Monday, June 29, 2015

Digest for rec.games.trivia@googlegroups.com - 13 updates in 6 topics

Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jun 29 02:12AM -0700

1 What service began in October 1883, operating between Paris and Constantinople?
2 Which two countries border Costa Rica?
3 Which British pop star shares her name with the founder of the city of Carthage?
4 William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is set in which Italian city?
5 In the 1997 movie Spice World, which actor played Clifford, the manager of the Spice Girls?
6 To Hell and Back was the 2000 biography of which American singer?
7 Which author wrote the plays The Night of the Iguana (1961) and The Glass Menagerie (1944)?
8 Which English king fought at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415?
9 What general name is given to Indian food cooked in a clay oven?
10 What is the traditional occupation of a leprechaun?
 
cheers,
calvin
Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jun 29 12:06PM +0200

> 1 What service began in October 1883, operating between Paris and
> Constantinople?
 
Oriental Express
 
> 2 Which two countries border Costa Rica?
 
Panamá and Nicaragua
 
> 4 William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is set in which
> Italian city?
 
Verona
 
> 6 To Hell and Back was the 2000 biography of which American singer?
 
Alice Cooper
 
> 8 Which English king fought at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415?
 
Henry V
 
> 9 What general name is given to Indian food cooked in a clay oven?
 
Sizlar
 
> 10 What is the traditional occupation of a leprechaun?

Snatching
 
 
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jun 29 02:38AM -0700

On Monday, June 22, 2015 at 4:56:02 PM UTC+10, Calvin wrote:
> 18 104 Eden Gardens 66,349
> 19 141 Eden Park 61,136
> 20 162 Gaddafi Stadium 60,000
 
 
Q Country Dan Peter Marc Erland TOTAL
1  North Korea 0 1 0 1 2
2  United States 0 0 1 1 2
3  Malaysia 0 0 0 0 0
4  Spain 0 1 0 1 2
5  Mexico 1 1 1 1 4
6  South Africa 0 1 0 1 2
7  Egypt 0 0 0 0 0
8  Iran 0 0 0 1 1
9  Ireland 0 1 0 0 1
10  England 1 1 1 0 3
11  Spain 0 1 0 1 2
12  Italy 1 1 1 1 4
13  Algeria 0 0 0 1 1
14  Brazil 0 1 1 1 3
15  Germany 0 1 0 1 2
16  Wales 0 1 0 0 1
17  Scotland 0 1 0 0 1
18  India 0 1 0 0 1
19  New Zealand 0 1 1 0 2
20  Pakistan 0 0 0 0 0
3 14 6 11 34

Congratulations Peter. RQ187 is all yours.
 
cheers,
calvin
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 28 06:59PM -0500

These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-03-23,
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 (from the first posting).
 
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 10, Round 4 - Canadiana Geography - Toronto Neighborhood Street Signs
 
Toronto has a real mix of street signs right now. In some
neighborhoods, on some streets, above the street name is the name
of the neighborhood (or a business improvement area). The handout
 
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/10-4/signs.jpg
 
shows these street signs with the top section blanked. In each
case, tell what it says in the top part of the sign. (FYI, the
pictures were taken in February and March of 2015.)
 
I've rearranged the handout so that pictures #1-10 correspond to
the 10 questions in order.
 
1. Cross street is Bloor St. W.
2. Cross street is Quebec Av.
3. Self-explanatory.
4. Self-explanatory.
5. Cross street is Dundas St. W.
6. Self-explanatory.
7. Cross street is Bloor St. W.
8. Self-explanatory.
9. Cross street is Sheppard St., which is one block west of Bay St.
10. Cross street is Parliament St.
 
There were 2 decoys. Answer them if you like for fun, but for no points.
 
11. Cross street is Queen St. W.
12. Cross street is Richmond St. W.
 
 
* Game 10, Round 6 - Sports & Leisure - Cars
 
Identify the car company from the model mentioned.
 
1. Soul.
2. Land Cruiser.
3. Nano.
4. Rogue or Cube.
5. Fix.
6. Volt.
7. Silver Ghost.
8. Tiguan.
9. Flex.
10. 500 (or Cinquecento).
 
