So What Can You Win By Guessing In My Quizzes?

I love my quiz feature and I love when people participate, even it it’s only a few times a round.  That’s why I give two prizes, one for the top scorer and one for a randomly chosen participant.  I would love to have even more people join in the fun so I’m upping the stakes a little.  This round for every participant I have (the last 2 rounds there have been 34 different players each time)  I will put in a $ for a B&N gift card or a Babies R Us gift card for the winner.  So, if have another 34 people play then the winner would get a $34 gift card.   Even of you play only once you are eligible to win the second prize (something special I pick out) and you will be adding money to the kitty for the winner.  

So, why not join in the fun.  And if you are already a regular tell a friend and make the prize worth more money 🙂  You can take a look at the Quizzes Leaderboard every week to see how much money winning is worth. 

If you want to jump in this first week you have until noon EST so jump in the fun!  Here’s this week’s Tuesday Quiz.  I do hide comments until I post the answers on Friday, so if your answers disappear that’s why.

Writers Lost in 2010 Quiz – Guessing Closed

These writers wrote their last chapters in 2010.  Leave a comment with the # and writer’s name.  Each one worth 10 points.  You have until noon on Friday to submit your answers.  Be the first to get on the Leaderboard!

A few rules…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…Have fun!

1.  This British born mystery writer often set his crime novels in the horse racing world, a world he was comfortable with because of his time as a jockey.  Dick Francis (2-14-10)

2. Holden Caulfield became the face of teen angst and this reclusive author became a legend.  J.D. Salinger (1-27-10)

3. This American novelist wrote women’s fiction, including the Werner family sagas.  Belva Plain (10-12-10)

4. After creating some iconic television (Rockford Files, A-Team, etc.), he turned to novels, writing 14 before his death.  He had a successful writing career despite suffering from dyslexia.  Stephen Cannell (9-30-10)

5. This Portuguese novelist won the Nobel for Literature in 1998.  His last book, Caim (or Cain), was published in 2009, but I always think of him as the man who wrote a story about a mass epidemic of blindness.  Jose Saramago (6-18-10)

6. He wrote this novel and screenplay about love and how it means never having to say you’re sorry.  Erich Segal (1-17-10)

7. He wrote lots of  books about his activist views, but is most popular for People’s History of the United States .  Howard Zinn (1-27-10)

8. This comic book writer was a Clevelander who is perhaps most famous for the American Splendor comic series.  He is buried in a Cleveland cemetery next to Eliot Ness.  Harvey Pekar (7-12-10)

9. This crime writer wrote the popular Spenser series, also made into a popular 1980’s tv show.  Robert P Parker  (1-18-10)

10. Although a politician’s wife she wrote two very personal books discussing her bouts with cancer.  Elizabeth Edwards (12-7-10)

2010 Quiz Wrap Up

I love quizzes and polls and games and if I can’t play ’em or take ’em I like making ’em up.  I loved making up games when I was younger and now thanks to all of you who like to play along I get to make up quizzes.  So here’s a big THANK YOU to all of you who have participated in my quizzes this year.  I appreciate each and every one of you.  My Quizzes will return in January new and improved and I hope you’ll continue to play along with me and your fellow book lovers.  If you have a great idea for a quiz I hope you’ll email me.  I’m always open to ideas.

Round 4 of 2010 has a winner!  Jennifer of Rayment’s Readings, Rants and Ramblings  has won with 913.25 points!!  Congratulations, Jennifer!  And the randomly selected winner is Hannah of Word Lily (my mom chose 750 and her score was the closest)!!  Both of these wonderfully bookish women will be receiving a fun surprise in the mail for their efforts.  A total of 35 of you participated this round and I hope the newcomers will come back and play again.  And tell your friends 😉

And now for the 2010 Quiz recap…Jennifer and Nise dominated the top spot this year, so congrats on a great year, ladies! 

Jennifer of Rayment’s Readings Rants & Ramblings won the first round in the new format.  Cee Cee of Book Splurge was my randomly chosen winner.  Details here.

Nise of Under the Boardwalk won the second round and Jenny of Jenny Loves To Read was my randomly chosen winner.  Details here.

Nise of Under the Boardwalk won the third round and Jo Jo of Jo-Jo Loves to Read was my randomly chosen winner.  Details here.

Jennifer of Rayment’s Reading, Rants, and Ramblings won round four and Hannah of Word Lily was my randomly chosen winner.

