| Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Dec 12 12:38AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:_ZSdnfSDpYqovxvJnZ2dnUU7- > rearranged the questions in picture order. Again, there were no > decoys in this game.) > 1. Picture A depicts the denouement of which war? World War I > 2. Picture B. Name the Roman Emperor who ruled for 41 years > starting in 27 BC. Caesar Augustus > 3. Picture C. The man pictured circa 570 is a cousin of which > major historical figure? Mohammed > Jewish purists who took control of Jerusalem? Today an Israeli > athletic competition and many sporting teams are named after > them. Judah Maccabee > 5. Picture E is about an illustrious king of France who sold > Montreal to the Catholic Church in the 1660s, in one of his > first acts as monarch. Which king? Louis XIV > 6. Picture F. Circa 206 BC, name the dynasty whose beginnings > are depicted. It would last for 400 years. Ming > 7. Circa 540 BC, name the historical figure depicted in picture G. Buddha > 8. Depicted in Picture H, King Felipe II, battled Protestants in > two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that > he was king of. Spain > 9. In Picture I, Pope Alexander VI negotiated a New World agreement, > basically giving the West Indies to one country and the East > Indies to another. Name either. Netherlands > surrender-monkeys let the Germans walk into Paris in the > 19th century too. Within two years, when did the nascent > German/Prussian nation begin occupying the City of Lights? 1871 > Here's a round on alternative TV. In each case, name the series. > 1. The show that ignited the first-run cable renaissance, its > characters included Big Pussy, Uncle Junior, and Pauly Walnuts. Sopranos > 2. Our favorite chemistry teacher turned anti-hero preferred to > do his dirty work under the pseudonym Heisenberg. Breaking Bad > singularly weird HBO series. > 5. Kevin Spacey plays murderously ambitious Vice President Frank > Underwood in this groundbreaking made-for-Netflix series. House of Cards > 7. President Obama's favorite TV series is this Showtime production > (airing on Superchannel in Canada), starring Claire Danes as > a bipolar FBI agent engaged in the war on terror. Homeland > 8. The next most acclaimed series produced specifically for Netflix > is about life in a women's prison. Orange is the New Black > 10. Jerry Seinfeld became pop culturally relevant again with this > hit web-based series that combined his love of cars with his > love of comedy. Two Comedians Getting Coffee Pete |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 11 07:47PM -0600 Mark Brader: > rearranged the questions in picture order. Again, there were no > decoys in this game.) > 1. Picture A depicts the denouement of which war? The Hundred Years' War. 4 for Peter, Calvin, Rob, Joshua, Jason, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Marc, and Erland. > 2. Picture B. Name the Roman Emperor who ruled for 41 years > starting in 27 BC. Augustus (or Octavian). 4 for Peter, Rob, Joshua, Marc, Björn, Erland, and Pete. > 3. Picture C. The man pictured circa 570 is a cousin of which > major historical figure? Mohammed. 4 for Peter, Calvin, Rob, Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Björn, Erland, and Pete. > Jewish purists who took control of Jerusalem? Today an Israeli > athletic competition and many sporting teams are named after > them. Maccabees. 4 for Peter, Calvin, Rob, Joshua, Jason, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Marc, and Pete. > 5. Picture E is about an illustrious king of France who sold > Montreal to the Catholic Church in the 1660s, in one of his > first acts as monarch. Which king? Louis XIV. 4 for Calvin, Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Björn, Erland, and Pete. 3 for Peter. (Giggles for the misspelling as "Louise", which is strictly feminine in English as well as French.) > 6. Picture F. Circa 206 BC, name the dynasty whose beginnings > are depicted. It would last for 400 years. Han. 4 for Dan Blum and Erland. 3 for Calvin. > 7. Circa 540 BC, name the historical figure depicted in picture G. Buddha. 4 for Peter, Rob, Joshua, Jason, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Marc, Björn, Erland, and Pete. > 8. Depicted in Picture H, King Felipe II, battled Protestants in > two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that > he was king of. The expected answers were Spain and the Netherlands, but he was also king of Portugal. Castile lost its separate existence in the previous century, though. 4 for Peter, Calvin (the hard way), Rob (also the hard way), Joshua, Dan Blum, Marc, Erland, and Pete. > 9. In Picture I, Pope Alexander VI negotiated a New World agreement, > basically giving the West Indies to one country and the East > Indies to another. Name either. Spain (West Indies), Portugal (East Indies). 4 for Rob, Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Marc, Björn, and Erland (the hard way). 