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* QFTCI11 Game 8 Rounds 4-5: formerly, dead poets - 4 messages, 4 authors
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* *Results* of Rare Entries Contest MSB72 - 4 messages, 3 authors
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* QFTCI11 Game 8 Rounds 7-8: song cities, album covers - 3 messages, 3 authors
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TOPIC: QFTCI11 Game 8 Rounds 4-5: formerly, dead poets
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== 1 of 4 ==
Date: Tues, Sep 27 2011 6:20 pm
From: Dan Tilque

Calvin wrote:
> On Sep 26, 1:39 pm, m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote:

>> 10. Stalingrad.
>
> Volvograd

I thought Volvos came from Sweden...

--
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 4 ==
Date: Wed, Sep 28 2011 12:43 am
From: "Rob Parker"

> * 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.

The Grand Ol' Opry (?)

> 9. Larboard.

Port

> * Game 8, Round 5 - Dead Poets Society
>
> 2. Born 1914, Wales.

Dylan Thomas

> 3. Born 1865, Ireland.

WB Yeats

> 4. Born 1902, Missouri.

Longfellow; Whitman

> 5. Born 1892, Maine.

Longfellow; Whitman

> 6. Born 1888, Missouri.

Longfellow; Whitman

> 8. Born 1902, New York (state).

Ogden Nash (?)

> 9. Born 1878, Illinois.

Longfellow; Whitman

Rob

== 3 of 4 ==
Date: Wed, Sep 28 2011 2:42 pm
From: Erland Sommarskog

Dan Tilque (dtilque@frontier.com) writes:
> I thought Volvos came from Sweden...

Nah, they're Chinese these days. The cars, that is. Not the trucks. They
are still Swedish.

--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se

== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Wed, Sep 28 2011 10:03 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 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.

That was the "formerly known as" round.

> * 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. 4 for Marc, Joshua, Dan Blum, Peter, Erland, Pete,
Calvin, Dan Tilque, and Rob.

> 2. Dephlogisticated air ("DEE-flow-JIST-ik-eight'd").

Oxygen. 4 for Marc, Dan Blum, Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Rob.
2 for Joshua and Calvin.

> 3. The Nashville Network.

Spike. 4 for Marc, Joshua, and Stephen.

> 4. Marky Mark.

Mark Wahlberg. 4 for Marc, Joshua, Dan Blum, Peter, and Stephen.

> 5. Sextilis.

August. 4 for Marc, Joshua, Peter, Erland, and Stephen.

> 6. New York Highlanders.

New York Yankees. 4 for Marc, Joshua, Jeff, Stephen, Pete,
and Dan Tilque.

> 7. Revenue Canada.

Canada Revenue Agency (exact wording required). I'm also accepting
the Canada Border Services Agency (exact wording required), which
was split off from the former Revenue Canada at the same time as
the last name change.

> 8. Andersen Consulting.

Accenture. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Peter, Erland, Stephen, and Pete.

> 9. Larboard.

Port. 4 for Marc, Joshua, Dan Blum, Jeff, Peter, Pete, Dan Tilque,
and Rob. 3 for Stephen.

> 10. Stalingrad.

Volgograd. 4 for Marc, Joshua, Erland, Pete, and Dan Tilque.
3 for Calvin.

> * 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
> 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.

Dorothy Parker ("One Perfect Rose"). 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.

> 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 ("Among Those Killed in the Dawn Raid"). 4 for Joshua,
Dan Blum, Jeff, Stephen, Pete, Calvin, Dan Tilque, and Rob.

> 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 ("The Lake Isle of Innisfree"). 4 for Joshua,
Stephen, Calvin, and Rob.

> 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.

Langston Hughes ("Mother to Son"). The first name was required.
4 for Dan Blum. 3 for Stephen.

> 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.

Edna St. Vincent Millay ("Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody
Dies"). 4 for Stephen.

> 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 ("Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"). 4 for Marc, Joshua,
Dan Blum, Stephen, and Dan Tilque.

> 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 ("Lady Lazarus"). 4 for Marc and Joshua.

> 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.

Ogden Nash ("I Do, I Will, I Have"). 4 for Stephen and Rob.
3 for Jeff.

