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* rotating quiz #33 - the revenge of the fallen - 4 messages, 4 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/295d96c456fe2e87?hl=en
* Calvin's Quiz #165 - 2 messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/c8b50cf9149fe26f?hl=en
* QFTCI11 Game 7 Rounds 9-10: weapons, challenge! - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/12802cfb367c2b46?hl=en
* Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI11, QFTCIMM) - 1 messages, 1
author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/c964f4f838fbfb12?hl=en
* QFTCI11 Game 7 Rounds 9-10 answers: weapons, challenge! - 2 messages, 2
authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/cae1d1eac968c456?hl=en
* QFTCI11 Game 8 Rounds 2-3: commanders, angles - 2 messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/78ff5bb5fd664c83?hl=en
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TOPIC: rotating quiz #33 - the revenge of the fallen
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/295d96c456fe2e87?hl=en
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== 1 of 4 ==
Date: Thurs, Sep 22 2011 12:38 am
From: "Rob Parker"
> 1. what year did Connie Willis win her first hugo award, or name the year
> she won 2 hugo awards.
>
> 2. in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", we learn that hagrid
> has a half-brother with an even shorter name; tony maudsley played him in
> the movie, to the extent that any human did. What is that half-brother's
> name?
>
> 3. What writing system in use today can be seen as having been the first
> to use a binary encoding scheme for its characters?
>
> 4. what is the name of europe's oldest insane asylum? you may give either
> the short name or its much longer full name.
Bedlam
> 5. why was Harlan Ellison fired as a writer for disney studios on his
> first day at work?
He claimed to have made a pornographic movie with Disney characters
> 6. what movie was the next best picture oscar winner after "titanic"?
>
> 7. name the welsh poet after whom frank lloyd wright named his wisconsin
> summer home.
>
> 8. what was the first fleet-to-fleet naval battle in history in which
> neither side's ships sighted nor fired upon each other?
Midway
> 9. what organization was established on april 4th, 1949?
NATO
> 10. who quit _the tonight show_ on april 4th 1967?
Rob
== 2 of 4 ==
Date: Thurs, Sep 22 2011 2:33 pm
From: Erland Sommarskog
swp (Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com) writes:
> each question is worth 1 point. there is an overall theme, and figuring
> it out is worth 4 points.
All these questions have appeared here before. Some in your quizzes, but
I believe you have also borrowed some other people's questions as well.
Unfortunately, I don't remember all answers...
> 1. what year did Connie Willis win her first hugo award, or name the
> year she won 2 hugo awards.
1982
> 3. What writing system in use today can be seen as having been the first
> to use a binary encoding scheme for its characters?
Braille
> 4. what is the name of europe's oldest insane asylum? you may give
> either the short name or its much longer full name.
Bedlam
> 5. why was Harlan Ellison fired as a writer for disney studios on his
> first day at work?
He used profane and explicit language at lunch
> 6. what movie was the next best picture oscar winner after "titanic"?
Gone with the Wind
> 9. what organization was established on april 4th, 1949?
NATO
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
== 3 of 4 ==
Date: Thurs, Sep 22 2011 3:59 pm
From: Calvin <334152@gmail.com>
On Sep 22, 3:28 am, swp <Stephen.W.Pe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> good day, and welcome to rotating quiz number thirty three.
>
> each question is worth 1 point. there is an overall theme, and figuring it out is worth 4 points.
>
> use only your own knowledge/memory; remember, we work on the honor system here.
>
> 1. what year did Connie Willis win her first hugo award, or name the year she won 2 hugo awards.
1968
> 2. in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", we learn that hagrid has a half-brother with an even shorter name; tony maudsley played him in the movie, to the extent that any human did. What is that half-brother's name?
>
>
> 3. What writing system in use today can be seen as having been the first to use a binary encoding scheme for its characters?
>
> 4. what is the name of europe's oldest insane asylum? you may give either the short name or its much longer full name.
Bedlam
> 5. why was Harlan Ellison fired as a writer for disney studios on his first day at work?
He drew Mickey Mouse in a compromising position
> 6. what movie was the next best picture oscar winner after "titanic"?
