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   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > ** Game 11, Round 9 - History - Outlaws   
      
   > 1. Harry Longabaugh ["LONG-a-bow"] developed a reputation for   
   >    being a skilled gunfighter during his time with the Wild Bunch   
   >    and the Hole-In-The-Wall Gang, but you probably know him better   
   >    by his alias.  Who is he better known as?   
      
   Sundance Kid   
      
   > 2. Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, the only mob boss in American history   
   >    to receive the death penalty, is remembered primarily for running   
   >    a mob with one purpose: being hired by other crime syndicates   
   >    for assassinations.  The group was responsible for as many as   
   >    1,000 contract killings.  What was it called?   
      
   Murder Inc.   
      
   > 3. Buchalter was the primary boss of , but he was only a   
   >    sub-boss when it was founded by another prominent Jewish mobster,   
   >    who then expanded the Mob into Las Vegas.  Legend has it that   
   >    the reason the Mob whacked him in 1947 was because he spent   
   >    too much money on the Flamingo Hotel.  Who was he?   
      
   Bugsy Siegel   
      
   > 4. The first documented American serial killer, with at least 9   
   >    confirmed victims between 1890 and 1894, claimed to have   
   >    killed many more in a confession which he sold to newspapers   
   >    for thousands of dollars.  However, his claims -- including the   
   >    "Murder Hotel", designed to let him kill guests in their sleep --   
   >    were mostly fabrications.  Who was he?   
      
   Holmes   
      
   > 7. The first person to be declared the FBI's "Public Enemy #1"   
   >    was this bank robber, who robbed 24 banks and 4 police stations,   
   >    as well as escaping from jail twice.  Who was he?   
      
   John Dillinger   
      
   > 8. After the FBI shot  to death in 1934, Charles Floyd   
   >    was the next criminal to be named Public Enemy #1.  Like   
   >    , he was a bank robber.  What was his iconic nickname?   
      
   Pretty Boy   
      
   > 10. This Irish-American mobster was responsible for at least 19   
   >    murders, but was frequently allowed to skate due to the fact   
   >    that he was also an FBI informant ratting out his competition.   
   >    He was finally jailed at the age of 81, and was beaten to death   
   >    in jail when he was released into general population at the   
   >    age of 89.  Who was he?   
      
   Whitey Bulger   
      
   > ** Game 11, Round 10 - Challenge - It's Too Long   
      
   > * A. Long Wars   
      
   >    A1. The Crusades lasted for about three hundred years.  How many   
   >        major -- i.e. numbered -- Crusades were there?   
      
   4   
      
   >    A2. The Long March was a strategic retreat undertaken by one   
   >        side in what country's civil war?   
      
   China   
      
   > * B. Long Movies   
      
   >    B1. One of the longest documentaries to ever reach movie theters   
   >        was released in 1987, runs 9 hours and 26 minutes, and is   
   >        about the Holocaust.  What is its title?   
      
   Shoah   
      
   >    B2. One of the longest narrative movies to ever reach theaters   
   >        -- 5 hours 50 minutes -- was an adaptation of a Charles   
   >        Dickens novel starring Derek Jacobi and Alec Guinness.   
   >        Name it.   
      
   The Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby   
      
   > * C. Long Rivers   
      
   >    C1. What's the longest river in Europe?   
      
   Danube   
      
   >    C2. What's the *second-longest* river in South America?   
      
   Orinoco   
      
   > * D. Long Flights   
      
   >    D1. The current longest non-stop flight in the world lasts for   
   >        18 hours 40 minutes and operates between New York's JFK   
   >        Airport and *what Asian hub airport city*?   
      
   Singapore   
      
   >    D2. The current longest non-stop flight from Toronto lasts   
   >        for 17 hours 5 minutes, and goes to *what Asian country*'s   
   >        capital city?   
      
   China   
      
   > * E. Long Books   
      
   >    E1. "? la recherche du temps perdu" is 1,500,000 words long.   
   >        Who wrote it?   
      
   Marcel Proust   
      
   >    E2. What David Foster Wallace novel, over 1,000 pages long,   
   >        has a title that is a reference to a line from "Hamlet"?   
      
   Infinite Jest   
      
   > * F. Long Sports   
      
   >    F1. What is the name of the automotive sport where participants   
   >        drive from one checkpoint to another -- sometimes for days   
   >        at a time -- with no set track or course, but with rules   
   >        for driving and navigating?   
      
   rally   
      
   >    F2. The longest test match on record for a game of cricket   
   >        took place in 1939, between England and which of its   
   >        colonial possessions?   
      
   India   
      
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