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Posted by Calgarian on December 30, 2001 at 20:21:47:
In Reply to: Best and Worst of 2001 posted by Jean on December 28, 2001 at 13:14:43:
In 2001, for the first time, travellers entering Canada from Europe were required to do what, in an attempt to contain the spread of foot-and-mouth disease? sign affidavits stating they had not visited farms in the U.K. walk across mats soaked in disinfectant submit to a scrubbing by registered nurses empty their pockets to prove they carried no food of any kind Canada slipped to number three in the annual UN report comparing quality of life among 174 countries. Who were number one and two? Sweden and Sierra Leone the United States and New Zealand Norway and Australia Japan and Ireland Following September 11, U.S. President Bush created the new position of Director of Homeland Security. Who got the job? Colin Powell Condoleezza Rice Tony Blair Tom Ridge In February, what newly-elected leader called upon enemies of his state to "cast off the path of violence and return to the path of dialogue"? Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams Xanana Gusmao of East Timor President of the United States George W. Bush Which previously-unknown film director, a Canadian, won the Cannes Golden Camera award for a first-time director for his movie Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)? Rick Mercer Atom Egoyan Zacharias Kunuk Hal Niedzviecki In June, comic strip legend Hank Ketcham died at 81. Who was his best-known character? Blondie Dennis the Menace Rex Morgan, MD Dilbert In March, the government of what country admitted it had just destroyed two ancient statues of Buddha? Cambodia Uzbekistan Afghanistan Egypt "If the state is to survive, no one can be untouchable." Who said this, last spring, and in what circumstances? former Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid, immediately before his ouster Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, just before the arrest of Slobodan Milosevic Margaret Thatcher, calling for the ouster of Tony Blair Loi Estrada, calling for the arrest of her husband, former Philippines president Joseph Estrada Timothy McVeigh was executed by lethal injection in Terre Haute, Indiana. What poem did he issue as his final statement? "The Unknown Citizen," by W.H. Auden "Invictus," by William Ernest Henley "The Hanging Man," by Sylvia Plath "The Waste Land," by T.S. Eliot Last year it was announced that global sales of recorded music were down, with the biggest decline in Canada. Who or what did the industry blame? Alanis Morissette, for delaying the release of her fourth album Sam the Record Man, for shutting down his flagship store Napster, for allowing people to download music for free the CRTC, for reducing Canadian-content requirements Nepal declared the former Prince Gyanendra its new king following a bizarre tragedy. What happened? nine members of the royal family were shot in what was apparently a murder-suicide carried out by the Crown Prince the entire royal family was killed in an earthquake Maoist rebels blew up a military barracks, killing the king a British commercial expedition, which included the king and his wife, attempted to climb Mount Everest, but everyone froze to death before reaching the south summit Following the attacks on the World Trade Center, this New Yorker's popularity soared. Who is he? George Pataki Michael Bloomberg Rudy Giuliani Ed Koch Venus Williams said this: "This means a lot more to me this year because I hadn't played as well in the other Grand Slams as I would have liked. I really wanted it." What had she just won? the World Cup short-track event in Sofia, Bulgaria the Heisman Trophy the Wimbledon championship the World Cup for long track speed skating After the anthrax scares, sales of what skyrocketed in Tijuana, Mexico? smallpox vaccine Compound 19 sarin gas Cipro
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