Grass Roots Celebration Trivia

Genres

100

Writing in this genre has a central love story and usually ends on an emotionally satisfying and optimistic note.

Romance

200

This genre of fiction is very short.

Flash Fiction

300

Stories in this genre capture the details of a time period as accurately as possible for authenticity, including social norms, manners, customs, and traditions.

Historical Fiction

400

This subgenre of speculative fiction combines supernatural, horror, magical realist, and fantasy elements.

Weird Fiction

500

Books in this genre tell the story of a regular person from behind a cash register.

Cashier Memoir

Authors

100

This author married their 13-year-old cousin when they were 26.

Edgar Allen Poe

200

This author worked for the Oxford Dictionary and created entries for “waggle” and “walrus”.

J.R.R. Tolkien

300

This author was related to William Thackeray.

Virginia Woolf

400

This author was good friends with Harry Houdini.

Arthur Conan Doyle

500

This author was also a professional bullfighter.

Ernest Hemingway

Fun Facts

100

This is the most in-demand writing job.

Content Writer

200

This person came up with the idea of the Hero’s Journey, aka monomyth.

Joseph Campbell

300

This learning disability makes it difficult to spell, type, and write by hand.

dysgraphia

400

This book has over 200 film adaptations.

The Bible

500

This is the longest published book in the world. (title, pages, or author)

“In Search of Lost Time” by Marcel Proust, 3,031 pages