Friday, June 29, 2007

Friday Book Lover's Trivia

Questions (card #131):

CH (Children's Literature) - What does Admiral Drake send to Mr. Popper from Antarctica, in a classic Richard and Florence Atwater tale?
CL (Classic Literature) - What saga by William Makepeace Thackeray features the clever social climber Becky Sharp?
NF (Non-fiction) - What former managing editor of Time magazine was the first Henry Kissinger biographer to gain access to the diplomat's private papers?
BC (Book Club) - What 1996 Mario Puzo opus features a powerful Mafia leader who wants to go legit?
AU (Author) - What 19-year-old harmonica whiz played Bob Dylan tunes across India, before publishing his first novel, Such a Long Journey?
BB (BookBag) - What bestseller has park ranger Anna Pigeon investigate a possible Klan murder in Mississippi?

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Friday, June 08, 2007

Friday Book Lover's Trivia

Questions (card #278):

CH (Children's Literature) - What chatacter's Guide to Life was subtitled: How to Eat, Dress, Travel, Behave and Stay Six forever?
CL (Classic Literature) - Who satirized London literary society in Cakes and Ale, the tale of two writers researching a biography of the fictitious Edward Driffield?
NF (Non-Fiction) - What host of The View holds court in You Have to Stand for Something, or You'll Fall for Anything?
BC (Book Club) - Who landed his second book, You Shall Know Our Velocity!, on bestseller lists despite publishing it himself and keeping it off chain store shelves?
AU (Author) - Whose tattling Tinseltown tales led Vanity Fair to dub her "Hollywood's own Marcel Proust"?
BB (BookBag) - What Scottish author features Professor Doctor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld in Portuguese Irregular Verbs and The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs?

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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Tuesday Book Lover's Trivia

Questions (card #155):

CH (Children's Literature) - What Winnie-the-Pooh character doesn't show up until the sequel, The House at Pooh Corner- Eeyore, Owl or Tigger?
CL (Classic Literature) - What novel introduced Kingsley Amis' popular antihero Jim Dixon?NF (Non-fiction) - What continent, remade by a meteor strike 65 million years ago, did Tim Flammery dub The Eternal Frontier?
BC (Book Club) - What epic novella treats readers to the elemental life of 19th-century frontiersman Tristan Ludlow?
AU (Author) - What midwestern university counts novelist Saul Bellow as a permanent member of its Committee on Social Thought?
BB (BookBag) - What mystery scribe created septuagenarian sleuth Henrie O to change folks' views of older women?

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