Last Tuesday, guest quizzer LM Long, offered her creative mind and a prize for one lucky participant. (link here)
So, here’s how Gage picked the winner. He has new toys and there are 10 fun colors. I assigned all colors to each guesser based on the order that you guessed (excluding 2)
Then I gave Gage the bowl and he mixed them up…
Congratulations! I’ll be contacting you shortly.
I am so excited to introduce author LM Long to my quizees. She has come up with a totally awesome quiz and for once I actually get to participate, yippee. I hope you will visit her website because she is obviously a very creative lady. I do warn you that her quiz is hard. My advice is to read them all aloud and then have someone else read them aloud so you can listen. Print them out and when you figure one out come back and leave a new comment.
Oh, did I mention that she is offering a prize? Awesome and very generous. I will randomly draw a name from participants to choose a winner. So, you only need to get one correct answer to be eligible. Thank you , Laura!
Rules & Leaderboard here. Last week’s Who’s Older Quiz here.
Have you ever played “Mad Gab”? Basically you need to read the words aloud and try and come up with the book title the words sound like. For example, “Pry Dan Pledge You Dish,” and the answer would be the real title. (Pride and Prejudice) I tried to do book titles I think everyone would be familiar with, that they should have read in school, or are YA titles (since I’m a YA author). Sort of a hint right?
I am terrible at guessing people’s ages, so for this first quiz of Round 3 I thought I’d see how good you are! Tell me which author is (or would be if alive today) oldest. If there are 3 list them in order from oldest to youngest. Submit your answers in a comment by noon on Saturday (I’ll hide the answers til then).
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. John Grisham (1955) or James Patterson (1947)
2. Jane Austen (1775) or Mary Shelley (1797)
3. Stephen King (1947), Anne Rice (1941), Dean Koontz (1945)
4. Lee Child (author of Jack Reacher series )(1954) or John Sandford (Lucas Davenport series) (1944)
5. CS Lewis (1898) or JRR Tolkien (1892)
6. Mark Twain (1835) or Edgar Allan Poe (1809)
7. Ken Follett (1949) or John Irving (1942)
8. Nora Roberts (1950) , Sandra Brown (1948), Catherine Coulter (1942)
9. Jackie Collins (1937) or Danielle Steel (947)
10. Michael Connelly (1956), Scott Turow (1949), David Baldacci (1960)
We’re between quiz rounds in July, but I have been in contact with an author who wants to create a quiz for August and her ideas are great. I can’t wait to see what she comes up with. Oh, and she may be offering a special prize for that week’s winner.
This got me thinking that if any of you wanted to try your hand at creating one I would be happy to have a guest quizzer once a month. So, no quizzes for July, but get your creative juices flowing and try your hand at making a fun quiz for us all. You’ll get an automatic 100 points for the week. Contact me if you’re interested.
I hope you all keep Tuesdays open for some bookish fun.
The results are in and we have a first time quiz winner!
Mariska scored an impressive 1015 points out of a possible 1200! She will receive a $27 gift card to Barnes & Noble. Congratulations 🙂
And for the randomly chosen winner…
wins a special bookish gift from me.
Thank you all for playing. It’s only fun because you all play along with me every week. Final leaderboard here. Last week’s quiz here.
I am taking July off to rejuvenate and come up with some even better quizzes next round. We’ll start again on August 2. If any of you have any fun ideas you’d like me to consider, just drop me an email.
These praise earners are not quite right, but they’re close. Give the correct title of the novel for 9 points and the author for 1. You have until Friday at noon. This is the last quiz to participate in this round!!
No cheating. No googling or looking at other commenter answers. Yes, we’re going by the honor system
Last week’s First & Last quiz here. Leaderboard here.
1. Bold Novel Sphere Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
2. Violation & Discipline Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. Carnal Estate Animal Farm by George Orwell
4. Cherished Beloved by Toni Morrison
5. The Big Shot, the Conjurer & the Dresser The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
6. Endless Play Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
7. Bare Repast Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
8. Sightless Killer Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
9. The Luminary Likewise Climbs The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
10. Auspicious Scratch Pad The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
We did this in January with classics, so I thought I’d see how you all do with books that have been popular in the blogoshere and book clubs over the past several years.
See if you can match up the first lines and last lines from 10 famous novels. At least you can guess!! Each correct match is worth 9 points and you ‘ll get an extra point if you can tell me what novel each correct match comes from.
No cheating. No googling or looking at other commenter answers. Yes, we’re going by the honor system
Last week’s Soldier quiz here. Leaderboard here.
First & Last Lines
1. My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie.
E. I wish you all a long and happy life.
The Lovely Bones
2. Today I’m five.
B. Then we go out the door.
Room
3. Momma left her red satin shoes in the middle of the road.
F. As much as I missed her and wished I could hear her laughter one more time, I believed she was out there in the big bright somewhere, watching me, cheering for me. Loving me.
Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt
4. Clare: It’s hard being left behind.
I. He is coming, and I am here.
The Time Traveler’s Wife
5. Before she became the Girl from Nowhere-the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years-she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy.
A. Shots outside. I am going to look.
The Passage
6. Lillian loved best the moment before she turned on the lights.
C. Then she turned off the light, and left the kitchen.
The School of Essential Ingredients
7. Louis and I see you nearly at the same time.
H. “Of course it was. You had it with you the entire time.”
The Weight of Silence
8. Dear Sidney, Susan Scott is a wonder.
D. By way of congratulation, she said “I hear you and that pig farmer are going to regularize your connection. Praise the Lord!”
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
9. Here is the truth, this is what I know: we were walking on Ocean Beach, hand in hand.
J. Water gushes around me, the board shakes, I cannot see, but somehow I know I am moving forward.
The Year of Fog
10. They found Mary’s body in Round Pond.
G. Out of our movement, a crow lifted off a high pine and the glint of the sun, for an instant, resembled a flash of diamond in its beak.
The Eternal on the Water
Yesterday, we celebrated Memorial Day here in the US, a day to honor our fallen soldiers and the sacrifices they made. This week’s quiz is all about our servicemen & women in literature and movies. Each correct answer is worth 10 points. You have until Friday to submit your answers.
No cheating. No googling or looking at other commenter answers. Yes, we’re going by the honor system
Last week’s Book Sale quiz here. Leaderboard here.
I’m looking for the titles only.
Movies
1. This 2009 Oscar winner is the only one on this list about an ongoing war. The Hurt Locker
2. The father 
Apocalypse Now
3. And the son 
Platoon
4. Tom Hanks leads a team to find the last surviving brother (of four) serving during WWII. This 1998 film makes me cry every time. Saving Private Ryan
5. This 1946 Oscar winner is the movie that has stuck with me as the best depiction of what happened to soldiers when they came back home from war, in this case WWII. The Best Years of Our Lives
6. This is a 1989 movie about the Civil War’s first all-black volunteer company, featuring Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington. Glory
Books and Movies
7. Clint Eastwood directed two movies about WWII, one from the perspective of the American attackers and one from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers, based on the book written by James Bradley and Ron Powers. Each one is worth 5 points. Flags of Our Father & Letters from Iwo Jima
8. This Stephen Ambrose classic was made into a very successful HBO mini-series about WWII. Band of Brothers
9. This dark comedy about a WWII bomber helped coin a new English phrase to define a no-win situation. Made into a 1970 film. Catch-22
10. This novel by Erich Maria Remarque is about a German soldier in WWI and is the only one on the list focused on a non-American soldier, but was made into one of my favorite war movies. A 1930 Oscar winner. All Quiet on the Western Front
On Saturday I made my yearly trip to the Case Western Reserve University Book Sale. I usually spend hours and hours looking over the thousands of books filling the auditorium, but I had to be quick since my father-in-law was on his way. So, I picked up the first books I saw that were on my extensive wish list. Here’s a view of the fiction section of the sale. I left as soon as my arms were full, which was at 14 books.
So, here’s the quiz ad giveaway…I chose 10 first lines from 10 of these novels and all you need to do is tell me which line belongs to which book. No googling, no matter how tempting. I know this will mainly be educated guessing so to make it more fun I’m offering the person who guesses the most correct (and first) will get to choose a book from the stack for free! You have until noon Friday to submit your answers.
No cheating. No Googling, researching, 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.
Current Leaderboard here. Last week’s April Showers Quiz here.
1. The sheets are dirty. An Indian Health Service hospital in the late sixties. Indian Killer
2. As Corradino Manin looked on the lights of San Marco for the last time, Venice from the lagoon seemed to him a golden constellation in the dark blue velvet dusk. The Glassblower of Murano
3. “Jorg, expect $7 million from Credit Parisien in the No.2 account by 6 pm tonight, Central European time, and place it with first-class banks and triple A commercial names.” Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
4. The final dying sounds of their dress rehearsal left the Laurel Players with nothing to do but stand there, silent and helpless, blinking out over the footlights of an empty auditorium. Revolutionary Road
5. The rain kept falling, swelling the creek until it lifted the girl into its muddy flood. Turning Angel
6. On the banks of the mighty Columbia River, in this icy season when every breath became visible, the orchard called Belye Nochi was quiet. Winter Garden
7. Midnight in the garden of the dead. The Devil’s Punchbowl
8. In early May, the summer came, at last, to Scotland. September
9. How lucky were they? A heat wave in the middle of the school holidays, exactly where it belonged. Case Histories
10. Maggie an Ira Moran had to go to a funeral in Deer Lick, Pennsylvania. Breathing Lessons
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