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   From: Erland Sommarskog    
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   Subject: Re: RQFTCINO13 Game 10, Rounds 7-8: openings and probes   
   Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 20:31:35 +0100   
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   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Opening Lines of Novels   
   >   
   > 4. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking   
   >    thirteen.   
      
   1984   
      
   > * Game 10, Round 8 - Science - Space Probes   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Pioneer   
      
   > 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   
      
   > 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.   
      
   China   
      
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