The Strand bookstore application quiz

[charlatti]

www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/14/nyregion/strand-quiz.html

The accompanying article (linked in the quiz and worth reading) says they won't reveal whether there's a minimum number of correct answers to be hired (and they don't take the quiz all that seriously either, especially now that people can look up the answers on their phones). I got 38/50 without googling, which I suspect is not quite good enough.

[sassypants]

Wow I sucked at that. 23 out of 50.

[snshne322]

Yea, I just looked at the list and there's no way I would pass. I'm terrible with authors.

[AJL]

36/50 Not bad considering that I haven't read more than 10 of these books and I pretty much guessed. lol!

[GilliC]

Awful. 21/50.

[susiebw]

26, and a bunch of those were lucky guesses. Wow. That was hard.

[Nonny]

I can only get 9 without guessing (and I didn't try to guess at the others). For some reason I feel like I'd do better if they had listed the full author name and not just the last name.

[sweetrhythms]

25/50 and I didn't get a single guess right!

[msmerymac]

35. Some I knew right away and some I was like NOPE.

[litskispeciality]

Wow I'm horrible, I could only guess 5, although they were all right. I'm more embarassed that I don't know a good 20-30 books on that list.

[aurora]

I only got 21.