One signed book in English: The winner stands alone
This Monday, 31/08 I will post here the questions at 10:00 PM (Paris time). At the end, I will edit this post with the correct answers.
The answer to the questions should be sent to twitter.livrocoelho@gmail.com. The first to send the correct answers I will send the book by registered mail.
Disclaimer: if you access this page, you know that this is not a contest in the classic sense, you have to trust me.
Um livro autografado em portugues: Ser como um rio que flui
Vou colocar as perguntas aqui nesta segunda-feira, 31/08 as 17 horas do Brasil. No final do concurso, vou editar este post com as respostas certas.
O primeiro a enviar as respostas certas para twitter.livrocoelho@gmail.com receberá o livro por correio registrado. .
Atenção: quem aceitar participar, sabe que isso nao é um concurso no sentido clássico.
WINNERS: RAFAEL PETERSON (ARIZONA) ANTONIO ALMEIDA (BRASILEIRO HOLANDA)
10:00 PM: ANSWERS
1] Beatle who sings “When I’m 64″ / Beatle que canta “When I’m 64″
PAUL MCCARTNEY
2] Place where Sonny Corleone is killed in “The Godfather”/ Lugar onde assassinam Sonny Corleone em “O Poderoso Chefão”
TOLL PLAZA/ ESTAÇAO DE PEDAGIO (Many made a confusion with Don Corleone; Sonny is his son, played by James Caan)
3] Name of the capitain obsessed by Moby Dick / Nome do capitão obcecado por Moby Dick
AHAB
4] Bridge in front of the Eiffel Tower/ Ponte na frente da Torre Eiffel
PONT D’IENA
5] Why Madonna was booed in Rumania/ Por que vaiaram Madonna na Rumania
SHE STOOD UP FOR ROMA (GYPSIES)/ DEFENDEU OS CIGANOS
6] Actor who illustrated the first PC commercial/ Ator que apareceu no primeiro comercial de PC
CHARLES CHAPLIN
http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC35folder/IBMtramp.html
7] Score of the final game in World Cup 1958 / Placar da final da Copa do Mundo 1958
BRASIL 5 X SWEDEN 2
8] Classic Galician drink to distance the bad spirits/ Bebida galega classica para afastar maus espíritos
QUEIMADA
TRIVIA:
- OUT OF OVER 600 EMAILS IN 20 MINUTES (I AM NOT COUNTING EMAILS THAT ARRIVED AFTER I PUT THE ANSWERS HERE), ONLY 19 HAD ALL THE CORRECT ANSWERS (17 IN ENGLISH AND 2 IN PORTUGUESE)
- THE MOST WRONG ANSWERS: NUMBER 6 AND NUMBER 2. ONE PERSON MADE AN INTERESTING COMMENT: “THESE ARE QUESTIONS FOR MEN” (I DON’T AGREE, OF COURSE).
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This is amazing, I’d like to participate! I’ll be following this blog for newer posts, maybe today I arrived a little late. Best wishes.
Y puede adelantar si serán preguntas sobre su último libro, porque si es así yo no puedo participar, y creo que si son en inglés dependiendo del traductor pues me parece que tampoco, gracias.
Hope I do not have to fight over the computer. My son wants to write stories! :-)
Will you deliver to Egypt too? :) can’t wait, I’m in!
The post office will deliver anywhere (I hope!)
i love his books.man i don’t know what time is here when it’s 10 pm at paris:(
Google “time zones”
Hello Paulo,
Great idea!!! I am looking forward to see and answer the questions. Here in Venezuela we still don’t have the book :(
LOVE
Karen
I am from the Philippines :) I am so so eager to be up at around 5AM later, just to be posted with the question :) I so so wanna win the signed book by the legend Paolo Coelho. *fingers crossed*
Want to participate.
Ooooh i’m very excited now, i too wonder what the questions will be!!!! Wow i’d love a signed book from the legend that is Paulo! You’ve definitely got me through some pretty bleak times sir, you see the good in everything and your faith amazes me.
P.S….i got this link through Facebook xxxx
I wish I would be able to be online at 10pm Paris time, this means 11 PM Lebanon time. I am curious to know the questions though.
Eu e meu delay demoraremos um pouco para conseguir responder rapidamente 10 perguntas, but I’ll do my best :)
Vejo vocês às 17 horas!
Es muy emocionante mantener esta relación con el escritor. Me interesa saber a que hora se publicarán las preguntas !!
