From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, February 14, 2024 at 4:02:19 AM UTC-6, Mark Brader wrote:   
       
   > * Game 1, Round 4 - Entertainment - Detectives from Page to Screen    
   >    
   > Each of the detectives we'll ask you to name exists both in print    
   > fiction and as a character in movies and/or on TV.    
   >    
   > 1. Who did Humphrey Bogart play in "The Maltese Falcon"?    
      
   Sam Spade   
       
   > 2. Name another Dashiell Hammett detective, played by William    
   > Powell on the big screen and by Peter Lawford on TV.    
      
   Nick Charles   
      
   > 5. Agatha Christie introduced this sleuth in the 1922 novel    
   > "The Secret Adversary". Her next appearance was in 1929's    
   > "Partners in Crime". She was portrayed on TV in the 1980s    
   > by Francesca Annis. (For this one either the first name or    
   > surname is sufficient.)    
      
   Marple   
       
   > 7. This police detective starred in 75 novels. He has been played    
   > in movies by Charles Laughton and Jean Gabin -- among others --    
   > and on television by Michael Gambon, Bruno Cremer, and Rowan    
   > Atkinson.    
      
   Maigret   
       
   > 8. Many actors have played this fictional sleuth on big screen and    
   > small, but Albert Finney is the only one to have earned a Best    
   > Actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal. The year of the    
   > movie is 1974. Name the detective.    
      
   Hercule Poirot   
      
   > 10. Novelist Ross Macdonald created this private detective and    
   > gave him one name; Paul Newman played the character twice under    
   > a different name. Give either name of this sleuth, but please    
   > specify books or movies.    
      
   Harper (in movies); Archer (in books)   
       
   > * Game 1, Round 5 - Audio - Hit Cover Songs    
   >    
   > Yes, it's an audio round without the audio, so you get three rounds    
   > in this set.    
   >    
   > All of the songs in this round are covers. In every case, the    
   > cover version achieved greater popular success than the original    
   > recording. For each song, we'll play the popular cover [okay,    
   > here I'll tell you the title], and you tell us the name of the    
   > original *songwriter* (or writers).    
   >    
   > 1. The composer of "Woodstock", the definitive song about that    
   > festival, declined an invitation to perform there, opting instead    
   > for an appearance on the "Dick Cavett Show". Crosby, Stills,    
   > Nash, and Young cranked up the volume and the tempo for their    
   > hit recording of the song. Who was the writer of the original,    
   > dreamier version?    
      
   Joni Mitchell   
       
   > 2. It's 1963. The Rolling Stones are about to undertake their    
   > first tour. Only problem is, they still don't have a hit song.    
   > Some buddies loaned them "I Wanna Be Your Man", which went to    
   > #12 on the charts. Who were the Stones' songwriting friends?    
      
   John Lennon & Paul McCartney   
      
   > 3. This funk artist was fond of writing songs for his protegees.    
   > But in this case, Chaka Khan just helped herself to the song    
   > "I Feel For You", which won her a Grammy and went to #1 on the    
   > Cashbox charts. Who was the songwriter?    
      
   Prince   
      
   > 4. David Bowie was another artist who liked to give away songs,    
   > but this time he flipped the script, borrowing the song "China    
   > Girl" from a buddy who was down on his luck and turning it into    
   > a #1 hit -- and perennial source of royalties. Who was Bowie's    
   > lucky songwriting pal?    
      
   Iggy Pop   
      
   > 5. The song "I Will Always Love You" actually went to #1 on the    
   > country charts twice for the original songwriter -- in 1974 and    
   > again in 1982 -- before Whitney Houston swooped down and turned    
   > it into the best-selling single of all time by a female artist.    
   > Name the songwriter.    
      
   Dolly Parton   
      
   > 6. "Me and Bobby McGee" was recorded 5 days before Janis Joplin's    
   > death, making it a rare example of a posthumous #1 hit, and    
   > an even rarer example of a #1 written by a Rhodes scholar.    
   > Name the songwriter.    
      
   Kris Kristofferson   
      
   > 7. The writer of "Fire" originally intended it as a gift for Elvis,    
   > but the King didn't live long enough to receive the tribute.    
   > Instead, it became one of the writer's concert standards.    
   > Apparently, he was nonplussed when the Pointer Sisters scored    
   > a worldwide #1 with this song, which he had yet to commit to    
   > vinyl himself. Name the songwriter.    
      
   Bruce Springsteen   
      
   > 8. This teenage wunderkind's first two albums yielded 6 top-10    
   > cover hits for artists including the Fifth Dimension, Three    
   > Dog Night, Barbra Streisand, and Blood, Sweat, and Tears.    
   > Ironically, the highest any of her own recordings ever reached    
   > on the charts was #43 -- and that was for her cover of a Carole    
   > King song. The song is "And When I Die". Name the songwriter.    
      
   Laura Nyro   
   (the above implies that Carole King wrote "And When I Die," but I'm pretty   
   sure Nyro herself wrote that song)   
      
   > 9. The 1967 original is a lugubrious lament to drinking-to-forget    
   > that stalled at #62 on the charts. The cover artists livened it    
   > up into a celebration of Bacchus that shot to #1. The writer    
   > of the song has since joined the party, now using UB40's ska    
   > arrangement when he performs his song live. The song is "Red,    
   > Red Wine". Name the songwriter/balladeer.    
      
   Neil Diamond   
      
   > 10. Talk about casual. "Until You Come Back to Me" was first    
   > recorded in 1967, but the songwriter didn't get around to putting    
   > it on an album till 1977. In the meantime, Aretha Franklin had    
   > scored a #1 hit with it. Four other performers have reached    
   > the top 100 with the song since then. Name the songwriter.    
      
   Stevie Wonder   
      
   > * Game 1, Round 6 - Science - What a Year it's Been!    
   >    
   > The following are among the top science stories of 2023.    
   >    
   > 5. In July, a moon lander surveyed the previously unexplored    
   > south pole of the moon, where frozen water reservoirs are    
   > believed to exist. *Which country* launched this moon lander?    
      
   China; India   
      
   > 6. 2023 saw a new record in Canada of land lost to wildfires --    
   > more than double the previous record set in what year, within    
   > four?    
      
   2018; 2009   
      
   > 7. In March, two teenage girls from New Orleans presented a new,    
   > trigonometric proof of what theorem?    
      
   Pythagorean theorem   
      
   > 9. Scientist Yoshua Bengio has won awards for his work on it,    
      
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