| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Feb 10 06:41PM -0800 On Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 8:39:40 AM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > * Game 2, Round 4 - Canadian - Glenn Gould, Cultural Icon Pass > * Game 2, Round 6 - Literature > 1. According to some sources, the best-selling novel of all time > has sold over 500,000,000 copies. What is it? A Tale of Two Cities That's if you don't count the Bible > 2. Which one of her own characters did Agatha Christie call "a > detestable, bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little creep"? Hercule Poirot > 3. What word did Robert A. Heinlein introduce into the English > language in "Stranger in a Strange Land"? Robot? > title in what famous book? > 5. What American author, who lived 1920-2012, was purported to be > a descendant of one of the Salem witches? Gore Vidal > 6. For what offense were writers Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell > sent to prison in 1962? Indecency, Blasphemy > 7. What writer coined the phrase "ships that pass in the night"? > 8. In 2000, for the first time, the Nobel Prize for Literature > was given to an author who wrote primarily in *what language*? Arabic, Japanese > 9. In 1857, Thomas Hughes published what novel about life at the > British public school Rugby? Tom Brown's Schooldays > 10. Which country's authors have won more Nobel literature prizes > than any other, even the US? Ireland, UK > (And apparently someone had trouble counting to 10 questions, so...) > 11. Which English baron held the position of Poet Laureate longer > than anyone else, from 1850 to 1892? Alfred, Lord Tennyson cheers, calvin |
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