Edward Albee’s play “The goat, or who is Sylvia?” and Kurt Vonnegut’s novel “Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death” are among the many creative works to have dual titles, even though many people only know the first part. For this quiz, your task is to guess the first part of the title preceding the “or”, the rest of which is presented below.
You earn one point for each correct answer. Google not and do your best, posting your scores at the end. Five is a respectable score, more than that is very good.
1. …or, the Modern Prometheus
2. …or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
3. …or, There and Back again
4. …or, How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
5. …or, What You Will
6. …or, The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up
7. …or, The Whale
8. …or, The Wreck of the Titan
9. …or, How One Becomes What One Is
10. …or, Life Among the Lowly
Answers after the jump,
1. Frankenstein
2. Dr. Strangelove
3. The Hobbit
4. Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
5. Twelfth Night
6. Peter Pan
7. Moby Dick
8. Futility
9. Ecce Homo
10. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Four out of ten: 1, 2, 6, and 7.
Missed 4, 8, 9, and 10; should have gotten the last.
I got 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7. I'm fairly sure there's no way I'd have gotten any of the others.
2,5,6,7
Should have gotten #3, but didn't.
No chance on the others.
Got 1,2,3,7.
Looks like 8 and 9 were too hard, sorry all.
2, 3, 7. I should have gotten 1 and 6.
1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10. Never heard of 8 by either title.
Futility: The Wreck of the Titan was not famous at the time but became so when the Titanic sank due to the eerie parallels between fiction and reality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futility,_or_the_Wr…
I'd read six of them, but got only four, including one I hadn't read.