Books That Invented Words We Still Use Today
The words are...
Quixotic : Don Quixote
Bovarism : Madame Bovary
Catch-22 : Catch-22
Jaundice, boredom : Bleak House
Muggle : Harry Potter series
Orwellian, Big Brother, doublethink, thought police : 1984
Kafkaesque : The Trial
Grok : Stranger in a Strange Land
Pickwickian, butterfingers : Pickwick Papes
Chortle, portmanteau : Through the Looking Glass
Cojones : Death in the Afternoon
Eyesore : The Taming of the Shrew
Gremlin : The Gremlins
Nerd : If I Ran the Zoo
Honey trap : Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Cyberspace, microsoft : Neuromancer
Pandemonium : Paradise Lost
Robot : R.U.R.
Scaredy-cat : "The Waltz"
Shotgun wedding : Elmer Gantry
Quark : Finnegans Wake
Hobbit, halfling : The Hobbit
Tween : The Lord of the Rings
Cake-hole : Christine
Factoid : Marilyn: A Biography
Scrooge : A Christmas Carol
Pollyanna : Pollyanna
McJob : Generation X
Banana Republic : Cabbages and Kings
Blatant : The Faerie Queen
Droog : A Clockwork Orange
Cloud Cuckoo Land : The Birds
avg. score: 8 of 32 (25%)
required scores: 1, 4, 6, 8, 11
