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   Dan Blum to Mark Brader   
   Re: RQFTCINO13 Game 4, Rounds 4,6: Dr. S   
   22 Oct 22 14:05:38   
   
   From: tool@panix.com   
      
   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 4, Round 4 - History: Dr. Strangelove   
      
   > 1. What was the code name of the US-led project in World War II   
   >    to develop a nuclear weapon?   
      
   Manhattan Project   
      
   > 2. There were many facilities involved with  at various   
   >    locations in the US, UK, and Canada.  But in what city or town   
   >    was the bomb designed?   
      
   Los Alamos   
      
   > 3. Who was the theoretical physicist from Berkeley who supervised   
   >    the bomb-design part of the project?   
      
   Oppenheimer   
      
   > 4. On 1945-07-16, the first test of a nuclear device was performed.   
   >    What was the code name of this test?   
      
   Trinity   
      
   > 5. On 1945-08-06, a nuclear bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.   
   >    The next one was dropped three days later... where?   
      
   Nagasaki   
      
   > 6. Two bomb designs were used at Hiroshima and , and   
   >    each had its own code name.  Name either one.  You don't need   
   >    to say which it was.   
      
   Fat Man   
      
   > 7. Within one year, when did the USSR test their first nuclear bomb?   
      
   1948   
      
   > 8. The US and USSR were the first two countries to possess nuclear   
   >    weapons.  What was the third?   
      
   United Kingdom   
      
   > 9. Within one year, when was the first hydrogen bomb tested?   
      
   1952   
      
   > 10. Who participated in the hydrogen bomb design and is widely   
   >    known as the "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb"?   
      
   Teller   
      
   > * Game 4, Round 6 - Leisure - Collectors   
      
   > 1. Telephone calling cards.   
      
   telegerist   
      
   > 2. Prints, engravings, etc.   
      
   fusilatelist; iconophile   
      
   > 3. Coins, tokens, medals, and paper money.   
      
   numismatist   
      
   > 4. Postage stamps.   
      
   philatelist   
      
   > 5. Candles or wax objects.   
      
   cerophilist   
      
   > 6. Transportation tokens.   
      
   vecturist   
      
   > 7. Ash trays   
      
   pyrographer; fusilatelist   
      
   > 8. Butterflies (mounted).   
      
   lepidopterist   
      
   > 9. Action figures.   
      
   plastokinesophile   
      
   > 10. Cow figures or items with a cow motif.   
      
   bovephile   
      
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