* Game 5, Round 7 - Canadiana - Canada by the Numbers
All answers are a group of people or things, with a number in
the name. For example, if we say "members include Sleepy, Sneezy
and Doc" the answer would be the Seven Dwarves. However, these
are about Canada and they are real. Name the groups.
5. Emily Murphy, Irene Marryat Parlby, Nellie Mooney McClung,
Henrietta Muir Edwards, and Louise Crummy McKinney. No other
information necessary.
6. Near Canmore, these mountains can be seen from the Trans-Canada
Highway. The member names would give away the answer, but let's
just say that the name of the mountains is also the name of a
play by Chekhov.
* Game 5, Round 8 - Literature - Traveling Writers
There are travel writers and then there are writers who travel.
This round is about the latter. In all cases, name the writer.
3. A Trinidadian Nobel-prizewinner who sometimes """alternates"""
between novels and works of non-fiction, including "India:
a Wounded Civilization" and "Among the Believers: an Islamic
Journey".
4. This ultra-urban 18th-century writer allowed himself to be
pried from London for 3 months to inspect the wild western
islands of Scotland.
5. This 20th-century American author matched his massive
one-word-titled novels of love and war with massive travel
journals, like the classic "Iberia", a portrait of Spain in
the 1960s.
6. This world-weary 19th-century poet spent much of his life in
self-imposed exile from England. His fame was founded upon his
"pilgrimage" in four cantos through Portugal, Spain, Greece,
and Italy.
7. This 20th-century English novelist worked for MI6 in Sierra Leone
during World War II, and always had a soft spot for the world's
hotspots, including revolutionary Mexico, Haiti, Viet Nam,
and Cuba.
8. He was born in Rosario, Argentina, in 1928. His chronicle
of a journey from Buenos Aires to Peru was his only travel book,
but it was a memorable one.
* Game 5, Round 7 - Canadiana - Canada by the Numbers
1. The founders of the Iroquois Confederacy -- including the
Mohawks, Onondagas, and Oneidas (but not the Tuscaroras,
who joined later). What name are these peoples collectively
known by?
6. Near Canmore, these mountains can be seen from the Trans-Canada
Highway. The member names would give away the answer, but let's
just say that the name of the mountains is also the name of a
play by Chekhov.
* Game 5, Round 8 - Literature - Traveling Writers
1. This """contemporary""" humorist has written memorably about
his travels in Japan, Canada, and ("""most recently""")
Northern Ireland. Titles include "Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw".
2. This 19th-century Scottish novelist was an inveterate traveler
who wrote of America and the South Seas, though his most beloved
travel memoir retells the two weeks he spent traipsing around
the south of France with a donkey.
4. This ultra-urban 18th-century writer allowed himself to be
pried from London for 3 months to inspect the wild western
islands of Scotland.
5. This 20th-century American author matched his massive
one-word-titled novels of love and war with massive travel
journals, like the classic "Iberia", a portrait of Spain in
the 1960s.
6. This world-weary 19th-century poet spent much of his life in
self-imposed exile from England. His fame was founded upon his
"pilgrimage" in four cantos through Portugal, Spain, Greece,
and Italy.
7. This 20th-century English novelist worked for MI6 in Sierra Leone
during World War II, and always had a soft spot for the world's
hotspots, including revolutionary Mexico, Haiti, Viet Nam,
and Cuba.
8. He was born in Rosario, Argentina, in 1928. His chronicle
of a journey from Buenos Aires to Peru was his only travel book,
but it was a memorable one.
10. This 20th-century writer started his literary travels with
"In Patagonia" before following Australian aboriginal trails
in "The Songlines". One of his travel collections bears the
classic title "What am I Doing Here?"
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2011-06-13,
and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written
by members of the Misplaced Modifiers, but have been reformatted
and may have been retyped and/or edited by me. I will reveal the
correct answers in about 3 days.
