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   Message 31,967 of 32,813   
   Joshua Kreitzer to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCIMM24 Game 3, Rounds 7-8: Newfie   
   17 Mar 24 12:16:49   
   
   From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On 3/17/2024 5:25 AM, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 3, Round 7 - Canadiana Entertainment - Talented Newfoundlanders   
   >   
   > This round asks you to identify some Newfoundlanders celebrated   
   > for their achievements in broadcasting and the arts.   
   >   
   > 6. Model, TV actress, and star of soft-core erotica.  She first   
   >     attracted notice as "Playboy"'s Playmate of the Year in 1982, and   
   >     has a reality-TV life as the wife of Kiss bassist Gene Simmons.   
      
   Shannon Tweed   
      
   > * Game 3, Round 8 - Literature - Foreign Language Lit   
   >   
   > Great books come in all languages.  We give you three titles   
   > in English, and you tell us the language all three books were   
   > originally written in.  Answers do not repeat.   
   >   
   > 1. "Z"; "The Last Temptation of Christ"; "Axion Esti".   
      
   Greek   
      
   > 2. "The Art of War"; "Red Sorghum"; "Journey to the West".   
      
   Chinese   
      
   > 3. "My Brilliant Friend"; "The Leopard"; "The Periodic Table".   
      
   Italian   
      
   > 4. "The Master and Margarita"; "And Quiet Flows the Don"; "We".   
      
   Russian   
      
   > 5. "The Reader"; "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer"; "The Castle".   
      
   German   
      
   > 6. "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands"; "Blindness"; "The Alchemist".   
      
   Portuguese   
      
   > 7. "Miss Julie"; "The Laughing Policeman"; "Pippi in the South   
   >     Seas".   
      
   Swedish   
      
   > 8. "The House of Spirits"; "Labyrinths"; "Chronicle of a Death   
   >     Foretold".   
      
   Spanish   
      
   > 9. "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle"; "Snow Country"; "The Woman in   
   >     the Dunes".   
      
   Danish; Dutch   
      
   > 10. "The Good Soldier Schweik"; "The Unbearable Lightness of Being";   
   >     "R.U.R."   
      
   Czech   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
   gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
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