A list of the 2010 Quizzes in case you missed one 🙂

Common Thread Quiz

Martin Luther King Quotes Quiz

Writers Lost in 2009 Quiz

First Ladies Quiz

What Book is That? Quiz (Quiz 1) (Quiz 2)

Star Crossed Lovers Quiz

Lovers Quiz

Late Bloomers Quiz

Quiz With the Stars

Irish Actors Quiz

Color Scattergories Quiz

Baby Movie Quiz

Drew Barrymore was in that? Quiz

French Scattergories Quiz

Notable Villian Quiz

Alternate Title Quiz

I Wish I Had a Mother Quiz

Party Quiz

Signed Book Quiz (Quiz 1) (Quiz 2)

Jane Austen Adaptation Quiz

Dr. Seuss Quiz

Detective Scattergories Quiz

Pregnancy in Literature Quiz

Pink and Blue Censored Cover Quiz

Common Denominator Quiz

Patriotic Movie Quiz

Best Paid Author Quiz

Pictured Title Quiz

Denzel Washington Was in That? Quiz

Better With Age Quiz

First Lines Quiz

Banned Book Quiz

Stephen King Adaptation Quiz

Gage Quiz

Birthday Movie Quiz

Scrambled Halloweenish Quiz

Celebrity Memoir Quiz

Wheel of Stacy Quiz

Robert Downey Jr. Was in That? Quiz

Thankful Quiz

Writers in Film Quiz

Name Game Quiz

Christmas Movie Quiz

Christmas Movie Quiz

It’s the last week for Round 4!  The top point earner and one randomly chosen quiz participant will both get a prize, so if you haven’t participated before do it today so you have a chance to win! 

These quotes were all taken from popular Christmas movies.  Just tell me which ones.  Each one is worth 10 points.  Because everyone is so busy you have until next Tuesday(12/21) to submit your answers.  Winners will be announced next Wednesday.

Here are the rules… 1. Open to everyone.  Play once or every week, that’s okay.  I’m happy to have you here today.

2. No cheating.  No googling, other internet searches or looking at other commenter answers.  Yes, we’re going by the honor system

3. Your first answers will be the only ones accepted.

Last week’s quiz here.  Current Leaderboard here.

1. I want an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle!  A Christmas Story

2. Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead?   National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

3. This is *Christmas*. The season of perpetual hope. And I don’t care if I have to get out on your runway and hitchhike. If it costs me everything I own, if I have to sell my soul to the devil himself, I am going to get home to my son.   Home Alone

4. Merry Christmas, you beautiful old savings and loan! Merry Christmas, you beautiful beat-up old house!  It’s a Wonderful Life

5. Oh, Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind… and that’s what’s been changing. That’s why I’m glad I’m here, maybe I can do something about it.   Miracle on 34th Street

6. Look, Charlie, let’s face it. We all know that Christmas is a big commercial racket. It’s run by a big eastern syndicate, you know.   A Charlie Brown Christmas

7. We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns and syrup.   Elf

8. Happy birthday! Hey, I said my first words. But… But snowmen can’t talk. Ha ha ha, come on now, what’s the joke? Could I really be alive?   Frosty the Snowman

9. Ah, Christmas. The time for Santa Claus and his eight flying rein-bear.  A Muppet Family Christmas

10. You’ll never fit in! Now you come to elf practice, learn how to wiggle your ears, chuckle warmly, go hee-hee and ho-ho, and important stuff like that. A dentist! Good grief!   Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Name Game Quiz

As I looked through my tbr shelves to try to find some titles to help me finish challenges I realized that I have a lot of titles with proper names.  So, here’s the challenge and it’s a little different this time around, I want you to list up to 20 titles (you can list only 1 if you want) with proper names, first or last, in the title.  You will get points if other participants also list the same title, so choose popular ones.  If two people guess the same title it’s 2 points for both them.  If three people then it’s 3 points for the trio and so on.   

An example- Tex by SE Hinton.  If four people had entered it those four people would have gotten 4 points.  It’s not complicated, just have to guess what other people will list.  I don’t need the author and you can’t choose Tex!

Feel free to leave a few now and come back to leave more later.  You have until Saturday since I am getting this up late.  The points this week are unlimited!

Here are the rules… 1. Open to everyone.  Play once or every week, that’s okay.  I’m happy to have you here today.

2. No cheating.  No googling, other internet searches or looking at other commenter answers.  Yes, we’re going by the honor system

3. Your first answers will be the only ones accepted.

Last week’s quiz here.  Current Leaderboard here.

