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   Dan Blum to Mark Brader   
   Re: RQFTCICR14 Game 5, Rounds 9-10: kiss   
   02 Apr 23 14:22:21   
   
   From: tool@panix.com   
      
   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > ** Game 5, Round 9 - Entertainment - Kissy Movies   
      
   > 1. 1997, Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd: police hunt a serial killer,   
   >    helped by a victim who manages to escape.   
      
   A Kiss Before Dying   
      
   > 2. 1955, Ralph Meeker: a doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike   
   >    Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around   
   >    a mysterious "great whatsit".  Written by Mickey Spillane.   
      
   Kiss Me Deadly   
      
   > 4. 1999, Drew Barrymore, Luke Wilson: a reporter goes undercover   
   >    at a high school.   
      
   Never Been Kissed   
      
   > 6. 1995, Meg Ryan plays a Canadian, Kevin Kline plays a Frenchman:   
   >    a woman flies to France to confront her straying fianc?, but   
   >    gets involved with a charming crook.   
      
   French Kiss   
      
   > 8. 1953, Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Anne Miller: a musical   
   >    loosely based on "The Taming of the Shrew".   
      
   Kiss Me Kate   
      
   > 9. 1996, Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson: an amnesiac woman recovers   
   >    her memories in this thriller directed by Renny Harlin.   
      
   The Long Kiss Goodnight   
      
   > 10. 1985, Raul Julia, William Hurt: they play South American   
   >    cellmates.   
      
   Kiss of the Spider Woman   
      
   > ** Game 5, Round 10 - Challenge Round - The Sochi Olympics   
      
   > * 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?   
      
   Ottoman Empire   
      
   >    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?   
      
   Khalmyks; Khazars   
      
   > * B. Geographic Extreme Games   
      
   >    B2. """Which was""" the northernmost summer Olympics?  Give the   
   >        city or the year.   
      
   Munich   
      
   > * 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.   
      
   hockey, long-track, short-track, figure   
      
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