Category: Quizzes

Ready for Spring Quiz – guessing closed

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Let’s see if you can identify these 10 book covers.  I only need the titles.  You’ll get an extra 10 points if you tell me what they all have in common.

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.

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1. A Hundred Summers-Beatriz Williams

2. I Always Loved You-Kirsty Moseley

3. The Gods of Heavenly Punishment-Jennifer Cody Epstein

4. Tigers in Red Wether-Liza Klaussmann

5. The Devil I Know-Claire King

6. English Tea Murder-Leslie Meier

7. Ladies’ Night Out-Mary Kay Andrews

8. Murder Melts in Your Mouth-Nancy Martin

9.He’s Gone-Deb Caletti

10.The Secret of the Nightengale Palace-Dana Sachs

Answers to last week’s Weighty Quiz here.   Details and Leaderboard here.

Weighty Issue Quiz – guessing closed

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In 2010 I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy and also became the not-so-proud owner of an extra 40 pounds.  This is the year I’ve decided to get rid of 30 of those pounds.  It’s too hard for me to be the mother I want to be with the extra weight.  I’ve lost 10 pounds so far and can fit back into one old pair of jeans, only 10 or so more pairs to go 😉  I’ve been too skinny and I’ve been obese (according to those stupid BMI people) and I’m shooting for somewhere in the middle.  It’s not vanity but a health thing – Gage needs me around for a long while and I need to quit stress eating at the drive-thru.

Let’s see if you can match these fictinoal characters who have all struggled with their weight or body images issues and the books you find their stories in.

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. Cannie Shapiro          C. Good in Bed

2. Truly Plaice               E. The Little Giant of Aberdeen County

3. Minerva Dobbs          D. Bet Me

4. Heather Wells           F. Size 12 is Not Fat

5. Benny Hogan           A.Circle of Friends

6. Dolores Price             I. She’s Come Undone

7. Ignatius Reilly            J. The Confederacy of Dunces

8. Holly Brennan           B. Big Girl Panties

9. Arthur Opp                 G. Heft

10. Edie Middlestein       H. The Middlesteins

Answers to last weeks Sports Quiz here.   Details and Leaderboard here.

Sports Movie Quiz – guessing closed

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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 🙂

Tell me what sports movie each quote is from.

1.  If you build it, he will come.  Field of Dreams

2. Wax on, right hand. Wax off, left hand. Wax on, wax off. Breathe in through nose, out the mouth. Wax on, wax off. Don’t forget to breathe, very important.  The Karate Kid

[walks away, still making circular motions with hands]

3.  [preparing to dynamite the gopher tunnel] In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, ‘Au revoir, gopher’.  Caddyshack

4. In Virginia, high school football is a way of life, it’s bigger than Christmas day. My daddy coached in Alexandria, he worked so hard my momma left him, but I stayed with coach, he needed me on that field.   Remember the Titans

5. Welcome to Indiana basketball.  Hoosiers

6. You’re 5 foot nothin’, 100 and nothin’, and you have barely a speck of athletic ability. And you hung in there with the best college football players in the land for 2 years. And you’re gonna walk outta here with a degree from the University of Notre Dame. In this life, you don’t have to prove nothin’ to nobody but yourself. And after what you’ve gone through, if you haven’t done that by now, it ain’t gonna never happen. Now go on back.   Rudy

7.  Are you crying? Are you crying? ARE YOU CRYING? There’s no crying! THERE’S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!  A League of Their Own

8. These are the ground rules. I hook up with one guy a season. Usually takes me a couple weeks to pick the guy – kinda my own spring training. And, well, you two are the most promising prospects of the season so far, so I just thought we should kinda get to know each other.   Bull Durham

9. All I’m saying, mon, is if we walk Jamaican, talk Jamaican, and *is* Jamaican, then we sure as hell better bobsled Jamaican.  Cool Runnings

10.  ADRIAN!  Rocky

Happy guessing!

Details and leaderboard  here.  Last week’s sibling quiz here.

Sibling Quiz – guessing closed

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In yesterday’s mailbox post I said that author Laura Moriarty was the sister of  Liane Moriarty and Sheree thankfully pointed out that I was wrong.   Australian Laine has two sisters, but they are Nicola and Jaclyn.  Oops! But it did give me the inspiration for this quiz about siblings!

