From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 10/18/22 21:31, Mark Brader wrote:   
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   >   
   > * 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".   
   >   
   > 2. What malfunction occurred for 3 hours on Tuesday on the   
   >     International Space Station, when the astronauts tried to   
   >     upgrade their computer software?   
   >   
   >   
   > * 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.   
   >   
   > 2. 1963; director Guido (Marcello Mastroianni) suffers creative   
   >     block while embarking on his latest movie and drifts into dreams   
   >     and memories.   
      
   All that Jazz   
      
   >   
   > 3. 1950; murdered screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) narrates   
   >     the story of his meeting with washed-up silent icon Norma Desmond   
   >     (Gloria Swanson).   
   >   
   > 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".   
   >   
   > 5. 1994; studio whipping boy Guy (Frank Whaley) bites back after   
   >     too much abuse from bullying exec Buddy Ackerman (Kevin Spacey).   
   >   
   > 6. 1998; the elderly director James Whale (Ian McKellen) recounts   
   >     his glory days as a horror director to gardener Clayton Boone   
   >     (Brendan Fraser).   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 8. 1980; Sandy Bates (Woody Allen) reminisces as he attends a   
   >     retrospective of his work.   
   >   
   > 9. 2008; actors Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller) and Kirk Lazarus (Robert   
   >     Downey Jr.) are dropped in the jungle to shoot a Vietnam epic.   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   >   
   > * 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?   
   >   
   > Note: The results for the 2020 census are not yet available --   
   > they're expected in December -- so I will only accept answers   
   > based on the 2010 census.   
   >   
   > 1. New Hampshire.   
      
   Manchester   
      
   > 2. Vermont.   
      
   Burlington   
      
   > 3. Maine.   
      
   Portland   
      
   > 4. Tennessee.   
      
   Memphis   
      
   > 5. Texas.   
      
   Houston   
      
   > 6. South Dakota.   
      
   Sioux Falls   
      
   > 7. North Dakota.   
      
   Fargo   
      
   > 8. Montana.   
      
   Great Falls   
      
   > 9. Alabama.   
      
   Birmingham   
      
   > 10. West Virginia.   
      
   Charlestown   
      
      
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   Dan Tilque   
      
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