History is Not Boring discussion

I've been fooling around lately with the Never Ending Book Quiz and noticed a dearth of questions related to History books. I decided to add a few of my own related to American history, little pieces of trivia that I, as someone very interested in history, would enjoy, e.g. questions related to the Adams family, etc. (I'm reading History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson). I got my hand slapped by one of the self-appointed moderators since the question was about history. No problem. I deleted my questions. Is there anyone out there who thinks it might be fun to have a subset of questions related to history trivia, the only criteria would have to be that the book it's from be cited?

Sounds a lot like the historical event game. I don't see why it should bother them. I've never done much with the NEBQ. I always seem to run into a batch of questions on Twilight or something.

I've done a few history trivia questions in the quiz. A very few, it must be admitted, but still. All book related and i always mention a book or author in the question, which may make a difference. (One Origin of Species, one Barbara Tuchman, one Strange Career of Jim Crow, and three Song of Roland).

I added a history-related question - but it related directly to the theory in the book cited. (Queen Isabella, by Alison Weir.)

I think it's a great idea. I'll try to add to remembre to add one, as I am always reading history books.

Eric_W wrote: "I've been fooling around lately with the Never Ending Book Quiz and noticed a dearth of questions related to History books. I decided to add a few of my own related to American history, little pie..."

That's a great book (Adams). As a companion, or soon after reading it, I recommend "Henry Adams and the Making of America" by Wills. I don't agree with everything he says about Adams's work, but it's an exceptional companion piece. I read the abridged (two-volume) version of the Adams, not the nine-volume one.

Jim wrote: "Sounds a lot like the historical event game. I don't see why it should bother them. I've never done much with the NEBQ. I always seem to run into a batch of questions on Twilight or something."

Ah, yes. The unavoidable "Twilight"..... :(

There may be nearly as many questions about Pride and Prejudice, but somehow I don't find them nearly as annoying!

That's because you've read it! Maybe they should have two sites, one for adults and one for kids. I have a feeling that would cut out a lot of the goofy questions, and a lot of the illiterate ones!

I regret to say I've also read Twilight!

The illiterate ones I just flag for attention.

I didn't regret reading "Twilight". I just didn't think it was very well written & didn't like the POV. I have a teenage girl & don't pretend to understand her or her friends.

I think as many adults have read it as kids, so I don't think trivia questions can be separated that way. The whole 'Young Adult' tag is so flexible as to be useless.

I loved the Harry Potter books & got my daughter, who was in special ed due to dyslexia & a learning recall disorder, to start reading for fun in second or third grade by handing her the first one. She worked her way through it, got hooked & was suddenly out of special ed & reading above her grade level. (Thanks J.K. Rowling!!!)

I've never hear The Hobbit called a Young Adult book, but I'd read it half a dozen times before reading it in school in the 6th grade. Too many books cross the poorly drawn lines for reading ages.

I'm with Jim on the age thing. Questions are just well written or not - I'm not sure age has much to do with it.

I also had read The Hobbit multiple times by the time I finished sixth grade, though I don't think we were ever assigned it.

Good questions are amazingly hard to write. I remember writing a survey for on-line users back in the 80's (it was for GEnie, an old BBS that ran on GE's computers on their off hours).

"Do you have a color monitor?" was a question I asked. I was amazed that so many people answered that they did. So I did some research & found out that many people with monochrome monitors were answering that they did because their background color was green, not black. Whoops!

What US president beat his attempted assasination plotter with his cane?

Sounds like Andrew Jackson to me.

Lol yes, i had that question for homework and it took me forever to reason through

What did NY Times bestselling American history author S.C. Gwynne do before he began his writing career?

Find out in an exclusive interview with the author of
Empire of the Summer Moon at http://stephaniebarko.com/2011/05/01/...

How can history be boring? It involves real people. In my first book, A Healing Place, the family finds a place to settle where they can take care of their family during the Great Depression.

That place was Texon, Texas, and that was where I actually was raised until I was ten. My parents ran the grocery store there.

Things happen that make history books incredible books to read. I write historical fiction, so I read about 8-10 non-fiction books before I ever write my book. I never realized until then that I was completely ignoring one of the most interesting fields of books on the shelves. It's amazing to find out what real people go through during our days, whether it's an English Tudor book or about WW2. History could never, ever be boring. Joyce Shaughnessy

Roberta wrote: "Jim wrote: "Sounds a lot like the historical event game. I don't see why it should bother them. I've never done much with the NEBQ. I always seem to run into a batch of questions on Twilight or ..."

My feelings exactly!

Jim wrote: "Sounds a lot like the historical event game. I don't see why it should bother them. I've never done much with the NEBQ. I always seem to run into a batch of questions on Twilight or something."I agree - I bail on the NEBQ due to so many Twilight or massive batches of YAF titles that I will never read abounding in it. I would love to see questions in there are US History - not sure why 'they' slapped your hands; but then I don't know the 'rules' of NEBQ.

The question has to refer directly to a book, which can make it challenging for the non-fiction ones.

A trivia question game about history does sound fun.

Eric_W wrote: "I've been fooling around lately with the Never Ending Book Quiz and noticed a dearth of questions related to History books. I decided to add a few of my own related to American history, little pie..."

I think that is a great idea. I don't get why you got flack about putting up facts about history though. As long as you get them from a specific book I think they should not have had a problem.

I love history. that class and english were the ones i aced in my sleep :P

My favorite thing to kill time by is collecting old almanacs, enclyopedias and history books and compare the info in them :D

My favorite set of encylopedias is from 1940 (The book of wonder) I inherited from my granny. Ah, good times...

I've added a number of history questions to the never ending quiz and had no complaints about them.

I've also added a few quizzes that are very specifically history related and some that are tangentially history.

If you like, you might try these...

Abraham Lincoln
https://www.goodreads.com/quizzes/238...

U.S. Civil War
https://www.goodreads.com/quizzes/176...

Lewis & Clark
https://www.goodreads.com/quizzes/143...

This one pretty tangential to history...
https://www.goodreads.com/quizzes/247...

Thanks Stephen, I did them all and found out how little I know or retain! lol Good quizzes all.