Alphabet Game with a twist - take 2

Moving from here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/105679#2915909

Rules: Each post must have 2 qualities: the next letter of the alphabet, and the category run for that game (26 plays)

Example: Fruits (1st poster A=apple, 2nd poster b=banana)
Example: Asian Countries: (L=Laos, etc.)

The person that posts "Z", normally will get to choose the parameter (s) of the next game. Occasionally, there may be a few letters that are contrary, such as "q", "x", etc. In that case, please wait 48 hours for a play, and if none, proceed on to the next letter of the alphabet!

remember: answers will be ONE WORD ONLY! (In case of people--last names ONLY!)

New Topic: National and State/Provincial or equavalent Parks
first- Acadia (National Park, U.S.)

Bryce Canyon (National Park, CO)

Central Park , New York City, USA

Dartmoor National Park - Devon, England

Egmont National Park (on New Zealand's North Island), known for its volcano, Mount Taranaki

Fairmont Park, * Philadeelphia

*pretty sure this isnʻt National, but it may be State -- or City.

Glacier National Park US - Montana

Hell's Gate National Park - Kenya

Isle Royale National Park - Michigan

Joshua Tree National Park - US

Kalaupapa Hawaiʻi National Park, Molokaʻi

Lake District National Park - England

McConnells Mill State Park, Pennsylvania

New River Trail - Virginia State Park

Oregon Caves National Monument

Petrified Forest - Arizona, US

Quetico (Provincial Park - Ontario, Canada)

Rincón de la Vieja Volcano National Park - Costa Rica

St. Croix State Park (MN)

Theodore Roosevelt Island - park just outside of Washington, D.C.

Universal Studios Theme Park,

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Valley Forge National Historical Park - Pennsylvania, US

Whitewater State Park (MN)

Skipping X:

Yellowstone

Yellowstone National Park- the granddaddy of all national parks :-)

Skipping Z

NEW GAME: A English-language spoken movie based on
war theme from ancient time to present 21st Century period.Try to quote the name of the book's title, the film was based on or adapted.

Atonement ( Based on Atonement - Ian McEwan about First World War ( ? )

Beowulf Beowulfby Anonymous

The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)*
Crimean War of the 1850s) (UK, Turkey, and France vs. Russian Empire)
told from the British point of view but very satirical of
the UKʻs war effort.

*My favorite war movie. There was an earlier (ca. 1936) version, but it couldnʻt have
been based on the same book that the 1968 version was (very loosely) based on, which I think
was of the 1950s: a Cecil Woodham-Smith Work:
The Reason Why a title taken from a line in
Tennysonʻs famous "Charge of the Light Brigade"

The Decline of the Roman Empire - ( 1964) starring
Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd. James Mason and many others.

The movie based loosely on " The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire " written by

Edward Gibbon

There were many movie versions.

The Eagle has Landed fiction of a Nazi plot during WW II to
kidnap (or was it assassinate?) Winston Churchill.

*"Touchstones" says it is "by" Peter Merchant. That refers, I suppose to the movie not the book. As I remember it (I havenʻt read it) the book was by the second best* of those (no doubt many) authors with the surname Higgins -- Jack Higgins-with the same title as the (more famous) movie.

** I hope you know who THE Best was; he lived 1939-1999.

Fatherland - Robert Harris

Background: Nazi-Germany, 2nd World War, there is a
movie's version - TV Movie (1964)

Gung Ho! Movie on W W II in China

Inglourious Basterds - written and directed by Quentin Tarantino

- writes a new ending to World War II that should delight anybody who's ever mused that Hitler and Company got off too easily in their ultimate fates.

Julia*

*Based on a Lillian Hellman play (?). It takes place in the
WW II Era, but possibly pre-1939.

Kingdom of Heaven , - 9 2005 )

a epic movie about The First Crusade

Remarks: a well-made movie, 5 stars, giantic cast & crew. Must watch DVD again.

Lawrence of Arabia WW I in the Middle East
Britain, with Arab alies, including the future King of Iraq,
vs. Turkey, an ally of Germany/Austria

Midway ,

Second World War's sea battles - American and Japanese

Nanking

Based on The Good Man of Nanking. About a massacre in China during WWII.

Oceans Eleven (1960)*

*You say itʻs not a WAR movie !? The "heroes" (Frank Sinatra et al) were all veterans of a WW II Ranger unit, and dcided to apply their
commando skills to a massive robbery. (One of the worst movies ever made (i m h o), but thatʻs beside the point.)

If robbing six casinos isnʻt a declaration of "war", what is?

