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Today's topics:

* calvin's quiz #341 - Battles - 8 messages, 8 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/8dc8a246a338837a?hl=en
* SWPKO #3 RESULTS - 3 messages, 3 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/79301a6dc2027e81?hl=en
* SWPKO #4 - 4 messages, 4 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/508e1ff5471d2794?hl=en
* Calvin's Quiz #340 - ANSWERS & SCORES - 3 messages, 3 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/473f9b1647b04fd4?hl=en
* QFTCIC Game 8, Rounds 4,6: north to south, Jacks - 3 messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/615216f9f77ca2f2?hl=en
* Rotating Quiz 129 - 3 messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/2a1e35f56ee344fa?hl=en
* QFTCICR14 Current Events 3-4 - 2 messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/db2c542af02dc30f?hl=en

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TOPIC: calvin's quiz #341 - Battles
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/8dc8a246a338837a?hl=en
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== 1 of 8 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 1:34 pm
From: calvin <334152@gmail.com>



During which war did the following battles occur?


1 Battle of Lone Pine
2 Battle of Ladysmith
3 Battle of Agincourt
4 Battle of Long Tan
5 Operation Desert Storm
6 Battle of Bull Run
7 Battle of Austerlitz
8 Battle of Pusan Perimeter
9 Battle of Stalingrad
10 Battle of Yorktown


--
cheers,
calvin




== 2 of 8 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 2:32 pm
From: Erland Sommarskog


calvin (334152@gmail.com) writes:
> During which war did the following battles occur?
>
>
> 1 Battle of Lone Pine

Tudor Wars

> 2 Battle of Ladysmith

Tudor Wars

> 3 Battle of Agincourt

100-year War

> 4 Battle of Long Tan

Aung Shan uprising

> 5 Operation Desert Storm

Kuwait war 1991

> 6 Battle of Bull Run

US Civil War

> 7 Battle of Austerlitz

Napolean War

> 8 Battle of Pusan Perimeter

Korean War

> 9 Battle of Stalingrad

WW II

> 10 Battle of Yorktown
>

Tudor Wars


--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se




== 3 of 8 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 3:03 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)


"Calvin":
> 1 Battle of Lone Pine

War of 1812, the one fought in North America.

> 2 Battle of Ladysmith

Boer War, aka Second Boer War.

> 3 Battle of Agincourt

Hundred Years War.

> 4 Battle of Long Tan

Chinese Communist Revolution.

> 5 Operation Desert Storm

Second (Persian) Gulf War.

> 6 Battle of Bull Run

US Civil War.

> 7 Battle of Austerlitz

Napoleonic Wars.

> 8 Battle of Pusan Perimeter

Korean War.

> 9 Battle of Stalingrad

Second World War.

> 10 Battle of Yorktown

American Revolution.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "You don't SIT IN the traffic jam;
msb@vex.net | you ARE the traffic jam." -- Werner Icking

My text in this article is in the public domain.




== 4 of 8 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 3:05 pm
From: "Rob Parker"


> 1 Battle of Lone Pine

World War I

> 2 Battle of Ladysmith

War of the Roses (?)

> 3 Battle of Agincourt

Hundred Years War

> 4 Battle of Long Tan

Vietnamese War

> 5 Operation Desert Storm

Gulf War

> 6 Battle of Bull Run

American Civil War

> 7 Battle of Austerlitz

Napoleon v. Europe

> 8 Battle of Pusan Perimeter

Korean War

> 9 Battle of Stalingrad

World War II

> 10 Battle of Yorktown

American War of Independence


Rob






== 5 of 8 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 6:03 pm
From: Dan Tilque


calvin wrote:
>
> During which war did the following battles occur?
>
>
> 1 Battle of Lone Pine

Commanche War ?

> 2 Battle of Ladysmith

Boer War

> 3 Battle of Agincourt

100 Years War

> 4 Battle of Long Tan

Opium War

> 5 Operation Desert Storm

Gulf War II

> 6 Battle of Bull Run

American Civil War

> 7 Battle of Austerlitz

Napoleanic Wars

> 8 Battle of Pusan Perimeter

Korean War

> 9 Battle of Stalingrad

World War II

> 10 Battle of Yorktown

American War for Independence


--
Dan Tilque

Helix, if everything goes according to plan, the plan has been
compromised. -- Sam Starfall in "Freefall"




== 6 of 8 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 6:21 pm
From: swp


On Monday, February 3, 2014 4:34:35 PM UTC-5, Calvin wrote:
> During which war did the following battles occur?
>
> 1 Battle of Lone Pine

world war i (nice aussie question!)

> 2 Battle of Ladysmith

2nd boer war

> 3 Battle of Agincourt

hundred years' war

> 4 Battle of Long Tan

vietnam war

> 5 Operation Desert Storm

gulf war i

> 6 Battle of Bull Run

american civil war is your expected answer. the correct answer is that this was really the first battle of manassas (virginia) in the war of northern aggression.

> 7 Battle of Austerlitz

napoleonic wars against the 3rd coalition. featured in the book 'war and peace'

> 8 Battle of Pusan Perimeter

korean war

> 9 Battle of Stalingrad

world war ii

> 10 Battle of Yorktown

american revolution


swp, who swears he wasn't at all of them.




