{"id":381,"date":"2012-05-15T17:22:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T17:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2021-01-02T10:38:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T15:38:49","slug":"book-club-quiz-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/book-club-quiz-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Club Quiz Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking for a fun activity for your Book Club?\u00a0 How about an end-of-the-year quiz based on the books you\u2019ve read this year.\u00a0 If your Book Club chooses ten books per year from September through to June and you have\u00a0 a break over the summer, a book quiz night would make a fun evening for your final meeting, especially if you usually finish with a pot luck supper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Book-Group.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Book-Group.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Setting up the questions ahead of time using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textclues.com\/\">TextClues <\/a>will make the whole evening fun for everyone. \u00a0The participants can enjoy an entirely unique activity where all clues and answers are completed via text messages.<\/p>\n<p>So, now let\u2019s go over the steps on how to set up your Book Club quiz &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>First, make a list of books you want to include<strong> &#8211; <\/strong>\u00a0this could be the ten books you\u2019ve read this season, or you could include some questions based on books you\u2019ve read over the past few years, or even famous first lines of novels.\u00a0 Then, decide how many clues you want to include in the quiz and set up the clues and answers online. This part is simple; just enter the information on our online form.<\/p>\n<p>To add to the fun, decide on a prize for the winner \u2013 a good prize for a Book Club would be a gift card to a book store, everyone could put in $5 towards it.<\/p>\n<p>Some sample questions might be &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Question<\/strong><\/em>:\u00a0 Who wrote the book Case Histories?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Answer<\/strong><\/em>: Kate Atkinson<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Question<\/strong><\/em>:\u00a0 Which City was Bury your Dead set in?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Answer<\/strong><\/em>:\u00a0 Quebec City<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Question<\/strong><\/em>:\u00a0 In which book was a valise stolen from the train?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Answer<\/strong><\/em><strong>:\u00a0 <\/strong>The Paris Wife<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Or, use first lines of famous novels as the questions &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Question<\/em>:\u00a0 <\/strong>Call me Ishmael<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Answer<\/em><\/strong>:\u00a0 Moby Dick<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Question<\/strong><\/em>: It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Answer<\/strong><\/em>:\u00a0 1984<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Question<\/strong><\/em>:\u00a0 It was love at first sight<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Answer<\/strong><\/em>:\u00a0 Catch 22<\/p>\n<p>The questions can be specific to your own Book Club reading list or be a more general knowledge book quiz.<\/p>\n<p>Now you can schedule your quiz for the evening and sit back and watch the fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking for a fun activity for your Book Club?\u00a0 How about an end-of-the-year quiz based on the books you\u2019ve read this year.\u00a0 If your Book Club chooses ten books per year from September through to June and you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/book-club-quiz-night\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[104,106,105,103,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"http:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1889,"href":"http:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/1889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}