Friday, May 6, 2011
Trivial Pursuit for Book-Lovers
Children's: What type of bird showed Mary Lennox where the rusty key to The Secret Garden was buried?
Classics: What novel sees ambulance driver Lt. Frederick Henry escaping execution by jumping into the Tagliamento River?
Non-Fiction: What 20th-century trustbuster got the royal treatment in Edmund Morris' Theodore Rex?
Book Club: What Texas town did Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae meet up in, before starting a cattle drive to Montana?
Authors: Who had already penned Player Piano by the time he became one of Saab's first U.S. dealers?
Book Bag: What comic included the classic stand-up routine "A Place for My Stuff" in his collection of cerebral scat called Braindroppings?
Classics: What novel sees ambulance driver Lt. Frederick Henry escaping execution by jumping into the Tagliamento River?
Non-Fiction: What 20th-century trustbuster got the royal treatment in Edmund Morris' Theodore Rex?
Book Club: What Texas town did Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae meet up in, before starting a cattle drive to Montana?
Authors: Who had already penned Player Piano by the time he became one of Saab's first U.S. dealers?
Book Bag: What comic included the classic stand-up routine "A Place for My Stuff" in his collection of cerebral scat called Braindroppings?
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Children's: Sparrow?
Classics: A Farewell to Arms
Book Club: Lonesome Dove
Authors: Kurt Vonnegut?
Children's: A robin
Classics: Sounds like Hemingway...A Farewell to Arms?
Non-Fiction: Teddy Roosevelt?
Book Club: Lonesome Dove
Authors: No idea
Book Bag: I don't know. Steven Wright?
Children's -- a robin?
Classics -- definitely Hemingway, probably A Farewell to Arms
Book Bag -- I know this one! It's George Carlin!
Children's: A raven?
Classics: A Farewell to Arms
Book Club: Lonesome Dove
children's: robin
Authors: Vonnegut
Book Bag: George Carlin
Children's: A robin
Classics: A Farewell to Arms
Non-Fiction: Theodore Roosevelt
Book Club: ?
Authors: Vonnegut. I didn't know about the Saab thing. His family owned the property down the street from us when we lived in Indy. I think it's still known as Vonnegut's Woods.
Book Bag: George Carlin!
Childrens: A robin
Classics: I HATE HEMINGWAY
Book Club: No idea
Authors: Kurt Vonnegut
Book Bag: George Carlin
In a funny coincidence, we watched a George Carlin tribute on PBS last night and they showed the "A Place for My Stuff" sketch.
Children's: A robin
Classics: A Farewell to Arms
Non-Fiction: Theodore Roosevelt
Book Club: Lonesome Dove
Authors: Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Book Bag: George Carlin
Well done, everybody! I'm glad to know we have some Carlin fans here!
And Mumsy, I'll tell you what I told my kids about saying they "hated" different foods--we should say we hate evil and merely dislike other stuff.
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