Monday, July 06, 2015

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"Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Jul 05 09:36PM

Calvin wrote:
 
> 1 The island of Trinidad lies off the coast of which South American
> country?
Guyana
> 2 Lord Darnley was the father of which British king?
James I
> 3 According to both MTV and VH1, which New York trio (originally
> comprising Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, and Jam Master Jay) is
> the greatest hip-hop group of all time?
Public Enemy
> 4 Which Irish actor and comedian played Bernard Black in the TV
> comedy series Black Books?
Dylan Moran
> 5 Which Irish actor played PL Travers alcoholic father in 2013 film
> Saving Mr Banks?
 
> 6 According to Napoleon, England was a nation of what?
Shopkeepers
> 7 What does the fashion label acronym FCUK stand for?
French Connection UK
> 8 Which world leader officially opened the 1980 Summer Olympics?
Brezhnev
> 9 What name is given to a mountain railway where the carriages are
> pulled uphill by a cable?
Funicular
> 10 Which French radical stabbed Jean-Paul Marat to death in 1793?
 
 
Peter Smyth
Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jul 06 12:59AM -0700

Calvin wrote:
> 1 The island of Trinidad lies off the coast of which South American country?
 
Venezuela
 
> 2 Lord Darnley was the father of which British king?
 
Henry VII
 
> 4 Which Irish actor and comedian played Bernard Black in the TV comedy series Black Books?
> 5 Which Irish actor played PL Travers alcoholic father in 2013 film Saving Mr Banks?
> 6 According to Napoleon, England was a nation of what?
 
shopkeepers
 
> 7 What does the fashion label acronym FCUK stand for?
> 8 Which world leader officially opened the 1980 Summer Olympics?
 
Whoever was leading the USSR at the time, but I'm not sure who that was.
Andropov?
 
> 9 What name is given to a mountain railway where the carriages are pulled uphill by a cable?
 
cablecar
 
> 10 Which French radical stabbed Jean-Paul Marat to death in 1793?
 
Robespierre
 
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Dan Tilque
Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Jul 06 03:41AM -0500

In article <98a30f67-de25-4b8d-976e-12424c4d3763@googlegroups.com>, 334152@gmail.com says...
 
> 1 The island of Trinidad lies off the coast of which South American country?
Venezuela
 
> 2 Lord Darnley was the father of which British king?
> 3 According to both MTV and VH1, which New York trio (originally comprising Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, and Jam Master Jay) is the greatest hip-hop group of all time?
Run DMC
 
> 6 According to Napoleon, England was a nation of what?
> 7 What does the fashion label acronym FCUK stand for?
> 8 Which world leader officially opened the 1980 Summer Olympics?
Brezhnev
 
> 9 What name is given to a mountain railway where the carriages are pulled uphill by a cable?
funicular
 
 
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"Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Jul 05 01:51PM

Mark Brader wrote:
 
> played Wesley Crusher on "Star Trek: The Next Generation".
> He now appears occasionally as Sheldon's nemesis on "The Big
> Bang Theory".
Wil Wheaton
> and as an offshore financial center. Its capital city
> is Cockburn Town and its motto is "Beautiful by Nature".
> Name the territory.
Cayman Islands
> of Santa Cruz, is home to the University of La Laguna,
> and contains El Teide, the third-largest volcano in the
> world from its base. Name the island.
Tenerife
> D. Musical Marches
 
> D1. Who wrote the wedding march from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?
> D2. Who wrote the "Pomp and Circumstance" march?
Elgar
 
> Who played Jo March in "Little Women", ...
 
> F1. ...the 1933 movie version?
> F2. ...the 1949 movie version?
 
 
Peter Smyth
tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jul 05 02:46PM

> of the Sun". As an adult, he has played an "American Psycho"
> and an "American Hustle"r, a super-skinny "Machinist", and Moses.
> His stepmother is Gloria Steinem.
 
Christian Bale
 
> being too disruptive. At 16, he was cast as a homeless boy on
> the sitcom "Growing Pains". As an adult, he has played Romeo,
> Howard Hughes, and J. Edgar Hoover.
 
Leonardo DiCaprio
 
> young girl in "Beaches". In real life, she has a doctorate in
> neuroscience, and now on TV she plays a dowdy neurobiologist
> pining for an oddball theoretical physicist.
 
Mayim Bialik
 
> adult, he played Barney Stinson on TV, Hedwig on Broadway,
> and a fictionalized version of himself with Harold and Kumar.
> He was the host of the 2015 Oscars.
 
