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tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Nov 03 12:47PM


> * Game 4, Round 4 - Literature - The Top Ten
 
> 1. Various member of the Rostov, Kuragin and Bezukhov families.
 
War and Peace
 
> 2. Guildenstern.
 
Hamlet
 
> 3. Humbert Humbert.
 
Lolita
 
> 4. Count Alexei Vronsky, Prince Stepan Oblonsky, Count Alexei
> Alexandrovich <omitted>. (Based on the consensus list, this
> one is the #1 ranked book of all time.)
 
Anna Karenina
 
> 5. Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, "Pap", Jim, Buck Grangerford.
 
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 
> 6. Marcel, the narrator; Charles Swann; Gilberte Swann; Comtesse
> de Marsantes; Basin, Duke De Geurmantes. Published 1913-27.
 
Rememberance of Things Past
 
> 7. Emma <omitted>, Charles <omitted>, Rodolphe Boulanger, Leon
> Dupuis. Published 1856.
 
Madame Bovary
 
> 8. Nick Carraway, Daisy Fay Buchanan, Jordan Baker.
 
The Great Gatsby
 
> 9. Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate, Mary Garth. Published 1871-72
> and subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life".
 
Return of the Native
 
> 10. Jos? Arcadio Buend?a, ?rsula Iguar?n, Jose Arcadio II (Segundo).
> Published 1967.
 
One Hundred Years of Solitude
 
 
> 1. Basketball star Michael Jordan played in the Olympics in 1984
> and 1992. Name the 1996 movie in which he starred with that
> Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny.
 
Space Jam
 
> 3. Name the NBA star who played himself in "Trainwreck", a 2015
> comedy which starred Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson,
> and Tilda Swinton.
 
LeBron James
 
> two "Home Alone" movies. She then left acting for sports,
> competing for the US in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics -- in which
> martial-art sport?
 
judo; karate
 
> 5. Now to swimming. Name the 5-time Olympic champion swimmer who
> gained even greater fame by playing Tarzan in 12 movies.
 
Weismuller
 
> 6. Still with swimming, name the 1932 Olympic champ who later
> starred in more than 100 movies. He is the only actor to have
> played all three of Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers.
 
Buster Crabbe
 
> weightlifting in 1948. But he's best remembered as one of the
> tougher villains James Bond has faced. Name Sakata's character
> in a 1964 Bond film.
 
Odd Job
 
> 8. Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner, won the 1976 Olympic decathlon.
> He also won the 1980 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor --
> in which disastrous comedy film starring the Village People?
 
Can't Stop the Music
 
> a lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004.
> Name *either* that web site *or* the 2010 film in which they
> were portrayed.
 
Facebook
 
> included a future pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling
> books of all time, "Baby and Child Care", first published
> in 1946. Name him.
 
Benjamin Spock
 
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Bruce Bowler <bbowler@bigelow.org>: Nov 03 02:16PM

On Fri, 03 Nov 2017 02:01:37 -0500, Mark Brader wrote:
 
 
> 1. Basketball star Michael Jordan played in the Olympics in 1984
> and 1992. Name the 1996 movie in which he starred with that
> Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny.
 
Space Jam
 
> that Hillary Wolf played Macaulay Culkin's sister in the first two
> "Home Alone" movies. She then left acting for sports, competing for
> the US in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics -- in which martial-art sport?
 
Judo
 
> 5. Now to swimming. Name the 5-time Olympic champion swimmer who
> gained even greater fame by playing Tarzan in 12 movies.
 
Ron Ely
 
> 6. Still with swimming, name the 1932 Olympic champ who later
> starred in more than 100 movies. He is the only actor to have played
> all three of Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers.
 
Johnny Weismuller
 
> weightlifting in 1948. But he's best remembered as one of the
> tougher villains James Bond has faced. Name Sakata's character in a
> 1964 Bond film.
 
Odd Job
 
> lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004. Name
> *either* that web site *or* the 2010 film in which they were
> portrayed.
 
facebook
 
> included a future pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling
> books of all time, "Baby and Child Care", first published in 1946.
> Name him.
 
Dr. Benjamin Spock
Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Nov 03 10:06AM -0500

In article <6LmdnbqrH5DMiWHEnZ2dnUU7-L_NnZ2d@giganews.com>, msb@vex.net says...
> name that book. In some cases we will omit part of a character's
> name as it would be too helpful.
 
> 1. Various member of the Rostov, Kuragin and Bezukhov families.
War & Peace
 
> 2. Guildenstern.
Hamlet
 
> 3. Humbert Humbert.
Lolita
 
> 4. Count Alexei Vronsky, Prince Stepan Oblonsky, Count Alexei
> Alexandrovich <omitted>. (Based on the consensus list, this
> one is the #1 ranked book of all time.)
Anna Karenina
 
> de Marsantes; Basin, Duke De Geurmantes. Published 1913-27.
 
> 7. Emma <omitted>, Charles <omitted>, Rodolphe Boulanger, Leon
> Dupuis. Published 1856.
Madame Bovary
 
> 8. Nick Carraway, Daisy Fay Buchanan, Jordan Baker.
The Great Gatsby
 
> and subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life".
 
