My Wordle Christmas Quiz

My Wordle book quiz has been going down well, so thought I'd write some notes for those that want more details!

Wordle (http://www.wordle.net/) is a tool to generate beautiful word frequency clouds, like this:
I've used Wordle in the apst for getting a quick overview of reports, or websites, or blogs - even giving it the top 20 google search results of yourself is quite interesting. However using it for a quiz was inspired by Tom Barrett and his "interesting ways" series, which suggests using texts as a quiz format.

The wordle's I generated all used texts from Project Gutenberg - copyright expired free electronic books. The top 100 are at:
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top

I chose pages where major charcters were mentioned, and then using the right click feature in Wordle, removed the most common name from each - which was usually a complete giveaway. Sometimes I had to try another page, or a coupld of pages together to give enough of what I thought the clues were - but of course these things are always easy to spot when you know the answers!

Anyway, the final 5 plus a few extras are available for your perusal. Enjoy!