From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On 11/5/2024 12:48 AM, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 7 (2024-10-28), Round 1: Current Events   
   >   
   > 1. Two major American newspapers refused to make a presidential   
   >     endorsement last week due to interventions from their respective   
   >     billionaire owners, prompting resignations from both papers by   
   >     angry staff.  Name *either* paper.   
      
   The Washington Post   
      
   > 3. Despite blatant attempts at vote-buying by Russia to prevent   
   >     the outcome, which European nation voted last week to join   
   >     the EU?   
      
   Albania; Montenegro   
      
   > 4. Phil Lesh died last week at the age of 84.  He was the bassist   
   >     for which influential rock band?   
      
   The Grateful Dead   
      
   > 6. Beginning in the fall of 2026, Ontario will effectively bar   
   >     international students from doing what?   
      
   working for pay   
      
   > * Game 8 (2024-11-04), Round 1: Current Events   
   >   
   > 2. Name the actress who starred in "Young Frankenstein" and "Close   
   >     Encounters of the Third Kind", and passed away last week at 79.   
      
   Teri Garr   
      
   > 3. An African country had elections last week and ousted the party   
   >     that had been in charge since the country gained independence   
   >     from the UK in 1966.  What country?   
      
   Botswana   
      
   > 4. Which province last week called a snap election, scheduled for   
   >     November 27?   
      
   Nova Scotia; Prince Edward Island   
      
   > 6. In Saskatchewan's election last week, Scott Moe's Saskatchewan   
   >     Party maintained its majority, but the NDP sharply reduced it.   
   >     Within 1, how many net seats did the NDP take from the   
   >     Saskatchewan Party?   
      
   5; 8   
      
   > 9. Last week in New York, a celebrity crashed his own lookalike   
   >     contest in Washington Square Park.  Which celebrity lookedalike   
   >     like his lookalikes?   
      
   Timothee Chalamet   
      
   > 10. Who won the leadership contest for the UK's Conservative Party   
   >     on Saturday?   
      
   Kami Badenoch   
      
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   Joshua Kreitzer   
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