F. Scott Fitzgerald's birthday.

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hi. I'm Mark Ellison And today's theme is f Scott Fitzgerald's Birthday? The Great Gatsby, The jazz Age, and the Glittering nineteen Twenties. Question one. F Scott Fitzgerald was born on a late September day that readers celebrate each year. What is his exact birthdate? Question two. Before settling on The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald nearly published the novel under a title nodding to a lavish host from ancient Rome, which working title almost stuck. Question three. The epigraph that opens The Great Gatsby is attributed to a poet whose name might puzzle new readers. Who's credited with writing it?

0:56 Question four. Fitzgerald helped define the jazz Age later looked back on it in his nineteen thirty one essay Echoes of the jazz Age? In which magazine did that essay originally appear? Question five? In The Great Gatsby, Meyer Wolfsheim boasts of fixing the world series, which real life New York Gambler linked to the nineteen nineteen Black Sox scandal helped inspire the character. We'll be right back with these answers. After this break welcome back. Question one, What is f Scott Fitzgerald's birthdate? Answer September twenty fourth, eighteen ninety six.

1:41 Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. On September twenty fourth, eighteen ninety six, Fitzgerald became the leading chronicler of the jazz age. He was just twenty three when his debut novel This Side of Paradise made him a star in nineteen twenty. Question two, what near final working title did Fitzgerald consider for the Great Gatsby? Answer? Tremalchio in West Egg Tremalchio is a flamboyant nouveau riche character from Petronius's Satiricon, a fitting parallel for Gatsby. Fitzgerald also floated titles like Tremalchio and Under the Red, White, and Blue. Question three, who is credited with Gatsby's epigra? Answer? Thomas Parked in Villiers. Thomas Parked in Villiers is a fictional poet created by Fitzgerald.

2:22 In This Side of Paradise. Fitzgerald wrote the epigraph himself, crediting a fictional persona added a playful self referential touch. Question four, which magazine published echoes of the jazz age in nineteen thirty one answer Scribner's Magazine. Scribner's Magazine ran the essay in nineteen thirty one, where Fitzgerald reflected on the rise and fall rhythms of the nineteen twenties. The piece helped crystallize the era's image in American culture. Question five, Which real figure inspired Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim? Answer? Arnold Rothstein. Rothstein was a prominent underworld figure tied to the nighte teen nineteen World series Fix. Fitzgerald drew on his notoriety and the Prohibition era nexus of wealth, crime, and spectacle 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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