American Beauty
> 7. name the welsh poet after whom frank lloyd wright named his wisconsin summer home.
Dylan Thomas?
> 8. what was the first fleet-to-fleet naval battle in history in which neither side's ships sighted nor fired upon each other?
Battle of the Coral Sea
> 9. what organization was established on april 4th, 1949?
NATO
> 10. who quit _the tonight show_ on april 4th 1967?
Carson?
I believe the theme is that all these questions have appeared in rgt
perviously :-)
cheers,
calvin
== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Fri, Sep 23 2011 1:02 am
From: Dan Tilque
swp wrote:
> good day, and welcome to rotating quiz number thirty three.
>
> each question is worth 1 point. there is an overall theme, and figuring it out is worth 4 points.
Is it that you were too lazy to think of new questions so you recycled
questions from previous rotating quizzes?
>
> use only your own knowledge/memory; remember, we work on the honor system here.
>
>
> 1. what year did Connie Willis win her first hugo award, or name the year she won 2 hugo awards.
1981
>
> 2. in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", we learn that hagrid has a half-brother with an even shorter name; tony maudsley played him in the movie, to the extent that any human did. What is that half-brother's name?
>
> 3. What writing system in use today can be seen as having been the first to use a binary encoding scheme for its characters?
Braille
>
> 4. what is the name of europe's oldest insane asylum? you may give either the short name or its much longer full name.
Bedlam
>
> 5. why was Harlan Ellison fired as a writer for disney studios on his first day at work?
suggesting inappropriate stories for Disney characters
>
> 6. what movie was the next best picture oscar winner after "titanic"?
>
> 7. name the welsh poet after whom frank lloyd wright named his wisconsin summer home.
Talesin
>
> 8. what was the first fleet-to-fleet naval battle in history in which neither side's ships sighted nor fired upon each other?
Hey that was one of mine... Battle of the Coral Sea
>
> 9. what organization was established on april 4th, 1949?
NATO
>
> 10. who quit _the tonight show_ on april 4th 1967?
Steve Allen
--
Dan Tilque
Keeping Pluto dead has taken a lot of work.
-- Mike Brown "How I killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming"
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TOPIC: Calvin's Quiz #165
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/c8b50cf9149fe26f?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Thurs, Sep 22 2011 3:51 pm
From: Calvin <334152@gmail.com>
Hi all
Due to various reasons which I won't bore you with, results for this
quiz and questions for the next won't appear for another week or so
sorry.
cheers,
calvin
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Thurs, Sep 22 2011 4:20 pm
From: swp
On Thursday, September 22, 2011 6:51:28 PM UTC-4, Calvin wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Due to various reasons which I won't bore you with, results for this
> quiz and questions for the next won't appear for another week or so
> sorry.
>
> cheers,
> calvin
sorry to hear that. I hope all is well, or at least getting better.
swp
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TOPIC: QFTCI11 Game 7 Rounds 9-10: weapons, challenge!
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/12802cfb367c2b46?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Thurs, Sep 22 2011 3:49 pm
From: Calvin <334152@gmail.com>
On Sep 20, 2:49 pm, m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote:
> * Game 7, Round 9 - Weapons in History
>
> 1. Daggers have existed since prehistoric times, but the sword,
> with its longer blade, is a later development. What specific
> technological change first made it practical for the blade
> of a sword to be as long as, say, 30 inches?
Tempered steel
> 2. The bow and arrow is also a prehistoric weapon, whose
> development has continued into modern times. In 1415 the
> outcome of the battle of Agincourt was decided by a large
> force of archers armed with what type of bow?
Longbow
> 3. This small Japanese weapon in the form of a disk with sharp
> edges or spikes is sometimes called a "throwing star"
> in English, although not all of them were star-shaped.
> What is it called in Japanese?
Ninja star?
> 4. The Katyusha ("kat-you-sha") was a Soviet weapon of
> World War II, perhaps better known by the nickname "Stalin's
> organ". Basically a modernized version of the 15th century
> Korean hwacha, what sort of weapon was "Stalin's organ"?
The mind boggles.
> 5. Where was the first atomic bomb, as they called it in those
> days, exploded?
