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Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 1, Round 7 - Geography - Places Named After Famous People
> 1. Besides Washington, DC, there's only one other capital city in
> the world that's named after an American president. It's located
> in West Africa. Name either the city or that president.
Monrovia
> 2. Let's go the other way. What is the only US state capital
> which is named for a foreign statesman? It was done in an
> attempt to attract German capital for railway building.
Bismarck
> 3. This beautiful Upper-Midwest US state capital, situated on an
> isthmus separating two lakes, was named in late 1836 after
> the 4th US president, who had died just 5 months earlier.
> He was president during the War of 1812. Name the capital.
Madison
> 4. The next one is not a state capital, but rather the largest city
> within this US state in the Pacific Northwest. The city is
> named for the chief of the Duwamish and Squamish people, a chief
> who is better remembered for his environmentalist speeches.
> Name the city.
Seattle
> 5. John Montagu, a British earl, lent his hereditary title to a
> group of central Pacific islands (since renamed), as well as
> a suburb of Windsor, Ontario. What was he the Earl of?
Sandwich
> 6. Another British statesman and famous military leader lent his
> family name to a downtown street and subway station in Toronto;
> however, he lent his hereditary title to the capital of a nation
> in Australasia. Name that capital.
Wellington
> 7. This city, the second largest in Afghanistan, was named in 330 BC
> after a foreign conqueror. The second-largest city in Egypt is
> also named for this leader, but we want the Afghan city name,
> which is a local variant of the leader's name.
Kandahar
> 8. During colonial times, this capital city in Africa was named
> after the king of the colonizing country. In fact, the colony
> was considered his private kingdom. Since independence, the
> capital city has been renamed. It has the largest number of
> French-speakers in the world. Give either the old colonial
> name or the new name.
Brazzaville
> 9. It was Tsaritsyn until 1925, and then Stalingrad from 1925
> to 1961. Finally, Nikita Kruschev removed that name as part of
> his de-Stalinization process. What is the city's current name,
> referencing the river it lies on?
Volgograd
> * Game 1, Round 8 - Literature - Food for Thought
> 1. John Steinbeck's towering work of social commentary is the story
> of the Joad ["Jode"] family, travelling across the Dust Bowl
> in the 1930's. It was hugely successful, winning the Pulitzer
> Prize and National Book Award in 1940 and adapted into an
> Oscar-winning film the same year. What is the title?
The Grapes of Wrath
> 3. This children's author, one of the world's most famous, described
> food with gusto. From the names of characters like Henry Sugar
> and Veruca Salt to books about giant peaches and chocolate
> factories, there's simply too many food-titled books and
> stories by this British-Norwegian writer to name just one.
> Who is the *author*?
Roald Dahl
> 4. This much beloved British author's best-known series contains
> five novels and is known as "the increasingly inaccurate
> Hitchhiker's trilogy." The one that fits our category is
> book #4 -- "So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish". But who is
> the author?
Douglas Adams
> 5. "The Price of Salt", a lesbian romance published in 1952, was
> written by "Claire Morgan" -- a pseudonym for Patricia
> Highsmith of "The Talented Mr. Ripley" fame and based, loosely,
> on incidents from her own life. It wasn't until 1990 that the
> book was republished under her own name -- and with a new title.
> In 2015, it was adapted into a prestige film starring Cate Blanchett
> and Rooney Mara. The movie's title does not mention food or drink --
> what is it?
Carol
> 6. Mexican author Laura Esquivel's novel of romance, family,
> tradition, and magical realism was a hit both in her native
> country and internationally in 1989. Each chapter concludes
> with a recipe, carrying the food theme even further. The title
> refers to turbulent, bubbling feelings ready to boil over.
> What is the title (in English)?
Like Water for Chocolate
> 7. This 1987 novel by Fannie Flagg is a classic of folksy Americana,
> but with a same-sex romance among its entwined stories of
> friendship and love. The novel's profile was boosted by the
> phenomenal success of the 1991 film adaptation. Give *either*
> the title of the book or the movie.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe
> 10. This modern children's classic was written in 1978, but it
> really took off when it was loosely adapted into a successful
> animated children's movie in 2009. Its plot centers around
> an eccentric inventor who accidentally creates a machine that
> creates storms not of rain, but of food. What's the title?
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
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