2020 Bookworm Quiz » Genius Year-End Trivia

Former President Barack Obama’s book, A Promised Land, sold nearly 890,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada in its first 24 hours – putting it on track to be the best-selling presidential memoir in modern history. The only book by a former White House resident to come close to the early pace of A Promised Land is the memoir by Obama’s wife, Michelle Obama, whose book Becoming, sold 725,000 copies in North America its first day and has topped 10 million worldwide since its release in 2018. 

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Exactly. The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X is the 2020 National Book Award winner for non-fiction. Tamara Payne’s and her father’s, the late Les Payne, Malcolm X biography is the second time in a decade a Malcolm X biography got a high honor for nonfiction. 

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So you’ve read Bob Woodward’s new book, Rage? The acclaimed journalist quotes a conversation with President Trump they held last March, in which the president explained he was playing down the pandemic to avoid panic in America. 

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While Liman’s film looks to follow the first book pretty closely, Todd is just about to turn 13 in the first novel, and Holland is 24. Chaos Walking is due for US release on January 22, 2021.

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True. JK Rowling’s new Robert Galbraith thriller Troubled Blood sold almost 65,000 copies in just five days, amid widespread criticism of the author’s decision to include a serial killer who dresses in women’s clothing in the novel.

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In his new memoir, “Greenlights,” “Dallas Buyers Club” star Matthew McConaughey tells the story of his life through moments he identifies as green, yellow, or red lights — events that caused him to advance, pause or stop.

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That’s right. Michael J. Fox was 24 when he first starred in Back to the Future. 

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In Fox’s latest book, No Time Like the Future, he writes about retiring from his acting career a second time because of his health issues.

True. Scottish writer Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for fiction Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, for Shuggie Bain, a novel about a boy’s turbulent coming of age in 1980s Glasgow. Stuart, 44, won the prestigious award for his first published novel. Before becoming a published writer,  Stuart had a career in fashion design, including works for Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, and the Banana Republic.

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