Literary Trivia


If you love a challenging pub quiz or just sharing your expansive knowledge of history, pop culture or sports, Saturday, January 4 is your day. It's Trivia Day.

Here's a (literary) head start on tomorrow's fun.

Answers follow the quiz. No peeking!


1)  Who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013?

2)  Finish the title of this 2002 National Book Award winner by Robert Caro: "Master of the Senate: The Years of _________________."

3)  According to Publisher's Weekly, what was the best-selling E-book in 2012?

4)  Match the author with the Caldecott Medal winning book.

A Time of Wonder
Polar Express
Where The Wild Things Are
The Snowy Day
Officer Buckle and Gloria


Robert McCloskey
Peggy Rathmann
Ezra Jack Keats
Chris Van Allsburg
Maurice Sendak

5)  According to Publisher's Weekly, which celebrity chef had the #4 bestselling hardcover cookbook in 2012? Ree Drummond or Rachael Ray or Ina Garten

6)  Who said: "It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy."

7)  In 2010, T.J. Styles won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Autobiography for his book on this American businessman.

8)  Which of these writers died in 2013?

Vince Flynn
Tom Clancy
Anthony Lewis
Seamus Heaney
Elmore Leonard

9)  True or False...Khaled Hossein's "Kite Runner" was on the American Library Association's top 10 list of most challenged books in 2012.

10) Who wrote "The Beginner's Goodbye," "Earthly Possessions" and "Saint Maybe"? 
Jane Smiley or Anne Tyler or Louise Erdrich 

Answers 

1) Alice Munro - Canada

2) Lyndon Johnson

3) Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

4) A Time of Wonder/McCloskey
     Polar Express/Van Allsburg
     Wild Things/Sendak
     Snowy Day/Keats
     Officer Buckle/Rathmann

5) Ina Garten was rated fourth; Drummond rated sixth.

6) Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"

7) "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt"

8) They all died in 2013.

9) True, the book was #6 on the list for offensive language, homosexuality and religious viewpoints.

10) Anne Tyler