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TOPIC: *Results* of Rare Entries Contest MSB72
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Sat, Sep 24 2011 5:08 pm
From: russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)
In article <h3tf77p455qgarhc7f3tt0f4bfet9l6hjc@4ax.com>,
Don Del Grande <del_grande_news@earthlink.net> wrote:
>I remember talking to Adams in 1987 (at a signing of "Dirk Gently's
>Holistic Detective Agency" in London), and the last thing he said to
>me was that they were just about ready to start work on a sequel
>(which, alas, was never made). (He did help make another Infocom
>game, "Bureaucracy".)
The stub of the Hitchhiker's game sequel (milliways) was eventually
released.
--
The problem with socialism is there's always
someone with less ability and more need.
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Sun, Sep 25 2011 2:33 pm
From: "Esra Sdrawkcab"
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 01:08:29 +0100, Matthew Russotto
<russotto@grace.speakeasy.net> wrote:
> In article <h3tf77p455qgarhc7f3tt0f4bfet9l6hjc@4ax.com>,
> Don Del Grande <del_grande_news@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> I remember talking to Adams in 1987 (at a signing of "Dirk Gently's
>> Holistic Detective Agency" in London), and the last thing he said to
>> me was that they were just about ready to start work on a sequel
>> (which, alas, was never made). (He did help make another Infocom
>> game, "Bureaucracy".)
>
> The stub of the Hitchhiker's game sequel (milliways) was eventually
> released.
it was indeed stubby.
--
[dash dash space newline sig]
"Nuns! NUNS! Reverse! Reverse!"
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TOPIC: QFTCI11 Game 8 Rounds 2-3: commanders, angles
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Sun, Sep 25 2011 2:08 am
From: Dan Tilque
Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 2 - Military Commanders
>
> For each question, we will describe a military commander in history;
> you name him. (Yes, "him" is the correct pronoun in every case.
> See how helpful we are with the hints?)
>
> 1. Considered ancient Rome's greatest opponent, he led the
> Carthaginian forces across the Alps into Italy during the
> Second Punic War and inflicted devastating defeats on the
> Roman armies, although he was unable to conquer Rome itself.
> After about 16 years he was defeated by Scipio ("Skippy-o")
> Africanus at Zama (near Carthage). He later committed
> suicide rather than be turned over to Rome.
Hannibal
>
> 2. Second in command of the Parliamentary forces during the First
> English Civil War, he was later appointed Commander-in-Chief
> and Captain General when the wars resumed. His organization
> of the "New Model Army" was superb and they won many battles.
> He eventually ruled England as Lord Protector.
Oliver Cromwell
>
> 3. This English victor of the Battle of Blenheim ("Blen'm")
> was the most successful of the allied commanders during the
> War of the Spanish Succession. He lived 1650-1722.
Marlborough
>
> 4. During the latter half of the Second World War, this Soviet
> marshal was the Russian commander-in-chief on the Eastern
> Front. His armies defeated the Germans at Stalingrad and
> Leningrad. He personally commanded the final assault on
> Berlin in 1945. He was the most decorated general in the
> history of Russia and the Soviet Union. He was later made
> Minister of Defense, and an asteroid has been named after him.
Ivanovich
>
> 5. This Grand Prince of Vladimir and Kiev, and ruler of
> Novgorod, lived 1220-65. He defeated the invading Swedes;
> he defeated the Teutonic knights on the frozen Lake Peipus.
> He was immortalized in a movie directed by Sergei Eisenstein,
> whose score by Sergei Prokofiev was also performed in concert.
Ivan
>
> 6. This last Anglo-Saxon king of England, who lived 1022-66,
> won the Battle of Stamford Bridge but was killed about 3 weeks
> later at the Battle of Hastings. One name is sufficient.
Harold
>
> 7. These two World War II commanders faced off in North Africa.
> At El Alamein, the British commander of the Eighth Army
> defeated the German commander of the Afrika Corps by dint
> of overwhelming superiority in manpower and equipment.
> Name either man.
Bernard Montgomery
>
> 8. In the American army, in 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt
> promoted this man from captain directly to brigadier general,
> over the heads of 862 senior officers. In May 1917 he was
> appointed commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary
> forces going to France, and kept the US troops as a distinct
> national army. He was eventually promoted to the newly
> created rank of "general of the armies of the United States",
> and is the only living person to have held it, although George
> Washington later received it retroactively. It is considered
> to outrank even the 5-star general or "general of the army"
> rank created during World War II. Who was he?
