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   Erland Sommarskog to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCIWSS24 Game 10: Rounds 7-8: stag   
   01 Aug 25 00:02:16   
   
   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 10, Round 7 - Entertainment - Magic   
   >   
   > 7. Although Houdini practiced multiple types of stage magic, he   
   >    was best known for what physically intensive performing art,   
   >    typically either included within stage magic or closely   
   >    associated with it?   
      
   Breaking out of a closed container.   
      
   > 8. A magician has a long coil of rope on a stage.  The rope   
   >    begins levitating upwards, with no external support, until   
   >    it is out of the audience's view.  The magician then ascends   
   >    the rope.  The name of this trick involves a nationality,   
   >    although it appears the trick does not originate in that country.   
   >    Which country is this rope trick named for?   
      
   India   
      
   > * Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - Leaders   
   >   
   > Name them.   
   >   
   > 4. FIFA all-time leader in goals scored.   
      
   Christiano Ronaldo   
      
   > 9. NHL all-time leader in power-play goals and overtime goals.   
      
   Wayne Gretzky   
      
   > 10. International Tennis Federation leader in Grand Slam tournament   
   >    wins (two people tied, name either).   
      
   Margaret Court, Djokovic   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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