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   Dan Blum to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCISG24 Game 7, Rounds 7-8: a...ol   
   21 Dec 24 03:32:36   
   
   From: tool@panix.com   
      
   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 7, Round 7 - Science - "A" Fields of Study   
      
   > 1. What field is the study of winds?   
      
   alethiology   
      
   > 2. What field is the study of joints?   
      
   arthrology   
      
   > 3. What field is the study of ignorance?   
      
   agniology   
      
   > 4. What field is the study of the atmosphere?   
      
   aerology   
      
   > 5. What field is the study of the planet Mars?   
      
   areology   
      
   > 7. What is the subject of study of #24, apiology?   
      
   bees   
      
   > 8. What is the subject of study of #36, audiology?   
      
   hearing   
      
   > 9. What is the subject of study of #6, aerolithology?   
      
   meteors   
      
   > 10. What field is the study of truth, or the nature of truth?   
      
   axiology   
      
   > * Game 7, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Famous Prisons and Jails   
      
   > 1. This famous castle was founded in 1066, and it's estimated that   
   >    its main keep, the White Tower, was completed by 1100.  It was   
   >    used as a prison from 1100 to 1952, when the Kray twins were   
   >    the last prisoners kept here.  What's it called?   
      
   Tower of London   
      
   > 2. This fortress was built during the Hundred Years' War, and   
   >    was later used as a political prison by the kings of France.   
   >    It was stormed by revolutionaries in July 1789, and subsequently   
   >    demolished.  Name it.   
      
   Bastille   
      
   > 3. Hoa Lo prison was originally used by French colonists as a   
   >    political prison.  It was later notoriously used to hold   
   >    American POW's.  What is the sarcastic nickname this prison   
   >    was known by during the Vietnam War?   
      
   Hanoi Hilton   
      
   > 4. Nelson Mandela was this South African prison's most famous   
   >    inmate.  Name the prison where he was held for 18 of his 27   
   >    years' imprisonment.   
      
   Robben Island   
      
   > 5. The United States Disciplinary Barracks is the US only military   
   >    maximum security prison.  It's located at which army base   
   >    in Kansas?   
      
   Fort Leavenworth   
      
   > 6. The Ch?teau d'If is an island fortress offshore from Marseille,   
   >    and was used as a prison until the end of the 19th century.   
   >    Edmond Dant?s was imprisoned here in *which Alexandre Dumas   
   >    novel*, published in 1844?   
      
   The Count of Monte Cristo   
      
   > 7. This island prison in California closed in 1963, and is now a   
   >    tourist attraction.  Some of its most notorious inmates included   
   >    Al Capone and Machine Gun Kelly.  Name it.   
      
   Alcatraz   
      
   > 8. Name New York City's largest jail, located in the East River   
   >    in the Bronx.   
      
   Riker's Island   
      
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