From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 1 (2023-05-08), Round 1 - Current Events   
   >   
   > 2. It was announced this week that U of T professor and AI pioneer   
   >    Geoffrey Hinton quit his job, warning, "It is hard to see how   
   >    you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things".   
   >    Which employer did he leave?   
      
   Google   
      
   > 6. The 149th edition of the Kentucky Derby was not without   
   >    controversy.  A record number of horses, including the favorite,   
   >    were scratched from the main race; and in the week leading up to   
   >    the race, a number of horses died, some from mysterious causes.   
   >    Within 1, how many horses died in the week leading up to the   
   >    Kentucky Derby?   
      
   4   
      
   > 8. Sundown came this week for what 84-year-old Canadian   
   >    singer-songwriter?  He was a pioneer in folk, rock, pop, and   
   >    country music who wrote hundreds of songs for himself and many   
   >    other artists, but arguably he will be best remembered for the   
   >    tale of a Lake Superior shipwreck.   
      
   Gordon Lightfoot   
      
   > After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Ba gur svefg   
   > dhrfgvba, gur nafjre vf n fhoinevnag bs Bzvpeba.  Fb vs lbh fnvq   
   > Bzvpeba, cyrnfr tb onpx naq or zber fcrpvsvp.   
      
   I realised that. That's why I left it blank. Covid has fallen so much   
   of the news here, that no one is talking about pink eyes.   
      
   > * Game 2 (2023-05-15), Round 1 - Current Events   
   >   
   > 1. On Saturday, Sweden won the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest.  Name   
   >    the singer, who became the first woman to win the prize *twice*.   
      
   Loreen   
      
   > 3. The NHL draft Lottery was held on Monday night.  Like previously   
   >    named "Connor McDavid" and "Auston Matthews" drafts, this year's   
   >    draft was named after what hot commodity?   
      
   That must be another Connor - I read about in the newspaper about an   
   hour ago. But I do recall his last name? No.   
      
   > 10. Ah, Internet theories!  An untitled book known only as "4C   
   >    Untitled Flatiron Nonfiction Summer 2023" was hovering around the   
   >    top of some major US sales/presales charts.  Its rapid rise was   
   >    attributed to a rumor that it was written by which pop artist?   
      
   Brian May   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)