holdouttrout

Okay, so I have to say that at least one of the pairings was completely not fair, that being Joe Woodard/Mandie Shaw. That's not particularly fair because I don't know how many people outside the conservative Christian circle have actually read the Mandie Books. This is a highly subjective list, seeing as it was taken entirely from a friend's bookshelf--it was her party, after all. Perhaps you can discuss in the comments.

Here are the answers:

	Men		Women	Story
1	Adam	S	Eve	The Bible
2	Almonzo Wilder	AB	Laura Ingles	Little House on the Prairie
3	Aragorn	F	Arwen	Lord of the Rings
4	Arthur Dimmesdale	W	Hester Prynne	The Scarlet Letter
5	Boaz	AJ	Ruth	The Bible
6	Charles Bingley	X	Jane Bennett	Pride and Prejudice
7	Cor	E	Aravis	The Horse and His Boy
8	Don Diego de la Vega	AC	Lolita Pulido	Zorro
9	Don Quixote	O	Dulcinea del Toboso	Don Quixote
10	Duncan Heyward	A	Alice Munro	Last of the Mohicans (Books)
11	Edward Cullen	H	Bella Swan	Twilight
12	Edward Rochester	Y	Jane Eyre	Jane Eyre
13	Erik Phantom	K	Christine Daae	Phantom of the Opera
14	Faramir	R	Eowyn	Lord of the Rings
15	Fitzwilliam Darcy	P	Elizabeth Bennett	Pride and Prejudice
16	Fred Wright	N	Diana Barry	Anne of Green Gables
17	Friedrick "Fritz" Bhaer	Z	Jo March	Little Women
18	George Knightley	Q	Emma Woodhouse	Emma
19	George Whickham	AD	Lydia Bennett	Pride and Prejudice
20	Gilbert Blythe	D	Anne Shirley	Anne of Green Gables
21	Hamlet	AH	Ophelia	Hamlet
22	Harry Potter	T	"Ginny" Weasley	Harry Potter
23	Heathcliff	I	Catherine	Wuthering Heights
24	John Brooke	AE	Margaret "Meg" March	Little Women
25	Joseph "Joe" Woodard	B	Amanda "Mandie" Shaw	The Mandie Books
26	King Oberon	AL	Titania	Midsummer Night's Dream
27	Leontes	U	Hermione	Midsummer Night's Dream
28	Marius Pontmercy	L	Cosette	Les Miserables
29	Ned Nickerson	AG	Nancy Drew	Nancy Drew
30	Othello	M	Desdemona	Othello
31	Percy Blakeney	AF	Marguerite St. Just	The Scarlet Pimpernel
32	Rhett Butler	AK	Scarlett O'Hara	Gone with the Wind
33	Romeo Montegue	AA	Juliet Capulet	Romeo and Juliet
34	Ronald "Ron" Weasley	V	Hermione Granger	Harry Potter
35	Samwise Gamgee	AI	Rose "Rosie" Cotton	Lord of the Rings
36	"Laurie" Laurence	C	Amelia "Amy" March	Little Women
37	Tom Sawyer	G	Becky Thatcher	The Adventures of Tom Swayer
38	William Collins	J	Charlotte Lucas	Pride and Prejudice

Guesses, unfortunately for those of you who didn't, were counted in these totals. (assuming you would get about half correct if you guessed, you can adjust the numbers accordinly if you want, but I'm just going off what I have).

seldear	38
mrspollifax	36
agent_nica	34
supplyship	34
la_tante	33
likethesun2	31
beanpot	31
poetressforgod	29
knightedrogue	26
caladria	26
thekatebeyond	25
spiletta42	24
pepper_field	24
vflick	23
aurora_novarum	22
peri81	19

I have to say that I was very amused by some of the crack pairings some of you came up with.

Here are some questions you had:

1. Dude. Did You guys leave off Wesley and Buttercup?
*checks list* Apparently. That *is* quite the travesty.

2. When you give us the answers, will you also tell us what story they are from?
*grins*

And yes, context *is* everything. Someone remarked about Boaz and Ruth taking them a while, and I did the SAME thing, where I was like, "Who is Boaz? Which Ruth--OH!" Not like I read that book of the Bible (along with Esther) entirely too much when I was a kid and forced to sit in church without a Mandie book. *grins*

So did you have fun?