1. In the "children's" category: Who included a star-studded CD along with her songbook Philadelphia Chickens, hyped as a "too-illogical zoological musical revue"?
Sandra Boynton
2. In the "classics" category: What Arthur Conan Doyle character was based on a shrewd Victorian criminal named Adam Worth?
Professor Moriarty
3. In the "non-fiction" category: What hot-selling 1995 instructional manual was subtitled Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right?
The Rules
4. In the "book club" category: What tearjerker was the first William Styron book ever performed as an opera?
Sophie's Choice
5. In the "authors" category: What best selling novelist was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as an "Outstanding American" in 1992?
John Irving
6. In the "book bag" category: What was Janet Evanovich's follow-up to her best-selling thriller One for the Money?
Two for the Dough
PAJ, like me, got all but #3. Harriet got all but #6 (I LIKE those Stephanie Plum novels!). And Florinda got all but #1 (anyone with children under the age of 13 needs to hear Philadelphia Chickens!) Thanks for playing. Should we do this here again, perhaps with a shorter answer time? (Did you notice that Paperback Reader is asking one of these questions every Tuesday?)
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Though I am generally terrible at trivia, I would love to see more of these. I have no opinion on answer time. Do it however you like. :)
This would be great to see again even though I am horrid at it. Time is up to you. More or less of it would probably not help me anyway.
I thought this was fun as well and the time doesn't really make a difference to me. As for Stephanie Plum, I am a mass market book snob, so I've never picked those books up and probably won't. Which is probably totally unfair, but there it is.
I'm amazed that a couple of my guesses were correct!
Thanks for the link; I enjoy playing the game weekly and would like to see more questions (that I don't know the answers to myself, playing rather than hosting) featured here.
I enjoyed playing and would like to play again. (Although we were huge Sandra Boynton fans at my house, we had missed Philadelphia Chickens until a dear friend sent us the book a year or so ago.)
Yes, more, please!
Okay, we'll do this once a week or so here; I'm thinking of putting the answers in the comments so if you subscribe to comments, you'll see them.
#3 wasn't a fair question. The Rules clearly should be categorized as fiction.
Alison, ha, good point. Management is not responsible for the phrasing or categorizing of questions used in this game!
I think the book-lover trivia will appear on Fridays.
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