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| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 16 10:21PM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-01-19, 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 MI5, 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 2015-02-23 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". * Game 2, Round 9 - Canadiana Geography - Canada's Biggest and Best 1. What is Canada's tallest building? It opened in 1975 and rises 72 stories. 2. Which Canadian stadium, opened in 1976, has the largest seating capacity? It can hold 56,000 people. 3. With 21,273 seats, what is the largest hockey arena in Canada? 4. In which city would you find the Baitunnur Mosque, the largest Muslim mosque complex in the country at 4,460 m²? 5. Which Toronto institution installed the first milk-pasteurization plant in Canada in 1908, 30 years before the process was mandatory? 6. In which complex would you find the world's largest permanent indoor lake, as well as the world's largest indoor wave pool? 7. What is the busiest bridge within Canada? It is estimated that between 50,000,000 and 60,000,000 vehicles, 6,200,000 trucks, 200,000 buses, and 11,000,000 transit users cross the bridge each year. 8. Which national historic site on Cape Breton Island is the largest historical reconstruction in North America? 9. Which town, home to the famous mid-July Lobster Festival, claims to be the "Lobster Capital of the World"? 10. Located almost the same distance from Edmonton as from Saskatoon, what is the only city in Canada that straddles a provincial border? * Game 2, Round 10 - Challenge Round - Days of the Week A. Entertainment: Monday, Monday A1. Name the Canadian-born member of the Mamas and the Papas. A2. <Answer A1> and Cass Elliot had been band mates in what folk group? B. Literature: Wodensday Which is to say, Norse mythology. B1. What did Odin sacrifice to Mimir, in order to drink from the Well of Wisdom? B2. In a sacrifice to himself, the highest of the gods, Odin was hanged from a certain tree for 9 days and nights, pierced by his own spear, in order to learn the wisdom that would give him power in the 9 worlds. Name this tree or give the meaning of its name in English. C. History: Black Thursday C1. In what *month* in 1929 did the crash of Wall Street, known as Black Thursday, occur? C2. In a widely reported quote, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. said of this period, "You know it's time to sell when" (these people) "are giving you stock tips." Identify these people. D. Sports: Saturday = "Hockey Night in Canada" D1. What "Hockey Night in Canada" host made his last appearance, on 1987-03-14 after disgustedly flipping his pen? D2. On October 14, 2006, who became the first woman to do color commentary on a "Hockey Night in Canada" broadcast? E. Science: Ice Cream Sundaes E1. In 400 BC, people of this empire would pour grape-juice concentrate over snow, in a bowl, and eat it as a treat. They used snow saved in cool-keeping underground chambers or taken from mountaintops. Name the empire. E2. What was put into a traditional hand-cranked ice-cream churn along with the ice to ensure freezing? F. Canadiana: TGIF Drinking in Canada F1. This popular Ontario whisky derives its name from a geographical feature near Grimsby. What name? F2. Name the Quebec equivalent of the LCBO. The short form will do. -- Mark Brader | "The dream of a common standard is er... enhanced Toronto | by the diversity of a myriad of national rules..." msb@vex.net | --Ian Walmsley My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Mar 17 03:32AM > * Game 2, Round 9 - Canadiana Geography - Canada's Biggest and Best > 1. What is Canada's tallest building? It opened in 1975 and rises > 72 stories. CN Tower > 4. In which city would you find the Baitunnur Mosque, the largest > Muslim mosque complex in the country at 4,460 m?? Toronto; Windsor > 6. In which complex would you find the world's largest permanent > indoor lake, as well as the world's largest indoor wave pool? West Edmonton Mall > A. Entertainment: Monday, Monday > A2. <Answer A1> and Cass Elliot had been band mates in what > folk group? The Weavers > Which is to say, Norse mythology. > B1. What did Odin sacrifice to Mimir, in order to drink from > the Well of Wisdom? his eye > pierced by his own spear, in