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Twit Lit Trivia Quiz

On Twitter, tweets are limited to 140 characters. What would have happened to great literature if Twitter had always been around? Wonder no more as you try to figure out what's being tweeted below. ("Great" is at the discretion of the quiz writer.)

A multiple-choice quiz by Tchochkekop. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
Tchochkekop

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
319,065

Updated
Jul 23 22

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Question 1 of 10

1. Which of the following could have been tweeted thus?
BFN Georgie boy. We 13 leaving 4 life, free, 2b happy. B/c U been bad, we gotta go.
Hint

Constitution of the United States

Declaration of Independence

A Clockwork Orange

Free Willy

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Question 2 of 10

2. This tweet could be read instead of which of the following?
Esme loves Phoeb, gets hung up. Humperdinger rests with her 4 aye.
Hint

Through The Looking Glass

Foul Play

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

There Goes My Everything

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Question 3 of 10

3. Had the author tweeted instead of written, what might have become the following?
-87 yrs, 4 dads made new country here. War makes us better. U 4get this soon.
Hint

All Quiet on the Western Front

War and Peace

The Gettysburg Address

Gone with the Wind

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which of the following would be shorter if replaced with this tweet?
Bells 4 Pierre Bezukhov & Natasha Rostov! Fast, Napoleon coming. Hint

The Gulag Archipelago

War and Peace

Waterloo Romance

Crime and Punishment

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Question 5 of 10

5. This tweet would be a shorter form of what?
Us US peeps, 2 to do right n all, make dese rules. Da deets r4 da states.
Hint

Constitution of the United States

The Bible

Common Sense

Gone With the Wind

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which longer work would not have been as sweet,
Had it been so reduced to this short tweet?
Our peeps all hate, but UR GR8 my *Xluvr. Letz meet F2F in crypt, but don't drink!
Hint

The Pit and the Pendulum

Alice in Wonderland

Dracula

Romeo and Juliet

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Question 7 of 10

7. The full version of what is more interesting than this twitter version?
Little peeps, big peeps, WTH? Blefuscu! Get me home, Swift.
Hint

Around the World in 80 Days

Gulliver's Travels

Old McDonald had a Farm

Aesop's Fables

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Question 8 of 10

8. This tweet might be which of the following?
No RT. Blkbrd tweets 0more.
Hint

Twitter Manual 2009

Blackhawk Down

The Raven

The Crow: The Third Book of Pellinor

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Question 9 of 10

9. This odd tweet might represent a foreshortened version of which choice?
Got lots n lots of others, but JSYK, IC "JSYK" & "IC" aren't here. K?
Hint

The Dictionary

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Twitter Manual 2009

Gone with the Wind

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Question 10 of 10

10. Which choice could be condensed to this ultra-short tweet?
OMG!
Hint

Guide to Ohmmyc Meditation

Old MgDonald Had a Farm

The Bible

The White Pages

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which of the following could have been tweeted thus? BFN Georgie boy. We 13 leaving 4 life, free, 2b happy. B/c U been bad, we gotta go.

Answer: Declaration of Independence

"BFN" is "bye for now." The US Declaration of Independence basically listed the grievances the colonies had with England and King George, and stated why they felt it necessary to "dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them". Original is much more elegant, no? BTW, there was a character in "A Clockwork Orange" referred to as "Georgie Boy", but he was the one who left, and there weren't 13.

2. This tweet could be read instead of which of the following? Esme loves Phoeb, gets hung up. Humperdinger rests with her 4 aye.

Answer: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Esmerelda was hanged because of her love for Phoebus. The hump- (or hunch-) backed bell ringer of Notre Dame, who loved Esmerelda, goes to her grave and lies down next to her corpse, where he starves to death. Guess Disney left out that part. Why the other choices? Esme was a snake in "Foul Play" (one of the funniest movies ever made), Engelbert Humperdinck wrote "There Goes My Everything", and Humpty Dumpty appeared in "Through the Looking Glass."

3. Had the author tweeted instead of written, what might have become the following? -87 yrs, 4 dads made new country here. War makes us better. U 4get this soon.

Answer: The Gettysburg Address

"Four score and seven years ago" would be -87, and "4 dads" is, of course, "our forefathers", so the rest should be easy.

4. Which of the following would be shorter if replaced with this tweet? Bells 4 Pierre Bezukhov & Natasha Rostov! Fast, Napoleon coming.

Answer: War and Peace

Short tweet for a looooong book. In epilogue 1, Pierre and Natasha get married. So I'm told - I never made it that far.

5. This tweet would be a shorter form of what? Us US peeps, 2 to do right n all, make dese rules. Da deets r4 da states.

Answer: Constitution of the United States

The US Constitution begins, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." It was printed, not tweeted. "Da deets" is Tweetish for "The details."

6. Which longer work would not have been as sweet, Had it been so reduced to this short tweet? Our peeps all hate, but UR GR8 my *Xluvr. Letz meet F2F in crypt, but don't drink!

Answer: Romeo and Juliet

In case you were wondering, an asterisk is sometimes referred to as a splat or a star. Thus, a "*Xluvr" is a "star-crossed lover" in tweetish. Well, it is now. By the way, R&J began with a sonnet ("Two households, both alike in dignity..."). This clue began with the end of sonnet. Howzabout that?

7. The full version of what is more interesting than this twitter version? Little peeps, big peeps, WTH? Blefuscu! Get me home, Swift.

Answer: Gulliver's Travels

Huh? "Gulliver's Travels" was written by Jonathan Swift. Gulliver encountered little people in Lilliput, and big people in Brobdingnag. "WTH" is an accepted, family-friendly version of a similar phrase (no, I didn't make it up!). Oh, yes, "Blefuscu"? That's got nothing to do with tweeting, and it's not euphemistic obscenity.

It's the country bordering Liliput to which Gulliver escaped. Yes, really!

8. This tweet might be which of the following? No RT. Blkbrd tweets 0more.

Answer: The Raven

"RT" is "retweet". "Quoth the raven, 'nevermore'," so no re-tweeting, I guess. Need I say more? No? OK. Nevermore.

9. This odd tweet might represent a foreshortened version of which choice? Got lots n lots of others, but JSYK, IC "JSYK" & "IC" aren't here. K?

Answer: The Dictionary

"Just so you know, I see that 'JSYK' and 'IC' aren't here. OK?" Actually, some dictionaries are starting to include some of these terms. Webster is not LOL. (He may be TiG.)

10. Which choice could be condensed to this ultra-short tweet? OMG!

Answer: The Bible

If you know that "OMG" stands for "Oh My G-d", this is easy. I made up "Ohmmyc Meditation", so don't write and tell me that when you meditate you think of your g-d, so that answer should be correct, too. OMG, I'll so reject that!

Source: Author Tchochkekop

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