From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 12:54:30 AM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 1, Round 4 - Sports - And in Last Place    
   >    
   > In each case name the team.    
   >    
   > 1. While exact information is not available, in its first 63 years    
   > of operation this professional team won maybe 3 games, and lost    
   > about 16,000 games.    
      
   Washington Generals   
      
   > 3. The worst record in major-league baseball since World War II    
   > belongs to this National League team in 1962, when they won    
   > 40 games and lost 120. Jimmy Breslin's book about that season    
   > was titled "Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?"    
      
   New York Mets   
       
   > 6. In the 1976 NFL season, this team lost all 14 games. Despite    
   > their location, they were then playing in the AFC West Division.    
   > Their head coach was John McKay and their primary quarterback    
   > was Steve Spurrier.    
      
   Tampa Bay Buccaneers   
      
   > * Game 1, Round 6 - Literature - The Title Character    
   >    
   > In each case we will name a book whose title refers to a specific    
   > character, and you must name *that character*. For example, we say    
   > "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien, and you say Sauron.    
   > In some cases the character's first name will do, but we won't    
   > tell you which questions. Note that the title character is not    
   > necessarily the lead character of the book.    
   >    
   > 1. "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien.    
      
   Bilbo Baggins   
      
   > 2. "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway.    
      
   Santiago   
      
   > 3. "Rabbit, Run" by John Updike.    
      
   Angstrom   
      
   > 4. "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov.    
      
   Dolores Haze   
      
   > 6. "The Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare.    
      
   Antonio   
       
   > 7. "Lady Chatterley's Lover" by D.H. Lawrence. We want the second    
   > title character, of course.    
      
   Mellors   
      
   > 8. "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling    
   > ["Rolling"]. We want the second title character, of course.    
      
   Nicolas Flamel   
      
   > 10. "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein.    
      
   Valentine   
       
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   Joshua Kreitzer   
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