Results are in!  Since I wanted you to get a few more points I’m giving an extra 5 points for titles that I have on my own shelves. 

10 points-Jane Eyre, Emma

9 points-Harry Potter, David Copperfield

8 points-Frankenstein, Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt, Oliver Twist,

7 points-Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Romeo & Juliet, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Lady Chatterly’s Lover, Ethan Frome

5 points-Are You There God It’s Me Margaret?, Cordouroy, The Da Vinci Code, Dear John, Holly’s Inbox, Scarlett, Three Junes, The Joy Luck Club, Jude the Obscure, King Lear, Life of Pi, My Antonia

4 points-Aloce in Wonderland, Anna Karenina

3 points-The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Sarah’s Key, Mrs. Dalloway

2 points-Rebecca, Still Alice, Tess of D’Ubervilles, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Will Grayson, Will Grayson, Meridian, Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English, The Other Bolelyn Girl, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Angela’s Ashes, Anne of Green Gables, Charlotte’s Web, Cleopatra’s Daughter, Don Quixote, Dracula, How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly, Jacob Have I Loved

Celebrity Memoir Quiz

I am not a huge reader of memoirs, but this year I’ve read a few that I’ve really liked, including the one I’m currently listening to.  See if you can identify the celebrities that penned these memoirs.  They are all women.  Each correct answer worth 6.25 points.  You have until Thursday night to submit your answers. I hide your answers until then.

Here are the rules… 1. Open to everyone.  Play once or every week, that’s okay.  I’m happy to have you here today.

2. No cheating.  No googling, other internet searches or looking at other commenter answers.  Yes, we’re going by the honor system

3. Your first answers will be the only ones accepted.

Last week’s quiz here.  Current leaderboard here.

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1. Audition: A Memoir Barbara Walters

2. Wishful Drinking  Carrie Fisher

3. Prairie Tale: A Memoir  Melissa Gilbert

4. How to…Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale  Jenna Jameson

5. Put on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom  Queen Latifah

6. Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain  Portia de Rossi

7. Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression  Brooke Shields

8. A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages  Kristin Chenoweth

9. Losing It and Gaining it Back One Pound at a Time  Valerie Bertanelli

10. Stori Telling  Tori Spelling

11. Everything About Me is Fake…and I’m Perfect  Janice Dickinson

12. Cancer Schmancer  Fran Drescher

13. Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles  Kathleen Turner

14. A Lotus Grows in the Mud  Goldie Hawn

15. Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny  Marlo Thomas

16. Between a Heart and a Rock Place  Pat Benetar

 

Wheel of Stacy Quiz

Did you see the Wheel of Fortune when the woman who guessed the correct phrase after knowing only one letter?  Think you could do it?  I’m listing some current bestsellers, but you’ll get to see only the letters in my name.  10 points each (5 for title, 5 for author).  Since it’s Thanksgiving week you have until Sunday night to submit your answers!   I know this is a tough one, so be the first commenter to request a letter and I’ll fill that one in for everyone too 🙂

Here are the rules… 1. Open to everyone.  Play once or every week, that’s okay.  I’m happy to have you here today.

2. No cheating.  No googling, other internet searches or looking at other commenter answers.  Yes, we’re going by the honor system

3. Your first answers will be the only ones accepted.

Last week’s Robert Downey Jr. Quiz here.  Current Leaderboard here.

1. Safe  Harbor BY   Nicholas  Sparks

2. In  the Companof  Others  BY  Jan Karon

3. The  Confession  BY   John Grisham

4. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk  BY  David Sedaris

5. American Assassin   BY  Vince  Flynn

6. Fall of  Giants  BY  Ken  Follett

7. The  Girl Who Kicked  the Hornet’s Nest   BY   Stieg  Larsson

8. Happy Ever After    BY  Nora Roberts

9. Worth Dying For   BY   Lee  Child

10. The DistanHours   BY   Kate Morton

Robert Downey Jr. Was In That? Quiz

Jason and I had our first date night as parents on Saturday night and we went and saw Due Date.  Jason liked it more that I did, but it had its moments.  I am always charmed by Downey and I’ve listed his characters in the order that I like his movies best with a hint (these are only the movies I’ve seen).  Can you identify the movie?  Leave a comment telling me the # and the name of the movie.  No Googling or looking at other commenter’s answers – that’s cheating and no fun!  Play once or every week.  It only takes one correct answer to be eligible for a prize.  You have until Thursday night to submit your answers.

