From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On 12/11/2025 1:19 PM, Erland Sommarskog wrote:   
      
   > 1. What is kompromat?   
      
   (Russian term for) material with which to blackmail someone   
      
   > 2. This country takes its name after a river that roughly cuts the   
   >     country in two halves by area. However, 95% of the population lives   
   >     east of the river. Which country is this?   
      
   Niger   
      
   > 3. David Cornwell became famous for writing a number of popular espionage   
   >     novels using which pseudonym?   
      
   John Le Carre   
      
   > 4. ASEAN is a little bit like the EU for south-east Asia. They recently   
   >     welcomed their 11th member, one of the lesser countries in the region.   
   >     Which country?   
      
   Timor-Leste   
      
   > 5. "Fanfare for the Common Man" is a work of which American composer?   
      
   Aaron Copland   
      
   > 6. Lando Norris is this year's champion in which prestigious - and   
   >     expensive - sport?   
      
   Formula 1 auto racing   
      
   > 8. If you are in a Japanese Izakaya, what might your aim be?   
      
   drinking tea   
      
   > 10. If you take the French way of saying the number 99 and translate   
   >      it to English piece by piece, what do you get? (There are some   
   >      regional variations, but I'm looking for the normal form used   
   >      all over France.)   
      
   four-twenty-ten-nine   
      
   > 11. This architect passed away just a few days ago. His most renowned   
   >      work is said to be the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao. What was his name?   
      
   Frank Gehry   
      
   > 12. Refer to https://www.sommarskog.se/temp/Q12.jpg. The picture is from   
   >      which European capital city?   
      
   Copenhagen   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
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