--
Mark Brader | this take
Toronto | "If is shall really to
msb@vex.net | flying I never it."
| -- Piglet ("Winnie-the-Pooh", A.A. Milne)
 
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Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Jun 29 12:47AM

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in
 
> * Game 10, Round 4 - Canadiana Geography - Toronto Neighborhood Street
> Signs
 
I think I'm going to skip these.

> * Game 10, Round 6 - Sports & Leisure - Cars
 
> Identify the car company from the model mentioned.
 
> 1. Soul.
 
Kia
 
> 2. Land Cruiser.
 
Toyota
 
> 6. Volt.
 
Chevrolet
 
> 7. Silver Ghost.
 
Rolls-Royce
 
> 10. 500 (or Cinquecento).
 
Fiat; Ferrari
 
--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com
tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jun 29 03:02AM


> * Game 10, Round 4 - Canadiana Geography - Toronto Neighborhood Street Signs
 
> * Game 10, Round 6 - Sports & Leisure - Cars
 
> 1. Soul.
 
Kia
 
> 2. Land Cruiser.
 
Toyota
 
> 4. Rogue or Cube.
 
Nissan
 
> 5. Fix.
 
Honda
 
> 6. Volt.
 
Chevrolet
 
> 7. Silver Ghost.
 
Rolls Royce
 
> 8. Tiguan.
 
Volkswagen
 
> 9. Flex.
 
Honda
 
> 10. 500 (or Cinquecento).
 
Fiat
 
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum tool@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Jun 28 09:24PM -0700

On Sunday, June 28, 2015 at 7:59:27 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-03-23,
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
 
noted
 
 
> I've rearranged the handout so that pictures #1-10 correspond to
> the 10 questions in order.
 
> 1. Cross street is Bloor St. W.
 
bloor west village
 
> 2. Cross street is Quebec Av.
 
the junction
 
> 3. Self-explanatory.
 
little portugal
 
> 4. Self-explanatory.
 
little italy
 
> 5. Cross street is Dundas St. W.
 
grange park
 
> 6. Self-explanatory.
 
cabbagetown ; regent park (both might be correct if this is the intersection I think it is)
 
> 7. Cross street is Bloor St. W.
 
huron-sussex
 
> 8. Self-explanatory.
 
the annex
 
> 9. Cross street is Sheppard St., which is one block west of Bay St.
 
financial district
 
> 10. Cross street is Parliament St.
 
distillery district
 
 
> There were 2 decoys. Answer them if you like for fun, but for no points.
 
> 11. Cross street is Queen St. W.
 
parkdale?
 
> 12. Cross street is Richmond St. W.
 
king west ; queen west
 
 
 
> * Game 10, Round 6 - Sports & Leisure - Cars
 
> Identify the car company from the model mentioned.
 
> 1. Soul.
 
kia
 
> 2. Land Cruiser.
 
toyota
 
> 3. Nano.
 
tata
 
> 4. Rogue or Cube.
 
nissan
 
> 5. Fix.
 
honda (ok, that was the 'fit' but I am stuck on this one)
 
> 6. Volt.
 
chevrolet
 
> 7. Silver Ghost.
 
rolls royce
 
> 8. Tiguan.
 
volkswagen
 
> 9. Flex.
 
ford
 
> 10. 500 (or Cinquecento).
 
fiat
 
 
 
 
swp
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 29 12:02AM -0500

Mark Brader:
> > http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/10-4/signs.jpg
 
> > 6. Self-explanatory.

Stephen Perry:
> cabbagetown ; regent park (both might be correct if this is the
> intersection I think it is)
 
Funny, I thought it was self-explanatory what intersection it was!
--
Mark Brader "Hey, I don't want to control people's lives!
Toronto (If they did things right, I wouldn't have to.)"
msb@vex.net -- "Coach"
Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jun 29 11:04AM +0200

> * Game 10, Round 4 - Canadiana Geography - Toronto Neighborhood Street
> Signs
 
Good grief!

 
> * Game 10, Round 6 - Sports & Leisure - Cars
 
> 6. Volt.
 
Chevrolet
 
> 10. 500 (or Cinquecento).
 
Fiat
 
 
 
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jun 29 02:16AM -0700

On Monday, June 29, 2015 at 9:59:27 AM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
 
> * Game 10, Round 4 - Canadiana Geography - Toronto Neighborhood Street Signs
 
Pass
 
> * Game 10, Round 6 - Sports & Leisure - Cars
 
> Identify the car company from the model mentioned.
 
