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   Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2024-02-05,   
   > and should be interpreted accordingly.   
   >   
   > On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give   
   > both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.   
   > Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,   
   > based only on your own knowledge.  (In your answer posting, quote   
   > the questions and place your answer below each one.)  I will reveal   
   > the correct answers in about 3 days.   
   >   
   > All questions were written by members of the Misplaced Modifiers   
   > and are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may   
   > have been retyped and/or edited by me.  The posting and tabulation   
   > of current-events questions is independent of the concurrent posting   
   > of other rounds.  For further information please see my 2023-05-24   
   > companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition   
   > (QFTCI*)".   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 2, Round 2 - Geography - UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage   
   >   
   > We're all familiar with UNESCO's World Heritage Sites, but UNESCO   
   > also has a registry of cultural activities that exemplify a   
   > national culture and form a part of world heritage -- everything   
   > from loincloth weaving in Côte d'Ivoire to opera training in Italy.   
   >   
   > In each case we'll give the intangible, and you tell what *country*   
   > that has been granted the designation.   
   >   
   > 1. Kirkpinar Oil Wrestling Festival: a tradition in this country   
   >     since 1360.   
   >   
   > 2. Capoeira dance: a mixed style of fighting and dancing.   
      
   Portugal; Brazil   
      
   >   
   > 3. Gamelan: a traditional percussion orchestra using hand-forged   
   >     metal gongs, cymbals, and other percussives.   
      
   Indonesia   
      
   >   
   > 4. Castells: these are human towers built by people, usually at   
   >     drunken festivals, standing on each other's shoulders up   
   >     to 35 feet.   
   >   
   > 5. Hurling: a field sport between two teams, dating back 2000 years.   
      
   Ireland   
      
   >   
   > 6. Cultural practices pertaining to the production and consumption   
   >     of couscous: these are traditional ceremonies surrounding the   
   >     preparation of this delicious dish.   
      
   Morocco   
      
   >   
   > 7. Washi: a traditional paper-making technique using the fibers   
   >     of the mulberry plant.   
   >   
   > 8. Rumba: music and dance combining elements of African, Antillean,   
   >     and Spanish cultures.   
      
   Brazil   
      
   >   
   > 9. Sauna culture: an integral part of the daily lives of the people   
   >     of this nation.   
      
   Finland   
      
   >   
   > 10. The culture of borscht cooking: memorialized in tradition and   
   >     song in this country.   
      
   Russia; Ukraine   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 2, Round 3 - Literature - Musicians Who Write   
   >   
   > A round about artists that are best known as musicians, but who have   
   > produced poetry or prose works (excluding memoirs).  In each case   
   > name that artist/writer.   
   >   
   > 1. This American author, musician, and self-described   
   >     "bluesologist", took two years off university to write "The   
   >     Vulture", the first of two novels, and received an MA in creative   
   >     writing in 1972.  His poetry covered issues like race relations   
   >     in the US, consumerism, hypocrisy, and ignorance, and morphed   
   >     into spoken-word recordings, the most famous of which was   
   >     "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised".   
      
   Gil Scott Heron   
      
   >   
   > 2. She is the co-author of a manga series about Princess Ai, a   
   >     winged amnesiac alien who finds herself in Tokyo.  The character,   
   >     just like the author, is a rock star in love with a sensitive   
   >     musician.  The author is best known as the lead singer of 1990's   
   >     grunge band Hole, and for her relationship with one the grunge   
   >     genre's leading lights.   
      
   Courtney Love   
      
   >   
   > 3. This American-born musician's interest in Kabbalah inspired her   
   >     to write a series of 7 children's picture books, beginning with   
   >     2003's "The English Roses".  She later co-wrote 12 chapter books   
   >     based on the original "English Roses" characters.  Musically,   
   >     she rose to fame in 1983 with a self-titled studio album and   
   >     is known for her constant reinvention.   
      
   Roseanne Cash; Bonnie Raitt   
      
   >   
   > 4. This British singer with a single name rose to fame in the   
   >     1980s fronting a band which specialized in angst-filled   
   >     lyrics about sexual longing and isolation over a jangly guitar   
   >     background.  He went solo in 1988.  His memoir was well received,   
   >     but his 2015 novel "List of the Lost" received negative reviews   
   >     and a Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction award.   
      
   Bono   
      
   >   
   > 5. This American songwriter and folk musician wrote a novel in   
   >     1947 not published until 2013, titled "House of Earth", about   
   >     the life of a couple in Dust Bowl America, which is unsurprising   
   >     as he was known as "The Dust Bowl Troubadour".  His 1943 novel   
   >     "Bound for Glory", a fictionalized autobiography, was much better   
   >     received and made into a movie in 1976 with David Carradine as   
   >     the folk singer.   
      
   Woodie Guthrie   
      
   >   
   > 6. This American pop musician with a cult following was living in   
   >     Key West and wanted to write a book that would read easily while   
   >     sitting on the beach.  The result was the 1992 novel, "Where is   
   >     Joe Merchant?"  He has written 7 books in total, including a 1989   
   >     short-story collection about laid-back living, aging beach bums,   
   >     and adventurers -- all the themes he sings about.   
      
   Jimmy Buffett   
      
   >   
   > 7. This British-American dramatist wrote the book or score -- and   
   >     sometimes both -- for many award-winning musicals of the last   
   >     40 years, including "The Mystery of Edwin Drood".  He adapted   
   >     Grisham's novel "A Time to Kill" for the stage in 2011.   
   >     He published his first novel "Where the Truth Lies" in 2003   
   >     and his second novel last year.  But, sadly, he'll be best   
   >     remembered for his 1979 hit song about a man who takes out a   
   >     personal ad to escape his boring marriage.   
   >   
   > 8. She is a flamboyant, immediately recognizable country musician   
   >     with a decades-long career and 3,000 songwriting credits,   
   >     who has also written cookbooks, children's books, memoirs,   
   >     and collections of poetry and lyrics.  She joined thriller   
   >     writer James Paterson in writing the 2022 novel "Run, Rose,   
   >     Run", about a singer who arrives in Nashville trying to escape   
   >     her past.   
      
   Dolly Parton   
      
   >   
   > 9. This Canadian musician was a published writer before he released   
   >     any music, having released two poetry collections and two   
   >     novels by 1966. In 1967 he moved to New York to begin a fabled   
      
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