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* *Results* of Rare Entries Contest MSB72 - 11 messages, 8 authors
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* QFTCI11 Game 7 Rounds 7-8: Britglish, sports autobios - 3 messages, 3
authors
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* QFTCI11 Game 7 Rounds 9-10: weapons, challenge! - 2 messages, 2 authors
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* Rotating Quiz #32 results - Capone's cabbie wanted repairman - 3 messages, 2
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TOPIC: *Results* of Rare Entries Contest MSB72
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== 1 of 11 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 19 2011 12:29 am
From: Phil Carmody
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) writes:
Oh, nose! Both my WR's are WR, so no self-supporting rant possible.
Hmmm, maybe there's some leverage in this direction:
> | 8. Name a medium in which a version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide
> | to the Galaxy" (written originally by Douglas Adams) has been
> | produced and commercially distributed.
>
> 10 Paper
> >>> 5 Book
> >>> 2 Embossed Braille book [= Braille]
> >>> 1 Paperback book
> >>> 4 Comic book
> 6 Computer game [= PC game]
Is the computer game actually a version of THGTTG as written by
Adams, or is it merely based on THGTTG?
> And that's MSB72 done. Thank you all for playing. Once again the
> number of entrants has barely made it into the viable range, so
> I guess I will continue this contest series sometime.
Thanks for running it, Mark!
Phil
--
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
-- Napoleon
== 2 of 11 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 19 2011 1:33 am
From: Duncan Booth
Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) writes:
>
> Oh, nose! Both my WR's are WR, so no self-supporting rant possible.
> Hmmm, maybe there's some leverage in this direction:
>
>> | 8. Name a medium in which a version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide
>> | to the Galaxy" (written originally by Douglas Adams) has been
>> | produced and commercially distributed.
>>
>> 10 Paper
>> >>> 5 Book
>> >>> 2 Embossed Braille book [= Braille]
>> >>> 1 Paperback book
>> >>> 4 Comic book
>> 6 Computer game [= PC game]
>
> Is the computer game actually a version of THGTTG as written by
> Adams, or is it merely based on THGTTG?
The game was written as a join effort by Steve Meretzky of Infocom and
Douglas Adams. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml
for an online playable version.
From an interview with Steve Meretzky:
> What are your memories of working on the game?
>
> The original goal was that we'd do the design together, Douglas would
> write the most important text passages, and I'd fill in around them,
> and I'd do the implementation (read: high-level programming, using
> Infocom's development system). Douglas came to Cambridge,
> Massachusetts for a week when we got started. Then we exchanged emails
> daily (and this was in 1984, when non-LAN email was still pretty rare)
> and phone calls approximately weekly.
>
> Around May 1984, with the game just a few weeks away from its deadline
> for start of alpha testing, and about half the game still undesigned,
> I went over to England. Douglas was behind schedule both with the game
> and the fourth Hitchhiker's book, So Long and Thanks For All the Fish.
> His agent had sent him to a country inn in western England, far from
> the distractions of London life. That's where I went, with
> instructions to camp out on his doorstep until the game design was
> done. We spent four days at this really pleasant inn, a former
> baronial mansion called Huntsham Court, sipping expensive wines and
> designing the game. How can life get any better than that?
>
> I then returned to the US and implemented the entire game in about
> three intense weeks, just in time for an abbreviated summer of
> testing. Douglas came back over in September for some final rewriting
> of key text portions, and it was done in time for a late October
> release. The game quickly shot to No 1 on the bestseller lists, and
> stayed there for months.
--
Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com
== 3 of 11 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 19 2011 2:46 am
From: "Kevin Stone"
> | 3. Give a name (formal or informal, but not a nickname or
> | abbreviation) that is regularly used in English to identify
> | a present-day country whose largest city (metropolitan area)
> | is London. Again, rule 4.1.1 does not apply.
> 1 British Isles (not a country)
As 4.1.1. didn't apply, marking this as WR for the reason given seems
incorrect to me.
