All right gang, limber up your brains. It’s time for before and after trivia. For this mini episode, it’s before and after book titles. What does that mean? Well, I’ll give you a clue where two books have merged. That is, the last word in one book’s title is the first in the second book’s title.
Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune do these a lot, you’ll get the hang of it.
Episode Transcript/Quiz
All right gang, limber up your brains. It’s time for before and after trivia. For this mini episode, it’s before and after book titles. What does that mean? Well, I’ll give you a clue where two books have merged. That is, the last word in one book’s title is the first in the second book’s title.
Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune do these a lot, you’ll get the hang of it.
Ready? Let’s go.
- The second Jurassic Park book meets a Zombie tale by Max Brooks
a. The Lost World War Z - When Offred of Gilead lives through the best of times and the worst of times.
a. The Handmaid’s Tale of Two Cities - The second Outlander book meets the third His Dark Materials book
a. Dragonfly in Amber Spyglass - Meg Murry meets up with the Morlocks A Wrinkle in Time Machine
- The second Hunger Games book meets George Martin’s history of House Targaryen.
a. Catching Fire and Blood - When the sixth book set at Hogwarts meets the second book set in Narnia
a. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Caspian - The Truman Capote novel set in Holcomb, Kansas meets a Cormac McCarthy tale set in the 1850s.
a. In Cold Blood Meridian - Sun Tzu’s treatise meets a very long Tolstoy novel
a. The Art of War and Peace - The last book in the Lord of the Rings trilogy gets caught up in the machinations of Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia.
a. The Return of the King Lear - The first story featuring Sherlock Holmes where he investigates the adultery of Hester Prynn
a. A Study in Scarlet Letter
And we’re done. How did you do? We did this with movie titles a few years back and I wanted to retry the format with book titles.
Let me know on Facebook, Reddit, Threads, or Blue Sky what you think. I’ll see you back here on Wednesday for our regular episode.
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