Dwight Eisenhower
>
> 9. Born about 1787, this man founded the Zulu nation and
> turned them into a formidable fighting force, conquering most
> of the tribes of Southern Africa. He invented the assegai,
> or short-handled stabbing spear. He was assassinated by
> his brothers in 1827 to end his reign of terror.
Shaka
>
> 10. World War I produced three marshals of France. One was
> commander-in-chief of the French army for the first 2 years.
> Another was commander-in-chief in 1917 (and made marshal
> two weeks after the Armistice). The third was appointed
> generalissimo (or supreme general) of the Allied armies
> in 1918. Name any one.
Petain
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 3 - Angles
>
> 1. The needle of a standard compass aligns with the Earth's
> magnetic field and therefore, in most places, the direction
> it points is not true north. What's the term for the angle
> by which it differs from true north?
deflection
>
> 2. The practice of measuring the direction that something is
> pointing in degrees clockwise from north applies to various
> devices such as airplanes, big guns, telescopes (the kind that
> aren't oriented to the celestial north pole), and of course
> compasses. What is the term for that angular measurement?
heading
>
> 3. That telescope or big gun in the last question also needs
> to be raised to point at a certain angle above the horizontal.
> What is the term for *that* angular measurement?
azimuth
>
> 4. In optics, what term refers to the angle at which light
> falls on a lens or mirror, before being refracted or
> reflected?
incident angle
>
> 5. When a soft or powdery substance such as earth, sand, or
> snow is formed into a pile, for any particular substance
> there is a maximum angle that the sides of that pile can
> rise at. If the pile is made any steeper, it will collapse.
> What's the term for this maximum angle?
angle of repose
>
> 6. In aviation, this angle describes the orientation of the wings
> with respect to the airplane's motion (or more precisely,
> to the relative wind). The angle is increased by raising
> the nose. What is it called?
angle of attack
>
> 7. In aviation, and specifically in airplane design, this term
> refers to the angle by which the wingtips are raised above
> the place where the wings meet the body. In math, the same
> term is used for the angle formed between two intersecting
> geometrical planes. Name it.
>
> 8. Also in math, two angles that total 90° are called what?
complementary
>
> 9. Angles in math are often measured not in degrees but in
> radians. How large is that 90° angle in radians?
pi/2
>
> 10. In medicine, this is the most common type of glaucoma.
> The name refers to the fact that although the pressure in
> the eye is too high, this is *not* because the eye's drainage
> channel is *blocked*. What type of glaucoma is this? Hint:
> remember what the round is about.
>
acute
--
Dan Tilque
Keeping Pluto dead has taken a lot of work.
-- Mike Brown "How I killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming"
== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Sun, Sep 25 2011 6:14 am
From: "Rob Parker"
> * Game 8, Round 2 - Military Commanders
>
> 1. Considered ancient Rome's greatest opponent, he led the
> Carthaginian forces across the Alps into Italy during the
> Second Punic War and inflicted devastating defeats on the
> Roman armies, although he was unable to conquer Rome itself.
> After about 16 years he was defeated by Scipio ("Skippy-o")
> Africanus at Zama (near Carthage). He later committed
> suicide rather than be turned over to Rome.
Hannibal
> 2. Second in command of the Parliamentary forces during the First
> English Civil War, he was later appointed Commander-in-Chief
> and Captain General when the wars resumed. His organization
> of the "New Model Army" was superb and they won many battles.
> He eventually ruled England as Lord Protector.
Cromwell
> 6. This last Anglo-Saxon king of England, who lived 1022-66,
> won the Battle of Stamford Bridge but was killed about 3 weeks
> later at the Battle of Hastings. One name is sufficient.
Harold
('Arold, with an arrow, in 'is eye)
> 7. These two World War II commanders faced off in North Africa.
> At El Alamein, the British commander of the Eighth Army
> defeated the German commander of the Afrika Corps by dint
> of overwhelming superiority in manpower and equipment.
> Name either man.
Rommel
> 9. Born about 1787, this man founded the Zulu nation and
> turned them into a formidable fighting force, conquering most
> of the tribes of Southern Africa. He invented the assegai,
> or short-handled stabbing spear. He was assassinated by
> his brothers in 1827 to end his reign of terror.
