From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, June 14, 2023 at 10:21:47 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:   
   >    
   > ** Game 2, Round 9 - Arts - Modern Architects    
   >    
   > We name one or more significant architectural works; you name    
   > their architect.    
   >    
   > 7. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Cleveland), Louvre pyramid (Paris).    
      
   Pei   
      
   > 9. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Imperial Hotel (Tokyo), Johnson    
   > Wax Building (Racine, Wisconsin).    
      
   Wright   
      
   > ** Game 2, Round 10 - Challenge Round - Tom Waits for No One    
   >    
   > Simply a dozen Tom-Waits-adjacent questions.    
   >    
   > * A. References    
   >    
   > A1. One of Tom's songs includes the name of a saint. This saint    
   > is best known as the patron saint of travellers, though    
   > there is no certainty that he existed historically.    
   > Name the saint.    
      
   St. Christopher   
       
   > A2. This Tom Waits song shares its name with a term for a common    
   > grave for unknown, unclaimed, or indigent people.    
   > The earliest known use of this term is from the Gospel of    
   > Matthew, not "It's a Wonderful Life".    
      
   potter's field   
      
   > * B. Geography - Song Titles    
   >    
   > B1. Tom once received a telephone call from what current city,    
   > arguably the most populous in Europe? It's possible the    
   > call was from a date informing him of where she's waiting.    
      
   London; Paris   
      
   > B2. Tom's first experiment with the "sha-la-la" refrain was    
   > about a girl from where? The girl, his future wife Kathleen    
   > Brennan, was living in this US state, not an island in the    
   > English Channel.    
      
   New Jersey   
      
   > * C. Tom on the Big Screen    
   >    
   > We'll name three movie credits Tom has with the same director;    
   > you name the director.    
   >    
   > C1. "The Dead Don't Die", "Mystery Train", "Down by Law".    
      
   Jarmusch   
      
   > C2. "One from the Heart", "Rumble Fish", "Bram Stoker's Dracula".    
      
   Coppola   
      
   > * D. Inspiration and Collaboration    
   >    
   > D1. The title of Tom's 1975 album, "Nighthawks at the Diner" was    
   > inspired by the 1942 work "Nighthawks", by what American    
   > painter?    
      
   Hopper   
      
   > D2. In 1990, the "musical fable" "The Black Rider" premiered    
   > in Hamburg. This was a collaboration between Waits, theater    
   > director Robert Wilson, and what Beat Generation writer,    
   > best known for "Naked Lunch"?    
      
   Burroughs   
      
   > * E. The Songs    
   >    
   > E2. Rod Stewart had a huge hit in 1990 -- #1 in Canada, #3 on the    
   > US "Billboard" Hot 100 -- with his cover of what Tom Waits    
   > song?    
      
   "Downtown Train"   
      
   > * F. Lawsuits!    
   >    
   > F2. In 1990, Tom won $2,500,000 in a "soundalike" lawsuit over    
   > an ad for a new Doritos flavor, SalsaRio. What snack-food    
   > company was named in the suit, a wholly-owned subsidiary    
   > of PepsiCo since 1965?    
      
   Frito-Lay   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
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