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   Erland Sommarskog to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCIWSS24 Current Events Games 9-10   
   19 Nov 24 20:05:49   
   
   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 9 (2024-11-11), Round 1 - Current Events   
   >   
   > 1. Name the legendary musician and record producer who passed away   
   >    at 91 last week.   
      
   Quincy Jones   
      
   > 5. The Canadian government banned *which popular app* from formally   
   >    operating as a business in Canada last week?  (Canadians will   
   >    still be able to use the app, though.)   
      
   Tiktok   
      
   > 6. Multiple brands of bread, including Wonder, Country Harvest,   
   >    and D'Italiano, were recalled last week by the Canadian Food   
   >    Inspection Agency.  Why?   
      
   Mould   
      
   > 7. Sarah McBride, the newly elected Democratic House representative   
   >    from the state of Delaware, is an American politics "first".   
   >    How?   
      
   She is transgendered   
      
   > 8. As of Saturday evening, one US state has not yet formally   
   >    declared a winner of that state's Presidential electoral votes.   
   >    Which state is still delinquent?   
      
   Arizona   
      
   > 9. The Republicans have so far picked up 4 seats in the US Senate.   
   >    One of those was the seat in West Virginia, which they won   
   >    following Joe Manchin's retirement.  Incumbent Democrats lost   
   >    in the other 3 states -- name &any one of those*.   
      
   For some reasons Swedish media has not care to report on this, so I will   
   have to guess.   
      
   Georgia?   
      
   > 10. On Friday, J.D. Vance stated that the US would consider   
   >    withdrawing from NATO if European countries continued to regulate   
   >    *which company*?   
      
   Google   
      
   > * Game 10 (2024-11-18), Round 1 - Current Events   
   >   
   > 1. Donald Trump named several of his planned appointees to major   
   >    cabinet offices last week.  Who is his planned appointee for   
   >    Attorney General of the United States?   
      
   Matt Gaetz   
      
   > 2. While we're at it, who is Trump's planned appointee for Secretary   
   >    of Homeland Security?   
      
   Gabbard   
      
   > 4. InfoWars, the "journalism" company owned by Alex Jones, was   
   >    purchased a bankruptcy auction last week -- by what well-known   
   >    web site?   
      
   Facebook   
      
   > 7. Justin Welby resigned last week over a scandal involving sexual   
   >    abuse at Christian summer camps.  What position did he resign   
   >    from?   
      
   Archbishop in the UK   
      
   > 10. After riots earlier this month when their fans chanted   
   >    Islamophobic slogans, which in turn prompted a wave of   
   >    anti-Semitic violence across Amsterdam, what Israeli soccer team   
   >    played to a draw against Paris St. Germain in a very tightly   
   >    secured stadium?  Full name please.   
      
   Maccabi Haifa   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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