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== 1 of 7 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 26 2011 10:12 am
From: Jeffrey Turner
On 9/25/2011 11:39 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> * 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.
Benin
> 2. Dephlogisticated air ("DEE-flow-JIST-ik-eight'd").
Nitrogen
> 3. The Nashville Network.
CM
> 4. Marky Mark.
> 5. Sextilis.
> 6. New York Highlanders.
New York Yankees
> 7. Revenue Canada.
> 8. Andersen Consulting.
> 9. Larboard.
Port
> 10. Stalingrad.
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 5 - Dead Poets Society
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
Joyce
> 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.
>
> 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.
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...
Ferlinghetti
> 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?
Hoffman
> 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.
Nash, Cummings
> 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.
Sandburg
> 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?
Abbie Hoffman
abcdefghijklm
nopqrstuvwxyz
> After finishing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh jebgr
If you wrote
> "Uhturf" sbe nal nafjre, jr arrq gur shyy anzr. Cyrnfr tb onpx
Hughes
> naq chg va gur tvira anzr.
--Jeff
== 2 of 7 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 26 2011 11:33 am
From: "Peter Smyth"
"Mark Brader" wrote in message
news:wPWdncc4vpt4buLTnZ2dnUVZ_oadnZ2d@vex.net...
>* 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").
Nitrogen
>3. The Nashville Network.
TNN
>4. Marky Mark.
Mark Wahlberg
>5. Sextilis.
August
>6. New York Highlanders.
New York Rangers
>7. Revenue Canada.
Canada Revenue
>8. Andersen Consulting.
Accenture
>9. Larboard.
Port
>10. Stalingrad.
Peter Smyth
== 3 of 7 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 26 2011 12:35 pm
From: Erland Sommarskog
Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:
> 1. Upper Volta.
Burkina Faso
> 2. Dephlogisticated air ("DEE-flow-JIST-ik-eight'd").
Nitrogen
> 4. Marky Mark.
Mark Brader (did you expect any other answer? :-)
> 5. Sextilis.
August
> 6. New York Highlanders.
> 7. Revenue Canada.
> 8. Andersen Consulting.
Accenture
> 10. Stalingrad.
Tsaritsyn. No, that was the name before it was Stalingrad. These
days it's Volgograd. (Seems that this city has been in many quizzes
lately.)
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
== 4 of 7 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 26 2011 5:10 pm
From: swp
On Sunday, September 25, 2011 11:39:17 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:
> * 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.
french upper volta ;-)
> 2. Dephlogisticated air ("DEE-flow-JIST-ik-eight'd").
oxygen
> 3. The Nashville Network.
spike
> 4. Marky Mark.
mark wahlberg
> 5. Sextilis.
august
> 6. New York Highlanders.
new york yankees
> 7. Revenue Canada.
london
> 8. Andersen Consulting.
accenture
> 9. Larboard.
port ; starboard
> 10. Stalingrad.
saint petersburg
> * Game 8, Round 5 - Dead Poets Society
>
> 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.
walt whitman
> 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.
w. b. yeats
> 4. Born 1902, Missouri.
>
> So boy, don't you turn back.
> Don't you set down on the steps
> 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
> Don't you fall now --
> For I'se still goin', honey,
> I'se still climbin',
> And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
langston hughes ; led zepplin
> 5. Born 1892, Maine.
>
> Childhood is not from birth to a certain age
> And at a certain age the child is grown,
> And puts away childish things.
> Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
>
> Nobody that matters, that is.
edna .. saint vincent millay?
> 6. Born 1888, Missouri.
>
> In the room the women come and go
> Talking of Michelangelo.
>
> The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
> The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
> Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening...
t. s. elliot
> 7. Born 1932, Massachusetts.
>
> I have done it again.
> One year in every ten I manage it--
>
> A sort of walking miracle, my skin
> Bright as a Nazi lampshade, my right foot
> A paperweight, my face a featureless, fine Jew linen.
> Peel off the napkin, O my enemy. Do I terrify?--
>
> Yes, yes, Herr Professor, It is I. Can you deny
> The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
sylvia ...something
> 8. Born 1902, New York (state).
>
> That is why marriage is so much more interesting than divorce,
> Because it's the only known example of the happy meeting of
> The immovable object and the irresistible force.
> So I hope that husbands and wives will continue to debate and
> Combat over everything debatable and combatable,
> Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life,
> Particularly if he has income and she is pattable.
ogden nash
> 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.
no idea
> 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?
ginsberg?
swp
== 5 of 7 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 26 2011 6:40 pm
From: Pete
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in
news:wPWdncc4vpt4buLTnZ2dnUVZ_oadnZ2d@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 2011-09-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI11, QFTCIMM)".
>
>
> Usually I would post Rounds 4 and 6 of the game together, since
> Round 5 is audio and I'm not doing audio. But, as you will recall,
> Game 8, Round 6, was a second Current Events round (for Canadiana)
> and therefore has already been posted. And on the other hand,
> in this game the audio round, instead of music as usual, was the
> literature round. Well, if you know the words, you won't need the
> audio -- so for this set, instead of Rounds 4 and 6, I'm posting
> Rounds *4 and 5*.
>
> I wrote one of these rounds.
>
>
> * 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").
Ozone
> 3. The Nashville Network.
Country Music Television
> 4. Marky Mark.
Ice T
> 5. Sextilis.
> 6. New York Highlanders.
New York Yankees
> 7. Revenue Canada.
> 8. Andersen Consulting.
Accenture
> 9. Larboard.
Port
> 10. Stalingrad.
Volgagrad
>
>
> * 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.
>
> 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.
Joyce
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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...
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
Thurber
>
> 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.
Sandburg
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
>
Pete
== 6 of 7 ==
Date: Mon, Sep 26 2011 7:23 pm
From: Calvin <334152@gmail.com>
On Sep 26, 1:39 pm, m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote:
> * 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").
Nitrogen, oxygen
> 3. The Nashville Network.
> 4. Marky Mark.
> 5. Sextilis.
> 6. New York Highlanders.
Rangers, Devil Rays
> 7. Revenue Canada.
Canadian taxation office, Canadian customs and excise
Was this changed recent?
> 8. Andersen Consulting.
KPMG, Deloittes
Didn't realise they'd been resurrected.
> 9. Larboard.
> 10. Stalingrad.
Volvograd
> * 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.
>
> 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.
Yeats
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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...
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
Parker?
> 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?
cheers,
calvin
== 7 of 7 ==
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
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