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29 S Authors quizzes and 315 S Authors trivia questions.
1.
  Sylvester and the Magic Pebble   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
William Steig's classic tale reminds us to be careful what we wish for!
Average, 10 Qns, Pagiedamon, Apr 18 09
Average
Pagiedamon gold member
316 plays
2.
  Donald J. Sobol's "Encyclopedia Brown"   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Nobody got away with a crime in his home town because Encyclopedia Brown was the master detective behind the city's police force. How much do you know about Encyclopedia Brown?
Average, 10 Qns, FatherSteve, Jul 25 10
Recommended for grades: 3,4,5
Average
FatherSteve gold member
287 plays
3.
  Cats Are Evil    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Are Cats Evil, really? My quiz is on Luis Sepulveda's book "The Story Of The Seagull And The Cat Who Taught Her To Fly" and it intends to prove exactly the opposite.
Average, 10 Qns, tiye, May 18 14
Average
tiye gold member
470 plays
4.
  "The Eagle of the Ninth" - Rosemary Sutcliff    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
"The Eagle of the Ninth" by Rosemary Sutcliff is the most haunting of all stories about Roman Britain. Travel with Marcus to find the lost eagle and the famous "lost legion".
Average, 15 Qns, Philian, May 29 03
Average
Philian
236 plays
5.
  The Sign of the Beaver    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is the story of Matt, a 12-year-old boy who is in charge of a cabin in the American wilderness in 1768 until his pa returns with the rest of the family. The story was written by Elizabeth George Speare.
Average, 10 Qns, LadyCaitriona, Sep 13 09
Average
LadyCaitriona gold member
551 plays
6.
  "Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians"    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Brandon Sanderson opens our eyes to the realities of our world, where evil librarians control the information in the 'Hushlands', keeping us from knowledge of magic and of the 'Free Kingdoms'.
Tough, 10 Qns, reedy, Jan 10 21
Tough
reedy gold member
Jan 10 21
153 plays
7.
  Questions on Where The Wild Things Are    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
'Where the Wild Things Are' is a classic children's story written by Maurice Sendak in 1963. It won the Caldecott Medal for the Most Distinguished Picture Book of the Year. Answer the following questions about this delightful story.
Easier, 10 Qns, ravenskye, Oct 04 19
Easier
ravenskye
Oct 04 19
1353 plays
8.
  10 Where the Wild Things Are Questions    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz about one of the most beloved children's books. It's a story written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, about a boy who misbehaves and ends up on a magical island of wild things.
Average, 10 Qns, pandabear23, Jul 01 12
Average
pandabear23
178 plays
9.
  Pete's War with Grandpa    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
I've made a quiz about a book I enjoyed as a kid, "The War with Grandpa" by Robert Kimmel Smith.
Tough, 10 Qns, Caseena, Jul 15 18
Tough
Caseena
Jul 15 18
102 plays
10.
  The "Lone Pine" stories of Malcolm Saville    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
This quiz is about the main characters and the book titles of the twenty books in the "Lone Pine" series by Malcolm Saville.
Average, 15 Qns, Philian, May 29 03
Average
Philian
234 plays
trivia question Quick Question
How often was Matt supposed to wind his pa's watch?

From Quiz "The Sign of the Beaver"




