From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 3, Round 2 - Geography - Straits & Narrows   
   >   
   > 2. What is the strait that separates Vancouver Island, Canada,   
   >    from the Olympic Peninsula in the US?   
      
   I should know this - I have crossed it a few times.   
      
   Juan de Foca Strait is the name that comes up - but it's probably wrong.   
      
   > 4. What strait lies between mainland Australia and Tasmania?   
      
   Hobart Strait   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Hormuz   
      
   > 7. What is the strait that separates Denmark from Norway?   
   >    It joins the North Sea to the Kattegat Strait, which leads on   
   >    between Denmark and Sweden to the Baltic Sea.   
      
   Skagerak (But for me that is not a strait, just a water body)   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Bosphorus   
      
   > 9. What is the strait that separates Vancouver Island from the   
   >    British Columbia mainland?   
      
   I've crossed that one too, but only twice. That will have to me my   
   excuse for not having paid attention to the name.   
      
   But I try with Naniamo Strait.   
      
   > 10. What is the strait that separates Malaysia's Malay Peninsula   
   >    from the Indonesian island of Sumatra?   
      
   Malacka   
      
      
   > * Game 3, Round 3 - Literature - Massey Lectures Books   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Pinter   
      
   > 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.   
      
   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.   
      
   Atwood   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)