>Trivial Pursuit for Book-Lovers
April 1, 2011
>Children’s: What name did Russell and Lillian Hoban bestow upon their heroic badger?
Classics: What novels’ seven commandments include: “Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy” and “No animal shall wear clothes”?
Non-Fiction: What personal-finance guru promises to give folks The Courage to Be Rich along The Road to Wealth?
Book Club: What Barbara Kingsolver novel gives Kentuckian Taylor Greer a flat tire just a few blocks away from Tucson, Arizona’s Jesus is Lord Used Tires?
Authors: Who churned out thrillers under the name John Lange, to pay his Harvard Medical School tuition?
Book Bag: What Mark Leyner novel concerns a seventh-grader named Mark Leyner who is reviewing a screenplay called The Tetherballs of Bougainville?
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>Other than Animal Farm (classics) I got nothin'. I am half-convinced that The Tetherballs of Bougainville is an April Fool joke.
>Classics: Animal FarmAlso, the Kingsolver novel is The Bean Trees. I don't know the others. This game is more fun as a blog tool, in your hands, than it was as an actual game stuffed in my closet. 🙂
>Alison, the answer may strike you as kind of like an April Fool, but I did not make it up.Karen, I'm glad you like playing it this way–I don't know a group of humans who could play the game face to face and have as much fun with it!
>or a group of animals or aliens, either
>Frances the badgerMichael CrichtonAnimal Farmnot nec in that order
>Children's — FrancesClassics — Animal FarmNonFiction– Robert KiyosakiBook Club — The Bean TreesAuthors — Michael CrichtonWow, that's the most I've ever gotten in a single week. I own this game but I've only played it once, I was so awful. Might be just the thing for a readathon break though.
>I knew a few, but not all, but Frances! definitely my hero.
>Children's: FrancesClassics: Animal FarmNon-Fiction: Suze OrmanBook Club: Bean TreesAuthors: I don't recognize the pen name, but I suspect Michael Crichton (even though it took me three tries to spell his name)Book Bag: Isn't this just called The Tetherballs of Bougainville? Is this a trick question?
>Classics: Animal Farm Book Club: Bean TreesAuthors: CrichtonI own this game too and I agree, Jeanne actually makes it fun. I only have one friend who is willing to play it with me.
>Children's: FrancesClassics: Animal FarmNon-Fiction: Suze OrmanBook Club: The Bean TreesAuthors: Michael CrichtonBook Bag: The Tetherballs of BougainvilleGood work–and Harriet got them all again, including the kind-of-trick last one!
>I suck at this game. I wouldn't play this IRL with any of you. Nor with aliens or animals. 🙂
>Care, pretty much EVERYONE sucks at this game. But if we played it IRL there would be pie.