From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 11/1/23 08:34, Mark Brader wrote:   
   >   
   > I wrote one question in one of these rounds.   
   >   
   >   
   > * 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"?   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Purgatorio   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 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".   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 8. One of the greatest novels of the Italian Romantic period is   
   >     Alessandro Manzoni's 1825-27 novel, set during the Thirty Years'   
   >     War, and telling the story of two young people's frustrated   
   >     attempt to marry.  Name it, in English or Italian.   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 3, Round 8 - Sports - Obscure Rules   
   >   
   > 1. If a baseball fielder throws his glove or cap and hits the   
   >     batted ball, what is the penalty?   
      
   runners advance one base   
      
   >   
   > 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 batters or before any strikes are counted against   
   the current batter, otherwise not   
      
   >   
   > 3. After the Toronto Argonauts score a touchdown against the   
   >     Hamilton Tiger-Cats, they decide to go for 2 points on   
   >     the convert.  Chad Kelly tries a pass to Cam Phillips in   
   >     the end zone, but Hamilton defender Tunde Adeleke ["TUN-day   
   >     a-DELL-eck-ay"] intercepts it and runs the ball back an amazing   
   >     117 yards to reach Toronto's end zone.  What is the result?   
      
   2 points for Hamilton   
      
   >   
   > 4. In 2006, which NFL quarterback became the first player since   
   >     1941 to score using a drop-kick?   
      
   Rogers   
      
   >   
   > 5. In a FIFA soccer match, how long may the goalie hold the ball   
   >     before putting it back into play?   
      
   20 seconds   
      
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > 7. Where is the farthest from his net that an NHL goalie is allowed   
   >     to play the puck?  (In terms of ice markings, not distance.)   
      
   anywhere behind the goal line   
      
   >   
   > 8. In Australian football, what offense is punished by both a   
   >     50-meter penalty and a free kick?   
   >   
   > 9. If your tennis opponent's hat distracts you by flying off during   
   >     play, you may either play the ball or else ask the referee   
   >     for what?   
   >   
   > 10. How long after an NBA player gets the ball from the referee   
   >     is he allowed to take his free throw?   
   >   
      
   --   
   Dan Tilque   
      
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