Novel IDs Trivia Quiz

In 2001, we were introduced to a teenager named Piscine Molitor Patel, who went by the name "Pi" and a Bengal tiger called Richard Parker. The novel was written by Yann Martel and won the Man Booker Prize in literature in 2002. The book's theme had Pi surviving for days on a boat, following a shipwreck, co-existing with the tiger and undergoing a spiritual discovery during the ordeals. Pi is the lead character's name, but is also a numerical value of approximately 3.14159, an irrational number.

"Four Past Midnight" was written by horror and thriller author, Stephen King. The title comes from the four different stories in the book. "Four Past Midnight" won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Collection in 1990. The stories included "The Langoliers", "Secret Window, Secret Garden", "The Library Policeman", and "The Sun Dog".

In 2003, Mitch Albom released "The Five People You Meet In Heaven". I was introduced to Mitch as a sportswriter and talk show host but he is a prolific author who also wrote "Tuesdays With Morrie". "The Five People You Meet In Heaven" followed a war veteran named Eddie dying at 83 and going to heaven.

There he learned many of the mysteries of life through encountering strangers that he had met on Earth. Their names were The Captain, The Blue Man, Ruby, Marguerite, and Tala.

"Daisy Jones And The Six" became a highly successful television series on Netflix. It was an adaptation of a book written in 2019, the story of a fictional 1970s band that kind of mirrored the story of Fleetwood Mac. Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne were the lead singer of a rock band that contained six members and the novel showcased the roller coaster relationship of the duo and their band.

"Nine Perfect Strangers" was a New York Times Best Seller written by Liane Moriarty in 2018. In the thriller, nine unique clients come for a ten day retreat to an idyllic health retreat on the water. Their goal was to relax and invigorate their minds. But the lead character, Masha, was an eccentric and intense director of the retreat who had bigger plans for the guests.

"13 Reasons Why" was a young adult novel that discussed Hannah Baker's suicide. She was a high school teenager and wanted all of those who played a role in her tragic decision to understand how they affected her. She created seven cassette tapes to tell her story. On each side of the double sided cassettes was a unique story. One side was left blank, leaving thirteen total stories.

The young adult novel was adapted into a popular Netflix series.

"Catch 22" describes a no-win situation where if you do something that will help you, it will also end up hurting you. It was the title and theme of Joseph Heller's 1961 novel set during World War II. Heller coined the phrase to describe the situation when pilots wanted to be declared insane so they wouldn't have to fly into incredibly dangerous war conditions.

The catch in the regulation was that anyone who was aware of the danger they were about to face couldn't be considered insane. Only someone who wanted to fly despite the danger might be classed as insane, but they weren't interested in being declared insane and grounded.

"100 Years Of Solitude" was actually a banned book for its themes of sexuality, profane language, and disrespect for religion. But the Marquez novel is considered by many to be a groundbreaking piece of literature. The long twisted story of the Buendia family was the theme of the book that won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

The use of the number 100 signified the length of a human lifespan, a full cycle.

"Fahrenheit 451" is a reference to the temperature at which books will burn. Ray Bradbury's novel was released in 1951 and tells the story of a fireman named Guy Montag. The authoritarian government was looking to ban books in the story and Montag made it his mission to save the classic pieces of literature despite being hunted for his efforts.

"2001: A Space Odyssey" has become one of science-fiction's all-time classics. Written by Arthur C. Clarke along with Stanley Kubrick's classic motion picture, we learned about the artificial intellligence of a supercomputer named HAL and "Star Gate".

The 1968 novel was actually released just after the movie's premiere and added greater detail to key plot lines in the movie. They chose the year 2001 as a reference to the new millennium. Remember the book was written in 1968 during the space race. 2001 was only 33 years away and the book left open the idea of future space exploration.