Surely the British Isles could be considered an informal name for the UK?
--
Kev
== 4 of 11 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 19 2011 5:20 am
From: Ted Schuerzinger
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:46:34 +0100, Kevin Stone wrote:
> Surely the British Isles could be considered an informal name for the
> UK?
I'm sure the Southern Irish would love that.
--
Ted S.
fedya at hughes dot net
Now blogging at http://justacineast.blogspot.com
== 5 of 11 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 19 2011 7:04 am
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)
Mark Brader:
>> | 3. Give a name (formal or informal, but not a nickname or
>> | abbreviation) that is regularly used in English to identify
>> | a present-day country whose largest city (metropolitan area)
>> | is London. Again, rule 4.1.1 does not apply.
>> 1 British Isles (not a country)
Kevin Stone:
> As 4.1.1. didn't apply, marking this as WR for the reason given seems
> incorrect to me.
>
> Surely the British Isles could be considered an informal name for the UK?
Hell no!
--
Mark Brader | "...it doesn't even fulfill the most basic
Toronto | requirements for a good text editor, such as
msb@vex.net | having a built-in mail reader." -- Per Abrahamsen
== 6 of 11 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 19 2011 11:33 am
From: "Kevin Stone"
>> 1 British Isles (not a country)
> Surely the British Isles could be considered an informal name for the UK?
I stand reminded of the difference....
The British Isles is the entire group of islands (around 6,000 of them).
--
Kev
== 7 of 11 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 19 2011 12:21 pm
From: Erland Sommarskog
Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:
> 1 Serbian (Montenegro)
Ouch! Don't say that in the wrong company, or you get a fizz in your
eye. ...then again, if you say it's wrong in the wrong company, you
get fizz in the another eye as well.
Anyway, according to Wikipedia the official language of Montenegrin,
but if you then look up that article, it starts
Montenegrin (Crnogorski jezik ...) is a name used for the Serbo-Croatian
language as spoken by Montenegrins;
So you could well argue that Montenegrin is not really a distinct
language. Then again, you could argue the same about Serbian... Yet
then again, if Serbian is correct, because Montenegrin is the correct
name, then so is Croatian...
> I'm not sure, without checking, how many correct answers there might
> be that weren't given.
Given that you made an excetion for 4.1.1 (to allow for English I assume),
we don't really know what you have approved. But here are a couple
possible ones:
Catalan, main language of Andorra. (I've seen referencs to Catalonia as
a country, but I don't know how common it is).
Swedish, the primary langauge of the Åland islands. Which has its own
country code.
Roumanian, also the primary language of Moldova. Where they cannot
agree on whether the language is to be called Moldovan or Roumanian.
Russian, could claimed to be the primary language of several ex-Soviet
republics, particular White Russia and Kazakhstan, although the answer
may depend on whom you ask.
Chinese, for practical purposes Taiwan count as a separate country.
Somali - but then you need to prove that Somalia is entirely disjunct,
which may be a difficult case.
I don't ask Mark to comment on all of these. All I can say there are
quite a few contestable ones, but with the entrants were mainly wise
to stay away from them.
> 3 Albania (independence from AHE, 1912)
Independence from the Ottman-Empire, not A-E.
> 1 Lithuania (independence from Germany, 1919)
Independence from Russia. Later (but before 1926), they acquired
Memel/Klaipeda by walking in there.
> 1 Romania (gained Bessarabia, Bukovina, Transylvania etc.,
> 1918-20)
And parts of Dombrugea in 1913.
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
== 8 of 11 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 19 2011 7:06 pm
From: Don Del Grande
Duncan Booth wrote:
> Phil Carmody wrote:
>
>> Mark Brader writes:
>>
>> Oh, nose! Both my WR's are WR, so no self-supporting rant possible.
>> Hmmm, maybe there's some leverage in this direction:
>>
>>> | 8. Name a medium in which a version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide
>>> | to the Galaxy" (written originally by Douglas Adams) has been
>>> | produced and commercially distributed.
