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Answer a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more. This badge can be awarded multiple times.
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Why is it called Watership Down?
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Trying to remember a book about a relationship between a teenage girl and an older man
Awarded Jul 30 at 16:30
Was there a poem by Aleister Crowley that involved a mechanical girl?
Awarded Jul 23 at 0:03
Does an answer to the Sugar Bowl mystery exist?
Awarded Jul 19 at 5:25
Are the Asterix comics about a drug culture?
Awarded Jul 14 at 19:48
In Brave New World, what caste is Lenina Crowne?
Awarded Jul 10 at 13:17
Why are Orcs associated with the colors red, yellow, and black in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings?
Awarded Jun 25 at 20:18
Does the Abrahamic God exist in the Cthulhu Mythos?
Awarded May 12 at 15:41
Does the magic potion provide invincibility or only superhuman strength?
Awarded Apr 28 at 11:41
Would a reader of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea miss anything essential without knowing about Jane Eyre?
Awarded Apr 14 at 21:05
Was Tess raped?
Awarded Apr 8 at 14:45
Which Upanishad is TS Eliot referencing with “Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.” and why?
Awarded Apr 7 at 13:10
What is the 'full' version of The Epic of Gilgamesh?
Awarded Mar 26 at 0:30
What is the significance of the words of the prophets being written on the subway wall?
Awarded Mar 23 at 18:15
Why don't Mr. Bennet's daughters get to inherit the Longbourn estate?
Awarded Mar 22 at 21:40
What does “Maybe it's a Big Horse I'm Morporkian” mean?
Awarded Mar 13 at 22:55
Was Holden Caulfield molested as a child?
Awarded Mar 12 at 3:05
What is “Miss Maudie's goat” in “To Kill a Mockingbird”?
Awarded Mar 1 at 19:50
Is “for eating” a joke?
Awarded Feb 15 at 14:55
Did Captain Pirx make a joke in base 13?
Awarded Jan 29 at 12:25
Interpretation of a Churchill quote
Awarded Jan 25 at 18:35
Why was 1984 set in 1984?
Awarded Jan 14 at 18:30
Where did the idea that Frankenstein is the name of the monster come from?
Awarded Dec 11 '19 at 11:30
What's the significance of Liza-Lu?
Awarded Oct 6 '19 at 23:10
Where did the spells come from in The Magic Grandfather?
Awarded Sep 5 '19 at 19:45
How and why did the story of King Cnut change?
Awarded Aug 26 '19 at 21:35
Complicated name features in Wuthering Heights
Awarded Jul 20 '19 at 23:20
Was Théoden's revival inspired by Mark Twain?
Awarded Jul 4 '19 at 18:10
What’s up with Slothrop the paedophile?
Awarded May 31 '19 at 8:00
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, and Wayfarers All
Awarded May 24 '19 at 10:40
Is Professor Moriarty really Sherlock Holmes' arch-enemy in the way some people think?
Awarded May 16 '19 at 12:30
What rough beast slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Awarded May 8 '19 at 16:25
What is the “heap of broken images” in The Waste Land?
Awarded May 4 '19 at 14:15
What circumstances is Bachchan referring to in this poem?
Awarded Apr 17 '19 at 15:00
Why do we see so little mention of Leopold Bloom's social isolation in his internal monologue?
Awarded Apr 7 '19 at 11:35
Origin of symbolic interpretation of Prospero's breaking of his staff?
Awarded Mar 24 '19 at 13:30
What's the joke with “Best of Queen” in Good Omens?
Awarded Feb 20 '19 at 23:10
What's the joke with “Best of Queen” in Good Omens?
Awarded Feb 14 '19 at 2:45
What is the name of the book in which an exhausted man wrestles with a wounded wolf?
Awarded Jan 30 '19 at 3:10
Why does Piggy's accent not matter?
Awarded Jan 23 '19 at 7:55
In Brave New World, why are some people not sterile?
Awarded Jan 23 '19 at 2:20
Who are all the Priestesses and Gods?
Awarded Jan 13 '19 at 14:35
Was Tom Robinson's trial the only inconsistency between To Kill A Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman?
Awarded Jan 11 '19 at 15:50
Did Piggy participate in the killing of Simon?
Awarded Jan 9 '19 at 17:35
Which South or Central American female author wrote a short story about frozen cockroaches?
Awarded Jan 5 '19 at 0:05
What is the chronological order of the Tales of Goldstone Wood books?
Awarded Nov 24 '18 at 16:40
In what sense did Yossarian love the chaplain?
Awarded Nov 13 '18 at 1:55
Why does A Wind in the Door contradict A Wrinkle in Time on conformity?
Awarded Oct 23 '18 at 11:10
Meaning of “I'm almost three-score” in “The Idiot Boy” by Wordsworth
Awarded Oct 19 '18 at 0:20
Why is the poem “Yggdrasil” placed where it is in House of Leaves, and which narrator included it?
Awarded Oct 18 '18 at 1:00
Accuracy of a translation: how to forge an opinion?
Awarded Oct 8 '18 at 17:30
What's the significance of the witches' name change in Sandman?
Awarded Oct 4 '18 at 11:55
Why is the king 'baffled' in “Hallelujah”?
Awarded Oct 1 '18 at 3:30
Why does the Iliad start “in the middle”?
Awarded Aug 13 '18 at 3:15
Why does the Iliad start “in the middle”?
Awarded Aug 13 '18 at 2:25
Why is a cuckolded husband “fit for heaven” in Byron's Don Juan?
Awarded Aug 10 '18 at 13:10
Who said this quote? Napoleon Bonaparte or Theodore Roosevelt?
Awarded Aug 5 '18 at 13:10
Is the house plan in Anne Frank's diary an artistic rendition, or is it sketched by Anne?
Awarded Aug 4 '18 at 11:50
What rough beast slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Awarded Jul 29 '18 at 21:25
Did Arthur Conan Doyle code Holmes and Watson as a gay couple?
Awarded Jul 6 '18 at 8:00
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