- QFTCIMI515 Final, Round 4: Arts & Literature - 5 Updates
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| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 13 11:22PM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-03-30, 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*)". ** Final, Round 4 - Arts & Literature * Architecture of Toronto Buildings The University of Toronto and the surrounding area contains an amazing variety of architecture. For each photo, just name the style of architecture it represents. If you want to show off, for fun but for no points, also name the buildings. 1. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/arch/1.jpg 2. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/arch/2.jpg 3. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/arch/3.jpg * Literary Deaths 4. He is the patriarch of his noble family and a proud leader of the North. He is honorable and compassionate, but publicly confesses to treason in order to keep his daughters safe. He is executed by sword. Give his *first and last name*, please. 5. This character is a pure-blooded wizard. He gains lifelong friendship in a group called "the Marauders", who fought together during the First Wizarding War. He spends 12 years in prison and escapes by transforming into the form of a massive black dog. He is murdered by his cousin. Give his *first and last name*, please. 6. We meet this character in her moldering wedding dress, wearing one shoe and hoarding everything from the day she was left at the altar. At the end of the novel, she dies after failing to realize until it is too late that her wedding dress has caught fire. Name her. * Italian-a-Tempo We define it; you give us the Italian word or phrase. All answers start with the letter A. 7. What is the most common of the tempo markings that mean "brisk" or "lively"? 8. What is the most common marking for a slow tempo, literally meaning "at ease"? 9. What is the most common marking for a moderate pace, literally meaning "going"? * Wartime Novels Tell us which war is featured in each of these novels. 10. "Flashman at the Charge" by George MacDonald Fraser. 11. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway. 12. "In Country" by Bobbie Ann Mason. * Egyptian Gods In each case, name the Egyptian god depicted. 13. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/god/13.jpg 14. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/god/14.jpg 15. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/god/15.jpg -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "We don't use clubs; they weren't invented here. msb@vex.net | We use rocks." -- David Keldsen My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jul 13 10:43PM -0700 On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at 2:22:54 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > style of architecture it represents. If you want to show off, > for fun but for no points, also name the buildings. > 1. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/arch/1.jpg Gothic revival, Romantic > 2. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/arch/2.jpg Classical, neo-classical > 3. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/arch/3.jpg Brutalist, modernist > escapes by transforming into the form of a massive black dog. > He is murdered by his cousin. Give his *first and last name*, > please. Dunno, but why didn't he transform 12 years earlier? > the altar. At the end of the novel, she dies after failing > to realize until it is too late that her wedding dress has > caught fire. Name her. Miss Haversham > start with the letter A. > 7. What is the most common of the tempo markings that mean "brisk" > or "lively"? Allegro, Adagio > 8. What is the most common marking for a slow tempo, literally > meaning "at ease"? Allegro, Adagio > 9. What is the most common marking for a moderate pace, literally > meaning "going"? Allegro, Adagio > * Wartime Novels > Tell us which war is featured in each of these novels. > 10. "Flashman at the Charge" by George MacDonald Fraser. Crimean War > 11. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway. Spanish Civil War > 12. "In Country" by Bobbie Ann Mason. US Civil War, US Revolutionary War > * Egyptian Gods > In each case, name the Egyptian god depicted. > 13. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/god/13.jpg Ra, Isis > 14. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/god/14.jpg Ra, Isis > 15. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/god/15.jpg Ra, Isis cheers, calvin |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Jul 14 02:09AM -0500 In article <SeCdncyiipoAEznInZ2dnUU7-fudnZ2d@vex.net>, msb@vex.net says... > start with the letter A. > 7. What is the most common of the tempo markings that mean "brisk" > or "lively"? alegro > 8. What is the most common marking for a slow tempo, literally > meaning "at ease"? adagio > 9. What is the most common marking for a moderate pace, literally > meaning "going"? andante > Tell us which war is featured in each of these novels. > 10. "Flashman at the Charge" by George MacDonald Fraser. > 11. