From: pete.gayde@gmail.com   
      
   Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2024-03-18,   
   > 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 7, Round 4 - Canadiana - Quotations   
   >   
   > In each case, name the Canadian who said or wrote it -- or who it   
   > is commonly attributed to.   
   >   
   > 1. "There is a rich man's tuberculosis and a poor man's   
   >     tuberculosis.  The rich man recovers and the poor man dies."   
   >   
   > 2. "I myself talk Ontario English; I don't admire it, but it's   
   >     all I can do; anything is better than affectation."   
      
   Troudeau   
      
   >   
   > 3. "There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation."   
   >   
   > 4. "Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have   
   >     impeccable paranoia credentials."   
   >   
   > 5. "An election is no time to discuss serious issues."   
   >   
   > 6. "A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe."   
   >   
   > 7. "If you can't lick 'em in the alley, you can't beat 'em on   
   >     the ice."   
      
   Gordie Howe   
      
   >   
   > 8. "The air age faces mankind with a sharp choice -- the choice   
   >     between Winged Peace or Winged Death."   
   >   
   > 9. "Not necessarily conscription but conscription if necessary."   
   >   
   > 10. "There is a crack in everything.  That's how the light gets in."   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 7, Round 6 - Canadiana Sports - Canada at the Olympic Games   
   >   
   > 1. At which summer Olympic Games did Canada have its best medal   
   >     count, at 44 medals?  Name the *host city*.   
      
   Montreal   
      
   >   
   > 2. Please decode the rot13 for this question only after you are   
   >     finished with the first one.  "Jnvg!" lbh fnl, "Ybf Natryrf   
   >     jnf oblpbggrq ol gur Fbivrg Havba naq vgf nyyvrf!"  Jryy gura,   
   >     yrg'f nfx gur dhrfgvba ntnva.  *Rkpyhqvat gur Y.N. Tnzrf*,   
   >     ng juvpu Fhzzre Bylzcvpf qvq Pnanqn unir vgf orfg zrqny pbhag,   
   >     ng 24 zrqnyf?  Ntnva, anzr gur ubfg pvgl.   
      
   Montreal   
      
   >   
   > 3. Who is Canada's most decorated *summer* Olympian, with 7 medals   
   >     -- 4 in Rio, including gold, and 3 more medals in Tokyo?   
   >   
   > 4. Two Canadian athletes can boast 6 medals that they earned   
   >     exclusively in events at *winter* Olympic Games.  One is a   
   >     man, one is a woman.  Both are speed skaters.  Name *either*.   
      
   Catriona LeMay Doan   
      
   >   
   > 5. Canada hosted the summer Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976, but   
   >     did not win a single gold medal.  However, on the last Saturday   
   >     of the Games, the nation found some consolation when a Canadian   
   >     high jumper won silver in his event.  Subsequently, his jump   
   >     was shown each night as part of the "O Canada" montage that   
   >     CBC-TV played before signing off.  Who was this hero?   
   >   
   > 6. This freestyle skier was the first Canadian to win a gold   
   >     medal during a Canadian-hosted Olympic Games.  He won the gold   
   >     in men's moguls at the Vancouver games and then defended that   
   >     title successfully at the Sochi games in 2014.  Name him.   
   >   
   > 7. Which event at which Olympic Games was the most watched broadcast   
   >     in Canadian broadcast history -- seen by 16,600,000 people, or   
   >     almost half the population?  Name the event *and* the city.   
      
   USA v Canada, Men's Hockey Final, Salt Lake City   
      
   >   
   > 8. After winning gold in the giant slalom event at Nagano in 1998,   
   >     this snowboarder was disqualified because the level of THC in his   
   >     system was higher than the International Ski Federation limit.   
   >     The medal was returned to him after an appeals court ruled   
   >     that cannabis was not a substance banned by the IOC.  A skit on   
   >     "Saturday Night Live" ensured his fame.  Name him.   
   >   
   > 9. She was the odds-on favorite to win rowing gold at Barcelona.   
   >     However, in mid-May of 1992, her leg was ripped apart in   
   >     a collision with another boat, requiring 5 operations and a   
   >     3-week hospital stay.  An example of determination, she was on   
   >     the water by late June and won the bronze medal in single sculls   
   >     on August 2nd.  She carried the flag at the closing ceremonies,   
   >     and was named Canadian athlete of the year for 1992.  Name her.   
   >   
   > 10. At which Olympic Games did track star Donovan Bailey win gold   
   >     in the 100 m with a 9.84-second time, and another gold in the   
   >     4×100 m relay?  Name the host city.   
      
   London; Moscow   
      
   >   
      
   Pete Gayde   
      
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