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   Message 30,992 of 32,813   
   Dan Blum to Mark Brader   
   Re: RQFTCIWSSSG12 Game 6, Rounds 4,6: mi   
   26 Jun 22 15:01:33   
   
   From: tool@panix.com   
      
   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 6, Round 4 - Geography - What is Missing?   
      
   > 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.   
      
   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   
      
   > * Game 6, Round 6 - Sports - F1   
      
   > 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.   
      
   15; 21   
      
   > 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.   
      
   1920   
      
   > 6. Name the racer who """has won more world championships as a   
   >    driver than any other, at 7""".   
      
   Schumacher; Andretti   
      
   > 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   
      
   > 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   
      
   --   
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   Dan Blum					         tool@panix.com	   
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