Monday, April 24, 2017

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Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Apr 23 04:21PM -0700

On Friday, April 7, 2017 at 8:15:39 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
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> 10 5 8 8 8 3 2 5 10 9 68 68%
 
> Gareth still wins.
 
Thanks for sorting that out. That so many answered Chicago should have been a prompt for me to check.
 
cheers,
calvin
Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Apr 23 03:43PM -0700

On Saturday, April 22, 2017 at 12:18:08 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
 
 
> A1. *He* was convicted for violating the US Espionage Act in
> 2013 after disclosing sensitive material to WikiLeaks.
> *She* is now serving 35 years. Name her.
 
Manning
 
> in either order. Each name you give must be correct.
 
> B1. Who directed "Lust, Caution" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden
> Dragon"?
 
Ang Lee
 
> B2. Who directed "The Grandmaster" and "Chungking Express"?
 
Lee, Chan
 
> B3. Who directed "Raise the Red Lantern" and "House of Flying
> Daggers"?
 
Lee, Chan
 
 
> C2. Name the current New York Rangers goalie who is known as
> the King.
 
> C3. Which golfer was known as the King?
 
Palmer
 
 
> Sumerians, Babylonians, Elamites, Akkadians, and Assyrians.
> What other name, derived from ancient Akkadian, are these
> step pyramids known by?
 
Ziggurats
 
> D2. "If a son strike his father, they shall cut off his fingers."
> This law is part of a code issued by a Babylonian king whose
> name means "the kinsman is a healer." What is that name?
 
Hammurabi

> system used by all the great Mesopotamian civilizations for
> the next 3,000 years. The name that we know this system by
> derives from the Latin word for "wedge". What is that name?
 
Cuneiform
 

> the Spanish verb "molestar" {"mole-est-AR"] mean?
 
> F3. In English, a "bomber" drops bombs. In Spanish, what does a
> "bombero" ["bom-BAIR-oh"] do?
 
cheers,
calvin
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