From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On Monday, December 4, 2023 at 6:08:04 AM UTC-6, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 6, Round 2 - Literature - Travel Writing    
   >    
   > 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.    
      
   Strayed   
      
   > 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.    
      
   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?    
      
   "Eat, Pray, Love"   
      
   > 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?    
      
   Morris   
      
   > 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.    
      
   Krakauer   
      
   > * 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.    
      
   French & Saunders   
       
   > 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.    
      
   Garfunkel & Oates   
      
   > 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.    
      
   Key & Peele   
      
   > 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"?    
      
   Statler & Waldorf   
      
   > 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.    
      
   Flight of the Conchords   
      
   > 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.    
      
   The Two Ronnies   
       
   > 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.    
      
   Fry & Laurie   
      
   > 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.    
      
   Nichols & May   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
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