The ABC Blog Quiz, Second Edition
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The second edition of The American Book Center's devilishly difficult literary trivia quiz! Apparently the first one was too hard. This one is much easier. Well. . . Okay, a little bit. Good luck!Want to brush up on your book learning? Visit Do You Read Me? : the official blog of The American Book Center!
- 1.Twelve Sharp, Lean Mean Thirteen, Fearless Fourteen, Finger Lickin' Fifteen... what comes next?
- A.
Sweet Sixteen
- B.
Sizzling Sixteen
- C.
Savvy Sixteen
- D.
Spicy Sixteen
- E.
Sharp Shootin' Sixteen
- 2.In which book would you find these immortal words? "Hello," he said. "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
- A.
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
- B.
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
- C.
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
- D.
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
- E.
The Restaurant at The End Of The Universe by Douglas Adams
- 3.What was the name of Jane Austen's older sister?
- A.
Camilla
- B.
Cecily
- C.
Cassandra
- D.
Constance
- E.
Charlotte
- 4.Who wrote the Shopaholic series of ''chick-lit' books?
- A.
India Knight
- B.
Jane Greene
- C.
Sue Townsend
- D.
Helen Fielding
- E.
Sophie Kinsella
- 5.Which book won The Man Booker Prize in 2009?
- A.
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- B.
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- C.
Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
- D.
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
- E.
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
- 6.Aside from writing, Vladimir Nabokov had two great interests. One of them was chess, What was the other?
- A.
Stamps
- B.
Cars
- C.
Birds
- D.
Butterflies
- E.
Fairies
- 7.In which book would you find the land of Fantastica?
- A.
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
- B.
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson
- C.
The Phoenix Unchained by Mercedes Lackey
- D.
The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
- E.
The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black
- 8.Which of the following is not a book by Malcolm Gladwell?
- A.
Blink
- B.
Freakonomics
- C.
Outliers
- D.
What The Dog Saw
- E.
The Tipping Point
- 9."And Tango Makes Three" is a much-challenged and often banned 2005 children's picture book set in New York's Central Park Zoo. What is Tango?
- A.
Elephant
- B.
Otter
- C.
Pigeon
- D.
Penguin
- E.
Giraffe
- 10.Who wrote the lines, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"?
- A.
Shelley
- B.
Coleridge
- C.
Wordsworth
- D.
Keats
- E.
Tennyson
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