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1) Which U.S. President was a Finalist for the National
Book Award?
A)
Bill Clinton
B)
John F. Kennedy
 C)
Richard Nixon
2) In 1999 the National Book
Foundation presented this television personality with
an honorary medal for his/her work promoting reading
and books?
A) Jerry
Seinfeld
B)
Al Roker
C)
Oprah Winfrey
3) What do you call someone
who writes fiction?
A)
Fictioneer
B)
Imagineer
C)
None of the above
4) In 1983, this year's Distinguished
Contribution to American Letters honoree, Judy Blume,
was a National Book Award Finalist for what book?
A)
Blubber
B)
Tiger Eyes
C)
Are You There God, It's Me Margaret?
5) What author has received the most nominations for
the National Book Awards and won for two books in the
same category and the same year?
A)
John Updike
B)
William Carlos Williams
C)
Ernest Hemingway
6) What author has won the National Book Award more than any other?
A)
William Carlos Williams
B)
E. Annie Proulx
C)
Saul Bellow
7) Philip Roth was only in
his late 20's when he won the National Book Award in
1960 for this famous novel:
A)
Goodbye, Columbus
B)
Portnoy's Complaint
C)
Patrimony: A True Story
8) Name one of the only two female authors to have received two honors from the National Book Foundation.
The Answer
9) What year were the National Book Awards established?
The
Answer
10) Name the four categories currently awarded The National Book Award?
A)
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation
B)
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, First Novel
C)
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Young People's Literature
11) What 1997 National Book
Award Winning book was recently made into a movie starring
Jude Law and Nicole Kidman?
A)
Moulin Rouge
B)
The Human Stain
C)
Cold Mountain
12) Who was the first African-American Winner of the National Book Award?
A)
Charles Johnson
B)
Ralph Ellison
C)
Frederick Douglas
13) Which culinary icon
won a National Book Award in 1980?
A)
Wolfgang Puck
B)
Graham Kerr
C)
Julia Child
14) In order to win a National Book Award an author must:
A)
Be over the age of twenty-five.
B)
Be a United States citizen.
C)
Have written more than one book.
D)
All of the above
15) What 1992 book about
growing up gay and one man's struggle, for half his
life, to come out of the closet won the Nonfiction National
Book Award?
A)
A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan
B)
Freedom by Orlando Patterson
C)
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette
16) The first National Book
Award in Nonfiction was awarded to Ralph L. Rusk for
his biography about what famous writer?
A)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
B)
Herman Melville
C)
Henry James
D)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
17) For what novel did
Ha Jin win the National Book Award in 1999?
A)
Plainsong
B)
Waiting
C)
Who Do You Love
18) Ben Kingsley starred
in this movie based on a National Book Award Finalist
novel by Andre Dubus III:
A)
House of Sand and Fog
B)
Atticus
C)
Sexy Beast
19) What Irish-American
author won the National Book Award in 1998 for her novel,
Charming Billy, about an Irish immigrant who
drinks himself to death and the family and friends that
love him.
A)
Maeve Binchy
B)
Alice McDermott
C)
Elizabeth McCracken
20) What famous and prolific science-fiction writer received the Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Medal in 2000?
A)
Arthur C. Clarke
B)
Ray Bradbury
C)
Orson Scott Card
21) Joyce Carol Oates has been nominated for the National Book Award six times. How many times as she won?
A)
once
B)
none
C)
five
22) What Young People's author was nominated both in 1996 and 1997 and won in 1997?
A)
Carolyn Coman
B)
Katherine Paterson
C)
Mary Ann McGuigan
D)
Han Nolan
23) In 2000, Nathaniel
Philbrick won the National Book Award for In the
Heart of thie Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex.
The events chronicled in the book were the basis
for what classic novel?
A)
The Old Man and the Sea
B)
Absalom! Absalom!
C)
The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
D)
Moby Dick
24) This distinguished poet won the National Book Award for his collections Ashes and What Work Is.
A)
Gerald Stern
B)
James Tate
C)
Philip Levine
D)
A. R. Ammons
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