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   Dan Tilque to Mark Brader   
   Re: RQFTCICR14 Game 1, Rounds 2-3 - alco   
   30 Jan 23 21:35:24   
   
   From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 1/30/23 15:54, Mark Brader wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 1, Round 1 - Current Events (excerpt)   
   >   
   > Answer these 2014 questions if you like for fun, but for no points.   
   >   
   > 1. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is facing allegations that his   
   >     staff partially closed the access to the George Washington Bridge   
   >     (leading to Manhattan) from a town of 35,000 whose Democratic   
   >     mayor had not supported him.  Name the town.   
      
   Fort Lee   
      
   >   
   > 2. What unusual wind pattern caused very low temperatures in much   
   >     of North America last week?   
      
   breakout from the polar vortex   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 1, Round 2 - Entertainment - Alcoholics in Pop Culture   
   >   
   > It's all fun and games until someone crashes a car.   
   >   
   > Here are TV and movie characters who are current or former heavy   
   > drinkers, whether or not they also have other addictions.  We name   
   > the actor/actress and the character, and you give us the title.   
   >   
   > For #1-8, name the TV series.   
   >   
   > 1. Luke Perry as Dylan.   
   > 2. Anna Farris as Christy.   
   > 3. Denis Leary as Tommy Gavin.   
   > 4. John Spencer as Leo McGarry.   
   > 5. Megan Mullaly as Karen Walker.   
   > 6. Dominic West as Jimmy McNulty.   
   > 7. Maura Tierney as Abby Lockhart.   
   > 8. John Slattery as Roger Sterling.   
   >   
   > For #9-10, name the movie.   
   >   
   > 9. Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance.   
      
   Chinatown   
      
   > 10. Elizabeth Taylor as Martha, wife of George.   
      
   Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 1, Round 3 - History - Nelson Mandela   
   >   
   > 1. Within 2 years, when was Nelson Mandela born?   
      
   1920   
      
   >   
   > 2. Within 2 years, in what year did apartheid become the official   
   >     policy of South Africa?   
      
   1947   
      
   >   
   > 3. From the time he was a young adult, Mandela was long associated   
   >     with what political and anti-apartheid organization in South   
   >     Africa?   
      
   African Nation Congress   
      
   >   
   > 4. Name the prison (South Africa's Alcatraz, as it were) where   
   >     Mandela spent most of his years of imprisonment.   
   >   
   > 5. In what year did it happen that Mandela was released from prison,   
   >     and negotiations to end apartheid began?   
      
   1993   
      
   >   
   > 6. Under which South African president was Mandela was released   
   >     from prison?   
      
   de Klerk   
      
   >   
   > 7. In what year was Mandela himself elected president?   
      
   1994   
      
   >   
   > 8. Mandela was often affectionately referred to by what nickname,   
   >     which was also his Xhosa clan name?   
   >   
   > 9. Mandela's remains are buried in the village where he grew up   
   >     and that was his ancestral homeland.  Name it.   
   >   
   > 10. Nelson Mandela was a close runner-up for "Time" magazine's   
   >     "Person of the Century".  But who did "Time" ultimately choose   
   >     instead?   
      
   Franklin Roosevelt   
      
      
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   Dan Tilque   
      
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