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message 1: by Trudy (last edited Jan 08, 2020 08:46PM) (new)

Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments In the immortal words of Goldie Hawn, I used to know all that stuff!

2020 Twisted Trivia Test
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2020 Twisted Trivia challenge
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message 2: by Trudy (last edited Nov 27, 2019 07:00PM) (new)

Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Card 1
Geography -yay
Entertainment - nay
History - nay
Art/Literature - nay
Science - yay
Sport - nay

Card 2
Geography - yay
Entertainment - yay
History - nay
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Science - yay
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Card 3
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Card 4
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Card 6
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Card 7
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Card 8
Geography - nay
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Card 10
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Card 17
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Card 18
Geography - nay
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Card 19
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Card 22
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Card 30
Geography - yay
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History - yay
Art/Literature- yay
Science - nay
Sport - yay


message 3: by Trudy (last edited May 15, 2020 06:22PM) (new)

Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Possible books for badges 1 and 2

1 Art/Lit nay - Orphan in title Orphan Number Eight

4 Science yay - grass in title Green Grass, Running Water

5 Sport nay - food theme The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food

8 History nay - first of second in series Child 44

9 Entertainment nay - author is Homer, Maggie, Lisa or Maggie The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

13 Sport yay - cover has woman wearing hat Wake

21 Sport yay - “left” in title What She Left Behind


24 Sport yay - orig pub in Japanese Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

25 Entertainment nay - “thing” in title Some Great Thing

26 Entertainment nay - “king” in title Where Women Are Kings

30 Sport yay - sword on cover Return of Merlin 1ST Edition


message 4: by Trudy (last edited Feb 01, 2020 12:48PM) (new)

Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Badge 1

1. Card 24 Entertainment, nay, The Culprits
2. Card 27 Art, yay, The Innocents
3. Card 18, Entertainment, nay, Little Bee
4. Card 4, Geography, nay, Lampedusa
5. Card 5, Entertainment, nay, Her Fearful Symmetry
6. Card 17, Geography, yay, Misconduct of the Heart
7. Card 12, Entertainment, nay, The Beekeeper of Aleppo
8. Card 2, Entertainment, yay, Sweetsmoke
9. Card 8, history, nay, Mistress of the Art of Death
10. Card 9, Sport, yay, The Rabbit Effect: Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier with the Groundbreaking Science of Kindness
11. Card 6, Geography, yay, Swamplandia!
12. Card 14, Geography, nay, The Devil's Highway: A True Story


message 5: by Trudy (last edited May 15, 2020 06:20PM) (new)

Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Badge 2

1. Card 16, history, yay, The Zookeeper's Wife
2. Card 21, Geography, nay, Impossible Owls: Essays
3. Card 13, Science, yay, Half of a Yellow Sun
4.Card 1, sport, nay, In Search of April Raintree
5. Card 15, sport, yay, To the Edge of Sorrow
6. Card 30, geography, yay, The Reinvention Of Love
8. Card 26, art/lit, nay, Enduring Love
9. Card 22, science, nay, Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen
10. Card 25, art/lit, nay, Sense and Sensibility
11. Card 3, science, yay, Raised from the Ground
12. Card 10, history, nay, The Ninth Hour
13. Card 7, entertainment, yay, The Women of the Copper Country
14. Card 11, entertainment, nay, The Bone People
15. Card 15, entertainment, nay, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
16. Card 29, art/lit, nay, The Quiet Twin
17. Card 19, geography, nay, The Virgin Cure
18. Card 23, history, nay, Emily, Alone


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Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Reserved


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Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Reserved


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Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments WoF TrudyAn

Badge 1, book 1
Card 24, Entertainment
Nay Task - The main character has ginger coloured hair (red).

The Culprits
303 pages
MC, Hank Wallins, has red hair. From page 2: “So picture him, little one, each night of the workday, my red-haired semi-papa, chewing his sandwich as slowly as possible.”


message 9: by Cherie (last edited Jan 03, 2020 04:11PM) (new)

Cherie (crobins0) | 21536 comments I do not really need a book for red hair, but the book sounds good. Added to my TBR list. I am going to have to stop reading your posts one of these days, when my TBR gets so big I cannot sort my books. ;o) Oh, and congrats on your first book posting.


message 10: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 59890 comments Cherie wrote: "I do not really need a book for red hair, but the book sounds good. Added to my TBR list. I am going to have to stop reading your posts one of these days, when my TBR gets so big I cannot sort my b..."

