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From: tool@panix.com (Dan Blum)
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Subject: Re: RQFTCINO13 Game 10, Rounds 7-8: openings and probes
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:04:00 -0000 (UTC)
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Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Opening Lines of Novels
> 1. The Salinas Valley is in Northern California.
Cannery Row
> 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
> 7. The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at
> three o'clock in the morning.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
> 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
> 1. What was the name of the first rover on Mars?
Pathfinder
> 2. Name one of the """two rovers that are now still active on
> Mars""".
Spirit
> 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?
Mercury
> 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
> 6. In 1970 -- the year after Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon --
> the Soviets deployed the first extraterrestrial robotic rover,
> also on the Moon. Name *either* the rover or the spacecraft
> that delivered it.
Soyuz
> 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
> 8. The Huygens lander probe was launched together with another
> probe, which is """now""" orbiting . What is the
> name of Huygens' orbiting partner?
Cassini
> 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.
China
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