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BRAINBUSTER Game Q&A for Tue. Aug. 7, 2018.
As I have not used a camcorder to get the exact wording of the Questions, this game summary is based on short written notes taken while playing the game. I may eventually post similar Q&A for the SHOWDOWN Game, now that BLZBUB needs a break.

Questions:

1. In grammar, the preterite refers to __________________.
2. What American writer lived among [supposed?] cannibals?________________
3. Perique is a type of flavored ________________.
4. What gland lies between the spleen and the duodenum?_____________________
5. The largest marsupial is the red _______________.
6. In 1948, what Dixiecrat ran for President of the United States?_________________
7. In the 1920s, Blind Pig referred to a _________________.
8. What river lies between Brazzaville and Kinshasa?________________
9. In the 1980s, T. Boone Pickens [and two others I did not have time to record] were prominent ______________.
10. Who composed the Music for the Royal Fireworks?___________________
11. What woman's movement ……………? [I did not have time to write down the clues]____________
12. Who did Byron de la Beckwith assassinate?_________________
13. The ancient country of Pontus was in what is now modern _______________.
14. Sansho the Bailiff, and [2 other names I did not have time to write down] are Japanese ________________ .
15. The Bolivar Fuente is the unit of currency in this country:____________________.

Answers:
1. Past tense [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preterite ]
2. Herman Melville [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typee ]
3. Tobacco [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perique ]
4. Pancreas [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancreas and https://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorde ... e-pancreas ]
5. Kangaroo [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_kangaroo ]
6. Strom Thurmond [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond ]
7. Speakeasy [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakeasy ]
8. Congo [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_River - blow up the map to see Brazzaville & Kinshasa on opposite banks]
9. Corporate raiders [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Boone_Pickens ]
10. Handel [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_for ... _Fireworks , and for performances see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNqJ8mED1VE (16:01) or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7vJ2UFbeXA (22:01) .]
11. Red Hat Society [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Society ]
12. Medgar Evers [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_de_la_Beckwith . Bob Dylan's 1964 album "The Times They Are a-Changin' " includes the song "Only a Pawn in Their Game" about the assassination of Medgar Evers. Buy the CD!!! For live performances by Dylan, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk_dt71ElwY (including lyrics) or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F229G4Dx2yc . See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times ... in'_(album) .]
13. Turkey [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontus_(region) ]
14. Cinema [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansho_the_Bailiff ]
15. Venezuela [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_bolivar ]

If any of the links don't work, Google the names of the items.

That's a fabulous entry, REACH.

Should we worry that you could burn out?

Offering references is beautiful, but we can do that on problematic answers for ourselves.

What I'm persistently incapable of doing, is merely to remember the questions and answers - quite often questions that I failed and later can't recall.

Merely reciting the questions accurately would be sufficient.

Of course, please do what you feel you need to do, but on your own behalf, within your own critical judgment, I must beg of you not to attempt anything more.

To GONE D: Thanks for the kind words. I've been typing up and sending BRAINBUSTER Game Q&A for years with my team members, past and present, and friends at Big Guys in Winnipeg, AKBAR in Delaware (who makes an annual trip to Ottawa to play in a card tournament), etc. It's true that anyone interested can Google their own searches for answers, but I'd rather do it once for all, who can then click on the links (for most, trivia items are not worth spending the time doing more than reading and clicking). Rather than pre-judging which Questions cause difficulty, I look up links for most (although not always for Warm-up Questions in the SHOWDOWN Game).