This week’s trivia question is about Vonnegut and television.
Q: In 1991, while promoting the Showtime series Welcome to the Monkey House, Kurt Vonnegut praised which popular sitcom, calling it television’s one comic masterpiece?
a) Cheers
b) Seinfeld
c) M*A*S*H
d) The Dick Van Dyke Show
Check back next week for the answer, or you can find it sooner at “Thirteen Fascinating Facts About Kurt Vonnegut.”
Thirteen Fascinating Facts About Kurt Vonnegut
The correct response to last week’s question was B – In Slaughterhouse-Five, Edgar Derby is reading The Red Badge of Courage.
In the following clip, a teacher reads a letter of advise to high school students written by Kurt toward the end of his life. His advice: make your soul grow.