Neil Patrick Harris
 
> played Wesley Crusher on "Star Trek: The Next Generation".
> He now appears occasionally as Sheldon's nemesis on "The Big
> Bang Theory".
 
Wil Wheaton
 
> in Tokyo, and an alien seductress preying on men in Scotland.
> She is the only woman to be twice named "Esquire" magazine's
> "Sexiest Woman Alive".
 
Scarlet Johanssen
 
> TV commercial. At 13, she was a teen prostitute named Iris
> in "Taxi Driver". She has won 2 Best Actress Oscars and has
> directed 3 films.
 
Jodie Foster
 
 
> A1. In 1942, thousands of American and Filipino POWs were
> forced to march over 60 miles by the Imperial Japanese Army.
> What was this terrible march called?
 
Bataan Death March
 
> journey to the coastal village of Dandi to collect something
> himself, in protest against a British monopoly in colonial
> India. What did Gandhi collect?
 
salt
 
 
> B2. John Wooden holds the record for most appearances in the
> March Madness Final Four, with 12. What university was he
> the coach for?
 
UCLA
 
> and as an offshore financial center. Its capital city
> is Cockburn Town and its motto is "Beautiful by Nature".
> Name the territory.
 
Bermuda
 
> D. Musical Marches
 
> D2. Who wrote the "Pomp and Circumstance" march?
 
Elgar
 
> novel by E.L. Doctorow. It is set in the waning days of
> the Civil War, and follows this real-life figure as he
> marches his troops through the heart of the South. Who?
 
Sherman
 
> Brooks, which retells Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women"
> from the perspective of a character absent for much of the
> original novel. What character?
 
The sisters' father
 
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Jason Kreitzer <krei513@aol.com>: Jul 05 08:57AM -0700

On Saturday, July 4, 2015 at 11:09:23 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:
> being too disruptive. At 16, he was cast as a homeless boy on
> the sitcom "Growing Pains". As an adult, he has played Romeo,
> Howard Hughes, and J. Edgar Hoover.
Leonardo DiCaprio
> young girl in "Beaches". In real life, she has a doctorate in
> neuroscience, and now on TV she plays a dowdy neurobiologist
> pining for an oddball theoretical physicist
Mayim Bialik
> adult, he played Barney Stinson on TV, Hedwig on Broadway,
> and a fictionalized version of himself with Harold and Kumar.
> He was the host of the 2015 Oscars.
Neil Patrick Harris
> played Wesley Crusher on "Star Trek: The Next Generation".
> He now appears occasionally as Sheldon's nemesis on "The Big
> Bang Theory".
Wil Wheaton
> TV commercial. At 13, she was a teen prostitute named Iris
> in "Taxi Driver". She has won 2 Best Actress Oscars and has
> directed 3 films.
Jodie Foster
 
> A1. In 1942, thousands of American and Filipino POWs were
> forced to march over 60 miles by the Imperial Japanese Army.
> What was this terrible march called?
Bataan Death March
> journey to the coastal village of Dandi to collect something
> himself, in protest against a British monopoly in colonial
> India. What did Gandhi collect?
Salt
 
> B1. Coach Mike Krzyzewski holds the record for most games won
> in the NCAA Men's Division 1 Basketball Championships,
> with 82. What university is he the coach for?
Duke
 
> D. Musical Marches
 
> D1. Who wrote the wedding march from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?
> D2. Who wrote the "Pomp and Circumstance" march?
D2.Edward Elgar
> novel by E.L. Doctorow. It is set in the waning days of
> the Civil War, and follows this real-life figure as he
> marches his troops through the heart of the South. Who?
General William Tecumseh Sherman
swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Jul 05 09:29AM -0700

On Saturday, July 4, 2015 at 11:09:23 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
 
> of the Sun". As an adult, he has played an "American Psycho"
> and an "American Hustle"r, a super-skinny "Machinist", and Moses.
> His stepmother is Gloria Steinem.
 
christian bale
 
> being too disruptive. At 16, he was cast as a homeless boy on
> the sitcom "Growing Pains". As an adult, he has played Romeo,
> Howard Hughes, and J. Edgar Hoover.
 
leonardo dicaprio
 
> young girl in "Beaches". In real life, she has a doctorate in
> neuroscience, and now on TV she plays a dowdy neurobiologist
> pining for an oddball theoretical physicist.
 
mayim bialik
 
> adult, he played Barney Stinson on TV, Hedwig on Broadway,
> and a fictionalized version of himself with Harold and Kumar.
> He was the host of the 2015 Oscars.
 
neil patrick harris
 
> she has continued acting and has directed two movies, "Away
> from Her" and "Take This Waltz", and a documentary, "Stories
> We Tell", about her mother's affair with her biological father.
 
sara polley
 
> he appeared in "Arrested Development", and in the movies "Juno"
> and "Couples Retreat". Canadian content: he is married to
> Paul Anka's daughter.
 
jason bateman (all of his roles in the last 10+ years seem to be him trying to portray alan thicke. doesn't that also count for canadian content?)
 
