Tag: Quizzes

First Lines Quiz

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Here’s how to play…Identify the first lines of these famous novels by telling me what book it’s from.  Leave a comment with the # of the first line and the title of the book and I’ll cross it off the list.  No Googling, that’s cheating and no fun!   Last chance to earn entries in the giveaway.

HINT:  These books are all on my Top 100 list.

1.  “It wasn’t a very likely place for disappearances, at least at first glance.”  Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, LuAnn

2. “I was stunned by Mary Karr’s memoir, The Liars’ Club.”  On Writing by Stephen King

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

4. “The last class of my old professor’s life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves.”  Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom, Nicole

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

6. A mile above Oz, the Witch balanced on the wind’s forward edge, as if she were a green fleck of the land itself, flung up and sent wheeling away by the turbulent air.”  Wicked by Gregory Maguire, Kathy

7. My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie.”  The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, the word jar

8. You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don’t”  Lamb by Christopher Moore, Donna S

9. Howard Roark laughed.”  The Fountainhead by Ayne Rand, Tonya

10. The naked child ran out of the hide-covered lean-to toward the rocky beach at the bend in the small river.”  Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel

What Book is That? Quiz

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I am very impressed with you all!  I’ll do this one again in a few weeks.  Extra entries for Nicole (2), Wrighty (4), and Jessica.

I thought I’d do something a little different this week.  I was doing some shifting of books this weekend and was admiring some of the fun covers.  Can you identify these books by their censored titles?  Leave a comment with the number, title and author.  If you are the first one to get it right you will earn an extra entry in my book giveaway.  If you can get them all that would be a lot of entries!

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1.  The Quilter’s Apprentice by Jennifer Chiaverini, Nicole

2. The Little Friend by Donna Tartt, Heather

3. The Shop on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber, Wrighty 

4. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, Heather

5. Skipping Christmas by John Grisham, Jessica

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6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Nicole

7.  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling, Wrighty

8.  The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, Wrighty

9. Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella, Heather

10. Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz, Wrighty

Do I need to make them bigger?

Green Title Quiz

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VERY IMPRESSIVE!  Entries for Kaye, Sandy, LuAnn, Kathy, Margot, Mary, and Vania in the Mary Doria Russell Giveaway

I HAVE A GIVEAWAY STARTING ON FRIDAY.  IF YOU ARE THE FIRST ONE WITH A CORRECT ANSWER YOU WILL EARN AN EXTRA ENTRY.

In honor of St Patrick’s Day tomorrow, the answers will all have the festive color in the title.  I’m only going to list the author and see if you can guess the GREEN title. These are all novels.   I’ll add hints tomorrow if no one get them.

Here’s how to play…Identify the title 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.L.M. Montgomery  —  Anne of Green Gables, Kaye

2. Jan Karon — These High, Green Hills, Janet

3. JRR Tolkien  —  Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, Pearl & Sir Orfeo, Sandy

4. Christopher Buckley  —  Little Green Men, LuAnn

5. James Patterson with Peter deYoung  —  Miracle on the 17th Green, Kathy

6. Stephen King —  The Green Mile, Jason

7. Fannie Flagg —  Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe, Margot

8. Alice Hoffman — Green Angel, Mary

9. Judy Bloom  —  One in the Middle is the Green Kangeroo, Vania

10. Dr. Seuss —  Green Eggs & Ham, Janet

Most Notable Black Writers Quiz

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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. She was born Marguerite Johnson and became the first woman San Francisco streetcar conductor, but she is well known for her poetry and especially the first volume in her autobiography about caged birds.  Maya Angelou, Mark

2. After his 20 year career in the Coast Guard he wrote a book about Roots and also an autobiography about someone else, let’s call him X.  Alex Haley, Kathy

3. He published only one novel during his lifetime (about a man who wasn’t there) and it won the National Book Award in 1953.  Ralph Ellison, Jason

4. He has written a series of best-selling mysteries featuring detective Easy Rawlins- played by Denzel Washington in the movie.  Walter Mosley

5. In 1937 she published her most famous book (about watching God), but because of money problems she was buried in an unmarked grave in Florida.  Zora Neale Hurston

6. He was the grandson of the first black American elected to public office in 1855 and his first published poem ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ was also his most famous.  Langston Hughes

7. When she was eight she lost the sight in one eye when one of her brothers shot her with a bb gun, but that didn’t stop her from winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for a book about a color.  Alice Walker

8. He was a Pentecostal preacher when he was still a teen, but left the church when his writing began exploring sexuality; his novel about telling it on the mountain was semi-autobiographical.  James Baldwin

9. She was the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 and her novel  about a loved one won the Pulitzer in 1988.  Toni Morrison

10. He just won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2004 in novel about a world we all know.  Edward P Jones

Writers Lost in 2008 Quiz

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Thanks for playing!  Check back next Monday.  For my first quiz of 2009 I’ll be offering a small prize 🙂

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!  These authors wrote their final chapters in 2008.

