From: pete.gayde@gmail.com   
      
   Mark Brader wrote:   
   > (Reposting to correct the Subject line.  Please post ansswers in   
   > either thread, but preferably this one.)   
   >   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2025-01-27,   
   > 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 the Night Owls, 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 9 - Miscellaneous - Burns's Words   
   >   
   > Here are some words that you will find in the poems of Robert Burns.   
   > Please provide the modern English equivalent in each case.   
   >   
   > 1. Ken.   
      
   Knowledge   
      
   > 2. Birk.   
   > 3. Braw.   
   > 4. Sark.   
      
   Ship   
      
   > 5. Skelp.   
   > 6. Bairn.   
      
   Son   
      
   > 7. Breeks.   
   > 8. Hirple.   
   > 9. Gloaming.   
      
   Sundown   
      
   > 10. Syne ["sine"].   
      
   Friendship   
      
   >   
   >   
   > ** Game 3, Round 10 - Challenge Round - Masters   
   >   
   > * A, Miscellaneous - Master and Follower   
   >   
   > These two questions are about social media followers.   
   >   
   >     A1. As of December 2024, after Elon Musk who has the next most   
   >         followers on X (formerly known as Twitter)?   
   >   
   >     A2. As of December 2024, who has the most-followed account on   
   >         Instagram and has more than 1,000,000,000 followers   
   >         collectively across all social-media platforms?   
   >   
   >   
   > * B, Literature - Masterpiece   
   >   
   >     B1. Who wrote "To the Lighthouse"?   
   >     B2. Who wrote "A Sentimental Education"?   
   >   
   >   
   > * C, Entertainment - Master Class   
   >   
   > These two questions are about artists who have completed the EGOT   
   > (winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony in their careers).   
   >   
   >     C1. This EGOT winner is most notable for several awards across   
   >         multiple categories for the creative property "The   
   >         Producers".  He is an actor, comedian, and filmmaker.   
   >         Who is he?   
      
   Mel Brooks   
      
   >   
   >     C2. This EGOT winner has an Academy Award for Best Supporting   
   >         Actress and a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show   
   >         Host for "The View".  Who is she?   
      
   Whoopi Goldberg   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * D, Sports - Master League   
   >   
   > These two questions are about the British Premiership soccer league.   
   >   
   >     D1. Who were the first champions, in the 1992-93 season?   
      
   Manchester United   
      
   >   
   >     D2. Name either the most recent champions when the original game   
   >         was played, for the 2023-24 season, or the most recent ones   
   >         now, for 2024-25, but you must say which.   
      
   Liverpool (2024-25)   
      
   >   
   > * E, History - Master Theory   
   >   
   > These two questions cover landmark scientific publications.   
   >   
   >     E1. Within 2 years, when did Einstein publish his paper on the   
   >         Special Theory of Relativity?   
      
   1905; 1910   
      
   >   
   >     E2. Within 10 years, when did Darwin publish "On the Origin of   
   >         Species by Means of Natural Selection"?   
      
   1855; 1876   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * F, Science - Master Mind   
   >   
   >     F1. Who is known as the "father of the hydrogen bomb"?  He was   
   >         also involved in the Manhattan Project.   
      
   Oppenheimer   
      
   >   
   >     F2. Who is known as the "father of quantum theory"?  He won   
   >         the Nobel prize for Physics in 1918 for his discovery of   
   >         energy quanta.   
      
   Bohr   
      
   >   
      
   Pete Gayde   
      
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