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Mark Brader
Mar 10, 2015, 1:06:38 AM3/10/15
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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.
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 MI5, and are used here by
permission, but have been reformatted and may have been retyped
and/or edited by me. For further information see my 2015-02-23
companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition
(QFTCI*)".
* Game 7 (2015-03-02), Round 1 - Canadiana Current Events
Now that Black History Month has ended, we're doing a themed game on
all things black. Current events this week is full of black news,
as in negative news -- wry, twisted, unsavory, and all Canadian.
1. Why is the College de Maisonneuve in Montreal suddenly of urgent
interest to the RCMP?
2. This convicted pathological killer has been given permission
to take day passes to the city of Winnipeg -- provided that he
continues to take his medications!
3. Name the main intersection in Toronto near which a shooting in
McDonald's left two dead.
4. What will certain Canadian veterans now have to demonstrate
to Veterans' Affairs every 3 years, instead of annually as at
present?
5. Name any of the 5 countries that have banned the import
of Canadian beef after the reemergence of Bovine Spongiform
Encephalopathy at the same Alberta farm that had a previous
case in 2010.
6. The Ontario Securities Commission has just banned which man
from being a director of any public or private company issuing
securities in Ontario?
7. MPP Rick Nicholls delivered a withering critique of the new
sex-education curriculum in the Legislature, but attracted
scorn for his parting remark. What else did he think should
not be taught in Ontario schools?
8. Seeking a rise in stipend from $15,000 to $23,000 per year,
teaching assistants at which Ontario university have gone
on strike?
9. An unusual piece of clothing was purchased last week from a
Queen St. W. store at a marked-down price of $40. What was it?
10. The court case involving Rania el-Alloul came to an abrupt
end in Montreal last week. Why?
* Game 8 (2015-03-09), Round 1 - Current Events
1. The head of the Canadian Armed Forces has announced that he
wants to leave his job this fall. Who is he?
2. After months of silence, the federal government has made a
cash and medical care offer to the approximately 95 survivors
of thalidomide. How much is the cash offer to each person?
3. Which first-time writer won the RBS Taylor Prize for her memoir
"They Left Us Everything", about the effort made by a group of
siblings to declutter, clean, and sell the family home after
the death of their mother?
4. Name the intrepid movie pilot who in real life crash-landed his
small World War II vintage plane, emerging with only flesh
wounds after a rapid descent on a golf course.
5. Well, it happens to the best of us... Name the world's leading
golfer, who quipped, "I didn't need a 3-iron for the rest of the
round, so I thought, why not?" In fact, he threw it 50 yards
into a lake where he had just deposited his ball.
6. 24 deals were made in the NHL on trade-deadline day. One of them
was noteworthy because an 11-year-old girl had petitioned the
local team to purchase her father's contract. "You have not
been winning games", she wrote. "Please, please, please ask
the Jackets if you guys can get him!" Either name the player
or the team that brought him home. (Any unambiguous form of
the team name is acceptable.)
7. To alleviate health hazards regarding the use of a football
field, an understanding has been reached to allow this
Toronto school to build a 59-foot-high dome inside its track.
This ends a lengthy, seven-sided dispute that went to the
Ontario Municipal Board. Name the school.
8. What spacecraft has slipped into orbit around Ceres, where
it will reamin to take reconnaissance photogrphs over the
next 16 months?
9. In a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black, a
British charity has launched 7 cases against European countries
for violating section 17 of the European Social Charter. France
has already announced that it will NOT comply with the Court of
Europe's ruling. What is it that France refused to criminalize?
10. Alexandra Morra has been charged with revealing a "lilsecrett"
online. She has been charged with committing an offense in
what specific location?
--
Mark Brader | "The inability to distinguish between epistemic and deontic
Toronto | interpretations of 'why', which is common among children,
m...@vex.net | is the source of a great deal of religion." --John Lawler
My text in this article is in the public domain.
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.
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 MI5, and are used here by
permission, but have been reformatted and may have been retyped
and/or edited by me. For further information see my 2015-02-23
companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition
(QFTCI*)".
* Game 7 (2015-03-02), Round 1 - Canadiana Current Events
Now that Black History Month has ended, we're doing a themed game on
all things black. Current events this week is full of black news,
as in negative news -- wry, twisted, unsavory, and all Canadian.
1. Why is the College de Maisonneuve in Montreal suddenly of urgent
interest to the RCMP?
2. This convicted pathological killer has been given permission
to take day passes to the city of Winnipeg -- provided that he
continues to take his medications!
3. Name the main intersection in Toronto near which a shooting in
McDonald's left two dead.
