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   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Gane 8, Round 2 - History - Guy Fawkes Day   
      
   > 1. The Gunpowder Plot -- the plot Guy Fawkes was a part of --   
   >    was a plot to kill the ruler of England in 1605.  Who was that?   
   >    Name and number required if applicable.   
      
   James I   
      
   > 3. The Gunpowder Plot was so named because a large amount of   
   >    gunpowder was to be used to blow up the place where    
   >    would be.  What place was that?  Be fully specific.   
      
   Palace of Westminster   
      
   > 4. Guy Fawkes Day -- although it was not yet called that -- was   
   >    first celebrated in 1606 following an Act of Parliament calling   
   >    for celebrations on the anniversary of the failed assassination   
   >    attempt.  What did the Act specifically require for celebrations?   
      
   burning an effigy of Fawkes   
      
   > 6. Please decode the rot13 for questions #6-7 only after you have   
   >    finished with the previous ones.  Bayl bar cebivapr va Pnanqn   
   >    fgvyy frrf jvqrfcernq pryroengvba bs Thl Snjxrf Qnl.  Va juvpu   
   >    cebivapr ner obasverf fgvyy pbzzbayl yvg ba Abirzore 5?   
      
   Nova Scotia; British Columbia   
      
   > 7. Thl Snjxrf Qnl obasverf genqvgvbanyyl vapyhqr na rssvtl bs Thl   
   >    Snjxrf, ohg fvapr nagv-Pngubyvpvfz unf qvrq qbja va Terng Oevgnva   
   >    bire gur lrnef, Thl Snjxrf Qnl pryroengvbaf abj bsgra srngher   
   >    rssvtvrf bs bgure pheerag pryroevgvrf pnhtug hc va fpnaqny.   
   >    Va 2012, znal rssvtvrf jrer bs *juvpu cebsrffvbany plpyvfg*?   
      
   Lance Armstrong   
      
   > 8. Complete this traditional rhyme (exact wording not essential):   
      
   >    Remember, remember the 5th of November,   
   >    Gunpowder Treason and Plot...   
      
   I see no reason   
   why the Gunpowder Treason   
   should ever be forgot   
      
   > 9. The Guy Fawkes mask most commonly seen now was created first   
   >    for a comic book in the 1980s about a rebel in a dystopic,   
   >    fascist future Britain, which was then adapted into a 2005 movie   
   >    starring Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving.  What was the title   
   >    of that comic and movie?   
      
   V for Vendetta   
      
   > 10. The Guy Fawkes mask was adopted by which political/hacktivist   
   >    group as their symbol?   
      
   Anonymous   
      
   > * Gane 8, Round 3 - Entertainment - British Crime Shows   
      
   > 5. This series, airing intermittently from 1987 through 2000,   
   >    and starring John Thaw, is considered by many to be the greatest   
   >    British crime series ever made.   
      
   Inspector Morse   
      
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