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?

10 comments:

Melissa Hall said...

Children's: Sparrow?

Classics: A Farewell to Arms

Book Club: Lonesome Dove

FreshHell said...

Authors: Kurt Vonnegut?

Karen said...

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?

Karen K. said...

Children's -- a robin?

Classics -- definitely Hemingway, probably A Farewell to Arms

Book Bag -- I know this one! It's George Carlin!

M. Denise C. said...

Children's: A raven?

Classics: A Farewell to Arms

Book Club: Lonesome Dove

Libby said...

children's: robin
Authors: Vonnegut
Book Bag: George Carlin

Harriet said...

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!

Mumsy said...

Childrens: A robin
Classics: I HATE HEMINGWAY
Book Club: No idea
Authors: Kurt Vonnegut
Book Bag: George Carlin

Harriet M. Welsch said...

In a funny coincidence, we watched a George Carlin tribute on PBS last night and they showed the "A Place for My Stuff" sketch.

Jeanne said...

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.