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Subject: Re: RQFTCINO13 Game 10, Rounds 7-8: openings and probes
From: Joshua Kreitzer
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On Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 1:07:49 AM UTC-6, Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Opening Lines of Novels
>
> We'll give you the opening lines of a novel; you give us the title.
>
> 1. The Salinas Valley is in Northern California.
"East of Eden"
> 2. The great fish moved silently through the night water.
"Jaws"
> 3. I WILL NOT:
> Drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week.
"Bridget Jones' Diary"
> 4. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking
> thirteen.
"1984"
> 5. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy
> in its own way.
"Anna Karenina"
> 6. When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly
> broken at the elbow.
"To Kill a Mockingbird"
> 8. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in
> possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
"Pride and Prejudice"
> 9. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing
> a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
"Ulysses"
> 10. Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud
> to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"
> * Game 10, Round 8 - Science - Space Probes
>
> This round is about exploring strange new worlds, and boldly going
> where no man (or no one) has gone before. That is, it's about
> unmanned space probes.
>
> Note: In cases where the answer includes a name and a number,
> the name alone will suffice. But if you give the number then it
> must be correct for full points.
>
> 3. Launched in 1977, flying by Jupiter in 1979, and flying by Saturn
> in 1980, this probe is """now""" the furthest man-made object in
> the universe; three times more distant than Pluto. What is the
> name of this probe? Hint: think of the first "Star Trek" movie.
Voyager
> 4. Launched in 2004, Messenger was the first spacecraft to orbit
> (rather than just fly by) which planet?
Uranus
> 5. A probe launched in 1965 by the Soviets was the first spacecraft
> to land on another planet, in the following year. Or to be
> precise, communications were lost in the final moments of its
> descent, so we don't actually know whether it was still intact
> when it reached the surface. But which alien planet received
> this Soviet space junk in 1966?
Venus
> 7. The Huygens space probe landed in January of 2005 on Titan,
> and """is""" currently furthest from Earth of all landed probes.
> Titan is a moon of what planet?
Saturn
> 9. When launched in 2006, this was intended to be the first probe
> to fly by the planet Pluto. It is """now""" expected to
> arrive at the dwarf planet Pluto on 2015-07-14. What is the
> probe called?
New Horizons
> 10. What country was the third -- after the USSR and the US --
> to launch an interplanetary probe? The probe, launched in 1985,
> flew by Halley's comet.
Japan; China
--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com
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