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Tuesday, January 02, 2007
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In El Filibusterismo, where was Simoun’s bomb hidden?
---in the lamp he gave to Paulita Gomez and Juanito Pelaez as a wedding present

Which author wrote a series of short story collections and a novel set in Cubao?
--Tony Perez

In this book, Benedict Anderson asserts that Jose Rizal’s writing was influenced by anarchism. Name the book.

--The Spectre of Comparisons (under three flags)

Which short story by Nick Joaquin was filmed as Tatarin?
--Summer Solstice

What novel by STAR columnist Krip Yuson was set in the St. Louis World Exposition of 1904?

---Voyeurs & Savages

A new translation of Noli Me Tangere was recently published by Penguin Classics. What is the translator’s name?

---Harold Augenbraum

The Katipunero general Artemio Ricarte wrote a fascinating autobiography. What was his nom de guerre?
---(El )Vibora

What is the title of the first anthology of erotica written by Filipino women? (It was published in 1992.)

---Forbidden Fruit

"Dead Stars" is one of the first published Filipino stories in English. Who wrote it?

---Paz Marquez Benitez

The title of this groundbreaking gay anthology is now the name of the gay, lesbian, and transgendered Filipino political party. What is it?
---Ladlad

Books into Film

Which Ian McEwan novel, made into a film starring Daniel Craig, begins with a ballooning accident?
---Enduring Love

Whose short story was adapted into the Nicolas Roeg film, Don’t Look Now?
---Daphne Du Maurier

Daniel Day-Lewis plays an English twit who gets dumped by the heroine in the film version of E.M. Forster’s novel. What is the title of the book and movie?
---A Room with a View

The first rule of Fight Club is...
---(You do not talk about Fight Club.)

True or False: Alan Furst’s World War II spy thrillers have never been filmed.
---False (True)

What poem by e.e. cummings is recited in Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters?
---Somewhere I Have Never Travelled

The line "Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind" is taken from whose poem?

---Alexander Pope

Which book of the Old Testament is quoted in PT Anderson’s film Magnolia?
---Exodus

Luchino Visconti’s magnificent film The Leopard was based on the novel by this Italian nobleman. What was his name?
---Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa

What is the title of the book Hugh Grant is reading in the last scene of Notting Hill? (It was also made into a movie. A terrible one.)
---About A Boy (Captain Corelli’s Mandolin)

Afflictions

The narrator of Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn suffers from this affliction, which causes him to go off into linguistic riffs.
---Tourette's Syndrome

The narrator of this Mark Haddon novel has Asperger’s syndrome. What is the title of the novel?
--- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Who is The English Patient in Michael Ondaatje’s novel of the same title?
---Count Ladislaus de Almásy

This Irish author had cerebral palsy, which did not stop him from boozing, brawling, and writing My Left Foot. What was his name?
---Christy Brown

Dostoevsky’s hero in The Idiot spent many years in an institution because of this ailment. What is the ailment?
--epilepsy

Pets

What is the name of the dog in Harlan Ellison’s post-apocalyptic story, A Boy and His Dog?
----Blood

The all-knowing cat in the title role of this short story by Saki (H.H. Munro).
----Attab (Tobermory)

Merlin’s owl in T.H. White’s The Once and Future King.
---Archimedes

Who’s the guy in Franz Kafka’s story who wakes up one day to find himself transformed into a cockroach?
---Gregor Samsa

What is the title of the short novel by Evelyn Waugh set in a pet cemetery?

--The Loved One

Families

This novel by Leo Tolstoy begins with a comparison of happy and unhappy families.
---War and Peace (Anna Karenina)

Name at least three of the Glass children in J.D. Salinger’s stories. (Bonus points if you can name all of them, extra bonus points if you give the titles of the stories in which they are the main protagonists.)
-----Seymour Glass ("A Perfect Day for Bananafish")
----Buddy Glass ("Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters")
----Beatrice Glass ("Down at the Dinghy")
---Walt Glass ("Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut")
---Waker Glass
---Zachary Martin Glass ("Zooey")
---Frances Glass ("Franny")

What was the name of King Arthur’s evil sister in The Once and Future King?
---Morgause

Which House emerged triumphant at the end of Frank Herbert’s Dune?
---Atreides

Why did Clytemnestra kill Agamemnon?
---Because Agamemnon killed their daughter Iphigenia as a sacrifice, and Clytemnestra wanted to avenge her death (somehow...zafra's answer was--- He sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia for a good wind so the fleet could said to Troy.)

