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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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