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   Erland Sommarskog to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCINO25 Current Events Games 9-10   
   07 Apr 25 15:08:40   
   
   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 9 (2025-03-24), Round 1 - Current Events   
   >   
   > 3. Kristy Coventry of Zimbabwe became the first woman and the first   
   >    African to be elected president of what international   
   >    organization?   
      
   IOC   
      
   > 4. For the 8th year in a row, which European country was named   
   >    the happiest country in the world according to CNN?   
      
   Finland   
      
   > 5. In Iqaluit, Mark Carney announced that Canada will develop a   
   >    new military radar system in the Arctic in partnership with   
   >    *what other country*?   
      
   Denmark   
      
   > 6. Which national leader did Mark Carney invite as a guest to the   
   >    forthcoming G7 meeting in June?   
      
   Zelensky   
      
   > 7. He won the gold metal for boxing in the heavyweight category at   
   >    the 1968 Summer Olympics, and later he became the world   
   >    heavyweight champion.  He died last week at age 76.  Who was he?   
      
   George Foreman   
      
   > 9. Last week, US president Trump issued an executive order to   
   >    close which federal department?   
      
   Educatoin   
      
   > 10. A power failure at a major European airport last Friday resulted   
   >    in over 1,300 flights being diverted.  Name the airport.   
      
   London Heathrow   
      
   > * Game 10 (2025-03-31), Round 1 - Current Events   
   >   
   > 5. According to the Globe and Mail, CSIS has discovered that foreign   
   >    agents helped raise money to boost Poilievre in the Conservative   
   >    leadership race 3 years ago.  Agents for which country?   
      
   Russia   
      
   > 8. A journalist revealed that he was accidentally included in a   
   >    Signal app chat in which top Trump-administration officials   
   >    discussed pending strikes against the Houthi terrorist group   
   >    in Yemen.  Name the journalist or the magazine he is associated   
   >    with.   
      
   The Atlantic   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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