Patton ,

a war movie about a 2nd WW's famous US General, the actor who potrayed his role refused to accept Best Actor's Oscar award.

Quantrill's Raiders - Movie about the US Civil War. I don't know that it was based on any particular book.

The Red Badge of Courage (1951) adapted from the U.S. Civil War novel by Stephen Crane

Schindler's List - WWII movie based on the book Schindler's Ark

Twelve O'Clock High (1949) film based on the book Twelve O'Clock High by Beirne Lay Jr

United we Stand* a Visual Journey of Wartime Patriotism
by Richard Perry

*Haven't see this one, and am not sure
whether it's about wars in general
or about WW II or later, or even if it's
definitely a movie;
the subtitle and the L T page
illustration made me think so.

Von Ryan's Express 1965 film based on the novel by David Westheimer

Where Eagles Dare 2002 film based on the novel by Alistair MacLean

Rescue Mission WWII

X-Men movie series

superheroes against the evils of the world based on Marvel's comics of the same name created by
Dave Cockrum { ? ).

Yangtse Incident 1957 film based on the book by Lawrence Earl

Z *

*Based on a Vassilils Vassilikos novel. As a film it is aclassic (of the early ʻ70s?). Has to do with the era in which a junta of
Fascist-leaning army officers, commonly called "The Colonels" took over Greeceʻs government -- not an all-out civil war, but pretty much a war situation.
In the U. S. mainland, we commonly pronounced this title "ZEE"
(rhymes with "see"). I suppose it could be pronounced "zed" or
"zeta".

NEXT: Municipality PLACE NAMES -- any country (Names below the level of
State, Province or other big subdivision) example s: Paris, France; Portland ME, U. S. A.
Nukuʻalofa, Tonga

Am I supposed to give the A-Name? (52)

> Acton*, MA, U. S. A.

*home of my daughter Gwen Perkins Murphy, artist

Bangkok , Thailand

Canton MA, U. S. A. *

*Also the name of a bigger place in Ohio, and the old transliteration of a still bigger place in China --the latter, however, not eligible for this game under the rules (51).

Dippoldiswalde, Saxony, Germany

Edgeworth* MA U. S. A.

*a sub-section of Malden, MA}

Fowey (pronounced Foy), Cornwall, U.K.

Gnadenhutten (Ohio)

Haarlemmerliede, Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude, Holland

Ionia, Classical Greek World region* and dialect area. (Western Philosophy began with the Ionians.)

*Most of Ionia was in what is now Turkey. In Turkish, Ethnic Greeks are called by the Turkish word for "Romans" if they live in Turkey and "Ionians" if they live in Greece.

Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Site of two major floods- in 1889 and 1977

Kandahar, Afghanistan

(said to be named for Alexander the Great, among other possible etymologies; formerly the capital of Afghanistan)

Lawrence, MA*

* With its "Twin-City, Lowell, MA, this is one of the few places in Massachusetts that has a familyʻs name, rather than the usual name derived from British place names or from Indian languages.

Middle Wallop, Hampshire, UK. The nearby airfield of the same name has been a base for the Royal Air Force, the United States Army Air Force (during WWII), and the Army Air Corps.

Nashua, New Hampshire

(the only city to be ranked by Money magazine as "the Best Place to Live in America" in two different years)

Ottery St Mary, Devon, England - birthplace of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Podunk, MA, U S. A.*

*Yes, itʻs real; not just a metaphor for a remote rural
place, like "East Galosh".

Quorn, Leicestershire, England and also South Australia

Ramadi, Iraq

(capital of al-Anbar governorate; its name is the Arabic word for "gray")

Sandwich, Kent, England. There is a nearby village called Ham, and it is said that the signpost, pointing to Ham one way and Sandwich the other, has frequently been stolen.

Tel Aviv , Israel

Ulundi (meaning The high place), town in Zululand, South Africa. Site of a battle in the Anglo-Zulu war.

Vilnius capital of Lithuania

West Coker, Somerset , England. Near East Coker which has strong connections with T. S. Eliot

(This is where I miss the Encyclopedia Americana. It gave lists of cities and towns for each state in alphabetical order, with their populations. So, you could check for an X- municipality. --I donʻt know one offhand -- Our local library no longer has it, nor the Brittanica that they used to. I suppose the rationale is that all the Brittanica/Ameircana stuff would now be looked up in Google. Maybe, but I wouldnʻt know how to approach this question through Google.)

(Try Googling "towns beginning with x". Or the same search with the name of a country.)

