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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2025-01-27,
and should be interpreted accordingly.

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companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition
(QFTCI*)".


* Game 3, Round 2 - Geography - Straits & Narrows

1. What is the strait that separates the Island of Newfoundland
from Labrador, also sometimes called the Labrador Strait?

2. What is the strait that separates Vancouver Island, Canada,
from the Olympic Peninsula in the US?

3. What is the strait that separates Sri Lanka from the Indian
state of Tamil Nadu?

4. What strait lies between mainland Australia and Tasmania?

5. What is the strait that separates Iran from the United Arab
Emirates and Oman? It links the Persian Gulf and the Gulf
of Oman.

6. What is the strait between Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas?

7. What is the strait that separates Denmark from Norway?
It joins the North Sea to the Kattegat Strait, which leads on
between Denmark and Sweden to the Baltic Sea.

8. What is the strait that separates the European part of Turkey
from Anatolia or the Asian part of Turkey, from the Black
Sea to the Sea of Marmara? It is also sometimes known as the
Istanbul Strait.

9. What is the strait that separates Vancouver Island from the
British Columbia mainland?

10. What is the strait that separates Malaysia's Malay Peninsula
from the Indonesian island of Sumatra?


* Game 3, Round 3 - Literature - Massey Lectures Books

This is a round on the books associated with the annual CBC Massey
Lectures. Each year since 1961, a prominent speaker gives a series
of lectures... which are then published as a book. We will
give you the title of that book and the year of the lecture and
some additional clues, and you name the speaker.

1. "The Educated Imagination", 1962. This speaker also wrote
"Anatomy of Criticism" and "The Great Code". He was an English
professor who was a fixture at the University of Toronto's
Victoria College.

2. "The Underdeveloped Country", 1965. This speaker also wrote
"The Affluent Society" and "The Age of Uncertainty". He was
an economist who worked in multiple Democratic administrations,
from FDR to Lyndon Johnson.

3. "Conscience for Change", 1967. This speaker also wrote "The
Measure of a Man" and "Strength to Love". He was a minister and
a played a significant role in the 1960s civil rights movement.

4. "Canadian Cities and Sovereignty Association", 1979.
This speaker also wrote "The Death and Life of American Cities"
and "Cities and the Wealth of Nations". As an activist for
urban issues, she opposed both the Lower Manhattan and Spadina
Expressways.

5. "Prisons We Choose to Live Inside", 1985. This speaker
also wrote "The Golden Notebook" and "The Grass is Singing".
This prominent British novelist won the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 2007.

6. "Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies",
1988. This speaker also wrote "Manufacturing Consent" and
"Language and Mind". He is often referred to as the "father of
modern linguistics". He is also well known for his left-leaning
political activism and social criticism.

7. "The Unconscious Civilization", 1995. This speaker also wrote
"Voltaire's Bastards" and "The Collapse of Globalism: And the
Reinvention of the World". This speaker is the husband of
former governor-general Adrienne Clarkson.

8. "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth", 2008.
This speaker also wrote "Oryx and Crake" and "Surfacing",
among numerous literary works. She might be best known for her
1985 novel that was adapted into a dystopian science-fiction
television series that premiered in 2017.

9. "Player One: What is to Become of Us?", 2010. This speaker also
wrote "Microserfs", "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture" and "jPod". He popularized the terms "Generation X"
and "McJob".

10. "Blood: The Stuff of Life", 2013. This speaker is probably
best known for the novel also known as "Someone Knows My Name".
Here in Canada it had under a different title, which included
an "N" word. As such, this speaker has had to deal with this
book being banned in various jurisdictions simply on the basis
of the title of the book.
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Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:

* Game 3, Round 2 - Geography - Straits & Narrows

2. What is the strait that separates Vancouver Island, Canada,
from the Olympic Peninsula in the US?

I should know this - I have crossed it a few times.

Juan de Foca Strait is the name that comes up - but it's probably wrong.

4. What strait lies between mainland Australia and Tasmania?

Hobart Strait

5. What is the strait that separates Iran from the United Arab
Emirates and Oman? It links the Persian Gulf and the Gulf
of Oman.

Hormuz

7. What is the strait that separates Denmark from Norway?
It joins the North Sea to the Kattegat Strait, which leads on
between Denmark and Sweden to the Baltic Sea.

Skagerak (But for me that is not a strait, just a water body)

8. What is the strait that separates the European part of Turkey
from Anatolia or the Asian part of Turkey, from the Black
Sea to the Sea of Marmara? It is also sometimes known as the
Istanbul Strait.

Bosphorus

9. What is the strait that separates Vancouver Island from the
British Columbia mainland?

I've crossed that one too, but only twice. That will have to me my
excuse for not having paid attention to the name.

But I try with Naniamo Strait.

10. What is the strait that separates Malaysia's Malay Peninsula
from the Indonesian island of Sumatra?

Malacka

* Game 3, Round 3 - Literature - Massey Lectures Books

5. "Prisons We Choose to Live Inside", 1985. This speaker
also wrote "The Golden Notebook" and "The Grass is Singing".
This prominent British novelist won the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 2007.

Pinter

6. "Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies",
1988. This speaker also wrote "Manufacturing Consent" and
"Language and Mind". He is often referred to as the "father of
modern linguistics". He is also well known for his left-leaning
political activism and social criticism.

