Mark Brader:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on the dates
> indicated below, and should be interpreted accordingly. If any
> answers have changed due to newer news, you are still expected to
> give the answers that were correct on those dates.
Stephen Perry missed having another pair of perfect rounds
thanks to this rule.
> For further information see my 2015-08-18 companion posting on
> "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 3 (2015-10-05), Round 1 - Current Events
> 1. What date is set down for the bail hearing of Marco Muzzo,
> the heir to a company worth millions, who has been charged with
> multiple offenses after allegedly driving while impaired with
> four deaths resulting?
Election day -- October 19. (It was then postponed to November 12
at the request of his lawyer.)
> 2. A California judge has refused to dismiss claims of fraud
> against *which billionaire* after a real estate developer says
> the billionaire didn't introduce him to high-powered friends
> in Silicon Valley as he promised?
Mark Zuckerberg. 4 for Stephen. 3 for Dan Blum.
> 3. Name the former president of the Canadian Olympic Committee
> who resigned last week after complaints of sexual harassment.
Marcel Aubut. 4 for Stephen.
> 4. According to a report by a city council committee, what Toronto
> landmark could become a mall after it was found that "the highest
> and best use would be conversion to a retail center that contains
> a mix of food service, leisure, event, and civic uses"?
Old City Hall. 4 for Stephen.
> 5. Name the community college in Roseburg, Oregon, that was the
> site of a mass shooting last week.
Umpqua. I accepted "Umqua". 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Pete, Stephen,
and Dan Tilque.
> 6. A US military medical facility in Kunduz was partially destroyed
> last week, killing a number of Doctors Without Borders staff.
> In which country is the city of Kunduz?
Afghanistan. 4 for everyone -- Joshua, Dan Blum, Pete, Peter, Jason,
Stephen, Dan Tilque, Marc, and Erland.
> 7. The three divisions in the National League were clinched last
> week. Name *any one* of the three teams that clinched a National
> League division.
St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers. 4 for
Joshua, Pete, Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Marc. 3 for Peter.
> 8. You may have heard that the Toronto Blue Jays also clinched
> their division last week. Which team did they beat on Wednesday
> when they clinched the AL East?
Baltimore Orioles. 4 for Pete and Stephen.
> 9. What is the name of the hurricane that has caused flooding in
> the southeast of the United States, leading to an emergency
> being declared in South Carolina?
Joaquin. 4 for Stephen and Marc.
> 10. Which state in the US South executed Kelly Gissendaner on
> Tuesday night despite pleas of clemency from the pope?
Georgia. 4 for Stephen.
> * Game 4 (2015-10-19), Round 1 - Current Events
> 1. Jessica Mendoza, a gold-medalist in softball, made history on
> Tuesday, October 6, in connection with which sport?
Baseball. She was the first female announcer of a playoff baseball
game. 4 for Joshua and Stephen.
> 2. Which team was the first to win a Division Series and therefore
> the first to advance a league Championship Series in this year's
> baseball playoffs?
Chicago Cubs. 4 for Joshua, Pete, Stephen, and Marc.
> 3. The US Treasury launched an investigation last week into why
> a certain organization has so many Toyotas. What organization?
ISIS. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Pete, Stephen, and Marc.
"Toyota" was an... interesting answer.
> 4. Congratulations to Canada's own Arthur B. McDonald, who has
> won a share of the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery
> of neutrino oscillation, which shows that neutrinos have mass.
> Since 1989, he has been a professor at which Canadian university?
Queen's. 4 for Stephen.
> 5. Protesters against governmental funding cuts to female domestic
> violence victims disrupted the premiere of which movie -- with
> a one-word title -- starring Meryl Streep?
"Suffragette". I accepted the plural. 4 for Joshua and Stephen.
> 6. Which movie -- that focuses on a character called Mark Watney,
> not a character called Marvin -- was #1 at the box office
> this week?
"The Martian". 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Pete, Stephen, Dan Tilque,
and Marc.
> 7. Fill in *any one* of the blanks in this headline from the
> Toronto Star this week: "At London Zoo, _____ keeper fined
> for attacking _____ handler over _____ custodian"
Meerkat, monkey, llama. 4 for Dan Blum, Peter (the hard way),
and Stephen (the hard way).
> 8. Fill in the blank in this headline from the Media section of
> the New York Times this week: "_____ to drop nudity as Internet
> fills demand"
Playboy. 4 for everyone.
> 9. Tuesday saw the first debate between 5 presidential hopefuls
> running under the banner of the Democratic Party. Hillary
> Clinton was one. Bernie Sanders was another. Name *any one*
> of the other three.
Lincoln Chafee, Martin O'Malley, Jim Webb. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum,
Pete, Peter (the hard way), Jason, Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Marc.
> 10. Which company, founded in 2006, announced last week that they
> were letting go of 336 employees, about 8% of the workforce?
Twitter. 4 for Stephen and Erland.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAMES-> 1 2 3 4 TOTALS
Stephen Perry 40 40 36 40 156
Joshua Kreitzer 20 28 12 28 88
Marc Dashevsky 20 28 12 20 80
Dan Blum 19 28 11 20 78
Pete Gayde 16 24 16 20 76
Peter Smyth 8 28 7 12 55
Dan Tilque 8 19 12 12 51
Erland Sommarskog 7 24 4 8 43
Bruce Bowler 20 20 -- -- 40
Jason Kreitzer 12 12 4 8 36
--
Mark Brader, Toronto,
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