Food

What pastry set off Marcel Proust’s looong recollections?
---a madeleine cake

Who is the pastry chef in Cyrano de Bergerac who loves poetry and feeds freeloading poets?
----Rise Ragueneau

This early play by Shakespeare features cannibalism.
---Titus Andronicus

What is the title of that Roald Dahl story in which the murder weapon is a frozen leg of lamb?
---Lamb to the Slaughter

In this novel by Chuck Palahniuk, the protagonist frequently requires the Heimlich maneuver in restaurants.
---Choke

Sports

What doorstopper-sized recent American novel is set in a tennis academy?
---Infinite Jest

Holden Caulfield was the manager of which team at Pencey Prep?
---fencing team

In The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway was dating Jordan who played what sport?
---polo (golf)

In The Age of Innocence, Newland Archer’s wife May dabbled in what sport?
---chess (archery)

This Nabokov novel about a chess grandmaster was sometimes published as The Defense. What is its slightly longer title?

---The Luzhin Defense

hehehe...

second: naaadik na naman ako sa monopoly. hehe. hay...naalala ko na naman ang second year at ang mga sessions ng mga tao dun. diba naman...board games everywhere...talo pa ang cards. masyadong playful ang mga ed2 noon...hay...nostalgia...=)
anyway, eto nga. nakabili ako ng monopoly sa divisoria (steekers! clow cards for P40! necklaces for P60! action feegyurs! wahh!!! deebeedees! i lab divisoria!) for P130. P130! magkano sa sm yun ha...mga 800 na siguro. hehe. me arabic characters nga lang dun sa harap. pero otherwise, ok naman sya. hehe. basta ayun. edi naglaro ako ng naglaro. wee. yung isang game, nagstart ng 2006, 2007 na hindi pa kami tapos. hehe.

banker: promo promo! bili ka ng bahay, me free $5/10 bill!
(e wala pang nakakakumpleto sa amin ng isang color nun)

hayy...

terd: divisoria placards:
"please crash cup after use"
pano? atomic bomb?

fourth: ff7 last order. hehe. ang gwapo ni zack! and in that film i saw the most glorious hair in the world of anime...yung long flowing white hair ng ultimate seme (japanese/anime term for dominating one), si sephiroth. haha. talo pa nya nagparebond. hehe.

speaking of long flowing hairs, eto pa ang mga rebond kings: asakura hao, kazuki, yung kalaban sa ghostfighter na may gas mask (all black sya...at black buhok nya), si kurama (wolf-form), sino pa ba? add pa kayo...

fifth: appleseed. isang 3d anime. iba to. lovestory ng isang tomboy na babae at isang robot. yahhh...robot...apparently, yung kaluluwa at brain ng dating lover ng babae ay napunta sa robot. weird.

sixth. kainis. 15 na yung deadline. wala pa akong istorya para sa cozyreads. mukhang di na naman ako makakapagsubmit. 3000 din yun a. tsk. kainis.

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p.s. pesteng yahoo. ambagal.

in the snow, traced by blood...1/02/2007 05:37:00 PM

aieee!!!

aym bakkk!!!!

andami kong ikwekwento! sana me time ako diba...

una: nanalo ako sa isang book quiz ni jessica zafra. yehess! grabe. isa lang naman sya sa mga favorite authors ko...ehehe...basta. ya want proof? click here: http://www.philstar.com/philstar/show_content.asp?article=294423
hehe. pasensya di pa ko marunong ng html. hehe. kung napapaisip kayo kung anong questions ang meron, eto...
(saka na. hehe)

second: naaadik na naman ako sa monopoly. hehe. hay...naalala ko na naman ang second year at ang mga sessions ng mga tao dun. diba naman...board games everywhere...talo pa ang cards. masyadong playful ang mga ed2 noon...hay...nostalgia...=)
anyway, eto nga. nakabili ako ng monopoly sa divisoria (steekers! clow cards for P40! necklaces for P60! action feegyurs! wahh!!! deebeedees! i lab divisoria!) for P130. P130! magkano sa sm yun ha...mga 800 na siguro. hehe. me arabic characters nga lang dun sa harap. pero otherwise, ok naman sya. hehe. basta ayun. edi naglaro ako ng naglaro. wee. yung isang game, nagstart ng 2006, 2007 na hindi pa kami tapos. hehe.

banker: promo promo! bili ka ng bahay, me free $5/10 bill!
(e wala pang nakakakumpleto sa amin ng isang color nun)

hayy...

terd: divisoria placards:
"please crash cup after use"
pano? atomic bomb?

fourth: ff7 last order. hehe. ang gwapo ni zack! and in that film i saw the most glorious hair in the world of anime...yung long flowing white hair ng ultimate seme (japanese/anime term for dominating one), si sephiroth. haha. talo pa nya nagparebond. hehe.

hay. la na naman akong time. will update this. pramis.

p.s. pesteng yahoo. ambagal.

hay. wala

in the snow, traced by blood...1/02/2007 05:37:00 PM