The Union-Tribune’s 7^th Festival of Books will return to USD’s gorgeous campus on Saturday, August 19, 10 am-5 pm. The Festival is our city’s main event for book lovers of all ages. Attendees will enjoy speakers, workshops, photo booths, authors’ tables, discussions with award-winning writers, live entertainment, and more.

Match each real or imaginary person in the left-hand column with their perfect literary title in the right-hand column. Let’s start with a cast of imaginary people, such as Apollo, The Sun Also Rises; King Midas, Goldfinger; Barney the Dinosaur, The Color Purple; and Hansel and Gretel, A Walk In the Woods. You get the idea.

1. Captain Ahab Arms and the Man
2. Ben-Hur The Big Sleep
3. Bugs Bunny Chariots of Fire
4. Chicken Little A Farewell to Arms
5. Count Dracula Fences
6. Lemuel Gulliver For Whom the Bell Tolls
7. Lady Macbeth Giant
8. Popeye The Jungle
9. Hester Prynne The King Must Die
10. Quasimodo Magnificent Obsession
11. 11. Tom Sawyer Marley and Me
12. Ebenezer Scrooge Rabbit Run
13. Tarzan The Red Badge of Courage
14. Rip Van Winkle Skyfall
15. Venus de Milo White Fang 

Answers

1. Magnificent Obsession 2. Chariots of Fire 3. Rabbit Run 4. Skyfall 5. White Fang 6. Giant 7. The King Must Die 8. Arms and the Man 9. The Red Badge of Courage 10. For Whom the Bell Tolls 11. Fences 12. Marley and Me 13. The Jungle 14. The Big Sleep 15. A Farewell to Arms

Now match each real-life person with their perfect book title, such as Jacques Cousteau, The Old Man and the Sea; Charlotte, Emily, and Ann Brontë, The Three Sisters; and Amelia Earhart, Gone Girl.

1. John and Priscilla Alden The Birds
2. Louis Armstrong The Bluest Eye
3. Neil Armstrong The Boys in the Band
4. Benedict Arnold Brave New World
5. John Jay Audubon The Catcher in the Rye
6. The Beatles The Cherry Orchard
7. Yogi Berra Come Blow Your Horn
8. Jeff Bezos Crime and Punishment
9. Queen Camilla Deliverance
10. Christopher Columbus An Enemy of the People
11. Thomas Crapper Game of Thrones
12. Euclid The Good Earth
13. Anthony Fauci The Grapes of Wrath
14. W.C. Fields Heart Of Darkness
15. Benjamin Franklin A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
16. Jane Goodall The Iceman Cometh
17. Wayne Gretzky Jaws
18. Harry and Meghan The Kite Runner
19. Adolph Hitler Life of Pi
20. Jay Leno Lord of the Flies
21. Bruno Mars and Venus Williams Love Story
22. Willie Mays Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
23. Mona Lisa Moonwalk
24. Moses The Once and Future King
25. John Muir The Pilgrim’s Progress
26. Alex Murdaugh The Plague
27. Elvis Presley Planet of the Apes
28. Frank Sinatra The Portrait of a Lady
29. Neil deGrasse Tyson Travels With Charley
30. George Washington Up From Slavery

Answers

1. Pilgrim’s Progress 2. Come Blow Your Horn 3. Moonwalk 4. An Enemy of the People 5. The Birds 6. The Boys in the Band 7. Catcher in the Rye 8. Deliverance 9. Travels With Charlie 10. Brave New World 11. Game Of Thrones 12. Life Of Pi 13. The Plague 4. The Grapes of Wrath 15 The Kite Runner 16. Planet of the Apes 17. The Iceman Cometh 18. Love Story 19. Heart of Darkness 20. Jaws 21. Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus 22. Lord of the Flies 23. The Portrait of a Lady 24. Up From Slavery 25. The Good Earth 26. Crime and Punishment 27. The Once and Future King 28. The Bluest Eye 29. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 30. The Cherry Orchard