From: pete.gayde@gmail.com   
      
   Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2024-09-23,   
   > 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 What She Said, 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 3, Round 4 - Sports - Top National Soccer Leagues   
   >   
   > Most countries with organized soccer operate under the system of   
   > promotion and relegation, and therefore have a topmost league.   
   > We'll name the top league and the football confederation where   
   > they compete internationally (i.e. Europe, Africa, North America,   
   > South America, Asia, or Oceania, *not* necsssarily corresponding   
   > to the continents), and you tell us *what country* that league   
   > operates in.  For example, if we said "Europe: the Premier League",   
   > the answer would be England.  (Note that some of these leagues   
   > include official sponsors in their names.)   
   >   
   > 1. Asia: A-League.   
      
   Australia   
      
   > 2. Europe: Serie A.   
      
   Italy   
      
   > 3. Asia: BRI Liga 1.   
      
   Malaysia; Thailand   
      
   > 4. Europe: Betclic Premeira Liga.   
      
   Portugal   
      
   > 5. Europe: JD Cymru ["CUM-ree"] Premiere.   
      
   Wales   
      
   > 6. Europe: Allsvenskan ["all-suhVEN-skan"].   
      
   Sweden   
      
   > 7. Europe: SSS Airtricity Premier Division.   
      
   Ireland; Northern Ireland   
      
   > 8. Europe: Football Bundesliga ["BOON-des-lee-gah"].   
      
   Germany   
      
   > 9. South America: Campeonato ["kam-pay-o-NAH-tow"] Serie A.   
      
   Uruguay; Chile   
      
   > 10. South America: Torneo Sur Finanzas ["fie-NAN-zass"] Liga   
   >     Professional de Futbol.   
      
   Venezuela; Colombia   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 3, Round 5 - Audio - Broadway Movie Adaptations   
   >   
   > Broadway, for some time now, has been adapting Hollywood movies as   
   > source material for new musicals, many of which receive multiple   
   > Tony nominations and awards. We'll tell you the year a movie was   
   > released, how many Tony Awards the musical adaptation won, and in   
   > the original game we's play you a clip from its Broadway score;   
   > here you'll give you the song title instead.   
   >   
   > In each case you must give the title of the Broadway musical,   
   > which may or may not be the same as the movie's.   
   >   
   > (Note also that we're giving you the year of the original movie   
   > being adapted; some of these Broadway musicals were eventually   
   > adapted back into film musicals, because nobody has original ideas   
   > any more.)   
   >   
   > 1. "Vamp"; 1959 movie; 4 Tonys in 2022.   
   > 2. "Omar Sharif"; 2007 movie; 10 Tonys in 2018.   
   > 3. "Electricity"; 2000 movie; 10 Tonys in 2009.   
   > 4. "We Can Do It"; 1967 movie; 12 Tonys in 2001.   
      
   The Producers   
      
   > 5. "Jeff Sums It Up"; 1982 movie; 2 Tonys in 2019.   
   > 6. "Sex Is In the Heel"; 2005 movie; 6 Tonys in 2013.   
   > 7. "Revolting Children"; 1996 movie; 5 Tonys in 2013.   
   > 8. "Good Morning Baltimore"; 1988 movie; 8 Tonys in 2003.   
      
   Shampoo   
      
   >   
   > 9. "Guido's Song"; 1963 movie; 5 Tonys in 1982; a later revival   
   >     won 2 Tonys.   
   >   
   > 10. "Shug Avery Comin' to Town"; 1985 movie; 1 Tony in 2006;   
   >     a later revival won 2 Tonys.   
      
   Dreamgirls   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 3, Round 6 - History - 1924   
   >   
   > Did you know, 100 years ago it was 1924?  It's true!  So, 10   
   > questions about one century previous.   
   >   
   > In 1924...   
   >   
   > 1. Who was Prime Minister of Canada?   
   > 2. Who was in office as President of the United States?   
      
   Harding   
      
   > 3. The first Winter Olympics were held... in *what city*?   
      
   Chamonix   
      
   > 4. What Summer Olympics were held... in *what city*?   
      
   Paris   
      
   > 5. What empire formally came to its end when its ruler was deposed?   
      
   Austria-Hungary   
      
   >   
   > 6. Which Asian country was first formally established as a modern,   
   >     independent nation-state (instead of only ever being organized   
   >     at a tribal level)?   
      
   Saudi Arabia; Iraq   
      
   >   
   > 7. Two competing manifestos for the same movement were published   
   >     in October, one by Yvan Goll, the other by Andre Breton.   
   >     What movement?   
   >   
   > 8. Which composer debuted his or her 7th Symphony in March in   
   >     Stockholm?   
      
   Sibelius   
      
   >   
   > 9. In October, the "Taung ['Towng'] Child" fossil skull was   
   >     discovered -- the first fossil evidence of which ancestor genus   
   >     of Homo?   
   >   
   > 10. In December, which American astronomer determined that   
   >     the Andromeda Galaxy was in fact a galaxy and not a nebula as   
   >     previously thought?   
   >   
      
   Pete Gayde   
      
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