From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > ** Game 1, Round 9 - Miscellaneous - Famous Epitaphs   
   >   
   > 9. "Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, I'm free   
   >    at last."   
      
   Martin Luther King Jr   
      
   > ** Game 1, Round 10 - Classical Challenge Round   
   >   
   > * A. Literature - Classical Books   
   >   
   >    A1. Who wrote "Meditations"?   
   >    A2. In what book by Plato would you find the "Allegory of the   
   >        Cave" myth?   
      
   The State   
      
   > * B. History - Rise and Fall   
   >   
   > These two questions are about major historical milestones in the   
   > ancient world.   
   >   
   >    B1. In which century did the Roman empire conquer Greece?   
      
   2nd BC   
      
   >    B2. In which century did the Western Roman Empire fall?   
   >        (The term "Western Roman Empire" makes the distinction   
   >        between Rome and Byzantium... which is sometimes known as   
   >        the Eastern Roman empire.  As well, the consensus among   
   >        historians is that the fall corresponds to when the last   
   >        Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus was deposed by Germanic   
   >        warlords.)   
      
   5th AD   
      
   > * C. Sports - Classical Sports   
   >   
   >    C1. Name *any one of the five* sports that were part of the   
   >        pentathlon in ancient times.  Note that there is little   
   >        to no overlap between the ancient and modern versions of   
   >        the pentathlon.   
      
   Discus   
      
   > * D. Miscellaneous - The Gods   
   >   
   >    D1. Aphrodite?   
      
   Juno   
      
   >    D2. Zeus?   
      
   Jupiter   
      
   > * F. Science - Early Mathematicians   
   >   
   >    F1. This mathematician is believed to have lived around the   
   >        time of the 4th century BC.  He is known as the "father   
   >        of geometry".  He wrote the treatise "Elements", which   
   >        established the foundations of geometry and dominated the   
   >        field until the 19th century.  Who was he?   
      
   Euclide   
      
   >    F2. This mathematician and engineer is believed to have lived   
   >        around the time of the 3rd century BC.  He is best known for   
   >        an eponymous named principle which states that the upward   
   >        buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed in a fluid,   
   >        whether fully or partially, is equal to the weight of the   
   >        fluid that the body displaces.  Who was he?   
      
   Archimede   
      
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