Joseph Conrad was born on this date in1857 in Berdychiv, in Podolia. He always thought of himself as a Pole. But what modern country is Berdychiv in? [av_button label=’ Use The Comment Form Below To Submit You Answer’ link=’http://jayruud.com/trivia-question-for-december-3/’ link_target=” color=’theme-color’ custom_bg=’#444444′ custom_font=’#ffffff’ size=’large’ position=’center’ icon_select=’yes’ icon=’ue83b’ font=’entypo-fontello’]
Movie Review: The Theory of Everything by James Marsh
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Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop For Death”
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Trivia Question for November 26
On this day in 1862, 10-year-old Alice Liddell received a Christmas present from an Oxford mathematics professor named Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. What was the present? [av_button label=’ Use The Comment Form Below To Submit You Answer’ link=’http://jayruud.com/trivia-question-for-november-26/’ link_target=” color=’theme-color’ custom_bg=’#444444′ custom_font=’#ffffff’ size=’large’ position=’center’ icon_select=’yes’ icon=’ue83b’ font=’entypo-fontello’]
Movie Review: Mockingjay by Francis Lawrence
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T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men”
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Trivia Question for November 19
NAME THAT POEM: Today is the 72nd birthday of acclaimed American poet Sharon Olds. Who can tell me the title of the poem from which these lines come (which is also the title poem of her Pulitzer-Prize winning collection from 2012): Then the drawing on the label of our favorite red wine looks like my… Continue reading Trivia Question for November 19
Movie Review: Interstellar by Christopher Nolan
[av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Susanns.jpg’ attachment=’78’ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] RUUD RATING Interstellar 2 JACQUELINE SUSANNS [/av_image] This week the United States and China signed a landmark agreement to curb carbon emissions in an effort to get global warming under control. Though for years the warnings of scientists have fallen on the deaf… Continue reading Movie Review: Interstellar by Christopher Nolan
John Donne’s “Batter My Heart Three-Personed God”
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Trivia Question for November 12
NAME THAT POEM: Armistice Day (the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918) ended the “war to end wars” whose centennial we observe this year. Name the poem and author from whom these lines come, by a soldier in that war who was killed by a sniper on November 4,… Continue reading Trivia Question for November 12