Ernest Hemmingway

0:03 Calaruga Shark Media. Hi. I'm Mark Ellison and today's theme is Ernest Hemingway's Birthday. Great American novelists, Key West legends and literary icons. Question one. We're celebrating his birthday today on what date in eighteen ninety nine was Ernest Hemingway born? Month, day, and year? Question two? Every July during Hemingway Days in Key West, the famous Hemingway lookalike contest takes over which Duval Street wateringhole long associated with the author? Question three?

0:44 Which slim late career Hemingway novella published in nineteen fifty two, won the nineteen fifty three Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was cited by the Nobel Committee when he received the nineteen fifty four Nobel Prize in Literature. Question four. Key West has long attracted literary icons beyond Hemingway. Which Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, a longtime Key West resident, wrote a streetcar named Desire and cat on a hot tin roof. Question five. Visitors to the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West often meet dozens of resident cats. What unusual physical trait makes many of these felines famous? We'll be right back with these answers after this break. Welcome back.

1:43 Question one, What is Ernest Hemingway's birth date? Answer July twenty first, eighteen ninety nine. Hemingway was born on July twenty first, eighteen ninety nine, in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. His Midwestern upbringing often surfaced in his early story. Question two, which Key West bar hosts the Hemingway lookalike contest? Answer? Sloppy Joe's Bar. Sloppy Joe's Bar is the festival's centerpiece, honoring Hemingway's birthday. Hemingway was a regular there. The bar's original location later became Captain Tony's Saloon. Question three, which Hemingway book won the nineteen fifty three Pulitzer Answer, The Old Man in the Sea. Published in nineteen fifty two, The Old Man in the Sea revitalized Hemingway's reputation with the Tale of Santiago and the Marlin.

2:33 Its success helped secure his Nobel the following year. Question four, which Key West based playwright wrote a street car named Desire Answer Tennessee Williams, Tennessee. Williams kept a home in Key West for decades and was a familiar island figure, his presence helped cement the island's literary mystique. Question five, what's unusual about the cats at Hemingway's Key West home. Answer polydactyl extra toes. Legend says a sea captain gave Hemingway a six toed cat, and many of the cats on the grounds today are its descendants. Extra toad paws were prized on ships for better balance and mousing. That concludes today's five daily Trivia questions. I'm Mark Ellison, and today's questions were crafted with the help of AI technology.

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