Hi! Just to let you know that the book is mine. I am pretty sure.
Oba! Oba! Oba!
Sempre há perguntas e respostas no meio do caminho, né? Se fossem 7 perguntas eu diria que estou com sorte… Mas, como são 8 eu estou com muiita sorte, rs.
Otima a ideia do seu seguidor twitter (tb sou:)…
Excelente vc ter abracado a ideia…
Hj as 17h estarei por aqui.
Abracos!!!
I will be here for sure
I hope i’ll be the winner….
Hi!
I might be too late…cause I cannot find any questions to be answered…?
Can anyone help?
Sincerely Camilla
They will be posted some hours from now, Camilla.
Not posted yet.
Good luck,
Liina
J’espère avoir ma chance aussi :))
merci P.Coelho
T;en fais pas ma poupoune Richard arrive!
:).
hi! i thought the contest has already started… very much willing to participate… been eyeing for that book for sometime noe… but due to financial difficulties i think i will settle on your other books first of which are selling much cheaper than the one to be given away here…
i love your books so much…
awwwww, i would really like to join but the time difference is so big. It would be like 4am in my country when you post the questions. I was hoping to get a book with your signature in it. I do hope there will be more chances to come for me to get your signed book. thanks.
Obrigada pela oportunidade, mago querido!!!!
Vou aguardar anciosa!
Very nice too.
I´m ready to this nigth at 10 o´clock.
Thank you Paulo
The Kiss
There are few occasions in your life when you feel that everything you have done in the past leads up to that very moment. When you can place your finger in the present and know that this snap shot of your existence is something you’ve worked so hard to get and you can appreciate it in real time. Like training for years to do the Tour de France and that moment when you cross the finish line. Someone takes a picture and all can tell forever what that meant to you.
Some people treat sex like a sport. In fact, for me, it’s a method of communication. You can convey in a kiss or in a warm gesture things that just can’t be conveyed in words. How many ways can you say the words “I love you?”. How many ways can you kiss the woman you love?
That day I knew I would be in one of those unique moments. A moment which has had an escalating buildup for almost one full year. A fiery cosmopolitan romance reaching its peak in one breathless kiss.
So I woke up early that day, didn’t need to set any wake up. Shot out of bed like a cannon ball, I was cleaning up my place like the Pope himself was coming for a visit. Floors were washed, windows wiped, sheets changed, towels replaced, dust was removed, kitchen was wiped, bathroom was scrubbed, boy was I busy those first hours. All the while I was anticipating our encounter. What would she wear? I knew she’d surprise me so there was no point in trying to recall things that she’d worn, except that I had no control and involuntarily my mind was scanning the pictures of our sporadic meetings throughout the year all over Europe and in America and how she dressed so sexily that my eyes just popped out when I saw her. I was thinking about what I was going to wear. In the heat of the summer, I didn’t want to put on something ordinary, you bet I wanted to let her eyes pop out too. I was so looking forward to seeing her and I could feel the excitement build up.
So, I showered myself. I had some important errands to run. The shower was a last shower, like the last cigarette. I knew my life was changing forever not to be the same. This was my last shower without her and I became aware of her absence contrasting with the way showers would be taken from now on. I could not say until when. The unhurried movements in the shower were deliberate. Touching myself and conscious of the soothing feel of soap on my skin. The running water created a tingling affect as it massaged then tickled my back then my neck and face. It felt good to be alive. I was planning what I would do with her in the shower because the next time I’d be there I would be with her. Sexy thoughts of her body close to mine and wet dazzled my imagination and colored all my thinking with one color white. I found myself murmuring her name under the stream – “Mary”.
A distraction made me emerge from those thoughts, I remembered my Dog, that needed taking out. So, after a quick shampoo, I was out of the shower, shaved purposefully and quickly jumped into my new jeans adding a cool looking T-shirt that I’d picked out a few days earlier that I knew she’d love. I took the dog out, made some last minute phone calls to clear away things and reduce distractions for the coming days. Then, I did some grocery shopping – I wasn’t going to bring her to a place with no food, no fruit, no wine or beer. I was going to spoil her in the days to come and I knew that most likely we would barely get out and would need a lot of nourishment. I bought some flowers to put in the center of the living room, something I never do but I knew it would impress her tremendously. She gets really amazed when I tend to details. My place is far from luxurious, so small things can make a significant difference.
