From: tool@panix.com   
      
   Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 4, Round 2 - Entertainment - Movies about the Movies   
      
   > 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 Boulevard   
      
   > 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   
      
   > 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   
      
   > 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 M?li?s.   
      
   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.   
      
   > 1. New Hampshire.   
      
   Manchester; Boston   
      
   > 2. Vermont.   
      
   Burlington   
      
   > 3. Maine.   
      
   Portland   
      
   > 4. Tennessee.   
      
   Nashville   
      
   > 5. Texas.   
      
   Houston; Dallas   
      
   > 6. South Dakota.   
      
   Sioux Falls; Pierre   
      
   > 7. North Dakota.   
      
   Bismarck   
      
   > 8. Montana.   
      
   Helena   
      
   > 9. Alabama.   
      
   Huntsville; Birmingham   
      
   > 10. West Virginia.   
      
   Wheeling   
      
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   "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."   
      
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