From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 2:18:39 AM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 4, Round 4 - History: Dr. Strangelove   
   >   
   > This is actually a round on the history associated with the   
   > development of nuclear weapons.   
   >   
   > 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   
      
   (I would also have guessed somewhere in Tennessee, but I can't think of the   
   town in Tennessee where the project was based)   
      
   > 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; Little Boy   
      
   > 7. Within one year, when did the USSR test their first nuclear bomb?   
      
   1947   
      
   > 8. The US and USSR were the first two countries to possess nuclear   
   > weapons. What was the third?   
      
   UK   
      
   > 9. Within one year, when was the first hydrogen bomb tested?   
      
   1957; 1960   
      
   > 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   
   >   
   > This is a round on collecting hobbies. We give you the description   
   > of the object a person is collecting and you choose from the handout   
   > list the word for what this person would be called.   
   >   
   > Someone who collects...   
   >   
   > 1. Telephone calling cards.   
      
   Telegerist; Heortologist   
      
   > 2. Prints, engravings, etc.   
      
   Iconophile   
      
   > 3. Coins, tokens, medals, and paper money.   
      
   Numismatist   
      
   > 4. Postage stamps.   
      
   Philatelist   
      
   > 5. Candles or wax objects.   
      
   Cerophilist   
      
   > 6. Transportation tokens.   
      
   Tephrodiscophile; Heortologist   
      
   > 7. Ash trays   
      
   Phillumenist; Pyrographer   
      
   > 8. Butterflies (mounted).   
      
   Lepidopterist   
      
   > 9. Action figures.   
      
   Plastokinesophile   
      
   > 10. Cow figures or items with a cow motif.   
      
   Bovephile   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
   gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
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