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bbowler <bbowler@bigelow.org>: Mar 14 02:34PM

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 22:32:26 -0500, Mark Brader wrote:
 
 
> 7. 1980s: The accidental death of the older son of an affluent
> family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the
> good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.
 
Ordinary People
 
> crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
 
> 10. 1940s: Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to
> discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
 
The Best Years Of Their Lives
 
 
> a museum where you will find a stuffed dog that once belonged to
> the 1904 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine. Name the
> man.
 
Pavlov
 
> George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006.
> In 2009, he made a cameo appearance -- as himself -- in episode
> 17 of season 2 of which sitcom?
 
The Big Bang Theory
 
> physicist Max Born. Max Born is also famous for being the
> maternal grandfather of which British-born Australian woman who
> spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in the early 1980s?
 
Olivia Newton John
 
 
> C1. The only man to have won two individual Nobel Prizes was
> a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 and the
> Peace Prize in 1962. Name the man.
 
Linus Pauling
 
> C2. The 1911 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry died in 1934.
> In 1935, that laureate's daughter also won a Nobel Prize in
> Chemistry. What last name did they share?
 
Marie Curie
 
> D. The Nobel Prize in Literature
 
> D1. The only man to have won both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize
> in Literature was a man who won the Nobel in 1925. Name him.
 
Shaw?
 
> struggle for democracy and human rights" in a country that
> changed its name in 1989. Give either the old or the current
> name of the country.
 
Burma & Myanmar
 
> Ten Conference, but left the conference in 1946. Name the
> university. Hint: its intercollegiate sports teams are known as
> the Maroons.
 
Chicago?
 
> intercollegiate football game in 1869, and whose intercollegiate
> sporting teams are known as the Tigers.
> Name the university.
 
Princeton
"Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Mar 14 06:23PM

Mark Brader wrote:
 
 
> 1. 1950s: An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an
> established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater
> friends.
Sunset Boulevard
> 2. 1930s: A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with
> his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.
Citizen Kane
 
> A2. In 2007, one of the 1962 Nobel Prize winners in Physiology
> or Medicine became the first person to receive his own
> personal genome map. Name the man.
Watson, Crick
> George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006.
> In 2009, he made a cameo appearance -- as himself -- in
> episode 17 of season 2 of which sitcom?
Big Bang Theory
> the maternal grandfather of which British-born Australian
> woman who spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in the
> early 1980s?
Olivia Newton-John
 
> D. The Nobel Prize in Literature
 
> D1. The only man to have won both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize
> in Literature was a man who won the Nobel in 1925. Name him.
George Bernard Shaw
> D2. Due to injuries suffered in two plane crashes in Africa,
> which man was unable to personally accept his 1954 Nobel
> Prize in Literature?
Hemingway
> characterizes important parts of the international
> community". In December 1991, his country ceased to exist.
> Name the man.
Mikhail Gorbachev
> struggle for democracy and human rights" in a country
> that changed its name in 1989. Give either the old or the
> current name of the country.
Burma
> the Big Ten Conference, but left the conference in 1946.
> Name the university. Hint: its intercollegiate sports
> teams are known as the Maroons.
Harvard, Yale
> first intercollegiate football game in 1869, and whose
> intercollegiate sporting teams are known as the Tigers.
> Name the university.
Harvard, Yale
 
Peter Smyth
Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Mar 14 11:19PM +0100

> a museum where you will find a stuffed dog that once belonged
> to the 1904 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine.
> Name the man.
 
Pavlov

> C1. The only man to have won two individual Nobel Prizes was
> a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954
> and the Peace Prize in 1962. Name the man.
 
Andrei Sacharov

> C2. The 1911 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry died in 1934.
> In 1935, that laureate's daughter also won a Nobel Prize
> in Chemistry. What last name did they share?
 
Curie

> characterizes important parts of the international
> community". In December 1991, his country ceased to exist.
> Name the man.
 
Michail Gorbachev

> struggle for democracy and human rights" in a country
> that changed its name in 1989. Give either the old or the
> current name of the country.
 
Burma

> the Big Ten Conference, but left the conference in 1946.
> Name the university. Hint: its intercollegiate sports
> teams are known as the Maroons.
 
MIT

> first intercollegiate football game in 1869, and whose
> intercollegiate sporting teams are known as the Tigers.
> Name the university.
 
Harvard
 
 
 
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Mar 14 05:47PM -0700

On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 11:32:26 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-10-26,
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
 
noted
 
 
> 1. 1950s: An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an
> established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater
> friends.
 
all about eve
 
> 2. 1930s: A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with
> his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.
 
cimarron
 
> 3. 1930s: A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a
> woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.
 
you can't take it with you
 
> 4. 1980s: Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her
> daughter's family problems.
 
terms of endearment
 
> 5. 1950s: A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have
> given up on the idea of love, meet at a dance and fall in love.
 
marty
 
> 6. 2010s: A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival
> of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.
 
the artist
 
> 7. 1980s: The accidental death of the older son of an affluent
> family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother,
> the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.
 
ordinary people
 
> 8. 1950s: Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich
> playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic
> friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.
 
gigi
 
> 9. 1990s: A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life
> crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
 
american beauty
 
> 10. 1940s: Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to
> discover that they and their families have been irreparably
> changed.
 
the best years of our lives
 
 
> a museum where you will find a stuffed dog that once belonged
> to the 1904 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine.
> Name the man.
 
pavlov
 
> A2. In 2007, one of the 1962 Nobel Prize winners in Physiology
> or Medicine became the first person to receive his own
> personal genome map. Name the man.
 
watson?
 
