Hug a Veteran Quiz

My father is a Vietnam veteran and my husband served his time in the Navy, and Wednesday is the day to make sure we thank them and every other veteran for their service to America.  That’s the theme of this week’s quiz.  Leave the number and the answer and no googling – that’s cheating and no fun.  All books are FICTION.

1. All this Civil War vet wanted to do is return home to North Carolina and the love of his life, but the journey was a difficult one.  He was played by Jude Law in the movie version.  Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier - Bags, Books & Bon Jovi

2. Lee Child has written a thriller series based on this ex-military cop.  Jack Reacher – Bags, Books & Bon Jovi

3. Two men return home from war in 1946 Mississippi.  This book won the 2006 Bellwether Prize (recognizing social responsibility).

4. A Vietnam soldier decides to go AWOL and walk to France.  This won the National Book Award for fiction in 1979.

5. This recent publication is a novel based loosely on the author’s life as a classmate of George W. Bush, marine in Vietnam, and the first Vietnam veteran to attend Harvard.

6. This is the debut novel of the man who brought us Forest Gump.  This is about an officer in the Vietnam War.  Better Times Than These by Winston Groom - Bermudaonion

7. A son investigates his father’s life as a soldier in WWII.  A surprising look at war from an author who writes bestselling legal thrillers.

8. This series by Robyn Carr always features a military veteran as hero of the story. – The Virgin River series - Bookfan

And a few notable veteran authors

9. This highly decorated Vietnam veteran is a current Virginia senator and says this about his writing, “I’ve written for a living all my life, so writing is as much a part of me as working out.”  Senator Jim Webb - Linda B

10. This author of The Painted Veil served as a secret agent for the British during WWI.  W Somerset Maugham - Fleurfisher

Presidential Movie Quiz

Tonight and tomorrow I’ll be working as a Polling Coordinator, so please vote and grant a smile to your poll workers

So, let’s get political.  Can you identify these movies by the fictional US Presidents shown?  This is an easy one, right?  Leave me the number and the movie.  No cheating

1. Air Force One – Alitareads

2. Dr. Strangelove – Eva

3. Fail Safe – Strangelove

4.Absolute Power -Wrighty’s Reads

5. Escape Fropm New York – Wrighty’s Reads

6. Mars Attacks! – Alitareads

7. The American President – Literary Feline

8. Deep Impact –  Michael

9. Independence Day – Literary Feline

10. Love Actually – Michael

I’ve finally posted the answers to the last three quizzes (Common Thread, What’s That Book?, What Book Is That?)

Common Thread Quiz

The last two quizzes are here and here and there is still time to participate.  If you are the first one with the right answer in those quizzes or this one you will earn an extra entry in my Birthday Book Giveaway.

What is the common denominator in these book combinations?  Tell me the number and what you think the five books have in common,  Go ahead and take a guess – you could be right!  And #10 is movies.  I got the idea from my 9 in ‘09 last Friday.

1.

Set in San Francisco – Mark (who is probably voting for Michael Irvin right now in Dancing with the Stars)

 

2.

2nd book in a trilogy – Candice

 

3.

Books made into movies starring Emma Thompson – Candice

 

4.

Fictional US Presidents as chracters – Debbie (Wrighty Reads)

 

5.

Main characters are named John – ‘Nise

 

6.

One of main characters is gay – Strangelove

 

7.

Edgar Award winners for Best Novel – Mark

 

8.

Set in Ireland – Stranglove

 

9.

Redheaded Protagonists – Strangelove

10.

Directed and written by Nora Ephron – Kathy (bermuuda onion)

What Book Is That? Quiz

Lat week’s quiz here.  Still time to participate.

Can you identify these books by their censored titles?  Leave a comment with the number, title and author.  If you get the correct answer first you will be entered to win a free book from me   Details here.

