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GAME 1
Who was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature, for “his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry,” which includes The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, “The Hollow Men,” and Four Quartets?
GAME 2
The most recent time that the host venue of the Final Four of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament was also serving as the home of an NBA team at the time was in 1996 at what was then named Continental Airlines Arena, home of which NBA team?
game one answer: T.S. Eliot
game two answer: New Jersey Nets