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Birthday Movie Quiz

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Thank you for your birthday wishes yesterday!  I had a very fun day with my wonderful husband.  See if you can identify these 10 movies that all contain a birthday.  Each one worth 10 points and you have until Thursday night to submit your answers. I hide your answers until then.

Here are the rules… 1. Open to everyone.  Play once or every week, that’s okay.  I’m happy to have you here today.

2. No cheating.  No googling, other internet searches or looking at other commenter answers.  Yes, we’re going by the honor system

3. Your first answers will be the only ones accepted.

Answers to last week’s quiz here.  Current Leaderboard here.

1. 2.

1. Sixteen Candles 2. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

3. Jim Carrey can only tell the truth because of a wish his son made on his birthday in this 1997 movie.  Liar, Liar

4.  5.

4. 13 Going on 30   5. The Game

6. Billy Crystal has just turned 39 (I know how that feels!) and is suffering from a midlife crisis (Good thing I don’t have time or energy for that now!).  He and two of his best friends decide to go west and participate in a cattle drive where they are a little afraid of Curly.  City Slickers

7.  8.

7.  Harold & Maude    8. Taken

9.  10.

9. Mrs. Doubtfire   10. The Royal Tenembaums

Banned Book Quiz

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It’s Banned Book Week.  Can you guess these 10 most challenged books of 2009?  10 points each (5 points title, 5 points author. You have until Thursday at midnight to submit your answers as a comment.  I hide your answers until then.

Here are the rules… 1. Open to everyone.  Play once or every week, that’s okay.  I’m happy to have you here today.

2. No cheating.  No googling, other internet searches or looking at other commenter answers.  Yes, we’re going by the honor system

3. Your first answers will be the only ones accepted.

Last week’s Stephen King Adaptation Quiz here.  Current Leaderboard here.

1. This four letter title is the first of the Internet Girl series and has been challenged for nudity, offensive language, being sexually explicit, and drugs. ttyl by Lauren Myracle

2. This children’s book is based on the true story of two male penguins at the Central Park Zoo who were given an egg to raise.  Banned for homosexuality.  And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson

3. First  lines- “August 25, 1991.  Dear Friend, I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn’t try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have.”   The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

4. This beloved classic novel and film makes the list because of racism and offensive language.  My cat is named after the pint-sized heroine 🙂  To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

5. Not only do many teen girls love this book, first of a very popular series of books and movies, their mothers do too.  This same author took one of my favorite girls names off our possibility list (Bree) by splashing it across the cover of her latest book 😦  Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

6. This classic made antihero Holden Caulfield a household name in the 1950’s.  The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

7. “When I was little, the great mystery to me wasn’t how babies were made, but why.”  So begins this tear jerker, often challenged for  being sexist, homosexuality, sexually explicit, drugs, suicide, violence, and offensive language.  My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

8. This YA book features Virginia, a high school sophomore who lives by the Fat Girl Code of Conduct.  Often challenged for offensive language and being sexually explicit.  The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler

9. “You better not never tell nobody but God.  It’d kill your mammy.” First lines of this classic.  The Color Purple by Alice Walker

10. Jerry refuses to participate in the school’s chocolate sale and the Vigils make him pay the price in this popular school reading list book.  The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

Signed Book Quiz

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Round 4 begins today!!  This round lasts for 13 weeks when I’ll give away 2 prizes.  I know it’s busy this week due to BBAW so I’m giving you til Sunday to submit answers 🙂  I hope any of you stopping by from BBAW will play along too.

Here are the rules… 1. Open to everyone.  Play once or every week, that’s okay.  I’m happy to have you here today.

2. No cheating.  No googling, other internet searches or looking at other commenter answers.  Yes, we’re going by the honor system

3. Your first answers will be the only ones accepted.

I love autographed books.  Here are my stacks of signed copies.  All you have to do is tell me the author 1-10.  Each correct answer is worth 10 points.  Since this is the first week I chose the authors with the best penmanship (but you may have never heard of them!).

1. Ciji Ware  2. B.D. Joyce  3. Preetham Grandhi  4. Tomi Akinyanmi  5. J. Everett Prewitt  6. Bob Adamov  7. Greg Cielec  8. Christina Bartolomeo  9. MaryRose Wood  10. Vicki M. Taylor

Round 3 Quiz Winners

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Round Three of my Tuesday Quizzes has come to an end and the top of the Leaderboard looks the same as Round 2.  ‘Nise from Under the Boardwalk takes home the top prize again with 944 points!  Congratulations Nise 🙂  And the randomly chosen winner (I drew out of a bowl) is…Jo-Jo from Jo-Jo Loves to Read!  Yay Jo-Jo 🙂  They will both receive a small gift from me.

