Category: Quizzes

Writers Lost in 2012 Quiz – guessing closed

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Tuesday Quizzes are back!!  I hope that you’ll try your hand at my (mostly) bookish quizzes every week, but it’s okay if you just want to play when the quiz interests you.  If you play you are eligible for a prize at the end of the round (sometime in June).  For all of the details, click here.  Submit your answers in the comment section – I will stop by and hide them throughout the week but try not to copy off anyone else 🙂  You have til Sunday to guess.

These writers all died last year.  Oh, and no googling!!! This is just for fun, for pete’s sake!

1. This screenwriter, producer, journalist, and author was responsible for some of my favorite movies (When Harry Met Sally being one) and her 1983 novel Heartburn chronicled some of her married life with Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein.  Nora Ephron 5-19-1941/6-26-12

2. Science fiction found a new voice with the publication of the The Martian Chronicles in 1950.  This powerhouse also wrote a famous book about burning books.  Ray Bradbury 8-22-1920/6-5-2012

3. Who will know where the wild things are now?  Maurice Sendak 6-10-1928/5-8-2012

4. He may be the last of a generation of authors who served in WWII.  His specialty was the historical novel, including titles like Lincoln, Julian, and Burr, but he also wrote many screenplays, including Ben Hur.  Gore Vidal 10-3-1925/7-31-2012

5. One of Ireland’s best-loved writers wrote 16 novels. Her first, Light a Penny Candle (1982), Circle of Friends (1990), and an Oprah book club selection in 1999 being a few favorites.  Maeve Binchy 5-28-1940/7-30-2012

6. Without him people would not know these 7 habits of annoyingly effective people.  Steven Covey 10-24-1932/7-16-2012

7. He died in a car accident while touring for his own book, but he was also a well-known co-author on such books as The Last Lecture as well as books with Captain Sully Sullenberger and Gabrielle Giffords.  Jeffrey Zaslow  10-6-1958/2-10-2012

8. This Editor in Chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for 32 years also wrote the bestseller Sex and the Single Girl in 1962.  Helen Gurley Brown 2-18-1922/8-13-2012

9. This Canadian turned New York writer wrote three collections of essays, all of them winning awards.  David Rakoff  11-27-1964/8-9-2012

10. This motivational speaker wrote See You at the Top and Selling 101.  Plus he has cool initials.  Zig Ziglar 11-6-1926/11-28-2012

5 Best of the Best- Quizzes with a chance to win!

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I have a degree in English Education and although I don’t use it to make money these days I do still have some of the test maker in me and thankfully you guys let me play quizmaster.  Thank you all for coming to play 🙂  The quizzes are always on Tuesdays (next round starting in February) and the more people who guess the better.  The winner of each round wins a gift card in the amount of the number of participants, and there is always a special prize for a random quizzee.  Nise (Under the Boardwalk) has dominated the leaderboard with 6 wins in 10 rounds since I started keeping track in 2010!  But Hannah (Word Lily) is the reigning champion.

Here are 4 of my favorites over the past 5 years, Writer’s Lost Quiz (this is always the first quiz of the year, next one coming up Feb. 5), Common Thread Quiz (I’ve done a few of these and I’ll do more but they are time-consuming), Color Scattergories Quiz (this is just one of the many that I rely on the participants more than on my own research, the Big Boggle is another that I like too), and the 40 Quiz (life begins at 40 ;)).

023Wanna Win?  I love the visual quizzes.  This last favorite is the one I made for the Read-a-thon this past fall.  It’s a clock.  Go ahead and leave your guesses for the titles (each one coinciding with where you find it one the clock) as a comment.  On Saturday Gage will randomly choose a winner.  You don’t have to guess them all and guesses don’t have to be correct to be entered for the win.  Winner will receive the same bookish prize that Marie won last round (ie. it’s a surprise and a good one!)

Want to enter to win one of my favorite books?  Click here.

Quizzes, Winners and Stuff

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Here’s the deal, I’m just coming off my third sickness in three weeks and I’m tired.  I’ve had the flu since Friday and am feeling better today (a good thing since Jason had to go to work!), but I’m still plum tuckered out.  So, I’m wrapping up  the quizzes for the year.  I decided to do this yesterday, even before I scored the quiz and saw that we have a first time quiz winner.  Overtaking Nise at the last minute is…

Hannah! (Word Lily)

Congratulations 🙂  You have won a $30 Barnes & Noble gift card just in time for Christmas shopping.

and the randomly chosen winner (ie Jason) is (drumroll please)

Marie! (Boston Bibliophile)

She will be receiving a special gift from me just for participating.

And just so you don’t think I just made up numbers for that last quiz, take a look at my crib sheets

003So, look for new quizzes in January!  I will be giving away my copy of The Nutcracker when I review it this week for those that are entered through last week’s quiz.

Thanks to all who come by every Tuesday to play along.  It’s always one of my favorite (and most popular) posts of the week 🙂

You don’t need to know anything about the Nutcracker, Nutcracker Quiz AND GIVEAWAY

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Every have one of those 24 hour bugs that could either be food poisoning or the flu?  Me too!  That’s why this is getting up a little late.  I have a game that I like to play called Picture Picture (no idea if they still make it) and I thought we’d adapt it a little and use the beautiful illustrations from The Nutcracker.

Here’s the deal.  Look at each of the pictures and tell me 5 things you see in each one.  You’ll earn points if you are the only one to guess a particular thing.  10 points if you are the only one and 1 point less for every other person who guesses it.  So there are a potential 200 points on the line!  Get to looking 🙂

Oh, and I’m giving away this copy and by joining in the quiz you’ll be entered (if you don’t want to be just let me know).

