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Twisted Trivia 2020 - Yay or Nay!

My answers to the questions:

Card 1: 1. Geography: Nay; 2. Entertainment: Nay; 3. History: Nay; 4: Art/Literature: Nay; 5: Science: Yay; 6: Sport: Nay

Card 2: 1. Geography: Nay; 2. Entertainment: Yay; 3. History: Nay; 4: Art/Literature: Nay; 5: Science: Nay; 6: Sport: Yay

Card 3: 1. Geography: Nay; 2. Entertainment: Nay ; 3. History: Nay; 4: Art/Literature: Nay; 5: Science: Yay; 6: Sport: Yay

Card 4: 1. Geography: Nay; 2. Entertainment: Yay; 3. History: Nay; 4: Art/Literature: Yay; 5: Science: Nay; 6: Sport: Nay

Card 5: 1. Geography: Yay; 2. Entertainment: Yay; 3. History: Nay; 4: Art/Literature: Nay; 5: Science: Yay; 6: Sport: Nay

Card 6: 1. Geography: Nay; 2. Entertainment: Yay; 3. History: Nay; 4: Art/Literature: Yay ; 5: Science: Nay; 6: Sport: Nay

Card 7: 1. Geography: Nay; 2. Entertainment: Nay; 3. History: Nay; 4: Art/Literature: Nay; 5: Science: Yay; 6: Sport: Yay

Card 8: 1. Geography: Nay; 2. Entertainment: Nay; 3. History: Nay; 4: Art/Literature: Yay; 5: Science: Yay; 6: Sport: Yay

Card 9: 1. Geography: Nay; 2. Entertainment: Nay; 3. History: Yay; 4: Art/Literature: Nay; 5: Science: Nay; 6: Sport: Nay

Card 10: 1. Geography: Yay; 2. Entertainment: Nay; 3. History: Nay; 4: Art/Literature: Yay; 5: Science: Nay; 6: Sport: Nay

Card 11: 1. Geography: Nay; 2. Entertainment: Yay; 3. History: Yay; 4: Art/Literature: Nay; 5: Science: Nay; 6: Sport: Nay

Card 12: 1. Geography: Nay; 2. Entertainment: Yay; 3. History: Yay; 4: Art/Literature: Nay; 5: Science: Nay ; 6: Sport: Yay

Card 13: 1. Geography: Yay; 2. Entertainment: Nay; 3. History: Yay; 4: Art/Literature: Yay; 5: Science: Nay; 6: Sport: Yay

Card 14: 1. Geography: Nay; 2. Entertainment: Nay; 3. History: Yay; 4: Art/Literature: Yay; 5: Science: Yay; 6: Sport: Nay

Card 15: 1. Geography: Yay; 2. Entertainment: Nay; 3. History: Yay; 4: Art/Literature: Nay; 5: Science: Nay; 6: Sport: Nay

Card 16: 1. Geography: Nay; 2. Entertainment: Nay; 3. History: Yay; 4: Art/Literature: Nay; 5: Science: Yay; 6: Sport: Nay

Card 17: 1. Geography: Yay; 2. Entertainment: Nay; 3. History: Yay; 4: Art/Literature: Yay; 5: Science: Yay; 6: Sport: Nay

Card 18: 1. Geography: Nay; 2. Entertainment: Nay; 3. History: Nay; 4: Art/Literature: Nay; 5: Science: Nay; 6: Sport: Yay

Card 19: 1. Geography: Nay; 2. Entertainment: Nay; 3. History: Nay; 4: Art/Literature: Yay; 5: Science: Nay; 6: Sport: Yay

Card 20: 1. Geography: Nay; 2. Entertainment: Nay; 3. History: Nay; 4: Art/Literature: Nay; 5: Science: Yay; 6: Sport: Yay

Card 21: 1. Geography: Nay; 2. Entertainment: Nay; 3. History: Yay; 4: Art/Literature: Nay; 5: Science: Nay; 6: Sport: Yay

Card 22: 1. Geography: Nay; 2. Entertainment: Nay; 3. History: Nay; 4: Art/Literature: Yay; 5: Science: Nay; 6: Sport: Yay

Card 23: 1. Geography: Nay; 2. Entertainment: Nay; 3. History: Nay; 4: Art/Literature: Yay; 5: Science: Nay; 6: Sport: Yay

Card 24: 1. Geography: Yay; 2. Entertainment: Nay; 3. History: Yay; 4: Art/Literature: Nay; 5: Science: Nay; 6: Sport: Nay

Card 25: 1. Geography: Yay; 2. Entertainment: Nay; 3. History: Nay; 4: Art/Literature: Nay; 5: Science: Yay; 6: Sport: Nay

Card 26: 1. Geography: Yay; 2. Entertainment: Yay; 3. History: Nay; 4: Art/Literature: Nay; 5: Science: Yay; 6: Sport: Yay

