From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 12/4/23 04:07, Mark Brader wrote:   
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   >   
   > * Game 6, Round 2 - Literature - Travel Writing   
   >   
   > 1. Who is the prolific American novelist who has also written   
   >     many travel books, often detailing long train journeys, such as   
   >     "The Old Patagonian Express" and "The Great Railway Bazaar"?   
   >   
   > 2. Who is the author of the book-club favorite "Wild"?  It describes   
   >     her trek along the Pacific Crest Trail in the wake of personal   
   >     emotional turmoil, and was later made into a 2014 movie of the   
   >     same name starring Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern.   
   >   
   > 3. In the 1970s Robyn Davidson, of Australia, set out to make a   
   >     thousands-of-kilometers-long trek across the outback, accompanied   
   >     by camels, because...  Because camels, we guess.  Her 1980 book   
   >     about her experiences was made into a 2013 movie starring Mia   
   >     Wasikowska ["VUSH-uh-KOF-skuh"] and Adam Driver.  The book and   
   >     movie had the same title; name it.   
   >   
   > 4. A friend and collaborator of Paul Theroux was also a novelist and   
   >     travel writer, with a less voluminous output as he died of AIDS   
   >     in 1989 at age 49.  Among his travel works are "The Songlines",   
   >     which focuses on Aboriginal Australians, and "In Patagonia".   
   >     Name him.   
   >   
   > 5. Who is the pioneering Englishwoman whose many letters home were   
   >     eventually published more than a century after they were   
   >     written, in 1987, as "Letters from Egypt: A Journey on the   
   >     Nile 1849-1850"?  The events that brought her lasting fame   
   >     happened a few years later.  Er, that is, she got famous a few   
   >     years after 1850, not 1987.   
   >   
   > 6. Name the protean American author who wrote the 1869 book "The   
   >     Innocents Abroad", a sardonic account of a sea voyage to the   
   >     Holy Land.   
      
   Mark Twain   
      
   >   
   > 7. Who is the American and adopted Briton who wrote "Notes From   
   >     a Small Island", about his second home, and "In a Sunburned   
   >     Country", about Australia?  He also dabbles in books about   
   >     language.   
      
   Bryson   
      
   >   
   > 8. What's the title of Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling post-divorce   
   >     travelogue, focusing on food, spirituality, and romance in   
   >     Europe and Asia?   
   >   
   > 9. Who was the Welsh travel writer who accompanied Hillary and   
   >     Norgay's successful Mt. Everest expedition as a journalist;   
   >     wrote more than 20 travel books, including several on Venice;   
   >     and in a 1974 memoir detailed her gender transition?   
   >   
   > 10. Name the American adventure travel writer whose book "Into   
   >     the Wild" chronicles the wanderings of a young self-described   
   >     "supertramp", culminating in his death, probably from starvation.   
   >     The same author's "Into Thin Air" details a disastrous Everest   
   >     expedition.   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 6, Round 3 - Entertainment - Comedy Duos   
   >   
   > In each case, give the professional name of the comedy duo we   
   > describe.  Usually, but not always, they are named after their   
   > two members, and if so, you may give the names in either order --   
   > for example, "Boyd and Brader" or "Brader and Boyd".   
   >   
   > 1. This British pair starred in an eponymous sketch comedy series   
   >     that ran regularly between 1987 and '93 and sporadically   
   >     thereafter.  The sitcom "Absolutely Fabulous" grew out of a   
   >     segment on their show.   
   >   
   > 2. These comedians-slash-folk-musicians named their act after   
   >     the perceived second bananas in two well-known musical duos.   
   >     They have been active since 2007 -- originally on Youtube and   
   >     later via several albums and tours.   
   >   
   > 3. This duo had a five-season run on Comedy Central between 2012   
   >     and 2015.  Their comedy often touches on American race relations   
   >     and black culture.  Two of their recurring characters are   
   >     Barack Obama and his "anger translator" Luther.  One of the   
   >     pair has become a director of inventive horror films and won   
   >     an Academy Award.   
   >   
   > 4. Okay, this next pair are not actually real people.  What else   
   >     can we say except that they're the two heckling old farts in   
   >     the balcony on the "Muppet Show"?   
      
   Waldorf and Statler   
      
   >   
   > 5. This New Zealand musical comedy group progressed from live acts   
   >     to a BBC radio show and eventually an HBO series that ran from   
   >     2007 to 2009.  They once described themselves as a "guitar-based   
   >     digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo".  Here we want   
   >     the name of the act, not the two people involved.   
   >   
   > 6. This duo met in Grade 1, wrote a screenplay together at 14,   
   >     both studied engineering and worked in the field, which   
   >     they left to pursue Christian ministry with comic aspects.   
   >     Eventually their comedy moved on to non-religious themes and   
   >     they are known for the YouTube series "Good Mythical Morning"   
   >     as well as podcasts, a novel, and musical comedy albums.   
   >     First names, please.   
   >   
   > 7. This British duo weren't really a pair outside of their   
   >     eponymous BBC TV show that ran on and off from 1971 to '87.  One   
   >     thing that contrasted them was their 8-inch height difference,   
   >     although neither one was especially tall; what didn't contrast   
   >     was their first names.  Name the show and you'll name the duo,   
   >     and that's the answer we want.   
   >   
   > 8. This other British duo met when they were introduced by   
   >     Emma Thompson while at Cambridge University.  Their best-known   
   >     collaboration is the TV series "Jeeves and Wooster".  Both have   
   >     had celebrated careers on their own.   
   >   
   > 9. Who are the originators and stars of the US sitcom "Broad City",   
   >     originally a web series and later on Comedy Central between   
   >     2014 and 2019?  First names only -- they're the same as those   
   >     of their fictional alter egos, though the surnames differ.   
   >   
   > 10. This classic pair met at the University of Chicago in the early   
   >     1950s and did improv together for about four years from 1958 to   
   >     '62, including three top 40 albums (one a Grammy winner) and a   
   >     Broadway show that ran for over 300 performances.  They split   
   >     amicably when their professional interests turned elsewhere.   
   >     The man turned to theater, TV, and movie directing, winning   
   >     Tonys, Emmys, and an Oscar; the woman mostly became a writer.   
   >   
      
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