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   Dan Blum to Mark Brader   
   Re: RQFTCIFFF12 Game 8, Rounds 7-8: firs   
   09 Mar 22 05:05:43   
   
   From: tool@panix.com   
      
   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 8, Round 7 - Literature - First Lines of Novels   
      
   > 1. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in   
   >    possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.  (1812)   
      
   Pride and Prejudice   
      
   > 2. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking   
   >    thirteen.  (1949)   
      
   1984   
      
   > 3. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll   
   >    probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy   
   >    childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all   
   >    before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of   
   >    crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know   
   >    the truth.  (1951)   
      
   The Catcher in the Rye   
      
   > 4. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing   
   >    a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.   
   >    (1922)   
      
   Ulysses   
      
   > 5. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy   
   >    in its own way.  (1877)   
      
   Anna Karenina   
      
   > 6. Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or   
   >    whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages   
   >    must show.  (1850)   
      
   David Copperfield; Great Expectations   
      
   > 7. It was a pleasure to burn.  (1953)   
      
   Fahrenheit 451   
      
   > 8. In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together.   
   >    (1940)   
      
   The Heart is a Lonely Hunter   
      
   > 9. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some   
   >    advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.  (1925)   
      
   The Great Gatsby   
      
   > 10. Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without   
   >    having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.  (1925)   
      
   The Trial   
      
   > * Game 8, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Cars and their Manufacturers   
      
   > 1. Volt.   
      
   Chevrolet   
      
   > 2. Venza.   
      
   Nissan; Mitsubishi   
      
   > 3. Forte.   
      
   Hyundai; Ford   
      
   > 4. Insight.   
      
   Honda   
      
   > 5. Flex.   
      
   Suzuki; Nissan   
      
   > 6. Tiguan.   
      
   Volkswagen   
      
   > 7. Grand Vitara.   
      
   Pontiac   
      
   > 8. Tribute.   
      
   Lincoln   
      
   > 9. Santa Fe.   
      
   Mercury; Pontiac   
      
   > 10. 300.   
      
   Mercedes   
      
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   Dan Blum					         tool@panix.com	   
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