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| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 27 03:13AM -0600 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on the date 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. All questions were written by members of Bill Psychs and are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have been retyped and/or edited by me. The posting and tabulation of current-events questions is independent of the concurrent posting of other rounds. For further information see my 2017-09-25 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". * Game 5 (2018-02-12), Round 1 - Current Events 1. In the days leading up to its opening, organizers of the PyeongChang Olympic Games were scrambling to replace security guards. Why were many of those hired as guards not available? 2. While in town shooting a music video, what musician made headlines in Miami this week for surprise charitable acts? These included donations to a homeless shelter and high school, paying the bills of everyone in a grocery store, and providing a student with a $50,000 university scholarship. 3. What term did Prime Minister Justin Trudeau use this week, saying it was "more inclusive", leading to accusations of being too politically correct? He later stated that it was said as a joke which did not play well out of context. 4. The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has announced a new research hub, the Azrieli Centre, for adults dealing with *both* mental health and what other type of issues? 5. Archeologists using a high-tech aerial mapping technique have found tens of thousands of previously undetected Mayan houses, buildings, defense works, and pyramids in the dense jungle, suggesting that millions more people lived there than previously thought. Name the present-day country where they were found. 6. Escalating the inter-provincial spat over the Kinder Morgan Trans-Mountain pipeline, on Tuesday Alberta Premier Rachel Notley announced the almost immediate halt to purchases of what British Columbia product? 7. This week, yet another musician has announced that he/she will be retiring from touring. This announcement came in the form of a letter posted to Twitter. Who? 8. Who was named this week as the captain of the Canadian Olympic men's hockey team? 9. Esmond "Bradley" Martin, an American conservationist, was found stabbed to death in his home. His dogged investigations of the illegal trades of banned animal products were seen as critical in efforts to protect the threatened species. Name either of the two primary products he is known for investigating. 10. A SpaceX rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, this week. Designed to be the most powerful rocket in use, many hope it will make it easier to get humans past low Earth orbit, back to the moon, and even to Mars. Give the full name of this rocket. * Game 6 (2018-02-26), Round 1 - Current Events 1. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir won gold in the Olympic ice dance competition. Their performance in the free skate was set to music from a musical movie that includes a cover of a well-known pop song. Name either the song or the movie. 2. Now that all is said and done, how many medals did Canada win at the Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang? It was the most ever for Canada, and good enough for third place in total medal standings. 3. What famous evangelist died this week at the age of 99? 4. What Ontario city declared an emergency this week because of flooding from the Grand River? 5. What man was acquitted this week by a Winnipeg jury for the murder of 14-year-old Tina Fontaine? 6. What rebel enclave in Syria was the subject of renewed air and ground attacks by the Assad regime, leading to a UN Security Council resolution for a ceasefire? 7. It was reported this week that managers at what provincial ministry have been accused of bullying and abusive behavior towards employees? 8. Former PC Party Leader Patrick Brown is trying to sue his way back into relevance. Name the news broadcaster, or its owning media company, that is the subject of his libel suit filed this week. 9. A man who has been convicted of attempted murder was mistakenly invited to a dinner reception during Justin Trudeau's poorly perceived trip to India last week. Name him. 10. What 35-year-old center did the Toronto Maple Leafs receive from the Montreal Canadiens in a trade on Sunday? -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "It's been proven. Places stay clean until somebody msb@vex.net | drops the first piece of litter." -- TTC poster My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Feb 27 10:36AM +0100 > 1. In the days leading up to its opening, organizers of the > PyeongChang Olympic Games were scrambling to replace security > guards. Why were many of those hired as guards not available? They had been naughty and done something bad (but exactly what, I don't remember.) > buildings, defense works, and pyramids in the dense jungle, > suggesting that millions more people lived there than previously > thought. Name the present-day country where they were found. Guatemala > at the Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang? It was the most > ever for Canada, and good enough for third place in total > medal standings. 11 (It was the most ever for Sweden as well, tied with 2006. And the most ever for, well, that country next to us. They also took the record for the total number of medals for any nation in the Winter Olumpics.) > 3. What famous evangelist died this week at the age of 99? Billy Graham > 6. What rebel enclave in Syria was the subject of renewed air and > ground attacks by the Assad regime, leading to a UN Security > Council resolution for a ceasefire? Ghouta (Which is how it is transcribed in the Swedish press. |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Feb 26 08:17PM >> I didn't know they could score 5 points in one end. I've never seen >> anyone get more than three. > It's certainly an unusual thing to happen in in a gold-medal game. It is an unusual occurence ... but weirdly it was the defining event in the play-off game which put the Swiss Men into the semis (at the expense of the Brits) just a few days earlier. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 26 01:07AM -0600 Dan Tilque: > I didn't know they could score 5 points in one end. I've never seen > anyone get more than three. It's certainly an unusual thing to happen in in a gold-medal game. If the details in Wikipedia are correct, since curling began an Olympic sport again in 1998 there've only been two other gold-medal games where anyone scored more than 3 in an end -- both Canadian teams. * In this year's mixed doubles competition, Lawes and Morris got a 4 in the 3rd end of the gold-medal game; and since doubles only has 6 rocks per side per end (one manually placed and 5 shots), that's 4 out of a maximum 6#, not 8 as in the regular game. * And in 2006 in the men's tournament, Brad Gushue's team scored no less than 6 on the 6th end of the gold-medal game -- despite missing their shot with their last rock! # - Incidentally, that maximum 6 has already occurred in Olympic play, though not in a medal game. On February 9, the Swiss team of Perret and Rios was down 4-3 to the US team going into the last end, but won the game 9-3. -- Mark Brader "The routes 'London' and 'not London' are Toronto not necessarily mutually exclusive." msb@vex.net --Tim Stevens for ATOC, UK |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Feb 26 08:49AM -0800 Mark Brader wrote: > "They Live". > 4. This wrestler, actor, and later politician had roles in both > "Predator" and "The Running Man" in 1987. Jesse Ventura > as two streets whose names are the same today -- name either one. > 5. The first telegraph message to be transmitted in Canada was > sent in 1846 from Toronto in 1846 -- to what city? Scarborough; Waterloo > and took 9 hours to put out. The fire destroyed 104 buildings, > and claimed the life of one person. Within 2 years, when was > the Great Fire of Toronto? 1892 > Name any one of them. Initials are acceptable. > 10. The opening game at Maple Leaf Gardens in 1931 was played > between the Toronto Maple Leafs and which other team? Montreal Canadiens -- Dan Tilque |
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