New Mexico
> 6. Either name the first lethal poison gas to be used in World
> War I, or the battle site where it was first used.
Somne
> 7. This is a simple defensive weapon consisting of a rigid
> framework of small spikes pointing in different directions;
> for example, four spikes whose points mark a regular
> tetrahedron. When a lot of these are strewn over a road
> surface, at least one spike of each one will be pointing
> upwards, so impeding the movement of enemy horses or vehicles.
> The name of this simple weapon is taken from a type of
> thistle; what is it called?
Dunno
> 8. In its modern form, this is one of the lightest artillery
> weapons. It can shoot its projectiles at a steep upward
> angle so as to hit targets beyond intervening obstacles.
> What's it called?
Dunno
> 9. Names of weapons have a way of shifting from one to another
> weapon over time. In 1864, Admiral David Farragut said
> "Damn the torpedoes!" -- but what would we call those
> "torpedoes" today?
Missile?
> 10. This weapon invented in the 18th century was similar in
> size and function to a shotgun, but, like rifles of its era,
> it was loaded through the muzzle. Its distinctive feature
> was a barrel with a wide flared end, which made loading easy
> and also helped disperse the shot. Name it.
Blunderbuss
> * Game 7, Round 10 - Challenge Round
>
> This is the challenge round, and your categories are:
> Horton Hears a Who, Who Lives There, There is Not, Not so Tiny,
> Tiny Tim, and -- what else? -- Tim Horton.
>
> A. Horton Hears a Who (Literature)
>
> A1. This pair is about Dr. Seuss. What was his real name?
Jurgen Horatio Ng
> A2. Several Dr. Seuss books were designed to use an extremely
> limited vocabulary of only about 250 different words,
> or in some cases, even less. The first of them, from
> 1957, is well known and had multiple sequels. What is
> its title?
The Cat in the Hat
> B. Who Lives There (Geography)
>
> B1. What is the term for a resident of Sydney, Australia?
Colloquially "wanker" but I guess you want Sydneysider :)
> B2. What is the term for a resident of Manchester, England?
Manchurian
> C. There is Not (Science)
>
> C1. There is not a planet closer to the Sun than Mercury,
> but for a time astronomers believed there might be one,
> and even had a name proposed for it -- a name now better
> known for a fictional planet outside of our solar system.
> What was this name?
>
> C2. Sound waves are fluctuations in the medium of air or
> other substances; at one time it was believed that
> electromagnetic waves, such as light and radio, were
> fluctuations in a medium that must pervade the universe.
> There is not really such a medium, scientists now believe;
> but when they did believe in it, what did they call it?
Photogasm, Corpuscular theory.
> D. Not so Tiny (Miscellaneous)
>
> D1. What is the heaviest model of passenger airliner now in
> regular commercial fleet service?
A380
> D2. What is the heaviest species among the big cats?
Tiger, Lion
> E. Tiny Tim (Entertainment)
>
> E1. Tiny Tim, who lived 1932-96, was best known (particularly
> to fans of "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In") for singing
> a certain song in falsetto while accompanying himself
> on a stringed instrument. Name *either* the song or
> the instrument.
Tiptoe Through the Tulips
> E2. Either give Tiny Tim's real name (first and last), *or*
> name his first wife (her nickname or original surname)
>
> F. Tim Horton (Canadiana)
>
> F1. Tim Horton died in a traffic accident on the highway
> connecting two of the cities whose hockey teams he
> played for. What highway?
>
> F2. When Horton played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, what
> number did he wear?
Good set, apart from the last few :-)
cheers,
calvin
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TOPIC: Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI11, QFTCIMM)
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Thurs, Sep 22 2011 8:40 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)
This is a repeat of my 2011-05-23 introductory posting with minor
updates.
As most of you will remember, the Canadian Inquisition is a team
trivia league that plays in Toronto pubs. It's a cooperative
league, whose teams take turns to write and ask the questions that
the others answer. In the season that ended in April, that was my
own team, the Usual Suspects. And in the following season, which
ran from May to July, it was the Misplaced Modifiers.
