From: pete.gayde@gmail.com   
      
   Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2025-02-03,   
   > 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 4, Round 2 - Geography - Small Countries   
   >   
   > There are many countries around the world which do not take up   
   > much space on the map, be they islands or small parcels of land   
   > on the mainland.  Here are ten questions on these small places.   
   >   
   > 1. What is the capital of Fiji?   
      
   Pago-pago   
      
   > 2. What is the capital of Kosovo?   
   > 3. What is the capital of Bhutan?   
      
   Bhutan City   
      
   > 4. What is the capital of Rwanda?   
   > 5. What is the capital of Barbados?   
   > 6. What was Belize formerly known as?   
      
   British Honduras   
      
   > 7. What is the capital of Liechtenstein?   
      
   Vaduz   
      
   >   
   > 8. What island country is located at the southern tip of the   
   >     Malay Peninsula?   
      
   Singapore   
      
   >   
   > 9. Except along its seacoast, the Gambia is located entirely within   
   >     what other country?   
      
   Guinea; Guinea-Bissau   
      
   >   
   > 10. What is the name for the region which includes Ethiopia,   
   >     Somalia, Eritrea, and Djibouti?   
      
   Horn of Africa   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 4, Round 3 - Literature - Three Characters   
   >   
   > We give three characters from one literary work; in each case you   
   > name *either* the author or the title of the work.   
   >   
   > 1. Tom Joad, Ma Joad, Jim Casy.   
      
   Steinbeck   
      
   > 2. Ishmael, Captain Ahab, Queequeg.   
      
   Moby Dick   
      
   > 3. Natty Bumppo, Chingachgook, Uncas.   
      
   Last of the Mohicans   
      
   > 4. Dr. Aziz, Adela Quested, Cecil Fielding.   
   > 5. Marlow, Mr. Kurtz, the District Manager.   
      
   1984   
      
   > 6. Edmond Dantès, Mercédès, Monsieur Danglars.   
   > 7. Robert Cohn, Lady Brett Ashley, Jake Barnes.   
   > 8. Hepzibah Pyncheon, Thomas Maule, Mr. Holgrave.   
   > 9. Michael Henchard, Donald Farfrae, Elizabeth-Jane Newson.   
   > 10. Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom, Malachi "Buck" Mulligan.   
   >   
      
   Pete Gayde   
      
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