Dangerously Daring: Literary Couples Quiz Results

[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?

Comments

[thekatebeyond.livejournal.com]

I'm very proud - there's only one pairing I missed from a book that I'd actually read. (Although, that's kind of shameful, since I got the other pairing from that book, and I'd re-read it recently!)

[poetressforgod.livejournal.com]

yeah, if I had remembered all of the parings from books I have read, i would have gotten about 4 more (including the mandie one). I'm not ashamed to not know pairings when I haven't read the book, but when i have ::facepalm:: Especially the diana barry one and the hermione (not granger) one.

[peri81.livejournal.com]

It was fun, but I knew I only knew half of them. Once I guessed the half I knew I randomly placed letters by numbers lol.

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

I told you I was no good at names. Sigh. Zorro's girlfriend's name was Lolita? Seriously?

Fun quiz.

[knightedrogue.livejournal.com]

Wesley and Buttercup 4eva, foo. What was M thinking, not having TPB on her shelf ... le sigh.

[supplyship.livejournal.com]

Totally fun!

And I *knew* I messed up on those March girls.

[mrspollifax.livejournal.com]

Hee hee. A fairer quiz would require naming the source to weed out the guessing - because my score should totally have been a few points lower. But yes, fun!

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Ahhh - a lot of the ones I didn't get were ones I wasn't going to get. Although I'm annoyed I didn't get the Phantom of the Opera ones.

Yay, fun!

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Some of these were tough! And I didn't know a couple that are CLASSICS OMG. :-D

(but I knew all the Harry Potter ones...)

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

The Mandie one threw me for a few minutes...I couldn't even remember who Diana was.

(And I thought the two hermiones MUST have been a mistake, too.)

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

I actually was going through your answers, and thinking, "Wow, it's almost like she knows EXACTLY half of these..." just because it was so even...

At least I managed to figure out why I was counting wrong...otherwise you would have had like...seven. *facepalm*

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

It's POSSIBLE that the name of Zorro's long-time girlfriend is up for debate, or that he had another girlfriend in a different book. I'm not entirely sure, myself.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

She was probably not thinking that the book is as awesome as it most obviously is.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Well, there are FOUR of them. And they don't marry the traditional people in some cases!

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

I totally guessed, though (edukatedlee). Why not? It's matching.

*grins*

I'm so glad people played and enjoyed.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

The Phantom one took me entirely too long to realize they'd listed PHANTOM as his last name.

(this game just shows how much of a shipper I am)

[thekatebeyond.livejournal.com]

*giggle* Yup. When I saw the number of Harry Potter and Austen-based pairings, I knew I'd do halfway decent at least!

[seldear.livejournal.com]

Dude. I got them all???

HEE!

Some of them were educated guesses. I was 90% certain of the pairs for Last of the Mohicans, Nancy Drew, Zorro, and Tom Sawyer, but since I'd never read them (or read them a looooong time ago) I wasn't 100%.

The only one I didn't know at all was The "Mandie" books. But once I got all the others, they just slipped into place.

WAHEY!

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The Mandie ones are obscure to say the least. *g*

You did completely awesome, yo. ;-)

[seldear.livejournal.com]

I nearly put down all the books, too. Then I thought that would just be showing off. *g*

[vflick.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't feel so bad! All the ones I didn't get I pretty much have never read (or even heard of) anyway! There is I think only one I didn't get that I think I ought to have.

I feel like I ought to make my own list from my own fave reading list! Maybe I will this weekend.

Nice one! Thanks it was fun!

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Hah hah! Well, if you know them, then you know them. :-)

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

You should! Like I said...it's a very biased list. :-)

I'm glad you had fun with it.

[agent-nica.livejournal.com]

THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS IS THAT I BET KR!

Bwahaha. Me > KR. Me FTW. I rock!

Anyway. That was fun! :)

[agent-nica.livejournal.com]

*BEAT! I BEAT HER. Not bet her.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Hah! She'll love that...

[bulky-monster.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, I read the Mandie books as a kid and I was raised agnostic. Grew up to be an atheist. Looking back at those books... wow.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Hee. Yeah. Some of it was pretty awesome, though--like the fact that Mandie always sneaked out at night. :-)

[bulky-monster.livejournal.com]

Weren't they kind of patronizing with, wossname, Uncle Ned?

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it was. I don't *remember* it being patronizing--I was awfully young, and I remember there being quite a lot of good stuff in it--even with the Native American themes that would more than likely offend me now. Of course, I also don't remember realizing that people slept around on Star Trek almost every week.

[bulky-monster.livejournal.com]

Haha