From: stephen.w.perry@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 2:21:56 AM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2023-09-18,    
   > and should be interpreted accordingly.    
   >    
   > On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give    
   > both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.    
   > Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,    
   > based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote    
   > the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal    
   > the correct answers in about 3 days.    
   >    
   > All questions were written by members of the Usual Suspects and    
   > are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have    
   > been retyped and/or edited by me. The posting and tabulation of    
   > current-events questions is independent of the concurrent posting    
   > of other rounds. For further information please see my 2023-05-24    
   > companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition    
   > (QFTCI*)".    
   >    
   >    
   > I wrote one of these rounds.    
   >    
   >    
   > * Game 1, Round 7 - Entertainment - One-Word Movie Titles    
   >    
   > We give a short description, and you give the one-word movie title.    
   >    
   > 1. An unknown gets a shot at the heavyweight boxing championship.    
      
   rocky   
      
   > 2. From a novel subtitled "a novel about three army doctors".    
      
   mash   
      
   > 3. A strange creature attacks the crew of the spaceship Nostromo.    
      
   alien   
      
   > 4. The daily lives of mobsters in New York.    
      
   wiseguy [might not be the one you were thinking of, but I liked it]   
      
   > 5. A former policeman suffers from acrophobia.    
      
   vertigo   
      
   > 6. The life and times of the former first lady of Argentina.    
      
   evita   
      
   > 7. The lives of music-hall performers in pre-Nazi Berlin.    
      
   cabaret   
      
   > 8. A sheriff in a small town uncovers murder and kidnapping in    
   > the snow.    
      
   fargo   
      
   > 9. An alien creature comes to Earth to do a little hunting.    
      
   predator   
      
   > 10. Remade several times. In the original a prehistoric creature    
   > attacks Tokyo.    
      
   godzilla   
      
   >    
   > * Game 1, Round 8 - History - 1809    
   >    
   > If you write dates numerically in a certain style that is very    
   > common in Britain and also sometimes used in Canada, today is the    
   > 18th of September or 18/09. Therefore, here is a round about 1809.    
   >    
   > The year, that is.    
   >    
   > 1. In 1809 Napoleon's French Empire was at war with several other    
   > countries. Name any one of the countries that the French were    
   > fighting in the Peninsular War.    
      
   spain ; portugal   
      
   > 2. Meanwhile on another peninsula, France completed its invasion    
   > and annexation of the Papal States. How did Pope Pius VII    
   > react to this?    
      
   he excommunicated napoleon   
      
   > 3. On February 12, about 4,000 miles apart, there were born a    
   > future scientist and a future politician, both of whose fame    
   > still endures today. Name either one.    
      
   darwin ; lincoln   
      
   > 4. On June 8 the author of the 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense" died.    
   > Name him.    
      
   thomas paine   
      
   > 5. Name either the US president whose term ended in 1809, or the    
   > one who succeeded him.    
      
   james madison; thomas jefferson   
      
   > 6. Washington Irving's first major book was published in 1809 under    
   > the pseudonym of "Diedrich Knickerbocker". It was a satirical    
   > history of what city?    
      
   new york?   
      
   > 7. Robert Fulton received his first US patent in 1809, for what    
   > invention?    
      
   steamboat   
      
   > 8. Please decode the rot13 for this question only after you have    
   > finished with the previous one. Meanwhile in Lower Canada,    
   > a steamboat financed by John Molson made its maiden voyage.    
   > Name either the starting point of the trip, or the endpoint.    
      
   montreal?   
   [rot13?]   
      
   > 9. In 1809 the governor of the Louisiana Territory was either    
   > murdered or committed suicide, but it's not clear which.    
   > He was previously known as an explorer. Name him.    
      
   lewis   
      
   > 10. This Austrian composer of over 100 symphonies died in Vienna in    
   > 1809. The Requiem by his friend Mozart was played at his    
   > funeral. Name him.    
      
   haydn?   
      
   > --    
   > Mark Brader | ...I am constantly surprised by the questions which apparently    
   > Toronto | have not been litigated, at least to the point of producing    
   > m...@vex.net | an appellate decision. --Richard R. Hershberger    
   >    
   > My text in this article is in the public domain.   
      
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