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thakara's avatar

1. Kipling, (Half read the question and my answer for the rest was Fuzzy Wuzzy and Khartoum. Will take an L on that.)

2. Sitter for us subcontinentals :)

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4. N₹ruda

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7. Octavio Paz, Humayun's Tomb?,

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9. Soviet-Germany non-aggression pact

10. Googled this and the answer is incredible! My problematic-fav director Emir Kusturica created an entire town named after Andric as the setting for a film. EK moved in there for a while, iirc.

11. Poet: Derek Walcott; Giant: Sir Vidia. Aside: There is an ornamental relative of star apple tree near Model School. Local name is സ്വർണ്ണപത്രി (swarnapatri - golden-leaved)

12. Pi

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14. Wole Soyinka

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Joseph John's avatar

1) Correct on Kipling. The country is near where you are

2) Yes sitter for the subcontinent

3) Hint: Already in the question on the angel and the wind blowing over the south of France

4) Correct

5) Hint: Has a connection with a well-known work of the answer in Question 2

6) Hint: I'll say that George Seferis is also known as Giorgos Seferis

7) Correct on both counts

8) Hint: Book's publication was delayed by a motorcycle accident

9) Good try but not on target. Hint is the word 'appeasement'

10) I see you have read the details. Lots going on with Kusturica and Ivo Andric over the past few years

11) Correct. I had to google up Derek Walcott and star apple tree. Thanks for that and the Trivandrum connection

12) Correct. Good one

13) Hint: 1998 was a big year for the poet's region (1998 has a Nobel Prize link as well)

14) Correct on the poet.

Hint for the missing word in the poem: Justin Trudeau and Ralph Northam

12)

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Karthika Sasikumar's avatar

1. Rudyard Kipling, Mandalay,

2. Rabindranath Tagore, India and Bangladesh

3. Gabriela Mistral

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5.

6. Greece, Cyprus

7. Octavio Paz

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9.

10. Gavrilo Princip

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12. Pi

13. Seamus Heaney, Ireland

14.

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Joseph John's avatar

Good teamwork again!

1) Correct - do give the name of the location a try (not in Mandalay)

2) Correct

3) Correct

4) Hint: Died soon after a military coup in his country

5) Hint: The poet who toyed with fascism has a connection with a well-known work of Tagore

6) Correct on both countries regarding Seferis

7) Correct on the poet

8) Hint: Book's publication was delayed by a motorcycle accident

9) Hint is the word 'appeasement'

10) Correct. Well worked out!

11) Hint: The region is the Caribbean

12) Correct

13) Correct

14) Hint: The first Black African to win the Literature Nobel.

Hint for the missing word in the poem: Justin Trudeau and Ralph Northam

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Karthika Sasikumar's avatar

11 must be Naipaul and Walcott then and 14 must be blackface.

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Joseph John's avatar

Correct on both

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Karthika Sasikumar's avatar

Arre, this time it was 100% me. Husband not into poetry!

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H R Venkatesh's avatar

Got maybe two: Mandalay and Kipling, Tagore of course, Derek Walcott and VS Naipual.

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Joseph John's avatar

Three on target

1) Correct - do give the name of the location a try (not in Mandalay)

2) Correct

3) Hint: Already in the question on the angel and the wind blowing over the south of France

4) Hint: Died soon after a military coup in his country

5) Hint: The poet who toyed with fascism has a connection with a well-known work of Tagore

6) Hint: I'll say that George Seferis is also known as Giorgos Seferis

7) Hint: Mexico

8) Hint: Book's publication was delayed by a motorcycle accident

9) Hint is the word 'appeasement'

10) Hint: A pulled the trigger literally and metaphorically in 1914

11) Correct

12) Hint: Read the extract quoted carefully and you'll get the answer

13) Hint: 1998 was a big year for the poet's region (1998 has a Nobel Prize link as well)

14) Hint: The first Black African to win the Literature Nobel.

Hint for the missing word in the poem: Justin Trudeau and Ralph Northam

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pramod prasannan's avatar

Note:

Two No. 4's* / No. 7* missing

1.Rudyard Kipling's The Road to Mandalay. Yangon

2. Rabindranath Tagore. India & Bangladesh

3. Gabriela Mistral. Chile

4.* Pablo Neruda

4.* W. B. Yeats Ireland

5. Greece/ Cyprus?

6. Octavio Paz / Fathepur Sikri?Humayun's Tomb?/ Mexico City Massacre?

7 *

8.

9.

10.Gavrilo Princip

11.X: Derek Wallcott

Y: V. S. Naipaul

12 Climate Change?

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14.

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pramod prasannan's avatar

14. Wole Soyinka?

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Joseph John's avatar

Correct. For Part 2 the hint is Justin Trudeau and Ralph Northam

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Joseph John's avatar

1) Correct on 2 out of 3 - looking for a specific location in Yangon

2) Correct

3) Correct

4) Correct

5) Correct

6) Correct on both counts

7) Mostly correct - do zero in on the monument in India

8) Hint: Book's publication was delayed by a motorcycle accident

9) Hint is the word 'appeasement'

10) Correct. Well worked out there!

11) Correct

12) Hint: Read the extract quoted carefully and you'll get the answer

13) Hint: 1998 was a big year for the poet's region (1998 has a Nobel Prize link as well)

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Joseph John's avatar

The numbers are fixed now. The second 4 is 5, 5 is 6 and 6 is 7

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Joseph John's avatar

Regarding the answers - giving a couple of days for others to take a crack

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