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Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Aug 27 08:46PM +0200

> * Game 4, Round 1 -- Current Events (excerpt)
 
> Answer these 2011 questions if you like for fun, but for no points.
> 2. Which EU country will be legalizing divorce, the last to do so?
 
Malta

 
> 9. In 1972's "The Gods Themselves", his aliens have three sexes.
> All three must participate for conception to occur. Name this
> prolific writer.
 
Isaac Asimov
swp <stephen.w.perry@gmail.com>: Aug 27 05:41PM -0700

On Friday, August 27, 2021 at 12:37:31 AM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:
 
> Answer these 2011 questions if you like for fun, but for no points.
 
> 1. What was the most notable 100th anniversary marked in Belfast
> last week?
 
northern ireland centennial
 
> 2. Which EU country will be legalizing divorce, the last to do so?
 
malta
 
> unrecognizable to him and who are exclusively homosexual.
> Behind his back his troops refer to him as the "Old Queer"
> because of his now-deviant heterosexuality. Name the author.
 
joe haldeman
 
> in the 1970s, of a future humanity able to change gender at will.
> He also featured lesbian protagonists in his Gaean trilogy --
> "Titan", "Wizard" and "Demon". Name the author.
 
john varley
 
> also contains some of the first explicit scenes of gay sex in
> science fiction. A complex novel, it has often been compared
> to Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow". Name the novel.
 
dhalgren
 
> sexuality in this 1969 novel. Her aliens usually are neither
> male nor female, but undergo a monthly cycle when they randomly
> become one or the other gender. Name the novel.
 
the left hand of darkness
 
> male readers from any mention of sex inside the magazines.
> Name the leading science fiction magazine of the era, started
> by Harry Bates and later edited by John W. Campbell.
 
astounding stories
 
> ape with massive sexual organs and turns a virgin woman into a
> nymphomaniac. This author's prodigious output also includes the
> Hugo-winning "A Boy and His Dog" and "Jeffty is Five". Name him.
 
harlan ellison
 
> of virgins to counter declining male virility. In "To Your
> Scattered Bodies Go", all his characters awake naked on a
> strange world. Name him.
 
philip josé farmer
 
> a hermaphrodite. The same author also explored sexuality in
> his novel "The Synthetic Man", and Vulcan mating rituals in the
> "Star Trek" episode "Amok Time". Name him.
 
theodore sturgeon
 
> 9. In 1972's "The Gods Themselves", his aliens have three sexes.
> All three must participate for conception to occur. Name this
> prolific writer.
 
sir isaac asimov
 
> proponent of homosexuality, casual sex, group marriage, and
> public nudity in his books such as "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"
> and "Time Enough for Love". Name him.
 
robert heinlein
 
 
> 1. #4 on the Top 100 list, she's the top female. She """has won"""
> 6 Olympic medals: one from Salt Lake City and five from Turin.
> She was the flag-bearer at the closing ceremonies in Turin.
 
klassen
 
> 2. He's #6 on the list. He captured Olympic gold, running 100 m
> in 9.84 seconds. He """still holds""" the world record for 50 m.
 
bailey
 
> Olympic gold in the giant slalom at Grenoble, France, by a
> margin of 2.68 seconds, one of the most decisive victories in
> Olympic history.
 
nancy greene
 
> 4. #18. Canada's """greatest""" triathlete. Olympic gold in
> Sidney, despite crashing his bike. Olympic silver in Beijing,
> in another amazing come-from-behind performance.
 
johnson
 
> 5. At #23, he is the top swimmer on the list. At the Los Angeles
> Olympics, he won the 200 m IM gold, and the 400 m gold the next
> day. Later he became a director of the "Own the Podium" program.
 
johnson
 
> and Australian amateur championships. In 2003, she became
> the *oldest* player to win the USGA senior championship title,
> at age 69.
 
johnson
 
> and hockey. Each year, Canada's male athlete of the year
> """receives""" an award named after this man. His nickname was
> "Big Train".
 
conacher
 
> Swing" for his perfect technique, went pro in 1958 and played
> the professional circuit for 11 years, capturing 8 tournament
> victories and coming one stroke away from the 1969 Masters.
 
johnson
 
> behind Eric Heiden, in the 1980 Olympics. He came back from a
> shattered ankle to win gold in the 1000 m at Sarajevo in 1984,
> and laid the foundation for Canada's speed-skating empire.
 
johnson
 
> first non-American to do so. He won 21 of his next 22 races
> and set a world 100 m record of 10.3 seconds, before retiring
> in 1930.
 
williams
 
> Toronto It is to PUT oneself IN the clear."
> m...@vex.net -- Lynn & Jay, "Yes, Prime Minister"
 
> My text in this article is in the public domain.
 
swp
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