2 for Calvin. > surrender-monkeys let the Germans walk into Paris in the > 19th century too. Within two years, when did the nascent > German/Prussian nation begin occupying the City of Lights? 1871 (accepting 1869-73). 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Marc, Björn, Erland, and Pete. 2 for Calvin. I'm sure everyone understood that the wording here was jocular, but since I happen to have been reading about this recently, I'll point out that the French surrendered only after Paris had been encircled and besieged for over 4 months, causing great hardship due to shortage of food. The Germans eventually forced a surrender by resorting to attacks against civilians -- i.e. shooting artillery into the city. One other notable point: since radio had not yet been invented, conventional communications between the city and the rest of the country (including the government, which had fled to Toulouse) were completely impossible. But the Parisians overcame this by building balloons to carry letters out of the city; railway stations, being temporarily out of business, provided suitable premises for the work. The city had adequate reserves of coal gas and (as was common in 19th-century ballooning), this was used as the lifting gas; it's flammable, toxic, and not as light as hydrogen or helium, but it was also cheap. Balloon flights inward were more dangerous because of the uncertainty of the wind direction, and were only tried once or twice. Instead, a balloon was used to send a microfilm camera out of the city, and thereafter, inward messages were microfilmed and delivered to the city by carrier pigeon. Each message was sent in several copies to improve the chance that at least one would arrive; this mostly worked. > The action's all on HBO and Showtime and FX and AMC. And if you > come up empty on cable, there's always Netflix and Internet series. > Here's a round on alternative TV. In each case, name the series. Who wrote this round? We don't even get Showtime here. > 1. The show that ignited the first-run cable renaissance, its > characters included Big Pussy, Uncle Junior, and Pauly Walnuts. "The Sopranos". 4 for Peter, Calvin, Joshua, Jason, Dan Blum, Marc, and Pete. > 2. Our favorite chemistry teacher turned anti-hero preferred to > do his dirty work under the pseudonym Heisenberg. "Breaking Bad". 4 for Peter, Calvin, Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Marc, Björn, and Pete. > of a group of Death recruits -- in this series about the > afterlife of a girl killed by a toilet seat from the space > station Mir. Name the single-season Showtime series. "Dead like Me". > 4. Nick Stahl was a Depression-era vagrant with visions of mushroom > clouds, who signed on as a carny. Name that single-season, > singularly weird HBO series. "Carnivàle". As Peter noted, it actually ran for 2 seasons. 4 for Peter and Joshua. > 5. Kevin Spacey plays murderously ambitious Vice President Frank > Underwood in this groundbreaking made-for-Netflix series. "House of Cards". 4 for Peter, Calvin, Joshua, Jason, Dan Blum, Marc, Björn, and Pete. No, "groundbreaking" is not a word usually associated with remakes. Perhaps the question-setter was referring to the mode of distribution rather than, y'know, the actual series. (I haven't seen it -- so while he might say that, I couldn't possibly comment.) > 6. Jessica Lange played different characters in each of the first > 3 seasons of this macabre anthology series that kick-started > independent production on the FX network. "American Horror Story". 4 for Peter, Joshua, Jason, and Dan Blum. > 7. President Obama's favorite TV series is this Showtime production > (airing on Superchannel in Canada), starring Claire Danes as > a bipolar FBI agent engaged in the war on terror. "Homeland". 4 for Peter, Calvin, Joshua, Dan Blum, Marc, and Pete. > 8. The next most acclaimed series produced specifically for Netflix > is about life in a women's prison. "Orange is the New Black". 4 for Peter, Joshua, Jason, Dan Blum, Marc, Björn, and Pete. > amounts of liquor and then give garbled accounts of historical > events. Famous actors do their best to act out the stories > as described. "Drunk History". 4 for Joshua. 3 for Dan Blum. > 10. Jerry Seinfeld became pop culturally relevant again with this > hit web-based series that combined his love of cars with his > love of comedy. "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee". 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. 