You Better Shop Around Trivia Quiz

Answer: Gone With the Wind

Margaret Mitchell only published one single book, and initially wrote purely for amusement. "Gone With the Wind" is a classic love story involving Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler. Place of the action is Georgia, during the Civil War and the Reconstruction.

The other titles are some of the books written by Ruth Wind.

Answer: The Winds of War

Herman Wouk gained international fame with his book "The Caine Mutiny" (1951), followed by a theatre play "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" (1953).
Wouk spent at least thirteen years writing "The Winds of War" (1970) and "War and Remembrance" (1978). The protagonist is Victor Henry, a Navy officer whose family witnesses the rise of Nazism in "The Winds of War". This novel ends with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, also the starting point for "War and Remembrance". In this sequel, Victor Henry and his two sons fight against the Japanese and/or the Germans.
"Marjorie Morningstar" is a novel by Herman Wouk starring a young girl aspiring to become a celebrated Hollywood actress.
In 1956 Wouk authored the script for a movie entitled "Slattery's Hurricane", starring an ex-navy man now involved in a drug gang.
"Don't Stop the Carnival" is Wouk's comedy about a middle aged man escaping his sorrows on some Caribbean island, only to discover even more worries.

Answer: Bjorndal

Trygve Gulbranssen (1894-1962) was a Norwegian author. His trilogy starts with the rivals Bjorndall and von Gall - one a rich farmer, the other an officer. Each generation is confronted with its own problems.

Richard Rahl is the protagonist from Terry Goodkind's fantasy series "The Sword of Truth". Likewise, Rhand Altor is the protagonist from Robert Jordan's series "The Wheel of Time". Peter Pevensie and his siblings Susan, Edmund and Lucy are the main characters from Clive Staples Lewis' series "The Chronicles of Narnia".

Answer: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Miyazaki (born 1941) is one of the most famous manga creators and has been active as a movie director (Japanese anime), storyboard and manga artist, television producer and animator.
"Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind" is a series of seven manga in which the heroine tries to bring peace among quarreling kingdoms, after a nuclear war has devastated the planet. The name Nausicaä reminds of the Phaeaecian princess who meets Odysseus during his long travel home.
The other titles are fictitious. For those interested in Greek stories: Andromache is mentioned in the "Iliad", while Medea and Electra inspired classical dramas.

Answer: Arthur C. Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke is the only Brit among these authors. He was born in Somerset in 1917 and died in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 2008.
"The Wind From the Sun" describes a race to the moon by people using the solar flares as method of propulsion.
His best known novel is of course "2001: A Space Odyssey", followed by three sequels: "2010: Odyssey Two", "2061: Odyssey Three" and "3001: The Final Odyssey".
Robert Heinlein was an American. Jules Verne was French. Isaac Asimov was born in Russia, but later adopted American nationality.

Answer: Patrick Rothfuss

"The Kingkiller Chronicle", an autobiographical account by a musician called Kvothe, alternates between the present, the time the story is being told and the past, the time when the events actually occurred. The fantasy world created by Rothfuss for the series is called the Four Corners of Civilization.

Answer: Mr. Bear

All the main characters in "The Wind in the Willows" are anthropomorphic animals. The story begins when Mole heads off by himself along the riverbank to take a break from spring cleaning. There he meets and befriends Rat, a water rat who takes Mole for a ride down the river on his boat.

The book then follows Mole's adventures as he meets other friends of Rat and finds himself in the midst of some thrilling situations.

Answer: Epistolary

The story is told in the form of letters written by the protagonist Anne to her fiance Gilbert and covers a period of three years from Anne's graduation to her marriage to Gilbert. The novel was also published under the title "Anne of Windy Willows". The title was changed to Windy Poplars in North America to avoid confusion with the popular children's classic "The Wind in the Willows".

Answer: The Innocent Voyage

The novel is set in the 19th century and follows the journey of the Bas-Thornton children and their two Creole friends, who leave their plantation in Jamaica to make their way to England after a hurricane destroys their home. The ship they are travelling on is seized by pirates soon after.

The book was also made into a film of the same name starring Anthony Quinn and James Cogburn as the pirates.

Answer: Spanish

"The Shadow of the Wind", originally titled "La Sombra Del Viento" was first published in 2001. Set in Barcelona in the period following the Spanish Civil War, the novel is mostly written in the first person with the little boy, Daniel as the narrator. Daniel is so taken up by the book he chooses, which is titled "The Shadow of the Wind", that he sets out to track all the books written by its author, Julian Carax only to find that someone else has been destroying all the author's works for almost a decade.