From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 10/6/23 23:21, Mark Brader wrote:   
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   >   
   > I wrote one of these rounds.   
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   > * Game 1, Round 7 - Entertainment - One-Word Movie Titles   
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   > We give a short description, and you give the one-word movie title.   
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   > 1. An unknown gets a shot at the heavyweight boxing championship.   
      
   Rocky   
      
   > 2. From a novel subtitled "a novel about three army doctors".   
      
   MASH   
      
   > 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.   
   > 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   
      
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   >   
   > * Game 1, Round 8 - History - 1809   
   >   
   > If you write dates numerically in a certain style that is very   
   > common in Britain and also sometimes used in Canada, today is the   
   > 18th of September or 18/09.  Therefore, here is a round about 1809.   
   >   
   > The year, that is.   
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   > 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   
      
   >   
   > 2. Meanwhile on another peninsula, France completed its invasion   
   >     and annexation of the Papal States.  How did Pope Pius VII   
   >     react to this?   
      
   excommunicated Napoleon   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Charles Darwin   
      
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   > 4. On June 8 the author of the 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense" died.   
   >     Name him.   
      
   Thomas Paine   
      
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   > 5. Name either the US president whose term ended in 1809, or the   
   >     one who succeeded him.   
      
   James Madison   
      
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   > 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   
      
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   > 7. Robert Fulton received his first US patent in 1809, for what   
   >     invention?   
      
   steamboat   
      
   >   
   > 8. Please decode the rot13 for this question only after you have   
   >     finished with the previous one.  Meanwhile in Lower Canada,   
   >     a steamboat financed by John Molson made its maiden voyage.   
   >     Name either the starting point of the trip, or the endpoint.   
      
   Quebec City; Trois-Rivieres   
      
   >   
   > 9. In 1809 the governor of the Louisiana Territory was either   
   >     murdered or committed suicide, but it's not clear which.   
   >     He was previously known as an explorer.  Name him.   
      
   Meriwether Lewis   
      
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   > 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.   
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