DTWOF Trivia Answers

Questions for Feb 2010:
1] What is Mo’s full (first, middle, last) name?
Monica Constance Testa

#432- trite and true

#402 – The Ambassadors

#466 – what’s all this then

2] Name as many of Mo’s relatives as you can.
Father: Ed
Mother: Virginia

#43- Familiar Terms
Brother: Scott
#302 – The Drama of the Gifted Child
Sister-in-law: Rose
(sorry, no known name for Mo’s neice)

#432- trite and true
Aunt: Constance

#402 – The Ambassadors

3] On what day of the week did Mo and Harriet first say “I love you”?
Sunday

#48- three little words

Questions for Mar 2010:
4] Name a famous (“real world”) writer who has given a reading at Madwimmin’s. When did the reading happen?
Adrienne Rich, 1986

#401- decline & fall

5] What is a “code blue”?
A customer browsing for, um, the wrong reason.
#155- Cultural Exchange

N.B. Not to be confused with “Code Pink”

#470- Zoo Story

6] What is the (approximate?) street address of Madwimmin’s?
Next door to 249 Barnes Ave. (We did say “approximate”…)

From “demographic rift” published in “Split-Level DTWOF”

From title page of “demographic rift” published in “Split-Level DTWOT”
(Map also appears in the end papers to “Essential DTWOF”

Questions for Apr 2010:
7] What was the topic of Ginger’s PhD Thesis?
Historical trends in dominant-culture criticism of Afro-American literature with a focus on the critical response to the influence of the oral tradition in contemporary fiction by black women

#35- Close Encounter

8] Which Star Trek episode is Sparrow’s favorite?
The one “…where Spock gets sprayed with alien spores that make him fall in love”

#134- Alone at Last

9] What was the name of Lois’s “Girl Next Door” as she was growing up?
Mary Jane

#152- No Place Like Home

10] What is the name of Stuart’s Blog?
subversive parenting

#448- power to the people

Questions for May2010:
11] After whom was Raffi named?
After Toni’s Grandmother Rafaela
From “flesh & blood” (in “SPAWN of DTWOF”)