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| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 14 11:02PM -0600 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 that date. 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 [from the original posting, that is]. All questions were written by members of the Misplaced Modifiers 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 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". * Game 7 (2016-11-07), Round 1 - Current Events 1. Who was named MVP of the 2016 World Series? 2. Ontario's education minister announced this week she will meet with which GTA school board to address questions of systemic racism? 3. Prince Harry, the world's most eligible ginger, was spotted in Toronto, apparently to visit his new girlfriend. Name the actress in question, currently filming in our fair city. 4. Finance minister Bill Morneau announced the government's intention to attract money from large institutional investors. What new financial structure is to be created to facilitate this? (Give its name.) 5. Name either of the Ontario Liberal party insiders charged this week in relation to the 2015 Sudbury by-election scandal. 6. An Ontario baseball club has changed its name after 60 years. The team in Alvinston has ditched which name now termed offensive? 7. You've seen the new ads on the TTC that show National Ballet of Canada dancers posing on subway trains, stations, etc. Which organization has raised objections to the ads? (Name or describe it.) 8. Which 20-year-old Brampton singer, with a gold record and a number of charted singles, headlined her own show at Massey Hall last Wednesday? 9. Swedish fashion company H+M has named which Canadian pop sensation its new brand ambassador? 10. Which pop superstar made a surprise appearance at the Country Music Awards last week, including singing together with the Dixie Chicks? * Game 8 (2016-11-14), Round 1 - Canadiana Current Events 1. Who scored 3 goals for Toronto FC, sending them to the Major League Soccer semifinals for the first time? 2. On Tuesday night in Pittsburgh, it wasn't "Sid the Kid" -- it was "Sid vs. the Kid", as two "generational stars" of hockey faced off against each other for the first time. Who is the new kid on the block? 3. Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit paid a 4-day visit to Canada last week. On behalf of which nation? 4. Air Canada first advanced, then backed off from, a controversial ban last week. What did the airline, for a while, tell its flight attendants they could not wear? 5. At least Air Canada was prompt with their "mea culpa". Which Canadian institution waited 25 years before apologizing last week for a 1989 exhibition which it now acknowledges "contributed to anti-African racism"? 6. Last week in Vancouver, Prime Minister Trudeau announced a $1,500,000,000 plan to protect Canada's coasts from what? 7. The Liberals vault from third-party status to majority government! Sound familiar? It happened last week -- in which Canadian jurisdiction? 8. Which Canadian ministry's web site crashed on Tuesday night due to unusual volume? 9. In an interview with the "New Yorker" last month, prior to the release of his latest album, this man said: "I am ready to die. I hope it's not too uncomfortable. That's about it for me." Who was speaking? 10. Last Wednesday at 10:30 pm saw the Comedy Network premiere of Canada's newest satirical half-hour "news" series. Give the title. -- Mark Brader | "Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. The rest of the Toronto | time you go by the Book, which is mostly a collection msb@vex.net | of nitwit ideas that worked." -- Niven & Pournelle My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Nov 14 11:23PM -0800 Mark Brader wrote: > new kid on the block? > 3. Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit paid a 4-day > visit to Canada last week. On behalf of which nation? Norway > to anti-African racism"? > 6. Last week in Vancouver, Prime Minister Trudeau announced a > $1,500,000,000 plan to protect Canada's coasts from what? sea level rise > Canadian jurisdiction? > 8. Which Canadian ministry's web site crashed on Tuesday night > due to unusual volume? whichever one handles immigration -- Dan Tilque |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Nov 15 07:40AM > * Game 8 (2016-11-14), Round 1 - Canadiana Current Events > 1. Who scored 3 goals for Toronto FC, sending them to the Major > League Soccer semifinals for the first time? Don't know the answer, but congratulations! > 3. Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit paid a 4-day > visit to Canada last week. On behalf of which nation? Norway > 4. Air Canada first advanced, then backed off from, a controversial > ban last week. What did the airline, for a while, tell its > flight attendants they could not wear? Perfume > 7. The Liberals vault from third-party status to majority > government! Sound familiar? It happened last week -- in which > Canadian jurisdiction? Nunavut > 8. Which Canadian ministry's web site crashed on Tuesday night > due to unusual volume? Immigration > release of his latest album, this man said: "I am ready to die. > I hope it's not too uncomfortable. That's about it for me." > Who was speaking? Leonard Cohen -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Nov 14 06:39PM > Kesselring, and Hugo Sperrle; on the defense, Hugh Dowding, > Keith Park, and Trafford Leigh-Mallory. Name the battle > or campaign, which began in mid-1940. Battle of Britain > defense, Wilhelm Bittrich, Gerd von Rundstedt, and > Walther Model. Name the battle or campaign, which began > in September 1944. Battle of the Bulge > defense, George Patton, William H. Simpson, and Anthony > McAuliffe. Name the battle or campaign, which began in > December 1944. Monte-Cassino, Battle of the Bulge > B2. This European capital city was formed by the merger of > three cities or towns and is named after the two largest > ones. What is it? Budapest > B3. Name the two cities that merged, also taking in some nearby > townships, to form Thunder Bay, Ontario. Thunder City, Bay City > * C. Refugee Camps > In what countries are each of the following refugee camps? > C1. The Jungle. Franc > C2. Dadaab. Turkey, Syria > C3. Zaatari. Turkey, Syria > D1. Which of the sieges that took place during the Indian > Rebellion included a false promise of safe evacuation by > Nana Sahib and ended in the Bibighar Massacre? Amritsar > D2. How many days did the Siege of Leningrad last, within 5% > of the true number? 460 > D3. Who was sent in 1884 to evacuate the British garrison at > Khartoum, but ended up besieged? General Gordon > enforcing the Prohibition laws. He was part of the Tammany > Hall machine and was forced to resign over corruption. > And as you see here, he was something of a dandy. Name him. La Guardia, Rockefeller > Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal even though they were of > opposite parties. Here he is speaking on the radio (not > reading the comics apparently). Name him. Rockefeller, La Guardia > I doing?" After he was defeated for re-election, he said > "The people have spoken -- and they must be punished." > Name him. Ed Koch "'Colour them cons', that's what Mayor Koch said" > war and organizing some election skullduggery? Driven out a > year later, he escaped with his skin but got himself executed > in Honduras in 1860 in the aftermath of another intrigue. Sandinista > the revolutionary guerrilla leader against a US-supported > government who was shot by the Nicaraguan National Guard > in 1934? Sandinista > cerfvqrag jnf ryrpgrq. Fur vf gur jvqbj bs n cebzvarag > arjfcncre choyvfure jub jnf nffnffvangrq va 1978, yvxryl > orpnhfr bs uvf bireg bccbfvgvba gb Fbzbmn. Anzr ure. Sandinista My entire knowledge of the history of Nicaragua is derived from album titles by The Clash. |
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