I bought a nice bouquet and had the place stocked up with everything I thought I’d need. The yard was in the best shape possible, the dog was washed and his hair was shining. We’d spoken about the dog, because his name was Maple, she kept insisting that he was a female. She was in for a humorous surprise.
Everything was set so I got into the car and was driving off thinking intensely about the moment to come. When I see her walk out of the gates and we embrace. I was focused on her face, she’s be white even though she thought she was tanned. It’s funny that way because planes make you whiter. Her red lipstick would be calling me enabling me to zero in. Those red lips would be calling out to me to come to them, to run to them. I knew it might be embarrassing but I knew I wouldn’t mind. I had her and only her in my sight and in my thoughts.
As I was driving I was contemplating the affect of her delicious breasts so close to me and the scent of her bodily perfume filling the air around me. She would soon be mine and I could have her again and again. Allowing her to dress just so that I could undress her and have her again. I was nearing the airport and every inch of my body was hoping to be the first to touch her. The competition was fierce. The heart was pumping at full speed and force. I parked the car far from the entry because I knew the farther away the more kissing and intimate we could become.
I walked to the meeting place, the plane was landing, and my love was in Israel, on Israeli land, in my country. Just the thought of that got me excited. I was waiting not knowing what to do with myself. Finally decided to have a cup of coffee. Not that I needed it and caffeine wasn’t going to calm my nerves, but getting something hot in my stomach had the calming effect. Just as I sat down, I saw her come into the meeting area, pushing a huge cart laden with two huge suitcases. There she was. I was so happy. I ran over to her and hugged her first. Overwhelmed with joy we were kissing. Kissing madly and passionately. Her lips were on mine and her tongue was touching mine. Her body against mine. The world was turning and the universe was expanding and we were intertwined and connected and touching each other’s souls.
That moment had come and I knew it then and there. The moment when your life changes right before your eyes and a new lovely chapter opens full of hope and surprise. It was wonderful.
As Sarah, suggests, the questions seem even more exciting than the actual prize itself, except maybe for the inscription. I saw the post for the contest last night before going to bed, and have scarcely been able to think of anything else since. “What sort of questions will they be?!” I keep wondering. How exciting!
With all of this in my head, I actually dreamt last night of Paulo – a very long dream that seemed to go on all night. I wouldn’t even begin to try to explain it, as all dreams are strange and this one seemed even stranger. One of those dreams that doesn’t let go of you when you wake up from it. The dream itself seemed almost like a riddle. I keep trying to answer it, but I can’t quite grasp the question.
Anyway, very much looking forward to the contest.
With Love,
Savita
Exactly my thought, Savita! The questions! What will they be? :)
PS! Savita, if You want to translate Your dream, I may suggest You http://www.hyperdictionary.com . This is a place I use myself, and I’d recommend it to anyone. It’s quite detailed, but You have to use different key words and with different grammatics sometimes. (Like wish, wishing, wisher … etc.) Also, it is in english.
Love,
Liina
10PM in Paris, so that would be 4AM here in Manila. Will you be deleting the question after? I still want to see it (and hopefully answer) even if I can’t make it by that time.
P.S.
i love your Eleven Minutes
P.S.S.
pp.213-215 was the sweetest. :)
i would really like to get one of those copies but looks quit imposible. today in my hometown we will run out of electirity becouse of some cleaning project in the electric company. even thoug i can go to some hotel or hospital were they have power all the time the internet company wil probably shout down their servers so having electric power ist worthlesss…..
so sad, maybe next time….
good luck to the contestants.
I will always know what I need to know AS I need to know it. The rest is irrelevant.
I am in.
I hope i could answer. Love to receive the signed book.
Count me in!
A terrific idea, indeed!
And I would definitely be interested in competing for a signed copy :)
Take care.
Cheers!
I will be waiting for this. Please be nice to the old ladies lol that’s me lol that’s so exciting …
Cool!
Que venha o concurso, adoraria ter um livro autografado pelo grande mestre Paulinho :-)
How exciting, its taking part that counts good luck to everyone x
and that would be 5am monday here in the Philippines… i have to wake up early for that…
Dear Paulo,
I am so excited for the quiz..
Hope I could participating.. :)
Best regards from Indonesia,
Didiet Maulana.
Eu quero participar! Das 16:30H até as 17:30 eu vou estar no TWITTER para poder responder as perguntas e tentar acertar é claro!
hi all ,very good idea we appreciate it so much thinks Paulo and good luck to all
where and when exactly the questions will be posted?10 in paris means 8 in GMT right?
