BAQC Literature Quiz 2014

2014 BAQC Literature Quiz

Nisha Pillai & Vinod ViswanathSeptember 28, 2014

OVERVIEW: In Pictures (8 Qs, Written Round)

Places (8 Qs)Theme 1 (8 + 1 Qs) Written Word (16 Qs) (Infinite Bounce, No Pounce)Theme 2 (8 + 1 Qs)Inside The Book (8 Qs)

A Baker’s DOZEN (13 + 1 Qs, Written Round)

“ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE. THE QM ISTHE PERSON. THEY HAVE THE VOTE.”

DON’T LET ME DETAIN YOU

IN PICTURES (8) - QUESTIONS+10 each, no negatives.

Occasional bonus points available.

Written round.

PICTURES: QUESTION 1

WHO?

#ganapathystylz

30 seconds

Q1


What happens next?

Original caption, for 10 extra points.

30 seconds

Q2


Where? Artist?

30 seconds

Q3


FITB.

30 seconds

Q4


Supposedly the precursor to what modern practice?

30 seconds

Q5


WHO? #ganapathystylz30 seconds

Q6


WHO? #ganapathystylz

Extra 10 points for identifying the illustrator

30 seconds

Q7


Name that « great new story »

30 seconds

Q8

EXCHANGE SHEETS

IN PICTURES (8) - ANSWERS+10 each, no negatives.


Written round.


WHO?

#ganapathystylz

A young man--we can sketch his portrait at a dash. Imagine to yourself a Don Quixote of eighteen; a Don Quixote without his corselet, without his coat of mail, without his cuisses; a Don Quixote clothed in a wooden doublet, the blue color of which had faded into a nameless shade between lees of wine and a heavenly azure; face long and brown; high cheek bones, a sign of sagacity; the maxillary muscles enormously developed, an infallible sign by which a Gasconmay always be detected, even without his cap--and our young man wore a cap set off with a sort of feather; the eye open and intelligent; the nose hooked, but finely chiseled. Too big for a youth, too small for a grown man, an experienced eye might have taken him for a farmer's son upon a journey had it not been for the long sword which, dangling from a leather baldric, hit against the calves of its owner as he walked, and against the rough side of his steed when he was on horseback.

D’Artagnan, riding into town

(original illustration from the first chapter of Three Musketeers)

PICTURES: ANSWER 1


What happens next?

Original caption, for 10 extra points.

PICTURES: ANSWER 2

Next, Sir Henry Baskerville is attacked by the Hound.

Original caption: HE LOOKED ROUND HIM IN SURPRISE AS HE EMERGED INTO THE CLEAR, STARLIGHT NIGHT.

The Strand Magazine, March 1902


Where? Artist?

PICTURES: ANSWER 3

Rivendell,Looking East

ByJ.R.R.Tolkien


FITB.

PICTURES: ANSWER 4

FITB.


Supposedly the precursor to what modern practice?

PICTURES: ANSWER 5



PICTURES: ANSWER 6

"Chauvelin looked at him as he lay there, placid,

unconscious, at peace with all the world and himself."

"I vow I never thought of meeting you here."

Chauvelin & Percy Blakeney, from The Scarlet

Pimpernel



Extra 10 points for identifying the illustrator

PICTURES: ANSWER 7

Princess Flavia & Rudolph RassendyllPrisoner of Zenda

Illustrator: Charles Dana Gibson, creator of the Gibson Girl


Name that « great new story »

PICTURES: ANSWER 8

Serialized May – July 1886

PLACES (8)+10 each, no negatives.

Bonus points at QM’s discretion.

Infinite bounce, no pounce.

This map shows the North Sea coast of Scotland around the Firth of Dundee, including the town of Arbroath, which has had an Abbey since 1178. A local legend about one of the abbotts was immortalized in the early 1800s. The basic theme of the published work is that bad things happen to people who do bad things. What am I talking about?

PLACES: QUESTION 1Q9

PLACES QUESTION 1: DETAIL

1 minute

…

When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell,The Mariners heard the warning Bell;And then they knew the perilous Rock,And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok

…

ANSWER:

Inchcape Rock (1802)

Robert Southey

The legendary bell never existed. Bell Rock Lighthouse was completed in 1810. PLACES: ANSWER 1

The man who owned this house found the skin and bones of a Giant Sloth in a cave, beautifully preserved by the cold, dryness and salt. He sent the lot to England to sell it to the British Museum. However, he saved a scrap of the skin and mailed it to his cousin in England as a souvenir. She put it in a cabinet of curiosities in her dining room. What resulted, many years later?

PLACES: QUESTION 2

#nishastylz

Q10

PLACES QUESTION 2: DETAIL

#nishastylz

1 minute

PLACES: ANSWER 2

“In my grandmother’s dining-room there was a glass-fronted cabinet and in the cabinet a piece of skin. It was a small piece only, but thick and leathery, with strands of coarse, reddish hair. It was stuck to a card with a rusty pin. On the card was some writing in faded black ink, but I was too young then to read.

‘What’s that?’

‘A piece of brontosaurus.’”

ANSWER: In Patagonia.

The house is Castillo Milward in Punta Arenas, home of Charlie Milward the sailor.

There was a student in Leipzig, who used to see two paintings in his favorite bar. Both paintings dated from 1625 and depicted a local legend: one showed a magician / astrologer drinking with students in that tavern, and the other showed that same magician riding out of the tavern on a barrel. How did the student immortalize the tavern and the paintings? Who was the student?

PLACES: QUESTION 3

FOR ILLUSTRATION ONLY

Q11

1 minute

PLACES: ANSWER 3

Answer: Goethe. Faust contains a scene named “Auerbach’s Keller in Leipzig”, it is the first place Mephisto takes Faust on their travels. Today, at the entrance to Auerbach’s Keller are two statues: “Mephisto & Faust” and “Bewitched Students”

These are scenes from a small English village named Stoke Poges. What was written here?

PLACES: QUESTION 4

Post-war, same building, steeple removed

Pre-World War I

Q12

1 minute

Church: St. Giles

(Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray)

Golf Course: Stoke Park

(Brave New World, Inspector Lynley, Goldfinger (movie))

PLACES: ANSWER 4

PLACES: QUESTION 5

This was the home of a famous institution from the reign of Edward III (1327 – 1377) until its dissolution in 1875.

The standard English language, as written and spelled today, is an unintended outcome of the workings of this institution.

Name that institution, which became famous for its inefficiency.

Which path-breaking novel is said to have spurred the movement for its dissolution?

Q13

1 minute

PLACES: QUESTION 5

Westminster Hall, home of the Court of Chancery.

Famously portrayed in Bleak House

Jarndyce v. Jarndyce

A real-life Chancery case, Acton Miser Jennens v. Jennens, ran for 117 years starting in 1798. It was finally abandoned in 1915 when the estate funds were exhausted.

PLACES: QUESTION 6

Whose house? Painter (of the picture, not the house)?

Put funda, for bonus points.

part#nishastylz

Q14

1 minute

PLACES: ANSWER 6

La Chascona, the house that Neruda built for Matilde Urrutia in Santiago.

Portrait by Rivera.

Bonus: Neruda’s profile can be seen in Matilde’s curls (look right from her eyes for the nose)

PLACES: QUESTION 7

Whose home, “at the foot of the Ngong Hills”?

Also, name that place on the map.

Q15

1 minute

PLACES: ANSWER 7

I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. – Out of Africa, 1937

Karen Blixen a.k.a Isak Dinesen

PLACES: QUESTION 8

Where? Claim to fame?

#ganapathystylz

Q16

1 minute

PLACES: ANSWER 8

Green Gables Farm

on Prince Edward Island

THEME 1 (8 + 1)

Answer each question. Eight questions. Infinite bounce, no pounce. Answers connect to a theme: see question 9.THEME IS WRITTEN.

+10, no negatives.+ 10 bonus for getting all 8 correct.

Scoring for theme: – Graded score: +40 first two, +30 next two, +20 next two, +10 last three. – - 10 for each incorrect attempt. No limit on number of attempts.

Name the author and the work.

