From: pete.gayde@gmail.com   
      
   Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-03-24,   
   > and should be interpreted accordingly.  All questions were written   
   > by members of the Cellar Rats, 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 2022-09-09   
   > companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian   
   > Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 9, Round 1 - Current Events (excerpt)   
   >   
   > Answer these 2014 questions if you like for fun, but for no points.   
   >   
   > 1. Google introduced to Canada on Wednesday a TV streaming gadget.   
   >     What is it called?   
      
   Chromecast   
      
   >   
   > 2. The "most hated man in America" died on Wednesday -- the   
   >     founder of the Westboro Baptist Church.  What was his name?   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 9, Round 2 - Canadiana Literature - Characters   
   >   
   > We will name and describe a literary character from a Canadian work   
   > of fiction, and you will name the *author* who created the character.   
   >   
   > 1. Hagar Shipley, a 90-year-old woman facing her mortality and   
   >     reviewing her past.   
   >   
   > 2. Brian O'Connal, a sensitive boy growing up in a small   
   >     Depression-era Saskatchewan town.   
   >   
   > 3. Percival "King" Leary, a legendary retired hockey player living   
   >     in a small-town nursing home.   
   >   
   > 4. Robert Ross, a World War I officer who loses his sanity and is   
   >     court-martialed after a tragic event.   
   >   
   > 5. Barney Panofsky, a thrice-married hack TV producer.   
   >   
   > 6. Grace Marks, an amnesiac servant girl convicted of murder.   
   >   
   > 7. Dunstan Ramsay, a mild-mannered schoolteacher.   
   >   
   > 8. Joanne Kilbourn, a Saskatchewan widow and political scientist   
   >     with a nose for crime.   
   >   
   > 9. Piscine Molitor Patel, a zookeeper's son with a strong survival   
   >     instinct.   
   >   
   > 10. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, of the homicide department of the   
   Sûreté   
   >     du Québec.   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 9, Round 3 - Science - Global Warming   
   >   
   > 1. The graph of average global temperature over the last 1,000   
   >     years, showing a sudden rise starting at the beginning of the   
   >     Industrial Revolution, is often described in terms of what   
   >     sports-related item?   
      
   Hockey stick   
      
   >   
   > 2. The 2009 leak of email messages from the Climatic Research   
   >     Unit of the University of East Anglia sparked controversy when   
   >     climate-change deniers claimed they showed that researchers   
   >     were manipulating climate data.  What was this potential scandal   
   >     dubbed in the press?   
   >   
   > 3. Climatologists derive a record of historical global average   
   >     temperatures going back centuries by analysing two main sources   
   >     of information.  Name either one.   
      
   Ice cores   
      
   >   
   > 4. The unexpected and extremely rapid breakup of these glacier-   
   >     related features has alarmed climatologists, as it suggests the   
   >     effects of global warming are occurring much more rapidly than   
   >     originally believed.  The most alarming example occurred in 2002   
   >     when one of these, known as Larson B, completely disintegrated   
   >     in just 35 days.  What features?   
      
   Ice shelf   
      
   >   
   > 5. Name the place where this region contains the next-largest amount   
   >     of the world's frozen fresh water, after the Antarctic, is found.   
   >     It is also of great concern for climate-change researchers,   
   >     as the worst-case scenario of a total melt of this ice alone   
   >     would raise the sea level by 23 feet (7 m).   
      
   Siberia   
      
   >   
   > 6. Which gas emitted by livestock (e.g. cows and sheep) is a major   
   >     greenhouse gas?  It potentially contributes more yearly to   
   >     global warming than all cars, trucks, and other means of   
   >     transportation combined.   
      
   Methane   
      
   >   
   > 7. Name the 2006 documentary about Al Gore's campaign to educate citizens   
   >     about global warming, which has been credited with having a major   
   >     impact on climate-change awareness and with reenergizing the   
   >     environmental movement.   
      
   An Inconvenient Truth   
      
   >   
   > 8. What name is given by scientists to any system, either biological   
   >     or artificial, that serves to pull carbon dioxide out of the   
   >     atmosphere and keep it sequestered?  Examples often referred   
   >     to in global-warming discussions include the world's oceans,   
   >     and forests and other vegetation.   
      
   Carbon neutral   
      
   >   
   > 9. What scientific-sounding adjective is applied to global warming   
   >     believed to be brought about by human activity?  The term is   
   >     used to differentiate it from changes caused by natural events   
   >     such as volcanos or changes in solar output.   
   >   
   > 10. A 1997 protocol is the first agreement between nations to   
   >     mandate reductions in greenhouse gases.  It is named after what   
   >     city, where the treaty was adopted?   
      
   Paris   
      
   >   
      
   Pete Gayde   
      
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