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91.
  Travis McGee John D MacDonald    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
For fans of these wonderful mystery novels and their author.
Average, 10 Qns, aladdinjuno, Dec 01 13
Average
aladdinjuno
310 plays
92.
  Queen of Camelot    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
"Queen of Camelot" by Nancy McKenzie is a great book about Guinevere, King Arthur, and Lancelot. This quiz should be easy if you have read the book.
Tough, 10 Qns, newcreation13, Jun 11 04
Tough
newcreation13
177 plays
93.
  "The Doomspell" by Cliff McNish    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz about the first book in the "Doomspell" Trilogy.
Average, 10 Qns, 00lawrencem, Aug 08 10
Average
00lawrencem
140 plays
94.
  Rescue: Josh McGuire    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is about the book "Rescue: Josh McGuire". It is by Ben Mikaelson. Have fun!
Average, 10 Qns, mochariver7117, Nov 10 07
Average
mochariver7117
129 plays
95.
  The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is the third book in the series by Jaclyn Moriarty; it is about an Australian high school girl named Bindy whom everyone hates.
Average, 10 Qns, BSPPKT, Nov 30 08
Average
BSPPKT
139 plays
96.
  "The Killing Club" by Michael Malone    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is about the tie-in book by Marcie Walsh with Michael Malone from the show "One Life to Live". (WARNING: Spoilers).
Tough, 10 Qns, modernlove3, Nov 16 05
Tough
modernlove3
120 plays
97.
  "Fingerprints" by Melinda Metz    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
This is a quiz on Melinda Metz's series "Fingerprints." Enjoy!
Tough, 15 Qns, jesselvr23, Jul 12 03
Tough
jesselvr23
243 plays
98.
  Moser's "Time Lottery"    
Multiple Choice
 20 Qns
Nancy Moser's "Time Lottery" shows the lives of three lucky people who get the chance to go back and change their lives.
Tough, 20 Qns, pinkblush2, Mar 21 14
Tough
pinkblush2
175 plays
99.
  The Saga of Recluce    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is about L.E. Modesitt's books in the "Saga of Recluce". I hope you enjoy it!
Average, 10 Qns, hplover13, Jun 12 06
Average
hplover13
153 plays
100.
  Riddle Master Trilogy    
Multiple Choice
 20 Qns
This quiz is about the 'Riddle Master' trilogy by Patricia A. McKillip. These are, in my opinion, the finest fantasy books ever written, even capping the 'Icewind Dale', 'Dark Elf', and 'Sword of Truth' series. Note: You need to have read the books.
Tough, 20 Qns, Carmen_Woods, Mar 21 14
Tough
Carmen_Woods
215 plays
101.
  Meier Madness    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Leslie Meier is a great author and her books, especially the Lucy Stone collection, are imaginative and great. This quiz will center around the "Wedding Day Murder". Have fun!
Tough, 10 Qns, kitty__kat22, Mar 21 14
Tough
kitty__kat22
132 plays
102.
  The Iron Tower Trilogy    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
This quiz will test your knowledge on the 'Iron Tower Trilogy' written by Dennis L. McKiernan.
Average, 15 Qns, martymontreal, Mar 21 14
Average
martymontreal
207 plays
103.
  Christy    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz about the NOVEL (not tv series or movies) "Christy", by Catherine Marshall.
Average, 10 Qns, Jessthemess, Oct 13 17
Average
Jessthemess
Oct 13 17
419 plays
104.
  "Perfect Strangers" by Jahnna N. Malcom    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Here is a quiz on this great book. Enjoy!
Tough, 10 Qns, loco_4_trivia, Apr 18 05
Tough
loco_4_trivia
138 plays
105.
  The Year of Secret Assignments    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
"The Year of Secret Assignments" by Jaclyn Moriarty is one of the greatest books around. Hope you like my quiz.
Average, 15 Qns, waterfairy06, May 01 04
Average
waterfairy06
211 plays
106.
  Love and other Four Letter Words    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
"Love and Other Four Letter Words" by Carolyn Mackler. This quiz is about a great book I have just read by a great first time author. If you haven't read it you must. This book shows us that even in the worst situations we can grow as people.
Average, 10 Qns, agilldesign, Oct 30 06
Average
agilldesign
193 plays
107.
  "Walking a Thin Line" by Sylvia McNicoll    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
I read this book for a book club, and think that preeteens and teenagers should read it, especially girls.
Tough, 10 Qns, supergirl17, Apr 25 04
Tough
supergirl17
141 plays
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Authors L-P: 'M' Trivia Questions

91. Noemi is asked by her father to visit Catalina who is going through a tough time. What relation is Catalina to Noemi?

