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== 1 of 13 ==
Date: Sun, Oct 16 2011 11:42 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)

These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2011-03-28,
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)".

I did not write either of these rounds.

* Game 10, Round 2 - Inventors and Inventions

In each case we'll describe an invention and something about the
circumstances, and you name the inventor.

1. This man invented the air conditioner, in the US in 1902,
one year after he graduated from Cornell. He patented it in
1906, and became known as "the father of air conditioning",
although that name for it was invented by someone else.

2. The hot-air balloon was invented by two brothers, in France
in 1782. The following year it was used for the first actual
ascent by a person into the air. One of the brothers had
noted that laundry drying over a fire often formed pockets
and billowed upwards. Their surname is sufficient.

3. The electric storage battery was invented in Italy in 1800 by
this professor of physics. In earlier years he had invented a
"pile" which bears his name and produced electric current:
it consisted of alternating disks of zinc and copper with
brine-soaked cardboard between.

4. The bifocal lens was invented in the US by this multi-talented
American. The date usually given is 1784, though there
is some evidence that he might have ordered them made in
1779 by an English optician living in Paris. In any case,
name the American inventor.

5. Invented in the US in 1793, the cotton gin automated the
separation of cotton seeds from the short-staple cotton
fiber. There had been earlier devices that removed seeds,
but this one facilitated the mass production of cotton --
and incidentally made cotton plantations so profitable that
the institution of slavery was extended. The inventor of
the cotton gin didn't get rich from it, because of patent
infringements, but he did after he also invented a process
of manufacturing interchangeable musket parts.

6. Nitroglycerine, or nitro, was invented by an Italian in
1846, but was too volatile and unstable to be used safely.
This Swedish engineer and inventor invented a blasting cap
to detonate nitro, and in 1866 he invented dynamite by mixing
nitro with diatomaceous earth and shaping it into a cylinder.
It was patented in 1867. Name the Swede.

7. Elevating devices were in use as far back as the 3rd century
BC, and powered elevators in the 19th century. This American
inventor started work in 1852 on a braking device that
prevented elevators from falling even if the cables broke.
After its successful demonstration at the Crystal Exposition
in New York, he formed an elevator manufacturing company.
His device eventually made high-rise buildings practical.
Name him.

8. From the Inuit in Labrador this American inventor learned that
fish frozen quickly at -40° tasted fresh when thawed. In 1924
he developed a commercially viable process of flash-freezing
pre-cartoned fish, thus beginning the frozen food industry
for all sorts of products. In 1929 he sold his company and
patents for $22 million to Goldman Sachs (yes, them) and the
Postum Company, who then formed General Foods Corporation.
Name this inventor.

9. In 1938 this Hungarian journalist, with the help of his
brother, invented the ballpoint pen by using quick-drying
newsprint ink and a small ball bearing at the tip. This
process had actually been patented 50 years earlier as a
device to mark leather, but it wasn't properly exploited then.
The Hungarian inventor's name has become the generic term
for the product in much of the world; name him.

10. This Canadian invented the snowmobile in 1922 when he was
15 years old, by attaching a Ford motor to a sled. In 1937
he produced his first real snowmobile, and in 1958-59,
his biggest invention -- the Ski-Doo. Name him.

* Game 10, Round 3 - Children's Television

This round will be easier if you're about the same age as the person
who wrote it -- but, hey, quite a few of us in the league are.

1. Which host started his eponymous show by setting out three
chairs, including "a rocking chair for someone who likes
to rock"?

2. What was Bob Keeshan better known as?

3. Which show featured the host looking into her mirror and
pretending to see viewers (e.g., "I see Danny, I see Vicky,
and I see Sharon...")?

4. Which show helped children learn French -- at least, if
they were smarter than Suzie the Mouse, who never broke out
of English?

5. Lambchop, Charlie Horse, and Hush Puppy were regulars on
what show named for its human star?

6. Which frequent guest from Italy on the Ed Sullivan Show
always said "I love you, Eddie" and never left without a kiss?

7. Which show starring Howard the Turtle was a bit unusual in
the '60s for being taped in front of a live audience?

8. What was Mr. Dressup's real name?

9. On what show would you sooner or later hear "Five! Five!
Five! Five! That's a lot of five! How many is five?"

10. What BBC show became familiar even to childless adults when
Jerry Falwell claimed one of the characters was gay?

--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "I asked you for a *good* reason,
msb@vex.net | not a *terrific* one!" --Maxwell Smart (Agent 86)

My text in this article is in the public domain.

== 2 of 13 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 17 2011 1:18 am
From: Joshua Kreitzer

On Oct 17, 1:42 am, m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote:
>
> * Game 10, Round 2 - Inventors and Inventions
>
> 1. This man invented the air conditioner, in the US in 1902,
> one year after he graduated from Cornell. He patented it in
> 1906, and became known as "the father of air conditioning",
> although that name for it was invented by someone else.

Carrier

Montgolfier

> 3. The electric storage battery was invented in Italy in 1800 by
> this professor of physics. In earlier years he had invented a
> "pile" which bears his name and produced electric current:
> it consisted of alternating disks of zinc and copper with
> brine-soaked cardboard between.