Xenia, Ohio

Ypsilanti Michigan

Zeddam : a village in Holland

Well done, QuarterBound.

You are now the one who is supposed to

establish the new category, and

then write the first entry (A -- ) for it.

(See paragraph 3 of the Rules in Post *1, above)

NEW GAME; Characters, in alphabetical order of surname, who play a leading part in a work of fiction but whose name does not appear in the title of the book. Post the character, the book and the author with touchstones.

e.g. Not allowed; Anna Karenina, nor George Lewisham in Love and Mr. Lewisham.
Would be allowed: (at M) Harry Morgan in To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

To start:

Adam Appleby in The British Museum is Falling Down by David Lodge

Jackie Brown supporting role in
Higginsʻs The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Professor George Challenger in The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Dillon"* Supporting role in 2 George V. Higgins novels

* no first name given, as I remember it. In 1 of the few (or the only?) Higgins novels made into a movie, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, this role was played by Peter Boyle

Saul Enderby in Smiley's People by John le Carré

Jeremiah Fallon, appears briefly
in Henry Morton Robinsonʻs The Cardinal

Mrs. Gamp in Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

"Dewey Haik" the 3rd of a sequence of dictators in
Sinclair Lewisʻs It Cant happen Here --and perhaps the worst;
a rebellion against him is going on as the book ends.

David Innes in the Pellucidar novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Ruth Leonard a (anti-?)heroine in
Updikeʻs Rabbit Run

Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye, etc. by Raymond Chandler

"Gypo" Nolan" anti-hero of OʻFlahertyʻs The Informer

Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard in Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas

Fanny Price - Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Queen Victoria - Shakespeare in Love by John Madden

"Dr. Edward Riley" in Eliotʻs The Cocktail Party

(accepting "Queen" of 98 as a surname. I questioned it at first, but then remembered that Victoria did sign documents
ʻVictoria R."
(R standing for "regina"--queen).

#99 Even so, Queen was not Victoria's surname And wheras an obscure reference might be made in some cases for the letter Q this isn't really necessary in fiction where opportunities abound, such as Mr and Mrs Quiverful of Barchester Towers or Captain Queeg of The Caine Mutiny, to name just three.
But we must move on -

Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Agatha Trunchbull in Matilda by Roald Dahl

Francis Urquhart in House of Cards by Michael Dobbs

Captain Edward Fairfax Vere in Billy Budd by Herman Melville
(God bless him!)

Sam Weller in Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Missing X (and making sure I don't finish on Z):

Clym Yeobright in The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Ebenezer Zane in The Last Trail by Zane Grey

NEXT Category: National, State, and Provincial capitals

The A - Entry:

Albany, N.Y.

NEXT: B

Bangkok, Thailand

NEXT: C

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Dallas , Texas

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Frankfort, Kentucky

Gardez, Paktia Province, Afghanistan

Helsinki, Finland

Islamabad, Pakistan

Jakarta, Indonesia

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

London (and no, I'm not going to post where it is to distinguish it from any other place that might have the same name)

Montpelier, VT

New Delhi, India

Ottawa , Canada

Pierre, South Dakota

Qala i Naw, Badghis Province, Afghanistan

(Qala i Naw means "new village," and Badghis means "home of the winds.")

Reykjavík, Iceland

Stockholm Sweden

Tripoli, Libya

Venice, Italy

Warsaw Poland

What happened to U ?

Utrecht - capital of Utrecht province, Netherlands

this is post 125.5 :-)

Vienna, capital of Austria....

EDIT: Oh shoot we're on x now.

As it stands today 4:55 EST we are on W

Yesterday I put in:

Warsaw, Poland,
but must have failed to cllck on it

Xenia, the county seat of Greene County, Ohio - if anyone has a more legitimate candidate, let them provide it... :-)

Yerevan - Armenia

Zagreb - Croatia

next category, fictional detectives and private eyes (alphabetical by last name)

Inspector Roderick Alleyn in Vintage Murder by Ngaio Marsh

Inspector Bucket in Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Frank Coffin in High Season by Jon Loomis

Frank Drebin, from the Police Squad/Naked Gun TV Show/Movies

Inspector 'Taff' Evans in the Sexton Blake TV series

"Foley"#, T-Man* in Higginsʻs The Friends of Eddie Coyle

*George V. Higginsʻs crime novels are told from the criminalsʻ point of view, and have few capable or intelligent law enforcement officers, and fewer P Iʻs; (Not that he thinks the criminals are great minds, either). The novels are strictly about HOW it was done, not "Who done it?" -- You know who did it right away.

