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   Dan Tilque to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCINO25 Game 3, Rounds 9-10: Burns   
   25 Oct 25 23:51:38   
   
   From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 10/24/25 22:46, 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.   
      
   knowledge   
      
   > 2. Birk.   
   > 3. Braw.   
   > 4. Sark.   
   > 5. Skelp.   
   > 6. Bairn.   
      
   boy   
      
   > 7. Breeks.   
      
   pants   
      
   > 8. Hirple.   
   > 9. Gloaming.   
      
   twilight   
      
   > 10. Syne ["sine"].   
      
   time   
      
   >   
   >   
   > ** Game 3, Round 10 - Challenge Round - Masters   
   >   
   > * A, Miscellaneous - Master and Follower   
   >   
   > These two questions are about social media followers.   
   >   
   >     A1. As of December 2024, after Elon Musk who has the next most   
   >         followers on X (formerly known as Twitter)?   
   >   
   >     A2. As of December 2024, who has the most-followed account on   
   >         Instagram and has more than 1,000,000,000 followers   
   >         collectively across all social-media platforms?   
      
   Taylor Swift   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * B, Literature - Masterpiece   
   >   
   >     B1. Who wrote "To the Lighthouse"?   
   >     B2. Who wrote "A Sentimental Education"?   
   >   
   >   
   > * 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?   
   >   
   >   
   > * D, Sports - Master League   
   >   
   > These two questions are about the British Premiership soccer league.   
   >   
   >     D1. Who were the first champions, in the 1992-93 season?   
   >   
   >     D2. Name either the most recent champions when the original game   
   >         was played, for the 2023-24 season, or the most recent ones   
   >         now, for 2024-25, but you must say which.   
   >   
   > * 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?   
      
   1905   
      
   >   
   >     E2. Within 10 years, when did Darwin publish "On the Origin of   
   >         Species by Means of Natural Selection"?   
      
   1870   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * F, Science - Master Mind   
   >   
   >     F1. Who is known as the "father of the hydrogen bomb"?  He was   
   >         also involved in the Manhattan Project.   
      
   Oppenheimer   
      
   >   
   >     F2. Who is known as the "father of quantum theory"?  He won   
   >         the Nobel prize for Physics in 1918 for his discovery of   
   >         energy quanta.   
      
   Heisenberg   
      
   --   
   Dan Tilque   
      
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