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway. Spanish Civil War > * Egyptian Gods > In each case, name the Egyptian god depicted. > 13. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/god/13.jpg Osiris > 14. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/god/14.jpg Anubis; Horus > 15. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/god/15.jpg Anubis; Horus -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jul 14 10:42AM +0200 > ** Final, Round 4 - Arts & Literature > 1. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/arch/1.jpg Neo-classical > 2. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/arch/2.jpg Neo-romanesque > 3. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/arch/3.jpg Functionalism > 7. What is the most common of the tempo markings that mean "brisk" > or "lively"? Vivace > 8. What is the most common marking for a slow tempo, literally > meaning "at ease"? Adagio > 9. What is the most common marking for a moderate pace, literally > meaning "going"? Andante > 11. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway. Boer War > 13. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/god/13.jpg Ra > 14. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/god/14.jpg Ra > 15. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/god/15.jpg Ra -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 14 05:34AM -0500 Mark Brader: > > escapes by transforming into the form of a massive black dog. > > He is murdered by his cousin. Give his *first and last name*, > > please. "Calvin": > Dunno, but why didn't he transform 12 years earlier? It's been some years since I read the, but there's a detailed writeup of the plot at: http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Prisoner_of_Azkaban He always had the ability to transform into a dog, and indeed had used it frequently while in prison. What he didn't have before was a motivation to escape. The reason he was convicted there was that he had been framed by the person who had really committed the crime. After 12 years in prison he happened to see the actual criminal in a news photo, so now he knew where to find him; and that made it worthwhile to try to escape and go after him. -- Mark Brader, Toronto "You can fool too many of the people msb@vex.net too much of the time." -- James Thurber My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| bbowler <bbowler@bigelow.org>: Jul 13 02:27PM On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 22:40:46 -0500, Mark Brader wrote: > 1. What was the former name of the city that is now called Chennai? > 2. What is the current name of the city that the British called > Bombay? Mumbai > what is the most populous urban agglomeration (i.e. metropolitan area) > in... > 7. South America? Buenos Aires > 8. Europe? London; Paris > 9. Africa? Cairo > We'll give you the names of all the African countries that border > another country -- and you name that other country. > 10. Burundi, Tanzania, DR Congo, Uganda. Angola? > 11. Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia. Zimbabwe? > 12. Liberia, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Ghana. Ivory Coast? > which of them is farthest north. All cities within a group will differ > by at least 4° of latitude. > 13. Cairo, Egypt; Osaka, Japan; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia > 14. Harare, Zimbabwe; Lima, Peru; São Paulo, Brazil. Lima > 15. Colombo, Sri Lanka; Darwin, Australia; Quito, Ecuador. Columbo |
| Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Jul 13 07:51PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:uPCdnWNIe86jDT3InZ2dnUU7- > doing something, they change city names, claiming that they are > replacing the British name with something more Indian. > 1. What was the former name of the city that is now called Chennai? Madras > 2. What is the current name of the city that the British called > Bombay? Mumbai > * ID the Island > In each case, give the name of the principal island shown on the map. > 4. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-3/land/4.jpg Borneo > 5. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-3/land/5.jpg Maui > 6. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-3/land/6.jpg Honshu > what is the most populous urban agglomeration (i.e. metropolitan > area) in... > 7. South America? Sao Paolo > 8. Europe? Istanbul > 9. Africa? Cairo > We'll give you the names of all the African countries that border > another country -- and you name that other country. > 10. Burundi, Tanzania, DR Congo, Uganda. Rwanda > 11. Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia. Zimbabwe > 12. Liberia, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Ghana. Nigeria > say which of them is farthest north. All cities within a group > will differ by at least 4° of latitude. > 13. Cairo, Egypt; Osaka, Japan; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Osaka > 14. Harare, Zimbabwe; Lima, Peru; São Paulo, Brazil. Lima > 15. Colombo, Sri Lanka; Darwin, Australia; Quito, Ecuador. Colombo Pete |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 13 11:18PM -0500 Mark Brader: > doing something, they change city names, claiming that they are > replacing the British name with something more Indian. > 1. What was the former name of the city that is now called Chennai? Madras. 