#If "Foley" was given any first name, Iʻve forgotten it.

Inspector Gadget - cartoon

Chief Inspector Heat in The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

This has been stuck for a while. Is there really no detective whose last name starts with I ?

( OK, yes, I've only added this vote because I've only just learnt how to do it. But why not? )

How about the The 3 Investigators Dectective Stories ? if not i vote to move on.

Javert from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Letter: K

"Jerry Kennedy"* lawyer--investigator in some
George V. Higgins novels

*In one novel Kennedy says, "Iʻm not related to the Unspeakable Kennedys." Iʻm not sure if he was disparaging the Kennedys
in the politics of that era, or those who disparage them.

Inspector Lestrade in various Sherlock Holmes stories.

"Miss Marple"
(Agatha Chirstie became almost synonymous with
"Miss Marple" and "Hercule Poirot" *, though she did have other protagonists.

*In the Christie Iʻm reading now, Towards Zero, a non-Marple, non-Poirot book, the protagonist, "Superintendent Battle",
puts in a good word for the ficitonal "Poirot". This goes against the grain of detective fiction, in which police detectives are usually contemptuous of fictional investigaotors and plots.

Tres Navarre Private Eye
in the Big Red Tequila Series by Rick Riordan

Ohara Japanese-American TV detective
in a short-lived series (1980s?), played
by Pat Morita

Porfiry Petrovich in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dr. Quincy M.E. main character in t.v. series

Det. Rizzo in Kojak TV series

Spenser - many books by the late Robert Parker

Dick Tracy - comic strip character by Chester Gould

"Francis Urquhart"
character in Michael Dobbs's fictions*

*I didn't know of Dobbs before being in L T,, His title s look like mysteries or thrillers, but I'm not sure if they are mysteries, thrillers, or other sub- genre.

#156: Francis Urquhart (FU) is a very slippery and successful Westminster politician who will stop at nothing; but although his investigative powers may be sharp, he is not known as a detective.
As to whether he should be in this list, to use one of FU's favourite phrases, "You might very well think that; I couldn't possibly comment".

"A very slippery and successful Westminster politician . . .
not known as a detective. . ." (157)

I suspected from the titles that somebody would have "(sharp investigative powers", so I risked making him the "U". I notice now he was used in anther sequence*: characters whose "names are not part of the title", but that would not disqualify him for this sequence -- in which, I a dmit, I am stretching a point.

I love the quote "You might very well think that; I couldn't possibly comment." (It would be even funnier wihtout the semicolon.)

( without the semicolon - yes that is another way of looking at it. Might still work with the changes in emphasis that FU would use. The emphasis on the "I" giving a somewhat different nuance to when it is on "possibly". Either way, he was letting the other person know what he felt but without being able to be quoted as such ).

But back to our detective - it's not my go, but should I provide a U just to get us going again?

Should I provide a U just to get us going again? (159)

Yes.

I mean, NO! MY "U" item (156, critiqued in 157) was perfectly good!* So provide us with a V!

* i m h o

V for Vendetta

V is a shadowy comic-terrorist fictional character created by Alan Moore

(> 160 OK RP, but I still think that the murderous Prime Minister, Francis Urquhart wasn't a detective as we know it, and had more in common with Richard III than with Fred Underhill, the patrolman turned detective in Clandestine by James Ellroy )

Lord Peter Wimsey by Dorothy L. Sayers in Whose Body? etc., etc.

"Francis Urquhart had more in common with Richard III than with Fred Underhill . . ." (162)

I wasn't trying to start a contention between Urquhart's and Underhill's detective credentials, as they're both new to me, and I'm taking your word for it that Underhill is the real detective of the two. I'll accept that we've both provided a U even if mine is a flawed one.

But thanks for the ">160 rolandperkins: OK RP".

I don't know much about Underhill either, except that he was a los Angeles patrolman who got kicked out of the force and went undercover to do his own detective work (1950s). Might try to get round to it sometime.

We've been stuck waiting for an X, Should I go ahead with a Y?

I vote yes.

I vote yes (154)

Inspector Youghal by Conan Doyle in the Sherlock Holmes story The Mazarin Stone

Avoid "Z"

NEW GAME:

Posting Of :-

Names of Artists,Painters,Sculptors and any fine art personalities( Deceased or Still Living ) in alphabetical order of "CHRISTIAN" names, and not "SURNAME".

