These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2024-07-08,
and should be interpreted accordingly.
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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,
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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 8, Round 4 - Canadiana Sports - Canadian Tennis
The Wimbledon tennis tournament is into its second week at the
All-England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. So, this round looks at
Canadian tennis. We'll see how much love you have for this round,
or how many aces, or faults and double faults, you find.
Except as specified otherwise, in each case name the player.
I have attempted to update the round as of a few days before
the date of posting, but have relied on Wikipedia for some
information.
1. She's the only Canadian tennis player to win a major singles
title -- the 2019 US Open. Born in Mississauga, she's also
achieved the highest WTA ranking for a Canadian woman in history,
reaching #4 in 2019.
2. This Montreal native is currently the top-ranked Canadian in
Women's tennis, at #28. Her resume includes three WTA titles,
and being the runner-up at the 2021 US Open.
3. This Montreal-born player is the top Canadian on the men's
circuit. His highest ranking was $6 in 2022 (he's now #29),
and he's won 6 titles.
4. This Montreal native was the 2014 runner-up at Wimbledon.
She was the first Canadian-born player representing Canada
to reach a Grand Slam singles final. She reached #5 in the
world that year, but is now below #500, and is also playing
pro pickleball.
5. This former Brampton and Thornhill resident has been plagued by
injuries during his career. Known for his outstanding serve,
his resume includes 8 Tour titles. In 2016, he was 2nd at
Wimbledon, and ranked #3 in the world.
6. This left-hander grew up in Vaughan, and has one Tour title
to his credit. He made it to the Wimbledon semifinals in 2021.
His highest world ranking was #10th, but he was #56 recently.
7. This former Canadian pro won 95 men's and mixed doubles titles
before retiring in 2018. His trophy case includes 12 Grand Slam
titles, plus a men's doubles gold medal from the 2000 Olympics.
8. Before she retired in 1988, this Toronto native won 2 women's
Tour events and was ranked as high as 8th in the world.
A member of a prominent Toronto sports family, she was also
a fashion model and actress.
9. Canada has enjoyed unprecedented success in world team tennis
the last few years. Our men and women have both won the world's
top team competitions -- the men in 2022, and the women last
year. Name either competition (or trophy).
10. Which bank is the title sponsor of what used to be called the
Canadian Open tennis championships, held every summer in Toronto
and Montreal?
* Game 8, Round 6 - Canadiana Literature - Project Bookmark
(Relax, this is the last Canadiana round in Game 8.)
Project Bookmark Canada is a group which promotes Canadian
literature by erecting plaques -- or "bookmarks" -- at the actual
locations mentioned in novels and plays. We'll ask questions
about 10 of the works the group has honored.
1. A plaque in midtown Toronto honors "The Five Books of Moses
Lapinsky", a 2010 book by Aren X. Tulchinsky. The story is
centered around which famous August 1933 altercation at the
site of the plaque?
2. A plaque at Toronto's Prince Edward Viaduct (aka Bloor Viaduct)
honors "In the Skin of a Lion". It's a 1987 book set in Toronto
in the 1920s and '30s by which multi-award-winning author?
3. The group's first plaque in PEI is at the site of a Lucy Maud
Montgomery poem. "The Gable Window" is set at the site of her
home in which town?
4. A plaque at College and Manning Sts. in Toronto honors "Fugitive
Pieces", a 1996 novel about a child who moves here after
surviving the Holocaust. Name the author.
5. A plaque in Oakville honors "Any Known Blood", a 1997 novel
about a fugitive slave who makes it to Canada via the Underground
Railroad. Name the author.
6. A plaque in Winnipeg's Osborne Village honors the author of
"The Republic of Love", a 1992 novel which later became a movie.
Name the author.
7. "The City Still Breathing", by author-playwright Matthew Heiti,
was published in 2013. The Bookmark Canada plaque honors a
scene set in the Nickel Bin Lounge at the Townehouse Tavern in
which Ontario city?
8. A bookmark at the Halifax Citadel honors "Barometer Rising".
The 1941 novel is about a romance set against the horrors of
wartime and the Halifax Explosion. Name the author.
9. Bookmark Canada's first plaque for a children's book is at
Casa Loma. It honors "The Cat and the Wizard", a poem first
published in 1974. Name the author, whose other books of poetry
include "Alligator Pie."
10. A plaque at College and Spadina honors the 1963 poem "Knowing
I Live in a Dark Age", written by a poet and left-wing activist
who died in 1986. Name him.
--
Mark Brader | "Well, that is a really tough question...
Toronto | I've narrowed it down to two possibilities: yes and no."
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