4. What will certain Canadian veterans now have to demonstrate
to Veterans' Affairs every 3 years, instead of annually as at
present?
5. Name any of the 5 countries that have banned the import
of Canadian beef after the reemergence of Bovine Spongiform
Encephalopathy at the same Alberta farm that had a previous
case in 2010.
6. The Ontario Securities Commission has just banned which man
from being a director of any public or private company issuing
securities in Ontario?
7. MPP Rick Nicholls delivered a withering critique of the new
sex-education curriculum in the Legislature, but attracted
scorn for his parting remark. What else did he think should
not be taught in Ontario schools?
8. Seeking a rise in stipend from $15,000 to $23,000 per year,
teaching assistants at which Ontario university have gone
on strike?
9. An unusual piece of clothing was purchased last week from a
Queen St. W. store at a marked-down price of $40. What was it?
10. The court case involving Rania el-Alloul came to an abrupt
end in Montreal last week. Why?
* Game 8 (2015-03-09), Round 1 - Current Events
1. The head of the Canadian Armed Forces has announced that he
wants to leave his job this fall. Who is he?
2. After months of silence, the federal government has made a
cash and medical care offer to the approximately 95 survivors
of thalidomide. How much is the cash offer to each person?
3. Which first-time writer won the RBS Taylor Prize for her memoir
"They Left Us Everything", about the effort made by a group of
siblings to declutter, clean, and sell the family home after
the death of their mother?
4. Name the intrepid movie pilot who in real life crash-landed his
small World War II vintage plane, emerging with only flesh
wounds after a rapid descent on a golf course.
5. Well, it happens to the best of us... Name the world's leading
golfer, who quipped, "I didn't need a 3-iron for the rest of the
round, so I thought, why not?" In fact, he threw it 50 yards
into a lake where he had just deposited his ball.
6. 24 deals were made in the NHL on trade-deadline day. One of them
was noteworthy because an 11-year-old girl had petitioned the
local team to purchase her father's contract. "You have not
been winning games", she wrote. "Please, please, please ask
the Jackets if you guys can get him!" Either name the player
or the team that brought him home. (Any unambiguous form of
the team name is acceptable.)
7. To alleviate health hazards regarding the use of a football
field, an understanding has been reached to allow this
Toronto school to build a 59-foot-high dome inside its track.
This ends a lengthy, seven-sided dispute that went to the
Ontario Municipal Board. Name the school.
8. What spacecraft has slipped into orbit around Ceres, where
it will reamin to take reconnaissance photogrphs over the
next 16 months?
9. In a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black, a
British charity has launched 7 cases against European countries
for violating section 17 of the European Social Charter. France
has already announced that it will NOT comply with the Court of
Europe's ruling. What is it that France refused to criminalize?
10. Alexandra Morra has been charged with revealing a "lilsecrett"
online. She has been charged with committing an offense in
what specific location?
--
Mark Brader | "The inability to distinguish between epistemic and deontic
Toronto | interpretations of 'why', which is common among children,
m...@vex.net | is the source of a great deal of religion." --John Lawler
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Joshua Kreitzer
Mar 10, 2015, 1:54:36 AM3/10/15
to
On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 12:06:38 AM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:
>
> * Game 7 (2015-03-02), Round 1 - Canadiana Current Events
>
>
> * Game 7 (2015-03-02), Round 1 - Canadiana Current Events
>
> 5. Name any of the 5 countries that have banned the import
> of Canadian beef after the reemergence of Bovine Spongiform
> Encephalopathy at the same Alberta farm that had a previous
> case in 2010.
USA; UK
> of Canadian beef after the reemergence of Bovine Spongiform
> Encephalopathy at the same Alberta farm that had a previous
> case in 2010.
> * Game 8 (2015-03-09), Round 1 - Current Events
>
> 4. Name the intrepid movie pilot who in real life crash-landed his
> small World War II vintage plane, emerging with only flesh
> wounds after a rapid descent on a golf course.
Harrison Ford
> small World War II vintage plane, emerging with only flesh
> wounds after a rapid descent on a golf course.
> 5. Well, it happens to the best of us... Name the world's leading
> golfer, who quipped, "I didn't need a 3-iron for the rest of the
> round, so I thought, why not?" In fact, he threw it 50 yards
> into a lake where he had just deposited his ball.
> 10. Alexandra Morra has been charged with revealing a "lilsecrett"
> online. She has been charged with committing an offense in
> what specific location?
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Marc Dashevsky
Mar 10, 2015, 6:05:05 AM3/10/15
to
In article <9L-dncPFkYxA5mPJ...@vex.net>, m...@vex.net says...
