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- QFTCIUA Game 4, Rounds 7-8: treaties, Expos - 3 Updates
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- QFTCIUA Game 4, Rounds 4,6 answers: unnominated, chemicals - 1 Update
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Oct 29 02:55PM > * Game 4, Round 7 - History - Peace Treaties & Declarations > 1. The Treaty of Paris, signed 1763-02-10, ended which conflict? Seven Years War > 2. The Treaty or Peace of Vereeniging, signed 1902-05-31, ended > which struggle? Second Boer War > 3. What treaty was signed by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist > Republic, at a city now located in Belarus, on 1918-03-03, > that allowed their exit from the Great War? Treaty of Brest-Litovsk > 4. On 1814-12-24, the British and Americans signed which treaty > to end the War of 1812? Treaty of Ghent > 5. The Peace of Westphalia, signed in 1648, ended which conflict > within the Holy Roman Empire? Thirty Years War > 6. The Treaty or Peace of Utrecht, actually a series of individual > treaties signed in March and April 1713 rather than one single > document, brought which struggle to a close? War of the Spanish Succession > 7. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed 1848-02-02, stopped > which war? Mexican-American War > 8. The Balfour Declaration, dated 1817-11-02, was a formal statement > of the British government favoring the establishment of what? home rule in Ireland > between Britain and France, signed 1802-03-25 (or in the French > Revolutionary Calendar, Germinal 4, X). How definitive was it -- > that is, how many years did the treaty last? 1; 2 > 10. The Treaty of London, signed in November 1794, averted a new > war between the US and Britain and solved leftover issues from > the American Revolution. What is this treaty better known as? Jay Treaty > within a win of going to the World Series, but lost the game on a > dramatic late home-run. This day became known as "Blue Monday", > not just because it was a Monday, but for what other reason? They lost to the Bluejays -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Jason Kreitzer <krei513@aol.com>: Oct 29 06:56PM -0700 On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 1:15:31 AM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote: > that allowed their exit from the Great War? > 4. On 1814-12-24, the British and Americans signed which treaty > to end the War of 1812? Treaty of Versailles |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Oct 30 11:38AM +0100 On 2014-10-29 06:15, Mark Brader wrote: > I post this. > 2. The Treaty or Peace of Vereeniging, signed 1902-05-31, ended > which struggle? Boer war > 5. The Peace of Westphalia, signed in 1648, ended which conflict > within the Holy Roman Empire? The 30-years war > 7. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed 1848-02-02, stopped > which war? Mexico/Texas > between Britain and France, signed 1802-03-25 (or in the French > Revolutionary Calendar, Germinal 4, X). How definitive was it -- > that is, how many years did the treaty last? 4 -- Björn |
| Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Oct 29 11:40PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:T-2dnfAW_cLyKNLJnZ2dnUU7- > (QFTCI*)". > * Game 5 (2014-10-20), Round 1 - Current Events > 1. In Major League Baseball, who was named MVP of the NLCS? Bumgarner > 2. ...and of the ALCS? Hosmer; Gordon > 4. Name either the federal or the provincial health minister > providing Ebola updates in Ontario. > 5. Two people were named Nobel Peace Prize winners. Name either. Malala > 6. A Pakistani court upheld the death sentence of Asia Bibi, a > 50-year-old Christian mother of five. What was she convicted of? Blasphemy > Who is the chair of the Fed? > 8. Several Canadian hikers were swept up in an avalanche in what > country? Nepal > 9. Name either of the two devices Apple unveiled. iPhone 6 > 10. Bill Murray and Brad Pitt debuted new movies; name either. Fury > * Game 6 (2014-10-27), Round 1 - Current Events > 1. Name the Canadian Army reservist killed at the National War > Memorial in Ottawa. Cirillo > 4. The night of the shooting, an NHL arena in the US got the > crowd to sing "O Canada" and flashed red maple leafs on the ice. > Name either team at that game (city or team name). Red Wings; Sabers > 5. On another note, in response to outraged parents Toys'R'Us > pulled four action figures based on what AMC TV series? Breaking Bad > 6. Name the security firm, some say private army, whose former > employees were convicted of killing 14 Iraqis in Baghdad in 2007. Blackwater > other things in his notable career, he fought the US government > over publishing the Pentagon Papers, and he shepherded the > Washington Post's coverage of Watergate. Bradlee > 8. Name the fashion icon that died this week at 82. Oscar de la Renta > 10. The opening game of baseball's World Series had the lowest > ratings ever. Name either of the teams playing in the series > this year. (City or team name.) Kansas City Royals Pete |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 29 10:55AM -0500 Mark Brader: >> I missed this one myself in the original game, by the way; I'd never >> realized that the stuff has such a simple formula. Marc Dashevsky: > It took me a while to get it because acetic acid > is usually writen as CH3COOH. Ah, right, I've seen that. Which is why in the back of my mind somewhere I had classified it as a compound made up of more than the two subunits that the C2 in C2H4O2 suggests, but to get to "more than two", you need to count OH as a separate subunit. It's H | H-C-H | C=O | O | H -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "Panda Lectures This Week at National Zoo" msb@vex.net | --Washington Post, January 13, 2001 My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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