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Great literature quiz — match the author to the book!

So you went to school for a few years and consider yourself pretty smart. Here are 10 books from your system administrator's bookshelf (mostly read). Who wrote them???

1. Who is the author of The Pickwick Papers





2. Who wrote Beowulf?





3. Who wrote Moby Dick?





4. Who wrote The Wealth of Nations? (Full title: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations)





5. Who wrote The Call of the Wild?





6. Who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany?





7. Who wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea?





8. Who wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls?





9. Who wrote Slaughterhouse-Five? (Full title: Slaughterhouse-Five: Or, the Children's Crusade, A Duty-Dance with Death)?





10. Who wrote The Catcher in the Rye?







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No coincidences???

Minnesota shaped cake
Piece of Cake -- or is it the Map? -- hard to tell from this angle!
I know there are many people who swear there are no coincidences in this world.1 I tend to agree. Yet how do you explain this piece of cake which was seemingly randomly cut and served on the occasion of my daughter’s birthday.

Map of Minnesota
Map of Minnesota
Please note the eerie resemblance to the map of the state of Minnesota. The color of the icing is even the same as that of the map! Coincidence???
FOOTNOTE:

  1. For example, my friend, Mike H. ↩
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