From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 7 (2024-03-18), Round 1 - Current Events   
   >   
   > 2. Which *country* won the Oscar for Best International Feature   
   >    Film?   
      
   France   
      
   > 7. National elections in a European nation resulted in a saw-off   
   >    between the incumbent Socialist Party and the center-right   
   >    Democratic Alliance Party with a populist party whose name means   
   >    "Enough!"  holding the balance of power.  Name the country.   
      
   Portugal   
      
   > 8. Under harsh new security laws passed last week, citizens of this   
   >    foreign jurisdiction may face sedition charges for possessing   
   >    copies of the now-defunct newspaper "The Apple Daily".   
   >    Which jurisdiction?   
      
   Hongkong   
      
   > 9. Best Buy Canada's house brand, Insignia, has recalled 5 models   
   >    of this trendy kitchen appliance as a potential fire or burn   
   >    hazard after reports of melting handles and breaking glass doors.   
   >    What type of appliance?  Be sufficiently specific.   
      
   Microwave oven   
      
   > * Game 8 (2024-03-25), Round 1 - Current Events   
   >   
   > 3. Banksy's latest mural is almost all green.  It appeared on   
   >    St. Patrick's Day in the Finsbury Park neighborhood of what city?   
      
   Dublin   
      
   > 7. According to the United Nations, March 21 was World Down   
   >    Syndrome Day.  What day did the UN mark the day before,   
   >    on March 20?   
      
   Spring equinox   
      
   > 8. What has Brazil's ex-president Jair Bolsonaro been indicted   
   >    for falsifying?   
      
   Proof of vaccination against covid-19   
      
   > 10. Leo Varadkar resigned his role as prime minister last week.   
   >    In what country?   
      
   Ireland   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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