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|    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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