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| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 20 01:02PM -0500 Mark Brader: >> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information >> see my 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the >> Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". Joshua Kreitzer: > My answers apparently got overlooked... So they did -- either my mistake or a news server glitch. Apologies, if applicable. Here we go again, then: >> 1. Name the Victorian novel that featured the characters >> Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Damon Wildeve, and the prodigal >> Clym Yeobright. "The Return of the Native" (1878, Thomas Hardy). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Stephen. >> 2. Name the Victorian novel that featured Mr. Micawber, Peggoty, >> Dora, and Agnes. "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He never meant to be Published on any Account)" (1849, Charles Dickens). 4 for Joshua, Marc, Stephen, and Rob. >> 3. Name the author who, in the 1930s, created the character of >> John Galt. Ayn Rand. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Pete, Stephen, Jason, Dan Tilque, and Jeff. >> 4. Name the John Steinbeck book that features a French poodle and >> the author seeking America in a truck named after Don Quixote's >> horse Rocinante. "Travels with Charley". 4 for Joshua, Stephen, and Jason. >> 5. Ishmael, Queequeg. Name the book *and* the author. "Moby-Dick" (1851), Herman Melville. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Pete, Peter, Stephen, Jason, Dan Tilque, Rob, and Jeff. >> 6. Charles Darnay, Sidney Carton, Mme. Defarge. Name the book *and* >> the author. "A Tale of Two Cities" (1859), Charles Dickens. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Pete, Stephen, and Rob. >> 7. Name the author who created the character of George Babbitt in >> the 1920s. Sinclair Lewis. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Stephen, and Jeff. >> 8. Name the author who created ex-basketball-champion Harry >> Angstrom, a.k.a. Rabbit. John Updike. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Jason, and Dan Tilque. >> 9. Written as a BBC radio drama in the 1954, it included the >> characters of Myfanwy Price, Mog Edwards, Polly Garter, and >> Captain Cat. "Under Milk Wood" (Dylan Thomas). 4 for Dan Blum, Peter, and Stephen. >> of British ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin, his ex-film-star wife >> Yvonne, and the consul's brother, an anti-Fascist journalist >> named Hugh. Name the book *or* the author. "Under the Volcano", Malcolm Lowry. 4 for Stephen. >> 1. In the 1920s scientists excavated the fossil remains of Peking >> Man. We now know this specimen, and the earlier discovery Java >> Man, as examples of which human-like species? Homo erectus. 4 for Marc, Björn, Pete, Erland, Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Rob. 3 for Joshua. >> skeleton. She has the pelvis and leg bones of a fully bipedal >> creature. She is considered to be a member of which extinct >> hominid species? Australopithecus afarensis. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Jeff. >> 3. In what country was the first Neanderthal skull found? Germany. The name refers to a river valley there. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Björn, Erland, Dan Tilque, Rob, and Jeff. >> 4. What was significant about the 1911 discovery in England of >> the Piltdown Man? It was a hoax (human and orangutan bones planted together), a fact not proved until 1953. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Björn, Peter, Stephen, Jason, Dan Tilque, Rob, and Jeff. >> 5. Discovered in 1994, the famous Grotte Chauvet contains the >> world's oldest cave drawings -- of animals, human hands, and >> nude women. Within 3,000 years, how old are the cave drawings? 35,000 years (accepting 32,000-42,900; see the original answers posting). 4 for Marc, Björn, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Jeff. 3 for Joshua. >> 6. Much more famous cave drawings, only about half the age of >> the Grotte Chauvet ones, were discovered in France in 1940 -- >> in what famous caves? Lascaux. 4 for Joshua, Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Jeff. >> human ancestor, the remains of seven of which were discovered >> on a remote Indonesian island in 2004. What more colloquial >> name for these hominids was popularized by the news media? Hobbits. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Jeff. >> 8. What does "Homo erectus" mean? Upright man. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Björn, Pete, Peter, Erland, Stephen, Dan Tilque, Rob, and Jeff. >> 9. What does "Homo habilis" mean? Handy (tool-making) man. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Erland, Stephen, Dan Tilque, Rob, and Jeff. >> 10. Fossil skulls of Homo habilis show signs of the development >> of a region of the brain called Broca's area. This is evidence >> that Homo habilis did what? Used language. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Björn, Peter, Erland, Stephen, and Dan Tilque. Scores, if there are *now* no errors: GAME 3 ROUNDS->> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST TOPICS->> Can Geo Ent Ent Lit Sci FOUR Stephen Perry -- -- 39 40 36 28 143 Joshua Kreitzer 7 22 40 28 32 38 138 Dan Blum 7 30 32 32 28 24 122 Dan Tilque 0 24 20 36 12 40 120 Jeff Turner 0 19 28 32 12 32 111 Marc Dashevsky 0 18 20 36 24 28 108 Pete Gayde 3 22 31 32 12 8 97 Bruce Bowler 0 39 24 32 -- -- 95 Rob Parker 4 31 8 28 12 20 91 Jason Kreitzer 0 4 24 28 16 4 72 Peter Smyth 0 26 8 4 8 12 54 Björn Lundin 0 11 4 4 0 24 43 Erland Sommarskog 0 7 4 0 0 24 35 -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "Defendant's speech ends in long sentence" msb@vex.net | --Minneapolis Tribune, February 25, 1981 My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Oct 21 01:45AM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: > Upright man. >> 9. What does "Homo habilis" mean? > Handy (tool-making) man. Just want to note that the Latin word 'homo' is best translated as "human", which is why I answered that way. I realize that the above translations are traditional, but that meaning of the word "man" is, shall we say, rapidly becoming archaic. Two other notes: 1. Latin has a distinct, unrelated word 'vir' to refer to a male human. 2. This 'homo' is unrelated to the 'homo' in "homosexual". That word is from Greek and means "same". -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 21 04:04AM -0500 Mark Brader: >>> 8. What does "Homo erectus" mean? >> Upright man. Dan Tilque: > Just want to note that the Latin word 'homo' is best translated as > "human", which is why I answered that way. Well, "best" is a matter of opinion. In some contexts "person" is a good choice. In the context of species, it could reasonably be argued that "human" should be reserved for Homo sapiens. > I realize that the above > translations are traditional, but that meaning of the word "man" is, > shall we say, rapidly becoming archaic. No, we shan't; it would be a distinct overstatement. Staff the barricades! -- Mark Brader | "How, you may ask, did the mind of man ever excogitate Toronto | anything so false and foolish? The answer is that the msb@vex.net | mind of man had nothing to do with it..." --A.E. Housman My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Oct 20 11:17PM +0200 > It is necessary to drive across New Hampshire to get to Massachusetts > from Maine, but it's a fairly thin part of New Hampshire. > 3 for Mark I was considering Boston, but got lured by the 200K thing. "Boston must be bigger". And there are quite a few more bigger cities in that part of the country - if you make the part large enough. Oh well, I was not the only one to miss that one. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 20 10:16PM -0500 Dan Blum: >> as there are few places in the US where that would be practical. >> It is necessary to drive across New Hampshire to get to Massachusetts >> from Maine, but it's a fairly thin part of New Hampshire. Indeed, that helped me rule out other candidate answers. Erland Sommarskog: > I was considering Boston, but got lured by the 200K thing. "Boston must > be bigger". Well, it *is*, as the question said -- 645,966 in 2013. It's the *other* cities New England that are all under 200K. According to www.citypopulation.de, there are just 12 cities over 100K (in 2013) in the six states, and the others are: 2. Worcester MA 182,544 3. Providence RI 177,994 4. Springfield MA 153,703 5. Bridgeport CT 147,216 6. New Haven CT 130,660 7. Stamford CT 126,456 8. Hartford CT 125,017 9. Manchester NH 110,378 10. Waterbury CT 109,676 11. Lowell MA 108,861 12. Cambridge MA 107,289 I was a bit surprised myself that none of those was over 200K. -- Mark Brader, Toronto "Do people confuse me with Mark Brader?" msb@vex.net --Mark Barratt My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Oct 21 07:14AM >> I was considering Boston, but got lured by the 200K thing. "Boston must >> be bigger". > Well, it *is*, as the question said -- 645,966 in 2013. Yeah, I can't blame no one but myself. Of course over 200K could be a 20- million city. It does not have to be 201000. Another thing that distracted me is that I once looked at a road map, and noticed that from DC up to just north of Boston it is basically a contiguously built-up area with very small pockets in between. But that does not mean that it is one big city, but it could be a number of smaller places glued together. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 21 03:34AM -0500 Erland Sommarskog: > Another thing that distracted me is that I once looked at a road map, and > noticed that from DC up to just north of Boston it is basically a > contiguously built-up area with very small pockets in between... And hence the one part of the US where you'll find passenger railway service comparable to the main lines in the better European railway systems. > But that does not mean that it is one big city, but it could be a number > of smaller places glued together. Exactly. -- Mark Brader "...there are other means of persuasion msb@vex.net besides killing and threatening to kill." Toronto --Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Oct 20 02:00PM > 1. In US dollars within $10,000, how much did it cost to buy > a franchise in the World Hockey Association in its inaugural > 1972-73 season? $100,000; $250,000 > 6. The ABA and the NBA merged in the 1976-77 season, with four > ABA teams surviving. Three of those teams have remained in > the same respective cities since then -- name any one of them. Miami Heat; Los Angeles Clippers > 7. The WHA and the NHL merged in the 1979-80 season, with four > WHA teams surviving. Only one of those is in the same city as > it was then. Name it. Buffalo Sabres > A. Science: Way Way Out > A1. If you weighed 100 kg on Earth, what would you weigh on > the Moon? 17 kg > A2. If you weighed 100 kg on Earth, what would you weigh on Mars? 33 kg > B. History: VP Also-Rans > B1. Richard Nixon had defeated John Kennedy in 1960. Robert Taft > B2. Walter Mondale had defeated Ronald Reagan in 1984. Geraldine Ferraro > D. Entertainment: The Man who Would be Mogul > D1. Carl Laemmle. Paramount; Columbia > D2. Adolph Zukor. Columbia; Paramount > E1. The longest Interstate highway in the US runs from Boston MA > to Seattle WA, serving Buffalo, Cleveland, and Chicago > en route. Give its number. 90 > Interstate runs from Wilmington NC to Barstow CA, crossing > Tennessee, Oklahoma, Arizona, and New Mexico along the way. > Give its number. 70; 74 -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 20 12:39PM -0500 Mark Brader: > > In each case, we're talking kilograms of force, not mass -- if > > you prefer, we're using "weigh" to refer to readings on a spring > > scale -- and you must answer within 10% of the correct number. Björn Lundin: > I never understood the notion of using kg instead of N when > it comes to force. It's to keep you from writing > I'd still weigh 100 kg, but the scales would be affected > by a force that would be... on every question. -- Mark Brader | "...given time, a generally accepted solution to Toronto | this problem will evolve, as it has in the past for msb@vex.net | [others], only to be replaced by the next issue, which | no-one has even dreamt of yet." -- Andrew Lawrence My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| "Peter Smyth" <psmyth@ukf.net>: Oct 20 06:05PM Mark Brader wrote: > 4. Elton John was good friends with the part-owner of one of the > World Team Tennis teams, and wrote a hit song in 1975 dedicated > to her and the team. Name either the tennis great or the song. Billie Jean King > scale -- and you must answer within 10% of the correct number. > A1. If you weighed 100 kg on Earth, what would you weigh on > the Moon? 22kg, 27kg > A2. If you weighed 100 kg on Earth, what would you weigh on Mars? 55kg, 67kg > B. History: VP Also-Rans > Name the person who would have become US vice-president if... > B1. Richard Nixon had defeated John Kennedy in 1960. Henry Cabot Lodge > B2. Walter Mondale had defeated Ronald Reagan in 1984. Geraldine Ferraro > C. Sports: A Bloody Big Deal > C1. What player's acquisition was celeberated by the Toronto > FC soccer team with ads proclaiming it "a bloody big deal"? Jermaine Defoe > We name the Canadian daily paper, you name the city. > F1. The Star-Phoenix. > F2. The Times-Colonist. Peter Smyth |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Oct 21 09:26AM +0200 On 2014-10-20 19:39, Mark Brader wrote: >> I'd still weigh 100 kg, but the scales would be affected >> by a force that would be... > on every question. touché