From: pete.gayde@gmail.com   
      
   Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2024-02-12,   
   > 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 3, Round 7 - Canadiana Entertainment - Talented Newfoundlanders   
   >   
   > This round asks you to identify some Newfoundlanders celebrated   
   > for their achievements in broadcasting and the arts.   
   >   
   > 1. This Newfoundland band, with 11 Canadian gold albums to their   
   >     name, won the East Coast Music Award every year from 1996   
   >     to 2000.  In 2001 they withdrew their name from competition to   
   >     give someone else a chance.  Who are they?   
   >   
   > 2. He called his first hockey game for CBC in 1969 and his final   
   >     one in 2019, at age 85.  He was the chief voice of "Hockey Night   
   >     in Canada" for Leaf games from 1980 to 2008.  Also one-time   
   >     skip of the Newfoundland curling team.  Name him. >   
   > 3. A doyen of Canadian screen and stage actors with a career   
   >     spanning 60 years, acclaimed for his roles in such movies as "The   
   >     Rowdyman" and "Away from Her"; he passed away in February 2023.   
   >   
   > 4. This busy film and TV actor first made his mark as the writer   
   >     and star of the CBC series "Republic of Doyle", which aired   
   >     from 2010 to 2014.  Name him.   
   >   
   > 5. Author, journalist, broadcaster, military historian, this   
   >     Newfoundlander, now resident of England, rose to prominence in   
   >     the 1970s as creator of the NFB mini-series "War".   
   >   
   > 6. Model, TV actress, and star of soft-core erotica.  She first   
   >     attracted notice as "Playboy"'s Playmate of the Year in 1982, and   
   >     has a reality-TV life as the wife of Kiss bassist Gene Simmons.   
   >   
   > 7. His six novels, including "The River Thieves", "Galore", and   
   >     "The Innocents", take their inspiration from Newfoundland's   
   >     history and society.  They have won or been short-listed for   
   >     numerous national and international awards.   
   >   
   > 8. She was a founder of the comedy sketch group CODCO and a long-   
   >     serving member of "This Hour Has 22 Minutes".  Probably   
   >     best-known for her character Marg Delahunty, a "Warrior Princess"   
   >     who roamed the nation, putting the screws to politicians of   
   >     all stripes.   
   >   
   > 9. This comic, another long-time member of "This Hour has 22   
   >     Minutes", has enjoyed recent success with a memoir of his   
   >     early life that has been adapted into a popular CBC series,   
   >     now in its third season.  Name him.   
   >   
   > 10. This painter lived the greater part of his life, from 1963   
   >     to his death in 2022, in the hamlet of Salmonier, Newfoundland,   
   >     turning out haunting realist Atlantic Ocean scapes and paintings   
   >     of disused buildings.  He also created the flag of Newfoundland   
   >     and Labrador.  Name him.   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 3, Round 8 - Literature - Foreign Language Lit   
   >   
   > Great books come in all languages.  We give you three titles   
   > in English, and you tell us the language all three books were   
   > originally written in.  Answers do not repeat.   
   >   
   > 1. "Z"; "The Last Temptation of Christ"; "Axion Esti".   
   > 2. "The Art of War"; "Red Sorghum"; "Journey to the West".   
      
   Chinese   
      
   > 3. "My Brilliant Friend"; "The Leopard"; "The Periodic Table".   
   > 4. "The Master and Margarita"; "And Quiet Flows the Don"; "We".   
      
   Spanish   
      
   > 5. "The Reader"; "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer"; "The Castle".   
   > 6. "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands"; "Blindness"; "The Alchemist".   
      
   Portuguese   
      
   >   
   > 7. "Miss Julie"; "The Laughing Policeman"; "Pippi in the South   
   >     Seas".   
      
   French   
      
   >   
   > 8. "The House of Spirits"; "Labyrinths"; "Chronicle of a Death   
   >     Foretold".   
   >   
   > 9. "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle"; "Snow Country"; "The Woman in   
   >     the Dunes".   
   >   
   > 10. "The Good Soldier Schweik"; "The Unbearable Lightness of Being";   
   >     "R.U.R."   
      
   Czech   
      
   >   
      
   Pete Gayde   
      
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