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   Dan Blum to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCIWSS24 Game 9: Rounds 2-3: battl   
   09 Jul 25 03:26:14   
   
   From: tool@panix.com   
      
   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 9, Round 2 - Geography - Battlegrounds   
      
   > 1. 1942-1943: the largest island in the Solomon Islands, covered   
   >    in tropical rainforest.   
      
   Guadalcanal   
      
   > 2. 1781: a county seat in Virginia on the Atlantic Coast.   
      
   Yorktown   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Somme   
      
   > 5. 1862: a tributary of the Potomac River in Maryland, or a small   
   >    town in Maryland near the border of West Virginia (either   
   >    name acceptable).   
      
   Antietam   
      
   > 6. 480 BC: a narrow mountain pass and nearby town in central Greece,   
   >    located near hot springs.   
      
   Thermopylae   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Inchon; Pusan   
      
   > 10. 1066: a small seaside town in East Sussex on the southern   
   >    coast of England.   
      
   Hastings   
      
   > * Game 9, Round 3 - Entertainment - Traveling Bandmates   
      
   > 4. Nirvana, the Crooked Vultures, Foo Fighters.   
      
   Dave Grohl   
      
   > 5. The Yardbirds, Derek and the Dominoes, Cream.   
      
   Eric Clapton   
      
      
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   Dan Blum					         tool@panix.com	   
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