order to learn the wisdom that > would give him power in the 9 worlds. Name this tree or > give the meaning of its name in English. Yggdrasil > C. History: Black Thursday > C1. In what *month* in 1929 did the crash of Wall Street, known > as Black Thursday, occur? September; October > C2. In a widely reported quote, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. said of > this period, "You know it's time to sell when" (these people) > "are giving you stock tips." Identify these people. waiters > concentrate over snow, in a bowl, and eat it as a treat. > They used snow saved in cool-keeping underground chambers > or taken from mountaintops. Name the empire. Persian Empire > E2. What was put into a traditional hand-cranked ice-cream > churn along with the ice to ensure freezing? rock salt -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Mar 16 08:47PM -0700 On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 1:21:21 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > * Game 2, Round 9 - Canadiana Geography - Canada's Biggest and Best Pass > C. History: Black Thursday > C1. In what *month* in 1929 did the crash of Wall Street, known > as Black Thursday, occur? October > C2. In a widely reported quote, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. said of > this period, "You know it's time to sell when" (these people) > "are giving you stock tips." Identify these people. Hotel porters cheers, calvin |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Mar 16 10:56PM -0500 In article <hoqdnWPN4_stAJrInZ2dnUU7-W2dnZ2d@vex.net>, msb@vex.net says... > * Game 2, Round 10 - Challenge Round - Days of the Week > A. Entertainment: Monday, Monday > A1. Name the Canadian-born member of the Mamas and the Papas. Denny Doherty > A2. <Answer A1> and Cass Elliot had been band mates in what > folk group? Mugwumps > C. History: Black Thursday > C1. In what *month* in 1929 did the crash of Wall Street, known > as Black Thursday, occur? October > C2. In a widely reported quote, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. said of > this period, "You know it's time to sell when" (these people) > "are giving you stock tips." Identify these people. chauffers > concentrate over snow, in a bowl, and eat it as a treat. > They used snow saved in cool-keeping underground chambers > or taken from mountaintops. Name the empire. Greek > E2. What was put into a traditional hand-cranked ice-cream > churn along with the ice to ensure freezing? rock salt -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Mar 17 05:48AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:hoqdnWPN4_stAJrInZ2dnUU7- > * Game 2, Round 9 - Canadiana Geography - Canada's Biggest and Best > 2. Which Canadian stadium, opened in 1976, has the largest seating > capacity? It can hold 56,000 people. Olympic Stadium > 3. With 21,273 seats, what is the largest hockey arena in Canada? Maple Leaf Gardens > * Game 2, Round 10 - Challenge Round - Days of the Week > A. Entertainment: Monday, Monday > A1. Name the Canadian-born member of the Mamas and the Papas. Denny Doherty > C. History: Black Thursday > C1. In what *month* in 1929 did the crash of Wall Street, known > as Black Thursday, occur? October > C2. In a widely reported quote, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. said of > this period, "You know it's time to sell when" (these people) > "are giving you stock tips." Identify these people. shoeshine boys > concentrate over snow, in a bowl, and eat it as a treat. > They used snow saved in cool-keeping underground chambers > or taken from mountaintops. Name the empire. Persian Empire > E2. What was put into a traditional hand-cranked ice-cream > churn along with the ice to ensure freezing? salt > F. Canadiana: TGIF Drinking in Canada > F2. Name the Quebec equivalent of the LCBO. The short form > will do. SAQ -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Mar 17 04:07AM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: > 72 stories. > 2. Which Canadian stadium, opened in 1976, has the largest seating > capacity? It can hold 56,000 people. BC Place > mandatory? > 6. In which complex would you find the world's largest permanent > indoor lake, as well as the world's largest indoor wave pool? There's a shopping mall in Edmonton that has its own fleet of submarines (3 of them, I believe). That's probably