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   Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > ** Game 2, Round 9 - Arts - Modern Architects   
      
   > 1. Sydney Opera House.   
      
   Saarinen   
      
   > 3. Apple Park (Cupertino), the "Gherkin" (London).   
      
   Gehry   
      
   > 4. TWA Terminal (New York), Gateway Arch (St. Louis).   
      
   Schiller   
      
   > 5. Seagram Building (New York), T-D Centre (Toronto).   
      
   Neutra   
      
   > 6. Bauhaus School (Dessau), Pan Am Building (New York).   
      
   van der Rohe   
      
   > 7. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Cleveland), Louvre pyramid (Paris).   
      
   Pei   
      
   > 9. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Imperial Hotel (Tokyo), Johnson   
   > Wax Building (Racine, Wisconsin).   
      
   Wright   
      
   > ** Game 2, Round 10 - Challenge Round - Tom Waits for No One   
      
   > * A. References   
      
   > A1. One of Tom's songs includes the name of a saint. This saint   
   > is best known as the patron saint of travellers, though   
   > there is no certainty that he existed historically.   
   > Name the saint.   
      
   Christopher   
      
   > A2. This Tom Waits song shares its name with a term for a common   
   > grave for unknown, unclaimed, or indigent people.   
   > The earliest known use of this term is from the Gospel of   
   > Matthew, not "It's a Wonderful Life".   
      
   potter's field   
      
   > * B. Geography - Song Titles   
      
   > B1. Tom once received a telephone call from what current city,   
   > arguably the most populous in Europe? It's possible the   
   > call was from a date informing him of where she's waiting.   
      
   Istanbul   
      
   > B2. Tom's first experiment with the "sha-la-la" refrain was   
   > about a girl from where? The girl, his future wife Kathleen   
   > Brennan, was living in this US state, not an island in the   
   > English Channel.   
      
   New Jersey   
      
   > * C. Tom on the Big Screen   
      
   > C2. "One from the Heart", "Rumble Fish", "Bram Stoker's Dracula".   
      
   Francis Ford Coppola   
      
   > * D. Inspiration and Collaboration   
      
   > D1. The title of Tom's 1975 album, "Nighthawks at the Diner" was   
   > inspired by the 1942 work "Nighthawks", by what American   
   > painter?   
      
   Hopper   
      
   > D2. In 1990, the "musical fable" "The Black Rider" premiered   
   > in Hamburg. This was a collaboration between Waits, theater   
   > director Robert Wilson, and what Beat Generation writer,   
   > best known for "Naked Lunch"?   
      
   William S. Burroughs   
      
   > * F. Lawsuits!   
      
   > F2. In 1990, Tom won $2,500,000 in a "soundalike" lawsuit over   
   > an ad for a new Doritos flavor, SalsaRio. What snack-food   
   > company was named in the suit, a wholly-owned subsidiary   
   > of PepsiCo since 1965?   
      
   Frito-Lay   
      
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   Dan Blum tool@panix.com    
   "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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