From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at 10:34:32 AM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:   
       
   > * Game 4, Round 7 - Literature - Italian Literature    
   >    
   > 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"?    
      
   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"   
      
   > 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".    
      
   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.    
      
   "The Decameron"   
      
   > 7. A one-hit wonder of sorts was Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa,    
   > whose only novel, published in 1958, just after his death,    
   > became one of the most celebrated in Italian literature.    
   > Name it, in English or Italian.    
      
   "The Leopard"   
      
   > 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   
       
   > 10. The recipient of the 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature wrote    
   > some 40 plays, but, in the English-speaking world at any rate,    
   > one would be hard-pressed to hear mention of any but a 1921 work    
   > that functioned as an absurdist meta-commentary on drama itself.    
   > Name either the play or its author.    
      
   "Six Characters in Search of an Author"   
      
   > * Game 3, Round 8 - Sports - Obscure Rules    
   >    
   > 2. If a baseball pitcher is ambidextrous, when may he, and when    
   > may he not, change which hand he's pitching with?    
      
   he can change between at-bats, but not during an at-bat   
      
   > 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 player is charged with the number of strokes on the scorecard, that is,   
   the higher number of strokes becomes the player's score   
       
   > 10. How long after an NBA player gets the ball from the referee    
   > is he allowed to take his free throw?    
      
   5 seconds; 10 seconds   
      
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   Joshua Kreitzer   
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