Mark Brader:

These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2013-02-25,
and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information...
see my 2022-09-09 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from
the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".

Game 10 is over. Hearty congratulations to DAN BLUM for a close win!

** Game 4, Round 9 - Canadiana - Scarborough Walk of Fame

There is the Hollywood Walk of Fame. There is the Canadian
Walk of Fame in downtown Toronto. But this round is about the
*Scarborough* Walk of Fame, in the food court of the Scarborough
Town Centre. In each case, you have to name the famous Scarberian
being described. Note that some are Scarborough natives while
others were born elsewhere and made their way to Scarborough.

Apparently none of them are sufficiently famous, so this round
never happened.

1. Inducted in 2008, this Scarborough resident was Toronto's first
medical officer of health, who became the face of public health
during the SARS outbreak of 2003. She later held the position
of Ontario's Medical Officer of Health. She died in 2008 from
a rare form of cancer.

Sheela Basrur.

2. Inducted in 2007, this Scarborough resident was the first
president of the Greenpeace Foundation; among other things, he
spearheaded a successful campaign to ban commercial whaling.
He later became the ecology specialist for CITY-TV. He died
of prostate cancer in 2005.

Bob Hunter.

3. Inducted in 2011, this doctor worked with Dr. Maxwell Bochner
of the Bochner Eye Institute in Toronto for more than 10 years.
He was one of the first in North America to practice laser
vision correction.

Harold Stein. (He died in 2021.)

4. Inducted in 2011, this Scotland-born singer/songwriter """has
been""" part of the Canadian music scene since 1976. He is
best known for his 1985 album "Strange Animal" and joined the
rock group Styx in 1999.

Lawrence Gowan. (Still alive and probably still true.)

5. Inducted in 2009, this media personality """is""" best known as
the co-host of CHUM-FM's morning show, and the host of CITY-TV's
"CityLine" program from 1989 to 2008.

Marilyn Denis. (Still alive, probably now best known for "The
Marilyn Denis Show" on CTV.)

6. Inducted in 2007, this Scarborough native swam across Lake
Ontario at age 16, in a new record time of 15 hours 10 minutes
that smashed long-distance swimmer Marilyn Bell's record by
almost 6 hours. Between 1975 and 1982 she swam across the
English Channel 19 times, including 5 two-way crossings,
earning the soubriquet "Queen of the Channel".

Cindy Nicholas. (She died in 2016.)

As I mentioned in connection with Game 10, Round 6, of the previous
season, her first two-way crossing of the Channel was not only
the first ever by a woman, but also over 10 hours faster than the
previous record.

7. Inducted in 2009, this actress and comedienne started her career
with Second City in 1983. She had a regular role in the first
season of "Paradise Falls". She starred with her husband,
Colin Mochrie, in two television series, "Getting Along
Famously" and the children's series "Seven Little Monsters".
She """can""" also be seen in "Little Mosque on the Prairie",
playing Mayor Popowicz.

Debra McGrath. (Still alive, but "Little Mosque..." ended in 2012.)

8. Inducted in 2011, this musician born in England in 1928 is a
Canadian jazz vibraphonist, percussionist, and composer. In the
early 1970s he drew wide acclaim for his performances with Benny
Goodman's jazz sextet, with which he toured internationally.
In 1992, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in
recognition of his international renown.

Peter Appleyard. (He died in 2013.)

9. Inducted in 2008, this Scarborough native began his professional
hockey career as the first-round draft pick for the New York
Rangers in 1974. He played left wing with the Rangers for two
years before he was traded to Boston in 1976, where he scored
a hat-trick in his first-ever game as a Bruin. By 1985 he had
earned his place as captain of the team. He retired in 1988.

Rick Middleton. (Still alive.)

10. Inducted in 2006, this Scarborough resident has had a long
career as a broadcaster for CITY-TV and CP24. He was the
recipient of the Clarke Institute's 1996 "Courage to Come Back"
Award (for coming back from the effects of polio), and was
inducted into the Terry Fox Hall of Fame in 1997 for his ongoing
contributions to the causes of people with physical disabilities.
"""Currently""" he is the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario.

David Onley. (Still alive, but left the LG position in 2014.)

** Game 4, Round 10 - Entertainment Challenge Round - Academy Awards

* A. History - The First Time

These two questions are on events associated with the first Academy
Awards in 1929, honoring movies of 1927-28.

