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   Dan Blum to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCINO25 Game 5, Rounds 2-3: CanEty   
   11 Nov 25 04:50:11   
   
   From: tool@panix.com   
      
   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 5, Round 2 - Canadiana Geography - Origins of City Names   
      
   > 1. What city was named after a rear admiral who was in charge of   
   >    the naval forces in Canada and frequently had to portage from   
   >    Lake Simcoe to Georgian Bay?   
      
   Hamilton   
      
   > 6. What city name originated from the Scottish Gaelic "Cala   
   >    ghearraidh", meaning "beach of the meadow (pasture)"?   
      
   Calgary   
      
   > 9. What Canada city was named after the second son of King   
   >    George III?   
      
   Prince Rupert   
      
   > * Game 5, Round 3 - Literature - Opening Lines   
      
   > 1. "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or   
   >    whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages   
   >    must show."   
      
   David Copperfield   
      
   > 2. "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy   
   >    in its own way."   
      
   Anna Karenina   
      
   > 4. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in   
   >    possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."   
      
   Pride and Prejudice   
      
   > 7. "I sing of arms and a man..."   
      
   The Aeneid   
      
   > 9. "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing   
   >    a bowl of lather on which a razor and a mirror lay crossed"   
      
   Ulysses   
      
   > 10. "Let us go then, you and I,   
   >     When the evening is spread out against the sky   
   >     Like a patient etherized upon a table...  "   
      
   The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock   
      
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   Dan Blum					         tool@panix.com	   
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