From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On 7/31/2025 2:16 AM, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 10, Round 7 - Entertainment - Magic   
   >   
   > No, this round isn't about sorcery, but rather the performing art   
   > of magic.  Top hats and rabbits!  Abracadabra!   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   the prestige   
      
   > 3. Among magicians, a common technique in card magic is a Zarrow   
   >     shuffle.  How does a Zarrow shuffle differ from a regular   
   >     card shuffle?   
      
   it leaves the cards in the same order   
      
   > 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 acts   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 3. NBA all-time leader in points scored.   
      
   Kobe Bryant; Lebron James   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
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