> 5. Well, it happens to the best of us... Name the world's leading
> golfer, who quipped, "I didn't need a 3-iron for the rest of the
> round, so I thought, why not?" In fact, he threw it 50 yards
> into a lake where he had just deposited his ball.
McIlroy
> 6. 24 deals were made in the NHL on trade-deadline day. One of them
> was noteworthy because an 11-year-old girl had petitioned the
> local team to purchase her father's contract. "You have not
> been winning games", she wrote. "Please, please, please ask
> the Jackets if you guys can get him!" Either name the player
> or the team that brought him home. (Any unambiguous form of
> the team name is acceptable.)
>
> 7. To alleviate health hazards regarding the use of a football
> field, an understanding has been reached to allow this
> Toronto school to build a 59-foot-high dome inside its track.
> This ends a lengthy, seven-sided dispute that went to the
> Ontario Municipal Board. Name the school.
>
> 8. What spacecraft has slipped into orbit around Ceres, where
> it will reamin to take reconnaissance photogrphs over the
> next 16 months?
>
> 9. In a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black, a
> British charity has launched 7 cases against European countries
> for violating section 17 of the European Social Charter. France
> has already announced that it will NOT comply with the Court of
> Europe's ruling. What is it that France refused to criminalize?
>
> 10. Alexandra Morra has been charged with revealing a "lilsecrett"
> online. She has been charged with committing an offense in
> what specific location?
--
Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address.
> * Game 8 (2015-03-09), Round 1 - Current Events
>
> 1. The head of the Canadian Armed Forces has announced that he
> wants to leave his job this fall. Who is he?
>
> 2. After months of silence, the federal government has made a
> cash and medical care offer to the approximately 95 survivors
> of thalidomide. How much is the cash offer to each person?
>
> 3. Which first-time writer won the RBS Taylor Prize for her memoir
> "They Left Us Everything", about the effort made by a group of
> siblings to declutter, clean, and sell the family home after
> the death of their mother?
>
> 4. Name the intrepid movie pilot who in real life crash-landed his
> small World War II vintage plane, emerging with only flesh
> wounds after a rapid descent on a golf course.
Harrison Ford
>
> 1. The head of the Canadian Armed Forces has announced that he
> wants to leave his job this fall. Who is he?
>
> 2. After months of silence, the federal government has made a
> cash and medical care offer to the approximately 95 survivors
> of thalidomide. How much is the cash offer to each person?
>
> 3. Which first-time writer won the RBS Taylor Prize for her memoir
> "They Left Us Everything", about the effort made by a group of
> siblings to declutter, clean, and sell the family home after
> the death of their mother?
>
> 4. Name the intrepid movie pilot who in real life crash-landed his
> small World War II vintage plane, emerging with only flesh
> wounds after a rapid descent on a golf course.
> 5. Well, it happens to the best of us... Name the world's leading
> golfer, who quipped, "I didn't need a 3-iron for the rest of the
> round, so I thought, why not?" In fact, he threw it 50 yards
> into a lake where he had just deposited his ball.
> 6. 24 deals were made in the NHL on trade-deadline day. One of them
> was noteworthy because an 11-year-old girl had petitioned the
> local team to purchase her father's contract. "You have not
> been winning games", she wrote. "Please, please, please ask
> the Jackets if you guys can get him!" Either name the player
> or the team that brought him home. (Any unambiguous form of
> the team name is acceptable.)
>
> 7. To alleviate health hazards regarding the use of a football
> field, an understanding has been reached to allow this
> Toronto school to build a 59-foot-high dome inside its track.
> This ends a lengthy, seven-sided dispute that went to the
> Ontario Municipal Board. Name the school.
>
> 8. What spacecraft has slipped into orbit around Ceres, where
> it will reamin to take reconnaissance photogrphs over the
> next 16 months?
>
> 9. In a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black, a
> British charity has launched 7 cases against European countries
> for violating section 17 of the European Social Charter. France
> has already announced that it will NOT comply with the Court of
> Europe's ruling. What is it that France refused to criminalize?
>
> 10. Alexandra Morra has been charged with revealing a "lilsecrett"
> online. She has been charged with committing an offense in
> what specific location?
--
swp
Mar 10, 2015, 9:33:29 AM3/10/15
to
On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 1:06:38 AM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 7 (2015-03-02), Round 1 - Canadiana Current Events
>
> Now that Black History Month has ended, we're doing a themed game on
> all things black. Current events this week is full of black news,
> as in negative news -- wry, twisted, unsavory, and all Canadian.
