Category: Quizzes

Brief First Lines Quiz – guessing closed

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Let’s see if you can guess these classics by their brief first lines.  They are tough – good luck!

No googling or looking at other commenter answers.  Yes, we’re going by the honor system 🙂  Play every week or just one time, you are always welcome 🙂  It only takes once to be eligible for a prize.

1. ”It was a pleasure to burn.” Fahrenheit 451 

2.  “Howard Roark laughed.”  Fountainhead

3.  “It’s hard being left behind.” The Time Traveler’s Wife

4.  “I am an invisible man.”  Invisible Man

5.  “Call me Ishmael.”   Moby Dick

6. “A screaming comes across the sky.”  Gravity’s Rainbow

7. “124 was spiteful.”  Beloved

8.  “All this happened, more or less.”  Slaughterhouse-Five

9. ” I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”  I Capture the Castle

10.  “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”  1984

Think Fast Quiz! – guessing closed

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Guess as many as you can, one or ten. Okay, this week I will give you a word and you tell me the FIRST book title you think of that contains that word.  (or you can take your time and think about what other quiz takers might say)  I will award points based on how many people guess the same title as you – the more people who guess a specific title the more points each person will get.  I get to play this week, yay!

No googling or looking at other commenter answers.  Yes, we’re going by the honor system 🙂  Play every week or just one time, you are always welcome 🙂  It only takes once to be eligible for a prize.

I’ve listed the top vote getters for each word. My favorite was BLUE, only 2 people guessed the same title!

1. RED – The Red Tent (4)

2. ONE – One For the Money (4)

3. TIME – The Time Traveler’s Wife (5)

4. WINTER – Winter’s Garden (4)

5. BLUE – Blue Monday (2)

6. TWO – A Tale of Two Cities (5) & Two for the Dough (5)

7. GIRL – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (7)

8. WHITE – The Woman in White (3)

9. HOUSE – Little House on the Prairie (3)

10. SONG – The Executioner’s Song (3) & Song of Solomon (3)

Answers to last week Snowy quiz here.  Leaderboard and extra stuff here.

Snowy Quiz – guessing closed

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Guess as many as you can, one or ten. Include the name of the author for eextra points.

No googling or looking at other commenter answers.  Yes, we’re going by the honor system 🙂  Play every week or just one time, you are always welcome 🙂  It only takes once to be eligible for a prize.

1.shinThe Shining – Stephen King

 

2.lionThe Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis

3. snThe Snow Child – Eowyn Ivey

4. snoThe Snowman – Jo Nesbo

5.shiShiver – Maggie Stiefvater

 

6. chA Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

 

7.doDoctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak

 

8.chiChill Factor – Sandra Brown

 

9.snoThe Snowy Day – Ezra Jack Keats

 

10.smSmilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Hoeg

Answers to last week Dead Actors quiz here.  Leaderboard and extra stuff here.

Actors Lost in 2014 Quiz – guessing closed

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Here’s the nitty-gritty that I’ll only post this twice 😉

I post the quiz Wednesday before noon and you have until noon on the next Tuesday to submit your answers as a Comment.  I will hide comments on a regular basis.

The winner is the person with the most points at the end of each round (usually 5 months or so) and he or she will win a prize AND I’ll randomly draw a name from the rest of the participants to receive a prize too!  So, you only have to get one question right to be eligible for a prize.

The winner will receive a Barnes & Noble gift card based on how many people participate. 30 participants= $30, 52=$52…So, the eventual winner could be you and you want as many people to guess as possible!

A few rules

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

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

3. Play every week or just one time, you are always welcome 🙂  It only takes once to be eligible for a prize.

Okay, now that  all of that is out of the way let’s get started.  Let’s see if you know any of these actors who died in 2014.  I’m giving you their initials and one of their most famous movies.

