Saturday, June 27, 2009

Weekly Geeks 2009.24: Trivia Time


It's Trivia Time over at Weekly Geeks! So here's some random book questions for you:


1. The Grapes of Wrath is about what event in American history?


2. In what country does the novel The Far Pavilions take place?


3. By what name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens more commonly known?


4. Who are the four Little Women?


5. What does Amir's friend, Hassan, say to him many times in the book The Kite Runner?


6. Anne (of Green Gables) likes to refer to her friends as... what?


7. At the end of The Good Earth, what are the sons planning to do?


8. In The Book Thief, what's the first book that Liesel steals?


9. In Wuthering Heights, which two characters does Heathcliff force to get married?


10. Who does Kitty run off with in Pride and Prejudice?


Comment with your answers! No fair Googling! Answers to be posted later this week.

14 comments:

  1. 1. The Depression

    2. India

    3. Mark Twain

    4. Jo, Beth, Amy and ...... grrr .... The Other One

    10. Wickham

    Happy Weekly Geeks :)

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  2. 3. Mark Twain
    4. Jo, Meg, Beth, Amy
    9. Catherine's daughter Catherine and his son Linton
    10. Wickham

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  3. Just letting you know I dropped by Suey, but I have nothing to add to the answers already proferred

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  4. I only know the same answers as Maree and Rikki:
    4. Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy.
    9. Linto and little Cathy.
    10. Wickham.

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  5. Not looking at everyone else's answers!!!

    1. The dust bowl and migration to California
    2. ?
    3. Mark Twain
    4. Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
    5. ?
    6. ?
    7. sell the land
    8. a gravedigger's handbook
    9. Cathy and Linton
    10. Wickham

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  6. 10. BAH. Kitty doesn't run off with anyone. Lydia runs off with Wickham.

    6. bosom companions (or something like that. I know bosom is part of it.)

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  7. Melissa!!! You got me in my own goof! Too funny. I DID mean Lydia, but somehow Kitty came out instead! :) Now it will be interesting to see if anyone else catches that! Way to go!

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  8. 1. The Great Depression

    2. India

    3. Mark Twain

    4. Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy

    5. ?

    6. Kindred spirits

    7. ?

    8. ?

    9. Linton and Cathy Jr

    10. Wickham

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  9. Ah! Melissa is right! That could be a trick question. lol!

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  10. 1. The Great Depression
    2. I don't know! I'm guessing an Asian one, though. :)
    3. Mark Twain
    4. Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
    5. Hated this book
    6. Kindred spirits!
    7. I stopped reading two-thirds through, lol.
    8. a guide to grave digging
    9. Can't remember.
    10. Kitty doesn't run off with anyone. Lydia runs off with Wickham.

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  11. Eva: Hated The Kite Runner? AND The Good Earth? Sad sad sad! :)

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  12. 1. The migration of people to California during the depression.
    2. ?
    3. Mark Twain
    4. Jo, Meg, Beth, why can't I remember the 4th one?
    5. For you, a thousand times.
    6. Bosom friends? ( know it's bosom something...)
    7. ?
    8. A guide to gravedigging or something like that.
    9. ?
    10. A soldier...Mr. Wickham?

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  13. Great questions.
    1. Great Depression
    2.?
    3.?
    4. Jo, Amy, Beth, and Meg
    5. ?
    6. Kindred Spirits
    7. ?
    8. ?
    9.?
    10 ?

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