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   Dan Blum to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCIUA26 Current Events 1-2   
   20 Jan 26 23:56:08   
   
   From: tool@panix.com   
      
   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 1 (2025-01-12), Round 1 - Current Events   
      
   > 5. US Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. raised eyebrows sky-high   
   >    last week when he released a new food nutrition "pyramid"   
   >    that had apparently been flipped.  Name *either* of the two   
   >    most controversial categories of food that are now at the top   
   >    of the pyramid.   
      
   grains   
      
   > * Game 2 (2026-01-19), Round 1 -- Current Events   
      
   > 2. Shades of Elvis... this K-Pop band took a 3-year hiatus starting   
   >    in 2022 so its members could complete mandatory service in the   
   >    South Korean military.  Their two shows in Toronto in August   
   >    will be their only Canadian appearance.  Name that band.   
      
   BTS   
      
   > 4. Also on the police blotter, actor Timothy Busfield turned himself   
   >    in to Albuquerque police after being accused of inappropriately   
   >    touching two boys on the set of a drama series.  For which   
   >    '80s series is Busfield best known?   
      
   thirtysomething   
      
   > 6. His chronicles of a corporate cubicle dweller were widely   
   >    distributed until racist comments on his podcast led newspapers   
   >    to drop him.  Name the "Dilbert" cartoonist who died last week   
   >    at age 68 of prostate cancer.   
      
   Scott Adams   
      
   > 8. Jockeying for her rightfully elected position, Venezuelan   
   >    opposition leader Maria Corina Machado visited President Trump   
   >    and one-upped FIFA in her gift-giving.  What did she give him?   
      
   her Nobel Peace Prize   
      
   > 10. After 13 years steering a multi-billion-dollar sci-fi franchise,   
   >    Kathleen Kennedy stepped down last week as president of this   
   >    Hollywood studio.  Name it.   
      
   Dreamworks   
      
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