The Wombat File Is Yours to Keep: Q.U.I.Z. Lightning Round

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Q.U.I.Z. Lightning Round

One final publishing-oriented question to throw your beleagured schedules even more out of whack.

First correct answer (to each part of this question) comments wins the team represented 50 bonus points (total possible is 100).

According to Publishers Weekly's yearly bestseller lists for 2000-2005, there have been three author-partnerships which have spawned novels that made the annual top 10 for any given year in the 21st century (this is true even if you don't count the year 2000 as part of the 21st century). One of those partnerships is that of Dustin Thomason and Ian Caldwell, who co-wrote 2005's The Rule of Four.

What are the other two partnerships that delivered bestsellers in the past 6 years? Note that books published this year are not included. No Googling, etc. etc.

Go.

Posted by BT on December 15, 2006 12:14 PM | Permalink

Comments

King and Straub?

Posted by: gavinedwards | December 15, 2006 12:19 PM

Or Straub and King?

Posted by: gavinedwards | December 15, 2006 12:20 PM

Frey and Winfrey?

Posted by: gavinedwards | December 15, 2006 12:27 PM

For any given year?

Posted by: boxjam | December 15, 2006 01:07 PM

LaHaye and Jenkins

Posted by: hackly_fracture | December 15, 2006 02:15 PM

Crichton and Rove

Posted by: boxjam | December 15, 2006 02:23 PM

Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston?

Posted by: Scraps | December 15, 2006 02:47 PM

Do we get partial credit for title with no authors? The one I'm thinking of I can't imagine anyone in their right minds (including, of course, myself) knows the name of the authors.

Posted by: hackly_fracture | December 15, 2006 03:14 PM

I think this is more of a stumper for people who don't work in Bill's office (i.e., everyone participating in the quiz).

Posted by: gavinedwards | December 15, 2006 03:49 PM

Hackly takes 1/2 of the question -- LaHaye and Jenkins, authors of the Left Behind Series. 50 points to the Rebellion, which edges them into the lead at 210.

There's one more duo to be named. Offer expires at midnight tonight.

Posted by: BT | December 15, 2006 04:13 PM

My boy likes him some Rapturin'! Whiskey Rebellion 4evah!

(insert flying car/boss hog music here)

Posted by: bootsy3000 | December 15, 2006 04:34 PM

I don't know the dang authors but Nanny Diaries was written by 2

Posted by: shananan | December 15, 2006 05:05 PM

Scott guessed Left Behind but posted not. DNR! Do Not Rapture!

Posted by: shananan | December 15, 2006 05:07 PM

Anyway Left Behind doesn't count cos it's totally true, man. If you get raptured can I have your car?

Posted by: shananan | December 15, 2006 05:09 PM

Jim Webb and Lynne Cheney.

Posted by: boxjam | December 15, 2006 05:25 PM

Man, I am learning more here... I didn't think Northrop Frye was still alive, much less writing books with Oprah. Makes sense, though, that she would discontinue the fiction book of the month if she was concentrating on semiotics.

Those guys who wrote Built to Last and Good to Great. Them.

Posted by: Jonathan | December 15, 2006 05:51 PM

See, Shananan's in his/her right mind! I think Nanny Diaries is it, unless it didn't squeak into the top 10 that year. But who can be expected to remember who wrote that? The wombat, he be hardcore.

Posted by: hackly_fracture | December 15, 2006 06:56 PM

Krauss something for half credit?

Posted by: hackly_fracture | December 15, 2006 07:29 PM

Woodward and someone other than Bernstein?

Posted by: art | December 15, 2006 07:30 PM

Scanning the bookshelf for dual authorship, I found a forehead smacker:
The Compact Oxford Greek-English Dictionary, by none other than Goodwin and Gulick. I used to have a book by Katz and Kahn, but I sold it to Art. To think, if it had kept it I could be teaching in Australia...

Posted by: Jonathan | December 15, 2006 07:51 PM

You know, LaHaye recently dumped ol' Jerry "I got fired from Gil Thorp, too" Jenkins - what's the new guy's name? It'd be wombatty to have the other answer be LaHaye and - LaJolla?

Posted by: boxjam | December 15, 2006 07:58 PM

LaHaye and La Tolla?

Posted by: boxjam | December 15, 2006 07:58 PM

La Haye and Montoya?

Posted by: boxjam | December 15, 2006 08:01 PM

I think Shannon gets 1/2 credit in recompense for having to have carried memory of the Nanny Diaries that close to the surface of her brain; must have been painful.

And Hackly gets 15 points for misspelling the name of one of the authors -- the other was Emma McLaughlin.

The remaining ten points go to anyone who can remember their hapless follow-up's title.

New questions will be posted, incidentally, over the weekend.

Posted by: lewombat | December 15, 2006 08:59 PM

The Au Pair's Journals?
Reminiscences of a Ruminant?
Teething Ain't All It's Cracked Up to Be?

Posted by: Jonathan | December 16, 2006 12:41 AM

We interrupt this ferocious Q.U.I.Z.zing to apologise for not joining any of the teams, owing to brain meltdown at end of semester and getting-away-from-it-all trips with in-laws. Next year...

Posted by: Rory | December 16, 2006 06:22 AM

I still have that Katz & Kahn book, Jonathan -- it too is a world traveller. Thanks!

Posted by: art | December 16, 2006 08:13 AM

The Bitch in the Room?

Posted by: bootsy3000 | December 16, 2006 11:16 AM

I stand corrected; clearly, I underestimated our collective brainpower.

Posted by: gavinedwards | December 17, 2006 01:46 AM

For those who care, the sophmore slumper for McLaughlin and Kraus was titled "Citizen Girl."

Posted by: BT | December 18, 2006 11:04 AM