Friday lit quiz - who invented the following words?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

Position, Duration, Attention, Fraction, Diffusion.

Bonus question - Which writer invented the name 'Wendy'?

[blondeatlast]

1. Shakespeare was notorious for inventing words, so that's my guess.

As to "Wendy," I have no clue.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

2. Not a bad guess, but it wasn't Shakespeare.

[Magrittes Pipe]

3. Well, "Wendy" was invented by J.M. Barrie.

[eyesroll]

4. I know the bonus -- JM Barrie.

Not too sure about the question proper -- I do know that Lewis Carroll had many coinages, though.

[Magrittes Pipe]

5. I got it first, ass-eater.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

6. Correct. Lewis Carroll, of course, was Jack the Ripper.

[nickinSTL]

9. What?

Never heard that before...

[Screaming Lord Byron]

13. Check out the Ripper suspects.

http://www.casebook.org/suspects/

[nickinSTL]

51. huh

And I thought I'd read a LOT on the Ripper...

[Screaming Lord Byron]

52. That's a great site. I suspect Tumblety.

How about you? Any suspect?

[nickinSTL]

53. Hmm

Well, I don't know.

I'd like to say that Patricia Cornwell's book convinced me, but I had the feeling she was rushed to press, because there wasn't a lot of real substance, and the ending was WAY weak.

She did have some good points, though and a fair amount of circumstantial evidence against Sickert.

[eyesroll]

7. By what, three seconds? So you'd win on Jeopardy.

[Donkeyboy75]

8. Descartes?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

11. Nope.

[Cheswick2.0]

10. I am going to take a completely uneducated guess

and say Einstein.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

12. Nope.

That's a fairly educated guess, mind.

[terrya]

14. Archimedes?

That's not even close, I know.

Just a guess.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

17. Nope. Shall I give clues? Or is this the Unsolvable DU Challenge?

[terrya]

20. You'd better give some clues, SLB.

I was next going to guess Sir Issac Newton, but that's wrong, also.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

23. OK.

[Richardo]

27. Wrong? I'd say Newton was a perfectly cromulent choice...

:)

[southpaw]

15. Charles Lamb

[Screaming Lord Byron]

18. No. Not Lamb.

[Richardo]

16. Isaac Newton?

They sound Newton-ish.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

19. I guess they do, but no.

[Richardo]

21. What about his cousin Bob Newton?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

24. No, not Thomas Jerome Newton, neither.

[Beware the Beast Man]

54. Oh, I know...it's Juice Newton!

:freak:

[MrBenchley]

22. Francis Bacon?

wild-ass guess...

[Screaming Lord Byron]

25. Nope.

[blondeatlast]

26. Hey, I already guessed Will....

Never mind.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

31. LOL! I thought it was the Earl of Oxford.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

28. Clue one - an Englishman.

[Richardo]

29. Samuel Johnson

The Dictionary guy...

[Screaming Lord Byron]

32. No. That's a damn good guess, though.

[Donkeyboy75]

30. Boyle?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

Nope.

I'm not even sure which Boyle you mean. Lara Flynn?

[Donkeyboy75]

38. Robert.

An Anglo-Irish scientist...

[July]

33. Chaucer? nt

[Screaming Lord Byron]

35. We have a winner. Anyone else got a question.

Well done, July.

[July]

49. Thank you so much.

And my mother thought I wasted my time studying literature for years! I can now show her that it was a "useful" experience!

[Magrittes Pipe]

43. I thought about guessing Chaucer...

...but it's so much more fun to say "The Venerable Bede."

[Screaming Lord Byron]

46. Yes. I also often think of giving the right answer after it's been said.

[Magrittes Pipe]

48. You are the Venerable Arse.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

50. That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me.

:hug:

[Magrittes Pipe]

34. From the approximate dates at which those words entered the lexicon...

and because I've always wanted to mention him in a DU post, I would guess:

THE VENERABLE BEDE! :D

[Screaming Lord Byron]

36. That was fairly close actually.

What do you have to do to get people to call you The Venerable Hedge?

[Magrittes Pipe]

39. Well, they do use that adjective for something of mine.

At least some of them do.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

41. Venerable meaning 'respected for being ancient?'

[Magrittes Pipe]

44. Yes. Read between the lines.

[terrya]

37. Christopher Marlowe

?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

40. No. July got it. It was Geoffrey Chaucer.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

42. Anyone got a new question?

[rock]

45. Ben Fanklin?

Wild-ass guess from nowhere (sorta like bushsucks* would do).

[Screaming Lord Byron]

47. Nope. Not Franklin.