it, but I can't remember the name of the mall. > 10. Located almost the same distance from Edmonton as from > Saskatoon, what is the only city in Canada that straddles a > provincial border? Lloydminster (Flin Flon also is on both sides of the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border. Unlike Lloydminster, where the border bisects the city right down the middle, only a small part of Flin Flon is in Sask. But it's the southern part of the town. The MB/SK border has a number of east-west jags and Flin Flon is on one of those.) > Which is to say, Norse mythology. > B1. What did Odin sacrifice to Mimir, in order to drink from > the Well of Wisdom? an eye > pierced by his own spear, in order to learn the wisdom that > would give him power in the 9 worlds. Name this tree or > give the meaning of its name in English. Yggdrasil > C. History: Black Thursday > C1. In what *month* in 1929 did the crash of Wall Street, known > as Black Thursday, occur? October > C2. In a widely reported quote, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. said of > this period, "You know it's time to sell when" (these people) > "are giving you stock tips." Identify these people. shoeshine boys > concentrate over snow, in a bowl, and eat it as a treat. > They used snow saved in cool-keeping underground chambers > or taken from mountaintops. Name the empire. Persian > E2. What was put into a traditional hand-cranked ice-cream > churn along with the ice to ensure freezing? salt -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 16 10:14PM -0500 Mark Brader: > 1. Two Charlie Chaplin films, released in 1931 and 1936, are both > now universally recognized as masterpieces, but neither received > a Best Picture nomination. Name either. "City Lights", "Modern Times". 4 for Marc, Björn, Joshua, and Stephen (the hard way). "The Great Dictator" wasn't made until 1940. > wrote her name on their ballots anyway -- so many that write-in > votes were banned the following year when she won an Oscar for > her work in the movie "Dangerous". Who? Bette Davis. 4 for Joshua, Stephen, and Pete. > 3. In 1942, Oscar ignored Orson Welles's brilliant follow-up to > Citizen Kane, perhaps due to Hollywood's fear of William Randolph > Hearst and his acolytes. Name the snubbed movie. "The Magnificent Ambersons". 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Stephen, and Pete. > as Best Picture. Neither the lead actor, James Stewart, nor > the director, who also worked together on three other movies > during their careers, were nominated. Name the film. "Vertigo". (Sheesh.) 4 for Marc, Joshua, Stephen, and Calvin. 3 for Pete. > The movie was a sensation with the public upon its release, > but the Academy has never been kind to the genre. Name the > snubbed actor. Anthony Perkins (for "Psycho"). 4 for Marc, Dan Blum, Joshua, and Stephen. > 6. In 1969, this Italian maestro's symphonic score for Sergio > Leone's spaghetti western, "Once Upon a Time in the West", > was not nominated. Ennio Morricone. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Stephen. > 7. In 1986, this actor's unhinged performance as gas-sniffing > psychopath Frank Booth in David Lynch's "Blue Velvet" was > overlooked. Dennis Hopper. 4 for Marc, Dan Blum, Joshua, and Stephen. > this director's being snubbed. He had been nominated for each > of his previous 4 films: a satirical black comedy, a sci-fi > classic, an exploration of violence, and a gorgeous period drama. Stanley Kubrick ("The Shining"; "Dr. Strangelove", "2001", "A Clockwork Orange", "Barry Lyndon"). 4 for Dan Blum, Björn, Joshua, Stephen, and Pete. > 9. In 2013, Robert Redford was snubbed for his nearly wordless > portrayal of a yachtsman on a sinking sailboat who is faced > with the prospect of imminent death. Name the movie. "All is Lost". 4 for Joshua and Stephen. > relations was ignored. It was also a humane, funny character > study of a neighborhood on the brink, even though some critics > suggested that Lee was encouraging race riots. Name the movie. "Do the Right Thing". 4 for Marc, Dan Blum, Joshua, Stephen, Pete, and Dan Tilque. > * Game 2, Round 8 - History - Martin Luther King Jr. > In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a round on the man himself. > 1. In what subject did he earn his doctorate? Systematic theology. I accepted "theology" and scored "divinity" as almost correct. 