This work provided the first example of this 'concept' in literature

“a person with a high level of intelligence and perception, being able to easily adapt to new situations, use cunning to his own gain, disrespect to authority, possibly arrogant and cynical, a self-destructive indulgence in self which might lead to a need to seducing women...”

The author also used this work to criticize the theft of certain statues and other items from the Parthenon between 1801 and 1812 by Lord Elgin (famously known as the Elgin marbles)

This work is dedicated to “lanthe” – Lady Charlotte Harley, the great-great-grandmother of Francis Bacon.

THEME: QUESTION 1Q17

1 minute

Lord Byron

Byronic hero

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

Lord Elgin / Elgin marbles

Cold is the heart, fair Greece! that looks on Thee,Nor feels as lovers o'er the dust they lov'd;Dull is the eye that will not weep to seeThy walls defac'd, thy mouldering shrines remov'dBy British hands, which it had best behov'dTo guard those relics ne'er to be restored.Curst be the hour when from their isle they rov'd,And once again thy hapless bosom gor'd,And snatch'd thy shrinking Gods to Northern climes abhorr'd!

Connect: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

THEME: ANSWER 1

Name the author.

Talking about poor children in Ireland being a burden on their parents and the country in general:

“I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ...”

Wrote incessantly about death in his last years, and wrote his own epitaph in Latin. W. B. Yeats’ translation:

Swift has sailed into his rest;

Savage indignation there

Cannot lacerate his breast.

Imitate him if you dare,

World-besotted traveller; he

Served human liberty.THEME: QUESTION 2

Q18

1 minute

Name the author. The V. Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift

Talking about poor children in Ireland being a burden on their parents and the country in general, in A Modest Proposal:

“I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ...”

Wrote incessantly about death in his last years, and wrote his own epitaph in Latin. W. B. Yeats’ translation:

Swift has sailed into his rest;

Savage indignation there

Cannot lacerate his breast.

Imitate him if you dare,

World-besotted traveller; he

Served human liberty.THEME: ANSWER 2

THEME: ANSWER 2

The vermin only teaze and pinchTheir foes superior by an inch.So, naturalists observe, a fleaHas smaller fleas that on him prey;And these have smaller still to bite 'em,And so proceed ad infinitum.Thus every poet, in his kind,Is bit by him that comes behind:Who, though too little to be seen,Can teaze, and gall, and give the spleen;Call dunces, fools, and sons of whores,Lay Grub Street at each other's doors;Extol the Greek and Roman masters,And curse our modern poetasters;Complain, as many an ancient bard did,How genius is no more rewarded;How wrong a taste prevails among us;How much our ancestors outsung us:Can personate an awkward scornFor those who are not poets born;And all their brother dunces lash,Who crowd the press with hourly trash.

Connect: Jonathan Swift On Poetry: A Rhapsody

His last words are said to have been, "There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly."

He bowed to his captors, leaning his head out of the litter in agladiatorial gesture to ease the task. By baring his neck and throatto the soldiers, he was indicating that he wouldn't resist.

According to Plutarch, Herennius first slew him, then cut off his head. On Antony's instructions his hands, which had penned the Philippics against Antony, were cut off as well; these were nailed along with his head on the Rostra in the Forum Romanum according to the tradition ofMarius and Sulla, both of whom had displayed the heads of theirenemies in the Forum.

According to Cassius Dio (in a story often mistakenly attributed to Plutarch), Antony's wife Fulvia took his head, pulled out his tongue, and jabbed it repeatedly with her hairpin in final revenge against his power of speech.


THEME: QUESTION 3

1 minute

Cicero

Catiline Orations is the connect.

THEME: ANSWER 3

What’s the good word?And when _____ saw that through laying on of hands, the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them_____, saying 'Give me also this power that on whomsoever I lay my hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost’. But Peter said unto him ‘Thy _____ perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God ______________________


THEME: QUESTION 4

THEME: QUESTION 4

THEME: QUESTION 4

1 minute

What’s the good word?And when Simon saw that through laying on of hands, the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, saying 'Give me also this power that on whomsoever I lay my hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost’. But Peter said unto him ‘Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money

THEME: ANSWER 4

What’s the good word? SIMONYAnd when Simon saw that through laying on of hands, the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, saying 'Give me also this power that on whomsoever I lay my hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost’. But Peter said unto him ‘Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money

THEME: ANSWER 4

Connect to Theme: Pope / Papal coronations

Famous painting from a series by Delacroix, currently at the Louvre.

At the sight of the skull, one of these men says to another:

“Alas, poor ______! I knew him, _______; a fellow of ______ ______, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!”

FITB.


1 minute

“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!”

THEME: ANSWER 5

Name the person.

According to the Aeneid, he was the only one to warn the Trojans about the horse. Later stories say Athena was angered by his suspicion and warning, and shook the ground under him and blinded him. When he continued to suggest that the wooden horse be burned down, Athena in conjunction with Poseidon wreaked further havoc on him and his sons.

John Dryden's translation of his death as described in the Aeneid:With both his hands he labors at the knots;His holy fillets the blue venom blots;His roaring fills the flitting air around.Thus, when an ox receives a glancing wound,He breaks his bands, the fatal altar flies,And with loud bellowings breaks the yielding skies.


1 minute

THEME: ANSWER 6

Connect: Laocoön

Laocoön – Vatican (L) and Uffizi (R)

Connect.


THEME: QUESTION 7

THEME: QUESTION 7

THEME: QUESTION 7

THEME: QUESTION 7

THEME: QUESTION 7

1 minute

Tranformations/Metamorphoses

Theme connect: Ovid

THEME: QUESTION 7

Apollo and Daphne

Pygmalion

Echo and Narcissus

Circe and the swine

Transmogrified Calvin

Identify the phrase.

• Christopher Marlowe in The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus: – "Faustus had signed his life away, and was, _____, incapable of

repentance“

• George Orwell in Down and Out in Paris and London:

– "These prejudices are rooted in the idea that every tramp ______ is a

blackguard"

• Example in my Brewer’s– By burning the papal bull Luther _____ denied the Pope’s supremacy

It is a term of art used in philosophy, law, and science.


1 minute

Identify the phrase: ipso facto

• Christopher Marlowe in The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus: – "Faustus had signed his life away, and was, ipso facto, incapable of

repentance“

• George Orwell in Down and Out in Paris and London:

– "These prejudices are rooted in the idea that every tramp ipso facto is

a blackguard"

• Example in my Brewer’s– By burning the papal bull Luther ipso facto denied the Pope’s

supremacy

It is a term of art used in philosophy, law, and science.

THEME: ANSWER 8

THEME: CONNECTIONS RECAP

CONNECT FOR THEME

Byron Swift

Cicero Papal Coronation

Hamlet Laocoön

ipso factoOvid

Q25

1 minute

THEME: REVEAL ANSWER

Theme: Asterix Quotes

Lord Byron’s Childe Harold’s PilgrimageAsterix in Belgium

The feast is also a parody of Pieter Brughel’s Peasant Wedding Feast

THEME: ANSWER 1 CONNECTION

Nearer, clearer, deadlier than before…And there is a sound of revelry by night.

Big fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite 'em, and little has lesser fleas and so ad infinitum.

Jonathan Swift in On Poetry: A Rhapsody


Jonathan SwiftAsterix and Son

CiceroAsterix and Chieftain’s Shield


O tempora, O moresCicero in the Catiline Orations

sic transit gloria mundi (thus passes the glory of the world)

Used in the ritual of papal coronation ceremonies between 1409 (when it was used at the coronation of Alexander V) and 1963.

The pope would be stopped thrice in his coronation procession and each time as the cloth burned, he would say "Sancte Pater, sic transit gloria mundi!” signifying the transitory nature of life and earthly honors.


Papal Coronation/PopeAsterix and the Magic Carpet

HamletAsterix and Caesar’s Gift


Fat, and scant of breath O! that this too solid flesh would melt Give us the foils! A hit, a very palpable hit.

LaocoönAsterix the Legionary

Tragicomix … with a ‘T’ as in timeo danaos et dona ferentes?


