From: pete.gayde@gmail.com   
      
   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 of these rounds.   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 3, Round 9 - History - After Edward   
   >   
   > In each case, name the successor to King Edward.  Some of them   
   > had soubriquets or surnames that are sometimes used, but in each   
   > case we want their given name and, if applicable, regnal number --   
   > for example, Charles III.   
   >   
   > Be careful of table talk on this round.   
   >   
   > 1. King Edward I of England died in 1307, and was succeeded by   
   >     his oldest son still living.  The son's reign lasted 20 years,   
   >     but with wars and rebellions it got worse and worse and he was   
   >     finally forced to abdicate, and then died, probably by murder.   
   >     The details are unknown, but since he may have been homosexual,   
   >     legend has it that his punishment was a red-hot poker --   
   >     used rectally.  Be that as it may, name Edward I's successor.   
   >   
   > 2. As you just heard, King Edward II of England abdicated in 1327.   
   >     His 14-year-old son succeeded to the throne and his reign lasted   
   >     50 years.  For the first 3 years Roger Mortimer was his regent,   
   >     until the young king had Mortimer killed.  Later this king   
   >     developed England as a military power -- until it got stuck   
   >     in the Hundred Years' War with France.  Name that successor   
   >     of Edward II.   
   >   
   > 3. When King Edward III of England died in 1377, his 10-year-old   
   >     grandson took the throne, at first with a council of regents.   
   >     He reigned until 1399, but was seen as more and more tyrannical   
   >     over time, and (like Edward II) he was finally deposed.   
   >     Shakespeare wrote a play about this successor of Edward III:   
   >     who was he?   
   >   
   > 4. During the Wars of the Roses, Edward IV was King of England   
   >     twice.  He took the throne in 1461 when his predecessor was   
   >     deposed, but Edward IV himself was deposed in 1470 and that   
   >     predecessor resumed the throne -- for only 6 months until he   
   >     was deposed a second time in favor of Edward IV.  Who was this   
   >     first successor -- and predecessor -- to Edward IV?  The two   
   >     men were third cousins, both great-great-grandsons of Edward III.   
   >   
   > 5. When King Edward IV of England died in 1483, this time his   
   >     successor was his 12-year-old son, who reigned for less than   
   >     3 months.  His problem was his uncle, a duke, who was named   
   >     regent, or Lord Protector as he was called.  This uncle wanted   
   >     the throne for himself.  So he arranged for Edward IV's accession   
   >     to be retroactively declared invalid, thus nullifying the   
   >     boy's accession.  Then he had the boy imprisoned and apparently   
   >     murdered.  Who was this boy, the short-lived second successor   
   >     to Edward IV?   
   >   
   > 6. You've just heard what happened to King Edward V of England.   
   >     His successor was that nasty uncle, another man that Shakespeare   
   >     wrote a play about.  He ruled for only 2 years before dying   
   >     in the last battle of the Wars of the Roses.  Who was it that   
   >     succeeded Edward V?   
   >   
   > 7. When Edward VI was King of England, he and his council of regents   
   >     tried to manipulate the succession law in favor of a Protestant   
   >     -- specifically, Edward's 16-year-old first-cousin-once-removed.   
   >     But when Edward died at age 15, this arrangement didn't stick,   
   >     and *she* was soon executed (to avoid any dispute).  Who was   
   >     this girl, the short-lived successor to Edward VI?   
   >   
   > 8. The second and official successor of King Edward VI of England   
   >     was his Catholic half-sister, who for 5 years was England's   
   >     first undisputed queen regnant.  Name her.   
   >   
   > 9. When King Edward VII of the United Kingdom died in 1910, he   
   >     had one living son, who reigned until 1936.  Name this successor   
   >     to Edward VII.   
   >   
   > 10. When King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom abdicated in 1936,   
   >     he was succeeded by his oldest brother.  Who was that?   
      
   George V   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 3, Round 10 - Canadiana Challenge Round   
   >   
   > This is the Canadiana round.   
   >   
   > * A. Prime Ministers   
   >   
   >     A1. Name *any one* of the federal ridings represented by Sir   
   >         John A. Macdonald during his political career.   
   >   
   >     A2. Name *any one* of the federal ridings represented by William   
   >         Lyon Mackenzie King during his political career.   
   >   
   >   
   > * B. Postal Codes   
   >   
   >     B1. Which province or territory do you live in if your postal   
   >         code starts with E?   
      
   Ontario; Quebec   
      
   >   
   >     B2. Which province or territory do you live in if your postal   
   >         code starts with Y?   
      
   British Columbia; Alberta   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * C. Provinces   
   >   
   >     C1. Which province was the last one to give women the right to   
   >         vote in provincial elections?   
      
   Alberta; Saskatchewan   
      
   >   
   >     C2. When this province was created in 1870, it was nicknamed the   
   >         "postage-stamp province".  Which province?   
      
   Prince Edward Island   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * D. Governor-General   
   >   
   >     D1. The Governor-General of Canada has two official residences.   
   >         One is Rideau Hall in Ottawa.  Name the other.   
   >   
   >     D2. From 1867 to 1931, the Governor-General was appointed by   
   >         the Crown from a list approved by the Canadian government,   
   >         but only after consultation with which British body?   
   >   
   >   
   > * E. Cities   
   >   
   >     E1. Name the original and oldest section of Vancouver.   
   >   
   >     E2. Bylaws in Montreal state that no building in the city may   
   >         extend higher than what other structure?   
   >   
   >   
   > * F. Civil Disobedience   
   >   
   >     F1. Which city was shut down by a general strike in 1919?   
   >   
   >     F2. Riot police and the army were involved in a sometimes violent   
   >         conflict with Mohawk protesters in 1990, near which Quebec   
      
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