EXACTLY
I want to remind that in my unique country, that is Romania, ” The winner stands alone” is not available. I wait, and wait, and wait again… How much time I need to wait more? I already asked in mails, on posts, what can be the reason for which here the book is not published??? I did not got any answer.
It would be a miracle if I could answer questions from a book I never saw, but infact is a book I have not that most I need and desire…
What to do? I dont want to beg on line…
Alexandra with Love
There is a possibility, Alexandra.
Believe!
Love,
Liina
Y serán muy difíciles esas preguntas? Lo digo porque no he estudiado
XDDD
Muy generoso por su parte Sr. Coelho, yo me conformaría con un papelito autografiado para el segundo y tercer puesto. Y digo más hasta con un correo de contestación suyo sería un grandisimo regalo.
Besos
Ansiosa!!
am in too but where is the questions???
How exciting Paulo, this is Wonderful!
I can hardly wait for the questions!
Love and Kisses
Do i need to have a twitter to be a part of this contest? If so, you should make a contest on Facebook too. pleasee!
you don’t need a twitter. Just give past/copy to the questions, answer, and send to the address email
I m reading ur book “Brida”
just read 25 pages and interest is increasing
i also heard by my friend about ur past book ‘alchemist’ was a very good book and i hope i will read that in next week
{\~&#$£¥%§} u r a good writter so keep it up
Isn’t this exciting? Have fun and good luck everyone!!
Much Love To All, Jane : ) xo
Desde México reciba un cordial saludo.
Me atrevo a mandar un mensaje expresándole mi profunda admiración, pues a pesar del camino recorrido usted ha logrado realizar el sueño anhelado, permítame expresarle que uno de los libros que ha marcado mi vida actualmente, Brida. En donde me veo reflejada, es la historia donde una mujer se da cuenta del inmenso poder que hay en un individuo sin importar el sexo, el estatus ni ningún tipo de complejo que impida observar el reflejo de la esencia de nuestra existencia, entender que existe algo más de lo visible e invisible, nos transporta a un mundo donde todo es posible, sin olvidarnos de estar consientes en cada uno de nuestros actos, vivir en el aquí y en el ahora, dejar el pasado como algo que existió, el futuro como algo que aun no existe y nosotros como una expresión magnifica del creador, que somos una pequeña chispa de esa gran llama que arde y pide a nosotros regresemos a casa.
Esperando pronto su nueva novela, El Vencedor está solo, esperando su visita a mi país México, Gracias por ese fuego vivo en sus palabras, que tanto usted como muchos de los poco de nosotros vivimos el día a día tratando de seguir nadando en este mar de preguntas donde espontáneamente existen balsas en forma de respuesta.
Hoy esta noche ha contestado a una de mis preguntas
¿EL FIN JUSTIFICA LOS MEDIOS?
“un guerrero sabe que los fines no justifican los medios”
Con cariño
Brendha Morales
Love your Stories Paulo
Brida a journey that I had encountered in my life and still AM
I too have a story of my Soul……a never ending path.
Not much of a writer but would love some help to start my book
Any Suggestions!!
Senka
He he, I am here too early. Ok.
Sunday. Means today?
From which book ?
Anyways, better than nothing, is a nice idea, if you will repeat that would be even nicer.
Thank you
I hope to win…
Alexandra with Love
Estarei participando com certeza, meu querido!
Um abraço e até amanhã!
Pauline (Lin).
Very nice, so cool ^_^
Know what Mr. Coelho? What excites me most is the idea of what would a question coming from you would look like :) And ofcourse, the “signed” part :)
So, I guess I am in ;)
me too :)
Thank You, for claring that out, Paulo. I was wondering about that myself at first. Only later, I got it. The mornings I’m slow. Heh!
Love,
Liina
To check 10:00 PM (Paris) in your country/city you can go to
http://www.timeanddate.com/
10pm in Paris will be 9pm in England/GMT (add one hour during summertime)…
Looking forward to the competition..
xxx
Dear Paulo, we are waiting for the questions!! And I am ready to win
Dearest Annie, when my .. inner clock says it is time to … sleep I do not see the time!!!! So last night I was asleep and …dreaming!! Yes you are right; the two hours later is from … London, where a piece of me lives!!
We … share the same ..World and time!
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
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