ROUND 10: Challenge

A. Great Lines from Film Noir
B. Roman nicknames
C. Canadian mountain passes
D. Recording the oral tradition
E. Euro lit
F. Movies About Scientists


A. Great Lines from Film Noir

Identify the movies from which the following lines are drawn:

1. "I'm still big. It's the pictures that got small."

	A. Sunset Boulevard


2. "I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them
   myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter
   evenings."

	A. The Big Sleep


3. "Some people are better off dead. Like your wife and my 
   father, for instance."

	A. Strangers On A Train



B. Roman nicknames

1. Which ancient Roman was known as "the Censor"? He was an elected 
   public official who held his office for life, and a moralist, busybody 
   and tightwad. A modern right wing think tank is named after him.

	A. Cato the Censor [Marcus Porcius Cato; the Cato Institute]


2. Which ancient Roman was known as "the Delayer"? (In Latin, the 
   term is Cunctator.) He prudently refused to come out and fight Hannibal. 
   A left wing British political movement, one of whose members was George 
   Bernard Shaw, was named after him - but we need
   the name of the man himself, not the group's name.

	A. Fabius the Delayer (Cunctator) [Quintus Fabius Maximus;
        the Fabian Society]

3. Who was known as "the Arbiter" or "the Arbiter of Delights"? 
   He served in Nero's court as the person responsible for procuring 
   the emperor's pleasures, and the bawdy novel The Satyricon is 
   ascribed to him.

	A. Petronius Arbiter (or Petronius Arbiter Elegantiarum)


C. Canadian mountain passes

1. In Alberta and BC, the Trans-Canada Highway is highway 1, and 
   the CPR main line mostly runs alongside it.  By which pass do 
   they cross the Continental Divide, at the border between the two provinces?

	A. Kicking Horse

2. In Alberta and BC, highway 16 similarly follows the CNR main line, 
   crossing the Continental Divide at the provincial border west of Jasper 
   -- by which pass?

	A. Yellowhead

3. During the Klondike gold rush, prospectors who chose to sail to
   Skagway, Alaska, faced a dreadful hike over the mountain range 
   that was eventually agreed to form the border with Canada.  They had 
   a choice of two passes, one named for the local tribe, the other now 
   carrying a road and a railway.  Name either.

	A. Chilkoot (not Chilkat), White



D. Recording the oral tradition

1. Name the scholar who published "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads" 
   in 5 volumes between 1883 and 1898. He collected manuscripts dating from 
   the 15th to the 19th century and transcribed performances. His catalogue 
   of ballads is named after him.

	A. Francis James Child ("Child's Ballads")

2. Beginning in the 1930s, this anthropologist travelled the American South 
   collecting songs and tales for the Library of Congress. He produced many 
   recordings and wrote several books, including The Land Where the Blues Began. 
   Name him.

	A. Alan Lomax


3. In the 1930s a professor of Ancient Greek went to Europe to record modern 
   epic poets. He wanted to prove that Homer must have composed his poems 
   more-or-less spontaneously. After this folklorist died, his collaborator 
   published his work in a book called The Singer of Tales. Name either the 
   folklorist OR his collaborator, OR name the country where these epic poems 
   were recorded.

	A. Milman Parry OR Albert Lord; OR Yugoslavia


E. Euro lit

Who wrote these pairs of works?

1. This writer is Italian. The works are: The Periodic Table; and 
   The Drowned and the Saved

	A. Primo Levi

2. This writer is German. The works are: Dog Years; and The Flounder

	A. Gunther Grass

3. This writer is Czech. The works are: The Joke; and 
   The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

	A. Milan Kundera
	

F. Movies About Scientists

1. The 1940 film "Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet" told of the
   controversial development of a medical remedy.  Either tell 
   us what condition this remedy was for, or who played the title
   character.

	Syphilis
	Edward G. Robinson

2. In a 1994 comedy, Albert Einstein facilitates his niece's romance.
   Either tell us the title of the movie, or who played Einstein.

	I.Q.
	Walter Matthau

3. This 1989 drama about the project to develop the atomic bomb
   features Dwight Schultz as Robert Oppenheimer.  Either tell us the
   title of the movie, or name the better-known star who played
   General Groves.

	Fat Man and Little Boy 
	(also accept "Shadow Makers", the UK title)
	Paul Newman