A1. What comic actor won an honorary Oscar for versatility and
genius in acting, writing, directing, and producing the
silent movie "The Circus"?

Charlie Chaplin. 4 for Joshua. 2 for Dan Blum.

A2. What movie won the Oscar for Best Picture (or as they said
back then, Outstanding Picture)?

"Wings". 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Pete.

* B. Literature - From the Page

B1. What movie was adapted from Stephen King's novella
"The Body"?

"Stand by Me" (1986). 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.

B2. What movie was adapted from W.P. Kinsella's novel
"Shoeless Joe"?

"Field of Dreams" (1989). 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Pete.

* C. Geography - At Least There are Subtitles

C1. What country """has won""" the most times for Best Foreign
Language Film?

Italy. (Still true.) 4 for Dan Blum. 3 for Pete.

At the time of the original game Italy was beating France 10-9,
with no other country having more than 4; now it's 11-9, and the
category has been renamed to Best International Feature Film.

The 11 Italian winners are: "La strada" (1956), "Nights of Cabiria"
["Le notti di Cabiria"] (1957), "8½" (1963), "Yesterday, Today and
Tomorrow" ["Ieri, oggi, domani"] (1964), "Investigation of a Citizen
Above Suspicion" ["Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni
sospetto"] (1970), "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis" ["Il giardino
dei Finzi Contini"] (1971), "Amarcord" (1974), "Cinema Paradiso"
["Nuovo cinema Paradiso"] (1989), "Mediterraneo" (1991), "Life
is Beautiful" ["La vita è bella"] (1998), and "The Great Beauty"
["La grande bellezza"] (2013).

Before the Best Foreign Language Film category existed, special or
honorary Oscars were sometimes given, but this does not affect the
answer since Italy and France are tied on those.

C2. What is the name of the 2003 Canadian movie that won for
Best Foreign Language Film and is the sequel to the "The
Decline of the American Empire"?

"The Barbarian Invasions" or "Les Invasions barbares". 4 for Joshua.

* D. Sports - Reach for the Top

These two questions are about Best Picture winners with sports
themes.

D1. What movie won the Oscar for Best Picture for 1981?

"Chariots of Fire" (track). 4 for everyone -- Joshua, Dan Tilque,
Dan Blum, and Pete.

D2. What movie won the Oscar for Best Picture for 2004?

"Million Dollar Baby" (boxing). 4 for Joshua.

* E. Science - Special Things

E1. Two disaster movies from 1972 and 1974 each won a Special
Achievement Academy Award for Visual Effects. Name either
one.

"The Poseidon Adventure", "Earthquake". 4 for Dan Blum and Pete.
2 for Dan Tilque.

E2. What 1995 movie won a Special Achievement Academy Award
for being the first feature-length computer-animated film?

"Toy Story". 4 for everyone.

* F. Miscellaneous - It's All about the Numbers

F1. Who """holds""" the record for most appearances as host or
co-host of the Academy Awards, at 19?

Bob Hope. (Still true.) 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Pete.

The years (of the movies honored, the ceremonies being the year after)
were 1939-42, 1944-45, 1952, 1954, 1957-61, 1964-67, 1974, and 1977.
Billy Crystal has done it the most times after Hope, in two senses of
"after": 9 times altogether, 1989-92, 1996-97, 1999, 2003, and 2011.

F2. What British actor has been nominated 8 times for Best Actor,
but """has""" never won? He was presented with an honorary
Oscar in 2002.

Peter O'Toole. (He died in 2013 and never won.) 4 for Joshua
and Pete.

He was nominated for "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962); "Becket" (1964);
"The Lion in Winter" (1968); "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" (1969); "The
Ruling Class" (1972); "The Stunt Man" (1980); "My Favorite Year"
(1982); and "Venus" (2006).


Scores, if there are no errors:

GAME 4 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 10 BEST
TOPICS-> Ent Geo His Lei Lit Sci Cha FIVE
Dan Blum 28 22 40 34 40 40 34 188
Joshua Kreitzer 40 27 32 31 40 32 40 184
Dan Tilque 0 28 40 36 36 36 10 176
Erland Sommarskog 0 12 24 20 16 20 -- 92
Pete Gayde -- -- -- -- -- -- 31 31

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