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First round game 2: "Presidents"
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The following are some of the questions, specifically the ones I will be asked for the television quiz show "Twenty-One" on the night of May 13 (Monday).
First category: "Movies"--I take 11 points. The question is worth 11 points.
In the story of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," after she is banished from the palace of her stepmother, the Queen, Snow White goes to live in the forest with seven dwarfs. In the Walt Disney version, what were the names of the seven dwarfs?
(I shall answer in this sequence--Sleepy, Sneezy, Dopey, Happy (pause) the grouchy one, Grumpy (pause) Doc (pause) Bashful.)
Second category: "England"--I take 10 points.
What was the name of the ruling houses to which the following monarchs belonged--Richard II, Henry VII, Edward V, George VI?
(I shall answer something like this. Richard II was the last of the Plantagenets; Henry VII was a Tudor. I shall then ask to come back to Edward V. George the Sixth of course was the House of Windsor. Then I think about Edward V and mention that he was the kid murdered in the Tower of London by Richard III; he was not a Tudor, he was of the House of York.)
That ends the first game with a score of 21. Presumably Bloomgarden and I shall be tied.
The first President of our country was a General as was President Eisenhower. Identify the following Presidents who also were generals. This man won fame by defeating the British at New Orleans during the War of 1812? (I answer correctly--Andrew Jackson.) This general led the American forces at the Battle of Thames in 1813? (I stress the fact that Thames is in Ontario, Canada, also during the War of 1812. William Henry Harrison.) This man enlisted in the army as a private, was appointed a brigadier general and fought with General Scott in capture of Mexico City--(According to the plan of the show I am to miss this question. I am to say "Ulysses S. Grant" which is wrong. The proper answer is "Franklin Pierce." This general defeated Santa Ana at the Battle of Buena Vista? (Zachary Taylor.)
Second round--"The Twenties" (I again try for 11 points since I am at zero.)
The following authors were awarded the Pulitzer prize in the twenties. Name the work for which they received this prize.
Stephen Vincent Benet ("John Brown's Body"), Edna Ferber (for her novel "So Big"), Edith Wharton (for "The Age of Innocence"), Thornton Wilder ("The Bridge of San Luis Rey").
James Snodgrass
