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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.
Will Eisner
> 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.
Kate Beaton
> 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.
Alan 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".
Margaret 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.
Alison 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.
Jack Kirby
> * 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
> 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.
half-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 III; George IV
> 9. What was the last year during which the UK had three kings?
1483
> 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
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