Category: Quizzes

T is for Trilogy Quiz – guessing closed

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Oh, the trilogy.  They seem to me everywhere these days.  Let’s see if you can put these trilogies in the correct order.  (You don’t need the whole title, just enough so I know what you mean)

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 (sometime in June).  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:)

1. Stieg Larsson, author

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked Hornet’s Nest

2. Cormac McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain

3. Philip Pullman

The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass

4. Jennifer Donnelly

The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose, The Wild Rose

5. Tom Rob Smith

Child 44, The Secret Speech, Agent 6

6. Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay

7. William Gibson

Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive

8. Patrick Ness

The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer, Monsters and Men,

9. Kate Mosse

Labyrinth, Sepulchre, Citadel

10. Ally Condie

Matched, Crossed, Reached

Last week’s Name Game quiz here.  Leaderboard here.

N is for the Name Game Quiz – guessing closed

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For some authors, two names are just not enough.  Good luck giving me the first and last names of these authors from the past and present.

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 (sometime in June).  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:)

The past

1. Harriet Beecher Stowe

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. Laura Ingalls Wilder

4. Zora Neale Hurston

5. Edgar Allan Poe

6. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

7. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

8. Louisa May Alcott

The present

9. Sarah Addison Allen

10. Mary/Carol Higgins Clark

11. George R.R. Martin

12. Joyce Carol Oates

13. Randy Wayne White

14. Orson Scott Card

15. Carlos Ruiz Zafon

16. Alexander McCall Smith

Answer’s to last week’s H Quiz here and to my Book Problem Quiz here.  Leaderboard here.

H is for the H Quiz – guessing closed

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It’s a cover quiz 🙂  Just tell me the title (8 points) and author (2 points) of these books that all start with the letter H (the title).

I love when new people play.  It makes you eligible for a special prize and it gives more $ to the winner (details here).  Submit your answers in the comment section by noon Sunday.  I come by and hide answers occasionally so don’t be worried if your guesses disappear 🙂

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1. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

2. The Help by Kathryn Stockett

3. The House of Velvet & Glass by Katherine Howe

4. Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls

5. The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield

6. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genuis by Dave Eggers

7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows by JK Rowling

8. Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman

9. Husband and Wife by Leah Stewart

10. House and Home by Kathleen McCleary

I’m giving you all til Sunday to guess on last week’s quiz for a chance to win a book from my stacks and bragging rights 🙂

Spring Break Fever Quiz – guessing closed

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I’m guessing I’m not the only one looking out my window at a yard full of snow.  In spring.  (sigh)  It’s Spring Break time around here and most of the kids I know head south and don’t stop till they hit a beach in Florida.  So, let’s head to Florida.

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 (sometime in June).  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 Googling:)

1. Before Scout Finch there was Jody Baxter, the ten year-old hero of The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.

2. Duma Key by Stephen King

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3. ZNH’s eyes were watching from Florida.  Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

4. What J MacD series is set in the Sunshine State?  Travis McGee

5. Demi Moore showed off her implants on the big screen in this tease of a movie based on Elmore’s novel.  Striptease

6. Which one of Grafton’s alphabet series was is set in Florida?  B is for Burglar

7. This tragic novel of two desperate souls looking for a better life in Florida was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1986.  Continental Drift by Russell Banks

8. This colorful Oprah’s Book Club pick from Quindlen way back when takes place in Florida.  Black & Blue

9. In Florida this home is a tourist attraction.  Who lived here?  Ernest Hemingway

10. Can you recognize this Florida son by his signature?  Carl Hiaasen

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Last week’s Tall Guy Quiz here.  Leaderboard here.

March Madness Tall Guy Quiz – guessing closed

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So, it’s March Madness, brackets are being filled out, money is exchanging hands, too many hours will be spent listening to the ‘experts’.  And I love every minute of it!  Jason and I have our standing bet -winner picks the next FIVE theater movies-and the pressure is on since I’ve lost two years in a row 😦  If you have any inside information for my bracket I’ll throw in a few extra points this week.  Anyway, on to the quiz.  I thought we’d form our own 10 man team of tall guys.  Yes, I realize that Clive at 81 will probably be a bench warmer, but he IS tall.  See if you can list these authors from shortest to tallest.  Some share the same height so you have extra chances to get that right 😉

 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 (sometime in June).  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.

The tall guys– Clive Cussler, Lee Child, Stephen King, John Green, John Grisham, Harlan Coben, Steve Martin, Brad Parks, John Sandford, Sherman Alexie

List them from SHORTEST to TALLEST (I’ll help by listing the heights. I know, I know, this week is a guessfest!) Good Luck!