but still... -- -- Björn |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Oct 20 07:41AM -0500 In article <wNOdnd63YL7RLdnJnZ2dnUU7-cudnZ2d@vex.net>, msb@vex.net says... > 1. [Geography] By area, what is the world's largest landlocked > country? NIGERIA > trophy he hoped to win. He didn't win it, though. After several > years playing for Toronto, he returned to American football and > reached his greatest success with the Washington Redskins. THEISMANN > inspired a tone poem of the same title, which in the 20th > century was appropriately chosen as the theme music for the > movie "2001: A Space Odyssey". Who wrote the book? NIETSCHE > 7. [Music] The 1992 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song > of the Year went to a father-daughter duet that was memorable > in part because the father had died long before. Name the title. UNFORGETTABLE > 8. [History] Who was Prime Minister of the UK when the country > declared war against Germany in 1939? CHAMBERLAIN > 9. [Culture] The various types of these include bronze, china, > gold, leather, paper, and silver. What are they? ANNIVERSARIES > 10. [Entertainment] The concept of "method acting", or "the Method", > was popularized in North America by Lee Strasberg, but who was > the Russian actor-director that originated it? (In our alphabet.) STANISLAVSKY > 11. [Quilt] ? NIGERIA ------------ THEISMANN ------------ ------------ NIETSCHE UNFORGETTABLE CHAMBERLAIN ANNIVERSARIES STANISLAVSKY NADA |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Oct 20 05:29PM > 1. [Geography] By area, what is the world's largest landlocked > country? Kazakhstan > 2. [Religion] In Roman Catholicism, what term refers to the > supposed miraculous "substantial conversion" of the bread and > wine of the Eucharist? transubstantiation > trophy he hoped to win. He didn't win it, though. After several > years playing for Toronto, he returned to American football and > reached his greatest success with the Washington Redskins. Theisman > 4. [Science] What is the scientific term that describes the > height of a water wave above the average height of the water, > or the analogous measurement for other types of waves? amplitude > is sometimes spelled Mausolus, a tomb was built that was so > magnificent it was declared one of the "seven wonders of the > world". But where was it? Give the ancient place name. Halicarnassus > inspired a tone poem of the same title, which in the 20th > century was appropriately chosen as the theme music for the > movie "2001: A Space Odyssey". Who wrote the book? Nietzsche > 7. [Music] The 1992 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song > of the Year went to a father-daughter duet that was memorable > in part because the father had died long before. Name the title. Unforgettable > 8. [History] Who was Prime Minister of the UK when the country > declared war against Germany in 1939? Chamberlain > 9. [Culture] The various types of these include bronze, china, > gold, leather, paper, and silver. What are they? anniversaries > 10. [Entertainment] The concept of "method acting", or "the Method", > was popularized in North America by Lee Strasberg, but who was > the Russian actor-director that originated it? (In our alphabet.) Stanislavski > 11. [Quilt] ? salesclerk -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| "Peter Smyth" <psmyth@ukf.net>: Oct 20 06:38PM Mark Brader wrote: > 1. [Geography] By area, what is the world's largest landlocked > country? KAZAKHSTAN > 2. [Religion] In Roman Catholicism, what term refers to the > supposed miraculous "substantial conversion" of the bread and > wine of the Eucharist? TRANSUBSTANTIATION > 4. [Science] What is the scientific term that describes the > height of a water wave above the average height of the water, > or the analogous measurement for other types of waves? AMPLITUDE > is sometimes spelled Mausolus, a tomb was built that was so > magnificent it was declared one of the "seven wonders of the > world". But where was it? Give the ancient place name. HELICARNASSUS > in part because the father had died long before. Name the title. > 8. [History] Who was Prime Minister of the UK when the country > declared war against Germany in 1939? CHAMBERLAIN > 9. [Culture] The various types of these include bronze, china, > gold, leather, paper, and silver. What are they? ANNIVERSARIES > was popularized in North America by Lee Strasberg, but who was > the Russian actor-director that originated it? (In our alphabet.) > 11. [Quilt] ? Peter Smyth |
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