Kurt Vonnegut by EverettJ

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KroegerJ
Strength and Honor


Runner(s)-Up:

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Quiz Description

A quiz in honor of the great American author.

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Questions:

Kurt Vonnegut was born on November 11, 1922 in what American city, where his father was a well-known architect?

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Indianapolis, Indiana

"The horse jumped over the fucking fence." This sentence, the entirety of Kurt's story about a racehorse jumping over a fence, was the last thing Vonnegut wrote before quitting a job at what magazine?

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Sports Illustrated

In Bokononism, a karass is a group of people linked together for a common purpose. What other Bokononist term describes a false karass, in which people believe they share a connection which is actually meaningless?

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Granfalloon

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be" is the moral of which Vonnegut novel?

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Mother Night

What Vonnegut short story ends with the main character being shot and killed by the Handicapper General, Diana Moon Glampers?

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Harrison Bergeron

The main character of Vonnegut's novel Hocus Pocus is named after what frequent unsuccessful candidate for President of the United States?

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Eugene V. Debs

Vonnegut has a cameo as himself in what 1986 movie, in which he is hired to write a paper on his own work by Thornton Melon?

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Back to School

What three word phrase follows every death in Slaughterhoue-Five, no matter how trivial?

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So it goes

Parodying the title of his earlier novel, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Vonnegut's 1999 collection of fictional interviews with the dead is titled "God Bless You," who?

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Dr. Kevorkian

The protagonist of Vonnegut's novel Jailbird is Walter F. Starbuck, a man who served a brief prison sentence for his role in what historical event?

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Watergate

From 1971-75, what Fox News personality was Vonnegut's son-in-law by virtue of his marriage to the author's daughter Edith?

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Geraldo Rivera

What current Colorado governor is mentioned in Vonnegut's last novel, Timequake?

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John Hickenlooper