From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 1 (2024-01-29), Round 1 - Current Events   
   >   
   > 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 amateur   
      
   > 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?   
      
   The canal is frozen? :-)   
      
   Interesting. Lot's of noise in the papers here about the Houthi   
   rebels driving shippers to take the long route about Africa and how   
   that can affect the economy. I've seen nothing about the Panama Canal.   
      
   > 10. Which country is receiving the first-ever vaccine against   
   >    malaria?   
      
   Kenya   
      
   > * Game 2 (2024-02-05), Round 1 - Current Events   
   >   
   > 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   
      
   > 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   
      
   > 8. After taking down Novak Djokovic in the semifinal, this rising   
   >    Italian tennis star defeated Daniil Medvedev to win the   
   >    Australian Open.  Name him.   
      
   Jenner   
      
   > 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?   
      
   Green Bay Packers   
      
   > 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?   
      
   Gold and platina   
      
   (Apparently, some time back here in Sweden, workers in a house that   
   had been bought by some Youtubers found exactly that in the attic of   
   the house. There is now a controversy who hsa the right to the metals.   
   The workers, the YouTubers or the former owner.)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)