From: tool@panix.com   
      
   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 1, Round 7 - Entertainment - One-Word Movie Titles   
      
   > 1. An unknown gets a shot at the heavyweight boxing championship.   
      
   Rocky   
      
   > 2. From a novel subtitled "a novel about three army doctors".   
      
   M*A*S*H   
      
   > 3. A strange creature attacks the crew of the spaceship Nostromo.   
      
   Alien   
      
   > 4. The daily lives of mobsters in New York.   
      
   Goodfellas   
      
   > 5. A former policeman suffers from acrophobia.   
      
   Vertigo   
      
   > 6. The life and times of the former first lady of Argentina.   
      
   Evita   
      
   > 7. The lives of music-hall performers in pre-Nazi Berlin.   
      
   Cabaret   
      
   > 8. A sheriff in a small town uncovers murder and kidnapping in   
   >    the snow.   
      
   Fargo   
      
   > 9. An alien creature comes to Earth to do a little hunting.   
      
   Predator   
      
   > 10. Remade several times.  In the original a prehistoric creature   
   >    attacks Tokyo.   
      
   Godzilla   
      
   > * Game 1, Round 8 - History - 1809   
      
   > 1. In 1809 Napoleon's French Empire was at war with several other   
   >    countries.  Name any one of the countries that the French were   
   >    fighting in the Peninsular War.   
      
   United Kingdom   
      
   > 3. On February 12, about 4,000 miles apart, there were born a   
   >    future scientist and a future politician, both of whose fame   
   >    still endures today.  Name either one.   
      
   Abraham Lincoln   
      
   > 4. On June 8 the author of the 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense" died.   
   >    Name him.   
      
   Thomas Paine   
      
   > 5. Name either the US president whose term ended in 1809, or the   
   >    one who succeeded him.   
      
   Thomas Jefferson   
      
   > 6. Washington Irving's first major book was published in 1809 under   
   >    the pseudonym of "Diedrich Knickerbocker".  It was a satirical   
   >    history of what city?   
      
   New York City   
      
   > 7. Robert Fulton received his first US patent in 1809, for what   
   >    invention?   
      
   steamboat   
      
   > 10. This Austrian composer of over 100 symphonies died in Vienna in   
   >    1809.  The Requiem by his friend Mozart was played at his   
   >    funeral.  Name him.   
      
   Schubert   
      
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