From: gromit82@hotmail.com
On Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 11:29:50 PM UTC-6, Mark Brader wrote:
> ** Game 8, Round 9 - Literature - Shakespeare
>
> 1. William Shakespeare was the author or co-author of about
> 38 plays. 36 of them were published in a single book in 1623,
> the first time this had been done. That's twice as many as had
> been individually published before, and the book also shows
> many variations from those earlier versions, so it's very
> important to literary historians. By what description is the
> book generally known?
First Folio
> 2. In , the plays are classified into three categories:
> comedies, tragedies, and what else?
histories
> 3. In which tragedy would you find the characters Benvolio,
> Mercutio, and Friar Laurence?
"Romeo and Juliet"
> 4. In which tragedy would you find the characters Goneril, Cordelia,
> and Regan?
"King Lear"
> 5. In which comedy would you find the characters Rosalind, Orlando,
> Celia, and Touchstone?
"As You Like It"
> 6. In which comedy would you find the characters Antipholus of
> Ephesus, Antipholus of Syracuse, Dromio of Ephesus, and Dromio
> of Syracuse?
"The Comedy of Errors"
> 7. Which character has the most lines in *any one* of Shakespeare's
> plays?
Hamlet
> 8. Which character has the most lines if *all* of Shakespeare's
> plays are counted together?
Falstaff
> 9. In which of Shakespeare's plays are the remains of two of the
> characters served to another character in the form of pie?
"Titus Andronicus"
> 10. In which of Shakespeare's plays does one of the characters
> magically transform another character's head into the head of
> an ass, which is to say, a donkey?
"A Midsummer Night's Dream"
> ** Game 8, Round 10 - Challenge Round
>
> * A. Geography: Passes
>
> A2. Name the pass on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border that
> has formed a vital part of trade routes since the days of
> the ancient Silk Road.
Khyber Pass
> * B. History: Failures
>
> B1. In 1911, while Roald Amundsen's expedition was forging across
> Antarctica to be first to reach the South Pole, a rival
> British expedition began the same journey, with determination
> that in their case exceeded their competence. They too
> reached the pole, about a month after Amundsen, but on the
> way back they all died. Who was the, uh, heroic(?) leader
> of this ill-fated expedition?
Scott
> * C. Science: Batteries
>
> C2. In etymologically correct technical language that size AAA
> alkaline battery isn't a "battery" at all, as that word
> refers to a combination of two or more of them. Before the
> word "battery" got established as common usage, what were
> we supposed to call just one of the things?
cell
> * D. Miscellaneous: Political Terms
>
> D1. What is it called when a party chooses a candidate from
> elsewhere to run in what they think is a safe district?
parachuting
> D2. What is it called when one party gets to adjust the
> electoral-district boundaries and uses this power to improve
> their own future chances?
gerrymandering
> * E. Leisure: Game Masters
>
> E1. The following people have been known for their mastery
> of what game? Alexander Alekhine, Mikhail Botvinnik,
> José Capablanca, Magnus Carlsen, Anatoly Karpov, Mikhail Tal.
chess
> E2. The following people have been known for their mastery of
> what game? Easley Blackwood, Ely Culbertson, Charles Goren,
> Oswald Jacoby, Alan Truscott, Zia Mahmood.
bridge
> * F. Literature: Complete the Title
>
> F1. Complete the title of this 1974 book by Robert Pirsig.
> The main title will do; you don't need to give the subtitle.
> "Zen and..."
"the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
> F2. The main title of this 2007 book by Stephen Colbert
> ["coal-BEAR"] is "I am America". Give the 4-word subtitle --
> punctuation marks not required.
"and You Can Too"
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Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com
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