>
> 1. Why is the College de Maisonneuve in Montreal suddenly of urgent
> interest to the RCMP?
half a dozen students were recruited by syrian jihadists
> * Game 7 (2015-03-02), Round 1 - Canadiana Current Events
>
> Now that Black History Month has ended, we're doing a themed game on
> all things black. Current events this week is full of black news,
> as in negative news -- wry, twisted, unsavory, and all Canadian.
>
> 1. Why is the College de Maisonneuve in Montreal suddenly of urgent
> interest to the RCMP?
> 2. This convicted pathological killer has been given permission
> to take day passes to the city of Winnipeg -- provided that he
> continues to take his medications!
> 3. Name the main intersection in Toronto near which a shooting in
> McDonald's left two dead.
> 4. What will certain Canadian veterans now have to demonstrate
> to Veterans' Affairs every 3 years, instead of annually as at
> present?
> 5. Name any of the 5 countries that have banned the import
> of Canadian beef after the reemergence of Bovine Spongiform
> Encephalopathy at the same Alberta farm that had a previous
> case in 2010.
> 6. The Ontario Securities Commission has just banned which man
> from being a director of any public or private company issuing
> securities in Ontario?
> 7. MPP Rick Nicholls delivered a withering critique of the new
> sex-education curriculum in the Legislature, but attracted
> scorn for his parting remark. What else did he think should
> not be taught in Ontario schools?
> 8. Seeking a rise in stipend from $15,000 to $23,000 per year,
> teaching assistants at which Ontario university have gone
> on strike?
> 9. An unusual piece of clothing was purchased last week from a
> Queen St. W. store at a marked-down price of $40. What was it?
> 10. The court case involving Rania el-Alloul came to an abrupt
> end in Montreal last week. Why?
>
> * Game 8 (2015-03-09), Round 1 - Current Events
>
> 1. The head of the Canadian Armed Forces has announced that he
> wants to leave his job this fall. Who is he?
> 2. After months of silence, the federal government has made a
> cash and medical care offer to the approximately 95 survivors
> of thalidomide. How much is the cash offer to each person?
> 3. Which first-time writer won the RBS Taylor Prize for her memoir
> "They Left Us Everything", about the effort made by a group of
> siblings to declutter, clean, and sell the family home after
> the death of their mother?
> 4. Name the intrepid movie pilot who in real life crash-landed his
> small World War II vintage plane, emerging with only flesh
> wounds after a rapid descent on a golf course.
> 5. Well, it happens to the best of us... Name the world's leading
> golfer, who quipped, "I didn't need a 3-iron for the rest of the
> round, so I thought, why not?" In fact, he threw it 50 yards
> into a lake where he had just deposited his ball.
> 6. 24 deals were made in the NHL on trade-deadline day. One of them
> was noteworthy because an 11-year-old girl had petitioned the
> local team to purchase her father's contract. "You have not
> been winning games", she wrote. "Please, please, please ask
> the Jackets if you guys can get him!" Either name the player
> or the team that brought him home. (Any unambiguous form of
> the team name is acceptable.)
> 7. To alleviate health hazards regarding the use of a football
> field, an understanding has been reached to allow this
> Toronto school to build a 59-foot-high dome inside its track.
> This ends a lengthy, seven-sided dispute that went to the
> Ontario Municipal Board. Name the school.
> 8. What spacecraft has slipped into orbit around Ceres, where
> next 16 months?
dawn
> 9. In a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black, a
> British charity has launched 7 cases against European countries
> for violating section 17 of the European Social Charter. France
> has already announced that it will NOT comply with the Court of
> Europe's ruling. What is it that France refused to criminalize?
> 10. Alexandra Morra has been charged with revealing a "lilsecrett"
> online. She has been charged with committing an offense in
> what specific location?
swp
Dan Blum
Mar 10, 2015, 10:31:19 AM3/10/15
to
> 4. What will certain Canadian veterans now have to demonstrate
> to Veterans' Affairs every 3 years, instead of annually as at
> present?
that they are disabled
> to Veterans' Affairs every 3 years, instead of annually as at
> present?
> 5. Name any of the 5 countries that have banned the import
> of Canadian beef after the reemergence of Bovine Spongiform
> Encephalopathy at the same Alberta farm that had a previous
> case in 2010.
> 8. Seeking a rise in stipend from $15,000 to $23,000 per year,
> teaching assistants at which Ontario university have gone
> on strike?
> * Game 8 (2015-03-09), Round 1 - Current Events
> 2. After months of silence, the federal government has made a
> cash and medical care offer to the approximately 95 survivors
> of thalidomide. How much is the cash offer to each person?
$50,000; $25,000
> cash and medical care offer to the approximately 95 survivors
> of thalidomide. How much is the cash offer to each person?
