From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > ** Game 8, Round 10 - Challenge Round   
   >   
   > * A. Geography: Passes   
   >   
   >    A2. Name the pass on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border that   
   >        has formed a vital part of trade routes since the days of   
   >        the ancient Silk Road.   
      
   Khyber   
      
   > * B. History: Failures   
   >   
   >    B1. In 1911, while Roald Amundsen's expedition was forging across   
   >        Antarctica to be first to reach the South Pole, a rival   
   >        British expedition began the same journey, with determination   
   >        that in their case exceeded their competence.  They too   
   >        reached the pole, about a month after Amundsen, but on the   
   >        way back they all died.  Who was the, uh, heroic(?) leader   
   >        of this ill-fated expedition?   
      
   Scott   
      
   > * C. Science: Batteries   
   >   
   >    C1. According to its nominal rating, a standard alkaline battery,   
   >        such as size AAA, generates how many volts of eletricity?   
      
   1.5 V   
      
   >    C2. In etymologically correct technical language that size AAA   
   >        alkaline battery isn't a "battery" at all, as that word   
   >        refers to a combination of two or more of them.  Before the   
   >        word "battery" got established as common usage, what were   
   >        we supposed to call just one of the things?   
      
   Battery cell   
      
   > * D. Miscellaneous: Political Terms   
   >    D2. What is it called when one party gets to adjust the   
   >        electoral-district boundaries and uses this power to improve   
   >        their own future chances?   
      
   Gerrymandering. Well, that is in the US. Don't know what you call it   
   when it happens in Toronto.   
      
   > * E. Leisure: Game Masters   
   >   
   >    E1. The following people have been known for their mastery   
   >        of what game?  Alexander Alekhine, Mikhail Botvinnik,   
   >        José Capablanca, Magnus Carlsen, Anatoly Karpov, Mikhail Tal.   
      
   Chess   
      
   >    E2. The following people have been known for their mastery of   
   >        what game?  Easley Blackwood, Ely Culbertson, Charles Goren,   
   >        Oswald Jacoby, Alan Truscott, Zia Mahmood.   
      
   Contract bridge   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)