Trivial Pursuit for Book Lovers
May 27, 2011
Children’s: What animal made a meal of James’ parents, in James and the Giant Peach?
Classics: What famous person is the title character in D.H. Lawrence’s story The Man Who Died?
Non-Fiction: What English punkster recalled his boyhood days in 1950s Britain in the autobiography No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs?
Book Club: What Alice Hoffman novel tells of Stephen’s return to the human world after being raised by wolves?
Authors: Who told Barnes and Noble that spotting his debut novel Anthropology in a Sex and the City episode was the pinnacle of his showbiz career?
Book Bag: What character, based on real-life serial killer Ed Gein, is at last hunted down by Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs?
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Children’s: A rhinoceros. From the London Zoo, if I remember correctly. I lived across the park from the London Zoo (we could hear the wolves howl at night while we were safely in our flat) when I was a kid and used to wonder about the rhinos. This is the only Dahl book I didn’t really enjoy and never read to AJ, so I’m not entirely certain I’m remembering this right.
Classics: Is that the one that’s a retelling of the life of Christ? I know there’s one that used to have a more lascivious name that is.
Non-Fiction: Johnny Rotten!
Book Club: ? I should probably know this. I don’t think I’ve ever read any Hoffman. I keep meaning too, but whenever I pick up one of her books, something else calls my name.
Authors: ?
Book Bag: Hannibal Lector
Clarice hunts down Jame Gumb, and that’s all I really know this week!
Children’s: A rhino
Book Bag: Buffalo Bill (I think)
I feel like I should know many more of these, but the one that I do know is the rhinoceros
Children’s: Rhinoceros
Classics: I assume Jesus, but I’m just guessing
Book Bag: Buffalo Bill! HA! I knew there was a reason I saw that scary-ass movie. It was so that I could answer this question.
I only know Children’s, it’s a rhinoceros, which is so silly. It has always amazed me that such enormous animals are vegetarians.
I once got to feed a rhino at the Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa, FL (rhino chow, which looked like tiny kibbles) and while it was eating I got to touch it. I was on the outside of a fence so it was perfectly safe. It felt like a giant living rock. Of course I had to pay for this privilege but it was worth it. At Lowry Park you can also ride a camel and feed the giraffes crackers but they don’t like to be touched. It’s cool though, their tongues are incredibly long.
I have neglected to bring the card with me on my travels, so will provide answers to these tomorrow!
Book Bag: Buffalo Bill! all the rest are a mystery to me.
For the record, I am pretty sure that the person known popularly as Buffalo Bill in the novel was actually Jame Gumb (also in the novel.)
Got delayed an extra day on my travels, as some of you know! Here, finally, are the answers the card provides:
Children’s: a rhinoceros
Classics: Jesus Christ
Non-Fiction: Johnny Rotten, or John Lydon
Book Club: Second Nature
Authors: Dan Rhodes
Book Bag: Jame Gumb, or “Buffalo Bill”