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Why is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy referred to as H2G2?

83 votes

Did Arthur Conan Doyle code Holmes and Watson as a gay couple?

78 votes

What is Tom Bombadil's importance in The Lord of the Rings?

55 votes
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How could sixty cents of $1.87 be in pennies?

49 votes
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Where did the idea of a "true name" come from?

48 votes
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Why has Bill Watterson ('Calvin and Hobbes') been retired for so long?

47 votes

Why was 1984 set in 1984?

43 votes
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Does Snape talk in code?

39 votes
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Was there a reason Victor Hugo chose 24601 as the number for Jean Valjean?

39 votes
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Why is a raven like a writing desk?

38 votes

Why was The Call of the Wild banned?

35 votes
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Can the Count of Monte Cristo's calculation of poison dosage be explained?

35 votes
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Why is the order of The Chronicles of Narnia changed from original publication?

32 votes
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What is the origin of this contradictory poem?

32 votes
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Limerick involves a pregnant Scottish woman and anagrams

31 votes
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How can you come out dry from the Sea of Knowledge?

29 votes
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Is Professor Moriarty really Sherlock Holmes' arch-enemy in the way some people think?

29 votes

Why is the UK called Airstrip One?

29 votes

What does "N. takes M." mean in "Emma"?

28 votes
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Can a ceiling have a front door that had once been a front door?

28 votes
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Why do the Pern novels use regular words as profanity?

28 votes
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Children’s poem about a boy stuck between the tracks on the underground

28 votes

Why does this copy of the Iliad mention "the will of God"?

27 votes
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Did Lenore merely leave or is she dead?

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Were all of Shakespeare's plays fully in iambic pentameter?

27 votes

Why are place names obscured in Charlotte Brontë's The Professor?

26 votes

Should I read The Silmarillion before or after reading The Lord of the Rings?

25 votes

In 1984, why did O'Brien wait so long?

24 votes
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Has a parody of a work of literature ever become more successful than the original work?

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227 days in Life of Pi, coincidence or symbolical?

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