From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On 4/14/2025 5:21 PM, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 3, Round 7 - Canadiana Entertainment - TIFF People's Choice Winners   
   >   
   > The Toronto Film Festival is over, and as every year there was a   
   > People's Choice winner -- the award given by actual festival-goers,   
   > considered the most democratic award of the festival.  Since we're   
   > all so very egalitarian, this round is about past People's Choice   
   > winners.  In all cases, give the title -- in English or, where   
   > applicable, French.   
   >   
   > 1. 1996's People's Choice winner was an Australian drama starring   
   >     Geoffrey Rush, based on the life of pianist David Helfgott.   
      
   "Shine"   
      
   > 2. 2001's People's Choice winner was this whimsical French romantic   
   >     comedy, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey   
   >     Tautou.   
      
   "Amelie"   
      
   > 3. 2004's People's Choice winner was this drama starring Don   
   >     Cheadle, set during an African genocide.   
      
   "Hotel Rwanda"   
      
   > 4. Geoffrey Rush showed up again in the People's Choice arena in   
   >     2010, when this film -- in which he co-starred with Colin Firth   
   >     -- won the award, and later the Oscar for Best Picture.   
      
   "The King's Speech"   
      
   > 5. 1991's People's Choice winner was directed by Terry Gilliam,   
   >     starring Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges, about a disgraced   
   >     D.J. and a homeless person with delusions of knighthood.   
      
   "The Fisher King"   
      
   > 6. In 1984, the people chose a really upbeat movie, starring   
   >     Sally Field as a woman whose husband is killed during the   
   >     Great Depression.   
      
   "Places in the Heart"   
      
   > 7. 1992's People's Choice winner is the first film in director   
   >     Baz Luhrmann's "Red Curtain" trilogy of theater-motif movies,   
   >     and is set in suburban Newcastle, New South Wales.   
      
   "Strictly Ballroom"   
      
   > 8. 2015's People's Choice winner, a survival drama based on Emma   
   >     Donoghue's novel with the same name as the film, also ended up   
   >     netting Brie Larson her first acting Oscar.   
      
   "Room"   
      
   > 9. 1985's People's Choice winner is the first film in Denys Arcand's   
   >     "Barbarians" trilogy and was the first Canadian film nominated   
   >     for the Best Foreign Film Oscar.   
      
   "The Decline of the American Empire"   
      
   > 10. Finally, every People's Choice winner since 2012 has also   
   >     been nominated for Best Picture, but only two of them have *won*   
   >     Best Picture -- one released in 2018 and the other in 2020.   
   >     Name *either*.   
      
   "Nomadland"   
      
   > * Game 3, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Commonalities   
   >   
   > The simplest possible round! We will simply name five things,   
   > and you tell us all what they have in common.   
   >   
   > 1. Io, Triton, Charon, Fenrir, Puck.   
      
   moons in the solar system   
      
   > 2. Bernadotte, Joseon, Bourbon, Merina, Savoy.   
      
   royal dynasties   
      
   > 3. Chiang Mai, Pattaya, Phuket, Hat Yai, Trang.   
      
   cities in Thailand   
      
   > 4. Hibiscus, sunflowers, fuschia, dahlia, pansy.   
      
   flowers   
      
   > 5. King, Adelie, Galapagos, macaroni, little blue.   
      
   penguins   
      
   > 6. Dol Amroth, Lothlorien, Lindon, Osgiliath, Weathertop.   
      
   places in Tolkien's Middle-earth   
      
   > 7. Dick Butkus, Bob Uecker, Rick Fox, Gina Carano, Jim Brown.   
      
   athletes who became actors   
      
   > 8. Hector the Bulldog, Michigan J. Frog, Henery Hawk, Slowpoke   
   >     Rodriguez, Granny.   
      
   Warner Bros. cartoon characters   
      
   > 9. Queen's University, Sarnia Imperials, Ottawa Senators, Toronto   
   >     Balmy Beach Beachers, Baltimore Stallions.   
      
   former teams in the Canadian Football League or its predecessors   
      
   > 10. Ending the Albigensian Crusade, ending the Seven Years' War,   
   >     ending the American Revolutionary War, formalizing American   
   >     withdrawal from Vietnam, international agreement on reducing   
   >     greenhouse gas emissions.   
      
   subjects of Treaties of Paris   
      
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   Joshua Kreitzer   
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