Trivial Pursuit for Book Lovers
June 8, 2012
Children’s: What controversial Leslea Newman children’s book begins: “Heather’s favorite number is two”?
Classics: What Beat novel’s manuscript, on a 120-foot teletype scroll, took a promotional road trip before Christie’s auctioned it off in 2001?
Non-Fiction: What Sylvia Nasar biography charted the tumult inside mathematician John Nash’s troubled brain?
Book Club: What U.S. president does Robert Coover envision as a star quarterback, in Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears?
Authors: What city’s Oakland Cemetery is the final resting place of Margaret Mitchell?
Book Bag: What writer envisioned the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge as home to thousands of dispossessed in Virtual Light and All Tomorrow’s Parties?
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Classics: On the Road (?)
NF: A Beautiful Mind
BC) Abe Lincoln (? The gloomiest president I can think of.)
Authors: Atlanta, GA
Ha! Now having googled, I can say that one of my answers is wrong, and that the second thing I thought of for that question was right. But they were all guesses for me today.
Classics: On the Road (The owner of the Indy Colts bought the scroll and it’s currently displayed in the Indiana State Museum. I went to see it last month, so cool!)
Non-Fiction: A Beautiful Mind
Authors: It’s got to be Atlanta
Children’s: Heather has Two Mommies
Classics: Kerouac’s On the Road
Non-Fiction: A Beautiful Mind
Book Club: Nixon
Authors: Atlanta
Book Bag: Gibson
I own the Nasar book but haven’t read it yet. After guessing Kerouac’s On the Road, I know nothing.
Children’s: Heather Has More Mommies Than She Can Throw A Tantrum At
Classics: On the Road, with Jack Kerouac and Heather’s Two Mommies
Non-Fiction: A Beautiful Mind On The Road with Heather, Jack Kerouac, and Two Mommies
I have reached the limit of my intelligence and improvisation. I could go on and make up stuff for the last three, but what with it being Friday and all, I have decided to take compassion on the Internet and save it from myself.
the tantrum part should doubtless have been added to the title…
Go Harriet!
I knew On the Road and A Beautiful Mind and guessed Atlanta.
Children’s: Heather Has Two Mommies
Classics: On the Road
Non-Fiction: A Beautiful Mind
Book Club: Richard Nixon
Authors: Atlanta
Book Bag: William Gibson