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Re: QFTCICR25 Game 7, Rounds 4-6: Marvel, disco, USSR

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Mark Brader <msb@vex.net> wrote:

> * Game 7, Round 4 - Literature - Marvel Comics

> 1. Who was the editor, and finally the publisher, of Marvel?

Stan Lee

> 2. What was the original name of Marvel Comics when it began
>    in 1939?

Timely Comics

> 3. After it became Marvel in the 1960s, what was their first
>    superhero title?

Fantastic Four

> 4. Please deocde the rot13 for the rest of the round only after
>    you have finished with #1-3.  Gur Vaperqvoyr Uhyx jnf gur frpbaq
>    1960f Zneiry punenpgre.  Ur vf n terra-fxvaarq zbafgre, ohg va
>    gur svefg vffhr ur jnf nabgure pbybe.  Jung pbybe jnf vg?

grey

> 5. Jung 1940f punenpgre ernccrnerq va gur '60f nsgre orvat sebmra
>    va vpr sbe qrpnqrf nsgre Jbeyq Jne VV?

Captain America

> 6. Jung cbchyne punenpgre svefg nccrnerq va "Nznmvat Snagnfl" #15?

Spider-Man

> 7. Jung fhcreureb qvq nggbearl Zngg Zheqbpu orpbzr?

Daredevil

> 8. Nsgre <nafjre 6>, Zneiry'f arkg zbfg cbchyne punenpgre vf
>    n Pnanqvna.  Ur'f abg sbe fnyr!  Anzr uvz.

Wolverine

> 9. Jung qb Irabz, gur Ihygher, naq gur Fnaqzna unir va pbzzba?

supervillains who usually fought Spider-Man

> 10. Va Zneiry pbzvpf, juvpu fhcreureb hfrf n jurrypunve?

Professor X

> * Game 7, Round 5 - Audio - Disco!

> 5. "Boogie Shoes" first appeared in 1975 and later became a hit
>    after it appeared on the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack
>    in 1977.  Who was the band?

Bee Gees

> 6. "Disco Inferno" found mainstream success when it was also
>    featured on the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack.  Who is
>    the band?

Kool and the Gang

> * Game 7, Round 6 - History - The Soviet Union

> 1. In the civil war that followed the Russian revolution of October
>    1917, what term referred to the various groups which fought
>    the Bolsheviks?

Whites

> 2. Mikhail Gorbachev set up both economic and political reforms.
>    "Perestroika" was the Russian term for the economic reforms.
>    What was the term for the political reforms?

glasnost

> 3. Leon Trotsky was one of the leaders of the October 1917
>    revolution.  In which city was he in exile when he was
>    assassinated by an agent of Stalin?

Mexico City

> 4. In 1956 Nikita Khrushchev delivered a secret speech at the 20th
>    Party Congress of the Soviet Union.  The contents of the speech
>    were leaked shortly afterwards.  What was the major theme of
>    the speech?

de-Stalinization

> 5. What movie describes the visit of the American journalist John
>    Reed to Russia to observe the events of the Russian Revolution?

Reds

> 6. What action of the Soviet Union led to many western nations
>    boycotting the 1980 summer Olympics held in Moscow?

invasion of Afghanistan

> 7. Anatoli Dobrynin was a well-known Soviet statesman.  What role
>    did he hold from 1962 to 1986?

foreign minister

> 8. What European country aligned itself in the early 1960s with
>    Communist China, objecting to the revisionist policies of
>    Nikita Khrushchev?

Albania

> 9. The Soviet Union achieved many firsts in its space program.
>    In 1966, what first did space probe Lunik 9 (or Luna 9) achieve?

orbiting the Moon

> 10. Name the CIA agent who was shot down and captured alive over
>    the Soviet Union in 1960 while on a spy mission.

Powers

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QFTCICR25 Game 7, Rounds 4-6: Marvel, disco, USSR msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) - 2026-06-05 02:21 +0000
  Re: QFTCICR25 Game 7, Rounds 4-6: Marvel, disco, USSR tool@panix.com (Dan Blum) - 2026-06-05 04:05 +0000
  Re: QFTCICR25 Game 7, Rounds 4-6: Marvel, disco, USSR Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com> - 2026-06-04 23:21 -0500
  Re: QFTCICR25 Game 7, Rounds 4-6: Marvel, disco, USSR Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com> - 2026-06-04 21:27 -0700
  Re: QFTCICR25 Game 7, Rounds 4-6: Marvel, disco, USSR Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2026-06-05 14:29 +0200
  Re: QFTCICR25 Game 7, Rounds 4-6: Marvel, disco, USSR Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com> - 2026-06-06 15:13 -0500
  QFTCICR25 Game 7, Rounds 4-6 answers: Marvel, disco, USSR msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) - 2026-06-08 18:52 +0000
    Re: QFTCICR25 Game 7, Rounds 4-6 answers: Marvel, disco, USSR Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com> - 2026-06-08 12:08 -0700
    Re: QFTCICR25 Game 7, Rounds 4-6 answers: Marvel, disco, USSR msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) - 2026-06-11 07:02 +0000

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