> 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 ("Cool Tombs"). 4 for Marc, Joshua, Dan Blum, Jeff,
and Pete.

> 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?

Allen Ginsberg ("A Supermarket in California"). 4 for Stephen.

Scores, if there are no errors:

ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 5 TOTALS
TOPICS-> His Sci Mis Lit
Dan Blum 40 32 20 20 112
Stephen Perry 36 22 27 27 112
Joshua Kreitzer 28 10 34 24 96
Dan Tilque 28 24 20 8 80
Marc Dashevsky 16 19 32 12 79
Rob Parker 20 28 12 12 72
Peter Smyth 28 16 20 0 64
Jeff Turner 20 24 8 11 63
"Calvin" 28 15 9 8 60
Stan Brown 32 28 -- -- 60
Pete Gayde 28 4 20 8 60
Bruce Bowler 8 32 -- -- 40
Erland Sommarskog 8 8 16 0 32

--
Mark Brader "Hey, I don't want to control people's lives!
Toronto (If they did things right, I wouldn't have to.)"
msb@vex.net -- "Coach"

My text in this article is in the public domain.

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== 1 of 4 ==
Date: Wed, Sep 28 2011 6:18 am
From: "gerson"

"Mark Brader" wrote

> 1 40 (tennis)

Maybe a bit late, I know, but to get 40 in tennis you have
to have had 30 already, (so it's 10 more), silly though it
all is.

== 2 of 4 ==
Date: Wed, Sep 28 2011 9:37 am
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)

Mark Brader:
>> 1 40 (tennis)

John Gerson:
> Maybe a bit late, I know, but to get 40 in tennis you have
> to have had 30 already...

You're right. The question required the points to be scored "all at
once", so that answer is wrong. However, rescoring it would not affect
any of the high finishers. And I did say

| On this one I decided I was willing to trust that the entrants
| knew what they were talking about, and accepted all answers given
| as correct rather than researching the rules of all those sports.

If I'd scored that one as wrong, I would've had to research all the
others, and frankly I didn't feel like it. I hate sports questions.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "Close your tag and give it a rest, Jason"
msb@vex.net | --FoxTrot (Bill Amend)

== 3 of 4 ==
Date: Wed, Sep 28 2011 10:26 am
From: "Peter Smyth"

"Mark Brader" wrote in message
news:4P6dnfzp-dOn0B7TnZ2dnUVZ_gqdnZ2d@vex.net...
>
>Mark Brader:
>>> 1 40 (tennis)
>
>John Gerson:
>> Maybe a bit late, I know, but to get 40 in tennis you have
>> to have had 30 already...
>
>You're right. The question required the points to be scored "all at
>once", so that answer is wrong. However, rescoring it would not affect
>any of the high finishers. And I did say
>
>| On this one I decided I was willing to trust that the entrants
>| knew what they were talking about, and accepted all answers given
>| as correct rather than researching the rules of all those sports.
>
>If I'd scored that one as wrong, I would've had to research all the
>others, and frankly I didn't feel like it. I hate sports questions.

In this case NASCAR racing covers every number between 1 and 43 so 40 would
be correct anyway.

Peter Smyth

== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Wed, Sep 28 2011 10:48 am
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)

Peter Smyth;
> In this case NASCAR racing covers every number between 1 and 43 so 40 would
> be correct anyway.

No, because the question specified that "You must also name the sport".
--
Mark Brader | "...he entertained the notion that I was cribbing from
Toronto | other [students' exams] until it was pointed out that
msb@vex.net | I often had the only correct answer..." --Lars Eighner

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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Wed, Sep 28 2011 10:08 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)".

I did not write either of these rounds.

* Game 8, Round 7 - Cities in Song

In this round we're going to look at US cities celebrated in song.
Using the handout map http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/0807/song.png
as a reference, we will give you a city letter and three or four
singers or bands that have each recorded different songs with
forms of its name in the title.

For questions #1-7, all we want from you is the name of the city.

