British Literature Decoder

Enter each short answer, then combine the first letters of each answer to make a quote from a famous British trilogy.
Except for the quote, each answer is a single word.
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Last updated: January 6, 2017
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Clue
Answer
N
Robin Hood's town
Nottingham
O
Poem: "I met a traveler from an antique land..."
Ozymandias
T
Name of authors Hardy & More
Thomas
A
Wrote "Pride and Prejudice"
Austen
L
Language of medieval literature
Latin
L
Gulliver's land of tiny people
Lilliput
T
This animal was "burning bright, in the forest of the night"
Tyger
H
Inhabitants of the Shire
Hobbits
O
Irish playwright Wilde
Oscar
S
Author of "Frankenstein"
Shelley
E
Charlotte and Anne Brontë's sister
Emily
W
The only novel written by the above, "_________ Heights"
Wuthering
H
Tragedy about a prince of Denmark
Hamlet
O
Orphan Twist
Oliver
W
Sherlock Holmes's sidekick
Watson
 
Clue
Answer
A
King who wielded Excalibur
Arthur
N
Huxley novel, "Brave ___ World"
New
D
Samuel Johnson published this type of reference book
Dictionary
E
Surname of George and T.S.
Eliot
R
Empire about which
Edward Gibbon wrote a history
Roman
A
Burns poem "____ Lang Syne"
Auld
R
Castaway ________ Crusoe
Robinson
E
Dickens novel: "Great ____________"
Expectations
L
Group of poets such as
Wordsworth & Coleridge
Lake
O
Tale of an African prince
enslaved and killed by whites
Oroonoko
S
He wrote "Rob Roy" and "Ivanhoe"
Scott
T
Author of "Vanity Fair"
Thackeray
 
Quote
Not all those who wander are lost
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Level 63
Jan 4, 2017
Robin Hood's forest was Sherwood Forest, wasn't it?
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Level 63
Jan 4, 2017
Wasn't Nottingham the town?
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Level 60
Jan 6, 2017
Whoops! How embarrassing - I've even been there. Fixed.
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Level 65
Jan 4, 2017
...reveal a famous British trilogy

Lord of the Rings, no? The Lord of the Rings. Wow, must be strict on type-ins.

must get better at reading the instructions!!

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Level 60
Jan 6, 2017
"make a *quote* from a famous British trilogy"... not looking for the trilogy name, but the quote itself :)
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Level 69
Mar 21, 2023
I absolutely love this quiz, thank you! I'm going to nominate it as soon as I can (now I've run out of nominations).
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Level 26
Mar 25, 2023
happy to say I only needed the first 6 questions to guess the quote :D