From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, March 14, 2023 at 2:01:05 AM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:   
   >    
   > * Game 4, Round 4 - Science - What's the Frequency, Kenneth?    
   >    
   > Here are some frequencies and wavelengths. For each item we    
   > name below, give the corresponding entry on the following list.    
   > In some cases the frequencies are approximate.    
   >    
   > 8. VHF television band.    
      
    54 to 88 MHz and 174 to 216 MHz    
       
   > * Game 4, Round 6 - History - Famous Poisonings    
   >    
   > The following are some famous incidents of intentional poisoning.    
   > throughout history, either single or en masse, and sometimes    
   > self-administered,    
   >    
   > 2. The world was shocked in 2006 when expatriate Russian journalist    
   > Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in London, England. Before he    
   > died, he alleged the deed was done at President Putin's behest.    
   > Name the substance used to poison him, possibly fed to him in    
   > some sushi.    
      
   ricin   
      
   > 3. He made his followers in the People's Temple cult drink    
   > cyanide-laced fruit punch in 1978. 918 people died. What    
   > was this cult leader's *first and last* name?    
      
   Jim Jones   
      
   > 4. It is often portrayed that this philosopher poisoned himself    
   > rather than choose exile. More accurately, he willingly drank    
   > poison in fulfillment of his death sentence for the crimes of    
   > "corrupting youth" and "impiety", instead of taking the clear    
   > opportunity provided to him to escape when his followers    
   > successfully bribed his guards. Who was he?    
      
   Socrates   
      
   > 6. He was an important codebreaker during England's WW2 war effort    
   > and made fundamental contributions to computer science, but was    
   > rewarded by his country with a prosecution for homosexuality    
   > in 1952. He committed suicide by eating a cyanide-laced apple.    
   > Who was he?    
      
   Turing   
       
   > 7. Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was killed in London in    
   > 1978 by an assassin who managed to inject him with a ricin-filled    
   > micro-pellet, delivered using a cleverly rigged version of what    
   > common item?    
      
   umbrella   
      
   > 8. Members of the Heaven's Gate cult committed mass suicide in 1997    
   > by taking phenobarbital with vodka (and then wrapping plastic    
   > bags around their heads for good measure), believing that a    
   > spaceship was coming, trailing a comet, to transport their    
   > souls to a higher level of existence. Name the *comet*.    
      
   Hale-Bopp   
      
   > 9. How does tradition hold that Cleopatra poisoned herself?    
   > Be specific.    
      
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