"Do not trust the Horse, Trojans / Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts."

Ovid and parodied Shakespearean antithesis


Video meliora, proboque, deteriora sequorI see better things, and approve, but I follow worse

OvidAsterix and the Goths

Ipso facto


ipso factoAsterix the Gaul

WRITTEN WORD(16)+10 each, no negatives

Occasional bonus points available

Infinite bounce, no pounce.

The world's first truly great work of literature.

The first surviving version of this epic dates to the 18th century BC and is titled, Shūtur eli sharrī ("Surpassing All Other Kings"). Only a few tablets have survived.

The later "Standard" version dates from the 13th to the 10th centuries BC and is titled Sha naqba īmuru ("He who Sees the Unknown"). Approximately two thirds of this longer, twelve-tablet version have been recovered.

Some of the best copies were discovered in the library ruins of the 7th-century BC Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.

WORD: QUESTION 1Q26

1 minute

The Epic of Gilgamesh

WORD : ANSWER 1

Who?

• One of the first masters of comedy writing in Western literature, treated comedy as a serious, flexible art form

• He suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis contracted when he was imprisoned for debt as a youth

• One of the most famous moments in his life was his last– he collapsed on stage in a fit of coughing and haemorrhaging while performing in the last

play he'd written, which had some lavish ballets ironically was entitled The Imaginary Invalid; but insisted on completing the performance

– after the play, he collapsed again with another, larger haemorrhage before being taken home, where he died a few hours later

• This is supposed to be the origin of the superstition that green brings bad luck to actors (he was wearing green at the time of his death)

WORD: QUESTION 2Q27

WORD: QUESTION 2

1 minute

WORD: QUESTION 3

Play and author, please.

One of the earliest Sanskrit plays, thought to have been composed in the 2nd century BC, describes its author thus: “The Sāmaveda, the Rigveda too,The science mathematical, he knew;The arts wherein fair courtezans excel,And all the lore of elephants as well.Through Shiva's grace, his eye was never dim;He saw his son a king in place of him.The difficult horse-sacrifice he triedSuccessfully; entered the fiery tide,One hundred years and ten days old, and died.”

The play was path-breaking in many respects, notably:

• Focused on a fictional scenario rather than a classical tale or legend.

• Departs from Natya Shastra rules that specify that dramas should focus on the lives of the nobility; incorporates many middle and lower-caste characters who speak a wide range of Prakrit dialects.

• Features a lesser character constantly spouting bad similesWORD: QUESTION 3

Q28

1 minute

WORD: ANSWER 3

Mṛcchakatika

(The Little Clay Cart)

By Sudraka

Name the author and the work.

The novel imagines a twentieth-century Frenchman who tries to write Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote verbatim, not by having memorized Cervantes's work but as an "original" narrative of his own invention, and by trying to reach Don Quixote through his own experiences. The novel then proceeds to “review” this fictional work with tongue-in-cheek comparisons discussing how this work is “richer” than that of Cervantes’, even though the actual text is the same.

Among other things, the author is known for posing this conundrum

Whether a writer writes the story, or it writes him

Quote:"Not granting me the Nobel Prize has become a Scandinavian tradition; since I was born they have not been granting it to me."

WORD: QUESTION 4Q29

1 minute

WORD: ANSWER 4

Who, introducing which work:

“To these I owe a debt past telling:

My several muses, harsh and kind;

My folks, who stood my sulks and yelling,

And (in the long run) did not mind;

Dead legislators, whose orations

I’ve filched to mix my own potations;

Indeed, all those whose brains I’ve pressed,

Unmerciful, because obsessed;

My own dumb soul, which on a pittance

Survived to weave this fictive spell;

And, gentle reader, you as well,

The fountainhead of all remittance.

Buy me before good sense insists

You’ll strain your purse and sprain your wrists.”

WORD: QUESTION 5Q30

1 minute

WORD: ANSWER 5

“But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.”

__________ was a large man, standing 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) and weighing around 286 pounds (130 kg).

His girth gave rise to a famous anecdote. During the First World War a lady in London asked why he was not "out at the Front"; he replied, "If you go round to the side, you will see that I am.”

P. G. Wodehouse once described a very loud crash as "a sound like __________ falling onto a sheet of tin".

FITB.

WORD: QUESTION 6Q31

1 minute

Chesterton.

WORD: ANSWER 6

Exhaustive List.

Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill, Pearl S. Buck, William Faulkner,

Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison.

What is the list. Who among the above is an exception and why?

WORD: QUESTION 7Q32

1 minute

List of authors who've won both the Pulitzer and the Nobel. Sinclair Lewis the exception since he rejected his Pulitzer.

Lewis had said he would have accepted the Pulitzer for either of Main Street or Babbitt. Main Street lost to Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence in 1921. Babbitt lost to Willa Cather's One of Ours in 1923. Arrowsmith won the Pulitzer in 1926, which he rejected.

"I wish to acknowledge your choice of my novel Arrowsmith for the Pulitzer Prize. That prize I must refuse, and my refusal would be meaningless unless I explained the reasons.

All prizes, like all titles, are dangerous. The seekers for prizes tend to labor not for inherent excellence but for alien rewards; they tend to write this, or timorously to avoid writing that, in order to tickle the prejudices of a haphazard committee. And the Pulitzer Prize for Novels is peculiarly objectionable because the terms of it have been constantly and grievously misrepresented.

Those terms are that the prize shall be given "for the American novel published during the year which shall best present the wholesome atmosphere of American life, and the highest standard of American manners and manhood." This phrase, if it means anything whatsoever, would appear to mean that the appraisal of the novels shall be made not according to their actual literary merit but in obedience to whatever code of Good Form may chance to be popular at the moment."

WORD: ANSWER 7

“____A_____ and ____B____ were larger than life, legends in their own lifetimes. He was one of the greatest of the medieval kings, and she was the only woman to wear the crowns of both England and France. They loved and fought and schemed on a stage that stretched from the Scots border to the Mediterranean Sea. Their children were branded by contemporaries as "The Devil’s Brood," but they founded a dynasty that was to rule England for three hundred years.

My first novel in their trilogy [sic], traces the beginning of their tempestuous union. [The second novel -- ed] continues their story at high noon. From the greenwoods of Wales to a bloodied floor at Canterbury Cathedral, theirs was an amazing story, and I very much enjoyed being along for the ride!”

Identify A & B. Name the author for bonus points.WORD: QUESTION 8

Q33

1 minute

A == Henry II

B == Eleanor of Aquitaine

Author == Sharon Kay Penman

WORD: ANSWER 8

WORD: QUESTION 9

CONNECT.

Q34

1 minute

WORD: ANSWER 9

Right: Chocolate Soldier

Below: Travels of Aeneas.

Arma virumquecano (“I sing of arms & a man…”)

Author, please; and the epitaph"I shall die somewhere in the Mediterranean lands, with an inaccurate obituary in the Nice-Matin, unmourned, soon forgotten."

His epitaph is a palindromic phrase which also served as a title for his 22nd book, on the death of John Keats. The phrase has several connotations.

– It is the author's initials forwards and backwards; and,

– part of the rhyme scheme for the Petrarchan sonnet.

Predominantly a comic writer, his most famous work was a dystopian satire.

WORD: QUESTION 10Q35

1 minute

Author, please; and the epitaph

Anthony Burgess.

Epitaph: ABBA ABBA

WORD: ANSWER 10

WORD: QUESTION 11

Bertie in Inimitable Jeeves.

“Jeeves,” I said firmly, “my mind is made up. I am feeling a little low spirited and need cheering. Besides, what’s wrong with it? This cummerbund seems to me to be called for. I consider that it has rather a Spanish effect. A touch of the hidalgo. Sort of Vicente y Blasco What’s-his-name stuff. The jolly old hidalgo off to the bull fight.”

Who is this Vicente Y Blasco What’s-his-name?

Q36

1 minute

WORD: ANSWER 11

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

WORD: QUESTION 12

Name the poet.

