From: pete.gayde@gmail.com   
      
   Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2024-03-11,   
   > 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 6, Round 2 - Entertainment - Oscar and his Women   
   >   
   > This 2-for-1 round celebrates International Women's Day last Friday   
   > and the Academy Awards presentations last night.  (Don't worry,   
   > though: no questions on last night's winners!)   
   >   
   > 1. Which two-time best actress winner claims to have given the   
   >     Academy's gold statuette his nickname?  She said it reminded   
   >     her of her first husband, Harmon Oscar Nelson.   
      
   Helen Hayes   
      
   >   
   > 2. Who was the first woman to win a Best Actress Oscar for a   
   >     performance in a language other than English?  The movie was   
   >     "Two Women" (1960).   
   >   
   > 3. Who was the first woman to win a Best Director Oscar?  The movie   
   >     was "The Hurt Locker" (2008).   
   >   
   > 4. Which woman has won the most Oscars, twice as many as Katharine   
   >     Hepburn's 4?   
   >   
   > 5. Who holds the record for the most Academy Award acting   
   >     nominations (starring and supporting combined)?   
      
   Streep   
      
   >   
   > 6. A Best Actress winner both times she was nominated, this woman   
   >     starred in "Boys Don't Cry" (1999) and "Million Dollar Baby"   
   >     (2004).  Who?   
      
   Swank   
      
   >   
   > 7. Who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing a man in   
   >     "The Year of Living Dangerously" (1982)?   
   >   
   > 8. This woman was the first person to win Best Actor or Actress in   
   >     two successive years -- 1936 and 1937 (for "The Great Ziegfield"   
   >     and "The Good Earth").  In fact, she was the first person to   
   >     win more than one Oscar, period.  Who?   
   >   
   > 9. The youngest Oscar winner ever was just 10 when she was named   
   >     Best Supporting Actress for 1973.  Her name?   
      
   Tatum O'Neal   
      
   >   
   > 10. In "The Aviator" (2004), who won a Best Supporting Actress   
   >     Oscar for playing another Oscar winner?   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 6, Round 3 - Canadiana - The Nuclear North   
   >   
   > 1. The earliest uranium mines in Canada, at Great Bear Lake, were   
   >     initially developed not to mine uranium, but rather another   
   >     element, atomic number 88, which was used in the 1930s in   
   >     early radiation therapy, and to make luminescent clocks, dials,   
   >     and gauges.  Name the element.   
   >   
   > 2. The townsite in the last question was named after ,   
   >     but the principal mining company there took its name from a   
   >     fictional land of fabulous riches, since its founders had   
   >     originally focused on mining gold.  Name the company, which   
   >     was nationalized in 1943 for national security reasons.   
   >   
   > 3. In 1988  merged with the Saskatchewan Mining   
   >     Development Corp. to create Cameco, the Canadian Mining and   
   >     Energy Corp.  Cameco operates two uranium refining facilities   
   >     in Ontario today, one in northern Ontario and another in   
   >     south-central Ontario.  Give the municipality where *either*   
   >     facility is located.   
   >   
   > 4. In September 1945, just 3 weeks after the atomic bombs were   
   >     dropped, a Canadian test reactor achieved the first self-   
   >     sustained nuclear reaction outside the US.  In which Ottawa   
   >     Valley town was the reactor located?   
   >   
   > 5. Unfortunately, the world's first serious nuclear-reactor   
   >     accident took place at , in December 1952.  During   
   >     the cleanup, crews from the US Navy were dispatched to assist.   
   >     One of those crews was led by a future US president, at the   
   >     time a navy lieutenant and submariner.  Name him.   
      
   Carter   
      
   >   
   > 6. There are currently 19 functioning nuclear reactors in Canada   
   >     that produce electricity for commercial use.  18 of these are   
   >     in Ontario, variously at the Bruce, Pickering, and Darlington   
   >     sites.  In which province will you find the other reactor?   
   >   
   > 7. Those 19 reactors are all of the same basic type.  Designed by   
   >     Canadian General Electric, Ontario Hydro, and Atomic Energy of   
   >     Canada Ltd. in the 1960s, these reactors use deuterium oxide,   
   >     aka heavy water, to moderate the neutrons; this allows unenriched   
   >     uranium to be used.  What is the name of this design?   
   >   
   > 8. In 2007, the National Research Universal reactor in    
   >     was shut down for repairs, but an act of Parliament forced it   
   >     to restart quickly.  What was the reason for the sudden restart?   
   >   
   > 9. In the 1990s, competition from Saskatchewan mines and a US   
   >     decision to "Buy American" led to the closure of uranium mines   
   >     in the self-titled "Uranium Capital of the World", north of   
   >     Lake Huron.  This single-industry town has since reinvented   
   >     itself as a retirement community with very affordable houses.   
   >     Name the town.   
   >   
   > 10.  reactors produce from 500 to almost 900 megawatts   
   >     of electricity.  The latest development in nuclear reactors is   
   >     the SMR, which produces under 300 MW, is built in a factory and   
   >     shipped to the operating site, and can be easily scaled up as   
   >     demand increases.  What does SMR stand for?   
   >   
      
   Pete Gayde   
      
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