From: pete.gayde@gmail.com   
      
   Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2025-02-24,   
   > 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 6, Round 2 - Geography - Famous Bridges   
   >   
   > Ever since the ancient Romans -- and even before -- bridges have   
   > been among the "stars" of the engineering world.  Many of these   
   > architectural marvels have played major roles in capturing our   
   > imagination, advancing economic progress, defining the civilizations   
   > that created them, and acting as universally recognized symbols   
   > for the cities and locales where they are located.  Oh, and helping   
   > people cross rivers and valleys more easily.   
   >   
   > We'll provide brief descriptions of 10 famous bridges -- real   
   > and fictional.  You tell us their names.   
   >   
   > 1. Completed in 1964, this suspension bridge connects the New York   
   >     City boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn.  It was the longest   
   >     bridge of its kind in the world until 1981.   
      
   Verrazano Narrows   
      
   >   
   > 2. This bridge in northern England was the scene of a famous battle   
   >     in 1066 between the victorious army of King Harold Godwinson   
   >     of England and Norwegian forces led by King Harald Hardrada.   
   >     The victory by English forces brought an end to major Viking   
   >     attacks on English territory.   
   >   
   > 3. At the time of its opening in 1937, this bridge was the world's   
   >     longest and tallest suspension bridge.  It is still considered   
   >     by many to be the most beautiful and most photographed bridge   
   >     in the world.   
      
   Golden Gate Bridge   
      
   >   
   > 4. Completed in 1591, this stone bridge is one of the top tourist   
   >     attractions in Venice and one four bridges spanning the city's   
   >     Grand Canal.   
      
   Rialto   
      
   >   
   > 5. At nearly 13 km (8 miles) in length, this bridge linking Prince   
   >     Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick on Canada's east coast   
   >     is Canada's longest bridge.  It rises 131 feet above the water   
   >     in places and opened in 1997.   
   >   
   > 6. This Toronto bridge system connects Bloor St. on the west with   
   >     Danforth Av. on the east.  Completed in 1918, it spans an area   
   >     that includes the Rosedale Ravine and the Don River valley.   
   >     The bridge and bridge system figures prominently in Michael   
   >     Ondaatje's novel "In the Skin of a Lion".   
   >   
   > The remaining questions involve fictional bridges or real bridges   
   > made famous in works of fiction, music, or film:   
   >   
   > 7. Name the bridge that Billie Joe MacAllister jumped from in the   
   >     1967 hit song by Bobbie Gentry.   
      
   Tallahatchie   
      
   >   
   > 8. This fictional bridge is in a 1927 Pulitzer-prizewinning novel   
   >     by American writer Thornton Wilder.  The novel tells the story   
   >     of several people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge   
   >     in Peru.  The name of the bridge forms the title -- what is it?   
   >   
   > 9. Based on the World War II allied military Operation   
   >     Market-Garden, the book and 1977 movie "A Bridge Too Far"   
   >     describes the failed attempt of British and Polish forces to   
   >     capture three bridges in the Netherlands that would allow access   
   >     over the Rhine into Germany -- but they failed to capture the   
   >     last bridge, hence the title.  The bridge was simply called   
   >     the Rhine Bridge, but it's remembered by the city where it was   
   >     located -- name that city.   
      
   Remagen   
      
   >   
   > 10. This 1940 tear-jerker movie, set during World War I, stars   
   >     Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor.  Leigh plays a ballerina who   
   >     tragically falls in love with a soldier she meets on a bridge   
   >     in London.  The name of the bridge forms the title -- what is it?   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 6, Round 3 - Canadiana Literature - Quebec Literature   
   >   
   > Given the work or works and year of publication, and in some cases   
   > additional information, name the writer.  Authors are Quebec   
   > writers in any language, and may have been born elsewhere but   
   > lived in Quebec and wrote there.   
   >   
   > 1. "Kamouraska" (1970).   
   > 2. "Beautiful Losers" (1966).   
   > 3. "Maria Chapdelaine" (1913).   
   > 4. "The Hockey Sweater" (1979).   
   > 5. "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" (1959).   
   > 6. "The Tin Flute" ("Bonheur d'occasion)" (1947).   
   > 7. "Les Belles-soeurs" ("The Sisters-in-Law)" (1965).   
   >   
   > 8. "Two Solitudes" (1945).  Born in Nova Scotia but lived and   
   >     wrote in Montreal.   
   >   
   > 9. "My Heart is Broken and Other Stories" (1964).  From Montreal   
   >     but lived in Paris.   
   >   
   > 10. "The Luck of Ginger Coffey" (1960), "Black Robe" (1985).   
   >     From Belfast, but lived and wrote in Montreal.   
   >   
      
   Pete Gayde   
      
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