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|    Joshua Kreitzer to Mark Brader    |
|    Re: QFTCIBSI23 Game 5, Rounds 2-3: warm     |
|    14 Jul 23 19:21:20    |
      From: gromit82@hotmail.com              On Friday, July 14, 2023 at 3:22:35 AM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:       >        > * Game 5, Round 2 - Sports - Sun Belt Hockey        >        > 2. In 1999, the Stars were the first Sun Belt team to win the        > Stanley Cup, 6 years after the relocation of which franchise        > to Dallas?               Minnesota North Stars              > 3. The most successful Sun Belt team is the Tampa Bay Lightning,        > with three Stanley Cups. The franchise was founded in 1990        > largely due to the efforts of these two hall-of-fame brothers,        > one a Bruins forward, the other a Black Hawks goalie. Who?        > The surname is sufficient.               Esposito              > 4. Mike Fisher played for the Ottawa Senators, but was traded        > south to the Nashville Predators so that he could be closer to        > his superstar wife. Who is she?               Carrie Underwood              > 5. The NHL has twice attemped franchises in Atlanta. One ended        > up moving to Calgary, the other one to Winnipeg. Give the team        > name of *either* of those Atlanta franchises.               Flames; Thrashers              > 6. The original Winnipeg Jets became the Phoenix Coyotes and then        > the Arizona Coyotes. Name *either* of the Phoenix suburbs where        > the Coyotes have had their home since leaving the city proper.               Glendale              > 7. Beep beep! Two decades before the Coyotes came to Arizona,        > Robbie Ftorek was the star of which Arizona-based WHA franchise?               Phoenix Roadrunners              > 9. One of the most successful WHA franchises was the Houston Aeros,        > who had the unusual draw of having this NHL legend playing        > alongside two of his sons. Who?               Gordie Howe               > 10. Professional hockey came to Alabama in the form of the        > Birmingham Bulls. Prior to moving south, the franchise had        > been based in Canada -- under which somewhat similar name?               Toronto Toros              > * Game 5, Round 3 - Entertainment - Real Life Oscar Roles        >        > We give you the name of a real person, you tell us who won an        > Oscar for playing them in a movie.        >        > 2. Freddy Mercury.               Rami Malek              > 3. Virginia Woolf.               Nicole Kidman              > 4. June Carter Cash.               Reese Witherspoon              > 5. Katharine Hepburn.               Cate Blanchett              > 6. Winston Churchill.               Gary Oldman              > 7. Australian pianist David Helfgott.               Geoffrey Rush              > 8. Polish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman.              Adrien Brody               > 9. Queen Elizabeth II.               Helen Mirren              > 10. Queen Elizabeth I. (Hint: With only 8 minutes of screen time,        > this is one of the shortest performances to win an Oscar.)               Judi Dench              --       Joshua Kreitzer       gromit82@hotmail.com              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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