From: tool@panix.com   
      
   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > ** Game 2, Round 9 - Miscellaneous - Fortune-Telling   
      
   > 1. Salt?   
      
   halomancy   
      
   > 2. Wine?   
      
   oenomancy   
      
   > 3. Fish offal?   
      
   ichthyomancy   
      
   > 4. Observing the tide?   
      
   hydromancy; ydromancy   
      
   > 5. Stones or stone charms?   
      
   lithomancy   
      
   > 6. Thunder, lightning, etc.?   
      
   meteormancy; tephramancy   
      
   > 7. Boiling the head of an ass?   
      
   cephalonamancy   
      
   > 8. Melting wax dropped in water?   
      
   ceromancy   
      
   > 9. Walking in circles until dizzy?   
      
   mazomancy   
      
   > 10. Things seen over one's shoulder?   
      
   retromancy   
      
   > ** Game 2, Round 10 - Challenge Round - 1,2,3,4,5,6   
      
   > * A. First-Place Presidential Losers   
      
   >    A1. In 1824 no one won the majority of the electoral votes,   
   >        so as per the 12th Amendment, the president was elected from   
   >        among the top three finishers by the House of Representatives   
   >        (with each state having one vote).  To the surprise of   
   >        most people, the winner by a vote of 13-7-4 was John Quincy   
   >        Adams, who had finished second both in electoral votes and   
   >        in the popular vote from those states that then used it.   
   >        But who was the second-place candidate, who had finished   
   >        first in both electoral votes and popular votes?   
      
   Jackson; Clay   
      
   >    A2. In the 1876 election it seemed at first that the Democratic   
   >        candidate won both the popular vote and the electoral vote.   
   >        But because of fraud by both parties, the results in   
   >        Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida were in dispute.   
   >        A committee with 8 pro-Republican and 7 pro-Democratic   
   >        members finally decided to give all the disputed electoral   
   >        votes to the Republicans, so that Rutherford Hayes won the   
   >        presidency by single electoral vote.  Who was the losing   
   >        Democratic candidate who had the most popular votes in 1876?   
      
   Tilden   
      
   > * B. Two for Tea   
      
   >    B1. In which country was prepared ice tea bottled on a   
   >        commercial scale, in 1983?  If anyone is interested,   
   >        Snapple did not start bottling ice tea until 1987.   
      
   India   
      
   >    B2. In which country was prepared ice tea first commercially   
   >        packaged in cans, in 1981?   
      
   India   
      
   > * D. Fore!!!   
      
   >    D2. Golf originated in Scotland.  Until the early 17th century,   
   >        what material was most commonly used to make golf balls?   
      
   sheepskin   
      
   > * F. 6th of Science   
      
   >    F1. What is the 6th element of the periodic table?   
      
   carbon   
      
   >    F2. Who won the 6th Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1906?  This   
   >        British scientist is credited with discovering electrons   
   >        and isotopes, and inventing the mass spectrometer.   
      
   Thomson   
      
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