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   Dan Tilque to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCI23 Game 4, Rounds 9-10: pseudon   
   18 Nov 23 12:00:52   
   
   From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 11/17/23 02:05, Mark Brader wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > ** Game 4, Round 9 - Literature - Pseudonyms   
   >   
   > In each case, you must give the name that the author is best   
   > known by today.  This may be their real name or a pseudonym, and   
   > you have to give it in the form that's usually used, *including   
   > given names or initials* as applicable.   
   >   
   > 1. These sisters' first books were published under the pseudonyms   
   >     Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, but it's their real names that   
   >     they're known by today.  Name *any one* of them.   
      
   Emily Bronte   
      
   >   
   > 2. This author's name at birth was Howard O'Brien.  She has used   
   >     several pseudonyms but is best known today by one.  Name it.   
   >   
   > 3. This writer used many pseudonyms, including Silence Dogood,   
   >     Martha Careful, and Richard Saunders, but is now remembered   
   >     under his real name.  What name?   
      
   Ben Franklin   
      
   >   
   > 4. This author's real name was Mary Ann Evans, but she used a   
   >     pseudonym for all seven of her novels.  Name it.   
   >   
   > 5. This author used the pseudonym Boz ["boze"] for some of his   
   >     early writing, but his best-known works were published under   
   >     his real name.  What's that?   
   >   
   > 6. When David Cornwell started writing, he had to use this   
   >     pseudonym because he was actually working in the field that he   
   >     was writing about.   
      
   John le Carre   
      
   >   
   > 7. Eric Blair is the real name of this writer whose pseudonym was   
   >     inspired by a river he used to live near.   
      
   George Orwell   
      
   >   
   > 8. This author wrote several books under the name Richard Bachman   
   >     while other novels were also appearing under his own name.   
   >     Once this became public, it was stated that Bachman had died from   
   >     "cancer of the pseudonym".   
   >   
   > 9. This author used his real name, Charles Dodgson, for his   
   >     professional writing about math.  He is now better known to   
   >     most people by what pseudonym?   
      
   Lewis Carroll   
      
   >   
   > 10. This author is best known by a slight variation on her real   
   >     name, but she uses the pseudonym Robert Galbraith for a series   
   >     of novels featuring a private detective named Cormoran Strike.   
   >     What, then, is her better-known name?   
   >   
   > Reminder: In each case you must give their commonly known names   
   > in full.   
   >   
   >   
   > ** Game 4, Round 10 - Entertainment Challenge Round - Movies   
   >   
   > In each case name the movie.   
   >   
   > * A. Legal Movies   
   >   
   >     A1. This movie contains the line "What's a yout?"   
   >   
   >     A2. A young boy witnesses the suicide of a Mafia lawyer,   
   >         and a prosecutor tries to use him to take down a mob family.   
   >         The boy hires an attorney to protect him.   
   >   
   >   
   > * B. War Movies   
   >   
   >     B1. An American destroyer engages in a battle of wits with a   
   >         German U-boat.   
      
   Das Boot   
      
   >   
   >     B2. This movie tells the story of the liberation of Paris during   
   >         World War II.   
   >   
   >   
   > * C. Satires   
   >   
   >     C1. A small country declares war on the US in order to qualify   
   >         for foreign aid.   
      
   The Mouse the Roared   
      
   >   
   >     C2. A US Air Force general goes insane and attacks the Soviet   
   >         Union.   
      
   Dr Strangelove, or: How I stopped worrying and love the bomb   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * D. Other Comedies   
   >   
   >     D1. A TV reporter lives the same day over and over.   
      
   Groundhog Day   
      
   >   
   >     D2. A documentary-style movie about a British rock group's tour   
   >         of the US.   
      
   This is Spinal Tap   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * E. Dramas   
   >   
   >     E1. A former soldier of fortune meets his lost love in North   
   >         Africa.   
      
   Out of Africa   
      
   >   
   >     E2. A down-on-his-luck screenwriter becomes the kept man of a   
   >         silent-movie star.   
   >   
   >   
   > * F. Suspense   
   >   
   >     F1. A writer comes to postwar Vienna to meet up with an old   
   >         friend who, it turns out, is now a black-marketeer.   
   >   
   >     F2. Mistaken for a spy, an ad executive must find a man who   
   >         doesn't exist.   
   >   
      
   --   
   Dan Tilque   
      
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