From Quiz
"Mexican Gothic" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Answer: Cousin

Catalina is Noemi's cousin. Catalina is newly married and moved away with her new husband. Noemi hasn't spoken to her cousin in close to a year and assumes that it is because Catalina is enjoying being newly married. A letter arrives that is disconcerting as Catalina suggests she is being poisoned and asks for help. She specifically asks for Noemi to visit her.

92. What did Bob do for a living before buying the chicken ranch?

From Quiz "The Egg And I" by Betty MacDonald

Answer: He was an insurance salesman.

While on their honeymoon, Bob talked mostly of insurance. But upon their return to Seattle, he began to talk to Betty about a chicken ranch that was for sale, and told her that he always wanted to go into the chicken business. When asked what she thought about it, her answer was, "I knew how to make mayonnaise and mitre sheet corners and light candles for dinner, so, chickens or insurance, I could hold up my end. That's what I thought. That's what a lot of women think when their husbands become dewy-eyed at the sight of their breakfast eggs and start making plans for taking the life savings and plunging into the chicken business!"

93. What is the name of the main protagonist of "The Starless Sea"?

From Quiz "The Starless Sea": A Brief Overview

Answer: Zachary Ezra Rollins

Parts of the story are told from the viewpoint of other characters, but Zachary's is the central story line that weaves through the entire tapestry of the tale.

94. Who did Fanny and Linda pretend they were visiting when they went to have lunch with Tony in his college rooms?

From Quiz Mitford, Nancy 'The Pursuit of Love'

Answer: Lavender Davis

Linda and Fanny knew that they would not be allowed to visit a young man without adult supervision so they said that their friend Lavender had a man visiting her home who had brought up a baby badger. This was well known to be an ambition of Linda's, and although Linda had complained about the food last time she visited Lavender Aunt Said believed them and lent them her car.

95. After her recovery, Paks spends some time in Lyonya with a group of what?

From Quiz Paksenarrion the Paladin

Answer: Rangers

With them, she learns to use a bow with more proficiency than she did in the militia. She also helps kill a massive creature, a daskdraudig. While she survives, other rangers die.

96. What does Paks say that her name means?

From Quiz Paksenarrion the Wanderer

Answer: Tower of the mountains

She tells part-elf Macenion that her name is elven for "tower of the mountains". Macenion tells her she's wrong and that her name means "royal tower" in Aaren, a human language, and explains how the corruption of meaning occurred.

97. Part of Korryn's punishment for assaulting Paks is "tinisi turin". What is this?

From Quiz Paksenarrion the Soldier

Answer: Full body shave

Korryn beats Paks badly after she refuses to sleep with him. He then claims that Paks attacked Stephi, even though she is so injured she can hardly walk and keeps vomiting. In addition to being discharged from the company, branded, and flogged, Korryn is shaved "like a shorn lamb". This act foreshadows something that happens to Paks in "Oath of Gold".

98. Thomas More befriended many great minds of the humanist era. One of them was a Dutchman from Rotterdam. More considered his first encounter with this man (in London, in 1499) "a pivotal moment in his life". Who was this man?

From Quiz Life and Works of Thomas More

Answer: Desiderius Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus is the only Dutch humanist amongst these answers (Vives was Spanish, Gillis was Flemish and Rabelais was French). Oddly enough both Desiderius AND Erasmus could be derived from the world 'love' (Desiderius in Latin, Erasmus in Greek). A legend states that his birthname was Geert Geertsz - both parts resembling the Dutch word 'begeerte' (= desire, love) - and that Erasmus himself chose to translate his name in two languages. Nice story. But still: a legend.

99. Legend has it that Murakami was struck with the inspiration to write his first novel 'Hear the Wind Sing' while watching Dave Hilton hit a double for the Yakult Swallows. What sport was he watching?

From Quiz Cats and Classical Music - Haruki Murakami

Answer: Baseball

Haruki Murakami became a novelist fairly late in life, deciding to write his first novel when he was 29. The story goes that as he was watching his beloved Yakult Swallows play the Hiroshima Carp in Tokyo's Jingu Stadium, and as Dave Hilton came in to bat, he decided that he should write a novel. He then wrote for an hour every evening, completing his first novel after four months. The result was 'Hear the Wind Sing', a broad-scoping novel about love and loss, centred around the Japanese student movement and narrated by an unnamed young man. The other major character is his close friend 'The Rat', who also appears in the subsequent works 'Pinball, 1973' and 'A Wild Sheep Chase'. They are often collectively referred to as 'The Rat Trilogy'.

