From: pete.gayde@gmail.com   
      
   Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2025-03-24,   
   > 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 9, Round 2 - Geography - Coastal Cities   
   >   
   > We give you a country's most populous coastal city; you name   
   > the country.   
   >   
   > 1. Kiel.   
      
   Germany   
      
   > 2. Varna.   
      
   Finland   
      
   > 3. Busan.   
      
   South Korea   
      
   > 4. Split.   
      
   Croatia   
      
   > 5. Jeddah.   
      
   Saudi Arabia   
      
   > 6. Odessa.   
      
   Ukraine   
      
   > 7. Mombasa.   
      
   Kenya; Tanzania   
      
   > 8. Latakia.   
      
   Bulgaria; Moldova   
      
   > 9. Chittagong.   
      
   Sri Lanka; Pakistan   
      
   > 10. Barranquilla.   
      
   Colombia   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 9, Round 3 - Literature - Author! Author!   
   >   
   > oe give you some of their works (some fiction, some non-fiction).   
   > You tell us who wrote them.   
   >   
   > 1. "The Secret Sharer", "Typhoon", "Nostromo".   
   > 2. "The Bluest Eye", "Beloved", "Jazz", "A Mercy".   
   > 3. "All My Sons", "After the Fall", "The Crucible".   
      
   Miller   
      
   > 4. "Dr. Faustus", "Tamburlaine", "The Jew of Malta".   
      
   Goethe   
      
   > 5. "Waiting for Godot", "Krapp's Last Tape", "Happy Days".   
      
   Roth   
      
   > 6. "The Caretaker", "The Homecoming", "The Birthday Party".   
   > 7. "Fifth Business", "The Manticore", "What's Bred in the Bone".   
   >   
   > 8. "The Cask of Amontillado", "The Gold Bug", "The Murders in the   
   >     Rue Morgue".   
      
   Poe   
      
   >   
   > 9. "Death of the Hired Man", "Birches", "Stopping by Woods on a   
   >     Snowy Evening".   
   >   
   > 10. "The Return of the Native", "The Mayor of Casterbridge",   
   >     "Tess of the D'Urbervilles".   
   >   
      
   Pete Gayde   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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