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   Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2023-11-13,   
   > 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 8, Round 2 - Entertainment - Playing Julius Caesar   
   >   
   > Over the years, many actors have portrayed Julius Caesar in movies   
   > and on television.  Here are some of them.  In each case, name   
   > the actor.   
   >   
   > 1. In a 1945 movie adaptation of George Bernard ["BER-nerd"]   
   >     Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra", this British actor as Caesar   
   >     was a mouthpiece for Shaw's own witticisms and droll humor.   
   >     The actor is better known for his numerous character roles,   
   >     often as a villain, in such films as Frank Capra's "Mr. Smith   
   >     Goes to Washington" (1939) and Alfred Hitchcock's "Notorious"   
   >     (1946).   
      
   Peter Lorre   
      
   >   
   > 2. One of the greatest interpreters of William Shakespeare's plays   
   >     in theater, this British actor only played Caesar in only one   
   >     movie, a 1970 version of Shakespeare's play.  His many other   
   >     movies, usually in character roles, include "Murder on the   
   >     Orient Express" (1975) and "Arthur" (1981).   
   >   
   > 3. Before he played James Bond in two of Eon Productions' 25 Bond   
   >     movies, this British actor distinguished himself in various   
   >     Shakespearean roles on stage.  After his days as Bond, he took   
   >     up the role of Caesar in a 1999 Hallmark TV mini-series called   
   >     "Cleopatra".  Low career point indeed!   
      
   Pierce Brosnan   
      
   >   
   > 4. This American actor, familiar to fans of Dick Wolf's "Law &   
   >     Order" and that producer's current series "FBI", played Caesar   
   >     in a 2003 two-part television bio-pic that also starred Richard   
   >     Harris, Christopher Walken, and Chris Noth [rhymes with "both"],   
   >     another alumnus of "Law & Order".   
   >   
   > 5. In a big-budget movie extravaganza in 1963, this British actor   
   >     took a stab at Caesar.  (Groan.)  A long-time stage-and-screen   
   >     thespian, he had a career that stretched back to the 1930s,   
   >     including films such as "Unfaithfully Yours" (1948), as a   
   >     homicidal conductor, and "The Agony and the Ecstasy" (1965),   
   >     playing a pope.   
   >   
   > 6. This American actor may have surprised movie fans with his   
   >     excellent portrayal of Shakespeare's Caesar in Joseph   
   >     Mankiewicz's 1953 film, a production jam-packed with famous   
   >     actors such as Marlon Brando, James Mason, , and   
   >     Deborah Kerr ["Car"].  He also played a profoundly sleazy lawyer   
   >     in John Huston's "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950).   
      
   Glenn Ford   
      
   >   
   > 7. This British comedian is famous for the two dozen or more   
   >     "Carry On" films he did for decades.  One of those, the   
   >     atrociously hilarious wink-wink movie "Carry On Cleo" (1964),   
   >     saw him take on the role of Caesar opposite Amanda Barrie   
   >     as Cleopatra.   
   >   
   > 8. On a more serious note, occasionally a younger actor takes   
   >     on a more youthful Caesar, which was the case for this US   
   >     wannabe-Rock-Hudson, better known as the lover of Janet Leigh's   
   >     ill-fated character in Hitchcock's "Psycho" (1960).  He took   
   >     up the challenge of Caesar in Stanley Kubrick's "Spartacus",   
   >     also released in 1960.   
   >   
   > 9. This Irish actor played Caesar in the sprawling, saucy epic   
   >     HBO/BBC series "Rome" (2005-07), detailing the transition of   
   >     ancient Rome from republic to empire.  His movie roles include   
   >     villains in "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life" (2003)   
   >     and "Justice League" (2017).  More recently, he played Buddy's   
   >     grandfather in Kenneth Branagh's "Belfast" (2021).   
   >   
   > 10. In 2005, ABC took its own even more lurid whack at ancient   
   >     Rome with "Empire".  Although he was born in the US and has   
   >     lived in Ireland, the actor who played Julius Caesar in this   
   >     mini-series identifies as Canadian, and has done a lot of plays   
   >     and movies here.  Movie and TV roles include Pierre Trudeau in   
   >     the CBC mini-series "Trudeau" (2002), Glenn Gould in "Thirty-Two   
   >     Short Films about Glenn Gould" (1993), and a police detective in   
   >     "Bon Cop, Bad Cop" (2006) and its sequel.   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 8, Round 3 - Sports - American Football   
   >   
   > 1. The National Football League now has 32 teams based in more   
   >     than 20 US states, but when it started in 1920 there were 14   
   >     teams in 5 states.  Just like with the NHL, only two of those   
   >     original teams still exist, but unlike the NHL, both teams have   
   >     moved from their original home cities.  Give the *present-day   
   >     name* of either of those surviving teams -- give either the   
   >     team name or the place name.   
      
   Chicago Bears   
      
   >   
   > 2. The most recent case of an NFL team changing its name happened   
   >     last year.  What is that team now called?  Place name and team   
   >     name required.   
      
   Las Vegas Raiders   
      
   >   
   > 3. The next two questions are about NFL records according to   
   >     the NFL's official Record and Fact Book issued at the start of   
   >     this season.  Which retired player, who started with New England,   
   >     holds the all-time career record for the most points scored?   
   >   
   > 4. Please decode the rot13 only after you have finished with the   
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   >     xvpxvat.  Juvpu ergverq cynlre, jub fgnegrq jvgu Fna Senapvfpb,   
   >     ubyqf gur nyy-gvzr pnerre erpbeq sbe gur zbfg gbhpuqbjaf?   
      
   Jerry Rice   
      
   >   
   > 5. Another professional league of American football currently has   
   >     8 teams; its North Division consists of the Michigan Panthers,   
   >     New Jersey Generals, Philadelphia Stars, and Pittsburgh Maulers.   
   >     Name that league -- the short form will do.   
      
   USFL; XFL   
      
   >   
   > 6. Still another professional league of American football has   
      
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