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?

9 comments:

  1. Children's: Grimm
    Authors: C.S. Lewis

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  2. I am so lame. . . I only know two of these.

    Children's: Grimm
    Authors: C. S. Lewis

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  3. Children's Grimm
    Authors: C.S. Lewis

    Woo! Two today! :-)

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  4. 1. Grimm
    3. Leaning Tower of Pisa?
    5. C.S. Lewis, of course!

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  5. Children's: Grimm

    Classics: The Jewel in the Crown (this has been on my TBR for awhile)

    Non-Fiction: Tower of Pisa

    Authors: Lewis!

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  6. Children's: Grimm
    Classics: The Jewel in the Crown (best pre-hurricane impulse buy of my life)
    Authors: CS Lewis

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  7. 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.

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  8. 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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