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   Erland Sommarskog to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCIMM24 Game 3, Rounds 4,6: eponym   
   14 Mar 24 06:28:58   
   
   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 3, Round 4 - Geography - Eponymous Products   
   >   
   > 4. This fortified dessert wine derives its name from the Atlantic   
   >    island where it is produced.  Its flavor comes from a distinctive   
   >    process of heat and aging, developed after the discovery that   
   >    long, turbulent ocean transport in the overheated hold of a   
   >    ship actually improved the flavor.  Name the liquor.   
      
   Madeira   
      
   > 6. When two European immigrants began to manufacture work pants in   
   >    19th-century America, they used the soft yet durable cotton   
   >    cloth named for the city of its original manufacture in southern   
   >    France.  Name the textile.   
      
   Denim   
      
   > 8. Though this seasonal fruit originally grew in southeast Asia,   
   >    it takes its name from the North African port from which it   
   >    was traditionally shipped to Europe.  Name the fruit.   
      
   Tangerine   
      
   > * Game 3, Round 6 - Science - Grammar   
   >   
   >  |  Antecedent           |  Gerund               |  Prefix   
   >  |  Apodosis             |  Misplaced modifier   |  Preposition   
   >  |  Apposition           |  Mood                 |  Protasis   
   >  |  Case                 |  Participle           |  Stem   
   >  |  Clause               |  Periphrasis          |  Tense   
   >  |  Cognate              |  Person               |  Transitive   
   >  |  Copula               |  Pleonasm             |  Voice   
   >  |  Demonstrative        |  Predicate   
   >   
   > 1. What do we call a noun derived from a verb and ending in -ing?   
   >    e.g., "Eating is a pleasure".   
      
   Gerund   
      
   > 2. Nominative ("he") and accusative ("him") are instances of what?   
      
   Case   
      
   > 3. What word describes an object related in form and meaning to   
   >    the verb that governs it? e.g., "Sing a song", "Dream a dream",   
   >    "See a sight."   
      
   Apposition   
      
   > 4. What is the "if" clause in a conditional sentence called?   
      
   Antededent   
      
   > 5. Active ("I shoot") and passive ("I am shot") are instances   
   >    of what?   
      
   Voice   
      
   > 6. Indicative and subjunctive are instances of what?   
      
   Mood   
      
   > 7. What fault is exemplified by this sentence from "Forbes"?   
   >    "Following the death of their grandmother, the passenger used   
   >    Air Canada's chatbot on the website to research flights which   
   >    suggested the passenger could apply for bereavement fares   
   >    retroactively."   
      
   Pleonasm   
      
   > 8. What fault is exemplified by the phrase "free gift"?   
      
   Misplaced modifier   
      
   > 9.  What do we call the noun for which a pronoun stands?   
   >    For instance, "Ralph" in the sentence, "Ask Ralph; he'll know."   
      
   Antecedent   
      
   > 10. A quotation attributed to Winston Churchill has him referring   
   >    to *what kind of word* and saying that objections to ending a   
   >    sentence with one were something up with which he would not put?   
      
   Preposition   
      
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