I have obtained permission to post to this newsgroup the questions
from each of these seasons. Since it takes longer than 4 months to
post a season's worth of questions, I'll be skipping the ones from
the current season, which runs from September to December.
I am editing some questions for various reasons -- for brevity,
to clarify their intent, to avoid issues raised on protests, for
suitability in this medium, and so on.
As you may remember, the league's season consists of 10 regular
games and a Final. A regular game contains 102 questions. Most of
the game is in rounds of 10 questions on a specific topic within
a different general area. For example, one game in 2008 included
a geography round on former place names, an entertainment round on
Morgan Freeman movies, and a sports round on things that happened
during Toronto Blue Jays games. Round 10 (the "challenge round")
normally contains 12 questions, 2 each on 6 different subjects.
Round 1 is always a current events round, and all of these have
already been posted from both of the above seasons, as explained
below.
Round 5 is always an audio round, which I won't be posting.
For Rounds 2-4 and 6-10, for each of Games 1-10, I will normally
post the questions as four sets of two rounds each. It will be
Rounds 2-3 in one posting, Rounds 4 and 6 in the next, and so on.
In the Final, most rounds have 15 questions, and when we get to that
point, I'll be posting them one round at a time. Finals sometimes
include video questions, and as with audio, I will not post any
of these.
For each game, I'll keep a cumulative score over the group of postings,
counting your best 6 rounds out of 8 (or 5 out of 7, etc.) -- that way
if you miss a set or there's a subject you're weak on, you still have
a chance to finish well.
In a normal game usually one round is Canadiana (this may also fall
under another subject such as history or geography), which those of
you in distant places may have some trouble with, but I am including
them in the posting series anyway. This is your chance to shine by
displaying your knowledge of Canadiana.
As for current events rounds, while the seasons were going on,
what I've been doing was to post them as sets of two rounds,
from consecutive games, soon after the second of the two games.
All the current events rounds for a season were scored as a separate
ongoing game. I'll probably resume doing this in January when the
season after the current season starts.
I still have 3 regular-season games and the Final left to post
from the Usual Suspects' season, which are being posted under the
tag QFTCI11. When those are finished, I'll be posting rounds from
the Misplaced Modifiers' season, under the tag QFTCIMM. And when
*those* are finished, we'll be into the January-April 2012 season,
to be written by Footloose and Firkin Free, and I'll probably be
posting their questions.
The current events rounds for each season were totaled after the
last one is posted and scored. For other rounds, each game will be
totaled after the last round is posted and scored.
The usual rule in our regular league games is that each question
goes to an individual who can answer for 2 points without assistance,
and if he misses, he can consult his team and try again for 1 point.
If the quizmaster judges that an answer is incomplete, she can ask
for more details before ruling the answer right or wrong.
To maintain the spirit of these rules, I will say that you can give
two answers on every question. But I will penalize you if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer. The scoring will be:
4 points if you answer once and are right (or twice, both right)
3 points if you guess twice and are right only the first time
2 points if you guess twice and are right only the second time
If you give only one answer, but with only some sort of additional
comment, please make it clear that that's what you're doing.
If there is any doubt I'll assume that you are giving two answers.
If I see more than two answers, the extra ones will be ignored.
Where it makes sense, I will accept answers that I think are almost
close enough (*more than half right*), with a 1-point penalty.
But I will reject answers that I do not think are sufficiently
specific, since there is no opportunity to ask for clarification
when answers are posted in the newsgroup.
You must, of course, answer based on your own knowledge and nothing
else. You must post all your answers in a single posting. Where a
person's name is asked for, normally you need only give the surname.
My intent is that for each quiz you'll get about 3 days to answer,
plus or minus a few hours, but I'm not going to set exact deadlines;
I'll cut off entries at whatever time (after 2 days and about 21 hours)
that it's convenient for me to do the scoring and post the results.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge,
msb@vex.net | put together!" -- SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
My text in this article is in the public domain.
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TOPIC: QFTCI11 Game 7 Rounds 9-10 answers: weapons, challenge!
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Thurs, Sep 22 2011 8:44 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)
Mark Brader:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2011-03-07,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2011-05-23 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI5GNM, QFTCI11, QFTCIMM)".