Volta

> 4. The bifocal lens was invented in the US by this multi-talented
> American. The date usually given is 1784, though there
> is some evidence that he might have ordered them made in
> 1779 by an English optician living in Paris. In any case,
> name the American inventor.

Franklin

Whitney

> 6. Nitroglycerine, or nitro, was invented by an Italian in
> 1846, but was too volatile and unstable to be used safely.
> This Swedish engineer and inventor invented a blasting cap
> to detonate nitro, and in 1866 he invented dynamite by mixing
> nitro with diatomaceous earth and shaping it into a cylinder.
> It was patented in 1867. Name the Swede.

Nobel

Otis

> 8. From the Inuit in Labrador this American inventor learned that
> fish frozen quickly at -40° tasted fresh when thawed. In 1924
> he developed a commercially viable process of flash-freezing
> pre-cartoned fish, thus beginning the frozen food industry
> for all sorts of products. In 1929 he sold his company and
> patents for $22 million to Goldman Sachs (yes, them) and the
> Postum Company, who then formed General Foods Corporation.
> Name this inventor.

Birdseye

> 9. In 1938 this Hungarian journalist, with the help of his
> brother, invented the ballpoint pen by using quick-drying
> newsprint ink and a small ball bearing at the tip. This
> process had actually been patented 50 years earlier as a
> device to mark leather, but it wasn't properly exploited then.
> The Hungarian inventor's name has become the generic term
> for the product in much of the world; name him.

Biro

> * Game 10, Round 3 - Children's Television
>
> 2. What was Bob Keeshan better known as?

Captain Kangaroo

> 3. Which show featured the host looking into her mirror and
> pretending to see viewers (e.g., "I see Danny, I see Vicky,
> and I see Sharon...")?

"Romper Room"
(I wouldn't be surprised if there was more than one correct answer to
this question)

> 5. Lambchop, Charlie Horse, and Hush Puppy were regulars on
> what show named for its human star?

"The Shari Lewis Show"

> 6. Which frequent guest from Italy on the Ed Sullivan Show
> always said "I love you, Eddie" and never left without a kiss?

Topo Gigio

> 9. On what show would you sooner or later hear "Five! Five!
> Five! Five! That's a lot of five! How many is five?"

"Sesame Street" (?)
(note: "Sesame Street" had a song like this in the "Baker" segments,
but the lyrics don't match exactly)

> 10. What BBC show became familiar even to childless adults when
> Jerry Falwell claimed one of the characters was gay?

"Teletubbies"

--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com

== 3 of 13 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 17 2011 2:39 am
From: Dan Tilque

Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 2 - Inventors and Inventions
>
> In each case we'll describe an invention and something about the
> circumstances, and you name the inventor.
>
> 1. This man invented the air conditioner, in the US in 1902,
> one year after he graduated from Cornell. He patented it in
> 1906, and became known as "the father of air conditioning",
> although that name for it was invented by someone else.
>
> 2. The hot-air balloon was invented by two brothers, in France
> in 1782. The following year it was used for the first actual
> ascent by a person into the air. One of the brothers had
> noted that laundry drying over a fire often formed pockets
> and billowed upwards. Their surname is sufficient.

Montgolfier

>
> 3. The electric storage battery was invented in Italy in 1800 by
> this professor of physics. In earlier years he had invented a
> "pile" which bears his name and produced electric current:
> it consisted of alternating disks of zinc and copper with
> brine-soaked cardboard between.

Volta

>
> 4. The bifocal lens was invented in the US by this multi-talented
> American. The date usually given is 1784, though there
> is some evidence that he might have ordered them made in
> 1779 by an English optician living in Paris. In any case,
> name the American inventor.

Ben Franklin

>
> 5. Invented in the US in 1793, the cotton gin automated the
> separation of cotton seeds from the short-staple cotton
> fiber. There had been earlier devices that removed seeds,
> but this one facilitated the mass production of cotton --
> and incidentally made cotton plantations so profitable that
> the institution of slavery was extended. The inventor of
> the cotton gin didn't get rich from it, because of patent
> infringements, but he did after he also invented a process
> of manufacturing interchangeable musket parts.

Eli Whitney

>
> 6. Nitroglycerine, or nitro, was invented by an Italian in
> 1846, but was too volatile and unstable to be used safely.
> This Swedish engineer and inventor invented a blasting cap
> to detonate nitro, and in 1866 he invented dynamite by mixing
> nitro with diatomaceous earth and shaping it into a cylinder.
> It was patented in 1867. Name the Swede.

Nobel

>
> 7. Elevating devices were in use as far back as the 3rd century
> BC, and powered elevators in the 19th century. This American
> inventor started work in 1852 on a braking device that
> prevented elevators from falling even if the cables broke.
> After its successful demonstration at the Crystal Exposition
> in New York, he formed an elevator manufacturing company.
> His device eventually made high-rise buildings practical.
> Name him.

