From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 5, Round 7 - Geography - States, Provinces, and Regions   
   >   
   > 1. The first question is about Sinaloa.  Which country is it in?   
      
   Colombia   
      
   > 2. Zeeland.   
      
   The Netherlands   
      
   > 3. Otago.   
      
   The newer version of the previous question. That is, New Zealand.   
      
   > 4. Karnataka.   
      
   India   
      
   > 5. Busan.   
      
   South Korea   
      
   > 6. Piedmont.   
      
   Italy   
      
   > 7. Thuringia.   
      
   Germany   
      
   > 8. Isfahan.   
      
   Iran   
      
   > 9. Northern Mindanao.   
      
   The Phillipins   
      
   > 10. South Kalimantan.   
      
   Indonesia   
      
   > * Game 5, Round 8 - History - Historical Periods   
   >   
   > 3. In which country is the period from 1916 to '28 (or longer,   
   >    by some reckonings) known as "the Warlord Era"?   
      
   China   
      
   >   
   > 4. The Reconquista is the name applied to the centuries of warfare   
   >    between Spanish Christians and Moors that began in the 700s and   
   >    ended only with the capitulation of the last Muslim stronghold   
   >    in 1492.  What Andalusian city was the final bastion of Moorish   
   >    Spain?   
      
   Granada   
      
   > 5. What is the name given to the period of sectarian violence   
   >    in Northern Ireland that lasted from the late 1960s to the Good   
   >    Friday Agreement of 1998?   
      
   The Troubles   
      
   > 7. The Risorgimento is the name given to the 19th-century period   
   >    when the Italian peninsula became united as a nation for the   
   >    first time since the Roman era.  What revolutionary adventurer   
   >    was the military hero of this period?   
      
   Garibaldi   
      
   > 8. The French Second Empire was the period in which Baron Haussmann   
   >    created today's Paris of grand avenues and vistas by demolishing   
   >    much of the medieval city.  Who was the ruler of France during   
   >    the Second Empire?   
      
   Napoleon III   
      
   > 9. What is the informal name given to the period of modern German   
   >    history between the end of World War I and the rise to power   
   >    of Hitler?  It derives from the name of the picturesque city   
   >    which hosted the assembly that established the post-war German   
   >    government.   
      
   Weimar Republic   
      
   > 10. The career of William Shakespeare commenced in the Elizabethan   
   >    Era.  In which era of English regal history did it conclude?   
      
   The Tudors   
      
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