Employment Trivia Game

Readers: We finally have a winner to the current Employment Trivia Question. The questions I posed were:

“Making your living in this way is bruising. Paul Simon sung about it. Bob Dylan sung about it. Name the Paul Simon song that referenced this profession. Name the two Dylan songs that focused on this activity. Who were the individuals about whom Dylan wrote?”

As Mark Tobin of Grand Forks, North Dakota, correctly observed, the questions related to boxing. Paul Simon’s song, “The Boxer,” is one of my personal favorites. For those of you unfamiliar with it, I’ve included a You Tube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-YgA4WSWUA.

Bob Dylan has written two songs about boxing: “Who Killed Davey Moore?” and “Hurricane.” Davey Moore was a professional boxer who died in 1963 as a result of head injuries sustained during a nationally-televised boxing match. Rubin “Hurricane” Carter was a boxer who was convicted of murder on the basis of extremely thin (and dubious) evidence. His two convictions were both overturned and Carter is now a free man.

For providing the correct answers to these questions, Mark is (again) the latest winner of our Employment Trivia contest. He continues to acquire nearly every prize available in my prize box. Kudos to Mark!

The next question goes up now. Good luck. Roy