> As an adult, he has played a romantic zombie in "Warm Bodies",
> "Jack the Giant Slayer", and Beast in a couple of X-Men movies.
> Until August 2014, he was Jennifer Lawrence's boyfriend.
 
nick hoult
 
> played Wesley Crusher on "Star Trek: The Next Generation".
> He now appears occasionally as Sheldon's nemesis on "The Big
> Bang Theory".
 
wil wheaton
 
> in Tokyo, and an alien seductress preying on men in Scotland.
> She is the only woman to be twice named "Esquire" magazine's
> "Sexiest Woman Alive".
 
scarlett johansson
 
> TV commercial. At 13, she was a teen prostitute named Iris
> in "Taxi Driver". She has won 2 Best Actress Oscars and has
> directed 3 films.
 
jodie foster
 
 
> A1. In 1942, thousands of American and Filipino POWs were
> forced to march over 60 miles by the Imperial Japanese Army.
> What was this terrible march called?
 
the bataan death march
 
> journey to the coastal village of Dandi to collect something
> himself, in protest against a British monopoly in colonial
> India. What did Gandhi collect?
 
salt
 
 
> B1. Coach Mike Krzyzewski holds the record for most games won
> in the NCAA Men's Division 1 Basketball Championships,
> with 82. What university is he the coach for?
 
duke
 
> B2. John Wooden holds the record for most appearances in the
> March Madness Final Four, with 12. What university was he
> the coach for?
 
ucla
 
> and as an offshore financial center. Its capital city
> is Cockburn Town and its motto is "Beautiful by Nature".
> Name the territory.
 
turks and caicos
 
> of Santa Cruz, is home to the University of La Laguna,
> and contains El Teide, the third-largest volcano in the
> world from its base. Name the island.
 
...
 
> D. Musical Marches
 
> D1. Who wrote the wedding march from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?
 
mendelssohn
 
> D2. Who wrote the "Pomp and Circumstance" march?
 
elgar
 
> novel by E.L. Doctorow. It is set in the waning days of
> the Civil War, and follows this real-life figure as he
> marches his troops through the heart of the South. Who?
 
sherman
 
> Brooks, which retells Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women"
> from the perspective of a character absent for much of the
> original novel. What character?
 
march? (the absent father)
 
> F. "Little Women"
 
> Who played Jo March in "Little Women", ...
 
> F1. ...the 1933 movie version?
 
katharine hepburn
 
> F2. ...the 1949 movie version?
 
katharine hepburn
 
 
swp, who will now go look up the names of the canary islands...
Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Jul 06 03:23AM -0500

In article <0NmdnffQL6J_AgXInZ2dnUU7-c-dnZ2d@vex.net>, msb@vex.net says...
> of the Sun". As an adult, he has played an "American Psycho"
> and an "American Hustle"r, a super-skinny "Machinist", and Moses.
> His stepmother is Gloria Steinem.
Christian Bale
 
> being too disruptive. At 16, he was cast as a homeless boy on
> the sitcom "Growing Pains". As an adult, he has played Romeo,
> Howard Hughes, and J. Edgar Hoover.
Leonardo DiCaprio
 
> adult, he played Barney Stinson on TV, Hedwig on Broadway,
> and a fictionalized version of himself with Harold and Kumar.
> He was the host of the 2015 Oscars.
Neil Patrick Harris
 
> she has continued acting and has directed two movies, "Away
> from Her" and "Take This Waltz", and a documentary, "Stories
> We Tell", about her mother's affair with her biological father.
Sarah Polley
 
> he appeared in "Arrested Development", and in the movies "Juno"
> and "Couples Retreat". Canadian content: he is married to
> Paul Anka's daughter.
Michael Cera
 
> in Tokyo, and an alien seductress preying on men in Scotland.
> She is the only woman to be twice named "Esquire" magazine's
> "Sexiest Woman Alive".
Scarlet Johansson
 
> TV commercial. At 13, she was a teen prostitute named Iris
> in "Taxi Driver". She has won 2 Best Actress Oscars and has
> directed 3 films.
Jodi Foster
 
 
> A1. In 1942, thousands of American and Filipino POWs were
> forced to march over 60 miles by the Imperial Japanese Army.
> What was this terrible march called?
Bataan Death March
 
 
> B1. Coach Mike Krzyzewski holds the record for most games won
> in the NCAA Men's Division 1 Basketball Championships,
> with 82. What university is he the coach for?
Duke
 
> B2. John Wooden holds the record for most appearances in the
> March Madness Final Four, with 12. What university was he
> the coach for?
UCLA
 
> novel by E.L. Doctorow. It is set in the waning days of
> the Civil War, and follows this real-life figure as he
> marches his troops through the heart of the South. Who?
Sherman?
 
