- QFTCI5GNM15 Final, Round 4: Literature - 1 Update
- QFTCI5GNM15 Final, Round 3 answers: Science - 1 Update
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 28 01:28AM -0600 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-07-07, 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 to the newsgroup in a single followup, 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 Five Guys Named Moe, 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 2015-08-18 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". ** Final, Round 4 - Literature * Investigative Non-Fiction For each question we'll give you the titles of a few investigative non-fiction books, and you name their author. 1. "Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War"; "Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw"; "The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden". 2. "Into Thin Air"; "Into the Wild"; "Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman". 3. "Liar's Poker"; "Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World"; "Flash Boys". * Twice-Told Tales Sometimes authors revisit classics to offer a new perspective or point of view on a tale. Gregory Maguire's "Wicked", for example, is a revisionist look at the land and characters from L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz". In this triple we'll give you the title of a retelling of a classic from a different character's point of view, and you give us the title of the famous original. 4. "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead", by Tom Stoppard. 5. "Grendel", by John Gardner. 6. "The Penelopiad", by Margaret Atwood. * Post-Technological Planets We name the science-fiction author and give a brief description; you name the *planet* that, for one reason or another, has reverted to a low level of technology. 7. Author: Anne McCaffrey. Colonists land on a planet where they find flying lizards that can teleport themselves anywhere almost instantly. They genetically engineer them into huge, ridable dragons. 8. Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley. Colonists crash-land on a planet where they develop mental powers, including telepathy and telekinesis. 9. Author: Isaac Asimov. When it was the capital of the Galactic Empire, this planet was built up many levels deep over almost its entire surface. After the empire's collapse, it returned to being an agrarian society, with its metal sold for scrap. * Sherlock Holmes 10. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote four novels featuring Holmes. One was "A Study in Scarlet", the tale that introduced Holmes to readers, and another was "The Hound of the Baskervilles". Name *either* of the other two. 11. Holmes refers to her as "*the* woman", the only female character to outwit him. Name the character *or* the short story she is featured in. 12. Before public pressure led Doyle to bring him back, Holmes was supposedly killed in a fall while struggling with the "Napoleon of Crime", Professor James Moriarty. Name *either* the place where their fatal confrontation took place *or* the short story which featured it. * Books about War 13. First published in 1938, this book is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War. Name the book. 14. Name the 2004 book by Evan Wright, chronicling his time as an embedded reporter with a battalion of reconnaissance Marines during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The book was originally published as a 3-part series in "Rolling Stone" and was made into an HBO miniseries of the same name. 15. Published in 1977, this book by Michael Herr describes his experiences in Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire magazine. (Herr also contributed to the narration for "Apocalypse Now" and co-wrote the screenplay for the film "Full Metal Jacket".) Name the book. -- Mark Brader "When laws are outlawed, only outlaws will have laws." Toronto, msb@vex.net -- Diane Holt My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 28 01:27AM -0600 Mark Brader: > 1. Long thought to be a nebula, this was the first galaxy > determined not to be a part of the Milky Way. It is named for > the constellation in which it is seen. What constellation? Andromeda. 4 for Peter, Dan Blum, Björn, Erland, Calvin, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Marc. > 2. This satellite galaxy of the Milky Way is named for a terrestrial > explorer. Visible only in the Southern Hemisphere, it is also > the brightest patch of nebulosity in the sky. Name it. Large Magellanic Cloud. (Any reference to the Magellanic Clouds was sufficient.) 4 for Dan Blum, Erland, Calvin, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. > 3. Discovered in 2003, this satellite galaxy is the closest galaxy > to the Milky Way and is slowly being cannibalized by it. > Again it is named for a constellation -- which one? Canis Major. (It's the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy.) > 4. Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham, who also developed the wiki, said > that "the best way to get the right answer on the Internet is > not to ask a question, it's to _____". Post a wrong answer. I accepted "make a mistake". 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Marc. > online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison > involving _____ or _____ approaches 1". (Fill in *either* > blank.) Nazis, Hitler. 4 for Peter, Dan Blum, Erland, Calvin (the hard way), Pete, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Marc. > 6. Poe's Law, given by Nathan Poe in 2005, claims that "without > _____, it is impossible to create a parody of extremism or > fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing". A blatant display of humor. (Any reference to humor was sufficient, so I scored "a smiley" as almost correct.) 3 for Peter, Dan Tilque, and Marc. > 7. Naja naja. Found in South Asia, this reptile was first described > by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The name "naja" is a Latinization > of the Sanskrit word "naga". Indian cobra. 4 for Peter, Dan Blum, Björn, and Marc. > found throughout Europe, the western part of North Asia, > and northwest Africa. It has long been associated in popular > culture and literature with witchcraft. Common toad. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Marc. 3 for Peter and Calvin. > Circle to North Africa, North America, and Eurasia. Because of > its widespread distribution and large population, it is one of > the most important animals harvested for the fur trade. Red fox. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Joshua, and Marc. 2 for Björn. > self-administered test evaluates people's preference on a > continuous scale from 0 to 6. What preference is rated using > the Kinsey scale? Sexual orientation (hetero- or homo-). Just "sexual" was too vague an answer to accept, especially when Kinsey was mentioned in the question. 4 for Peter, Dan Blum, Joshua, and Marc. 2 for Calvin. > feelings of guilt, suicide ideation, insomnia, agitation > or retardation, anxiety, weight loss, and somatic symptoms. > Scores of 0 to 7 are considered normal. What does it measure? Depression. 4 for Peter, Dan Blum, Calvin, and Marc. > is a sensitive, valid, and reliable 30-point questionnaire > that is commonly used in medicine and allied health fields. > What mental condition or disorder is it used to screen? Dementia (e.g. from Alzheimer's disease). > including place names. > 13. Lutetium, atomic number 71, is named after the Latin name of > this European city during the Roman era. Name the city. Paris. 4 for Peter, Dan Blum, Björn, Erland, Calvin, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Marc. > 14. The name of four elements -- yttrium, terbium, erbium, and > ytterbium -- pay tribute to Ytterby, a town in which country? Sweden. 4 for Peter, Dan Blum, Björn, Erland, Calvin, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Marc. > 15. Two elements -- manganese and magnesium -- refer to Magnesia, a > district in Thessaly, which is located in which modern-day > country? Greece. 4 for Björn, Erland, Calvin, Pete, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Marc. 3 for Dan Blum. Scores, if there are no errors: FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS TOPICS-> Geo Sci Joshua Kreitzer 32 40 72 Marc Dashevsky 22 47 69 Peter Smyth 35 34 69 Dan Blum 14 47 61 "Calvin" 20 41 61 Dan Tilque 20 35 55 Erland Sommarskog 16 24 40 Björn Lundin 18 22 40 Pete Gayde 20 8 28 Gareth Owen 12 -- 12 -- Mark Brader "Poor spelling does not prove poor knowledge, Toronto but is fatal to the argument by intimidation." msb@vex.net -- Gene Ward Smith My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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