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Mark Brader wrote:
> * 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"?
Paul Theroux
> 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.
Florence Nightingale
> 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?
Eat, Pray, Love
> 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
> 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 and Waldorf
> 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 and 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 and May
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