From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On 11/25/2025 5:39 PM, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 9 (2025-11-17), Round 1 - Current Events   
   >   
   > 1. The US government shutdown ended this week, after several   
   >     Democratic and independent senators voted for a Republican-backed   
   >     spending package?  How many Democrats and independents voted   
   >     for the package?   
      
   8   
      
   > 4. Cleto Escobedo III, a bandleader and saxophonist, passed away   
   >     last week at the age of 59.  On which TV talk show was he the   
   >     leader of the house band?   
      
   "Jimmy Kimmel Live"   
      
   > 6. Citing rising costs, the US Mint stopped making *what* last week?   
      
   pennies   
      
   > 7. The Art Gallery of Ontario announced last week that it has   
   >     received a significant donation of 20th- and 21st-century art,   
   >     including works by pop titans Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein,   
   >     and David Hockney.  They said there were "more than" *how many   
   >     works*, within 100?   
      
   500; 701   
      
   > 9. Jack Schlossberg, a 32-year-old political scion of a prominent   
   >     political family, announced that he is possibly running for a   
   >     Congressional house seat in New York.  Who is his grandfather?   
      
   John F. Kennedy   
      
   > 10. America's Catholic bishops issued a statement this week rebuking   
   >     the Trump administration's handling of what issue?   
      
   immigration   
      
   > * Game 10 (2025-11-17), Round 1 - Current Events   
   >   
   > 3. Which Caribbean island, home to 185,000 people, became the   
   >     smallest nation (according to FIFA's terminology) to ever   
   >     qualify for a World Cup?   
      
   Barbados   
      
   > 9. Which public figure stepped back from multiple roles, including   
   >     the board of OpenAI and his teaching duties at Harvard, after   
   >     a tranche of documents released by Congress showed him seeking   
   >     relationship advice from Jeffrey Epstein?   
      
   Summers   
      
   > 10. While cleaning out their late mother's California loft last   
   >     Christmas, three brothers found an original first-edition   
   >     copy of a June 1939 comic book, which later sold for a record   
   >     $9,120,000 US.  Who is the title superhero?   
      
   Superman   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
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