From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 2, Round 2 - Geography - UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage   
   >   
   > 1. Kirkpinar Oil Wrestling Festival: a tradition in this country   
   >    since 1360.   
      
   Scotland   
      
   > 2. Capoeira dance: a mixed style of fighting and dancing.   
      
   Brazil   
      
   > 4. Castells: these are human towers built by people, usually at   
   >    drunken festivals, standing on each other's shoulders up   
   >    to 35 feet.   
      
   Spain   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Morroco   
      
   > 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   
      
   > * Game 2, Round 3 - Literature - Musicians Who Write   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Courrney Hole   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Madonna   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Morrisey   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Brian Wilson   
      
   > 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   
      
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