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Friday, March 17, 2006

The Friday Brain-teaser from Xrefer

The Friday Brain-teaser from Xrefer - this week: Biographies. Answers here.

1. In 1906, who published a biography of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill?
2. Who wrote The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), which was "one of the greatest biographies in the English language?"
3. Which American jazz singer's ghosted autobiography was called Lady Sings the Blues, which was also the title of a biographical film starring Diana Ross?
4. What was the title of the first of Maya Angelou's autobiographical novels, published in 1970?
5. The Story of My Experiments with Truth was the subtitle of the autobiography of which Indian religious leader and reformer?
6. Which American country singer's 1976 autobiography, Coal Miner's Daughter, was filmed in 1980 with Sissy Spacek?
7. Which author won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography with his 1996 memoir Angela's Ashes, chronicling the bitter years of an impoverished childhood in Ireland?
8. The creator of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster wrote two autobiographies entitled Performing Flea and Over Seventy. What was his name?
9. Who was biographer Tim Jeal writing about when he said in his biography of the man that "The evidence available points inexorably to the conclusion that [he] was a repressed homosexual?"
10. Which theologian published his spiritual autobiography in 1864 with the title Apologia Pro Vita Sua (Apology for His Life)?

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