ValenciaQBowl wrote:And then there's Marvel Comics of that time period, particularly Thor, which provided the basis for my interest in Norse myth.
Atlee Hammaker wrote:One of my better buzzes, powering Isambard Kingdom Brunel at Gunpei Yokoi, was actually an artifact of my deep Achewood knowledge.
Susan wrote:In the finals of ACF Nats in 2008, I got my team a bonus part on Catharine MacKinnon due to my early-90s reading of Sassy. Since that ended up being a five-point game, it's possible that had I chosen a less excellent magazine to subscribe to when I was 10, we might have lost the tournament.
I learned about Ken Saro-Wiwa by reading a case for my BADM449 (Business Policy and Strategy) course and have picked up tossups/bonus parts on him because of that.
ValenciaQBowl, updated for a new generation of quizbowlers wrote:As a kid in the early 00s, I read Doonesbury in the paper and pored over my dad's book collections of that strip, which led me to learn a lot about Watergate, Vietnam, and other people and issues of that era that I still remember.
Cheynem wrote:I keep waiting for trash questions to use clues about the symbols used to represent politicians in Doonesbury, but alas.
2009 VCU Open round 2 wrote:8. One poem by this author states “A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough / without ever having felt sorry for itself”, “Self Pity”. While in another, the sound of a woman singing in the dusk brings back childhood memories of the narrator sitting at his mother’s feet as she played and sang, “Piano”. More famous perhaps is one in which the title figures are described as “darkening the daytime, torch-like, with the smoking blueness of Pluto’s gloom”, “Bavarian Gentians”. But perhaps his most anthologized poem appears in his collection, Birds, Bees, and Flowers, and is about the narrator’s failure to kill the title creature, which “trailed his yellow-brown slackness soft-bellied down over the edge of the stone trough”, “The Snake”. FTP, who is this English poet and novelist who wrote two novels about the Brangwen sisters and one about Constance Chatterly?
ANSWER: David Herbert Richard Lawrence
ValenciaQBowl wrote:I learned about Ken Saro-Wiwa by reading a case for my BADM449 (Business Policy and Strategy) course and have picked up tossups/bonus parts on him because of that.
I'm intrigued--why would Saro-Wiwa come up in a case for such a business class? Did it have to do with his protests against Shell Oil?
Papa's in the House wrote:Yes. The case focused on RDS's operations in Nigeria.
EDIT: If you couldn't guess, the case wasn't particularly pro-Saro-Wiwa activities.
Atlee Hammaker wrote:One of my better buzzes, powering Isambard Kingdom Brunel at Gunpei Yokoi, was actually an artifact of my deep Achewood knowledge.
What is it like to be a Batman? wrote:Atlee Hammaker wrote:One of my better buzzes, powering Isambard Kingdom Brunel at Gunpei Yokoi, was actually an artifact of my deep Achewood knowledge.
EDIT: Oh, and the only reason I know who Cesare Borgia is is that he's mentioned in Killah Priest's "B.I.B.L.E." at the end of GZA's Liquid Swords, and I've managed to snag tossups at the end because I know he's the "second son of Pope Alexander." I should probably look him up for real, though.
Therizinosaurus wrote:I've gotten two tossups on Prague because I've been to Prague.
itsthatoneguy wrote:Therizinosaurus wrote:I've gotten two tossups on Prague because I've been to Prague.
Spongebob is always enlightening as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcC8Nnut5ag
touchpack wrote:and raise you an American Dad
cornfused wrote:Atlee Hammaker wrote:One of my better buzzes, powering Isambard Kingdom Brunel at Gunpei Yokoi, was actually an artifact of my deep Achewood knowledge.
All of my Isambard Kingdom Brunel knowledge comes from Hark! A Vagrant.
Susan wrote:In the finals of ACF Nats in 2008, I got my team a bonus part on Catharine MacKinnon due to my early-90s reading of Sassy. Since that ended up being a five-point game, it's possible that had I chosen a less excellent magazine to subscribe to when I was 10, we might have lost the tournament.
Papa's in the House wrote:Reading Clive Cussler books has taught me many things, such as everything I know about quipus, Atahualpa, and Huascar (from reading Inca Gold).
I learned about Ken Saro-Wiwa by reading a case for my BADM449 (Business Policy and Strategy) course and have picked up tossups/bonus parts on him because of that.
cornfused wrote:Atlee Hammaker wrote:One of my better buzzes, powering Isambard Kingdom Brunel at Gunpei Yokoi, was actually an artifact of my deep Achewood knowledge.
All of my Isambard Kingdom Brunel knowledge comes from Hark! A Vagrant.
DumbJaques wrote:On a more relevant note, this.
Therizinosaurus wrote:Most of my knowledge of medieval British history is derived from Shakespeare. And I got a tossup on The Mill on the Floss without knowing anything about it because of jokes from the Thursday Next series. So I guess I read those things in books but they weren't the right books so they are probably odd enough to be discussed here.
MNtoNU wrote:I successfully identified Fiddler on the Roof from a song or namethat I heard from the episode (Jews and Chinese Food) of Gilmore Girls where Lorelai and Luke are working on the set of the Stars Hollow Elementary production of Fiddler and Kirk is starring as Tevye.
MNtoNU wrote:I successfully identified Fiddler on the Roof from a song or namethat I heard from the episode (Jews and Chinese Food) of Gilmore Girls where Lorelai and Luke are working on the set of the Stars Hollow Elementary production of Fiddler and Kirk is starring as Tevye.
nandangokhale wrote:A great way to learn Greek mythology is the old Sierra city-builder "Zeus: Master of Olympus" and its expansion, "Poseidon."
Therizinosaurus wrote:nandangokhale wrote:A great way to learn Greek mythology is the old Sierra city-builder "Zeus: Master of Olympus" and its expansion, "Poseidon."
Oh man, I loved those games. Also, "Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom" is a good source of Chinese history/mythology knowledge. And you can keep saiga antelope and giant salamanders in your menagerie.
"Age of Mythology" is an even better way to learn about mythology.
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