== 7 of 8 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 9:46 pm
From: Marc Dashevsky


In article <op.xap57xew2wood3@homepc>, 334152@gmail.com says...
>
> During which war did the following battles occur?
> 1 Battle of Lone Pine
> 2 Battle of Ladysmith
Boer War

> 3 Battle of Agincourt
100 Year War

> 4 Battle of Long Tan
Vietnam War

> 5 Operation Desert Storm
Iraq War I

> 6 Battle of Bull Run
U.S. Civil War

> 7 Battle of Austerlitz
Napoleanic Wars

> 8 Battle of Pusan Perimeter
Korean War

> 9 Battle of Stalingrad
WWII

> 10 Battle of Yorktown
U.S. Revolutionary War






== 8 of 8 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 10:13 pm
From: Jeffrey Turner


On 2/3/2014 4:34 PM, calvin wrote:
>
> During which war did the following battles occur?
>
>
> 1 Battle of Lone Pine
> 2 Battle of Ladysmith
> 3 Battle of Agincourt
Hundred Years' War
> 4 Battle of Long Tan
> 5 Operation Desert Storm
US-Iraq War
> 6 Battle of Bull Run
US Civil War
> 7 Battle of Austerlitz
WWI
> 8 Battle of Pusan Perimeter
Korean War
> 9 Battle of Stalingrad
WWII
> 10 Battle of Yorktown
American Revolution






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TOPIC: SWPKO #3 RESULTS
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/79301a6dc2027e81?hl=en
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 2:26 pm
From: Erland Sommarskog


swp (Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com) writes:
> 1946-10-01 Mark Brader
> 1946-10-01 Dan Tilque
> 1946-10-01 Pete
> 2015-02-04 David B
>
> So David B has saved 3 players from the tie-breaker of earliest entry.
> Be thankful, and when you speak of him, speak kindly.

It's kind of funny that three contestants would clash exactly on that
date. Because, when I looked it up on Wikipedia, that was the day this
particular trial ended.


--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se




== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 2:48 pm
From: Dan Tilque


Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> swp (Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com) writes:
>> 1946-10-01 Mark Brader
>> 1946-10-01 Dan Tilque
>> 1946-10-01 Pete
>> 2015-02-04 David B
>>
>> So David B has saved 3 players from the tie-breaker of earliest entry.
>> Be thankful, and when you speak of him, speak kindly.
>
> It's kind of funny that three contestants would clash exactly on that
> date. Because, when I looked it up on Wikipedia, that was the day this
> particular trial ended.
>
>

Actually, I didn't clash on that date. My answer was 1946-09-03, almost
a full month earlier.

--
Dan Tilque




== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 6:08 pm
From: swp


On Monday, February 3, 2014 5:48:16 PM UTC-5, Dan Tilque wrote:
> Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> > swp (Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com) writes:
> >> 1946-10-01 Mark Brader
> >> 1946-10-01 Dan Tilque
> >> 1946-10-01 Pete
> >> 2015-02-04 David B
> >>
> >> So David B has saved 3 players from the tie-breaker of earliest entry.
> >> Be thankful, and when you speak of him, speak kindly.
> >
> > It's kind of funny that three contestants would clash exactly on that
> > date. Because, when I looked it up on Wikipedia, that was the day this
> > particular trial ended.
> >
> >
>
> Actually, I didn't clash on that date. My answer was 1946-09-03, almost
> a full month earlier.
>
> --
> Dan Tilque

and so it was. sorry about that, I must have done a copy&paste error. fortunately it did not change the outcome.

and I thought I mentioned the date of the sentencing in the results post.

swp





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TOPIC: SWPKO #4
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/508e1ff5471d2794?hl=en
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== 1 of 4 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 2:28 pm
From: Erland Sommarskog


swp (Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com) writes:
> #4. What date is the 2014 World Cup scheduled to *finish*?
> Please use YYYY-MM-DD format when answering.

2014-07-13


--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se




== 2 of 4 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 3:27 pm
From: Russ


On Mon, 3 Feb 2014 10:30:04 -0800 (PST), swp
<Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com> wrote:

>As promised, I started a new thread.
>
>The contest is now open to Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua Kreitzer, Calvin,
>Mark Brader, Peter Smyth, Russ, and Erland Sommarskog.
>
>***
> #4. What date is the 2014 World Cup scheduled to *finish*?
> Please use YYYY-MM-DD format when answering.
>***
>
>swp, who has many non-date-related questions lined up starting with #5


2015-07-15


Russ S.




== 3 of 4 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 5:50 pm
From: Dan Tilque


swp wrote:
>
> ***
> #4. What date is the 2014 World Cup scheduled to *finish*?
> Please use YYYY-MM-DD format when answering.
> ***

2014-07-25

--
Dan Tilque

Helix, if everything goes according to plan, the plan has been
compromised. -- Sam Starfall in "Freefall"




== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 6:42 pm
From: Joshua Kreitzer


swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com> wrote in
news:d76eec51-b027-4ad6-8250-eaa06d3d7a83@googlegroups.com:

> As promised, I started a new thread.
>
> The contest is now open to Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua
> Kreitzer, Calvin, Mark Brader, Peter Smyth, Russ, and Erland
> Sommarskog.
>
> ***
> #4. What date is the 2014 World Cup scheduled to *finish*?
> Please use YYYY-MM-DD format when answering.
> ***
>

2014-07-20

--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com





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TOPIC: Calvin's Quiz #340 - ANSWERS & SCORES
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/473f9b1647b04fd4?hl=en
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 2:30 pm
From: Erland Sommarskog


calvin (334152@gmail.com) writes:
>> 6 The Stampede City (Americas)
>
> Calvary


Ah, the Cavalary!




== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 6:05 pm
From: swp


On Monday, February 3, 2014 4:30:56 PM UTC-5, Calvin wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:57:04 +1000, calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote:
> Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 340
> 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10 75 Stephen Perry
> 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 67 Rob Parker
> 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 8 66 Pete Gayde
> 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 8 69 Mark Brader
> 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 8 69 Dan Tilque
> 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 8 69 Marc Dashevsky
> 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 8 69 Jeffrey Turner
> 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 7 63 Bruce Bowler
> 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 6 49 Gareth Owen
> 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 29 Erland S
> - - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
> 10 8 3 9 9 8 10 3 9 6 75 75%
>
> Well done Perry.
>
> --
> cheers,
> calvin

please, call me Stephen.

swp




== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 10:10 pm
From: Jeffrey Turner


On 2/3/2014 5:30 PM, Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> calvin (334152@gmail.com) writes:
>>> 6 The Stampede City (Americas)
>>
>> Calvary
>
>
> Ah, the Cavalary!

Calgary

http://www.calgarystampede.com/







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TOPIC: QFTCIC Game 8, Rounds 4,6: north to south, Jacks
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/615216f9f77ca2f2?hl=en
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 4:25 pm
From: Jeffrey Turner


On 2/1/2014 7:10 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Geography - North to South
>
> In each question we name four cities in the same country, in
> alphabetical order. You list them in order by latitude from
> north to south. You may abbreviate the cities to initial letters
> if you like. If you are giving two guesses, please give two
> complete lists of four.
>
> 1. Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Multan.
> 2. Bologna, Florence, Siena, Venice.
> 3. Hammerfest, Lillehammer, Oslo, Trondheim.
> 4. Kyoto, Nagasaki, Osaka, Tokyo.
> 5. Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth.
> 6. Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Liège.
> 7. Cancun, Guadalajara, Mexico City, Oaxaca.
G,MC,O,C
> 8. Curitiba, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador.
> 9. Ayr, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Oban.
> 10. Casablanca, Fez, Marrakesh, Rabat.
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 6 - Miscellaneous - Famous Jacks (HANDOUT)
>
> Here is a round on men named Jack -- real and fictional. Please see
> the 2-page handout at:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/8-6/jacks.pdf
>
> Except as indicated, give the surname of each Jack.
>
> I have sorted the questions into numerical sequence for convenience;
> there were 8 decoys, which I have included in their sequential position.
> Identify the decoys if you like for fun, but for no points.
>
> 1. (decoy)
> 2. A sports icon.
Johnson
> 3. A fictional character played in a series of movies by Johnny Depp.
Sparrow
> 4. (decoy)
> 5. (decoy)
> 6. (decoy)
> 7. (decoy)
> 8. A controversial real-life person.
> 9. A British soap-opera character.
> 10. A controversial real-life person.
> 11. (decoy)
> 12. (decoy)
> 13. An actor, shown posing with Elmo.
Black
> 14. This is Jack Lemmon; name the *movie*.
The Front Page
> 15. TV actor.
Lord
> 16. TV character.
Sam Watterston
> 17. (decoy)
> 18. This is Jack Nicholson; name the *movie*.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

--Jeff




== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 8:48 pm
From: Dan Tilque


Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2013-11-18,
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
> both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
> Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
> the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
> the correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of Clueless, and are used
> here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have been
> retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see my
> 2013-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Geography - North to South
>
> In each question we name four cities in the same country, in
> alphabetical order. You list them in order by latitude from
> north to south. You may abbreviate the cities to initial letters
> if you like. If you are giving two guesses, please give two
> complete lists of four.
>
> 1. Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Multan.
> 2. Bologna, Florence, Siena, Venice.
> 3. Hammerfest, Lillehammer, Oslo, Trondheim.
> 4. Kyoto, Nagasaki, Osaka, Tokyo.
> 5. Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth.
> 6. Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Liège.
> 7. Cancun, Guadalajara, Mexico City, Oaxaca.
> 8. Curitiba, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador.
> 9. Ayr, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Oban.
> 10. Casablanca, Fez, Marrakesh, Rabat.
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 6 - Miscellaneous - Famous Jacks (HANDOUT)
>
> Here is a round on men named Jack -- real and fictional. Please see
> the 2-page handout at:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/8-6/jacks.pdf
>
> Except as indicated, give the surname of each Jack.
>
> I have sorted the questions into numerical sequence for convenience;
> there were 8 decoys, which I have included in their sequential position.
> Identify the decoys if you like for fun, but for no points.


>
> 1. (decoy)
> 2. A sports icon.
> 3. A fictional character played in a series of movies by Johnny Depp.
> 4. (decoy)
> 5. (decoy)
> 6. (decoy)
> 7. (decoy)
> 8. A controversial real-life person.
> 9. A British soap-opera character.
> 10. A controversial real-life person.
> 11. (decoy)
> 12. (decoy)
> 13. An actor, shown posing with Elmo.
> 14. This is Jack Lemmon; name the *movie*.
> 15. TV actor.
> 16. TV character.
> 17. (decoy)
> 18. This is Jack Nicholson; name the *movie*.
>


--
Dan Tilque

Helix, if everything goes according to plan, the plan has been
compromised. -- Sam Starfall in "Freefall"




== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 8:51 pm
From: Dan Tilque


Mark Brader wrote:

Note: I accidently replied with a post that had no answers. Please
ignore that post.

