- QFTCIBSI Game 9, Rounds 7-8: alphabet states, history #'s - 2 Updates
- QFTCIBSI Game 9, Rounds 4-6 answers: museums, lyrics, Magic - 1 Update
- Rotating Quiz #218 RESULTS - 1 Update
- Calvin's Quiz #436 - ANSWERS & SCORES V2 - 3 Updates
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 29 03:59AM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-11-23, 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 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 the Bloor St. Irregulars, 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*)". * Game 9, Round 7 - Geography - Next State Alphabetically If the US states are listed alphabetically, what state comes next after each of the following? For example, if we said Alabama, you would say Alaska. 1. Utah. 2. Nebraska. 3. Delaware. 4. Hawaii. 5. New York. 6. South Dakota. 7. Ohio. 8. Arkansas. 9. Virginia. 10. Iowa. * Game 9, Round 8 - History - By the Numbers All answers are numbers. Answers may repeat; then again, they may not. 1. Number of theses pinned to the door of All Saints' Church, Wittenberg, on 1517-10-31 by Martin Luther. 2. Number that features in the name of the war that ended in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia. 3. Number of presidential elections won by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 4. Number of men who have walked on the Moon. 5. Number of wives (including ex-wives, if applicable) of Henry VIII who were still alive when he died in 1547. 6. Number of points proposed by President Woodrow Wilson in his 1918-01-08 plan for world peace. 7. Number of Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage, 264-146 BC. 8. Number of Roman Emperors in 69 AD. 9. Number of states of the United States on 1900-01-01. 10. Number of provinces of Canada on 1900-01-01. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "I'm not entirely convinced 115 is prime." msb@vex.net | --Patrick Hamlyn My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Apr 29 02:08AM -0700 On Friday, April 29, 2016 at 6:59:07 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > * Game 9, Round 7 - Geography - Next State Alphabetically Pass. > All answers are numbers. Answers may repeat; then again, they may not. > 1. Number of theses pinned to the door of All Saints' Church, > Wittenberg, on 1517-10-31 by Martin Luther. 117, 115 > 2. Number that features in the name of the war that ended in 1648 > with the Peace of Westphalia. 30 > 3. Number of presidential elections won by Franklin Delano > Roosevelt. 3, 4 > 4. Number of men who have walked on the Moon. 12 > 5. Number of wives (including ex-wives, if applicable) of Henry VIII > who were still alive when he died in 1547. 2 > 6. Number of points proposed by President Woodrow Wilson in his > 1918-01-08 plan for world peace. 12, 10 > 7. Number of Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage, 264-146 BC. 3 > 8. Number of Roman Emperors in 69 AD. 4 > 9. Number of states of the United States on 1900-01-01. 48, 47 > 10. Number of provinces of Canada on 1900-01-01. 7, 8 cheers, calvin |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 29 03:57AM -0500 Mark Brader: > Queen West and Shaw. Until its new permanent location opens > in 2017, its collection is being displayed at pop-up locations. > Name the museum. MOCCA -- the Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art. As this is an acronym, the exact spelling was required for full points. 4 for Stephen (the hard way). 3 for Joshua. > "Voice of Fire" and Benjamin West's "Death of General Wolfe". > In 1988 it moved from an office building on Elgin St. into a > purpose-built building on Sussex Dr. National Gallery. (In Ottawa, of course. I don't know why the round's author thought it was acceptable to describe locations in another city by street name alone, but they did.) > Canada is this Canadian/Israeli architect. His first major > work was an iconic residential project built as part of Expo 67. > Name the architect. Moshe Safdie. 4 for Stephen and Joshua. > museum on Sherbrooke St. The museum was founded in 1860, and > in 1972 it was the scene of the largest art theft in Canadian > history. Name this museum. Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts -- yes, in Montreal). 4 for Stephen. > 5. Designed by Raymond Moriyama, this Sudbury museum is built in > the form of two snowflakes. It's the Northern Ontario > counterpart to the Ontario Science Centre. Name the museum. Science North. (In Sudbury.) 4 for Stephen. > 6. Completed in 2007, this controversial addition to the Royal > Ontario Museum extends out over Bloor St. What is the full > name of this Daniel Liebeskind addition to the ROM? Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. > 7. Founded in 1886, this Victoria museum is known for its extensive > anthropology collection devoted to Pacific Coast cultures. > Name this museum, BC's answer to the ROM. Royal British Columbia Museum. (What else?) 4 for Stephen. > located at Wynford Drive and the DVP. Its extensive collection > is dedicated to Islamic culture, and the museum features a > restaurant under the direction of Mark McEwan. Name the museum. Aga Khan Museum. 