Suzanne's 2020 Trivia Challenge

[Cherie]

I wonder how many different breeds are going to be used for that task? I have seen a couple, so far. I used British White.

[Suzanne]

It will be interesting to see. There are so many choices!

[Janice, Moderator]

So far, we have 4 Red Polls, 1 British White, & 1 South Devon.

[Cherie]

Awesome, Janice! Wow, your spreadsheet is already a font of knowledge, right at your fingertips.😁. It tracks us all, helps you catch our errors, and allows you to enter correct task data, even when people don’t give you all the information you require.

[Janice, Moderator]

It's pretty awesome. My son said that it's going to grow as the year goes on.

[Suzanne]

Badge 2, Book 12


★★★★

2. Card: 2
3. Task: Yay, Sport
4. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
5. Pages: 375
6. Task Summary: Puck was a mythical god. The genre of the book needs to be mythology.
7. How the book fits: The book is heavily based on Greek mythology.

[Suzanne]

Badge 2, Book 13


★★★★1/2

2. Card: 20
3. Task: Nay, Entertainment
4. Contact by Carl Sagan
5. Pages: 434
6. Task Summary: The book is set in the 1980's.
7. How the book fits: First published in 1985, it was intended to take place in the (then) present day.

[Suzanne]

Badge 2, Book 14


★★★★

2. Card: 22
3. Task: Nay, Entertainment
4. In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
5. Pages: 454
6. Task Summary: The theme of the book is survival that does not involve war situations. You may use this resource. Required that you justify that the book fits the task.
7. How the book fits: The book is an account of Captain George DeLong's expdition to reach the North Pole in the late 1800's. The ship became fatally damaged by an iceberg and the crew fought to survive the treacherous 1,000 mile southward trek.

[Janice, Moderator]

✔️

[Suzanne]

Badge 2, Book 15


★★★★

2. Card: 6
3. Task: Yay, History
4. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes
5. Pages: 500
6. Task Summary: Read the 16th book on your TBR shelf.
7. How the book fits: It was the 16th book on my TBR shelf.

[Janice, Moderator]

✔️

[Suzanne]

Badge 2, Book 16


★★★1/2

2. Card: 25
3. Task: Nay, Geography
4. The Waste Lands by Stephen King
5. Pages: 720
6. Task Summary: The book is in a series of 7 primary works.
7. How the book fits: This is book #3 (of 7) in the Dark Tower series.

[Suzanne]

Badge 2, Book 17


★★★★

2. Card: 1
3. Task: Nay, History
4. King Rat by James Clavell
5. Pages: 368
6. Task Summary: A significant character in the book is a king, or the word "king" is in the title.
7. How the book fits: It has "king" in the title.

[Suzanne]

Badge 2, Book 18


★★★★

2. Card: 19
3. Task: Nay, Entertainment
4. American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest by Hannah Nordhaus
5. Pages: 302
6. Task Summary: The book is a ghost story.
7. How the book fits: It is the story of Julia Staab, a ghost who haunts a hotel in Santa Fe.

[Janice, Moderator]

Congrats on finishing badge 2.

[Cherie]

Awesome!

[Suzanne]

Badge 3, Book 1


★★★★★

2. Card: 2
3. Task: Nay, Science
4. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
5. Pages: 205
6. Task Summary: The Genre is Historical Fiction about Exploration
7. The main character, Buck, is a dog who is stolen and taken to Alaska to search for gold.

[Suzanne]

Badge 3, Book 2


★★★1/2

2. Card: 2
3. Task: Yay, Entertainment
4. Confederates by Thomas Keneally
5. Pages: 427
6. Task Summary: The Theme is the American Civil War.
7. The book is an American Civil War saga.

[Suzanne]

Badge 3, Book 3


★★★

2. Card: 10
3. Task: Nay, Science
4. Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith
5. Pages: 348
6. Task Summary: The theme of the book is dinosaurs.
7. The main characters embark on a search for a dinosaur in the Congo.

[Janice, Moderator]

Shouldn't these all be Badge 3? I've tracked them that way.

[Suzanne]

Yes! Sorry for the error. Cut and paste😆

[Janice, Moderator]

LOL! I've been guilty of that myself.

[Suzanne]

Badge 3, Book 4


★★★1/2

2. Card: 2
3. Task: Yay, Geography
4. Division Street: America by Studs Terkel
5. Pages: 381
6. Task Summary: Setting is Chicago or Illinois.
7. The book is a series of interviews of Chicago residents in the late 1960's.

[Suzanne]

Badge 3, Book 5


★★★★★

2. Card: 2
3. Task: Nay, Art/Literature
4. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
5. Pages: 415
6. Task Summary: Genre is Thriller.
7. The book is listed as a thriller on Goodreads.

[Janice, Moderator]

✔️

[Suzanne]

Badge 3, Book 6

by Edward T. O'Donnell
★★★★★

2. Card: 2
3. Task: Yay, History
4. Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum
5. Pages: 332
6. Task Summary: There is fire on the cover.
7. There is fire on the cover.

