From: tool@panix.com
Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 8, Round 4 - History - Trials of the Century
> 2. These two men planned the "perfect crime", kidnapping and
> murdering 14-year-old Bobby Franks. They were convicted in
> a lurid trial, also in 1934. One was Nathan Leopold; what was
> his partner's name?
Loeb
> 3. This former SS and Gestapo officer, known as the "Butcher of
> Lyon", was extradited from Bolivia in 1984 and tried in 1987.
> He was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment, and
> died in prison 4 years later. What was his name?
Barbie
> 4. In Tennessee in 1926, a teacher was tried for teaching evolution,
> which was prohibited there at the time. Name the defendant.
Scopes
> 5. The 1935 trial following the kidnapping and murder of Charles
> Lindbergh's 20-month-old son was called by journalist
> H.L. Mencken "the greatest story since the Resurrection".
> Who was tried for the kidnapping and murder?
Hauptmann
> 6. In late 1945 and 1946 the surviving top Nazi leadership were
> tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity, establishing
> the principles of these offenses. The trials are referred to
> by the name of the city where they were held. Which city?
Nuremberg
> 7. This leader of a Slavic nation was extradited and tried by
> an international tribunal in the Hague in 2002 for war crimes.
> He died in 2006 just as the trial was winding up. Who was he?
Milosevic
> 8. The 20th century's first "trial of the century" took place in
> 1907, when Harry Thaw, a millionaire's son whose lifestyle had
> prompted the coining of the term "playboy", killed the lover
> of his wife, model and chorus girl Evelyn Nesbit. The victim
> was a famous architect: who was he?
White
> 10. Ferdinando Nicola Sacco was one of two Italian immigrants
> executed for murder in 1927 in Massachusetts. They were
> suspected anarchists who were convicted for murdering two men
> during a robbery attempt of a shoe factory. Who was Sacco's
> co-defendant?
Vanzetti
> * Game 8, Round 6 - Sports - Tennis Champions
> 1. Who has won the most career singles titles in professional
> men's tennis, at 109?
Lendl; Borg
> 2. Five professional tennis players (3 women and 2 men) have won
> the Grand Slam in singles: winning all four majors in the same
> calendar year. Two of them are Don Budge in 1938 and Maureen
> Connolly in 1953. Name any one of the other three.
Navratilova; Ashe
> 3. Which female professional tennis player has won more French
> Open singles titles than anyone else?
Serena Williams; Navratilova
> 4. Who has won the most career singles titles in professional
> women's tennis at 167?
Serena Williams; King
> 5. Who is the only men's professional tennis player to win at
> least 90% of his matches in a given year, in four separate years?
Connors; Lendl
> 6. Who is the only woman to win all four Grand Slam singles titles
> at least 4 times each?
Serena Williams; King
> 7. Who was the first tennis player from an Iron Curtain country
> to win the US Open in 1972?
Navratilova
> 8. In 1999, who became only the fifth man to win all four major
> tournaments -- completing a "career Grand Slam"?
Chang
> 9. In 1985, what 17-year old tennis phenomenon beat Kevin Curren
> to win his first Wimbledon title?
Chang
> 10. In 1997, at age 16, who became one of the youngest women
> singles champions ever at Wimbledon?
Graf
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