- QFTCIBP Current Events 3-4 answers - 1 Update
- QFTCISG Final, Round 7: Entertainment - 1 Update
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 09 02:02AM -0600 Mark Brader: > 1. Oscar nominations were released this week. They included the > first woman to be nominated in the Cinematography category, > for "Mudbound". Name her. Rachel Morrison. > 2. An award-winning science-fiction and fantasy writer, best known > for her "Earthsea" books, died on Tuesday at age 88. Name her. Ursula K. Le Guin. 4 for Peter, Dan Blum, Marc, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Pete. > 3. On Thursday, the "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" moved the > Doomsday Clock ahead by 30 seconds. What time is it set to now? 11:58 pm. 4 for Dan Blum, Bruce, and Dan Tilque. 2 for Pete. > 4. The man who was Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities > has resigned from cabinet pending investigation into allegations > of sexual harassment. Name him. Kent Hehr. > 5. A pioneering American skiing/snowboarding filmmaker died > on Wednesday. He produced, directed, and narrated his films > until 1988. Name him. Warren Miller. 4 for Bruce, Joshua, and Pete. > 6. Roger Federer played in his record 7th Australian Open final > on Sunday. His opponent in the semifinals was the first Korean > to reach a semifinal at a tennis major. Who was that? Hyeon Chung. 4 for Peter and Pete. > has been cancelled, primarily due to lack of interest. Some > people claim the village to be the true home of its namesake > blue-veined cheese. Name the cheese. Stilton. 4 for Peter, Marc, Erland, Bruce, and Pete. 3 for Dan Blum. What they actually rolled was wooden replicas of the circular cheese. Among other reasons cited by the organizers was the cost of security required due to a rise in under-age drinking. > 8. Saskatchewan's next premier was selected at a leadership > convention in Saskatoon on Saturday. After winning with 53.7% > of the vote, he will replace Brad Wall. Name him. Scott Moe. (Saskatchewan Party.) > 9. On Tuesday, Cara Operations struck a deal to buy a Canadian > steak-house chain for $200,000,000. What chain? Keg Restaurants. > 10. Canada has agreed to sign on to a resurrected version of a > certain trade agreement. Last November, Canada was seen as the > main holdout during talks in Vietnam. Name the trade agreement. Trans-Pacific Partnership. 4 for Dan Blum and Pete. > fumbled it with about 2 minutes to go? This Philadelphia Eagles > defensive end was drafted from the University of Tennessee > in 2017. Derek Barnett. > 2. Two companies joined forces with Amazon this week in an > agreement to form a new company in order to improve health care > for their employees. Name either one of the two companies. Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan Chase. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Bruce, and Joshua. > 3. On Tuesday, despite just recently being named interim leader > of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, which MPP > announced that he would not run for the party's leadership? Vic Fedeli. > 4. This week the Senate passed a bill to make the national anthem > gender-neutral again. They changed the second line from "in > all thy sons command" to what? "In all of us command". 4 for Joshua and Pete. It's "again" because, when Robert Weir wrote the English lyrics in 1908, the line was "thou dost in us command". The version with "thy sons" was substituted a few years later. > The memo alleges that the FBI abused its surveillance authority, > particularly when it sought a secret court order to monitor a > former Trump campaign advisor. Devin Nunes. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Bruce, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Pete. > 6. What singer canceled her European tour this week due to severe > chronic pain from fibromyalgia? Lady Gaga (Stefani Germanotta). 4 for Peter, Marc, Bruce, and Pete. > 7. Justin Trudeau's deputy director of operations has joined the > long line of men who have resigned over inappropriate behavior > or allegations thereof. Name him. Claude-Éric Gagné. > 8. Friday was Janet Yellen's last day as Chair of the US Federal > Reserve. Name her replacement. Jerome Powell. 4 for Dan Blum and Pete. > 9. A Russian fighter jet was shot down in a rebel-held area of > what country? Syria. 4 for Dan Blum, Erland, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Pete. > 10. A bill passed by Poland's lower house of parliament this week > would make it illegal to do what? Imply that Poles or Poland were involved in the Holocaust. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Erland, Dan Tilque, Dan Tilque, and Pete. 3 for Joshua. Scores, if there are no errors: GAMES-> 1 2 3 4 TOTALS Pete Gayde 12 12 22 24 70 Dan Blum 20 8 15 20 63 Joshua Kreitzer 18 12 8 19 57 Dan Tilque 8 12 8 16 44 Marc Dashevsky 12 4 8 16 40 Peter Smyth 8 12 12 4 36 Erland Sommarskog 12 7 4 8 31 Bruce Bowler -- -- 12 12 24 -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "If each hand had an extra digit, we'd probably be msb@vex.net | planning for a 144-year flood." --Mark Monmonier My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Jason Kreitzer <jk71875@gmail.com>: Feb 08 02:36PM -0800 On Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 3:28:23 AM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote: > accept answers either in the style "the 20th century" or "the > 1900s", and never mind that those aren't exactly the same thing. > 1. "Lady Godiva", "El Cid", "Macbeth", "Hamlet". 16th Century > 2. "The Column", "The Eagle", "Androcles and the Lion", "The Fall > of the Roman Empire". 3rd Century? > 4. Peter Gabriel wrote "In Your Eyes" for this American actress, > and while she was dating a member of the band Toto, they released > a song with her first name as a title. Who is she? Rosanna Arquette > 5. She was the muse for the song "Something" by George Harrison and > "Wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton. She was married to both > men, who wrote many songs for or about her. Name her. Patti Boyd > On two separate occasions he rented it out to famous friends > in the music industry, who proceeded to die there at age 32. > Name either of those pop stars who died in the flat. Mama Cass > The next day he returned, changed one aspect of this act, and > got booed off the stage. Who was he? If you want to show off, > for fun but for no points, also mention what he changed. Bob Dylan. Switched from acoustic to electric. > been released. The music, guitar playing, and this musician's > performance dry-humping and burning his guitar, launched him > to immediate stardom. Who was he? Jimi Hendrix > the band's name but commonly known as "The Black Album". > Some estimates put the crowd at 2,000,000, the 5th-largest of > all time. Which band was it? Metallica > In each case, name the *actor or actress* seen portraying a baddie. > 10. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/gfr7/who/10.jpg > 11. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/gfr7/who/11.jpg Julie Newmar > 12. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/gfr7/who/12.jpg Frank Gorshin > 13. "Jeopardy!" creator Merv Griffin also composed most of the > show's music. What's the one-word name of the tune that runs > while the contestants write their "Final Jeopardy!" answers? Think > 70,000 seasonal white collar employees work only 4 months > a year"? How should he have answered? Remember, this is > "Jeopardy!". What is H&R Block? > 15. Who was the original host of "Jeopardy!", from 1964 to 1975? Art Fleming |
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