My answer was "audio cassette" - there were two different audio
cassette releases; the one I was thinking of was the 6-tape release of
the original radio series, but after I sent in my answers, I
remembered that the LPs were also released on a 3-tape set.
>>> 10 Paper
>>> >>> 5 Book
>>> >>> 2 Embossed Braille book [= Braille]
>>> >>> 1 Paperback book
>>> >>> 4 Comic book
>>> 6 Computer game [= PC game]
>>
>> Is the computer game actually a version of THGTTG as written by
>> Adams, or is it merely based on THGTTG?
>
>The game was written as a join effort by Steve Meretzky of Infocom and
>Douglas Adams. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml
>for an online playable version.
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".)
-- Don
== 9 of 11 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 19 2011 7:17 pm
From: "gerson"
"Mark Brader" <msb@vex.net> wrote in message
> | 4. Name a word that is a preposition ...
> 1 Au (|Xam) (+)
Well, I meant it to be French, but how do you discover that it's a preposition in |Xam
== 10 of 11 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 19 2011 9:17 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)
Mark Brader:
>>>> | 8. Name a medium in which a version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide
>>>> | to the Galaxy" (written originally by Douglas Adams) has been
>>>> | produced and commercially distributed.
Don Del Grande:
> My answer was "audio cassette" - there were two different audio
> cassette releases...
But that doesn't matter, since it's the same medium.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "The E-Mail of the species is more deadly
msb@vex.net | than the Mail." -- Peter Neumann
== 11 of 11 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 19 2011 9:18 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)
Mark Brader:
>> | 4. Name a word that is a preposition ...
>> 1 Au (|Xam) (+)
John Gerson:
> Well, I meant it to be French, but how do you discover that it's a
> preposition in |Xam
With some difficulty!
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 19 2011 3:46 pm
From: Calvin <334152@gmail.com>
On Sep 19, 1:31 pm, m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote:
> "Calvin":
>
> > 2 shillings, 1 shilling and sixpence
>
> For a moment I thought that was 3 answers!
So I get 1 point? :-)
cheers,
calvin
== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 19 2011 6:07 pm
From: Pete
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in
news:jIudnQu5eP9ngunTnZ2dnUVZ_qSdnZ2d@vex.net:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2011-03-07,
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
> both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
> Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
> the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
> the correct answers in about 3 days. For further information see
> my 2011-05-23 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI5GNM, QFTCI11, QFTCIMM)".
>
> I wrote one of these rounds.
>
>
> * Game 7, Round 7 - British English, or Separated by a Common Language
>
> 1. In recent decades British English has copied the North
> American usage for names of large numbers, but what was the
> traditional British name for the number we call one trillion?
Thousand million
>
> 2. This British term for a rude, aggressive, and possibly
> violent young man was apparently derived from the word "boy".
> What is it?
Yob
>
> 3. A(n) <answer 2> who comes to the attention of the law may be
> issued a court order, similar to being put on probation, even
> if his behavior is not criminal in itself. These orders have
> therefore been controversial and they may be abolished soon.
> But meanwhile, they are known by a 4-letter acronym: what
> is it?
>
> 4. We would refer to a 4-lane road as having one outside lane
> and one inside lane in each direction. What is the similar
> British term for what we call the "outside lane"?
Exit lane
>
> 5. In Ontario we used to have "traffic circles"; in New
> England they call them "rotaries". The British term for such
> constructions is now used by some people in North America,
> who give it a more precise definition. What is this term?
Roundabout
>
> 6. The next two questions are about coins in the old British
> money, when a pound was divided into shillings and (old)
> pence. In shillings or pence, as applicable, what was the
> coin nicknamed a "tanner" worth?
10 shillings
>
> 7. In shillings or pence, what was the coin nicknamed a "bob"
> worth?