> George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006.
> In 2009, he made a cameo appearance -- as himself -- in
> episode 17 of season 2 of which sitcom?
 
the big bang theory
 
> the maternal grandfather of which British-born Australian
> woman who spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in the
> early 1980s?
 
olivia newton-john
 
 
> C1. The only man to have won two individual Nobel Prizes was
> a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954
> and the Peace Prize in 1962. Name the man.
 
linus pauling
 
> C2. The 1911 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry died in 1934.
> In 1935, that laureate's daughter also won a Nobel Prize
> in Chemistry. What last name did they share?
 
curie
 
> D. The Nobel Prize in Literature
 
> D1. The only man to have won both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize
> in Literature was a man who won the Nobel in 1925. Name him.
 
george b. shaw
 
> D2. Due to injuries suffered in two plane crashes in Africa,
> which man was unable to personally accept his 1954 Nobel
> Prize in Literature?
 
ernest "papa" hemingway
 
> characterizes important parts of the international
> community". In December 1991, his country ceased to exist.
> Name the man.
 
gorbachev?
 
> struggle for democracy and human rights" in a country
> that changed its name in 1989. Give either the old or the
> current name of the country.
 
burma
 
> the Big Ten Conference, but left the conference in 1946.
> Name the university. Hint: its intercollegiate sports
> teams are known as the Maroons.
 
university of chicago?
 
> first intercollegiate football game in 1869, and whose
> intercollegiate sporting teams are known as the Tigers.
> Name the university.
 
princeton (formerly the college of nj) (the other one is rutgers, aka the scarlet knights)
 
swp, who is picking villanova in the ncaa division i men's basketball tournament to win it all, besting kentucky in the all-wildcat finals.
Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Mar 14 06:32PM -0700

On Monday, March 14, 2016 at 1:32:26 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:

> friends.
 
> 2. 1930s: A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with
> his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.
 
Citizen Kane?
 
> 3. 1930s: A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a
> woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.
 
Gone With the Wind
 
> 4. 1980s: Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her
> daughter's family problems.
 
Ordinary People
 
 
> 7. 1980s: The accidental death of the older son of an affluent
> family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother,
> the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.
 
Ordinary People
 
> 8. 1950s: Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich
> playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic
> friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.
 
An American in Paris
 
> 9. 1990s: A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life
> crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
 
American Beauty
 
> a museum where you will find a stuffed dog that once belonged
> to the 1904 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine.
> Name the man.
 
Pavlov
 
> A2. In 2007, one of the 1962 Nobel Prize winners in Physiology
> or Medicine became the first person to receive his own
> personal genome map. Name the man.
 
Crick, Watson
 
> George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006.
> In 2009, he made a cameo appearance -- as himself -- in
> episode 17 of season 2 of which sitcom?
 
Big Bang Theory
 
> the maternal grandfather of which British-born Australian
> woman who spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in the
> early 1980s?
 
Olivia Newton John I presume
Famous is pushing it.

 
> C2. The 1911 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry died in 1934.
> In 1935, that laureate's daughter also won a Nobel Prize
> in Chemistry. What last name did they share?
 
Curie
 
> D. The Nobel Prize in Literature
 
> D1. The only man to have won both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize
> in Literature was a man who won the Nobel in 1925. Name him.
 
Shaw

> D2. Due to injuries suffered in two plane crashes in Africa,
> which man was unable to personally accept his 1954 Nobel
> Prize in Literature?
 
Schweitzer

> characterizes important parts of the international
> community". In December 1991, his country ceased to exist.
> Name the man.
 
Gorbachev
 
> struggle for democracy and human rights" in a country
> that changed its name in 1989. Give either the old or the
> current name of the country.
 
Burma
 
> the Big Ten Conference, but left the conference in 1946.
> Name the university. Hint: its intercollegiate sports
> teams are known as the Maroons.
 
Harvard, Princeton
 
> first intercollegiate football game in 1869, and whose
> intercollegiate sporting teams are known as the Tigers.
> Name the university.
 
Columbia, Princeton
 
cheers,
calvin
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 15 12:06AM -0500

Stephen Perry:
> princeton (formerly the college of nj) (the other one is rutgers, aka
> the scarlet knights)
 
No! Not the knights who say nj!
--
Mark Brader "I can say nothing at this point."
Toronto "Well, you were wrong."
msb@vex.net -- Monty Python's Flying Circus
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