We have a winner!
We are pleased to announce that, two years after rittlit.com was launched, a person previously unknown to us has actually won our quiz. That's right: he answered every question correctly -- and with perfect diction. Please join us in congratulating Peter Aaron, 34, who describes himself this way: "I’m pretty much your typical triple-Ivy JD-MBA former-investment-banker television writer (most recently, on UPN’s phenomenal(ly unwatched) animated sitcom Game Over). I currently reside in my hometown of Manhattan, after stints in New Hampshire, Los Angeles, Arles, France and Fukuoka, Japan. On very rare occasions, I have been known to practice law, but only for good friends or good causes, and I only accept payment in the form of sandwiches. Oh, and I’m single. Go figure." We can't figure it out, either, but we're hopeful that the accolades and attention he'll receive from this remarkable win will bring him the woman of his dreams.
Curious about the answers that only Peter knew? Read on:
The quiz will now be retired. Congratulations, Peter!
“Clueless” was based on Jane Austen’s “Emma.”
Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but “Gone With The Wind” won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937.
Ian Fleming, author of “C.C.B.B.,” was also the creator of James Bond.
Dr. Seuss wrote “The Cat in the Hat” as a reading primer.
“This Side of Paradise” was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first and most successful novel, at least during his lifetime.
Reginald Jeeves was the perfect ‘gentleman's gentleman.’
A.J. Liebling and Jean Stafford Liebling, both New Yorker Writers, are buried at Green River Cemetery along with Jackson Pollack.
Caldecott winner Robert McCloskey (“Make Way for Ducklings”) and E.B. White (“Charlotte’s Web”) are probably the authors you’re looking for, although there have been numerous lesser-known children’s authors from the Blue Hill Peninsula area.
While “The Sopranos” draws on Robert Graves historical novel “I, Claudius,” it is more firmly grounded in the relationship between series creator David Chase and his own mother, Livia.