From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 1/11/26 00:00, Mark Brader wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 8, Round 4 - Canadiana History - Canada in This Year   
   >   
   > In this round you will be given three events in Canadian history   
   > that occurred in the same year.  You must simply give the year.   
   > Exactly.   
   >   
   > 1. [1] Liberal policy convention, organized by former Prime Minister   
   >     Laurier, turns into Canada`s first party-leadership convention,   
   >     as Laurier dies before it's held.  (Previously, federal party   
   >     leaders were chosen at party caucus meetings.)  [2] Pierre   
   >     Elliot Trudeau is born.  [3] Stanley Cup finals between the   
   >     Seattle Metropolitans and the Montreal Canadiens are halted   
   >     because of illness.   
      
   1919; 1920   
      
   >   
   > 2. [1] Alouette 1, Canada's first satellite, is launched.   
   >     [2] The "Fog Bowl" Grey Cup game is played.  It's stopped on   
   >     Saturday because of very poor visibility, and the last 9 minutes   
   >     -- during which neither side scores -- are played on Sunday.   
   >     [3] The Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake has its first   
   >     season.   
      
   1964; 1965   
      
   >   
   > 3. [1] "Anne of Green Gables" is first published.  [2] Prince   
   >     Edward Island bans all motorized cars from the province.   
   >     [3] Oshawa carriage builder R. Samuel McLaughlin signs deal with   
   >     Buick that gives him rights to Buick-built engines for 15 years.   
      
   1908; 1909   
      
   >   
   > 4. [1] First Nations people on reserves get the right to vote in   
   >     federal elections.  [2] Anne Heggtveitt became the first   
   >     Canadian to become an Olympic Gold medalist in skiing.   
   >     [3] Montreal Canadians win their 5th consecutive Stanley Cup.   
   >   
   > 5. [1] "O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem.   
   >     [2] Marshall McLuhan dies.  [3] Terry Fox's "Marathon of Hope"   
   >     is stopped near Thunder Bay because his cancer has recurred.   
      
   2005; 2006   
      
   >   
   > 6. [1] 22,000,000 people visit a World's Fair in Vancouver.   
   >     [2] John Polanyi of the U of T shares a Nobel Prize for   
   >     chemistry.  [3] One of the strongest tornadoes in Canadian   
   >     history hits Barrie.   
   >   
   > 7. [1] Algonquin Provincial Park is established.  [2] The Montreal   
   >     Amateur Athletic Association wins the first Stanley cup, but   
   >     refuses to accept the award because of an alleged slight to   
   >     the team committee.  [3] A 10,000 kg wheel of cheese -- 6 m in   
   >     diameter and 1.8 m high -- leaves Perth, Ontario, on a special   
   >     cheese train to become part of a Columbian World's fair exhibit   
   >     in Chicago.   
      
   1893; 1894   
      
   >   
   > 8. [1] The Pickering nuclear power plant is opened after 7 years   
   >     of construction.  [2] The US and Canada sign the Great Lakes   
   >     Water Quality Agreement.  [3] Former Prime Minister Lester   
   >     Pearson dies.   
      
   1962; 1961   
      
   >   
   > 9. [1] Marilyn Bell becomes the first person to swim across Lake   
   >     Ontario.  [2] Roger Bannister and John Landy, the only two men   
   >     to have run a mile in under 4 minutes, compete together for   
   >     the first time at the British Empire and Commonwealth games in   
   >     Vancouver.  [3] St. Lawrence Seaway construction project starts.   
      
   1957   
      
   >   
   > 10. [1] Louis Riel is hanged.  [2] The CPR's main-line track   
   >     is completed.  [3] Jumbo the elephant is killed in a collision   
   >     with a freight train in St. Thomas, Ontario.   
      
   1888   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 8, Round 5 - Audio - Motivational Movie Scenes   
   >   
   > This is a round on motivational movie scenes.  The selections range   
   > from moments of inspiring idealism to moments of harsh realism.   
   > We will give you the year the movie was released.  In the original   
   > game you would have heard (usually) the lead actor giving his   
   > speech, but here you'll have to settle for a transcript.   
   >   
   > 1. 2004: "Being perfect... is about being able to look your friends   
   >     in the eye, and know that you didn't let them down, because   
   >     you told them the truth.  And that truth is, is that you did   
   >     everything that you could, there wasn't one more thing that you   
   >     could've done.  Can you live in that moment, as best you can,   
   >     with clear eyes and love in your heart?"   
   >   
   > 2. 1986: "Forget about the crowds, the size of the school, their   
   >     fancy uniforms... and remember what got you here.  Focus on   
   >     the fundamentals that we've gone over time and time again.   
   >     And most important, don't get caught up thinking about winning   
   >     or losing this game.  If you put your effort and concentration   
   >     into playing to your potential, to be the best that you can be,   
   >     I don't care what the scoreboard says: at the end of the game,   
   >     in my book we're going to be winners!"   
   >   
   > 3. 1999: "You find out life's this game of inches.  So's football.   
   >     Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error   
   >     is so small, I mean, one-half a step too late or too early, and   
   >     you don't quite make it.  One-half second too slow, too fast,   
   >     you don't quite catch it.  The inches we need are *everywhere*   
   >     around us."   
   >   
   >     "Hell, yeah!"   
   >   
   >     "They're in every break of the game, every minute, every second."   
   >   
   > 4. 2005 (lead actor, Samuel L. Jackson, is not speaking here):   
   >     "Our deepest fear's not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest   
   >     fear's that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light,   
   >     not our darkness, that most frightens us.  Your playing small   
   >     does not serve the world.  There is nothing enlightened about   
   >     shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.   
   >     We were all meant to shine, as children do.  It's not just in   
   >     some of us, it's in everyone.  And as we let our own light shine,   
   >     we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."   
   >   
   > Okay, that's enough sports.   
   >   
   > 5. 1989: "This play, it's this madman, with a stare that pounds   
   >     my brain."   
   >   
   >     "Oh, that's excellent.  Now, give him action, make him do   
   >     something."   
   >   
   >     "His hands reach out and choke me."   
   >   
   >     "Wonderful, wonderful."   
   >   
   >     "And all the time he's mumbling."   
   >   
   >     "What's he mumbling?"   
   >   
   >     "Mumbling, 'Truth--Truth like a blanket that always leaves your   
   >     feet cold.'"   
   >   
   >     (Laughter)   
   >   
   >     "Forget them, forget them.  The blanket, tell me about that   
   >     blanket."   
   >   
   >     "You--you--you push it, stretch it, it'll never be enough.   
   >     You kick at it, beat it, it'll never cover any of us.  From the   
   >     moment we enter crying, to--to the moment we leave dying,   
   >     it'll just cover your face, as you wail and cry and scream."   
   >   
   > 6. 1940: "Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world   
      
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