History
Wisconsin senator who was a primary cause of the Red Scare
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Bokonon's name at birth
What is Lionel Boyd Johnson?
The Cold War showed an increase in this type of fiction
What is apocalyptic fiction?
Bob Dylan’s real name
What is Robert Zimmerman?
The Terminal Beach’s author
Who is JG Ballard?
Man who sent the long telegram
Who is George Kennan?
People of Indiana used an example of a granfalloon
Who are Hoosiers?
Form of comic artistic expression that performs a “defensive function” intended to “contain terror deriving from events that are threatening.”
What is black humor (gallows humor, grotesque humor, and dark comedy)?
The two authors Richard Wilbur is compared to
Who are W. H. Auden and Robert Frost?
The Martian Chronicles (1950)’s premise
What is human exploration and colonization of the planet Mars between the years 2030 and 2057, where a nuclear war devastates the population?
Month/year in which the US dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
When was August 1945?
Name of the hospital designed by Nestor Aamons in the jungle
What is the House of Hope and Mercy hospital?
Vonnegut's second novel was based on his own experience working for this company
What is General Electric?
What Traven does once he finds the corpse of the Japanese soldier
What is names him Dr. Yasuda, imagines having a conversation with him in which he apologizes for “killing” Yasuda’s daughter, and then ties him onto a chair as a barrier between him and the blocs?
JG Ballard’s first three novels
What are The Wind from Nowhere, The Drowned World, and The Burning World?
Name of the FBI domestic surveillance system used to gather intelligence on and intimidate civil rights leaders
What is COINTELPRO?
Poet who stayed in Jonahs empty NYC apartment while he was away
Who is Sherman Krebbs?
Type of songs written by Tom Lehrer
Whats is comic-satirical?
Date of Ethel Rosenberg’s death
June 19, 1953
The Greek legend of the Sword of Damocles (explain it)
What is a Greek man who becomes a ruler and his king arranges for him to sit on the throne beneath a sword hung from a single hair? This symbolized the ever-present fear and danger that accompanies power.
Event involving pilot Francis Gary Powers on May 7, 1960
What is the U-2 incident?
"Papa's" Doctor
Who is Dr. Schlichter vaon Koenigswald?
City in which Nevil Shute's On the Beach (1957) was set
What is Melbourne Australia?
The number of people in Bob Dylan’s dream
What is four?
Dag Hammarskjöld
What is the UN Secretary-General that was killed in a plane crash while on his way to negotiate peace in the Republic of the Congo?