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TOPIC: QFTCI11 Game 8 Rounds 2-3: commanders, angles
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== 1 of 4 ==
Date: Fri, Sep 23 2011 8:46 pm
From: Marc Dashevsky
In article <lsGdnUj7x-1VnOHTnZ2dnUVZ_vidnZ2d@vex.net>, msb@vex.net says...
> * Game 8, Round 2 - Military Commanders
>
> For each question, we will describe a military commander in history;
> you name him. (Yes, "him" is the correct pronoun in every case.
> See how helpful we are with the hints?)
>
> 1. Considered ancient Rome's greatest opponent, he led the
> Carthaginian forces across the Alps into Italy during the
> Second Punic War and inflicted devastating defeats on the
> Roman armies, although he was unable to conquer Rome itself.
> After about 16 years he was defeated by Scipio ("Skippy-o")
> Africanus at Zama (near Carthage). He later committed
> suicide rather than be turned over to Rome.
Hannibal
> 2. Second in command of the Parliamentary forces during the First
> English Civil War, he was later appointed Commander-in-Chief
> and Captain General when the wars resumed. His organization
> of the "New Model Army" was superb and they won many battles.
> He eventually ruled England as Lord Protector.
>
> 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.
Egbert
> 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 Zulu
> 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?
magnetic declination
> 2. The practice of measuring the direction that something is
> pointing in degrees clockwise from north applies to various
> devices such as airplanes, big guns, telescopes (the kind that
> aren't oriented to the celestial north pole), and of course
> compasses. What is the term for that angular measurement?
azimuth
> 3. That telescope or big gun in the last question also needs
> to be raised to point at a certain angle above the horizontal.
> What is the term for *that* angular measurement?
attitude
> 4. In optics, what term refers to the angle at which light
> falls on a lens or mirror, before being refracted or
> reflected?
angle of incidence
> 5. When a soft or powdery substance such as earth, sand, or
> snow is formed into a pile, for any particular substance
> there is a maximum angle that the sides of that pile can
> rise at. If the pile is made any steeper, it will collapse.
> What's the term for this maximum angle?
>
> 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?
yaw
> 7. In aviation, and specifically in airplane design, this term
> refers to the angle by which the wingtips are raised above
> the place where the wings meet the body. In math, the same
> term is used for the angle formed between two intersecting
> geometrical planes. Name it.
>
> 8. Also in math, two angles that total 90° are called what?
complementary
> 9. Angles in math are often measured not in degrees but in
> radians. How large is that 90° angle in radians?
pi/2
> 10. In medicine, this is the most common type of glaucoma.
> The name refers to the fact that although the pressure in
> the eye is too high, this is *not* because the eye's drainage
> channel is *blocked*. What type of glaucoma is this? Hint:
> remember what the round is about.
angular glaucoma
--
Go to http://MarcDashevsky.com to send me e-mail.
== 2 of 4 ==
Date: Sat, Sep 24 2011 1:56 am
From: "Peter Smyth"
"Mark Brader" wrote in message
news:lsGdnUj7x-1VnOHTnZ2dnUVZ_vidnZ2d@vex.net...
>* Game 8, Round 2 - Military Commanders
>
>For each question, we will describe a military commander in history;
>you name him. (Yes, "him" is the correct pronoun in every case.
>See how helpful we are with the hints?)
>
>1. Considered ancient Rome's greatest opponent, he led the
> Carthaginian forces across the Alps into Italy during the
> Second Punic War and inflicted devastating defeats on the
> Roman armies, although he was unable to conquer Rome itself.
> After about 16 years he was defeated by Scipio ("Skippy-o")
> Africanus at Zama (near Carthage). He later committed
> suicide rather than be turned over to Rome.
Hannibal
>2. Second in command of the Parliamentary forces during the First
> English Civil War, he was later appointed Commander-in-Chief
> and Captain General when the wars resumed. His organization
> of the "New Model Army" was superb and they won many battles.
> He eventually ruled England as Lord Protector.
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
>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.
