From: stephen.w.perry@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 7:03:33 AM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2023-11-20,    
   > 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 9, Round 7 - Sports - Defunct NHL Franchise Locations    
   >    
   > An NHL team is not always a big money-maker for itself or its city.    
   > Although the league has had periods of stability, there have also    
   > been many times when teams decamped for greener pastures or just    
   > failed outright. In each case, we give you a team's name, and    
   > you identify the city (or other place name) that it represented    
   > when it had that name.    
   >    
   > Please be careful with the table-talk, as some teams and cities    
   > have managed to fail more than once and may appear twice in this    
   > round under different names; also, some teams have the same name    
   > as a team in another league, or have themselves played in another    
   > league at some time. This round is only talking about the NHL.    
   >    
   > 1. Seals, also called the Golden Seals.    
   > 2. Barons.    
   > 3. Pirates.    
   > 4. Quakers.    
   > 5. Rockies.    
   > 6. Thrashers.    
   > 7. Tigers.    
   > 8. Americans.    
   > 9. Nordiques.    
   > 10. Jets.    
   >    
   >    
   > * Game 9, Round 8 - Entertainment - Their Only Acting Oscar    
   >    
   > For the benefit of any teams that need to make up a lot of points    
   > -- or of people who wish we had more freedom to keep things more    
   > interesting by asking occasionally for two-part answers --    
   > *Rounds 8 and 9 of this game will each be bonus rounds.*    
   >    
   > Each question on these rounds will ask for two facts. If you give    
   > one of them, you get the regular score, but if you give both, you    
   > get a 2-point bonus. Warning: if you try for the bonus and fail to    
   > get both facts right, then your answer is wrong.    
   >    
   > If making two guesses, you may try for the bonus on either or both.    
   > Please make it explicit how you are answering.    
   >    
   > On this round, each question is about a person who has *only once*    
   > won an Oscar for acting and it was either Best Actor or Best    
   > Actress, no supporting roles. We will tell you the decade when    
   > the relevant movie was released, and we'll list several *other*    
   > roles played by the same person through their career.    
   >    
   > *No points for naming the person.* The two facts we're asking    
   > for are the name of the *movie* they won the Oscar for, and the    
   > name of their *character* in the movie. For your normal score,    
   > name either one; for the bonus, name both.    
   >    
   > 1. He also played Rhett Butler, sailor Fletcher Christian, and bar    
   > owners Blackie Norton and Blackie Gallagher; but he won Best    
   > Actor for a 1930s movie. To repeat, for normal score, either    
   > name the *movie* he won for, or his *character* in the movie;    
   > for the bonus, name both.    
      
   it happened one night, peter warne   
      
   > 2. He also played sales executive C.R. MacNamara, outlaws Cody    
   > Jarrett and Jim Kincaid, and police commissioner Rhinelander    
   > Waldo; but he won Best Actor for a 1940s movie.    
      
   yankee doodle dandy, george cohan   
      
   > 3. He also played naval officer Philip Queeg, bar owner Rick Blaine,    
   > and detectives Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade; but he won Best    
   > Actor for a 1950s movie.    
      
   the african queen, charlie allnut   
      
   > 4. He also played newsmen Joe Bradley and Phil Schuyler Green,    
   > commando Keith Mallory, and sea captain Ahab; but he won Best    
   > Actor for a 1960s movie.    
      
   to kill a mockingbird, atticus finch   
      
   > 5. She also played Evelyn Mulwray, Bonnie Parker, Joan Crawford,    
   > and Serena Joy; but she won Best Actress for a 1970s movie.    
      
   network, diana christensen   
      
   > 6. He also played Billy the Kid, Nobel-winning author Andrew Craig,    
   > General Leslie Groves, and lawyer Frank Galvin; but he won Best    
   > Actor for a 1980s movie.    
      
   the color of money, 'fast' eddie felson   
      
   > 7. She also played Emma Woodhouse, Margot Tenenbaum, reporter Polly    
   > Perkins, and assistant Pepper Potts; but she won Best Actress    
   > for a 1990s movie.    
      
   shakespeare in love, viola de lesseps   
      
   > 8. He also played Jor-El, policeman Bud White, boxer Jim Braddock,    
   > and naval captain Jack Aubrey. But he won Best Actor for a    
   > 2000s movie. (That means 2000-09.)    
      
   gladiator, general maximus decimus meridius   
      
   > 9. He also played Howard Hughes, Amsterdam Vallon, Jack Dawson,    
   > and Frank Abagnale ["AB-ag-nail"] Jr.; but he won Best Actor    
   > for a 2010s movie.    
      
   the revenant, hugh glass   
      
   > 10. Oops, we ran out of complete decades during the time that Oscars    
   > have existed. Okay, this person won Best Actress for *either*    
   > a 1920s or a 2020s movie, but we won't tell you which. She also    
   > played Maya Harris, Molly Bloom, Melissa Lewis, and Murph Cooper.    
      
   the eyes of tammy faye, tammy faye bakker   
      
   > --    
   > Mark Brader, Toronto | "Here I sit, ego the size of a planet..."    
   > m...@vex.net | --Steve Summit (after Douglas Adams)    
   >    
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