Result: partial success (9/11)
Time limit: 30 mins
Question:
The following well known novels have each been renamed in order to make their titles more alliterative.
What was the original name of each book? For example boastfulness and bigotry could be the new name of Pride and Prejudice, were that title not alliterative already!
Away with the air
The berries of bitterness
Combat and calm
Courageous contemporary cosmos
Creature Croft
The crimson character
Delinquency and discipline
The fielder in the field
A goodbye to guns
Huge hopes
Milky molars
Reflection: this problem relied heavily on your knowledge of famous literature, so I had to google a few to confirm my guesses and I had never heard of a couple of titles. So I didn’t get all of them. Having said that I was particularly delighted with getting ‘The fielder in the field’.
Answers:
Away with the air – gone with the wind (answered correctly)
The berries of bitterness – grapes of wrath (answered correctly)
Combat and calm – war and peace (answered correctly but needed a google search to confirm)
Courageous contemporary cosmos – brave new world (answered correctly)
Creature Croft – Animal farm (answered correctly)
The crimson character – Scarlett letter (answered correctly)
Delinquency and discipline- crime and punishment (answered wrong)
The fielder in the field – catcher in the rye (answered correctly)
A goodbye to guns – a fairwell to arms (answered correctly but needed a google search to confirm)
Huge hopes – great expectations (know the title but didn’t answer in time)
Milky molars – white teeth (answered correctly)
Thomas Duggan 