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   Erland Sommarskog to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCIWSS24 Game 9: Rounds 2-3: battl   
   08 Jul 25 20:58:04   
   
   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 9, Round 2 - Geography - Battlegrounds   
   >   
   > 3. 1815: a town in what is now the province of Walloon Brabant   
   >    in Belgium.   
      
   Waterloo   
      
   > 4. 1916: a river in Picardy in northern France, and specifically   
   >    the portion of it due east of Amiens.   
      
   Marne   
      
   > 6. 480 BC: a narrow mountain pass and nearby town in central Greece,   
   >    located near hot springs.   
      
   Marathon   
      
   > 7. 1415: a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department of Northern   
   >    France.   
      
   Agincourt   
      
   > 8. 1950: a port city in South Korea of 3,000,000 people.   
      
   Pusan (to use the spelling that was current at the time)   
      
   > 9. 2022: the capital city of the 3rd-most populous province of   
   >    Ukraine, which shares its name with the city.   
      
   Kharkiv   
      
   > 10. 1066: a small seaside town in East Sussex on the southern   
   >    coast of England.   
      
   Hastings   
      
   > * Game 9, Round 3 - Entertainment - Traveling Bandmates   
   >   
   > 5. The Yardbirds, Derek and the Dominoes, Cream.   
      
   Eric Clapton   
      
   > 6. Jane's Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Panic Channel.   
      
   Flea   
      
   > 7. Electric Light Orchestra, Move, the Traveling Wilburys.   
      
   Jeff Lynne   
      
   > 8. Long John Baldry and the All Stars, the Jeff Beck Group, Faces.   
      
   Rod Stewart   
      
   > 9. Crosby Stills Nash & Young, the Mynah Birds, Buffalo Springfield.   
      
   David Crosby   
      
   > 10. Plastic Ono Band, Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, the Traveling   
   >    Wilburys.   
      
   Roy Orbison   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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