4 for Marc, Erland, Peter, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Calvin, and Pete. 3 for Dan Blum. > 2. What is the current name of the city that the British called > Bombay? Mumbai. 4 for everyone -- Dan Blum, Marc, Erland, Björn, Peter, Joshua, Jason, Dan Tilque, Calvin, Bruce, and Pete. > 3. The city formerly called Bangalore also has a new name. > What is it? Bengalaru. 4 for Dan Blum, Björn, and Joshua. > * ID the Island > In each case, give the name of the principal island shown on the map. > 4. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-3/land/4.jpg Borneo. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Erland, Peter, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Calvin, and Pete. > 5. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-3/land/5.jpg Maui. 4 for Marc, Björn, Peter, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Pete. > 6. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-3/land/6.jpg Honshu. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Erland, Björn, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Calvin, and Pete. 2 for Peter. > what is the most populous urban agglomeration (i.e. metropolitan > area) in... > 7. South America? São Paulo. 4 for Marc, Erland, Björn, Calvin, and Pete. 3 for Dan Blum. 2 for Peter and Joshua. > 8. Europe? The expected answer was Paris, but apparently this did not take into account cities in countries extending into Asia. Moscow's metropolitan area, which is in Europe, is larger; and Istanbul's is larger yet, but about 35% of its population is in Asia. I am accepting either Moscow or Istanbul, but not Paris. 4 for Erland, Björn, Peter, and Pete. 2 for Dan Blum and Calvin. > 9. Africa? Cairo. 4 for Dan Blum, Björn, Joshua, Bruce, and Pete. 2 for Erland and Calvin. See: http://esa.un.org/unpd/wup/Highlights/WUP2014-Highlights.pdf The report does not classify cities by continent, only by country. It lists the following 28 metro areas as having over 10,000,000 people and another 43 over 5,000,000 (of which Toronto is the only one in Canada, by the way, and none is in Australia). 1. Tokyo 37,833,000 2. Delhi 24,953,000 3. Shanghai 22,991,000 4. Mexico City 20,843,000 5. São Paulo 20,831,000 <- 6. Mumbai 20,741,000 7. Osaka 20,123,000 8. Beijing 19,520,000 9. New York 18,591,000 10. Cairo 18,419,000 <- 11. Dhaka 16,982,000 12. Karachi 16,126,000 13. Buenos Aires 15,024,000 14. Kolkata 14,766,000 15. Istanbul 13,954,000 <- 16. Chongqing 12,916,000 17. Rio de Janeiro 12,825,000 18. Manila 12,764,000 19. Lagos 12,614,000 20. Los Angeles 12,308,000 21. Moscow 12,063,000 <- 22. Guangzhou 11,843,000 23. Kinshasa 11,116,000 24. Tianjin 10,860,000 25. Paris 10,764,000 26. Shenzhen 10,680,000 27. London 10,189,000 28. Jakarta 10,176,000 > We'll give you the names of all the African countries that border > another country -- and you name that other country. > 10. Burundi, Tanzania, DR Congo, Uganda. Rwanda. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Erland, Björn, Peter, Jason, Dan Tilque, Calvin, and Pete. 2 for Joshua. > 11. Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia. Zimbabwe. 4 for everyone. > 12. Liberia, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Ghana. Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire). 4 for Bruce. 2 for Dan Blum, Marc, and Joshua. Sierra Leone was a popular guess. It sits at the other end of the Guinea-Liberia border and itself borders only those two countries. > say which of them is farthest north. All cities within a group > will differ by at least 4° of latitude. > 13. Cairo, Egypt; Osaka, Japan; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia (39.95°N vs. Osaka 34.69°N, Cairo 30.05°N). 4 for Marc, Erland, Jason, Calvin, and Bruce. 3 for Peter. 2 for Dan Blum and Joshua. > 14. Harare, Zimbabwe; Lima, Peru; São Paulo, Brazil. Lima (12.04°S vs. Harare 17.86°S, São Paulo 23.55°S). 4 for Dan Blum, Erland, Joshua, Jason, Bruce, and Pete. 3 for Peter. 2 for Marc and Calvin. > 15. Colombo, Sri Lanka; Darwin, Australia; Quito, Ecuador. Colombo (6.93°N vs. Quito 0.23°S, Darwin 12.45°S). 