Shaka
> * Game 8, Round 3 - Angles
>
> 1. The needle of a standard compass aligns with the Earth's
> magnetic field and therefore, in most places, the direction
> it points is not true north. What's the term for the angle
> by which it differs from true north?
variation
> 2. The practice of measuring the direction that something is
> pointing in degrees clockwise from north applies to various
> devices such as airplanes, big guns, telescopes (the kind that
> aren't oriented to the celestial north pole), and of course
> compasses. What is the term for that angular measurement?
azimuth
> 3. That telescope or big gun in the last question also needs
> to be raised to point at a certain angle above the horizontal.
> What is the term for *that* angular measurement?
declination
> 4. In optics, what term refers to the angle at which light
> falls on a lens or mirror, before being refracted or
> reflected?
angle of incidence
> 5. When a soft or powdery substance such as earth, sand, or
> snow is formed into a pile, for any particular substance
> there is a maximum angle that the sides of that pile can
> rise at. If the pile is made any steeper, it will collapse.
> What's the term for this maximum angle?
angle of repose
> 6. In aviation, this angle describes the orientation of the wings
> with respect to the airplane's motion (or more precisely,
> to the relative wind). The angle is increased by raising
> the nose. What is it called?
angle of attack
> 8. Also in math, two angles that total 90° are called what?
complementary angles
> 9. Angles in math are often measured not in degrees but in
> radians. How large is that 90° angle in radians?
pi/2
> 10. In medicine, this is the most common type of glaucoma.
> The name refers to the fact that although the pressure in
> the eye is too high, this is *not* because the eye's drainage
> channel is *blocked*. What type of glaucoma is this? Hint:
> remember what the round is about.
angular glaucoma (?)
Rob
== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Sun, Sep 25 2011 8:34 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)
Mark Brader:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2011-03-14,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition
> (QFTCI11, QFTCIMM)".
> I wrote one of these rounds.
That was the angles round.
> * Game 8, Round 2 - Military Commanders
> For each question, we will describe a military commander in history;
> you name him. (Yes, "him" is the correct pronoun in every case.
> See how helpful we are with the hints?)
> 1. Considered ancient Rome's greatest opponent, he led the
> Carthaginian forces across the Alps into Italy during the
> Second Punic War and inflicted devastating defeats on the
> Roman armies, although he was unable to conquer Rome itself.
> After about 16 years he was defeated by Scipio ("Skippy-o")
> Africanus at Zama (near Carthage). He later committed
> suicide rather than be turned over to Rome.
Hannibal (Barca). 4 for everyone -- Joshua, Bruce, Dan Blum, Erland,
Jeff, Stan, Stephen, Calvin, Marc, Peter, Pete, Dan Tilque, and Rob.
> 2. Second in command of the Parliamentary forces during the First
> English Civil War, he was later appointed Commander-in-Chief
> and Captain General when the wars resumed. His organization
> of the "New Model Army" was superb and they won many battles.
> He eventually ruled England as Lord Protector.
Oliver Cromwell. We did not require the first name. 4 for Joshua,
Dan Blum, Erland, Jeff, Stan, Stephen, Calvin, Peter, Pete,
Dan Tilque, and Rob.
> 3. This English victor of the Battle of Blenheim ("Blen'm")
> was the most successful of the allied commanders during the
> War of the Spanish Succession. He lived 1650-1722.
John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough. Sir Winston Churchill was,
if I count correctly, his great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson
(incidentally, another Sir Winston Churchill was John's father), but
we only required the surname or the title. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum,
Stan, Stephen, Calvin, Peter, and Dan Tilque.
> 4. During the latter half of the Second World War, this Soviet
> marshal was the Russian commander-in-chief on the Eastern
> Front. His armies defeated the Germans at Stalingrad and
> Leningrad. He personally commanded the final assault on
> Berlin in 1945. He was the most decorated general in the
> history of Russia and the Soviet Union. He was later made
> Minister of Defense, and an asteroid has been named after him.
Georgi Zhukov. 4 for Dan Blum, Stephen, Calvin, and Pete.
> 5. This Grand Prince of Vladimir and Kiev, and ruler of
> Novgorod, lived 1220-65. He defeated the invading Swedes;
> he defeated the Teutonic knights on the frozen Lake Peipus.
> He was immortalized in a movie directed by Sergei Eisenstein,
> whose score by Sergei Prokofiev was also performed in concert.
