From: pete.gayde@gmail.com   
      
   Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2012-05-28,   
   > and should be interpreted accordingly.  All questions were written   
   > by members of What She Said and/or of Smith & Guessin', but have   
   > been reformatted and may have been retyped and/or edited by me.   
   > I will reveal the correct answers in about 3 days.   
   >   
   > For further information, including an explanation of the """   
   > notation that may appear in these rounds, see my 2021-07-20   
   > companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian   
   > Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 4, Round 1 - Current Events (excerpt)   
   >   
   > Answer these 2012 questions if you like for fun, but for no points.   
   >   
   > 1. Another product has been decried by the US Federal Trade   
   >     Commission for making deceptive health claims -- for example,   
   >     that it fought prostate cancer, heart disease, and erectile   
   >     dysfunction.  This product entered North American markets in   
   >     2002 with a premium price and distinctive packaging.  Give the   
   >     product's brand name or just name its main ingredient.   
   >   
   > 2. Now even the Pope can say "The butler did it".  Why was Paolo   
   >     Gabriele, the Pope's butler, arrested this week?   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 4, Round 2 - History - The Older Professions   
   >   
   > Not *the* oldest, but certainly older profession names.  We give   
   > several titles for the *same job*; you tell what that person does.   
   > For example, if we said "wainwright", the answer would be "wagon   
   > maker".   
   >   
   > 1. Redsmith, aurifaber.   
   > 2. Kneller, sweep, punky.   
      
   Chimney cleaner   
      
   > 3. Fletcher, tipper, piler.   
   > 4. Dexter, tinctor, litster.   
      
   Pharmacist   
      
   > 5. Verger, sexton, barton, bedman.   
   > 6. Webster, tapiter, tapicer, tixtor.   
   > 7. Furner, pistor, backsmann, baxter.   
   > 8. Trampler, stuff gownsman, pettifogger.   
   > 9. Tranqueter, cooper, woodbreaker, backmaker.   
      
   Barrel maker   
      
   > 10. Laster, shuster, theemaker, vamper, souter.   
      
   Shoemaker   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 4, Round 3 - Canadiana Literature - Toronto Writers   
   >   
   > All of these writers have lived much or all of their lives   
   > in Toronto.  We name two or three books; you name the writer.   
   > We've even kindly provided a cheat sheet:   
   >   
   >      Ian Adams            Hugh Garner           Peter C. Newman   
   >      Margaret Atwood      Phyllis Gotleib       Michael Ondaatje   
   >      Mel Bradshaw         Katherine Govier      Andrew Pyper   
   >      Austin Clarke        Sandra Gulland        Paul Quarrington   
   >      John Robert Colombo  Lawrence Hill         Michael Redhill   
   >      Robertson Davies     Anne Ireland          Nino Ricci   
   >      Cory Doctorow        Guy Gavriel Kay       Peter Robinson   
   >      Jill Edmondson       Anne-Marie MacDonald  Robert J. Sawyer   
   >      Howard Engel         Rosemary McCracken    Susan Swan   
   >      Marian Engel         Judith Merril         Margaret Visser   
   >      Northrop Frye        Anne Michaels         Bob Ward   
   >      Mavis Gallant        Rohinton Mistry   
   >   
   > 1. "Cabbagetown", "Death in Don Mills".   
   > 2. "Such a Long Journey", "A Fine Balance".   
   > 3. "Lunatic Villas", "The Glassy Sea", "Bear".   
   > 4. "Black Berry", "Sweet Juice", "The Book of Negroes".   
   > 5. "The Polished Hoe", "Growing Up Stupid under the Union Jack".   
   > 6. "The Neanderthal Parallax", "Calculating God", "Flashforward".   
   > 7. "Fables of Brunswick Avenue", "The Ghost Brush", "Angel Walk".   
   > 8. "From the Fifteenth District", "Home Truths", "Paris Notebooks".   
   > 9. "Fall on Your Knees", "Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning   
   >     Juliet)".   
   > 10. "Anatomy of Criticism", "the Well-Tempered Critic", "The   
   >     Educated Imagination".   
   >   
      
   Pete Gayde   
      
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