From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On 1/1/2025 12:58 AM, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 8, Round 4 - Canadiana Sports - Canadian Tennis   
   >   
   > The Wimbledon tennis tournament is into its second week at the   
   > All-England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.  So, this round looks at   
   > Canadian tennis.  We'll see how much love you have for this round,   
   > or how many aces, or faults and double faults, you find.   
   >   
   > 8. Before she retired in 1988, this Toronto native won 2 women's   
   >     Tour events and was ranked as high as 8th in the world.   
   >     A member of a prominent Toronto sports family, she was also   
   >     a fashion model and actress.   
      
   Carling Bassett   
      
   > 9. Canada has enjoyed unprecedented success in world team tennis   
   >     the last few years.  Our men and women have both won the world's   
   >     top team competitions -- the men in 2022, and the women last   
   >     year.  Name either competition (or trophy).   
      
   Davis Cup; Federation Cup   
      
   > 10. Which bank is the title sponsor of what used to be called the   
   >     Canadian Open tennis championships, held every summer in Toronto   
   >     and Montreal?   
      
   BMO; RBC   
      
   > * Game 8, Round 6 - Canadiana Literature - Project Bookmark   
   >   
   > Project Bookmark Canada is a group which promotes Canadian   
   > literature by erecting plaques -- or "bookmarks" -- at the actual   
   > locations mentioned in novels and plays.  We'll ask questions   
   > about 10 of the works the group has honored.   
   >   
   > 2. A plaque at Toronto's Prince Edward Viaduct (aka Bloor Viaduct)   
   >     honors "In the Skin of a Lion".  It's a 1987 book set in Toronto   
   >     in the 1920s and '30s by which multi-award-winning author?   
      
   Atwood   
      
   > 3. The group's first plaque in PEI is at the site of a Lucy Maud   
   >     Montgomery poem.  "The Gable Window" is set at the site of her   
   >     home in which town?   
      
   Green Gables   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
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