From: pete.gayde@gmail.com   
      
   Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2024-07-15,   
   > 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 9, Round 4 - Sports Literature - Sports Books   
   >   
   > All of these books made a 2002 "Sports Illustrated" list of the   
   > greatest sports books.  We'll give you the book, the author or   
   > authors, and the year of publication -- you give us the *sport*.   
   > *Answers may repeat.*   
   >   
   > 1. "The Game" by Ken Dryden (1983).   
      
   Ice Hockey   
      
   > 2. "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton (1970).   
      
   Baseball   
      
   > 3. "Fever Pitch" by Nick Hornby (1991).   
      
   Soccer   
      
   > 4. "Paper Lion" by George Plimpton (1966).   
      
   American Football   
      
   > 5. "The Natural" by Bernard Malamud (1952).   
      
   Baseball   
      
   > 6. "The Sweet Science" by A.J. Liebling (1956).   
      
   Baseball   
      
   > 7. "Bang the Drum Slowly" by Mark Harris (1956).   
      
   Baseball   
      
   > 8. "Friday Night Lights" by H.G. Bissinger (1990).   
      
   American Football   
      
   > 9. "A River Runs Through It" by Norman Maclean (1976).   
      
   Shooting   
      
   > 10. "Instant Replay" by Jerry Kramer and Dick Schapp (1968).   
      
   American Football   
      
   >   
   > After completing this round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh fnvq   
   > "sbbgonyy" sbe nal nafjre, tb onpx naq fnl jung xvaq.   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 9, Round 6 - Canadiana History - Canadian Military   
   >   
   > Tonight's history round will look at various members of the   
   > Canadian military that has, mostly, kept us glorious and free   
   > all these years.   
   >   
   > 1. Corporal Ernest "Smokey" Smith was decorated for bravery during   
   >     a 1944 battle in Italy.  When he died in 2005, what distinction   
   >     did he hold? >   
   > 2. Please decode the rot13 for this question only after you have   
   >     finished with the previous one.  Guerr erfvqragf bs gur fnzr   
   >     Jvaavcrt fgerrg jba Ivpgbevn Pebffrf qhevat Jbeyq Jne V.   
   >     Gb ubabe gurz va 1925, Jvaavcrt punatrq gur anzr bs Cvar Fg.   
   >     gb jung?   
   >   
   > 3. This Canadian major won the Military Cross at the 1915 Battle of   
   >     the Somme, and later was seriously wounded at Vimy Ridge.   
   >     He served 1945-67 as a Conservative MPP from.  A major east-west   
   >     road in York Region is named for him.  Give his name or nickname.   
   >   
   > 4. What was Canadian flying ace Roy Brown credited with doing   
   >     on 1918-04-21?   
   >   
   > 5. This World War I Canadian ace from Owen Sound won a Victoria   
   >     Cross and was officially credited with shooting down 72 enemy   
   >     planes.  He has *two* Ontario airports named for him.   
   >   
   > 6. With 12 awards for valor, this Manitoba-born World War I   
   >     airman is the most decorated serviceman in Canadian history.   
   >     He was officially credited with downing 33 planes.  His 1930   
   >     funeral was the largest national state event in Toronto's   
   >     history.   
   >   
   > 7. This Canadian's career included service in World War I, in   
   >     which he lost a leg, years as a diplomat which included being   
   >     Canada's ambassador to France, and then more than 7 years as   
   >     our first French-Canadian governor general.   
   >   
   > 8. Name the general -- and later senator -- who led the UN   
   >     peacekeeping mission for Rwanda during the 1994 genocide in   
   >     that country.   
   >   
   > 9. Name the outspoken general who led UN peacekeepers in the   
   >     former Yugoslavia in 1992-93.  He left the post after criticizing   
   >     his UN bosses.  He's been harshly criticized for questioning   
   >     how much Serbia should be blamed for the Bosnian War.   
   >   
   > 10. This plain-spoken Newfoundlander led the Canadian Armed Forces   
   >     2005-08.  During that time, he was criticized for calling   
   >     terrorists "detestable murderers and scumbags".  Years later,   
   >     he briefly led an Ontario task force in charge of distributing   
   >     COVID vaccines.   
   >   
      
   Pete Gayde   
      
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