From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, December 24, 2023 at 3:00:54 AM UTC-6, Mark Brader wrote:   
       
   > * Game 7, Round 7 - Geography - World City Names    
   >    
   > We give the usual name of a city in English; you give its actual    
   > name in the local language. In the original game a close-enough    
   > pronunciation would have been sufficient, but here you must give    
   > the exact spelling of the answer using our alphabet (you may omit    
   > accent marks, but if you give them they must be correct).    
   >    
   > 1. Vienna, Austria.    
      
   Wien   
      
   > 2. Naples, Italy.    
      
   Napoli   
      
   > 3. The Hague, Netherlands.    
      
   Den Haag   
      
   > 4. Munich, Germany.    
      
   Munchen   
      
   > 5. Moscow ["MOSS-cow" or "MOSS-koe"], Russia.    
      
   Moskva   
      
   > 6. Lisbon, Portugal.   
      
   Lisboa   
       
   > 7. Prague, Czechia.    
      
   Praha   
      
   > 8. Cologne, Germany.    
      
   Koln   
      
   > 9. Brussels, Belgium. Give *either* the French or the Dutch name --    
   > you need not say which.    
      
   Bruxelles   
      
   > 10. Geneva, Switzerland. Give *either* the French or the German    
   > name -- you need not say which.    
      
   Geneve   
      
   > * Game 7, Round 8 - History - US Presidents by Middle Name    
   >    
   > A simple round: we say David, for example, and you say Dwight    
   > Eisenhower. Or just Eisenhower will be sufficient unless another    
   > president has the same surname.    
   >    
   > 1. Birchard.    
      
   Rutherford Hayes   
      
   > 2. Henry.    
      
   William Harrison   
      
   > 3. John.    
      
   Donald Trump   
      
   > 4. Hussein.    
      
   Barack Obama   
      
   > 5. Gamaliel ["ga-MAY-lee-ell"].   
      
   Warren Harding   
       
   > 6. Robinette.    
      
   Joseph Biden   
      
   > 7. Baines.   
      
   Lyndon Johnson   
       
   > 8. Milhous ["MILL-house"].   
      
   Richard Nixon   
       
   > 9. Jefferson.   
      
   William Clinton   
       
   > 10. Wilson.    
      
   Ronald Reagan   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
   (nicknames can look wrong when combined with middle names)   
   gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)