100. While standing on her balcony, Celaena hears a girl making rude comments about her and pushes a flower pot of the balcony, nearly hitting the girl. Who is this girl?

From Quiz Throne of Glass

Answer: Kaltain Rompier

Celaena has an instant dislike of Kaltain when they first meet. Kaltain has an obsession with the prince and believes that she will be his wife. She also sees Celaena as a threat. Kaltain is ignorant as to the real identity of Celaena and knows her as Lillian. It is also thanks to Kaltain, that Celaena and Nehemia became friends, based on their mutual dislike of her.

101. In fear, Malorie risks her life driving to the safehouse in which town?

From Quiz Bird Box

Answer: Riverbridge

Things began to worsen fast, and after three months many news outlets shifted focus to confirming the rapid uptick in murders and suicides. One day, Malorie headed upstairs to find a slight shift in the curtains; she found Shannon dead in the bathroom, having stabbed herself in the chest with a pair of scissors. Fearing for her life and worried about staying in the house alone and pregnant, she drove herself (cautiously) to the town of Riverbridge, where an alleged safehouse was set up in a residential area. When she arrived, she was welcomed in by five people (four men and one woman) and a dog. They'd all holed up with enough food to last three or four months, and they'd been calling out for survivors. They all believe that something had been touching people, either in their thoughts or vision, for only a brief moment, shifting their thoughts to killing themselves, perhaps because of something incomprehensible. Malorie continues paddling her kids down the river. Still wearing blindfolds, they're told to listen with their keen hearing in case something watches them from the woods or, worse, is stalking them in the water. Sure enough, something brushes by the boat, exiting the river on the other side.

102. Like all English and Welsh barristers, Rumpole belongs to an Inn of Court, and his is the Outer Temple. In the real world, what is problematic about this?

From Quiz A Rumpole Quiz

Answer: The Outer Temple is fictional, i.e. it does not exist

There are four Inns of Court in London, and all barristers in England and Wales belong to one of them. They are: Gray's Inn, Lincoln's Inn, Inner Temple and Middle Temple. There never was an Outer Temple, although there have been other inns besides the four that still exist.

103. To which tribe did Autua belong?

From Quiz "Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell

Answer: Moriori

The Moriori are the natives on the Chatham Islands, which they call Rekohu. They had a pacifist society until the Maori enslaved and nearly exterminated them. Adam Ewing witnessed Autua being tortured by the Maori. Later Autua was a stowaway in Adam's cabin.

104. The story is based in which Australian city?

From Quiz 'Indelible Ink' by Fiona McGregor

Answer: Sydney

Marie's house is in Mosman, a wealthy residential suburb in the North Shore region of Sydney. The house has a fantastic view of Sydney Harbour, as well as access to the harbour via a sloping garden and a stairway down the final cliff. Most of the action is centred in the northern suburbs of Sydney, but Moore Park and Kings Cross also play their part.

105. Don Mendo is the main character of the play. He's in love with a lady. What is her name?

From Quiz Don Mendo's Revenge

Answer: Magdalena

Magdalena is the only daughter of don Nuño. Don Mendo's desire to keep her reputation intact is what will make him to try to avenge himself. All in vain, because Magdalena is don Mendo's lover at the beginning of the play; then, she marries don Pero and, later, she becomes the king's lover while she is married to don Pero and tries to be Renato's lover.

106. How old is Warner in "Shatter Me"?

From Quiz "Shatter Me" and "Unravel Me"

Answer: 19

Juliette asks him for his age multiple times before he answers, saying that he's 19. At first Juliette is shocked that someone so young has so much power, but over the series she comes to understand why.

107. What does Travis do for income?

From Quiz Beautiful Disaster

Answer: Fight

Travis is the best boxer at his university. Everyone knows he is lethal and most are afraid of him. He has a hot temper which causes most to steer clear of him. He never loses a fight!

