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   Joshua Kreitzer to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCINO25 Game 3, Rounds 2-3: strait   
   14 Oct 25 19:41:21   
   
   From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On 10/14/2025 10:08 AM, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 3, Round 2 - Geography - Straits & Narrows   
    >> 5. What is the strait that separates Iran from the United Arab   
   >     Emirates and Oman?  It links the Persian Gulf and the Gulf   
   >     of Oman.   
      
   Strait of Hormuz   
      
   > 6. What is the strait between Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas?   
      
   Straits of Mackinac   
      
   > 8. What is the strait that separates the European part of Turkey   
   >     from Anatolia or the Asian part of Turkey, from the Black   
   >     Sea to the Sea of Marmara?  It is also sometimes known as the   
   >     Istanbul Strait.   
      
   Dardanelles; Bosporus   
      
   > 9. What is the strait that separates Vancouver Island from the   
   >     British Columbia mainland?   
      
   Georgia Strait   
      
   > 10. What is the strait that separates Malaysia's Malay Peninsula   
   >     from the Indonesian island of Sumatra?   
      
   Straits of Malacca   
      
   > * Game 3, Round 3 - Literature - Massey Lectures Books   
   >   
   > This is a round on the books associated with the annual CBC Massey   
   > Lectures.  Each year since 1961, a prominent speaker gives a series   
   > of lectures... which are then published as  a book.  We will   
   > give you the title of that book and the year of the lecture and   
   > some additional clues, and you name the speaker.   
   >   
   > 1. "The Educated Imagination", 1962.  This speaker also wrote   
   >     "Anatomy of Criticism" and "The Great Code".  He was an English   
   >     professor who was a fixture at the University of Toronto's   
   >     Victoria College.   
      
   Marshall McLuhan   
      
   > 2. "The Underdeveloped Country", 1965.  This speaker also wrote   
   >     "The Affluent Society" and "The Age of Uncertainty".  He was   
   >     an economist who worked in multiple Democratic administrations,   
   >     from FDR to Lyndon Johnson.   
      
   John Kenneth Galbraith   
      
   > 3. "Conscience for Change", 1967.  This speaker also wrote "The   
   >     Measure of a Man" and "Strength to Love".  He was a minister and   
   >     a played a significant role in the 1960s civil rights movement.   
      
   Martin Luther King Jr.   
      
   > 4. "Canadian Cities and Sovereignty Association", 1979.   
   >     This speaker also wrote "The Death and Life of American Cities"   
   >     and "Cities and the Wealth of Nations".  As an activist for   
   >     urban issues, she opposed both the Lower Manhattan and Spadina   
   >     Expressways.   
      
   Jacobs   
      
   > 5. "Prisons We Choose to Live Inside", 1985.  This speaker   
   >     also wrote "The Golden Notebook" and "The Grass is Singing".   
   >     This prominent British novelist won the Nobel Prize for   
   >     Literature in 2007.   
      
   Doris Lessing   
      
   > 6. "Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies",   
   >     1988.  This speaker also wrote "Manufacturing Consent" and   
   >     "Language and Mind".  He is often referred to as the "father of   
   >     modern linguistics".  He is also well known for his left-leaning   
   >     political activism and social criticism.   
      
   Noam Chomsky   
      
   > 8. "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth", 2008.   
   >     This speaker also wrote "Oryx and Crake" and "Surfacing",   
   >     among numerous literary works.  She might be best known for her   
   >     1985 novel that was adapted into a dystopian science-fiction   
   >     television series that premiered in 2017.   
      
   Margaret Atwood   
      
   > 9. "Player One: What is to Become of Us?", 2010.  This speaker also   
   >     wrote "Microserfs", "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated   
   >     Culture" and "jPod".  He popularized the terms "Generation X"   
   >     and "McJob".   
      
   Douglas Coupland   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
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