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   Message 30,991 of 32,813   
   Joshua Kreitzer to Mark Brader   
   Re: RQFTCIWSSSG12 Game 6, Rounds 4,6: mi   
   25 Jun 22 22:04:54   
   
   From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, June 25, 2022 at 11:48:31 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 6, Round 4 - Geography - What is Missing?    
   >    
   > For each question, name the one element missing from the list.    
   > Each list is given in sequence where applicable, and specifically    
   > in clockwise order where applicable. But the missing element may,    
   > of course, be anywhere within the list or at either end.    
   >    
   > 1. African nations that border the Mediterranean Sea: Egypt, Libya,    
   > Algeria, Morocco.    
      
   Tunisia   
      
   > 2. States and non-overseas territories of Australia: Northern    
   > Territory, Queensland, New South Wales, Australian Capital    
   > Territory, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia.    
      
   Victoria   
      
   > 3. Nations that border Bolivia: Argentina, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay.    
      
   Chile   
      
   > 4. US states that border the Gulf of Mexico: Texas, Louisiana,    
   > Mississippi, Florida.    
      
   Alabama   
       
   > 5. Central American countries (i.e. between Colombia and Mexico)    
   > that border the Caribbean Sea: Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua,    
   > Honduras, Belize.    
      
   Guatemala   
      
   > 6. Nations that """border""" the Black Sea: Turkey, Bulgaria,    
   > Ukraine, Russia, Georgia.    
      
   Armenia; Romania   
      
   > 7. Countries that the Danube """flows""" through (or along the    
   > border of): Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia,    
   > Serbia, Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine.    
      
   Romania   
      
   > 8. Nations that border Myanmar, formerly known as Burma: Bangladesh,    
   > China, Laos, Thailand.    
      
   India   
      
   > 9. Capital cities on the original Orient Express train route of    
   > 1883-1962: Istanbul, Bucharest, Budapest, Paris.    
      
   Vienna   
      
   > 10. Seas within the Mediterranean Basin (i.e. between Istanbul and    
   > Gibraltar): Sea of Marmara, Sea of Crete, Mediterranean, Alboran,    
   > Balearic, Ligurian, Tyrrhenian, Adriatic, Ionian.    
      
   Aegean Sea   
      
   > * Game 6, Round 6 - Sports - F1    
   >    
   > Answer these questions about the world's premier car racing    
   > organization: the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile    
   > Formula One (F1) World Championship.    
   >    
   > 1. The F1 season consists of a number of individual races; what    
   > are each of them known as?    
      
   Grand Prix   
      
   > 2. How many of these races are currently on the calendar for the    
   > 2012 season, within 1? Hint: it is one more than the most    
   > ever in a previous F1 season. *Note*: Alternatively, you may    
   > answer for the 2022 season as it was originally scheduled,    
   > and you need not say if you are doing that.    
      
   20   
      
   > 4. Gur "Sbezhyn" va Sbezhyn Bar ercerfragf n frg bs ehyrf juvpu    
   > rnpu pne zhfg zrrg, nterrq gb ol gur inevbhf Tenaq Cevk enpvat    
   > tebhcf phyzvangvat va gur sbezngvba bs gur pheerag fgehpgher    
   > naq tbireanapr. Tenaq Cevk enprf jrer svefg fgntrq va 1909, va    
   > ohg jung lrne qvq gur betnavmngvba sbeznyvmr? Tvhfrccr Snevan    
   > orpnzr gur svefg S1 Jbeyq Qevire Punzcvba gur fnzr lrne.    
   > Nafjre jvguva 7 lrnef.    
      
   1952   
      
   > 5. Name the """current""" World Driving Champion; he won the title    
   > in both the 2010 and the 2011 season. *Note*: You may also    
   > answer with the 2021 winner.    
      
   Schumacher; Hamilton   
      
   > 6. Name the racer who """has won more world championships as a    
   > driver than any other, at 7""".    
      
   Schumacher   
      
   > 7. Besides the championship for drivers, results for each race in    
   > a season are combined to award another annual world championship.    
   > What is this one called?    
      
   Constructors' Championship   
      
   > 8. Please decode the rot13 only after you have finished with    
   > question #7. """Bayl sbhe pbhagevrf unir cebqhprq jvaavat    
   > pbafgehpgbef. Vgnyl vf bar; anzr nal bar bs gur bgure guerr."""    
      
   Germany; France   
      
   > 10. The """last""" driver to be killed during an F1 race was this    
   > Brazilian in 1994, considered by many to be the best driver ever.    
   > Name him.    
      
   Senna   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
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