From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 8, Round 1 - Current Events (excerpt)   
   >   
   > Answer these 2012 questions if you like for fun, but for no points.   
   >   
   > 1. In London, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange tried to avoid a   
   >    British deportation order by seeking refuge in a foreign embassy.   
   >    What was the country that Assange turned to for asylum?   
      
   Ecuador   
      
   > * Game 8, Round 2 - Canadiana History - UN Peacekeeping   
   >   
   > *Note*: Where the answer calls for a country, always be   
   > sufficiently complete and specific or else you will be   
   > scored as wrong.   
   >   
   > 1. UN Security Council Resolution 1264 (hereafter R-1264) passed   
   >    in 1999.  Canadian troops were part of a multi-national   
   >    peacekeeping force sent to this country to aid in sponsoring   
   >    their act of self-determination to separate from Indonesia,   
   >    declared in 1975.  Name the region / new country.   
      
   East Timor   
      
   > 2. Established by the General Assembly in 1956, the United Nations   
   >    Emergency Force (UNEF) included up to 1,700 Canadian troops   
   >    and was formed to monitor peaceful withdrawal of the troops   
   >    that had invaded what nation?   
      
   Egypt   
      
   > 4. R-340, passed in 1973, involved the second Emergency Force,   
   >    UNEF II, which was dispatched to oversee the ceasefire   
   >    between Egypt and Israel after this war.  The highest Canadian   
   >    participation was 1,145 troops.  Name the war.   
      
   Yum Kippur   
      
   > 5. R-1542, passed in 2004, established a "stabilization mission"   
   >    to this Western Hemisphere country, to increase security and   
   >    protection during an electoral period and to maintain civil order   
   >    and public safety.  Peak Canadian participation was 500 troops   
   >    and 6 helicopters.  Name the country.   
      
   Haiti   
      
   > 6. R-187 passed unanimously in 1964.  It mandated a peacekeeping   
   >    operation that lasted over 29 years.  The Canadian contingent   
   >    was code-named Operation Snowgoose, and eventually involved   
   >    over 50,000 participants.  Name the country.   
      
   Cyprus   
      
   > 7. The United Nations Protection Force formed in February 1992   
   >    involved Canadian personnel for 3 years, providing security   
   >    in two different countries during wartime.  The actions of the   
   >    Canadian contingent were labeled Operation Harmony, and became   
   >    the basis for the 1997 movie "Peacekeepers".  Name *either one*   
   >    of the two newly formed countries that the Canadian troops were   
   >    deployed to.   
      
   Bosnia-Hercegovina   
      
   > 8. R-794 sanctioned a multinational force of 28,000 troops that   
   >    spent 3 years in this African country, on a nation-building   
   >    initiative of disarming various militant factions and helping to   
   >    create a new government.  After much contention, 28 days after   
   >    US troops left, R-954 ordered the withdrawal of all troops,   
   >    including Canadians.  Name the country.   
      
   Somalia   
      
   > 9. R-84, passed in 1950, mandated the largest-ever UN combined   
   >    force.  The conflict led to 312 Canadian fatalities.  Name the   
   >    country the force deployed to.   
      
   Korea   
      
   > 10. R-872 in 1993, passed unanimously, had major Canadian   
   >    representation, making a hero of one Canadian soldier.   
   >    What country was this crisis in?   
      
   Rwanda   
      
   > * Game 8, Round 3 - Arts - Name the Artwork   
   >   
   > 4. No hint.   
      
   The Cry   
      
   > 5. No hint.   
      
   The Thinker   
      
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