From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 8/14/22 20:00, Mark Brader wrote:   
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   >   
   > * Game 10, Round 1 - Current Events (excerpt)   
   >   
   > Answer these 2012 questions if you like for fun, but for no points.   
   >   
   > 1. What specific event at the Calgary Stampede resulted in the   
   >     death of three horses last week, raising the ire of animal-rights   
   >     activists?   
   >   
   > 2. Over 400,000 Yahoo passwords were revealed when a server   
   >     was hacked last week.  What did analysis reveal to be the most   
   >     frequently used password?   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 10, Round 2 - Canadiana History - Banking   
   >   
   > This is the first of *four* Canadiana rounds in this game.   
   > Have fun, eh?  (Don't worry, you should be able to get some   
   > answers in at least some of them.)   
   >   
   > Canada's banking system has been widely considered the most   
   > efficient and safest in the world for the past 3 years, according   
   > to reports by the World Economic Forum.   
   >   
   > 1. The Bank Act was originally passed in 1871.  The current version   
   >     defines three classes of banks in Canada: Schedules 1, 2, and 3.   
   >     What do Schedule 2 and Schedule 3 banks have in common?   
   >   
   > 2. In 1998 Finance Minister Paul Martin blocked two proposed mergers   
   >     of Schedule 1 banks.  Name *both* banks involved in *either*   
   >     plan.   
   >   
   > Please answer questions #1-2 before decoding the rot13 for #3-10.   
   >   
   > 3. Va jung lrne qvq gur Qbzvavba Onax naq gur Onax bs Gbebagb   
   >     nznytnzngr gb sbez gur Gbebagb-Qbzvavba Onax, jvguva 2 lrnef?   
   >   
   > 4. Gur Onax bs Zbagerny jnf gur svefg betnavmngvba va Pnanqn gb   
   >     nccyl sbe n onax punegre va 1818, ohg vg jnf abg tenagrq   
   >     hagvy 1822.  Jung Hccre Pnanqn onax orng vg bhg ol trggvat vgf   
   >     punegre va gur zrnagvzr?   
   >   
   > 5. Jung unccraf vs gur Onax Npg vf abg erivrjrq rirel 5 lrnef?   
   >   
   > 6. Va Wnahnel bs 1962 gur Onax bs Abin Fpbgvn orpnzr gur svefg va   
   >     Pnanqn gb qb jung?   
      
   Expand to the US   
      
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   > 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?   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 9. Va 2011, Oybbzoret Znexrgf enaxrq guvf Dhrorp-onfrq onax gur   
   >     fgebatrfg va Abegu Nzrevpn naq gur guveq-fgebatrfg va gur jbeyq.   
   >     Anzr vg.   
   >   
   > 10. Cerfvqrag'f Pubvpr Svanapvny vf n Fpurqhyr 1 onax bcrengrq ol   
   >     gur tebprel ergnvyre Yboynjf.  Jung bgure Pnanqvna ergnvyre   
   >     nyfb bcrengrf n Fpurqhyr 1 onax?   
      
   Canadian Tire; Tim Horton's   
      
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   >   
   > * Game 10, Round 3 - History Literature - Ancient Writings about History   
   >   
   > This round straddles literature and history.  It is about Greek and   
   > Roman historians whose works have achieved classic literary status   
   > (as you can see from the fact that all of their Penguin editions   
   > """have""" black spines rather than the blue used for history   
   > books), and have influenced the treatment of ancient culture in   
   > literature and film.   
   >   
   > 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"?   
   >   
   > 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   
      
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   > 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?   
   >   
   > 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   
      
   >   
   > 5. The earliest Roman historian whose works survive was a supporter   
   >     of Julius Caesar, who sponsored him politically and rescued him   
   >     when he was charged with corruption as governor of Africa Nova.   
   >     His surviving works include "The Cataline Conspiracy" and   
   >     "The Jugurthine War".  Who was he?   
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Persian Empire vs Greek city-states   
      
   >   
   > 8. When the Romans conquered Britain, it was with such devastation   
   >     that they made a desert and called it peace, according to a   
   >     speech in a work called "Agricola".  Other works by the author of   
   >     "Agricola" include "Germania", "The Histories", and "The Annals".   
   >     What was the name of this Roman historian?   
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > 10. What ancient historian wrote a work known as "Parallel Lives",   
   >     a series of paired biographies of noteworthy Greeks and Romans   
   >     in which Alexander the Great is followed by Julius Caesar?   
   >     Shakespeare drew on this author quite extensively in "Anthony   
      
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