> 10. José Arcadio Buendía, Úrsula Iguarán, Jose Arcadio II (Segundo).
> Published 1967.
100 Years of Solitude
 
 
> 2. Speaking of 1996 movies starring basketball players, name the
> flick which starred Shaquille O'Neal as a 5,000-year-old genie
> who appears from a magic boom-box to grant a boy three wishes.
Kazaam
 
> two "Home Alone" movies. She then left acting for sports,
> competing for the US in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics -- in which
> martial-art sport?
judo
 
> 5. Now to swimming. Name the 5-time Olympic champion swimmer who
> gained even greater fame by playing Tarzan in 12 movies.
Johnny Weismuller
 
> weightlifting in 1948. But he's best remembered as one of the
> tougher villains James Bond has faced. Name Sakata's character
> in a 1964 Bond film.
Oddjob
 
> a lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004.
> Name *either* that web site *or* the 2010 film in which they
> were portrayed.
Facebook
 
> included a future pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling
> books of all time, "Baby and Child Care", first published
> in 1946. Name him.
Benjamin Spock
 
 
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Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Nov 04 01:43AM

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:6LmdnbqrH5DMiWHEnZ2dnUU7-
> name that book. In some cases we will omit part of a character's
> name as it would be too helpful.
 
> 2. Guildenstern.
 
"Hamlet"
 
> 3. Humbert Humbert.
 
"Lolita"

> 4. Count Alexei Vronsky, Prince Stepan Oblonsky, Count Alexei
> Alexandrovich <omitted>. (Based on the consensus list, this
> one is the #1 ranked book of all time.)
 
"War and Peace"
 
> 5. Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, "Pap", Jim, Buck Grangerford.
 
"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

> 6. Marcel, the narrator; Charles Swann; Gilberte Swann; Comtesse
> de Marsantes; Basin, Duke De Geurmantes. Published 1913-27.
 
"In Search of Lost Time"
 
> 7. Emma <omitted>, Charles <omitted>, Rodolphe Boulanger, Leon
> Dupuis. Published 1856.
 
"Madame Bovary"

> 8. Nick Carraway, Daisy Fay Buchanan, Jordan Baker.
 
"The Great Gatsby"
 
 
> 1. Basketball star Michael Jordan played in the Olympics in 1984
> and 1992. Name the 1996 movie in which he starred with that
> Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny.
 
"Space Jam"
 
> 2. Speaking of 1996 movies starring basketball players, name the
> flick which starred Shaquille O'Neal as a 5,000-year-old genie
> who appears from a magic boom-box to grant a boy three wishes.
 
"Kazaam"

> 3. Name the NBA star who played himself in "Trainwreck", a 2015
> comedy which starred Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson,
> and Tilda Swinton.
 
LeBron James

> two "Home Alone" movies. She then left acting for sports,
> competing for the US in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics -- in which
> martial-art sport?
 
judo
 
> 5. Now to swimming. Name the 5-time Olympic champion swimmer who
> gained even greater fame by playing Tarzan in 12 movies.
 
Johnny Weismuller

> 6. Still with swimming, name the 1932 Olympic champ who later
> starred in more than 100 movies. He is the only actor to have
> played all three of Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers.
 
Buster Crabbe
 
> weightlifting in 1948. But he's best remembered as one of the
> tougher villains James Bond has faced. Name Sakata's character
> in a 1964 Bond film.
 
Oddjob

> 8. Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner, won the 1976 Olympic decathlon.
> He also won the 1980 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor --
> in which disastrous comedy film starring the Village People?
 
"Can't Stop the Music"
 
> a lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004.
> Name *either* that web site *or* the 2010 film in which they
> were portrayed.
 
Facebook

> included a future pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling
> books of all time, "Baby and Child Care", first published
> in 1946. Name him.
 
Benjamin Spock
 
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Jason Kreitzer <jk71875@gmail.com>: Nov 03 09:25PM -0700

On Friday, November 3, 2017 at 3:01:43 AM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:
> name that book. In some cases we will omit part of a character's
> name as it would be too helpful.
 
> 1. Various member of the Rostov, Kuragin and Bezukhov families.
Crime and Punihsment
> 2. Guildenstern.
 
> 3. Humbert Humbert.
Lolita
> 4. Count Alexei Vronsky, Prince Stepan Oblonsky, Count Alexei
> Alexandrovich <omitted>. (Based on the consensus list, this
> one is the #1 ranked book of all time.)
War and Peace
 
> 7. Emma <omitted>, Charles <omitted>, Rodolphe Boulanger, Leon
> Dupuis. Published 1856.
 
> 8. Nick Carraway, Daisy Fay Buchanan, Jordan Baker.
The Great Gatsby
 
> 1. Basketball star Michael Jordan played in the Olympics in 1984
> and 1992. Name the 1996 movie in which he starred with that
> Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny.
Space Jam
> 2. Speaking of 1996 movies starring basketball players, name the
> flick which starred Shaquille O'Neal as a 5,000-year-old genie
> who appears from a magic boom-box to grant a boy three wishes.
Kazaam
> martial-art sport?
 
> 5. Now to swimming. Name the 5-time Olympic champion swimmer who
> gained even greater fame by playing Tarzan in 12 movies.
Johnny Weismuller
> 6. Still with swimming, name the 1932 Olympic champ who later
> starred in more than 100 movies. He is the only actor to have
> played all three of Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers.
Buster Crabbe
> weightlifting in 1948. But he's best remembered as one of the
> tougher villains James Bond has faced. Name Sakata's character
> in a 1964 Bond film.
Oddjob
> 8. Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner, won the 1976 Olympic decathlon.
> He also won the 1980 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor --
> in which disastrous comedy film starring the Village People?
Can't Stop the Music
> a lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004.
> Name *either* that web site *or* the 2010 film in which they
> were portrayed.
Facebook
> included a future pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling
> books of all time, "Baby and Child Care", first published
> in 1946. Name him.
Dr. Benjamin Spock
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