Otis

>
> 8. From the Inuit in Labrador this American inventor learned that
> fish frozen quickly at -40° tasted fresh when thawed. In 1924
> he developed a commercially viable process of flash-freezing
> pre-cartoned fish, thus beginning the frozen food industry
> for all sorts of products. In 1929 he sold his company and
> patents for $22 million to Goldman Sachs (yes, them) and the
> Postum Company, who then formed General Foods Corporation.
> Name this inventor.
>
> 9. In 1938 this Hungarian journalist, with the help of his
> brother, invented the ballpoint pen by using quick-drying
> newsprint ink and a small ball bearing at the tip. This
> process had actually been patented 50 years earlier as a
> device to mark leather, but it wasn't properly exploited then.
> The Hungarian inventor's name has become the generic term
> for the product in much of the world; name him.

Biro

>
> 10. This Canadian invented the snowmobile in 1922 when he was
> 15 years old, by attaching a Ford motor to a sled. In 1937
> he produced his first real snowmobile, and in 1958-59,
> his biggest invention -- the Ski-Doo. Name him.
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 3 - Children's Television
>
> This round will be easier if you're about the same age as the person
> who wrote it -- but, hey, quite a few of us in the league are.
>
> 1. Which host started his eponymous show by setting out three
> chairs, including "a rocking chair for someone who likes
> to rock"?
>
> 2. What was Bob Keeshan better known as?

Captain Kangaroo

>
> 3. Which show featured the host looking into her mirror and
> pretending to see viewers (e.g., "I see Danny, I see Vicky,
> and I see Sharon...")?
>
> 4. Which show helped children learn French -- at least, if
> they were smarter than Suzie the Mouse, who never broke out
> of English?
>
> 5. Lambchop, Charlie Horse, and Hush Puppy were regulars on
> what show named for its human star?
>
> 6. Which frequent guest from Italy on the Ed Sullivan Show
> always said "I love you, Eddie" and never left without a kiss?
>
> 7. Which show starring Howard the Turtle was a bit unusual in
> the '60s for being taped in front of a live audience?
>
> 8. What was Mr. Dressup's real name?
>
> 9. On what show would you sooner or later hear "Five! Five!
> Five! Five! That's a lot of five! How many is five?"

Sesame Street

>
> 10. What BBC show became familiar even to childless adults when
> Jerry Falwell claimed one of the characters was gay?

Teletubbies

--
Dan Tilque

Nale: Sabine, find us a lair, somewhere we can hole up for 2 to 3 weeks.
Someplace where no one will notice a teenage schoolgirl bound and gagged.
Sabine: I'll start near the hentai bookstore and work my way out.
-- Rich Burlew, OotS#258

== 4 of 13 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 17 2011 4:17 am
From: Joachim Parsch

Mark Brader schrieb:
>
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2011-03-28,
> 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)".
>
> I did not write either of these rounds.
>
> * Game 10, Round 2 - Inventors and Inventions
>
> In each case we'll describe an invention and something about the
> circumstances, and you name the inventor.
>
> 1. This man invented the air conditioner, in the US in 1902,
> one year after he graduated from Cornell. He patented it in
> 1906, and became known as "the father of air conditioning",
> although that name for it was invented by someone else.
>
> 2. The hot-air balloon was invented by two brothers, in France
> in 1782. The following year it was used for the first actual
> ascent by a person into the air. One of the brothers had
> noted that laundry drying over a fire often formed pockets
> and billowed upwards. Their surname is sufficient.

Montgolfier.

Volta.

Franklin.

> 5. Invented in the US in 1793, the cotton gin automated the
> separation of cotton seeds from the short-staple cotton
> fiber. There had been earlier devices that removed seeds,
> but this one facilitated the mass production of cotton --
> and incidentally made cotton plantations so profitable that
> the institution of slavery was extended. The inventor of
> the cotton gin didn't get rich from it, because of patent
> infringements, but he did after he also invented a process
> of manufacturing interchangeable musket parts.
>
> 6. Nitroglycerine, or nitro, was invented by an Italian in
> 1846, but was too volatile and unstable to be used safely.
> This Swedish engineer and inventor invented a blasting cap
> to detonate nitro, and in 1866 he invented dynamite by mixing
> nitro with diatomaceous earth and shaping it into a cylinder.
> It was patented in 1867. Name the Swede.

Nobel.

> 7. Elevating devices were in use as far back as the 3rd century
> BC, and powered elevators in the 19th century. This American
> inventor started work in 1852 on a braking device that
> prevented elevators from falling even if the cables broke.
> After its successful demonstration at the Crystal Exposition
> in New York, he formed an elevator manufacturing company.
> His device eventually made high-rise buildings practical.
> Name him.
>
> 8. From the Inuit in Labrador this American inventor learned that
> fish frozen quickly at -40° tasted fresh when thawed. In 1924
> he developed a commercially viable process of flash-freezing
> pre-cartoned fish, thus beginning the frozen food industry
> for all sorts of products. In 1929 he sold his company and
> patents for $22 million to Goldman Sachs (yes, them) and the
> Postum Company, who then formed General Foods Corporation.
> Name this inventor.
>
> 9. In 1938 this Hungarian journalist, with the help of his
> brother, invented the ballpoint pen by using quick-drying
> newsprint ink and a small ball bearing at the tip. This
> process had actually been patented 50 years earlier as a
> device to mark leather, but it wasn't properly exploited then.
> The Hungarian inventor's name has become the generic term
> for the product in much of the world; name him.

