From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 1/22/24 04:03, Mark Brader wrote:   
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   >   
   > * Game 9, Round 7 - Sports - Defunct NHL Franchise Locations   
   >   
   > An NHL team is not always a big money-maker for itself or its city.   
   > Although the league has had periods of stability, there have also   
   > been many times when teams decamped for greener pastures or just   
   > failed outright.  In each case, we give you a team's name, and   
   > you identify the city (or other place name) that it represented   
   > when it had that name.   
   >   
   > Please be careful with the table-talk, as some teams and cities   
   > have managed to fail more than once and may appear twice in this   
   > round under different names; also, some teams have the same name   
   > as a team in another league, or have themselves played in another   
   > league at some time.  This round is only talking about the NHL.   
   >   
   > 1. Seals, also called the Golden Seals.   
   > 2. Barons.   
   > 3. Pirates.   
   > 4. Quakers.   
   > 5. Rockies.   
   > 6. Thrashers.   
   > 7. Tigers.   
   > 8. Americans.   
   > 9. Nordiques.   
      
   Quebec City   
      
   > 10. Jets.   
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   >   
   > * Game 9, Round 8 - Entertainment - Their Only Acting Oscar   
   >   
   > For the benefit of any teams that need to make up a lot of points   
   > -- or of people who wish we had more freedom to keep things more   
   > interesting by asking occasionally for two-part answers --   
   > *Rounds 8 and 9 of this game will each be bonus rounds.*   
   >   
   > Each question on these rounds will ask for two facts.  If you give   
   > one of them, you get the regular score, but if you give both, you   
   > get a 2-point bonus.  Warning: if you try for the bonus and fail to   
   > get both facts right, then your answer is wrong.   
   >   
   > If making two guesses, you may try for the bonus on either or both.   
   > Please make it explicit how you are answering.   
   >   
   > On this round, each question is about a person who has *only once*   
   > won an Oscar for acting and it was either Best Actor or Best   
   > Actress, no supporting roles.  We will tell you the decade when   
   > the relevant movie was released, and we'll list several *other*   
   > roles played by the same person through their career.   
   >   
   > *No points for naming the person.*  The two facts we're asking   
   > for are the name of the *movie* they won the Oscar for, and the   
   > name of their *character* in the movie.  For your normal score,   
   > name either one; for the bonus, name both.   
   >   
   > 1. He also played Rhett Butler, sailor Fletcher Christian, and bar   
   >     owners Blackie Norton and Blackie Gallagher; but he won Best   
   >     Actor for a 1930s movie.  To repeat, for normal score, either   
   >     name the *movie* he won for, or his *character* in the movie;   
   >     for the bonus, name both.   
   >   
   > 2. He also played sales executive C.R. MacNamara, outlaws Cody   
   >     Jarrett and Jim Kincaid, and police commissioner Rhinelander   
   >     Waldo; but he won Best Actor for a 1940s movie.   
   >   
   > 3. He also played naval officer Philip Queeg, bar owner Rick Blaine,   
   >     and detectives Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade; but he won Best   
   >     Actor for a 1950s movie.   
   >   
   > 4. He also played newsmen Joe Bradley and Phil Schuyler Green,   
   >     commando Keith Mallory, and sea captain Ahab; but he won Best   
   >     Actor for a 1960s movie.   
   >   
   > 5. She also played Evelyn Mulwray, Bonnie Parker, Joan Crawford,   
   >     and Serena Joy; but she won Best Actress for a 1970s movie.   
   >   
   > 6. He also played Billy the Kid, Nobel-winning author Andrew Craig,   
   >     General Leslie Groves, and lawyer Frank Galvin; but he won Best   
   >     Actor for a 1980s movie.   
   >   
   > 7. She also played Emma Woodhouse, Margot Tenenbaum, reporter Polly   
   >     Perkins, and assistant Pepper Potts; but she won Best Actress   
   >     for a 1990s movie.   
   >   
   > 8. He also played Jor-El, policeman Bud White, boxer Jim Braddock,   
   >     and naval captain Jack Aubrey.  But he won Best Actor for a   
   >     2000s movie.  (That means 2000-09.)   
   >   
   > 9. He also played Howard Hughes, Amsterdam Vallon, Jack Dawson,   
   >     and Frank Abagnale ["AB-ag-nail"] Jr.; but he won Best Actor   
   >     for a 2010s movie.   
   >   
   > 10. Oops, we ran out of complete decades during the time that Oscars   
   >     have existed.  Okay, this person won Best Actress for *either*   
   >     a 1920s or a 2020s movie, but we won't tell you which.  She also   
   >     played Maya Harris, Molly Bloom, Melissa Lewis, and Murph Cooper.   
   >   
      
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   Dan Tilque   
      
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