Friday, March 25, 2011

Trivial Pursuit for Book-Lovers

Children's: What agency, according to a Lucy Frank book, controls everything from screaming babies to unopenable pistachio nuts?

Classics: What statesman's six-volume series The Second World War opens with The Gathering Storm?

Non-Fiction: What 20th-century muckraker spent the latter years of his life investigating ancient Athens for his book The Trial of Socrates?

Book Club:  What city is under siege in 1204 by the knights of the Fourth Crusade, in Umberto Eco's Baudolino?

Authors: What author died of lung cancer at 42, after writing about her life as a "high-functioning alcoholic" in Drinking: A Love Story?

Book Bag: What science-fiction author invites others to write about his time-traveling assassin Jerry Cornelius?
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8 comments:

  1. HarrietMarch 25, 2011 at 9:05 AM

    Wow, I only know authors: Carolyn Knapp.

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  2. Karen K.March 25, 2011 at 9:45 AM

    Only two for me this week:

    Classics: Winston Churchill

    Authors: Carolyn Knapp

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  3. Melissa HallMarch 25, 2011 at 10:04 AM

    Classics: Churchill, that's all I got.

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  4. Joe MurphyMarch 25, 2011 at 10:18 AM

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  5. JoeMarch 25, 2011 at 10:19 AM

    "Smith and Wesson and Me"

    Al Roker

    Giraldo Rivera

    Akron, OH

    Michelle Bachmann

    Don Cornelius

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  6. AnonymousMarch 25, 2011 at 1:17 PM

    Carolyn Knapp -- that's it!

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  7. Marie CloutierMarch 25, 2011 at 9:13 PM

    Caroline Knapp is the only one I know too! I used to love her columns in the Boston Phoenix. Long live Alice K.

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  8. JeanneMarch 28, 2011 at 9:14 AM

    Children's: The Annoyance Bureau
    Classics: Winston Churchill
    Non-Fiction: I.F. Stone
    Book Club: Constantinople
    Authors: Carolyn Knapp
    Book Bag: Michael Moorcock

    This was already a hard one, and I made it harder with my typo on 1204, making it 2104 for a while and misleading some of you into thinking it was SF, making Joe's guess so much more plausible.

    I would like to read a children's book with Joe's title, by the way.

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