Actors lost in 2014 

1. R.W. – Mrs. Doubtfire, Good Morning Vietnam  Robin Williams

2. S.T. – Bright Eyes, The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer   Shirley Temple

3. P.S.H. – Capote, The Hunger Games movies (died while filming)   Philip Seymour Hoffman

4. M.R. – National Velvet, Boys Town   Mickey Rooney

5. H.R. – Ghostbusters, Stripes   Harold Ramis

6. L.B. – The Big Sleep, Key Largo   Lauren Bacall

7. J.G. – Rockford Files (TV), Murphy’s Romance   James Garner

8. E.W. – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Two Jakes   Eli Wallach

9. R.A. – Miracle on 34th Street, Jurassic Park   Richard Attenborough

10. B.H. – Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Super Mario Bros.   Bob Haskins

Good luck!  Answers to last week’s Dead Authors Quiz here.

Writers Lost in 2014 Quiz – guessing closed

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Another year and another year of QUIZZES, this being  the 6th year of Quizzes here at Stacy’s Books.  If you haven’t already, I hope you’ll join in this year.  The more the merrier (and the more fun).

Here’s the nitty-gritty that I’ll only post this once.

I post the quiz Wednesday before noon and you have until noon on the next Tuesday to submit your answers as a Comment.  I will hide comments on a regular basis.

The winner is the person with the most points at the end of each round (usually 5 months or so) and he or she will win a prize AND I’ll randomly draw a name from the rest of the participants to receive a prize too!  So, you only have to get one question right to be eligible for a prize.

The winner will receive a Barnes & Noble gift card based on how many people participate. 30 participants= $30, 52=$52…So, the eventual winner could be you and you want as many people to guess as possible!

A few rules

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

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

3. Play every week or just one time, you are always welcome 🙂  It only takes once to be eligible for a prize.

Okay, now that  all of that is out of the way let’s get started.  Let’s see if you know any of these writers who died in 2014.

Writers lost in 2014

1. This Columbian Nobel Prize winner died in Mexico City at the age of 87 and 100 years of mourning commenced.  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

2. This caged bird lived 86 years and was the first poet to recite a poem at a Preisdential Inauguration since Robert Frost and she wrote seven very successful autobiographies.   Maya Angelou

3. Best known for young adult literature, this fallen angel wrote over 100 books and won the Coretta Scott King Award  for African-American authors five times.   Walter Dean Myers

4. Phyllis was a British mystery author, well-known for her series about a Scotland Yard police commissioner and poet.   PD James

5. (pic) IMG_1959[1]This British author wrote and illustrated this beloved kids book series.  Or you can give me the name of the other kids book author who wrote a series about a big red dog.   Eric Hill and Norman Bridwell

6. This late bloomer knew where the heart was as soon as Oprah chose her first book.  She only wrote three more before her death at 76.  Billie Letts

7. This South African activist and author became one of July’s people when she died at the age of 90.   Nadine Gordimer

8. His plain(song) novels were all set in Holt, Colorado.   Kent Haruf

9. This British author helped create the romantic suspense genre with her gothic romances and her Merlin series.  She went on to the crystal cave at 97.   Mary Stewart

10. This ex-American spy won the National Book Award in both fiction and non-fiction before passing away at the age of 86.  Now the snow leopard is travelling through snow country.   Peter Matthiessen

Thanksgiving Quiz

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quizFor the last quiz of 2014 you just need to fill in the titles with words associated with Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday.  Extra points if you can tell me the author!

Take your best guesses, be entered to win a prize – you only need one correct answer to be eligible for 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 by Tuesday afternoon.

1. The Cat Who Talked ______

2. A Moveable _____

3. So Long, and _____ For All the Fish

4. Dress Your _____ in Corduroy and Denim

5. _____’s Progress

6. 44 _____ Point

7. What’s _____Gilbert Grape

8. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time _____

9. The _____ _____ Queens’ Book of Love

10. The Sisterhood of the _____ Pants

Answers to last week’s Recognize Me? Quiz here.

Recognize Me? Quiz – guessing closed

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quizYesterday, I saw a display of celebrity autobiographies/memoirs and thought it would be fun to see which ones you recognize. They may not be new books but all of the actors and actresses are still alive.  I just need the names (not titles).

Take your best guesses, be entered to win a prize – you only need one correct answer to be eligible for 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 by Tuesday afternoon.

