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   Dan Blum to Mark Brader   
   Re: RQFTCIWSSSG12 Game 2, Rounds 7-8: do   
   09 May 22 04:52:29   
   
   From: tool@panix.com   
      
   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 2, Round 7 - Entertainment - Oscar-Winning Documentaries   
      
   > 1. Only short subjects were eligible for the first Best Documentary   
   >    Oscar.  When was that?  Answer within 5 years.   
      
   1940; 1951   
      
   > 3. The Norwegian documentary that won the 1951 statuette chronicled   
   >    the testing of Thor Heyerdahl's hypothesis on how the Polynesian   
   >    islands might have been originally colonized.  Name it.   
      
   Kon-Tiki   
      
   > 4. The 1996 winner was about a boxing match between Ali and Foreman.   
   >    Name it.   
      
   When We Were Kings   
      
   > 5. The 2002 winner included interviews with Marilyn Manson and   
   >    "South Park" co-creator Matt Stone about the causes of violence   
   >    in society, and a visit by two shooting victims with bullets   
   >    embedded in their bodies to the world headquarters of K-Mart   
   >    to try to return the bullets for a refund.  Name the documentary.   
      
   Bowling for Columbine   
      
   > 6. The 1970 winner was filmed over 4 days, August 15-18, 1969,   
   >    in Bethel, NY.  Name it.   
      
   Woodstock   
      
   > 9. The 2008 winner was about a feat performed by Philippe Petit   
   >    in 1974 in New York, that would not be possible now: walking   
   >    a tightrope between the World Trade Center's twin towers.   
   >    Name the documentary.   
      
   Man on Wire   
      
   > * Game 2, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Social Networking Pollution   
      
   > 1. Which icon is used by RSS, a web feed format that allows easy   
   >    publication of web page updates?   
      
   A2   
      
   > 2. Which icon is for Technorati, a popular blog search program?   
      
   A3; C1   
      
   > 3. Which icon represents the social news platform Newsvine, owned by   
   >    MSNBC, which draws content from users as well as mainstream   
   >    sources?   
      
   E2   
      
   > 4. Which icon represents Stumbleupon, a web search engine that   
   >    finds and recommends content to its user?   
      
   F2   
      
   > 5. Which icon represents Delicious, a social bookmarking web   
   >    service which was acquired by Yahoo in 2005?   
      
   D5; D2   
      
   > 6. Which icon represent Facebook's predecessor, MySpace?   
      
   F4; C2   
      
   > 7. Which icon represents both the premier voice-over-Internet   
   >    protocol and the application people fire up to place an online   
   >    voice or video call?   
      
   A4   
      
   > 8. Which icon is for the web site Flickr, where people post pictures   
   >    they have taken?   
      
   F3   
      
   > 9. Which site represents the Internet's most popular career-based   
   >    social site, where people post information about themselves based   
   >    on current and past positions, keep in contact with colleagues,   
   >    list their job skills, post articles to forums, etc.?   
      
   A1   
      
   > 10. Which icon represents AOL Messenger, one of the earliest   
   >    instant chat programs on the Internet?   
      
   F4   
      
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