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   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > ** Game 8, Round 9 - Literature - Shakespeare   
      
   > 1. William Shakespeare was the author or co-author of about   
   >    38 plays.  36 of them were published in a single book in 1623,   
   >    the first time this had been done.  That's twice as many as had   
   >    been individually published before, and the book also shows   
   >    many variations from those earlier versions, so it's very   
   >    important to literary historians.  By what description is the   
   >    book generally known?   
      
   First Folio   
      
   > 2. In , the plays are classified into three categories:   
   >    comedies, tragedies, and what else?   
      
   histories   
      
   > 3. In which tragedy would you find the characters Benvolio,   
   >    Mercutio, and Friar Laurence?   
      
   Romeo and Juliet   
      
   > 4. In which tragedy would you find the characters Goneril, Cordelia,   
   >    and Regan?   
      
   King Lear   
      
   > 5. In which comedy would you find the characters Rosalind, Orlando,   
   >    Celia, and Touchstone?   
      
   As You Like It   
      
   > 6. In which comedy would you find the characters Antipholus of   
   >    Ephesus, Antipholus of Syracuse, Dromio of Ephesus, and Dromio   
   >    of Syracuse?   
      
   All's Well That Ends Well   
      
   > 7. Which character has the most lines in *any one* of Shakespeare's   
   >    plays?   
      
   Hamlet   
      
   > 8. Which character has the most lines if *all* of Shakespeare's   
   >    plays are counted together?   
      
   Falstaff   
      
   > 9. In which of Shakespeare's plays are the remains of two of the   
   >    characters served to another character in the form of pie?   
      
   Titus Andronicus   
      
   > 10. In which of Shakespeare's plays does one of the characters   
   >    magically transform another character's head into the head of   
   >    an ass, which is to say, a donkey?   
      
   A Midsummer Night's Dream   
      
   > ** Game 8, Round 10 - Challenge Round   
      
   > * A. Geography: Passes   
      
   >    A1. The original route of the Trans-Canada Highway and the   
   >        first railway across the Canadian Rockies both cross the   
   >        Rockies using the same pass.  Name it.   
      
   Crows Nest Pass   
      
   >    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 Pass   
      
   > * 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   
      
   >    B2. The British do seem to love to commemorate their heroic   
   >        failures.  Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "The Charge of   
   >        the Light Brigade" celebrates a disastrous attack against   
   >        Russian troops, initiated accidentally by an unclear order,   
   >        during *what battle* of the Crimean War?   
      
   Balaclava   
      
   > * 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   
      
   >    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?   
      
   power cell   
      
   > * E. Leisure: Game Masters   
      
   >    E1. The following people have been known for their mastery   
   >        of what game?  Alexander Alekhine, Mikhail Botvinnik,   
   >        Jos? 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   
      
   > * F. Literature: Complete the Title   
      
   >    F1. Complete the title of this 1974 book by Robert Pirsig.   
   >        The main title will do; you don't need to give the subtitle.   
   >        "Zen and..."   
      
   the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance   
      
   >    F2. The main title of this 2007 book by Stephen Colbert   
   >        ["coal-BEAR"] is "I am America".  Give the 4-word subtitle --   
   >        punctuation marks not required.   
      
   And So Can You   
      
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