From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > ** Game 1, Round 9 - Geography - Rivers   
   >   
   > We name three cities along a river's course; you identify the river.   
   >   
   > 1. Bamako, Timbuktu, Niamey.   
      
   Niger   
      
   > 2. Iquitos, Manaus, Santarém.   
      
   Amazonas   
      
   > 3. Diyarbakir, Mosul, Baghdad.   
      
   Euphrate   
      
   > 4. Chongqing, Wuhan, Shanghai.   
      
   Yellow River   
      
   > 5. Dresden, Magdeburg, Hamburg.   
      
   Elbe   
      
   > 6. Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson.   
      
   Dnipro   
      
   > 8. Bangui, Kinshasa, Brazzaville.   
      
   Kongo   
      
   > 9. Revelstoke, Vancouver, Portland.   
      
   Columbia   
      
   > 10. Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Astrakhan.   
   >   
      
   Volga   
      
   > ** Game 1, Round 10 - Challenge Round - Coffee   
   >   
   > Just a bunch of questions about the world's favourite bean juice.   
   >   
   > * A. Coffee-Producing Countries   
   >   
   >    In 2021, by US dollar value, what was the leading coffee-exporting   
   >    country in...   
   >   
   >    A1. Asia?   
      
   Yemen   
      
   >    A2. Africa?   
      
   Ethiopia   
      
   >    D2. Coffee is well-known, and often used, for its ability to   
   >        "keep you awake", because it contains caffeine.  Caffeine,   
   >        which is a stimulant, works by blocking what receptor in   
   >        the human body?   
      
   Melatonine   
      
   >    E1. Alternating layers of ladyfingers soaked in espresso and   
   >        a sweet, whipped mascarpone-and-egg mixture, dusted with   
   >        cocoa powder.   
      
   Tiramisu   
      
   >    E2. A scoop or two of ice cream or gelato (usually vanilla),   
   >        drowned in a shot of hot espresso.   
      
   Affogado   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)