Card 27: 1. Geography: Nay; 2. Entertainment: Yay; 3. History: Nay; 4: Art/Literature: Nay; 5: Science: Nay; 6: Sport: Yay

Card 28: 1. Geography: Nay; 2. Entertainment: Nay; 3. History: Nay; 4: Art/Literature: Nay; 5: Science: Nay; 6: Sport: Yay

Card 29: 1. Geography: Nay; 2. Entertainment: ; Yay 3. History: Yay; 4: Art/Literature: Nay; 5: Science: Yay; 6: Sport: Yay

Card 30: 1. Geography: Nay; 2. Entertainment: Nay; 3. History: Yay; 4: Art/Literature: Yay; 5: Science: Nay; 6: Sport: Yay

My Spreadsheet of Tasks
The Challenge

Report each book as follows:

1. Challenge Progress: Identify where you are in the challenge – Badge 1, book 1 (2, 3, 4, etc.)
2. List Card
3 Specify Yay or Nay, and Category
4. Link to book read. REQUIRED: If the cover is part of the task, link the cover of the edition you read as well.
5. List the number of pages of the edition you read. If an ebook or audiobook also give the number of pages of the paper edition (refer general rules on page numbers).
6. Give a very brief summary of the task.
7. State how the book fits the criteria.
8. Specifications required in the task. Some tasks require that you report a specific thing. IE – a task requires that you read a book from a Listopia. You need to identify which position number the book is on the list so that it can be verified.

Completed Reads:

Badge 1
1. Card 9, Science: Nay, The Calculating Stars
2. Card 24, Entertainment: Nay, The Silent Patient
3. Card 16, Art/Literature: Nay, Recursion
4. Card 27, Entertainment: Yay, The Bands of Mourning
5. Card 17, Science: Yay, It's Not OK to Feel Blue
6. Card 29, Entertainment: Yay, Daisy Jones & The Six
7. Card 4, Art/Literature: Yay, Vicious
8. Card 12, Sport: Yay, The Godfather
9. Card 20, Geography: Nay, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
10. Card 1, Entertainment: Nay, The Last Emperox
11. Card 21, Science: Nay, Into the Darkest Corner
12. Card 23, Science: Nay, The Human Division



Badge 2
1. Card 8, History: Nay, The Goblin Emperor
2. Card 30, Sport: Yay, Graceling
3. Card 28, Science: Nay, Self Compassion
4. Card 7, Science: Yay, The Night Watch
5. Card 22, Entertainment: Nay, Dawn
6. Card 2, Geography: Nay, The Subtle Knife
7. Card 11, Entertainment: Yay, Silver Borne
8. Card 18, Sport: Yay, The Dark Monk
9. Card 3, Art/Literature: Nay, Children of Blood and Bone
10. Card 14, Entertainment: Nay, The Institute
11. Card 19, Art/literature: Yay, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
12. Card 5, Science: Yay, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
13. Card 13, Geography: Yay, Snowblind
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Reserved

I've answered the questions that I thought I definitely knew the answer too. I was write quite a bit, but also wrong. Surprisingly, I got quite a lot of the questions under 'sport' correct. Who'd have thought it?! Anyway, I've read through all the questions and I'm going to mull over some of them. I swear I know some more of the answers but can't quite put my finger on the answer just yet. Hopefully, they'll come to me. There are LOTS I definitely don't know the answer to.

All questions answered and assigned Yays or Nays.

I actually got 70 Yays. Out of 180.

I'm starting It's Not OK to Feel Blue (and other lies): Inspirational people open up about their mental health for question 17 Science: Yay (published by Penguin).

I'm also starting The Calculating Stars for question 9 Science: Nay (significant character is astronaut/space explorer) or question 21 Geography: Nay (originally published 2018). I'll probably use the astronaut task but I'll wait until I've started reading it to decide if it fits. The book series title is 'Lady Astronaut' which suggests the main character is an astronaut so should work.

I finished my first book. Yay!!! I'll report it properly when I'm more able to.

I started The Silent Patient for Card 2 Art/literature: Nay (thriller). It may fit other tasks. I'll gopher better another day.

EDIT: Alicia, one of the main characters, has red hair (card 24).

Badge 1, book 1
Card 9, Science: Nay
The Calculating Stars
431pgs (ebook), same for paperback.
Read a book where a significant character is an astronaut or space explorer.
Elma York, the main character, is the first Lady Astronaut. Most of the book, she is trying to become an astronaut. Stetson Palmer, who is a significant character in the book, becomes an astronaut quite a bit before she does though.

Woohoo! First book done. :)

Badge 1, book 2
Card 24, Entertainment: Nay
The Silent Patient
325pgs (ebook), hardback version 323pgs
Read a book where a main character has ginger coloured hair (red).
Alicia, one of the main characters of the story, has red hair which is mentioned a few times throughout the book, with this being the first on page 9 (as it describes one of her self portraits) "strands of long red hair falling across bony shoulders."

Just started Recursion for card 16, Art/Literature: Nay (time travel).

