nine years ago I went through a "collect as much classic literature as possible" phase. My book-shelves are still heaving as a result.

I've not read most of them. ¬_¬

Nope. Edward Spencer apparently.

[Sly Boots]

Or possibly, as I just googled, Edmund Spenser, and rather than being 19th - early 20th century as I assumed (I think I was thinking of Conan Doyle -_-), he was actually a contemporary of Shakespeare

Having put in the research, I look forward to getting this question wrong again the next time it comes up.

[Stormbringer]

So when you said Edwardian, you meant Elizabethan? ¬_¬

The Faerie Queene was, if I understand it correctly, a tribute to Elizabeth I. I have a copy of it on my shelf, but I've never read it.

[Stormbringer]

Incidentally, both Spenser's Faerie Queene and Andrew Lang's Fairy Books were a huge influence on J.R.R. Tolkien. That's partly why I got interested in them in the first place.

[Sly Boots]

Incidentally, both Spenser's Faerie Queene and Andrew Lang's Fairy Books were a huge influence on J.R.R. Tolkien. That's partly why I got interested in them in the first place.

With that level of trivia knowledge you should be doing a quiz. A regular one, even, like, say, daily. -_-

[Stormbringer]

My knowledge-base is only on history, a bit of literature, and religion. I don't know anything about anything else. ¬_¬

[Strudel]

My knowledge base is mostly "quiz questions that have come up several times before" so you're likely to beat at least someone!

[Medicine Man]

Same. Although I'd also add my extensive knowledge of 'all of these' type questions.