5 shillings
>
> 8. There are several words for the vehicles that train passengers
> ride in. "Coach" is known on both sides of the Atlantic,
> and today so is "car". But what other word was traditional
> British usage?
>
> 9. We call it zucchini. They sometimes do too, but what else
> do they call it?
>
> 10. We call it arugula. What do they call it?
>
>
> * Game 7, Round 8 - Sports Autobiographies
>
> This is the literature round. We did biographies once before
> this season, but this time it is also the sports round. Name the
> athletes who wrote (or, at least, are credited or co-credited for)
> the following autobiographies or memoirs. In each case we will
> give you the title and year of publication, as well as the sport
> that the athlete is best known for.
>
> 1. "The Sixteenth Round" (1991), boxing.
Muhammad Ali
>
> 2. "Days of Grace" (1994), tennis.
Chris Evert
>
> 3. "Fire on Ice" (1991), hockey.
Bobby Hull
>
> 4. "All My Octobers" (1994), baseball.
Reggie Jackson
>
> 5. "I Had a Hammer" (2007), baseball.
Hank Aaron
>
> 6. "Hitman" (2008), wrestling.
Hulk Hogan
>
> 7. "Every Second Counts" (2004), cycling.
Greg LeMond
>
> 8. "A View From Above" (1991), basketball.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
>
> 9. "Bad as I Wanna Be" (1997), basketball.
Dennis Rodman
>
> 10. "My Side" (2004), soccer.
David Beckham
>
Pete
== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 19 2011 9:46 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)".
> I wrote one of these rounds.
That was the British English round.
> * Game 7, Round 7 - British English, or Separated by a Common Language
> 1. In recent decades British English has copied the North
> American usage for names of large numbers, but what was the
> traditional British name for the number we call one trillion?
One billion. 4 for Joshua, Erland, Peter, Dan Blum, Stephen,
Dan Tilque, Rob, Calvin, and Marc.
> 2. This British term for a rude, aggressive, and possibly
> violent young man was apparently derived from the word "boy".
> What is it?
Yob or yobbo. 4 for Joshua, Peter, Stephen, Dan Tilque, Rob,
and Pete.
> 3. A(n) <answer 2> who comes to the attention of the law may be
> issued a court order, similar to being put on probation, even
> if his behavior is not criminal in itself. These orders have
> therefore been controversial and they may be abolished soon.
> But meanwhile, they are known by a 4-letter acronym: what
> is it?
Asbo. (Anti-Social Behaviour Order.) 4 for Peter, Dan Blum,
Stephen, and Calvin.
> 4. We would refer to a 4-lane road as having one outside lane
> and one inside lane in each direction. What is the similar
> British term for what we call the "outside lane"?
Inside lane.
And, yes, their "outside lane" means the inside lane. We also
accepted "nearside lane", for which the opposite is "offside lane".
> 5. In Ontario we used to have "traffic circles"; in New
> England they call them "rotaries". The British term for such
> constructions is now used by some people in North America,
> who give it a more precise definition. What is this term?
Roundabout. 4 for Stan, Erland, Peter, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Rob,
Calvin, and Pete.
> 6. The next two questions are about coins in the old British
> money, when a pound was divided into shillings and (old)
> pence. In shillings or pence, as applicable, what was the
> coin nicknamed a "tanner" worth?
� shilling or 6 pence. 4 for Peter, Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Rob.
3 for Dan Blum.
> 7. In shillings or pence, what was the coin nicknamed a "bob"
> worth?
1 shilling or 12 pence. 4 for Joshua, Stan, Peter, Stephen,
Dan Tilque, Rob, Calvin, and Marc.
> 8. There are several words for the vehicles that train passengers
> ride in. "Coach" is known on both sides of the Atlantic,
> and today so is "car". But what other word was traditional
> British usage?
Carriage. 4 for Joshua, Stan, Peter, Dan Tilque, Rob, and Calvin.
> 9. We call it zucchini. They sometimes do too, but what else
> do they call it?