3 for Pete. Scores, if there are no errors: ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS TOPICS-> His Ent Joshua Kreitzer 36 36 72 Dan Blum 36 31 67 Peter Smyth 27 28 55 Pete Gayde 28 23 51 Marc Dashevsky 28 20 48 "Calvin" 27 16 43 Björn Lundin 24 12 36 Erland Sommarskog 36 0 36 Dan Tilque 28 4 32 Jason Kreitzer 12 16 28 Rob Parker 28 0 28 -- Mark Brader | It's practically impossible to keep two separate databases Toronto | in step for any length of time. That's true even when one msb@vex.net | of the "databases" is reality itself. -- Andrew Koenig My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Dec 11 10:39PM -0800 Mark Brader wrote: >> he was king of. > The expected answers were Spain and the Netherlands, but he was > also king of Portugal. While effectively he was king of the Netherlands, the title he held there was not actually "King". Instead it was "Lord of the Netherlands". > Castile lost its separate existence in the > previous century, though. Not technically. The kingdoms of Castile and Aragon maintained their separate institutions (Crowns, laws, Cortes, etc.) until the 18th century. At that time, the first Bourbon, Philip V, dismantled those of Aragon and made everyone follow the laws of Castile. Up until that point, Spain was a personal union of kingdoms, much like England and Scotland during the 17th century. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nueva_Planta_Decrees -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 12 01:06AM -0600 Mark Brader: > >> he was king of. > > The expected answers were Spain and the Netherlands, but he was > > also king of Portugal. Dan Tilque: > > previous century, though. > Not technically. The kingdoms of Castile and Aragon maintained their > separate institutions... Oh, all right. (But you should have known from the word "both" that that wasn't being counted.) 4 for Dan Tilque. Scores, if there are now no errors: ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS TOPICS-> His Ent Joshua Kreitzer 36 36 72 Dan Blum 36 31 67 Peter Smyth 27 28 55 Pete Gayde 28 23 51 Marc Dashevsky 28 20 48 "Calvin" 27 16 43 Björn Lundin 24 12 36 Dan Tilque 32 4 36 Erland Sommarskog 36 0 36 Jason Kreitzer 12 16 28 Rob Parker 28 0 28 -- 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 My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 11 07:48PM -0600 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-11-03, 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. All questions were written by members of Unnatural Axxxe, and are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see my 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". * Game 7, Round 4 - Canadiana - Official Provincial Whatnots. Every province and territory lends its name to random objects. There are official provincial and territorial flowers, animals, rocks, trees, and for all we know, hamburgers. In this round, we'll name some official things and you name the province or territory. 1. Official motto: "fortis et liber" (strong and free). Official flower: wild rose. Official mineral: petrified wood. 2. Official bird: Atlantic puffin. Official flower: purple pitcher plant. Official animal: caribou. 3. Official flower: Pacific dogwood. Official animal: spirit bear. Official fish: Pacific salmon. 4. Official flower: lady slipper. Official bird: blue jay. Official motto: "parva sub ingenti" (the small under the great). 5. Official flower: blue flag iris. Official bird: snowy owl. Official tree: yellow birch. 6. Official bird: rock ptarmigan. Official animal: Canadian Eskimo dog. Official symbol: inukshuk. 7. Official bird: common loon. Official tree: eastern white pine. Official mineral: amethyst. 8. Official flower: western red lily. Official animal: white-tailed deer. Official mineral: potash. 9. Official flower: prairie crocus. Official animal: plains bison. Official fish: walleye. 10. Official flower: mountain avens. Official animal: Arctic grayling. Official mineral: diamond. Game 7, Round 6 - Geography - The Great Lakes Yeah, they're pretty great. And as "the witch of November comes stealin'", here's a round on those big, glacial holes on the Canadian Shield that contain nearly 1/5 of all the fresh water in the world. With only 5 lakes to consider, answers may repeat. 1. But for the Straits of Mackinac, these two Great Lakes would be one big lake. Name them both. 2. Off the shores of Lake Huron, in Huron County, is the largest salt mine in the world. Near what Ontario town is it found? 3. Babe Ruth hit his first professional home run into Lake Ontario, where the ball presumably remains. What was the location of the game? We want the specific well-known location on Toronto's shore. 4. Our Lake Ontario isn't the only one. There's also an Ontario Lacus on one of the solar system's major moons. It's not water but methane, ethane, and propane. Which moon is it on? 5. Which Great Lake sits entirely within the borders of the US? 6. The biggest Great Lake, Lake Superior, is also the youngest. Within 2,000 years, how old is it? 7. One Great Lake has suffered the most impact from industrialization; its drainage basin includes 17 cities with metropolitan areas of 50,000 or more. Which one? 8. As noted by Longfellow and Lightfoot, what is the Chippewayan name for Lake Superior? 9. In 1915 at the Chicago docks, what part did the steamer Eastland play in Great Lakes history? 