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   Message 31,505 of 32,813   
   Joshua Kreitzer to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCIBSI23 Game 4, Rounds 2-3: dead    
   01 Jul 23 18:22:15   
   
   From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, July 1, 2023 at 7:07:10 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:   
   >    
   > * Game 4, Round 2 - Canadiana - "Let's Go to the Mall"    
   >    
   > 1. Start at a big discount department store that was founded in    
   > 1931 and shut its last store in 2020, although it still lives on    
   > as a brand name of the Hudson's Bay Co. Hope you brought your    
   > points card -- the best things in life are free!    
      
   Zellers   
      
   > 7. You've found the mid-to-higher-end department store, now sadly   
   > shuttered due to mismanagement and competition in 2002 after   
   > over 130 years in business. It lives on in Can-Lit, mostly    
   > thanks to a 1946 incident in which the wrong item was shipped   
   > to a 10-year-old boy in St-Justine, Quebec.   
      
   Eaton's   
      
   > 8. Yet another discount department store, the sign just says "M".    
   > You know it had a longer name back when it was founded by the    
   > Steinberg's grocery chain in 1961. But it's been shut down    
   > since 1992 and would take an act of God for you to remember it.    
      
   Miracles   
      
   > 10. You blink your eyes and are transported back to 2023, finding    
   > yourself in a Best Buy! You could swear a moment ago you were    
   > in that *other* electronics retailer that Best Buy bought out in    
   > 2001 and fully closed in 2015.    
      
   Circuit City   
       
   > * Game 4, Round 3 - Geography - Tallest Mountains    
   >    
   > Name the tallest mountain in (or on)...    
   >    
   > 2. Canada.    
      
   Mt. Logan   
      
   > 3. Sicily.    
      
   Mt. Etna   
      
   > 4. North America.    
      
   Mt. McKinley   
      
   > 5. South America.    
      
   Chimborazo   
      
   > 6. Washington state.    
      
   Mt. Rainier   
      
   > 7. both Italy and France.    
      
   Mont Blanc   
      
   > 9. Mars.    
      
   Mons Olympus   
       
   > And...    
   >    
   > 10. The Cabox is the tallest mountain on *what Canadian island*?    
      
   Newfoundland; Vancouver Island   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
   gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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