Monday, May 03, 2021

Digest for rec.games.trivia@googlegroups.com - 4 updates in 1 topic

Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: May 02 02:05PM

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:0tKdncgU2rMEsBP9nZ2dnUU7-
> """played""" all of those characters.
 
> 4. Barbara Bush, Charlton Heston, Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, Susan
> the She-Male, Saddam Hussein.
 
Phil Hartman
 
> 5. Alfalfa, Chi-Chi, Geraldine Ferraro, Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
 
Mary Gross
 
> 6. Carnie Phillips, Matt Foley the motivational speaker, General
> Schwarzkopf, Tom Arnold.
 
Chris Farley

> 7. Beldar Conehead, Fred Garvin the male prostitute, Elwood Blues,
> Bob Widette.
 
Dan Aykroyd
 
> 10. Wayne Campbell, Middle-Aged Man, Lothar of the Hill People,
> Simon, Mick Jagger.
 
Mike Myers

 
> 1. Name the Marxist satirical playwright who won the Nobel Prize
> for Literature """last year""". His play "Accidental Death of
> an Anarchist" has been performed in English.
 
Fo

> was better known as a film director. His films included "The
> Gospel According to St. Matthew" and "The Canterbury Tales".
> Who?
 
Pasolini
 
> 3. What political and historical writer also wrote a comic play
> titled "The Mandragola"? Shakespeare knew about his political
> writings, but probably didn't know his play.
 
Machiavelli
 
> was the woman he loved, Beatrice, who showed him into Heaven.
> The second guide couldn't get into Heaven because he was not
> a Christian. Name him.
 
Virgil
 
> 5. Name the absurdist playwright and novelist who wrote "Six
> Characters in Search of an Author" and "Henry IV". He died
> in 1936.
 
Pirandello

> his life in Avignon, France, where he wrote poems to a woman
> named Laura. His name is associated with a type of sonnet.
> Who was he?
 
Petrarch
 
> story describes how these tales were composed in 1348 by a group
> of young Florentine men and women who wanted to amuse themselves
> after they fled their city. Why did they leave Florence?
 
to avoid a plague

> 10. Who """is""" the academic, journalist, and novelist who wrote
> "A Theory of Semiotics", "Travels in Hyperreality", and "The
> Name of the Rose"?
 
Eco
 
--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com
tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): May 02 03:00PM


> * Game 5, Round 2 - Entertainment - "Saturday Night Live" Characters
 
> 3. Blossom, Jan Brady, Tonya Harding, Tori Spelling.
 
Victoria Jackson
 
> 4. Barbara Bush, Charlton Heston, Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, Susan
> the She-Male, Saddam Hussein.
 
Phil Hartman
 
> 6. Carnie Phillips, Matt Foley the motivational speaker, General
> Schwarzkopf, Tom Arnold.
 
Chris Farley
 
> 7. Beldar Conehead, Fred Garvin the male prostitute, Elwood Blues,
> Bob Widette.
 
Dan Aykroyd
 
 
> 1. Name the Marxist satirical playwright who won the Nobel Prize
> for Literature """last year""". His play "Accidental Death of
> an Anarchist" has been performed in English.
 
Ionesco
 
> was better known as a film director. His films included "The
> Gospel According to St. Matthew" and "The Canterbury Tales".
> Who?
 
Pasolini; Antonioni
 
> 3. What political and historical writer also wrote a comic play
> titled "The Mandragola"? Shakespeare knew about his political
> writings, but probably didn't know his play.
 
Machiavelli
 
> was the woman he loved, Beatrice, who showed him into Heaven.
> The second guide couldn't get into Heaven because he was not
> a Christian. Name him.
 
Virgil
 
> 5. Name the absurdist playwright and novelist who wrote "Six
> Characters in Search of an Author" and "Henry IV". He died
> in 1936.
 
Pirandello
 
> his life in Avignon, France, where he wrote poems to a woman
> named Laura. His name is associated with a type of sonnet.
> Who was he?
 
Petrarch
 
> story describes how these tales were composed in 1348 by a group
> of young Florentine men and women who wanted to amuse themselves
> after they fled their city. Why did they leave Florence?
 
plague epidemic
 
> book in 1945 called "Christ Stopped at Eboli", describing the
> years he had to spend in a godforsaken southern Italian village.
> Why was he living in Eboli?
 
hiding from the Fascist government
 
> and whose works include "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler",
> "Mr. Palomar", "Invisible Cities", and a collection of Italian
> fables.
 
Italo Calvino
 
> 10. Who """is""" the academic, journalist, and novelist who wrote
> "A Theory of Semiotics", "Travels in Hyperreality", and "The
> Name of the Rose"?
 
Umberto Eco
 
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum tool@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: May 02 02:32PM -0700

On 5/1/21 9:42 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
> Schwarzkopf, Tom Arnold.
 
> 7. Beldar Conehead, Fred Garvin the male prostitute, Elwood Blues,
> Bob Widette.
 
Dan Aykroyd
 
> Candy Sweeney.
 
> 10. Wayne Campbell, Middle-Aged Man, Lothar of the Hill People,
> Simon, Mick Jagger.
 
Mike Myers
 
> 10. Who """is""" the academic, journalist, and novelist who wrote
> "A Theory of Semiotics", "Travels in Hyperreality", and "The
> Name of the Rose"?
 
Eco
 
--
Dan Tilque
Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com>: May 02 08:24PM -0500

Mark Brader wrote:
> """played""" all of those characters.
 
> 1. The Richmeister, k.d. lang, Soon-Yi Previn, Weed Guy.
 
> 2. Doug Whiner, Andy Rooney, Pokey, Jerry Lewis.
 
Joe Piscopo
 
 
> 3. Blossom, Jan Brady, Tonya Harding, Tori Spelling.
 
> 4. Barbara Bush, Charlton Heston, Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, Susan
> the She-Male, Saddam Hussein.
 
Phil Hartmann
 
 
> 5. Alfalfa, Chi-Chi, Geraldine Ferraro, Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
 
Dana Carvey
 
 
> 6. Carnie Phillips, Matt Foley the motivational speaker, General
> Schwarzkopf, Tom Arnold.
 
Chris Farley
 
 
> 7. Beldar Conehead, Fred Garvin the male prostitute, Elwood Blues,
> Bob Widette.
 
Dan Ayckroyd
 
> the NBC page.
 
> 9. Tammy Faye Bakker, Jessica Hahn, Marla Maples, Sinéad O'Connor,
> Candy Sweeney.
 
Julia Sweeney
 
 
> 10. Wayne Campbell, Middle-Aged Man, Lothar of the Hill People,
> Simon, Mick Jagger.
 
Mike Myers
 
> was better known as a film director. His films included "The
> Gospel According to St. Matthew" and "The Canterbury Tales".
> Who?
 
Visconti
 
> story describes how these tales were composed in 1348 by a group
> of young Florentine men and women who wanted to amuse themselves
> after they fled their city. Why did they leave Florence?
 
Bubonic Plague
 
 
> 10. Who """is""" the academic, journalist, and novelist who wrote
> "A Theory of Semiotics", "Travels in Hyperreality", and "The
> Name of the Rose"?
 
Pete Gayde
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