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20.10 Opening CeremoniesSummer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin
(G) 1977-1989
Author born in Belarus, USSR
+35 Task
+ 5 Before 1999 (1981)
Task total = 40
+150 Finisher Bonus
Season total = 505
10.9 Javelin ThrowCousins by Virginia Hamilton
pub, 1990
Task=10
before 1999=5
Task Total:15
Grand Total= 60
20.1 Opening Ceremonies completed
Year bands:
(A) 1896-1909
(B) 1910-1923
(C) 1924-1937
(D) 1938-1950
(E) 1951-1963
(F) 1964-1976
(G) 1977-1989
(H) 1990-2002
� (I) 2003-2014
(J) 2015-2024
Host countries:
Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, � United States, USSR (including any former USSR country: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan)
Decathlon: 10.1; 10.2; 10.9
15.8 Olympic ScavengerBlack Beauty by Anna Sewell
Horse-riding, Option A: many characters ride horses; the whole book is about the life of a horse in the 19th century.
+15 Task
+5 published 1877
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 135
Completed so far: 15.1 golf, B; 15.2 surfboard, B; 15.3 canoe, canoeing A; 15.4 basketball, B, 15.5 tennis, B; 15.6 cycling, B, 15.7 golf, A; 15.8 horse-riding, A
Round 210.1 100 metres
No Thoroughfare by Charles Dickens
+10 task (132 pages)
+ 5 before 1999 (published in 1867)
Task total: 15
Season total: 420
15.9 Olympic ScavengerThe Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl
Dive - Option B page 9
"When it leaps into the air in that wonderful arcing dive that foxes have perfected for plunging headfirst into deep snow or tall grass, this fox comes up with no wiggling mouse or vole."
Task total: 15
Season total: 445
Task 15.8 Olympic ScavengerCYCLE
Option B
My Search for Warren Harding (1983) by Robert Plunket (Hardback 277 pages)
p. 183: “At the end of the CYCLE, we discover, much to our horror, that one has disappeared completely and the other had lost the use of his hind legs, forcing him to go around on little wheels.�
+15 Task
+05 Published before 1999 (1983)
Task Total: 15 + 05 = 20
Grand Total: 340 + 20 = 360
15.3 Olympic Scavenger Round 2We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
Athletic-Option B: “Behind her the door clicks open, we snap back to real time, and in steps Officer Kelly Kiernan, the Bureau’s lead detective. Clean-shaven head, athletic build.� pg. 282
+15 Task
Post total=15
Season total=340
10 stars if I could.
15.2 Olympic Scavenger Round 2The Sassy Submissive by Golden Angel
Athletic - Option B - "While Adam was obviously athletic and spent time in Liam's dojo, he also loved to solve math problems for fun."
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 440
20.7 Opening CeremoniesTete Blanche by Marie-Claire Blais
(F) 1964-1976 / Canada
+30 Task (pub. 1969)
+5 Pre-1999
Task total: 35
Grand total: 475
20.8 Opening CeremoniesQuarantine by Greg Egan
(H) 1990-2002 / Australia
+30 Task (pub. 1992)
+5 Pre-1999
Task total: 35
Grand total: 510
15.7 Olympic Scavenger - Round 2Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories by Cho Nam-Joo
Option B, cycle - " Which gave rise to more disputes, more sales, and even more disputes, in a cycle that was either vicious or advantageous � I can't decide."
+15 task
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 790
10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9; 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x2); 15.2 (x2); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x2); 15.5 (x2); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6;
15.8 Olympic Scavenger - Round 2Spring by Karl Ove Knausgård
Option A, badminton - "I also bought badminton rackets and a net, which I set up in the middle of the lawn, where we played several times a day, either doubles or singles.
+15 task
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 805
10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9; 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x2); 15.2 (x2); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x2); 15.5 (x2); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9; 15.10
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6;
15.9 Olympic Scavenger - Round 2Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Option A, horse-riding - " Fowler got his horse and rode a little behind me as I walked."
