The answers have begun to come in via email, but a number of players are still sitting on their hands (or, more likely, stopped reading about halfway through the interminable instructions and gave up in disgust). It's interesting to see which of the Round 1 questions seem to be widely known, and which are universal stumpers.

At 11 AM Thursday I will post some clues: after that point, all guesses received will be scored for half-credit only. Final deadline for Round 1 guesses is 12:01 AM Friday.

At the moment, I will recap the 10 round-one questions for your convenience. Remember, you may revise an earlier guess, but only once, and the revision is final. Guesses logged in my email before the 11 AM clue-fest will be scored for full credit (up to 100 points/answer).

1. A New York City policeman arrested a woman for what reason while she was sitting in an open car in Manhattan? ( He reportedly chided her, "You can't do that on 5th Avenue.")

2. Who wrote the following passage, first published in 1904?

Then everything happened, and with inconceivable rapidity. The fog seemed to break away as though split by a wedge, and the bow of a steamboat emerged, trailing fog-wreaths on either side like seaweed on the snout of Leviathan. I could see the pilot-house and a white-bearded man leaning partly out of it, on his elbows. He was clad in a blue uniform, and I remember noting how trim and quiet he was. His quietness, under the circumstances, was terrible. He accepted Destiny, marched hand in hand with it, and coolly measured the stroke. As he leaned there, he ran a calm and speculative eye over us, as though to determine the precise point of the collision, and took no notice whatever when our pilot, white with rage, shouted, "Now you've done it!"

3. What technological/artistic "first" made Graz, Austria famous in 1904?

4. From what adventurous novel published famously in 1905-- by the daughter of a Hungarian Baron-- is the following excerpted:

"But, tell me, why should your leader--why should you all--spend your money and risk your lives--for it is your lives you risk, Messieurs, when you set foot in France--and all for us French men and women, who are nothing to you?"

"Sport, Madame la Comtesse, sport," asserted Lord Antony, with his jovial, loud and pleasant voice; "we are a nation of sportsmen, you know, and just now it is the fashion to pull the hare from between the teeth of the hound."

5. What two countries (which had been unified for nearly a century) separated in 1905 -- in the process turning a Prince Carl into a King?

6. In 1904 what company was founded as a joint venture between a former electric-doorbell manufacturer and the son of an English lord (who had chosen the unusual career as a professional engineer)?

7. In a June 1905 meeting, William Haywood, Eugene V. Debs and others met and founded an internationally focused organization that became widely known by a nickname. What was the nickname?

8. 1905-6 marked what "Period" in the painting of Picasso?

9. In 1904 the first international agreement against what kind of commerce was drawn up at an international conference in Paris? (The agreement has since been superseded by a broader 1949 U.N. Convention)

10. Paul P. Harris, of Chicago, founds this organization in 1904. In 1945, forty-nine members of the organization take part in the drafting of the U.N. charter in San Francisco. In 1990, the first Moscow branch opens. What is the name of the organization?

Email your answers to quiz at wombatfile dot com before 12:01 AM Friday. Please put "quiz" somewhere in the subject line.