The Neverending Book Quiz

[robinturner]

I generally find Facebook a waste of time, and that applies doubly to the apps that are created for it, but I do rather like iRead. Today I tried the Neverending Book Quiz again, and to my surprise and delight, only three quarters of the questions were about Harry Potter (I know the quiz has tags you can use to limit the questions, but unfortunately there isn't an "Anything but Harry Potter" tag). To celebrate, I added a few questions of my own, but unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to find them. So here's one I can remember:

Which fantasy classic has a chapter called "The Book of Chastity"?
1. Paradise Lost
2. The Faerie Queene
3. The Worm Ouroborus
4. Harry Potter and the Silver Ring Thing

Comments

[eve-prime.livejournal.com]

Facebook usually only enters my consciousness a few times a month. I haven't yet quite grasped the appeal of it, since I don't think the people I know are in general receptive to being turned into zombies.

You're all the way down on page 7!

[solri.livejournal.com]

Facebook is a bit like Second Life: the basic idea is good, but at the moment it's a mess, and a largely dull mess at that. What it should be is a kind of portal that both organises your online activities and provides a way for other people to interact with them: something like a combination of LiveJournal, Flickr, RSS, IM, YouTube, LibraryThing, Googleapps, Kindo and ... whatever. As it is, it's a way to spam your social circle and play games that normally provide the intellectual excitement of Ludo. I use it because it's a nice way to keep in touch with former students, because it allows people to contact me without knowing my e-mail address (which is occasionally) and because once in a while I need to do something utterly mindless.

[eve-prime.livejournal.com]

I agree, it would be great to have a proper portal app.

Last week, on the day I added you to my Facebook list, I realized my gender balance there was seriously off and brainstormed a bit to think of other males I could add. I only came up with two, old friends from my MUD, but as it happened one of them was in town, and this contact led to getting to see him for the first time in 8 years! So I guess Facebook does have a value.

When I need to do something utterly mindless, I take a graphics file, blow it up to the maximum size in Paint, and clean up the picture. I can spend hours doing that.

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

Facebook, as far as I'm concerned, is mainly for playing Scrabble with a certain clever talpid. :-)

[jaipur.livejournal.com]

Never been to facebook, but is the right answer #2? :) I've read #1 and #3 and didn't remember a chapter like that...

[solri.livejournal.com]

It is indeed. Each chapter is named after a particular virtue.

[solri.livejournal.com]

And you would be right. It stuck in my head because when I was in my first year at university I wrote an essay called "Lust in the Book of Chastity".

[solri.livejournal.com]

The two kind of go together. As far as I can remember, the whole chapter is about our hero's determination to resist various sensual delights - it2s poetic porn.

Incidentally, I don't recommend The Faerie Queene unless you have a lot of time on your hands and are into sixteenth-century literature. Maybe someone could make a decent film out of it.