And Stephen Perry misses the last pair of rounds and still holds on
to win this game! Hearty congratulations!
> I wrote both of these rounds.
> * Game 7, Round 9 - Weapons in History
> 1. Daggers have existed since prehistoric times, but the sword,
> with its longer blade, is a later development. What specific
> technological change first made it practical for the blade
> of a sword to be as long as, say, 30 inches?
The answer I originally wrote was "The use of iron, instead of bronze
or other copper alloys. (Not steel -- that came later.)" However,
looking at it again now, I see that the forging techniques used with
early iron swords actually tended to impregnate the surface with
carbon (from the fuel being burned), thus accidentally producing
a strengthening layer of steel; and also, that iron without this
layer was not much better than bronze. So I'm accepting "steel", but
still not "tempered steel", which did come later. "Stronger metal"
was not specific enough.
So, 4 for Joshua, Joachim, Peter, and Dan Blum.
> 2. The bow and arrow is also a prehistoric weapon, whose
> development has continued into modern times. In 1415 the
> outcome of the battle of Agincourt was decided by a large
> force of archers armed with what type of bow?
Longbow. 4 for Joachim, Peter, Dan Tilque, Marc, Dan Blum, Rob,
and Calvin.
> 3. This small Japanese weapon in the form of a disk with sharp
> edges or spikes is sometimes called a "throwing star"
> in English, although not all of them were star-shaped.
> What is it called in Japanese?
Shuriken. 4 for Dan Tilque and Dan Blum.
> 4. The Katyusha ("kat-you-sha") was a Soviet weapon of
> World War II, perhaps better known by the nickname "Stalin's
> organ". Basically a modernized version of the 15th century
> Korean hwacha, what sort of weapon was "Stalin's organ"?
Multiple rocket launcher: an array of tubes each with its own
rocket projectile. Any reference to launching rockets from it was
sufficient, so I scored "Rocket" alone as almost correct. 4 for Marc,
Dan Blum, and Rob. 3 for Pete.
Hwacha replicas:
http://i323.photobucket.com/download-albums/nn473/gceutd/Miscellaneous/hwacha_firing_photo.jpg
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/img_dir/2009/10/19/2009101900622_0.jpg
Katyushas during WW2:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho_r_jx5ss3fvYIEC3iQLF38GdfBuAK3ZBEhFEX7eM2BGkO3VGFfy6NH1Rn309712xZa1zUq4NErwuy3yueL3uvqv7c6D4tAT9V1EhMPfEXRTAWg4Lvb3ReflVRr8MOGkdtREhnEl9kv4J/s1600/battle-kursk-katyusha-rockets-second-world-war.jpg
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln2r15JrH41qz9tkeo1_500.jpg
> 5. Where was the first atomic bomb, as they called it in those
> days, exploded?
Trinity test site in the Jornada del Muerto basin (a name which,
fittingly, means something like "journey of death") in the White Sands
Proving Ground (now White Sands Missile Range), New Mexico, USA.
New Mexico was sufficient; or any of the foregoing place names was
acceptable, as well as the nearby towns of Alamogordo, Carrizozo,
and Socorro. However, Los Alamos was wrong -- that's where the bomb
was developed, but it's 150 miles away from the Trinity site.
So, 4 for Dan Tilque, Marc, Dan Blum, Erland, Pete, Rob, Jeff,
and Calvin.
> 6. Either name the first lethal poison gas to be used in World
> War I, or the battle site where it was first used.
Chlorine, Ypres (or Gravenstafel, the specific site at Ypres).
4 for Joachim, Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, and Rob. 2 for Pete.
Other noxious gases were used earlier in the war, but were not lethal.
Both here and in the original game, several players gave the answer
mustard gas. This may have been the most deadly gas of the war,
because it acted on the skin; but it came into use as a form of
escalation 2 years after chlorine, and the reason was precisely that
the troops were now able to deal with chlorine attacks adequately.
> 7. This is a simple defensive weapon consisting of a rigid
> framework of small spikes pointing in different directions;
> for example, four spikes whose points mark a regular
> tetrahedron. When a lot of these are strewn over a road
> surface, at least one spike of each one will be pointing
> upwards, so impeding the movement of enemy horses or vehicles.
