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   Dan Blum to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCI23 Game 7, Rounds 4,6: movie im   
   21 Dec 23 23:47:27   
   
   From: tool@panix.com   
      
   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 7, Round 4 - Entertainment - Well-Known Movie, Tough Image   
      
   > 1. Picture A, director Victor Fleming.   
      
   The Wizard of Oz   
      
   > 2. Picture B, directors Gary Trousdale [rhymes with "cow's dale"]   
   >    and Kirk Wise.   
      
   Shrek; Beauty and the Beast   
      
   > 3. Picture C, director Ridley Scott.   
      
   Gladiator   
      
   > 4. Picture D, director Stanley Kubrick.   
      
   Eyes Wide Shut   
      
   > 10. Picture J, director James Cameron.   
      
   Avatar   
      
   > 13. Picture M, director Tim Burton.   
      
   Edward Scissorhands   
      
   > 14. Picture N, director Peter Jackson.   
      
   The Fellowship of the Ring   
      
      
   > * Game 7, Round 6 - Literature - Food Writing   
      
   > 1. What is the title of Frances Moore Lapp?'s 1971 cookbook   
   >    written from an environmentalist point of view and emphasizing   
   >    vegetarianism?   
      
   Moosewood Cookbook   
      
   > 2. Who was the Victorian journalist and housewife whose name became   
   >    a soubriquet for cooking competence, despite her death at age 28   
   >    -- largely on the strength of her "Book of Household Management",   
   >    published in 1861?  It's apparently still in print, at least   
   >    in abridged form.   
      
   Mrs. Beeton   
      
   > 3. What was the title of Julia Child's first book, co-written with   
   >    Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle ["bear-TOLL"], the first   
   >    volume of which was published in 1961?   
      
   The Art of French Cooking   
      
   > 4. Name the American journalist who wrote "The Omnivore's Dilemma"   
   >    and is known for the mantra "Eat food -- not too much --   
   >    mostly plants."  More recently he wrote about his experiences   
   >    with therapeutic psychedelics.   
      
   Pollan   
      
   > 5. Perhaps the most popular American cookbook, for its emphasis on   
   >    making cooking accessible to middle-class women, was written by   
   >    Irma Rombauer and first published in 1936.  It has had 8 more   
   >    editions since then, the latest one updated by her grandson.   
   >    Name it.   
      
   The Joy of Cooking   
      
   > 6. Mark Kurlanksy has written many books on topics as diverse as   
   >    the history of paper and a biography of baseball player Hank   
   >    Greenberg.  One of Kurlanksy's food-related books is subtitled   
   >    "A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World".  The fish   
   >    in question was a major commercial species in this country up   
   >    until the early 1990s.  Name the fish.   
      
   cod   
      
   > 8. Name the 2000 tell-all book by Anthony Bourdain ["bore-DANE"]   
   >    about the reality of working in high-end restaurants.   
      
   Kitchen Confidential   
      
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   Dan Blum					         tool@panix.com	   
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