> 4. Name the intrepid movie pilot who in real life crash-landed his
> small World War II vintage plane, emerging with only flesh
> wounds after a rapid descent on a golf course.
> 5. Well, it happens to the best of us... Name the world's leading
> golfer, who quipped, "I didn't need a 3-iron for the rest of the
> round, so I thought, why not?" In fact, he threw it 50 yards
> into a lake where he had just deposited his ball.
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Peter Smyth
Mar 10, 2015, 2:07:30 PM3/10/15
to
Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 7 (2015-03-02), Round 1 - Canadiana Current Events
>
> Now that Black History Month has ended, we're doing a themed game on
> all things black. Current events this week is full of black news,
> as in negative news -- wry, twisted, unsavory, and all Canadian.
>
> 1. Why is the College de Maisonneuve in Montreal suddenly of urgent
> interest to the RCMP?
>
> 2. This convicted pathological killer has been given permission
> to take day passes to the city of Winnipeg -- provided that he
> continues to take his medications!
>
> 3. Name the main intersection in Toronto near which a shooting in
> McDonald's left two dead.
>
> 4. What will certain Canadian veterans now have to demonstrate
> to Veterans' Affairs every 3 years, instead of annually as at
> present?
They are disabled
> * Game 7 (2015-03-02), Round 1 - Canadiana Current Events
>
> Now that Black History Month has ended, we're doing a themed game on
> all things black. Current events this week is full of black news,
> as in negative news -- wry, twisted, unsavory, and all Canadian.
>
> 1. Why is the College de Maisonneuve in Montreal suddenly of urgent
> interest to the RCMP?
>
> 2. This convicted pathological killer has been given permission
> to take day passes to the city of Winnipeg -- provided that he
> continues to take his medications!
>
> 3. Name the main intersection in Toronto near which a shooting in
> McDonald's left two dead.
>
> 4. What will certain Canadian veterans now have to demonstrate
> to Veterans' Affairs every 3 years, instead of annually as at
> present?
> 5. Well, it happens to the best of us... Name the world's leading
> golfer, who quipped, "I didn't need a 3-iron for the rest of the
> round, so I thought, why not?" In fact, he threw it 50 yards
> into a lake where he had just deposited his ball.
Rory McIlroy
> golfer, who quipped, "I didn't need a 3-iron for the rest of the
> round, so I thought, why not?" In fact, he threw it 50 yards
> into a lake where he had just deposited his ball.
> 6. 24 deals were made in the NHL on trade-deadline day. One of them
> was noteworthy because an 11-year-old girl had petitioned the
> local team to purchase her father's contract. "You have not
> been winning games", she wrote. "Please, please, please ask
> the Jackets if you guys can get him!" Either name the player
> or the team that brought him home. (Any unambiguous form of
> the team name is acceptable.)
>
> 7. To alleviate health hazards regarding the use of a football
> field, an understanding has been reached to allow this
> Toronto school to build a 59-foot-high dome inside its track.
> This ends a lengthy, seven-sided dispute that went to the
> Ontario Municipal Board. Name the school.
>
> 8. What spacecraft has slipped into orbit around Ceres, where
> it will reamin to take reconnaissance photogrphs over the
> next 16 months?
>
> 9. In a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black, a
> British charity has launched 7 cases against European countries
> for violating section 17 of the European Social Charter. France
> has already announced that it will NOT comply with the Court of
> Europe's ruling. What is it that France refused to criminalize?
Smacking
> was noteworthy because an 11-year-old girl had petitioned the
> local team to purchase her father's contract. "You have not
> been winning games", she wrote. "Please, please, please ask
> the Jackets if you guys can get him!" Either name the player
> or the team that brought him home. (Any unambiguous form of
> the team name is acceptable.)
>
> 7. To alleviate health hazards regarding the use of a football
> field, an understanding has been reached to allow this
> Toronto school to build a 59-foot-high dome inside its track.
> This ends a lengthy, seven-sided dispute that went to the
> Ontario Municipal Board. Name the school.
>
> 8. What spacecraft has slipped into orbit around Ceres, where
> it will reamin to take reconnaissance photogrphs over the
> next 16 months?
>
> 9. In a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black, a
> British charity has launched 7 cases against European countries
> for violating section 17 of the European Social Charter. France
> has already announced that it will NOT comply with the Court of
> Europe's ruling. What is it that France refused to criminalize?
> 10. Alexandra Morra has been charged with revealing a "lilsecrett"
> online. She has been charged with committing an offense in
> what specific location?
Peter Smyth
> online. She has been charged with committing an offense in
> what specific location?
