Color Me Published Quiz

Tell me the name of the author.  Each one is worth 10 points and the title of the quiz is your only clue 🙂  You have until Friday afternoon.

No cheating.  No Googling, researching, or looking at other commenter answers.  Yes, we’re going by the honor system    Your first answers will be the only ones accepted.  Play every week or just one time, you are always welcome   It only takes once to be eligible for a prize.

Current Leaderboard here.  Last week’s What Book is that? Quiz answers here.

1. His last three books have tackled controversial topics and have become bestsellers.  His critics complain he does not write well and his conspiracy puzzlers are inaccurate, but he’s laughing all the way to the bank.  Dan Brown

2. His famous books for kids one about a mouse and one with a spider are classics over 50 years later.  For adults he wrote a how-to with his pal Strunk.  E.B. White

3. She writes erotic, paranormal romances. Shayla Black

4. She is considered by some to be one of the founders of the chick lit genre.  Her latest book is Promises to Keep.  Jane Green

5. He’s written books about Alaska, Katherine, and towns made of paper.  John Green

6. Two books about a street in New Orleans have been published with another promised.  Oh, and she’s written 10 other books mostly set in the south, her latest on a beach.  Karen White

7. This romance and thriller suspense author has written almost 70 novels, 50 of them being NYT Bestsellers.  Her latest about a tough customer.  Sandra Brown

8. This British Nobel Prize winner is best known for his book about young boys stuck together on a deserted island.  William Golding

9. The editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine is the author of the Bailey Weggins mystery series and a new stand alone novel that asks you to use your library voice.  Kate White

10. This favorite children’s author wrote many classics including one about a tree that couldn’t stop giving.  Shel Silverstein

22 thoughts on “Color Me Published Quiz

  1. BermudaOnion says:
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    Okay, since the quiz is title Color Me Published, I’m going to guess the authors names have colors in them. Here are my guesses:
    #1 Dan Brown
    #4 Jane Green
    #5 John Green
    #6 Karen White
    #7 Sandra Brown
    #8 William Golding
    #9 Helen Gurley Brown
    #10 Shel Silverstein

  2. Nise' says:
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    1. Dan Brown
    2. E.B. White
    3. ? Black
    4. Jane Green
    5. John Green
    6. Karen White
    7. Sandra Brown
    8. William Golding
    9. Kate White
    10. Shel Silverstein

    Great quiz Stacy. I took a guess with a color on the erotic, paranormal author. ;o)

  3. softdrink says:
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    1. Dan Brown
    2. EB White (I had no clue he was the Strunk and White guy, too!)
    3. Jade ?
    4.
    5. John Green
    6. Karen White
    7.
    8. William Golding
    9. Tina Brown
    10. Shel Silverstein

    • stacybuckeye says:
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      65 points. There is a Jade who writes erotic romances, Jade Lee.
      I just recently realized it was the same White as Strunk & White. I was surprised too.

  4. Julie H. says:
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    Now, this one I may have a chance!
    1. Dan Brown
    2. EB White
    3.
    4. Jane Green
    5. John Green
    6. Kate White
    7. Sandra Brown
    8. it’s Lord of the Flies, right, but I can’t think of the author this minute!
    9. Kate White (love that series!)
    10. Shel Silverstein

  5. Jennifer Rayment says:
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    1. Dan Brown (Finally read Da Vinci Code this year)
    2 E.B. White – one of my fav’s
    3 Jade Lee (totally guessing)
    4 Jane Green
    5 John Green
    6 No idea
    7 Sandra Brown
    8 William Golding (Dislike Lord of the Flies intensely)
    9 Kate White
    10 Shel Silverstein

    • stacybuckeye says:
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      85 points. Jade Lee does write erotic (but not paranormal) romances. Still haven’t read Lord of the Flies.

  6. Mariska says:
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    so many colors this week 🙂
    1. Dan Brown
    2. E.B White
    3. Jaid Black ?
    4. Jane Green
    5. John Green
    6. Karen White (love the her books !)
    7. Sandra Brown
    8. William Golding
    9. Kate White
    10. Shel Silverstein

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