What Pulitzer-Prize-winning work was released in two volumes called “My Father Bleeds History” and “And Here My Troubles Began”?
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Who was the first film critic to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
(Hint: They were also the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.)
Round 1 at the Old Pequliar on May 2, 2009
Stuff that happened in May in American history.
1) On May 1, 1992, who appeared on TV and asked “Can we stop … making it horrible for the older people and the kids”?
2) What annual sporting event was nationally televised for the first time on May 3, 1952?
3) The 1886 rally at Chicago’s Haymarket Square that turned into a riot was one incident in labor unions’ long struggle to achieve what goal?
4) The headline on the May 8, 1915, New York Times said what vessel was “twice torpedoed off Irish coast”?
5) What building was the tallest in the world from late May 1930 to early May 1931?
6) In May 1932, who entered the US Penitentiary in Atlanta to serve an 11-year sentence for tax evasion?
7) In May 1953, Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for what novel, the last published in his lifetime?
8) On May 11, 1996, everyone aboard flight 592 of what low-cost airline was killed when it crashed into the Everglades?
9) The White Night riots broke out in 1979 when what killer was convicted of voluntary manslaughter?
10) What popular combination of ditali, ditalini, tubetti, and tubetini made its debut on May 16, 1965?
ANSWERS:
TODAY’S QUESTION:
The international airport in Venice is named after what native son?
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER:
TODAY’S QUESTION:
Working may have been his most famous book, but what 1985 book won Studs Terkel the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction?
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER:
1) In 1966, the Ku Klux Klan burned Beatles records after who said the group was “more popular than Jesus now”?
2) The Depeche Mode song “Personal Jesus” was inspired by the autobiography Elvis and Me, written by whom?
3) The Jesus and Mary Chain’s song “Just Like Honey” appears in the closing scenes of what 2003 drama?
4) Before Jesus Christ Superstar, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice collaborated on what other biblically inspired musical?
5) In the short film “The Spirit of Christmas,” when Jesus and Santa are kicking the crap out of each other, who reminds the South Park kids that “This is the season just to be good to each other”?
6) What Pulitzer-winning novelist and one-time New York mayoral candidate published The Gospel According to the Son in 1997, told from the point of view of Jesus himself?
7) Victor Garber, Jennifer Garner’s dad on Alias, plays Jesus in what musical film that climaxes on top of the World Trade Center?
8) The shortest verse in the New Testament, John 11:35, is “Jesus wept.” Whose tomb made Jesus cry like a little girl?
9) Supreme Court case Morse v. Frederick determined that a school can restrict student speech at a school event that can be seen as promoting drug use. What did Joseph Frederick’s controversial banner say?
10) In 1899, journalist Louis Klopsch came up with the idea for what biblical innovation?
Average score: 5.9
1) According to Christian tradition, which apostle wrote the Book of Revelation?
2) Which Stephen King novel was his self-described attempt to “do the Lord of the Rings with an American background”?
3) What bestselling series of novels, named after the first book in the series, includes Tribulation Force, Soul Harvest, The Indwelling, Armageddon, and Kingdom Come?
4) After writing his post-apocalyptic novel The Road, Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize and had his first television interview. Who interviewed him?
5) What movie ends with these lines: “You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!”
6) What 1983 foreign-language song did VH1 select as #10 on their list of the 100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders?
7) R.E.M.’s song “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” mentions four famous people with the initials LB. Name two of them.
8) Henry Bemis had all the time he wanted to read — but now he’s “just a part of a smashed landscape, just a piece of the rubble, just a fragment of what man has deeded to himself.” What ironic thing happened to Henry Bemis that inspired these closing comments on The Twilight Zone?
9) “This is the way the world ends / not with a bang but a whimper” are the last lines of what TS Eliot poem?
10) In May of this year, CBS canceled Jericho. To protest, fans sent over 20 tons of what to CBS headquarters?
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