Amazing Race 7

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Week 2 Bonus - Answer

This one proved to be a bit controversial! All I have to say is, like Jon Cosgrove at the Pub Quizzes, the answer that I have on the paper is the right one. So there.

Pablo Neruda won the nobel prize for literature in 1971.
The committee gave it to him "for a poetry that with action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams"
Walt Whitman was the poet whose picture he kept on his table.

4 Comments:

  • At 10:51 AM, Blogger Smitty said…

    I doth protest! I say those of us industrious to find multiple poet portraits that Pable kept on flat wooden surfaces should be compensated accordingly. "A picture of Baudelaire, his favorite poet was on his desk."

     
  • At 11:01 AM, Blogger Scrappy said…

    And, as I have said a bunch, I did not ask for the portrait on his desk, I asked for the one on his table

     
  • At 11:23 AM, Blogger Smitty said…

    Look punk, a flat wooden surface is a flat wooden surface, know-what-i'm-sayin?

     
  • At 11:25 AM, Blogger Scrappy said…

    Table: An article of furniture supported by one or more vertical legs and having a flat horizontal surface.

    Desk: A piece of furniture typically having a flat or sloping top for writing and often drawers or compartments.

     

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