>
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Geography - North to South
>
> In each question we name four cities in the same country, in
> alphabetical order. You list them in order by latitude from
> north to south. You may abbreviate the cities to initial letters
> if you like. If you are giving two guesses, please give two
> complete lists of four.
>
> 1. Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Multan.

I M L K

> 2. Bologna, Florence, Siena, Venice.

B V S F

> 3. Hammerfest, Lillehammer, Oslo, Trondheim.

T L H O

> 4. Kyoto, Nagasaki, Osaka, Tokyo.

T O K N

> 5. Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth.

C P A M

> 6. Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Liège.

A B L G

> 7. Cancun, Guadalajara, Mexico City, Oaxaca.

MC G C O

> 8. Curitiba, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador.
> 9. Ayr, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Oban.
> 10. Casablanca, Fez, Marrakesh, Rabat.
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 6 - Miscellaneous - Famous Jacks (HANDOUT)
>
> Here is a round on men named Jack -- real and fictional. Please see
> the 2-page handout at:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/8-6/jacks.pdf
>
> Except as indicated, give the surname of each Jack.
>
> I have sorted the questions into numerical sequence for convenience;
> there were 8 decoys, which I have included in their sequential position.
> Identify the decoys if you like for fun, but for no points.
>
> 1. (decoy)
> 2. A sports icon.
> 3. A fictional character played in a series of movies by Johnny Depp.
> 4. (decoy)
> 5. (decoy)
> 6. (decoy)
> 7. (decoy)
> 8. A controversial real-life person.
> 9. A British soap-opera character.
> 10. A controversial real-life person.
> 11. (decoy)
> 12. (decoy)
> 13. An actor, shown posing with Elmo.
> 14. This is Jack Lemmon; name the *movie*.
> 15. TV actor.

Jack Lord

> 16. TV character.

Jack Silberman

> 17. (decoy)
> 18. This is Jack Nicholson; name the *movie*.

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest


--
Dan Tilque





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TOPIC: Rotating Quiz 129
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/2a1e35f56ee344fa?hl=en
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 8:55 pm
From: Dan Tilque


Mark Brader wrote:
> This is Rotating Quiz #129. The contest will run for 6 days
> and 4 hours from the moment of posting, so you have until about
> 1:40 am Monday night (morning of Tuesday, February 4) by Toronto
> time, zone -5.
>
> Please answer based only on your own knowledge and, of course,
> do not discuss the questions in the newsgroup before answering.
>
> Please post your answers to all questions in a single followup in
> the newsgroup, quoting the questions and placing your answer below
> each one. This is not QFTCI -- you're only allowed one attempt
> per question. The last two questions are tiebreakers.
>
> 1. In 1963, George Plimpton, a sportswriter who was not an
> athlete, was given the chance to suit up with a professional
> football game and play in an intra-squad practice game.
> Name the book he wrote about his experiences.
>
> 2. In Madonna's song "Like a Virgin", after the title words
> are sung for the first time, what line comes next?

it feels like the very first time

>
> 3. In playing the major scale, after the tonic note the sequence
> of intervals is tone-tone-semitone-tone-tone-tone-semitone.
> In the same notation, what is it for the natural minor scale
> (the most common minor scale in our culture)?
>
> 4. In the era of the IBM 360 series, the memory of a large
> computer around 1970 consisted of a 3-dimensional array
> of wires threaded through ring-shaped pieces of ferrite
> at their intersections. Each piece of ferrite represented
> either a 0 or a 1 bit depending on how it was magnetized.
> But what was one of these pieces called?

core

>
> 5. Name Sam Spade's partner who is killed in "The Maltese
> Falcon".
>
> 6. The American F-89 fighter plane, the British FV101 tank,
> and the Czech vz.61 machine gun were all given the name of
> what venomous creature?

scorpion

>
> 7. What do the following celebrities have in common (that most
> others do not)? Joseph Fiennes, Linda Hamilton, Jill
> Hennessy, Scarlett Johanssen, Isabella Rossellini, Keifer
> Sutherland.
>
> 8. What is "alive without breath, as cold as death"?
>
> 9. Within 1, when was the last year that a team -- Chicago --
> won their third NBA championship in a row?

1994

>
> 10. Within the city limits of New York there is one track for
> horse racing. What is its name?
>
> 11. First tiebreaker: Identify the hidden theme.

too few answers to see a pattern

>
> 12. Second tiebreaker: Write an interesting additional question
> fitting the theme. (Please also provide the answer, in rot13.)
>


--
Dan Tilque

Helix, if everything goes according to plan, the plan has been
compromised. -- Sam Starfall in "Freefall"




== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 11:50 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)


Mark Brader:
> This is Rotating Quiz #129. The contest will run for 6 days
> and 4 hours from the moment of posting, so you have until about
> 1:40 am Monday night (morning of Tuesday, February 4) by Toronto
> time, zone -5.

The reason for the extra 4 hours was so that the contest wouldn't
end in the middle of a Canadian Inquisition game, when I knew
I wouldn't be around to score it.

I allowed half points for answers that incorporated the relevant
information but were not in the required form.

