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* QFTCI5GNM Final Round 3: Arts & Literature - 1 messages, 1 author
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* Rotating Quiz #13, April 26 - 1 messages, 1 author
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* Calvin's Quiz #121 - 2 messages, 2 authors
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TOPIC: QFTCI5GNM Final Round 3: Arts & Literature
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/9fe95824c2618833?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 26 2011 9:21 pm
From: Marc Dashevsky
In article <PPudndNAzfQV0CvQnZ2dnUVZ_judnZ2d@vex.net>, msb@vex.net says...
> ** Final, Round 3 - Arts & Literature
>
> * Alliteratively Named Choreographers
>
> In each case, name the alliteratively named choreographer.
>
> 1. At 6 feet 6=3F inches (1.99 m), this choreographer/director is
> unusually tall for a dancer. Over the course of his career,
> he has won 9 Tony Awards, including two in 1983, one for
> Best Actor in a Musical and one for Best Choreography for
> "My One and Only".
>
> 2. In a single year he choreographed "42nd Street", "Footlight
> Parade", and "Gold Diggers of 1933".
Busbee Berkeley
> 3. He was an American choreographer and activist who is
> credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing
> African-American participation. His choreographic masterpiece
> "Revelations" is believed to be the best known and most
> often seen modern dance performance.
Alvin Ailey
> * Top 100 Crime and Mystery Novels
>
> In 1990, the British-based Crime Writers' Association (CWA)
> published its list of the Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time, and
> in 1995 the US-based Mystery Writers of America (MWA) followed
> suit with its Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time. We'll give
> you the title and date of a novel, and its rank on both lists;
> you name the author.
>
> 4. "The Daughter of Time" (1951): CWA #1, MWA #4.
>
> 5. "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1934): CWA #30, MWA #14.
>
> 6. "The Mask of Dimitrios" (1939), also known as "A Coffin for
> Dimitrios": CWA #24, MWA #17.
>
>
> * Plagiarism Controversies
>
> 7. In 1892, this author was accused of plagiarizing Margaret
> T. Canby's story "The Frost Fairies" in her short story "The
> Frost King". The author was brought before a tribunal of
> the Perkins Institute for the Blind, where she was acquitted
> by a single vote. Name her.
Helen Keller (it must be)
> 8. In 1978, this author was sued for plagiarism by Harold
> Courlander, author of the novel "The African". The author
> reportedly paid Mr. Courlander $650,000 in an out-of-court
> settlement. Name the author, or his novel that contained
> the allegedly plagiarized material.
Alex Haley
> 9. This American politician was forced to withdraw from the 1988
> Democratic US Presidential Nominations when it was alleged
> that he had failed a 1965 introductory law school course on
> legal methodology due to plagiarism. This did not impact
> too much on his long-term political career however, as he
> was elected 4 more times to the Senate before having to
> resign his seat to fill his current role. Name him.
Joe Biden
> * 20th Century Painters
>
> In each case, name the painter.
>
> 10. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/fi.03/art/10.jpg
> 11. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/fi.03/art/11.jpg
> 12. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/fi.03/art/12.jpg
Usually I surprise myself about how many of the artworks I can identify.
> * Banned Books
>
> 13. Written between 1958 and 1968, the 3-volume work "The Gulag
> Archipelago", a nonfiction account of Soviet forced-labor
> camps, was banned by the Soviet Union, but in 2009 it was
> added to the Russian high school curriculum. Name the author.
Solzhenitsyn
> 14. The 1981 novel "July's People" was banned in apartheid-era
> South Africa but is now part of the school curriculum.
> Name the Nobel-laureate author.
>
> 15. The 1959 novel "Naked Lunch" was banned by Boston courts
> in 1962 for obscenity, a ruling that was reversed in 1966.
> Name the author.
William Burroughs
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TOPIC: Rotating Quiz #13, April 26
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/3d1048954e452b8e?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 26 2011 9:31 pm
From: Marc Dashevsky
In article <2011042621135328188-johnmasters@mecom>, johnmasters@me.com says...
> Continuing with the theme of Seven I present Rotating Quiz #13, April 26
>
> Post your answers in this thread, based only on your own knowledge.
>
> You have 5 days from the instant of posting to answer.
>
> Please place each answer on a separate line after quoting the
> corresponding question.
>
> 1. Which German mathematician & astronomer was born in 1777?
Gauss
> 2.Who directed the film "Se7en"?
Fincher
> 3. In which year was "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" published? I will accept
> either of two answers and a year either side of each.
>
> 4. Which artist, probably best known as a singer/songwriter, published
> in 1972 a collection of poetry entitled "Seventh Heaven"?
>
> 5.Of the seven Greek Muses which is the muse of comedy?
>
> 6. Which heavy metal band recorded the album "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son"?
Led Zeppelin
> 7. What was the nickname of the hair obsessed parking valet in "77 Sunset Strip"?
Kookie
> 8. Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Envy, Pride. What's missing?
Nose picking
> 9. One of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Colossus of
> Rhodes is a statue of which Greek God?
Zeus
> 10. Which Roman legend was the basis of a short story by Stephen
> Vincent Benét which itself formed the basis of the film "Seven Brides
> for Seven Brothers"?
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TOPIC: Calvin's Quiz #121
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/13cc157c0e0b74e4?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 26 2011 9:37 pm
From: Marc Dashevsky
In article <op.vukk3oeeyr33d7@04233-jyhzp1s.staff.ad.bond.edu.au>, calvin@phlegm.com says...
> 1 Who played Magnum PI in the 1980s TV series of that name?
Tom Selleck
> 2 To the nearest 10 million, what is the population of Germany?
70,000,000
> 3 Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd co-starred in which 1999 thriller?
> 4 St Basil's Cathedral is located in which European capital city?
> 5 Who co-starred with Robert Culp in the 1960s TV series I Spy?
Bill Cosby
> 6 Which Middle Eastern country's national sporting teams regularly compete in the European zone?
Israel
> 7 Which Hindu deity is often depicted as being blue and having four arms?
Vishnu
> 8 Who is the apparent successor to Kim Jong-Il in North Korea?
his son
> 9 In which 1995 Oscar winning film was the title character played by more than 40 different cast members?
> 10 Which Austrian painted the 1908 work The Kiss?
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== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Apr 27 2011 12:14 am
From: Erland Sommarskog
Calvin (calvin@phlegm.com) writes:
> 2 To the nearest 10 million, what is the population of Germany?
85 million
> 4 St Basil's Cathedral is located in which European capital city?
London
> 6 Which Middle Eastern country's national sporting teams regularly
> compete in the European zone?
Israel
> 7 Which Hindu deity is often depicted as being blue and having four
> arms?
Shiva
> 8 Who is the apparent successor to Kim Jong-Il in North Korea?
His younger son whose surname also is Kim of course, but I don't remember
his first name. (Which in case of a Koran is the last name.)
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
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