Let's take a trip - through a wardrobe, or down a rabbit hole, or over the rainbow.....
Average, 15 Qns, agony,
Aug 06 22
Recommended for grades: 4,5,6,7
Category:
Books for Kids
Songs about rings - match the lyric to the title of the song it comes from. These rings are doubly golden, as most of them are golden oldies.
Easier, 10 Qns, agony,
Jul 26 22
Category:
Jewelery in Songs
In early 2005, CBC Radio, with the help of panels of experts, and the votes of Canadians coast to coast, tried to determine the 50 essential Canadian songs. See how many of these classics ring a bell.
Average, 15 Qns, agony,
Dec 28 21
Category:
Canadian Music
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Join me in a tour through these holiday favourites.
Average, 10 Qns, agony,
Feb 04 24
Category:
Time in Songs
All of the songs in this quiz have someone walking either in the title or the lyrics. Mostly older well-known songs.
Average, 10 Qns, agony,
Feb 20 22
Category:
Walking and Running in Songs
The first lines of "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Moby Dick" were used in other quizzes, so I had to dig a little deeper. Nothing too obscure, though, I promise.
Average, 25 Qns, agony,
Dec 14 20
Recommended for grades: 9,10,11
Category:
Famous First Lines
Just recently even the jolliest members of the QMG have been feeling inexplicably a bit...well, tetchy. So we wrote this quiz to download all our grumpiness into one place and cheer ourselves up. We hope it has the same effect on you!
Average, 10 Qns, agony,
Jul 09 17
Category:
Thematic Emotions
There are many famous people with the surname Armstrong. See what you know about them, and their name.
Average, 10 Qns, agony,
Feb 26 16
Category:
Thematic Names
Can you tell your Cole Porter from your Duke Ellington? See if you can tell who wrote these well known songs.
Easier, 10 Qns, agony,
Oct 24 25
Category:
Standards - Great American Songbook
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"The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there..." Let's take a look at some stocking stuffers.
Easier, 10 Qns, agony,
Dec 09 17
Category:
Thematic Objects
Welcome to Lipreading (Speechreading) class! Come see what you would learn in a typical class, aimed at people with hearing loss who live in the hearing world. You might want to have a mirror handy.
Average, 10 Qns, agony,
Nov 18 22
Category:
Sign Languages
Join me for a quick trip through some Funtrivia categories, all united by the letter S.
Average, 10 Qns, agony,
Dec 13 25
Category:
S
A "feast" for you of Steves, Stephens, Stevens, Stephans....
Easier, 10 Qns, agony,
Apr 27 22
Category:
First Names Q-S
"I like a Gershwin tune, how about you?" Some Gershwin tunes here, plus Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer...
Average, 25 Qns, agony,
Jan 08 14
Category:
Standards - Great American Songbook
Starting in 1970, radio stations in Canada had to broadcast at least 30% Canadian content. Some of these songs went on to become international hits, others were mostly confined to our borders. How well do you remember the early days of CanCon?
Average, 20 Qns, agony,
Nov 04 12
Category:
Canadian Music
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Fictional detectives often have a sidekick - a chronicler, a henchman, a cat's paw. See how many you can identify.
Average, 10 Qns, agony,
Nov 03 10
Category:
Mystery & Detective Fiction
What do you know about secondary characters in Dorothy L Sayers' "Lord Peter Wimsey" stories? Bunter, Harriet, Parker, and more...
Average, 10 Qns, agony,
Apr 03 13
Category:
Sayers, Dorothy L.
One of the joys of Christmas is sitting in a warm house with the snow coming down outside, a hot drink at your side, and a freshly bathed child in clean flannel pyjamas on your lap, wanting a story. Here are some Christmas stories.
Average, 10 Qns, agony,
Mar 07 25
Recommended for grades: 5,6,7,8
Category:
Children's Christmas Books
I'll name a few literary characters, and you pick the author who created them.
Tough, 25 Qns, agony,
Apr 19 23
Recommended for grades: 9,10,11,12
Category:
Character Creators
Author Larry McMurtry is best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning "Lonesome Dove", but he has written much more. If you've gone to the movies in the last forty years, you will recognize many of these, even if you've never read one of his books.
Easier, 10 Qns, agony,
Oct 23 24
Category:
McMurtry, Larry
"Call me Ishmael" and "It is a truth universally acknowledged..." were already taken, but you should be able to recognize the opening passages of most of these well-known stories and books.
Tough, 25 Qns, agony,
Sep 30 17
Recommended for grades: 9,10,11
Category:
Famous First Lines
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Fictional sleuths are mostly shown as detached loners, or as going through women like a hot knife through butter. However, some detectives do find love...
Average, 10 Qns, agony,
Dec 25 16
Category:
Fictional Detectives
Science Fiction, as a genre, is particularly well suited to those long short stories known as novellas and novelettes. Here are a selection of classics, most of them Hugo winners. There will be some spoilers.
Average, 10 Qns, agony,
Apr 18 23
Category:
Science Fiction
Let's travel to the little village of St Mary Mead, to visit Agatha Christie's Miss Marple.
Average, 10 Qns, agony,
Dec 23 23
Category:
Miss Marple
Time for another look at what songs I have on my iPod, this time focusing on those that begin with the letter A. A pretty wide range of styles and artists here, but mostly older stuff.
Easier, 10 Qns, agony,
Mar 02 21
Category:
Alphabetic Songs and Artists
This quiz will be easy if you have read Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Books", even if it was many years ago. Be warned, though - having seen the movie (any of the movies) will do you no good at all.
