Category: Quizzes

It’s as American as apple pie QUIZ! – guessing closed

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quizReady for another round of quizzes?  I haven’t got as many in the draft folder as I’d like, but I’m excited to start again!  I do have a favor to ask. I know many of you like the quizzes (it’s always one of the things that get mentioned  first in an email) but my number of participants has gone down.  If you like them but don’t want to take part could you please spread the word so your friends might join in too?  Thanks so much for humoring my quizmaking ways 🙂

Okay, let’s get started!  An American themed quiz.

Take your best guesses, be entered to win a prize.  No cheating (using the web to help find answers) or copying.  You have til Sunday to enter.  All extra details can be found here.

Leave your guesses in the comment section.  

1. Who is the best selling American author of all-time? both would be acceptable because I think several places still have Robbins listed, but it is save to say that the winner is Danielle Steel with over 120 books totalling anywhere from $500-800 million in sales.

   A.Stephen King

   B. Danielle Steel

   C. Nora Roberts

   D. Harold Robbins

2. The Hornet’s Nest, a novel of the Revolutionary War, was written by which U.S. President?  Jimmy Carter

3. Who is the last American author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?  Toni Morrison, 1993 for Beloved

Give me these titles…

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4.Jamie’s America (Jamie Oliver)  5.American By Choice (Craig Ferguson)  6.The Execution (Dick Wolf)  7.The Traitor’s Wife (Allison Pataki  8.America (Daily Show)  9.Ragtime (EL Doctorow)  10. North and South (John Jakes)

Happy Guessing!

Girls Rock Quiz – guessing closed

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For the last quiz of this round (we’ll start again in July) I want you to match the actress with the movie she starred in.  Please just go by looks alone.  If you don’t recognize the actress, NO reverse searches.  You don’t need to know the actress name to answer,  just use the number.

Sadly, I have only seen one of these movies.  Tell me how many you’ve seen and if it’s more than me you’ll get extra points!

Take your best guesses, be entered to win a prize.  No cheating (using the web to help find answers) or copying.  You have til Sunday to enter.  All extra details can be found here.

Leave your guesses in the comment section.  

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7.A teenage girl standing tall with three monsters in front of her and a cityscape behind her.

 8. A girl with long, curly red hair stares at the viewer holding a bow and an arrow. Behind her is the film's title while at the left shows a bear staring at her.

9.A man with a frying pan, a girl with long blonde hair, and a white horse.

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Three’s Enough Quiz – guessing closed

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This one may take a few minutes and you may want pen handy.  There are 30 titles listed making 10 trilogies.  Give it your best shot and sort them all out 🙂 An answer might look like this,

1. Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, Fifty Shades Freed.

You may notice that one title is on there twice, it’s the first of one series and the last of another.

Take your best guesses, be entered to win a prize.  No cheating (using the web to help find answers) or copying.  You have til Sunday to enter.  All extra details can be found here.

Leave your guesses in the comment section.  You only need to guess one to be eligible for a prize.   Next week will be the last quiz of this round so get in some points while you still can!

Griffin and Sabine          The Subtle Knife          The Hunger Games          Shiver          Fever          Cities of the Plain          Legend          Tatiana and Alexander          City of Glass          City of Glass          The Golden Mean          Mockingjay          The Golden Compass          The Bronze Horseman          Champion          City of Ashes          Linger           All the Pretty Horses          Burn          The Crossing          Sabine’s Notebook          The Summer Garden          The Amber Spyglass          City of Bones          Breathless          Ghosts          The Locked Room          Forever          Catching Fire          Prodigy

I’ll give you a few hints just to jog your memory (not for cheating purposes!). The authors of these trilogies,

Pullman, Lu, Clare, Collins, Simons, Banks, McCarthy, Bantock, Auster, Stiefvater

Griffin & Sabine trilogy by Nick Bantock  Griffin and Sabine, Sabine’s Notebook, The Golden Mean

His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman   The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass

Bronze Horseman trilogy by Paullina Simons   The Bronze Horseman, Tatiana and Alexander, The Summer Garden

Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins   The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay

Mortal Instrumnents trilogy by Cassandra Clare   City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass

New York trilogy by Paul Auster   City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room

Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy by Maggie Stiefvater   Shiver, Linger, Forever

Border trilogy by Cormac McCarthy   All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain

Breathless trilogy by Maya Banks   Breathless, Fever, Burn

All packed and ready to go Quiz – guessing closed

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It’s May and the sun has finally shown up here.  It’s time to start planning an August trip.  Are you guys going anywhere fun?