Chomsky

8. "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth", 2008.
This speaker also wrote "Oryx and Crake" and "Surfacing",
among numerous literary works. She might be best known for her
1985 novel that was adapted into a dystopian science-fiction
television series that premiered in 2017.

Atwood

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On 10/14/2025 10:08 AM, Mark Brader wrote:

* Game 3, Round 2 - Geography - Straits & Narrows

5. What is the strait that separates Iran from the United Arab

Emirates and Oman? It links the Persian Gulf and the Gulf
of Oman.

Strait of Hormuz

6. What is the strait between Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas?

Straits of Mackinac

8. What is the strait that separates the European part of Turkey
from Anatolia or the Asian part of Turkey, from the Black
Sea to the Sea of Marmara? It is also sometimes known as the
Istanbul Strait.

Dardanelles; Bosporus

9. What is the strait that separates Vancouver Island from the
British Columbia mainland?

Georgia Strait

10. What is the strait that separates Malaysia's Malay Peninsula
from the Indonesian island of Sumatra?

Straits of Malacca

* Game 3, Round 3 - Literature - Massey Lectures Books

This is a round on the books associated with the annual CBC Massey
Lectures. Each year since 1961, a prominent speaker gives a series
of lectures... which are then published as a book. We will
give you the title of that book and the year of the lecture and
some additional clues, and you name the speaker.

1. "The Educated Imagination", 1962. This speaker also wrote
"Anatomy of Criticism" and "The Great Code". He was an English
professor who was a fixture at the University of Toronto's
Victoria College.

Marshall McLuhan

2. "The Underdeveloped Country", 1965. This speaker also wrote
"The Affluent Society" and "The Age of Uncertainty". He was
an economist who worked in multiple Democratic administrations,
from FDR to Lyndon Johnson.

John Kenneth Galbraith

3. "Conscience for Change", 1967. This speaker also wrote "The
Measure of a Man" and "Strength to Love". He was a minister and
a played a significant role in the 1960s civil rights movement.

Martin Luther King Jr.

4. "Canadian Cities and Sovereignty Association", 1979.
This speaker also wrote "The Death and Life of American Cities"
and "Cities and the Wealth of Nations". As an activist for
urban issues, she opposed both the Lower Manhattan and Spadina
Expressways.

Jacobs

5. "Prisons We Choose to Live Inside", 1985. This speaker
also wrote "The Golden Notebook" and "The Grass is Singing".
This prominent British novelist won the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 2007.

Doris Lessing

6. "Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies",
1988. This speaker also wrote "Manufacturing Consent" and
"Language and Mind". He is often referred to as the "father of
modern linguistics". He is also well known for his left-leaning
political activism and social criticism.

Noam Chomsky

8. "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth", 2008.
This speaker also wrote "Oryx and Crake" and "Surfacing",
among numerous literary works. She might be best known for her
1985 novel that was adapted into a dystopian science-fiction
television series that premiered in 2017.

Margaret Atwood

9. "Player One: What is to Become of Us?", 2010. This speaker also
wrote "Microserfs", "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture" and "jPod". He popularized the terms "Generation X"
and "McJob".

Douglas Coupland

--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com
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Mark Brader <msb@vex.net> wrote:

* Game 3, Round 2 - Geography - Straits & Narrows

2. What is the strait that separates Vancouver Island, Canada,
from the Olympic Peninsula in the US?

Juan de Fuca Strait

5. What is the strait that separates Iran from the United Arab
Emirates and Oman? It links the Persian Gulf and the Gulf
of Oman.

Strait of Hormuz

7. What is the strait that separates Denmark from Norway?
It joins the North Sea to the Kattegat Strait, which leads on
between Denmark and Sweden to the Baltic Sea.

Skagerrak

8. What is the strait that separates the European part of Turkey
from Anatolia or the Asian part of Turkey, from the Black
Sea to the Sea of Marmara? It is also sometimes known as the
Istanbul Strait.

Bosporous; Dardanelles

* Game 3, Round 3 - Literature - Massey Lectures Books

2. "The Underdeveloped Country", 1965. This speaker also wrote
"The Affluent Society" and "The Age of Uncertainty". He was
an economist who worked in multiple Democratic administrations,
from FDR to Lyndon Johnson.

Keynes

3. "Conscience for Change", 1967. This speaker also wrote "The
Measure of a Man" and "Strength to Love". He was a minister and
a played a significant role in the 1960s civil rights movement.

Abernathy

4. "Canadian Cities and Sovereignty Association", 1979.
This speaker also wrote "The Death and Life of American Cities"
and "Cities and the Wealth of Nations". As an activist for
urban issues, she opposed both the Lower Manhattan and Spadina
Expressways.

Jacobs

6. "Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies",
1988. This speaker also wrote "Manufacturing Consent" and
"Language and Mind". He is often referred to as the "father of
modern linguistics". He is also well known for his left-leaning
political activism and social criticism.

Chomsky

8. "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth", 2008.
This speaker also wrote "Oryx and Crake" and "Surfacing",
among numerous literary works. She might be best known for her
1985 novel that was adapted into a dystopian science-fiction
television series that premiered in 2017.

Atwood
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