Saturday, October 09, 2021

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Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Oct 09 12:00AM -0700

On 10/7/21 8:57 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
> Undeterred, the diplomat published it in the "New York Times".
> Miffed, the administration exposed his wife as a CIA operative.
> Name either the diplomat or his wife.
 
Plame
 
 
> 2. Which US private was arrested in May 2010 for passing classified
> documents to Wikileaks?
 
Snowden
 
> Times" in 1969, demonstrating that the Johnson administration
> had systematically lied to the public and to Congress about
> the Vietnam War. What are these documents called?
 
Pentagon Papers
 
> anonymous note to Army Criminal Investigations, exposing
> violations of the Geneva Convention, including torture and
> abuse -- at *which Iraqi prison*?
 
Abu Ghraib
 
 
> 5. Mark Felt came out of the whistleblower's closet in 2005,
> 30 years after leaking secrets about Nixon's involvement in
> the Watergate scandal. In that context, how was he better known?
 
Deep Throat
 
> of his country's clandestine nuclear weapons program in 1986.
> He was arrested and spent 18 years in prison, 11 of them in
> solitary. Which country did he tattle on?
 
Israel
 
> Trebbiano, and used under that name in many Italian white wines.
 
> 2. The white grape predominant in Bordeaux. Grown also in the
> Loire Valley, where, for example, it is used in Pouilly-Fumé.
 
pinot noir
 
 
> 4. Known as a temperamental grape, sensitive to many diseases.
> The dominant red-wine grape of Burgundy. Germany is its second
> home, where it is known as Spätburgunder.
 
syrah
 
 
> 5. In France found almost exclusively in Alsace. Dominant in
> Rhine and Mosel wines; used to make ice wine as well. Known also
> as Johannisberg, after Schloss Johannisberg in Germany.
 
Riesling
 
 
> 6. Great white wine grape of Burgundy; used to make Pouilly-Fuissé;
> also used for Champagne.
 
chardonnay
 
> back from Iran (Persia).
 
> 8. Dominant grape used in Médoc; around the world, the most
> widespread red wine grape after Merlot.
 
cabernet sauvignon
 
 
--
Dan Tilque
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