This week it’s all about suicide. See if you can identify the 7 authors and 8 fictional characters who took their own lives. And don’t forget the extra easy bonus question.
Please play along with us. For everyone who plays an extra $ goes to the winner and the everyone is entered for a special prize. Just leave a comment with your guesses and don’t google the answers.
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Authors
1. This Pulitzer and Nobel winner moved to Idaho in 1959 and shot himself at the age of 61. Ernest Hemingway
2. This 30 year old put her head in the oven and died of carbon monoxide poisoning while her two children were home. One of these children would commit suicide himself in 2009. Sylvia Plath
3. In 1941 this famous author filled her pockets with stones and drowned herself in a nearby river. Virginia Woolf
4. This author of infinite talent hung himself in 2008 at the age of 46. David Foster Wallace
5. This New Orleans author wrote one book and comitted suicide after several rejections. His mother fought to get it published after his death and when it was he won the Pulitzer, posthumously. John Kennedy Toole
6. In 1997 this author took his own life after allegations of abuse surfaced from two of his children. Michael Dorris
7. This author left this note to his wife before committing suicide in 2005… Hunter S Thompson
No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun – for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax – This won’t hurt.
Match these characters who committed suicide with the books they are from.
1. Cecilia Lisbon D. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
2. Willy Loman E. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
3. Edna Pontellier A. The Awakening by Kate Chopin C. 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
4. Billy Bibbit B. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
5. Inspector Javert F. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
6. Septimus Waren Smith H. Mrs. Dalloway by Virgina Woolf
7. George Wilson G. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
8. Hannah Baker C. 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
William Shakespeare has over 50 characters commit suicide. Name 1 for the last 6.25 points.
Stacy's Books 
I know at least two from a quick glance. Tomorrow morning I’ll be fresh to dig in!
Okay, these are just guesses:
1. Norman Mailer
2. Sylvia Plath
3.
4. David Foster Wallace
5. John Kennedy Toole
6.
7. Hunter Thompson
Matching:
1. D
2. E
3. A
4. B
5. F
6. H
7. G
8. C
Awesome week! 78 points 🙂 Mailer didn’t commit suicide. He died not that long ago.
You have until noon Saturday to submit your answers. Comments will be hidden until then.
Kind of a gross contest today! :–) Well I know #1 at least: Hemingway, and for Shakespeare, we have Ophelia from Hamlet. One you don’t list, in the grosser than usual department, Primo Levi, who survived the Holocaust only to kill himself over survivor’s guilt…
I almost included Levi but I wasn’t sure how many people were familiar with him. Obviously, I should have included him just for you 🙂 13 points!
Nice one –very creative
1 Hemingway?
2 Sylvia Plath
3 Virginia Woolf
4 ?
5 ?
6 ?
7 Hunter Thompson
1 – D
2 – E (Hat that Play!)
3 – C ?
4 – B
5 – F (My fav play)
6 – H
7 – G (part of my challenge this year, now glad I read it)
8 – A ?
Bonus Question: Romeo and Juliet
71.5 points! I love playsand musicals, but have somehow managed to have missed Les Miserables. Sad. Never seen Death of a Salemsan either although I did read the book yers ago.
Yay, I know some of these!!!!
2. Sylvia Plath
3. Virginia Woolf
4. David Foster Wallace
5. John Toole
1. D
2. E
5. F
Juliet
52 points for you!
1. hemingway
2.Plath
3. Woolf
————
1-D
8-C
2-E
3-A
45.5 points! Nice to see you back 🙂
1. Ernest Hemingway
2. Sylvia Plath
3. Virginia Wolf
4. ?
5. ?
6. ? Wife is an author
7. Hunter Thomson
1. D
2. E
3. A
4. B
5. F
6. H
7. E
8. C
Bonus – Romeo and Juliet
80 points! I gave you 2 points for # 6.
had no idea on the first section…though, I did look them up since i was so curious! I had no idea some of these authors killed themselves. So sad. So on to my guesses!!! Yup, knew two for sure….sigh! These were so hard.
1. H
2. E
3. A
4. B
5. F
6. D
7. G
8. C
6 right for 39 points! There were other authors I found who also committed suicide in strange ways, but these were the ones I thought people may have heard of.
1. Ernest Hemingway
2. Sylvia Plath
3. Virginia Woolf
4. David Foster Wallace
5. It’s the guy who wrote Confederacy of Dunces…can I get a few points for the book?? Pleeeeeeeeese??
6.
7.
Cecilia Lisbon=Mrs Dalloway
Willy Loman=Death of a Salesman
Edna=The Awakening
Billy Bibbit=Virgin Suicides
Inspector Javert=Les Miserables
Septimus=One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
George Wilson = The Great Gatsby
Hannah Baker = 13 Reasons Why
Ophelia
Since you asked so nicely, you got 3 points for Confederacy and a total of 68 points 🙂
I can answer two from the first.
2. Sylvia Plath.
3. Virginia Woolf
From 2nd, I know 6! Not bad, eh?!:
2. Willy Loman E. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
3. Edna Pontellier A. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
5. Inspector Javert F. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
6. Septimus Waren Smith H. Mrs. Dalloway by Virgina Woolf
7. George Wilson G. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
8. Hannah Baker C. 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
52 points is a great way to get on the leaderboard 🙂
I read the Shakespeare one late after posting my answers.
Here goes: Let us see how many I can answer
Romeo
Juliet
Mark Antony,
Cleopatra,
Charmian
Iras
Eros
Othello
Ophelia
Cassius
Brutus
Portia
Lady Macbeth
Well, I got tired…
I wish I could give you popints for all of them! That’s an impressive list. 52 + 6.5 = 58.5!
1. D
2. E
3. A
4. B
5. F
6. H
7. G
8. C
Romeo and Juliet
Very nice! 58.5 points 🙂