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   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > ** Game 1, Round 9 - Miscellaneous - Famous Epitaphs   
      
   > 2. "That's all folks."   
      
   Mel Blanc   
      
   > 6. "If you seek his monument, look around you."   
      
   Christopher Wren   
      
   > 9. "Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, I'm free   
   >    at last."   
      
   Martin Luther King, Jr.   
      
   > 10. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly   
   >    into the past."   
      
   F. Scott Fitzgerald   
      
   > ** Game 1, Round 10 - Classical Challenge Round   
      
   > * B. History - Rise and Fall   
      
   >    B1. In which century did the Roman empire conquer Greece?   
      
   1st   
      
   >    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   
      
   > * 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.   
      
   chariot race   
      
   >    C2. A violent sport called pankration was introduced into the   
   >        ancient Olympic Games in 648 BC.  This a combination of   
   >        two individual modern sports.  Name *either one*.   
      
   wrestling   
      
   > * D. Miscellaneous - The Gods   
      
   > These two questions are about the Roman rebranding of Greek gods.   
   > Who is the Roman god or goddess corresponding to...   
      
   >    D1. Aphrodite?   
      
   Venus   
      
   >    D2. Zeus?   
      
   Jupiter   
      
   > * E. Entertainment - Classical Playwrights   
      
   >    E1. Which Greek playwright wrote "Antigone", "Oedipus Rex",   
   >        and "Oedipus at Colonus"?   
      
   Sophocles   
      
   >    E2. Which Greek playwright wrote "Medea", "Orestes", and "The   
   >        Trojan Women"?   
      
   Euripides   
      
   > * 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?   
      
   Euclid   
      
   >    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?   
      
   Archimedes   
      
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