> 1. In 1963, George Plimpton, a sportswriter who was not an
> athlete, was given the chance to suit up with a professional
> football game and play in an intra-squad practice game.
> Name the book he wrote about his experiences.

"Paper Lion". 1 for Stephen, Marc, and Gareth. As Gareth noted,
he also wrote about similar experiences in several other sports.

> 2. In Madonna's song "Like a Virgin", after the title words
> are sung for the first time, what line comes next?

"Touched for the very first time." 1 for John, Stephen, David,
Peter, Calvin, Gareth, and Rob.

> 3. In playing the major scale, after the tonic note the sequence
> of intervals is tone-tone-semitone-tone-tone-tone-semitone.
> In the same notation, what is it for the natural minor scale
> (the most common minor scale in our culture)?

Tone-semitone-tone-tone-semitone-tone-tone. 1 for Marc, David,
Gareth, and Rob. ½ for Stephen.

The white keys of a piano produce the major scale if C is the tonic
note, but they produce the minor scale if A is.

> 4. In the era of the IBM 360 series, the memory of a large
> computer around 1970 consisted of a 3-dimensional array
> of wires threaded through ring-shaped pieces of ferrite
> at their intersections. Each piece of ferrite represented
> either a 0 or a 1 bit depending on how it was magnetized.
> But what was one of these pieces called?

A core. 1 for Stephen, Marc, Rob, and Dan. ½ for David and Gareth.
John did himself in by adding "copper" to his answer.

> 5. Name Sam Spade's partner who is killed in "The Maltese
> Falcon".

Miles Archer. 1 for John, Jeff, and Gareth.

> 6. The American F-89 fighter plane, the British FV101 tank,
> and the Czech vz.61 machine gun were all given the name of
> what venomous creature?

Scorpion. 1 for John, Stephen, Jeff, Gareth, Rob, and Dan.

> 7. What do the following celebrities have in common (that most
> others do not)? Joseph Fiennes, Linda Hamilton, Jill
> Hennessy, Scarlett Johanssen, Isabella Rossellini, Keifer
> Sutherland.

Twins. 1 for John, Stephen, David, Calvin, Jeff, and Gareth.

The second and third on the list are identical twins, the others
fraternal. As far as I can tell from the Internet, Jacob Fiennes
is a gamekeeper, Leslie Hamilton Gearren is a nurse, Jacqueline
Hennessy is a writer, Hunter Johansson works in politics, Isotta
Rossellini is a university professor, and Rachel Sutherland works
in TV production; several of them have appeared with their twins in
movies or on TV at one time or another.

> 8. What is "alive without breath, as cold as death"?

A fish. 1 for Stephen, David, Calvin, Jeff, Gareth, and Rob.

The quotation is the start of a riddle-like poem recited by Gollum
in Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings". It continues:

Alive without breath;
as cold as death;
never thirsting, ever drinking;
clad in mail, never clinking.
Drowns on dry land,
thinks an island
is a mountain,
thinks a fountain
is a puff of air.

So sleek, so fair!
What a joy to meet!
We only wish
to catch a fish,
so juicy-sweet!

> 9. Within 1, when was the last year that a team -- Chicago --
> won their third NBA championship in a row?

1998 (accepting 1997-99). 1 for John, Stephen, and Marc.

> 10. Within the city limits of New York there is one track for
> horse racing. What is its name?

Aqueduct. 1 for John, Stephen, Peter, Jeff, and Gareth.

Belmont is in the NYC metropolitan area but outside the city limits.
Pimlico is in Baltimore.


And, hey look, at this point we have a tie!

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TOTALS

Stephen Perry 1 1 ½ 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 8½
Gareth Owen 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 0 1 8½
John Adams 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 6
Rob Parker 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 5
Jeff Turner 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 5
Marc Dashevsky 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 4
David B. 0 1 1 ½ 0 0 1 1 0 0 4½
"Calvin" 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3
Dan Tilque 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
Peter Smyth 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
Erland Sommarskog 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

3 7 4½ 5 3 6 6 6 3 5


> 11. First tiebreaker: Identify the hidden theme.

Signs of the zodiac, sometimes in punny allusion -- 6 in the answers
(Lion, Archer, scorpion, twins, fish, water-bearer) and 4 in the
questions (virgin, scales, RAM, Bulls).

As the entries were posted with nobody spotting the theme, I began
to worry that the tiebreaker would be unusable if it was needed --
I hadn't considered the possibility that two entrants would tie but
neither of them be able to answer #11. And, of course, if they didn't,
then the second tiebreaker would also be unusable.

But thankfully that didn't happen. Jeff and Gareth got #11, and so,
hearty congratulations to GARETH OWEN as the winner of this contest!

> 12. Second tiebreaker: Write an interesting additional question
> fitting the theme. (Please also provide the answer, in rot13.)

The two signs I didn't use were the goat (Capricorn) and the crab
(Cancer), so my intent was that the additional question should use
one of those; but I couldn't think of a way to make that explicit
without revealing something about the theme. In fact one entrant
wrote an additional question relating to one of those two signs and
and the other duplicated a sign I'd used in the contest. In random
order, their questions were:

12A. Who said, "What makes a muskrat defend his musk?"
12B. In the Harry Potter books by JK Rowling, who along with
Gregory Goyle, was Draco Malfoy's tubby lackey?

And the answers in rot13:

12A. Gur Pbjneqyl Yvba
12B. Ivaprag Penoor

I would have gotten the latter but not the former.