First Entry:

ANDY Warhol, abstract art painter, American

Ben Nicholson , painter, British

CLAUDE Monet

David Bomberg, Painter, English, Whitechapel

Edgar Degas

Ford Madox Brown - Pre-Raphaelite in style

Georgia O'Keeffe

Ian MacKellen actor

Jacques-Louis David

French Neoclassical painter

The Death of Socrates
Death of Marat

Kurt Jackson, English painter, landscape

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance Painter, Engineer, Arthitect, etc.

Vitruvian Man, Mona Lisa, The Last Supper

Maggi Hambling , English painter

Nicolas Poussin, classical French painter

Odilon Redon painter

Pablo Picasso Painter, sculptor

Quentin Massys, Flemish painter

Robert Campin, Flemish Painter

Stanley Spencer English painter

Thomas Gainsborough - English painter of portraits and landscpes

Ursula von Rydingsvard , sculptor, Germany

Vanessa Bell, English painter, Bloomsbury group, sister of Virginia Woolf

William Hogarth, English painter, satirist and cartoonist, esp. of series of prints

Xavier Viramontes : printmaker, San Francisco

Yolande Ardissone , French painter

Zandra Rhodes - English designer

New game to be posted soon.

NEW GAME:

Title of a work of art, painting, sculpture etc., in alphabetical order with the artist's name and a link to an image of the work.
Leading articles "a", "an" and "the" to be ignored.
Any letters considered difficult can only be skipped after 24 hours.

A link to to the image of the work is essential, changed to important, would be nice (making it easier all the time). An image should at least be available on the web for all to see.

To start:

Apple Gatherers by Stanley Spencer

The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli

Crouching Woman by Auguste Rodin

David (sculpture) by Michelangelo

As this game was making a slow start, the rule concerning a link to the work have been relaxed (twice).

The Eruption of Vesuvius by J. M. W. Turner

see it here

The Fountain by Marcel Duchamp

"Guernica" by Pablo Picasso

Hermit Among the Ruins - Nicholas Poussin (French Painter)

http://www.nicolaspoussin.org/203666/Hermit-among-the-Ruins-large.jpg

Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet

http://www.artofmonet.com/Home_Page.htm

Jeanne-Marguerite Lecadre in the Garden by Claude Monet

Kamehameha the Great public 19th century statue, Honolulu Capital District

Lute Player - Caravaggio (Italian Artist)

http://www.caravaggio-foundation.org/168244/The-Lute-Player-large.jpg

Madame Pastoret, * portrait, by Jacques-Louis David

*Didn't know subject; lived in wrong century, but I did translate her husband's Zoroastre, Confucius, et Mahomet (1786)

The Night Watch - Rembrandt (Dutch Painter, Etchings and Drawings)

http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/images/aria/sk/z/sk-c-5.z

On the Terrace - Renoir

The Persistence of Memory - Salvadore Dali (Spanish surrealist artist)

http://www.virtualdali.com/31PersistenceOfMemory.html

Queen Elizabeth II - Lucian Freud

The Raft of the Medusa - Théodore Géricault

Seated Nude - Pablo Picasso

The Thinker - Rodin (Sculptor)

http://www.musee-rodin.fr/en/collections/sculptures/thinker

The Umbrellas - Renoir

The Virgin of the Rocks - Leonardo da Vinci (Italian)

http://www.louvre.fr/llv/oeuvres/detail_notice.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=101341986...

Weeping Woman - Picasso

Xmas Tree in a living room - by Diane Arbus

http://www.artnet.com/artwork/425177041/622/diane-arbus-xmas-tree-in-a-living-ro...

The Yellow House - Vincent van Gogh

Zorah on the Terrace by Henri Matisse

NEXT: Famous entertainment people (actors, singers, comedians etc) whose first name and second name begin with the same letter ie Marilyn Monroe

Arthur Askey - comedian

Adam Ant - singer

Brian Blessed - actor

David Duchovny

Elise Estrada

Freddie Frinton - comedian and comic actor

Grant Green - jazz guitarist

Harry Houdini - magician and escapologist

Irina Iordachescu - opera, soprano singer,

Janet Jackson - singer

Karl Maria Kinsky - actor

http://www.kinsky.info/

Lila Leeds actress, 1940s

Mireille Mathieu - singer

Nick Nolte - Actor

Olivia Ong - Singer

Philippe Petit - French high-wire artist, most famous for walking between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Petit#cite_ref-5 )

If only Quentin Crisp had spoken like Jonathon Ross, then he would have called himself Quentin Quisp and I would have an answer.

Roy Rogers ,

late western movies actor

k

Sammy Sosa
Dominican-born U.S. baseball player

Tina Turner

U.S. entertainer/singer