Remember the 70's: A Scavenger Hunt: On the Web!

Remember when you were a child and you went on your first scavenger hunt? Remember how you huddled together with your group, plotting and scheming how you would find the necessary treasures before any of the others? How about a web-based scavenger hunt!

Let's head for the 1970's! Listed below are 6 categories that have something to do with writing. Your job is to hit the web, and come up with a title or entry that fits into each category. In addition to your answer, also include the web site where you found it.

Ready? Take out your web maps and here we go!!

1. A fiction bestseller and author

2. A nonfiction bestseller and author

3. A poet and the title of 2 of his/her poems

4. A popular book for business readers and its author

5. A magazine that is no longer published

6. An academy award winning movie that came from a book

Submit your answers in an email, and make sure to include your name, address, and country in your entry. Send your answers to: puzzles@writer-on-line.com

The winner will receive $25 of writing software and his or her name published in our next issue of Writer Online.

DEADLINE: midnight , Thursday, April 14, 2005

Answers to the First Lines Poetry Puzzle In Our 03/22/05 Issue

Unfortunately, we have no winners for last issue's puzzle!!

Here are the given lines and correct answers (following) from the First Lines Poetry Puzzle:

1. Shall I compare thee to a Summer's Day? Shakespeare Sonnet XVIII

2. I think that I shall never see a poem
   A poem lovely as a tree
   Joyce Kilmer -- Trees

3. The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
   The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
   The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
   And the highwayman come riding – riding – riding
   Alfred Noyes – The Highwayman

4. Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo,
   Carl Sandburg -- Grass

5. Whose woods these are I think I know.
   Robert Frost – Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

6. When you are old and gray and full of sleep
   William Butler Yeats – When You are Old

7. The only news I know
   Is bulletins all day
   From immortality
   Emily Dickinson – The Only News I Know

8. When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd,
   Walt Whitman – When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bllom'd

9. Grow old along with me!
   The best is yet to be,
   Robert Browning – Rabbi Ben Ezra

10. Half a league, half a league,
    Half a league onward,
    Alfred Lord Tennyson – The Charge of the Light Brigade