[Suzanne]

Badge 3, Book 7


★★★★

2. Card: 18
3. Task: Yay, Geography
4. Ship Ablaze: The One Memory of Flora Banks by Emily Barr
5. Pages: 299
6. Task Summary: The book is set in Norway or written by a Norwegian author.
7. Most of the book takes place in Norway.

[Suzanne]

Badge 3, Book 8


★★★★1/2

2. Card: 13
3. Task: Yay, Geography
4. Where the Shadows Lie by Michael Ridpath
5. Pages: 344
6. Task Summary: The book is set in Iceland, or written by an Icelandic author.
7. The book is set in Iceland.

[Janice, Moderator]

✔️

[Suzanne]

Badge 3, Book 9


★★★★1/2

2. Card: 13
3. Task: Yay, History
4. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
5. Pages: 287
6. Task Summary: The book was a prize winner in 2007. It may be any prize.
7. The book won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

[Suzanne]

Badge 3, Book 10


★★★

2. Card: 13
3. Task: Nay, Sport
4. A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury by Edith Pargeter
5. Pages: 378
6. Task Summary: The genre is Historical Fiction set in Britain.
7. The book is historical fiction set in Britain, based on the reign of King Henry IV.

[Suzanne]

Badge 3, Book 11


★★★

2. Card: 13
3. Task: Yay, Art/Literature
4. Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead by John Skipp
5. Pages: 699
6. Task Summary: The theme of the book is zombies.
7. The book is a compilation of short stories about zombies.

[Suzanne]

*****OUT OF ORDER*****
Badge 3, Book 12


★★★★

2. Card: 24
3. Task: Nay, History
4. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
5. Pages: 288 pages
6. Task Summary: The book is set in the Netherlands, or is written by a Dutch author.
7. The book is both set in the Netherlands and written by a Dutch author.

[Janice, Moderator]

Suzanne wrote: "*****OUT OF ORDER*****
Badge 4, Book 1"

Now that you are working on badge 3, I'm recording everything read towards badge 3. When you complete the badge, whatever isn't in one of the 5 cards will be moved over to badge 4. That is to avoid extra work for me if people change their minds when they see a card identified as badge 4 is filling up quicker than one identified as badge 3 and want to swap out.

[Suzanne]

I understand 😊

[Suzanne]

Badge 3, Book 13


★★★★

2. Card: 13
3. Task: Yay, Science
4. The Bastard by John Jakes
5. Pages: 528 pages
6. Task Summary: The book is on your tbr as any combination of digits found in 212. It may be 1, 2, 12, 22, 21, 122, 212.
7. The book is #212 on my TBR list.

[Suzanne]

Badge 3, Book 14


★★★★

2. Card: 16
3. Task: Nay, Art/Literature
4. Ten Thousand Skies Above You by Claudia Gray
5. Pages: 424 pages
6. Task Summary: The book's genre is time travel.
7. The main characters in the book travel through various times and dimensions.

[Janice, Moderator]

✔️

[Suzanne]

Badge 3, Book 15


★★★★★

2. Card: 1
3. Task: Nay, Sport
4. A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
5. Pages: 182 pages
6. Task Summary: Setting is during the month of April, or the word "April" is in the title.
7. The book is about the sinking of the Titanic, which took place on April 15, 1912.

[Suzanne]

Badge 3, Book 16

by Sarah Kuhn
★★★★

2. Card: 15
3. Task: Yay, Entertainment
4. I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn
5. Pages: 308 pages
6. Task Summary: Yay Task - The book is set in Japan or written by a Japanese author.
7. The book is set in Japan.

[Janice, Moderator]

✔️

[Suzanne]

Badge 3, Book 17


★★★★

2. Card: 21
3. Task: Nay, Geography
4. The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
5. Pages: 370 pages
6. Task Summary: The book was originally published in 2018.
7. The book was originally published in 2018.

[Janice, Moderator]

The Cruel Prince

[Suzanne]

Badge 3, Book 18


★★★★

2. Card: 1
3. Task: Yay, Geography
4. A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
5. Pages: 207 pages
6. Task Summary: Set in France or written by French author.
7. The book is set in France.

[Janice, Moderator]

✔️

[Suzanne]

Badge 3, Book 19


★★★★1/2

2. Card: 1
3. Task: Yay, Entertainment
4. The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
5. Pages: 1107 pages
6. Genre is Epic or High Fantasy.
7. Genre is Epic Fantasy.

[Janice, Moderator]

✔️

[Suzanne]

Badge 3, Book 20


★★★★★

2. Card: 18
3. Task: Nay, Entertainment
4. Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean
5. Pages: 276 pages
6. The cover has a face in profile. The face must be turned so that the character would be looking to the left or right. The character cannot be looking even partially forward. Think of a cameo pendant.
7. Cover has a face in profile.

[Suzanne]

Badge 3, Book 21


★★★

2. Card: 1
3. Task: Nay, Art/Literature
4. The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff
5. Pages: 353 pages
6. JK Rowling is a strong advocate of child welfare. The word "Orphan" is in the title or a significant character is an orphan.
7. "Orphan" is in the title

[Cherie]

Hope it was good. I have it on my challenge for the same task. :o)