Written on the occasion of the assassination of Governor William

Goebel of Kentucky, expressing a national mood of dismay and fear:

The bullet that pierced Goebel's breast

Can not be found in all the West;

Good reason, it is speeding here

To stretch McKinley on his bier

It appeared 'anonymous' in William Randolph Hearst's newspaper, the San Fransisco Examiner. Soon after this was published, president McKinley was assassinated. Hearst was thereby accused by rival newspapers—and by then Secretary of State Elihu Root—of having called for McKinley's assassination. Despite a national uproar that ended his ambitions for the presidency (and even his membership in the Bohemian Club), Hearst neither revealed the author of the poem, nor fired him.

Q37

1 minute

WORD: QUESTION 12 DETAIL

Clue:

Definition of a leonine verse:

Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this famous passage from Bella Peeler Silcox:

The electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades.Cries Pluto, 'twixt his snores: 'O tempora! O mores!'

It should be explained that Mrs. Silcox does not undertake to teach pronunciation of the Greek and Latin tongues. Leonine verses are so called in honor of a poet named Leo, whom prosodists appear to find a pleasure in believing to have been the first to discover that a rhyming couplet could be run into a single line.

POUNCE, for 5 pointsWRITE DOWN ANSWERS.

WORD: ANSWER 12

Ambrose Bierce

WORD: QUESTION 13

Name the Author and Illustrator.

• His illustrations were engraved into blocks of deal wood by Brothers Dalziel.

• These engravings were then used as masters for making the electrotype copies for the actual printing of the books.

• The original wood blocks are now in the Bodleian Library in Oxford

A mathematician and a columnist once said "I spotted at once that he (the author) was fascinated by mirror reflection symmetry and that there was more of it in the ___ books than anyone had realized. Even in the illustrations. When ___ illustrated ____, he included some spiral forms. I'm sure he put them there since a spiral is asymmetrical and is different than its reflection."

Q38

1 minute

WORD: ANSWER 13

Lewis Carroll

John Tenniel

Martin Gardner continues... "Carroll has Alice wonder if Looking-Glass milk is drinkable and would it hurt you? Now, its fairly clear that reflected milk would be quite different from regular milk, and might very well be poisonous. Milk has all kinds of molecules that are different in their mirror reflected form. Tweedledum and Tweedledee are mirror images of each other. Tenniel brought that out very nicely in his illustrations.

Tenniel went on to say “It is a curious fact that with ‘Looking-Glass’ the faculty of making drawings for book illustrations departed from me, and [...] I have done nothing in that direction since.”

MISC

Name the philosopher, farmer.Bonus: Name the book.

His agricultural philosophy was called shizen nōhō or "the natural way of farming" or "Do-Nothing Farming", despite being labor-intensive.

The five principles of the shizen noho were:1. human cultivation of soil, plowing or tilling are unnecessary, as is the

use of powered machines2. prepared fertilizers are unnecessary, as is the process of preparing

compost3. weeding, either by cultivation or by herbicides, is unnecessary.

Instead only minimal weed suppression with minimal disturbance4. applications of pesticides or herbicides are unnecessary5. pruning of fruit trees is unnecessary

Was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay award for Public Service.

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MISC

WORD: QUESTION 15

Who? And where?

Q40

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WORD: ANSWER 15

Keats. Read his friend Severn’s epitaph, next to his.

Protestant cemetery in Rome. Shelley was said to have remarked, after a visit, that it almost made one look forward to dying, to imagine lying here. Shelley’s ashes were interred in this cemetery a year later.

WORD: ANSWER 15

A man of around 27 with a tall (6' 2"), athletic figure. Brought up by his father's younger brother after his parents’ death when he was only 9. Taught in a school before his detective career, and was a student of Scottish Church College.

Despite being a strongly built man adept in martial arts, he relies mostly upon his superb analytical ability and observation skill to solve cases. He possesses a revolver, but the weapon is used very infrequently and mostly for non-violent purposes. Known to be good at sleight-of-hand, and disguises.

He is an early riser and is often shown starting his day with yoga. Which fictional character?

WORD: QUESTION 16Q41

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WORD: ANSWER 16

Prodosh Chandra Mitra

(aka Feluda)

Drawing at right by Ray

THEME 2 (8 + 1)Answer each question. Eight questions. Infinite bounce, no pounce.

Answers connect to a theme: see question 9.

THEME IS WRITTEN.

+10, no negatives.

+ 10 bonus for getting all 8 correct.

Scoring for theme:

– Graded score: +40 first two, +30 next two, +20 next two, +10 last three.

– - 10 for each incorrect attempt. No limit on number of attempts.

This gifted writer and funny man earned the wrath of his contemporaries by “being insufficiently partisan” in war-time.

In a famous war-time essay, signed “A Peaceable Man.”, he wrote:

– “When Nature gives a young man no other utilizable faculty, she must be understood as intending him for a soldier.”

– “…it would be such an economy of human existence, if time-stricken people (whose value I have the better right to estimate, as reckoning myself one of them) could snatch from their juniors the exclusive privilege of carrying on the war. ”

– “Since the matter has gone so far, there seems to be no way but to go on winning victories, and establishing peace and a truer union in another generation, at the expense, probably of greater trouble, in the present one, than any other people ever voluntarily suffered.”

Author, please. Name the work for bonus points.

THEME 2: QUESTION 1Q42

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THEME 2: ANSWER 1

Connect to theme:

His two-part short story collection, containing works that had all been previously published

Hawthorne’s essay entitled "Chiefly About War Matters," on the Civil War.

The Atlantic, was edited by passionate abolitionists, whereas Hawthorne wasn't entirely convinced of the necessity of abolition. As a result, many passages ended up being altered by editors… In protest he added a series of humorous editorial "footnotes," written in the voice of a somewhat dimwitted editor.

A complex, unapologetically feminist work, sprinkled liberally with literary references and Latin phrases. Many reviewers, including George Orwell, saw it as “just” a mystery story.

Among other notable features, this novel contains possibly the best use of music as a metaphor for matrimony.

At a performance of Bach’s Concerto in D Minor (for two violins): “…She knew enough, herself, to read the sounds a little with her brains, laboriously unwinding the twined chains of melody link by link. Peter, she felt sure, could hear the whole intricate pattern, every part separately and simultaneously, each independent and equal, separate but inseparable, moving over and under and through, ravishing heart and mind together…”

Later in the story, Peter says to Harriet, ‘I like my music polyphonic.’ Harriet replies, ‘Polyphonic music takes a lot of playing’, and later asserts, ‘I’m not much of a musician Peter’.


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“The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.”

“A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.”

THEME 2: ANSWER 2

What novel, in a very famous passage about memory:

“No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me. An exquisite pleasure had invaded my senses, something isolated, detached, with no suggestion of its origin. And at once the vicissitudes of life had become indifferent to me, its disasters innocuous, its brevity illusory – this new sensation having had on me the effect which love has of filling me with a precious essence; or rather this essence was not in me it was me. ... Whence did it come? What did it mean? How could I seize and apprehend it? ... And suddenly the memory revealed itself. The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray (because on those mornings I did not go out before mass), when I went to say good morning to her in her bedroom, my aunt Léonie used to give me, dipping it first in her own cup of tea or tisane. The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it. And all from my cup of tea.”


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THEME 2: ANSWER 3

Connect to theme:

the first English translation of this work

THEME 2: QUESTION 4

[Hugh Walpole] returned from a visit to Cambridge in the morning, attended a meeting of the Book Society, and in the evening had gone with a friend to the theater. Arriving home after midnight, he had started to undress when he caught sight of the book on his bedside table. Idly he picked it up and began to read. "Read on with increasing horror," he recorded. "Unmistakeable [sic] portrait of myself. Never slept!“

Book & Author, please.

Q45

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THEME 2: ANSWER 4

It is the longest running show (of any type) of the modern era. It opened in 1952, and has been running continuously since then. Its 25,000th performance took place on 18 November 2012, featuring Hugh Bonneville, Patrick Stewart, Julie Walters & Miranda Hart.

An original "cast member" has survived all the cast changes since its opening night. The late Deryck Guyler can still be heard, via a recording, reading the radio news bulletin in the play to this present day.

What am I talking about?


