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 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.   
   >   
   > 2. 2001's People's Choice winner was this whimsical French romantic   
   >     comedy, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey   
   >     Tautou.   
   >   
   > 3. 2004's People's Choice winner was this drama starring Don   
   >     Cheadle, set during an African genocide.   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Brazil   
      
   >   
   > 6. In 1984, the people chose a really upbeat movie, starring   
   >     Sally Field as a woman whose husband is killed during the   
   >     Great Depression.   
      
   Norma Rae   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 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*.   
   >   
   >   
   > * 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.   
      
   Shakespeare characters; Moons   
      
   > 2. Bernadotte, Joseon, Bourbon, Merina, Savoy.   
      
   Royal families   
      
   > 3. Chiang Mai, Pattaya, Phuket, Hat Yai, Trang.   
      
   Cities in Thailand   
      
   > 4. Hibiscus, sunflowers, fuschia, dahlia, pansy.   
      
   Pink flowers; Yellow flowers   
      
   > 5. King, Adelie, Galapagos, macaroni, little blue.   
      
   Penguins   
      
   > 6. Dol Amroth, Lothlorien, Lindon, Osgiliath, Weathertop.   
      
   Lord of the Rings locations   
      
   > 7. Dick Butkus, Bob Uecker, Rick Fox, Gina Carano, Jim Brown.   
      
   Athletes who are actors/actresses   
      
   > 8. Hector the Bulldog, Michigan J. Frog, Henery Hawk, Slowpoke   
   >     Rodriguez, Granny.   
      
   Warner Brothers cartoon characters   
      
   >   
   > 9. Queen's University, Sarnia Imperials, Ottawa Senators, Toronto   
   >     Balmy Beach Beachers, Baltimore Stallions.   
      
   Minor league hockey teams   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Accords reached in Paris   
      
   >   
   > (After completing the round, please decode the rot13: vs lbh whfg   
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   > jurgure lbh jrer *gbb* fcrpvsvp.)   
   >   
      
   Pete Gayde   
      
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