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The Wednesday Literary Quiz

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    The Wednesday Literary Quiz

    As a tonic for our mainstream media's inexorable descent into the gutter (and I'm prmpted particularly by the thought of the unedifying spectacle of the shameless Jacqui Smith presenting a programme on pornography) I've decided that it is high time to issue the clarion call for us CUKers to stand four square and show the world that there are still those who derive their pleasure from matters cerebral rather than the pure unmitigated filth currently on offer over the airwaves.

    Furthermore, this exercise will enable me to determine who prefers the brown cheese to the pink cheese while playing Trivial Pursuit.

    So, in what I propose will become a regular Wednesday feature, I will pose 4 literary questions along with a stinker.

    For anyone requiring me to reveal more of my stinker, I am prepared to offer up to 3 clues upon receipt of a request solicited with the words "Show us some clag".

    In this inaugural edition, the topic is the fictional place names used in the works of Thomas Hardy and your task is to provide the real world place name corresponding to its fictional counterpart.

    Good luck everyone:
    • [Q1] Melchester
      [Q2] Aldbrickham
      [Q3] Casterbridge
      [Q4] Christminster
      [Gricer's Stinker] Castle Boterel

    #2
    Originally posted by gricerboy View Post
    In this inaugural edition, the topic is the fictional place names used in the works of Thomas Hardy and your task is to provide the real world place name corresponding to its fictional counterpart.

    Good luck everyone:
    • [Q1] Melchester
      [Q2] Aldbrickham
      [Q3] Casterbridge
      [Q4] Christminster
      [Gricer's Stinker] Castle Boterel
    Melchester? Did Thomas Hardy do the Roy Of The Rovers storylines then?

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      #3
      More to the point, if all those fictional place names were actually real places, why didn't Thomas Hardy just use the real place names?
      And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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        #4
        [Q1] Melchester - Salisbury
        [Q2] Aldbrickham - Reading
        [Q3] Casterbridge - Dorchester
        [Q4] Christminster - Oxford


        Now, where's my tea!

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          #5
          Oh and Boscatle.

          No sugar thanks old chap.

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            #6
            Originally posted by malcolminthemiddle View Post
            Oh and Boscatle.

            No sugar thanks old chap.
            Very good that Google isn't it?

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              #7
              Originally posted by gricerboy View Post
              For anyone requiring me to reveal more of my stinker
              I don't think that will be necessary

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                #8
                Originally posted by gricerboy View Post
                Very good that Google isn't it?
                You should clear your browsing history more often.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
                  More to the point, if all those fictional place names were actually real places, why didn't Thomas Hardy just use the real place names?
                  You are obviously not a Wessexman.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by gricerboy View Post
                    Very good that Google isn't it?
                    No it isn't. I just used google and it came back with heaps of entries for Melchester Rovers.

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