Last August I ran this quiz about the highest paid authors and now the new numbers are in. These rankings are based on their total estimated income (books, movies…) from May 2030-April 2011. I’m giving you 15 authors and you need to rank the top 13 in order. The extra 2 are just ones I added to keep it interesting. Only 3 authors have the same spot as last year and if you get those three correct you’ll get a few extra points (so go ahead and look at last year’s quiz). Each correct answer is worth 7.5 points.
I hope everyone will give this one a try. It’s more fun the more people who play 🙂 And you only need to play once to win a prize!
No cheating. No googling 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.
1. James Patterson $84 million
2. Danielle Steel &35 million
3. Stephen King $28 million
4. Janet Evanovich $22 million
5. Stephenie Meyer $ 21 million
6. Rick Riordan $ 21 million
7. Dean Koontz $ 19 million
8. John Grisham $18 million
9. Jeff Kinney $17 million
10. Nicholas Sparks $16 million
11. Ken Follet $14 million
12. Suzanne Collins $10 million
13. JK Rowling $5 million
Michael Connelly
Charlaine Harris
Leaderboard and details here. Last week’s What book is that? Quiz here.
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You have until Saturday at noon to submit your answers. Comments will be hidden til then.
I saw this somewhere last week, so I’m pretty sure #1 is Patterson and #10 is Rowling. The rest is going to be a wild guess.
1. Patterson
2. King
3. Koontz
4. Meyer
5. Sparks
6. Grisham
7. Harris
8. Follett
9. Evanovich
10. Rowlings
11. Connelly
12. Riordan
13. Collins
This one is hard to score points! You only got the first one right but it’s good for 7.5. You probably saw the list and saw that Rowling was the last one listed, but the list, weirdly, went to 13.
Wow…I’m a lousy guesser! 😀
I saw this article and I do remember that James Patterson is #1, but that’s about it. Here are my guesses:
1 James Patterson
2 Danielle Steel
3 Janet Evanovich
4 Stephen King
5 Stephanie Meyer
6 Dean Koontz
7 Jeff Kinney
8 John Grisham
9 Nicholas Sparks
10 JK Rowling
11 Rick Riordan
12 Charlaine Harris
Ken Follet
Great! You got 4 right and 2 of them were worth a few bonus points! 32 points 🙂
I really am not sure, so I am not participating. Let me check Google now 🙂
No one knows 🙂 That’s why you guess!
James Patterson
Stephen King
Danielle Steel
Janet Evanovich
Stephanie Meyer
Rick Riordon (meeting him in Oct)
Dean Kootz
John Grisham
Jeff Kinney (Think we have helped him amass that with all the stuff we have bought)
Nick Sparks
Ken Follett
JK Rowling
Suzanne Collins
A very impressive 9 correct with a few bonus points thrown in. 69.5 points!
I think I just read somewhere who the top one is so here goes. After that is just wild guessing.
1. James Patterson
2. J.K. Rowling
3. Stephenie Meyer
4. Stephen King
5. Nicholas Sparks
6. Charlaine Harris
7. Dean Koontz
8. Ken Follett
9. Suzanne Collins
10. Danielle Steel
11. Rick Riordan
12. Janet Evanovich
13. Michael Connelly
Two right for 15 points. I always think this one is fun but most don’t score many points.
James Patterson
Danielle Steel
Stephen King
Janet Evanovich
Stephenie Meyer
Rick Riordan
Dean Koontz
John Grisham
Michael Connelly
Nicholas Sparks
Ken Follet
Suzanne Collins
JK Rowling
You must have seen the list just before visiting! Great memory! You only missed on for 92.5 points 🙂
1. James Patterson
2. Danielle Steel
3. Stephen King
4. Janet Evanovich
5. Stephanie Meyer
6. Nicholas Sparks
7. Dean Koontz
8. John Grisham
9. Jeff Kinney
10. Rick Riordan
11. Ken Follett
12. Susan Collins
13. JK Rowling
Somehow you managed to get 85 points, you only missed 2. You and Carol were very impressive this week 🙂
If James Patterson is #1, I’m going to vomit.
You have to guess to find out (again).
I’ll stand back!