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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

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

Scrambled Lovers Quiz

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Here’s how to play…Identify the fictional couples and leave a comment with the #, the names and the book or story that immortalized  them and I’ll cross it off the list. No Googling, that’s cheating and no fun!  I confess that #10 is a personal fave and most probably won’t know it. 

Unscramble these fictional lovers.

1. HLOOLET & EMDEONDSA  OTHELLO & DESDEMONA  (Othello), Mark

2. ZWIIIMTALFL  CRDYA & ZTHBLIEAE  TNTBNEE  FITZWILLIAM DARCY & ELIZABETH BENNETT (Pride & Prejudice), Aidan

3. TLESCART  RAAOH & TETHR  RETLUB  SCARLETT O”HARA & RHETT BUTLER (Gone with the Wind), Aidan

4. CTFAFHELIH & THREENICA  HEATHCLIFF & CATHERINE (Wuthering Heights), Aidan

5. OMROE & LTUJIE ROMEO & JULIET (Romeo & Juliet), Kathy

6. MEAJS  GUONY & LADEL  OUNYG  JAMES & DELLA YOUNG (Gift of the Magi), Bumbles

7. DDEARW  OSTREERCH & JEAN  YEER  EDWARD ROCHESTER & JANE EYRE (Jane Eyre), Bumbles

8. VIELRO  RARETTB & FREEJINN  LIVERICAL — OLIVER BARRET & JENNIFER CAVILERI (Love Story)

9. WEARDD & LEBAL EDWARD & BELLA (TWILIGHT series), Kathy

10. RECAIL  DANDRALL & MAIJE  SAFERR  CLAIRE RANDALL & JAMIE FRASER (Outlander series). Jenny

Who’s that Prez Quiz?

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CONGRATS MARK!  Have you been studying?

In honor of the the new President  this week’s quiz is full of quotes from past Presidents (of the United States!) and one from our new President.

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! 

Possible Presidents left-Wilson, Eisenhower,  Truman, Washington, Nixon, Clinton, CArter,  Kennedy

1.” A man is not finished when he is defeated.  He is finished when he quits.”–RICHARD NIXON

2.” We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.”–JIMMY CARTER

3. “All great change in America begins at the dinner table.”  RONALD REAGAN, Mark

4. “I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”  ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Mark

5. “You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.”  CALVIN COOLIDGE,  Janet

6. “Do not pray for easy lives.  Pray to be stronger men.”–JOHN F KENNEDY

7. “Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.”–BILL CLINTON

8. “I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.”–WOODROW WILSON

9. “I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.” —DWIGHT D EISENHOWER

10. “Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’  liberty’s teeth.”–GEORGE WASHINGTON

11. “Every nation in every region now has a decision to make.  Either you are with us, or are you with the terrorists.”  GEORGE W BUSH, Elena

12. “Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”     FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT, Jason

13. “I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances…This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.”  GERALD FORD, Kathy

14. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”–HARRY S TRUMAN

15. Americans…still believe in America where anything’s possible-they just don’t think their leaders do.”  BARACK OBAMA, Mark

What’s the best caption quiz?

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We have a split decision…

“Sadly, the snow covering Stacy did not melt until mid-March.”  (Mark)

and

“Yeah, now I remember why I moved to Cleveland.”  (Betty)

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I took this photo of Jason yesterday.  This week’s quiz—-

What is the best caption for this photo?  I’ll post your caption with the photo and a link back to your blog if you have one.  I can’t wait to see what you come up with!  I’ll pick the best one on Friday.

Welcome to 2009 Quiz

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I want my first quiz of 2009 to be special, so the first person to leave a comment with the correct answers to all of the questions will receive a $9 gift card from Barnes & Noble 🙂  If no one gets them all correct by Wednesday night the person with the highest number will win the gift card, so guess as many as you think you know, you could win!  Feel free to Google if you need to.  Start guessing!

And the winner is …. Deborah!  Visit Deborah at her blog.

1. What is the ninth word of the Bible? the

2. What is Dante’s Ninth circle? treachery

3. In the Lord of the Rings, who received Nine rings? mortal men

4. In JD Salinger’s Nine Stories, what is the ninth story? Teddy

5. From Jeffrey Toobin’s book The Nine, name two of the nine. Roberts, Stevens, Scalia, Kennedy, souter, Thomas, Ginsberg, Breyer, Alito

6. What is the title of Janet Evanovich’s ninth Stephanie Plum novel?  To the Nines

7. Name two of the Nine Muses of ancient Greece.  Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, Urania

8. What Curious George book has nine in the title?  Cecily G. & the Nine Monkeys

9. What was this blog’s ninth post OR a book from my top 100 list with nine in the title?  On Writing by Stephen King or Cloud Nine by Luanne Rice

Jumbled Bestsellers Quiz

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Kathy and Aidan got 2 each 🙂  Thanks for playing!