11.
  The Life of Varjak Paw    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is based on info from "Varjak Paw" and "The Outlaw Varjak Paw" by S.F. Said. I hope you enjoy it! WARNING: this quiz contains spoilers.
Average, 10 Qns, illusion9457, Jan 29 07
Average
illusion9457
225 plays
12.
  The Bronze Bow    
Multiple Choice
 20 Qns
"The Bronze Bow" is the story of four Jewish teenagers living in Israel during the first century A.D. It tells of how they overcome the Romans, but not the way they expected. How much do you know about Elizabeth George Speare's "The Bronze Bow"?
Average, 20 Qns, Bookworm1776, Dec 17 18
Average
Bookworm1776
Dec 17 18
163 plays
13.
  Kiss Me Tomorrow    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a great book by the author Susan Shreve. Hope you enjoy!
Average, 10 Qns, stella_faerie, Mar 30 12
Average
stella_faerie
104 plays
14.
  Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This series by Brandon Sanderson has to be the most hilarious ever. I've read the books several times over. This is over books 1-4.
Tough, 10 Qns, Kialande, May 29 11
Tough
Kialande
153 plays
15.
  Encyclopedia Brown    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz deals with Donald Sobol's beloved boy detective and some of the people in his world. You can answer most of these questions without having read the whole series. But why stop at one book? Have fun!
Average, 10 Qns, orangehornet, Mar 30 12
Average
orangehornet
162 plays
16.
  Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is the second in the series of Mr Gum quizzes. Do read the books by Andy Stanton if you haven't tried them yet. Hope you enjoy the quiz.
Average, 10 Qns, nytoffee, Mar 20 11
Average
nytoffee
172 plays
17.
  "Leven Thumps" by Obert Skye    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz on the the great book "Leven Thumps". It is by Obert Skye.
Easier, 10 Qns, adambrundell, Jul 22 07
Easier
adambrundell
288 plays
18.
  Dragonology    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Here is a quiz on the inventive and cute Dr. Ernest Drake's (Dugald A. Steer) book "The Complete Book of Dragons" - for all the aspiring dragonologists.
Average, 10 Qns, junepearl, May 04 05
Average
junepearl
260 plays
19.
  The Stinky Cheese Man    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a short and simple quiz on "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales" by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith. Enjoy!!!
Tough, 10 Qns, StarGlider, Sep 27 03
Tough
StarGlider
474 plays
20.
  Shapeshifter, Running the Risk    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz on one of my favourite books, "Shapeshifer, Running the Risk", by Ali Sparks!
Average, 10 Qns, c.r.l.horse, Apr 02 08
Average
c.r.l.horse
173 plays
21.
  "Unicorns of Balinor" by Mary Stanton    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is for the true "Unicorns of Balinor" addict. Does anyone know when the ninth book is coming out?
Average, 10 Qns, goddess12, Feb 12 03
Average
goddess12
242 plays
22.
  Krazy Kow the Klever Quiz    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
'Krazy Kow Saves the World - Well, Almost' is a hilarious book by my all-time favourite author, Jeremy Strong. In this story, a young teenager decides to make a video to enter a competition - but will it lead to victory - or chaos?
Average, 10 Qns, bookwormquiz, May 27 05
Average
bookwormquiz
150 plays
23.
  'The Cricket in Times Square' Quiz    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz about the classic children's' book "The Cricket in Times Square", written by George Selden.
Tough, 10 Qns, augusta123, Jan 14 19
Tough
augusta123
Jan 14 19
500 plays
24.
  Mr Gum - Book 1 - "You're a Bad Man Mr Gum"    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is about the hilarious "Mr Gum" books by Andy Stanton, required reading for all children and young minded grown ups.
Average, 10 Qns, nytoffee, Mar 12 11
Average
nytoffee
146 plays
25.
  People and Places from Across the Gap    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz about "The Road to Balinor", the first book in the "Unicorns of Balinor" series by Mary Stanton. It's my first quiz so please bear with me.
Average, 10 Qns, green_prose, Jan 20 06
Average
green_prose
151 plays
26.
  PJ Funnybunny    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz about the children's book PJ Funnybunny. This book was written in the eighties and also is in the Dr Suess book club collection. There are ten questions that I hope you will enjoy. PJ Funnybunny was written by Marilyn Sadler.
Average, 10 Qns, gshaylabear, Feb 12 03
Average
gshaylabear
156 plays
27.
  "Wren to the Rescue"    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
This quiz will test you on your knowledge of the inhabitants and locations in "Wren to the Rescue," by Sherwood Smith. Watch out for Andreus!
Average, 15 Qns, Celine2002, Dec 31 04
Average
Celine2002
162 plays
28.
  Exploding (Literally) Quiz    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz about the book 'My Mum's Going to Explode', an ace book by Jeremy Strong.
Average, 10 Qns, bookwormquiz, May 24 05
Average
bookwormquiz
151 plays
29.
  Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy World    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This used to be my favourite book when I was a child. I hope you like the quiz!
Tough, 10 Qns, mwluva, Sep 29 03
Tough
mwluva
211 plays

S Authors Trivia Questions

1. Pete has to give up his room and move upstairs so that Grandpa won't have to climb as many stairs. Why does Grandpa have trouble with stairs?

From Quiz
Pete's War with Grandpa

Answer: He has a bad leg.

His leg broke in a construction accident and didn't heal properly. He lived with Grandma in Florida until she died, which is why he's moving in with Pete's family. Pete has to move up a floor and give Grandpa his room, which Pete is very angry about.

2. Kengah, a seagull with silver wings, flies with the flock of the Red Sand Lighthouse over the port of Hamburg. What terrible fate awaits her there?

