http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia?hl=en
rec.games.trivia@googlegroups.com
Today's topics:
* QFTCI5GNM Final Round 3 answers: Arts & Literature - 2 messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/9fe95824c2618833?hl=en
* Calvin's Rare Entries Quiz #1 - RESULTS - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/d32d06781a0a20d2?hl=en
* Calvin's Quiz #121 - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/13cc157c0e0b74e4?hl=en
==============================================================================
TOPIC: QFTCI5GNM Final Round 3 answers: Arts & Literature
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/9fe95824c2618833?hl=en
==============================================================================
== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Fri, Apr 29 2011 12:11 am
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)
As I said, this will be the last QFTCI posting until I come back from
vacation around Victoria Day. So you have that long to bone up on the
remaining subject areas. :-)
Mark Brader:
> These questions, were written to be asked in Toronto on 2010-12-13,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2010-11-16 companion posting on "Five Guys Named Moe
> Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI5GNM)".
> ** Final, Round 3 - Arts & Literature
> * Alliteratively Named Choreographers
> In each case, name the alliteratively named choreographer.
> 1. At 6 feet 6½ inches (1.99 m), this choreographer/director is
> unusually tall for a dancer. Over the course of his career,
> he has won 9 Tony Awards, including two in 1983, one for
> Best Actor in a Musical and one for Best Choreography for
> "My One and Only".
Tommy Tune. 4 for Joshua, Stephen, and Pete.
> 2. In a single year he choreographed "42nd Street", "Footlight
> Parade", and "Gold Diggers of 1933".
Busby Berkeley. 4 for Joshua, Pete, and Marc.
> 3. He was an American choreographer and activist who is
> credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing
> African-American participation. His choreographic masterpiece
> "Revelations" is believed to be the best known and most
> often seen modern dance performance.
Alvin Ailey. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Stephen, Pete, and Marc.
> * Top 100 Crime and Mystery Novels
> In 1990, the British-based Crime Writers' Association (CWA)
> published its list of the Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time, and
> in 1995 the US-based Mystery Writers of America (MWA) followed
> suit with its Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time. We'll give
> you the title and date of a novel, and its rank on both lists;
> you name the author.
> 4. "The Daughter of Time" (1951): CWA #1, MWA #4.
Josephine Tey. 4 for Dan Blum and Stephen.
> 5. "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1934): CWA #30, MWA #14.
James M. Cain. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Stephen.
> 6. "The Mask of Dimitrios" (1939), also known as "A Coffin for
> Dimitrios": CWA #24, MWA #17.
Eric Ambler. 4 for Stephen.
> * Plagiarism Controversies
> 7. In 1892, this author was accused of plagiarizing Margaret
> T. Canby's story "The Frost Fairies" in her short story "The
> Frost King". The author was brought before a tribunal of
> the Perkins Institute for the Blind, where she was acquitted
> by a single vote. Name her.
Helen Keller. 4 for Dan Blum, Stephen, Peter, and Marc.
> 8. In 1978, this author was sued for plagiarism by Harold
> Courlander, author of the novel "The African". The author
> reportedly paid Mr. Courlander $650,000 in an out-of-court
> settlement. Name the author, or his novel that contained
> the allegedly plagiarized material.
Alex Haley, "Roots: The Saga of an American Family". 4 for Joshua,
Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Stephen, Pete, and Marc.
> 9. This American politician was forced to withdraw from the 1988
> Democratic US Presidential Nominations when it was alleged
> that he had failed a 1965 introductory law school course on
> legal methodology due to plagiarism. This did not impact
> too much on his long-term political career however, as he
> was elected 4 more times to the Senate before having to
> resign his seat to fill his current role. Name him.
Joe Biden. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Stephen, Erland,
Peter, Pete, and Marc.
> * 20th Century Painters
> In each case, name the painter.
> 10. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/fi.03/art/10.jpg
Ben Nicholson. Yeah, I thought it was Mondrian too.
> 11. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/fi.03/art/11.jpg
Paul Klee.
> 12. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/fi.03/art/12.jpg
Henri Matisse. 4 for Calvin.
> * Banned Books
> 13. Written between 1958 and 1968, the 3-volume work "The Gulag
> Archipelago", a nonfiction account of Soviet forced-labor
> camps, was banned by the Soviet Union, but in 2009 it was
> added to the Russian high school curriculum. Name the author.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Stephen,
Erland, Pete, Marc, and Rob.