Biro.

> 10. This Canadian invented the snowmobile in 1922 when he was
> 15 years old, by attaching a Ford motor to a sled. In 1937
> he produced his first real snowmobile, and in 1958-59,
> his biggest invention -- the Ski-Doo. Name him.
>
> * Game 10, Round 3 - Children's Television
>
> This round will be easier if you're about the same age as the person
> who wrote it -- but, hey, quite a few of us in the league are.

Maybe the right age (not sure, though), for sure the wrong country ;-)

> 1. Which host started his eponymous show by setting out three
> chairs, including "a rocking chair for someone who likes
> to rock"?
>
> 2. What was Bob Keeshan better known as?
>
> 3. Which show featured the host looking into her mirror and
> pretending to see viewers (e.g., "I see Danny, I see Vicky,
> and I see Sharon...")?
>
> 4. Which show helped children learn French -- at least, if
> they were smarter than Suzie the Mouse, who never broke out
> of English?
>
> 5. Lambchop, Charlie Horse, and Hush Puppy were regulars on
> what show named for its human star?
>
> 6. Which frequent guest from Italy on the Ed Sullivan Show
> always said "I love you, Eddie" and never left without a kiss?
>
> 7. Which show starring Howard the Turtle was a bit unusual in
> the '60s for being taped in front of a live audience?
>
> 8. What was Mr. Dressup's real name?
>
> 9. On what show would you sooner or later hear "Five! Five!
> Five! Five! That's a lot of five! How many is five?"
>
> 10. What BBC show became familiar even to childless adults when
> Jerry Falwell claimed one of the characters was gay?

Joachim

== 5 of 13 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 17 2011 5:11 am
From: Bruce Bowler

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:42:49 -0500, Mark Brader wrote:

> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2011-03-28, 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)".
>
> I did not write either of these rounds.
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 2 - Inventors and Inventions
>
> In each case we'll describe an invention and something about the
> circumstances, and you name the inventor.
>
> 1. This man invented the air conditioner, in the US in 1902,
> one year after he graduated from Cornell. He patented it in 1906,
> and became known as "the father of air conditioning", although that
> name for it was invented by someone else.

Carrier

> 2. The hot-air balloon was invented by two brothers, in France
> in 1782. The following year it was used for the first actual ascent
> by a person into the air. One of the brothers had noted that laundry
> drying over a fire often formed pockets and billowed upwards. Their
> surname is sufficient.

Mont{something or other}

> 3. The electric storage battery was invented in Italy in 1800 by
> this professor of physics. In earlier years he had invented a "pile"
> which bears his name and produced electric current:
> it consisted of alternating disks of zinc and copper with
> brine-soaked cardboard between.

Volta

> 4. The bifocal lens was invented in the US by this multi-talented
> American. The date usually given is 1784, though there is some
> evidence that he might have ordered them made in 1779 by an English
> optician living in Paris. In any case, name the American inventor.

Ben Franklin

> 5. Invented in the US in 1793, the cotton gin automated the
> separation of cotton seeds from the short-staple cotton fiber. There
> had been earlier devices that removed seeds,
> but this one facilitated the mass production of cotton --
> and incidentally made cotton plantations so profitable that the
> institution of slavery was extended. The inventor of the cotton gin
> didn't get rich from it, because of patent infringements, but he did
> after he also invented a process of manufacturing interchangeable
> musket parts.

Eli Whitney

> 6. Nitroglycerine, or nitro, was invented by an Italian in
> 1846, but was too volatile and unstable to be used safely. This
> Swedish engineer and inventor invented a blasting cap to detonate
> nitro, and in 1866 he invented dynamite by mixing nitro with
> diatomaceous earth and shaping it into a cylinder. It was patented in
> 1867. Name the Swede.

Nobel

Otis

> 8. From the Inuit in Labrador this American inventor learned that
> fish frozen quickly at -40° tasted fresh when thawed. In 1924 he
> developed a commercially viable process of flash-freezing
> pre-cartoned fish, thus beginning the frozen food industry for all
> sorts of products. In 1929 he sold his company and patents for $22
> million to Goldman Sachs (yes, them) and the Postum Company, who then
> formed General Foods Corporation. Name this inventor.

Birdseye

> 9. In 1938 this Hungarian journalist, with the help of his
> brother, invented the ballpoint pen by using quick-drying newsprint
> ink and a small ball bearing at the tip. This process had actually
> been patented 50 years earlier as a device to mark leather, but it
> wasn't properly exploited then. The Hungarian inventor's name has
> become the generic term for the product in much of the world; name
> him.