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 :)

I’m giving you the fictional family name and how many siblings there are and you fill in the names.  If you tell me what book they’re from you’ll earn 2 extra points 🙂  Don’t worry-I’ve provided all the names you need at the bottom.  You just need to put them in the right spot!

March (4)  Jo, Meg, Beth, Amy (Little Women)

Bennett (5)  Elizabeth, Jane, Mary, Catherine, Lydia (Pride & Prejudice)

Everdeen (2)  Katniss, Primrose (The Hunger Games)

Pevensie (4)  Peter, Edmund, Susan, Lucy (The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe)

Lear (3)  Goneril, Regan, Cordelia (King Lear)

Boatwright (3)  August, June, May (The Secret Life of Bees)

Finch (2)  Scout, Jem  (To Kill a Mockingbird)

Dashwood (3)  Elinor, Marianne, Margaret  (Sense & Sensibility)

Weasley (7)  Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, Ron, Ginny  (Harry Potter series)

Fitzgerald (3)  Anna, Kate, Jesse (My Sister’s Keeper)

Siblings-Katniss, Elizabeth, Jo, Lucy, Elinor, Marianne, Scout, Ginny, Anna, Kate, Meg, Jane, Jem, Goneril, August, Regan, Peter, Edmund, Amy, Beth, Primrose, May, June, Cordelia, Bill, Charlie, Percy, Lydia, Mary, Jesse, Margaret, Fred, George, Catherine, Ron, Susan

Happy Guessing! Answers to last week’s Cover Me quiz here. Leaderboard here.

Cover Me Quiz – guessing closed

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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 :)

As the final wrap up to last year (yes, I know it’s February already!) I just want to see if you can recognize a few covers from last year’s books.  I know the book mark spoilers make it more difficult!

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1.The Apple Orchard by Susan Wiggs  2.Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen  3.The Engagements by J Courtney Sullivan  4.The Last Word by Lisa Lutz  5.MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood  6.Inferno by Dan Brown  7.Identical by Scott Turow  8.The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty  9.Daddy’s Gone A Hunting by Mary Higgins Clark  10.Looking for Me by Beth Hoffman

Happy guessing!

Tuesday Quizzes are back – so who died? – guessing closed

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It’s another year of quizzes!  After some consideration I am going to keep the format pretty much the same as before, except I may decided to give away more random prizes to participants.  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.

Every year the first quiz is  about the authors who died the year before. I know my clues may be vague, but I think I helped with at least one title reveal.  You’re welcome 🙂

Leave your guesses in the comment section.  You only need to guess one to be eligible for a prize 🙂

Writers lost in 2013

1. This master of dialogue died at his home in Michigan at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke in July.  I home he’s enjoying his Rum Punch wherever he is. Elmore Leonard

2. This 47-year-old died after a 3 year cancer battle.  Mitch Rapp is now alone in his fight against terrorism.  Vince Flynn

3. This British author “was the eleventh woman and the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature”.  She died at 94 ,perhaps her Golden Notebook close at hand.  Doris Lessing

4. This Scottish author died at 59 after a very short cancer fight.  He missed seeing The Quarry in print by weeks.  Iain Banks

5. He he became the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction before collapsing of a heart attack at age 62.  I hope the Mambo Kings are Playing Songs of Love for him.  Oscar Hijuelos

6. This 85-year-old priest wrote more than 120 books, including at least 10 steamy novels making the  New York Times bestseller list.  I hope he’s enjoying a sip of Irish Whiskey with the angels.  Andrew Greeley

7.  This author/illustrator was one of five writers to win two Newbery Medals before dying at 83 of a stoke.  I hope The View From Saturday is a good one.  EL Konigburg

8. This conservative political thriller heavyweight wrote 17 bestsellers before he died at home in Baltimore, where he was part owner of his beloved Orioles.  The Hunt for Red October still goes on.  Tom Clancy

9. Before her death at 69,  this long-time romance writer, the first American Harlequin author, admitted to plagiarized Nora Roberts.  My Americana series remained intact.  Janet Dailey

10. This sci-fi author and screenwriter died at his home on Los Angeles at the age of 87.  He is, indeed, Legend.  Richard Matheson

Happy Guessing!

