Ungoogleable book quiz?

[LaBelleSauvage123]

I’m organising a book sale to raise money for a local charity and was thinking of running a paper based quiz alongside it to raise more money. Can anyone think of a format this could take that would prevent people just googling the answers? They’d do it at the sale, rather than taking it away.

I went to a quiz that had a 'Smells' round which was great! Jam jars covered in punctured grease proof paper with things like chocolate powder, dried mushrooms or sliced oranges in, and someone carries them around on a tray to each table!

It was brilliant fun and quite hard on some of the questions.

I just realised you probably meant book quiz questions too..!

I'd look up the annual Book Tokens quiz - you have to guess book titles from a scene - eg there will be a girl on a train carriage etc. You could print that out as it's great fun - some are really easy while others are fiendishly hard!

Oh yes I know that one - will have a look. Thanks!

Cryptic crossword style clues.

I would do a variety.

So some pictures, some cryptic, some maybe guess from the cover, some straight, some guess from the named characters (and you can make those a variety of easyness eg. Famous Five: easy: Julian, Dick Anne and George plus Timmy, or medium: Fanny and Quentin, or hard: Dirty Dick, Red Tower and Richard Kent)

I wouldn't worry too much if they are googlable because you'll probably get a better response if people think they will get some straight away. If I look at a quiz and think I'm going to struggle to get any, I lose interest. But if there's a few easy to get ones then I might well think it's worth a go.
If they're doing it at the sale then they will get their phones out, but aren't going to spend ridiculous amounts of time doing it.

@TomWambsgansSwans I love that idea!
I think if OP does that plus guessing titles from pictures, how about putting items into a box to feel?

Famous book covers with the titles removed, if someone can do photoshop or similar

Anagrams?

You can even do this just with something like PowerPoint: just paste shapes over the words.

I like dingbats for a quiz.

I do think you mainly have to assume people won't cheat - ultimately you could Google almost every pub quiz question but they don't because they know it would be cheating.

Our school had a quiz round featuring photos of post boxes in the local area and you had to identify the road.

You can even do this just with something like PowerPoint: just paste shapes over the words.

I'd do it in Publisher if you have it.

I did a jeopardy style one. I gave a grid of answers - people had to pick an answer and give the question. Of course, there could have been many questions - so it had to be to the question I picked.

Each "answer" had a different score possible - depending on how hard it was.

e.g The answer is "42" - so the question could be - What was the answer to the Meaning of Life.

You could do an initial letters one (with it withot authors)
so like;

LOTF (WG)
TCOTW (JL)
SAS (JA)
TKAM (HL)
TWOWC (JA)
TCITR (JDS)
TCOMC(AD)
AOHF (MT)
APTI (EMF)
TPP (JB)

I meant you could probably Google it, but ... Most people won't.

Or you could be extra and scramble the initials...!!! Like maybe in alphabetical order.

So the list would now be

FLOT (WG)
COTTW(JL)
ASS(JA)
AKMT(HL)
COTWW (JA)
CIRTT (JDS)
CCOMT(AD)
AFHO(MT)
AIPT(EMF)
PPT (JB)

much harder tho???

Google magic eraser will do this in seconds - see example here.

Connections could work for books if you think of authors' names or titles:
Such as leaving out size words and finding the connection:
Little House on the Prairie
Middlemarch
The Great Gatsby
James and the Giant Peach

Or colours:
The Scarlet Letter
The Amber Spyglass
The Color Purple
50 Shades of Gray

or music styles, maybe.

My quizzes are inspired by Only Connect and House of Games!!

Well, they're not all that googleable!

These are all GREAT ideas! Thank you so much.

Please let us know what you come up with (so we can have a go! 😂)

Feel free to answer mine... I'll let you know what the answers are : D

LOTF (WG) Lord of the Flies - William Golding
TCOTW (JL)
SAS (JA) Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
TKAM (HL)

TWOWC (JA) - The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aiken
TCITR (JDS) - The Catcher in The Rye - JD Salinger
TCOMC(AD) - The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
AOHF (MT) -
APTI (EMF) - A Passage To India - EM Forster
TPP (JB) - The Pilgrims Progress - John Bunyan

Help needed with the other 3!

TKAM (HL) - To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

TCOTW (JL) - The Call of the Wild (Jack London)

AOHF (MT) - Adventure of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)

Nicely done 👍

Could make it harder if you thought it was easy (I did pick well known novels)