Though I'm really not very good at it, I love trivia. Put books and trivia together and you've got a perfect match. So I thought it would be a fun Weekly Geek activity for us to come up with some book trivia questions to ask each other.
So take a moment, don't stress about it all, and write down five to ten questions that pop into your mind. You could center all your questions around a particular theme or genre, maybe something in which you specialize. Or ask questions about one certain book. Or teach us about your favorite author through your questions.
Alright. I enjoy trivia but have never been good at writing questions, so we'll see how this goes...
- What do the characters in the Hitchhiker's series discover to be the question to which '42' is the answer?
- Which author owned each of the following dogs:
- Keeper, a mastiff
- Carlo, a newfoundland
- Flush, a spaniel
- Charley, a poodle
- Toby-Chien, a bulldog
- What is the only subject in which William Blake received formal training?
- What is the origin of the name "Fiver" in Watership Down? For extra credit, what is his name in the original Lapine tongue?
- What animal swallows Gepetto in the book Pinocchio?
9 comments:
Ironically, Jase, the only answer on here I DO know is the one about Hitchhikers...I'll tell you in person, though, so I don't give it away here.
1. What is the meaning of the universe? (or something like that!)
2. John Steinbeck
5. A whale
Suey - which dog was John Steinbeck's?
That would be Charley. The rest I don't know. (I guess I misread the question at first... but now I get it!)
1. The Ultimate question of Life, the Universe and Everything. Nobody knows what the question is though.
4. He's the smallest rabbit in a litter (not sure if it's called a litter) of five or more. Five is the number for anything more than four.
5. A shark
I forgot to say, these are grat questions...
Since I just read Pinocchio, a shark. I read Watership Down ages ago so don't remember anything else but it being great. All else, no clue.
Great questions. I only knew the ones everyone else answered.
I put up the answers, if you're interested :). Available at http://mooredatsea.blogspot.com/2009/07/weekly-geek-trivia-answers.html
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