4 for Marc, Erland, Björn, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Calvin, Bruce, and Pete. 3 for Dan Blum and Peter. Yes, two of the answers from the third triple were mentioned in questions in this triple. So what? Scores, if there are no errors: ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS TOPICS-> His Geo Joshua Kreitzer 46 48 94 Dan Blum 36 47 83 Erland Sommarskog 36 46 82 Marc Dashevsky 38 44 82 Pete Gayde 20 48 68 Peter Smyth 27 41 68 Dan Tilque 35 32 67 "Calvin" 25 42 67 Björn Lundin 16 40 56 Jason Kreitzer 20 20 40 Stephen Perry 40 -- 40 Bruce Bowler -- 28 28 -- Mark Brader "A facility for quotation covers the absence Toronto of original thought" -- Lord Peter Wimsey msb@vex.net (Dorothy L. Sayers, "Gaudy Night") My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jul 14 10:34AM +0200 > It lists the following 28 metro areas as having over 10,000,000 > people and another 43 over 5,000,000 (of which Toronto is the only > one in Canada, by the way, and none is in Australia). Some time after I had posted my entry, and particularly people were suggesting different answers than Istanbul for Europe, I got a little nervous, so I looked at http://www.citypopulation.de/world/Agglomerations.html. Yes, that's a different source than the UN report in the game, but I thought they should be reasonably close. Not really. On the top of the list on citypopulation.de is Guanhzhou/Canton with a whopping 46½ million. On the UN list it's at #22 with a humble 11.8 million. For Africa, I had hedged with submitting both Lagos and Cairo, and citypopulation.de told me I was right: 18 Lagos Lagos Nigeria 16,700,000 19 Al-Qahirah Cairo Egypt 16,600,000 Very, very close. Yet, in the UN report: 10. Cairo 18,419,000 <- 19. Lagos 12,614,000 For Europe, citypopulation.de has both Moscow (#17) and London (#23) ahead of Istanbul (#24). Paris is lagging further behind at (#28). Since the quiz clearly stated which reference it relied, the situation was the same for everyone. But anyone who thought they "knew" an answer could easily find that they were wrong this time. (But at least citypopulation.de and the UN report are in agreement which are the largest agglomerations in the two Americans.) -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jul 13 09:40PM -0700 Calvin wrote: > A lower ranking is better as you probably gathered. > Your task is to nominate the ranking of these 10 countries: > Argentina 116 > Eritrea 194 > Greece 77 > India 107 > New Zealand 27 > Nigeria 138 > Thailand 29 > United Kingdom 14 > United States 8 > Venezuela 104 -- Dan Tilque |
| bbowler <bbowler@bigelow.org>: Jul 13 02:38PM On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 14:45:39 -0700, Calvin wrote: > 1 Name either of the two books of the Old Testament which are named > after women? Ruth > 2 What is the name of the stock market index for the Tokyo Stock > Exchange? Nikkie > 3 In Norse mythology where do the souls of heroes killed in battle go? Wallhalla > 4 What is the opposite of nocturnal? Diurnal > 5 The Lascaux caves in south-western France are famous for their > Palaeolithic cave paintings of which animals? Bison > 6 Who is currently serving a life sentence for the assassination of > Robert Kennedy in 1968? Sirhan Sirhan > 7 Which character did William Shatner portray in the TV series Boston > Legal? > 8 In the Pink Panther films, what exactly was the Pink Panther? A diamond > 9 Which city, a former Scottish capital, is located midway between > Edinburgh and Glasgow and known as the Gateway to the Highlands? Stirling > 10 What is the only country in the world that has just one vowel in its > name? [excluding Y] Chad, cyprus, Egypt, or Krygystan |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Jul 13 05:14PM Calvin wrote: > 1 Name either of the two books of the Old Testament which are named > after women? Ruth (and Esther. And Judith if you're Catholic) > 2 What is the name of the stock market index for the Tokyo Stock > Exchange? Nikkei > 3 In Norse mythology where do the souls of heroes killed in battle go? Valhalla > 4 What is the opposite of nocturnal? Diurnal > 5 The Lascaux caves in south-western France are famous for their > Palaeolithic cave paintings of which animals? Wolves > 8 In the Pink Panther films, what exactly was the Pink Panther? > 9 Which city, a former Scottish capital, is located midway between > Edinburgh and Glasgow and known as the Gateway to the Highlands? Stirling > 10 What is the only country in the world that has just one vowel in > its name? [excluding Y] Kyrgyzstan Peter Smyth |
| Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Jul 13 11:16PM Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote in > 1 Name either of the two books of the Old Testament which are > named after women? Ruth > 2 What is the name of the stock market index > for the Tokyo Stock Exchange? Hangseng > 3 In Norse mythology where do the souls of heroes killed in > battle go? Valhalla > 4 What is the opposite of nocturnal? Diurnal > 5 The Lascaux caves in south-western France are famous > for their Palaeolithic cave paintings of which animals? Horses > 6 Who is > currently serving a life sentence for the assassination of Robert > Kennedy in 1968? Sirhan Sirhan > 7 Which character did William Shatner portray in > the TV series Boston Legal? > 8 In the Pink Panther films, what exactly was the Pink Panther? Statue > 9 Which city, a former Scottish > capital, is located midway between Edinburgh and Glasgow and known as > the Gateway to the Highlands? Kulloden > 10 What is the only country in the > world that has just one vowel in its name? [excluding Y] Egypt > cheers, > calvin Pete |
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