From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 2/14/24 02:02, Mark Brader wrote:   
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   > * 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   
      
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   > 2. Name another Dashiell Hammett detective, played by William   
   >     Powell on the big screen and by Peter Lawford on TV.   
   >   
   > 3. Novelist Maureen Jennings created this detective, first played   
   >     on television by Peter Outerbridge.   
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   > 4. Lynda LaPlante wrote both the novel "Prime Suspect" and the   
   >     screenplay for the British TV mini-series.  Name her female   
   >     police-detective protagonist.   
   >   
   > 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.)   
   >   
   > 6. Name the Grantham, Ontario, private detective played in TV-movies   
   >     by Saul Rubinek.   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Sherlock Holmes   
      
   >   
   > 9. Two detectives figure prominently in P.D. James's fiction -- one   
   >     a poetry-writing policeman, one a London-based private detective.   
   >     Both have appeared in TV series.  Name either detective (no   
   >     need to say which).   
   >   
   > 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.   
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   >   
   > * 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.   
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   > 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?   
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 1, Round 6 - Science - What a Year it's Been!   
   >   
   > The following are among the top science stories of 2023.   
   >   
   > 1. Canadian Jeremy Hansen was tapped by NASA to be a part of its   
   >     mission to the moon.  What mission?  Include the sequence number   
   >     if applicable.   
      
   Artemis III   
      
   >   
   > 2. For the first time, the FDA has approved a gene-editing technique   
   >     to treat what blood disorder?   
      
   sickle cell anemia   
      
   >   
   > 3. Rocks and dust collected from an asteroid 2,000,000,000 km   
   >     away were brought back to earth in September.  Name *either*   
   >     the asteroid or the probe.   
      
   OSIRIS-REx   
      
   >   
   > 4. Name the submersible that imploded en route to a tour of the   
   >     Titanic.   
      
   Titan   
      
   >   
   > 5. In July, a moon lander surveyed the previously unexplored   
      
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