Mark Brader
2024-02-24 21:54:57 UTC
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2024-02-05,
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 the Misplaced Modifiers
and are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may
have been retyped and/or edited by me. The posting and tabulation
of current-events questions is independent of the concurrent posting
of other rounds. For further information please see my 2023-05-24
companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition
(QFTCI*)".
* Game 2, Round 2 - Geography - UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage
We're all familiar with UNESCO's World Heritage Sites, but UNESCO
also has a registry of cultural activities that exemplify a
national culture and form a part of world heritage -- everything
from loincloth weaving in Côte d'Ivoire to opera training in Italy.
In each case we'll give the intangible, and you tell what *country*
that has been granted the designation.
1. Kirkpinar Oil Wrestling Festival: a tradition in this country
since 1360.
2. Capoeira dance: a mixed style of fighting and dancing.
3. Gamelan: a traditional percussion orchestra using hand-forged
metal gongs, cymbals, and other percussives.
4. Castells: these are human towers built by people, usually at
drunken festivals, standing on each other's shoulders up
to 35 feet.
5. Hurling: a field sport between two teams, dating back 2000 years.
6. Cultural practices pertaining to the production and consumption
of couscous: these are traditional ceremonies surrounding the
preparation of this delicious dish.
7. Washi: a traditional paper-making technique using the fibers
of the mulberry plant.
8. Rumba: music and dance combining elements of African, Antillean,
and Spanish cultures.
9. Sauna culture: an integral part of the daily lives of the people
of this nation.
10. The culture of borscht cooking: memorialized in tradition and
song in this country.
* Game 2, Round 3 - Literature - Musicians Who Write
A round about artists that are best known as musicians, but who have
produced poetry or prose works (excluding memoirs). In each case
name that artist/writer.
1. This American author, musician, and self-described
"bluesologist", took two years off university to write "The
Vulture", the first of two novels, and received an MA in creative
writing in 1972. His poetry covered issues like race relations
in the US, consumerism, hypocrisy, and ignorance, and morphed
into spoken-word recordings, the most famous of which was
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised".
2. She is the co-author of a manga series about Princess Ai, a
winged amnesiac alien who finds herself in Tokyo. The character,
just like the author, is a rock star in love with a sensitive
musician. The author is best known as the lead singer of 1990's
grunge band Hole, and for her relationship with one the grunge
genre's leading lights.
3. This American-born musician's interest in Kabbalah inspired her
to write a series of 7 children's picture books, beginning with
2003's "The English Roses". She later co-wrote 12 chapter books
based on the original "English Roses" characters. Musically,
she rose to fame in 1983 with a self-titled studio album and
is known for her constant reinvention.
4. This British singer with a single name rose to fame in the
1980s fronting a band which specialized in angst-filled
lyrics about sexual longing and isolation over a jangly guitar
background. He went solo in 1988. His memoir was well received,
but his 2015 novel "List of the Lost" received negative reviews
and a Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction award.
5. This American songwriter and folk musician wrote a novel in
1947 not published until 2013, titled "House of Earth", about
the life of a couple in Dust Bowl America, which is unsurprising
as he was known as "The Dust Bowl Troubadour". His 1943 novel
"Bound for Glory", a fictionalized autobiography, was much better
received and made into a movie in 1976 with David Carradine as
the folk singer.
6. This American pop musician with a cult following was living in
Key West and wanted to write a book that would read easily while
sitting on the beach. The result was the 1992 novel, "Where is
Joe Merchant?" He has written 7 books in total, including a 1989
short-story collection about laid-back living, aging beach bums,
and adventurers -- all the themes he sings about.
7. This British-American dramatist wrote the book or score -- and
sometimes both -- for many award-winning musicals of the last
40 years, including "The Mystery of Edwin Drood". He adapted
Grisham's novel "A Time to Kill" for the stage in 2011.
He published his first novel "Where the Truth Lies" in 2003
and his second novel last year. But, sadly, he'll be best
remembered for his 1979 hit song about a man who takes out a
personal ad to escape his boring marriage.
8. She is a flamboyant, immediately recognizable country musician
with a decades-long career and 3,000 songwriting credits,
who has also written cookbooks, children's books, memoirs,
and collections of poetry and lyrics. She joined thriller
writer James Paterson in writing the 2022 novel "Run, Rose,
Run", about a singer who arrives in Nashville trying to escape
her past.
9. This Canadian musician was a published writer before he released
any music, having released two poetry collections and two
novels by 1966. In 1967 he moved to New York to begin a fabled
songwriting career. A collection of short stories, a novella,
and a play was published in 2022, six years after his death.
10. This Scottish-born American frontman for a popular new wave-
post-punk art band of the late 70's and '80s was known for his
interesting lyrics and for riding a bicycle as his primary
means of transport. He wrote an interesting 2010 manifesto
about cycling, "Bicycle Diaries", recounting his thoughts as
he pedaled around major cities. Hopefully his big suit didn't
get in the way.
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 the Misplaced Modifiers
and are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may
have been retyped and/or edited by me. The posting and tabulation
of current-events questions is independent of the concurrent posting
of other rounds. For further information please see my 2023-05-24
companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition
(QFTCI*)".
