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   Dan Blum to Mark Brader   
   Re: RQFTCIFFF12 Game 1, Rounds 2-3: deat   
   21 Apr 22 04:57:55   
   
   From: tool@panix.com   
      
   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 1, Round 1 - Current Events (excerpt)   
      
   > 7. What precedent did the Canadian Supreme Court case "United   
   >    States v. Burns" set in 2001?   
      
   people who could possibly be sentenced to death cannot be extradited   
      
   > * Game 1, Round 3 - Literature - Fictional Books in Fiction Books   
      
   > 1. "Where God Went Wrong", "Who is this God Person Anyway?", "Well,   
   >    That About Wraps it Up for God Then", all by Oolon Colluphid;   
   >    and "How I Survived an Hour With a Sprained Finger" by Zaphod   
   >    Beeblebrox.   
      
   Douglas Adams   
      
   > 2. "Necronomicon" by Abdul Al-Hazred, "Chronicles Of Nath" by   
   >    James Sheffield, and "Liber-Damnatus" by unknown.   
      
   H. P. Lovecraft   
      
   > 3. "Misery's Quest", "Misery's Heartbreak", "Misery's Dilemma",   
   >    and "Misery's Child", all by Paul Sheldon.   
      
   Steven King   
      
   > 4. "The Blind Assassin" by Laura Chase, "Lady Oracle" by Joan   
   >    Foster, and "Five Ambushes" by Antonia Fremont.   
      
   Margaret Atwood   
      
   > 5. "The Hive Queen and the Hegemon", "The Story of Human", and   
   >    "Speaker for the Dead", all by Andrew "Ender" Wiggin.   
      
   Orson Scott Card   
      
   > 6. "The Red Book Of Westmarch" and "The Book Of The Kings", author   
   >    unknown in each case; "Gray Annals" by the Scholars of Doriath;   
   >    "The Reckoning of Years" by Merry Brandybuck; and "The Book of   
   >    Mazarbul" by Balin and other dwarves.   
      
   J. R. R. Tolkien   
      
   > 7. "The Book of Bokonon" by Bokonon, "History of the Rosewaters   
   >    of Rhode Island" by Merrihue Rosewater, and "Now It Can Be Told"   
   >    by Kilgore Trout.   
      
   Kurt Vonnegut   
      
   > 8. "Breaking with a Banshee", "Holidays with Hags", "Year with a   
   >    Yeti", "Travels with Trolls", and "Gadding with Ghouls", all   
   >    by Gilderoy Lockhart.   
      
   J. K. Rowling   
      
   > 9. The "Encyclopedia Galactica", compiled by an entire colony.   
      
   Isaac Asimov   
      
   > 10. "In my Father's House", "Analysis: The Arakeen Crisis",   
   >    "Count Fenring: A Profile" and "The Wisdom of Muad'Dib", all   
   >    by Princess Irulan.   
      
   Frank Herbert   
      
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