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THEME 2: ANSWER 5

Hand-drawn map of what fictional location?

Who created the map?


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Faulkner

Connection to theme: his most influential novel

THEME 2: ANSWER 6

Name that book. Bonus points for name of the company.

“The iconic story of the ordinary men who became the World War II’s most extraordinary soldiers: from the rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to the disbanding in 1945, [the book] tells the story of this remarkable company…

They parachuted into France early D-Day morning and knocked out a battery of four 105 mm cannon looking down Utah Beach; they parachuted into Holland during the Arnhem campaign; they were the Battered Bastards of the Bastion of Bastogne, brought in to hold the line, although surrounded, in the Battle of the Bulge; and then they spearheaded the counteroffensive. Finally, they captured Hitler's Bavarian outpost, his Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden.

…This was a company that took 150 percent casualties, a company where the Purple Heart was not a medal—it was a badge of office.”

THEME: QUESTION 7Q8

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THEME 2: ANSWER 7

Published 1992, Emmy-winning HBO miniseries 2001

In this lighthearted romance, subtitled “A Rural Painting of the Dutch School”, the beautiful new village school teacher, Fancy Day, is pursued by three suitors: a working-class man, a landowner, and the vicar.

In his 1872 review of the novel for the Saturday Review, the critic Horace Moule called it a "prose idyll“.

For the critic Irving Howe, it served as a kind of necessary prequel and establishing myth for the world of Wessex that [the author] depicted in subsequent tragic works: the novel, he argued, "is a fragile evocation of a self-contained country world that in [author’s] later fiction will come to seem distant and unavailable, a social memory by which to judge the troubled present."


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THEME 2: ANSWER 8

What is Ben Jonson talking about in this 1623 verse?

To the Reader.This Figure, that thou here seest put,It was for gentle _________ cut,Wherein the Graver had a strife with Nature,to out-doo the life :O, could he but have drawne his witAs well in brasse, as he hath hitHis face ; the Print would then surpasseAll, that was ever writ in brasse.But, since he cannot, Reader, lookeNot on his Picture, but his Booke.

THEME 2: REVEAL QUESTION Q50

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THEME: ANSWER

THEME: ANSWER

King John Anthony & Cleopatra Sonnet 30 Twelfth Night

Hamlet Macbeth Henry V As You Like It

CONNECTION TO THEME:

Q1: Twice-Told Tales. King John (Act 3, scene 4): "Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, / Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man”

Q2: Let's have one other gaudy night: call to me / All my sad captains; fill our bowls once more / Let's mock the midnight bell.

Antony and Cleopatra, Act III scene 13

Q3: Remembrance of Things Past, Sonnet 30 “When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past,”

Q4:"Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?" Twelfth Night (Act II, Scene III)

Q5: The Mousetrap: is how Hamlet refers to the “play within a play” performed for Claudius and Gertrude. Name of the play is “The Murder of Gonzago”

THEME: ANSWER CONNECTIONS 1

Q6: Faulkner == The Sound & The Fury. Macbeth soliloquy Act V, Scene V “Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more: it is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.”

Q7: Henry V, Act IV, Scene iii “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;For he to-day that sheds his blood with meShall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,”

Q8: As You Like It. Act II, Scene V. “UNDER the greenwood tree,

Who loves to lie with me,

And turn his merry note

Unto the sweet bird's throat,

Come hither, come hither, come hither”

THEME: ANSWER CONNECTIONS 2

Q 1-7: +10 each, no negatives. Infinite bounce, no pounce.


Q8: +5 each (max 30), no negatives. Written.

INSIDE THE BOOK (8)

At the Tabard Inn, a tavern in Southwark, near London, the narrator joins a company of twenty-nine pilgrims.

The narrator gives a descriptive account of twenty-seven of these pilgrims. The Host, whose name is Harry Bailey, suggests that the group ride together and entertain one another with stories. He decides that each pilgrim will tell two stories on the way to their destination and two on the way back. Whomever he judges to be the best storyteller will receive a meal at Bailey’s tavern, courtesy of the other pilgrims. The pilgrims draw lots and determine that the Knight will tell the first tale.


BOOK: QUESTION 1Q51

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The last stage direction in the play is:

[The sound of a door shutting is heard from below.]

Though it was hailed as “the slammed door heard around the world”, the ending is much more ambiguous than the reception would imply.

Admiring the author’s originality and technical mastery, a critic wrote: "Not a single declamatory phrase, no high dramatics, no drop of blood, not even a tear.“


BOOK: QUESTION 2Q52

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BOOK: ANSWER 2

The Doll’s House

Henrik Ibsen

Name that novel.

Introduced in novel form the following classic attributes of the detective story:

• English country house robbery

• An "inside job“

• red herrings

• A celebrated, skilled, professional investigator

• Bungling local constabulary

• Detective enquiries

• Large number of false suspects

• The "least likely suspect"

• A rudimentary “locked room" murder

• A reconstruction of the crime

• A final twist in the plot

BOOK: QUESTION 3Q53

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BOOK: ANSWER 3

Author, Phrase, Characters.X's novel Ajeeb Aadmi is about a suicidal actor-director DharamDev, his rather doomed passion for Zarina Jamaal, the dancer from Madras who he discovered, and his actress-playback-singer wife Mangala.

The novel is a take on a real-life trio of those times. Name X and give a three-word phrase that best describes such a novel.

BONUS: Name the three real life people this was based on.

Clue: Contemporary to Sadat Hasan Manto, X is more famous for 'Lihaf', a story about a lesbian encounter in a zenana.

BOOK: QUESTION 4Q54

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Author, Phrase, Characters.

Ismat Chughtai

Ajeeb Aadmi about Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rahman, and Geeta Dutt.

Three word phrase: Roman à clef -- French for 'Novel with a key' -- novel about real life, overlaid with a façade of fiction. The fictitious names in the novel represent real people, and the "key" is the relationship between the nonfiction and the fiction. This "key“ may be produced separately by the author, or implied through the use of epigraphs or other literary techniques.

BOOK: ANSWER 4

BOOK: QUESTION 5

Who? And which book?

The baths were mostly tiled showers, with an endless variety of spouting mechanisms, but with one definitely non-_______ characteristic in common, a propensity, while in use, to turn instantly beastly hot or blindingly cold upon you, depending on whether your neighbor turned on his cold or his hot to deprive you of a necessary complement in the shower you had so carefully blended.

The blank is a word that means ‘lukewarm’. Fill in the blank.

BONUS: Explain its etymology for bonus points.

Q55

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BOOK: ANSWER 5

Who? And which book?

The word is Laodicean."I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth."

The Laodicean church was being condemned ‘lukewarm’ for their neutrality or a lack of zeal.

Nabokov’s Flaubert-ian mot juste in the context of a hot/cold shower!

Book/Author & FITB. #notForChildren

"The ___ ___ is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game. The man is not "taking" and the woman is not "giving." No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife. No one is trying to prove anything or get anything out of anyone. The ___ ___ is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn. And I have never had one."

On the 20th anniversary of this book, the author wrote:

"The times were propitious. In 1962, the Supreme Court of the United States had finally liberated Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. <...> Couples by John Updike and Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth dared to take literature into the precincts of a bedroom from the man's point of view. It remained for a woman to expose female fantasy with as much frankness. I wanted to claim that territory."

BOOK: QUESTION 6Q56

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Zipless Fuck.

BOOK: ANSWER 6

Who are they talking about?

Tennyson:

...thrice ten years,

Thrice multiplied by superhuman pangs,

In hunger and in thirsts, fevers and colds,

In coughs, aches, stitches, ulcerous throes, and cramps, ...

Patient on this tall pillar I have borne.

Rain, wind, frost, heat, hail, damp, and sleet, and snow, ...

Wodehouse:

It was not as if he had not had food. He talked about 'hungers and thirsts', but he must have had something to eat, or he could not have stayed the course. Very likely, if the truth were known, there was somebody below who passed him up regular supplies of cake and cocoa. He began to look on ______ as an overrated amateur.

BOOK : QUESTION 7Q57

Who are they talking about?