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Rob Lowe & Alison Arngrim

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Tina Fey & Valerie Harper

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Dick Van Dyke & Tracy Morgan

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Tim Gunn & Julie Andrews

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Phil Robertson & Jane Lynch

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Todd Bridges & Betty White

How well do you know your Jane Austen Quiz – guessing closed

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quizIt’s Jane Austen time!  Tell me which books the quotes are from.

Take your best guesses, be entered to win a prize – you only need one correct answer to be eligible for 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 by Tuesday afternoon.

Each of her 6 completed books is on the list twice.

1. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”  Pride & Prejudice

2. “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope…I have loved none but you.”  Persuasion

3. “I cannot make speeches…If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”   Emma

4. “I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”   Pride & Prejudice

5. “Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”  Mansfield Park

6. “Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?”   Sense & Sensibility

7. “Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.”   Emma

8. “Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.”   Northanger Abbey

9. “Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.”   Persuasion

10. “I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.”   Sense & Sensibility

11. “Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language – a something between compliments and – and love – to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?”   Mansfield Park

12. “Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”   Northanger Abbey

 

Answers to last weeks Picoult quiz here.

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Jodi Picoult by the Numbers Quiz – guessing closed

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quizI was looking up something for another quiz and got caught up in Picoult’s world for a bit so I thought I’d how much you all know. NO CHEATING!

Take your best guesses, be entered to win a prize – you only need one correct answer to be eligible for 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 by Tuesday afternoon.

1. How many books has Jodi written?  18, 20, or 23?

2. Which book was about a school shooting? 19 Minutes

3. How many months does it take her to write a book?  6. 9, or 12?

4. What does she consider her favorite of her books?  Second Glance

5. How many kids does she have?  3

6 & 7.  She starts her day at 5:30 with a 3 mile walk.

8. What was her first novel published in 1992?  Songs of the Humpback Whale

9-12.picoultOnly one of these has a number in the title but you’ll get points for all you know 🙂

The Tenth Circle

The Pact

Vanishing Acts

Perfect Match

Bestseller to Box Office Quiz – guessing closed

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quizSo many great books have become movies so far this year.  Let’s see wht you can figure out from Goodreads description of the book – no cheating!

Take your best guesses, be entered to win a prize – you only need one correct answer to be eligible for 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 by Tuesday afternoon.

1. Is the heart-rending story of two small-town former high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks. Now middle-aged, they’ve taken wildly divergent paths, but neither has lived the life they imagined . . . and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever altered their world.   The Best of Me

2. Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.   The Fault in Our Stars

3. When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone.   Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade.  The Maze Runner

4. On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River.    Gone Girl

5. The death of Judd Foxman’s father marks the first time that the entire Foxman family—including Judd’s mother, brothers, and sister—have been together in years. Conspicuously absent: Judd’s wife, Jen, whose fourteen-month affair with Judd’s radio-shock-jock boss has recently become painfully public.  Simultaneously mourning the death of his father and the demise of his marriage, Judd joins the rest of the Foxmans as they reluctantly submit to their patriarch’s dying request: to spend the seven days following the funeral together.   This is Where I Leave You

6. Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind?  Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, and in an instant, everything changes. Suddenly, all the choices are gone, except one. And it’s the only one that matters.   If I Stay

7. Jonas’s world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the Community. When Jonas turns twelve, he is singled out to receive special training.  The Giver

8. In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue–Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is–she can’t have both.   Divergent

9. New York City is subsumed in arctic winds, dark nights, and white lights, its life unfolds, for it is an extraordinary hive of the imagination, the greatest house ever built, and nothing exists that can check its vitality. One night in winter, Peter Lake, orphan and master-mechanic, attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side.  Though he thinks the house is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the love between Peter Lake, a middle-aged Irish burglar, and Beverly Penn, a young girl, who is dying.   Winter’s Tale

10. St. Vladimir’s Academy isn’t just any boarding school—it’s a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They’ve been on the run, but now they’re being dragged back to St. Vladimir’s—the very place where they’re most in danger. . . .   Vampire Academy