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Welcome To the 2018 Fall Semester!
Welcome To the 2018 Fall Semester!
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Book club trivia!!!
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1
Which author wrote the story with the flying island of Laputa, and the Houyhnhnms horse people?
Edward Lear
Jonathan Swift
Charles Dickens
Thomas Hardy
2
From whose point of view is the Book Thief told from?
Bob
Liesel Meminger
Death
The Nazis
3
What is the name of a sentence that contains every letter in the alphabet?
Pangram
Pangea
Palindrome
Paradigm
4
What is J.R.R. Tolkien’s full name?
Jimmy Ronald Rudeboy Tolkien
Jolkien Rolkien Rolkientolkien Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Jonathan Rupert Roald Tolkien
5
What novel gave its name to any impossible situation that one can never escape from
An ‘Article 11’
A ‘Section-8’
Murphy’s Law
A ‘Catch 22’
6
True or False: There are first folio copies of Shakespeare at UIUC
False
True
7
What is the best selling nonfiction book of all time?
A Brief History of Time
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
The Bible
8
Which shoe did Cinderella leave behind?
Right
Left
9
What is the first line of Twilight: “I'd never given much thought to how I would ______”
Fall in love
Get out of here
Die
Succeed in life
10
Which of these is NOT a faction used to classify people in the Divergent trilogy/film?
Misanthrope
Dauntless
Erudite
Candor
11
What is the name of Neville Longbottom’s toad in Harry Potter?
Old Greg
Trenton
Trevor
Neville
12
Which character is the greatest foe of Sherlock Holmes, described as the "Napoleon of crime"?
Irene Adler
Inspector Lestrade
Culverton Smith
James Moriarty
13
Which of the following books has a movie adaptation?
Fight Club
All of the Above
The Godfather
Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief
14
Where did C.S. Lewis once hold an academic position?
Oxford
University of Wisconsin
Cambridge
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
15
What is the meaning of the word bibliosmia?
Someone who spends too much money on buying books
The fear of libraries
The enjoyment of the smell of old books
Bilbo Baggin’s cousin
16
Who was the inspiration for Christopher Robin in the Winnie the Pooh series?
The author as a child
The newspaper delivery boy
The author’s son
The author’s student
17
Who wrote Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda?
Jake Norton
Martha Stewart
Benjamin Park
Becky Albertalli
18
Which of these authors famously hated their most popular work(s) of fiction?
Paulo Coelho
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Cassandra Clare
C.S. Lewis
19
How many words are in the longest sentence ever printed?
34
780
13,955
31,245
20
What is Cabeswater in the Raven Cycle Series?
A local DJ
The name of the high school
A magical forest
A long lost king
21
What bird did Edgar Allan Poe originally want to repeat “Nevermore"?
Parrot
Raven
Cockatoo
Eagle
22
What did Frank Baum name OZ after?
His father
A car
His cat
A filing cabinet
23
Which of these words was NOT invented by Shakespeare?
Sirrah
Bedazzled
Swagger
Puking