Just tell me which covers you recognize.  You get and extra few points if you know the author too.

Take your best guesses, be entered to win a prize.  No cheating (using the web to help find answers) or copying.  You have til Sunday to enter.  All extra details can be found here.

Leave your guesses in the comment section.  

You only need to guess one to be eligible for a prize.

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1. The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin   2. Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole   3. Playing for Pizza by Jogn Grisham   4.What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen   5. The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison   6.The English German Girl by Jake Wallis Simons   7. The Dive from Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer   8.In the Bag by Kate Klise    9. Panorama City by Antoine Wilson    10. Elizabeth the First Wife by Lian Dolan

Answers to last week’s Digned Books quiz here.   Details and Leaderboard here.

S is for Signed Books Quiz – guessing closed

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I’ve done this before, but last week I was able to meet two new-to-me authors at a Library Week event and I wanted to feature them in some way.  I’ve given you a small stack of my signed books and you just have to tell me which book belongs to which author.  There are a few extras in the stack just to make it more interesting.

Take your best guesses, be entered to win a prize.  No cheating (using the web to help find answers) or copying.  You have til Sunday to enter.  All extra details can be found here.

Leave your guesses in the comment section.  

You only need to guess one to be eligible for a prize.

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1.Christina Bartolomeo (Cupid & Diana)   2.Daniel Levin (The Last Ember)    3.Susan Elizabeth Phillips (Match Me If You Can)   4.Harlan Coben (Promise Me)   5.Taylor Stevens (The Doll)   6.Tomi Akinyanmi (A Worthy Legacy)   7.Sophie Jordan (Foreplay)   8.Leah Stewart (Husband and Wife)   9. Les Roberts (Pepper Pike)   10.Jay Crownover (Rome)

G Quiz – guessing closed

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Blogging from A to Z

How many of these titles and/or authors can you name?

Take your best guesses, be entered to win a prize.  No cheating (using the web to help find answers) or copying.  You have til Sunday to enter.  All extra details can be found here.

Leave your guesses in the comment section.  

You only need to guess one to be eligible for a prize.

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1. The Lacemakers of Glenmara by Hether Barbieri   2. Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn   3. The Girl You Left Behind by Jo Jo Moyes   4. The Galssblower if Murano by Marina Fiorato   5. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier   6. The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw   7. Children of God by Mary Doria Russell   8. The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon   9. Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani   10. Hello Goodbye by Emily Chenoweth

A is for Audrey’s Absolutely Allen Apartment w/ an Autism Quiz

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Blogging from A to Z

April is Autism Awareness month and as many of you know my son is on the mild side of the spectrum.  People see mild and think everything is okay and they’d be mostly right. It’s been over a year since his diagnosis and he has made so many strides (the school system keeps telling me he doesn’t need what I ask for because he is too high functioning and while that’s nice to hear it is not at all helpful) but equal strides have been made in my thinking and accepting of the diagnosis. We are in a much happier place than we were a year ago, but it has come through hard times and hard work (most of that by Gage).  His story is still being written.

There are quite a few characters in fiction that are on the autism spectrum and that’s this week’s quiz.  See if you can match these titles with their character who is or is most likely on the spectrum.

Take your best guesses, be entered to win a prize.  No cheating (using the web to help find answers) or copying.  You have til Sunday to enter.  All extras can be found here.

Leave your guesses in the comment section.  

You only need to guess one to be eligible for a prize.

