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Re: 2019 Current Events Study Guide

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2019 11:25 pm
by Johnblue
USA Today will stop publishing its paper, switching to online only. Coincidentally there was a clue on tonight’s show about their first issue in 1982.

Re: 2019 Current Events Study Guide

Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2019 6:56 pm
by trainman
Johnblue wrote: Fri Oct 18, 2019 11:25 pm USA Today will stop publishing its paper, switching to online only.
As of now, this is only speculation (and it's been officially denied by USA Today's parent company).

Re: 2019 Current Events Study Guide

Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 3:18 pm
by CasketRomance
sacramento republic will be the 29th mls franchise...slated to begin play in 2022

Re: 2019 Current Events Study Guide

Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 5:21 pm
by cinemaniax7
Qantas Airlines has completed the first-ever nonstop flight connecting New York and Sydney. The 19-hour survey flight on a Boeing 787 is part of the airline's effort to launch the world's longest flights connecting Australia's east coast to both New York and London.

Re: 2019 Current Events Study Guide

Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2019 12:13 am
by hbomb1947
Nickeolodeon Universe, the largest indoor theme park in the Western hemisphere, opens in New Jersey this week.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/A ... w9LUk9wBtE

Re: 2019 Current Events Study Guide

Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2019 7:36 am
by triviawayne
hbomb1947 wrote: Tue Oct 22, 2019 12:13 am Nickeolodeon Universe, the largest indoor theme park in the Western hemisphere, opens in New Jersey this week.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/A ... w9LUk9wBtE
that's crazy, considering it's part of a new mall. crazier is someone is building a new mall...

Re: 2019 Current Events Study Guide

Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2019 4:47 pm
by CasketRomance
Japan based Babymetal becomes the first Asian band to hit number 1 on the Billboard's Top Rock Albums charts

Re: 2019 Current Events Study Guide

Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2019 7:29 pm
by Bamaman
The Spanish government exhumed Francisco Franco in order to move him to another cemetery. Don’t know if they checked to see if he is still dead.

Re: 2019 Current Events Study Guide

Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2019 1:01 am
by RJRouge
Bamaman wrote: Thu Oct 24, 2019 7:29 pm The Spanish government exhumed Francisco Franco in order to move him to another cemetery. Don’t know if they checked to see if he is still dead.
I understood that reference.

Re: 2019 Current Events Study Guide

Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 12:18 pm
by cinemaniax7
Longtime character actor Wes Studi was awarded an honorary Oscar at this year's Governors Awards, making him the first Native American to win an Academy Award. Studi has appeared in such films as The Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Mystery Men, Avatar, and Dances with Wolves.

Other honorees include director Lina Wertmüller, who became the first woman ever nominated for Best Director for her 1977 film, Seven Beauties.

David Lynch received an honorary Oscar for his body of work, which includes Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, and The Straight Story. Lynch also created the seminal TV series Twin Peaks.

Geena Davis received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her work as founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.

Re: 2019 Current Events Study Guide

Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 12:48 pm
by Volante
The Vatican Secret Archives are no longer Secret.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope ... SKBN1X71NA
The Vatican said on Monday the new name will be the Vatican Apostolic Archives.

This removes any potentially “negative nuances” from the Latin word “secretum” which the pope said in a decree was closer to “private” or “reserved” than “secret” when the archives first got their name around 1610.

The archives have long not been a secret anyway: like most state archives, they are open to qualified researchers after a period of time.

Re: 2019 Current Events Study Guide

Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:33 pm
by cinemaniax7
Robert Evans, longtime movie producer and former head of Paramount Pictures, has passed away at the age of 89. Evans has been mentioned six times on J!, five times in clues involving ex-wife Ali McGraw and once as the correct question, although none of these was more recent than 2006.

Evans was involved with the production of such memorable films as The Godfather, Chinatown, Marathon Man, and Rosemary's Baby. His lone Oscar nomination came as producer of Chinatown, which lost the Best Picture award to The Godfather, Part II, which did not directly involve Evans after he clashed with director Francis Ford Coppola over several aspects of the original film.

In 1994, he published a frank memoir of his life, The Kid Stays in the Picture, which was later adapted into a 2002 documentary of the same title.

Evans was married and divorced seven times to seven different women, including actress and model McGraw and former Miss America Phyllis George.

Re: 2019 Current Events Study Guide

Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2019 12:35 pm
by cinemaniax7
Taylor Swift will be named the first-ever Artist of the Decade at the 2019 American Music Awards. Swift has 23 AMAs to her name, the most AMA wins of any female artist.

