From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 5/15/24 14:36, Mark Brader wrote:   
   >   
   > * Game 8, Round 2 - Literature - As Book Titles Go, It Could've Been Verse   
   >   
   > Here are 10 questions about book titles that were lifted from   
   > well-known written verse.  For example, from Samuel 2 of the   
   > Old Testament:   
   >   
   >       "But the king covered his face, and cried aloud, 'O my son   
   >       , my son, my son!'  Then Joab came   
   >       into the house."   
   >   
   > And the answer would be "Absalom, Absalom!"   
   >   
   > Notes: Writers might repeat but the answers do not.  Answers may   
   > not use the original verse words verbatim.   
   >   
   > 1. From Genesis 4:16:   
   >   
   >     "And the Lord placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him   
   >     would kill him.  So Cain went out from the presence of the Lord   
   >     and settled in the land of Nod on the ."   
      
   East of Eden   
      
   >   
   > 2. From Ecclesiastes 3, verses 1-3:   
   >   
   >     "To everything there is a season,   
   >     A time for every purpose under heaven:   
   >     A time to be born,   
   >     And a time to die;   
   >     A time to plant,   
   >     And a time to pluck what is planted;   
   >        
   >     And a time to heal;   
   >     A time to break down,   
   >     And a time to build up".   
      
   A Time to Kill   
      
   >   
   > 3. From W.B. Yeats, "The Second Coming":   
   >   
   >     "Turning and turning in the widening gyre   
   >     The falcon cannot hear the falconer;   
   >     ; the centre cannot hold;   
   >     Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world".   
   >   
   > 4. From the "Battle Hymn of the Republic":   
   >   
   >     Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord,   
   >     He is trampling out the vintage where    
   >        are stored,   
   >     He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword,   
   >     His truth is marching on."   
      
   The Grapes of Wrath   
      
   >   
   > 5. From Ecclesiastes 1, verses 1-4:   
   >   
   >     "One generation passes away, and another generation comes;   
   >     But the earth abides forever.   
   >     , and the sun goes down,   
   >     And hastens to the place where it arose."   
      
   The Sun Also Rises   
      
   >   
   > 6. From Shakespeare's "Macbeth":   
   >   
   >     "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,   
   >     "That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,   
   >     "And then is heard no more. It is a tale   
   >     "Told by an idiot, full of ,   
   >     Signifying nothing."   
      
   Sound and Fury   
      
   >   
   > 7. From Robert Burns, "To a Mouse":   
   >   
   >     "But Mousie, thou art no thy-lane,   
   >     In proving foresight may be vain:   
   >     The best laid schemes    
   >     Gang aft agley,   
   >     An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain."   
      
   Of Mice and Men   
      
   >   
   > 8. From Frank Green's "Ten Little Soldiers":   
   >   
   >     "Two little Soldier Boys sitting in the sun;   
   >     One got frizzled up and then there was one.   
   >     One little Soldier Boy left all alone;   
   >     He went out and hanged himself ".   
      
   And Then There Was None   
      
   >   
   > 9. From the epic of Gilgamesh:   
   >   
   >     "I had the people of Uruk mourn and moan for you,   
   >     I filled happy people with woe over you,   
   >     and after you died, I let a filthy mat of hair grow over my body,   
   >     and  roamed the wilderness."   
   >   
   > 10. From Shakespeare's "Hamlet":   
   >   
   >     "Alas, poor Yorick!  I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of      Foster Wallace title>, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne   
   >     me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my   
   >     imagination it is!"   
      
   Infinite Jest   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 8, Round 3 - Entertainment - TV Show Quotes   
   >   
   > Identify the TV show from the catchphrase or quote.   
   >   
   > 1. "No soup for you!"   
      
   Seinfeld   
      
   > 3. "We were on a break!"   
   > 2. "Who loves ya, baby?"   
      
   Kojak   
      
   > 4. "Don't have a cow, man!"   
      
   The Simpsons   
      
   > 5. "Just one more thing..."   
      
   Columbo   
      
   > 6. "You come at the king, you best not miss."   
   >   
   > 7. "War isn't hell.  War is war, and Hell is hell.  And of the two,   
   >     war is a lot worse."   
   >   
   > 8. "Much as you try to bury it, the truth is out there.  Greater   
   >     than your lies, the truth wants to be known."   
      
   X-Files   
      
   >   
   > 9. "It's going to be legen-- wait for it, and I hope you're not   
   >     lactose intolerant, because the second half of the word is   
   >     'dary!'  Legendary!"   
   >   
   > 10. "I am not in danger, Skyler.  I *am* the danger.  A guy opens   
   >     his door and gets shot, and you think that's me?  No -- I am   
   >     the one who knocks!"   
   >   
      
   --   
   Dan Tilque   
      
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