I had fun with the Color Scattergories Quiz last month and thought we could try a different version today. Next month I’m headed to France! We are going to visit friends in Lyon and then to spend some time in Paris. So, this is French Scattergories.
List up to 10 titles or movies that are set in France. The title only counts if you are the only one who lists it. If there are repeats no one gets points.
So, you may come up with 10 titles and get 0 points or give me one title and get 10 points. Tricky, huh?
Feel free to browse your own blogs or bestseller lists for ideas. You have until Thursday night to submit your answers.
10 points per title. New Leaderboard.
Stacy's Books 
I can only think of two …
1. Amelie with Audrey Tautou (A fabulous must-see movie).
2. Chocolat – who doesn’t like Johnny Depp?
10 points. Calilia chose Chocolat too. And you’re right about Johnny Depp 🙂
~ Forget Paris with Billy Crystal and Debra Winger
~ French Kiss with Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline
~ The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LeRoux
~ Beauty & The Beast… Disney
~ An American in Paris with Gene Kelly
~ Perfume by Patrick Susskind
~ Ratatouille… animated movie
~ The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette by Carolly Erickson
~ American Werewolf in Paris (sequel to American Werewolf
in London)
~ Murder on the Eiffel Tower by Claude Izner (great novel. I really enjoyed it!)
20 points. All of these wonderful titles, except Phantom and Ratatouille, were guessed by others. Just saw Ratatouille a few days ago and liked it.
I’m so excited that you’re going to Lyon! Make sure you ride in the TGV and take lots of pictures so I can see how it’s changed.
Forget Paris
Inglourious Basterds
Saving Private Ryan
Julie and Julia
Sunflowers by Shermany Bundrick
Hungry Woman in Paris by Josefina Lopez
40 points. Only Forget Paris and Saving Private Ryan were repeats.
The Crown Rose
The Virgin Blue
Cleopatra’s Heir
Charlotte Gray
Suite Francaise
The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette
Birdsong
Five Quarters of the Orange
Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes
Tout Sweet
80 points! Only Suite Francaise & Hidden Diary are repeats.
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
The Knowledge of Water by Sarah Smith
The Unlikley Spy by Daniel Silva
The Man In The Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
The Secret of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig
Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
Saving Private Ryan
Dangerous Liaisons
70 points! I have Chocolat on my shelf. Maybe it should be my plane book.
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Funny Face
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Dangerous Liaisons
Lunch in Paris by Elizabeth Berg
Claude and Camille by Stephanie Cowell
Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et La Bete
The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
Ever After
Pret a Porter
90 points!! Only Dangerous Liaisons is a repeat
French Kiss
The Three Musketeers (book & movie)
The Man in the Iron Mask (same)
Tourjours, Provence
Cara Black’s mystery series (all of them)
The Secret of the Pink Carnation (most of it)
Suite Francaise
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
Murder on the Eiffel Tower
Marie Antoinette
50 points.
1. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer – P. Suskind (historical fiction)
2. The DaVinci Code – D. Brown (thriller)3. Suite Francaise – I. Nemirovsky (historical fiction)
4. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – J. Bauby (memoir)
5. Gone To Soldiers – M. Piercy (historical fiction)
6. A Year In Provence – P. Mayle (memoir)
7. The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft and Deception – D. Hoobler (non-fiction)
8. The Count of Monte Cristo – A. Dumas (classic)
9. Life with Picasso – F. Gilot (memoir)
10. Forget Paris (movie)
70 points! I have the Diving Bell on my shelf and need to pick it up.
For the record, when I started my post, Kay’s wasn’t displayed. So I did not intentionally duplicate Suite Francaise. But the more it is mentioned the better – what a wonderful piece of writing that is.
Bumbles, I laughed at your comment. I did my list without looking at Stephanie’s above mine and as I was waiting for mine to post I thought, I hope half of mine aren’t duplicates and everyone thinks I copied! LOL
You are very right about Suite Francaise. A wonderful book.
Duplicate mentions must mean it’s good.
Oh Stacy you would really like it. The author’s literary hero was Tolstoy. This was her attempt at writing a glorious epic a la War & Peace, except she wrote it about WW2 as it was unfolding in front of her, waiting for things to play out as she plotted the fate of her characters. She did not manage to finish her work because she was murdered in a concentration camp. Her book went undiscovered in her daughter’s care for decades before it was discovered and published just in the last few years. The parts she did write were absolutely beautiful writing – with the same deep character development Tolstoy used – so I would say that she would have certainly reached her goal had she survived. There are notes from her journal published at the end which give you a sense of the directions she was thinking to take each character, so there is some closure – but the parts stand well enough alone regardless.
I need to take a small break from Tolstoy right now 🙂
A Goose in Toulouse
Hotel Patis
Chocolat
The Fly-Truffler
Chasing Cezanne
Anything Considered
Interview with a Vampire
European Vacation
An American Werewolf in Paris
Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame
A very belated 80 points. For some reason this got stuck in my Spam folder.
I’m green with envy that you’re going to France!
I’ll post lots of pics 🙂
You are going to France!! How lucky is that. I’m so glad for you. You are becoming quite the traveler this year. It seems like you just got back from San Francisco.
The only movies I can think of are An American In Paris and Gigi.
10 points. I’ve never seen Gigi.
I picked up a library book on hold yesterday and laughed when I realized it was set in Paris :o) I had completely forgotten about it. Anyway, it’s called The Alchemy of Murder by Carol McCleary.
10 more points 🙂
The Wind Dancer – Iris Johansen
Whispers of Passion – Sandra Dubay
Highland Knight – Hannah Howell
Highland Honor – Hannah Howell
The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie – Jennifer Ashley
Quills – Movie
An American Werewolf in Paris – Movie
Brotherhood of the Wolf- Movie
Chocolat – Movie
The Transporter – Movie
80 points!
Is this book *and/or* movie titles? Sorry to be so dense.
Yes, it was and/or. Tallying up the results right now.
Drat, does that mean I’m too late? 😦 I don’t think I ever saw this post in my feed reader.
Sorry Hannah! The deadline every week is Thursday night.
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Little Dorrit by Dickens
Les Miserables
Moulin Rouge
Atonement
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Paris, Je T’aime (2006)
Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant