From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 2, Round 2 - Geography - Two Borders, One Country   
   >   
   > In each case, name the only country that borders both of the   
   > countries indicated.   
   >   
   > 1. Oman, Iraq.   
      
   Saudi-Arabia   
      
   (And for that matter Iran, since the rules did not explicitly say   
   land borders)   
      
   > 2. Guinea, Niger.   
      
   Mali   
      
   > 3. Morocco, Libya.   
      
   Algeria   
      
   > 4. Benin, Cameroon.   
      
   Nigeria   
      
   > 5. Armenia, Pakistan.   
      
   Iran   
      
   > 6. Uganda, Mozambique.   
      
   Tanzania   
      
   > 7. Montenegro, Romania.   
      
   Serbia   
      
   > 8. Azerbaijan, Mongolia.   
      
   Russia   
      
   > 9. Guatemala, Nicaragua.   
      
   Honduras   
      
   > 10. Malaysia, Papua New Guinea.   
      
   Indonesia   
      
   > * Game 2, Round 3 - Literature - Banned Books   
   >   
   > 1. Which novel by Harper Lee, published in 1960, about racial   
   >    inequality in the American South, was challenged in 1991 in   
   >    St. John, NB, in an attempt to remove it from school reading   
   >    lists due to the way racial minorities were portrayed?   
   >    Name the book.   
      
   To Kill a Mockingbird   
      
   > 2. George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four", written as a   
   >    warning against totalitarianism, was banned in Russia just one   
   >    year after it was published.  In what year *was* it published?   
      
   1948   
      
   > 6. This classic 1885 American novel by Mark Twain has been banned   
   >    for its use of racial slurs, despite being a powerful critique   
   >    of racism.  It was ranked #14 on the ALA list for (the decade   
   >    of) the 2000s.  Name the book.   
      
   Huckleberry Finn   
      
   > 8. "The Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie is probably one of   
   >    the best-known banned books in the world.  In what year was   
   >    it published?   
      
   1987   
      
   > 9. Numerous countries banned "The Satanic Verses", but which   
   >    country was the *first* to ban it, imposing an import ban just   
   >    10 days after it was published?  Possession of the book was   
   >    still not a crime, though.  Name the country.   
      
   India   
      
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