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* QFTCI11 Game 8 Rounds 4-5: formerly, dead poets - 3 messages, 2 authors
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TOPIC: QFTCI11 Game 8 Rounds 4-5: formerly, dead poets
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 26 2011 9:56 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)
Mark Brader:
> > 7. Revenue Canada.
"Calvin":
> Canadian taxation office, Canadian customs and excise
> Was this changed recent?
I believe the following is correct. The Department of National
Revenue was renamed "Revenue Canada" in 1970. In 1999 it became
the "Canada Customs and Revenue Agency", indicating a tighter
union of its tax and customs branches. Then in 2003 the customs
function was split off to a separate agency and the present name
was adopted.
Hmm. I guess I should accept the customs agency's name too, as a
successor to the other part of Revenue Canada.
--
Mark Brader | "I believe we can build a better world!
Toronto | Of course, it'll take a whole lot of rock, water and dirt.
msb@vex.net | Also, not sure where to put it." --Mark MacKenzie
== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Sep 27 2011 4:01 am
From: Dan Tilque
Mark Brader wrote:
>
> I wrote one of these rounds.
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Formerly Known As
>
> In each case, we give you an obsolete name; you give us the
> current name corresponding to it.
>
> 1. Upper Volta.
Burkina Faso
> 2. Dephlogisticated air ("DEE-flow-JIST-ik-eight'd").
oxygen
> 3. The Nashville Network.
The Grand Ol' Opry
> 4. Marky Mark.
Mark Brader
> 5. Sextilis.
July
> 6. New York Highlanders.
New York Yankees
> 7. Revenue Canada.
> 8. Andersen Consulting.
> 9. Larboard.
port
> 10. Stalingrad.
Volgograd
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 5 - Dead Poets Society
>
> This is the literature round. In its original form as an audio
> round, each piece of poetry was read by its own author. For each
> poet we will give you their date of birth, and the US state or UK
> country where they were born, although that may not be where they
> did the work they are known for.
>
> In each case, of course, name the poet. As the round's title
> indicates, all of them are now dead.
>
> *Note*: Since this was an audio round, you're supposed to be
> identifying the poets from the words you would have heard spoken,
> and not from the way the words are presented visually. So for
> newsgroup purposes I've edited the excerpts into a single common
> style as regards indentation, capitalization, and punctuation,
> and in some cases also tampered with the line breaks.
>
> 1. Born 1893, New Jersey.
>
> Love long has taken for his amulet
> One perfect rose.
>
> Why is it no one ever sent me yet
> One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
> Ah no, it's always just my luck to get
> One perfect rose.
e e cummings
>
> 2. Born 1914, Wales.
>
> When the morning was waking over the war
> He put on his clothes and stepped out and he died,
> The locks yawned loose and a blast blew them wide,
> He dropped where he loved on the burst pavement stone
> And the funeral grains of the slaughtered floor.
Dylan Thomas
>
> 3. Born 1865, Ireland.
>
> I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
> And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
> Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
> And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
>
> 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.
Woody Guthrie
>
> 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.
Robert Frost
>
> 6. Born 1888, Missouri.
>
> In the room the women come and go
> Talking of Michelangelo.
>
> The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
> The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
> Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening...
TS Eliot
>
> 7. Born 1932, Massachusetts.
>
> I have done it again.
> One year in every ten I manage it--
>
> A sort of walking miracle, my skin
> Bright as a Nazi lampshade, my right foot
> A paperweight, my face a featureless, fine Jew linen.
> Peel off the napkin, O my enemy. Do I terrify?--
>
> Yes, yes, Herr Professor, It is I. Can you deny
> The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
Robert Frost
>
> 8. Born 1902, New York (state).
>
> That is why marriage is so much more interesting than divorce,
> Because it's the only known example of the happy meeting of
> The immovable object and the irresistible force.
> So I hope that husbands and wives will continue to debate and
> Combat over everything debatable and combatable,
> Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life,
> Particularly if he has income and she is pattable.
>
> 9. Born 1878, Illinois.
>
> When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs,
> He forgot the copperheads and the assassin...
> In the dust, in the cool tombs.
>
> And Ulysses Grant lost all thought of con men and Wall Street,
> Cash and collateral turned ashes...
> In the dust, in the cool tombs.
>
> 10. Born 1926, New Jersey.
>
> What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman,
> For I walked down the sidestreets under the trees
> With a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
>
> In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went
> Into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
>
> What peaches and what penumbras!
> Whole families shopping at night!
> Aisles full of husbands!
> Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!
>
> --And you, Garcia Lorca,
> What were you doing down by the watermelons?
Robert Frost
>
> After finishing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh jebgr
> "Uhturf" sbe nal nafjre, jr arrq gur shyy anzr. Cyrnfr tb onpx
> naq chg va gur tvira anzr.
>
--
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: 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"
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