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   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > ** Game 7, Round 9 - Literature - In the Voice of Animals   
      
   > 1. Name the *author* of the novel "Flush".  It is an imaginative   
   >    biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel.   
   >    Commonly read as a modernist consideration of city life seen   
   >    through the eyes of a dog, it serves as a harsh criticism of   
   >    the treatment of female intellectuals, including, perhaps,   
   >    the novel's well-known author.   
      
   Virginia Woolf   
      
   > 2. Give the *specific type of animal* featured in the fantasy series   
   >    "Guardians of Ga'Hoole", written by Kathryn Lasky.  Published by   
   >    Scholastic from 2003 to 2013, the series has 15-plus books.   
   >    A successful 2010 movie was made from part of the series.   
      
   owls   
      
   > 3. A 1945 dystopian novel by George Orwell, an allegory for events   
   >    from the Russian Revolution of 1917 through the Stalin era.   
      
   Animal Farm   
      
   > 4. A 1952 children's novel by American author E.B. White, which   
   >    tells the story of a pig named Wilbur and his friends.   
      
   Charlotte's Web   
      
   > 5. A 1972 adventure novel, written by English author Richard Adams.   
   >    Set in south-central England, the story features a small group   
   >    of rabbits.  Evoking epic themes, the novel is the "Aeneid"   
   >    of the rabbits, as they escape the destruction of their warren   
   >    and seek a place to establish a new home, encountering perils   
   >    and temptations along the way.   
      
   Watership Down   
      
   > 6. A 1981 psychological horror novel about the eponymous rabid dog.   
   >    The author has said that the sequences from the dog's point of   
   >    view about violent headaches may have been influenced by the   
   >    author's own raging alcoholism at the time.   
      
   Cujo   
      
   > 7. A book written in 1877 by English author Anna Sewell, about a   
   >    carriage horse, and animal welfare in general.  With 50,000,000   
   >    copies sold, it is one of the best-selling books of all time.   
      
   Black Beauty   
      
   > 8. This 1906 novel by American author Jack London is titled after   
   >    a wild wolf-dog.  The story takes place during the Klondike gold   
   >    rush and details the dog's journey to domestication.  Much of   
   >    the book is written from the dog's viewpoint, enabling London   
   >    to examine the violent world of wild animals and the equally   
   >    violent world of humans.   
      
   White Fang   
      
   > 9. Give the name of the graphic novel released in 1991 by American   
   >    cartoonist Art Spiegelman.  It depicts the Holocaust experiences,   
   >    with humans depicted as different kinds of animals: Jews as   
   >    mice, Germans as cats, non-Jewish Poles as pigs.  In 1992 it   
   >    became the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize.   
      
   Maus   
      
   > ** Game 7, Round 10 - Entertainment Challenge Round - Movies   
      
   > *  Science   
      
   >    A2. Name the 1955 movie, based on a true story, that follows   
   >        the RAF's development of a bomb to attack dams in the Ruhr   
   >        Valley and hinder Germany's industry during World War II.   
      
   The Dambusters   
      
   > *  Sports   
      
   >    C1. This 1981 movie follows two 1924 Olympic runners, a Christian   
   >        and a Jew, as they race for spiritual and political   
   >        reasons.  At the time of its theatrical run, it became the   
   >        highest-grossing foreign film of all time.   
      
   Chariots of Fire   
      
   > *  Literature   
      
   >    D1. Name the 1996 romantic drama directed by Anthony Minghella,   
   >        based on the novel of the same name by Michael Ondaatje.   
   >        The movie's invocation of fate, romance, and tragedy unfolds   
   >        in World War II Italy through the story of a burn victim,   
   >        a once dashing archeologist whose sacrifices to save the   
   >        woman he loves spell his end.   
      
   The English Patient   
      
   >    D2. Name the 1999 American movie based on the 1996 novel of the   
   >        same name by Chuck Palahniuk.  The film was directed by   
   >        David Fincher and stars Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, and Helena   
   >        Bonham Carter.  Norton plays the unnamed protagonist, an   
   >        "everyman" who is discontented with his white-collar job.   
      
   Fight Club   
      
   > *  History   
      
   >    E1. Americans hidden in the Canadian embassy escape from Iran   
   >        during the 1979 hostage crisis.   
      
   Argo   
      
   >    E2. A German businessman saves the lives of more than 1,000   
   >        Jewish refugees, mostly Polish, during the Holocaust by   
   >        employing them in his factories.   
      
   Schindler's List   
      
   > *  Geography   
      
   >    F1. "Pulp Fiction" (1994).   
      
   California   
      
   >    F2. "Scarface" (1983).   
      
   Florida   
      
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