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   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 5, Round 7 - Literature - Thanks for the Memoirs   
      
   > 1. This memoir, written by John Howard Griffin and published   
   >    in 1961, was based on Griffin's experience when he took drugs,   
   >    skin cream, and sun lamp treatments, to darken his Caucasian   
   >    completion so he would look like an African-American.  Next, he   
   >    spent 6 weeks travelling by bus and occasionally hitch-hiking   
   >    in the segregated states of the Deep South, facing racial   
   >    discrimination first hand.  What was the name of the memoir   
   >    Griffin wrote in 1961?   
      
   Black Like Me   
      
   > 2. Probably the world's most famous diarist writing in English, he   
   >    was a Member of Parliament and a naval administrator.  His diary,   
   >    spanning 1660-69, described his personal life and also gave   
   >    detailed eyewitness accounts of the Great Plague of London,   
   >    the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London in 1666.   
   >    Who was this famous diarist?   
      
   Pepys   
      
   > 3. Who was the transcendentalist who published a memoir called   
   >    "Walden" in 1854, detailing two years he spent, living simply,   
   >    in a cabin he built by Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts?   
      
   Thoreau   
      
   > 4. What is the memoir written by Christy Brown, an Irishman crippled   
   >    by cerebral palsy?  The same title was used for a 1989 movie   
   >    based on the memoir, which won Daniel Day-Lewis an Oscar as   
   >    Best Actor.   
      
   My Left Foot   
      
   > 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   
      
   > 6. Who was the early Christian saint, who in 397 published   
   >    a 13-volume memoir called "Confessions"?  After his eventual   
   >    conversion to Christianity, he became a priest, then later,   
   >    the Bishop of Hippo in what is now Algeria.  Name this early   
   >    Christian author and theologian.   
      
   Augustine   
      
   > 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"?   
      
   Wilde   
      
   > 8. Who was the deeply religious British author who wrote "A Grief   
   >    Observed", a month after his wife died in 1960?  In the memoir,   
   >    he expressed his anger not only over the loss of his wife but   
   >    over his temporary loss of conscious contact with God.   
      
   Lewis   
      
   > 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".   
      
   De Beauvoir   
      
   > 10. Who was the American author, political activist, and lecturer,   
   >    who lived 1880-1968 and wrote the memoir "The Story of My Life"?   
   >    In the work, she talks about the gracious discourse of her   
   >    book friends, and about her dog friends who understood her   
   >    limitations.   
      
   Keller   
      
   > * Game 5, Round 8 - Science - Volcanoes   
      
   > 1. This dark black or grey rock is the most common type of   
   >    volcanic rock.  Name it.   
      
   basalt   
      
   > 2. Naturally occurring volcanic glass was used by many stone-age   
   >    cultures as material for arrowheads and spearheads.  What is   
   >    it called?   
      
   obsidian   
      
   > 4. The summit elevation of what volcano decreased by 400 m   
   >    (1,300 feet) when it violently erupted in 1980?   
      
   Mt. Saint Helens   
      
   > 5. If you go by the difference between the base elevation (below   
   >    sea level) and summit elevation, in what *island group* will   
   >    you find the tallest volcano in the world?   
      
   Hawaii   
      
   > 6. And if you go by summit elevation above sea level, then the   
   >    tallest volcano in the world is on what *continent*?   
      
   South America   
      
   > 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"?   
      
   65%   
      
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