108. Where was Joel when he first woke up after being turned into a vampire?

From Quiz The Cross

Answer: Romania

Joel woke up half-buried in the snow outside Vâlcanul castle in Romania. He was left there by Alex after the battle with Gabriel. When he awoke, he slowly began to remember details of the battle that had taken place at the castle. Joel had been shot and mortally wounded, so Alex turned him into a vampire because that was the only way she could save him.

109. What kind of special connection did Gogu and Jena have?

From Quiz Wildwood Dancing

Answer: Gogu could speak to Jena in her mind

Gogu is an enchanted frog, eldest son of a wealthy landowner, Jena's best friend... need I say more?

110. Rohinton Mistry is a well known award winning Commonwealth writer of the present generation. Now, the question is: Which award had he not received as of 2010?

From Quiz 'Running Water' by Rohinton Mistry

Answer: Nobel Prize for literature

Rohinton Mistry(1952- )was born in a Parsi family in Bombay. He is a distinguished new generation writer in English from Indian origin. Mistry holds a distinctive position among the commonwealth writers by virtue of his vivid narration, Indo-nostalgic feel and a clear thought. Mistry migrated to Canada and settled in Toronto with his family in 1975. At that time there was a State of Emergency in India. His very first story 'One Sunday'(1983), won a prize for him. He has bagged a number of prestigious international awards till date.

111. Who, according to Travis McGee, hosted the longest floating houseparty?

From Quiz John D. MacDonald's "Travis McGee"

Answer: The Alabama Tiger.

Travis occasionally comments on the eternal floating houseparty, hosted by the Alabama Tiger on his yacht, 'Bama Gal.

112. A man loses his job when it is discovered that he cannot read or write. He goes on to own a chain of successful shops.

From Quiz Somerset Maugham's Short Stories

Answer: The Verger

After losing his job, the verger cannot find a tobacconist's shop in the area to buy cigarettes, and opens what turns out to be just the first in a whole chain of shops.

113. Who in the play was suspicious of the crew, thinking that they were acting as good as gold and that something might be wrong?

From Quiz The "Treasure Island" Play

Answer: Captain Smollet

Captain Smollet became suspicious of the crew. He had never heard of a crew which had no complaints. He thought that no one was this good, which started his suspicions.

114. What was the name of the place that Pike set alight?

From Quiz "Bonechiller" by Graham McNamee

Answer: Fat Bill's

Fat Bill was under house arrest at that moment and not allowed to run his shop. He was a heavy smoker and Pike knew this. He knew the police would think he had not put out his cigarette properly and that had caused the blaze.

115. What sport did DJ play before she had to do the farm work?

From Quiz 'Dairy Queen'

Answer: Basketball

DJ used to play basketball and was good at it but had to quit when her dad hurt his hip and couldn't do any farm chores.

116. What color is Megan obsessed with?

From Quiz "Deaf Child Crossing" by Marlee Matlin

Answer: purple

Megan's room was entirely purple. Her rug, walls, bedspread were all purple. She often wore purple clothes, had purple hearing aids and even sent Cindy a purple invitation.

117. On which street does Ranofer live?

From Quiz The Golden Goblet

Answer: The Street of the Crooked Dog

Ranofer walks every day to the Street of the Goldsmiths, which is the location of Rekh's Goldsmith shop.

118. Who does Try assign to be Bindy's buddy?

From Quiz The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie

Answer: Finnegan

Try is the FAD teacher who assigns Finnegan to be Bindy's buddy, because, as Bindy later learns, he was positioned towards her, hoping to be chosen to be her buddy.

119. The book revolves around the lives of two 14-year-old girls who hail from opposing social backgrounds, but who are nevertheless friends. Allison McKenzie is one; who is the other?

From Quiz Peyton Place

Answer: Selena Cross

Selena lives in a one-roomed tar-paper shack with her mother, stepfather and younger brother. Allison lives in a well furnished, comfortable "Cape Cod" with her mother, a business woman who employs Selena in her store and has Selena's mother clean house for her. Jo March features in "Little Women", Jennifer North in "The Valley of the Dolls" and Clarissa Dalloway is the title character in Virginia Woolf's classic.

120. What is the name of the local Police Chief?

From Quiz "The Totem" by David Morrell

Answer: Nathan Slaughter

A rather macabre sounding name considering the bloodshed that happens in the book. Gordon Dunlap and Geoffrey Clinker are the same person. Dunlap is a journalist from Slaughter's past and Clinker is his pseudonym when he writes for "Rolling Stone" magazine. Clifford is the first character whom we read about being attacked by a crazed animal in graphic detail.

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