Buckles
This Hollywood archetype is a compound combining two words--"To swagger with a sword" and "a small shield gripped in the fist"
What is a swashbuckler?
Fill in the blank: "_____ Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. "
What is Emma?
Her most famous book (14 million copies sold! A Francis Ford Coppola movie!) was written while she was still going to Will Rogers HS in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Name the author and and collect a bonus for the title of the book and any names you can add to her pen name!
Who is S (usan) E (loise) Hinton? "The Outsiders"
This Lester was best known for his musical partnership with Earl Scruggs. Their biggest hit was "The Ballad of Jed Clampett", the theme for "The Beverly Hillbillies". Correct spelling of his last name gets a bonus.
Who is Lester Flatt?
While his father may have laid the foundation, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, the pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt from 283 to 246 BCE, built the Great Library in this seaport.
What is Alexandria?
Name any of the four parts of a buckle. Bonus for each part named.
What are the frame, chape, prong and bar?
In the Kinsey Millhone series of detective novels written by Sue Grafton, "E is for ________?"
What is evidence?
The New Jersey native said this about her first hit, "Society's Child": "I conceived it at 12, wrote it at 13, recorded it at 14, became known at 15, and was a has been at 16."
Who was Janice Ian?
After Brian Williams was suspended, he became the first African American to solo anchor a national network nightly news show.
Who is Lester Holt?
Name this Gilded Age magnate who spent $60 million building 2,509 libraries between 1883 and 1929. Bonus for naming the country where the first library was built.
Who is Andrew Carnegie? The first Carnegie library was in Dunfermlein, Scotland, his birthplace.
Although Osso buco is a recipe for veal shanks, the root word for buckle, bucco, actually refers to this part of the body.
What is the cheek?
Among the other titles its Nobel prize winning author considered were "The Salinas Valley" and "Cain Sign". When transcribing 16 verses of Genesis Chapter 4 into the text, he found this three word phrase for what he called the "longest and surely most difficult work I have ever done." Bonus for naming the author
What is "East of Eden"?
(Author--John Steinbeck)
Her most famous work, subtitled The Modern Prometheus, was written at 18 and 19 as part of a ghost story challenge among her husband Percy, Lord Byron and herself. Name the author and novel.
Who was Mary Shelley and Frankenstein?
This Lester won three World Series games for the Boston Red Sox in 2007 and 2009 and a "must win" Game 5 for the Chicago Cubs in 2016. Correct spelling of his first name needed.
Who is Jon Lester?
Peter Lewis built this family owned insurance company into one of the world's largest. True to its name, he donated millions of dollars to the ACLU, the Marijuana Policy Project, the Democratic Party, and 60 million for a Frank Gehry designed science library at Princeton University.
What is Progressive Insurance?
Fill in the blank:
The hit song "Buckle Down, ________" debuted in the 1941 musical "Best Foot Forward".
Correct spelling earns a bonus!
What is "Buckle Down, Winsocki"?
The two stars of the 2005 Liev Schreiber-directed film version of this "E" book were Elijah Wood and Eugene Hutz. Bonus for naming the author.
What is "Everything is Illuminated"?
(Author is Jonathan Safran Foer)
His first book, This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall, was written when he was 12 and published by Scholastic when he was 14. He had five published while still in high school. Name the author whose 80 books include the Swindle series , collaboration on The 39 Clues , and No More Dead Dogs.
Who is Gordon Korman?
Charles Mingus wrote "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" as an elegy for this saxophonist. His influence went beyond music and into the English language, as he first popularized the use of the word "cool" to mean fashionable and "bread" to mean money.
Who is Lester Young?
The Philip H. Knight Librarian at the University of Oregon is named for the founder of this sporting goods company. Bonus for identifying the namesake
What is Nike?
(Bonus--Greek goddess of victory)
The first and middle names of this quintessential Victorian are the same as the child star of ET:the Extraterrestrial. He was the first British chess champion, wrote (but did not finish) the first 'scientific' history, and died of malaria in Syria while recuperating from that effort. Fill in the blanks:
________ ________ Buckle
What is Henry Thomas?
Fill in the blank--the first line and title of this Sinclair Lewis "E" book
"_______ _________ was drunk."
What/who is "Elmer Gantry"?
At 17, she wrote her first book, Flower Fables , a collection of stories for 10 year old Ellen Emerson, daughter of family friend Ralph Waldo Emerson. Twenty years later she wrote her most famous book, about four teenaged girls and their transition to adulthood. Bonus for naming the book and the girls.
Who is Louisa May Alcott?
(Little Women--Meg, Beth, Jo and Amy)
This Lester won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the UN Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis. As prime minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968, his government introduced universal health care and the Maple Leaf flag, kept Canada out of the Vietnam War, and, in effect, abolished capital punishment in Canada.
Who is Lester Pearson?
Name the author who said this:
“I went to the 135th St. library at least 3 or 4 times per week, and I read everything there; I mean every single book in that library. ”
Who is James Baldwin?