Category: Quizzes

Cry Me a Quiz

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You guys rock!  Thanks for playing 🙂

I avoid books that I think will make me cry, but occasionally one will sneak up on me 🙂  These are all books that have caused me to shed a tear or two. See full size image

Here’s how to play…Identify the book and leave a comment with the # and the title and I’ll cross it off the list. No Googling, that’s cheating and no fun!

1.  My sister is sick, really sick, and my mom expects me to do whatever necessary to make her well.  But no one has ever asked me what I want.    My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult, Kathy

2. I didn’t know that a boy and a girl could be best friends and I didn’t know nine year olds could die.  Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson, Megan

3. Even though I’m gone, those I left behind are still struggling to come to terms with my murder.  The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, Heather

4. Harry would never be the same after watching me die and neither would my faithful friends reading back home.  Harry Potter & the Halkf-Blood Prince by JK Rowling, Barbara

5. Every animal should be so lucky to live on a farms with friends.  Especially one who can weave a message.  Charlotte’s Web by EB White, Heather

6. Many lovers in the doghouse have tried my famous line, “Love means never having to say your sorry.”  I wonder if anyone would have paid attention if I hadn’t died.  Love Story by Erich Segal, Margot

7.My Dad slaughter pigs to support me and my family.  I had to grow up way too soon on that Vermont farm way back when.  A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck, Mark

8. For a little while it looked like I had died and my human parents were distraught, but they should have known that a dog intelligent enough to be named Einstein would find a way to live.  Watchers by Dean Koontz, Debbie

9. Dobby’s death snuck up on me and I was surprised at how much his sacrifice would mean to me.  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling, Barbara

10. None of us wants to face our own mortality, but this college professor did it with dignity and a desire to leave his mark.  The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, Thoughts of Joy

Is there a book that has made you cry?

Hail to the Chief Quiz

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These are all facts I found in the Presidential Leadership book I reviewed yesterday.  The answers are all ex-Presidents. 

Here’s how to play…Identify the President and leave a comment with the # and the name and I’ll cross it off the list. No Googling, that’s cheating and no fun! 

1.  What two Presidents died on the same day, July 4, 1826?  JOHN ADAMS & THOMAS JEFFERSON, Mark

2. Who was the victim of the first Presidential assassination attempt?  ANDREW JACKSON, Janet

3. Who was the first President born after the adoption of the Constitution, essentially the first President born a U.S. citizen?  JOHN TYLER, Mark

4. Who was our only bachelor President?  JAMES BUCHANAN, Mark

5. First American President to be impeached?  ANDREW JOHNSON, Mark

6. Which President was the author of 35 books?  TEDDY ROOSEVELT, Mark

7. Who was the only President to serve  two terms and then serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ?  WILLIAM TAFT, Mark

8. Who was the only President never elected either president or vice president?  GERALD FORD, Mark

9. Before he was elected President he had never voted or held an elective office.  ZACHARY TAYLOR, Mark

10.  He was the only President with a doctorate although modern biographers suspect he suffered from dyslexia.  WOODROW WILSON, Mark

Alternate Bestsellers Quiz

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Here’s how to play…Identify the correct title of these fiction bestsellers. I’ve  included the author’s initials to help you out.  Leave a comment with the # and the answer and I’ll cross it off the list. No Googling, that’s cheating and no fun!

These are all current fiction bestsellers.

1.Real Private Eyes.  JK  TIME DETECTIVES by Jonathan Kellerman

2. Manage With Responsibility.  JP  Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult, Megan

3. The  Colleague. JG  The Associate by John Grisham

4. Flee for your Existence. JP & ML  Run for Your Life by James Patterson – Janet

5. Vows in Passing. JDR   PROMISES IN DEATH by J D Robb

6. Pariah. AA  OUTCAST by Aaron Allston

7. The Party-Giver. SM  The Host by Stephenie Meyer – the word jar

8. Privateer.  CC  CORSAIR by Clive Cussler

9. Quest. KR  PURSUIT by Karen Robards

10. Fulfillment Pier. AP  EXECUTUIN DOCK by Anne Perry

11. Ticker and Spirit. MB  Heart & Soul by Maeve Binchy – Janet

12. The Lengthy Decline.  WM  THE LONG FALL by Walter Mosley

13. Darkness and Sun. RBP  NIGHT & DAY by Robert B Parker

14. Perished Hush. RWW  DEAD SILENCE by Randy Wayne White

15. The Island Well-Versed and Spud Skin League. MAS & AB  The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows – Kathy

First Lines Quiz

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Here’s how to play…Identify the first lines of these famous novels by telling me what book it’s from.  Leave a comment with the # of the first line and the title of the book and I’ll cross it off the list.  No Googling, that’s cheating and no fun!   Last chance to earn entries in the giveaway.

