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   Dan Blum to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCISG24 Game 4, Rounds 7-8: war no   
   07 Nov 24 13:37:16   
   
   From: tool@panix.com   
      
   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 4, Round 7 - Literature - War Novels   
      
   > 1. "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy.   
      
   Napoleonic Wars   
      
   > 2. "Dr. Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak.   
      
   World War II   
      
   > 3. "The Winds of War" by Herman Wouk.   
      
   World War II   
      
   > 4. "The Short-Timers" by Gustav Hasford.   
      
   Vietnam War   
      
   > 5. "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell.   
      
   American Civil War   
      
   > 6. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway.   
      
   Spanish Civil War   
      
   > 7. "The Bridges at Toko-Ri" by James A. Michener.   
      
   World War II   
      
   > 8. "The Bridge on the River Kwai" by Pierre Boulle.   
      
   World War II   
      
   > 10. "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque.   
      
   World War I   
      
   > * Game 4, Round 8 - Geography - Straits   
      
   > 1. This strait separates the North and South Islands of New   
   >    Zealand, and connects the Tasman Sea with the South Pacific   
   >    Ocean.  It's named for the first European commander to sail   
   >    through it -- in 1770.   
      
   Cook Strait   
      
   > 2. The Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits, along with the Sea of   
   >    Marmara, collectively form a connection between which two seas?   
      
   Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea   
      
   > 5. What's the name of the strait which runs between the Persian   
   >    Gulf and the Gulf of Oman?  One of the world's most strategically   
   >    important waterways, it's bordered by Iran and Oman.   
      
   Strait of Hormuz   
      
   > 8. Name the strait that joins the Mediterranean and the Atlantic   
   >    Ocean   
      
   Pillars of Hercules   
      
   > 9. The Bering Strait runs between Russia's Chukchi Peninsula and   
   >    Alaska's Seward Peninsula, connecting the Pacific and Arctic   
   >    Oceans.  What was the nationality of the strait's namesake,   
   >    Vitus Bering, who entered it in 1728?   
      
   Danish   
      
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   Dan Blum					         tool@panix.com	   
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