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ABOUT THE BOOK
NO SPOILERSSeventeen-year-old Kiki Siregar is a confident gamer in Jakarta whose parents have moved her from her easygoing old school to Xingfa, a strict elite school, for her final year. Online, she plays the shooter Warfront Heroes as Dudebro10, pretending to be a guy to escape the harassment she got once other players figured out she was a girl, and her best friend there is Sourdawg, a sourdough-obsessed boy she has never met. On her first day she clashes with Jonas Arifin, the rich class monitor, over his sexist design for their group's video game, and he starts calling her crazy. After school Sourdawg types that he goes to Xingfa too, so one of her new schoolmates is her secret online best friend, and he thinks she is a dude. The next morning she joins Lil' Aunties Know Best, a secret matchmaking service run by two thirteen-year-olds, hoping it will help her quietly figure out who Sourdawg is, and that same day a viral clip of Kiki losing her temper has the school calling her "Crazy Kiki."
Free Battle of the Books questions for Didn't See That Coming
SPOILERSEvery one of these has the same answer, and that is the point. In a real battle the question is read aloud with a dozen other books in play, and students have a few seconds to place it. Here is what a battle might ask about Didn't See That Coming. Use them as a quiz, a trivia round, or BOTB practice.
Where in the book they come from
- Early in the book
In what book does a muscled warrior crawl behind a lead shield so heat scans miss him?
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Didn't See That Coming by Jesse Q. Sutanto
In the opening round, Kiki's Dudebro10 plays a giant tank and stays covered by his shield so the robot assassin's heat scans can't pick him up. Sourdawg's machine-gun-toting dwarf finishes off the assassin from behind that shield.
- First half
In what book does a dating rulebook allow cousins on the third date and parents on the fourth?
✓ Answer
Didn't See That Coming by Jesse Q. Sutanto
The 12-page pdf from Lil' Aunties Know Best has over a hundred rules, from no posting pics without permission to when family members may come along. Kiki thinks that, knowing Chinese Indonesian culture, the family rule isn't actually that ridiculous.
- First half
In what book is a girl caught stroking a library book "like it's a purring cat"?
✓ Answer
Didn't See That Coming by Jesse Q. Sutanto
On Monday, Liam finds Kiki hiding among the library's forgotten shelves and teases her about petting the book. She admits that stroking books is comforting, and he confesses that he likes smelling books.
- Second half
In what book does a principal defend a cruel nickname by saying ice cream can be "crazy good"?
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Didn't See That Coming by Jesse Q. Sutanto
In her second meeting with Principal Lin, Kiki brings up being called Crazy Kiki, and he tells her to get thicker skin, insisting "crazy" is not even a bad word. He even jokes that she is so sensitive that "some might even say, crazy."
- Second half
In what book does a girl's jeans zip turn out to be made by a new friend's family company?
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Didn't See That Coming by Jesse Q. Sutanto
As the girls work on Triss's profile, Peishan reveals that Triss's parents own the Kwangtang Zipper and tells Kiki to check her jeans' zip. Sure enough, it reads KWT, and Triss explains that big clothing brands buy their zippers from her family company.
- Near the end
In what book does a class project game star a spacesuited heroine who crash-lands on an alien planet?
✓ Answer
Didn't See That Coming by Jesse Q. Sutanto
After outvoting Jonas, Kiki's group designs a gathering and engineering game in which a female main character fully covered in a spacesuit scavenges for parts to rebuild a working spaceship. Peishan argues that farming and gathering games are a huge subgenre, though Jonas still asks, "Can the spacesuit be tighter?"
