Wednesday 17 June 2009

Trivial Hirsute- Literary Edition.

It’s time for the big summer shave so this year I’ve turned it into a quiz!

See if you can guess the novelist, dramatist or biographer by the arrangement of my facial hair. 10 points for a correct answer, 5 points for a nearly. Put your answers in the comments box and I will publish the results once a sufficient amount of people has entered.

Good luck!

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

1:William Shakespeare
2:Charles Bukowski
3:Salman Rushdie
4:Ernest Hemingway
5:That scottish poet whose name I forgot
6:Robert Louis Stevenson, (Maybe Dostoevsky or Edgar Allan Poe?)
7:Adolf Hitler / Charlie Chaplin
8:J K Rowling

Do I win a prize?

Allan said...

8. Oscar Wilde
7. Blakey from Off the Buses
6. Somerset Maugham
5. Agatha Christie

3. Rudyard Kipling

Iain said...

4. Kinky Friedman.

I thought of him as soon as I looked at the picture before I read the post.

Muckle Viking said...

5 Is Kurt Vonnegut - so it goes and the bird said poo tee yit

Sandy Nelson said...

Here we go-Answers:

1 The man with the mohito and the mean look in his eye is the old bruiser himself Ernest “Papa” Hemingway. 5 points if you said Gertrude Stein.

2 Along with Matthew, Mark & Luke this guy is the worlds best selling author with 6 billion sales worldwide-it’s John The Baptist!... Read more

3. The stoic scourge of the Drama student, old misery guts, Anton Chekhov.

4. Crazy name, crazy guy. Country singing, mystery writing politician Kinky Friedman.

5. Americas favourite satirical, suicidal, time-travelling war hero- the genius that is Kurt Vonnegut.

6. Englands favourite future-predicting, tuberculocidal, socialist, Spanish civil war vet- the genius that is George Orwell.

7. Not so famous for his writing as for other things. Bit of a shite artiste actually. In fact if he’d got into art school we could have avoided a whole load of inconvenience. Bloody subjective selection process! These days he’d have got in with any old pish!

8. What’s that he’s holding? Yes, it’s…a handbag! Irelands favourite sarcastic, bum-shagging king of the one-liner. The genius that is Oscar Wilde.