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   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 9 (2023-07-17), Round 1 - Current Events   
      
   > 2. At a press conference Thursday afternoon, it was announced   
   >    that SAG-AFTRA, the entertainment industry's largest union,   
   >    representing 160,000 actors and performers, would officially be   
   >    on strike at midnight PST.  What fine actress is the SAG-AFTRA   
   >    president?   
      
   Fran Drescher   
      
   > 7. Nothing sad about the news that Hillary Simms, from Torbay, NL,   
   >    has been appointed as a professor at Juilliard, and its first   
   >    female professor of her chosen brass instrument -- which is what?   
      
   tuba; double bassoon   
      
   > 8. On Thursday, Google announced it is expanding access to its   
   >    AI chatbot to 230 countries and territories, but not to such   
   >    places as Russia, China, North Korea, Afghanistan, and, oh,   
   >    Canada.  What is Google's chatbot called?   
      
   Bard   
      
   > 10. Last week, Lithuania was the host country for the 2023 NATO   
   >    Summit, held in its capital -- which is what city?   
      
   Vilnius   
      
   > * Final (2023-07-24), Round 1 - Current Events   
      
   > 1. It's summer movie season (despite the strikes).  Two dramatically   
   >    different movies, which both opened Friday, have gone viral due   
   >    to people planning to watch them back-to-back... and of course   
   >    there are memes and a portmanteau word for this double-feature   
   >    extravaganza.  What is the portmanteau?   
      
   Barbenheimer   
      
   (I have seen multiple portmanteaus.)   
      
   > 4. "Cheek to Cheek" (2014) and "Love For Sale" (2021) are   
   >    collaborative albums between a woman born with the name Stefani   
   >    Germanotta and a recently-deceased man born with the name   
   >    Anthony Benedetto.  By what better-known names are these two   
   >    people credited on these albums?  Two answers required.   
      
   Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett   
      
   > 6. On Friday, four men were arrested after a video surfaced of a   
   >    mob assaulting two naked women in which troubled Indian state?   
      
   Jammu and Kashmir   
      
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   Dan Blum					         tool@panix.com	   
   "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."   
      
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