Results: Mark Twain Facts
Published on 12/10/2016
Mark Twain (writer) - Born: November 30, 1835, Florida, MO. and Died: April 21, 1910, Redding, CT.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was published in 1884. What Mark Twain story (or stories) do you like?
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County - 1865
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Roughing It - 1872
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - 1876
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The Prince and the Pauper - 1881
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Life on the Mississippi - 1883
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - 1884
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - 1889
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188 votes
Other (please specify)
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Not Applicable
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| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
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| 0.28% | 6 | |
| All of the Above | 0.05% | 1 |
| Pudd'nhead Wilson | 0.05% | 1 |
| All | 0.05% | 1 |
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What Mark Twain quotations do you like?
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
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"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
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360 votes
"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
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"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."
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356 votes
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
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286 votes
Other (please specify)
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17 votes
Not Applicable
35%
500 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
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| 0.34% | 7 | |
| All of the Above | 0.05% | 1 |
| Age is like mind over matter, if you don't mind it don't matter | 0.05% | 1 |
| Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated (when a newspaper erroneously reported that he had died). | 0.05% | 1 |
| "When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while, when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years." | 0.05% | 1 |
| rumurs of my death are greatly exaggerated | 0.05% | 1 |
| Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. | 0.05% | 1 |
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| Reports of mhy death have been exaggerated | 0.05% | 1 |
| One about the flag, one about the person in church saying we should love *all* people | 0.05% | 1 |
| The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. | 0.05% | 1 |
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What Mark Twain fun facts are you familiar with?
Schools in at least 16 states have been named after him, as well as Mark Twain International Schools in Romania and Argentina.
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Twain met activist Helen Keller, who could neither hear nor see, and her teacher Anne Sullivan. It is Twain who is credited with calling Sullivan a "miracle worker."
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There is a variety of African violet named after Mark Twain.
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Many musical generes have named themselves after Twain. Including The Mark Twain Chorus and Orchestra (show tunes); Mark Twain's Dog (folk); MC Mark Twain; Mark Twain, Joggy Crew (rap); and The Mark Twain Ringers (handbell ringers).
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Twain was born and died in years when Halley's Comet passed by Earth: Twain says, "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.
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The term "The Gilded Age" was coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their 1873 book The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.
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Other (please specify)
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877 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
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| 0.43% | 4 | |
| All of the Above | 0.11% | 1 |
| He was a cub reporter for a paper in Virginia City, Nevada during the silver mining era. He had a small cabin just outside of Angels Camp, CA (where he probably penned "The Jumping Frog..." | 0.11% | 1 |
| All | 0.11% | 1 |
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