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   Erland Sommarskog to Mark Brader   
   Re: RQFTCICR14 Game 5, Rounds 9-10: kiss   
   02 Apr 23 12:12:37   
   
   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > ** Game 5, Round 9 - Entertainment - Kissy Movies   
   >   
   > 8. 1953, Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Anne Miller: a musical   
   >    loosely based on "The Taming of the Shrew".   
      
   Kiss Me Kate   
      
   > ** Game 5, Round 10 - Challenge Round - The Sochi Olympics   
   >   
   > Yes, this is largely a second sports round.  Not my idea!   
   >   
   > * A. History of Sochi   
   >   
   >    A1. The region that includes Sochi came under Russian control   
   >        after the 1829 Treaty of Adrianople ended a war between   
   >        Russia and who?   
      
   Ottman Emptire   
      
   >    A2. Who were the people expelled from the Sochi area in the   
   >        1860s and 1870s, in what some historians consider Europe's   
   >        first modern example of "ethnic cleansing" and genocide?   
      
   Adygeans   
      
   > * B. Geographic Extreme Games   
   >   
   >    B1. """Which was""" the southernmost Winter Olympics?  Give the   
   >        city or the year.   
      
   Nagano   
      
   >    B2. """Which was""" the northernmost summer Olympics?  Give the   
   >        city or the year.   
      
   Helsinki   
      
   > * C. Science of Skates   
   >   
   >    C1. "Rocker" is the skating term for the curve of the bottom   
   >        of the blade. Put the following skates in order, from least   
   >        to most rocker (that is, from straightest to most curved):   
   >        short-track speed skate, long-track speed skate, figure   
   >        skate, hockey skate.  If you give two guesses, please give   
   >        a complete list of four both times.   
      
   short-track, long-track, hockey, figure skating   
      
   > * D. Winter Olympic Movies   
   >   
   >    D1. Kurt Russell plays 1980 US hockey coach Herb Brooks in what   
   >        2004 movie?   
      
   Miracle on Ice   
      
   > * E. New Olympic Events at Sochi   
   >   
   >    E1. "Team Relay" medals """will be""" awarded for the first   
   >        time in two different Olympic timed sports.  Times for   
   >        both male and female competitors """will be""" combined to   
   >        determine the winners.  Name either sport.   
      
   Cross-country skiing   
      
   >    E2. For the first time, freestyle skiers """will""" compete in   
   >        what structure that Olympic snowboarders have used since   
   >        1998?   
      
   Big Air   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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