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   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > ** Game 9, Round 9 - Entertainment - Russells in Entertainment   
      
   > 1. Australian actor: "The Insider" (1999), "Robin Hood" (2010).   
      
   Russell Crowe   
      
   > 2. "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes" (1969), "Escape From New York"   
   >    (1981), "Escape From L.A." (1996).   
      
   Kurt Russell   
      
   > 5. Married to film director Nicholas Roeg.  "Bad Timing/A Sensual   
   >    Obsession" (1980); "The Razor's Edge" (1984); "Black Widow"   
   >    (1987) with Debra Winger.   
      
   Theresa Russell   
      
   > 6. British, once married to Katy Perry.  "Forgetting Sarah Marshall"   
   >    (2008), "Get Him to the Greek" (2010), "Despicable Me" (2010),   
   >    "Despicable Me 2" (2013).   
      
   Russell Brand   
      
   > 7. Director of low-budget sexploitation films with campy humor:   
   >    "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" (1965).  Autobiography:   
   >    "A Clean Breast".   
      
   Russ(ell) Meyers   
      
   > 9. "The Outlaw" (1943); Howard Hughes designed her bra.  "Gentlemen   
   >    Prefer Blondes" (1953).  Founded World Adoption International   
   >    Fund after a scandal that she paid to adopt an Irish baby   
   >    (mentioned in the 2014 film "Philomena").   
      
   Jane Russell   
      
   > 10. "His Girl Friday" (1940), Howard Hughes screwball comedy.   
   >    "My Sister Eileen" (1942).  "Auntie Mame" (1958), film and   
   >    Broadway.   
      
   Rosalind Russell   
      
   > ** Game 9, Round 10 - Challenge: All Things Spring   
      
   > * A. Science   
      
   >    A2. All mechanical watches contain a spring that stores the   
   >        energy from the watch being wound.  It consists of a metal   
   >        ribbon in the form of a tight coil.  What is it called?   
      
   mainspring   
      
   > * B. Entertainment   
      
   >    B1. A lavish production of the song "Springtime for Hitler"   
   >        is featured in which movie?   
      
   The Producers   
      
   >    B2. Which writer of popular 20th century songs and show tunes   
   >        penned "I Love Paris", whose well-known chorus begins   
   >        with the line "I love Paris in the spring time"?  It was   
   >        introduced in the musical "Can-Can", and covered by such   
   >        famous mid-20th Century singers as Frank Sinatra and Ella   
   >        Fitzgerald, as well as many, many others.   
      
   Irving Berlin   
      
   > * C. Sports & Leisure   
      
   >    C2. According to the autobiography of former Cleveland Indians   
   >        owner Bill Veeck, what was the issue with spring training   
   >        in Florida that motivated his role in the formation of the   
   >        Cactus League in Arizona?   
      
   it rained too much   
      
   > * D. Arts & Literature   
      
   >    D1. In which city did the 1913 debut of Igor Stravinsky's   
   >        "The Rite of Spring" cause a riot to break out in the   
   >        audience due to the the avant-garde nature of the music   
   >        and choreography?   
      
   Paris   
      
   >    D2. Which 1962 book by Rachel Carson about the detrimental   
   >        effects of indiscriminate pesticide use is credited with   
   >        starting the modern environmental movement?   
      
   Silent Spring   
      
   > * E. Geography   
      
   >    E1. Which Alberta town is known around the world for its   
   >        sulfurous hot springs?   
      
   Medicine Hat   
      
   >    E2. Water from which French spring, sought after for its   
   >        purported curative powers, became famous after an apparition   
   >        of the Virgin Mary allegedly appeared to Bernadette Soubirous   
   >        in 1858 and instructed her to bathe in and drink it?   
      
   Lourdes   
      
   > * F. History   
      
   >    F1. In what year did Czechoslovakia's failed uprising against   
   >        Soviet domination, known as the Prague Spring, take place?   
      
   1968   
      
   >    F2. The series of uprisings known as the Arab Spring were   
   >        sparked when street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself   
   >        on fire to protest police corruption and ill treatment in   
   >        which country?   
      
   Egypt; Tunisia   
      
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