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   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > ** Game 4, Round 9 - Sports - Baseball Worsts   
      
   > 3. Game 7 of the 1926 World Series was ended when a player was   
   >    caught stealing -- the only time in history a failed steal   
   >    has led to a World Series victory.  What legendary player got   
   >    picked off?   
      
   Babe Ruth   
      
   > 4. Please decode the rot13 for this question only after you have   
   >    finished with the previous one.  Fcrnxvat bs Onor Ehgu, va   
   >    1919 gur Obfgba Erq Fbk fbyq uvf pbagenpg gb gur Arj Lbex   
   >    Lnaxrrf sbe $100,000, naq Obfgba gura haqrejrag n yrtraqnel   
   >    Jbeyq Frevrf qebhtug bsgra pnyyrq "gur Phefr bs gur Onzovab".   
   >    Jvguva 1, ubj znal lrnef qvq gur Phefr bs gur Onzovab ynfg?   
      
   85   
      
   > 6. The Chicago White Sox now have the record for the worst season   
   >    in the modern baseball era (i.e. from 1901 onward).  However,   
   >    another team has the record for worst season of all time,   
   >    with a record of 20 wins and 134 losses.  Which team is it?   
   >    City and team name required.   
      
   Richmond Spiders   
      
   > ** Game 4, Round 10 - Challenge - Bears   
      
   > * A. Arty Bears   
      
   >    A1. Which Austrian composer's 82nd Symphony -- one of his six   
   >        Paris Symphonies -- is nicknamed the "Bear Symphony"?   
      
   Schubert   
      
   >    A2. "Head of a Bear" is a sketch that sold at auction in 2021   
   >        for 8,800,000 British pounds.  Which artist drew the sketch?   
      
   Picasso; Van Gogh   
      
   > * C. Da Bears (and Da Other Bears)   
      
   >    C1. In what stadium do the NFL's Chicago Bears play?   
      
   Soldier Field   
      
   > * D. Actual Bear Bears   
      
   >    D1. Variously cited as either the largest type of bear in the   
   >        world, or second-largest after the polar bear, is a certain   
   >        *subspecies* of brown bear.  What is it called?   
      
   Kodiak brown bear   
      
   >    D2. Only one species of bear is native to South America.   
   >        What is its name?   
      
   spectacled bear   
      
   > * E. Bear Markets   
      
   >    E1. The Panic of 1901 was a stock market crash, and a response   
   >        to what tragic event that happened that year?   
      
   assassination of William McKinley   
      
   >    E2. Two major American investment banks went bankrupt during   
   >        the 2008 financial crisis.  One of them was Bear Sterns.   
   >        Name the *other* one.   
      
   Lehmann Brothers   
      
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