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   Dan Blum to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCICR25 Current Events Games 3-4   
   07 Oct 25 22:09:54   
   
   From: tool@panix.com   
      
   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 3 (2025-09-29), Round 1 - Current Events   
      
   > 9. This would-be assassin died this past Wednesday at the age   
   >    of 95 at a nursing home in Franklin, Tennessee.  On 1975-09-22   
   >    she fired two errant shots at President Gerald R. Ford outside   
   >    the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, with a vague notion of   
   >    igniting a leftist revolution in America.  Who was she?   
      
   Frome   
      
   > * Game 4 (2025-10-06), Round 1 - Current Events   
      
   > 1. This Grammy-winning artist will bring his Latin trap and   
   >    reggaeton swagger to the NFL's biggest stage nexy year,   
   >    headlining the Apple Music Super Bowl half-time show in Northern   
   >    California.  Conservative groups are already criticizing the   
   >    decision,  Who is he?   
      
   Bad Bunny   
      
   > 5. One of the world's most revered conservationists, who enjoyed   
   >    global celebrity and scientific stature for her studies on   
   >    chimpanzee behavior, passed away at age 91 on Wednesday in Los   
   >    Angeles, where she was on a speaking tour.  Who was she?   
      
   Goodall   
      
   > 6. President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu announced a proposal   
   >    last week to end the war in Gaza.  Which other politician helped   
   >    develop the plan?   
      
   Modi   
      
   > 8. It was announced on Friday that the Bishop of London has been   
   >    appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury -- the first time   
   >    a woman has been chosen as the spiritual leaders of the Church   
   >    of England.  What is her name?   
      
   Mulahey   
      
   > 10. On Friday it was announced that this much-loved British actress,   
   >    best known as Hyacinth Bucket in the classic sitcom "Keeping   
   >    Up Appearances" although played many stage, movie, and other   
   >    TV roles, had died at the age of 96.  Who was she?   
      
   Routledge   
      
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   Dan Blum					         tool@panix.com	   
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