Courgette. 4 for Stan, Peter, Stephen, Dan Tilque, Rob, and Calvin.
> 10. We call it arugula. What do they call it?
Rocket. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Rob, and Marc.
I was somewhat amused about 2� hours ago when *tonight's* challenge
round repeated questions 9 and 10 from this game, only reversing
the question/answer direction to ask for "zucchini" and "arugula".
One of the two was left when my term came up, so I got to pick it and,
yes, got it right.
> * Game 7, Round 8 - Sports Autobiographies
> This is the literature round. We did biographies once before
> this season, but this time it is also the sports round. Name the
> athletes who wrote (or, at least, are credited or co-credited for)
> the following autobiographies or memoirs. In each case we will
> give you the title and year of publication, as well as the sport
> that the athlete is best known for.
> 1. "The Sixteenth Round" (1991), boxing.
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. 4 for Stephen.
> 2. "Days of Grace" (1994), tennis.
Arthur Ashe. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Stephen. 2 for Calvin.
> 3. "Fire on Ice" (1991), hockey.
Eric Lindros.
> 4. "All My Octobers" (1994), baseball.
Mickey Mantle. 4 for Stephen and Marc.
> 5. "I Had a Hammer" (2007), baseball.
Henry "Hammerin' Hank" Aaron. 4 for Joshua, Stephen, Dan Tilque,
Marc, and Pete.
> 6. "Hitman" (2008), wrestling.
Bret "Hitman" Hart. 4 for Joshua and Stephen.
> 7. "Every Second Counts" (2004), cycling.
Lance Armstrong. 4 for Joshua, Peter, Dan Blum, Stephen, Dan Tilque,
Rob, and Marc. 3 for Calvin.
> 8. "A View From Above" (1991), basketball.
Wilt Chamberlain. 4 for Marc. 3 for Stephen.
> 9. "Bad as I Wanna Be" (1997), basketball.
Dennis Rodman. 4 for Joshua, Peter, Dan Blum, Stephen, Dan Tilque,
Rob, Calvin, Marc, and Pete.
> 10. "My Side" (2004), soccer.
David Beckham. 4 for Peter, Stephen, Dan Tilque, Rob, and Pete.
Scores, if there are no errors:
ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Sci Ent Geo Can Mis Lit
Stephen Perry 28 32 36 22 24 35 131
Peter Smyth 40 8 32 0 32 12 116
Joshua Kreitzer 40 36 17 13 20 20 116
Dan Tilque 40 8 16 14 28 16 100
Marc Dashevsky 36 24 8 8 12 20 92
Rob Parker 32 14 8 10 32 12 90
"Calvin" 24 15 26 5 24 9 89
Dan Blum 40 16 10 3 19 12 87
Erland Sommarskog 27 0 8 0 8 0 43
Jeff Turner 40 0 -- -- -- -- 40
Pete Gayde -- -- 9 8 8 12 37
Stan Brown -- -- -- -- 16 0 16
--
Mark Brader "You mean he made love to you?"
Toronto "Well, he went through all the emotions."
msb@vex.net -- EVERY DAY'S A HOLIDAY
My text in this article is in the public domain.
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 19 2011 9:49 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2011-03-07,
and should be interpreted accordingly.
On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,
based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
the correct answers in about 3 days. For further information see
my 2011-05-23 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI5GNM, QFTCI11, QFTCIMM)".
I 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?
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?
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?
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"?
5. Where was the first atomic bomb, as they called it in those
days, exploded?
6. Either name the first lethal poison gas to be used in World
War I, or the battle site where it was first used.
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?
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?
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?
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.
After completing the round, decode the rot13: Vs lbh nafjrerq nal
dhrfgvba jvgu whfg gur anzr bs n pbhagel, jr arrq fbzrguvat n ovg
zber fcrpvsvp. Tb onpx naq nqq fbzrguvat zber fcrpvsvp.
* 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?
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?