1. City A -- the Animals; Scott McKenzie; Tony Bennett.

2. City C -- the Doors; Randy Newman; Wang Chung; Cheech Marin.

3. City D -- Elvis Presley; Sheryl Crow; Katy Perry.

4. City H -- Roger Miller; Wilbert Harrison; the Beatles; Lee Dixon.

5. City I -- Johnny Rivers; Marc Cohn; Jerry Lee Lewis.

6. City L -- Johnny Horton; Arlo Guthrie; the Tragically Hip.

7. City U -- Bruce Springsteen; Neil Young; Elton John.

Questions #8-10 all relate to City Y. You must give either the
name of the city or a specific part of it, *whichever is mentioned
in the titles*.

8. The Ad Libs; Sting; Frank Sinatra.

9. Beastie Boys; Jay-Z; Neil Diamond.

10. The Rolling Stones; Ben E. King; U2.

The remaining cities have each also been celebrated in song at least
once. (More or less, anyway -- W and X actually both represent the
same place name.) Name them if you like for fun, but for no points.

11. City B.
12. City E.
13. City F.
14. City G.
15. City J.
16. City K.
17. City M.
18. City N.
19. City O.
20. City P.
21. City Q.
22. City R.
23. City S.
24. City T.
25. City V.
26. City W or X.
27. City Z.

* Game 8, Round 8 - Album Covers

And now, another music round, which is also another arts and
literature round. The album cover as an art form reached its peak
in the heyday of LPs and may now be in terminal decline in the era
of downloads. But back in 1991, Rolling Stone magazine selected
the 100 greatest covers of all time. On our handout

http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/0808/album.jpg

are 20 of them. On each question, name the singer or band, as
applicable, whose album is shown. We have, of course, removed
some of the lettering.

1. Cover A.
2. Cover C.
3. Cover F.
4. Cover G.
5. Cover I.
6. Cover J.
7. Cover K.
8. Cover N.
9. Cover P.
10. Cover R.

Now identify the singer or band for the remaining covers if you
like for fun, but for no points.

11. Cover B.
12. Cover D.
13. Cover E.
14. Cover H.
15. Cover L.
16. Cover M.
17. Cover O.
18. Cover Q.
19. Cover S.
20. Cover T.

--
Mark Brader | "If you have to go in, you go in.
Toronto | The choice was made the day you took your oath."
msb@vex.net | --Dan Duddy, New York Fire Department

My text in this article is in the public domain.

== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Wed, Sep 28 2011 11:40 pm
From: Dan Tilque

Mark Brader wrote:
>
> * Game 8, Round 7 - Cities in Song
>
> In this round we're going to look at US cities celebrated in song.
> Using the handout map http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/0807/song.png
> as a reference, we will give you a city letter and three or four
> singers or bands that have each recorded different songs with
> forms of its name in the title.
>
> For questions #1-7, all we want from you is the name of the city.
>
> 1. City A -- the Animals; Scott McKenzie; Tony Bennett.

San Francisco

>
> 2. City C -- the Doors; Randy Newman; Wang Chung; Cheech Marin.

Los Angeles

>
> 3. City D -- Elvis Presley; Sheryl Crow; Katy Perry.

Las Vegas

>
> 4. City H -- Roger Miller; Wilbert Harrison; the Beatles; Lee Dixon.

Kansas City

>
> 5. City I -- Johnny Rivers; Marc Cohn; Jerry Lee Lewis.

Memphis

>
> 6. City L -- Johnny Horton; Arlo Guthrie; the Tragically Hip.

New Orleans

>
> 7. City U -- Bruce Springsteen; Neil Young; Elton John.

Philadelphia

>
> Questions #8-10 all relate to City Y. You must give either the
> name of the city or a specific part of it, *whichever is mentioned
> in the titles*.
>
> 8. The Ad Libs; Sting; Frank Sinatra.

New York

>
> 9. Beastie Boys; Jay-Z; Neil Diamond.

Brooklyn

>
> 10. The Rolling Stones; Ben E. King; U2.

Manhattan

>
> The remaining cities have each also been celebrated in song at least
> once. (More or less, anyway -- W and X actually both represent the
> same place name.) Name them if you like for fun, but for no points.
>
> 11. City B.

Do You Know the Way to San Jose?

> 12. City E.

By the Time I Get to Phoenix

> 13. City F.

Wichita Lineman

> 14. City G.

I'm Proud to Be an Okie from Muskogee

> 15. City J.

Tupelo Honey

> 16. City K.

