From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 8/1/22 15:15, Mark Brader wrote:   
   >   
   > * Game 9, Round 1 - Current Events (excerpt)   
   >   
   > Answer these 2012 questions if you like for fun, but for no points.   
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 9, Round 2 - History - Famous Last Words   
   >   
   > We give you the reported last words (in translation if necessary)   
   > of a well-known personage, along with their the date of death and   
   > some more information.  You name the person.   
   >   
   > 1. Died 0041-01-24; Roman emperor.  "I am still alive!"   
      
   Caligula   
      
   > 2. Died 1945-04-12; American.  "I have a terrible headache."   
   > 3. Died 1977-08-16; American singer.  "I hope I haven't bored you."   
   > 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."   
      
   Marie Antoinette   
      
   >   
   > 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!"   
   >   
   > 8. Died 1883-03-14; multi-faceted German.  "Go on, get out.   
   >     Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."   
   >   
   > 9. Died 1967-10-09; Argentinian.  "I know you have come to kill me.   
   >     Shoot, coward!  You are only going to kill a man."   
   >   
   > 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."   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 9, Round 3 - Literature - 19th-Century Poets   
   >   
   > In this round, we give you the titles of three poems by a poet who lived   
   > sometime in the 19th century (although the poems may date from another   
   > century).  You name the poet.   
   >   
   > 1. "Hyperion"; "To Autumn"; "The Eve of St Agnes".   
   > 2. "Gunga Din"; "The Female of the Species"; "If".   
      
   Rudyard Kipling   
      
   > 3. "The Prisoner"; "Remembrance"; "No Coward Soul is Mine".   
   > 4. "Sohrab and Rustum"; "The Scholar Gypsy"; "Dover Beach".   
      
   Matthew Arnold   
      
   > 5. "The Wreck of the Deutschland"; "Pied Beauty"; "God's Grandeur".   
   > 6. "The Triumph of Life"; "Prometheus Unbound"; "Ode to the   
   >     West Wind".   
      
   Shelley   
      
   >   
   > 7. "My Last Duchess"; "The Ring and the Book"; "The Pied Piper   
   >     of Hamlin".   
   >   
   > 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".   
   >   
   > 10. "The Dynasts"; "The Convergence of the Twain" (on the sinking   
   >     of the Titanic); "The Darkling Thrush".   
      
   T S Eliot ??   
      
      
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   Dan Tilque   
      
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