> 1. Soul.
 
GM, Ford
 
> 2. Land Cruiser.
 
Toyota
 
> 3. Nano.
 
Tata
 
> 4. Rogue or Cube.
 
Nissan
 
> 5. Fix.
 
GM, Ford
 
> 6. Volt.
 
Nissan
 
> 7. Silver Ghost.
 
Rolls Royce
 
> 8. Tiguan.
 
GM, Ford
 
> 9. Flex.
 
GM, Ford
 
> 10. 500 (or Cinquecento).
 
Fiat
 
cheers,
calvin
Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jun 29 02:03AM -0700

On Sunday, June 21, 2015 at 9:28:26 AM UTC+10, Calvin wrote:
 
> 1 Which element is added to steel to make it stainless?
 
Chromium
 
> 2 How many blank tiles are in a Scrabble set?
 
2
 
> 3 Derek Jacobi played the title role in which 1976 BBC historical drama based on the novels of Robert Graves?
 
I, Claudius
 
> 4 The title of which European country's national anthem literally translates as Old Land of My Fathers?
 
Wales
 
> 5 In 1934 which nation was the first European team to win the FIFA soccer World Cup?
 
Italy
 
> 6 Which West German far-left guerrilla group was founded in 1970?
 
Baader-Meinhoff / Red Army Faction
 
> 7 What is the more common name for the scapula bone?
 
Shoulder Blade
 
> 8 John Singer Sargent was best known for his achievements in which field of the arts?
 
Painting
Giggle points for singing :-)
 
> 9 English and which other language are the two official languages of Pakistan?
 
Urdu
 
> 10 Who directed the first four Scream movies?
 
Wes Craven
 
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 398
1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 8 43 Marc Dashevsky
1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 8 44 Chris Johnson
1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 7 38 Peter Smyth
0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 7 41 Mark Brader
0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 6 34 Pete Gayde
1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 5 33 David Brown
0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 4 29 Bjorn Lundin
0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 20 Erland S
1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 21 Dan Tilque
- - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
5 7 7 2 5 6 4 3 9 3 51 57%
 
Congratulations Marc on the narrowest of victories.
 
cheers,
calvin
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 28 06:56PM -0500

Mark Brader:
 
> * Game 10, Round 2 - History - Famous Convicts
 
> 1. Who was sentenced to life in prison on 1895-01-05, and sent to
> Devil's Island?
 
Alfred Dreyfus. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Dan Tilque, and Björn.
 
He was not guilty, but the men responsible for the prosecution ignored
the evidence showing this. Neither they nor the real guilty party
were ever punished. Dreyfus was pardoned and freed in late 1899,
after effectively spending the entire period on Devil's Island
in solitary confinement; but he wasn't not officially exonerated
until 1906.
 
Robert Harris has novelized the history of this sad case under the
title "An Officer and a Spy". Recommended reading.
 
> 2. Which Boer War correspondent for the London Morning Post landed
> in a Pretoria prison in 1899?
 
Winston Churchill. 4 for Calvin, Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Dan Tilque,
and Björn.
 
> 3. Who was sentenced to 2 years of hard labor at Reading Gaol
> ("redding jail") in 1895?
 
Oscar Wilde. 4 for Calvin, Dan Blum, Joshua, Peter, and Dan Tilque.
 
> 4. Which writer was sent to a sharashka -- an intellectual slave
> labor camp -- in 1945?
 
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc,
and Dan Tilque. 3 for Calvin.
 
> 5. Who started refusing food and water in the Maze Prison on
> 1981-03-01?
 
Bobby Sands. 4 for Joshua and Peter.
 
> 6. From which prison were four forgers, two "lunatics", and one
> "deviant" aristocrat, the Comte de Solages, suddenly released?
 
The Bastille. 4 for Calvin, Joshua, Marc, Jason, and Dan Tilque.
 
> 7. "I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong." Who was sentenced
> to 5 years in jail -- which in the end he did not serve --
> for sticking to those sentiments?
 
Muhammad Ali (accepting Cassius Clay, his name until a couple
of years before). 4 for Calvin, Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Peter,
Jason, and Dan Tilque.
 
> 8. What singer-songwriter, who lived for a time at Beach Boy
> Dennis Wilson's house, was convicted in 1971 of conspiracy to
> commit murders and has been imprisoned ever since?
 