Re: 2019 Current Events Study Guide

Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2019 11:07 pm
by Volante
National treasure bursting into flames is now going to need to be keyed by country as Shuri Castle on Okinawa in Japan suffers conflagration

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-50244169
The main building, as well as the north and south structures of the castle have burned to the ground, local media said.
At least, much like Notre Dame before it, fire is not a stranger of Shuri's past
According to Okinawa's tourism site, the castle burned down three times during the Ryukyu Dynasty and was burnt down again in World War Two during the Battle of Okinawa.

Re: 2019 Current Events Study Guide

Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2019 11:50 pm
by xxaaaxx
Washington Nationals def. Houston Astros 4-3 to win the 2019 MLB World Series. It's the first title in the history of the Nationals' franchise, which began in 1969 as the Montreal Expos. Pitcher Stephen Strasburg was named series MVP.

This is also the first time in North American pro sports (MLB/NBA/NHL) history that the road team won every game of a best-of-seven series.

Congrats to any Nats fans out there. I did not see this coming.

Re: 2019 Current Events Study Guide

Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 7:06 am
by teapot37
xxaaaxx wrote: Wed Oct 30, 2019 11:50 pm Washington Nationals def. Houston Astros 4-3 to win the 2019 MLB World Series. It's the first title in the history of the Nationals' franchise, which began in 1969 as the Montreal Expos. Pitcher Stephen Strasburg was named series MVP.

This is also the first time in North American pro sports history that the road team won every game of a best-of-seven series.

Congrats to any Nats fans out there. I did not see this coming.
It was also the first time that the first SIX games in a series were won by the road team as well. Congrats to the Nats.

Re: 2019 Current Events Study Guide

Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 7:34 am
by triviawayne
xxaaaxx wrote: Wed Oct 30, 2019 11:50 pm Washington Nationals def. Houston Astros 4-3 to win the 2019 MLB World Series. It's the first title in the history of the Nationals' franchise, which began in 1969 as the Montreal Expos. Pitcher Stephen Strasburg was named series MVP.

This is also the first time in North American pro sports history that the road team won every game of a best-of-seven series.

Congrats to any Nats fans out there. I did not see this coming.
just to clarify "pro" sports, it is top level pro sports. The AHL had a 7 game series won by every visitor

Re: 2019 Current Events Study Guide

Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 9:58 pm
by CasketRomance
triviawayne wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2019 7:34 am
xxaaaxx wrote: Wed Oct 30, 2019 11:50 pm Washington Nationals def. Houston Astros 4-3 to win the 2019 MLB World Series. It's the first title in the history of the Nationals' franchise, which began in 1969 as the Montreal Expos. Pitcher Stephen Strasburg was named series MVP.

This is also the first time in North American pro sports history that the road team won every game of a best-of-seven series.

Congrats to any Nats fans out there. I did not see this coming.
just to clarify "pro" sports, it is top level pro sports. The AHL had a 7 game series won by every visitor
yeah he should probably change to the "big 3 pro north american sports leagues"

Re: 2019 Current Events Study Guide

Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 10:48 pm
by triviawayne
CasketRomance wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2019 9:58 pm
triviawayne wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2019 7:34 am
xxaaaxx wrote: Wed Oct 30, 2019 11:50 pm Washington Nationals def. Houston Astros 4-3 to win the 2019 MLB World Series. It's the first title in the history of the Nationals' franchise, which began in 1969 as the Montreal Expos. Pitcher Stephen Strasburg was named series MVP.

This is also the first time in North American pro sports history that the road team won every game of a best-of-seven series.

Congrats to any Nats fans out there. I did not see this coming.
just to clarify "pro" sports, it is top level pro sports. The AHL had a 7 game series won by every visitor
yeah he should probably change to the "big 3 pro north american sports leagues"
Big 3 wouldn’t be good wording, not considering the NFL as a big 3 ?

Re: 2019 Current Events Study Guide

Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 10:57 pm
by CasketRomance
triviawayne wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2019 10:48 pm
CasketRomance wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2019 9:58 pm
triviawayne wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2019 7:34 am
xxaaaxx wrote: Wed Oct 30, 2019 11:50 pm Washington Nationals def. Houston Astros 4-3 to win the 2019 MLB World Series. It's the first title in the history of the Nationals' franchise, which began in 1969 as the Montreal Expos. Pitcher Stephen Strasburg was named series MVP.

This is also the first time in North American pro sports history that the road team won every game of a best-of-seven series.

Congrats to any Nats fans out there. I did not see this coming.
just to clarify "pro" sports, it is top level pro sports. The AHL had a 7 game series won by every visitor
yeah he should probably change to the "big 3 pro north american sports leagues"
Big 3 wouldn’t be good wording, not considering the NFL as a big 3 ?
nfl does not use a series format for their playoffs...that is why i didnt say big 4...i guess if you want to be anal you can go with "big 3 pro north american sports leagues that use a series based playoff format"