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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
161
Last 3 plays: WhiskeyZulu (4/12), cosechero (4/12), wwwocls (4/12).
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.
Clashed Snicker Retie Google Gatecrash Haiti Hasty Almond Had Dollar May Analogue Hydro Asthma Skinny Domicile Minor Torsion Tolerant Botcher Sidecar Owl Alleys Rhyme Airfoil Vowing Timid Hazes Lavishly Apt Adorable Pun Battier Export Labial Needles

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
Jan 18 2025 : WhiskeyZulu: 4/12
Jan 18 2025 : cosechero: 4/12
Jan 17 2025 : wwwocls: 4/12
Jan 15 2025 : workisboring: 8/12
Jan 13 2025 : miranda101: 12/12
Jan 13 2025 : Debarrio: 8/12
Jan 12 2025 : rottenshot: 7/12
Jan 10 2025 : chang50: 11/12
Jan 09 2025 : camhammer: 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 Brontė (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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