Friday, November 12, 2010

Trivial Pursuit for Book-Lovers

Children's: What children's author tapped out Circus Shoes, Movie Shoes, Theatre Shoes, Dancing Shoes and Ballet Shoes?

Classics: What novel sold the most copies during the 1970s--Jaws, The Godfather, or Love Story?

Non-Fiction: What former law clerk to Clarence Thomas penned Shut Up and Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN are Subverting America?

Book Club: Whose book Child of God did the New York Times call "the greatest necrophiliac novel ever"?

Authors: What Mississippian tore up the only copy of her short story "Petrified Man" after one too many rejection slips, then later rewrote it from memory?

Book Bag: What fictional spy was based on decorated Scottish World War II commando Patrick Dalzel-Job?

9 comments:

  1. Okay, mostly guessing:

    Children's author: Noel Streatfeild

    Classics: Love Story

    Nonfiction: Glenn Beck?

    Authors: Flannery O'Conner

    Book Bag: James Bond

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  2. BB must be James Bond. The others...I dunno.

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  3. Well, Noel Streatfeild and James Bond, but that's it.

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  4. I just know Streatfeild, and only because of Meg Ryan in "You've Got Mail." Shameful. :)

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  5. I only knew one, but it was the one I'm most glad I could get. I say it was probably Jaws as the bestseller. I remember reading it the summer it came out.

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  6. Children's: Noel Streatfeild

    That's all I've got.

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  7. I don't know any of these. Great questions as always! I love your literary trivia.

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  8. Children's: Noel Streatfeild
    Classics: The Godfather
    Non-Fiction: Laura Ingraham
    Book Club: Cormac McCarthy
    Authors: Eudora Welty
    Book Bag: James Bond

    These were tough ones, weren't they? Sounds like I need to watch You've Got Mail again, because I don't remember a Streatfeild reference!

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