From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 9/14/23 08:39, 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?   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > 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?   
      
   Sierra Leone   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Lesser Antilles   
      
   >   
   >   
   > ** Game 9, Round 10 - Challenge Round - Colors II: Color Harder   
   >   
   > We had enough questions for another challenge round of   
   > color-adjacent questions, so let's do it again!   
   >   
   > * 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?   
   >   
   >     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, Rosé, Lisa, and Jisoo are the four members of which   
   >         doubly-colorful K-pop girl group?   
   >   
   >     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.   
   >   
   >   
   > * D. Canadiana   
   >   
   >     D1. If someone was at Greenwood subway station, which TTC subway   
   >         line would they be on?   
   >   
   >     D2. On the map of the TTC, what color is used to represent   
   >         Line 3, the Scarborough Line?   
   >   
   >   
   > * 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?   
      
   end of caution   
      
   >   
   >     F2. During each stage of the Tour de France, the current overall   
   >         leader typically wears a jersey of what color?   
      
   yellow   
      
   --   
   Dan Tilque   
      
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