> The name of this simple weapon is taken from a type of
> thistle; what is it called?
Caltrop. I scored the non-English answers a couple of entrants
gave as almost correct, on the grounds that they identify the thing
but don't have the indicated etymology. 4 for Peter, Dan Tilque,
Dan Blum, and Rob. 3 for Joachim and Erland.
> 8. In its modern form, this is one of the lightest artillery
> weapons. It can shoot its projectiles at a steep upward
> angle so as to hit targets beyond intervening obstacles.
> What's it called?
Mortar. I also accepted "haubits", which is apparently Swedish for
"howitzer", which is a similar type of weapon. But, folks, this
contest is conducted in English except when you are specifically
asked for another language.
4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Erland, Pete, Rob, and Jeff.
> 9. Names of weapons have a way of shifting from one to another
> weapon over time. In 1864, Admiral David Farragut said
> "Damn the torpedoes!" -- but what would we call those
> "torpedoes" today?
Mines. 4 for Dan Tilque, Marc, Dan Blum, and Rob.
> 10. This weapon invented in the 18th century was similar in
> size and function to a shotgun, but, like rifles of its era,
> it was loaded through the muzzle. Its distinctive feature
> was a barrel with a wide flared end, which made loading easy
> and also helped disperse the shot. Name it.
Blunderbuss. 4 for Dan Tilque, Marc, Dan Blum, Pete, Rob, Jeff,
and Calvin.
> * Game 7, Round 10 - Challenge Round
> This is the challenge round, and your categories are:
> Horton Hears a Who, Who Lives There, There is Not, Not so Tiny,
> Tiny Tim, and -- what else? -- Tim Horton.
This was the 2nd-easiest round in the original game, after current events.
> A. Horton Hears a Who (Literature)
> A1. This pair is about Dr. Seuss. What was his real name?
Theodore Geisel. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Marc, Dan Blum, Pete,
and Jeff.
> A2. Several Dr. Seuss books were designed to use an extremely
> limited vocabulary of only about 250 different words,
> or in some cases, even less. The first of them, from
> 1957, is well known and had multiple sequels. What is
> its title?
"The Cat in the Hat". 4 for Joshua, Peter, Dan Tilque, Marc,
Dan Blum, Pete, and Calvin. 3 for Rob.
> B. Who Lives There (Geography)
> B1. What is the term for a resident of Sydney, Australia?
Sydneysider. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Rob, and Calvin.
> B2. What is the term for a resident of Manchester, England?
Mancunian. 4 for Joshua, Peter, Dan Tilque, Marc, Dan Blum, Pete,
Rob, and Jeff.
> C. There is Not (Science)
> C1. There is not a planet closer to the Sun than Mercury,
> but for a time astronomers believed there might be one,
> and even had a name proposed for it -- a name now better
> known for a fictional planet outside of our solar system.
> What was this name?
Vulcan. 4 for Joshua, Joachim, Peter, Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, and Jeff.
> C2. Sound waves are fluctuations in the medium of air or
> other substances; at one time it was believed that
> electromagnetic waves, such as light and radio, were
> fluctuations in a medium that must pervade the universe.
> There is not really such a medium, scientists now believe;
> but when they did believe in it, what did they call it?
(Luminiferous) ether. 4 for Joshua, Joachim, Dan Tilque, Marc,
Dan Blum, Erland, Pete, Rob, and Jeff. 3 for Peter.
> D. Not so Tiny (Miscellaneous)
> D1. What is the heaviest model of passenger airliner now in
> regular commercial fleet service?
Airbus A380 ("Airbus 380" was acceptable). 4 for Joachim, Dan Tilque,
Rob, and Calvin.
> D2. What is the heaviest species among the big cats?
(Siberian) tiger. 4 for Joachim, Peter, Dan Tilque, and Jeff.
3 for Rob and Calvin.
It's disputed whether the Siberian tiger is a separate species or a
subspecies, so "tiger" alone was sufficient, but any other specific
sort of tiger was wrong.