B. Who Lives There (Geography)
B1. What is the term for a resident of Sydney, Australia?
B2. What is the term for a resident of Manchester, England?
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?
D. Not so Tiny (Miscellaneous)
D1. What is the heaviest model of passenger airliner now in
regular commercial fleet service?
D2. What is the heaviest species among the big cats?
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.
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?
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "Information! ... We want information!"
msb@vex.net -- The Prisoner
My text in this article is in the public domain.
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 19 2011 11:18 pm
From: Joachim Parsch
Mark Brader schrieb:
>
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2011-03-07,
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
> both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
> Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
> the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
> the correct answers in about 3 days. For further information see
> my 2011-05-23 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI5GNM, QFTCI11, QFTCIMM)".
>
> I 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?
Discovery of 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?
>
> 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"?
>
> 5. Where was the first atomic bomb, as they called it in those
> days, exploded?
Hiroshima.
> 6. Either name the first lethal poison gas to be used in World
> War I, or the battle site where it was first used.
Chlor.
> 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?
In German its called "Kr�henfu�" (Crowfoot)
> 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?
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
Musket?
> After completing the round, decode the rot13: Vs lbh nafjrerq nal
> dhrfgvba jvgu whfg gur anzr bs n pbhagel, jr arrq fbzrguvat n ovg
> zber fcrpvsvp. Tb onpx naq nqq fbzrguvat zber fcrpvsvp.
>
> * 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?
>
> 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 Grinch.
> B. Who Lives There (Geography)
>
> B1. What is the term for a resident of Sydney, Australia?
Inhabitant of Sydney.
> B2. What is the term for a resident of Manchester, England?
Inhabitant of Manchester.
> 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?
Vulkan.
> 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?
Ether.
> D. Not so Tiny (Miscellaneous)
>
> D1. What is the heaviest model of passenger airliner now in
> regular commercial fleet service?
Airbus A380.
> D2. What is the heaviest species among the big cats?
Sibirian Tiger.
> 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.
>
> 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?
Toronto-Montreal Highway.
> F2. When Horton played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, what
> number did he wear?
33.
Joachim
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TOPIC: Rotating Quiz #32 results - Capone's cabbie wanted repairman
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/3baea04abd454147?hl=en
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 19 2011 10:08 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)
Mark Brader:
> This is a quiz quilt in the manner of Robert Jen, but as you will
> see when you solve it, not exactly.
> If you write down the correct answers to these 7 questions in order
> along successive rows of a grid, you will find the "quilt" answer
> reading upward or downward along a column, or along the diagonal
> starting from the top or bottom left corner, or along the last letters
> of the answers. The four words at the end of the subject line are
> a hint at the "quilt" answer.
> Score is 1 point for each regular answer and 3 points for the
> "quilt". Correct spelling is required for full points. If any
> questions have alternative answers that don't fit the "quilt",
> these will not be considered correct.
> 1. [Literature] This is a dramatic monologue that occurs in some
> plays. What is the term for it?
SOLILOQUY. 1 for Calvin, Joachim, Marc, Stephen, Peter, Pete,
Dan, and Rob.
> 2. [Sports] What current baseball team at one time shared a home
> stadium with the New York Yankees for about 10 years?
SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS. I gave the name New York Yankees in full as
a hint that an answer in the same style would be needed. 1 for Marc
and Stephen.
> 3. [Science] What is the only chemical element named after a moon
> in our solar system?
SELENIUM, after our Moon. 1 for Marc, Stephen, Dan, and Rob.
Titanium, like Titan, was named after the Titans of Greek myth.
> 4. [History] The failure of Nazi Germany to conquer this city after
> months of combat was a turning point of World War II. Its name
> at that time is commemorated today by a station on the Metro in
> Paris. What was the city called?
STALINGRAD. Today the city is Volgograd, Russia, and the station is
an interchange between Lines 2, 5, and 7. 1 for everyone -- Calvin,
Joachim, Marc, Erland, Stephen, Peter, Pete, Dan, and Rob.
