From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
      
   > * 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?   
      
   16350   
      
   > 5. On Saturday, Markéta Vondrousová won the Ladies' Singles   
   >    Wimbledon championship, and set a first in doing so.  What makes   
   >    her victory unique in the Open Era?  Be sufficiently specific.   
      
   She was the first unseeded female player to win the tournament   
      
   > 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   
      
   > 9. On Tuesday, a group of scientists announced the bottom of   
   >    Crawford Lake in Ontario has been selected as the "golden spike"   
   >    -- the marker of a new proposed geological epoch, which would   
   >    start in the 1950s.  What was considered our current epoch   
   >    is the Holocene, which started at the end of the last ice age   
   >    11,700 years ago.  What is the name of new epoch?   
      
   Antropocene   
      
   > 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   
      
   > 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?   
      
   They would have to arrest him in accordance with their obligations   
   to the ICC.   
      
   > 6. On Friday, four men were arrested after a video surfaced of a   
   >    mob assaulting two naked women in which troubled Indian state?   
      
   Manipur   
      
   > 7. The FIFA Women's World Cup is under way.  Canada's women's soccer   
   >    team started the group stage with a 0-0 draw against Nigeria's   
   >    Super Falcons.  Name *either* of the other two teams who share   
   >    Group B.   
      
   Australia and Ireland   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   The Rolling Stones   
      
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