> E. Tiny Tim (Entertainment)
> E1. Tiny Tim, who lived 1932-96, was best known (particularly
> to fans of "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In") for singing
> a certain song in falsetto while accompanying himself
> on a stringed instrument. Name *either* the song or
> the instrument.
"Tiptoe Through the Tulips", ukulele. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque,
Marc, Dan Blum, Pete, Rob, Jeff, and Calvin.
> E2. Either give Tiny Tim's real name (first and last), *or*
> name his first wife (her nickname or original surname)
Herbert Khaury, Victoria "Miss Vicki" Budinger. 4 for Joshua, Marc,
Dan Blum, Pete, and Jeff.
> F. Tim Horton (Canadiana)
> F1. Tim Horton died in a traffic accident on the highway
> connecting two of the cities whose hockey teams he
> played for. What highway?
The QEW. (Toronto and Buffalo.)
> F2. When Horton played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, what
> number did he wear?
#7. A lot of defensemen wore single-digit numbers back then, but
all the guesses were 2-digit numbers.
Scores, if there are no errors:
ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST
TOPICS-> Sci Ent Geo Can Mis Lit His Cha SIX
Stephen Perry 28 32 36 22 24 35 -- -- 177
Dan Tilque 40 8 16 14 28 16 32 36 168
Joshua Kreitzer 40 36 17 13 20 20 4 32 165
Dan Blum 40 16 10 3 23 12 40 28 159
Rob Parker 32 14 8 10 32 12 32 26 148
Peter Smyth 40 8 32 0 32 12 12 19 147
Marc Dashevsky 36 24 8 8 12 20 20 24 136
"Calvin" 24 15 26 5 24 9 12 19 120
Jeff Turner 40 0 -- -- -- -- 12 28 80
Pete Gayde -- -- 9 8 8 12 17 24 78
Erland Sommarskog 27 0 8 0 8 0 11 4 58
Joachim Parsch -- -- -- -- -- -- 15 16 31
Stan Brown -- -- -- -- 16 0 -- -- 16
--
Mark Brader "One doesn't have to be a grammarian
Toronto to know when someone's talking balls."
msb@vex.net --John Masters
My text in this article is in the public domain.
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Fri, Sep 23 2011 12:27 am
From: Erland Sommarskog
Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:
> Mortar. I also accepted "haubits", which is apparently Swedish for
> "howitzer", which is a similar type of weapon. But, folks, this
> contest is conducted in English except when you are specifically
> asked for another language.
Yeah, but "haubits" has a clear non-Swedish look, so I figured that with
some luck it could be the same word in English. Had to try something. :-)
What I learnt when I was in the artillery is that with a cannon, you see
what you aim at, with a "haubits" you don't, because the target is too far
away.
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
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TOPIC: QFTCI11 Game 8 Rounds 2-3: commanders, angles
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Thurs, Sep 22 2011 8:49 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 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition
(QFTCI11, QFTCIMM)".
I wrote one of these rounds.
* 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
* 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?
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?
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?
4. In optics, what term refers to the angle at which light
falls on a lens or mirror, before being refracted or
reflected?
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?
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?
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?
9. Angles in math are often measured not in degrees but in
radians. How large is that 90� angle in radians?
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.
--
Mark Brader | "...she was quite surprised to find that she remained
Toronto | the same size: to be sure, this generally happens
msb@vex.net | when one eats cake, but..." --Lewis Carroll
My text in this article is in the public domain.
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Thurs, Sep 22 2011 11:24 pm
From: Joshua Kreitzer
On Sep 22, 10:49 pm, m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote:
>
> * Game 8, Round 2 - Military Commanders
>
> For each question, we will describe a military commander in history;
> you name him.
>
> 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
> 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.
Duke of Marlborough
> 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.
Andrei Rublev
> 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.
Rommel
> 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?
Pershing
> 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
>
> 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
> 8. Also in math, two angles that total 90� are called what?
supplementary
> 9. Angles in math are often measured not in degrees but in
> radians. How large is that 90� angle in radians?
(1/4)*pi; (1/2)*pi
> 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 glaucoma
--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com
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