> 14. The 1981 novel "July's People" was banned in apartheid-era
> South Africa but is now part of the school curriculum.
> Name the Nobel-laureate author.
Nadine Gordimer. 4 for Joshua.
> 15. The 1959 novel "Naked Lunch" was banned by Boston courts
> in 1962 for obscenity, a ruling that was reversed in 1966.
> Name the author.
William S. Burroughs. 4 for Joshua, Stephen, and Marc. 3 for
Dan Blum.
Scores, if there are no errors:
ROUND-> 2 3 TOTALS
TOPIC-> Sci Lit
Stephen Perry 38 40 78
Marc Dashevsky 44 28 72
Joshua Kreitzer 26 36 62
Dan Tilque 36 12 48
Pete Gayde 17 24 41
Rob Parker 35 4 39
Dan Blum -- 31 31
Peter Smyth 21 8 29
"Calvin" 10 4 14
Erland Sommarskog 4 8 12
--
Mark Brader | "I had never thought of Jesus as being
msb@vex.net | a variety of grape plant, but
Toronto | if you put it that way..." --Jan Sand
My text in this article is in the public domain.
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Fri, Apr 29 2011 2:35 pm
From: Erland Sommarskog
Erland Sommarskog (esquel@sommarskog.se) writes:
>> 15. The 1959 novel "Naked Lunch" was banned by Boston courts
>> in 1962 for obscenity, a ruling that was reversed in 1966.
>> Name the author.
>
> Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. No it wasn't, but there is a connection!
Steely Dan is reportedly a device that figures in the book.
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
==============================================================================
TOPIC: Calvin's Rare Entries Quiz #1 - RESULTS
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/d32d06781a0a20d2?hl=en
==============================================================================
== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Apr 29 2011 2:33 pm
From: Erland Sommarskog
Calvin (calvin@phlegm.com) writes:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:28:09 +1000, Erland Sommarskog
><esquel@sommarskog.se> wrote:
>> Wikipedia says:
>>
>> There are no official statistics regarding religious affiliation in
>> Albania. The CIA World Factbook gives a distribution of 70% Muslims,
>> 20% Eastern Orthodox, and 10% Roman Catholics.[62] A Pew Research
>> Center demographic study from 2009 put the percentage of Muslims in
>> Albania at 79.9%.[63] In 2009 According to the World Christian
>> Encyclopedia, roughly 38% of Albanians are Muslim, and 36%
>> Christian.[64] According to the US State Department, estimates for
>> active participation in religious services are between 25 and 40%.[65]
>>
>> Draw your own conclusion.
>
> I have. Protest dismissed :-)
Oh, that wasn't a protest. My conclusion was that using a hard number
for religious affiliation was probably not a good idea.
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
==============================================================================
TOPIC: Calvin's Quiz #121
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/13cc157c0e0b74e4?hl=en
==============================================================================
== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Apr 29 2011 5:11 pm
From: Pete
Calvin <calvin@phlegm.com> wrote in
news:op.vukk3oeeyr33d7@04233-jyhzp1s.staff.ad.bond.edu.au:
>
>
> 1 Who played Magnum PI in the 1980s TV series of that name?
Selleck
> 2 To the nearest 10 million, what is the population of Germany?
80 million
> 3 Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd co-starred in which 1999 thriller?
> 4 St Basil's Cathedral is located in which European capital city?
Moscow
> 5 Who co-starred with Robert Culp in the 1960s TV series I Spy?
Bill Cosby
> 6 Which Middle Eastern country's national sporting
> teams regularly compete in the European zone?
Israel
> 7 Which Hindu deity is often depicted as being blue and having
> four arms?
Vishnu
> 8 Who is the apparent successor to Kim Jong-Il in North Korea?
Kim Jong-Un
> 9 In which 1995 Oscar winning film was the title character
> played by more than 40 different cast members?
> 10 Which Austrian painted the 1908 work The Kiss?
Klimt
>
>
Pete
==============================================================================
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "rec.games.trivia"
group.
To post to this group, visit http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia?hl=en
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rec.games.trivia+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com
To change the way you get mail from this group, visit:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/subscribe?hl=en
To report abuse, send email explaining the problem to abuse@googlegroups.com
==============================================================================
Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/?hl=en
No comments:
Post a Comment