Erland Sommarskog
Mar 10, 2015, 5:30:07 PM3/10/15
to
> 5. Name any of the 5 countries that have banned the import
> of Canadian beef after the reemergence of Bovine Spongiform
> Encephalopathy at the same Alberta farm that had a previous
> case in 2010.
Russia. They never miss the occassion.
> of Canadian beef after the reemergence of Bovine Spongiform
> Encephalopathy at the same Alberta farm that had a previous
> case in 2010.
> 6. The Ontario Securities Commission has just banned which man
> from being a director of any public or private company issuing
> securities in Ontario?
> * Game 8 (2015-03-09), Round 1 - Current Events
>
> 4. Name the intrepid movie pilot who in real life crash-landed his
> small World War II vintage plane, emerging with only flesh
> wounds after a rapid descent on a golf course.
Harrison Ford
> small World War II vintage plane, emerging with only flesh
> wounds after a rapid descent on a golf course.
> 5. Well, it happens to the best of us... Name the world's leading
> golfer, who quipped, "I didn't need a 3-iron for the rest of the
> round, so I thought, why not?" In fact, he threw it 50 yards
> into a lake where he had just deposited his ball.
> 9. In a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black, a
> British charity has launched 7 cases against European countries
> for violating section 17 of the European Social Charter. France
> has already announced that it will NOT comply with the Court of
> Europe's ruling. What is it that France refused to criminalize?
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se
Dan Tilque
Mar 11, 2015, 5:17:43 AM3/11/15
to
>
> 6. 24 deals were made in the NHL on trade-deadline day. One of them
> was noteworthy because an 11-year-old girl had petitioned the
> local team to purchase her father's contract. "You have not
> been winning games", she wrote. "Please, please, please ask
> the Jackets if you guys can get him!" Either name the player
> or the team that brought him home. (Any unambiguous form of
> the team name is acceptable.)
>
> 7. To alleviate health hazards regarding the use of a football
> field, an understanding has been reached to allow this
> Toronto school to build a 59-foot-high dome inside its track.
> This ends a lengthy, seven-sided dispute that went to the
> Ontario Municipal Board. Name the school.
>
> 8. What spacecraft has slipped into orbit around Ceres, where
> it will reamin to take reconnaissance photogrphs over the
> next 16 months?
>
> 9. In a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black, a
> British charity has launched 7 cases against European countries
> for violating section 17 of the European Social Charter. France
> has already announced that it will NOT comply with the Court of
> Europe's ruling. What is it that France refused to criminalize?
>
> 10. Alexandra Morra has been charged with revealing a "lilsecrett"
> online. She has been charged with committing an offense in
> what specific location?
>
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(Any reference to this sort of thing was acceptable.) 4 for Stephen.
> 2. This convicted pathological killer has been given permission
> to take day passes to the city of Winnipeg -- provided that he
> continues to take his medications!
Vince Li. 4 for Stephen.
> 3. Name the main intersection in Toronto near which a shooting in
> McDonald's left two dead.
Danforth and Coxwell. 4 for Stephen.
> 4. What will certain Canadian veterans now have to demonstrate
> to Veterans' Affairs every 3 years, instead of annually as at
> present?
The consequence of their disability. The originally expected answer
was "that they have lost a limb", but although that was the aspect
that had caught the public's attention, it was really too specific.
4 for Stephen, Dan Blum, and Peter.
> 5. Name any of the 5 countries that have banned the import
> of Canadian beef after the reemergence of Bovine Spongiform
> Encephalopathy at the same Alberta farm that had a previous
> case in 2010.
Belarus, China, Peru, South Korea, Taiwan.
> 6. The Ontario Securities Commission has just banned which man
> from being a director of any public or private company issuing
> securities in Ontario?
Conrad Black.
> 7. MPP Rick Nicholls delivered a withering critique of the new
> sex-education curriculum in the Legislature, but attracted
> scorn for his parting remark. What else did he think should
> not be taught in Ontario schools?
Evolution. 4 for Stephen.
> 8. Seeking a rise in stipend from $15,000 to $23,000 per year,
> teaching assistants at which Ontario university have gone
> on strike?
University of Toronto. (York University TAs also struck, but not
for that reason.) 4 for Stephen.
> 9. An unusual piece of clothing was purchased last week from a
> Queen St. W. store at a marked-down price of $40. What was it?
Flight suit of astronaut Chris Hadfield.
> 10. The court case involving Rania el-Alloul came to an abrupt
> end in Montreal last week. Why?
The judge did not allow her to testify while wearing a hijab.
4 for Stephen.
