Wonderfully Wacky Winner!

Well folks, the results are in! Over the past few months I've had a trivia game/giveaway and as per the last few posts about it, it's over. Thank you to all of you who played my game! It's been fun!

Now, the winner!

Her loyalty paid off... Aine, you win the Big Box of Books! Congratulations!!

Tricky Trivia Tuesday (#?)

Well, as I stated in my last post, I've totally been falling short when it comes to blogging. Even at blogging my own giveaway trivia game. Talk about failtastic. So to cut myself some slack, I'm just going to do one big trivia ka-bang and call it done. I'm going to post a handful of trivia questions to make up for these past few weeks when I was supposed to post one and didn't. All you have to do it answer one of them correctly to get your name in the pot. Another reason I'm going to cut this game short, is that I originally said it would end in June. That's all well and good, but we will have just moved and probably won't have any of our stuff from the movers yet. So that plan died. How can I expect myself to mail books if I don't even have them? Yeah. I dunno either.

To keep it clear:
~ First person to get the answer on any one question gets their name in the pot.
~It goes without saying that if you are the second or third person to guess correctly, your name does not go in the pot.
~There are many questions, you may answer just one, or take a stab at all of them. Just make sure to make it clear which one you are answering. ;-)
~All of you that have been fantastic and have been playing my game already, your names are still entered, of course.

Now, for the questions!

1. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry accepts students from what countries?

2. What is Melissa Marr's middle name?

3. What is the best selling nonfiction book of all time?

4. What author has sold more children's books than any other author?

5. Who is the world's best selling fiction writer?

6. What is the Caldecott award given for?

7. In the book The Wizard of Oz, what was the Munchkin's favorite color?

8. What was Stephen King's first published novel?

9. What popular YA author said, "The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."?

10. Where was Twilight character Esme Cullen originally from?

That's all folks! Remember, no search engines! Winners will be drawn next Tuesday, May 8th!

Tricky Trivia Tuesday (#7, #8)

I'm feeling a little too much like Brittany Spears.

Oops, I did it again!

I got so busy last week that Tuesday passed me by with hardly a glance. To make up for it, it's another double question week. :)

If you're new to the game or just need a refresher, all the details about Trivia Tuesday and the BBoB giveaway are HERE. The rules are there too.

On to the good stuff!!

Tricky Trivia Tuesday question 1: What were the names of the four sisters in Lousia May Alcott's Little Women?

Tricky Trivia Tuesday question 2: In Little House on the Prarie, where does Pa Ingalls decide to move the Ingalls family? (town and state)

Good luck and thanks for playing!

Tricky Trivia Tuesday (#5, #6)

Whoops! Looks like I missed a Tuesday! Last Tuesday I was busy showing my mother-in-law and grandmother-in-law around and enjoying their visit, so I completely spazzed on putting up a question. To make up for it, this week will have two questions. You can answer both, and whomever guesses correctly for one or both will get the respective entries into the Big Box of Books giveaway. :)

Don't forget to check out the details and rules HERE.

Tricky Trivia Tuesday question 1: "We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat." - Who says this to Ginny, in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone?

Tricky Trivia Tuesday question 2: Who wrote the following poem?

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand--
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep--while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

Tricky Trivia Tuesday (#4)

Hello again! Happy Valentine's Day to all you lovely folks! In honor of this day of death (You thought I was going to say love, didn't you?) we are going to have a Valentine's Day themed question.

Valentine's Day originated way back when to honor the many Christian martyrs named "Valentine." These include but are not limited to Valentine of Rome, Valentine of Terni, and the Valentine the Catholic Encyclopedia says was martyred in Africa with his companions. So in fact, it started because they were all killed. Saint Valentine's head was preserved and kept in the abbey of New Minster, Winchester and venerated. Delicious! (Might I suggest that for Valentine's Day next year you present your love with a beheaded tedddy bear? After all, it would be more historically accurate.) But HEY! It's not all doom and gloom. A very famous poet wrote a poem about "Valentines" in the 14th century. And you guys thought poetry wasn't important! ;) 

After that poem, it seems that we linked the unspecified Greco-Roman February holidays of fertility and love to Saint Valentine's Day. Voila! 

In honor of all the men who were killed because of their religion and a poem, I present you with this:

Now, to the question!

Tricky Trivia Tuesday Question: Who is the famous poet that wrote the historic poem speaking of "Valentines"?

No search engines! Click HERE for the rules and details of Trivia Tuesday. Happy guessing!

Tricky Trivia Tuesday (#3)

Tricky Trivia Tuesday is an ongoing trivia game/contest here at Literati's Literary Library. Click HERE for the details and rules! :) (please read the rules before playing!)

This week we are doing a question in honor of Charles Dickens. Today is his (or rather, would be his) 200th birthday! 

Tricky Trivia Tuesday Question: What was Charles Dickens' first serialized novel?

Remember, no search engines! The first person to answer correctly gets their name entered into the Big Box of Books giveaway! Good luck! 

Tricky Trivia Tuesday (#2)

Tricky Trivia Tuesday is an on-going trivia game here at Literati's Literary Library. Click here to read the rules and contest details!

Since last week's question was easy, I went with a more difficult question. Good luck!

Tricky Trivia Tuesday Question: Who did A.A. Milne, author of Winnie the Pooh, use as inspiration for the character "Christopher Robin"?

Remember, no search engines!

First person to answer correctly gets their name entered in the Big Box of Books giveaway!

Tricky Trivia Tuesday (#1)

Hello and welcome to the very first Tricky Trivia Tuesday!! For the complete list of rules and to find out what exactly this Trivia Tuesday thing is about, click HERE.

Since this is the first one, we'll start with an easy question.

Tricky Trivia Tuesday Question: In Rick Riordan's Heros of Olympus series, what is Percy's sword named?

First person to answer correctly gets their name entered in the BBoB giveaway!!

Tricky Trivia Tuesday

What's this? A new feature? Why yes it is! 

What is Trivia Tuesday? 

Each week (or as close to that as I can manage) I will post a new trivia question.

You, my lovely readers, then post a comment with your answer, name, and email.

The first person to get the correct answer then gets their name entered into my Big Box of Books giveaway.

The drawing will be held at the end of June.

What will be in the Big Box of Books? It's a surprise! And by that I mean I have no idea. :-p It will be an eclectic mix of genres, maybe some ARCs, maybe some new releases, maybe some classics... who knows! As I find books to put in the box, I will update the list of books. (There will be some books not listed... what fun is it if you know everything you're getting??)

Rules:
~ US and Canada only.
~ You may guess as many times as you'd like, but you cannot double post or put two of your answers into one comment. In other words, you post one answer per comment, and before you can post another guess, you must wait for someone else to guess.
~ You do not have to participate in every Trivia Tuesday to be entered to win, but the more you play the more chances you have of getting your name in the drawing!
~ No cheating! Googling the answer is cheating. No search engines allowed. You must know the answer off the top of your head, or at least think you do. ;-) Play fair guys!

Big Box of Books current listing:
Real Vampires Have Curves, by Gerry Bartlett
Carolina Moon, by Nora Roberts (used)
The Goblin Wood, by Hilari Bell
Looking for Alaska, by John Green