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   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 10, Round 7 - Entertainment - Magic   
      
   > 1. Traditionally there are three elements of any magic trick.   
   >    The first is the "pledge", where a seemingly ordinary object is   
   >    shown to the audience.  The second is the "turn", where something   
   >    extraordinary appears to happen to the object.  The third is   
   >    where the object is once again "confirmed" to be ordinary.   
   >    What is that element called?  It is also the title of a 2006   
   >    movie directed by Christopher Nolan.   
      
   prestige   
      
   > 2. Harry Houdini once stated that nobody could be considered an   
   >    accomplished magician if they had not mastered one particular   
   >    category of trick, since that trick involves both the basic   
   >    fundamental skills and effects of magic: for skills it uses   
   >    sleight of hand, misdirection, and audience management, and for   
   >    effects it can utilize vanishing, appearance, transposition, and   
   >    transformation.  What is the common name for this type of trick?   
      
   card trick   
      
   > 4. What is the term for using sleight of hand to conceal an item   
   >    within one's hand?  When done properly, the audience believes   
   >    the hand is empty while it is in fact holding the concealed item.   
      
   palming   
      
   > 5. What is the term for the branch of magic which makes the   
   >    audience believe the performer has telepathic, mind-reading,   
   >    or predictive powers?   
      
   mentalism   
      
   > 6. Many practitioners of , along with psychics and   
   >    fortune-tellers, use a technique to quickly obtain a great deal   
   >    of basic information about a person via visual observations   
   >    about the person's appearance and manner of speech, and then   
   >    "creating" more knowledge via high-probability guesses and   
   >    confirming the correctness of those guesses by observing body   
   >    language.  What is this technique called?   
      
   cold reading   
      
   > 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?   
      
   escape artistry   
      
   > 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   
      
   > 9. Another staple of magic tied to a nationality are the linking   
   >    rings, but unlike the rope trick, this one *was* invented in   
   >    the country they are named for.  What country?   
      
   China   
      
   > * Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - Leaders   
      
   > 3. NBA all-time leader in points scored.   
      
   Jordan   
      
   > 5. MLB all-time leader in runs batted in.   
      
   Rose   
      
   > 9. NHL all-time leader in power-play goals and overtime goals.   
      
   Gretzky   
      
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   Dan Blum					         tool@panix.com	   
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