Every year I do a quiz on the highest paid authors for the pat year (May 2011-June 2012 according to Forbes magazine). I’m guessing that a lot of you saw the list and now we’ll see how much you remember. Only one guy, the one at the top, is in the same spot. In the past I’ve had you rank them in the correct order, but I’m always surprised at how hard that it, so I’m making it a little easier this time around. I’m giving you the correct order and the initials (see how generous I can be?) and you just have to figure out who the author is. Easy right?
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You have until noon Sunday to submit your answers as a comment. Comment will be hidden until I post the answers. No Googling! The person with the most points this round 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.
1. JP – James Patterson $94 m
2. SK – Stephen King $39m
3. JE – Janet Evanovich $33m
4. JG – John Grisham $26m
5. JK – Jeff Kinney $25m
6. BO – Bill O’Reilly $24m
7. NR – Nora Roberts $23m
7. DS – Danielle Steel $23m
8. SC – Suzanne Collins $20m
9. DK – Dean Koontz $19m
10. JKR – JK Rowling $17m
11. GRRM – George RR Martin $15m
12. SM – Stephenie Meyer $14
12. KF – Ken Follett $14m
13. RR – Rick Riordan $13m
Answers to last week’s Dyslexia quiz here. Leaderboard & rules here.
Stacy's Books 
1. James Patterson
2. Stephen King
3.
4. John Grisham
5.
6. Barack Obama? (surely not, but the initials are right)
7. Nora Roberts
7.
8. Suzanne Collins
9. Dean Koontz
10. J.K. Rowling
11. George R.R. Martin
12. Stephenie Meyer
12. Ken Follett
13. Rick Riordan?
77 points! I never thought about Pres. Obama and Bill O having the same initials, funny 🙂
I didn’t see the list bu can figure some of these out.
1 – James Patterson
2 – Stephen King
3 –
4 – John Grisham
5 – Jeff Kinney
6 –
7 – Nora Roberts
7 – Danielle Steele
8 – Suzanne Collins
9 – J K Rowlings
10 –
11 – George R R Martin
12 –
12 – Ken Follett
13 –
I’m surprised Nicholas Sparks isn’t on the list!
70 points! Now that you mention it it does seem weird. I’m not sure how accurate the list is since I know they use a lot second hand information. Or maybe he had an off year and made less than $13m. How sad…not!
You have two 7s and two 12s …
1. James Patterson
2. Stephen King
3.
4. John Grisham
5.
6. Bill O’Reilly
7. Nora Roberts
7b. Danielle Steel
8. Suzanne Collins
9. Dean Koontz
10. JK Rowling
11. George RR Martin
12. Stephenie Meyer
12b. Ken Follett
13. Rick Riordan
91 points 🙂 I should have made it more clear that those weren’t typos!
I think I saw this list but it’s a shame how few I remember and how I can’t even guess at that many. I think it’s because I don’t read many best-selling authors. Oh well, it was still fun trying to guess! Here are my answers:
1. James Patterson
2. Stephen King
3. Janet Evanovich
4. John Grisham
5. ?
6. ?
7. Nora Roberts
8. ?
9. Dean Koontz
10. J.K. Rowling
11. George R.R. Martin
12. ?
13. ?
14. ?
56 points! Not bad for guesses 🙂
1. James Patterson
2. Stephen King
3. Janet Evanovich
4. John Grisham
5. Jeff Kinney
6. Bill O’Reilly
7. Nora Roberts
7. Danielle Steel
8. Suzanne Collins
9. Dean Koontz
10. JK Rowling
11. George R.R. Martin
12. Stephanie Meyer
12. Ken Follett
13. Rick Riordan
This may be a duplicate comment as my computer had a glitch and I am not sure the first one registered. ;o)
Oh, Nise, you are back to your perfect ways 🙂
1. James Patterson
2. Stephen King
4. John Grisham
7. Nora Roberts
7. Danielle Steele
9. Dean Koontz
10. J.K. Rowling
12. Stephenie Meyer
12. Ken Follett
Did better this week! lol
63 awesome points!
Stacy, I tried to leave a comment while at work and I don’t think it registered. Will you let me know if it did not?
Got it Nise! Lately your commenta have ended up in spam. I always find them 🙂
1. James patterson. That’s all I know…..I didn’t even know Forbes put out a list like this. Such a noob 😉
JP is worth 7 points 🙂
I haven’t seen the list!!! But I’m going to do my best!
1. James Patterson
2. Uncle Stevie aka Stephen King
3. James Ellroy
4. John Grisham
5. Jonathan Kellerman
6.
7. Nora Roberts
7. Danielle Steele
8.
9. Dean Koontz
10. JK Rowling
11. George RR Martin
12. Stephanie Meyer
12.
13.
Kellerman was a good guess. 63 points!
I did see the list, not sure how good my memory is but I did wonder if anyone is ever going to knock James Patterson off top spot 🙂
1. James Patterson
2. Stephen King
3. Janet Evanovitch
4. John Grisham
5.
6.
7. Nora Roberts
7. Danielle Steele
8.
9. Dean Koontz
10. J.K Rowling
11. George R R Martin
12. Stephanie Meyer
12. Ken Follet
13.
77 points 🙂 I think as long as Patterson farms out his ideas he’s in good shape!
1. James Patterson
2. Stephen King
3. Janet Evanovich
4. John Grisham
5.
6.
7. Nora Roberts
7. Danielle Steel
8. Suzanne Collins
9. Dean Koontz
10. J. K. Rowling
11. George R. R. Martin
12. Stephenie Meyer
12.
13.
77 awesome points 🙂
1. JP James Patterson
2. SK Stephen King
3. JE Janet Evanovich
4. JG John Grisham
5. JK
6. BO
7. NR Nora Roberts
7. DS
8. SC Suzanne Collins
9. DK
10. JKR J.K. Rowling
11. GRRM George R.R. Martin
12. SM Stephenie Meyer
12. KF
13. RR
63 points is popular this week!
I am just sick to my stomach thinking that JP in the #1 slot is James Patterson because I think he sucks!
I am giving you 7 points for that only because I want to play 😉 One of Patterson’s minions is going to email you one day to cease and desist your hate speech, LOL!
Darn it! I missed it. 😦
As long as I haven’t posted the answers feel free to jump in.