We have a QUIZ WINNER!

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For this last round of 2013 we have a winner and its….

Hannah!!!  (Word Lily)

Congratulations on a well played quiz season 🙂  You have won a $27 gift card to Barnes & Noble just in time for some holiday shopping 🙂

And Gage did choose a winner from the rest of the participants and I took a picture, but you can’t see who he chose from the pic. Oh well, next time I’ll be a better photographer.  The winner of the special prize from me is….

Ali (worducopia)

A gift will soon be on its way 🙂

I want to thank you all for playing along with me.  I hope to do some new things with the quizzes in 2014 so you might as well get really excited now.  They’ll be back on Tuesdays sometime in January.

Actors Lost in 2013 Quiz – guessing closed

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With the death of Paul Walker over the weekend, I thought for this possibly last quiz of the year I’d have you remember the other actors that were lost this year.  I’m giving you their names I want you to put them in order of their age at death.  This would be an easy one to cheat one, RESIST the temptation 🙂  Leaderboard here.

Paul Walker (famous for Fast & Furious movies), Cory Monteith (played the popular Finn on television’s Glee), James Gandolfini (made his mark as The Sopranos mob boss), Annette Funicello (of Mickey Mouse Club fame), Jean Stapleton (the long suffering Edith Bunker on All in the Family), Jonathan Winters (a comedian who I’ll always remember as baby Mearth on TV’s Mork and Mindy), Dennis Farina (was in lots of films, but also spent a few years as a detective Law & Order), Eileen Brennan (this funny actress got around but I loved her as Goldie Hawn’s foil in Private Benjamin), Esther Williams (known as the Million Dollar Mermaid), Lee Thompson Young (first role on Disney’s The Famous Jett Jackson his last role as Rizzoli’s partner on TNTs Rizzoli & Isles)

29  Lee Thompson Young

31  Cory Monteith

40  Paul Walker

51  James Gandolfini

69  Dennis Farina

70  Annette Funicello

80  Eileen Brennan

87  Jonathan Winters

90  Jean Stapleton

91  Esther Williams

Easy as Two Quiz – guessing closed

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I like a clean title just as much as the next reader.  Let’s see if you can put these two-word titles together. There are 14 titles. Oh, and the sixth word down on the first list is LOST.

I hope that you’ll try your hand at my (mostly) bookish quizzes every week, but it’s okay if you just want to play when the quiz interests you. If you play you are eligible for a prize at the end of the round. For all of the details, click here. Submit your answers in the comment section – I will stop by and hide them throughout the week but try not to copy off anyone else :)  You have til Sunday to guess.

No need to know all the answers, one guess and you’ll be eligible for a prize. No Googling!

IMG_4294Cloud Atlas, Killing Floor, Survival Lessons, Watership Down, Joy School, Lost Symbol, Wuthering Heights, Howard’s End, Backseat Saints, Still Life, Love Story, Revolutionary Road, One Day, Case Histories

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Answers to last Political Unreality quiz here.  Leaderboard here.

Political Unreality Quiz – guessing closed

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I was hoping to post this last Tuesday, on election day, but like most things political, nothing happens as fast as it should.  Let’s see how well you do with these classic political dystopias.

I hope that you’ll try your hand at my (mostly) bookish quizzes every week, but it’s okay if you just want to play when the quiz interests you. If you play you are eligible for a prize at the end of the round. For all of the details, click here. Submit your answers in the comment section – I will stop by and hide them throughout the week but try not to copy off anyone else :)  You have til Sunday to guess.

No need to know all the answers, one guess and you’ll be eligible for a prize. No Googling!

Match these titles with one of the main character’s names.

1. Brave New World     E. John the Savage          

2. Fahrenheit 451      A. Guy Montag  

3. Blindness     B. doctor’s wife  

4. V is for Vendetta      H. Evey Hammond

5. Atlas Shrugged      F. Dagny Taggart

6. The Handmaid’s Tale      D. Offred

7. Animal Farm         C. Napoleon 

8. The Children of Men       G. Dr. Theodore Faron

And can you name these two?

IMG_41871984 by George Orwell and The Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Happy guessing 🙂