 Each answer worth 5.5 points, with 6.5 points for the bonus question.

Last week’s Thankful Quiz here.  Current Leaderboard here.

1. Kirk Lazarus (2008) also starred Ben Stiller Tropic Thunder

2. Peter Wright (1994) also starred Marisa Tomei  Only You

3. Ian (1985) also starred Anthony Michael Hall  Weird Science

4. Terry Crabtree (2000) also starred Michael Douglas  Wonder Boys

5. Tony Stark (2008, 2010) also starred Gwyneth Paltrow  Iron Man 1 & 2

6. Sherlock Holmes (2009) no more help on this one!  Sherlock Holmes

7. Steve Lopez (2009) also starred Jamie Foxx  The Soloist

8. Paul Avery (2007) also starred Jake Gyllenhaal  Zodiac

9. Peter Highman (2010) also starred Zach Galifianakis  Due Date

10. Joe Wershba (2005) also starred George Clooney  Good Night & Good Luck

11. Wayne Gale (1994) also starred Woody Harrelson  Natural Born Killers

12. Special Agent John Royce (1998) also starred Tommy Lee Jones  US Marshals

13. David Seton Barnes (1991) also starred Sally Field  Soapdish

14. Jack Jericho (1987) also starred Molly Ringwald  The Pick-Up Artist

15. Derek Lutz (1986) also starred Rodney Dangerfield  Back to School

16. Billy Covington (1990) also starred Mel Gibson  Air America

17. Leo Wiggins (1988) also starred Anthony Michael Hall  Johnny Be Good

BONUS QUESTION For what television series did Robert win a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor?  Ally McBeal

Thankful Quiz

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.  I love that it’s all about appreciating what you have and spending time with those you love.  Of course, the day long eating doesn’t hurt either!  Thanksgiving is a few weeks away, but there is never a bad time to be thankful. 

The covers all have something I’m thankful for pictured.  Tell me what I’m thankful for (5 pts.), the title (4 pts.), the author (1 pt.).  You have until Thursday night to submit your answers. I hide your answers until then.

Here are the rules… 1. Open to everyone.  Play once or every week, that’s okay.  I’m happy to have you here today.

2. No cheating.  No googling, other internet searches or looking at other commenter answers.  Yes, we’re going by the honor system

3. Your first answers will be the only ones accepted.

  

  

  

  

  

 

 1. Baby, Gage-Baby,Baby,Baby by Marily Janovich

2. Husband, Jason, Marriage- The Husband by Dean Koontz

3. Dogs, Max- Fool Me Once by Fern Michaels

4. Bed, Sleep- Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons

5. Reading, Books- Silent in the Grave by Deanne Raybourn

6. Home- The Quilter’s Apprentice by Jennifer Chiaverini 

7. Computer, Internet- Holly’s Inbox by Holly Denham

8. Money- Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler

9. Italy, Travel, Vacation- Playing for Pizza

10. Romance- Lake Magic by Kimberly Fisk

Writers in Film Quiz

There are many movies that have writers as main characters.  Let’s see if you can figure them out.  Each movie title is worth 10 points and you have until Thursday night to submit your answers. I hide your answers until then.

Here are the rules… 1. Open to everyone.  Play once or every week, that’s okay.  I’m happy to have you here today.

2. No cheating.  No googling, other internet searches or looking at other commenter answers.  Yes, we’re going by the honor system

3. Your first answers will be the only ones accepted.

Last week’s Gage Quiz here.  Leaderboard here.

1. I mentioned this one in the movie meme yesterday.  The character CK Dexter Haven was writing a story about his ex-wife for a tabloid.  The Philadelphia Story (1940)

2. Diane Lane played a writer who moved to Italy and restored an old house in this movie based on a travel memoir.  Under the Tuscan Sun

3. The Secret Window (2004)

4. This movie about Harper Lee’s famous friend is the story of shocking Kansas murders.  Capote (2005)

5. Gwyneth Paltrow won an Oscar for her role in this film about the Bard.  Shakespeare in Love (1998)

6. Wonder Boys (2000)

7. REDRUM  The Shining (1980)

8. Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor both play writers in this romantic comedy.  Down With Love (2003)

9.  The Hours (2002)

10. In this romantic comedy Luke Wilson’ character hires Kate Hudson’s character to type his manuscript.  Alex & Emma (2003)