# 📚 James A. Michener — Single-Answer Trivia Set
**Used:** 2025-06-10  
**All answers:** *James A. Michener*

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## 🧠 Multiple Choice Questions

### Q1: Who wrote historical sagas so long they come with their own bookmarks?  
A) Ernest Hemingway  
B) John Grisham  
C) *James A. Michener*  
D) Danielle Steel  
**Answer:** C) *James A. Michener*  
**Taglines:**  
- “Your wrists will hate you, but your soul will thank you.”  
- “Thick novels. Thicker themes.”  
- “This isn’t reading, it’s cardio.”  
- “Skip leg day. Lift Michener.”  
- “His books are gym equipment.”

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### Q2: Which author can trace a family line from cave paintings to Wi-Fi in one chapter?  
A) *James A. Michener*  
B) Leo Tolstoy  
C) Herman Melville  
D) Tom Clancy  
**Answer:** A) *James A. Michener*  
**Taglines:**  
- “Charles Darwin ghostwrote his plots.”  
- “Six million years of angst.”  
- “One chapter = one epoch.”  
- “Every generation gets a subplot.”  
- “Ancestry.com cried trying to keep up.”

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### Q3: Which author’s work inspired the musical *South Pacific*?  
A) J.D. Salinger  
B) William Golding  
C) *James A. Michener*  
D) Mark Twain  
**Answer:** C) *James A. Michener*  
**Taglines:**  
- “When Rodgers & Hammerstein call, you pick up.”  
- “Tales of the ukulele and the unexpected.”  
- “Pulitzer AND Broadway? Show-off.”  
- “Sing me a story of war and sunburn.”  
- “Michener’s drama with a dance number.”

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### Q4: Which American novelist spent much of his career writing stories about entire regions or nations?  
A) John Steinbeck  
B) Stephen King  
C) *James A. Michener*  
D) Truman Capote  
**Answer:** C) *James A. Michener*  
**Taglines:**  
- “A nation in every novel.”  
- “Regional writing with megacity length.”  
- “Less slice of life, more buffet of centuries.”  
- “Tourism, trauma, and tectonic plates.”  
- “He doesn’t write about people. He writes about *peoples*.”

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### Q5: Which author likely killed several trees per manuscript?  
A) George R.R. Martin  
B) Diana Gabaldon  
C) *James A. Michener*  
D) Michael Crichton  
**Answer:** C) *James A. Michener*  
**Taglines:**  
- “His manuscripts had their own ecosystem.”  
- “Deforestation with a literary purpose.”  
- “Save the trees—buy the eBook.”  
- “Paperbacks that double as blunt force weapons.”  
- “Each book: a forest gone too soon.”

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