Monday, August 6, 2007

Names

1. The Brothers Karamazov
a--Dimitri
b--Ivan, aka Vanya
c--Alexei

2. The Nine Muses
a--Clio--history
b--Thalia--comedy
c--Erato--love poetry
d--Urania--astronomy
e--Euterpe--music and lyric poetry
f--Melpomene--tragedy
g--Polyhymnia--singing and rhetoric
h--Terpsichore--dan
ce
i--Calliope--chief muse, muse of epic or heroic poetry

3. The Fates (Greek)
a--Clotho, the Spinner
b--Lachesis, the Allotter
c--Atropos, the Inevitable

4. The Furies (Roman) or Erinyes (Greek)
a--Alecto--the Unceasing
b--Megaera--the Grudging
c--Tisiphone--the Avenger of Murder

5. The Seven Deadly Sins
a--lust
b--gluttony
c--avarice
d--sloth
e--wrath
f--envy
g--pride

6. Personnel, Newly Discovered John Coltrane Tapes, recorded March 26, May 7, 1965
a--John Coltrane, tenor/soprano saxophone
b--McCoy Tyner, piano
c--Jimmy Garrison, bass
d--Elvin Jones, drums

7. Verb tenses in English
a--simple past
b--simple present
c--simple future
d--past progressive
e--present progressive
f--future progressive
g--past perfect
h--present perfect
i--future perfect
j--past perfect progressive
k--present perfect progressive
l--future perfect progressive

8. Winner Kentucky Derby, 1931
a--Twenty Grand, Charley Kurtsinger up

9. Winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1955
a--Haldor Laxness

10. Some pleasant examples of United States Presidents
a--Abraham Lincoln
b--George Washington
c--Franklin Delano Roosevelt
d--James Madison

11. Some unpleasant examples
a--Herbert Hoover
b--James Buchanan
c--George W. Bush
d--Ronald Reagan
e--possibly Woodrow Wilson

12. Flavors, Ben & Jerry Ice Cream
a--blackberry cobbler *
b--cherry Garcia
c--peanutbutter cup
d--New York Super Fudge Chunk

* no longer made

13. Swing and Dance Bands of the 30s, 40s

a--Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm
b--Freddie Slack and His Slick Orchestra
c--Kay Kaiser's College of Musical Knowledge
d--Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians
e--Horace Heidt and the Musical Knights
f--Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye

14. Automobiles no longer produced
a--Studebaker
b--La Salle
c--Stutz Bearcat
d--Hudson Hornet
e--Henry J

15. Books No Longer Read
a--Middlemarch
b--The Mill on the Floss
c--Lorna Doone
e--Guy Mannering
f--The Bonfire of the Vanities
g--To Have and Have Not

16. Persons No Longer Trusted
a--George W. Bush
b--Richard Cheney
c--Charles Gibson
d--Tim Russert
e--Hillary Clinton
f--Ed McMahon

17. Publications Difficult to take Seriously
a--The New York Times
b--The Readers' Digest
c--The National Review
d--The New York Post

1 comment:

Lori Witzel said...

For more on the topic of 13d, by one of my fave bloggers, Dave Bonta:

http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/07/21/
fred-waring-and-other-pennsylvanians/