Friday, April 1, 2011

Trivial Pursuit for Book-Lovers

Children's: What name did Russell and Lillian Hoban bestow upon their heroic badger?

Classics: What novels' seven commandments include: "Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy" and "No animal shall wear clothes"?

Non-Fiction: What personal-finance guru promises to give folks The Courage to Be Rich along The Road to Wealth?

Book Club: What Barbara Kingsolver novel gives Kentuckian Taylor Greer a flat tire just a few blocks away from Tucson, Arizona's Jesus is Lord Used Tires?

Authors: Who churned out thrillers under the name John Lange, to pay his Harvard Medical School tuition?

Book Bag: What Mark Leyner novel concerns a seventh-grader named Mark Leyner who is reviewing a screenplay called The Tetherballs of Bougainville?

12 comments:

  1. Other than Animal Farm (classics) I got nothin'. I am half-convinced that The Tetherballs of Bougainville is an April Fool joke.

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  2. Classics: Animal Farm

    Also, the Kingsolver novel is The Bean Trees.

    I don't know the others.
    This game is more fun as a blog tool, in your hands, than it was as an actual game stuffed in my closet. :)

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  3. Alison, the answer may strike you as kind of like an April Fool, but I did not make it up.

    Karen, I'm glad you like playing it this way--I don't know a group of humans who could play the game face to face and have as much fun with it!

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  4. or a group of animals or aliens, either

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  5. Frances the badger
    Michael Crichton
    Animal Farm

    not nec in that order

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  6. Children's -- Frances
    Classics -- Animal Farm
    NonFiction-- Robert Kiyosaki
    Book Club -- The Bean Trees
    Authors -- Michael Crichton

    Wow, that's the most I've ever gotten in a single week. I own this game but I've only played it once, I was so awful. Might be just the thing for a readathon break though.

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  7. I knew a few, but not all, but Frances! definitely my hero.

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  8. Children's: Frances

    Classics: Animal Farm

    Non-Fiction: Suze Orman

    Book Club: Bean Trees

    Authors: I don't recognize the pen name, but I suspect Michael Crichton (even though it took me three tries to spell his name)

    Book Bag: Isn't this just called The Tetherballs of Bougainville? Is this a trick question?

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  9. Classics: Animal Farm

    Book Club: Bean Trees

    Authors: Crichton

    I own this game too and I agree, Jeanne actually makes it fun. I only have one friend who is willing to play it with me.

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  10. Children's: Frances
    Classics: Animal Farm
    Non-Fiction: Suze Orman
    Book Club: The Bean Trees
    Authors: Michael Crichton
    Book Bag: The Tetherballs of Bougainville

    Good work--and Harriet got them all again, including the kind-of-trick last one!

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  11. I suck at this game. I wouldn't play this IRL with any of you. Nor with aliens or animals.

    :)

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  12. Care, pretty much EVERYONE sucks at this game. But if we played it IRL there would be pie.

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