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   Erland Sommarskog to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCI23 Current Events Games 3-4   
   17 Oct 23 19:59:52   
   
   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
      
   > * Game 3 (2023-10-02), Round 1 - Current Events   
   >   
   > 4. Ethnic Armenians are fleeing which enclave in such numbers that   
   >    the statelet's government says its existence, albeit unofficial,   
   >    is soon to be at an end?   
      
   Artsakh (to use the Armenian name)   
      
   > 7. US astronaut Frank Rubio returned to earth last week after   
   >    an unplanned record-setting stay in space for an American.   
   >    How many days was he up there, within 5% of the true answer in   
   >    either direction?   
      
   272   
      
   > 10. Which US senator, who had been ailing in recent years, died   
   >    last week at the age of 90?   
      
   Diane Fernstein   
      
      
   > * Game 4 (2023-10-16), Round 1 - Current Events   
   >   
   > 2. Also on October 1, and several months after entering a form   
   >    of hospice or palliative care, former US president Jimmy Carter   
   >    celebrated a birthday.  How old is he?   
      
   99   
      
   > 5. Narges Mohammadi ["NAR-gus mo-HAM-a-dee"] was awarded the 2023   
   >    Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts against the oppression of   
   >    women in which country?   
      
   Iran   
      
   > 10. In which country was a referendum on giving indigenous people   
   >    a greater voice in government defeated?   
      
   Colombia   
      
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