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1. This quote, "We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine and a whole multicolored collection of uppers, downers, laughers, screamers . . . " comes from a Hunter S. Thompson's book that was made into a movie. Which of the following books was it?
2. This quote, "Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final," is featured in the Hunter S. Thompson book "The Great Shark Hunt". In which decade was this book published?
3. This quote is from the Hunter S. Thompson's book "Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s".
"Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish - a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow - to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested . . . Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll."
What does the phrase "res ipsa loquitur" mean?
4. This quote is from Hunter S. Thompson's book, "The Curse of Lono" from 1983.
"Journalism is a Ticket to Ride, to get personally involved in the same news other people watch on TV - which is nice, but it won't pay the rent, and people who can't pay their rent in the Eighties are going to be in trouble. We are into a very nasty decade, a brutal Darwinian crunch that will not be a happy time for free-lancers."
What are free-lancers?
5. This quote is from Hunter S. Thompson's book, "Hell's Angels" from 1966.
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Chocolate in one hand, Martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming: GERONIMO!"
When do we normally hear the phrase "Geronimo"?
6. This quote comes from The "Rum Diary", a novel Hunter S. Thompson wrote in 1959.
"Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hellion. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going."
This novel follows the character Paul Kemp, a journalist for a newspaper in which city?
7. The quote, "Circus-Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war. This is the sixth Reich," is featured in Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". What is meant by the term Reich?
8. This Hunter S. Thompson book "Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s" from 1988 was originally published in a newspaper. What newspaper featured this quote, for which he was writing?
"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and felons run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason."
9. This quote appears in a Hunter S. Thompson book from 1966. Which book is it?
"The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits."
10. This Hunter S. Thompson book was published in 1998 and combined various articles and correspondences that he had written between the years of 1955 through 1967. Which of these books features this quote?
"We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely - at least, not all the time - but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness."
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