Thank you all for playing, and now it's over to Gareth for RQ 130.

--
Mark Brader, Toronto "Argh! Hoist by my own canard :-) !"
msb@vex.net -- Steve Summit

My text in this article is in the public domain.




== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 11:53 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)


Oops, I just posted the results of RQ 129 without changing the
subject line. I hate it when that happens. I'll repeat them
in full (and cancel the previous message, which doesn't work).


Mark Brader:
> This is Rotating Quiz #129. The contest will run for 6 days
> and 4 hours from the moment of posting, so you have until about
> 1:40 am Monday night (morning of Tuesday, February 4) by Toronto
> time, zone -5.

The reason for the extra 4 hours was so that the contest wouldn't
end in the middle of a Canadian Inquisition game, when I knew
I wouldn't be around to score it.

I allowed half points for answers that incorporated the relevant
information but were not in the required form.

> 1. In 1963, George Plimpton, a sportswriter who was not an
> athlete, was given the chance to suit up with a professional
> football game and play in an intra-squad practice game.
> Name the book he wrote about his experiences.

"Paper Lion". 1 for Stephen, Marc, and Gareth. As Gareth noted,
he also wrote about similar experiences in several other sports.

> 2. In Madonna's song "Like a Virgin", after the title words
> are sung for the first time, what line comes next?

"Touched for the very first time." 1 for John, Stephen, David,
Peter, Calvin, Gareth, and Rob.

> 3. In playing the major scale, after the tonic note the sequence
> of intervals is tone-tone-semitone-tone-tone-tone-semitone.
> In the same notation, what is it for the natural minor scale
> (the most common minor scale in our culture)?

Tone-semitone-tone-tone-semitone-tone-tone. 1 for Marc, David,
Gareth, and Rob. ½ for Stephen.

The white keys of a piano produce the major scale if C is the tonic
note, but they produce the minor scale if A is.

> 4. In the era of the IBM 360 series, the memory of a large
> computer around 1970 consisted of a 3-dimensional array
> of wires threaded through ring-shaped pieces of ferrite
> at their intersections. Each piece of ferrite represented
> either a 0 or a 1 bit depending on how it was magnetized.
> But what was one of these pieces called?

A core. 1 for Stephen, Marc, Rob, and Dan. ½ for David and Gareth.
John did himself in by adding "copper" to his answer.

> 5. Name Sam Spade's partner who is killed in "The Maltese
> Falcon".

Miles Archer. 1 for John, Jeff, and Gareth.

> 6. The American F-89 fighter plane, the British FV101 tank,
> and the Czech vz.61 machine gun were all given the name of
> what venomous creature?

Scorpion. 1 for John, Stephen, Jeff, Gareth, Rob, and Dan.

> 7. What do the following celebrities have in common (that most
> others do not)? Joseph Fiennes, Linda Hamilton, Jill
> Hennessy, Scarlett Johanssen, Isabella Rossellini, Keifer
> Sutherland.

Twins. 1 for John, Stephen, David, Calvin, Jeff, and Gareth.

The second and third on the list are identical twins, the others
fraternal. As far as I can tell from the Internet, Jacob Fiennes
is a gamekeeper, Leslie Hamilton Gearren is a nurse, Jacqueline
Hennessy is a writer, Hunter Johansson works in politics, Isotta
Rossellini is a university professor, and Rachel Sutherland works
in TV production; several of them have appeared with their twins in
movies or on TV at one time or another.

> 8. What is "alive without breath, as cold as death"?

A fish. 1 for Stephen, David, Calvin, Jeff, Gareth, and Rob.

The quotation is the start of a riddle-like poem recited by Gollum
in Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings". It continues:

Alive without breath;
as cold as death;
never thirsting, ever drinking;
clad in mail, never clinking.
Drowns on dry land,
thinks an island
is a mountain,
thinks a fountain
is a puff of air.

So sleek, so fair!
What a joy to meet!
We only wish
to catch a fish,
so juicy-sweet!

> 9. Within 1, when was the last year that a team -- Chicago --
> won their third NBA championship in a row?

1998 (accepting 1997-99). 1 for John, Stephen, and Marc.

> 10. Within the city limits of New York there is one track for
> horse racing. What is its name?

Aqueduct. 1 for John, Stephen, Peter, Jeff, and Gareth.

Belmont is in the NYC metropolitan area but outside the city limits.
Pimlico is in Baltimore.


And, hey look, at this point we have a tie!

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TOTALS

Stephen Perry 1 1 ½ 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 8½
Gareth Owen 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 0 1 8½
John Adams 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 6
Rob Parker 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 5
Jeff Turner 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 5
Marc Dashevsky 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 4
David B. 0 1 1 ½ 0 0 1 1 0 0 4½
"Calvin" 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3
Dan Tilque 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
Peter Smyth 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
Erland Sommarskog 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

3 7 4½ 5 3 6 6 6 3 5


> 11. First tiebreaker: Identify the hidden theme.

Signs of the zodiac, sometimes in punny allusion -- 6 in the answers
(Lion, Archer, scorpion, twins, fish, water-bearer) and 4 in the
questions (virgin, scales, RAM, Bulls).

As the entries were posted with nobody spotting the theme, I began
to worry that the tiebreaker would be unusable if it was needed --
I hadn't considered the possibility that two entrants would tie but
neither of them be able to answer #11. And, of course, if they didn't,
then the second tiebreaker would also be unusable.

