From: pete.gayde@gmail.com   
      
   Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2024-07-08,   
   > 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 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.   
   >   
   > Except as specified otherwise, in each case name the player.   
   > I have attempted to update the round as of a few days before   
   > the date of posting, but have relied on Wikipedia for some   
   > information.   
   >   
   > 1. She's the only Canadian tennis player to win a major singles   
   >     title -- the 2019 US Open.  Born in Mississauga, she's also   
   >     achieved the highest WTA ranking for a Canadian woman in history,   
   >     reaching #4 in 2019.   
   >   
   > 2. This Montreal native is currently the top-ranked Canadian in   
   >     Women's tennis, at #28.  Her resume includes three WTA titles,   
   >     and being the runner-up at the 2021 US Open.   
   >   
   > 3. This Montreal-born player is the top Canadian on the men's   
   >     circuit.  His highest ranking was $6 in 2022 (he's now #29),   
   >     and he's won 6 titles.   
   >   
   > 4. This Montreal native was the 2014 runner-up at Wimbledon.   
   >     She was the first Canadian-born player representing Canada   
   >     to reach a Grand Slam singles final.  She reached #5 in the   
   >     world that year, but is now below #500, and is also playing   
   >     pro pickleball.   
      
   Bouchard   
      
   >   
   > 5. This former Brampton and Thornhill resident has been plagued by   
   >     injuries during his career.  Known for his outstanding serve,   
   >     his resume includes 8 Tour titles.  In 2016, he was 2nd at   
   >     Wimbledon, and ranked #3 in the world.   
   >   
   > 6. This left-hander grew up in Vaughan, and has one Tour title   
   >     to his credit.  He made it to the Wimbledon semifinals in 2021.   
   >     His highest world ranking was #10th, but he was #56 recently.   
   >   
   > 7. This former Canadian pro won 95 men's and mixed doubles titles   
   >     before retiring in 2018.  His trophy case includes 12 Grand Slam   
   >     titles, plus a men's doubles gold medal from the 2000 Olympics.   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Bouchard   
      
   >   
   > 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).   
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 8, Round 6 - Canadiana Literature - Project Bookmark   
   >   
   > (Relax, this is the last Canadiana round in Game 8.)   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 1. A plaque in midtown Toronto honors "The Five Books of Moses   
   >     Lapinsky", a 2010 book by Aren X. Tulchinsky.  The story is   
   >     centered around which famous August 1933 altercation at the   
   >     site of the plaque?   
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > 4. A plaque at College and Manning Sts. in Toronto honors "Fugitive   
   >     Pieces", a 1996 novel about a child who moves here after   
   >     surviving the Holocaust.  Name the author.   
   >   
   > 5. A plaque in Oakville honors "Any Known Blood", a 1997 novel   
   >     about a fugitive slave who makes it to Canada via the Underground   
   >     Railroad.  Name the author.   
   >   
   > 6. A plaque in Winnipeg's Osborne Village honors the author of   
   >     "The Republic of Love", a 1992 novel which later became a movie.   
   >     Name the author.   
   >   
   > 7. "The City Still Breathing", by author-playwright Matthew Heiti,   
   >     was published in 2013.  The Bookmark Canada plaque honors a   
   >     scene set in the Nickel Bin Lounge at the Townehouse Tavern in   
   >     which Ontario city?   
   >   
   > 8. A bookmark at the Halifax Citadel honors "Barometer Rising".   
   >     The 1941 novel is about a romance set against the horrors of   
   >     wartime and the Halifax Explosion.  Name the author.   
   >   
   > 9. Bookmark Canada's first plaque for a children's book is at   
   >     Casa Loma.  It honors "The Cat and the Wizard", a poem first   
   >     published in 1974. Name the author, whose other books of poetry   
   >     include "Alligator Pie."   
   >   
   > 10. A plaque at College and Spadina honors the 1963 poem "Knowing   
   >     I Live in a Dark Age", written by a poet and left-wing activist   
   >     who died in 1986.  Name him.   
   >   
      
   Pete Gayde   
      
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