Twain:

His stand was a pillar sixty feet high, with a broad platform on the top of it. He was now doing what he had been doing every day for twenty years up there --bowing his body ceaselessly and rapidly almost to his feet. It was his way of praying. I timed him with a stop watch, and he made 1,244 revolutions in 24 minutes and 46 seconds. It seemed a pity to have all this power going to waste. It was one of the most useful motions in mechanics, the pedal movement; so I made a note in my memorandum book, purposing some day to apply a system of elastic cords to him and run a sewing machine with it. I afterward carried out that scheme, and got five years' good service out of him; in which time he turned out upward of eighteen thousand first-rate tow-linen shirts, which was ten a day. I worked him Sundays and all; he was going, Sundays, the same as week days, and it was no use to waste the power.

BOOK : QUESTION 7

BOOK : QUESTION 7

BOOK : QUESTION 7

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Simeon StylitesThe man who lived on top of a pillar

The image is of a depiction from the 6th century. The serpent represents demonic temptations and Simeon Stylites is being blessed by some spirit. (Louvre)

The Tennyson poem is about the story of the saint St. Simeon Stylites

Wodehouse lines are from the novel The Man Upstairs and Other Stories(The Man, the Maid and the Miasma)

Twain’s lines are from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

BOOK : ANSWER 7

MATCHUP (WRITTEN QUESTION)

INSIDE THE BOOK: Q8

Match the following.

BOOK : QUESTION 8

1. Rime of the ancient Mariner2. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe3. Oliver Twist4. Little Red Riding Hood5. Pilgrim’s Progress6. Tale of Samuel Whiskers

1. Robert White2. Gustav Dore3. Arthur Rackham4. Beatrix Potter5. Pauline Baynes6. George Cruikshank

1 2 3

4 5 6

Q58

Match the following (1/6)

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Match the following.

BOOK : QUESTION 8



1 2 3

4 5 6

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Match the following (1/6) 1-6-3

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THEME 3 (13 + 1)A BAKER’S DOZEN QUESTIONS

Answer each question. Thirteen questions.

Answers connect to a theme.

EVERYTHING WRITTEN.

+10, no negatives. +20 points for getting all 13.

Scoring for theme:

– Graded score: + 50 first three, +40 next three, +30 next two, +20 next two, +10 last three.


(1/13) Name the author and book.

In this non-linear novel, the protagonist's murder is repeatedly presented, each time with increasing ferocity.

• First it is prefigured in the kitchen of his house, while <Protagonist> watches a servant butcher rabbits for lunch, "surrounded by panting dogs".

• He is soon similarly butchered, and the same dogs arrive at his autopsy, panting, ravenous, eager to be fed his bowels as they were fed the rabbits.

• At the autopsy, the murder spins by again in lavish detail. The pathologist says, "It was as if we killed him all over again after he was dead".

• Then comes the murder itself, and the wounds described in the autopsy are dynamically recreated in the course of them being inflicted.

• Ultimately, <Protagonist> is murdered more than anyone ever has been -more often, by more people, in more ways.

Book is the theme connect.

THEME 3 : QUESTION 1Q59

THEME 3 : QUESTION 1

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(2/13) Name the author. Bonus points if you can name the essay.

"A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.“

– Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

– Never use a long word where a short one will do.

– If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

– Never use the passive where you can use the active.

– Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

– Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.


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Q60

Through Rohan over fen and field where the long grass growsThe West Wind comes walking, and about the walls it goes.'What news from the West, O wandering wind, do you bring to me tonight?Have you seen Boromir the Tall by moon or by starlight?''I saw him ride over seven streams, over waters wide and grey;I saw him walk in empty lands, until he passed awayInto the shadows of the North. I saw him then no more.The North Wind may have heard the horn of the son of Denethor.''O Boromir! From the high walls westward I looked afar,But you came not from the empty lands where no men are.'


(3/13) Name the poet and the poem.Bonus points for FITB in the third stanza.

The poet’s most famous work is the connect.

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Q61

From the mouths of the Sea the South Wind flies, from the sand hills and the stones;The wailing of the gulls it bears, and at the gate it moans.'What news from the South, O sighing wind, do you bring to me at eve?Where now is Boromir the fair? He tarries and I grieve.''Ask not of me where he doth dwell --- so many bones there lieOn the white shores and the dark shores under the stormy sky;So many have passed down Anduin to find the flowing Sea.Ask of the North Wind news of them the North Wind sends to me!''O Boromir! Beyond the gate the seaward road runs south,But you came not with the wailing gulls from the grey sea's mouth.'




From the Gate of Kings the North Wind rides, and past the roaring falls;

And clear and cold about the tower its loud horn calls.

'What news from the North, O mighty wind, do you bring to me today?

What news of Boromir the Bold? For he is long away.'

'Beneath Amon Hen I heard his cry. There many foes he fought.

His cloven shield, his broken sword, they to the water brought.

His head so proud, his face so fair, his limbs they laid to rest;

And Rauros, golden Rauros-falls, bore him upon its breast.'

'O Boromir! The Tower of Guard shall ever northward gaze

To Rauros, golden Rauros-falls, until the end of days.'




(4/13) Name the author.

And the work.


Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Good heavens! how marriage ruins a man! It's as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

It's most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his wife in public. It always makes people think that he beats her when they are alone. The world has grown so suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.My experience is that

as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

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Q62

(5/13) Name the author and the work.

Going by historical references in the book, the novel is set in the 1820s, post Napoleonic wars and before the Reform Act of 1832. There are autobiographical elements woven in like the author's close relations with a few other members of the family, and also brings out the disgrace the author faced while in a long relationship with a married man, George Henry Lewes.

Continuing on the autobiographical theme, the heroine of the novel captures exactly, the dilemma of being the clever girl of the family, the ugly duckling, as well as the misplaced foundling who longs to be recognised for the genius she secretly knows herself to be.

Lateral clue:

A conversation between Flora Ackroyd and James Sheppard in Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: "That pen that ______ wrote ______ with—that sort of thing—well, it's only just a pen after all. If you're really keen on _______, why not get _______ in a cheap edition and read it? ... I suppose you never read such old out-of-date stuff, Miss Flora? ... You're wrong, Dr Sheppard. I love _____ ."


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Q63


On publication in 1927, _____ created a public furor. The book was banned in Boston and other cities and denounced from pulpits across the USA. One cleric suggested that the author should be imprisoned for five years, and there were also threats of physical violence against him. The famous evangelist Billy Sunday called the author “Satan's cohort".

The protagonist is as a womanizing drunk with a good singing voice, a knowledge of the bible, and a charismatic manner that allows him to charm people into believing he is a saintly man. He leads women, his church, and himself to ruin and destruction by pretending to be something he isn’t.

The first line is a giveaway. So here’s the last line:"Let me count this day, Lord, as the beginning of a new and more vigorous life, as the beginning of a crusade for complete morality and the domination of the Christian church through all the land. Dear Lord, thy work is but begun! We shall yet make these United States a moral nation!"


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Q64

(7/13) What is the collective term for these, and where would you find them?

M'ling

Sayer of the Law

Leopard-Man

Hyena-Swine

Satyr-Man

Fox-Bear Witch

Sloth Creature

Dog-Man

Ape-Man


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Q65


• It was one of the first literary acknowledgements that homosexual men (referred to in the book at ‘fairies’) were among the victims of the Nazi holocaust.

• The central idea in the book is autobiographical. The author was beaten and imprisoned during WWII, and because of a particular structure in the prison building, they escaped a fire-bombing. (You can visit this site and take a guided AUTHORNAME-tour.)

• The story is non-linear, and that blends well with the time-travel theme.

• The author uses a device to give the narration a sense of a legend being passed on in oral tradition. In fact, the said device is extensively used in Beowulf.


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Q66

(9/13) Name the two writers.

Writer A lived here.



Writer B lived here.



A and B were neighbors.

B once broke into A’s house in the middle of the night and started playing “Onward Christian Soldiers”.


(1) A’s House (3) B’s House


Writer A bought this bed in Venice and was so proud of its heavily carved headboard that he slept at the foot of the bed facing the headboard.