Bic

> 10. This Canadian invented the snowmobile in 1922 when he was
> 15 years old, by attaching a Ford motor to a sled. In 1937 he
> produced his first real snowmobile, and in 1958-59,
> his biggest invention -- the Ski-Doo. Name him.
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 3 - Children's Television
>
> This round will be easier if you're about the same age as the person who
> wrote it -- but, hey, quite a few of us in the league are.
>
> 1. Which host started his eponymous show by setting out three
> chairs, including "a rocking chair for someone who likes to rock"?
>

Mr Rogers

> 2. What was Bob Keeshan better known as?

Captain Kangaroo

> 3. Which show featured the host looking into her mirror and
> pretending to see viewers (e.g., "I see Danny, I see Vicky, and I see
> Sharon...")?

Romper Room

> 4. Which show helped children learn French -- at least, if
> they were smarter than Suzie the Mouse, who never broke out of
> English?
>
> 5. Lambchop, Charlie Horse, and Hush Puppy were regulars on
> what show named for its human star?

Shari Lewis

> 6. Which frequent guest from Italy on the Ed Sullivan Show
> always said "I love you, Eddie" and never left without a kiss?

Topo Gigio

> 7. Which show starring Howard the Turtle was a bit unusual in
> the '60s for being taped in front of a live audience?
>
> 8. What was Mr. Dressup's real name?
>
> 9. On what show would you sooner or later hear "Five! Five!
> Five! Five! That's a lot of five! How many is five?"
>
> 10. What BBC show became familiar even to childless adults when
> Jerry Falwell claimed one of the characters was gay?

Teletubbies

== 6 of 13 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 17 2011 10:28 am
From: "Peter Smyth"

"Mark Brader" wrote in message
news:Y56dna1GTcn0UwbTnZ2dnUVZ_jadnZ2d@vex.net...

>* Game 10, Round 2 - Inventors and Inventions
>
>In each case we'll describe an invention and something about the
>circumstances, and you name the inventor.
>
>1. This man invented the air conditioner, in the US in 1902,
> one year after he graduated from Cornell. He patented it in
> 1906, and became known as "the father of air conditioning",
> although that name for it was invented by someone else.
>
>2. The hot-air balloon was invented by two brothers, in France
> in 1782. The following year it was used for the first actual
> ascent by a person into the air. One of the brothers had
> noted that laundry drying over a fire often formed pockets
> and billowed upwards. Their surname is sufficient.
Montgolfier
>3. The electric storage battery was invented in Italy in 1800 by
> this professor of physics. In earlier years he had invented a
> "pile" which bears his name and produced electric current:
> it consisted of alternating disks of zinc and copper with
> brine-soaked cardboard between.
Volta, Ampere
>4. The bifocal lens was invented in the US by this multi-talented
> American. The date usually given is 1784, though there
> is some evidence that he might have ordered them made in
> 1779 by an English optician living in Paris. In any case,
> name the American inventor.
Benjamin Franklin
>5. Invented in the US in 1793, the cotton gin automated the
> separation of cotton seeds from the short-staple cotton
> fiber. There had been earlier devices that removed seeds,
> but this one facilitated the mass production of cotton --
> and incidentally made cotton plantations so profitable that
> the institution of slavery was extended. The inventor of
> the cotton gin didn't get rich from it, because of patent
> infringements, but he did after he also invented a process
> of manufacturing interchangeable musket parts.
>
>6. Nitroglycerine, or nitro, was invented by an Italian in
> 1846, but was too volatile and unstable to be used safely.
> This Swedish engineer and inventor invented a blasting cap
> to detonate nitro, and in 1866 he invented dynamite by mixing
> nitro with diatomaceous earth and shaping it into a cylinder.
> It was patented in 1867. Name the Swede.
Alfred Nobel
>7. Elevating devices were in use as far back as the 3rd century
> BC, and powered elevators in the 19th century. This American
> inventor started work in 1852 on a braking device that
> prevented elevators from falling even if the cables broke.
> After its successful demonstration at the Crystal Exposition
> in New York, he formed an elevator manufacturing company.
> His device eventually made high-rise buildings practical.
> Name him.
Otis
>8. From the Inuit in Labrador this American inventor learned that
> fish frozen quickly at -40° tasted fresh when thawed. In 1924
> he developed a commercially viable process of flash-freezing
> pre-cartoned fish, thus beginning the frozen food industry
> for all sorts of products. In 1929 he sold his company and
> patents for $22 million to Goldman Sachs (yes, them) and the
> Postum Company, who then formed General Foods Corporation.
> Name this inventor.
Clarence Birdseye
>9. In 1938 this Hungarian journalist, with the help of his
> brother, invented the ballpoint pen by using quick-drying
> newsprint ink and a small ball bearing at the tip. This
> process had actually been patented 50 years earlier as a
> device to mark leather, but it wasn't properly exploited then.
> The Hungarian inventor's name has become the generic term
> for the product in much of the world; name him.
Laszlo Biro
>10. This Canadian invented the snowmobile in 1922 when he was
> 15 years old, by attaching a Ford motor to a sled. In 1937
> he produced his first real snowmobile, and in 1958-59,
> his biggest invention -- the Ski-Doo. Name him.
>
>
>* Game 10, Round 3 - Children's Television
>
>This round will be easier if you're about the same age as the person
>who wrote it -- but, hey, quite a few of us in the league are.
>
>1. Which host started his eponymous show by setting out three
> chairs, including "a rocking chair for someone who likes
> to rock"?
>
>2. What was Bob Keeshan better known as?
>
>3. Which show featured the host looking into her mirror and
> pretending to see viewers (e.g., "I see Danny, I see Vicky,
> and I see Sharon...")?
>
>4. Which show helped children learn French -- at least, if
> they were smarter than Suzie the Mouse, who never broke out
> of English?
>
>5. Lambchop, Charlie Horse, and Hush Puppy were regulars on
> what show named for its human star?
>
>6. Which frequent guest from Italy on the Ed Sullivan Show
> always said "I love you, Eddie" and never left without a kiss?
>
>7. Which show starring Howard the Turtle was a bit unusual in
> the '60s for being taped in front of a live audience?
>
>8. What was Mr. Dressup's real name?
>
>9. On what show would you sooner or later hear "Five! Five!
> Five! Five! That's a lot of five! How many is five?"
Sesame Street
>10. What BBC show became familiar even to childless adults when
> Jerry Falwell claimed one of the characters was gay?
The Teletubbies