Charles Manson. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, and Jason.
 
> 9. Which newsworthy figure was released from the Federal
> Correctional Institution in Miami on 2012-05-04?
 
Conrad Black.
 
> 10. Which newsworthy figure was released from the Federal Prison
> Camp in Alderson, West Virginia, at 12:30 am on 2005-03-04?
 
Martha Stewart. 4 for Peter.
 
 
 
> 1. In this 1987 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, a butler named Stevens
> is the embodiment of the old-fashioned career manservant:
> loyal, deferential, unquestioning. Name the novel.
 
"The Remains of the Day". 4 for Calvin, Dan Blum, Joshua, and Marc.
 
> 2. In the hilarious works of P.G. Wodehouse, this valet is
> incredibly bright and well-spoken, and helps his congenial but
> dim master out of many a scrape. Who is this valet?
 
Jeeves. 4 for everyone -- Calvin, Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Peter,
Erland, Jason, Dan Tilque, and Björn.
 
> novel by Dickens. He is the Cockney valet to the title
> character, and is quick of wit and tongue. His comments are
> hilarious and were called "Wellerisms". Name the novel.
 
"The Pickwick Papers". Or (more precisely) "The Posthumous
Papers of the Pickwick Club, Containing a Faithful Record of
the Perambulations, Perils, Travels, Adventures and Sporting
Transactions of the Corresponding Members". 4 for Calvin and
Joshua. 2 for Dan Blum.
 
> 4. Grace Poole is a stout, middle-aged seamstress who works as
> a servant at Thornfield Hall, and is secretly the nursemaid
> and guard for the insane Bertha Mason. Name the novel.
 
"Jane Eyre" (by Charlotte Bronte). 4 for Calvin and Dan Blum.
 
> 20th century. He serves as a surrogate father to the Trask
> sons when their father is traumatized by a disastrous marriage.
> Name the novel.
 
"East of Eden" (by John Steinbeck). 4 for Joshua.
 
> 6. This character is Scarlett O'Hara's childhood nurse in "Gone
> with the Wind". She is an old, heavyset slave who is loyal
> and well versed in Southern etiquette. Name her.
 
Mammy. 4 for Joshua, Marc, and Dan Tilque.
 
> 7. Sam Farrow is Charles Smithson's Cockney servant, who aspires
> to become a haberdasher. In what John Fowles novel is Sam
> Farrow found?
 
"The French Lieutenant's Woman". 4 for Joshua and Marc.
 
> valued, fiercely loyal, and well-respected member of his
> ship's crew. He appears in all 19 books of a seafaring series
> by what author?
 
Patrick O'Brian. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
 
> names him Friday, and uses him as a servant. He teaches Friday
> English and convinces him that cannibalism is wrong. Who wrote
> "Robinson Crusoe"?
 
Daniel Defoe. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Peter, Erland, Jason,
Dan Tilque, and Björn.
 
> 10. This character acts as squire to Don Quixote and throughout
> the novel provides comments that are a combination of broad
> humor, ironic Spanish proverbs, and earthy wit. Name him.
 
Sancho Panza. Sorry, "Pancho" by itself was not close enough.
4 for Calvin, Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Jason, and Dan Tilque.
 
 
Scores, if there are no errors:
 
GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS
TOPICS-> His Lit
Joshua Kreitzer 32 36 68
Dan Blum 24 26 50
Marc Dashevsky 24 24 48
Dan Tilque 24 16 40
"Calvin" 19 20 39
Peter Smyth 16 8 24
Jason Kreitzer 12 12 24
Björn Lundin 8 8 16
Erland Sommarskog 0 8 8
 
--
Mark Brader, Toronto, msb@vex.net
"sci fi: the plural of scum fum" -- Spider Robinson
 
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msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 28 01:15PM -0500

Mark Brader:
>>> the Triple Crown of thoroughbred racing?
 
>> American Pharaoh. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Joshua, Peter,
>> and Dan Tilque.

Marc Dashevsky:
> The name is actually an "incorrect" spelling: American Pharoah
 
And 4 out of 5 of you knew that, but I didn't. Thanks.
--
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Toronto | "It's amazing how often that's said about my statements."
msb@vex.net | --Greg Goss
 
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