Game 9, ROUND 1: Current events

1. Quebec premier Bernard Landry, now fighting an election
   campaign, offered to forgive part of Quebeckers student loans
   if they did what within five years of graduating? 
   (Alternatively, just tell us the date of the recently called
   election.)

A. have a baby; April 14, 2003


2. Why did Selkirk, Manitoba pizza delivery woman Marcella 
   McAulay lose her job last week?

A. She took time from her shift to assist a shooting victim
   (also accept "too many unauthorized breaks"--which is why 
   her ex-boss clains he fired her)


3. The coach and part-owner of the OHL Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds
   resigned last Monday after reportedly using a racial insult to
   refer to the team's captain, who is black. Name either the coach
   or the player.

A. John Vanbiesbrouck; Trevor Daley


4. Which country's president died in the United States last week? 

A. Nauru


5. Which country approved a proposal to join the EU by a 54%
   majority in a referendum whose results were released last week? 

A. Malta


6. Recently released secret files revealed that in 1969 former 
   FBI director J. Edgar Hoover took steps to forestall an alleged
   conspiracy to assassinate which then-world leader?

A. Pierre Trudeau


7. Name the Utah teenager who turned up alive and apparently well
   last Wednesday after disappearing nine months earlier.

A. Elizabeth Smart

 

8. Matthew Kaczorowski (kach or OV skee) was arrested recently 
   in connection with a notorious incident for which two people
   have already been convicted. What was the crime in question?

A. Torture/killing of a cat (recorded on videotape) 
   (accept "animal abuse" or similar)


9. The city of Edmonton passed a by-law last week, thought 
   to be the first of its kind in Canada. What activity is 
   this law intended to combat?

A. bullying


10. Which country formally inaugurated its Internet domain suffix
    for Web sites and email addresses last week? That is, it had
    previously been registered to a private citizen, and the
    government has only now regained control over it.

A. Afghanistan