From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 11:31:06 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 4, Round 1 - Current Events (excerpt)    
   >    
   > Answer these 2013 questions if you like for fun, but for no points.    
   >    
   > 1. Who was the country music star who committed suicide last week,    
   > at the age of 37? She hit #1 on the country charts in 1996 with    
   > "Guys Do It All the Time".    
      
   Mindy McCready (??)   
       
   > * Game 4, Round 2 - Entertainment - Movies about the Movies    
   >    
   > When the movie industry runs out of ideas, it turns the lens on    
   > itself. In each case, name the movie from the date and description.    
   >    
   > 1. 1995; loan shark Chili Palmer (John Travolta) gets a taste for    
   > Tinseltown when he pitches a movie to Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman),    
   > the producer whose debt Chili has to collect.    
      
   "Get Shorty"   
       
   > 2. 1963; director Guido (Marcello Mastroianni) suffers creative    
   > block while embarking on his latest movie and drifts into dreams    
   > and memories.    
      
   "8 1/2"   
      
   > 3. 1950; murdered screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) narrates    
   > the story of his meeting with washed-up silent icon Norma Desmond    
   > (Gloria Swanson).    
      
   "Sunset Blvd."   
      
   > 4. 2011; when sound arrives in Hollywood, George Valentin (Jean    
   > Dujardin) bucks the trend by filming another silent movie,    
   > the jungle adventure "Tears of Love".    
      
   "The Artist"   
      
   > 5. 1994; studio whipping boy Guy (Frank Whaley) bites back after    
   > too much abuse from bullying exec Buddy Ackerman (Kevin Spacey).    
      
   "Swimming with Sharks"   
      
   > 6. 1998; the elderly director James Whale (Ian McKellen) recounts    
   > his glory days as a horror director to gardener Clayton Boone    
   > (Brendan Fraser).    
      
   "Gods and Monsters"   
      
   > 7. 2004; Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) spares no expense trying    
   > to make his World War I flying drama "Hell's Angels" as realistic    
   > as possible.    
      
   "The Aviator"   
      
   > 8. 1980; Sandy Bates (Woody Allen) reminisces as he attends a    
   > retrospective of his work.    
      
   "Stardust Memories"   
      
   > 9. 2008; actors Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller) and Kirk Lazarus (Robert    
   > Downey Jr.) are dropped in the jungle to shoot a Vietnam epic.    
      
   "Tropic Thunder"   
      
   > 10. 2011; an orphan boy (Asa Butterfield) realizes that the grumpy    
   > toyshop owner (Ben Kingsley) in the railway station where he    
   > lives is none other than the forgotten director Georges Méliès.    
      
   "Hugo"   
      
   > * Game 4, Round 3 - Geography - Most Populous Metropolitan Areas in US   
   States    
   >    
   > In this round, you are to identify the most populous metropolitan    
   > statistical area, according to the 2010 census, of a given US state.    
   > This is, of course, *may or may not* be the same metropolitan area    
   > containing the state's most populous city. If the metropolitan    
   > area is named after multiple cities, like "Tokyo - Yokohama", the    
   > primary one, named first, will suffice. If you give additional    
   > cities in the name they must be correct.    
   >    
   > So, what """is""" the most populous metropolitan area in (or in    
   > one case just *primarily* in) these states?    
   >    
   > 1. New Hampshire.   
      
   Manchester   
       
   > 2. Vermont.    
      
   Montpelier   
      
   > 3. Maine.    
      
   Portland   
      
   > 4. Tennessee.    
      
   Nashville; Memphis   
      
   > 5. Texas.    
      
   Houston   
      
   > 6. South Dakota.    
      
   Sioux Falls   
      
   > 7. North Dakota.    
      
   Fargo   
      
   > 8. Montana.    
      
   Missoula; Billings   
      
   > 9. Alabama.    
      
   Birmingham   
      
   > 10. West Virginia.    
      
   Wheeling; Charleston   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
   gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)