A total of 35 of you participated in this round and this made me feel good.  Sometimes a quiz takes me hours to do and sometimes only 20 minutes, so I’m glad that you like to play my games with me.  The most popular quiz this time around was Denzel Washington was in That? Quiz.  The Best Paid Author Quiz also brought some interesting comments.  You might have heard Jenners scream when she saw the best paid author was James Patterson.

A few new quizzes that you’ll see again, Signed Books and Pictured Title.  So, come back next Tuesday for the beginning of Round Four!  Thanks for playing 🙂

Best Paid Authors Quiz – Last week for Round Three

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Forbes Magazine released a list of the top 10 highest paid authors from June 2009-June 2010 who earned a combined $270 million in the 12 months.  I’m giving you 15 authors and you need to rank the top 10 in order.  The extra 5 are just ones I added to keep it interesting.

Here are the rules… 1. Open to everyone.  This is the last week for Round Three.

2. No cheating.  No looking at other commenter answers or Googling!  Yes, we’re going by the honor system

3. Your first answers will be the only ones accepted.

Choose the top 10 best paid authors and rank them in order 1-10.   Each correct answer worth 10 points.  And no checking out the magazine!

1. James Patterson

2. Stephenie Meyer

3. Stephen King

4. Danielle Steele

5. Ken Follett

6. Dean Koontz

7. Janet Evanovich

8. John Grisham

9. Nicholas Sparks

10. JK Rowling

Dan Brown

Michael Connelly

Charlaine Harris

Kathy Reichs

Nora Roberts

Answers to last week’s quiz here.  Current Leaderboard here.

Pictured Title Quiz

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This week we’re going to try something new.  See if you can guess the titles of the books from the pictures.  For example, if there was a picture of an executioner and a song the answer would be The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer.  8 points for the correct answer and 2 points if you know the author too.

Here are the rules… 1. Open to everyone.  Play once or every week, that’s okay.  I’m happy to have you here today.

2. No cheating.  No looking at other commenter answers or Googling!  Yes, we’re going by the honor system

3. Your first answers will be the only ones accepted.

Last week’s answers here.  Current Leaderboard here.

You have until Thursday night to submit your answers.  If you have a problem with the pics let me know.  Happy guessing!

1.The  of

The Art of War by Sun-Tzu

2.  

Animal Farm by Orwell

3. In  

In Cold Blood by Capote

4. The  

The Painted Veil by Maugham

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Angels & Demons by Brown

6. The   

The Lace Reader by Barry

7.  &

War & Peace by Tolstoy

8. The  

The Time Machine by Wells

9. The  

The Sugar Queen by Allen 

10. , ,

Eat, Pray, Love by Gilbert

Better With Age Quiz

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Who are some of the oldest living writers?  See if you can guess. 6.5 points each.  Submit your guesses by Thursday night.

Here are the rules… 1. Open to everyone.  Play once or every week, that’s okay.  I’m happy to have you here today.

2. No cheating.  No looking at other commenter answers or Googling!  Yes, we’re going by the honor system

3. Your first answers will be the only ones accepted.

Answers to last week’s First Lines quiz here.  Current Leaderboard here.

1. This 97-year-old knows a lot about Siamese cats and bestselling mysteries.  Lilian Jackson Braun

2. This 95-year-old  spent 13 years researching and writing the two novels The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, but it was The Caine Mutiny that won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1951.  Herman Wouk

3. This 94-year-old author has written more than 30 books for children and young adults.  The Ramona books are my favorites.  Beverly Cleary

4. This 93-year-old English author is perhaps best known for her Merlin series.  Mary Stewart

5. This 90-year-old is the oldest person to win a Nobel Prize in Literature (in 2007), but I always think of the The Golden Notebook when I hear her name.  Doris Lessing

6. This 90-year-old’s first book is one of my favorites about rabbits adventures in and out of the warren.  Richard Adams

7. This English author just celebrated her 90th birthday last Tuesday.  She’s famous for her Adam Dalgliesh series.  PD James

8. This 90 year old still writes her women’s fiction longhand on legal pads.  Her last book, Crossroads, was published in 2004.  Belva Plain

9. This 89 year old’s most famous work was featured in last week’s quiz.  Go ahead and take a look.  He has never had a driver’s license.  Ray Bradbury

10. I love this 87 year old’s Mrs. Pollifax mystery series.  Dorothy Gilman

11. This 86-year-old South African author writes about love, politics and race.  Her last book in 2005 drew on her experience of the death of her longtime spouse.  Nadine Gordimer

12. Do you recognize this 84-year-old novelist, journalist, essayist, and playwright?  Gore Vidal

13. This 84-year-old minister is well known for co-authoring the apocalyptic Left Behind series.  Tim LaHaye

14. This 82-year-old is famous for her suspense novels.  As is her daughter.  Mary Higgins Clark

15. This 82-year-old Columbian author is best known for One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

16. This 82-year-old became famous when he wrote and illustrated the children’s book Where the Wild Things Are.  Maurice Sendak

First Lines Quiz

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Identify these famous novels by their first lines. Leave a comment with the number, title and author (5 points each).  No googling this week.

