From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 11/6/22 09:01, 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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 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 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.   
   >   
   >   
   > * 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   
      
   >   
   > 2. Naturally occurring volcanic glass was used by many stone-age   
   >     cultures as material for arrowheads and spearheads.  What is   
   >     it called?   
      
   obsidian   
      
   >   
   > 3. What term is used for airborne particles less than 2 mm in   
   >     diameter that are ejected from a volcanic eruption?   
      
   ash   
      
   >   
   > 4. The summit elevation of what volcano decreased by 400 m   
   >     (1,300 feet) when it violently erupted in 1980?   
      
   Mt St 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   
      
   >   
   > 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?   
      
   Tambora   
      
   >   
   > 8. What is rough, highly vesicular, glassy volcanic rock called?   
      
   pumice   
      
   >   
   > 9. What is the name of a depression that is formed when the ground   
   >     subsides or collapses because the underlying magma chamber had   
   >     been partially emptied after a volcanic eruption?   
      
   caldera   
      
   >   
   > 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"?   
      
   50%   
      
   >   
   > After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Gb zbfg   
   > Ratyvfu-fcrnxref Abegu naq Fbhgu Nzrevpn ner frcnengr pbagvaragf.   
   > Vs lbh nafjrerq Nzrevpn ba gur fvkgu dhrfgvba, cyrnfr tb onpx naq   
   > fcrpvsl juvpu bar bs gur gjb.   
      
   --   
   Dan Tilque   
      
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