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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   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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