1. Once dubbed “The Queen of the American Gothics” she wrote more than 70 novels and died at age 104. – Phyllis Whitney died on 2/8/08

2. His second (and last) novel made TIME’s 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923-2005.  He committed suicide after suffering from depression for more than 20 years. – David Foster Wallace died 9/12/08

3. In 1994 he became the only artist to have a film, a television series (currently in its last season), and a novel all number one at once.  His first novel was released in 1966 under the pseudonym John Lange and in 1992 he made People’s Most Beautiful People list.  Michael Crichton died 11/4/08-  Elena

4. He was a mystery writer best known for his series about an investigative reporter, memorably played by Chevy Chase in the films.  He also won 2 Edgar Awards. – Gregory McDonald died 9/7/08

5. Nationally syndicated newspaper columnist who founded the National Review in 1955.  William Buckley Jr. died 2/28/08– Mark

6. She was the only child of a President who wrote biographies of both of her parents as well as a popular murder mystery series set in and around Washington DC.  Margaret Truman died 1/29/08–  Kathy

7. British author of the Flashman series.  George MacDonald Fraser

8. British science fiction writer and inventor.  He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1994, but he is best known for his collaboration with Stanley Kubrick.  He emigrated to Sri Lanka in 1956 where he lived until his death.  Arthur C. Clarke died 3/19/08 – Mark

9. This novelist wrote more than 30 books, 18 of those in his Navajo series.  In World War II he earned  a Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart.  Tony Hillerman died 10/26/08 – Don

10. American author, historian, actor and broadcaster who received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non Fiction in 1985 for The Good War.  He never learned to drive.  Studs Terkel died 10/31/08–  Dave

Who Am I?

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Lots of authors use a pen name or pseudonym.  Do you think you would recognize famous authors by their real names?

Here’s how to play…Identify the famous authors by their real names.  Leave a comment with the # and the pen name for the author 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- A. Samuel Clemens           Answer-His pen name was Mark Twain

1. Charles Lutwig Dodgson  Lewis Carroll, thanks to the adventurous Jason

2. William Sidney Porter (Gifts are sometimes hard to choose) O. Henry

3. Evan Hunter (The 87th Precinct is the place to be) Ed McBain, no mystery to donstuff

4. Eric Arthur Blair  George Orwell, big brother would be proud of Donstuff

5. Mary Westmacott (I goofed up on this one.  This is actually her pen name when this best selling mystery writer wrote romances.)  Agatha Christie, no mystery to Elena Margo

6. Howard Allen O’Brien (My name seems masculine, but by vampires seem feminine)  Anne Rice, thanks to Jason for not leaving bite marks

7. Alisa Rosenbaum (She shrugged her way into a movement)  Ayn Rand, Roarke sends his congrats to bermudaonion

8. Mary Anne Evans  George Eliot, hats off to bermudaonion

9. James Oliver Rigney Jr. (The wheels continue after all this time) Robert Jordan

Famous Last Words Quiz

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Great job, Miss Bermudaonion!

Here’s how to play…Identify the last lines of these famous novels by telling me what book it’s from. Leave a comment with the # of the last line and the title of the book 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? Mid week I’ll offer hints if needed.

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.” (Dickens) A TALE OF TWO CITIES

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.” (Austen)  Bermudaonion, Pride and Prejudice by Austen

3.  “It’s funny. Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” (Salinger) Bermudaonion, Catcher in the Rye by Salinger

4.  “Rest assured, our father, rest assured. The land is not to be sold.’ But over the old man’s head they looked at each other and smiled.” (Buck) THE GOOD EARTH

5.  “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.” (Walker)  THE COLOR PURPLE

6.  “Oh, my girls, however long you live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this.” Bermudaonion, Little Women by Alcott

7.  “Up out of the lampshade, startled by the overhead light, flew a large nocturnal butterfly that began circling the room. The strains of the piano and violin rose up weakly from below.” (Kundera)  THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING

8.  “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.”  Bermudaonion, To Kill A Mockingbird by Lee

9.  “After all, tomorrow is another day.”  Bermudaonion, Gone With the Wind by Mitchell

10.  “She’s never found peace since she left his arms, and never will again till she’s as he is now!” (Hardy) JUDE THE OBSCURE

11.  “The sun is but a morning star.” (Thoreau)  Jason, Walden by Thoreau

12.  “April 27. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.” (Joyce)  A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN

Page 123 Quiz

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The Rules

1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

I’m not going to follow Rule #5 because this meme will be my quiz for the week.  I want more than 5 people to participate.  It can be whatever book is on hand.

“Then on holy days, when people come from all over the country to hear the services in the cathedral, we gather farthings galore.”

“It seems to me we might man the bridge on holy days only, and give you a fire out of the proceeds,” said Philip.

Paul looked anxious.

This is from The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.  Weighing in at 973 pages, it was given to me by my friend, Eric.  I think he was testing me to see how long it would take me to read it!  I am enjoying it very much, but am only on page 287. 

Let me hear from you.

Famous Epitaphs

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Here’s how to play…Identify these famous writers by the inscription on their tomb. Leave a comment with the # and the author and I’ll cross it off the list. No Googling, that’s cheating and no fun! If you know them all, please guess every one!!!! But also feel free to guess for fun  🙂

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

4. “Quoth the Raven, Nevermore“ EDGAR ALLAN POE, Jason

5. “I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.” ROBERT FROST, Dave

6. “Called Back” — Emily Dickinson

7. “The Stone the Builders Rejected” –Jack London

8. “Don’t Try” — Charles Bukowski

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

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