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* Game 4, Round 7 - Literature - War Novels
For tonight's literary round, we will name a war novel and give you
the author. You give us the *war* the work is centered around.
Answers may repeat, and me sufficiently specific in each case.
1. "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy.
2. "Dr. Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak.
3. "The Winds of War" by Herman Wouk.
4. "The Short-Timers" by Gustav Hasford.
5. "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell.
6. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway.
7. "The Bridges at Toko-Ri" by James A. Michener.
8. "The Bridge on the River Kwai" by Pierre Boulle.
9. "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
10. "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque.
* Game 4, Round 8 - Geography - Straits
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a strait as a comparatively
narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water. This round
will test your knowledge of various straits around the world.
Except as specified, in each case name them.
1. This strait separates the North and South Islands of New
Zealand, and connects the Tasman Sea with the South Pacific
Ocean. It's named for the first European commander to sail
through it -- in 1770.
2. The Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits, along with the Sea of
Marmara, collectively form a connection between which two seas?
3. Which strait separates the eastern tip of Sicily and the western
tip of Calabria in Southern Italy?
4. Which strait in the Gulf of St. Lawrence separates Prince Edward
Island from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia?
5. What's the name of the strait which runs between the Persian
Gulf and the Gulf of Oman? One of the world's most strategically
important waterways, it's bordered by Iran and Oman.
6. What is the name of the strait that forms the narrowest part
of the English Channel?
7. What strait runs between the Indonesian island of Sumatra
and the Malay Peninsula? It connects the Andaman Sea with the
Singapore Strait and the South China Sea.
8. Name the strait that joins the Mediterranean and the Atlantic
Ocean
9. The Bering Strait runs between Russia's Chukchi Peninsula and
Alaska's Seward Peninsula, connecting the Pacific and Arctic
Oceans. What was the nationality of the strait's namesake,
Vitus Bering, who entered it in 1728?
10. What's the name of the strait that runs between Greenland and
Baffin Island?
--
Mark Brader Then, putting them together, we get
Toronto "Politicians lie in cast-iron sinks".
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