From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > ** Game 3, Round 9 - Geography - Country Names   
   >   
   > 1. The name of which country is the name given to three strikes in   
   >    a row in 10-pin bowling?  (Or, at least, it was until late 2021,   
   >    when the country changed its name.)   
      
   Turkey   
      
   > 2. The surname of the man who the NBA's web site describes as the   
   >    greatest basketball player of all time.   
      
   Jordan   
      
   > 3. A word in the title of a 1963 James Bond movie.   
      
   Russia   
      
   > 4. A word in the title of a 1979 movie starring Jane Fonda, Jack   
   >    Lemmon, and Michael Douglas, about a safety cover-up at a   
   >    nuclear power plant.   
      
   China   
      
   > 5. The first name of the artist, renowned for her paintings of   
   >    enlarged flowers and scenes of New Mexico, who is called "the   
   >    Mother of American Modernism".   
      
   Dominica   
      
   > 7. The surname of the poet, journalist, and novelist who won the   
   >    1921 Nobel Prize in Literature.  Hints: His first name is   
   >    Anatole, and the country is in Europe.   
      
   France   
      
   > 8. A word that occurs 8 times -- sometimes preceded by the word   
   >    "hanging" or "dimpled" -- in the US Supreme Court's decision in   
   >    Bush v. Gore, the case that effectively decided the presidential   
   >    election in the year 2000?  Hint: the country is in Africa.   
      
   Chad   
      
   >   
   > 9. A pre-decimalization coin equal to 21 shillings.  Hints: The   
   >    country is in Africa, and its name occurs within the names of   
   >    three other countries.   
      
   Guinea   
      
   > 10. A word in the name of a 17th-century palace and a large garden,   
   >    both in Paris, located near the Sorbonne and the Pantheon.   
   >    Hint: the country is in Europe.   
      
   Luxembourg   
      
      
   > ** Game 3, Round 10 - Challenge Round - A Rose by Any Other Name   
   >   
   > * A. Entertainment   
   >   
   > * B. History   
   >   
   >    B1. "The Romance of the Rose" is the English title of an   
   >        allegorical poem written between 1240 and 1275 -- in   
   >        what language?   
      
   French   
      
   > * C. Miscellaneous   
   >   
   >    C2. There are numerous songs which share this rosy title,   
   >        notably a 2010 single by Kelly Rowland and track #2 from   
   >        Blue Rodeo's 1987 album "Outskirts".  Which title?   
      
   Le vie en Rose   
      
   > * D. Science   
   >   
   >    D2. Rose gold is made by alloying gold with 3% silver and about   
   >        22% of which element?   
      
   Copper   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)