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   Erland Sommarskog to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCISG24 Game 3, Rounds 4,6: prison   
   14 Oct 24 23:38:06   
   
   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 3, Round 4 - Literature - Prison Writers   
   >   
   > 5. This Russian author spent 4 years of hard labor in a Siberian   
   >    prison camp, from 1849 to 1853.  His book "The House of the Dead"   
   >    was among the first to tell Russians about life in a labor camp.   
   >    Name him.   
      
   Dostoyevsky   
      
   > 7. Who wrote "Long Walk to Freedom", about his 28 years in a South   
   >    African prison?   
      
   Nelson Mandela   
      
   > * Game 3, Round 6 - Geography - Americas Extremes   
   >   
   > Questions #1-4 are about US cities with more than 1,000,000   
   > residents (in the city proper, *not* the metropolitan area)   
   > according to the 2020 census.   
   >   
   > 1. Which one is the westernmost?   
      
   San Francisco   
      
   > 2. Which one is the easternmost?   
      
   Boston   
      
   > 3. Which one is the northernmost?   
      
   Detroit   
      
   > 4. And which one is the southernmost?   
      
   San Antonio   
      
   > 5. In which US state would you find the northernmost point in the   
   >    "lower 48" (contiguous) states?   
      
   Minnesota   
      
   > 6. The northernmost point in Canada is Cape Columbia, on *what   
   >    island* in Nunavut?   
      
   Ellesmere   
      
   > 7. The southernmost point in Canada is Middle Island, located in   
   >    *which of the Great Lakes*?   
      
   Lake Huron   
      
   > 9. In which *country* would you find Cape Froward, the southernmost   
   >    point on the South American mainland?   
      
   Cihle :-)   
      
   > 10. The northernmost point on the South American mainland is Punta   
   >    Gallinas, in which country?   
      
   Venezuela   
      
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