6′ 0″  Steve Martin

6′ 0″  John Green

6′ 1″  Brad Parks (won the Lefty Award for best humorous mystery of the year this past weekend)

6′ 1″  John Grisham

6′ 2″  John Sandford

6′ 2″  Sherman Alexie

6′ 3′  Clive Cussler

6′ 4″  Stephen King

6′ 4″  Lee Child

6′ 4″  Harlan Coben

Answers to last week’s Patrick Quiz here. Leaderboard here.

It’s a Patrick Quiz – guessing closed

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I thought this week we’d see if you can match these recognizable Patrick’s with something they said.

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 (sometime in June).  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.

Choices-Patrick Ness (author of Chaos Walking trilogy), Patrick Henry (politician, attorney), Saint Patrick,  Patrick O’Brian (author of Aubrey/Maturin naval adventure novels), Danica Patrick (racecar driver), Patrick Swayze (actor), Patrick Dempsey (actor), Patrick Buchanan (moral authority), Patrick Duffy (actor), Patrick Stewart (actor)

1. “I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life. When you dance, things just go away, things don’t seem so bad. There’s no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.” Patrick Swayze

2. “I would normally say ‘no’ to turning someone else’s idea into a book, but the idea was so strong and so vivid that I never felt like I was completely fabricating something she didn’t want.  There was just enough material to kick me off, and have the freedom to let the story live and breathe while also celebrating her idea.”  Patrick Ness

3. “I look forward to a time when my career is in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.”  Patrick Dempsey

4. “I know not what others may choose, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”  Patrick Henry

5. “I wouldn’t know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me”  Patrick Stewart

6. “Obviously, I have lived very much out of the world: I know little of present-day Dublin or London or Paris, even less of post-modernity, post-structuralism, hard rock or rap, and I cannot write with much conviction about the contemporary scene.”  Patrick O’Brian

7. I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.”  Danica Patrick

8. “I go to my sons for everything, and they’ll tell me…many times, I’ll say, ‘I don’t think this is very good,’ and they say, ‘No, you have to do this.’ Or I’ll come to them and say, ‘This sounds pretty good. What do you think?’ And they say, ‘Are you out of your mind?’ So I go to them with everything. They’re my touchstones to the 21st century.”  Patrick Duffy

9. “Peoples of European descent are not only in a relative but a real decline. They are aging, dying, disappearing. This is the existential crisis of the West.”  Patrick Buchanan

10. “I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.”  Saint Patrick

Answers to last week’s Women History Quiz here.  Rules and Leaderboard here.

Women History Month Quiz – guessing closed

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In honor of Women’s History Month this quiz is all about the heroines we find in classic literature.  All you need to do is unscramble their names.  To help you out I’ve even included the scrambled title of the book, if different from the name,  but that’s not part of the answer.

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 (sometime in June).  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.

1. EJNA EERY Jane Eyre

2. OHSJEEPNI HCRAM (ILLETT MWENO) Josephine March (Little Women)

3. NNAA ENNAKIAR  Anna Karenina

4. HTZBLEIAE TETENBN (DEPRI NDA RDPEUCEJI)  Elizabeth Bennett (Pride and Prejudice)

5. NNEA HIRSYEL (ENNA FO ENGRE ABLGES)  Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables)

6. LETRCTAS H’RAOA (NOEG TIHW ETH NDIW)  Scarlett O’Hara (Gone with the Wind)

7. GRTEMARA HEAL (THRON NAD UOSTH)  Margaret Hale (North and South)

8. LMOL ALFSREDN  Moll Flanders

9. ETSERH NNEYRP (ETH TLSCARE TERLET)  Hester Prynne  (The Scarlet Letter)

10. TUOSC NFICH (OT LIKL A KCIMOGNDRBI)  Scout Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird)

Answers to last week’s Bookish Oscar Quiz here.  Leaderboard here.

Bookish Oscars Quiz/Ballot – voting closed

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The Oscars have come and gone but that doesn’t mean that we can’t do some voting of our own.  I want you to vote for who you think will win (who everyone else will be voting for!).  More same votes = more points.  You have until Sunday noon to submit your ‘ballot’.

Here’s how I tallied the votes. 11 points for answer, 9 points, for second, etc. No points if there was only one vote.

When you are heading to the ceremony, who would be the Best Arm Candy?

1. Sebastian Junger (photo from his website). 5 votes   2.Jasper FfordeJasper Fforde (photo from Goodreads profile).  2 votes  3.Author Nicholas SparksNicholas Sparks (photo from his website).  4. John GrishamJohn Grisham (photo from his website). 4 votes   5.Michael ChabonMichael Chabon (photo from his Goodreads profile). 2 votes

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Best Arm Candy for the guys

1.040Chelsea Cain (the photo quality is bad because I took it with my iPhone). 1 vote   2.Jhumpa LahiriJhumpa Lahiri (photo from Goodreads profile). 2 votes   3.Kristin HannahKristin Hannah (photo from Goodreads profile). 4 votes  4.Danielle SteelDanielle Steel (photo from her website).  5.Gillian FlynnGillian Flynn (photo from Goodreads profile). 6 votes

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Best Song

1. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison. 4 votes

2. The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks. 1 vote

3. Dicey’s Song by Cynthia Voigt

4. A New Song by Jan Karon. 2 votes

5. The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer. 6 votes

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Best Villain

1. Patrick Bateman (American Psycho). 3 votes

2. Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs and all the rest). 9 votes

3. Tom Ripley (The Talented Mr. Ripley). 1 vote

4. Sauron (The Lord of the Rings)

5. Count Dracula (Dracula)

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Best Character Named Daniel (in honor of much deserved Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis)

1. Daniel (The Shadow of the Wind-Carlos Ruiz Zafon). 9 votes

2. Daniel (Butcher’s Theater-Jonathan Kellerman)

3. Daniel Waterhouse (Quicksilver-Neal Stephenson). 1 vote

4. Daniel (The Tenth Circle-Jodi Picoult). 1 vote

5. Daniel Ames (The Associate-Phillip Margolin). 1 vote

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Best Author Named Jennifer (in honor of adorable Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence)

1. Jennifer Weiner. 3 votes

2. Jennifer Crusie. 1 vote

3. Jennifer Donnelly. 6 votes

4. Jennifer Ashley

5. Jennifer Haigh. 3 votes

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Best Book to Movie Adaptation

1. Lord of the Rings series. 4 votes

2. Harry Potter series. 3 votes

3. Hunger Games

4. To Kill a Mockingbird. 5 votes

5. The Silence of the Lambs. 1 vote

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Best Title of 2012

1. Tell the Wolves I’m Home. 3 votes

2. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake. 4 votes

3. New Ways to Kill Your Mother. 2 votes

4. I Suck at Girls. 4 votes

5. No One is Here Except All of Us

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Best Cover of 2012

1.Bloodland: A Novel2.5 votes  2.Telegraph Avenue  3.Misfit.5 votes  4.Shadow and Bone2 votes  5. The Shoemaker's Wife8 votes

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Epitaph Quiz – guessing closed

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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 (sometime in June).  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.

Identify these famous writers by the inscription on their tomb.

Your choices-Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, JRR Tolkien, Jack London, F Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, HG Wells, Emily Dickinson

1. “I told you so, you damned fools.”  HG Wells

2. “Beren”   JRR Tolkien

3. “The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.”   Kurt Vonnegut

oops! I forgot #4!  and it was the one everyone would have known 🙂

5. “I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.”   Robert Frost

6. “Called Back”   Emily Dickinson

7. “The Stone the Builders Rejected”   Jack London

8. “Steel True, Blade Straight”   Sir Arthur Conana Doyle

9. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”   F Scott Fitzgerald

10. “And alien tears will fill for him, Pity’s long, unbroken urn. For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.”   Oscar Wilde

Answers to last week’s Heart Week Quiz here.  Rules and Leaderboard here.

Heart Week Quiz – guessing closed

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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 (sometime in June).  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.

Do you recognize these covers?  6 points for title, 2 points for author. (Sorry about the quality of the pictures!)

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0061. Between the Plums-Janet Evanovich

2. Another Piece of My Heart-Jane Green

3. Maybe This Time-Jennifer Crusie

4. The Lovers-John Connolly

5. Dope Thief-Dennis Tafoya

6. This Is How You Lose Her-Junot Diaz

7. The Man Who Ate the 747-Ben Sherwood

8. Heartsick-Chelsea Cain

9. Stay-Allie Larkin

10. Swin Back to Me-Ann Packer

11. The Naked King-Sally MacKenzie

12. By Bread Alone-Sarah-Kate Lynch

13. Landing-Emma Donoghue

14. Heartburn-Nora Ephron

Answers to last week’s Writers Lost in 2012 quiz here.