There are a number of authors who use initials as first names.  Do you know if they are male or female?  Do you know what the initials stand for? Take your best shot at these authors.

Please play along with us.  For everyone who plays an extra $ goes to the winner and the everyone is entered for a special prize.  Just leave a comment with your guesses before noon on Saturday and don’t google the answers.

Rules & Leaderboard here. Last week’s Jack Nicholson was in that? Quiz here.

First tell me if they are Male (M) or Female (F) (2.25 pts.) and then what the initials stand for (4 pts.)

I’ll give an extra 10 points for my favorite incorrect name, so have fun guessing 🙂

1. PD James Female Phyllis Dorothy

2. JRR Tolkien  Male John Ronald Reuel

3. SE Hinton  Female Susan Eloise

4. PG Wodehouse  Male Pelham Grenville

5. EB White  Male Elwyn Brooks

6. E Nesbit  Female Edith

7. EM Forster  Male Edward Morgan

8. JK Rowling  Female  Joanne

9. PJ O’Rourke  Male Patrick Jane

10. AS Byatt  Female  Antonia Susan

11. LM Montgomery  Female Lucy Maud

12. DH Lawrence  Male  David Herbert

13. CJ Cherryh  Female Carolyn Janice Cherry

14. AA Milne  Male  Alan Alexander

15. HG Wells  Male Herbert George

16. JA Jance  Female  Judith Ann

Last August I ran this quiz about the highest paid authors and now the new numbers are in. These rankings are based on their total estimated income (books, movies…) from May 2030-April 2011.  I’m giving you 15 authors and you need to rank the top 13 in order.  The extra 2 are just ones I added to keep it interesting.  Only 3 authors have the same spot as last year and if you get those three correct you’ll get  a few extra points (so go ahead and look at last year’s quiz).  Each correct answer is worth 7.5 points.

I hope everyone will give this one a try.  It’s more fun the more people who play 🙂  And you only need to play once to win a prize!

No cheating.  No googling or looking at other commenter answers.  Yes, we’re going by the honor system     Your first answers will be the only ones accepted.  Play every week or just one time, you are always welcome   It only takes once to be eligible for a prize.

1. James Patterson $84 million

2. Danielle Steel  &35 million

3. Stephen King  $28 million

4. Janet Evanovich  $22 million

5. Stephenie Meyer  $ 21 million

6. Rick Riordan  $ 21 million

7. Dean Koontz  $ 19 million

8. John Grisham  $18 million

9. Jeff Kinney  $17 million

10. Nicholas Sparks $16 million

11. Ken Follet  $14 million

12. Suzanne Collins  $10 million

13. JK Rowling  $5 million

Michael Connelly

Charlaine Harris

Leaderboard and details here.  Last week’s What book is that? Quiz here.

I am terrible at guessing people’s ages, so for this first quiz of Round 3 I thought I’d see how good you are!  Tell me which author is (or would be if alive today) oldest.  If there are 3 list them in order from oldest to youngest.  Submit your answers in a comment by noon on Saturday (I’ll hide the answers til then).

No cheating.  No googling or looking at other commenter answers.  Yes, we’re going by the honor system     Your first answers will be the only ones accepted.  Play every week or just one time, you are always welcome   It only takes once to be eligible for a prize.

1. John Grisham (1955) or James Patterson (1947)

2. Jane Austen (1775) or Mary Shelley (1797)

3. Stephen King (1947), Anne Rice (1941), Dean Koontz (1945)

4. Lee Child (author of Jack Reacher series )(1954) or John Sandford (Lucas Davenport series) (1944)

5. CS Lewis (1898) or JRR Tolkien (1892)

6. Mark Twain (1835) or Edgar Allan Poe (1809)

7. Ken Follett (1949) or John Irving (1942)

8. Nora Roberts (1950) , Sandra Brown (1948), Catherine Coulter (1942)

9. Jackie Collins (1937) or Danielle Steel (947)

10. Michael Connelly (1956), Scott Turow (1949), David Baldacci (1960)

We did this in January with classics, so I thought I’d see how you all do with books that have been popular in the blogoshere and book clubs over the past several years.

See if you can match up the first lines and last lines from 10 famous novels.  At least you can guess!!  Each correct match is worth 9 points and you ‘ll get an extra point if you can tell me what novel each correct match comes from.