But thankfully that didn't happen. Jeff and Gareth got #11, and so,
hearty congratulations to GARETH OWEN as the winner of this contest!

> 12. Second tiebreaker: Write an interesting additional question
> fitting the theme. (Please also provide the answer, in rot13.)

The two signs I didn't use were the goat (Capricorn) and the crab
(Cancer), so my intent was that the additional question should use
one of those; but I couldn't think of a way to make that explicit
without revealing something about the theme. In fact one entrant
wrote an additional question relating to one of those two signs and
and the other duplicated a sign I'd used in the contest. In random
order, their questions were:

12A. Who said, "What makes a muskrat defend his musk?"
12B. In the Harry Potter books by JK Rowling, who along with
Gregory Goyle, was Draco Malfoy's tubby lackey?

And the answers in rot13:

12A. Gur Pbjneqyl Yvba
12B. Ivaprag Penoor

I would have gotten the latter but not the former.


Thank you all for playing, and now it's over to Gareth for RQ 130.

--
Mark Brader, Toronto "Argh! Hoist by my own canard :-) !"
msb@vex.net -- Steve Summit

My text in this article is in the public domain.





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TOPIC: QFTCICR14 Current Events 3-4
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/db2c542af02dc30f?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 4 2014 12:23 am
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)


This set of current-events rounds is running concurrently with
QFTCIC Game 8, currently Rounds 4,6 and later 7-8.

These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on the dates
indicated below, and should be interpreted accordingly. If any
answers have changed due to newer news, you are still expected to
give the answers that were correct on those dates.

On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,
based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
the correct answers in about 3 days.

All questions were written by members of the Cellar Rats and are
used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have
been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see
my 2013-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".


* Game 3 (2014-01-27), Round 1 - Current Events

1. Quebec's latest tragic fire, which happened at a seniors' home
last Thursday, has left 10 people confirmed dead and 22 missing.
Hampered by freezing weather, recovery efforts are ongoing.
Name the Quebec town where the fire occurred.

2. Just in case you thought a week might pass without Rob Ford
qualifying to be in the current events round, you'd be wrong.
Ford created controversy yet again when he was recorded in a
restaurant earlier this week drunkenly doing a bad imitation
of what dialect/language?

3. Canada's other great gift to late-night comedic talk shows,
Justin Bieber, landed in a Miami jail after being arrested for
impaired driving and resisting arrest. Give the *color and make*
of the rented car he was allegedly caught drag-racing in.

4. While the rodents in the title of their 1970s hit song generally
mate for life, sadly the same can't be said of this musical
couple who made it famous: they announced this week that
they're getting divorced after 39 years of marriage. Name this
soon-to-be-ex husband-and-wife musical team.

5. In a widely trumpeted report issued by Oxfam last week, it was
revealed that the world's 85 richest people control as much
wealth as how many of the world's poorest?

6. This Canadian investor and TV personality, whose outspoken
economic opinions show him to be slightly less sympathetic than
Attila the Hun, responded on TV to that Oxfam report, saying:
"This is a great thing because it inspires everybody, gets them
motivation to look up to the 1% and say, 'I want to become one
of those people, I'm going to fight hard to get up to the top.
This is fantastic news and of course I'm going to applaud it.
What can be wrong with this?" Name the Canadian blowhard behind
these words.

7. This Montreal-based company was behind an environmental
initiative that first "hit the road" there in 2009. The concept
(operated either by the same company or by others) has spread
to many other cities, including Toronto, New York, Chicago,
and London. Name the company, which filed for bankruptcy this
past week owing approximately $50,000,000.

8. In a study reported on last week, this was revealed to be
even more detrimental to the human body than previously thought,
affecting 97% of the body's rhythmic genes and resulting
in a state that one of the study's coauthors refers to as
"chrono-chaos". What was found to have such a negative impact?

9. This comet-bound space probe woke up as planned after more than
2 years in hibernation, by tweeting "Hello, world" in multiple
languages. Name the probe, which was launched by the European
Space Agency.

10. A 150-year-old building caught fire on this well-known Toronto
street on Wednesday. Fighting the 3-alarm fire proved difficult,
partly because the nearest fire hydrant had frozen shut.
Name the firetruck-filled street.


* Game 3 (2014-02-03), Round 1 - Current Events

1. Sunday, Pope Francis released two doves as a symbol of peace.
They were immediately attacked by two other birds. What kind?
Name either one.

2. Later in the week, Pope Francis became the first pontiff ever
to appear on the cover of what American magazine?

3. Justin Bieber appeared at a Toronto police station Wednesday
to be charged with an assault that occurred in December.
What was the alleged victim's occupation?

4. A civil suit accuses Mayor Ford of orchestrating a jailhouse
beating at the West Detention Centre in March 2012. Either name
the victim or tell how he is connected to Ford.

5. Name the Toronto Raptor point guard who followed a 31-point
game against Brooklyn on Monday with 33 points against Orlando
Wednesday, his first time scoring 30+ points back-to-back.

6. Name the Maple Leafs forward who had 3 assists Thursday against
Florida, including his 100th career NHL point.

7. Which American metal band said on Tuesday that they will call
it quits after their scheduled tour concludes next year?

8. Which folk music pioneer died Monday at the age of 94?

9. On Wednesday, a report blamed the displacement of milkweed
by genetically modified crops for the decline of what migratory
species, once adopted as a symbol of environmental cooperation
between the USA, Mexico, and Canada? Be specific.