I don’t usually do this two weeks in a row, but this doubles as a look at my Dewey’s 24 Hour Read-a-Thon pile and as a way to use the gorgeous leaves in my yeard

1. THE DIVING BELL & THE BUTTERFLY by Jean-Dominique Bauby

2. The Housekeeper & the Professor by Yoko Ogawa – Wordlily

3. SAM”S LETTERS TO JENNIFER by James Patterson

4. The Funny Thing Is by Ellen Degeneres – Wordlily

5. TRUE TO FORM by Elizabeth Berg

6. DAMAGE by Josephine Hart

7. A GRACIOUS PLENTY by Sheri Reynolds

8. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver – Julie H.

9. Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh – Julie H.

10. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James Cain – Strangelove

What Book is That? Quiz

Answers to last week’s First Lines Quiz here.

Can you identify these books by their censored titles?  Leave a comment with the number, title and author.  If you get the correct answer first you will be entered to win a free book from me   Details here.

1.  AUDREY HEPBURN”S NECK by Alan Brown

2. Still Life by AS Byatt – Jackie

3. Summer in the City by Robyn Sisman – Strangelove

 4. Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner – Wrighty

5. I Do (But I Don’t) by Cara Lockwood – ‘Nise

6. LORD JOHN & THE HAND OD DEVIL’S by Diana Gabaldon

7. THE SLEEPING DOLL by Jeffery Deaver

8.  The Husband by Dean Koontz – Wrighty

9.  Dear John by Nicholas Sparks - Thoughts of Joy

 10. WAR & PEACE by Leo Tolstoy

First Lines Quiz

Check out the answers to last week’s Presidential Censorship Quiz.

Here’s how to play…Identify the first lines of these famous novels by telling me what book it’s from.  Leave a comment with the # of the first line and the title of the book and I’ll cross it off the list.  No Googling, that’s cheating and no fun!  

As a hint here are the authors you’ll find quoted here – Moore. London, Hurston, Crace, Jackson, Eugenides, Gilbert, McCullers, Hoffman, Gaiman, Hoeg, Sedaris, Frazier, Fforde, Nabokov, Steinbeck, Smith, Tolstoy, Leonard, Alcott

1. When the teacher asked if she might visit my mother, I touched my nose eight times to the surface of my desk. NAKED by DAVID SEDARIS

2. In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together.  THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER BY CARSON MCCULLERS

3. In a country such as Amerika, there is bound to be a hell-of-a-lot of food lying around just waiting to be ripped off.  STEAL THIS BOOK by ABBIE HOFFMAN

4. At the first gesture of morning, flies began stirring.  COLD MOUNTAIN by CHARLES FRAZIER

5. “Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents,” grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Beth F

6. Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom.  The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore – Tiny Librarian

7.No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.  THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE BY SHIRLEY JACKSON

8. When Fat Charlie’s dad named something, it stuck.  Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman, Thoughts of Joy

9. Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tidewater dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.  THE CALL OF THE WILD by JACK LONDON

10. It’s freezing-and extraordinary 0 degree Fahrenheit-and it’s snowing, and in the language that is no longer mine, the snow is qanik-big, almost weightless crystals falling in clumps and covering the ground with a layer of pulverized white frost.  SMILLA”S SENSE OF SNOW by PETER HOEG

11. I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith - Fleurfisher

12. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.  Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy- Calila

13. When Chili first came to Miami Beach twelve years ago they were having one of their off-and-on cold winters: thirty-four degrees the day he met Tommy Carlo for lunch at Vesuvio’s on South Collins and had his leather jacket ripped off.  GET SHORTY by ELMORE LEONARD

14. On the morning  the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide-it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese-the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope. - The Virgin Suicides (Wanda) by JEFFREY EUGENIDES

15. Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.  THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD BY ZORA NEALE HURSTON

16. Going to Ford’s Theatre to watch a play in like going to Hooters for the food.  EAT ,LOVE ,PRAY by ELIZABETH GILBERT

17. My father had a face that could stop a clock.  The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde – Fleurfisher

18. To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.  Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck – Calila

19. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock.  Lolita by Vladimir – Candice

20. For old time’s sake, the doctors of zoology had driven out of town that Tuesday afternoon to make a final visit to the singing salt dunes at Baritone Bay.  BEING DEAD by JIM CRACE

I found all of these lines in 1001 Books for every Mood and I”ll be reviewing it on Wednesday.

