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   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.   
      
   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?   
      
   Moldova   
      
   > 5. 22 tonnes of artisanal cheese, valued at approximately ?300,000,   
   >    was stolen last week from a London dairy.  All of the cheese   
   >    was the same type -- what type?   
      
   cheddar; Wensleydale   
      
      
   > * Game 8 (2024-11-04), Round 1: Current Events   
      
   > 1. The Dodgers won the World Series last week.  During one game,   
   >    fans interacted with Dodgers player Mookie Betts -- how?   
      
   by stealing a ball from his glove   
      
   > 2. Name the actress who starred in "Young Frankenstein" and "Close   
   >    Encounters of the Third Kind", and passed away last week at 79.   
      
   Terri Garr   
      
   > 9. Last week in New York, a celebrity crashed his own lookalike   
   >    contest in Washington Square Park.  Which celebrity lookedalike   
   >    like his lookalikes?   
      
   Chalamet   
      
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