From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 6, Round 1 - Current Events (excerpt)   
   >   
   > Answer these 2012 questions if you like for fun, but for no points.   
   >   
   > 1. What country became the fourth euro-zone nation to seek a   
   >    financial bailout, to the tune of as much as 100,000,000,000   
   >    euros?   
      
   Ireland   
      
   > 2. In 1769 observers were dispatched throughout the world,   
   >    including Capt. James Cook to Tahiti, to observe and measure   
   >    an astronomical event.  Considering the challenges of their   
   >    location, time, and measuring apparatus, it's amazing that   
   >    their measurements were off by only 2%.  It happened again   
   >    last week, but won't occur for another 105 years.  What is this   
   >    astronomical event?   
      
   Solar eclipse   
      
   > * Game 6, Round 2 - History - Ship Disasters   
   >   
   > 5. Two passenger ships, one Swedish and the other Italian,   
   >    collided 45 miles off the coast of Nantucket Island in   
   >    July 1956.  Both ships were badly damaged but less than 50   
   >    people were killed.  The Italian ship sank 11 hours later.   
   >    Name *either* ship.   
      
   Andrea Doria   
      
   > 6. In August 1986, the passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov collided   
   >    with cargo ship Pyotr Vasev.  423 passengers and crew died.   
   >    In what body of water did this tragedy occur?   
      
   Black Sea   
      
   > 7. The car ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized and sank   
   >    minutes after leaving the Belgian port of Zeebrugge in March   
   >    1987.  193 people were killed.  Why did it capsize?   
      
   Carport still open   
      
   > 8. The luxury liner Achille Lauro caught fire and sank off the coast   
   >    of Somalia in 1994.  This same ship was already infamous for   
   >    another incident in 1985.  What had happened *that* time?   
   >    Give details.   
      
   A lot of people got ill, by a disease or a poison.   
      
   > 9. In April 1980 the Philippine inter-island ferry Don Juan,   
   >    while en route from Manila to Bacolod, sank after a collision in   
   >    the Tablas Strait off the island of Mindoro.  Different sources   
   >    indicate anywhere from 176 people killed up to over 1,000, which   
   >    is more likely the approximate number of passengers aboard.   
   >    Anyway, *what did it collide with*?   
      
   Whale   
      
   > 10. """The all-time worst""" peacetime sea tragedy was also in the   
   >    Philippines, in 1987.  The ferry Dona Paz sank after colliding   
   >    with the tanker Vector in the Sibuyan Sea.  Within 500 deaths,   
   >    how many lives are believed to have been lost?   
      
   3500   
      
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