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Question #4 (Week of October 14 - October 21); Category -- General Trivia
Who was Julia Ward Howe?
Answer to Question #4:
Howe, Julia Ward (1819-1910), American author and reformer, born in New York City. She was associated with her husband, Samuel Gridley Howe, in his humanitarian work and in editing and contributing to the Boston Commonwealth, an antislavery paper. Inspired by a visit to a Union army camp during the American Civil War (1861-1865), Howe wrote the famous poem "Battle Hymn of the Republic," which, after publication in The Atlantic Monthly in 1862, immediately achieved great popularity as a song of the Civil War. After the war, Howe was active in the women's rights movement as a founder of both the New England Woman's Club and the Association for the Advancement of Women. She also headed the American branch of the Woman's International Peace Association. She was the first woman to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
One of the places to find information about Julia Ward Howe is The American renaissance in New England. Third series. Ed. by Wesley T. Mott. It contains biographical sketches of 98 authors of the American renaissance, 1830-1860. During this period, the American population increased from 7 million to 12 million persons; the number of newspapers increased from 850 to over 4,000; and America saw the advent of Jacksonian democracy. Because of its historical association with book publishing, New England maintained a cultural prominence in these years leading up to the Civil War.
Entries in the work are divided into two types: extended factual and evaluative essays on major figures, and shorter essays on less important figures. Appendices include a glossary of terms, accounts of communal experiments, descriptions of the major periodicals of the time, and lists of supplementary reading.
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Question #3 (Oct. 7-Oct. 14); Category - Literature:
Below is the first paragraph and a list of characters from a well-known 20th Century novel. Your task is to name the novel, its author, and its original date of publication. The text is not a foreword, a preface, or an introduction, but what immediately follows the designation Chapter One.
"He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees. The mountainside sloped gently where he lay; but below it was steep and he could see the dark of the oiled road winding through the pass. There was a stream alongside the road and far down the pass he saw a mill beside the stream and the falling water of the dam, white in the summer sunlight."
CHARACTERS:
El Sordo
Pilar
Robert Jordan
Answer to Question #3:
Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. 1940.
A story of the Spanish Civil War and America's involvement in the Loyalist cause. Robert Jordan is the central character: an American fighting with guerrillas led by Pilar and El Sordo.
I found three books in Holland Reference with the answer to this question (I am sure there are others). The three I found are:
Larousse Dictionary of Literary Characters. Ed. by Rosemary Goring. Edinburgh: Larousse, 1994.
This is an alphabetical list of well-known literary characters from Aaron, the Moor to Norman Zweck. After the character sketches is an index of authors with references to works and characters. The entry for Robert Jordan is on page 388.
Freeman, William. Dictionary of Fictional Characters. Rev. by Fred Urquhart with indexes and authors and titles by E. N. Pennell. Boston: The Writer, 1974.
Contains three indexes: characters, without sketches; authors, with page references; and titles. The Robert Jordan entry is on page 245.
Harris, Laurie Lanzen. Characters in 20th Century Literature. Detroit: Gale Research, 1990.
This book describes its scope and organization on page xi. The main text contains an alphabetized list of authors from Chinua Achebe to Emile Zola. Each entry has a very brief reference to the genre within which the author is known followed by detailed descriptions of significant works and their characters. Next is a character index with page references. Next is a title index with page references. Information about Robert Jordan is on page 171.
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Question #2 (Sept. 25-Oct. 7); Category - General Trivia:
What is Symbion pandora?
Answer to Question #2:
A microscopic ectoparasite discovered living on the lips of the scampi lobster Nephrops norvegicus. So fundamentally distinct from all other groups of animals, it resulted in the creation of an entirely new phylum, the Cycliophora.
One way to find information on Symbion pandora is to use the General Science Index. Go to the Libraries Home Page
(http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/) and click on the button labeled [Article Indexes/E-Journals]. Activate the pull-down menu labeled [Article Indexes and Other Databases A to Z]. Select the General Science Index from the alphabetized list. A keyword search using the term symbion pandora will give you several articles about its discovery and significance.
OCLC FirstSearch supports access to the General Science Index. The database's 615,000+ records cover everything from supernovas to marine pollution, and a variety of other scientific topics. It indexes 160 leading journals and magazines from the United States and Great Britain and describes biographical sketches, symposia, conferences, review articles, selected letters to the editor, special issues of journals published as supplementary issues, review issues, laboratory guides, and book reviews.
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Question #1 (Sept. 16-23); Category - Popular Culture:
Name the three persons who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in
its inaugural class of 1986 in the categories of "Non-Performer" and "Lifetime
Achievement."
Answer to Question #1:
Lifetime achievement -- John Hammond
Legendary talent scout John Hammond discovered some of the greatest talents in jazz, folk, blues and rock and roll during his 54-year association with Columbia Records. On the jazz and blues side, he played a major role in launching the careers of Billie Holiday, Count Basie and Aretha Franklin. Among rock and roll fans, he will no doubt be best remembered for signing Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.
Alan Freed -- Non-performer
Disk jockey Alan Freed is widely credited with coining the term "rock and roll" to describe the uptempo black R&B records he played as early as 1951 on Cleveland radio station WJW. Freed called himself "the Moondog" and billed his show as the "Moondog Rock 'n' Roll Party." A tireless and enthusiastic advocate of the music he played, Freed kept time to his favorite records by beating his hands on a phone book. He called it rock and roll because "it seemed to suggested the rolling, surging beat of the music."
Sam Phillips -- Non-performer
If Sam Phillips had discovered only Elvis Presley, he would have earned his rightful place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But his Sun Records label was also an early home to Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Howlin' Wolf and more of rock and roll's greatest talents. Sun produced more rock and roll records than any other label of its time.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a must see for fans of this uniquely American music phenomenon. As many of those who answered this question correctly probably already know, its Web site (www.rockhall.com) is full of interesting, tantalizing, and historical information about the performers, early influences, movers and shakers, and cultural impact of rock and roll music.
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