From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, August 24, 2023 at 1:45:39 AM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:   
   >    
   > * Game 8, Round 2 - Literature - Graphic Novels and Comic Books    
   >    
   > 1. "A Contract with God and other Tenement Stories", from 1978,    
   > is often credited as the first graphic novel. Name its author,    
   > also famous for his groundbreaking early work in the 1940s and    
   > '50s with "The Spirit" and for his namesake award given annually    
   > for creative achievement in comics.    
      
   Eisner   
       
   > 3. Name Art Spiegelman's anthropomorphized retelling of his father's    
   > experiences during the Holocaust. It was the first graphic    
   > novel to win the Pulitzer Prize.    
      
   "Maus"   
      
   > 4. Name the prolific British author of influential graphic novels    
   > "Watchmen", "V for Vendetta", "From Hell", and "The League of    
   > Extraordinary Gentlemen". Dissatisfied with adaptations of    
   > his work to other media, he is often uncredited on projects    
   > for which he doesn't own all the rights.    
      
   Moore   
       
   > 5. Name Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical account of growing up    
   > in Iran during and after the Islamic Revolution. The graphic    
   > novel takes its name from the ancient capital city of the    
   > Persian Empire.    
      
   "Persepolis"   
      
   > 6. Name the title character of Bryan Lee O'Malley's graphic    
   > novel series set in Toronto. The lead character is a slacker    
   > 20-something who plays bass in the band Sex Bob-Omb and has to    
   > fight Ramona Flowers' seven evil exes in order to date her.    
      
   Scott Pilgrim   
      
   > 7. Name the prolific Canadian writer and poet who is currently    
   > up for the  award for writing a graphic adaptation    
   > of a Tori Amos song. She has also written the graphic novel    
   > "Angel Catbird", featuring an animal-human hybrid hero, a topic    
   > she also covered in her novel "Oryx and Crake".    
      
   Atwood   
      
   > 8. Neil Gaiman is well known for his novels, which include "Good    
   > Omens", "American Gods", "Anansi Boys", "Stardust", and    
   > "Coraline", but he is probably best known for what graphic    
   > novel series focusing on Morpheus, also known as "Dream of    
   > the Endless"?    
      
   "Sandman"   
      
   > 9. Name the cartoonist responsible for the award-winning graphic    
   > novel "Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic". She is also known for    
   > a test that measures the representation of women in film and    
   > other works of fiction, which she introduced in her "Dykes to    
   > Watch Out For" comic strip.    
      
   Bechdel   
      
   > 10. Name *either* of the two men who collaborated on the 1978    
   > graphic novel "The Silver Surfer". They had a long creative    
   > partnership in the 1960s, but this final collaboration came    
   > after many years of acrimony between the two men and did not    
   > succeed in mending the rift, which continues to be felt in pop    
   > culture to this day even though both men have died.    
      
   Kirby   
      
   > * Game 8, Round 3 - History - Royalty    
   >    
   > 1. For questions #1-4, tell us how each monarch was related to    
   > his/her successor. We'll also mention the year of succession.    
   > William IV and Victoria, 1837.    
      
   uncle   
      
   > 2. Edward VIII and George VI, 1936.    
      
   brother   
      
   > 3. George II and George III, 1760.    
      
   grandfather   
      
   > 4. Mary I ("Bloody Mary") and Elizabeth I, 1558.    
      
   sister   
      
   > 5. And now, for something completely different. Of which monarch    
   > did John Cleese say that the most interesting thing about him is    
   > that he was 5'6" tall at the start of his reign, but only 4'8"    
   > at the end of it? Name and number required.    
      
   Charles I   
      
   > 6. Queen Anne died childless in 1714, and her sister Queen Mary II    
   > also died without heir, so the Stuart dynasty came to an end.    
   > A successor was found, a distant cousin of the German House of    
   > Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became King George I. Why were 56    
   > other candidates with closer hereditary claims bypassed?    
      
   they were Catholic   
      
   > 7. In 1917, when German Gotha bombers were hitting London, George V    
   > changed the family name (royal house) from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha    
   > -- to what?    
      
   Windsor   
      
   > 8. Buckingham Palace has 775 rooms, including 78 bathrooms, but    
   > who was the first monarch to live there?    
      
   George IV   
      
   > 9. What was the last year during which the UK had three kings?    
      
   1936   
      
   > 10. Name *either one* of the two personal documents, of which most    
   > Britons would have at least one, that Queen Elizabeth II    
   > never had.    
      
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