Friday, November 5, 2010
Trivial Pursuit for Book-Lovers
Children's: What was the last name of the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm who published Children's and Household Tales in 1812?
Classics: What title kicks off Paul Scott's Raj Quartet?
Non-Fiction: What landmark is celebrated by Nicholas Shrady's book Tilt: A Skewed History, cut at a rakish angle?
Book Club: What daughter of a Pulitzer winner for nonfiction was nominated for a National Book Award for her novel Gorgeous Lies?
Authors: What author of The Screwtape Letters was better known by his first two initials than by "Clive Staples"?
Book Bag: What romance author made a successful crossover to "chick lit" with L.A. Woman?
Classics: What title kicks off Paul Scott's Raj Quartet?
Non-Fiction: What landmark is celebrated by Nicholas Shrady's book Tilt: A Skewed History, cut at a rakish angle?
Book Club: What daughter of a Pulitzer winner for nonfiction was nominated for a National Book Award for her novel Gorgeous Lies?
Authors: What author of The Screwtape Letters was better known by his first two initials than by "Clive Staples"?
Book Bag: What romance author made a successful crossover to "chick lit" with L.A. Woman?
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Children's: Grimm
Authors: C.S. Lewis
I am so lame. . . I only know two of these.
Children's: Grimm
Authors: C. S. Lewis
I knew one!
Children's Grimm
Authors: C.S. Lewis
Woo! Two today! :-)
1. Grimm
3. Leaning Tower of Pisa?
5. C.S. Lewis, of course!
Children's: Grimm
Classics: The Jewel in the Crown (this has been on my TBR for awhile)
Non-Fiction: Tower of Pisa
Authors: Lewis!
Children's: Grimm
Classics: The Jewel in the Crown (best pre-hurricane impulse buy of my life)
Authors: CS Lewis
Oh! Just put me down for exactly freshhell's answers.
Oh, I knew the Jewel in the Crown, too -- I think it was on pbs for year and years and years in my youth.
Children's: Grimm
Classics: The Jewel in the Crown
Non-Fiction: The Leaning Tower of Pisa
Book Club: Martha McPhee
Authors: C.S. Lewis
Book Bag: Cathy Yardley
And I'd never heard of Martha McPhee or Cathy Yardley either!
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