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   Message 32,647 of 32,813   
   Joshua Kreitzer to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCINO25 Game 3, Rounds 9-10: Burns   
   26 Oct 25 01:54:13   
   
   From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On 10/25/2025 12:46 AM, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > ** Game 3, Round 9 - Miscellaneous - Burns's Words   
   >   
   > Here are some words that you will find in the poems of Robert Burns.   
   > Please provide the modern English equivalent in each case.   
   >   
   > 1. Ken.   
      
   know   
      
   > 3. Braw.   
      
   brave   
      
   > 6. Bairn.   
      
   child   
      
   > 9. Gloaming.   
      
   twilight   
      
   > 10. Syne ["sine"].   
      
   since   
      
   > ** Game 3, Round 10 - Challenge Round - Masters   
   >   
   > * B, Literature - Masterpiece   
   >   
   >     B1. Who wrote "To the Lighthouse"?   
      
   Virginia Woolf   
      
   > * C, Entertainment - Master Class   
   >   
   > These two questions are about artists who have completed the EGOT   
   > (winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony in their careers).   
   >   
   >     C1. This EGOT winner is most notable for several awards across   
   >         multiple categories for the creative property "The   
   >         Producers".  He is an actor, comedian, and filmmaker.   
   >         Who is he?   
      
   Mel Brooks   
      
   >     C2. This EGOT winner has an Academy Award for Best Supporting   
   >         Actress and a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show   
   >         Host for "The View".  Who is she?   
      
   Whoopi Goldberg   
   > * E, History - Master Theory   
   >   
   > These two questions cover landmark scientific publications.   
   >   
   >     E1. Within 2 years, when did Einstein publish his paper on the   
   >         Special Theory of Relativity?   
      
   1908; 1913   
   >     E2. Within 10 years, when did Darwin publish "On the Origin of   
   >         Species by Means of Natural Selection"?   
      
   1860   
      
   > * F, Science - Master Mind   
   >   
   >     F1. Who is known as the "father of the hydrogen bomb"?  He was   
   >         also involved in the Manhattan Project.   
      
   Teller   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
   gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
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