From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, October 2, 2022 at 2:30:23 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > ** Game 2, Round 9 - Miscellaneous - Fortune-Telling   
   >   
   > There are many forms of fortune-telling using many different   
   > types of objects. From the definitions that will be given to   
   > you, pick the appropriate word from the list below. For example:   
   > fortune-telling using lines from a palm of a hand is palmistry.   
   >   
   > What is fortune-telling based on...   
   >   
   > 1. Salt?   
      
   Halomancy   
      
   > 2. Wine?   
      
   Oenomancy   
      
   > 3. Fish offal?   
      
    Ichthyomancy   
      
   > 4. Observing the tide?   
      
   Hydromancy   
      
   > 5. Stones or stone charms?   
      
   Aleuromancy; Alphitomancy   
      
   > 6. Thunder, lightning, etc.?   
      
   Meteormancy   
      
   > 7. Boiling the head of an ass?   
      
   Cephalonamancy   
      
   > 8. Melting wax dropped in water?   
      
    Ceromancy   
      
   > 9. Walking in circles until dizzy?   
      
   Gyromancy   
      
   > 10. Things seen over one's shoulder?   
      
   Enoptromancy; Nomancy   
      
   > ** Game 2, Round 10 - Challenge Round - 1,2,3,4,5,6   
   >   
   > * A. First-Place Presidential Losers   
   >   
   > Just because a candidate won the popular vote -- got the most   
   > votes from voters nationwide -- in a US presidential election,   
   > that does not necessarily mean they won the presidency. Here are   
   > two questions about times when they didn't.   
   >   
   > 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?   
      
   Andrew Jackson   
      
   > 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   
   >   
   > Two questions about the world's second-most-popular beverage,   
   > after water.   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Japan   
      
   > B2. In which country was prepared ice tea first commercially   
   > packaged in cans, in 1981?   
      
   Japan   
      
   > * E. Five Movies   
   >   
   > Here are five... no, five is right out. Okay, here are *two*   
   > questions about movies with "Five" in the title.   
   >   
   > E1. "Slaughterhouse-Five" was the first winner of this award   
   > for best science-fiction movie, in 1972. What award?   
      
   Saturn Award   
      
   > E2. Who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting   
   > Actress for "Five Easy Pieces"?   
      
   Karen Black   
      
   > * 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.   
      
   Rutherford   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
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