Alexander Nevski. 4 for Dan Blum and Pete.
> 6. This last Anglo-Saxon king of England, who lived 1022-66,
> won the Battle of Stamford Bridge but was killed about 3 weeks
> later at the Battle of Hastings. One name is sufficient.
Harold II (or Harold Godwinson). 4 for Joshua, Bruce, Dan Blum,
Stan, Stephen, Calvin, Peter, Dan Tilque, and Rob.
> 7. These two World War II commanders faced off in North Africa.
> At El Alamein, the British commander of the Eighth Army
> defeated the German commander of the Afrika Corps by dint
> of overwhelming superiority in manpower and equipment.
> Name either man.
Bernard Montgomery, Erwin Rommel. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Jeff,
Stan, Stephen, Calvin, Marc, Peter, Pete, Dan Tilque, and Rob.
> 8. In the American army, in 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt
> promoted this man from captain directly to brigadier general,
> over the heads of 862 senior officers. In May 1917 he was
> appointed commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary
> forces going to France, and kept the US troops as a distinct
> national army. He was eventually promoted to the newly
> created rank of "general of the armies of the United States",
> and is the only living person to have held it, although George
> Washington later received it retroactively. It is considered
> to outrank even the 5-star general or "general of the army"
> rank created during World War II. Who was he?
John "Blackjack" Pershing. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Jeff, Stan,
Stephen, Calvin, Marc, Peter, and Pete.
> 9. Born about 1787, this man founded the Zulu nation and
> turned them into a formidable fighting force, conquering most
> of the tribes of Southern Africa. He invented the assegai,
> or short-handled stabbing spear. He was assassinated by
> his brothers in 1827 to end his reign of terror.
Shaka. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Stan, Stephen, Marc, Dan Tilque,
and Rob.
> 10. World War I produced three marshals of France. One was
> commander-in-chief of the French army for the first 2 years.
> Another was commander-in-chief in 1917 (and made marshal
> two weeks after the Armistice). The third was appointed
> generalissimo (or supreme general) of the Allied armies
> in 1918. Name any one.
Joseph Joffre, Henri P�tain, Ferdinand Foch. 4 for Dan Blum, Jeff,
Stan, Stephen, Peter, Pete, and Dan Tilque.
> * Game 8, Round 3 - Angles
This, in the original game, was the hardest round in the entire season.
> 1. The needle of a standard compass aligns with the Earth's
> magnetic field and therefore, in most places, the direction
> it points is not true north. What's the term for the angle
> by which it differs from true north?
Angle of declination, deviation, or variation. I also accepted "grid
magnetic angle", although strictly speaking this is the difference
between magnetic north and the north of a mapping grid, which might
not be exactly true north. 4 for Bruce, Dan Blum, Erland, Stan,
Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Rob. 3 for Calvin and Marc.
> 2. The practice of measuring the direction that something is
> pointing in degrees clockwise from north applies to various
> devices such as airplanes, big guns, telescopes (the kind that
> aren't oriented to the celestial north pole), and of course
> compasses. What is the term for that angular measurement?
Bearing or azimuth. 4 for Joshua, Bruce, Dan Blum, Jeff, Stephen,
Marc, Peter, and Rob.
> 3. That telescope or big gun in the last question also needs
> to be raised to point at a certain angle above the horizontal.
> What is the term for *that* angular measurement?
Angle of elevation or of inclination. 4 for Bruce, Dan Blum, Jeff,
Stan, Calvin, and Peter.
> 4. In optics, what term refers to the angle at which light
> falls on a lens or mirror, before being refracted or
> reflected?
Angle of incidence. 4 for Bruce, Dan Blum, Jeff, Stan, Calvin,
Marc, Dan Tilque, and Rob.
> 5. When a soft or powdery substance such as earth, sand, or
> snow is formed into a pile, for any particular substance
> there is a maximum angle that the sides of that pile can
> rise at. If the pile is made any steeper, it will collapse.
> What's the term for this maximum angle?
Angle of repose or critical angle. 4 for Dan Blum, Stan, Stephen,
Dan Tilque, and Rob.
By the way, this round was invented while I was shoveling snow
and thought of asking this question.
> 6. In aviation, this angle describes the orientation of the wings
> with respect to the airplane's motion (or more precisely,
> to the relative wind). The angle is increased by raising
> the nose. What is it called?
Angle of attack. 4 for Bruce, Dan Blum, Jeff, Dan Tilque, and Rob.
> 7. In aviation, and specifically in airplane design, this term
> refers to the angle by which the wingtips are raised above
> the place where the wings meet the body. In math, the same
> term is used for the angle formed between two intersecting
> geometrical planes. Name it.
Dihedral. 4 for Bruce and Stan.
> 8. Also in math, two angles that total 90� are called what?
Complementary. 4 for Joshua, Bruce, Dan Blum, Jeff, Stan, Stephen,
Calvin, Marc, Peter, Pete, Dan Tilque, and Rob.
> 9. Angles in math are often measured not in degrees but in
> radians. How large is that 90� angle in radians?
pi/2 radians. 4 for Bruce, Dan Blum, Erland, Jeff, Stan, Stephen,
Marc, Peter, Dan Tilque, and Rob. 2 for Joshua.
> 10. In medicine, this is the most common type of glaucoma.
> The name refers to the fact that although the pressure in
> the eye is too high, this is *not* because the eye's drainage
> channel is *blocked*. What type of glaucoma is this? Hint:
> remember what the round is about.
Open-angle, the "angle" being that channel. 2 for Stephen.
Scores, if there are no errors:
ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS
TOPICS-> His Sci
Dan Blum 40 32 72
Stan Brown 32 28 60
Stephen Perry 36 22 58
Dan Tilque 28 24 52
Rob Parker 20 28 48
Jeff Turner 20 24 44
Peter Smyth 28 16 44
"Calvin" 28 15 43
Bruce Bowler 8 32 40
Joshua Kreitzer 28 10 38
Marc Dashevsky 16 19 35
Pete Gayde 28 4 32
Erland Sommarskog 8 8 16
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "You often seem quite gracious, in your way."
msb@vex.net | --Steve Summit
My text in this article is in the public domain.
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TOPIC: QFTCI11 Game 8 Rounds 4-5: formerly, dead poets
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== 1 of 5 ==
Date: Sun, Sep 25 2011 8:39 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2011-03-14,
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 2011-09-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI11, QFTCIMM)".
Usually I would post Rounds 4 and 6 of the game together, since
Round 5 is audio and I'm not doing audio. But, as you will recall,
Game 8, Round 6, was a second Current Events round (for Canadiana)
and therefore has already been posted. And on the other hand,
in this game the audio round, instead of music as usual, was the
literature round. Well, if you know the words, you won't need the
audio -- so for this set, instead of Rounds 4 and 6, I'm posting
Rounds *4 and 5*.
I wrote one of these rounds.
* Game 8, Round 4 - Formerly Known As
In each case, we give you an obsolete name; you give us the
current name corresponding to it.
1. Upper Volta.
2. Dephlogisticated air ("DEE-flow-JIST-ik-eight'd").
3. The Nashville Network.
4. Marky Mark.
5. Sextilis.
6. New York Highlanders.
7. Revenue Canada.
8. Andersen Consulting.
9. Larboard.
10. Stalingrad.
* Game 8, Round 5 - Dead Poets Society
This is the literature round. In its original form as an audio
round, each piece of poetry was read by its own author. For each
poet we will give you their date of birth, and the US state or UK
country where they were born, although that may not be where they
did the work they are known for.
In each case, of course, name the poet. As the round's title
indicates, all of them are now dead.
*Note*: Since this was an audio round, you're supposed to be
identifying the poets from the words you would have heard spoken,
and not from the way the words are presented visually. So for
newsgroup purposes I've edited the excerpts into a single common
style as regards indentation, capitalization, and punctuation,
and in some cases also tampered with the line breaks.
1. Born 1893, New Jersey.
Love long has taken for his amulet
One perfect rose.
Why is it no one ever sent me yet
One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
Ah no, it's always just my luck to get
One perfect rose.
2. Born 1914, Wales.
When the morning was waking over the war
He put on his clothes and stepped out and he died,
The locks yawned loose and a blast blew them wide,
He dropped where he loved on the burst pavement stone
And the funeral grains of the slaughtered floor.
3. Born 1865, Ireland.
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
4. Born 1902, Missouri.
So boy, don't you turn back.
Don't you set down on the steps
'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
Don't you fall now --
For I'se still goin', honey,
I'se still climbin',
And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
5. Born 1892, Maine.
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age
And at a certain age the child is grown,
And puts away childish things.
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
Nobody that matters, that is.
6. Born 1888, Missouri.
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening...
7. Born 1932, Massachusetts.
I have done it again.
One year in every ten I manage it--
A sort of walking miracle, my skin
Bright as a Nazi lampshade, my right foot
A paperweight, my face a featureless, fine Jew linen.
Peel off the napkin, O my enemy. Do I terrify?--
Yes, yes, Herr Professor, It is I. Can you deny
The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
8. Born 1902, New York (state).
That is why marriage is so much more interesting than divorce,
Because it's the only known example of the happy meeting of
The immovable object and the irresistible force.
So I hope that husbands and wives will continue to debate and
Combat over everything debatable and combatable,
Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life,
Particularly if he has income and she is pattable.
9. Born 1878, Illinois.
When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs,
He forgot the copperheads and the assassin...
In the dust, in the cool tombs.
And Ulysses Grant lost all thought of con men and Wall Street,
Cash and collateral turned ashes...
In the dust, in the cool tombs.
10. Born 1926, New Jersey.
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman,
For I walked down the sidestreets under the trees
With a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went
Into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
What peaches and what penumbras!
Whole families shopping at night!
Aisles full of husbands!
Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!
--And you, Garcia Lorca,
What were you doing down by the watermelons?
After finishing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh jebgr
"Uhturf" sbe nal nafjre, jr arrq gur shyy anzr. Cyrnfr tb onpx
naq chg va gur tvira anzr.
--
Mark Brader | "The inability to distinguish between epistemic and deontic
Toronto | interpretations of 'why', which is common among children,
msb@vex.net | is the source of a great deal of religion." --John Lawler
My text in this article is in the public domain.
== 2 of 5 ==
Date: Sun, Sep 25 2011 9:22 pm
From: Marc Dashevsky
In article <wPWdncc4vpt4buLTnZ2dnUVZ_oadnZ2d@vex.net>, msb@vex.net says...
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Formerly Known As
>
> In each case, we give you an obsolete name; you give us the
> current name corresponding to it.
>
> 1. Upper Volta.
Burkina Faso
> 2. Dephlogisticated air ("DEE-flow-JIST-ik-eight'd").
oxygen
> 3. The Nashville Network.
Spike TV
> 4. Marky Mark.
Mark Wahlberg
> 5. Sextilis.
August
> 6. New York Highlanders.
New York Yankees
> 7. Revenue Canada.
> 8. Andersen Consulting.
Arthur Andersen (more obsolete for bonus points)
> 9. Larboard.
port
> 10. Stalingrad.
Volgograd
> * Game 8, Round 5 - Dead Poets Society
>
> This is the literature round. In its original form as an audio
> round, each piece of poetry was read by its own author. For each
> poet we will give you their date of birth, and the US state or UK
> country where they were born, although that may not be where they
> did the work they are known for.
>
> In each case, of course, name the poet. As the round's title
> indicates, all of them are now dead.
>
> *Note*: Since this was an audio round, you're supposed to be
> identifying the poets from the words you would have heard spoken,
> and not from the way the words are presented visually. So for
> newsgroup purposes I've edited the excerpts into a single common
> style as regards indentation, capitalization, and punctuation,
> and in some cases also tampered with the line breaks.
>
> 1. Born 1893, New Jersey.
>
> Love long has taken for his amulet
> One perfect rose.
>
> Why is it no one ever sent me yet
> One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
> Ah no, it's always just my luck to get
> One perfect rose.
>
> 2. Born 1914, Wales.
>
> When the morning was waking over the war
> He put on his clothes and stepped out and he died,
> The locks yawned loose and a blast blew them wide,
> He dropped where he loved on the burst pavement stone
> And the funeral grains of the slaughtered floor.
>
> 3. Born 1865, Ireland.
>
> I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
> And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
> Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
> And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
>
> 4. Born 1902, Missouri.
>
> So boy, don't you turn back.
> Don't you set down on the steps
> 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
> Don't you fall now --
> For I'se still goin', honey,
> I'se still climbin',
> And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
>
> 5. Born 1892, Maine.
>
> Childhood is not from birth to a certain age
> And at a certain age the child is grown,
> And puts away childish things.
> Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
>
> Nobody that matters, that is.
>
> 6. Born 1888, Missouri.
>
> In the room the women come and go
> Talking of Michelangelo.
>
> The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
> The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
> Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening...
T.S. Eliot
> 7. Born 1932, Massachusetts.
>
> I have done it again.
> One year in every ten I manage it--
>
> A sort of walking miracle, my skin
> Bright as a Nazi lampshade, my right foot
> A paperweight, my face a featureless, fine Jew linen.
> Peel off the napkin, O my enemy. Do I terrify?--
>
> Yes, yes, Herr Professor, It is I. Can you deny
> The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
Sylvia Plath
> 8. Born 1902, New York (state).
>
> That is why marriage is so much more interesting than divorce,
> Because it's the only known example of the happy meeting of
> The immovable object and the irresistible force.
> So I hope that husbands and wives will continue to debate and
> Combat over everything debatable and combatable,
> Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life,
> Particularly if he has income and she is pattable.
>
> 9. Born 1878, Illinois.
>
> When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs,
> He forgot the copperheads and the assassin...
> In the dust, in the cool tombs.
>
> And Ulysses Grant lost all thought of con men and Wall Street,
> Cash and collateral turned ashes...
> In the dust, in the cool tombs.
Carl Sandburg
> 10. Born 1926, New Jersey.
>
> What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman,
> For I walked down the sidestreets under the trees
> With a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
>
> In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went
> Into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
>
> What peaches and what penumbras!
> Whole families shopping at night!
> Aisles full of husbands!
> Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!
>
> --And you, Garcia Lorca,
> What were you doing down by the watermelons?
>
> After finishing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh jebgr
> "Uhturf" sbe nal nafjre, jr arrq gur shyy anzr. Cyrnfr tb onpx
> naq chg va gur tvira anzr.
--
Go to http://MarcDashevsky.com to send me e-mail.
== 3 of 5 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 26 2011 6:01 am
From: Joshua Kreitzer
On Sep 25, 10:39 pm, m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote:
>
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Formerly Known As
>
> In each case, we give you an obsolete name; you give us the
> current name corresponding to it.
>
> 1. Upper Volta.
Burkina Faso
> 2. Dephlogisticated air ("DEE-flow-JIST-ik-eight'd").
carbon dioxide; oxygen
> 3. The Nashville Network.
Spike TV
> 4. Marky Mark.
Mark Wahlberg
> 5. Sextilis.
August
> 6. New York Highlanders.
New York Yankees
> 8. Andersen Consulting.
Accenture
> 9. Larboard.
Port
> 10. Stalingrad.
Volgograd
> * Game 8, Round 5 - Dead Poets Society
>
> In each case, of course, name the poet.
>
> 1. Born 1893, New Jersey.
>
> Love long has taken for his amulet
> One perfect rose.
>
> Why is it no one ever sent me yet
> One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
> Ah no, it's always just my luck to get
> One perfect rose.
Dorothy Parker
> 2. Born 1914, Wales.
>
> When the morning was waking over the war
> He put on his clothes and stepped out and he died,
> The locks yawned loose and a blast blew them wide,
> He dropped where he loved on the burst pavement stone
> And the funeral grains of the slaughtered floor.
Dylan Thomas
> 3. Born 1865, Ireland.
>
> I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
> And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
> Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
> And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
William Butler Yeats
> 6. Born 1888, Missouri.
>
> In the room the women come and go
> Talking of Michelangelo.
>
> The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
> The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
> Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening...
T. S. Eliot
> 7. Born 1932, Massachusetts.
>
> I have done it again.
> One year in every ten I manage it--
>
> A sort of walking miracle, my skin
> Bright as a Nazi lampshade, my right foot
> A paperweight, my face a featureless, fine Jew linen.
> Peel off the napkin, O my enemy. Do I terrify?--
>
> Yes, yes, Herr Professor, It is I. Can you deny
> The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
Sylvia Plath
> 9. Born 1878, Illinois.
>
> When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs,
> He forgot the copperheads and the assassin...
> In the dust, in the cool tombs.
>
> And Ulysses Grant lost all thought of con men and Wall Street,
> Cash and collateral turned ashes...
> In the dust, in the cool tombs.
Carl Sandburg
--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com
== 4 of 5 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 26 2011 9:41 am
From: tool@panix.com (Dan Blum)
Mark Brader <msb@vex.net> wrote:
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Formerly Known As
> 1. Upper Volta.
Burkina Faso
> 2. Dephlogisticated air ("DEE-flow-JIST-ik-eight'd").
oxygen
> 3. The Nashville Network.
