From: pete.gayde@gmail.com   
      
   Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on the dates   
   > indicated, and should be interpreted accordingly.  If any answers   
   > have changed due to newer news, you are still expected to give   
   > the answers that were correct on that date.   
   >   
   > On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give   
   > both a right answer and a wrong answer, there would be a small   
   > penalty if the questions were being scored.  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 What She Said, 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 2024-08-30   
   > companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition   
   > (QFTCI*)".   
   >   
   >   
   > * 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?   
      
   88   
      
   >   
   > 2. Pete Rose, famously banned from the Baseball Hall of Fame for   
   >     gambling, also died last week.  Within 1 year, how old was he?   
      
   83   
      
   >   
   > 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?   
      
   Missouri; Arkansas   
      
   >   
   > 4. Who donated $1,000,000 to the Hurricane Helene recovery effort   
   >     last week?   
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > 6. As of Thursday, it is now illegal to feed what animals in   
   >     Queensland?   
      
   Koalas   
      
   >   
   > 7. Gully 903 defeated 909 and 909 Jr. beat Chunk 519 in voting   
   >     for which contest which began last week?   
      
   Fat Bear   
      
   >   
   > 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?   
      
   Serbia   
      
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > 10. A coral garden was discovered last week in the waters off Funk   
   >     Island -- in what province?   
   >   
   >   
   > * 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.   
   >   
   > 2. As of last week, Rwanda was reporting zero new transmissions   
   >     of what disease, which had been an ongoing concern there for   
   >     several weeks?   
   >   
   > 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?   
      
   39   
      
   >   
   > 5. Which Liberal MP called for Justin Trudeau to resign last week?   
   >   
   > 6. This singer and dancer who starred in "There's No Business   
   >     Like Show Business" and "South Pacific" died last week at age 93.   
   >     Name her.   
      
   Mitzi Gaynor   
      
   >   
   > 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?   
      
   Nsync   
      
   >   
   > 8. Which country was confirmed to have sent 1,500 troops last week   
   >     to Russia to fight with Russians in the Ukraine War?   
      
   Iran; Syria   
      
   >   
   > 9. Hamas's leader was confirmed killed last week in the ongoing   
   >     Gaza occupation.  What was his name?   
      
   Sarwar   
      
   >   
   > 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?   
      
   Pumpkin   
      
   >   
      
   Pete Gayde   
      
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