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   Dan Blum to Mark Brader   
   Re: RQFTCIWSSSG12 Game 9, Rounds 2-3: la   
   02 Aug 22 02:08:54   
   
   From: tool@panix.com   
      
   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 9, Round 1 - Current Events (excerpt)   
      
   > 1. We're not going to ask you to explain it; just tell us the   
   >    generally accepted scientific name for what the popular press   
   >    has been calling "the God particle", which scientists at CERN's   
   >    Large Hadron Collider announced that they seemed to have found.   
      
   Higgs boson   
      
   > 2. Bad things can happen when you're away on vacation.  While former   
   >    French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni were   
   >    relaxing at a Laurentian cottage, what happened at their homes?   
      
   they were broken into?   
      
   > * Game 9, Round 2 - History - Famous Last Words   
      
   > 1. Died 0041-01-24; Roman emperor.  "I am still alive!"   
      
   Nero   
      
   > 2. Died 1945-04-12; American.  "I have a terrible headache."   
      
   Franklin Roosevelt   
      
   > 3. Died 1977-08-16; American singer.  "I hope I haven't bored you."   
      
   Elvis Presley   
      
   > 4. Died 212 BC; Greek engineer/mathematician.  "Do not disturb my circles."   
      
   Archimedes   
      
   > 5. Died 1793-10-16; French.  "Pardon me, sir.  I did not do it   
   >    on purpose."   
      
   Louis XVI   
      
   > 6. Died 1882-04-19; British scientist.  "I am not the least afraid   
   >    to die."   
      
   Charles Darwin   
      
   > 7. Died 1977-05-10; American actress.  "Damn it?  Don't you dare   
   >    ask God to help me!"   
      
   Katherine Hepburn   
      
   > 8. Died 1883-03-14; multi-faceted German.  "Go on, get out.   
   >    Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."   
      
   Friedrich Nietzche   
      
   > 9. Died 1967-10-09; Argentinian.  "I know you have come to kill me.   
   >    Shoot, coward!  You are only going to kill a man."   
      
   Che Guevara   
      
   > 10. Died 1953-11-27; American playwright.  "I knew it.  I knew it.   
   >    Born in a hotel room, and God damn it, died in a hotel room."   
      
   Eugene O'Neill; Odets   
      
   > * Game 9, Round 3 - Literature - 19th-Century Poets   
      
   > 1. "Hyperion"; "To Autumn"; "The Eve of St Agnes".   
      
   John Keats   
      
   > 2. "Gunga Din"; "The Female of the Species"; "If".   
      
   Rudyard Kipling   
      
   > 4. "Sohrab and Rustum"; "The Scholar Gypsy"; "Dover Beach".   
      
   Matthew Arnold   
      
   > 6. "The Triumph of Life"; "Prometheus Unbound"; "Ode to the   
   >    West Wind".   
      
   Percy Shelley   
      
   > 7. "My Last Duchess"; "The Ring and the Book"; "The Pied Piper   
   >    of Hamlin".   
      
   Robert Browning   
      
   > 8. "Idylls of the King"; "In Memoriam A.H.H."; "Charge of the   
   >    Light Brigade".   
      
   Tennyson   
      
   > 9. "Goblin Market"; "In the Bleak Midwinter" (Christmas carol);   
   >    "When I am Dead My Dearest".   
      
   Christina Rosetti   
      
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   Dan Blum					         tool@panix.com	   
   "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."   
      
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