+15 task
+5 Before 1999
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 825
10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9; 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x2); 15.2 (x2); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x2); 15.5 (x2); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6;
10.6 HurdlesWhere the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Contemporary
+10 task
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 835
10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5; 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9; 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x2); 15.2 (x2); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x2); 15.5 (x2); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6;
15.4 Olympic Scavenger (Round 3) Night and Silence by Seanan McGuire
hockey Option B � from Chapter 3 showing the hockey pennants and posters on the walls
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 1420
15.5 Olympic Scavenger (Round 3) Penric and the Bandit by Lois McMaster Bujold
horse-riding Option A � they ride horses throughout the book
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 1435
15.10 Olympic Scavenger - Round 2Shy by Max Porter
Option B, Basketball - " [The camera noses into the tv room, three huge sunken brown sofas, a mini basketball hoop on the back of the door..."
+15 task
+100 Finisher Bonus
Post Total = 115
Season Total = 950
10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5; 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9; 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x2); 15.2 (x2); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x2); 15.5 (x2); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10 (x2)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6;
20.7 Opening CeremoniesDead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie
E, United Kingdon
+30 task
+5 Before 1999
Post Total = 35
Season Total = 985
10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5; 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9; 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x2); 15.2 (x2); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x2); 15.5 (x2); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10 (x2)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7;
15.4 Olympic Scavenger Round 2The Dispossessed by Don Carpenter
Boxing-Option B: “He moved toward Valerie, bringing up his fists in the boxer’s stance, but before he could actually start boxing, Valerie hit him again, on the nose,...� pg. 71
+15 Task
+ 5 before 1999
Post total=20
Season total=360
20.8 Opening Ceremonies E - 1951 - 1963The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
Japan
30 task
5 oldie
_____
35
Running total: 775
15. 7 Scavenger HuntThe Art of Fallingby Melissa Toppen
athletic-option B "only taller, and with a more athletic build" p 17
Task +15
Grand Total: 140
10.7 Discus ThrowUnsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West by Cassandra Tate
+10 task (round)
Season total: 150
20.8 Opening Ceremonies (Round 2)Frog by Mo Yan
(I) 2003-2014
Author born in China
+30 Task
Task total = 30
Season total = 1465
15.6 Olympic Scavenger (Round 3) Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
athletics Option B � from page 73 chilled out together in the bleachers in the athletics field
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 1480
15.5 Olympic Scavenger Round 2The Iris Fan by Laura Joh Rowland
15 pts 15.5 Horseriding/horse Option B. “He was glad of the bad weather; there was no one to see himm and Marume tied onto his horse like captured criminals and to throw stones.�
Task total = 15 pts
Season total = 420 pts
Post 484
15 point tasks Round 2
15.1 Surfing Option A
15.2 Horseback riding Option A
15.3 Swimming Option A
15.4 Golf Option B
15.5 Horse/horseriding Option A
20 pt tasks Round 1
20.1 1896-1909 United Kingdom
20.2 1910-1923 United States
20.3 1938-1950 Australia
10.7 Discus ThrowRingworld (Ringworld #1) by Larry Niven
+10 Task
+5 pub 1970
+100 Finish (10 Task)
Post Total: 115
Season Total: 915
15.3 Olympic Scavenger Round 2The Women by Kristin Hannah
Option B - volleyball - "I saw an old friend of yours, I can't recall her name, the frizzy-haired girl from St. Bernadette's that played volleyball so poorly..."