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Started The Bands of Mourning. Fits for author's surname begins with S - card 4, art/literature: yay. Also has 'band' in the title so would work for card 27, entertainment: yay. I'll probably use the latter.

Badge 1, book 3
Card 16, Art/Literature: Nay
Recursion
330pgs (ebook), hardback 336pgs
The book's genre is time travel. 363 people shelved the book under Science Fiction > Time Travel

Badge 1, book 4
Card 27, Entertainment: Yay
The Bands of Mourning
447pgs (ebook), hardback 447pgs
Title has the word "Band" or "Brother" in it. The title has 'bands', the plural of 'band' in the title.

✔️

Badge 1, book 5
Card 17, Science: Yay
It's Not OK to Feel Blue
Audiobook, hardback 576pgs
The book was published by Penguin Books. It was published by them in 2019

Started reading The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales For card 4, surname starts with S.

✔️

NEED TO UPDATE with Daisy Jones & The Six. Gr winner or lips

Badge 1, book 6
Card 29, Entertainment: Yay
Daisy Jones & The Six
355pgs (ebook), hardcover 355pgs
The book won a Goodreads award in any year. It won Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction in 2019.

✔️

I read Vicious. Will report tomorrow when i decide which task to use it for. Either card 4 author's surname starts with s, or card 8 1st book in series.

Badge 1, book 7
Card 4, Art/Literature: Yay
Vicious
365phs (ebook), hardcover 368pgs
The author's last name starts with W, S, or E. The author V.E. Schwab has a surname which starts with the letter S

✔️

I started reading The Godfather for the monthly challenge but I'm not going to finish it before the month is out. So I can now count it for this challenge. Silver linings and all that... Fits card 6, History: Nay task EDIT: OOPS No it doesn't.

Reading Self Compassion for Card 28, Science: Nay

Badge 1, book 8
Card 12, Sport: Yay
The Godfather
596pgs (ebook), 448pgs paperback
Read a chunkster over 500 pages long.
The version I read was 596pgs

Starting Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine for card 20, Geography: Nay (set in Scotland and author is Scottish)

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Starting The Broken Girls. It fits a couple tasks - i'll look at it properly when i'm on my computer.

Also finished Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - need to report it properley.

Badge 1, book 9
Card 20, Geography: Nay
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
pages not listed for ebook, hardcover 336pgs
Read a book set in Scotland or by a Scottish author
The book is set in Glasgow and Gail Honeyman is from Stirling in Scotland.

I stopped reading The Broken Girls for now.

Now reading The Last Emperox which I'll probably use for card 1, entertainment: Nay as it's a trilogy book. Also reading The Human Division which I'' use for card 23, Science: Nay as it is a space opera. Also reading [book:Rogues|20168816 for card 26, history: Nay as it's an anthology of stories about rogues. This one will probably take me all year to read as it's a proper chunkster.

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Badge 1, book 10
Card 1, Entertainment: Nay
The Last Emperox
pages not listed for ebook, 320pgs hardcover
Read a trilogy book.
This is the final book of the Interdependency trilogy.

Starting Into the Darkest Corner for card 21, Science: Nay. It is the book that has been on my TBR the longest that I still haven't read.

Started Sabriel. Possibly use for card 3 (YA fantasy), card 8 (1st book in a series), or card 11 (badass female list)

I'm really excited to read The Last Emperox. Happy to see that you gave it 5 stars.

Janice wrote: "I'm really excited to read The Last Emperox. Happy to see that you gave it 5 stars."

I'm sad it's all over. I do love the characters in this series. I think you'll like it.

Badge 1, book 11
Card 21, Science: Nay
Into the Darkest Corner
ebook 396pgs, paperback 450pgs
Read the book that has been on your TBR the longest.
I bought this book and it went on my TBR on 3rd September 2013 after Kat, one of the old moderators, recommended it to me.

Just one more to go! Woot!

We are doing the challenge at the same speed Sarah :)

What did you think of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by the way?

I am surprised how fast i've whizzed through it this year. I guess I did have a lot of time at the beginning of the year after my surgery and now with not working.

I really liked Eleanor Oliphant. It was sad. It was funny. And it was heart warming. I thought it was done really well.

Finished The Human Division. NEED TO COME BACK AND REPORT LATER

Starting The Goblin Emperor would work for 1st in series, also has a crown on the cover of sorts. Need to check which cards they are for.

EDIT: cannot use for crown in badge 1 as I have completed that card for badge 1. Use for first in series, card 8.

Sarah wrote: "Starting The Goblin Emperor would work for 1st in series, also has a crown on the cover of sorts. Need to check which cards they are for."

The crown has been approved by Janice. This is where I am putting it.

Ah, excellent! Thanks Esther :-)

Badge 1, book 12
Card 23, Science: Nay
The Human Division .
Ebook 494pgs, hardcover 431pgs
Read a space opera book.
This book is a science fiction book, set in space, and is shelved as a space opera.