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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.

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

Stephen King Quiz – guessing closed

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quizLast week we tried Shakespeare quotes so I thought Stephen King would be the next best choice 🙂   Good luck matching the quotes from the novels to the title. Each is used only one time.

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.

Titles-Carrie, It, Under the Dome, The Shining, The Green Mile, Misery, Hearts in Atlantis, 11/22/63, Pet Sematary, Full Dark No Stars, The Stand, Cujo

1.“High school isn’t a very important place. When you’re going you think it’s a big deal, but when it’s over nobody really thinks it was great unless they’re beered up.”  -Carrie

2.“’Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?'”  -11/22/63

3. “We all float down here!”  -It

4. “Sometimes dead is better”  -Pet Sematary

5. “Close your eyes and click your heals three times…because there’s no place like Dome.”  -Under the Dome

6. “I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It’s you I’m not entirely sure of.”  -Full Dark No Stars

7. “Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I’m not gonna hurt ya. I’m just going to bash your brains in.”  -The Shining

8. “The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there…and still on your feet.”  -The Stand

9.“On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?”  -The Green Mile

10.“I am your number one fan.”  -Misery

11. “The monster never dies.”  -Cujo

12.“Sometimes when you’re young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you’re living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.”  -Hearts in Atlantis

Shakespeare Quiz with a special giveaway – giveaway closed

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quizThis is a toughie, but take a few minutes and see if you can match the quotes to the play correctly.  Each title has only one quote.  The person who scores the highest will win a small gift I bought when visiting the Library of Congress. If there is a tie, I’ll have Gage pick a name 🙂  Good luck!!

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.

 

Titles- Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, Richard III, The Merry Wives of Windsor

1. To be, or not to be:that is the question.  Hamlet

2. Beware the Ides of March  Julius Caesar

3. A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!   King Richard III

4. Parting is such sweet sorrow.  Romeo and Juliet

5. This is the short and long of it.   The Merry Wives of Windsor

6. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.   Twelfth Night

7.The course of true love never did run smooth.   A Midsummer’s Night Dream

8.All the world ‘s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.   As You Like It

9.Double, double toil and trouble.   Macbeth

10.All that glitters is not gold.   The Merchant of Venice

For the more musically inclined quiz – guessing closed

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quiz I’ve been working my way through 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die  and am enjoying it.  This quiz is all about matching up the quote with the artist who made it.  Sometimes these quotes were made decades after they hit it big and f it’s a band, someone in the band made it and you don’t have to know who.  I know these will be guesses but I think you can do it!!

Take your best guesses, be entered to win 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 until Sunday.  

Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi HendrixBob DylanPink Floyd: Musical Milestones - Reflections on the WallJoan Baez: How Sweet the SoundThat's the Way It Is [Legacy Edition]Help!Beach Boys: American Band / Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These TimesBillie Holiday's Greatest Hits [MCA]Straight for the SunThe Essential Simon & Garfunkel

I just need the name of the band.

1. “Till death do us part.”   The Beatles, George Harrison, 1964

2.”Man I was tame compared to what they do now.”   Elvis Presley, 1972

3. “We got into the whole country thing-playing poker, drinking whisky, wearing cowboy hats.”  The Byrds – Roger McGuinn, 2003

4. “My devotion to…social change…will go on until I fall into the grave”  Joan Baez, 1993

5. “I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it”   Billie Holiday, 1939

6. “I couldn’t go on being the lone folkie out there, you know, strumming “Blowin’ in the Wind’ for three hours every night.”  Bob Dylan, 1978

7.  ‘I dreamed I had a halo.”   The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, 1990

8. “Let me live my life the way I want to.”   Jimi Hendrix, 1967

9. “Paul is a very creative artist but I’m more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.”   Simon & Garfunkel, Art Garfunkel, 1990

10. “I don’t think I’m easy to talk about. I’ve got a very irregular head.   Pink Floyd, Sid Barrett, 1971

Answers to last week’s name quiz here.

 

What’s in a Name? Quiz – guessing closed

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quiz  This week it’s all about names.  As I walked through the library and picked up books that had names in the title it only took me a few minutes before my arms were full.  These were all published in the last several years.

Take your best guesses, be entered to win 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 until Sunday.  

You only need to give me 2 names per book, the one missing from the title and the author’s first name.  Since I think these are tricky they are all worth 10 points 🙂

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1 Julia/Ann   2Willow Frost/Jamie   3Stephen Mercedes   4Lisette/Susan   5Noa P Singleton/Elizabeth   6Benjamin Franklin/Sally   7Claudia Silver/Kathy   8Amy/Jincy   9Stella Bain/Anita   10Worthy Brown/Phillip   11Maya/Isabel   12Scarlet/Marissa   13Mrs. Dimple/Mignon

Answers the last week’s Robin Williams quiz here.  Leaderboard here.

Seuss Quiz – guessing closed

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quizSorry I took last week off, life got in the way.  Enjoy visiting with Dr. Seuss today 🙂  Surely you all know at least one of these?  Guess away!

Take your best guesses, be entered to win 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 until Sunday.  

1. cat in hat Who am I? Cat in the Hat

2. seuss 5What book am I in?  Fox in Socks

3. seuss 3Who am I?  The Lorax

4. seuss 2What book am I in?  Green Eggs & Ham

5. seuss 4Who am I?  Mr. Brown

6. seuss 8What book am I in?  One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish

7. seuss 9Who am I? Sam

8. seuss 6What book am I in?  There’s a Wocket in My Pocket!

9. seuss 7Who am I?  Marvin K. Mooney

10. seuss 10Who are we?  Dick & Sally

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.

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.