No cheating.  No googling or looking at other commenter answers.  Yes, we’re going by the honor system     Your first answers will be the only ones accepted.  Play every week or just one time, you are always welcome   It only takes once to be eligible for a prize.

Last week’s Soldier quiz here.  Leaderboard here.

First & Last Lines

1. My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie.

  E. I wish you all a long and happy life.

  The Lovely Bones

2. Today I’m five.

  B. Then we go out the door.

  Room

3. Momma left her red satin shoes in the middle of the road.

  F. As much as I missed her and wished I could hear her laughter one more time, I believed she was out there in the big bright somewhere, watching me, cheering for me. Loving me.

  Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt

4. Clare: It’s hard being left behind.

  I. He is coming, and I am here.

  The Time Traveler’s Wife

5. Before she became the Girl from Nowhere-the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years-she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy.

  A. Shots outside. I am going to look.

  The Passage

6. Lillian loved best the moment before she turned on the lights.

  C. Then she turned off the light, and left the kitchen.

  The School of Essential Ingredients

7. Louis and I see you nearly at the same time.

  H. “Of course it was. You had it with you the entire time.”

  The Weight of Silence

8. Dear Sidney, Susan Scott is a wonder.

  D. By way of congratulation, she said “I hear you and that pig farmer are going to regularize your connection.  Praise the Lord!”

  The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society

9. Here is the truth, this is what I know: we were walking on Ocean Beach, hand in hand.

  J. Water gushes around me, the board shakes, I cannot see, but somehow I know I am moving forward.

  The Year of Fog

10. They found Mary’s body in Round Pond.

  G. Out of our movement, a crow lifted off a high pine and the glint of the sun, for an instant, resembled a flash of diamond in its beak.

  The Eternal on the Water

Tell me the name of the author.  Each one is worth 10 points and the title of the quiz is your only clue 🙂  You have until Friday afternoon.

No cheating.  No Googling, researching, or looking at other commenter answers.  Yes, we’re going by the honor system    Your first answers will be the only ones accepted.  Play every week or just one time, you are always welcome   It only takes once to be eligible for a prize.

Current Leaderboard here.  Last week’s What Book is that? Quiz answers here.

1. His last three books have tackled controversial topics and have become bestsellers.  His critics complain he does not write well and his conspiracy puzzlers are inaccurate, but he’s laughing all the way to the bank.  Dan Brown

2. His famous books for kids one about a mouse and one with a spider are classics over 50 years later.  For adults he wrote a how-to with his pal Strunk.  E.B. White

3. She writes erotic, paranormal romances. Shayla Black

4. She is considered by some to be one of the founders of the chick lit genre.  Her latest book is Promises to Keep.  Jane Green

5. He’s written books about Alaska, Katherine, and towns made of paper.  John Green

6. Two books about a street in New Orleans have been published with another promised.  Oh, and she’s written 10 other books mostly set in the south, her latest on a beach.  Karen White

7. This romance and thriller suspense author has written almost 70 novels, 50 of them being NYT Bestsellers.  Her latest about a tough customer.  Sandra Brown

8. This British Nobel Prize winner is best known for his book about young boys stuck together on a deserted island.  William Golding

9. The editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine is the author of the Bailey Weggins mystery series and a new stand alone novel that asks you to use your library voice.  Kate White

10. This favorite children’s author wrote many classics including one about a tree that couldn’t stop giving.  Shel Silverstein

Tell me the title of the book for 8 points and the author for an additional 2.  If you tell me what they all have in common you’ll  get an extra 10 points!  You have until Friday at noon to submit your answers.

A few rules…No cheating.  No looking at other commenter answers, but feel free to browse around the net to find the answers this week (you can always come back and add an answer if you find it later).  Yes, we’re going by the honor system…Your first answers will be the only ones accepted…Have fun!

This round for every participant I have (currently at $18)  I will put in a $ for a B&N gift card or a Babies R Us gift card for the winner. Even if you play only once you are eligible to win the second prize (something special I pick out) and you will be adding money to the kitty for the winner.

Answers to last week’s John Candy Quiz here.  Current Leaderboard here.

1. Try Dying by James Scott Bell  2. Worth Dying For by Lee Child  3. The Lincoln Lawyer by Micael Connelly  4. A Death in the Family by James Agee  5. Town House by Tish Cohen  6. Fault Lines by Anne Rivers Siddons  7. Kill the Messenger by Tami Hoag  8. Full Tilt by Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes  9. The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster  10. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe