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* Calvin's Quiz #153 - 2 messages, 2 authors
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* QFTCI11 Game 4 Rounds 4-6 (not 2-3) answers: Adams, bloody US - 1 messages,
1 author
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* QFTCI11 Game 4 Rounds 7-8: making you sick, Shakespeare - 3 messages, 3
authors
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TOPIC: Calvin's Quiz #153
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Aug 10 2011 12:51 am
From: "Rob Parker"


> 1 What is the main ingredient of marzipan?

ground almonds

> 2 The island of Avalon is the supposed resting place of which mythical
> figure?

King Arthur

> 3 How old was Eva Peron when she died? [allow 3 years either way]

34

> 4 In F1 racing, what colour flag indicates disqualification?

black

> 5 Is Napier located on NZ's north or south island?

north

> 6 Who was Clarke Kent's editor?

Perry White

> 7 What is the currency of Malaysia?

ringgit

> 8 Which 1964 Robin Hood spoof starred Frank Sinatra and was set in
> gangland Chicago?

no idea

> 9 Who discovered Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922?

Howard Carter

> 10 Asperger syndrome is a form of which human disorder?

autism


Rob

== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Aug 10 2011 3:05 am
From: "David"


> 1 What is the main ingredient of marzipan?

Depends on the recipe, could be sugar or almonds.

> 2 The island of Avalon is the supposed resting place of which mythical
> figure?

King Arthur

> 3 How old was Eva Peron when she died? [allow 3 years either way]

35?

> 4 In F1 racing, what colour flag indicates disqualification?

Black

> 5 Is Napier located on NZ's north or south island?

North

> 6 Who was Clarke Kent's editor?
> 7 What is the currency of Malaysia?

Malaysian Dollar?

> 8 Which 1964 Robin Hood spoof starred Frank Sinatra and was set in
> gangland Chicago?
> 9 Who discovered Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922?
> 10 Asperger syndrome is a form of which human disorder?

Autism

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TOPIC: QFTCI11 Game 4 Rounds 4-6 (not 2-3) answers: Adams, bloody US
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Aug 10 2011 9:16 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)


Mark Brader:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2011-02-07,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2011-05-23 companion posting on "Questions from the
> Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI5GNM, QFTCI11, QFTCIMM)".


> I wrote one of these rounds.

That was the Adams round.


> * Game 4, Round 4 - The Adams Family (with one D)

> In each case, we will describe one or two people with the surname
> Adams, and you must give the applicable given name or names.

> 1. The first two US presidents to be father and son. Name both.

John and John Quincy. 4 for Joshua, Peter, Dan Blum, Marc, Calvin,
Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Pete.

> 2. Name the wife of either President Adams.

Abigail, Louisa. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Marc, Stephen, Dan Tilque,
and Pete.

> 3. Another member of that presidential Adams family was
> a participant in the Boston Tea Party, a signatory to
> the Declaration of Independence, and later a Governor of
> Massachusetts. But his non-political job is also remembered
> today.

Samuel. (A brewer; a brand of beer is named after him.) 4 for
Joshua, Dan Blum, Marc, Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Pete.

> 4. Turning to a different group opposed to British rule, this
> man is the president of Sinn F�in ("shin fane").

Gerry. 4 for Joshua, Joachim, Peter, Dan Blum, Marc, Calvin, Stephen,
Rob, and Pete.

> 5. He created Dilbert.

Scott. 4 for everyone (yea for Scott Adams!) -- Joshua, Joachim,
Peter, Dan Blum, Marc, Calvin, Stephen, Rob, Dan Tilque, and Pete.

> 6. He created "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".

Douglas. 4 for Joachim, Peter, Dan Blum, Marc, Calvin, Stephen,
Rob, Dan Tilque, and Pete.

> 7. He wrote "Watership Down".

Richard. 4 for Joshua, Joachim, Dan Blum, Marc, Calvin, Stephen,
and Rob.

> 8. He sang "I Do It For You".

Bryan. 4 for Joshua, Joachim, Peter, Marc, Calvin, Stephen, and Rob.
3 for Dan Blum.

> 9. He is famous for his black-and-white landscape photography.

Ansel. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Marc, Stephen, Rob, and Pete.

> 10. She had Oscar nominations for the 2005 and 2008 movies
> "Junebug" and "Doubt", and now this year for "The Fighter".

Amy. 4 for Joshua, Joachim, Dan Blum, Marc, Stephen, and Pete.


> * Game 4, Round 6 - US History, Mostly Bloody

> 1. The American Civil War began with the bombardment of
> Fort Sumter in 1861 and ended, for all practical purposes,
> with Robert E. Lee's surrender in the same month of 1865.
> What month was that?

April. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Marc, Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Pete.
3 for Calvin.

> 2. Which Indian (okay, which Native American) holy man joined
> Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1884?

Sitting Bull. We also accepted Black Elk on a protest; the 1884
date given for Sitting Bull may not be exactly right, and Black
Elk actually joined the show only a little later. 4 for Joshua,
Stephen, and Dan Tilque. 3 for Dan Blum.

> 3. In 1859 Civil War General Daniel Sickles became the first man
> in the US (and perhaps the world) to be acquitted of murder
> on the grounds of temporary insanity. The victim was his
> wife's lover, the District Attorney of DC, whose first two
> names were Philip Barton. The victim's *father* was a famous
> poet and lawyer, the author of perhaps the most widely known
> and heard poem in American history. Give their family name
> *or* name the poem.

(Francis Scott) Key; "The Defence of Fort M'Henry"; we also accepted
"The Star-Spangled Banner", the song based on the poem. 4 for Stephen
and Dan Tilque.

> 4. Within a period of 9 months from July 1881 to April 1882,
> Billy the Kid and Jesse James were both killed, and the
> famous Gunfight at the OK Corral took place. Name any two
> of the three states and/or territories in the Wild West where
> these events occurred. You do not have to say which ones.

New Mexico, Missouri, Arizona. (Respectively.) 4 for Marc, Stephen,
and Dan Tilque.

> 5. On February 15, 1933, Giuseppe Zangara tried to assassinate
> President-elect Franklin Roosevelt, during a Florida speech,
> while standing on a wobbly chair. He managed to wound 5 other
> people instead. One of them was a prominent politician who
> died 19 days later. Name him or the specific office he held.

Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago. 4 for Joshua, Marc, Stephen,
and Pete.

And this is why I said "Dang, I should've remembered Cermak"
last week in connection with Rotating Quiz #24 by Pete Gayde.

By the way, the justice system was a bit faster in 1933: Zangara
was executed just 15 days after Roosevelt's inauguration, the last
one held on the old date of March 5.

> 6. In 1846-47 a wagon train of 300 people set out for California
> from Independence, Missouri. In Wyoming, 86 members of the
> group split away from the others to take a little-used route.
> They were beset by disaster after disaster, leading to
> murder and cannibalism, and 36 of them died. This group,
> named after one of the families, is known to history as what?

The Donner Party. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Marc, Stephen,
and Dan Tilque. 3 for Pete.

> 7. During the Civil War, on August 21, 1863, a party of about
> 500 Confederate guerrillas went on a murderous raid against
> the pro-Northern town of Lawrence, Kansas. They massacred 150
> to 250 men and boys, robbed the bank, and burned the town.
> This attack has been portrayed in several movies, including
> "Dark Command" (1940), "Ride With the Devil" (1999), and
> one whose title mentioned the leader of this raiding party.
> What was his name?

William Clarke Quantrill. (Anything close was acceptable, as some
of the movies changed his name slightly.) 4 for Dan Blum and Stephen.

> 8. Billy the Kid became involved in a conflict in New Mexico
> pitting two factions against each other. After his boss
> was murdered, the Kid went on a revenge killing spree.
> By what name has this conflict become known to history?
> Hint: it mentions the location.

Lincoln County War. 4 for Stephen.

> 9. Who were Robert LeRoy Parker and Harry Longbaugh better
> known as?

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Marc,
Calvin, Stephen, Rob, Dan Tilque, and Pete.

> 10. Judge Roy Bean, the self-proclaimed "Law west of the Pecos",
> was enamored of an English actress. He once had a front-row
> seat at one of her performances, but never managed to
> meet her. Name her or her nickname.

Lillie or Lily Langtry, the "Jersey Lily". 4 for Joshua, Rob,
and Dan Tilque. 3 for Dan Blum and Calvin.


Scores, if there are no errors:

ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Geo Can Mis His
Stephen Perry 40 8 40 36 124
Joshua Kreitzer 38 24 36 24 122
Dan Blum 24 8 39 22 93
Dan Tilque 28 4 20 28 80
Pete Gayde 28 4 32 15 79
Marc Dashevsky 16 0 40 20 76
"Calvin" 22 0 24 10 56
Peter Smyth 28 8 20 0 56
Rob Parker 20 0 24 8 52
Joachim Parsch -- -- 24 0 24
Erland Sommarskog 12 0 -- -- 12

--
Mark Brader | "In the USA politicians run for office. In Britain they
Toronto | stand for office. Of course... once elected... [they]
msb@vex.net | neither run nor stand, they lie." --John Cletheroe

My text in this article is in the public domain.

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TOPIC: QFTCI11 Game 4 Rounds 7-8: making you sick, Shakespeare
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Wed, Aug 10 2011 9:19 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)


These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2011-02-07,
and should be interpreted accordingly.

On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,
based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
the correct answers in about 3 days. For further information see
my 2011-05-23 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI5GNM, QFTCI11, QFTCIMM)".

I did not write either of these rounds.


* Game 4, Round 7 - Things that Make You Sick

For each disease we name, pick the item from the following list
that explains what you would likely get it from. Note that we
mean this in the broadest sense: for example, correct answers
might include both infectious organisms and their vectors, among
other things. You can only give answers that are on the list,
even if some others might also be correct. On the other hand,
some questions may have more than one correct answer on the list;
in that case you can give any one.

Aedes mosquitoes
Aerosols (exhaled droplets)
Animal droppings
Anopheles mosquitoes
Asbestos
Genetic defect
Fleas
Fungus
Head injury
Immune system response
Iron deficiency
Justin Bieber
Lice
Nitrosamines
Prions
Protozoa
Ritual cannibalism and related procedures
Rodent bites
Sand flies
Snails
Stroke
Ticks
Tse-tse flies
Untreated water
Vitamin A deficiency
Vitamin B1 (thiamin or thiamine) deficiency
Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) deficiency
Vitamin B3 (niacin) deficiency
Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) deficiency
Vitamin D deficiency

1. Candidiasis.
2. Giardiasis (or beaver fever).
3. Pellagra.
4. Guillain-Barré syndrome.
5. Kuru.
6. Beriberi.
7. Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
8. Bilharzia (or schistosomiasis).
9. Mesothelioma.
10. Phenylketonuria (or PKU).


* Game 4, Round 8 - The Play's the Thing!

For each question we will read a passage from Shakespeare, and
you simply have to name the play.

1. Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made...

2. If music be the food of love, play on.

3. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a colossus; and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.

4. How like a fawning publican he looks!
I hate him for he is a Christian...

5. She loved me for the dangers I had passed,
And I loved her that she did pity them.

6. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety.

7. Lord, what fools these mortals be!

8. Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.

9. Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this "sun" of York

10. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
to have a thankless child!

--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "Winning isn't everything, but not trying to win
msb@vex.net | is less than nothing." --Anton van Uitert

My text in this article is in the public domain.


== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Wed, Aug 10 2011 9:35 pm
From: Marc Dashevsky


In article <6fqdnRH_DZDHxd7TnZ2dnUVZ_qednZ2d@vex.net>, msb@vex.net says...
> * Game 4, Round 7 - Things that Make You Sick
>
> For each disease we name, pick the item from the following list
> that explains what you would likely get it from. Note that we
> mean this in the broadest sense: for example, correct answers
> might include both infectious organisms and their vectors, among
> other things. You can only give answers that are on the list,
> even if some others might also be correct. On the other hand,
> some questions may have more than one correct answer on the list;
> in that case you can give any one.
>
> Aedes mosquitoes
> Aerosols (exhaled droplets)
> Animal droppings
> Anopheles mosquitoes
> Asbestos
> Genetic defect
> Fleas
> Fungus
> Head injury
> Immune system response
> Iron deficiency
> Justin Bieber
> Lice
> Nitrosamines
> Prions
> Protozoa
> Ritual cannibalism and related procedures
> Rodent bites
> Sand flies
> Snails
> Stroke
> Ticks
> Tse-tse flies
> Untreated water
> Vitamin A deficiency
> Vitamin B1 (thiamin or thiamine) deficiency
> Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) deficiency
> Vitamin B3 (niacin) deficiency
> Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) deficiency
> Vitamin D deficiency
>
> 1. Candidiasis.
> 2. Giardiasis (or beaver fever).
protozoa

> 3. Pellagra.
niacin defciency

> 4. Guillain-Barré syndrome.
immune system response

> 5. Kuru.
prions

> 6. Beriberi.
thiamin deficiency

> 7. Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
ticks

> 8. Bilharzia (or schistosomiasis).
untreated water

> 9. Mesothelioma.
asbestos

> 10. Phenylketonuria (or PKU).
genetic defect

> * Game 4, Round 8 - The Play's the Thing!
>
> For each question we will read a passage from Shakespeare, and
> you simply have to name the play.
>
> 1. Full fathom five thy father lies;
> Of his bones are coral made...
The Tempest

> 2. If music be the food of love, play on.
>
> 3. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
> Like a colossus; and we petty men
> Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
> To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Julius Caesar

> 4. How like a fawning publican he looks!
> I hate him for he is a Christian...
Merchant of Venice

> 5. She loved me for the dangers I had passed,
> And I loved her that she did pity them.
>
> 6. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
> Her infinite variety.
Antony and Cleopatra

> 7. Lord, what fools these mortals be!
MacBeth

> 8. Doubt thou the stars are fire;
> Doubt that the sun doth move;
> Doubt truth to be a liar;
> But never doubt I love.
Romeo and Juliet

> 9. Now is the winter of our discontent
> Made glorious summer by this "sun" of York
>
> 10. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
> to have a thankless child!
King Lear

--
Go to http://MarcDashevsky.com to send me e-mail.


== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Wed, Aug 10 2011 9:50 pm
From: Joshua Kreitzer


On Aug 10, 11:19 pm, m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote:
>
> * Game 4, Round 7 - Things that Make You Sick
>
> For each disease we name, pick the item from the following list
> that explains what you would likely get it from.
>
> 1. Candidiasis.

Fungus

> 2. Giardiasis (or beaver fever).

Untreated water

> 3. Pellagra.

Vitamin B1 (thiamin or thiamine) deficiency; Vitamin B2 (riboflavin)
deficiency

> 4. Guillain-Barré syndrome.

Immune system response

> 5. Kuru.

Ritual cannibalism and related procedures; Prions

> 6. Beriberi.

Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) deficiency; Vitamin B3 (niacin) deficiency

> 7. Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

Fleas; Ticks

> 8. Bilharzia (or schistosomiasis).

Rodent bites; Sand flies

> 9. Mesothelioma.

Asbestos

> 10. Phenylketonuria (or PKU).

Genetic defect

> * Game 4, Round 8 - The Play's the Thing!
>
> For each question we will read a passage from Shakespeare, and
> you simply have to name the play.
>
> 1. Full fathom five thy father lies;
>    Of his bones are coral made...

"The Tempest"

> 2. If music be the food of love, play on.

"As You Like It"; "Twelfth Night"

> 3. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
>    Like a colossus; and we petty men
>    Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
>    To find ourselves dishonourable graves.

"Julius Caesar"

> 4. How like a fawning publican he looks!
>    I hate him for he is a Christian...

"The Merchant of Venice"

> 5. She loved me for the dangers I had passed,
>    And I loved her that she did pity them.

"Othello"; "Twelfth Night"

> 6. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
>    Her infinite variety.

"Much Ado about Nothing"; "The Taming of the Shrew"

> 7. Lord, what fools these mortals be!

"A Midsummer Night's Dream"

> 8. Doubt thou the stars are fire;
>    Doubt that the sun doth move;
>    Doubt truth to be a liar;
>    But never doubt I love.

"Romeo and Juliet"

> 9. Now is the winter of our discontent
>    Made glorious summer by this "sun" of York

"Richard III"

> 10. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
>    to have a thankless child!

"King Lear"

--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com


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