1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time (Haddon)   A. Christopher Boone

2. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Foer)       E. Oskar Schell    

3. The Rosie Project  (Simsion)        H. Don Tillman

4. Oryx & Crake (Atwood)          J. Crake    

5. Al Capone Does My Shirts (Choldenko)       I. Natalie Flanagan             

6. Someone Else’s Love Story (Jackson)        G. William Ashe     

7. Marcelo in the Real World (Sandoval)       D. Marcelo Sandoval 

8. House Rules (Picoult)       C. Jacob Hunt    

9. Dear John (Sparks)      F. Alan         

10. Love Anthony    B. Anthony Donatelli 

And as promised, here are my A favorites…

actorAudrey Hepburn

I’ve loved her since my teens and her luminous beauty and graceful spirit still draw me to her movies to this day.  Did you know she is the daughter of a Dutch baroness?   She spent her later years as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and died too young at 63.  My favorite movie of hers is Breakfast at Tiffany’s, one of my all-time faves.  And I really love  Roman Holiday and Two for the Road too, one at the beginning and one at the end of her great career.

bookAbsolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

I have a favorite A title for three different periods of my life and this happens to fit my current state, even though it is a young adult book.  Jason and I listened to the audio read by the author on a road trip and fell in love with it.  Fiction loosely based on Alexie’s life growing up on the Spokane reservation, Junior will steal your heart.  It’s funny and heartbreaking at the same time, not an easy thing to achieve.

authorSarah Addison Allen

I could have just as easily said Jane Austen, but Jane sometimes makes me work for the pay-off and Sarah just lets me have the fun.  I love the lightness and the ease of her writing and the magical element she seamlessly makes a part of the story.  I’ve read all of her books and still consider her first, Garden Spells my favorite.

movieThe Apartment (1960)

This comedy is full of laughs but also has a dark edge to it that makes it stick with you after it’s done.  Lemmon is a nice guy who gets taken advantage of and MacLaine is a naive girl who gets taken advantage of and this bond forms a friendship.  This won a Best Picture Oscar and Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine were also nominated for Oscars.

Lost Quiz with Lost Lake giveaway! – CLOSED

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I mentioned a few weeks ago that I ended up with 2 hardcover copies of the new Sarah Addison Allen book Lost Lake Lost Lake and was going to give one away. Well, now’s the time!  My review will post tomorrow and you can get entries for the giveaway both days.

No cheating (using the web to help find answers) or copying.  You have til Monday (3/31) to enter.  All extras can be found here.

Leave your guesses in the comment section.  

Fill in the titles.  Each GUESS will earn you one entry (and every Correct answer will get you 10 points for the big prize).

 

1. Lost in a Good Book (Fforde)

2. Paradise Lost (Milton)

3. The Lost Symbol (Brown)

4. The Book of Lost Things (Connolly)

5. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent (Alvarez)

6. Lost Memory of Skin (Banks)

7.  Lost Souls (Brite)

8. The Keeper of Lost Causes (Adler-Olsen)

9. Lost Boy Lost Girl (Straub)

10. The Lost City of Z (Grann)

Classic Endings Quiz with a little prize – guessing closed

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Do you recognize these last lines from famous literature?  Just to entice you a bit I’ll be randomly choosing a winner from everyone who has participated in this round.  I picked up this cute little thing last week at a Women’s Night Out event because I love Emerson. I’ll draw a winner next Tuesday. Good Luck!

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Take your best guesses, be entered to win a prize.  No cheating (using the web to help find answers) or copying.  You have til Sunday to enter.  All extras can be found here.

Leave your guesses in the comment section.  

You only need to guess one to be eligible for a prize.

1 .”It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”   A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens

2.  “With the Gardiners, they were always on the most intimate terms. Darcy, as well as Elizabeth, really loved them; and they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them.” – Pride & Prejudice – Austen

3.  “It’s funny. Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”   Catcher in the Rye – Salinger

4.  “But I don’t think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.”   The Color Purple – Walker

5.  “Oh, my girls, however long you live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this.”    Little Women – Alcott

6.  “He turned out the light and went into Jem’s room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.”    To Kill a Mockingbird – Lee

7.  “After all, tomorrow is another day.”    Gone With the Wind – Mitchell

8. “He loved Big Brother.”   1984 – Orwell

9. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”   The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald

10. “Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision.”   To the Lighthouse – Woolf

Answers to last week’s Spring quiz here.   Details and Leaderboard here.