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   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > ** Game 9, Round 9 - Literature Geography - Locations in Ian Fleming's   
   >    James Bond Novels   
      
   > 1. In what Fleming novel does Soviet Spy agency SMERSH plot to   
   >    kill James Bond by baiting him into a sex scandal with a cipher   
   >    clerk who works at the Russian Consulate in Istanbul?   
      
   From Russia With Love   
      
   > 2. In what novel does the climactic fight between the villain's   
   >    forces, which include a gang of mobsters and a group of female   
   >    burglar and the Pinkerton Detective Agency, take place in the   
   >    state of Kentucky?   
      
   Goldfinger   
      
   > 3. In what Fleming short story does Bond travel to the Berlin Wall   
   >    to protect a Soviet defector from a sniper?  If the defector   
   >    crosses into West Berlin, he sniper has been ordered to kill him.   
      
   The Living Daylights   
      
   > 4. In what novel does James Bond infiltrate the fictional Piz   
   >    Gloria, a Swiss Alp with a mountaintop lab that is really a   
   >    front for arch-nemesis Blofeld?  The name Piz Gloria is still   
   >    in use by a restaurant that was used in the filming of the   
   >    movie version, and which the producers helped complete.   
      
   The Spy Who Loved Me   
      
   > 5. What venerable British company commissioned Ian Fleming to   
   >    write the short story "The Property of a Lady", in which James   
   >    Bond is sent to identify a Soviet Spy at an art auction?   
      
   Sotheby's   
      
   > 6. Name the only James Bond novel in which Bond never leaves   
   >    England.  Famous for his travel writing, Fleming had wanted to   
   >    set the location in England to show off the country.  The movie   
   >    version of this novel is a more wide-flung affair, shuttling   
   >    Bond from California to Venice to Rio to Earth orbit.   
      
   Moonraker   
      
   > 7. What is the name of Ian Fleming's home in Jamaica where he wrote   
   >    the majority of all of his James Bond novels?  The producers   
   >    of the James Bond movies used the bame as the title of one.   
      
   Goldeneye   
      
   > 8. In "Diamonds are Forever", James Bond tracks a diamond-smuggling   
   >    pipeline from Las Vegas to New York to London to Paris and   
   >    finally to Freetown, the capital city of what African country?   
      
   Gabon   
      
   > 9. In "You Only Live Twice", James Bond pursues his revenge against   
   >    Blofeld and destroys his Garden of Death by causing a volcanic   
   >    eruption.  This takes place on what Island, the southernmost   
   >    of the four main islands of Japan?   
      
   Kyushu   
      
   > 10. Ian Fleming took the name James Bond from the author of a book   
   >    about the "Birds of..." what region of North America, surrounded   
   >    by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea?  The region   
   >    comprises 13 independent island countries and dependencies in   
   >    three archipelagos.   
      
   the Antilles   
      
   > ** Game 9, Round 10 - Challenge Round - Colors II: Color Harder   
      
   > * A. Literature   
      
   >    A1. In what 1877 Anna Sewell novel are Ginger and Rob Roy   
   >        the friend and brother, respectively, of the title character,   
   >        who works pulling cabs in Victorian-era London?   
      
   Black Beauty   
      
   >    A2. In what 1982 Alice Walker novel does Shug Avery tell Celie   
   >        that "I think it pisses God off if you walk by    
   >        in a field somewhere and don't notice it?"   
      
   The Color Purple   
      
   > * B. Science   
      
   >    B1. Verdigris ["VER-da-gree"] is a green layer that forms on   
   >        the surface of which metallic element as it corrodes?   
      
   copper   
      
   >    B2. Phenolphthalein ["PHEE-nol-ff-THAY-leen"] and litmus paper   
   >        are indicators that notably change color depending on what   
   >        property of the solution to which they are added?   
      
   acidity   
      
   > * C. Entertainment   
      
   >    C1. Jennie, Ros?, Lisa, and Jisoo are the four members of which   
   >        doubly-colorful K-pop girl group?   
      
   Blackpink   
      
   >    C2. Daniel Craig played the southern detective Benoit Blanc in a   
   >        2019 murder mystery movie and reprised the role in a   
   >        2022 sequel.  Name either film.   
      
   Knives Out   
      
   > * E. History   
      
   >    E1. In July 1985, the French government bombed the Rainbow   
   >        Warrior, a ship belonging to which global activist   
   >        organisation?   
      
   Greenpeace   
      
   >    E2. In 1969, Fred Hampton founded a multicultural movement called   
   >        the Rainbow Coalition in which city?  A year earlier, a DNC   
   >        in this city was disrupted by a group of men led by Abbie   
   >        Hoffman.   
      
   Chicago   
      
   > * F. Sports   
      
   >    F1. In NASCAR, a green flag is waved to signal the beginning   
   >        of a race while a checkered flag is waved to indicate   
   >        the end.  What does a white flag indicate during a race?   
      
   pit stop   
      
   >    F2. During each stage of the Tour de France, the current overall   
   >        leader typically wears a jersey of what color?   
      
   yellow   
      
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