* Game 2, Round 2 - Geography - UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage
We're all familiar with UNESCO's World Heritage Sites, but UNESCO
also has a registry of cultural activities that exemplify a
national culture and form a part of world heritage -- everything
from loincloth weaving in Côte d'Ivoire to opera training in Italy.
In each case we'll give the intangible, and you tell what *country*
that has been granted the designation.
1. Kirkpinar Oil Wrestling Festival: a tradition in this country
since 1360.
2. Capoeira dance: a mixed style of fighting and dancing.
3. Gamelan: a traditional percussion orchestra using hand-forged
metal gongs, cymbals, and other percussives.
4. Castells: these are human towers built by people, usually at
drunken festivals, standing on each other's shoulders up
to 35 feet.
5. Hurling: a field sport between two teams, dating back 2000 years.
6. Cultural practices pertaining to the production and consumption
of couscous: these are traditional ceremonies surrounding the
preparation of this delicious dish.
7. Washi: a traditional paper-making technique using the fibers
of the mulberry plant.
8. Rumba: music and dance combining elements of African, Antillean,
and Spanish cultures.
9. Sauna culture: an integral part of the daily lives of the people
of this nation.
10. The culture of borscht cooking: memorialized in tradition and
song in this country.
* Game 2, Round 3 - Literature - Musicians Who Write
A round about artists that are best known as musicians, but who have
produced poetry or prose works (excluding memoirs). In each case
name that artist/writer.
1. This American author, musician, and self-described
"bluesologist", took two years off university to write "The
Vulture", the first of two novels, and received an MA in creative
writing in 1972. His poetry covered issues like race relations
in the US, consumerism, hypocrisy, and ignorance, and morphed
into spoken-word recordings, the most famous of which was
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised".
2. She is the co-author of a manga series about Princess Ai, a
winged amnesiac alien who finds herself in Tokyo. The character,
just like the author, is a rock star in love with a sensitive
musician. The author is best known as the lead singer of 1990's
grunge band Hole, and for her relationship with one the grunge
genre's leading lights.
3. This American-born musician's interest in Kabbalah inspired her
to write a series of 7 children's picture books, beginning with
2003's "The English Roses". She later co-wrote 12 chapter books
based on the original "English Roses" characters. Musically,
she rose to fame in 1983 with a self-titled studio album and
is known for her constant reinvention.
4. This British singer with a single name rose to fame in the
1980s fronting a band which specialized in angst-filled
lyrics about sexual longing and isolation over a jangly guitar
background. He went solo in 1988. His memoir was well received,
but his 2015 novel "List of the Lost" received negative reviews
and a Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction award.
5. This American songwriter and folk musician wrote a novel in
1947 not published until 2013, titled "House of Earth", about
the life of a couple in Dust Bowl America, which is unsurprising
as he was known as "The Dust Bowl Troubadour". His 1943 novel
"Bound for Glory", a fictionalized autobiography, was much better
received and made into a movie in 1976 with David Carradine as
the folk singer.
6. This American pop musician with a cult following was living in
Key West and wanted to write a book that would read easily while
sitting on the beach. The result was the 1992 novel, "Where is
Joe Merchant?" He has written 7 books in total, including a 1989
short-story collection about laid-back living, aging beach bums,
and adventurers -- all the themes he sings about.
7. This British-American dramatist wrote the book or score -- and
sometimes both -- for many award-winning musicals of the last
40 years, including "The Mystery of Edwin Drood". He adapted
Grisham's novel "A Time to Kill" for the stage in 2011.
He published his first novel "Where the Truth Lies" in 2003
and his second novel last year. But, sadly, he'll be best
remembered for his 1979 hit song about a man who takes out a
personal ad to escape his boring marriage.
8. She is a flamboyant, immediately recognizable country musician
with a decades-long career and 3,000 songwriting credits,
who has also written cookbooks, children's books, memoirs,
and collections of poetry and lyrics. She joined thriller
writer James Paterson in writing the 2022 novel "Run, Rose,
Run", about a singer who arrives in Nashville trying to escape
her past.
9. This Canadian musician was a published writer before he released
any music, having released two poetry collections and two
novels by 1966. In 1967 he moved to New York to begin a fabled
songwriting career. A collection of short stories, a novella,
and a play was published in 2022, six years after his death.
10. This Scottish-born American frontman for a popular new wave-
post-punk art band of the late 70's and '80s was known for his
interesting lyrics and for riding a bicycle as his primary
means of transport. He wrote an interesting 2010 manifesto
about cycling, "Bicycle Diaries", recounting his thoughts as
he pedaled around major cities. Hopefully his big suit didn't
get in the way.
--
Mark Brader | "...having compressed some 300 million years into
Toronto | two paragraphs, I have left out some details."
***@vex.net | -- Roger Gary
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Mark Brader | "...having compressed some 300 million years into
Toronto | two paragraphs, I have left out some details."
***@vex.net | -- Roger Gary
My text in this article is in the public domain.