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   Dan Tilque to Mark Brader   
   Re: RQFTCIWSSSG12 Game 7, Rounds 7-8: mu   
   11 Jul 22 19:09:27   
   
   From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 7/11/22 14:18, Mark Brader wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 7, Round 7 - Entertainment - Broadway Musical Origins   
   >   
   > We name the source or subject that a Broadway musical was based on;   
   > you name the musical.   
   >   
   > 1. Puccini's opera "La Bohème".   
   > 2. A comic strip by Harold Gray.   
   > 3. A series of poems by T.S. Eliot.   
   > 4. Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet".   
   > 5. Puccini's opera "Madame Butterfly".   
      
   Miss Saigon   
      
   > 6. Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew".   
   > 7. Stories from the Book of Genesis, chapters 36-47.   
   > 8. T.H. White's novel "The Once and Future King", and popular   
   >     legend.   
      
   Camelot   
      
   >   
   > 9. Several short stories by Damon Runyon, especially "The Idyll   
   >     of Miss Sara Brown".   
   >   
   > 10. A 2000 British movie of the same name, starring Jamie Bell as   
   >     the title character.   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 7, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Pasta Shapes   
   >   
   > Please see the handout   
   >   
   >     http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/7-8/pasta.jpg   
   >   
   > and give the *Italian name* for indicated shapes of pasta.   
   > For example, picture #3 is rotelle, not "wagon wheels".   
   >   
   > Besides the example, there were 2 decoys on the handout; skip over   
   > the decoys if you like, or answer them for fun, but for no points.   
   >   
   > 1. No hint.   
   > 2. No hint.   
   > 3. (The example.)   
   > 4. No hint.   
      
   ravioli   
      
   > 5. No hint.   
      
   penne   
      
   > 6. No hint.   
   > 7. Its name means "peppercorns".   
   > 8. No hint.   
   > 9. It is named after a part of a car.   
   > 10. (Decoy.)   
   > 11. (Decoy.)   
   > 12. No hint.   
   > 13. Its name means "shells".   
   >   
      
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   Dan Tilque   
      
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