From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On 11/27/2025 4:02 AM, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 6, Round 2 - Geography - Famous Bridges   
   >   
   > We'll provide brief descriptions of 10 famous bridges -- real   
   > and fictional.  You tell us their names.   
   >   
   > 1. Completed in 1964, this suspension bridge connects the New York   
   >     City boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn.  It was the longest   
   >     bridge of its kind in the world until 1981.   
      
   Verrazano-Narrows Bridge   
      
   > 3. At the time of its opening in 1937, this bridge was the world's   
   >     longest and tallest suspension bridge.  It is still considered   
   >     by many to be the most beautiful and most photographed bridge   
   >     in the world.   
      
   Golden Gate Bridge   
      
   > 4. Completed in 1591, this stone bridge is one of the top tourist   
   >     attractions in Venice and one four bridges spanning the city's   
   >     Grand Canal.   
      
   Ponte Vecchio   
      
   > The remaining questions involve fictional bridges or real bridges   
   > made famous in works of fiction, music, or film:   
   >   
   > 7. Name the bridge that Billie Joe MacAllister jumped from in the   
   >     1967 hit song by Bobbie Gentry.   
      
   Tallahatchee Bridge   
      
   > 8. This fictional bridge is in a 1927 Pulitzer-prizewinning novel   
   >     by American writer Thornton Wilder.  The novel tells the story   
   >     of several people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge   
   >     in Peru.  The name of the bridge forms the title -- what is it?   
      
   "The Bridge of San Luis Rey"   
      
   > 9. Based on the World War II allied military Operation   
   >     Market-Garden, the book and 1977 movie "A Bridge Too Far"   
   >     describes the failed attempt of British and Polish forces to   
   >     capture three bridges in the Netherlands that would allow access   
   >     over the Rhine into Germany -- but they failed to capture the   
   >     last bridge, hence the title.  The bridge was simply called   
   >     the Rhine Bridge, but it's remembered by the city where it was   
   >     located -- name that city.   
      
   Arnhem   
      
   > 10. This 1940 tear-jerker movie, set during World War I, stars   
   >     Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor.  Leigh plays a ballerina who   
   >     tragically falls in love with a soldier she meets on a bridge   
   >     in London.  The name of the bridge forms the title -- what is it?   
      
   "Waterloo Bridge"   
      
   > * Game 6, Round 3 - Canadiana Literature - Quebec Literature   
   >   
   > Given the work or works and year of publication, and in some cases   
   > additional information, name the writer.  Authors are Quebec   
   > writers in any language, and may have been born elsewhere but   
   > lived in Quebec and wrote there.   
   >   
   > 5. "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" (1959).   
      
   Richler   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
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