Peter Smyth

== 7 of 13 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 17 2011 12:40 pm
From: Erland Sommarskog

Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:
> 3. The electric storage battery was invented in Italy in 1800 by
> this professor of physics. In earlier years he had invented a
> "pile" which bears his name and produced electric current:
> it consisted of alternating disks of zinc and copper with
> brine-soaked cardboard between.

Volta

> 6. Nitroglycerine, or nitro, was invented by an Italian in
> 1846, but was too volatile and unstable to be used safely.
> This Swedish engineer and inventor invented a blasting cap
> to detonate nitro, and in 1866 he invented dynamite by mixing
> nitro with diatomaceous earth and shaping it into a cylinder.
> It was patented in 1867. Name the Swede.

Alfred Nobel

> 7. Elevating devices were in use as far back as the 3rd century
> BC, and powered elevators in the 19th century. This American
> inventor started work in 1852 on a braking device that
> prevented elevators from falling even if the cables broke.
> After its successful demonstration at the Crystal Exposition
> in New York, he formed an elevator manufacturing company.
> His device eventually made high-rise buildings practical.
> Name him.

Otis

--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se

== 8 of 13 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 17 2011 12:46 pm
From: tool@panix.com (Dan Blum)

Mark Brader <msb@vex.net> wrote:

> * Game 10, Round 2 - Inventors and Inventions

> 1. This man invented the air conditioner, in the US in 1902,
> one year after he graduated from Cornell. He patented it in
> 1906, and became known as "the father of air conditioning",
> although that name for it was invented by someone else.

Carrier

Montgolfiere

Volta

Benjamin Franklin

Eli Whitney

Alfred Nobel

Otis

> 8. From the Inuit in Labrador this American inventor learned that
> fish frozen quickly at -40? tasted fresh when thawed. In 1924
> he developed a commercially viable process of flash-freezing
> pre-cartoned fish, thus beginning the frozen food industry
> for all sorts of products. In 1929 he sold his company and
> patents for $22 million to Goldman Sachs (yes, them) and the
> Postum Company, who then formed General Foods Corporation.
> Name this inventor.

Birdseye; Bird

Biro

> * Game 10, Round 3 - Children's Television

> 2. What was Bob Keeshan better known as?

Captain Kangaroo

> 5. Lambchop, Charlie Horse, and Hush Puppy were regulars on
> what show named for its human star?

Shari Lewis Show

> 6. Which frequent guest from Italy on the Ed Sullivan Show
> always said "I love you, Eddie" and never left without a kiss?

Sophia Loren

> 10. What BBC show became familiar even to childless adults when
> Jerry Falwell claimed one of the characters was gay?

Teletubbies

--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum tool@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."

== 9 of 13 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 17 2011 3:21 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)

Mark Brader:
> > Name this inventor.

Dan Blum:
> Birdseye; Bird

Nicely reasoned. Of course, at least one of them is wrong.
--
Mark Brader | "Strong typing isn't for weak minds; the argument
Toronto | 'strong typing is for weak minds' is for weak minds."
msb@vex.net | -- Guy Harris

== 10 of 13 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 17 2011 3:38 pm
From: Calvin

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:42:49 +1000, Mark Brader <msb@vex.net> wrote:

Westinghouse

> 2. The hot-air balloon was invented by two brothers, in France
> in 1782. The following year it was used for the first actual
> ascent by a person into the air. One of the brothers had
> noted that laundry drying over a fire often formed pockets
> and billowed upwards. Their surname is sufficient.
>
> 3. The electric storage battery was invented in Italy in 1800 by
> this professor of physics. In earlier years he had invented a
> "pile" which bears his name and produced electric current:
> it consisted of alternating disks of zinc and copper with
> brine-soaked cardboard between.

Volta

Franklin

Whitney

Nobel

Otis?