Average, 15 Qns, agony,
Mar 24 23
Category:
Kipling, Rudyard
Donovan Leitch. What can you remember of the music from this flower of the mid/late sixties psychedelic garden?
Average, 10 Qns, agony,
Jul 03 24
Category:
Donovan
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The precursor to "Lonesome Dove", Larry McMurtry's "Comanche Moon" follows Gus and Call in their days as Texas Rangers.
Average, 20 Qns, agony,
Nov 18 10
Category:
McMurtry, Larry
You know that you've heard Ella, Billie, and Louis sing these words. Just complete the lyric.
Average, 25 Qns, agony,
Nov 30 12
Category:
Standards - Great American Songbook
A mixture of songs, old and newish, with references to coats in the lyrics.
Average, 10 Qns, agony,
Oct 24 17
Category:
Clothing in Songs
All of the songs in this quiz start with the letter "M". Mostly Rock, Country, Folk and R&B from the 60s and 70s, with a few outliers.
Average, 15 Qns, agony,
Mar 27 21
Category:
Alphabetic Songs and Artists
Fill-in-the-blank questions are among the most difficult to write correctly, in FunTrivia quizzes. Here are some guidelines.
Average, 10 Qns, agony,
Nov 22 21
Category:
Fill in the Blanks : FITBs
"Lift up your hearts and sing me a song that was a hit before your mother was born..." Part four in a series with a smoky saxophone soundtrack.
Average, 20 Qns, agony,
Oct 24 25
Category:
Standards - Great American Songbook
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Another quiz about the songs on my iPod - this time they all start with the letter L. They're a pretty wide mix of styles, but mostly older.
Average, 10 Qns, agony,
Mar 12 21
Category:
Alphabetic Songs and Artists
Many of my favorite songwriters have written songs that made at least a mild splash on the charts. However, it's the covering artist who gets the glory, not the songwriter! Most of these songs would be classed somewhere on the Folk/Country spectrum.
Tough, 15 Qns, agony,
Oct 22 25
Category:
Writers, Producers & Record Labels
I'll name a few literary characters, you pick the author who created them.
Tough, 25 Qns, agony,
May 27 19
Recommended for grades: 9,10,11,12
Category:
Character Creators
This book tells of the early adventures of Gus and Call from "Lonesome Dove". The movie version follows the book quite closely, so if you have only seen the movie, you could probably get most of the quiz.
Average, 15 Qns, agony,
Nov 18 10
Category:
McMurtry, Larry
How much do you remember about Bernie Rhodenbarr, the hero of Lawrence Block's "Burglar" books? A few SPOILERS here.
Average, 10 Qns, agony,
Sep 11 07
Category:
Block, Lawrence
With screeching tires and ricocheting bullets, the radio waves were full of detective and mystery shows in the 1940s and '50s. Come see what you remember.
Average, 10 Qns, agony,
Jan 19 26
Category:
US Old-Time Radio
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More songs from my iPod, this time all starting with the letter C. Mostly older, and leaning into Classic Rock, Folk and Country, with a few outliers.
Average, 10 Qns, agony,
Mar 25 21
Category:
Alphabetic Songs and Artists
Many well-loved SF novels were nominated for Hugo Awards, but were beaten by stiff competition. See if you can remember these runners-up, by plot description. Most will be from the sixties and seventies, and some authors will appear more than once.
Average, 10 Qns, agony,
Dec 22 17
Category:
Science Fiction
Dorothy L Sayers, who created Lord Peter Wimsey, also wrote a number of stories about Montague Egg. Why not give this quiz a whirl? After all, as Monty would say, "Don't let the smallest chance slip by; you never know until you try." Warning - Spoilers!
Average, 10 Qns, agony,
Jun 14 14
Category:
Sayers, Dorothy L.
They sure don't write 'em like they used to! These are all really well known songs, so the quiz should be easy. Just complete the lyric.
Tough, 25 Qns, agony,
Apr 02 12
Category:
Standards - Great American Songbook
This book by Rudyard Kipling isn't read much any more, but it should be - it can't be beat for magic and adventure.
Average, 15 Qns, agony,
Dec 28 08
Category:
Kipling, Rudyard
In 1994, a group of acclaimed folk, roots and country songwriters put together a collection of covers of their favourite Merle Haggard songs. This quiz is on the lyrics of the songs found on that album, "Tulare Dust" - if you're a Hag fan, give it a try.
Average, 15 Qns, agony,
Aug 28 09
Category:
Haggard, Merle
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Another quiz on songs on my iPod, this time all beginning with H. Mostly Classic Rock, Folk and Country.
Average, 10 Qns, agony,
Dec 19 23
Category:
Alphabetic Songs and Artists
Since they first appeared in Donald E Westlake's "The Hot Rock" in 1970, John Dortmunder and his crew of crooks have attempted more than a dozen capers, in novels and short stories. They're not always successful, but they ARE always hilarious.
Average, 10 Qns, agony,
Apr 10 21
Category:
Westlake, Donald E
Even notice how many literary characters are only children? This quiz is about those who are not - those burdened and blessed by brothers and sisters.
Average, 10 Qns, agony,
Mar 05 24
Recommended for grades: 9,10,11,12
Category:
Families, Lovers and Friends
This great novel by John Steinbeck is the story of two families. The Hamiltons are one of them.
Average, 10 Qns, agony,
May 17 08
Recommended for grades: 11,12
Category:
East of Eden
This great novel by John Steinbeck is the story of two families. The Trasks are one of them.
Average, 15 Qns, agony,
Jan 03 25
Recommended for grades: 10,11,12
Category:
East of Eden