It also fits fur-bearing animal on cover if you have that task.


message 11: by Cherie (new)

Cherie (crobins0) | 21536 comments Fur bearing? LOL. I had to go look.
I got the pink cover one.


message 12: by Trudy (new)

Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Cherie wrote: "I do not really need a book for red hair, but the book sounds good. Added to my TBR list. I am going to have to stop reading your posts one of these days, when my TBR gets so big I cannot sort my b..."

These YLTO challenges don’t help clear the TBR pile, do they? This would also work for Canadian author if you have that task.


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Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Badge 1, book 2

Card 27, Art
Yay Task - The book is set in one of the 4 Maritime Provinces of Canada (Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland/Labrador).
The Innocents
304 pages
The setting is Newfoundland.


message 14: by Vicki (last edited Jan 06, 2020 04:14PM) (new)

Vicki | 1538 comments TrudyAn wrote: "Badge 1, book 2

Card 27, Art
Yay Task - The book is set in one of the 4 Maritime Provinces of Canada (Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland/Labrador).
The Innocents...


How did you like it? My friend love love loves Michael Crummey but I haven't read anything yet. I might read Galore for the whale task.

edit cause my post was all weird


message 15: by Trudy (new)

Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Vicki wrote: "How did you like it? My friend love love loves Michael Crummey but I haven't read anything yet. I might read Galore for the whale task...."

Michael Crummey is one of my favourite authors. I love the harsh, isolated Newfoundland setting. I realize that one of the story lines in The Innocents won’t be for everyone, though I think it was realistic and incredibly well told. I haven’t read Galore yet - hope to get to it sometime this year.


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Janice (jamasc) | 59890 comments ✔️


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Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Badge 1, book 3
Card 18, Entertainment
Nay Task - The cover has a face in profile.

Little Bee
366 pages
Face in profile on cover Little Bee by Chris Cleave


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Janice (jamasc) | 59890 comments ✔️


message 19: by Trudy (last edited Jan 10, 2020 08:46PM) (new)

Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Badge 1, book 4
Card 4
Geography - Nay Task - Book is set on an island. This task excludes the main body of any island over 200,000 km2.

Lampedusa
Audiobook; hard cover is 326 pages
The setting is Sicily, an island in the Mediterranean (25,711 km2).


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Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Badge 1, book 5
Card 5
Entertainment - Nay Task - Genre is Paranormal Fantasy.

Her Fearful Symmetry
416 pages
Fantasy-Paranormal genre is on GR main page.


message 21: by Trudy (new)

Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Badge 1, book 6

Card 17
Geography, Yay Task - Set in Canada or written by a Canadian author.
Misconduct of the Heart by Cordelia Strube
400 pages
The book is set entirely in Canada and the writer is Canadian.


message 22: by Trudy (new)

Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Badge 1, book 7

Card 12
Entertainment, Nay Task - Theme of the book is refugees.
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
317 pages

This is a novel about Syrian refugees, Nuri and his wife Afra, trying to make their way from their war-torn homeland to safety in England.


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Janice (jamasc) | 59890 comments ✔️


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Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Badge 1, book 8
Card 2
Entertainment, Yay Task - The theme is the American Civil War.

Sweetsmoke
Audiobook; hard cover is 320 pages
Setting is 1862 Virginia, during the American Civil War. The MC is Cassius, a slave.


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Janice (jamasc) | 59890 comments ✔️


message 26: by Trudy (last edited Jan 26, 2020 03:28PM) (new)

Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Badge 1, book 9

Card 15,
Geography, Yay Task - Read the first book in a 5-book series.

Mistress of the Art of Death
385 pages

This is book #1 of the five-book series, Mistress of the Art of Death



message 27: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 59890 comments Actually, this is a 4 book series. The 5th book is not published yet and we only count published books.

Do you have card 8, History Nay? It could fit there.


message 28: by Trudy (new)

Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Janice wrote: "Actually, this is a 4 book series. The 5th book is not published yet and we only count published books.
Do you have card 8, History Nay? It could fit there."