From Quiz Cats Are Evil

Answer: She dives into an oil slick

Kengah and the flock of the Red Sand Lighthouse are on their way to the Bay of Biscay for the Convention of the Baltic and North Seas and the Atlantic Ocean, where they meet with other flocks of seagulls from as far as the Canary islands and Cape Verde. Diving for herrings in the Hamburg port, Kengah does not hear the distress call and gets caught in the oil spill.

3. What is the name of the village Daniel and Leah were from?

From Quiz The Bronze Bow

Answer: Ketzah

Daniel and Leah were raised in Ketzah by their grandmother after the death of their parents. Daniel returned to Ketzah, from the mountain, early in the book. He was reeunited with his grandmother and sister after three years of separation.

4. What is Max wearing throughout the story?

From Quiz Where the Wild Things Are

Answer: a wolf suit

In the story, Max is wearing a white wolf suit with claws, ears, a tail and all. He pretends to be a wild monster. This later helps him convince the wild things that he is tough.

5. What is Alcatraz's Talent?

From Quiz Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

Answer: The Breaking Talent

Grandpa Smedary arrives late, Sing trips, and no one in these books does anything as silly as playing the oboe! Also called the Dark Talent, only Alcatraz and Alcatraz the First have had this Talent. In some ways all the Talents are related to the Breaking Talent. Only Smedrys have Talents, and they have Talents whether or not they are a Smedry by marriage or by blood.

6. What is the trophy that Billy William the Third keeps in his shop window?

From Quiz Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire

Answer: England's Most Revolting Butcher

The award reads as follows: "Awarded to Billy William for the twentieth year running, in fact just keep the trophy forever - you always win, there's no point having the competition, you really are disgusting."

7. What is Mr Gum's favourite TV show?

From Quiz Mr Gum - Book 1 - "You're a Bad Man Mr Gum"

Answer: Bag of Sticks

"Bag of Sticks" is a picture of a bag of sticks and lasts for half an hour. It is Mr Gum's favourite show. Apparently he is the only person in the country who watches it.

8. By what name do Encyclopedia Brown's mother and father call him at home?

From Quiz Donald J. Sobol's "Encyclopedia Brown"

Answer: Leroy

Encyclopedia's "real" name is Leroy. His school teachers call him that, too.

9. Sylvester Duncan loved collecting pebbles. One rainy Saturday he found an amazing pebble. What did it look like?

From Quiz Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

Answer: Flaming red and shiny

During vacation, Sylvester found a fantastic flaming red, shiny, and strangely round pebble. It resembled a marble.

10. What illness did Mia heal for Lisa's dad?

From Quiz Shapeshifter, Running the Risk

Answer: A migraine

Mia's COLA (Children Of Limitless Abilities) gift is Healing. When she heals somebody though, she take their pain unto herself.

11. What is Clover's last name?

From Quiz "Leven Thumps" by Obert Skye

Answer: Ernest

Clover tells Leven this. He is a friend of Leven.

12. What was the main character's name before she moved to Connecticut?

From Quiz Kiss Me Tomorrow

Answer: Alyssa Reed

Blister changed her name from Alyssa to Blister when she moved from the country to Connecticut. She refers to it as 'the kind you get on your foot'.

13. What is Encyclopedia Brown's real name?

From Quiz Encyclopedia Brown

Answer: Leroy

Most opening chapters feature the same information about the characters. Only his parents and teachers call him by his real name. The nickname comes from all the books he's read. Apparently he has a photographic memory too. The first book appeared in 1963, nearly ten years before Jim Croce's "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" song. In recent years this name has become more associated with African American men. Arsenio Hall claimed that his first name actually meant Leroy. Encyclopedia Brown appears to be Caucasian. Judging from the names and illustrations in the books, he has many friends of various ethnic backgrounds.

14. What type of cat is Varjak Paw?

From Quiz The Life of Varjak Paw

Answer: Mesopotamian Blue

Varjak's family claims that they are the noblest breed of cat. Later, Varjak wonders if they truly are...

15. What color is Atalanta?

From Quiz People and Places from Across the Gap

Answer: a soft blend of lavender, violet, and shadowy grays with a silver horn, mane, and tail

Atalanta is the Dreamspeaker. She is the link between unicorns and the world of humans. She has the ability to appear in human and animal dreams.

16. What is the name of the teenager who wanted to enter the competition with a video?

From Quiz Krazy Kow the Klever Quiz

Answer: Jamie Frink

Jamie Frink is thinking of writing a play with the leading character 'Krazy Kow' to enter a competition. He has a big brother called Matt, who likes football and is good at it, and a big sister called Gemma, who wears heavy makeup and black clothes all the time. Matt and Dad love playing football but unfortunately, James doesn't.

