Gore Vidal by StahlhutJ

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Quiz Description

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Questions:

Gore Vidal reportedly enjoyed watching what ACTRESS-COMEDIENNE’s recurring character, a telephone operator who mispronounced his name while verbally abusing him in one-sided phone conversations?

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Lily Tomlin

What Gore Vidal NOVEL was made into 1970 film of the same name (which Vidal and most critics hated), starring both Raquel Welch and Rex Reed as the title character?

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Myra Breckinridge

For more than 30 years, Vidal and his partner Howard Austen shared a cliffside villa, whose name translates as “swallow’s nest”, in what COUNTRY?

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Italy

What is the MAIN TITLE of Vidal’s 23rd novel, subtitled “The Gospel According to Gore Vidal”, and referring to time-traveling TV execs from the 1990s who attempt to live-broadcast the Crucifixion?

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Live From Golgotha

Vidal dedicated his third novel, “The City and the Pillar”, to the memory of his friend and probable lover Jimmie Trimble, who had been killed in action during what 1945 Pacific BATTLE?

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Iwo Jima

The 2015 documentary “Best of Enemies” documents Vidal’s fiery televised 1968 feud with what conservative AUTHOR and TV pundit?

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William F. Buckley, Jr.

In this 1973 historical NOVEL, the first in Vidal’s “Narratives of Empire” series, what notorious title character dictates memoirs that include juicy gossip about George Washington and Thomas Jefferson?

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Burr

In real life, Vidal lost one bid for the House and another for the Senate. In what 1992 mockumentary FILM does he appear as Pennsylvania Senator Brickley Paiste, who eventually loses his seat to the title character?

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Bob Roberts

After his divorce from Gore Vidal’s mother, businessman Hugh D. Auchincloss married a socialite who had been born Janet Norton Lee. Because of these two marriages, Gore Vidal had a stepfather in common with what PUBLIC FIGURE, whose final career was as a book editor for Doubleday?

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Jacqueline (Bouvier Kennedy) Onassis

Among the many names dropped in Vidal’s memoirs is that of what hard-partying BRITISH ROYAL, a friend who predeceased him by 10 years and whom he described as “…far too intelligent for her station in life”?

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Princess Margaret

Gore Vidal exchanged letters with what CONVICTED KILLER, later writing a controversial Vanity Fair essay on the subject (though he declined an invitation to witness his execution in June, 2001)?

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Timothy McVeigh

What is the name of EITHER of Gore Vidal’s final memoirs; the first named for a reused manuscript page still bearing traces of a prior work, the second for a method of steering a ship that lacks a working compass?

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