Birdseye

Biro

Pass

cheers,
calvin

== 11 of 13 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 17 2011 7:52 pm
From: "Rob Parker"

> * Game 10, Round 2 - Inventors and Inventions
>
> 1. This man invented the air conditioner, in the US in 1902,
> one year after he graduated from Cornell. He patented it in
> 1906, and became known as "the father of air conditioning",
> although that name for it was invented by someone else.

Carrier

Montgolfier

Galvani

Franklin

Nobel

Otis

Birdseye

Biro

> * Game 10, Round 3 - Children's Television
>
> 2. What was Bob Keeshan better known as?

Bob The Builder (?)

> 5. Lambchop, Charlie Horse, and Hush Puppy were regulars on
> what show named for its human star?

The Shari Lewis Show

> 6. Which frequent guest from Italy on the Ed Sullivan Show
> always said "I love you, Eddie" and never left without a kiss?

Topo Gigio

Rob

== 12 of 13 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 17 2011 7:56 pm
From: tool@panix.com (Dan Blum)

Mark Brader <msb@vex.net> wrote:
> Mark Brader:
> > > Name this inventor.
>
> Dan Blum:
> > Birdseye; Bird

> Nicely reasoned. Of course, at least one of them is wrong.

I'm fairly sure they're both wrong, but I can't think of anything else.

--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum tool@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."

== 13 of 13 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 17 2011 8:11 pm
From: Stan Brown

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:42:49 -0500, Mark Brader wrote:
>
> * Game 10, Round 2 - Inventors and Inventions
>
> In each case we'll describe an invention and something about the
> circumstances, and you name the inventor.
>
> 1. This man invented the air conditioner, in the US in 1902,
> one year after he graduated from Cornell. He patented it in
> 1906, and became known as "the father of air conditioning",
> although that name for it was invented by someone else.

Carrier?

> 2. The hot-air balloon was invented by two brothers, in France
> in 1782. The following year it was used for the first actual
> ascent by a person into the air. One of the brothers had
> noted that laundry drying over a fire often formed pockets
> and billowed upwards. Their surname is sufficient.

Montgolfier

> 3. The electric storage battery was invented in Italy in 1800 by
> this professor of physics. In earlier years he had invented a
> "pile" which bears his name and produced electric current:
> it consisted of alternating disks of zinc and copper with
> brine-soaked cardboard between.

Volta

> 4. The bifocal lens was invented in the US by this multi-talented
> American. The date usually given is 1784, though there
> is some evidence that he might have ordered them made in
> 1779 by an English optician living in Paris. In any case,
> name the American inventor.

Franklin

> 5. Invented in the US in 1793, the cotton gin automated the
> separation of cotton seeds from the short-staple cotton
> fiber. There had been earlier devices that removed seeds,
> but this one facilitated the mass production of cotton --
> and incidentally made cotton plantations so profitable that
> the institution of slavery was extended. The inventor of
> the cotton gin didn't get rich from it, because of patent
> infringements, but he did after he also invented a process
> of manufacturing interchangeable musket parts.

Whitney

> 6. Nitroglycerine, or nitro, was invented by an Italian in
> 1846, but was too volatile and unstable to be used safely.
> This Swedish engineer and inventor invented a blasting cap
> to detonate nitro, and in 1866 he invented dynamite by mixing
> nitro with diatomaceous earth and shaping it into a cylinder.
> It was patented in 1867. Name the Swede.

Nobel

> 7. Elevating devices were in use as far back as the 3rd century
> BC, and powered elevators in the 19th century. This American
> inventor started work in 1852 on a braking device that
> prevented elevators from falling even if the cables broke.
> After its successful demonstration at the Crystal Exposition
> in New York, he formed an elevator manufacturing company.
> His device eventually made high-rise buildings practical.
> Name him.

Otis

> 8. From the Inuit in Labrador this American inventor learned that
> fish frozen quickly at -40° tasted fresh when thawed. In 1924
> he developed a commercially viable process of flash-freezing
> pre-cartoned fish, thus beginning the frozen food industry
> for all sorts of products. In 1929 he sold his company and
> patents for $22 million to Goldman Sachs (yes, them) and the
> Postum Company, who then formed General Foods Corporation.
> Name this inventor.

Birdseye?

> 9. In 1938 this Hungarian journalist, with the help of his
> brother, invented the ballpoint pen by using quick-drying
> newsprint ink and a small ball bearing at the tip. This
> process had actually been patented 50 years earlier as a
> device to mark leather, but it wasn't properly exploited then.
> The Hungarian inventor's name has become the generic term
> for the product in much of the world; name him.

Biro

Pope Pius XII?

> * Game 10, Round 3 - Children's Television
>
> This round will be easier if you're about the same age as the person
> who wrote it -- but, hey, quite a few of us in the league are.
>
> 1. Which host started his eponymous show by setting out three
> chairs, including "a rocking chair for someone who likes
> to rock"?
>
> 2. What was Bob Keeshan better known as?