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 525
20.9 Opening CeremoniesGateway by Frederik Pohl
(G) 1977-1989 - USA
+35 Task
+5 pre-1999
Task total: 40
Grand total: 565
Round 210.2 Long Jump
A Good Hard Look by Ann Napolitano
Historical fiction
Task total: 10
Season total: 455
Task 15.9 Olympic ScavengerTENNIS
Option B
Daisies for Innocence (Enchanted Garden Mystery #1) (2016) by Bailey Cattrell
p. 140: “Molly had a smear of mud on her TENNIS shoe, just like a normal little kid.�
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 360 + 15 = 375
15.8 Scavenger Hunt Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912by Ellen Emerson White
Diving- "The seagulls around us were swooping and diving" p 87 option A
Task +15
Grand total: 155
20.8 Opening CeremoniesThe Silent Executioner (Fantômas #2) by Marcel Allain
(B) 1910-1923
Author born in France
+30 Task
+5 pub 1911
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 950
15.5 Olympic Scavenger Round 2The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
Football-Option B: “Football highlights were playing on the TV mounted above the bottles, and I pretended to be interested.� 45%
+15 Task
Post total=15
Season total=375
20.7 Opening CeremoniesThe Golden Bowl by Henry James
(A) 1896-1909 / USA
Published 1904, author born in USA
+30 Task
+ 5 Big
+ 5 Old
Task total = 40
Season total = 475
15.1 Olympic ScavengerGorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
Option B, swimming
On the paneled walls were photographs of Iamskoy ... swimming at Silver Grove,
+15 Task
+ 5 Before 1999 (1981)
Task total = 20
Season total = 525
15.7 Olympic Scavenger (Round 3) Long Island by Colm TóibÃn
Golf - option B � from page 22 when she had won the Lady Captain’s Prize at the golf club in Enniscorthy
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 1495
20.4 Opening CeremoniesThe Carter of 'La Providence' by Georges Simenon
20 pts 20.4 (C) 1924-1937 Belguim
5 pts pre 1999
Task total = 25 pts
Season total = 445 pts
Post 496
15 point tasks Round 2
15.1 Surfing Option A
15.2 Horseback riding Option A
15.3 Swimming Option A
15.4 Golf Option B
15.5 Horse/horseriding Option A
20 pt tasks Round 1
20.1 1896-1909 United Kingdom
20.2 1910-1923 United States
20.3 1938-1950 Australia
20.4 1924-1937 Belguim
20.10 Opening CeremoniesRickshaw Boy by Lao She
(C) 1924-1937
Author born in China
+35 Task (1936)
+ 5 Before 1999 (1936)
Task total = 40
Finisher bonus: 150 points
Season Total: 805
15.7 Olympic ScavengerThe Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
Tennis, Option B - "I saw him yesterday at the tennis..." chapter 22
+15 Task
+ 5 Before 1928
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 825
15.8 Olympic ScavengerHavana Year Zero by Karla Suárez
Cycle or cycling, Option A- Everyone traveled by cycling around town (bicycle)
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 840
15.9 Olympic ScavengerThe Winners by Fredrik Backman
Hockey Option A- Hockey in two rival towns is the backbone of the entire book.
+15 Task
+ 5 Big (673)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 860
Decathlon Round 210.7 Discus Throw
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
+10 Task: Round - aROUND
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 870
20.9 Opening CeremoniesMonsieur Monde Vanishes by Georges Simenon
(D) 1938-1950
Author born in Belgium
+35 Task
+5 pub 1945
Post Total: 40
Season Total: 990
20.5 Opening CeremoniesMemoirs of a Peasant Boy by Xosé Neira Vilas
25 pts 20.5 (E) 1951-1963 Spain
5 pts pre 1999
Task total = 30 pts
Season total = 475 pts
Post 503
15 point tasks Round 2
15.1 Surfing Option A
15.2 Horseback riding Option A
15.3 Swimming Option A
15.4 Golf Option B
15.5 Horse/horseriding Option A
20 pt tasks Round 1
20.1 1896-1909 United Kingdom
20.2 1910-1923 United States
20.3 1938-1950 Australia
20.4 1924-1937 Belguim
20.5 1951-1963 Spain
Task 20.8 Opening CeremoniesJ/2015-2024
Author: Born in Finland
FINLAND
The Moonday Letters (2020) by Emmi Itäranta
+30 Task
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 375 + 30 = 405
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Fatal Intrusion (Sanchez & Heron #1) by Jeffery Deaver & Isabella Maldonado
athletic, Option B
"'The sandy-haired man, of athletic build, was young to be a gold shield, Carmen thought, but he couldn't have made it to the Central Homicide Unit without some righteous collars to his name."
+15 Task
+100 Finish (15 Task)
Post Total: 115
Season Total: 800