See if you can tell me the name of the book or movie described below. 10 points for each correct answer and an extra 10 if you tell me the theme of the quiz.
You have until noon Saturday to submit your answers as a comment. Comment will be hidden until I post the answers. No Googling!
This round starts today and will last til the end of March and the person with the most points will win a B&N gift card (total $ based on # of total participants, so please play) and a randomly selected participant will win a fun prize from me.
Have fun and Good Luck!
1. The Iron Giant (1999)
2. Barbara Hambly wrote this novel about the mothers of the men who founded America. Patriot Hearts:A Novel of the Founding Fathers
3. Patriot Games
4. The fourth book in Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Shadow series. Shadow of the Giant
5. The Patriot
6. So James meets up with these insects in a piece of fruit… James & the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
7. This is the first in Ken Follett’s new Century trilogy. Fall of Giants
8. Truly’s story of life in Aberdeen is heartbreaking. The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker
9. Little Giants
10. This is the most recent thriller in Dale Brown’s Patrick McLanahan series. A Time for Patriots
Theme – Super Bowl teams (Everyone gets credit for 10 since I had the author as Dan Brown for awhile (thanks for the heads up, Kay) and credit for #4 since I left out an important word! Sorry about the goofs.)
Leaderboard here. Last Week’s Boggle Quiz here (won’t have this quiz scored until later today)

1. Iron Giant
2. Patriot Mothers ? LOL
3. Patriot Games
4.
5. The Patriot
6. James and the Giant Peach
7. Fall of Giants
8.
9. Little Giants
10.
That’s all I’ve got.
Oh, and the theme is the Giants and Patriots, also known as the contestants in the recent Superbowl.
70 + 20. 90 points 🙂
1. The Iron Giant
3. Patriot Games
5. The Patriot
6. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
7. Pillars of the Earth
8. The Help
9. Parenthood
Theme? Hmmmm….At first I was thinking crazy patriotic dudes, but at the end? I really don’t know! Maybe it’s because I just guessed on some of these and got them wrong…
40 + 2-. 60 points 🙂
Wow, I feel pretty dumb today, but I’m going to guess anyway. Don’t laugh!
1. Iron Man
2. Patriot Hearts
3. Clear and Present Danger
4. Children of the Mind
5. The Patriot
6. James and the Giant Peach
7.
8.The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
9.
10.
40 + 20. 60 points 🙂
1. The Iron Giant
5. the Patriot
6. James and the Giant Peach
30 + 20. 50 points 🙂
That 4th one has me stumped on the theme. I’ll be back!
1 The Iron Giant
2 Patriot Women?
3 Patriot Games
4 Children of the Mind
5 The Patriot
6 James and The Giant Peach
7 Fall of Giants
8 The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
9 Little Giants
10 A Time For Patriots
Larger than life underdog characters, families
80 + 10. 90 points 🙂
The Superbowl Teams!
1. Somebody and the Giant Robot
3. Patriot Games
5. The Patriot
6. James and the Giant Peach
7. Fall of Giants
8. The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
60 + 20. 80 points.
1. The Iron Giant
5. The Patriot
6. James and the Giant Peach
7. Fall of Giants
That’s all I know!
40 + 20. 60 points!
1 Iron Giant (My 10 yr old watched it over and over and over)
2
3 Patriot Games
4 Children of the Mind
5 The Patriot
6 James and the Giant Peach (Freaks me out)
7 Fall of Giants (Must read this I have it on my shelf)
8
9 Little Giants
10
Fighting back – little person overcoming the odds against the government (Good one have no real idea totally grasping at straws)
60 + 20. 80 points!!
ooh all have children as main characters