For further information, including an explanation of the """ notation
that may appear in these rounds, see my 2021-07-20 companion posting
on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
* Game 5, Round 7 - Canadiana - Canada by the Numbers
All answers are a group of people or things, with a number in
the name. For example, if we say "members include Sleepy, Sneezy
and Doc" the answer would be the Seven Dwarves. However, these
are about Canada and they are real. Name the groups.
1. The founders of the Iroquois Confederacy -- including the
Mohawks, Onondagas, and Oneidas (but not the Tuscaroras,
who joined later). What name are these peoples collectively
known by?
2. The political dream team -- Pierre Trudeau, Gerard Pelletier,
and Jean Marchand.
3. Aspiring terrorists -- including Fahim Ahmad, Zakaria Amara,
and Shareef Abdelhaleem. Name the group.
4. In visual art -- members included Franz (or Frank) Johnston
and Franklin Carmichael.
5. Emily Murphy, Irene Marryat Parlby, Nellie Mooney McClung,
Henrietta Muir Edwards, and Louise Crummy McKinney. No other
information necessary.
6. Near Canmore, these mountains can be seen from the Trans-Canada
Highway. The member names would give away the answer, but let's
just say that the name of the mountains is also the name of a
play by Chekhov.
7. In art, its members included Jack Bush, Jock MacDonald, and
Harold Town, from 1954 to 1960. Name the group.
8. For a time during the negotiations to patriate the constitution,
all provincial premiers except Bill Davis and Richard Hatfield
were opposed to the initiative. How did they then come to
be known?
9. A sound poetry group consisting of bpNichol, Paul Dutton,
Rafael Barreto-Rivera, and Steve McCaffery. Based in Toronto,
they performed internationally from 1972 to 1988.
10. This trade union was founded in Calgary on 1919-06-04,
seceding from the dominant Trades and Labour Congress of Canada.
For years they continued to lose members, but stayed alive
by an illegal lottery that they ran in their weekly bulletin.
Eventually, they merged with CLC in 1956. What was the name
of the movement?
* Game 5, Round 8 - Literature - Traveling Writers
There are travel writers and then there are writers who travel.
This round is about the latter. In all cases, name the writer.
1. This """contemporary""" humorist has written memorably about
his travels in Japan, Canada, and ("""most recently""")
Northern Ireland. Titles include "Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw".
2. This 19th-century Scottish novelist was an inveterate traveler
who wrote of America and the South Seas, though his most beloved
travel memoir retells the two weeks he spent traipsing around
the south of France with a donkey.
3. A Trinidadian Nobel-prizewinner who sometimes """alternates"""
between novels and works of non-fiction, including "India:
a Wounded Civilization" and "Among the Believers: an Islamic
Journey".
4. This ultra-urban 18th-century writer allowed himself to be
pried from London for 3 months to inspect the wild western
islands of Scotland.
5. This 20th-century American author matched his massive
one-word-titled novels of love and war with massive travel
journals, like the classic "Iberia", a portrait of Spain in
the 1960s.
6. This world-weary 19th-century poet spent much of his life in
self-imposed exile from England. His fame was founded upon his
"pilgrimage" in four cantos through Portugal, Spain, Greece,
and Italy.
7. This 20th-century English novelist worked for MI6 in Sierra Leone
during World War II, and always had a soft spot for the world's
hotspots, including revolutionary Mexico, Haiti, Viet Nam,
and Cuba.
8. He was born in Rosario, Argentina, in 1928. His chronicle
of a journey from Buenos Aires to Peru was his only travel book,
but it was a memorable one.
9. From 1898, this Irish writer began making annual visits to
the Aran Islands, off the coast of Galway. His encounters with
traditional Ireland inspired a travelogue and several acclaimed
stage plays.
10. This 20th-century writer started his literary travels with
"In Patagonia" before following Australian aboriginal trails
in "The Songlines". One of his travel collections bears the
classic title "What am I Doing Here?"