Presidential Censorship Quiz

Last week’s Patrick Swayze quiz answers here.

It’s Banned Book Week and I decided to challenge you on censorship AND US Presidents.  These 10 quotes on censorship are all attributed to a US President.  Leave me the quote # and the President you think said it.  No Googling!  That’s cheating and no fun.  Go ahead and get to guessing. 

To help you out I’ve included pics of the ones who are still left to be quoted…

1. “We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire.  People die, but books never die.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt – ‘Nise

2. “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” - Abraham Lincoln – Eva

3. “When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly…[However, now] there’s a lot of irresponsibility.  And so a lot of people say there’s too much freedom.  When personal freedom’s being abused, you have to move to limit it.” – Bill Clinton

4. “Don’t join the book burners…Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.” – Dwight Eisenhower

5. “We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.  For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid that is afraid of its people.” – John F. Kennedy – Eva

6. “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of the opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” Harry Truman

7. “Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.” – Lyndon B. Johnson - Wendy

8. “Our liberty depends on freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” – Thomas Jefferson

9. “The notion of political correctness declares certain topics, certain expressions, even certain gestures, off-limits.  What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship.” – George H Bush

10. “The internet today is an open platform… You’ve got barriers to entry that are low and equal for all comers.  And it’s because the internet is a neutral platform that I can put on this podcast and trasmit it over the internet without having to go through some corporate media middleman.  I can say what I want without censorship.” - Barack Obama – Debbie

BONUS QUESTION (sorry, but I could not quotes the Presidents and not include this gem)

“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.” – George W. Bush – Debbie

Patrick Swayze Was In That? Quiz

Last week Patrick Swayze lost his courageous battle with cancer.  For this week’s quiz I’ve listed 9 of his characters in the order that I like them  best.  Can you identify the movie?  Leave a comment telling me the # and the name of the movie.  No Googling – that’s cheating and no fun!

To get you in the mood I want to include a link to one of my favorite Saturday Night Live skits ever.  Enjoy!

1. Johnny Castle - Dirty Dancing - Wrighty

2. Sam Wheat – Ghost - Wrighty

3. Bodhi – Point Break – rosarot67

4. Derek Sutton - Youngblood – rosarot67

5. Jed - Red Dawn - nfmgirl

6. Vida – To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar - Laura

7. Darrel Curtis – The Outsiders - rosarot67

8. Truman Gates – Next of Kin – Orrymain

9. Dalton – Road House - Wrighty

Common Thread Quiz

Answers to last quiz here.

What is the common denominator in these book combinations?  Tell me the number and what you think the five books have in common,  Go ahead and take a guess – you could be right!

1.

First in a series – Beth F

 

2.

Literary One Hit Wonders – the only novel writtne by these authors – Eva

 

3.

Novels set in Alaska – Calila

 

4.

Main characters are named Elizabeth – Calila

 

5.

Oprah Book Club Selections – Debbie

 

6.

Books made into movies starring Hugh Grant – Michael

 

7.

Native American authors – Eva

 

8.

Blizzard settings – Calila

 

9.

Booker Prize Winners – Calila

 

10.

Main characters are or were  football players – Calila

What Book is That Quiz? Take Four

Answers to last week’s quiz here.

Can you identify these books by their censored titles?  Leave a comment with the number, title and author.

1. America (the book) by Jon Stewart – Michael

2. The Ark, the Reed and the Fire Cloud by Jenny Cote – Kathy at BB&BJ

3. Made in the U.S.A. by Billie Letts – Debbie

4. Ishmael by Daniel Quinn – Violet

5. Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos – Debbie

6. Tranparency by Frances Hwang

7. The Castaways by Elin Hilerbrand – Em

8. April & Oliver by Tess Callahan – Kathy

9. The Widow’s Season by Laura Brodie – Violet

10. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards – Em