1,000 Quiz – guessing closed
Recognize these books that all have over 1,000 pages?
Take your best guesses, be entered to win a prize. No cheating (using the web to help find answers) or copying. All extra details can be found here.
Leave your guesses in the comment section until Sunday.
1. “Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.” Don Quixote
2. “Jean Valjean had this peculiarity, that he might be said to carry two knapsacks; in one he had the thoughts of a saint, in the other the formidable talents of a convict. He helped himself from one or the other as occasion required.” Les Miserables
3.War and Peach (Tolstoy) 4.The Fiery Cross (Gabaldon) 5. Shantaram (Roberts) 6. And the Ladies of the Club (Santmyer) 7. It (King) 8. Imfinite Jest (Wallace) 9. The Executioner’s Song (Mailer) 10. Gone with the Wind (Mitchell)
Answers to last week’s James Garner quiz here.
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What Jane Austen heroine are you?
2. Les Miserables
7. It
10. Gone With the Wind
I recognize a few of the others but don’t quite know the names! Only three for me this week.
Good enough for 30 points 🙂
1. Man of La Mancha by Cuervantes
4. The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon
7. It by Stephen KIng
9. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
10. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
I know I did a miserable job today, lol, more coffee!
35 points! Half for Mailer 🙂
I know #4 is one of the Outlander books. #7 is It and #10 is Gone with the Wind. I pretty much stink at this quiz.
25 points 🙂
1. Don Quixote.
2 Les Miserables
3. Crime and Punishment
4. The Fiery Cross
5.Shantaram
6.And Ladies of the Club.
7. It.
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9. The Executioner’s Song.
10.
75 points! Half for Tolstoy’s other tome 🙂
Love these cover quizzes Stacy 🙂
1. Don Quixote
2. Les Miserables
3. War and Peace
4. The Fiery Cross
5. Shantaram
6.
7. It
8.
9. The Executioner’s Song
10. Gone with the Wind
80 points, grandma 🙂
Hmm… here goes:
3- War and Peace
4- I know it’s a Diana Gabaldon book, but don’t know which one 😦
7- It
9- The Executioner’s Song
10- Gone With the Wind
45 points! Half for Gabaldon 🙂
Darn it! I missed last week’s quiz.
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2. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
3. The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon
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5.
6.
7. IT by Stephen King
8.
9.
10. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
That’s all I can get. 😦
I received my special prize, by the way. Thank you so much! I absolutely LOVE it. I have yet to post a pic on Facebook, but I will soon. My first bookish mug! ❤
40 points! I’m relieved to hear that the mug made it in one piece!
1. Lonesome Dove
2. Les Miserables
3. War and Peace
4. The Fiery Cross
5. Shantaram
6.
7. It
8. Infinite Jest
9. The Executioner’s Song
10. Gone with the Wind
80 points!
I’ve looked, no stared, at these three times now and I still only know a few:
4. One of the Outlander books, and not the first one – Diana Gabaldon
7. It – Stephen King
10. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
25 points! Half for the Gabaldon catch 🙂
The only one I know is Gone With The Wind. LOL!!
Cool idea.