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Bridging the Gap 4 By Kathy Falandys Tilyard Test your knowledge with this quiz Please do not use any notes or a book to help with this quiz. You need to know what you know. You have learned more about bridge than you think. Be proud of your new-found love and your ability. I want to help you continue your bridge journey— one that I hope never ends. Answers can be found on page 28. 1. How many High Card Points (HCP) are there in a deck of cards? 2. If you have bid three hearts, how many tricks rnust you take to make your contract? 3. If you sit North, in what position does your partner sit? , 4. What do we call the person who lays down his/her hand after the opening lead? 5. How many games must you win to score a rubber? 6. If you win two games in a row and opponents win none, what bonus points do you earn? 7. You win two games in a row but the opponents won the first game. What bonus points do you earn? 8. Why should you know how to score at bridge? If someone else is willing to score at the table, does it even matter if you know how to score? 9. How many points do you need to open INT? What type of points must they be? 10. If you want to transfer to hearts after your partner’s INT opening bid, what would you bid? How many points must you hold to transfer? How many of that suit must you hold? 11. If you wish to transfer to clubs after your partner has bid INT, how do you do that and how many “pieces” must you hold in that suit? How many points? 12. If your partner opens INT and you hold a four-card major suit, what is your bid, what is it called and how many points must you have to bid it? 13. How does your INT opening partner respond if you have bid 24^ if he/she does not have a four-card major suit? 14. How many “pieces” must you hold to open I# or IV? 15. You have opening count but no biddable suit and not enough points for a NT opening bid. What should you bid? What are you asking your partner to answer to your bid? 16. You get a NT contract and four aces sit in your dummy’s hand; do you get any points for that? 17. How many points must you make to get a game in bridge? 18. If you have 60 points below the line and your opponents next make a game, do you get any credit for your 60 points toward a game? 19. When do you learn what conventions your partner uses? Should you ask him/her during your bidding? 20. If your opponent does not know what a bid by you means, can he/she ask and whom should he/she ask? Can the person who made the bid clarify it? 21. What is an overcall? 22. Can you overcall at the one level with less than opening? 23. If you overcall at the two level, what must you hold? 24. What must you have to overcall with INT? 25. What are the requirements for a weak two bid? Length and holding in that suit? 26. What are the requirements for an opening three bid? 27. What are the requirements for an opening four bid? 28. If you have points close to what are required, can you “fudge” just one bid? 29. What point count is required to open 2NT? Is it forcing? 30. What point count is required to open 3NT? Is it forcing? 31. What does “forcing” mean? 32. How many tricks must you take to make a Grand Slam? 33. What is tlte Blackwood Convention used for? 34. If you are second position to play on a trick, should you take it, play high or play low? What is the thinking for your answer? 35. Do you count your winners or losers when you are about to play a suit contract? 36. Do you count your winners or losers when you are about to play a NT contract? 37. When should you announce that you have honors in the bid contract? 38. What are honors in a NT contract? 39. Can anyone at the table who has honors in the bid contract get credit for them? 40. You hold no spades: KQJ3V J109441098743+. What is your point count if your partner opened 14? How many points do you have if your partner bid iir? Harry S. Truman: The Presidenq^ By Charlie McBriarty On April 12, 1945, just 82 days after Harry S. Truman was sworn in as vice presi dent, he was summoned to the White House and told by the first lady that Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) had succumbed to a stroke. His initial reaction to this news was to ask Mrs. Roosevelt if there was anything he could do for her—to which she responded, “Is there anything we can do for you? For you are the one in trouble now.” Whether this exchange occurred before or after Truman was sworn in as the 33rd President of the United States is unclear. It was clear that Eleanor’s response was on target. Unfortunately, FDR had little time to devote to the schooling of his new vice president regarding either domestic or foreign affairs. As a consequence, Truman faced a steep learning challenge. However, he proved to be a quick study as he was brought up to speed on the nation’s role in the world war, the secret Manhattan Project and domestic issues needing attention. On May 8,1945, which came to be called V-E Day, President Truman received an unexpected birthday present—the end of the war in Europe was declared. However, major issues loomed regarding the treatment of the surrendering nations. The plans of Joseph Stalin, the leader of the communist Soviet Union, were significantly dif ferent from those of the leaders of the other Allied Forces. The mid-1945 end of WWII in Europe gave little relief in the Pacific. The Japa nese high command exhibited no interest in surrender as they continued their assaults. However, with the successful conclusion of the Manhattan Project later that year, President Truman learned that he had a new device that might hasten the conclusion of the fighting in the Pacific. The new weapon was the atomic bomb. On August 6, 1945, Truman directed the B-29 bomber Enola Gay to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, one of Japan’s weapons manufacturing cities. When the devastation created by this single bomb did not result in abatement of Japan’s war effort, on August 9 the president ordered that a second bomb be dropped on Nagasaki. Less than a week later the Japanese high command expressed their intent to surrender. WWII formally ended on the USS Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay, on September 2 when General Douglas MacArthur, representing the Allied Forces, signed the official papers verifying Japan’s unconditional surrender. Although President Truman had not been involved in the early discussions about the formation of the United Nations, he had long been an advocate of Wilsonian internationalism. And it was under his watch that the United Nations was officially established on October 24,1945. (Continued on page 28) July 2014 I The Shoreline 27
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