Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Tuesday Trivia


  1. Which author (and founder of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to English) won the Newbery medal only two years after his father won for his own book?
  2. Which author used the pseudonyms Golden MacDonald, Juniper Sage, Kaintuck Brown and Timothy Hay?
  3. Which author initially disguised her gender by using her initials and eventually assumed another after moving to England?
  4. Which famous author and illustrator has a children’s picture book art museum named after him?
  5. Which author’s first book for children was about cockroaches?
Last Week's Answers
  • Rowan Oak (Mississippi) belonged to William Faulkner
  • The Mount (Massachusetts) belonged to Edith Wharton
  • Gads Hill Place (Higham, Kent) belonged to Charles Dickens
  • The Old Manse (Massachusetts) belonged to Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Sunnyside (New York) belonged to Washington Irving
  • Dove Cottage (Grasmere, Cumbria) belonged to William Wordsworth

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