I see that now - previously just noted that it was a five-book series. I’ll fix.


message 29: by Trudy (last edited Jan 26, 2020 03:31PM) (new)

Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Badge 1, book 9
Card 8, History, Nay Task - The book is first or second in a series.

Mistress of the Art of Death
385 pages

This is the first book of the series, Mistress of the Art of Death


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Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Badge 1, book 10

Card 9, Sport
Yay Task - The genre is non-fiction or humour
The Rabbit Effect: Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier with the Groundbreaking Science of Kindness
208 pages

Non-fiction genre; how factors including love, friendship, and kindness can positively affect the health of the individual and the community at large.


message 31: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 59890 comments I'm glad you were able to fit Mistress of the Art of Death into another task! Phew!


message 32: by Cherie (new)

Cherie (crobins0) | 21536 comments hmmm, now you have me thinking about moving things around again...


message 33: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 59890 comments Cherie wrote: "hmmm, now you have me thinking about moving things around again..."

I just did that to myself. We're reading the Tawny Man series. I could slot book 1 and book 3, but not book 2 - unless I moved book 1 somewhere and put book 2 in its place. That shuffle had a domino effect and I ended up shifting a few other books to make it happen. It was kind of painful.


message 34: by Trudy (last edited Jan 29, 2020 03:54PM) (new)

Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Badge 1, book 11
Card 6, Geography
Yay Task - There is an Alligator or Crocodile on the cover or in the title.

Swamplandia! Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
400 pages


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Janice (jamasc) | 59890 comments ✔️


message 36: by Trudy (new)

Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Badge 1, book 12
Card 14, Geography
Nay Task - The cover has one large tree on it.

The Devil's Highway: A True Story The Devil's Highway A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea
Audiobook; hc is 256 pages

(Janice, you okayed this book on the card 14 thread)


message 37: by Trudy (new)

Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Badge 2, book 1
Card 16, History
Yay Task - Any word in the title starts with Z, including a one letter word.

The Zookeeper's Wife
368 pages


message 38: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 59890 comments Congrats on finishing the first badge. I love how you didn't even take a breath before moving on to the next badge! LOL!


message 39: by Cherie (new)

Cherie (crobins0) | 21536 comments Congratulations on finishing the first badge, TrudyAn!


message 40: by Lilisa (new)

Lilisa | 2770 comments Congrats TrudyAn!


message 41: by Peggy (new)

Peggy (pebbles84) | 15868 comments Amazing! Well done!


message 42: by Trudy (new)

Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Thank you! Yep, on to badge 2.


message 43: by Trudy (last edited Feb 05, 2020 11:57AM) (new)

Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Badge 2, book 2

Card 21, Geography
Nay Task - The book was originally published in 2018.

Impossible Owls: Essays
Audiobook; hc is 352 pages
Originally published in 2018.


message 44: by Trudy (new)

Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Badge 2, book 3

Card 13, Science
Yay Task - The book is on your tbr as any combination of digits found in 212. It may be 1, 2, 12, 22, 21, 122, 212.

Half of a Yellow Sun
543 pages

This book was in psn #1 on my TBR (added May 2014). I have no idea why I waited so long to read this wonderful book.


message 45: by Cherie (new)

Cherie (crobins0) | 21536 comments TrudyAn wrote: "Half of a Yellow Sun
This book was in psn #1 on my TBR (added May 2014). I have no idea why I waited so long to read this wonderful book..."


It has never been on my TBR, but it is now.


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Janice (jamasc) | 59890 comments ✔️


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Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Badge 2, book 4

Card 1, sport
Nay Task - Setting is during the month of April, or the word "April" is in the title
In Search of April Raintree
196 pages


message 48: by Trudy (new)

Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Badge 2, book 5

Card 15, sport
Yay Task - The book is set between 1939 and 1949.

To the Edge of Sorrow
304 pages

The book is set in Ukraine, near the end of WWII, 1944


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Janice (jamasc) | 59890 comments ✔️


message 50: by Trudy (new)

Trudy (trudyan) | 1779 comments Badge 2, book 6

Card 30, geography
Yay Task - Genre is historical fiction set in France.

The Reinvention Of Love
336 pages

19th century, more than 3/4 of book is set in Paris. HF listed on book main page. Journalist Charles Sainte-Beuve’s love affair with Victor Hugo’s wife, Adele.


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