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A number of well-known writers are usually known by two initials followed by a surname. But what do those initials stand for? Here is a quiz to test what you know.
The authors listed here are all British or Irish, although one was only British by naturalization and two became Americans in later life.
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D H Lawrence
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Daniel Henry
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David Herbert
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Derek Hubert
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G K Chesterton
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Gilbert Keith
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Godfrey Kenneth
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George Kevin
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P G Wodehouse
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Paul Gareth
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Pelham Grenville
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Percy Gainsborough
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W H Auden
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William Henry
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Wilbur Horatio
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Wystan Hugh
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W B Yeats
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Walter Barrington
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Wilfred Baynes
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William Butler
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W S Gilbert
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William Schwenck
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Wallace Steven
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Warren Sebastian
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T S Eliot
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Trevor Seward
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Thomas Stearns
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Theodore Sydney
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E M Forster
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Eugene Maurice
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Edward Morgan
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Edmund Maxwell
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A E Housman
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Alexander Ernest
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Albert Edgar
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Alfred Edward
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C S Lewis
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No
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Charles Sheldon
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I only had a few right but it was fun.
Very interesting and I got 7 right. Some of them I remember from reading at school.
I got 6 out of 10. I expected to do better, as this is the sort of thing I just assumed I knew. Well, I’ve been dis-assumed 🙂 The last question really was a little bit tricky though!
I think you will have to award yourself 6 out of 9, given the problem with number 10! Did you know the answer anyway?
Yes and I even got it right, despite not being able to see the answers 🙂
You would think that there are coding books in Estonia so that the bugs on the site would be fixed, but I have never been to Estonia.
I have got 8 out 10 , Good quize
The best thing always is to send the matter to the draft folder and make changes there if you find any errors.
That’s good advice – I might just try that next time!
I just wrote one more quiz and this time no hitch You will soon get the hang.
I have actually written dozens of quizzes here, but it was some time ago. I had problems then, and I seem to remember that pausing in Draft was always a good move!
Missed three. The last one is not working correctly. But a great quiz.
Yes – sorry about the last one. Everything was fine – I checked it all carefully, pressed the button, and Virily’s wonderful software proceeded to muck it all up! I have tried to report the problem, but the messaging system doesn’t work properly either!
However, this is progress – for the last four days I haven’t been able to load anything at all (apart from a set of photos) – all my efforts to load an image have failed, and you can’t submit anything without an image.
Of course, this has been going on for years. Some time ago I got thoroughly fed up with the dodgy software and gave Virily a miss for about a year. I had hoped that things would improve – a forlorn hope as it turned out!
John, if you go to https://virily.com/users/virily-editor/ and send them a PM from there, you will, in my experience, get a quick result.
I have tried that twice – on both occasions all I got was an error message.
Sorry about the issues and error messages. I know all about the glitches. I keep hoping things will improve and things can run more smoothly. One thing is for sure, they have had plenty of time to correct these issues.