Stegner

One Book Steamboat: Stegner Trivia Contest

Saturday, October 1, 2016 - 12:00am
  • Library Hall

We're giving away 7 copies of Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose to launch the 2016 ONE BOOK STEAMBOAT!

7 days of Wallace Stegner trivia: October  1-7!
All day. Every day.

To kick off our community reading of Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose, the Library is hosting a Stegner Trivia Contest. Check the Bud Werner Memorial Library Facebook page, the Steamboat Today, the Library's events web site or the Library Front Desk daily for new trivia questions about Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner and the true stories behind this Pulitzer Prize-winning American novel. Each time you enter correctly, your name goes in our drawing to win a copy of Angle of Repose.

Oct. 7 ~ Question for Day 7: Wallace Stegner died at age 84, on April 13, 1993, following an auto accident in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He left a legacy as writer, professor and environmentalist that once moved someone to pronounce him “the only living American writer worthy of the Nobel.” Who was it?
a.      Ken Kesey
b.      Erin Brockovich
c.       Edward Abbey
d.      Al Gore

Oct. 6 ~ Question for Day 6: The title of Wallace Stegner's novel, “Angle of Repose,” is a reference to what?
a.    The repositioning of settlers in the American West
b.    The gradual decline of the birth rate in the west
c.    The angle at which sediment becomes unstable
d.    The editor’s geological hobby

Oct. 5 ~ Question for Day 5: Angle of Repose explores themes including the Old West and the New West, the conflict between traditional male and female roles, values and more. Stegner invokes readers to explore their own identity as an American, similar to other great American novel(s). Select all that apply.
a.    “To Kill a Mockingbird”
b.    “The Great Gatsby”
c.    “Go Set a Watchman”

d.    "The Glass Castle"

***ALL OF WHICH ARE PAST ONE BOOK STEAMBOAT SELECTIONS!

Oct. 4 ~ Question for Day 4: Ken Kesey, author of “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” recalled of his teacher, Wallace Stegner…
a.    “I said, Wally, since we don’t know where we are going, we have to stick together in case someone gets there.”
b.    “I told him, lighten up man, the Grateful Dead are our religion.  This is a religion that doesn’t pay homage to the God that all the others play homage to.”
c.    “One day I said, Professor, you can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seeds.”
d.    “As I took LSD and he drank Jack Daniel’s, we drew the line between us right there.”

Oct. 3 ~ Question for Day 3: Wallace Stegner won the National Book Award in 1977. “Angle of Repose” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in what year?
a.    1959
b.    1972
c.    1979
d.    1998

Oct. 2 ~ Question for Day 2: Wallace Stegner was such a die-hard environmentalist that his words are practically enshrined in law. In 1960, he wrote an essay dubbed the “Wilderness Letter,” which is included as an introduction to what piece of legislation?
The National Wilderness Act of 1964

Oct. 1 ~ Question for Day 1: In Angle of Repose, Susan Ward is Lyman Ward’s grandmother.  The grandmother’s state of mind is often conveyed by the use of letters.  These letters are based on actually correspondence. Who wrote the original letters?
a.    Wallace Stegner’s grandmother
b.    Susan Burling Ward
c.    Mary Hallock Foote
d.    Helen Hunt Jackson

Answers can be submitted in person to the Library Front Desk, via Facebook message or email to jlay@steamboatlibrary.org. Make sure you include your name and contact info.

This is a featured event in the ONE BOOK STEAMBOAT 2016 community read of Wallace Stegner's novel, Angle of Repose.