Pass, Code, Word, or Door? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Code

This 2003 mystery thriller renewed interest in Mary Magdalene's role in Christian history, while also being condemned by some as an attack on Catholicism and criticized for its historical inaccuracies. In the year it was released, the book became a bestseller. Ron Howard directed a movie based on the book, and Tom Hanks starred in the film.

Answer: Door

"A Wind in the Door" is the second book in Madeleine L'Engle's young adult science-fiction/fantasy series, which began with "A Wrinkle in Time." It focuses on the characters of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin as they fight cosmic evil on a cellular level.

Answer: Code

Michael Drosnin's book, "The Bible Code" popularized the idea of secret messages encoded within the text of the Torah. A former jounralist for "The Washington Post," Drosnin began researching the concept of the Bible code in 1992 after a meeting with Eliyahu Rips, an Israeli mathematician. Drosnin's book argues that the Bible Code predicts the future but that those events can be influenced by our actions.

He wrote two sequels to the book: "The Countdown" (2002) and "Saving the World" (2010).

Answer: Word

Published in 1975, "The Painted Word" is a book of art criticism by the author of "The Bonfire of the Vanities" and "I Am Charlotte Simmons". The book criticizes avant-garde art and argues that modern art had, by the 1970s, ceased to be a visual experience and become more an illustration of the theories of art critics themselves.

Answer: Word

"Living By the Word" is the title given to a collection of essays by Alice Walker published in 1988. Alice Walker is best known for her novel "The Color Purple", which was published in 1982 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. However, she is also a prolific author of poetry, short stories, and essays.

Answer: Pass

Bram Stoker is best known for his novel "Dracula", but he also wrote "The Snake's Pass", which involves the legend of St. Patrick's defeat of the King of Snakes in Ireland. It was published in 1890, prior to "Dracula", and was not very well received critically.

Answer: Door

This novel, published in 2001 by best-selling novelist Dean Koontz, involves a shapeshifting alien who has come to Earth to save people from themselves. Dean Koontz has written under multiple pennames and has published over 100 novels in his lifetime, which have collectively sold more than 450 million copies.

Answer: Code

"The Code of the Woosters" was serialized in both the U.S. (in "The Saturday Evening Post") and in the UK (In "The London Daily Mail") in 1938, prior to being published as a novel. It is the third of the British humorist's Wooster and Jeeves novels. These characters were brought to life by BBC in a series called "Jeeves and Wooster" starring Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.

Answer: Word

Anne Lamott is a contemporary American author known for both her novels and her nonfiction, including such books as "Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year". In "Word by Word", drawing from personal experience, she offers the reader writing advice to improve his or her own writing.

Answer: Pass

A 1961 western novel, "Horseman, Pass By" was the inspiration for the movie "Hud", which starred Paul Newman. It was the author's first novel and was published when he was only 25 years old. The western is set on a ranch in Texas in the post-World War II era.