TBS
> 4. Marky Mark.
Mark Wahlberg
> 6. New York Highlanders.
New York Rangers; San Francisco Giants
> 8. Andersen Consulting.
Accenture
> 9. Larboard.
Port
> 10. Stalingrad.
Yekaterinaslav
> * Game 8, Round 5 - Dead Poets Society
> 1. Born 1893, New Jersey.
Dorothy Parker
> 2. Born 1914, Wales.
Dylan Thomas
> 4. Born 1902, Missouri.
Langston Hughes
> 5. Born 1892, Maine.
Robert Frost
> 6. Born 1888, Missouri.
T. S. Eliot
> 9. Born 1878, Illinois.
Carl Sandburg
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum tool@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
== 5 of 5 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 26 2011 10:12 am
From: Jeffrey Turner
On 9/25/2011 11:39 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Formerly Known As
>
> In each case, we give you an obsolete name; you give us the
> current name corresponding to it.
>
> 1. Upper Volta.
Benin
> 2. Dephlogisticated air ("DEE-flow-JIST-ik-eight'd").
Nitrogen
> 3. The Nashville Network.
CM
> 4. Marky Mark.
> 5. Sextilis.
> 6. New York Highlanders.
New York Yankees
> 7. Revenue Canada.
> 8. Andersen Consulting.
> 9. Larboard.
Port
> 10. Stalingrad.
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 5 - Dead Poets Society
>
> 1. Born 1893, New Jersey.
>
> Love long has taken for his amulet
> One perfect rose.
>
> Why is it no one ever sent me yet
> One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
> Ah no, it's always just my luck to get
> One perfect rose.
>
> 2. Born 1914, Wales.
>
> When the morning was waking over the war
> He put on his clothes and stepped out and he died,
> The locks yawned loose and a blast blew them wide,
> He dropped where he loved on the burst pavement stone
> And the funeral grains of the slaughtered floor.
Dylan Thomas
> 3. Born 1865, Ireland.
>
> I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
> And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
> Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
> And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
Joyce
> 4. Born 1902, Missouri.
>
> So boy, don't you turn back.
> Don't you set down on the steps
> 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
> Don't you fall now --
> For I'se still goin', honey,
> I'se still climbin',
> And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
>
> 5. Born 1892, Maine.
>
> Childhood is not from birth to a certain age
> And at a certain age the child is grown,
> And puts away childish things.
> Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
>
> Nobody that matters, that is.
Frost
> 6. Born 1888, Missouri.
>
> In the room the women come and go
> Talking of Michelangelo.
>
> The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
> The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
> Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening...
Ferlinghetti
> 7. Born 1932, Massachusetts.
>
> I have done it again.
> One year in every ten I manage it--
>
> A sort of walking miracle, my skin
> Bright as a Nazi lampshade, my right foot
> A paperweight, my face a featureless, fine Jew linen.
> Peel off the napkin, O my enemy. Do I terrify?--
>
> Yes, yes, Herr Professor, It is I. Can you deny
> The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
Hoffman
> 8. Born 1902, New York (state).
>
> That is why marriage is so much more interesting than divorce,
> Because it's the only known example of the happy meeting of
> The immovable object and the irresistible force.
> So I hope that husbands and wives will continue to debate and
> Combat over everything debatable and combatable,
> Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life,
> Particularly if he has income and she is pattable.
Nash, Cummings
> 9. Born 1878, Illinois.
>
> When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs,
> He forgot the copperheads and the assassin...
> In the dust, in the cool tombs.
>
> And Ulysses Grant lost all thought of con men and Wall Street,
> Cash and collateral turned ashes...
> In the dust, in the cool tombs.
Sandburg
> 10. Born 1926, New Jersey.
>
> What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman,
> For I walked down the sidestreets under the trees
> With a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
>
> In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went
> Into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
>
> What peaches and what penumbras!
> Whole families shopping at night!
> Aisles full of husbands!
> Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!
>
> --And you, Garcia Lorca,
> What were you doing down by the watermelons?
Abbie Hoffman
abcdefghijklm
nopqrstuvwxyz
> After finishing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh jebgr
If you wrote
> "Uhturf" sbe nal nafjre, jr arrq gur shyy anzr. Cyrnfr tb onpx
Hughes
> naq chg va gur tvira anzr.
--Jeff
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