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   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 7, Round 2 - Entertainment - Irish Celebrities   
      
   > 1. Born in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, in 1952, he's a   
   >    well-respected actor who's done drama in "Schindler's List",   
   >    action in "Taken", and space opera in "Star Wars".   
      
   Liam Neeson   
      
   > 3. Born in County Donegal in 1961, this reclusive singer-songwriter   
   >    is still the best-selling Irish solo artist of all time,   
   >    even though her most successful album, "A Day Without Rain",   
   >    was released 24 years ago.   
      
   Sinead O'Connor   
      
   > 7. Born in 1920 in Dublin, she was given the nickname "The Queen   
   >    of Technicolor" because the camera loved her bright red hair.   
   >    Her biggest movies of the 1940s are "How Green was My Valley"   
   >    and "Miracle on 34th Street".   
      
   Maureen O'Hara   
      
   > 9. Born in 1994 in New York City to Irish immigrants, she and her   
   >    family returned to Dublin when she was 3 years old.  She was   
   >    only 12 when she was cast in "Atonement", and her impressive   
   >    filmography includes "Lady Bird" and "Little Women".   
      
   Ronan   
      
   > 10. Born 1953 in County Louth, this elegant actor rose to fame as   
   >    TV detective Remington Steele.  He remains the only Irish actor   
   >    to play the world's most famous spy.   
      
   Pierce Brosnan   
      
   > * Game 7, Round 3 - Literature - Post-Apocalyptic Fiction   
      
   > 1. Max Brooks, 2006.  The book is a series of individual documents   
   >    and accounts of desperate struggle during and after the   
   >    devastating global battle against the zombie plague.  It's   
   >    narrated by a member of the United Nations Postwar Commission.   
      
   World War Z   
      
   > 2. Douglas Adams, 1979.  Alien bureaucrats demolish Earth to make   
   >    way for a hyperspace bypass, to the chagrin of the protagonist,   
   >    Arthur Dent.  He ends up in a series of cosmic misadventures   
   >    with a travel writer, a depressed robot, and many others.   
      
   The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy   
      
   > 3. Richard Matheson, 1954.  Robert Neville is the only unaffected   
   >    survivor of a global pandemic that has turned the world's   
   >    population into vampire-like zombies.  He studies their   
   >    physiology with a view to killing them all.  But will that make   
   >    him the good guy or the bad guy?   
      
   I Am Legend   
      
   > 4. Nevil Shute, 1957.  The novel follows a group of people   
   >    in Melbourne, Australia, as they await the arrival of deadly   
   >    radiation from the northern hemisphere, after a nuclear war.   
   >    Each person deals with their impending death differently.   
      
   On the Beach   
      
   > 5. Margaret Atwood, 2003.  A genetically-modified virus wipes out   
   >    most of the population, except for small groups of child-like   
   >    herbivorous humans who were specially created to survive it.   
   >    Unaffected by the virus, a man called Snowman tries to survive,   
   >    pursued by strange hybrid animals.  Flashbacks explain how a   
   >    world dominated by bio-corporations made all this possible.   
      
   Oryx & Crake   
      
   > 6. Emily St. John Mandel, 2014.  The Georgia Flu devastates the   
   >    world, including Toronto.  20 years later, members of a nomadic   
   >    group of actors and musicians known as the Traveling Symphony   
   >    encounter a violent cult, led by a man who is unknowingly linked   
   >    to a member of the troupe through a mysterious graphic novel.   
      
   Station Eleven   
      
   > 7. P.D. James, 1992.  It's England in 2021, following a mass   
   >    infertility event.  Tyranny and fertility checks are the norm, as   
   >    not a single baby has been born in a very long time.  The story   
   >    follows the cousin of the dictator, as he joins a small group   
   >    of resistors who don't share the despair of the masses.   
      
   Children of Men   
      
   > 8. David Brin, 1985.  Gordon Crantz wanders post-apocalyptic Oregon,   
   >    scavenges the old uniform of a long-dead government worker,   
   >    and falsely claims to represent the "Restored United States",   
   >    bringing hope to the survivors.  Eventually he joins a group   
   >    of scientists, indigenous people, and villagers, to help them   
   >    organize the fight against violent survivalist militias and   
   >    maybe, actually, restore the nation.   
      
   The Postman   
      
   > 9. John Wyndham, 1951.  Most people in the world are blinded   
   >    by an apparent meteor shower.  A mysterious species of mobile   
   >    3-legged carnivorous plant, widely grown for its valuable oil,   
   >    starts stinging the blind survivors and devouring them.   
      
   The Day of the Triffids   
      
   > 10. James Dashner, 2009.  Solar flares have scorched the Earth.   
   >    Viruses have been released by a wicked corporation to reduce   
   >    the population and save resources.  A group of teenagers find   
   >    themselves in a giant ever-changing labyrinth that they must   
   >    escape, as part of an evil experiment intended to find a cure   
   >    to the mental illness afflicting most of the survivors.   
      
   The Maze Runner   
      
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