You have until next Monday to submit your answers as a comment.  Comments will be hidden until I post the answers.  

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.

Answers to last week’s Road Trip Quiz here. Leaderboard here.

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Road Trip Quiz – guessing closed

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It’s Thanksgiving week and many of us will be heading somewhere else to celebrate and since it’s been a while since I’ve done a movie quiz, here it is.  See if you can figure out these road trip movies.

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.

Answers to last week’s Bite Me quiz here. Leaderboard here.

1. One of my all-time favorite movies starring Steve Martin and John Candy takes place as they try to get home for Thanksgiving.  Planes, Trains & Automobiles

2.”The first relevant film about rock and roll and the music industry, the first film that lets you in on the secret.”  –Robert Wilonsky, Dallas Observer  Almost Famous

3. Charlie: Listen… Ray, I don’t know if I’m gonna have a chance to talk to you again. Because you see, these… Dr. Bruner really likes you a lot, and he’s probably gonna take you back. You know?
Raymond: Yeah.
Charlie: What I said about being on the road with you I meant. Connecting. I like having you for my brother.
Raymond: I’m an excellent driver.
Charlie: [smiling] Yes, you are. I like having you for my big brother.
Raymond: C-H-A-R-L-I-E. C-H-A-R-L-I-E. Main man.

Rain Man

4.  Vacation

5. “Sarandon and Davis give superb, wonderfully interactive performances: funky, fierce, funny and poignant.” –Newsweek  Thelma & Louise

6. This 1934 classic starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert won 5 Academy Awards and is a must see for lovers of screwball comedies.  It Happened One Night

7. Traveling across the country to lose your virginity seemed desparate to me, but it worked out in the end for John Cusack in this 1985 romantic comedy.  The Sure Thing

8.  (sigh)  Lord of the Rings trilogy

9. “A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.” –IMDb.com  Little Miss Sunshine

10. “Someday it was inevitable that a great film would come along, utilizing the motorcycle genre, the same way the great Westerns suddenly made everyone realize they were a legitimate American art form.”  –Roger Ebert   Easy Rider

Bite Me Quiz – guessing closed

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With the final installment of the Twilight due in theaters this weekend I thought we’d do a vampire check.  See how many you can match up. I’ve only read two of these myself, but was surprised at how many I knew.  Happy Guessing!

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.

Answers to last week’s Odd Jobs quiz here. Leaderboard here.

1. Edward Cullen  H. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

2. Wrath  A. Dark Lover by JR Ward

3. Lestat  G. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

4. Bill Compton  F. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

5. Jody Stroud  I. Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore

6. Count Dracula  C. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

7. Matthew Clairmont   J. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

8. Lucien Antonescu  D. Insatiable by Meg Cabot

9. Martin Kowalski  E. Vamped by David Sosnowski

10. Kurt Barlow  B.Salem’s Lot by Stephen King

Odd Jobs Quiz – guessing closed

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We all know that being President is a great responsibility and, really, who would want the job, even with the power rush?  Let’s see if you can match these other unusual jobs with their character and book.

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.

Leaderboard here.

August Boatwright (The Secret Life of Bees) Beekeeper

 Brett Kavanaugh ((The Missing Ink) Tattoo artist

 Bailey Weggins (If Looks Could Kill) Magazine crime writer

Roxane  Coss (Bel Canto) Opera singer

Deanna Wolfe (Prodigal Summer) Wildlife biologist

Cinder (Cinder) Cyborg mechanic

Renee Michel (Elegance of the Hedgehog) Concierge

Vanessa Michael Munroe (Informationist) Informationist

Bridget Jones (Bridget Jones’s Diary) Intrepid TV reporter

Della Carmichael (Death Takes the Cake) Cable TV chef

Your favorite Sandy

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Scientific polling done last week (sample size, 10 bloggers) reveals that there are just not that many famous Sandys.    In the top spot with 9 votes is Sandy from Grease, followed by Sandra Dee with 5 votes.  A fellow blogger, Sandy from You’ve GOTTA read this! came in third with 4 votes.  Why not go visit and congratulate her on beating out the rest of the field Sandy Koufax (3), Sandy (Annie’s dog) (3), Sandy Duncan (1), Sandra Bullock (1), Sandi Patti (1), and the ever popular Pecan Sandy cookies (1).

Thanks for voting.  You can visit the original post comments for your scores.  Obviously the scores are all over the place since I didn’t really think through how many points you could get with so few popular Sandys to choose from.  Oh well.

 

Oh, Sandy Quiz

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In Sandy’s aftermath, I thought we might take this week to think positively about Sandy and I’m going to have you put on your thinking caps (or you can use the internet, that’s okay too).  I want you to list your 3 favorite Sandy’s, real or fictional.  You get 10 points for each Sandy you list and 15 points every time someone else chooses the same Sandy.  My list is done after I happily did a quick internet search.

Yes, this isn’t bookish but I hope you’ll all join in anyway 🙂  Please list your Sandy’s in a comment by Sunday at noon.

What book is this? Quiz – guessing closed

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I started making a great 2nd quiz (for Gage), it got complicated so I’m turning to my prepared rainy day quiz.  Just tell me the titles for 8 points and the authors for 2.  Tell me what they all have in common for an extra 10 🙂

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.

Answers to last week’s Clownish Quiz here.  Leaderboard here.

1.The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman  2.The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger  3.The Prophet by Michael Koryta  4.The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell  5.This is How it Ends by Kathleen MacMahon  6.As the Crow Flies by Craig Johnson  7.The Absent Ones by Jussi Adler-Olsen  8.The Bird Saviors by William J. Cobb  9.Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough by Ruth Pennebaker  10.A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole