From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, July 26, 2023 at 11:09:35 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:   
   >    
   > * Game 9 (2023-07-17), Round 1 - Current Events    
   >    
   > 1. On Sunday the 9th, the Calgary Stampede set the new world    
   > record for most pancakes served in an 8-hour period. Guinness    
   > World Records adjudicator Brittany Dunn observed the attempt,    
   > and she disqualified 15 pancakes. However, they made more    
   > than enough to beat the previous record of 14,208. Within 250,    
   > what is the new world record?    
      
   15,000; 15,501   
      
   > 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?    
      
   Drescher   
      
   > 6. Attributed to crop failures after heat waves and heavy rains,    
   > the price of what culinary staple has risen by 400% in India?    
   > It's a key ingredient in many dishes, including butter chicken    
   > and paneer makhni, and McDonald's has temporarily stopped    
   > serving it as a burger topping. What is it?    
      
   rice   
       
   > 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?    
      
   trombone   
      
   > 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   
       
   > 2. The North American Indigenous Games is the largest Indigenous    
   > gathering and multi-sport event hosted in the history of    
   > Atlantic Canada. What two-word name, in English, is used by    
   > some Indigenous peoples -- such as many Algonquian and Iroquoian    
   > speakers -- to refer to the continent of North America?    
      
   Turtle Island   
      
   > 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   
       
   > 5. On Wednesday, the South African government announced that Russian    
   > Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov would be attending the upcoming    
   > BRICS summit in place of President Vladimir Putin. Why was    
   > Putin's attendance at the summit a problem for the South    
   > African government?    
      
   the ongoing invasion of Ukraine (?)   
      
   > 6. On Friday, four men were arrested after a video surfaced of a    
   > mob assaulting two naked women in which troubled Indian state?    
      
   Punjab (?)   
      
   > 8. Following a 17-month investigation into workplace harassment,    
   > the NFL levied a record $60,000,000 (US) fine against which    
   > former owner of the Washington Redskins -- er, Commanders?    
      
   Snyder   
       
   > 9. On Thursday, this country singer's video for "Try That in a    
   > Small Town" was pulled by Country Music Television after    
   > accusations that it called for racist violence. It didn't help    
   > that the video was filmed on the site of a 1927 lynching and    
   > a 1946 race riot. Name the artist, who denies any racist intent.    
      
   Aldean   
      
   > 10. Taylor Swift currently occupies 11 spaces on the Billboard    
   > 200 Albums chart. While she is the first woman to dominate    
   > that many spots at once, two other acts have achieved this    
   > feat before. Name *either* of them.    
      
   Prince   
      
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