A was born shortly after a visit by Halley’s Comet, and he predicted he would “go out with it”, too. He died the day after the comet’s subsequent return, almost 75 years old.

Connect: A’s most famous book, often called the ‘Great American Novel’.


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Bonus points for the other reference.

“He knelt on the ground before her; and with his two elbows on her knees gazed at her with a smile, leaning his face towards her.

And she leaned down to him, and murmured, as though suffocated with delight,

'Oh, don't move! don't speak! Look at me! There is something in your eyes so sweet that does me so much good.' ”

___: “It's not something I boast about. The attraction was simply overpowering. Every Thursday, two o'clock, the Hotel De Boulogne. We'd arrive separately, climb the stairs, open the door... Ooh-la-la. Oh, what an embrace! Afterwards, she'd whisper to me, "There's something so sweet in your eyes, and it…. ”

___: "Does me so much good”, said ________! If you're going to steal a love life, don't steal from the classics, you imbecile!


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Q68

(11/13) Name the work.

This was first translated into English in 1887, and has been translated 10 more times since then.

The last 2 translations are hitting the stands this year in 2014 (Oxford University Press and Yale University Press).

The 2000 translation received an endorsement from Oprah, and sold over 1.3 million copies to date.

Rosamund Bartlett, the translator for the Oxford University Press edition, 2014, describes herself as a 'perfectionist‘.

Her translation has taken seven years, three years longer than the author took to write the book in the first place.



Bonus points if you get the original word in the native tongue.

Original word used to describe

footwear in a hunting scene, featuring an aristocrat dressed in shabby clothing and wearing a summer peasant shoe made from a simple piece of leather

• Constance Garnett, the 1901 translator, described the footwear as "spats“ (argued by Ms. Bartlett as “Off the mark”).

• Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, in their best-selling 2000 version, described the footwear as "brogues" (Ms. Bartlett believes conjures up an image of "smart shoes with perforations").

• Ms. Bartlett describes the shoes as "light peasant moccasins".

• Mr. Pevear says the original word is obsolete, but describes "primitive peasant shoes made from raw leather." He says that is "rather close to the first meaning of brogues in the Oxford English Dictionary: 'rough shoes of untanned hide'".


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The title is a reference to this passage from Milton’s Paradise LostInnumerable force of Spirits armed,That durst dislike his reign, and, me preferring,His utmost power with adverse power opposedIn dubious battle on the plains of HeavenAnd shook his throne. What though the field be lost?All is not lost—the unconquerable will,And study of revenge, immortal hate,And courage never to submit or yield:And what is else not to be overcome?

The protagonist is an activist for ‘the party’, and among other things organizes a major strike by fruit pickers.

Barack Obama in an interview with the NYT called this work his favorite among all books by this author.



Prior to its publication, the author wrote in a letter:You remember that I had an idea that I was going to write the autobiography of a Communist. ... There lay the trouble. I had planned to write a journalistic account of a strike. But as I thought of it as fiction the thing got bigger and bigger. It couldn't be that. I've been living with this thing for some time now. I don't know how much I have got over, but I have used a small strike in an orchard valley as the symbol of man's eternal, bitter warfare with himself.

Connect to the theme:

• A later book by the same author

• Draws parallels to the Book of Genesis, particularly story of Cain and Abel

• Considered his magnum opus, by the author himself


1 minute

(13/13) Name the novel.

One of the earliest novels in this genre was Vice Versa



Many plays and movies have followed the same genre



The passage where the genre is ‘consummated’


'Hell!' I cried.

Well, I mean to say, who wouldn't have? I saw right away what had happened. Someone, as the poet says, had blundered. Joey Cooley and I must have gone under gas at exactly the same moment and, owing presumably to some bad staff work during the period when we were simultaneously sauntering about in the fourth dimension, or whatever they call it, there had been an unfortunate switch. The impetuous young cuckoo had gone and barged into my body, and I, having nowhere else to go, had toddled along and got into his.

His fault, of course, the silly ass. I had told him to stop shoving.

1 minute

(Connect Question)

Name the work (on the Left) and its reference in popular culture (on the Right)

THEME 3 : CONNECT QUESTION

• “I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up!”

• “He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.”

• “...To the last, I grapple with thee; from hell's heart, I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.”

• “I'll chase him round the moons of Nibiaand round the Antares maelstrom and round perdition's flames before I give him up!”

• “And he piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race. If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it.”


Q72

(Connect Question)

• When first published, in the fall of 1851, virtually no one, except for the author to whom the novel was dedicated, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and his wife, Sophia, seems to have taken much notice.

• By the time of the author's death, in 1891, it had sold a grand total of 3,715 copies—a third of the total that his first novel, Typee, had sold.

• In 1927, William Faulkner claimed that this was the one novel by another author that he wished he had written.

• In 1949, Ernest Hemingway, upon entering his 50s, wrote his publisher that he considered the author one of the handful of writers he was still trying to beat.


1 minute

THEME 3 (13 + 1)A BAKER’S DOZEN ANSWERS

Answer each question. Thirteen questions.

Answers connect to a theme.

EVERYTHING WRITTEN.

+10, no negatives. +20 points for getting all 13.

Scoring for theme:

– Graded score: + 50 first three, +40 next three, +30 next two, +20 next two, +10 last three.


1984, George Orwell

(1/13) Name the author and book.

In this non-linear novel, the protagonist's murder is repeatedly presented, each time with increasing ferocity.

• First it is prefigured in the kitchen of his house, while <Santiago Nasar> watches a servant butcher rabbits for lunch, "surrounded by panting dogs".

• He is soon similarly butchered, and the same dogs arrive at his autopsy, panting, ravenous, eager to be fed his bowels as they were fed the rabbits.

• At the autopsy, the murder spins by again in lavish detail. The pathologist says, "It was as if we killed him all over again after he was dead".

• Then comes the murder itself, and the wounds described in the autopsy are dynamically recreated in the course of them being inflicted.

• Ultimately, <Santiago Nasar> is murdered more than anyone ever has been - more often, by more people, in more ways.

Book is the theme connect.



THEME 3 : ANSWER 1

(2/13) Name the author. Bonus points if you can name the essay.

"A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.“

– Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

– Never use a long word where a short one will do.

– If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

– Never use the passive where you can use the active.

– Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

– Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.


THEME 3 : ANSWER 2

Book for connect

Through Rohan over fen and field where the long grass growsThe West Wind comes walking, and about the walls it goes.'What news from the West, O wandering wind, do you bring to me tonight?Have you seen Boromir the Tall by moon or by starlight?''I saw him ride over seven streams, over waters wide and grey;I saw him walk in empty lands, until he passed awayInto the shadows of the North. I saw him then no more.The North Wind may have heard the horn of the son of Denethor.''O Boromir! From the high walls westward I looked afar,But you came not from the empty lands where no men are.'




From the mouths of the Sea the South Wind flies, from the sand hills and the stones;The wailing of the gulls it bears, and at the gate it moans.'What news from the South, O sighing wind, do you bring to me at eve?Where now is Boromir the fair? He tarries and I grieve.''Ask not of me where he doth dwell --- so many bones there lieOn the white shores and the dark shores under the stormy sky;So many have passed down Anduin to find the flowing Sea.Ask of the North Wind news of them the North Wind sends to me!''O Boromir! Beyond the gate the seaward road runs south,But you came not with the wailing gulls from the grey sea's mouth.'




From the Gate of Kings the North Wind rides, and past the roaring falls;

And clear and cold about the tower its loud horn calls.

'What news from the North, O mighty wind, do you bring to me today?

What news of Boromir the Bold? For he is long away.'

'Beneath Amon Hen I heard his cry. There many foes he fought.

His cloven shield, his broken sword, they to the water brought.

His head so proud, his face so fair, his limbs they laid to rest;

And Rauros, golden Rauros-falls, bore him upon its breast.'

'O Boromir! The Tower of Guard shall ever northward gaze

To Rauros, golden Rauros-falls, until the end of days.'