> Brooks, which retells Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women"
> from the perspective of a character absent for much of the
> original novel. What character?
father
 
> F. "Little Women"
 
> Who played Jo March in "Little Women", ...
 
> F1. ...the 1933 movie version?
Katherine Hepburn
 
 
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Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jul 06 01:28AM -0700

Mark Brader wrote:
 
> A1. In 1942, thousands of American and Filipino POWs were
> forced to march over 60 miles by the Imperial Japanese Army.
> What was this terrible march called?
 
Bataan Death March
 
 
> B1. Coach Mike Krzyzewski holds the record for most games won
> in the NCAA Men's Division 1 Basketball Championships,
> with 82. What university is he the coach for?
 
Duke
 
 
> B2. John Wooden holds the record for most appearances in the
> March Madness Final Four, with 12. What university was he
> the coach for?
 
UCLA
 
> of Santa Cruz, is home to the University of La Laguna,
> and contains El Teide, the third-largest volcano in the
> world from its base. Name the island.
 
Tenerife
 
> novel by E.L. Doctorow. It is set in the waning days of
> the Civil War, and follows this real-life figure as he
> marches his troops through the heart of the South. Who?
 
Sherman
 
 
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"Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Jul 05 09:34PM

Only six entrants, but despite that every question saw a duplicate
and/or wrong answer.

> 0. Name a country that won 20 or more medals at the 2012 Summer
> Olympics.
 
3: Germany
1: Australia
1: China
1: United Kingdom
 
> 1. Name a film that has won five or more Academy Awards.
 
2: Titanic
1: Schindler's List
1: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
 
WRONG
1: Birdman (won 4 awards)
1: The Godfather (Won 3 awards)
 
The Godfather Part II would have been a correct answer.
 
> 2. Name a current head of state of an EU member country.
 
2: Queen Elizabeth II (United Kingdom)
1: Sauli Niinisto (Finland)
 
WRONG
2: Angela Merkel
1: Matteo Renzi
 
Both Angela Merkel and Matteo Renzi are only the head of government of
their countries, not the head of state.
 
> 3. Name a chemical element whose usual English name is six letters
> long.
 
2: Barium
1: Cesium
1: Cobalt
1: Erbium
1: Iodine
 
> 4. Name a play by Shakespeare that was classified as a comedy
> in the First Folio.
 
2: As You Like It
1: All's Well That Ends Well
1: A Midsummer Night's Dream
1: The Taming of the Shrew
1: Twelth Night
 
> 5. Name a country whose flag includes only the colours red, white and
> blue.
 
1: Chile
1: Iceland
1: Netherlands
1: New Zealand
 
WRONG
1: Malaysia
1: Slovenia
 
Both of the wrong answers have one or more yellow stars in addition to
the red, white and blue.
 
> 6. Name a person who has been Vice President of the United States
> since 1940.
 
3: Harry Truman
2: Nelson Rockefeller
1: Walter Mondale
 
> 7. Name a man who has won one or more of the four Grand Slam tennis
> tournaments since 2000 (singles only).
 
1: Andre Agassi
1: Juan Martin Del Potro
1: Roger Federer
1: Stanislaw Wawrinka
 
WRONG
1: Bjorn Borg (last win 1981)
1: Michael Chang (last win 1989)
 
> 8. Name one of the original 13 states of the USA.
 
2: Maryland
1: Georgia
1: New Jersey
1: Pennsylvania
 
WRONG
1: Vermont
 
Vermont was still an independent republic during the American
Revolution, and then became the 14th state.
 
> 9. Name a man who has walked on the Moon.
 
