From: stephen.w.perry@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, February 17, 2024 at 2:31:06 AM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2024-01-29,    
   > 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 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, Round 7 - Geography - Places Named After Famous People    
   >    
   > 1. Besides Washington, DC, there's only one other capital city in    
   > the world that's named after an American president. It's located    
   > in West Africa. Name either the city or that president.    
      
   monrovia ; james monroe   
      
   > 2. Let's go the other way. What is the only US state capital    
   > which is named for a foreign statesman? It was done in an    
   > attempt to attract German capital for railway building.    
      
   bismark, nd [after otto von bismark] [do we talk about who albany is named   
   after?]   
      
   > 3. This beautiful Upper-Midwest US state capital, situated on an    
   > isthmus separating two lakes, was named in late 1836 after    
   > the 4th US president, who had died just 5 months earlier.    
   > He was president during the War of 1812. Name the capital.    
      
   madison, wi   
      
   > 4. The next one is not a state capital, but rather the largest city    
   > within this US state in the Pacific Northwest. The city is    
   > named for the chief of the Duwamish and Squamish people, a chief    
   > who is better remembered for his environmentalist speeches.    
   > Name the city.    
      
   seattle?   
      
   > 5. John Montagu, a British earl, lent his hereditary title to a    
   > group of central Pacific islands (since renamed), as well as    
   > a suburb of Windsor, Ontario. What was he the Earl of?    
      
   earl of sandwich   
      
   > 6. Another British statesman and famous military leader lent his    
   > family name to a downtown street and subway station in Toronto;    
   > however, he lent his hereditary title to the capital of a nation    
   > in Australasia. Name that capital.    
      
   port moresby, papua new guinea   
      
   > 7. This city, the second largest in Afghanistan, was named in 330 BC    
   > after a foreign conqueror. The second-largest city in Egypt is    
   > also named for this leader, but we want the Afghan city name,    
   > which is a local variant of the leader's name.    
      
   kandahar   
      
   > 8. During colonial times, this capital city in Africa was named    
   > after the king of the colonizing country. In fact, the colony    
   > was considered his private kingdom. Since independence, the    
   > capital city has been renamed. It has the largest number of    
   > French-speakers in the world. Give either the old colonial    
   > name or the new name.    
      
   kinshasa   
      
   > 9. It was Tsaritsyn until 1925, and then Stalingrad from 1925    
   > to 1961. Finally, Nikita Kruschev removed that name as part of    
   > his de-Stalinization process. What is the city's current name,    
   > referencing the river it lies on?    
      
   volgograd   
      
   > 10. The longest river in Canada is named for this Scottish    
   > fur-trading businessman, who in his 1789 journal named it "River    
   > of Disappointment" because it led to the Arctic instead of the    
   > hoped-for Pacific Ocean. Name the river.    
      
   mackenzie   
      
      
   > * Game 1, Round 8 - Literature - Food for Thought    
   >    
   > Terrible pun aside, food -- and food metaphors -- figures large    
   > in literature. From Proust's madelines to Joyce's grilled    
   > mutton kidneys, food can symbolize any number of things. In this    
   > round, all books mentioned will have food or drink in the title.    
   > There will be no plays, and no wordplay, so don't expect "Hamlet"    
   > "The Three Musketeers" to come up.    
      
   boo!   
      
   > 1. John Steinbeck's towering work of social commentary is the story    
   > of the Joad ["Jode"] family, travelling across the Dust Bowl    
   > in the 1930's. It was hugely successful, winning the Pulitzer    
   > Prize and National Book Award in 1940 and adapted into an    
   > Oscar-winning film the same year. What is the title?    
      
   the grapes of wrath   
      
   > 2. The bold and brilliant 11-year-old detective Flavia de Luce    
   > made her debut in this, Alan Bradley's first novel for adults,    
   > in 2009. Bradley sold the book and two follow-ups based only    
   > on a chapter and a synopsis. What is the title of this period    
   > mystery?    
      
   the sweetness at the bottom of the pie   
      
   > 3. This children's author, one of the world's most famous, described    
   > food with gusto. From the names of characters like Henry Sugar    
   > and Veruca Salt to books about giant peaches and chocolate    
   > factories, there's simply too many food-titled books and    
   > stories by this British-Norwegian writer to name just one.    
   > Who is the *author*?    
      
   roald dahl   
      
   > 4. This much beloved British author's best-known series contains    
   > five novels and is known as "the increasingly inaccurate    
   > Hitchhiker's trilogy." The one that fits our category is    
   > book #4 -- "So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish". But who is    
   > the author?    
      
   douglas adams   
      
   > 5. "The Price of Salt", a lesbian romance published in 1952, was    
   > written by "Claire Morgan" -- a pseudonym for Patricia    
   > Highsmith of "The Talented Mr. Ripley" fame and based, loosely,    
   > on incidents from her own life. It wasn't until 1990 that the    
   > book was republished under her own name -- and with a new title.    
   > In 2015, it was adapted into a prestige film starring Cate Blanchett    
   > and Rooney Mara. The movie's title does not mention food or drink --    
   > what is it?    
      
   carol?   
      
   > 6. Mexican author Laura Esquivel's novel of romance, family,    
      
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