From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 5:22:04 PM UTC-6, Mark Brader wrote:   
       
   > ** Game 6, Round 9 - Sports - The Olympics    
   >    
   > 1. Canada's early dominance in hockey, or ice hockey as they call    
   > it, at the Olympic games was interrupted in 1936 when what    
   > country won the gold medal?    
      
   Sweden; Germany   
       
   > 2. What athlete won gold in the discus in four consecutive Olympics?    
      
   Oerter   
      
   > 3. In the 1932 Olympics, both the Lake Placid and the Los Angeles    
   > games, *what special privilege* was granted to Italian and French    
   > athletes?    
      
   drinking wine   
      
   > 4. The 1976 Winter Olympics were held in Innsbruck after which    
   > originally scheduled city withdrew as the host?    
      
   Denver   
      
   > 5. The city originally scheduled for the 1940 Summer Olympics also    
   > withdrew, and another host city was chosen before the games    
   > were canceled outright. Name either city.    
      
   Sapporo   
      
   > 7. In 1968, in *what event* did Bob Beamon set a record that still    
   > stands as an Olympic record, although no longer as a world    
   > record?    
      
   long jump; high jump   
       
   > 8. Due to Australia's animal-quarantine laws, the 1956 equestrian    
   > events were not held in Melbourne. In what *country* were    
   > they held?    
      
   Sweden   
      
   > 9. Who proudly boasted that his city's Olympic games could no more    
   > have a deficit than a man could have a baby?    
      
   Pierre Trudeau (?)   
      
   > 10. New competitions of special interest to Canadians were    
   > introduced in the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics: one new sport    
   > and one new event in an existing sport. Name *either*.    
      
   curling   
      
   > ** Game 6, Round 10 - Challenge Round    
   >    
   > * A. History: The French Republic    
   >    
   > A1. As we mentioned earlier, the first republic of France was    
   > formed in 1792. Since then the government has reformed    
   > its constitution so many times that it is now what number    
   > republic?    
      
   Fifth   
      
   > A2. The  Republic introduced a strong presidential    
   > position in addition to a prime minister. Which leader    
   > backed the constitutional change and became its first    
   > president?    
      
   Charles De Gaulle   
      
   > * C. Geography: They're Number 2    
   >    
   > C1. By area, the largest fresh-water lake in the world is    
   > Lake Superior. Which one is number 2?    
      
   Lake Huron   
       
   > C2. Measuring by the hydrologically appropriate course and    
   > including tributaries, the longest river in the world is    
   > the Nile. Which one is number 2?    
      
   Amazon River   
      
   > * D. Science: One Million    
   >    
   > D1. 1 million watts equals one of which unit?    
      
   megawatt   
      
   > D2. 1 million megawatts equals one of which unit?    
      
   terawatt (?)   
      
   > * F. Literature: Poetry    
   >    
   > Name the poet who wrote each of the following selections.    
   >    
   > F1. "Because I could not stop for Death --    
   > He kindly stopped for me".    
      
   Dickinson   
       
   > F2. "Let us go then, you and I,    
   > When the evening is spread out against the sky    
   > Like a patient etherized upon a table".    
      
   Eliot   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
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