10. How many crew were lost when the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sink in 1975? -- Mark Brader | "It doesn't have to actually *be* special, but you have Toronto | to make people think it is, and sometimes the easiest way msb@vex.net | to do that is to make it special." -- Peter Reiher My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Dec 12 02:00AM > 1. Official motto: "fortis et liber" (strong and free). > Official flower: wild rose. > Official mineral: petrified wood. Saskatchewan; Manitoba > 2. Official bird: Atlantic puffin. > Official flower: purple pitcher plant. > Official animal: caribou. Newfoundland & Labrador; New Brunswick > 3. Official flower: Pacific dogwood. > Official animal: spirit bear. > Official fish: Pacific salmon. British Columbia > 4. Official flower: lady slipper. > Official bird: blue jay. > Official motto: "parva sub ingenti" (the small under the great). Prince Edward Island > 5. Official flower: blue flag iris. > Official bird: snowy owl. > Official tree: yellow birch. Saskatchewan; Ontario > 6. Official bird: rock ptarmigan. > Official animal: Canadian Eskimo dog. > Official symbol: inukshuk. Yukon Territory; Nunavut > 7. Official bird: common loon. > Official tree: eastern white pine. > Official mineral: amethyst. Nova Scotia; New Brunswick > 8. Official flower: western red lily. > Official animal: white-tailed deer. > Official mineral: potash. Manitoba; Alberta > 9. Official flower: prairie crocus. > Official animal: plains bison. > Official fish: walleye. Alberta; Saskatchewan > 10. Official flower: mountain avens. > Official animal: Arctic grayling. > Official mineral: diamond. Nunavut; Yukon Territory > Game 7, Round 6 - Geography - The Great Lakes > 1. But for the Straits of Mackinac, these two Great Lakes would > be one big lake. Name them both. Michigan and Huron > 4. Our Lake Ontario isn't the only one. There's also an Ontario > Lacus on one of the solar system's major moons. It's not water > but methane, ethane, and propane. Which moon is it on? Titan > 5. Which Great Lake sits entirely within the borders of the US? Michigan > 6. The biggest Great Lake, Lake Superior, is also the youngest. > Within 2,000 years, how old is it? 10,000; 15,000 > 7. One Great Lake has suffered the most impact from > industrialization; its drainage basin includes 17 cities > with metropolitan areas of 50,000 or more. Which one? Erie > 8. As noted by Longfellow and Lightfoot, what is the Chippewayan > name for Lake Superior? Gitchegumee > 10. How many crew were lost when the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald > sink in 1975? 5; 7 -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Dec 12 03:14AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in > 1. Official motto: "fortis et liber" (strong and free). > Official flower: wild rose. > Official mineral: petrified wood. Ontario; Nova Scotia > 2. Official bird: Atlantic puffin. > Official flower: purple pitcher plant. > Official animal: caribou. Newfoundland and Labrador > 3. Official flower: Pacific dogwood. > Official animal: spirit bear. > Official fish: Pacific salmon. British Columbia > 4. Official flower: lady slipper. > Official bird: blue jay. > Official motto: "parva sub ingenti" (the small under the great). Prince Edward Island > 5. Official flower: blue flag iris. > Official bird: snowy owl. > Official tree: yellow birch. New Brunswick; Nova Scotia > 6. Official bird: rock ptarmigan. > Official animal: Canadian Eskimo dog. > Official symbol: inukshuk. Yukon; Northwest Territories > 7. Official bird: common loon. > Official tree: eastern white pine. > Official mineral: amethyst. Ontario; New Brunswick > 8. Official flower: western red lily. > Official animal: white-tailed deer. > Official mineral: potash. Alberta; Saskatchewan > 9. Official flower: prairie crocus. > Official animal: plains bison. > Official fish: walleye. Manitoba; Saskatchewan > 10. Official flower: mountain avens. > Official animal: Arctic grayling. > Official mineral: diamond. Northwest Territories; Nunavut > With only 5 lakes to consider, answers may repeat. > 1. But for the Straits of Mackinac, these two Great Lakes would > be one big lake. Name them both. Lake Michigan & Lake Huron > 4. Our Lake Ontario isn't the only one. There's also an Ontario > Lacus on one of the solar system's major moons. It's not water > but methane, ethane, and propane. Which moon is it on? Titan > 5. Which Great Lake sits entirely within the borders of the US? Lake Michigan > 6. The biggest Great Lake, Lake Superior, is also the youngest. > Within 2,000 years, how old is it? 20,000 years > 7. One Great Lake has suffered the most impact from > industrialization; its drainage basin includes 17 cities > with metropolitan areas of 50,000 or more. Which one? Lake Erie > 8. As noted by Longfellow and Lightfoot, what is the Chippewayan > name for Lake Superior? Gitchee Gumee > 9. In 1915 at the Chicago docks, what part did the steamer Eastland > play in Great Lakes history? most fatalities in a ship disaster (?) > 10. How many crew were lost when the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald > sink in 1975? 63; 62 -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
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