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   Erland Sommarskog to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCINO25 Game 10, Rounds 7-8: CanFi   
   21 Feb 26 10:58:14   
   
   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > ** Game 10, Round 9 - Miscellaneous - Famous Parents of Famous Children   
   >   
   > 7. Isabella Rossellini.   
      
   Ingrid Bergman   
      
   > ** Game 10, Round 10 - April Fool's Challenge Round   
   >   
   > * A. What a Fool Believes   
   >   
   >    A2. He was the operator of a Ponzi scheme that is considered to   
   >        be the largest financial fraud in US history.  He was   
   >        arrested in 2008.  Who is he?   
      
   Madoff   
      
   > * B. Literature: A Fool's Paradise   
   >   
   >    B1. Who wrote the poem "Paradise Lost"?   
      
   Coleridge   
      
   >    B2. What biblical story is the poem based on?   
      
   Adam, Eve and the snake   
      
   > * D. Sports: Pity the Fool   
   >   
   >    D2. In 1975, this boxer said this of his opponent "Joe Frazier   
   >        is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau   
   >        of Wildlife".  As well, in the build-up to the notorious   
   >        "Thrilla in Manila", he said, "It will be a killer, and a   
   >        chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila."   
   >        Who is this boxer?   
      
   Mohammed Ali   
      
   >    E1. By American standards, fake gold is anything below what   
   >        threshold in karats, within 2?   
      
   12   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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