From: pete.gayde@gmail.com   
      
   Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2024-06-10,   
   > and should be interpreted accordingly.   
   >   
   > On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give   
   > both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.   
   > 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 Smith & Guessin', 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, Round 7 - Canadiana - Mt. Pleasant Cemetery   
   >   
   > Mt. Pleasant Cemetery is one of Canada's most historic cemeteries,   
   > the final resting place of many prominent Canadians -- including   
   > the following ten.  Name them.   
   >   
   > 1. In 1872, this Scottish-born entrepreneur opened a department   
   >     store in Toronto that eventually expanded into a major chain.   
   >     His Yonge St. store was in a rivalry for decades with fellow   
   >     retailer Timothy Eaton.  He died in 1897.   
   >   
   > 2. This businessman and art collector died in 2006.  Over 30 years,   
   >     he sold his company's media, retail, and energy holdings   
   >     and created a giant in financial data services and academic   
   >     publishing.  At his death, he was believed to be Canada's   
   >     richest person.   
   >   
   > 3. One of Canada's most famous defense lawyers, he died in 2014.   
   >     His clients included Conrad Black, politician Gerald Regan,   
   >     Robert Latimer, Helmuth Buxbaum, and Peter Demeter.  He was   
   >     an outspoken opponent of the death penalty, and also hosted   
   >     "The Scales of Justice" series on CBC Radio and TV.   
   >   
   > 4. This Hockey Hall of Famer managed and coached the Toronto Maple   
   >     Leafs to 4 Stanley Cups in the 1960s.  The less said about his   
   >     second stint with the Leafs, the better.  He died in 1987.   
   >   
   > 5. Until Brooke Henderson and Mike Weir came along, he was   
   >     Canada's most successful pro golfer.  Between 1961 and '72,   
   >     he won 8 PGA Tour events.  He died in 1989.   
   >   
   > 6. Nicknamed "Big Daddy", he was the first chairman of Metro   
   >     Toronto council from 1953 to '61.  Among the many projects he   
   >     pushed were the expressways now running along the Don Valley   
   >     and the Lake Ontario shore.  He died in 1983.   
   >   
   > 7. This founder of the Knob Hill Farms grocery chain died in 2006.   
   >     His other holdings included race horses, and Maple Leaf Sports   
   >     and Entertainment.  It's tough to miss his grave near one of the   
   >     Mt. Pleasant gates -- it's dominated by a statue of Alexander   
   >     the Great.   
   >   
   > 8. Name either of the two Canadian prime ministers buried in   
   >     Mt. Pleasant.  One died in 1950, the other in 2020.   
   >   
   > 9. He shared the 1923 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery   
   >     of insulin.  At the age of 32, he remains the youngest winner   
   >     of that award.  He died in a plane crash in 1941.   
   >   
   > 10. He was among the most famous and celebrated pianists of   
   >     the 20th century.  After his death in 1982, the first few bars   
   >     of Bach's Goldberg Variations were carved on his grave marker.   
   >     That grave is among the most-visited in Mt. Pleasant.   
      
   Glenn Gould   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 5, Round 8 - Science - Laws and Principles   
   >   
   > Laws and principles abound in science.  We will describe these   
   > laws or principles to be identified from the handout list:   
   >   
   >          1. Ampere's Law   
   >          2. Archie's Law   
   >          3. Archimedes's Principle   
   >          4. Avogadro's Law   
   >          5. Bernoulli's Principle   
   >          6. Boyle's Law   
   >          7. Charles's Law   
   >          8. Coulomb's Law   
   >          9. Curie's Law   
   >         10. First Law of Thermodynamics   
   >         11. Gauss's Law   
   >         12. Gay-Lussac's Law   
   >         13. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle   
   >         14. Hooke's Law   
   >         15. Hubble's Law of Cosmic Expansion   
   >         16. Kepler's First Law   
   >         17. Law of Conservation of Mass   
   >         18. Le Chatelier's Principle   
   >         19. Moore's Law   
   >         20. Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation   
   >         21. Newton's Third Law of Motion   
   >         22. Ohm's Law   
   >         23. Pauli Exclusion Principle   
   >         24. Planck's Law   
   >         25. Principle of Wave-Particle Duality   
   >         26. Snell's Law   
   >   
   > Answer with either the number or the full name as shown above.   
   > Answers do not repeat.   
   >   
   > 1. This law of planetary motion states that a planet's orbit around   
   >     the Sun is in the shape of an ellipse, with the Sun at one of   
   >     the foci of the ellipse.   
   >   
   > 2. This law of physics states that when two bodies interact,   
   >     they apply forces to one another that are equal in magnitude   
   >     and opposite in direction.  This is often summarized as "for   
   >     every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."   
      
   21; 20   
      
   >   
   > 3. The Ideal Gas Law relates the pressure, volume, temperature, and   
   >     amount (the number of molecules) of a theoretical gas.  This law   
   >     was derived from four other laws, each relating to a pair of the   
   >     previously mentioned parameters (pressure, volume, temperature,   
   >     and amount).  Name any of these 4 laws.   
      
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   >   
   > 4. This law relates the resistance of an electrical circuit   
   >     to the voltage applied and the current through the circuit.   
   >     (Resistance is equal to voltage divided by current).   
      
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   >   
   > 5. This law states that energy may not be created or destroyed.   
      
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   >   
   > 6. This empirical law states that the force needed to extend   
   >     or compress a spring by some distance scales linearly with that   
   >     distance.  The scientist this law is named after was also one   
   >     of the first people to examine living things on a microscopic   
   >     scale, using a microscope of his own design.   
   >   
   > 7. This law, really more of an observation about the complexity   
   >     of electronics, is named after a former CEO of Intel.  It states   
   >     that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles   
   >     about every 2 years.   
      
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   >   
   > 8. This "Law" is the observation that distant galaxies are moving   
   >     away from the Earth at velocities proportional to their distance   
   >     from Earth.   
   >   
      
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