Sunday, January 29, 2012

Yesterday's Answer, Today's Question

Yesterday's Answer:


Camille Saint-Saëns composed "Danse Macabre" and "Carnival of the Animals."



Today's Question:


True or false: Pasternak was the first Soviet writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature.

I don't know this one either.


(Sources: American Mensa, email transmission, January 28, 2012; http://www.8notes.com/biographies/saint-saens.asp; http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04617a.htm; http://www.thumper.net/tlkmag/archive/mm/cofa.htm; http://oberon481.typepad.com/oberons_grove/2011/03/french-choral-music-carnegie-hall.html; http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/)


Compiled by Otto Ladensack with Patricia Ladensack

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