From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, August 14, 2022 at 10:01:48 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 10, Round 2 - Canadiana History - Banking   
   >   
   > 6. Va Wnahnel bs 1962 gur Onax bs Abin Fpbgvn orpnzr gur svefg va   
   > Pnanqn gb qb jung?   
      
   open a branch outside its home province   
      
   > 7. Va 2003, gur HF Frphevgvrf naq Rkpunatr Pbzzvffvba svarq gur PVOP   
   > $80,000,000 HF sbe vgf cneg va gur znavchyngvba bs gur svanapvny   
   > fgngrzragf bs jung HF pbzcnal?   
      
   Enron   
      
   > 8. Gur Eblny Onax bs Pnanqn """unf""" gur uvturfg pncvgnyvmngvba   
   > bs gur znwbe onaxf ng $82,000,000,000. Jvguva 100,000,000, ubj   
   > znal pbzzba funerf bs gur onax ner bhgfgnaqvat nf bs 2012-11-23?   
   > *Abgr*: Lbh znl vafgrnq nafjre nf bs gur 2021 naahny ercbeg,   
   > v.r. nf bs 2021-10-31. Lbh arrq abg fnl juvpu qngr lbh ner   
   > nafjrevat sbe.   
      
   1,500,000,000   
      
   > * Game 10, Round 3 - History Literature - Ancient Writings about History   
   >   
   > 1. Suetonius's work "The Twelve Caesars" consists of biographies   
   > of Julius Caesar and his first 11 successors. It is thanks to   
   > his gossipy approach that we know that Julius Caesar combed over   
   > his bald spot and Caligula wanted to make his horse a senator.   
   > What 20th-century author translated "The Twelve Caesars" for   
   > Penguin Books and drew on it for his own novels "I, Claudius"   
   > and "Claudius the God"?   
      
   Graves   
      
   > 2. Which ancient Greek historian is the main source for the   
   > story of the 300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae, subject   
   > of a graphic novel by Frank Miller and movies in 1962 and 2007?   
   > Born on the Aegean coast of Turkey, this historian has been   
   > called the "Father of History" -- and sometimes also the   
   > "Father of Lies".   
      
   Herodotus   
      
   > 3. Though writing hundreds of years after the events they describe,   
   > historians Arrian and Quintus Curtius Rufus are the main   
   > surviving sources for the life of which military leader of the   
   > ancient world?   
      
   Alexander the Great   
      
   > 4. This author's work "Ab Urbe Condita Libri" ("Books from the   
   > Foundation of the City") comprised 142 books, of which only   
   > #1-10 and #21-45 survive. Shakespeare drew on this author to   
   > depict Coriolanus and the rape of Lucretia. Name this historian.   
      
   Livy   
      
   > 6. Soldier, philosopher, and friend of Socrates, this historian is   
   > remembered today as the author of the "Anabasis", the story of   
   > how he and 10,000 Greek mercenaries in Persia made their way   
   > through hostile territory to the Black Sea. His story inspired   
   > the 1979 cult movie "The Warriors" by director Walter Hill.   
   > What was the name of this historian?   
      
   Xenophon   
      
   > 7. Thucydides was the author of 8 books of an incomplete work   
   > known as "History of the War". Which war? Either give its   
   > name or identify both sides.   
      
   Athens and Sparta   
      
   > 9. The last major historian of the ancient world is generally held   
   > to be Procopius, whose works include "The Wars of Justinian" and   
   > "The Buildings of Justinian". However, he is most famous for a   
   > later history: one in which he exposes his disillusionment with   
   > the Emperor Justinian, the Empress Theodora, their scandalous   
   > sex lives, and their complete vulgarity. What, in English,   
   > is the title of this titillating expose?   
      
   "Secret History"   
      
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