Due to the extraordinary high amount of people participating at the quiz (1 person),
I decided to make / start a new quiz round. The rules are now much more elaborate, as follows:
- -The quiz goes on for 10 - 15 questions (either 10 or 15!)
- -You can answer every question until the next question is up
- -Every question will be up for approximately 2-4 days (depending on how much time i have, how many people answered already and how many answers were right)
- -Even if you are not sure about an answer, just post what you think is right (see next rule)
- -Every answer will get points on a scale from 0 - 10. (0 is a plainly wrong answer, 10 is an extraordinary well written answer which is correct. Answers which are not correct may get points too, for example if they are "close" to the correct answer)
- -The winner will be the one with most points
- -Only one answer per person
- -This is a private quiz and thus you cannot apply any laws except mine to it, if you're not happy, go away and whine.
- -Answers are accepted in English, French and German.
- -You may ask for a translation of the question
- -the correct answer will be put up when the next question is put up.
- -There will be a prize for the happy winner (apart from the fame:-) ). This prize will be determined by me, and if the winner comes from abroad, send by post to his adress. The Prize is secret, but it's something...cool!
- -If at the end of the quiz there are multiple persons with the same amount of points, the prize will either be splitted or a tie question posted. the one with the correct answer posted first will then win the tie (like sudden death.)
So, ready to compete? Warm up your brains, since this is a hard quiz, and I mean it!
Ok. The correct answer for last week was "Ultraviolet" or "Ultraviolette", but since the rules were not up last week, Stephan doesn't win anything; not even points. Sorry.
So here's the first question:
This question asks about a book.
Those are the hints:
-The narrative structure/narration style is similar to 1001 nights
-Takes basically place in spain
-The genesis of the book is nearly as amazing as the book itself
-It's quite famous
And here is the top-secret-hidden hint:
-the Author is said to have committed suicide by shooting himself with a silver bullet, which he had filed/rasped until it fitted in his pistol.
Think you found everything? score points by adding the authors name and the year of first publishing to your post! have fun!
Answers go down here, to the comments.
7 comments:
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (original French title Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse, also known in English as Saragossa Manuscript), by the Polish author Jan Potocki (1761-1815). The first several 'days' of The Manuscript Found in Saragossa were initially published apart from the rest of the novel in 1797, while the stories comprising the Gypsy chief's tale were added later; the novel was written incrementally, left in its final form (although never exactly completed) at the time of the author's suicide in 1815. First partially published in English in 1805.
Dammit, Stephan got here first... Yeah, "the man who killed himself with a strawberry", eccentric Polish count Jan Nepomucek Potocki, author of "The manuscript found in Saragossa", describing Alphonse van Worden's journey towards Madrid and the people he meets during this journey. Potocki had an interest in the occult and secret societies and cults. He is said to have killed himself with a shot to the head with a silver bullet, crafted from a strawberry-shaped knob from a sugar bowl. It is believed that he had gone insane because of syphilis, and consequently killed himself under the delusion that he was turning into a werewolf.
Stephan, come on you are way too quick...I was just starting to google keywords.. ;)
ARGH!!! I want to be notified at least 3 minutes before the next question is posted. However, the first several "days" were published apart in 1797, not 1805.
Christine: That's exactly what I wrote!
what is going on here???
This whisdom-fight or challenge is really funny. Please go on.....
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