Captain Kangaroo

> 3. Which show featured the host looking into her mirror and
> pretending to see viewers (e.g., "I see Danny, I see Vicky,
> and I see Sharon...")?
>
> 4. Which show helped children learn French -- at least, if
> they were smarter than Suzie the Mouse, who never broke out
> of English?
>
> 5. Lambchop, Charlie Horse, and Hush Puppy were regulars on
> what show named for its human star?

Shari Lewis

> 6. Which frequent guest from Italy on the Ed Sullivan Show
> always said "I love you, Eddie" and never left without a kiss?
>
> 7. Which show starring Howard the Turtle was a bit unusual in
> the '60s for being taped in front of a live audience?
>
> 8. What was Mr. Dressup's real name?
>
> 9. On what show would you sooner or later hear "Five! Five!
> Five! Five! That's a lot of five! How many is five?"
>
> 10. What BBC show became familiar even to childless adults when
> Jerry Falwell claimed one of the characters was gay?

Teletubbies

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...

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== 1 of 5 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 17 2011 2:16 am
From: Erland Sommarskog

Calvin (calvin@phlegm.com) writes:
> 3 What does the food-related acronym GI stand for?

Glychemical index

> 4 What colour is the laser on a high definition DVD player?

Blue.

> 5 I Want My MTV is a line from which 1985 Dire Straits hit?

Money for Nothing

> 6 Belgian Eddie Merckx is a former champion in which sport?

Cycling

> 7 Who had a No. 1 hit in 1957 with 'Diana'?

Tom Jones

> 8 Germany's busiest airport is located in which city?

Frankfurt am Main

--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se

== 2 of 5 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 17 2011 2:43 am
From: "David B"

1 David Soul and Michael Glaser played which 1970s crime fighting duo?

Starsky and Hutch

2 Which fast food chain has overtaken McDonalds to have the most outlets
in Australia?

Subway

3 What does the food-related acronym GI stand for?
4 What colour is the laser on a high definition DVD player?

Blue

5 I Want My MTV is a line from which 1985 Dire Straits hit?

Money for Nothing

6 Belgian Eddie Merckx is a former champion in which sport?

Cycling

7 Who had a No. 1 hit in 1957 with 'Diana'?
8 Germany's busiest airport is located in which city?

Frankfurt

9 Helen Wills Moody is a former champion in which sport?

Tennis

10 Which occupation uses a strop?

A barber

cheers,
calvin

== 3 of 5 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 17 2011 3:28 am
From: Joachim Parsch

Calvin schrieb:
>
> 1 David Soul and Michael Glaser played which 1970s crime fighting duo?

Starsky & Hutch.

> 2 Which fast food chain has overtaken McDonalds to have the most outlets
> in Australia?

Burger King?

> 3 What does the food-related acronym GI stand for?
> 4 What colour is the laser on a high definition DVD player?

Blue.

> 5 I Want My MTV is a line from which 1985 Dire Straits hit?

Money for nothing.

> 6 Belgian Eddie Merckx is a former champion in which sport?

Cycling.

> 7 Who had a No. 1 hit in 1957 with 'Diana'?
> 8 Germany's busiest airport is located in which city?

Frankfurt am Main.

> 9 Helen Wills Moody is a former champion in which sport?

Golf?

> 10 Which occupation uses a strop?

Joachim

== 4 of 5 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 17 2011 10:23 am
From: "Peter Smyth"

"Calvin" wrote in message
news:op.v3g3b3myyr33d7@04233-jyhzp1s.staff.ad.bond.edu.au...
>
>1 David Soul and Michael Glaser played which 1970s crime fighting duo?
Starsky & Hutch
>2 Which fast food chain has overtaken McDonalds to have the most outlets
>in Australia?
Subway
>3 What does the food-related acronym GI stand for?
Glycemic Index
>4 What colour is the laser on a high definition DVD player?
Blue
>5 I Want My MTV is a line from which 1985 Dire Straits hit?
Money For Nothing
>6 Belgian Eddie Merckx is a former champion in which sport?
Cycling
>7 Who had a No. 1 hit in 1957 with 'Diana'?
>8 Germany's busiest airport is located in which city?
Frankfurt
>9 Helen Wills Moody is a former champion in which sport?
Tennis
>10 Which occupation uses a strop?

Peter Smyth

== 5 of 5 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 17 2011 7:37 pm
From: "Rob Parker"

> 1 David Soul and Michael Glaser played which 1970s crime fighting duo?

Starsky & Hutch

> 2 Which fast food chain has overtaken McDonalds to have the most outlets
> in Australia?

Subway

> 3 What does the food-related acronym GI stand for?

Glycemic Index

> 4 What colour is the laser on a high definition DVD player?

Blue

> 5 I Want My MTV is a line from which 1985 Dire Straits hit?

Money For Nothing

> 6 Belgian Eddie Merckx is a former champion in which sport?

Cycling

> 7 Who had a No. 1 hit in 1957 with 'Diana'?

Paul Anka (?)

> 8 Germany's busiest airport is located in which city?

Frankfurt (?)

> 9 Helen Wills Moody is a former champion in which sport?

Golf (?)

> 10 Which occupation uses a strop?

Barber

Rob

PS. I did know Sydney Nolan, in one of your quizzes while I was away ;-)

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