THEME 3 : ANSWER 3

Lament for BoromirAragorn says the 1st and 3rd stanzas, whileLegolas says the 2nd one. Tolkien believesLegolas is a better poet, and consequentlythe 2nd stanza is more poetically dense.* (HT to Martin DeMello. Read this in hisanalysis on the minstrels site)

Book for connect

(4/13) Name the author.

And the work.


Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Good heavens! how marriage ruins a man! It's as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

It's most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his wife in public. It always makes people think that he beats her when they are alone. The world has grown so suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.My experience is that

as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

THEME 3 : ANSWER 4


Going by historical references in the book, the novel is set in the 1820s, post Napoleonic wars and before the Reform Act of 1832. There are autobiographical elements woven in like the author's close relations with a few other members of the family, and also brings out the disgrace the author faced while in a long relationship with a married man, George Henry Lewes.

Continuing on the autobiographical theme, the heroine of the novel captures exactly, the dilemma of being the clever girl of the family, the ugly duckling, as well as the misplaced foundling who longs to be recognized for the genius she secretly knows herself to be.

Lateral clue:

A conversation between Flora Ackroyd and James Sheppard in Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: "That pen that ______ wrote ______ with—that sort of thing—well, it's only just a pen after all. If you're really keen on _______, why not get _______ in a cheap edition and read it? ... I suppose you never read such old out-of-date stuff, Miss Flora? ... You're wrong, Dr Sheppard. I love _____ ."


THEME 3 : ANSWER 5


On publication in 1927, _____ created a public furor. The book was banned in Boston and other cities and denounced from pulpits across the USA. One cleric suggested that the author should be imprisoned for five years, and there were also threats of physical violence against him. The famous evangelist Billy Sunday called the author “Satan's cohort".

The protagonist is as a womanizing drunk with a good singing voice, a knowledge of the bible, and a charismatic manner that allows him to charm people into believing he is a saintly man. He leads women, his church, and himself to ruin and destruction by pretending to be something he isn’t.

The first line is a giveaway. So here’s the last line:"Let me count this day, Lord, as the beginning of a new and more vigorous life, as the beginning of a crusade for complete morality and the domination of the Christian church through all the land. Dear Lord, thy work is but begun! We shall yet make these United States a moral nation!"


THEME 3 : ANSWER 6

(7/13) What is the collective term for these, and where would you find them?

M'ling

Sayer of the Law

Leopard-Man

Hyena-Swine

Satyr-Man

Fox-Bear Witch

Sloth Creature

Dog-Man

Ape-Man


THEME 3 : ANSWER 7

Beast folk





• The author uses a device to give the narration a sense of a legend being passed on in oral tradition. In fact, the said device is extensively used in Beowulf.






• The author uses a device to give the narration a sense of a legend being passed on in oral tradition. In fact, the said device is extensively used in Beowulf. – Listen: ....

• So it goes ...


THEME 3 : ANSWER 8


Writer A lived here.



Writer B lived here.



A and B were neighbors.

B once broke into A’s house in the middle of the night and started playing “Onward Christian Soldiers”.


(1) A’s House (3) B’s House


Writer A bought this bed in Venice and was so proud of its heavily carved headboard that he slept at the foot of the bed facing the headboard.



A was born shortly after a visit by Halley’s Comet, and he predicted he would “go out with it”, too. He died the day after the comet’s subsequent return, almost 75 years old.

Connect: A’s most famous book, often called the ‘Great American Novel’.


THEME 3 : ANSWER 9

THEME 3 : ANSWER 9

Nook Farm, Hartford, CT

1. Mark Twain House

2. Chamberlain-Burr-Day House

3. Harriet Beecher Stowe House

4. Hall-Porter House

5. Cowles House

6. George Warner House

7. Senator Francis Gillette House and Barn

8. Old Imlay Farmhouse

9. Ellen Case House

10. Charles Smith House

11. William Wander Residence

12. Emily Fellows Residence

13. Rev. Nathaniel Burton Residence

14. Mrs. Edward Hooker House

15. John and Isabella Hooker House

16. Thomas Clap Perkins House

17. Senator Joseph Hawley House

18. Oakholm

19. Asylum Hill Church

THEME 3 : ANSWER 9

THEME 3 : ANSWER 9

Connect to the theme.






___: “It's not something I boast about. The attraction was simply overpowering. Every Thursday, two o'clock, the Hotel De Boulogne. We'd arrive separately, climb the stairs, open the door... Ooh-la-la. Oh, what an embrace! Afterwards, she'd whisper to me, "There's something so sweet in your eyes, and it…. ”

___: "Does me so much good”, said ________! If you're going to steal a love life, don't steal from the classics, you imbecile!







Niles: “It's not something I boast about. The attraction was simply overpowering. Every Thursday, two o'clock, the Hotel De Boulogne. We'd arrive separately, climb the stairs, open the door... Ooh-la-la. Oh, what an embrace! Afterwards, she'd whisper to me, "There's something so sweet in your eyes, and it…. ”

Frasier: "Does me so much good”, said Emma Bovary! If you're going to steal a love life, don't steal from the classics, you imbecile!

Episode: Frasier’s Gotta Have it

Scene: Don Juan in Hell


THEME 3 : ANSWER 10


This was first translated into English in 1887, and has been translated 10 more times since then.

The last 2 translations are hitting the stands this year in 2014 (Oxford University Press and Yale University Press).

The 2000 translation received an endorsement from Oprah, and sold over 1.3 million copies to date.

Rosamund Bartlett, the translator for the Oxford University Press edition, 2014, describes herself as a 'perfectionist‘.

Her translation has taken seven years, three years longer than the author took to write the book in the first place.



Bonus points if you get the original word in the native tongue.

Original word used to describe

footwear in a hunting scene, featuring an aristocrat dressed in shabby clothing and wearing a summer peasant shoe made from a simple piece of leather

• Constance Garnett, the 1901 translator, described the footwear as "spats“ (argued by Ms. Bartlett as “Off the mark”).

• Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, in their best-selling 2000 version, described the footwear as "brogues" (Ms. Bartlett believes that conjures up an image of "smart shoes with perforations").

• Ms. Bartlett describes the shoes as "light peasant moccasins".

• Mr. Pevear says the original word is obsolete, but describes "primitive peasant shoes made from raw leather." He says that is "rather close to the first meaning of brogues in the Oxford English Dictionary: 'rough shoes of untanned hide'".


THEME 3 : ANSWER 11

Tolstoy's original word for the shoes, "porshni", is obsolete in Russian.










THEME 3 : ANSWER 12

THEME 3 : ANSWER 12


Prior to its publication, the author wrote in a letter:You remember that I had an idea that I was going to write the autobiography of a Communist. ... There lay the trouble. I had planned to write a journalistic account of a strike. But as I thought of it as fiction the thing got bigger and bigger. It couldn't be that. I've been living with this thing for some time now. I don't know how much I have got over, but I have used a small strike in an orchard valley as the symbol of man's eternal, bitter warfare with himself.

Connect to the theme:

• A later book by the same author

• Draws parallels to the Book of Genesis, particularly story of Cain and Abel

• Considered his magnum opus, by the author himself


THEME 3 : ANSWER 12

Connect to the theme.


One of the earliest novels in this genre was Vice Versa



Many plays and movies have followed the same genre





'Hell!' I cried.





The genre is Body Swapping


'Hell!' I cried.



THEME 3 : ANSWER 13

(Connect Question)









(Connect Question)

• When first published, in the fall of 1851, virtually no one, except for the author to whom the novel was dedicated, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and his wife, Sophia, seems to have taken much notice.

• By the time of the author's death, in 1891, it had sold a grand total of 3,715 copies—a third of the total that his first novel, Typee, had sold.

• In 1927, William Faulkner claimed that this was the one novel by another author that he wished he had written.

• In 1949, Ernest Hemingway, upon entering his 50s, wrote his publisher that he considered the author one of the handful of writers he was still trying to beat.


THEME 3 : CONNECT ANSWER

William Faulkner had a framed print of Rockwell Kent’s Captain Ahab hanging in his living room in Oxford, Mississippi

(Connect Question)









Moby Dick Wrath of Khan (Star Trek)

THEME 3 : CONNECT QUESTIONQ73


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