HINT:  These books are all on my Top 100 list.

1.  “It wasn’t a very likely place for disappearances, at least at first glance.”  Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, LuAnn

2. “I was stunned by Mary Karr’s memoir, The Liars’ Club.”  On Writing by Stephen King

3. “The small boys came early to the hanging.” The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, Jane

4. “The last class of my old professor’s life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves.”  Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom, Nicole

5. “A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head.” A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

6. A mile above Oz, the Witch balanced on the wind’s forward edge, as if she were a green fleck of the land itself, flung up and sent wheeling away by the turbulent air.”  Wicked by Gregory Maguire, Kathy

7. My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie.”  The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, the word jar

8. You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don’t”  Lamb by Christopher Moore, Donna S

9. Howard Roark laughed.”  The Fountainhead by Ayne Rand, Tonya

10. The naked child ran out of the hide-covered lean-to toward the rocky beach at the bend in the small river.”  Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel

What Book is That? Quiz

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I am very impressed with you all!  I’ll do this one again in a few weeks.  Extra entries for Nicole (2), Wrighty (4), and Jessica.

I thought I’d do something a little different this week.  I was doing some shifting of books this weekend and was admiring some of the fun covers.  Can you identify these books by their censored titles?  Leave a comment with the number, title and author.  If you are the first one to get it right you will earn an extra entry in my book giveaway.  If you can get them all that would be a lot of entries!

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1.  The Quilter’s Apprentice by Jennifer Chiaverini, Nicole

2. The Little Friend by Donna Tartt, Heather

3. The Shop on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber, Wrighty 

4. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, Heather

5. Skipping Christmas by John Grisham, Jessica

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6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Nicole

7.  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling, Wrighty

8.  The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, Wrighty

9. Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella, Heather

10. Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz, Wrighty

Do I need to make them bigger?

Green Title Quiz

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VERY IMPRESSIVE!  Entries for Kaye, Sandy, LuAnn, Kathy, Margot, Mary, and Vania in the Mary Doria Russell Giveaway

I HAVE A GIVEAWAY STARTING ON FRIDAY.  IF YOU ARE THE FIRST ONE WITH A CORRECT ANSWER YOU WILL EARN AN EXTRA ENTRY.

In honor of St Patrick’s Day tomorrow, the answers will all have the festive color in the title.  I’m only going to list the author and see if you can guess the GREEN title. These are all novels.   I’ll add hints tomorrow if no one get them.

Here’s how to play…Identify the title and leave a comment with the # and the name and I’ll cross it off the list. No Googling, that’s cheating and no fun!

1.L.M. Montgomery  —  Anne of Green Gables, Kaye

2. Jan Karon — These High, Green Hills, Janet

3. JRR Tolkien  —  Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, Pearl & Sir Orfeo, Sandy

4. Christopher Buckley  —  Little Green Men, LuAnn

5. James Patterson with Peter deYoung  —  Miracle on the 17th Green, Kathy

6. Stephen King —  The Green Mile, Jason

7. Fannie Flagg —  Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe, Margot

8. Alice Hoffman — Green Angel, Mary

9. Judy Bloom  —  One in the Middle is the Green Kangeroo, Vania

10. Dr. Seuss —  Green Eggs & Ham, Janet

What Woman Am I?

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Megan topped the list with 3 correct!  Thanks for playing 🙂

It’s Women’s History Month, so see if you know these women authors.
Here’s how to play…Identify the author and leave a comment with the # and the name and I’ll cross it off the list. No Googling, that’s cheating and no fun!

1. I was a successful playwright and had a 30-year love affair with author Dashiell Hammett?  Lillian Hellman, Nicole

2. I was 21 when I finished the first version of my now popular novel. It was titled First Impressions. I rewrote it fourteen years later and changed the title using alliteration.  Jane Austen, Megan

3. I was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for Beloved.  Toni Morrison, Kathy

4. I was considered the first female poet in the American colonies. – ANNE BRADSTREET

5. I’m the British author who finished my most famous novel, translated to screen many times, at the age of 19 and died in 1851 at the age of 53 of a probable brain tumor.  Mary Shelley, Mark

6. I am the last woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction for my novel Interpreter of Maladies. Jhumpa Lahiri, Megan

7. We are noteworthy sisters who also wrote under the names Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. the Bronte sisters, ‘Nise  Does anyone know our names? Charlote, Emily, and…Anne

8. I am Chile born, but became a US citizen in 2003. I write in the magic realism tradition. A few of my novels are on Stacy’s Top 100 list 🙂  Isabel Allende, Nicole

9. I was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921 with my novel about innocence.  Edith Wharton, Megan

10. I am the highest paid author in the world.  JK Rowling, Kathy

Most Notable Black Writers Quiz

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Here’s how to play…Identify the author and leave a comment with the # and the name and I’ll cross it off the list. No Googling, that’s cheating and no fun! 

