From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On 7/15/2025 10:23 PM, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 9, Round 7 - History - November 11   
   >   
   > While perhaps not as important as what occurred in 1918, here are   
   > 10 questions about *other* events on November 11 across the years.   
   >   
   > 1. November 11 is celebrated as Independence Day in two countries.   
   >     One is a European country which first celebrated its independence   
   >     in 1918; the other is an African country which first celebrated   
   >     it in 1975.  Name *either* country.   
      
   Angola; Djibouti   
      
   > 2. On 1975-11-11, what Commonwealth country experienced a   
   >     constitutional crisis when the Governor-General dismissed the   
   >     sitting government and appointed a new one?   
      
   Australia   
      
   > 3. In a hugely significant move, on 1992-11-11, the General Synod of   
   >     the Church of England voted to allow what for the first time   
   >     ever?   
      
   women priests   
      
   > 4. On 1675-11-11, German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz   
   >     demonstrated integral calculus, independently of whose   
   >     discoveries?   
      
   Isaac Newton   
      
   > 5. On 1572-11-11, this Danish astronomer observed the supernova   
   >     SN 1572, now named for him.   
      
   Tycho Brahe   
      
   > 6. On 1880-11-11, this bush ranger was hanged at Melbourne Gaol.   
      
   Ned Kelly   
      
   > 8. On 1831-11-11, this man was executed following his capture after   
   >     leading a 4-day rebellion of black people, both slaves and free,   
   >     in Virginia.   
      
   Nat Turner   
      
   > * Game 9, Round 8 - Science - Les Inventions Françaises   
   >   
   > As the Armistice ending World War I was signed in France, here   
   > are 10 questions about inventions and scientific discoveries by   
   > people of French descent.   
      
   > 3. This type of castle is a wooden or stone keep, situated on   
   >     a raised area of ground, accompanied by a walled courtyard, and   
   >     surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade.  Though built   
   >     across northern Europe from the 10th century onwards, some of   
   >     the earliest evidence for these structures is located in the   
   >     French regions of Normandy and Anjou.  By what phrase, exactly,   
   >     is this type of castle known?   
      
   motte and bailey   
      
   > 5. Name the first publicly available photographic process,   
   >     introduced in France in 1839, and widely used during the 1840s   
   >     and 1850s.  The word also refers to an image created through   
   >     this process.   
      
   daguerreotype   
      
   > 8. The aqualung was the first self-contained underwater breathing   
   >     apparatus (or "scuba") to achieve worldwide popularity and   
   >     commercial success.  It was invented in France during the   
   >     winter of 1942--43 by two Frenchmen: engineer Émile Gagnan,   
   >     and what man, a naval lieutenant at the time?   
      
   Cousteau   
      
   > 10. Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès invented "oleomargarine" in 1869 after   
   >     Napoleon III issued a challenge to create a butter substitute.   
   >     What was the principal raw material in the original, non-vegan   
   >     formulation of margarine?   
      
   beef tallow   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
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