> * Game 8 (2015-03-09), Round 1 - Current Events
> 1. The head of the Canadian Armed Forces has announced that he
> wants to leave his job this fall. Who is he?
Gen. Tom Lawson. 4 for Stephen.
> 2. After months of silence, the federal government has made a
> cash and medical care offer to the approximately 95 survivors
> of thalidomide. How much is the cash offer to each person?
$125,000.
> 3. Which first-time writer won the RBS Taylor Prize for her memoir
> "They Left Us Everything", about the effort made by a group of
> siblings to declutter, clean, and sell the family home after
> the death of their mother?
Plum Johnson. 4 for Stephen.
> 4. Name the intrepid movie pilot who in real life crash-landed his
> small World War II vintage plane, emerging with only flesh
> wounds after a rapid descent on a golf course.
Harrison Ford. 4 for Joshua, Marc, Stephen, Dan Blum, Peter,
and Erland.
> 5. Well, it happens to the best of us... Name the world's leading
> golfer, who quipped, "I didn't need a 3-iron for the rest of the
> round, so I thought, why not?" In fact, he threw it 50 yards
> into a lake where he had just deposited his ball.
Rory McIlroy. 4 for Joshua, Marc, Stephen, Peter, and Dan Tilque.
> 6. 24 deals were made in the NHL on trade-deadline day. One of them
> was noteworthy because an 11-year-old girl had petitioned the
> local team to purchase her father's contract. "You have not
> been winning games", she wrote. "Please, please, please ask
> the Jackets if you guys can get him!" Either name the player
> or the team that brought him home. (Any unambiguous form of
> the team name is acceptable.)
Jordan Leopold (father of Jordyn Leopold), Minnesota Wild.
4 for Stephen.
> 7. To alleviate health hazards regarding the use of a football
> field, an understanding has been reached to allow this
> Toronto school to build a 59-foot-high dome inside its track.
> This ends a lengthy, seven-sided dispute that went to the
> Ontario Municipal Board. Name the school.
Central Tech.
> 8. What spacecraft has slipped into orbit around Ceres, where
> it will reamin to take reconnaissance photogrphs over the
> next 16 months?
Dawn. 4 for Stephen and Dan Tilque.
> 9. In a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black, a
> British charity has launched 7 cases against European countries
> for violating section 17 of the European Social Charter. France
> has already announced that it will NOT comply with the Court of
> Europe's ruling. What is it that France refused to criminalize?
Spanking children. 4 for Stephen, Peter, and Erland.
> 10. Alexandra Morra has been charged with revealing a "lilsecrett"
> online. She has been charged with committing an offense in
> what specific location?
Windsor Public Library. 4 for Stephen.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAMES-> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 BEST SIX
Pete Gayde 8 24 20 12 16 4 -- -- 84
Marc Dashevsky 4 20 20 0 12 12 0 8 76
Joshua Kreitzer 8 20 16 4 11 8 0 8 71
Stephen Perry -- -- -- -- -- -- 28 32 60
Erland Sommarskog 16 8 4 8 0 4 0 8 48
Dan Blum 4 10 16 4 8 4 4 4 46
Peter Smyth 4 4 4 8 8 4 4 12 40
Dan Tilque -- -- 15 0 8 0 0 8 31
Bruce Bowler -- -- 24 4 -- -- -- -- 28
"Calvin" -- -- -- -- 12 4 -- -- 16
Jason Kreitzer -- -- 8 0 -- -- -- -- 8
--
Mark Brader | "I'm surprised there aren't laws about this in the USA..."
m...@vex.net | "Of course there are laws about this in the USA.
Toronto | Without even reading further to find out what 'this' is."
| --Rob Bannister and Evan Kirshenbaum
> 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... For further
> indicated below, and should be interpreted accordingly. If any
> answers have changed due to newer news, you are still expected to
> information see my 2015-02-23 companion posting on "Questions from
> the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 7 (2015-03-02), Round 1 - Canadiana Current Events
> Now that Black History Month has ended, we're doing a themed game on
> all things black. Current events this week is full of black news,
> as in negative news -- wry, twisted, unsavory, and all Canadian.
> 1. Why is the College de Maisonneuve in Montreal suddenly of urgent
> interest to the RCMP?
It was, they say, where six wannabe jihadis were recruited.
> the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 7 (2015-03-02), Round 1 - Canadiana Current Events
> Now that Black History Month has ended, we're doing a themed game on
> all things black. Current events this week is full of black news,
> as in negative news -- wry, twisted, unsavory, and all Canadian.
> 1. Why is the College de Maisonneuve in Montreal suddenly of urgent
> interest to the RCMP?