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, Montgomery
>8. In the American army, in 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt
> promoted this man from captain directly to brigadier general,
> over the heads of 862 senior officers. In May 1917 he was
> appointed commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary
> forces going to France, and kept the US troops as a distinct
> national army. He was eventually promoted to the newly
> created rank of "general of the armies of the United States",
> and is the only living person to have held it, although George
> Washington later received it retroactively. It is considered
> to outrank even the 5-star general or "general of the army"
> rank created during World War II. Who was he?
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.
>
>10. World War I produced three marshals of France. One was
> commander-in-chief of the French army for the first 2 years.
> Another was commander-in-chief in 1917 (and made marshal
> two weeks after the Armistice). The third was appointed
> generalissimo (or supreme general) of the Allied armies
> in 1918. Name any one.
Petain
>
>* Game 8, Round 3 - Angles
>
>1. The needle of a standard compass aligns with the Earth's
> magnetic field and therefore, in most places, the direction
> it points is not true north. What's the term for the angle
> by which it differs from true north?
magnetic drift
>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
>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?
elevation
>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?
pitch
>7. In aviation, and specifically in airplane design, this term
> refers to the angle by which the wingtips are raised above
> the place where the wings meet the body. In math, the same
> term is used for the angle formed between two intersecting
> geometrical planes. Name it.
>
>8. Also in math, two angles that total 90° are called what?
complementary
>9. Angles in math are often measured not in degrees but in
> radians. How large is that 90° angle in radians?
Pi/2
>10. In medicine, this is the most common type of glaucoma.
> The name refers to the fact that although the pressure in
> the eye is too high, this is *not* because the eye's drainage
> channel is *blocked*. What type of glaucoma is this? Hint:
> remember what the round is about.
Acute
Peter Smyth
== 3 of 4 ==
Date: Sat, Sep 24 2011 12:43 pm
From: Stan Brown
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:13:39 -0500, Mark Brader wrote:
>
> Mark Brader:
> > > * Game 8, Round 3 - Angles
>
> Jeff Turner:
> > Next round: Saxons
>
> Arrrrgh! Oh, the pain of the missed opportunity!
"Non Angli, sed angeli."
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...
== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Sat, Sep 24 2011 1:16 pm
From: Pete
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:lsGdnUj7x-
1VnOHTnZ2dnUVZ_vidnZ2d@vex.net:
> 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.
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.
>
> 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.
Zhukov
>
> 5. This Grand Prince of Vladimir and Kiev, and ruler of
> Novgorod, lived 1220-65. He defeated the invading Swedes;
> he defeated the Teutonic knights on the frozen Lake Peipus.
> He was immortalized in a movie directed by Sergei Eisenstein,
> whose score by Sergei Prokofiev was also performed in concert.
Alexander Nevsky
>
> 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.
William
>
> 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.
>
> 10. World War I produced three marshals of France. One was
> commander-in-chief of the French army for the first 2 years.
> Another was commander-in-chief in 1917 (and made marshal
> two weeks after the Armistice). The third was appointed
> generalissimo (or supreme general) of the Allied armies
> in 1918. Name any one.
Petain
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 3 - Angles
>
> 1. The needle of a standard compass aligns with the Earth's
> magnetic field and therefore, in most places, the direction
> it points is not true north. What's the term for the angle
> by which it differs from true north?
>
> 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?
Angle of inclination
>
> 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?
Complementary
>
> 9. Angles in math are often measured not in degrees but in
> radians. How large is that 90° angle in radians?
100
>
> 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.
>
Pete
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TOPIC: *Results* of Rare Entries Contest MSB72
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sat, Sep 24 2011 5:08 pm
From: russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)
In article <h3tf77p455qgarhc7f3tt0f4bfet9l6hjc@4ax.com>,
Don Del Grande <del_grande_news@earthlink.net> wrote:
>I remember talking to Adams in 1987 (at a signing of "Dirk Gently's
>Holistic Detective Agency" in London), and the last thing he said to
>me was that they were just about ready to start work on a sequel
>(which, alas, was never made). (He did help make another Infocom
>game, "Bureaucracy".)
The stub of the Hitchhiker's game sequel (milliways) was eventually
released.
--
The problem with socialism is there's always
someone with less ability and more need.
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