* Game 5, Round 7 - Canadiana - Canada by the Numbers
All answers are a group of people or things, with a number in
the name. For example, if we say "members include Sleepy, Sneezy
and Doc" the answer would be the Seven Dwarves. However, these
are about Canada and they are real. Name the groups.
1. The founders of the Iroquois Confederacy -- including the
Mohawks, Onondagas, and Oneidas (but not the Tuscaroras,
who joined later). What name are these peoples collectively
known by?
2. The political dream team -- Pierre Trudeau, Gerard Pelletier,
and Jean Marchand.
3. Aspiring terrorists -- including Fahim Ahmad, Zakaria Amara,
and Shareef Abdelhaleem. Name the group.
4. In visual art -- members included Franz (or Frank) Johnston
and Franklin Carmichael.
5. Emily Murphy, Irene Marryat Parlby, Nellie Mooney McClung,
Henrietta Muir Edwards, and Louise Crummy McKinney. No other
information necessary.
6. Near Canmore, these mountains can be seen from the Trans-Canada
Highway. The member names would give away the answer, but let's
just say that the name of the mountains is also the name of a
play by Chekhov.
7. In art, its members included Jack Bush, Jock MacDonald, and
Harold Town, from 1954 to 1960. Name the group.
8. For a time during the negotiations to patriate the constitution,
all provincial premiers except Bill Davis and Richard Hatfield
were opposed to the initiative. How did they then come to
be known?
9. A sound poetry group consisting of bpNichol, Paul Dutton,
Rafael Barreto-Rivera, and Steve McCaffery. Based in Toronto,
they performed internationally from 1972 to 1988.
10. This trade union was founded in Calgary on 1919-06-04,
seceding from the dominant Trades and Labour Congress of Canada.
For years they continued to lose members, but stayed alive
by an illegal lottery that they ran in their weekly bulletin.
Eventually, they merged with CLC in 1956. What was the name
of the movement?
* Game 5, Round 8 - Literature - Traveling Writers
There are travel writers and then there are writers who travel.
This round is about the latter. In all cases, name the writer.
1. This """contemporary""" humorist has written memorably about
his travels in Japan, Canada, and ("""most recently""")
Northern Ireland. Titles include "Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw".
2. This 19th-century Scottish novelist was an inveterate traveler
who wrote of America and the South Seas, though his most beloved
travel memoir retells the two weeks he spent traipsing around
the south of France with a donkey.
3. A Trinidadian Nobel-prizewinner who sometimes """alternates"""
between novels and works of non-fiction, including "India:
a Wounded Civilization" and "Among the Believers: an Islamic
Journey".
4. This ultra-urban 18th-century writer allowed himself to be
pried from London for 3 months to inspect the wild western
islands of Scotland.
5. This 20th-century American author matched his massive
one-word-titled novels of love and war with massive travel
journals, like the classic "Iberia", a portrait of Spain in
the 1960s.
6. This world-weary 19th-century poet spent much of his life in
self-imposed exile from England. His fame was founded upon his
"pilgrimage" in four cantos through Portugal, Spain, Greece,
and Italy.
7. This 20th-century English novelist worked for MI6 in Sierra Leone
during World War II, and always had a soft spot for the world's
hotspots, including revolutionary Mexico, Haiti, Viet Nam,
and Cuba.
8. He was born in Rosario, Argentina, in 1928. His chronicle
of a journey from Buenos Aires to Peru was his only travel book,
but it was a memorable one.
9. From 1898, this Irish writer began making annual visits to
the Aran Islands, off the coast of Galway. His encounters with
traditional Ireland inspired a travelogue and several acclaimed
stage plays.
10. This 20th-century writer started his literary travels with
"In Patagonia" before following Australian aboriginal trails
in "The Songlines". One of his travel collections bears the
classic title "What am I Doing Here?"