10. It was reported Monday that in order to study their immune
responses, US government scientists were squirting what up the
noses of volunteers? Again, be specific.

--
Mark Brader | "Follow my posts and choose the opposite
msb@vex.net | of what I use. That generally works here."
Toronto | --Tony Cooper

My text in this article is in the public domain.




== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 4 2014 6:45 am
From: Bruce Bowler


On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 02:23:30 -0600, Mark Brader wrote:

> This set of current-events rounds is running concurrently with QFTCIC
> Game 8, currently Rounds 4,6 and later 7-8.
>
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on the dates
> indicated below, and should be interpreted accordingly. If any answers
> have changed due to newer news, you are still expected to give the
> answers that were correct on those dates.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give both a
> right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty. Please post
> all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote the
> questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal the
> correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of the Cellar Rats and are used
> here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have been retyped
> and/or edited by me. For further information see my 2013-09-15
> companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 3 (2014-01-27), Round 1 - Current Events
>
> 1. Quebec's latest tragic fire, which happened at a seniors' home
> last Thursday, has left 10 people confirmed dead and 22 missing.
> Hampered by freezing weather, recovery efforts are ongoing.
> Name the Quebec town where the fire occurred.
>
> 2. Just in case you thought a week might pass without Rob Ford
> qualifying to be in the current events round, you'd be wrong. Ford
> created controversy yet again when he was recorded in a restaurant
> earlier this week drunkenly doing a bad imitation of what
> dialect/language?

Jamaican?

> 3. Canada's other great gift to late-night comedic talk shows,
> Justin Bieber, landed in a Miami jail after being arrested for
> impaired driving and resisting arrest. Give the *color and make*
> of the rented car he was allegedly caught drag-racing in.

Yellow Lamborghini

> 4. While the rodents in the title of their 1970s hit song generally
> mate for life, sadly the same can't be said of this musical couple
> who made it famous: they announced this week that they're getting
> divorced after 39 years of marriage. Name this soon-to-be-ex
> husband-and-wife musical team.

The Captain and Tennile

> 5. In a widely trumpeted report issued by Oxfam last week, it was
> revealed that the world's 85 richest people control as much wealth as
> how many of the world's poorest?

45%?

> 6. This Canadian investor and TV personality, whose outspoken
> economic opinions show him to be slightly less sympathetic than
> Attila the Hun, responded on TV to that Oxfam report, saying: "This
> is a great thing because it inspires everybody, gets them motivation
> to look up to the 1% and say, 'I want to become one of those people,
> I'm going to fight hard to get up to the top. This is fantastic news
> and of course I'm going to applaud it. What can be wrong with this?"
> Name the Canadian blowhard behind these words.
>
> 7. This Montreal-based company was behind an environmental
> initiative that first "hit the road" there in 2009. The concept
> (operated either by the same company or by others) has spread to many
> other cities, including Toronto, New York, Chicago,
> and London. Name the company, which filed for bankruptcy this past
> week owing approximately $50,000,000.
>
> 8. In a study reported on last week, this was revealed to be
> even more detrimental to the human body than previously thought,
> affecting 97% of the body's rhythmic genes and resulting in a state
> that one of the study's coauthors refers to as "chrono-chaos". What
> was found to have such a negative impact?

shift work

> 9. This comet-bound space probe woke up as planned after more than
> 2 years in hibernation, by tweeting "Hello, world" in multiple
> languages. Name the probe, which was launched by the European Space
> Agency.
>
> 10. A 150-year-old building caught fire on this well-known Toronto
> street on Wednesday. Fighting the 3-alarm fire proved difficult,
> partly because the nearest fire hydrant had frozen shut.
> Name the firetruck-filled street.
>
>
> * Game 3 (2014-02-03), Round 1 - Current Events
>
> 1. Sunday, Pope Francis released two doves as a symbol of peace.
> They were immediately attacked by two other birds. What kind? Name
> either one.

sea gull

> 2. Later in the week, Pope Francis became the first pontiff ever
> to appear on the cover of what American magazine?
>
> 3. Justin Bieber appeared at a Toronto police station Wednesday
> to be charged with an assault that occurred in December.
> What was the alleged victim's occupation?

Photographer

> 4. A civil suit accuses Mayor Ford of orchestrating a jailhouse
> beating at the West Detention Centre in March 2012. Either name the
> victim or tell how he is connected to Ford.
>
> 5. Name the Toronto Raptor point guard who followed a 31-point
> game against Brooklyn on Monday with 33 points against Orlando
> Wednesday, his first time scoring 30+ points back-to-back.
>
> 6. Name the Maple Leafs forward who had 3 assists Thursday against
> Florida, including his 100th career NHL point.
>
> 7. Which American metal band said on Tuesday that they will call
> it quits after their scheduled tour concludes next year?

Motley Crue

> 8. Which folk music pioneer died Monday at the age of 94?

Pete Seeger

> 9. On Wednesday, a report blamed the displacement of milkweed
> by genetically modified crops for the decline of what migratory
> species, once adopted as a symbol of environmental cooperation
> between the USA, Mexico, and Canada? Be specific.

Monarch Butterfly

> 10. It was reported Monday that in order to study their immune
> responses, US government scientists were squirting what up the noses
> of volunteers? Again, be specific.





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