Quiz Time!

[HarperPR]

Here are a couple of quizzes I came across which were quite fun. Have a go!

Do you know your first lines? A classic literary one. Didn't do that well, I only got 53%:blushing: Obviously reading too much chick lit! But one of my favourites, not on this quiz is: 'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again'. Who knows which book that's from? (without a Google search.)

http://www.gotoquiz.com/classic_literature_do_you_know_your_first_lin

The other is What American accent do you have? May be more applicable to our American boarders, but they didn't have a British one! I got 'The Inland North: You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like 'Are you from Wisconsin?' or 'Are you from Chicago?'' (er, I don't, no, but never mind!)

http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have

[webbyla]

60% on literature and

The Northeast


Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.

[aspwatterson]

...people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.

Yep No Celeb! If you leave a voice mail in reply to Paul's herculean podcasts on the phone line advertised we could all hear you do the American drawl talk and not just the keyboard pedestrian walk!

c/a

[NoCelebrity]

I got 60% too. I knew about 3-4 for certain, the rest were guesses.

I think "merry" sounds slightly different than "mary" and "marry" and it wouldn't accept my answer AND my connection wouldn't re-establish.

Is andi following me? I see his response got posted in between my reading and trying to post this reply! My "normal" voice is bland, annoying and/or soothing depending on my mood, so I like doing accents (even bad ones like you see on old TV and in older movies. Sort of like Mel Brooks as a Jewish Indian chief in "Blazing Saddles," entirely inappropriate, but funny!).