2: Alan Shepard
1: Charles Duke
1: Eugene Cernan
 
WRONG
1: Gordon Cooper
1: John Glenn
 
So the final results are
 
1. 16 Calvin 1 2 WR 1 1 1 1 1 2 1
2. 36 Stephen Perry 3 1 WR 1 1 1 3 1 1 1
3. 96 Mark Brader 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 WR 2 WR
4. 576 Marc Dashevsky 3 WR WR 2 1 1 3 1 1 2
5. 864 Dan Blum 3 2 2 1 2 WR 2 WR 1 2
6. 2304 Erland Sommarskog 1 WR 1 2 2 WR 3 1 WR WR
 
and therefore it is back over to Calvin to set the next quiz. The
winning slates were
 
CALVIN STEPHEN PERRY
0. UK 0. Germany
1. Titanic 1. LOTR: Return of the King
2. Matteo Renzi 2. Angela Merkel
3. Cobalt 3. Iodine
4. All's Well That End's Well 4. A Midsummer Night's Dream
5. Iceland 5. Chile
6. Walter Mondale 6. Harry Truman
7. Juan Martin Del Potro 7. Andre Agassi
8. Maryland 8. Pennsylvania
9. Eugene Cernan 9. Charles Duke
 
Thanks for playing
 
Peter Smyth
swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Jul 05 08:15PM -0700

On Sunday, July 5, 2015 at 5:35:56 PM UTC-4, Peter Smyth wrote:
> Only six entrants, but despite that every question saw a duplicate
> and/or wrong answer.
 
and as I said in my email, this was very clever of you. thank you.
 
> 9. Eugene Cernan 9. Charles Duke
 
> Thanks for playing
 
> Peter Smyth
 
and this is the best finish I have ever had in a rare entries contest. I think I came in 4th, once, in one of Mark Brader's contests.
 
swp
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 05 11:31PM -0500

Peter Smyth:
> > 1. 16 Calvin 1 2 WR 1 1 1 1 1 2 1
> > 2. 36 Stephen Perry 3 1 WR 1 1 1 3 1 1 1
 
Stephen Perry:
> and this is the best finish I have ever had in a rare entries contest.
 
Well, that depends on whether you count the position relative to the
size of the field.
 
> I think I came in 4th, once, in one of Mark Brader's contests.
 
A bit better than that. Stephen was 4th in contests MSB30, MSB58,
MSB71, and MSB77 (in 2002, 2008, 2011, and 2013 respectively),
which had fields of 31, 28, 21, and 25 entrants respectively.
 
But his best finish in my contest series was 3rd of 31 entrants in
contest MSB32 in 2003. The top three slates in that one were:
 
JOHN GERSON LARRY TAPPER STEPHEN PERRY
[0] Tripolitania Japan Apache tribe
[1] Australia Italy (wrong answer)
[2] L. Victoria L. Prespa L. Tanganyika
[3] Subdwarf Giant Dwarf
[4] Creese Skean Trident
[5] Golf Rotation Sphincter
[6] Edgar Wield Jane Marple Charlie Chan
[7] Harlequin Sorrel Mackerel
[8] Knuckle Armpit Asshole
[9] Libya St.V. & Grenadines São Tomé & P.
 
No doubt it will be obvious that the questions asked for
[0] military opponents of the US; [1] America's Cup finalists;
[2] inland waters containing tripoints; [3] adjectives with
"star" in astronomy; [4] stabbing weapons; [5] pool-type games;
[6] fictional detectives on film; [7] cat colorings; [8] parts of
body with other meanings; and [9] country names containing "and".
(I summarize).
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Toronto | probably a mess, we tamper with nothing. There is always
msb@vex.net | the danger it will blow up in your face." -- Matthew Hart
 
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msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 05 01:21PM -0500

Mark Brader:
>>> 6. There are 3 major types of blood cells: red cells, white cells,
>>> and what else?
 
>> Platelets. 4 for Joshua, Calvin, Marc, Bruce, Peter, and Stephen.

Dan Tilque:
> My answer, thrombocytes, is a synonym for platelets.
 
Ah, so it is. 4 for Dan Tilque.

> PS And they still aren't actual cells.
 
Yeah, yeah.
 
 
Scores, if there are now no errors:
 
 
GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> His Lit Can Spo Sci Geo FOUR
Stephen Perry -- -- 23 36 40 40 139
Joshua Kreitzer 32 36 0 19 32 24 124
Marc Dashevsky 24 24 0 32 40 0 120
Dan Blum 24 26 0 28 32 20 110
Bruce Bowler -- -- 0 36 36 32 104
Dan Tilque 24 16 0 8 36 24 100
"Calvin" 19 20 0 22 28 7 89
Björn Lundin 8 8 -- -- 20 36 72
Peter Smyth 16 8 -- -- 24 19 67
Erland Sommarskog 0 8 0 8 7 40 63
Jason Kreitzer 12 12 -- -- 4 0 28
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