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|    Dan Tilque to Mark Brader    |
|    Re: QFTCINO25 Game 5, Rounds 2-3: CanEty    |
|    10 Nov 25 22:18:14    |
      From: dtilque@frontier.com              On 11/10/25 14:59, 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 ?               > > 2. What Canadian city has a name meaning "many fish" in the local       > indigenous language?              Iqaluit              >       > 3. What name of a Canadian city is derived from the Algonquin word       > that means "where the river narrows"?              Quebec              >       > 4. What city was renamed in 1916 after the British Secretary of       > State for War who drowned earlier that year?              Kitchener              >       > 5. What city was named after the first president of Hollinger Mines?              Edmonton ?              >       > 6. What city name originated from the Scottish Gaelic "Cala       > ghearraidh", meaning "beach of the meadow (pasture)"?              Calgary              >       > 7. What BC city was named after the first governor of the Hudson       > Bay Company?              Prince Rupert              >       > 8. What small Canadian city was named after the consort of King       > George III?       >       > 9. What Canada city was named after the second son of King       > George III?              Fredericton              >       > 10. What Canadian city has a name derived form the Western Cree       > word for "muddy waters"?              Winnipeg              >       >       > * Game 5, Round 3 - Literature - Opening Lines       >       > We'll give you the opening lines of a famous novel or poem.       > You name the work (not the author).       >       > 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."       >       > 2. "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy       > in its own way."       >       > 3. "Midway upon the journey of our life / I found myself within       > a forest dark / For the straightforward pathway had been lost."       >       > 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              >       > 5. "The river flowed both ways."       >       > 6. "We slept in what had once been the gymnasium."       >       > 7. "I sing of arms and a man..."       >       > 8. Among twenty snowy mountains,       > The only moving thing       > Was the eye of the blackbird.       >       > 9. "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing       > a bowl of lather on which a razor and a mirror lay crossed"       >       > 10. "Let us go then, you and I,       > When the evening is spread out against the sky       > Like a patient etherized upon a table... "       >              --       Dan Tilque              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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