Literature quiz
Longer or shorter: prize winning book titles
Each title arrives a word at a time, with its author, prize and year underneath. Press Longer if more words follow, Stop when the title is complete.
- Format
- Longer or stop
- Items
- 10 titles
- Limit
- 2:00
- Level
- Hard
- Checked
- 2026.10.03
Today's first round is the same for everyone.
- Titles
- 10 of 99, drawn fresh each round
- Time limit
- 2:00
- A wrong press
- Costs one of 3 lives
- A title appears one word at a time. Press Longer if more words follow, Stop if the title is complete.
- The line under the title tells you which book it is.
- A title scores only when you stop on its very last word.
- Keyboard: L or the right arrow for Longer, S or the down arrow for Stop.
- Pause whenever you like (Esc). The board hides while the clock is stopped.
Longer if more words follow, Stop if the title is complete. The first word appears when you start.
About this quiz
The titles are every Booker Prize winner since 1969 and every Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner since 1980. The author under each title is what tells The Sea from The Sea, the Sea.
- Two Booker winners open with the same two words: John Banville's The Sea (2005) and Iris Murdoch's The Sea, the Sea (1978).
- A few one word titles are in the pool on purpose: for those, the very first press has to be Stop.
- The year is the year the prize was awarded.
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