Children's: Who are known as the Trenchcoat Twins, in a top-selling book series?
Classics: What Mart Crowley drama finds Harold getting a hustler named "Cowboy" as a birthday gift?
Non-Fiction: What All Things Considered co-host flits around Orville and Wilbur Wright's old haunts, in The Flyers?
Book Club: What Peter Shaffer play sees Antonio Salieri sadly sigh: "I was born with a pair of ears and nothing else"?
Authors: Who left instructions that his poem "Crossing the Bar" be included at the end of all editions of his poetry?
Book Bag: Who observes, in The Call of Cthulhu: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents"?
Wow! I know two this week. "Amadeus" and "HP Lovecraft." I won't say which questions these answer, so as not to tip off other players! :-)
ReplyDeleteHow pathetic, I didn't know a single one! I vaguely remembered the one about Clthuthu but I couldn't remember the author. This was a tough one.
ReplyDeleteOK.... I'm an idiot. I see that I gave the facile answer to the last question. It is clearly asking about the character, not the author. I have no clue. (I have heard enough about HP Lovecraft's stuff, especially Cthulhu, that I am really sure I never want to read this. It would give me nightmares.)
ReplyDeleteChildren's: for the record, I only know this from volunteering in my son's school library for a couple of years. It's Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
ReplyDeleteClassics: The only Crowley I've heard of is The Boys in the Band, but I've never read/seen it, so I can't confirm this is the one.
Non-Fiction: I had no idea. I went and looked it up because I wanted to know, but I'll keep my mouth shut. I have another of this author's books, though, and I probably should have guessed it.
Book Club: Amadeus.
Author's: Tennyson. But I didn't know that story.
Book Bag: Lovecraft. I've never read Lovecraft, but I've always loved the word "Cthulhu," which I always think of as a Welsh word spelled backward.
CSchu, It is a badly written question, because the answer is the author. I didn't even catch that, although I did correct the card's italicizing of the name of the poem and the incorrect use of past tense ("observed") about what I can only hope is fiction.
ReplyDeleteHarriet, Welsh spelled backwards!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Geez, nothing. Rough questions this week!
ReplyDeleteBook Club: Amadeus
ReplyDeleteOther than that...
Children's: Mary-Kate and Ashley
ReplyDeleteClassics: The Boys in the Band
Non-Fiction: Noah Adams
Book Club: Amadeus
Authors: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Book Bag: H.P. Lovecraft
So we didn't know Noah Adams. Just for the record, I did know that Tennyson story; it was not made up for this particularly error-ridden card!