Bestselling Books 1970-2020
How much does your trivia crowd know about these best-selling books of the past fifty years?
15 questions · Published September 14, 2020
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. Which of these books, a fable in novella format, was on the New York Times Best Seller list for thirty-seven weeks in 1972?
"Jonathan Livingston Seagull" (1972) by Richard Bach, about a seagull learning to fly, capitalized on the self-help and empowerment trend of early 1970s America and spent an impressive 37 weeks atop the New York Times Best Seller list. The book was adapted to film in 1973 and features a soundtrack composed by Neil Diamond.
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2. Alice Walker won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for "The Color __________."
Alice Walker's beloved 1982 novel "The Color Purple" was not without its fair share of controversy. From 2000 to 2009, the book ranked seventeenth on the American Library Association's list of 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books.
- Multiple Choice
3. What 1971 horror novel by American writer William Peter Blatty details the demonic possession of eleven-year-old Regan MacNeil?
FUN FACT
William Peter Blatty won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his adaptation of his best-selling 1971 novel "The Exorcist."
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4. Which of these entries in the best-selling "Millennium" series of Swedish crime novels was NOT written by Stieg Larsson?
Original author Stieg Larsson died of a heart attack in 2004, so Swedish journalist David Lagercrantz was hired by Larsson's estate to produce the next installment in the "Millennium" series, 2015's "The Girl in the Spider's Web."
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5. What 2003 novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini tells the story of a Amir, a young boy living in Kabul?
Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner" (2003) was a massive success in the United States, selling over seven million copies. The book spent more than two years on the New York Times Best Seller list.
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