1. She was born Marguerite Johnson and became the first woman San Francisco streetcar conductor, but she is well known for her poetry and especially the first volume in her autobiography about caged birds.  Maya Angelou, Mark

2. After his 20 year career in the Coast Guard he wrote a book about Roots and also an autobiography about someone else, let’s call him X.  Alex Haley, Kathy

3. He published only one novel during his lifetime (about a man who wasn’t there) and it won the National Book Award in 1953.  Ralph Ellison, Jason

4. He has written a series of best-selling mysteries featuring detective Easy Rawlins- played by Denzel Washington in the movie.  Walter Mosley

5. In 1937 she published her most famous book (about watching God), but because of money problems she was buried in an unmarked grave in Florida.  Zora Neale Hurston

6. He was the grandson of the first black American elected to public office in 1855 and his first published poem ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ was also his most famous.  Langston Hughes

7. When she was eight she lost the sight in one eye when one of her brothers shot her with a bb gun, but that didn’t stop her from winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for a book about a color.  Alice Walker

8. He was a Pentecostal preacher when he was still a teen, but left the church when his writing began exploring sexuality; his novel about telling it on the mountain was semi-autobiographical.  James Baldwin

9. She was the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 and her novel  about a loved one won the Pulitzer in 1988.  Toni Morrison

10. He just won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2004 in novel about a world we all know.  Edward P Jones

Oscar Winning Quotes Quiz

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Thanks for participating!  10 out 15 is not too bad!

The Oscars are next Sunday.  I looked through the list of past Best Picture winners and chose my favorite 15.  Let’s see if you can guess them by the quotes from the movies I chose.

Here’s how to play…Identify these Best Picture Oscar winning movies and leave a comment with the # and movie,  and I’ll cross it off the list. No Googling, that’s cheating and no fun!  To help you out these are in chronological order (the first one winning an Oscar in the 1930′ s and the last one winning in the 2000’s)

1. “What she needs is a guy that’d take a sock at her once a day, whether it’s coming to her or not.  If you had half the brains you’re supposed to have, you’d have done it yourself long ago.”  It Happened One Night (1934 winner)

2. “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”  Casablanca (1943 winner), Mark

3. “You gotta hand it to the Navy; they sure trained that kid how to use those hooks.”

    “They couldn’t train him to put his arms around his girl, or to stroke her hair.”  The Best Years of Our Lives (1946 winner), Hockee

4. “You’re maudlin and full of self-pity.  You’re magnificent!”  All About Eve (1950 winner)

5. “A word to you about escape.  There is no barbed. No stockade.  No watchtower.  They are not necessary.  We are an island in the jungle.  Escape is impossible.  You would die.”  The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957 winner)

6. “The mirror…it’s broken.”

    “Yes I know.  I like it that way.  Makes me look the way I feel.”  The Apartment (1960 winner)

7. “The best of them won’t come for money; they’ll come for me.”  Lawrence of Arabia (1962 winner)

8. “Where the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.”  The Sound of Music (1965 winner), Kathy

9. “Leave the gun.  Take the canolies.”  The Godfather (1972 winner), Don

10. “I think we make a real sharp couple of coconuts- I’m dumb, you’re shy, whaddaya think, huh?” Rocky (1976 winner), Hockee

11. “Bob, I gotta bad feeling on this one all right?  I mean I gotta bad feeling!  I don’t think I”m gonna make it outta here!  D’ya understand what I’m sayin’ to you?

    “Everybody gotta die some time, Red.”  Platoon (1986 winner), Hockee

12. “I’m an excellent driver.”  Rain Man (1988 winner), Hockee

13. “I do wish we could chat longer, but I’m having an old friend for dinner.”  The Silence of the Lanbs (1991 winner), Mark

14. “But we have the white wizard.  That’s got to count for something.”  Lord of the Rings:Return of the King (2003 winner), Tonya

15. “It’s the sense of touch.  In any real city, you walk, you know?  You brush past each other, people bump into you.  In L.A. nobody touches you.  We’re always behind this metal and glass.  I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so that we can feel something.” Crash (2005 winner), Jason