From: stephen.w.perry@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 at 12:48:06 AM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on the dates    
   > indicated, and should be interpreted accordingly. If any answers    
   > have changed due to newer news, you are still expected to give    
   > the answers that were correct on that date.    
   >    
   > 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 Misplaced Modifiers    
   > 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*)".    
   >    
   >    
   > * Game 1 (2024-01-29), Round 1 - Current Events    
   >    
   > 1. The Oilers beat the Flames 3-1 last week. They broke a record    
   > for a Canadian NHL team that had stood since Montreal set it    
   > in the 1967-68 season. What did they break the record for?    
      
   longest winning streak by a canadian team (13)   
      
   > 2. Nick Dunlap won the American Express PGA golf tournament last    
   > week but did not get the $1,500,000 prize. Why not?    
      
   he is an amatuer    
      
   > 3. Whose bust was unveiled at Queen's Park?    
      
   lincoln alexander [1st black mp in canada]   
      
   > 4. Art seems to come and go at the legislature. Why was the    
   > painting "Salmon Life Giving Spawn" *removed* from Queen's Park?    
      
   they don't know the correct provenance and it may be a fake   
      
   > 5. What Canadian filmmaker died last week at age 97?    
      
   norman jewison   
      
   > 6. Name the Canadian who was nominated for the Best Supporting    
   > Actor Oscar.    
      
   ryan gosling   
      
   > 7. At the Telus Centre in Calgary, in front of 4,000 people,    
   > Danielle Smith had a sit-down with what controversial media    
   > personality?    
      
   tucker carlson   
      
   > 8. Which state hosted both the Democratic and Republican primaries    
   > last week?    
      
   new hampshire   
      
   > 9. In a blow to international shipping, the Panama Canal is    
   > drastically reducing the number of ships that can pass through.    
   > Why?    
      
   lack of rain   
      
   > 10. Which country is receiving the first-ever vaccine against    
   > malaria?    
      
   cameroon [following ghana, kenya, and malawi since the trials began.  this is   
   truly huge news.]   
      
      
   > * Game 2 (2024-02-05), Round 1 - Current Events    
   >    
   > 1. Justice Marie-Josée Hogue was in the news last week. What is    
   > the subject of the investigation she is leading?    
      
   foreign interference in elections   
      
   > 2. Five professional hockey players from Canada's 2018 world    
   > junior hockey team turned themselves in last week to face charges    
   > of sexual assault. In *what city* will the trial take place?    
      
   london, ontario   
      
   > 3. Turning to the obits, this Puerto Rican dancer/singer/actress,    
   > whose breakthrough came as the original Anita in "West Side    
   > Story", died Tuesday. Name her.    
      
   chita rivera   
      
   > 4. This actor, famous for his role as Apollo Creed in the "Rocky"    
   > franchise, also played linebacker for two seasons for the    
   > BC Lions. He died on Thursday. Name him.    
      
   carl weathers   
      
   > 5. Saturday saw the passing at the age of 86, at his home in    
   > Switzerland, of Vitorio Emmanuele di Savoia. *What title*    
   > was Vitorio Emmanuele's *father* the last to hold?    
      
   king of italy   
      
   > 6. Last Monday a judge ordered the liquidation of Evergrande.    
   > The development company is $300,000,000,000 in debt. In *what    
   > country* did Evergrande have its operations?    
      
   china   
      
   > 7. This Toronto furniture store announced plans to convert 430 acres    
   > of land it owns on the edge of the city into a residential zone    
   > with 4,000 new homes. That's one way to generate buyers for    
   > its products! Name the company.    
      
   leon's?   
      
   > 8. After taking down Novak Djokovic in the semifinal, this rising    
   > Italian tennis star defeated Daniil Medvedev to win the    
   > Australian Open. Name him.    
      
   jannik sinner   
      
   > 9. Entering last Sunday's NFL conference finals, three of the four    
   > contenders were multiple Super Bowl winners, while one has never    
   > appeared in the big game. They won't this year either, after    
   > losing to the San Francisco 49ers. Who are these perennial    
   > also-rans?    
      
   detroit lions   
      
   > 10. While helping his father clean out his house, a Saskatchewan    
   > man came across a cardboard box, the value of whose contents    
   > has been estimated as high as $3,000,000. What was in the box?    
      
   unopened 1979 o-pee-chee hockey cards in original cases.  wayne gretzky rookie   
   cards among them.   
      
   > --    
   > Mark Brader | "It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the   
   majority.    
   > Toronto | By definition, there are already enough people to do that."    
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   >    
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