(Any reference to this sort of thing was acceptable.) 4 for Stephen.
> 2. This convicted pathological killer has been given permission
> to take day passes to the city of Winnipeg -- provided that he
> continues to take his medications!
> 3. Name the main intersection in Toronto near which a shooting in
> McDonald's left two dead.
> 4. What will certain Canadian veterans now have to demonstrate
> to Veterans' Affairs every 3 years, instead of annually as at
> present?
was "that they have lost a limb", but although that was the aspect
that had caught the public's attention, it was really too specific.
4 for Stephen, Dan Blum, and Peter.
> 5. Name any of the 5 countries that have banned the import
> of Canadian beef after the reemergence of Bovine Spongiform
> Encephalopathy at the same Alberta farm that had a previous
> case in 2010.
> 6. The Ontario Securities Commission has just banned which man
> from being a director of any public or private company issuing
> securities in Ontario?
> 7. MPP Rick Nicholls delivered a withering critique of the new
> sex-education curriculum in the Legislature, but attracted
> scorn for his parting remark. What else did he think should
> not be taught in Ontario schools?
> 8. Seeking a rise in stipend from $15,000 to $23,000 per year,
> teaching assistants at which Ontario university have gone
> on strike?
for that reason.) 4 for Stephen.
> 9. An unusual piece of clothing was purchased last week from a
> Queen St. W. store at a marked-down price of $40. What was it?
> 10. The court case involving Rania el-Alloul came to an abrupt
> end in Montreal last week. Why?
4 for Stephen.
> * Game 8 (2015-03-09), Round 1 - Current Events
> 1. The head of the Canadian Armed Forces has announced that he
> wants to leave his job this fall. Who is he?
> 2. After months of silence, the federal government has made a
> cash and medical care offer to the approximately 95 survivors
> of thalidomide. How much is the cash offer to each person?
> 3. Which first-time writer won the RBS Taylor Prize for her memoir
> "They Left Us Everything", about the effort made by a group of
> siblings to declutter, clean, and sell the family home after
> the death of their mother?
> 4. Name the intrepid movie pilot who in real life crash-landed his
> small World War II vintage plane, emerging with only flesh
> wounds after a rapid descent on a golf course.
and Erland.
> 5. Well, it happens to the best of us... Name the world's leading
> golfer, who quipped, "I didn't need a 3-iron for the rest of the
> round, so I thought, why not?" In fact, he threw it 50 yards
> into a lake where he had just deposited his ball.
> 6. 24 deals were made in the NHL on trade-deadline day. One of them
> was noteworthy because an 11-year-old girl had petitioned the
> local team to purchase her father's contract. "You have not
> been winning games", she wrote. "Please, please, please ask
> the Jackets if you guys can get him!" Either name the player
> or the team that brought him home. (Any unambiguous form of
> the team name is acceptable.)
4 for Stephen.
> 7. To alleviate health hazards regarding the use of a football
> field, an understanding has been reached to allow this
> Toronto school to build a 59-foot-high dome inside its track.
> This ends a lengthy, seven-sided dispute that went to the
> Ontario Municipal Board. Name the school.
> 8. What spacecraft has slipped into orbit around Ceres, where
> it will reamin to take reconnaissance photogrphs over the
> next 16 months?
> 9. In a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black, a
> British charity has launched 7 cases against European countries
> for violating section 17 of the European Social Charter. France
> has already announced that it will NOT comply with the Court of
> Europe's ruling. What is it that France refused to criminalize?
> 10. Alexandra Morra has been charged with revealing a "lilsecrett"
> online. She has been charged with committing an offense in
> what specific location?
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAMES-> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 BEST SIX
Pete Gayde 8 24 20 12 16 4 -- -- 84
Marc Dashevsky 4 20 20 0 12 12 0 8 76
Joshua Kreitzer 8 20 16 4 11 8 0 8 71
Stephen Perry -- -- -- -- -- -- 28 32 60
Erland Sommarskog 16 8 4 8 0 4 0 8 48
Dan Blum 4 10 16 4 8 4 4 4 46
Peter Smyth 4 4 4 8 8 4 4 12 40
Dan Tilque -- -- 15 0 8 0 0 8 31
Bruce Bowler -- -- 24 4 -- -- -- -- 28
"Calvin" -- -- -- -- 12 4 -- -- 16
Jason Kreitzer -- -- 8 0 -- -- -- -- 8
--
Mark Brader | "I'm surprised there aren't laws about this in the USA..."
m...@vex.net | "Of course there are laws about this in the USA.
Toronto | Without even reading further to find out what 'this' is."
| --Rob Bannister and Evan Kirshenbaum
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