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   Erland Sommarskog to Mark Brader   
   Re: RQFTCICR14 Game 9, Rounds 9-10: Russ   
   21 May 23 22:09:52   
   
   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > ** Game 9, Round 10 - Challenge: All Things Spring   
   >   
   > * 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?   
      
   Protest! In Sweden we don't generally know towns in Alberta, and I   
   can't imagine this is unique to Sweden. I mean, Alberta, seriously?   
   Come on? Around the world?   
      
   >    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?   
      
   Vichy   
      
   > * 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?   
      
   Tunisia   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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