From: pete.gayde@gmail.com   
      
   Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2023-07-10,   
   > and should be interpreted accordingly.   
   >   
   > On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give   
   > both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.   
   > Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,   
   > based only on your own knowledge.  (In your answer posting, quote   
   > the questions and place your answer below each one.)  I will reveal   
   > the correct answers in about 3 days.   
   >   
   > All questions were written by members of Bloor St. Irregulars and   
   > are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may   
   > have been retyped and/or edited by me.  For further information   
   > please see my 2023-05-24 companion posting on "Questions from the   
   > Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".   
   >   
   >   
   > * 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.   
   >   
   > 2. Name the Canadian cartoonist famous for her webcomic "Hark! A   
   >     Vagrant" and for her memoir "Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands",   
   >     which became the first graphic work to win Canada Reads in 2023.   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 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".   
   >   
   > 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"?   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Stan Lee   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 8, Round 3 - History - Royalty   
   >   
   > This round is flush with royals, so to speak.   
   >   
   > 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 and Niece   
      
   >   
   > 2. Edward VIII and George VI, 1936.   
      
   Brothers   
      
   >   
   > 3. George II and George III, 1760.   
      
   Father and Son   
      
   >   
   > 4. Mary I ("Bloody Mary") and Elizabeth I, 1558.   
      
   Cousins   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Richard III   
      
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > 9. What was the last year during which the UK had three kings?   
   >   
   > 10. Name *either one* of the two personal documents, of which most   
   >     Britons would have at least one, that Queen Elizabeth II   
   >     never had.   
      
   Passport   
      
   >   
      
   Pete Gayde   
      
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