From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 5 (2024-10-07), Round 1 - Current Events   
   >   
   > 1. Musician, actor, and generally cool dude Kris Kristofferson   
   >    died last week.  Within 1 year, how old was he?   
      
   84   
      
   > 2. Pete Rose, famously banned from the Baseball Hall of Fame for   
   >    gambling, also died last week.  Within 1 year, how old was he?   
      
   72   
      
   > 3. An American state's Secretary of Education announced last   
   >    week a program to put Bibles in every state classroom.  Due to   
   >    the program's requirement that the Bibles also contain the US   
   >    Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, it turns out   
   >    that the only Bible that fulfills the state's requirements is   
   >    -- wait for it -- the "Trump Bible", produced by Donald Trump.   
   >    Which state was this?   
      
   Alabama   
      
   > 4. Who donated $1,000,000 to the Hurricane Helene recovery effort   
   >    last week?   
      
   Donald Trump   
      
   > 5. Owners in a North York condo, constructed less than 7 years ago,   
   >    are threatening to sue their construction company after learning   
   >    they are facing a $7,000,000 repair fee -- or $70,000 per unit --   
   >    for *what part* of the building?   
      
   Roof   
      
   > 6. As of Thursday, it is now illegal to feed what animals in   
   >    Queensland?   
      
   Crocodiles   
      
   > 8. Tadej Pogacar won the world cycling road race title last week,   
   >    and in doing so became only the third cyclist to win the Cycling   
   >    Triple Crown of the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, and world road   
   >    race champion in a single year.  What country is Pogacar from?   
      
   Slovenia   
      
   > 9. A BC man is suing RBC for "inadequate advice" and breach of   
   >    contract after losing $415,000,000 due to investments in what   
   >    US company?   
      
   Tesla   
      
   > * Game 6 (2024-10-21), Round 1 - Current Events   
   >   
   > 1. The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded last week.  Name the   
   >    winning author -- both names required.   
      
   Han Kang   
      
   > 2. As of last week, Rwanda was reporting zero new transmissions   
   >    of what disease, which had been an ongoing concern there for   
   >    several weeks?   
      
   Ebola   
      
   > 3. NASA's latest space probe launched on Monday.  Its goal is to   
   >    survey *what specific moon* for potential life habitability?   
      
   Titan   
      
   > 4. Last Monday Donald Trump halted a scheduled town-hall meeting in   
   >    Philadelphia, insisting that everyone should listen to music,   
   >    then standing around requesting various songs and dancing.   
   >    Within 1, how many minutes did this go on for?   
      
   30   
      
   > 7. Liam Payne died last week at the age of 31 when he fell from   
   >    his hotel balcony in Buenos Aires.  He was best known as a pop   
   >    singer with which band?   
      
   One Direction   
      
   > 8. Which country was confirmed to have sent 1,500 troops last week   
   >    to Russia to fight with Russians in the Ukraine War?   
      
   North Korea   
      
   (Although the actual numbers appear to be higher. Or my answer is wrong.)   
      
   > 9. Hamas's leader was confirmed killed last week in the ongoing   
   >    Gaza occupation.  What was his name?   
      
   Sinwar   
      
   > 10. Last week an annual California competition for the heaviest   
   >    of a certain kind of produce was won by the man who last year   
   >    set the world record at 1,247 kg.  This year he fell slightly   
   >    short of his own record, winning with a 1,121 kg -- what type   
   >    of fruit or vegetable?   
      
   Tomato   
      
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