Trivia at Moynihan's: Sprang League w33k 2

Spring League Week 2 (1.25.17)

SPVORTS

In researching this round I perused some non-US sites and found out that there are more sports than just baseball basketball and football out there so I tried to diversify myself here. So let’s start with this. This book is about a horse by Laura Hillenbrand, tell me the name of novel: “ “In 1938... the year's #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject of the most newspaper column inches in 1938 wasn't even a person. It was an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse named…”

Seabiscuit
Seaside - The Kooks
So the 2005 film Fever Pitch is a lie. It’s progenitor is a 1992 novel by Nick Hornby about English Football and one club in particular. If you’re currently following the league it might help for me to say that this team is currently in second behind league leaders Chelsea but not too far ahead of 3rd place Tottenham. What EPL team was Fever Pitch originally written about?

Arsenal (The Gunners)
Arsenal Efectivo - Arsenal Efectivo
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first ascent of Everst in 2003 Robert Macfarlene imbued the essence of mountaineering into literary genius. Who was the first person to summit Mt. Everest in 1953? There were two who did it the song clue is for the Brit who did it with Tenzing Norgay of Nepal who definitely doesn’t receive enough credit. As inspiration his first words to his lifelong friend after summiting were: “Well, George, we knocked the bastard off.”

Sir Edmund Hillary
Hillary - Taylor Girlz
The Fight by Normal Mailer captured the historic bout called The Rumble in the Jungle which took place in Zaire. Taking place in 1974 between “the Greatest” and “Big George” name me the two boxers who fought. I’ll give you an extra point if you tell me which one won the fought.

Muhammad Ali & George Forman
George Forman - Jeremy Martian

Bonus: Borrowing from Sports Illusrated’s Top 100 Sports Books of All time I want you to name me the first 5. 3 of them are about baseball, one about football that became an iconic television series, and the other a book about boxing.

The Sweet Science by AJ Liebling - Science by System of a Down
The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn - The Boys of Summer - Don Henley
Ball Four by Jim Bouton - Imma Ball Forever - Young Scooter
You know me Al by Ringer Lardner - You know me - Akdong Musician
Friday Night Lights by HG Bissinger - Last Friday Night (TGIF) - KAty Perry

Books to Movies

I’ll admit I read the twilight books in High school and watched some of the movies. Gotta say the special effects in the movies is comical, Name me the last movie.

Breaking Dawn Breaking up in a small town by Sam Hunt

As a kid I enjoyed reading the series of unfortunate events, and can’t wait to start watching the Netflix tv show. The books were written by Lemony Snicket, a pen name. What is the authors real name?

Daniel Handler Handlebars by flotbot

As I said last week I could never really get into reading GOT due to my inability to remember names. But I loved the show! Also side note each ep of season one cost around 6million. I want to know who the screen writer of the GOT tv series is.

David Benioff && DB Weiss Under Pressure David Bowie

I recently started watching outlanders, great show. It’s a 9 book series and so far in season 4. The shows about a British nurse who travels back into 18th century Scotland. What is the name of the main character of Outlander.

Claire Randall all we know- chainsmokers

I want the top 5 grossing movies (not tv shows) that were first books, I didn’t add multiple if they are in a series.

Harry Potter pothole - Modern Baseball

LOTR Ring off - Beyonce

Alice in Wonderlands Wonderwall - oasis

The Original Jurassic Park - Jurrasic park theme

The Hobbit misty mountains

Mind Leaks

So a big part of Novels is obviously the ideas behind them and is the theme for tonight. This rounds going to include some techniques that you may or may not have heard of and a bunch of random and hopefully cool questions!

So a crazy and usually unforeseen narrative technique is one where the characters lose all control and something greater takes over. Used a lot by sci-fi nerds mostly because of halo adaptations and youtube videos. Tell me the Latin phrase used for such actions.

Deus ex Machina
Deus ex Machina - Deadmau5
In Medias res refers to when a story begins at a point other than the beginning. It’s essentially a narrative hook because you’re always looking forward to that one big event. For example Homer’s Odyssey begins and ends with his return to his home. What city is Odysseus’s home?

Ithaka
Ithaca is Gorgeous by Dylan Owen
So Frames of narrative is a pretty crazy literary concept that I wrote about freshman year and thought I was making up but it’s actually a real thing. It’s basically who tells the story and how the plot progresses and what not. Anyways one of the simplest frames of reference is one through which the main character tells the story. What is this kind of perspective called?

First-person Narration
The First Person on Earth - Tracy Chapman
I love witty things. An example is something spelled the same forwards and backwards. Or sentences that are constructed to be the same. What are these things called?

Palindromes
Fake Palindromes - Andrew Bird

Bonus: My favorite thing ever though is stream of consciousness. I found a list of 10 writers who used them and I’m going to give you some of their famous works and you need to tell me their names.

Pointed Roofs - Dorothy Richardson - Wicked Ones by Dorothy
The Sound and the Fury; As I lay Dying - William Faulkner - Revolutionary by Faulkner
Finnegans Wake; Ulysses - James Joyce - Hold Back the River by James Bay
Mrs Dalloway; To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf - Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran
On the Road - Jack Kerouac - Better Together by Jack Johnson

Famous modern novelists

Recently my parents bought some land on the coast of Maine near Rockport and will soon start building. They were talking to some neighbors and one of them mentioned how Stephen king might own one of the houses nearby. Anyway, I want to know how many novels Stephen king has written

55 555- phish

HP Will always have a spot in my heart, but I want to know which university JK, Rowling attended in England.

Exeter, England exit wounds - the script

Alex Cross is a well-known fictional psychologist and FBI agent. Which author is known for writing multiple novels about this character.

James Paterson say you wont let go- james arthur

Which American author currently holds the record for the bestselling fiction author alive and fourth bestselling fiction author of all time? Currently with 800 million copies sold and 120 books?

Danielle Steel steal my girl- one direction

Technically the majority of these are not modern, but I want you to tell me the current record holders for best selling fiction authors, only one is alive and she's the one from question four.

Agatha Christie Christie road- greenday

William Shakespeare shake it off- tswift

Barbara Cartland landslide- fleetwood mac

Danielle steel steal her man- taylor girlz

Harrols Robbins shed a light by robins schulz

SIDE NOTE! Thanks to all of you who filled out the anonymous trivia survey for the coming semester - as always we live to please and want to make this fun & enjoyable so stay tuned for more things coming - and if you put your name on it well you know who you are………………………………………...