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   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 5, Round 1 - Current Events (excerpt)   
      
   > 2. The US Federal Reserve made a historic appointment this week   
   >    when it named a female chair.  What is her name?   
      
   Janet Yellen   
      
   > * Game 5, Round 2 - Literature - If You Don't Like It, Burn It   
      
   > 1. The 1988 publication of this novel provoked angry demonstrations   
   >    and riots around the world by followers of Islam, including   
   >    book-burnings in the English cities of Bolton and Bradford,   
   >    and firebombings of 5 British and 2 California bookstores.   
   >    What novel?   
      
   The Satanic Verses   
      
   > 3. This term was invented by George Orwell in his dystopian   
   >    novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" as the nickname for the chutes   
   >    in the Ministry of Truth down which all inconvenient documents   
   >    were sent to be to totally incinerated such that "not even the   
   >    ash remains".  Now it may be used for any mechanism for the   
   >    alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing   
   >    documents, photographs, transcripts, or other records,   
   >    particularly as part of an attempt to give the impression   
   >    that something never happened.  What's the term?   
      
   memory hole   
      
   > 4. On 1959-10-03, in the Ontario city of Ft. William (now part   
   >    of Thunder Bay), over 700 copies of this British book were   
   >    burned at the mayor's behest in order to avoid running afoul of   
   >    Canada's newly passed obscenity law.  Despite (or more likely   
   >    because of) such activities, the book ended up being ranked the   
   >    second-best-selling book in Canada for the second half of 1959.   
   >    Name it.   
      
   Lady Chatterley's Lover   
      
   > 6. In Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel "Fahrenheit 451", the   
   >    protagonist, Guy Montag, starts out as a member of this   
   >    profession charged with burning the possessions of anyone caught   
   >    possessing books.  What name, which would undoubtedly appear   
   >    ironic to the reader, was used for this profession in the book?   
      
   firefightwe   
      
   > 7. The night of 1933-05-10 has gone down as one of the most   
   >    ominous mass book-burnings of all time.  Upward of 25,000   
   >    volumes were burned.  Who was behind these book-burnings?   
      
   the Nazi Party   
      
   > 9. In 1982, a youth minister in North Carolina led a group in   
   >    burning albums and cassettes of various popular artists,   
   >    in an attempt to destroy the purported hidden messages in   
   >    "Satan's records".  What technique did the minister claim was   
   >    being used to hide these messages?   
      
   backward masking   
      
   > 10. This claim made by John Lennon led to public burnings of   
   >    Beatles records and memorabilia in August 1966.  What was   
   >    Lennon's controversial statement?   
      
   that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus   
      
   > * Game 5, Round 3 - Canadiana - Canadian Wood-Frame House Construction   
      
   > 3. Name the vertical structural members in a wood frame wall.   
   >    They are usually 2?4's or 2?6's (38?89 or 38?140 mm).   
      
   studs   
      
   > 8. Exterior walls in most suburban homes consist of an insulated   
   >    wood-stud wall with a single wythe of masonry 3?" (90 mm)   
   >    thick tied to it, then a 1" (25 mm) air space.  What is this   
   >    type of wall called?   
      
   drywall   
      
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