From: mimi@apollo.hp.com (Mimi Wellington)
Subject: AUGUST KIDS' BOOK QUIZ
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 12:30:23 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA

Here's a non-theme, "vanilla" kids' book quote quiz for August.

Quiz rules again:  you get a point for the author, a point for
the book/story/poem, and an extra point for more specific
identifications in such cases as chapter books and collections
of stories or poems.  I try to take quotes from fairly well-
known books, but I'm guilty of throwing in really great quotes
from little-known books.  Most, but not all, of the quotes come 
from authors I've not included in previous quizzes.

Please feel free to look up the quotes, ask friends, form teams,
whatever.  The basic rule is to enjoy yourself.

This month's quiz contributors are David Albert & Emily Lyons, 
Dale Miller, Juliet Sutherland, Jan Wiesenfeld, Barbara Vivier, 
and Kathie Riggle.  Many thanks to all of them!  Remember:  
quiz contributors get credit for accurate answers to their
own contributions.  So don't be shy!  Send me quotes!

EMAIL your answers to me and I'll tell you your score.  I'll
post answers at the end of the month.  I'll repost the quiz
mid-month, in case you miss it first time 'round.

Have fun!
                                             --Mimi Wellington
                                               mimi@apollo.hp.com         

NOTE:  I'll be out of the office next week.  If you send in your
       guesses during that time, I'll send you your score during
       the week following.

ANOTHER NOTE:  Although last month's "theme" quiz wasn't very
               popular (the theme was dogs), I'm going to try 
               another theme quiz in October.  The theme will
               be 
                        Witches, Warlocks, and Wizards;
                        Ghosts, Goblins, and Ghouls

               PLEASE SEND ME QUOTES TO USE FOR THIS THEME!
               Contributions must be received by Sept. 15th.
                                
***************** AUGUST KIDS' BOOK QUIZ ******************************

1.  "Help!" called out the Superintendent of the Water Department.
    "There's a break in the water main somewhere in North Geoppolis."
    
    
2.  One morning after breakfast Tom was fooling around with his chemistry
    set and he invented anti-sticky.
    
    Then he fooled around with anti-sticky and jam and springs and
    wheels and connecting-rods and he made a two-seater jam-powered frog.
    
    
3.  Marvin Seeley had been trying, on the afternoon of March 15th, to
    take a picture of a pickle barrel which stood in front of a grocery store on
    17th street.  Marvin had been annoyed to have a man go flying into the barrel
    at the very instant he snapped the picture.  However, when the picture was
    developed, the daffodils came out so nicely that Marvin sent the picture to
    a magazine that was having a contest.
    
    
4.  I'm not the milk and the milk's not me!  I'm Mickey!
    
    
5.  Once there was a boy called Poo-Poo.  His other names were HAROLD
    HEAVYSIDE BROWN, and it might be just as well to remember them.  On
    Saturday morning Poo-Poo (what were his other names?) was wondering
    what to do, because all his friends were doing something else.
    

6.  All night long their nets they threw
       To the stars in the twinkling foam,--
    Then down from the skies came the wooden shoe,
       Bringing the fishermen home...
    

7.  The little elephant said, "I don't know what kind of animal I am. I
    live all alone in the jungle.  I dance and I kick--and I call myself
    Sooki.  It's a good-sounding name, and it fits me, don't you think?"
    

8.  And far above, upon a hill beyond the Tennis Court,
    The Rhino and the Zebra sat in silence, deep in thought.
    They studied every Rook and Pawn, each King and Queen and Knight,
    Then both agreed it looked too hard, and quit without a fight.
    
    
9.  Until that summer, I had kept count of all the moons since the time
    my brother and I were alone upon the island.  For each one that came
    and went I cut a mark in a pole beside the door of my house.  There
    were many marks, from the roof to the floor.  But after that summer I 
    did not cut them any more.  The passing of the moons now had come to
    mean little, and I only made marks to count the four seasons of the 
    year.  The last year I did not count those.
    
    
10. I was never going to talk to God again.  What did he want from me
    anyway?  I was through with him and his religions!  And I was never
    going to set foot in the Y or the Jewish Community Center.
    

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