The Classics
Q: In Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis (1915), Gregor Samsa awakes one morning from troubled dreams to discover that he has been transformed into a giant what?
A: Cockroach (or any vermin, really)
Q: Which German composer is considered the father of Romanticism?
A: Ludvig van Beethoven
Q: e.e. cummings composed a visual poem designed to mimic the body and movements of which insect?
A: A grasshopper
Q: What is a canon?
A: A generally agreed upon corpus of artistic works considered to be of particular quality and importance within a culture
Q: What is Buckley's favourite kind of membrane?
A: Permeable. Obviously.
Q: Who wrote The Divine Comedy (c.1300)?
A: Dante Alighieri
Q: When did the Romantic movement begin?
A: The early 19th century
Q: Which three word, interior monologue-style writing technique was pioneered by the Modernists?
A: Stream-of-consciousness
Q: What is the best synonym for the word 'said'?
A: That's right, it was a trick question. 'Said' is enough.
Q: A good story is not what, it's a what?
A: Contraption/explosion
Q: According to Audre Lord, "the master's tools will never dismantle" what?
A: "The master's house"
Q: Which two English poets were arguably the first literary Romantics?
A: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Q: What was the three word motto of the Modernists?
A: "Make it new"
Q: What are Chekhov's two rules for writing short stories?
A: 1. Put your character in a tree; and
2: Throw rocks
Q: As a writer, where does Buckley say you should walk, how, and wearing what?
A: Down Main Street, naked, and a mask
Q: What is the premise of The Strange Tale of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde?
A: A scientist invents a potion which temporarily transforms him into a monster, expressing his deepest, darkest desires.
Q: What is pantheism?
A: The belief that God can be found in all living things
A: 'Metro'
Q: What is the Dunning-Kruger effect?
A: The phenomenon of people who know less believing that they know more and vice versa.
Q: In our inaugural game, who were the first three Secret Buckleys?
A: Andie, Dekoda and Isaac
Q: Which 1922 Modernist masterpiece by James Joyce climaxes with three sentences, each approximately twenty pages long?
A: Ulysses
Q: William Blake's poetry was published in two volumes, titled Songs of I________________ and Songs of E_______________.
A: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
A: Gertrude Stein
Q: Name two aspects of Post-Modernism.
A: There is no 'high' and 'low' art, fragmentation of truth and perspective, irony and metatextuality, hyperexperimentalism
Q: What does Buckley have on his burgers?
A: MEAT ONLY