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   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 4, Round 7 - Literature - Italian Literature   
      
   > 1. Who is the pseudonymous author of the four so-called "Neapolitan   
   >    novels", dealing with two women's friendship from childhood   
   >    to old age, published between 2011 and 2014 and beginning with   
   >    "My Brilliant Friend"?   
      
   Ferrante   
      
   > 2. Who is the philosopher, semiotician, and cultural critic who   
   >    wrote the 1980 novel "The Name of the Rose", followed in 1988 by   
   >    "Foucault's ['Foo-koze'] Pendulum"?   
      
   Umberto Eco   
      
   > 3. Dante Alighieri's ["a-league-yair-eez"] 14th-century allegorical   
   >    poem "The Divine Comedy" is still one of the most influential   
   >    works of European literature.  It is divided into three   
   >    sections of 33 cantos each, plus a prologue.  Name *any one*   
   >    of the three main sections.   
      
   Inferno   
      
   > 4. After initial popularity, Dante's works were overshadowed   
   >    by those of a younger contemporary, a humanist and lyric poet.   
   >    He wrote in both Latin and Italian; in the latter, perhaps   
   >    his best-known work is "Fragments of Vernacular Matters",   
   >    a collection of over 300 poems.  Name him.   
      
   Petrarch   
      
   > 5. Who is the Jewish Italian author who wrote about his time at   
   >    Auschwitz in "If This is a Man"?  A trained chemist, he later   
   >    wrote a book of short stories called "The Periodic Table".   
      
   Primo Levi   
      
   > 6. Another classic of the 14th century was a 100-part series   
   >    of stories by 10 narrators, told over 10 days during a time   
   >    of plague.  It is sometimes referred to as "The Human Comedy" by   
   >    contrast with the work of Dante.  Name this work or its author.   
      
   Decameron   
      
   > 9. The interplay of "vertu" (meaning individual initiative) and   
   >    chance was one of the themes in the works of this Florentine.   
   >    He published, among other works, a 7-volume "The Art of War"   
   >    in 1521, but a little squib he dashed off in 1513 was enough   
   >    to immortalize him.   
      
   Machiavelli   
      
   > * Game 3, Round 8 - Sports - Obscure Rules   
      
   > 6. In golf, a player who turns in a scorecard claiming less strokes   
   >    than were actually taken is disqualified.  When happens if the   
   >    scorecard claims more strokes than were actually taken?   
      
   the claimed number is used   
      
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