Here are the rules… 1. Open to everyone.  Play once or every week, that’s okay.  I’m happy to have you here today.

2. No cheating.  No looking at other commenter answers or Googling!  Yes, we’re going by the honor system

3. Your first answers will be the only ones accepted.

Last week’s answers here.  Current leaderboard here.  Submit your answers by Thursday at midnight. 

1. ”If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”    The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

2. ”It was a pleasure to burn.”  Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

3. “Going to Ford’s Theatre to watch a play is like going to Hooter’s for the food.”  Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

4. ”A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head.”  A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

5. ”You better not never tell nobody but God.”  The Color Purple by Alice Walker

6. “The small boys came early to the hanging.”  The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

7. “Howard Roark laughed.”  The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

8. “All happy families are alike; each is unhappy in its own way.”  Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

9. “It’s hard being left behind.”  The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

10. I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a Dumpster.”  The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Pregnancy in Literature Quiz (with 6+ Month Baby Bulge photo)

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So, my tummy is starting to grow at an alarming rate and here’s the proof…When you’re barely 5’2″ that baby has nowhere to go but out and I’ve given up the idea of having one of those cute baby bellies some women have.

Now on to the quiz.  This week it’s all about pregnant characters in fiction (I had to find some reason to include the photo :))  See if you can tell me the name of the book where these pregnant women can be found. 

Here are the rules… 1. Open to everyone.  Play once or every week, that’s okay.  I’m happy to have you here today.

2. No cheating.  No looking at other commenter answers or Googling!  Yes, we’re going by the honor system

3. Your first answers will be the only ones accepted.

Answers to last week’s quiz here.  Current Leaderboard here.  I’ll be out of town until Friday evening, so get your answers in by Friday afternoon 🙂

1. This bestselling Southern author wrote this sequel about Jeremy and Lexie as they are about to become parents.  At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks

2. No pregnant woman wants to go through what Rosemary did.  Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

3. Fern’s story as an unwed pregnant woman is told in the third section of this debut novel. (See hint below)  Three Junes by Julia Glass

4. These four women, three of them pregnant, meet at a yoga class for expectant mothers.  Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner

5. This pregnant shopaholic is shopping for two.  Shopaholic and Baby by Sophia Kinsella

6. The pregnancy of this widow has her neighbors wondering which of their husbands is the father in this Delinsky novel.  The Woman Next Door by Barbara Delinsky

7. Claire gets pregnant in the 1700’s, but doesn’t have her baby until the 1900’s in this popular series of very long novels.  Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

8. I reviewed this book about pregnant forensic expert Cat, who is on the run from the FBI and a killer.  (See hint in photo to the left)  Blood Memory by Freg Iles

9. Jane is pregnant and her husband is suspected of murder.  Her cop sister Stacy must help her prove his innocence.  See Jane Die by Erica Spindler

10. Pregnant high school student Victoria’s mother forces her to leave the house.  (See hint on photo above)  Plainsong Ken Haruf

Pink and Blue Censored Cover Quiz

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Jason and I are still debating the nursery color, but we know it will not be pink or blue.  I was going to include a picture of the 6 month baby bulge and let you vote on what I was carrying, but the photo was horrifying, so you’ll have to wait until I take a better one 🙂 

Can you identify these pink and blue covers by their censored titles?  Leave a comment with the number, title (5 points) and author (5 points).

No copying off other commenters.  Your first answer is the one accepted.  Each question worth 10 points.  Go ahead and Google if you want on this one.

Answers to last week’s quiz here, you guys totally rocked last week!  Current leaderboard here.

1. Tomorrow’s Promise by Sandra Brown  2.The Diary by Eileen Goudge  3. Bone Appetit by Carolyn Haines 

4. Manhunting by Jennifer Crusie  5. Touch by Adania Shibli

6. Swimming by Nicola Keegan  7. Man Eater by Gigi Levangie Grazer  8. The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris  9. Bidding for Love by Katie Fforde  10. Red Bones by Ann Cleeves

You have until Thursday night to submit your answers.