Here’s how to play…Identify the title and author. Leave a comment with the # and the answer and I’ll cross it off the list. No Googling, that’s cheating and no fun! If you know them all, please don’t guess every one, maybe five max?

THESE ARE THE TOP TEN BESTSELLERS FROM 10 YEARS AGO

1. A AMN NI LULF  by mot wefol A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe – Kathy

2. RROMRI MEGIA by eedilanl leseet  Mirror Image by Danielle Steele – Janet

3. HWNE ETH DINW WSBLO by sjmesa teptesoan When the Wind Blows by James Patterson

4. LAL GRUTHOH HET INTHG by ymar gigsinh carkl  All Through the Night by Mary Higgins Clark – Don

5. GAB FO NOBSE by petshne gink Bag of Bones by Stephen King – Aidan

6. HET RAMPVIE MAADRN by nena crie The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice

7. TEH ATHP FO GAGDRES by borrte dranjo The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan – Aidan

8. HTE SWINDOOPOO IBLEB by brabraa singrolkve The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

9. BORNIWA XSI by otm cancly Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy – Jason

10. CLOWEEM OT ETH RODWL, YABB RILG by ninefa glagf Welcome to the World, Baby Girl – Kathy

Odds & Ends Quiz

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Here’s how to play… Leave a comment with the # and the answer and I’ll cross it off the list. No Googling, that’s cheating and no fun! If you know them all, please don’t guess every one, maybe five max?  GUESSES ARE WELCOME AND ENCOURAGED 🙂

1. What Herman Hesse book gave its name to a rock group?  STEPPENWOLF, rock on Donstuff

2. What book was Mark David Chapman carrying with him when he killed John Lennon on 12/8/1980?  THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, the wild and crazy guy, Donstuff

3. Who is the woman on the cover of Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter? TAN”S GRANDMOTHER

4. The book Peter Pan was responsible for the creation of what name(s)? 

WENDY- first time Wendy was used as a girl’s name

TINKER BELL, pretty fairy dust for Bermudaonion.

5. What renowned Irish writer wore an eye patch? JAMES JOYCE

6. What writer was expelled from West Point for showing up for a public parade wearing only a belt & gloves? EDGAR ALLAN POE

7. What Irish-born playwright was sentenced to two years at hard labor for homosexuality?  OSCAR WILDE, two cheers to Elena Margo Gould

8. What game, played by Alice while in Wonderland, was banned in Boston in the 19th century as being too “immoral”?  CROQUET, kudos to the morally correct Elena Margo Gould

 

10. What Watergate figure was the author of numerous spy novels?  E HOWARD HUNT

Alternate Titles

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Thanks for playing!  I’ve got a new one coming soon 🙂

Here’s how to play…Identify the correct title of these classics. Leave a comment with the # and the answer and I’ll cross it off the list. No Googling, that’s cheating and no fun! If you know them all, please don’t guess every one, maybe five max?

Example-The Hearing and the Rage is really The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner

1. Creature Cropland  Jason, Animal Farm by Orwell

2. Along the Avenue Golda, On the Road by Kerouac

3. The Orb Also Climbs Jill, The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway

4. The Era of Virtuousness Golda, The Age of Innocence by Wharton

5. The Craft of Conflict  Jill, The Art of War by Sun-Tzu

6. Fearless Fresh Cosmos Janet, Brave New World by Huxley

7. Demise of a Clerk, Jason, Death of a Salesman by Miller

8. In Frigid Kin  Janet, In Cold Blood by Capote

9. The Saintly Farce Mark, The Divine Comedy by Dante

10. Departed with the Draft Janet, Gone With the Wind by Mitchell

 

Know Your Books

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CHECK BACK NEXT MONDAY FOR THE NEXT ONE.  CONGRATS  TO GOLDA!

Here’s how to play…Identify the quote by telling me what book it’s from.  Leave a comment with the # of the quote and the title of the book and I’ll cross it off the list.

Here’s a hint, these five quotes came from the first 21 books on my Favorite 100 list.

#1 “It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.” Golda-To Kill a Mockingbird

#2 “Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher.  There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!” Golda- Harry Potter

#3 “And was Mr. Rochester now ugly in my eyes?  No reader: gratitude and many associates, all pleasurable and genial, made his face the object I best liked to see; his presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.”  Golda- Jane Eyre

#4 “One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”  Fellowship of the Ring – Jason

 #5 “Rabbits need dignity and above all else the will to accept their fate.”  Golda- Watership Down