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   Erland Sommarskog to Mark Brader   
   Re: RQFTCIFFF12 Final, Rounds 2-3: arts&   
   09 Apr 22 11:04:51   
   
   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > 1. More Masters controversy.  The CEO of this corporation is given   
   >    a membership at Augusta National Golf Club.  The problem with   
   >    that is, their new CEO is (gasp) a woman!  What company?   
      
   Hewlett-Packard   
      
   > ** Final, Round 2 - Arts & Literature   
   >   
   > * Artists   
   >   
   > 8. Who painted the 17th century work "Girl With a Pearl Earring",   
   >    sometimes referred to as the "Mona Lisa of the North"?   
      
   Vermeer   
      
   > 9. The 1633 painting, "The Storm on the Sea of Galilee", that   
   >    depicted the miracle of Jesus calming the waves was stolen   
   >    in 1990 from a Boston museum in what was considered to be the   
   >    biggest art theft in history.  This painting is the only known   
   >    seascape by which great artist?   
      
   Rembrandt van Rijn   
      
   > * Last Lines from Novels   
   >   
   > In each case, name the novel whose last line is being given.   
   >   
   > 10. "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man   
   >    to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible   
   >    to say which was which."   
      
   Aninmal Farm   
      
   > ** Final, Round 3 - Science   
   >   
   > * Clouds   
   >   
   > 1. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/fi-03/cloud/1.jpg   
      
   Cumulus   
      
   > 3. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/fi-03/cloud/3.jpg   
      
   Cirrus   
      
   > 15. Who wrote "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica"   
   >    (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy)?   
      
   Newton   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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