Summer 2006: Week 4, Round 1
Current Events
1. Name the sports anchor who after 34 years with the CBC moved over to CTV with a 6 year contract in order to host the 2010 and 2012 Olympics?
A: Brian Williams
2. Who was the former head of the Toronto Transit Commission who resigned this week citing political interference from Mayor David Miller and TTC Chairman Howard Moscoe?
A: Rick Ducharme
3. What keyboardist and singer-songwriter who wrote "You Are So Beautiful" for Joe Cocker and was also known as "The Fifth Beatle" passed away this week at age 59?
A: Billy Preston
4. What Arizona Diamondback pitcher was released after federal investigators found steroids, amphetamines and human growth hormones in his home?
A: Jason Grimsley
5. Who's hate crime conviction was overturned by a Saskatchewan judge on the grounds that his comments were spontaneous and isolated?
A: David Ahenakew (QMs: be lenient on pronunciation)
6. Name the secret society of the world's most richest and powerful people who met at an Ottawa hotel this past weekend to discuss world issues. Members include David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Queen Beatrix of Holland, and the heads of Coca-Cola, Credit Suisse and the Royal Bank of Canada?
A: Bilderberg Group
7. What unusual festival took place this weekend along Front Street, around the St. Lawrence Market?
A: Woofstock, a celebration of, and for, dogs.
8. Which Arab terrorist and leader of the group "al Qaeda in Iraq" was finally killed as a result of two 225 kilogram bombs hitting his isolated safe house.
A: Abu Musab al Zarqawi
9. Two European countries were accused of allowing CIA interrogation camps to operate within their borders?
A: Name either. Romania and Poland
10. What German World War Two historical site has finally received official designation?
A: Hitler's bunker, the "Fuehrerbunker" in Berlin