Tuesday, August 25, 2020

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Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Aug 24 10:22PM

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:Y_SdnRHAv6GOdtzCnZ2dnUU7-
> companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
 
> I'm doing the rounds out of order in this game because I wanted to
change
> which ones are paired together for posting. These two are
thematically
 
> 1. Who was the first actor to play Oscar Madison in the original
> Broadway production of "The Odd Couple", which started its run
> in 1965?
 
Walter Matthau
 
 
> 2. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's first collaboration
> was an adaptation of a play called "Green Grow the Lilacs".
> What was the title of the resulting Broadway musical?
 
State Fair
 
 
> 3. Which Oscar, an American light-middleweight boxer, won a gold
> medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics?
 
Benavides
 
 
> 4. Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated on 1980-03-24, after
> speaking out about human rights abuses in *which Central
> American country*?
 
El Salvador
 
 
> 5. In *what city* was meat-production company Oscar Mayer founded,
> in the late 1800s?
 
Chicago
 
 
> 6. Who is the subject of the documentary film "In the Key of Oscar"?
 
Oscar Peterson
 
> but he was orange for the first year the show was on the air.
> Within 2 years, in what year did "Sesame Street" and Oscar make
> their television debut?
 
1969; 1974
 
 
> 8. The American pianist and composer Oscar Levant was known for
> his witticisms. He once said of a certain actress that he knew
> her "before she was a virgin". Who was he referring to?
 
Doris Day
 
> eye on German society in the World War II and postwar era.
 
> 10. Who was recognized by Israel as one of the "Righteous Among
> Nations", or a "righteous Gentile", on 1967-07-18?
 
Schindler
 
 
Pete Gayde
Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Aug 24 10:13PM -0700

On 8/22/20 9:05 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
> (1985).
 
> 4. "Mona Lisa Overdrive" (1988); "Virtual Light" (1993); "Pattern
> Recognition" (2003).
 
Gibson
 
 
> 8. "Legs" (1983); "Ironweed" (1983); "Roscoe" (2002).
 
> 9. "The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq." (1844); "Vanity Fair"
> (1848); "The History of Henry Esmond" (1852).
 
Thackeray
 
 
> 2. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's first collaboration
> was an adaptation of a play called "Green Grow the Lilacs".
> What was the title of the resulting Broadway musical?
 
Oklahoma
 
> but he was orange for the first year the show was on the air.
> Within 2 years, in what year did "Sesame Street" and Oscar make
> their television debut?
 
1971
 
> eye on German society in the World War II and postwar era.
 
> 10. Who was recognized by Israel as one of the "Righteous Among
> Nations", or a "righteous Gentile", on 1967-07-18?
 
Schindler
 
 
--
Dan Tilque
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