- QFTCICR19 Current Events 9-F - 1 Update
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 10 12:25AM -0500 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. 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. The posting and tabulation of current-events questions is independent of the concurrent posting of other rounds. For further information see my 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". * Game 9 (2009-04-01), Round 1 - Current Events 1. The Toronto Blue Jays lost their home opener. *Either* give *both* the score and the opposing team, or else say what inning the final runs were scored during. 2. In what tennis tournament did 18-year-old Montrealer Félix Auger-Aliassime amaze onlookers with his performance this week? 3. Omar Khadr became a free man on Monday when Chief Justice Moreau found that, considering years spent in custody and under strict court supervision while on bail, he had more than served his original sentence. Within 1 year, what year was he apprehended, the sole survivor of a battle between Afghanistan militants and US forces? 4. On Tuesday Jussie Smollett was in a Chicago court. What did Cook County Prosecutor Kim Fox do? 5. Another provincial election was called, this time for April 23rd. What province? 6. Kidnapped international student Wahzen Lu was found unharmed Tuesday night -- in what town? 7. The Association for Computing Machinery announced that Geoffrey Hinton (computer science professor emeritus at University of Toronto), along with two others at New York University and the University of Montreal, had won a $1,000,000 (US) prize for their work on neural networks. Often referred to as the "Nobel Prize" for computing, what is the award actually called? 8. A popular food chain recently introduced a plant-based breakfast sandwich called "Sausage & "Egger. Made by California-based Beyond Meat, the "sausage" patty aims to replicate the taste and texture of a pork sausage. What fast-food chain was this? 9. A live-action (and CGI) remake of the 1941 Disney classic "Dumbo" recently hit the big screen. Who is the director? 10. Netflix got competition this week as a new streaming service was unveiled. Name either the person who made the announcement, or the company he is collaborating with. * Final (2009-04-09), Round 1 - Current Events 1. Last week it was announced that the Rolling Stones' "No Filter" North American tour will be postponed because of Mick Jagger's health. What sort of treatment has he had to undergo? 2. Which royal recently called for the banning of the popular video game Fortnite due to its addictive qualities? 3. Toronto's first legal store for recreational cannabis opened on April 1. What it is called? 4. The Toronto Marlies defeated the Utica Comets in the American Hockey League. What was the signficance of this win? 5. The Canadian Women's Hockey League decided to shut down, but not to worry, an American league has expressed interest in two teams in Canada. Name the league *and both* Canadian cities in question. 6. After 50 years, what announcer called his last game Saturday night, between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens? 7. In that game, name the 20-year-old who scored a hat-trick in regulation time *and* the winning goal for Montreal in the shootout -- while playing in the NHL for the first time. 8. Which province recently unveiled proposed legislation for "presumed consent" for organ donation? 9. The manager of Nirvana has written a book subtitled "Remembering Kurt Cobain", who died by suicide 25 years ago. *Either* give the main title of the book or just name the author. 10. The Quebec legislature is considering a bill banning religious symbols from being worn by government employees. What is the *bill number*? 11. The city of Chicago has billed Jussie Smollett for police overtime relating to his original complaint, and filed suit when he refused to pay. How much are they claiming, in US dollars to the nearest thousand and within $10,000? 12. Transport Canada is funding a study for a hyperloop train, an electric tunnel between Toronto and Montreal. Within 10 minutes, how long with the proposed trip take? 13. According to a recent study, what species is capable of to thriving even with high levels of heavy metals and other toxins in its bloodstream? 14. Within $100,000,000, how much is Ottawa promising to spend for repairs and accessibility upgrades to Toronto community housing? 15. Within ―Ē, how much did the price of a liter of gasoline increase in Ontario as a result of the new federal carbon tax? -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "Domine, defende nos msb@vex.net | Contra hos motores bos!" -- A. D. Godley My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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