From: pete.gayde@gmail.com   
      
   Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2023-11-06,   
   > 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 5 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 both of these rounds.   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 7, Round 7 - Geography - World City Names   
   >   
   > We give the usual name of a city in English; you give its actual   
   > name in the local language.  In the original game a close-enough   
   > pronunciation would have been sufficient, but here you must give   
   > the exact spelling of the answer using our alphabet (you may omit   
   > accent marks, but if you give them they must be correct).   
   >   
   > In the original game, this example was given: "we say 'PA-riss,   
   > France'; you say 'Pa-REE' or P-A-R-I-S -- only that's not a real   
   > example, because it uses the same spelling."   
   >   
   > 1. Vienna, Austria.   
      
   Wien   
      
   > 2. Naples, Italy.   
      
   Napoli   
      
   > 3. The Hague, Netherlands.   
      
   Den Haag   
      
   > 4. Munich, Germany.   
      
   Munchen   
      
   > 5. Moscow ["MOSS-cow" or "MOSS-koe"], Russia.   
      
   Moskva   
      
   > 6. Lisbon, Portugal.   
      
   Lisboa   
      
   > 7. Prague, Czechia.   
      
   Praha   
      
   > 8. Cologne, Germany.   
      
   Koln   
      
   >   
   > 9. Brussels, Belgium.  Give *either* the French or the Dutch name --   
   >     you need not say which.   
      
   Bruxelles   
      
   >   
   > 10. Geneva, Switzerland.  Give *either* the French or the German   
   >     name -- you need not say which.   
      
   Geneve   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 7, Round 8 - History - US Presidents by Middle Name   
   >   
   > A simple round: we say David, for example, and you say Dwight   
   > Eisenhower.  Or just Eisenhower will be sufficient unless another   
   > president has the same surname.   
   >   
   > 1. Birchard.   
      
   Hayes   
      
   > 2. Henry.   
      
   Harrison   
      
   > 3. John.   
      
   Trump   
      
   > 4. Hussein.   
      
   Obama   
      
   > 5. Gamaliel ["ga-MAY-lee-ell"].   
      
   Harding   
      
   > 6. Robinette.   
      
   Biden   
      
   > 7. Baines.   
      
   Lyndon Johnson   
      
   > 8. Milhous ["MILL-house"].   
      
   Nixon   
      
   > 9. Jefferson.   
      
   Clinton   
      
   > 10. Wilson.   
      
   Reagan   
      
   >   
      
   Pete Gayde   
      
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