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2011-06-13,
and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information...
see my 2021-07-20 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from
the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
* Game 5, Round 7 - Canadiana - Canada by the Numbers
All answers are a group of people or things, with a number in
the name. For example, if we say "members include Sleepy, Sneezy
and Doc" the answer would be the Seven Dwarves. However, these
are about Canada and they are real. Name the groups.
1. The founders of the Iroquois Confederacy -- including the
Mohawks, Onondagas, and Oneidas (but not the Tuscaroras,
who joined later). What name are these peoples collectively
known by?
2. The political dream team -- Pierre Trudeau, Gerard Pelletier,
and Jean Marchand.
3. Aspiring terrorists -- including Fahim Ahmad, Zakaria Amara,
and Shareef Abdelhaleem. Name the group.
4. In visual art -- members included Franz (or Frank) Johnston
and Franklin Carmichael.
5. Emily Murphy, Irene Marryat Parlby, Nellie Mooney McClung,
Henrietta Muir Edwards, and Louise Crummy McKinney. No other
information necessary.
6. Near Canmore, these mountains can be seen from the Trans-Canada
Highway. The member names would give away the answer, but let's
just say that the name of the mountains is also the name of a
play by Chekhov.
7. In art, its members included Jack Bush, Jock MacDonald, and
Harold Town, from 1954 to 1960. Name the group.
8. For a time during the negotiations to patriate the constitution,
all provincial premiers except Bill Davis and Richard Hatfield
were opposed to the initiative. How did they then come to
be known?
9. A sound poetry group consisting of bpNichol, Paul Dutton,
Rafael Barreto-Rivera, and Steve McCaffery. Based in Toronto,
they performed internationally from 1972 to 1988.
10. This trade union was founded in Calgary on 1919-06-04,
seceding from the dominant Trades and Labour Congress of Canada.
For years they continued to lose members, but stayed alive
by an illegal lottery that they ran in their weekly bulletin.
Eventually, they merged with CLC in 1956. What was the name
of the movement?
* Game 5, Round 8 - Literature - Traveling Writers
There are travel writers and then there are writers who travel.
This round is about the latter. In all cases, name the writer.
1. This """contemporary""" humorist has written memorably about
his travels in Japan, Canada, and ("""most recently""")
Northern Ireland. Titles include "Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw".
2. This 19th-century Scottish novelist was an inveterate traveler
who wrote of America and the South Seas, though his most beloved
travel memoir retells the two weeks he spent traipsing around
the south of France with a donkey.
3. A Trinidadian Nobel-prizewinner who sometimes """alternates"""
between novels and works of non-fiction, including "India:
a Wounded Civilization" and "Among the Believers: an Islamic
Journey".
4. This ultra-urban 18th-century writer allowed himself to be
pried from London for 3 months to inspect the wild western
islands of Scotland.
5. This 20th-century American author matched his massive
one-word-titled novels of love and war with massive travel
journals, like the classic "Iberia", a portrait of Spain in
the 1960s.
6. This world-weary 19th-century poet spent much of his life in
self-imposed exile from England. His fame was founded upon his
"pilgrimage" in four cantos through Portugal, Spain, Greece,
and Italy.
7. This 20th-century English novelist worked for MI6 in Sierra Leone
during World War II, and always had a soft spot for the world's
hotspots, including revolutionary Mexico, Haiti, Viet Nam,
and Cuba.
8. He was born in Rosario, Argentina, in 1928. His chronicle
of a journey from Buenos Aires to Peru was his only travel book,
but it was a memorable one.
9. From 1898, this Irish writer began making annual visits to
the Aran Islands, off the coast of Galway. His encounters with
traditional Ireland inspired a travelogue and several acclaimed
stage plays.
10. This 20th-century writer started his literary travels with
"In Patagonia" before following Australian aboriginal trails
in "The Songlines". One of his travel collections bears the
classic title "What am I Doing Here?"
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