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   Dan Blum to Mark Brader   
   Re: RQFTCIWSSSG12 Game 2, Rounds 4,6: ha   
   06 May 22 21:46:43   
   
   From: tool@panix.com   
      
   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 2, Round 4 - Geography - Halls of Fame by Location   
      
   > 1. Canton, OH.   
      
   (American) football   
      
   > 2. Cleveland, OH.   
      
   rock and roll   
      
   > 3. Nashville, TN.   
      
   country music   
      
   > 4. Cooperstown, NY.   
      
   baseball   
      
   > 9. Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, PA.  Inductees include Gort,   
   >    Bender, and Navlab 5.   
      
   robot   
      
   > 10. """Co-located at 5040 Yonge St., Toronto, and at 600 Boul. de   
   >    Maisonneuve, Montreal."""  Inductees include Leonard Cohen.   
      
   Canadian music   
      
   > * Game 2, Round 6 - Sports - Major League Baseball Stadiums   
      
   > 2. Since the first one opened in 1923, the New York Yankees have   
   >    normally played their home games at one or another Yankee   
   >    Stadium.  But during the 1974 and 1975 seasons, what other   
   >    stadium did they play their home games at?   
      
   Shea   
      
   > 5. Originally the Houston Colt .45's, the team changed its name   
   >    to the Houston Astros when it moved in 1965 into the stadium   
   >    that became known unofficially as the Houston Astrodome.   
   >    What did the "astro" allude to?   
      
   astronauts, because NASA's mission control was located in Houston   
      
   > 9. The term "Chavez Ravine" has caused much confusion over   
   >    the years.  There has never actually been a stadium named   
   >    Chavez Ravine, although the """current""" Dodger Stadium is   
   >    built on a filled-in landform of that name.  But one team did   
   >    *call* its home park Chavez Ravine for one season, primarily   
   >    for reasons of pride.  This was during its inaugural year --   
   >    1961 -- in the American League.  What team was it?   
      
   San Diego Padres   
      
   > 10. The number 34 was proudly displayed on the turf along both   
   >    the first and third base lines at the Hubert H. Humphrey   
   >    Metrodome in Minneapolis.  What was its significance?   
   >    Be specific.  (Hint: It is NOT the number of times the roof   
   >    collapsed.)   
      
   Minnesota was the 34th state   
      
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   Dan Blum					         tool@panix.com	   
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