From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 5, Round 7 - Literature - Thanks for the Memoirs   
   >   
   > 5. Which former US president finished writing his autobiography   
   >    just 5 days before he died of cancer in 1885?  The memoir   
   >    focuses on his military career and makes little mention of   
   >    his presidency.  Who wrote this work, which was published and   
   >    was very successfully marketed by Mark Twain?   
      
   Grant   
      
   > 7. Who was the Irish playwright, novelist, and master of the bon   
   >    mot, who wrote the memoir "De Profundis" ("From the Depths")   
   >    to his companion Lord Alfred Douglas while serving a 2-year   
   >    term in 1895-97 in Reading Gaol for acts of "gross indecency"?   
      
   Joyce   
      
   > 9. Who was the French novelist, existentialist, and feminist   
   >    writer who wrote "Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter"?  She was   
   >    a close friend and confidante of Jean-Paul Sartre, and her   
   >    better-known works include the novels "She Came to Stay" and "The   
   >    Mandarins" as well as the feminist treatise "The Second Sex".   
      
   Simone Beauvoir   
      
   > * Game 5, Round 8 - Science - Volcanoes   
   >   
   > After a wintry season, many of us are craving some warmth.   
   > This round is s about the Earth's ultimate hot spots -- volcanoes!   
   >   
   > 1. This dark black or grey rock is the most common type of   
   >    volcanic rock.  Name it.   
      
   Basalt   
      
   > 4. The summit elevation of what volcano decreased by 400 m   
   >    (1,300 feet) when it violently erupted in 1980?   
      
   Mt Kinley   
      
   > 6. And if you go by summit elevation above sea level, then the   
   >    tallest volcano in the world is on what *continent*?   
      
   South America   
      
   > 7. The deadliest volcanic eruption occurred in 1815: the   
   >    after-effects caused 1816 to be "the year without a summer".   
   >    What was the name of this volcano that erupted in 1815?   
      
   Kratakoa   
      
   > 10. To the nearest multiple of 5%, and plus or minus 5 percentage   
   >    points, what percentage of the world's active and dormant   
   >    volcanoes are contained within the Pacific "Ring of Fire"?   
      
   45%   
      
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