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That's the opening whistle
and our game begins.
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You're still playing
for a 30-point bonus question.
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Here's another toss up in English.
Are you ready?
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A spaceship is stranded on the planet
Mercury outside of the libration areas.
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It is night, and pitch black outside.
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For 10 points, how long must the explorers
wait until sunrise?
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Sun doesn't rise on Mercury.
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Bryn Mawr. Stebbins.
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They won't get a sunrise
because Mercury has one side...
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...perpetually turned toward the Sun
and the other away from it.
:48:32
That's right. They would have
to wait forever. That's the answer.
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I have a 20-point bonus coming up.
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Here's your toss-up. For 10 points:
What would a man probably have...
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...if he had a visible contusion
near the upper part of his zygomatic arch?
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A black eye.
:48:49
A sharp lump on his head.
:48:50
Black eye, you bozo.
:48:52
Bryn Mawr. Stebbins.
:48:53
I think, let's see, he would have
a bump here.
:48:57
You look like you've got a bump
on your head.
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A black eye.
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All right. We were looking for a black eye.
:49:04
But I must accept a bruised cheekbone.
:49:09
Yeah, Ma. l know l owe $2,000.
Guess what? l heard it before you.
:49:14
What am l gonna do?
:49:17
l'm choice. l'm gonna have to find
a way to pay it off.
:49:20
Me? l've got $56 to my name.
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Yeah, l know l'm in trouble.
:49:26
Then they'll kill me. What can l tell you?
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Here's your toss-up. For 10 points:
What home-grown philosopher said:
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-''The masks of men lead lives--''
-Thoreau!
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-Cornell. Pearlman.
-Thoreau.
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Right, for 10 points. ''Lead lives of quiet--''
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That's right, for 10 points.
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The statement inscribed
in the US Post Office:
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''Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat,
nor gloom of night....''
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Herodotus!
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For 10 points, what classical author
wrote it?