4 for Marc, Erland, Joshua, Stephen, and Dan Tilque. 3 for Pete. > bus seat to a white passenger. King's role in the civil rights > campaign that followed transformed him into a national figure. > Name the campaign. Montgomery bus boycott. 4 for Joshua, Stephen, and Pete. > 3. Who provided the written directive empowering the FBI to begin > tapping King's telephone in 1963? Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. 4 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque. > 4. In 1959 King travelled abroad to meet with the family of which > deceased world leader? Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi. 4 for Marc, Joshua, Stephen, and Pete. > 5. In 1963 King was arrested and jailed for his role in a campaign > against racial segregation and economic injustice in a Southern > city, and wrote a famous "letter from jail". Name the city. Birmingham. 4 for Marc, Dan Blum, Joshua, and Stephen. > 6. On 1963-08-28, King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" > speech -- at what gathering? March on Washington. 4 for Marc, Joshua, and Stephen. 3 for Pete. > movement to the northern US by organizing marches and protests > in Chicago. When King and his allies returned to the South, > who did they leave in charge of their organization? Jesse Jackson. 4 for Marc, Stephen, Pete, and Dan Tilque. > 8. What was King's wife's maiden name? Coretta Scott. 4 for Marc, Dan Blum, Joshua, Stephen, and Pete. > 9. What President signed the bill making Martin Luther King Jr. Day > a federal holiday? Ronald Reagan. 4 for Marc, Joshua, Stephen, and Dan Tilque. 2 for Dan Blum. > 10. On what date in 1968 was King assassinated, as per the U2 song > "Pride"? April 4. 4 for Björn, Joshua, and Stephen. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 2 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST TOPICS-> Lit Sci Can Spo Ent His FOUR Stephen Perry 40 40 15 40 40 36 160 Joshua Kreitzer 28 24 4 20 40 32 124 Dan Blum 36 33 0 12 24 14 107 Marc Dashevsky 16 32 0 20 20 28 100 Dan Tilque 31 36 0 12 4 16 95 Pete Gayde 24 24 -- -- 19 22 89 "Calvin" 16 34 0 24 4 0 78 Peter Smyth 20 32 0 24 -- -- 76 Björn Lundin 12 32 0 0 8 4 56 Erland Sommarskog 0 28 0 8 0 4 40 Bruce Bowler 8 28 -- -- -- -- 36 -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "It was too crazy to be true, msb@vex.net | and too crazy to be false." --Tom Clancy My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| bbowler <bbowler@bigelow.org>: Mar 16 08:29PM On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 14:29:19 -0700, Calvin wrote: > 1 Which human organ is affected by Meniere's disease? The kidney? > 2 What was the capital city of Uganda from 1893 until 1962? On the assumption that it's not a trick question, and given the only city I can think of in Uganda is Entebbe, I'll say Entebbe. > 3 Which African capital city was once known as Leopoldville? Kinshasa > 4 Which river flows over the Victoria Falls? Zambezi > 5 What do devotees of the Atkins Diet avoid? Carbs > 6 Which film studio was founded in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, DW > Griffith,Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford? United Artists > 7 The peacock is the national bird of which Asian country? Thailand > 8 Which Swiss town is home to the Olympic Museum? > 9 Which South African author won the Booker prize in 1983 and 1999? > 10 The Petronas Towers are located in which city? Kuala Lampour |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Mar 16 10:56PM +0100 On 2015-03-15 22:29, Calvin wrote: > 1 Which human organ is affected by Meniere's disease? The Eyes > 2 What was the capital city of Uganda from 1893 until 1962? Entebbe > 3 Which African capital city was once known as Leopoldville? > 4 Which river flows over the Victoria Falls? Congo river > 5 What do devotees of the Atkins Diet avoid? Gluten > 6 Which film studio was founded in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, DW Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford? > 7 The peacock is the national bird of which Asian country? Singapore > 8 Which Swiss town is home to the Olympic Museum? Montreaux > 9 Which South African author won the Booker prize in 1983 and 1999? > 10 The Petronas Towers are located in which city? Kuala Lumpur -- -- Björn |
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