From: tool@panix.com   
      
   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 1, Round 1 - Current Events (excerpt)   
      
   > Answer these 2014 questions if you like for fun, but for no points.   
      
   > 2. What unusual wind pattern caused very low temperatures in much   
   >    of North America last week?   
      
   polar vortex   
      
   > * Game 1, Round 2 - Entertainment - Alcoholics in Pop Culture   
      
   > 1. Luke Perry as Dylan.   
      
   Beverly Hills 90210   
      
   > 4. John Spencer as Leo McGarry.   
      
   The West Wing   
      
   > 5. Megan Mullaly as Karen Walker.   
      
   Will & Grace   
      
   > 8. John Slattery as Roger Sterling.   
      
   Mad Men   
      
   > 9. Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance.   
      
   Five Easy Pieces; As Good as it Gets   
      
   > 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?   
      
   1930   
      
   > 2. Within 2 years, in what year did apartheid become the official   
   >    policy of South Africa?   
      
   1925   
      
   > 3. From the time he was a young adult, Mandela was long associated   
   >    with what political and anti-apartheid organization in South   
   >    Africa?   
      
   African National Congress   
      
   > 4. Name the prison (South Africa's Alcatraz, as it were) where   
   >    Mandela spent most of his years of imprisonment.   
      
   Robben Island   
      
   > 5. In what year did it happen that Mandela was released from prison,   
   >    and negotiations to end apartheid began?   
      
   1991   
      
   > 6. Under which South African president was Mandela was released   
   >    from prison?   
      
   F. W. de Klerk   
      
   > 7. In what year was Mandela himself elected president?   
      
   1994   
      
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   Dan Blum					         tool@panix.com	   
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