> 5. [Geography] What country's capital city is Juba?
SOUTH SUDAN, the world's newest country. 1 for Calvin, Joachim,
Erland, Stephen, Pete, Dan, and Rob.
> 6. [Miscellanous] What type of hat is so named because it shades
> the wearer's head?
SOMBRERO, from Spanish "sombra", shade. 1 for Joachim, Stephen,
Peter, Pete, and Dan.
> 7. [Music] Who lived on Second Avenue, in a Barbra Streisand song?
SECOND HAND ROSE. (See also Rotating Quiz #6, from February.)
I did not insist on the space in SECONDHAND. 1 for Stephen and Rob.
> 8. [Quilt]
Several people who got most or all of the answers were distracted
by sssssssome ssssssshiny objectsssssss when trying to identify the
"quilt" answer, but I was somewhat amazed that nobody got it right.
Scores:
Stephen Perry 7
Dan Tilque 5
Rob Parker 5
Pete Gayde 4
Joachim Parsch 4
Marc Dashevsky 4
Peter Smyth 3
"Calvin" 3
Erland Sommarskog 2
And the rotation goes to Stephen.
Oh, the "quilt" answer? Well, let me leave that as a puzzle for fun.
You now have all 7 regular answers, the Subject-line clue, and the
additional hint concealed in this posting, and you also know that
SSSSSSS isssssss wrong. Please try again, now for no points. I will
reveal the answer in another day or so if nobody gets it first.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "In cyberspace, the lunatics not only run the asylum,
msb@vex.net | but they helped build it..." --Richard Kadrey
My text in this article is in the public domain.
== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 19 2011 11:09 pm
From: Joshua Kreitzer
On Sep 20, 12:08 am, m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote:
>
> Oh, the "quilt" answer? Well, let me leave that as a puzzle for fun.
> You now have all 7 regular answers, the Subject-line clue, and the
> additional hint concealed in this posting, and you also know that
> SSSSSSS isssssss wrong. Please try again, now for no points. I will
> reveal the answer in another day or so if nobody gets it first.
SOLILOQUY
SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS
SELENIUM
STALINGRAD
SOUTH SUDAN
SOMBRERO
SECOND HAND ROSE
The answer appears to be DE NIRO, in the sixth column reading upward.
(One needs to include the spaces in "SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS" and "SOUTH
SUDAN" for the quilt to work.) Robert De Niro played Al Capone in "The
Untouchables" and a cabbie in "Taxi Driver," although I don't know
what the "wanted repairman" refers to.
--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com
== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Sep 20 2011 12:53 am
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)
Joshua Kreitzer:
> SOLILOQUY
> SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS
> SELENIUM
> STALINGRAD
> SOUTH SUDAN
> SOMBRERO
> SECOND HAND ROSE
>
> The answer appears to be DE NIRO, in the sixth column reading upward.
Correct!
> (One needs to include the spaces in "SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS" and "SOUTH
> SUDAN" for the quilt to work.)
Right. That's part of what I meant when I said I wasn't exactly
following Robert's rules of ord-- er, of Quiz Quilt; the other part
is that I allowed multi-word answers at all.
The concealed hint in the answer posting was the note that I did not
insist on the space in SECOND HAND.
> Robert De Niro played Al Capone in "The Untouchables" and a cabbie
> in "Taxi Driver,"
Right...
> although I don't know what the "wanted repairman" refers to.
"Wanted" is an adjective, not a verb. In "Brazil" (1985) he played a
man declared a wanted terrorist by the authorities for violating their
monopoly on repair work.
And we're done. Over to Stephen for #33.
--
Mark Brader | The only trouble was, no despot had the resources to plan
msb@vex.net | every detail in his society's behavior. Not even planet-
Toronto | wrecker bombs had as dire a reputation for eliminating
| civilizations. --Vernor Vinge, "A Deepness in the Sky"
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