Eagle Eye Challenge #10 - Smiley's People
Created | Updated Mar 10, 2005
Eagle Eye Quiz #10 - Smiley's People
Each of these titles of literary works (ignore the authors) contains the name of an h2g2 smiley hidden in order within the letters. The length of the hidden smiley is in brackets.
NB. These are the lowercase names which you would use within angle-brackets when you type the smiley into a discussion thread. The letters may appear in uppercase within the titles. For more information on h2g2 smileys, click here.
Example Question:
| Question | Answer Length | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Alice Walker | The Color Purple | (4) |
Answer: 
(cool) (The COlOr PurpLe)
All you have to do is name the hidden h2g2 smiley in each title.
| Question | Answer Length | Solved By | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anne Tyler | Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant | (6) | Artisan |
| 2 | Anthony Burgess | A Clockwork Orange | (5) | Popa Mintin |
| 3 | Anthony Trollope | Barchester Towers | (6) | Popa Mintin |
| 4 | Anton Chekhov | The Cherry Orchard | (4) | Popa Mintin |
| 5 | Aristotle | On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death, On Breathing | (7) | Popa Mintin |
| 6 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax | (7) | Popa Mintin |
| 7 | Arthur Miller | Death of a Salesman | (4) | Popa Mintin |
| 8 | Boris Pasternak | Doctor Zhivago | (4) | Popa Mintin |
| 9 | Carlo Collodi | Pinocchio: The Adventures of a Puppet | (7) | Artisan |
| 10 | Charles Dickens | Bleak House | (4) | Popa Mintin |
| 11a | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | (5) | Popa Mintin |
| 11b | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | (5) | B'Elana |
| 12 | Charles Dickens | Old Curiosity Shop | (5) | Popa Mintin |
| 13 | Edgar Allan Poe | Descent into the Maelstrom | (6) | Popa Mintin |
| 14 | Edward Albee | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | (5) | Artisan |
| 15 | Evelyn Waugh | Brideshead Revisited | (5) | Popa Mintin |
| 16 | Frances Hodgson Burnett | The Secret Garden | (4) | Popa Mintin |
| 17 | H Rider Haggard | King Solomon's Mines | (4) | Popa Mintin |
| 18 | Hans Christian Andersen | Complete Fairy Tales and Stories | (6) | Popa Mintin |
| 19 | Henry David Thoreau | Plea for Captain John Brown | (7) | Popa Mintin |
| 20 | Henry James | Ambassadors | (4) | Popa Mintin |
| 21 | Horatio Alger Jr. | Cast Upon the Breakers | (5) | Artisan |
| 22 | Isaac Newton | Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy | (6) | Venus |
| 23 | J. D. Salinger | The Catcher in the Rye | (5) | Venus |
| 24 | Jacob And Wilhelm Grimm | Hansel and Gretel | (5) | Venus |
| 25 | Jacob And Wilhelm Grimm | Rumpelstiltskin | (4) | Venus |
| 26 | James Baldwin | Blues for Mister Charlie | (8) | Popa Mintin |
| 27 | John Keats | Bright star! Would I were stedfast as | (7) | Artisan |
| 28 | John Winthrop | Night in the Forest | (5) | Venus |
| 29 | Katherine Anne Porter | Pale Horse, Pale Rider | (6) | Venus |
| 30a | Ken Kesey | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | (4) | Popa Mintin |
| 30b | Ken Kesey | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | (4) | Venus |
| 31a | Luigi Pirandello | Six Characters in Search of an Author | (6) | Venus |
| 31b | Luigi Pirandello | Six Characters in Search of an Author | (6) | Artisan |
| 32a | Mark Twain | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | (5) | Artisan |
| 32b | Mark Twain | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | (5) | B'Elana |
| 33 | Mark Twain | Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg | (6) | B'Elana |
| 34 | Miguel De Cervantes | Don Quixote | (5) | Venus |
| 35 | Miguel De Cervantes | The Jealous Extremaduran | (6) | Venus |
| 36 | Muriel Spark | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | (5) | B'Elana |
| 37 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Ambitious Guest | (5) | B'Elana |
| 38 | Nikos Kazantzakis | Zorba the Greek | (4) | Venus |
| 39 | Oscar Wilde | Ballad of Reading Gaol | (4) | B'Elana |
| 40a | Oscar Wilde | Impressions de Theatre | (8) | B'Elana |
| 40b | Oscar Wilde | Impressions de Theatre | (7) | B'Elana |
| 41 | Oscar Wilde | The Importance of Being Earnest | (7) | Artisan |
| 42 | Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray | (4) | B'Elana |
| 43 | Raymond Chandler | The Big Sleep | (5) | Venus |
| 44 | Robert Louis Stevenson | Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes | (7) | Artisan |
| 45 | Rudyard Kipling | How the First Letter was Written | (7) | Artisan |
| 46 | St Thomas Aquinas | Summa Theologica | (5) | B'Elana |
| 47 | Tennessee Williams | A Streetcar Named Desire | (5) | Venus |
| 48a | Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard | (5) | Artisan |
| 48b | Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard | (5) | Venus |
| 49 | Thomas Hardy | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | (5) | B'Elana |
| 50a | Tom Stoppard | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | (5) | B'Elana |
| 50b | Tom Stoppard | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | (5) | B'Elana |
| 51 | William Golding | Lord of the Flies | (4) | Artisan |
| 52 | William Shakespeare | First Part of King Henry IV | (5) | Venus |
| 53a | William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | (6) | Venus |
| 53b | William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | (5) | B'Elana |
| 54 | William Shakespeare | Much Ado About Nothing | (5) | Venus |
| 55 | William Shakespeare | Timon of Athens | (4) | Venus |
Solutions
This challenge has now been completed. The solutions have been posted in the
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