From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 2/16/24 23:30, Mark Brader wrote:   
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   >   
   > * 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, Liberia   
      
   >   
   > 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 ND   
      
   >   
   > 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 WI   
      
   >   
   > 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 WA   
      
   >   
   > 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, New Zealand   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Leopoldville   
      
   >   
   > 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   
      
   >   
   > 10. The longest river in Canada is named for this Scottish   
   >     fur-trading businessman, who in his 1789 journal named it "River   
   >     of Disappointment" because it led to the Arctic instead of the   
   >     hoped-for Pacific Ocean.  Name the river.   
      
   MacKenzie   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 1, Round 8 - Literature - Food for Thought   
   >   
   > Terrible pun aside, food -- and food metaphors -- figures large   
   > in literature.  From Proust's madelines to Joyce's grilled   
   > mutton kidneys, food can symbolize any number of things.  In this   
   > round, all books mentioned will have food or drink in the title.   
   > There will be no plays, and no wordplay, so don't expect "Hamlet"   
   > "The Three Musketeers" to come up.   
   >   
   > 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   
      
   >   
   > 2. The bold and brilliant 11-year-old detective Flavia de Luce   
   >     made her debut in this, Alan Bradley's first novel for adults,   
   >     in 2009.  Bradley sold the book and two follow-ups based only   
   >     on a chapter and a synopsis.  What is the title of this period   
   >     mystery?   
   >   
   > 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*?   
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > 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)?   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 8. British author Jeannette Winterson's 1985 coming-of-age novel   
   >     straddles fiction and memoir.  The title, which states that   
   >     there is more than one type of healthy snack, is a metaphor   
   >     for the different choices and different directions children   
   >     can take from their parents.  What is the title?   
   >   
   > 9. This Hunter S.  Thompson novel never achieved the notoriety of   
   >     "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", possibly because, although it   
   >     was written in the early 1960s, it wasn't published until 1998.   
   >     The manuscript was found among Thompson's papers by none other   
   >     than actor Johnny Depp who produced and starred in the 2011   
   >     film adaptation, to mixed reviews.   
   >   
   > 10. This modern children's classic was written in 1978, but it   
   >     really took off when it was loosely adapted into a successful   
      
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