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Quiz about Female Writers Anagrammed
Quiz about Female Writers Anagrammed

Female Writers Anagrammed Trivia Quiz


18 famous writers have had their names anagrammed. Can you pick the females?

A collection quiz by wellenbrecher. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Time
3 mins
Type
Quiz #
418,649
Updated
Dec 26 24
# Qns
12
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
8 / 12
Plays
176
Last 3 plays: stephedm (12/12), RadReader (12/12), Guest 189 (11/12).
Select the 12 anagrams of the names of well-known female writers and avoid the males.
There are 12 correct entries. Get 3 incorrect and the game ends.
Skinny Domicile Battier Export Minor Torsion Gatecrash Haiti Retie Google Sidecar Owl Clashed Snicker Tolerant Botcher Had Dollar Airfoil Vowing Hasty Almond Hydro Asthma Lavishly Apt Labial Needles Adorable Pun Alleys Rhyme Timid Hazes May Analogue

Left click to select the correct answers.
Right click if using a keyboard to cross out things you know are incorrect to help you narrow things down.

Most Recent Scores
Mar 29 2025 : stephedm: 12/12
Mar 26 2025 : RadReader: 12/12
Mar 15 2025 : Guest 189: 11/12
Mar 12 2025 : Matthew_07: 4/12
Mar 02 2025 : trollbat: 3/12
Mar 02 2025 : Guest 108: 11/12
Mar 01 2025 : Bellzxxo: 5/12
Feb 26 2025 : piet: 12/12
Feb 24 2025 : Guest 45: 6/12

Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
Answer:

These twelve female writers are the correct answers:

Agatha Christie (Gatecrash Haiti) - Queen of mystery, she wrote iconic detective stories such as "Murder on the Orient Express"
George Eliot (Retie Google) - Pen name of Mary Ann Evans, author of "Middlemarch"
Beatrix Potter (Battier Export) - Famous for her charming animal stories, including "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"
Mary Shelley (Alleys Rhyme) - Pioneer of science fiction with her groundbreaking novel "Frankenstein"
Virginia Woolf (Airfoil Vowing) - Modernist known for "Mrs. Dalloway" and "To the Lighthouse"
Toni Morrison (Minor Torsion) - Nobel laureate and author of "Beloved"
Isabel Allende (Labial Needles) - Chilean writer known for her magical realism, authored "The House of the Spirits"
Emily Dickinson (Skinny Domicile) - Reclusive poet whose "Because I could not stop for Death" explores mortality with haunting beauty
Maya Angelou (May Analogue) - Poet and activist, best known for "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
Zadie Smith (Timid Hazes) - Contemporary author of "White Teeth"
Charlotte Brontë (Tolerant Botcher) - Wrote the classic romance "Jane Eyre"
Sylvia Plath (Lavishly Apt) - Renowned poet and novelist, best known for "The Bell Jar"

The six male writers were Thomas Hardy (Hydro Asthma), Roald Dahl (Had Dollar), Oscar Wilde (Sidecar Owl), Dylan Thomas (Hasty Almond), Pablo Neruda (Adorable Pun), Charles Dickens (Clashed Snicker).
Source: Author wellenbrecher

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