From: stephen.w.perry@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at 11:34:32 AM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2023-10-02,    
   > 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 question in one of these rounds.    
   >    
   >    
   > * Game 4, Round 7 - Literature - Italian Literature    
   >    
   > 1. Who is the pseudonymous author of the four so-called "Neapolitan    
   > novels", dealing with two women's friendship from childhood    
   > to old age, published between 2011 and 2014 and beginning with    
   > "My Brilliant Friend"?    
      
   elena ferrante   
      
   > 2. Who is the philosopher, semiotician, and cultural critic who    
   > wrote the 1980 novel "The Name of the Rose", followed in 1988 by    
   > "Foucault's ['Foo-koze'] Pendulum"?    
      
   umberto eco   
      
   > 3. Dante Alighieri's ["a-league-yair-eez"] 14th-century allegorical    
   > poem "The Divine Comedy" is still one of the most influential    
   > works of European literature. It is divided into three    
   > sections of 33 cantos each, plus a prologue. Name *any one*    
   > of the three main sections.    
      
   paradiso ; inferno   
      
   > 4. After initial popularity, Dante's works were overshadowed    
   > by those of a younger contemporary, a humanist and lyric poet.    
   > He wrote in both Latin and Italian; in the latter, perhaps    
   > his best-known work is "Fragments of Vernacular Matters",    
   > a collection of over 300 poems. Name him.    
      
   petrarch   
      
   > 5. Who is the Jewish Italian author who wrote about his time at    
   > Auschwitz in "If This is a Man"? A trained chemist, he later    
   > wrote a book of short stories called "The Periodic Table".    
      
   levi?   
      
   > 6. Another classic of the 14th century was a 100-part series    
   > of stories by 10 narrators, told over 10 days during a time    
   > of plague. It is sometimes referred to as "The Human Comedy" by    
   > contrast with the work of Dante. Name this work or its author.    
      
   balzac?   
      
   > 7. A one-hit wonder of sorts was Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa,    
   > whose only novel, published in 1958, just after his death,    
   > became one of the most celebrated in Italian literature.    
   > Name it, in English or Italian.    
      
   the leopard?   
      
   > 8. One of the greatest novels of the Italian Romantic period is    
   > Alessandro Manzoni's 1825-27 novel, set during the Thirty Years'    
   > War, and telling the story of two young people's frustrated    
   > attempt to marry. Name it, in English or Italian.    
      
   the betrothed?   
      
   > 9. The interplay of "vertu" (meaning individual initiative) and    
   > chance was one of the themes in the works of this Florentine.    
   > He published, among other works, a 7-volume "The Art of War"    
   > in 1521, but a little squib he dashed off in 1513 was enough    
   > to immortalize him.    
      
   machiavelli   
      
   > 10. The recipient of the 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature wrote    
   > some 40 plays, but, in the English-speaking world at any rate,    
   > one would be hard-pressed to hear mention of any but a 1921 work    
   > that functioned as an absurdist meta-commentary on drama itself.    
   > Name either the play or its author.    
      
   o'neill?   
      
   [way too many guesses on this round, and I used every name I know and one from   
   a tv show my wife liked]   
      
   >    
   > * Game 3, Round 8 - Sports - Obscure Rules    
   >    
   > 1. If a baseball fielder throws his glove or cap and hits the    
   > batted ball, what is the penalty?    
      
   all runners are safe and awarded extra bases [do I need to include that the   
   batter is a runner?]   
      
   > 2. If a baseball pitcher is ambidextrous, when may he, and when    
   > may he not, change which hand he's pitching with?    
      
   he has to clearly show in some manner which arm he is throwing with before the   
   batter gets in the box   
      
   > 3. After the Toronto Argonauts score a touchdown against the    
   > Hamilton Tiger-Cats, they decide to go for 2 points on    
   > the convert. Chad Kelly tries a pass to Cam Phillips in    
   > the end zone, but Hamilton defender Tunde Adeleke ["TUN-day    
   > a-DELL-eck-ay"] intercepts it and runs the ball back an amazing    
   > 117 yards to reach Toronto's end zone. What is the result?    
      
   2 points for hamilton?   
      
   > 4. In 2006, which NFL quarterback became the first player since    
   > 1941 to score using a drop-kick?    
      
   doug flutie [he lives near my brother, we've met]   
      
   > 5. In a FIFA soccer match, how long may the goalie hold the ball    
   > before putting it back into play?    
      
   um ... 6 seconds?   
      
   > 6. In golf, a player who turns in a scorecard claiming less strokes    
   > than were actually taken is disqualified. When happens if the    
   > scorecard claims more strokes than were actually taken?    
      
   you get that score?   
      
   > 7. Where is the farthest from his net that an NHL goalie is allowed    
   > to play the puck? (In terms of ice markings, not distance.)   
      
   blue line ; red line   
      
   > 8. In Australian football, what offense is punished by both a    
   > 50-meter penalty and a free kick?    
      
   arguing with the ref ; striking the ref   
      
   > 9. If your tennis opponent's hat distracts you by flying off during    
   > play, you may either play the ball or else ask the referee    
   > for what?    
      
   to start over on that point?? [seriously, this is a thing? hat distraction?]   
      
   > 10. How long after an NBA player gets the ball from the referee    
   > is he allowed to take his free throw?    
      
   10 seconds ; 6 seconds   
      
   > --    
   > Mark Brader, Toronto | "Wait, was that me? That was pretty good!"    
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   >    
   > My text in this article is in the public domain.   
      
   swp, who wouldn't mind seeing a before & after category again   
      
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