Weekly Quiz: Quantum Computing, Blue Jays Baseball, and The Trouble with Testifying

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const title = "Weekly Quiz: Quantum Computing, Blue Jays Baseball, and The Trouble with Testifying"; const date = "November 01, 2025"; const data = [ { image: "https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/WEB_WhatHappensAfter_OCT2025-scaled.jpg", title: "What Happens after Young Victims Testify? For Most Kids, Not Enough", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/what-happens-after-young-victims-testify/", question: "In Canadian courtrooms, children as young as three can be asked to take the stand and recount their most traumatic experiences under intense scrutiny. Recognizing a need for post-testimony support, social workers Alison Albright and Carly Kalish created a program dedicated to providing follow-up care for young survivors. What is the name of this program?", options: [ "Beyond the Bench", "Post Court Pathways", "The Next Step Program", "The Survivor Recovery Initiative", ], answer: "Post Court Pathways", correct: "No formal therapy program in Canada—or anywhere else in North America, to Albright’s knowledge—has ever focused specifically on helping children and youth heal once the courtroom doors close. Alongside Kalish, she created Post Court Pathways, a new program designed specifically to support young people, ages three to twenty-five, after they’ve testified in court. Where traditional survivor services end at referrals to other general community or mental health services, its follow-up care is built for the profound injuries of testimony: the bruising that comes from cross-examination, the quiet estrangement that can settle after telling a roomful of strangers what happened to you. It isn’t general counselling. It’s a service that orbits the legal process itself, shifting shape as research deepens and young people name what they still need.", incorrect: "No formal therapy program in Canada—or anywhere else in North America, to Albright’s knowledge—has ever focused specifically on helping children and youth heal once the courtroom doors close. Alongside Kalish, she created Post Court Pathways, a new program designed specifically to support young people, ages three to twenty-five, after they’ve testified in court. Where traditional survivor services end at referrals to other general community or mental health services, its follow-up care is built for the profound injuries of testimony: the bruising that comes from cross-examination, the quiet estrangement that can settle after telling a roomful of strangers what happened to you. It isn’t general counselling. It’s a service that orbits the legal process itself, shifting shape as research deepens and young people name what they still need.", }, { title: "Quantum Computing Is Coming for Your Digital Secrets", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/quantum-computing/", question: "Quantum cryptography relies on the physics of particles to encode and transmit information in ways that are nearly impossible to hack. In 1989, a team led by physicist Charles Benett and computer scientist Gillies Brassard put that power to the test by sending the world’s first secret quantum transmission. What distance did it travel?", options: [ "32.5 cm", "52.5 cm", "72.5 cm", "92.5 cm", ], answer: "32.5 cm", correct: "In 1983, Bennett and Brassard wrote a paper together on using quantum effects for secure communication. Their paper was rejected from a computer science conference, but it did spark another idea: What if, instead of sending the message itself, they used a quantum signal to share a secret, single-use encryption key—one that couldn’t be intercepted without detection? This moment sparked the birth of BB84, the first quantum cryptography protocol for quantum key distribution, or QKD. Bennett and Brassard then built a prototype with John Smolin from Yorktown IBM and two of Brassard’s students, François Bessette and Louis Salvail. The device was roughly the length of a dinner table. In late October 1989, they sent the world’s first secret quantum transmission. It travelled only 32.5 centimetres, but it was proof of concept.", incorrect: "In 1983, Bennett and Brassard wrote a paper together on using quantum effects for secure communication. Their paper was rejected from a computer science conference, but it did spark another idea: What if, instead of sending the message itself, they used a quantum signal to share a secret, single-use encryption key—one that couldn’t be intercepted without detection? This moment sparked the birth of BB84, the first quantum cryptography protocol for quantum key distribution, or QKD. Bennett and Brassard then built a prototype with John Smolin from Yorktown IBM and two of Brassard’s students, François Bessette and Louis Salvail. The device was roughly the length of a dinner table. In late October 1989, they sent the world’s first secret quantum transmission. It travelled only 32.5 centimetres, but it was proof of concept.", }, { image: "https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/Matheson_BlueJays_1800.jpg", title: "The Wild Early Days of Blue Jays Baseball", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/the-wild-early-days-of-blue-jays-baseball/", question: "The Toronto Blue Jays’ move from Exhibition Stadium to SkyDome (now Rogers Centre) turned them into a whole new team. What unlikely natural form served as the primary inspiration for SkyDome's innovative retractable roof mechanism?", options: [ "The rippling surface of Lake Ontario", "The segmented plates of an armadillo", "The shifting outer shell of a lobster", "The interlocking petals of an artichoke", ], answer: "The shifting outer shell of a lobster", correct: "Architects Rod Robbie and Michael Allen found inspiration where you would least expect it. “The inspiration was the idea of crustacea, all of these shells moving on a lobster or a sea animal of that kind,” Robbie said in an old History Channel documentary, The Demand for a Dome. The lobster’s long abdomen—typically called a “lobster tail” at a restaurant—curls and straightens as it moves itself backward, the strong exoskeleton protecting the soft organs underneath. When you hold a live lobster out of the water, this tail will curl quickly and powerfully, whipping back and forth to free itself. As that happens, you can see the sections of the lobster’s back sliding along the edges of one another, fitting perfectly into an armour that moves with the lobster’s body instead of limiting it. There it was, on the back of a lobster, the answer to it all.", incorrect: "Architects Rod Robbie and Michael Allen found inspiration where you would least expect it. “The inspiration was the idea of crustacea, all of these shells moving on a lobster or a sea animal of that kind,” Robbie said in an old History Channel documentary, The Demand for a Dome. The lobster’s long abdomen—typically called a “lobster tail” at a restaurant—curls and straightens as it moves itself backward, the strong exoskeleton protecting the soft organs underneath. When you hold a live lobster out of the water, this tail will curl quickly and powerfully, whipping back and forth to free itself. As that happens, you can see the sections of the lobster’s back sliding along the edges of one another, fitting perfectly into an armour that moves with the lobster’s body instead of limiting it. There it was, on the back of a lobster, the answer to it all.", }, { title: "A Ghost Fleet of Tankers Is Keeping Russia’s War Machine Afloat. The West Can’t Stop It", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/a-ghost-fleet-of-tankers-is-keeping-russias-war-machine-afloat-the-west-cant-stop-it/ ", question: "The use of shadow tanker fleets to evade sanctions is not new, but the size and stealthiness of Russia’s armada has Western powers taking steps to push back—only they’re struggling to keep pace. What percentage of Russia’s ships has Canada managed to sanction to date?", options: [ "9 percent", "15 percent", "24 percent", "36 percent", ], answer: "24 percent", correct: "One example of multilateral action being taken against Russia is the “Shadow Fleet Task Force,” announced during Canada’s presidency of the G7 this past March. Its mission—to track and expose the tankers—is easier said than done. The disparity between the estimated size of the Russian fleet and the number of vessels that Canada and its partners have gone after is considerable. Pegged at roughly 1,300 vessels, less than half of the fleet has been sanctioned by the EU and UK, and just 24 percent by Canada.", incorrect: "One example of multilateral action being taken against Russia is the “Shadow Fleet Task Force,” announced during Canada’s presidency of the G7 this past March. Its mission—to track and expose the tankers—is easier said than done. The disparity between the estimated size of the Russian fleet and the number of vessels that Canada and its partners have gone after is considerable. Pegged at roughly 1,300 vessels, less than half of the fleet has been sanctioned by the EU and UK, and just 24 percent by Canada.", }, ];