From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, February 17, 2024 at 1:31:06 AM UTC-6, 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.    
      
   Monroe   
       
   > 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.    
      
   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   
      
   > * 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*?    
      
   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?    
      
   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"   
      
   > 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?    
      
   "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"   
      
   > 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.    
      
   "The Rum Diaries"   
      
   > 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"   
      
   By the way, with Google Groups closing down its Usenet feed, I am going to   
   have to look for a new way to access this newsgroup. If I stop participating   
   in QFTCI this week, it will probably be due to that.   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
   gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
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