From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 11/25/25 15:39, Mark Brader wrote:   
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   >   
   > * 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   
      
   >   
   > 2. It was announced on Monday that this Hungarian-British writer   
   >     won the Booker Prize for his novel "Flesh".  Name him.   
   >   
   > 3. Stephen Vogt was named the American League Manager of the Year   
   >     by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.  What team   
   >     does he manage?  (Place name or team name.)   
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > 5. This short-term rental and boutique hotel company that had a   
   >     licensing deal with Marriott abruptly shut down its operations   
   >     on Monday, stranding its guests worldwide.  Name the company.   
   >   
   > 6. Citing rising costs, the US Mint stopped making *what* last week?   
      
   1 cent piece   
      
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > 8. The Blue Origin space venture of billionaire Jeff Bezos launched   
   >     its giant New Glenn rocket from Florida on Thursday on its debut   
   >     flight for paying customers, carrying two satellites on their   
   >     way to *what destination* in the company's first NASA-scale   
   >     science mission?   
      
   Mars   
      
   >   
   > 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   
   >   
   > 1. The Grey Cup was played on Sunday.  Who beat the Montreal   
   >     Alouettes by a score of 25-17?  (Place name or team name.)   
   >   
   > 2. The ATP Tennis Tour Finals was played on Sunday.  Who won that?   
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > 4. Laotian-Canadian poet Souvankham Thammavongsa has won the   
   >     $100,000 Giller Prize for the best Canadian fiction of the   
   >     year with her debut novel about a boxer-turned-manicurist.   
   >     What is the title of the novel?   
   >   
   > 5. US president Donald Trump said Monday he will sell certain   
   >     military technology to Saudi Arabia despite some concerns   
   >     within the Administration that China would gain access to   
   >     the technology.  What does Trump intend to sell?   
      
   F-35s   
      
   >   
   > 6. On Tuesday the US Congress voted to release the "Epstein files"   
   >     with an astonishing vote of 427-1, and 5 members who did   
   >     not vote.  Who was the one Congressman who voted no?   
   >   
   > 7. The TTC began to install new signage this week at the Dundas   
   >     subway station to reflect its new name.  What name is that?   
   >   
   > 8. This former Trudeau-era cabinet minister has been appointed the   
   >     next chief executive officer of the Rhodes Trust, the   
   >     Oxford-based organization that administers one of the world's   
   >     oldest and most prestigious scholarships.  Who is she?   
   >   
   > 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?   
      
   Larry Summers   
      
   (Maybe I'm misremembering, but I thought he was going to continue   
   teaching at Harvard.)   
      
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   > 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?   
      
   Batman   
      
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