mighty fine trivia by James Callan
Entertainment: Since the early ’70s, comedian Bob Einstein has portrayed what overconfident character featured (among other places) on Late Night With David Letterman and in Nike commercials?
That question, again: Now that it’s finished David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, online book club Infinite Summer has decided to read what classic Gothic novel between Oct. 1 and Halloween?
Round 5 at the Old Pequliar on October 7, 2008
Amazon identifies key phrases in many of the books it sells — distinctive phrases or proper names that appear in one book but not many others.
Given five key phrases, can you identify the novel they come from? (Additional clue: They were all first published within the last 100 years.)
1) tighter bomb pattern, more combat missions, stupid mouth, Henry Fonda, and Lieutenant Scheisskopf
2) feminist funeral, ball turret gunner, wrestling practice, Under Toad, and sexual suspect
3) three sénéchaux, seeded womb, corporal mortification, sacred feminine, and Opus Dei
4) grain barges, cell leader, laser drills, new catapult, and Free Luna
5) invisible doctors, banana company, insomnia plague, story about the capon, and siesta time
6) bun compartment, nucular bum, flannel nightshirt, hunting cap, and Patrolman Mancuso
7) keystream letters, Bletchley Park, making license plates, Bobby Shaftoe, and substitution alphabet
8) tennis academy, professional conversationalist, Hal Incandenza, new bong, and howling fantods
9) accused man, fishing gaff, strawberry land, Kabuo Miyamoto, and Island County
10) Las Vegas, rundown bootheels, happy crappy, Captain Trips, and dig your man
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