17. What do the silver studs on Lancelot's apron spell?

From Quiz Exploding (Literally) Quiz

Answer: BURN, BABY, BURN

Lancelot is Gran's husband and he is a Hell's Angel and has a cool motorbike even though he's sixty-five years old. He's also a whizz at the stove.

18. This book starts out with a letter - to whom it may concern - and a library card. What is the date that this library card is supposedly valid until?

From Quiz Dragonology

Answer: 1904

This library card belongs to a Dr. Ernest Drake, who lives in good old London, England. The book was written as though it is the late 1800's, when it really came out in 2003. However, it is based on a book that was written in 1895 that was recently found in a book store in London.

19. Wren and Tess have been friends ever since Wren first came to Three Groves orphanage. However, Tess is more than she seems. What is she?

From Quiz "Wren to the Rescue"

Answer: a princess

When Tess (also known as Princess Teressa) first tells Wren that she is a princess, Wren thinks she's playing a game.

20. What type of animal lives in Austria?

From Quiz Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy World

Answer: bear

Schtoompah is an Austrian bear that plays the tuba.

21. From which part of the Roman Empire did most of Marcus' cohort come when he first marches into Isca Dumnoniorum (Exeter)?

From Quiz "The Eagle of the Ninth" - Rosemary Sutcliff

Answer: Gaul

Marcus himself thinks of his home as being amongst the Etruscan hills but his men are from Gaul(modern-day France).He is a cohort commander, one of the middle ranks in the Roman army.

22. In which book does Tom have a tractor accident and lose his memory?

From Quiz The "Lone Pine" stories of Malcolm Saville

Answer: Where's My Girl?

Thankfully Tom's loss of memory is only temporary but it does cause him problems throughout the book. Poor Jenny is the girl in question that he is asking for.

23. Who is the first character you meet in the book?

From Quiz The Stinky Cheese Man

Answer: The Little Red Hen

The Little Red Hen is the first to show up in the book. She is complaining about where the dog, cat, and mouse are and who will help her tell her story.

24. What state are Matt and his family settling in?

From Quiz The Sign of the Beaver

Answer: Maine

Matt and his family were moving from a town in Massachusetts to the Maine wilderness.

25. Who brings Arianna Sunchaser's jewel?

From Quiz "Unicorns of Balinor" by Mary Stanton

Answer: Lincoln

Lincoln the dog is actually a toad named Gully, the "Link" between the worlds of Balinor and Earth. He can also take people to many other worlds through the Gap, but he leaves to bring Sunchaser's jewel to Arianna. Atalanta, the Dreamspeaker of the Celestial Unicorns, turns him into a dog so he won't have to leave Arianna.

26. What state is Chester Cricket from?

From Quiz 'The Cricket in Times Square' Quiz

Answer: Connecticut

He travels to New York when he falls asleep in a New Yorker family's picnic basket. They take the subway to NYC.

27. When the story opens, the hero is making mischief. What is the hero's name?

From Quiz Where The Wild Things Are

Answer: Max

28. When 'talking' to the reader, Alcatraz often refers to how he uses different literary conventions, such as a 'hook' to grab the reader's attention. What scary situation does Alcatraz describe in the first sentence of the book?

From Quiz "Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians"

Answer: He is about to be sacrificed

The book opens with the following situation: "So there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians." And, of course, he then goes on to talk about how a situation like that makes a person pause and reflect on his life, which then leads to introductory information about his life and background. At the beginning of the second chapter, he brings it up again to explain the idea of a literary hook to the reader, and to also explain that as a writer, he is not a nice person.

29. Pete writes a declaration of war to his Grandpa. How does he sign it?

From Quiz Pete's War with Grandpa

Answer: The Secret Warrior

Pete decides that war is the only way to get his room back, and Steve gives him the idea about remaining hidden, striking quickly, retreating, and using a different name. Steve, who has a big vocabulary, messes up and calls a war of secret fighting and hiding "gorilla warfare", when the actual term is "guerilla warfare".

30. A dying Kengah lays an egg and asks Zorba, the big, fat, black cat to keep three promises to her; not to eat her egg, to look after it until the chick is born and - what's the third promise?

From Quiz Cats Are Evil

Answer: To teach it to fly

Oil-covered Kengah lands on Zorba's, the big, fat, black cat's balcony where she lays her egg and asks Zorba for the three promises. Kind, caring Zorba tries to lick the oil to help Kengah but realizes that Kengah's end is near and agrees to her wishes.

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