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Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com>: Sep 17 06:13PM -0500

Mark Brader wrote:
> In 1991 he left an estate valued at roughly $500,000,000.
> His birthday, March 2, has been adopted as the date for National
> Read Across America Day. Name this author.
 
Dr Seuss
 
> and Nietzsche. And the character also has a street named after
> him in Warsaw (Ulica Kubusia Puchatka) and another in Budapest
> (Micimackó utca). Name the character.
 
Winnie the Pooh
 
> time. One feature of this book is the wealth of detail in the
> illustrations. The entire story takes place in a single room.
> Give the title of this book.
 
Goodnight Moon
 
> for Canadian children's writers. The award """has been presented
> annually""" since 1963. In 2012 it was awarded to Paul Yee.
> Name the award.
 
Newberry
 
> in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. In many
> of the tales, animals speak and have human characteristics.
> Name this alleged author.
 
Aesop
 
> the work, in spite of the cruelty and violence in the original
> versions of some of the tales that were sanitized. Name the
> *men who collected* these folk tales.
 
Grimm brothers
 
> celebrated the British landscape and country life. The titles
> of most of her books begin with "The Tale of" or "The Story of".
> Who was this author?
 
Beatrix Potter
 
> is the author's best-known work. The first book is "The Lion,
> The Witch, and The Wardrobe"; the second is "Prince Caspian:
> The Return to Narnia". Name *any one* of the remaining 5 books.
 
The Sun Treader
 
> Looking Glass and What Alice Found There", "The Hunting of the
> Snark", "A Tangled Tale", and other works. Lewis Carroll was
> his nom de plume. What was this author's *real* name?
 
Dodgson
 
> cash in the award-winning 1980 movie "Atlantic City", starring
> Burt Lancaster. In 2001 he died during open-heart surgery.
> Who was he?
 
Peter Finch
 
> the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Before she
> died in 1979 she became a dual Canadian-American citizen.
> Who was this actress?
 
Pickford
 
> similar to an American actor whose real name was Marion Robert
> Morrison. What was the stage name of the Canadian actor,
> who died in 1990? First and last name required exactly.
 
David Wayne
 
 
> 6. This actor who was born in Toronto in 1883, and won an Oscar
> for Best Supporting Actor in for a 1948 movie directed by
> his son. He died in 1950. Who was he?
 
Ladd
 
 
> 8. At the age of 82, at the Academy Awards presentation for 2011,
> this Toronto-born actor became the oldest actor ever to win
> an Oscar. Who """is""" he?
 
Plummer
 
> role in "The Road to Avonlea". In 1991, at the age of 12,
> she caused controversy by wearing a peace sign at an awards
> ceremony, to protest the first Gulf War. Who """is""" she?
 
Pete Gayde
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