Mark Brader
2023-08-24 06:45:28 UTC
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2023-07-10,
and should be interpreted accordingly.
On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,
based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
the correct answers in about 3 days.
All questions were written by members of Bloor St. Irregulars and
are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may
have been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information
please see my 2023-05-24 companion posting on "Questions from the
Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
* Game 8, Round 2 - Literature - Graphic Novels and Comic Books
1. "A Contract with God and other Tenement Stories", from 1978,
is often credited as the first graphic novel. Name its author,
also famous for his groundbreaking early work in the 1940s and
'50s with "The Spirit" and for his namesake award given annually
for creative achievement in comics.
2. Name the Canadian cartoonist famous for her webcomic "Hark! A
Vagrant" and for her memoir "Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands",
which became the first graphic work to win Canada Reads in 2023.
3. Name Art Spiegelman's anthropomorphized retelling of his father's
experiences during the Holocaust. It was the first graphic
novel to win the Pulitzer Prize.
4. Name the prolific British author of influential graphic novels
"Watchmen", "V for Vendetta", "From Hell", and "The League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen". Dissatisfied with adaptations of
his work to other media, he is often uncredited on projects
for which he doesn't own all the rights.
5. Name Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical account of growing up
in Iran during and after the Islamic Revolution. The graphic
novel takes its name from the ancient capital city of the
Persian Empire.
6. Name the title character of Bryan Lee O'Malley's graphic
novel series set in Toronto. The lead character is a slacker
20-something who plays bass in the band Sex Bob-Omb and has to
fight Ramona Flowers' seven evil exes in order to date her.
7. Name the prolific Canadian writer and poet who is currently
up for the <answer 1> award for writing a graphic adaptation
of a Tori Amos song. She has also written the graphic novel
"Angel Catbird", featuring an animal-human hybrid hero, a topic
she also covered in her novel "Oryx and Crake".
8. Neil Gaiman is well known for his novels, which include "Good
Omens", "American Gods", "Anansi Boys", "Stardust", and
"Coraline", but he is probably best known for what graphic
novel series focusing on Morpheus, also known as "Dream of
the Endless"?
9. Name the cartoonist responsible for the award-winning graphic
novel "Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic". She is also known for
a test that measures the representation of women in film and
other works of fiction, which she introduced in her "Dykes to
Watch Out For" comic strip.
10. Name *either* of the two men who collaborated on the 1978
graphic novel "The Silver Surfer". They had a long creative
partnership in the 1960s, but this final collaboration came
after many years of acrimony between the two men and did not
succeed in mending the rift, which continues to be felt in pop
culture to this day even though both men have died.
* Game 8, Round 3 - History - Royalty
This round is flush with royals, so to speak.
1. For questions #1-4, tell us how each monarch was related to
his/her successor. We'll also mention the year of succession.
William IV and Victoria, 1837.
2. Edward VIII and George VI, 1936.
3. George II and George III, 1760.
4. Mary I ("Bloody Mary") and Elizabeth I, 1558.
5. And now, for something completely different. Of which monarch
did John Cleese say that the most interesting thing about him is
that he was 5'6" tall at the start of his reign, but only 4'8"
at the end of it? Name and number required.
6. Queen Anne died childless in 1714, and her sister Queen Mary II
also died without heir, so the Stuart dynasty came to an end.
A successor was found, a distant cousin of the German House of
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became King George I. Why were 56
other candidates with closer hereditary claims bypassed?
7. In 1917, when German Gotha bombers were hitting London, George V
changed the family name (royal house) from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
-- to what?
8. Buckingham Palace has 775 rooms, including 78 bathrooms, but
who was the first monarch to live there?
9. What was the last year during which the UK had three kings?
10. Name *either one* of the two personal documents, of which most
Britons would have at least one, that Queen Elizabeth II
never had.
and should be interpreted accordingly.
On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,
based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
the correct answers in about 3 days.
