Stocking the FunTrivia Manor's Library Quiz

Answer: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes

"Top Secret Restaurant Recipes" was first published in 1997. Todd Wilbur, the author of the cookbook, went to dozens of restaurants, and ordered some of the more popular dishes there. With his expert taste buds and his "sciency" brain, he was able to take apart popular dishes and reconstruct them. Over time, he would alter his own recipe until his dish tasted almost like an exact replica of the dish on which he based his.

He has created hundreds of "mock" recipes, including a Big Mac from McDonalds and Bang Bang Chicken and Shrimp from the Cheesecake Factory.

He has also published several other "Top Secret Restaurant Recipes" cookbooks.

Answer: Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein wrote "Starship Troopers" in 1959. It was originally published in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" as "Starship Soldier" earlier the same year.

Answer: 'Salem's Lot

"Jerusalem's Lot", or "'Salem's Lot" for short, was released in 1975. It was Stephen King's second novel, after "Carrie". The novel features a man named Ben Mears, who visits a town he grew up in. Upon his arrival, he discovers that all the residents are becoming vampires.

Stephen King has written dozens of novels, mostly horror, including "It", "Firestarter" and "The Shining". "Dr. Sleep" is another novel of Stephen King, and it is the sequel to "The Shining".

Answer: Free Baseball

"Free Baseball" was published by Sue Corbett in 2006. The novel was inspired by a real-life experience of Sue Corbett. During a baseball game, she lost her daughter in the crowd. However, she was able to locate her because all her children were wearing shirts with the team's name on them. This provided the inspiration for the novel.

Answer: Hungry City Chronicles

Philip Reeve wrote the first novel of the "Hungry City Chronicles" (also called the "Mortal Engines Quartet") in 2001. It was called, fittingly, "Mortal Engines". "Predator's Gold" (2003) came next, followed by "Infernal Devices" (2005) and finished with "A Darkling Plan" in 2006.

Suzanne Collins wrote the "Hunger Games" trilogy, the "Dragonriders of Pern" series was written by Anne McCaffrey, and the "Pit Dragon" series was written by Jane Yolen.

Answer: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" is a novel first published in 1968, and was written by Philip K. Dick. In 1982, after huge success from the film adaptation "Blade Runner", the novel began being marked with the title "Blade Runner" instead of its original sheepish title.

Philip K. Dick wrote many stories where film adaptations were made. He wrote "We Can Remember it For You Wholesale", the basis for "Total Recall"; "The Minority Report", which was used for "Minority Report"; "Paycheck" was used for "Paycheck", and "Adjustment Team" was used in the creation of the film "The Adjustment Bureau".

Answer: The Glass Menagerie

"The Glass Menagerie" was a play written by Tennessee Williams, author of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and "A Streetcar Named Desire". "The Glass Menagerie" was first performed in Chicago in 1944.

"Death of a Salesman" is a play written by Arthur Miller, "Pygmalion" was written by George Bernard Shaw (and the musical "My Fair Lady" was adapted from "Pygmalion") and "A Diary of a Young Girl", a collection of writings of Anne Frank during WWII, was used in the play "The Diary of Anne Frank".

Answer: The Call of the Wild

"The Call of the Wild" was first published by Jack London in 1903. It was one of his first novels, and arguably one of his greatest. Its companion novel was "White Fang", published in 1906. Jack London had a love of dogs; he was a dog owner throughout his lifetime, and this obviously inspired many of his greatest works.

Answer: Show

The "Star Trek" universe is enormous, and began with Gene Roddenberry's 1966 television series, "Star Trek: The Original Series". In 2006, 40 years after the first episode of the first series, the "Star Trek" world had boomed. 10 films based on the show had been released in that 40 year span, 6 different television series had aired, and hundreds and hundreds of novels were published. Of course, it did not end at 40 years.

The "Star Trek" universe continued to expand even after 2006.

Answer: The Maltese Falcon

"The Maltese Falcon" was published in 1930 by Dashiell Hammett, and became a film in 1941. "Red Dragon" was a book by Thomas Harris. It was adapted as a film in 1986, under the name "Manhunter". The sequel to this novel, "The Silence of the Lambs", as well as its movie adaptation, were much more successful than "Red Dragon or "Manhunter". "And Then There Were None" was written by Agatha Christie in 1939, and "Presumed Innocent" was written by Scott Turow in 1987.