Galveston, oh Galveston
I still hear your sea winds blowin'

> 17. City M.

(here's where I run out of song titles)
Tallahassee (?)

> 18. City N.

Miami

> 19. City O.

Milwaukee

> 20. City P.

Detroit

> 21. City Q.

Cleveland

> 22. City R.

Akron; Youngstown

> 23. City S.

Buffalo

> 24. City T.

Baltimore

> 25. City V.
> 26. City W or X.

Woodstock

> 27. City Z.

Atlantic City

>
>
> * Game 8, Round 8 - Album Covers
>
> And now, another music round, which is also another arts and
> literature round. The album cover as an art form reached its peak
> in the heyday of LPs and may now be in terminal decline in the era
> of downloads. But back in 1991, Rolling Stone magazine selected
> the 100 greatest covers of all time. On our handout
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/0808/album.jpg
>
> are 20 of them. On each question, name the singer or band, as
> applicable, whose album is shown. We have, of course, removed
> some of the lettering.
>
> 1. Cover A.
> 2. Cover C.
> 3. Cover F.
> 4. Cover G.
> 5. Cover I.
> 6. Cover J.
> 7. Cover K.
> 8. Cover N.
> 9. Cover P.
> 10. Cover R.
>
> Now identify the singer or band for the remaining covers if you
> like for fun, but for no points.
>
> 11. Cover B.
> 12. Cover D.

The Eagles

> 13. Cover E.

Emerson Lake and Palmer

> 14. Cover H.

Bruce Springsteen

> 15. Cover L.
> 16. Cover M.
> 17. Cover O.

Led Zeppelin

> 18. Cover Q.
> 19. Cover S.
> 20. Cover T.
>

--
Dan Tilque

Keeping Pluto dead has taken a lot of work.
-- Mike Brown "How I killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming"

== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Thurs, Sep 29 2011 12:03 am
From: Joachim Parsch

Mark Brader schrieb:
>
> 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)".
>
> I did not write either of these rounds.
>
> * Game 8, Round 7 - Cities in Song
>
> In this round we're going to look at US cities celebrated in song.
> Using the handout map http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/0807/song.png
> as a reference, we will give you a city letter and three or four
> singers or bands that have each recorded different songs with
> forms of its name in the title.
>
> For questions #1-7, all we want from you is the name of the city.
>
> 1. City A -- the Animals; Scott McKenzie; Tony Bennett.

San Fransisco.

>
> 2. City C -- the Doors; Randy Newman; Wang Chung; Cheech Marin.

Los Angeles.

>
> 3. City D -- Elvis Presley; Sheryl Crow; Katy Perry.

Las Vegas.

>
> 4. City H -- Roger Miller; Wilbert Harrison; the Beatles; Lee Dixon.
>
> 5. City I -- Johnny Rivers; Marc Cohn; Jerry Lee Lewis.
>
> 6. City L -- Johnny Horton; Arlo Guthrie; the Tragically Hip.

New Orleans.

>
> 7. City U -- Bruce Springsteen; Neil Young; Elton John.

Philadelphia.

>
> Questions #8-10 all relate to City Y. You must give either the
> name of the city or a specific part of it, *whichever is mentioned
> in the titles*.
>
> 8. The Ad Libs; Sting; Frank Sinatra.

New York.

>
> 9. Beastie Boys; Jay-Z; Neil Diamond.

Manhattan?

>
> 10. The Rolling Stones; Ben E. King; U2.

Harlem.

>
> * Game 8, Round 8 - Album Covers
>
> And now, another music round, which is also another arts and
> literature round. The album cover as an art form reached its peak
> in the heyday of LPs and may now be in terminal decline in the era
> of downloads. But back in 1991, Rolling Stone magazine selected
> the 100 greatest covers of all time. On our handout
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/0808/album.jpg
>
> are 20 of them. On each question, name the singer or band, as
> applicable, whose album is shown. We have, of course, removed
> some of the lettering.
>
> 1. Cover A.
> 2. Cover C.
> 3. Cover F.
> 4. Cover G.
> 5. Cover I.
> 6. Cover J.
> 7. Cover K.
> 8. Cover N.
> 9. Cover P.
> 10. Cover R.