All questions were written by members of Bloor St. Irregulars and
are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may
have been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information
please see my 2023-05-24 companion posting on "Questions from the
Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
* Game 8, Round 2 - Literature - Graphic Novels and Comic Books
1. "A Contract with God and other Tenement Stories", from 1978,
is often credited as the first graphic novel. Name its author,
also famous for his groundbreaking early work in the 1940s and
'50s with "The Spirit" and for his namesake award given annually
for creative achievement in comics.
2. Name the Canadian cartoonist famous for her webcomic "Hark! A
Vagrant" and for her memoir "Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands",
which became the first graphic work to win Canada Reads in 2023.
3. Name Art Spiegelman's anthropomorphized retelling of his father's
experiences during the Holocaust. It was the first graphic
novel to win the Pulitzer Prize.
4. Name the prolific British author of influential graphic novels
"Watchmen", "V for Vendetta", "From Hell", and "The League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen". Dissatisfied with adaptations of
his work to other media, he is often uncredited on projects
for which he doesn't own all the rights.
5. Name Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical account of growing up
in Iran during and after the Islamic Revolution. The graphic
novel takes its name from the ancient capital city of the
Persian Empire.
6. Name the title character of Bryan Lee O'Malley's graphic
novel series set in Toronto. The lead character is a slacker
20-something who plays bass in the band Sex Bob-Omb and has to
fight Ramona Flowers' seven evil exes in order to date her.
7. Name the prolific Canadian writer and poet who is currently
up for the <answer 1> award for writing a graphic adaptation
of a Tori Amos song. She has also written the graphic novel
"Angel Catbird", featuring an animal-human hybrid hero, a topic
she also covered in her novel "Oryx and Crake".
8. Neil Gaiman is well known for his novels, which include "Good
Omens", "American Gods", "Anansi Boys", "Stardust", and
"Coraline", but he is probably best known for what graphic
novel series focusing on Morpheus, also known as "Dream of
the Endless"?
9. Name the cartoonist responsible for the award-winning graphic
novel "Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic". She is also known for
a test that measures the representation of women in film and
other works of fiction, which she introduced in her "Dykes to
Watch Out For" comic strip.
10. Name *either* of the two men who collaborated on the 1978
graphic novel "The Silver Surfer". They had a long creative
partnership in the 1960s, but this final collaboration came
after many years of acrimony between the two men and did not
succeed in mending the rift, which continues to be felt in pop
culture to this day even though both men have died.
* Game 8, Round 3 - History - Royalty
This round is flush with royals, so to speak.
1. For questions #1-4, tell us how each monarch was related to
his/her successor. We'll also mention the year of succession.
William IV and Victoria, 1837.
2. Edward VIII and George VI, 1936.
3. George II and George III, 1760.
4. Mary I ("Bloody Mary") and Elizabeth I, 1558.
5. And now, for something completely different. Of which monarch
did John Cleese say that the most interesting thing about him is
that he was 5'6" tall at the start of his reign, but only 4'8"
at the end of it? Name and number required.
6. Queen Anne died childless in 1714, and her sister Queen Mary II
also died without heir, so the Stuart dynasty came to an end.
A successor was found, a distant cousin of the German House of
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became King George I. Why were 56
other candidates with closer hereditary claims bypassed?
7. In 1917, when German Gotha bombers were hitting London, George V
changed the family name (royal house) from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
-- to what?
8. Buckingham Palace has 775 rooms, including 78 bathrooms, but
who was the first monarch to live there?
9. What was the last year during which the UK had three kings?
10. Name *either one* of the two personal documents, of which most
Britons would have at least one, that Queen Elizabeth II
never had.
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Mark Brader | "Are you coming to bed?"
Toronto | "I can't. This is important... Someone is WRONG on the Internet."
***@vex.net | --Randall Munroe
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Mark Brader | "Are you coming to bed?"
Toronto | "I can't. This is important... Someone is WRONG on the Internet."
***@vex.net | --Randall Munroe
My text in this article is in the public domain.