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   Message 32,675 of 32,813   
   Joshua Kreitzer to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCINO25 Game 5, Rounds 2-3: CanEty   
   10 Nov 25 22:28:00   
   
   From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On 11/10/2025 4:59 PM, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 5, Round 2 - Canadiana Geography - Origins of City Names   
   >   
   > 2. What Canadian city has a name meaning "many fish" in the local   
   >     indigenous language?   
      
   Saskatoon; Winnipeg   
      
   > 3. What name of a Canadian city is derived from the Algonquin word   
   >     that means "where the river narrows"?   
   Ottawa   
   > 6. What city name originated from the Scottish Gaelic "Cala   
   >     ghearraidh", meaning "beach of the meadow (pasture)"?   
      
   Calgary   
      
   > 10. What Canadian city has a name derived form the Western Cree   
   >     word for "muddy waters"?   
      
   Winnipeg; Saskatoon   
      
   > * 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."   
      
   "David Copperfield"   
      
   > 2. "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy   
   >     in its own way."   
      
   "Anna Karenina"   
      
   > 3. "Midway upon the journey of our life / I found myself within   
   >     a forest dark / For the straightforward pathway had been lost."   
      
   "The Divine Comedy"   
   > 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"   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
   gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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