3 for Stephen. > businessman Izzy Asper. Antoine Predock's design has visitors > enter through the museum's roots, ascending through ramps and > galleries, before reaching the Tower of Hope. Name the museum. Canadian Museum of Human Rights. 3 for Stephen. > Minute questions earlier in the season. Its vast paleontology > collection is pretty much the only reason to visit Drumheller. > Name the museum. Royal Tyrrell Museum. 4 for Stephen. > number of words following the lyric, which will form the *title > of a Best Picture Oscar winner*. (They *may or may not* also be > the title of the song.) The original form of this round was the hardest in the original game, but it was a rather easy game overall. > Cause you're livin' alone > [next 6 words -- remember, they are a movie title but maybe > not the song title] In the heat of the night. (The song is "Heat of the Night".) 4 for Stephen and Joshua. > Now she and her man who called himself Dan > Were in the next room at the hoe down > [next word] Rocky. ("Rocky Raccoon".) 4 for Stephen, Erland, Pete, Joshua, Jason, Marc, and Dan. > Never free > Never me > [next word] "Unforgiven". ("The Unforgiven".) 4 for Stephen, Joshua, and Jason. Apologies; in reconstructing the round as non-audio, I somehow accidentally omitted a line. As Stephen noted, after "Never me" it should have said "So I dub thee", *then* asked for the next word. > I'm bare boned and crazy for you > When you come > [next word] Crash. ("Crash into Me".) 4 for Stephen, Joshua, and Jason. > Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold! > Bring me my > [next 3 words] According to most sources, the correct lyric (in "Jerusalem") is "chariot of fire", but the movie was "Chariots of Fire". I'm accepting either. 4 for Stephen, Erland, Pete, and Joshua. This error was made by the original author, but I should still have noticed it when I searched for the lyrics to construct the non-audio round. Apologies again. > I can fly higher than an eagle > 'Cause you are the wind beneath my > [next word] Wings. ("Wind Beneath My Wings".) 4 for Stephen, Erland, Pete, Joshua, Jason, Calvin, and Marc. > As I throw each one of you a kiss > This is my kind of town > [next word] Chicago. ("My Kind of Town".) 4 for Stephen, Pete, Joshua, Jason, Calvin, Marc, and Dan. > Und alles rief: > Come and rock me > [next word] Amadeus. ("Rock Me Amadeus".) 4 for Björn, Stephen, Erland, Joshua, Jason, and Calvin. > I smell the garden in your hair > Take the train from > [next word] Casablanca. ("Marrakesh Express".) 4 for Stephen, Erland, Pete, Joshua, Jason, Calvin, and Marc. > But I think we should take it slow > We're just > [next 2 words] Ordinary people. ("Ordinary People".) 4 for Stephen and Joshua. > 1. The artwork on the card "Orcish Settlers" is a parody of *which > 1930 regionalist painting*? Unlike in the image, the original > painting depicts a house that *isn't* on fire. "American Gothic". 4 for Stephen, Pete, Joshua, Calvin, Marc, and Dan. > *which children's story*? The fact that they all transform > into werewolves may help indicate the fourth main character of > the story. "Little Red Riding Hood". 4 for Stephen, Pete, and Dan. > American folklore? The name of this animal refers to its status > as a hybrid that possesses the horns of an African ungulate > and the body of a lagomorph. Jackalope. 4 for Stephen, Pete, and Dan. > event where the witch Circe turns *which character's* men > into pigs? This character's 10-year journey home to Ithaca > from the Trojan War is the subject of a Greek epic. Odysseus (Ulysses). 4 for Björn, Stephen, Joshua, Calvin, Marc, and Dan. 3 for Pete. > but it depicts *which man*, the first real-life person to appear > on a card? He won a Nobel Prize in 1921 for his discovery of > the photoelectric effect. Albert Einstein. 4 for Stephen, Joshua, Calvin, and Dan. > 6. This shows a "Magic"al depiction of a kami, a deity worshipped > in *which religion*? Shinto (Kami No Michi). 4 for Stephen, Pete, Joshua, Marc, and Dan. > just like *which queen* for whom it is named? This person > wove stories within stories for her husband King Shahryar, > and delayed her execution for 1,001 nights. Scheherazade (Shahrazad). 4 for Björn, Stephen, Pete, Joshua, and Marc. > 8. This card, "Borrowing 100,000 Arrows", depicts an event in > "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", one of *which country's* > four classical novels? China. 4 for Stephen, Joshua, and Dan. > 9. This shows three cards that depict sites in the real world. > Name the present-day country where *any one* of them is located. Germany (Black Forest), Japan (Mt. Fuji), UK (Scottish Highlands). 4 for Stephen, Pete, Joshua, Calvin, Marc, and Dan. > 10. This shows a humorous take on "Magic: The Gathering cards". > Name *all three words* that have been censored in the names of > these cards. Rock, Paper, Scissors. 4 for Stephen, Pete, and Dan. > 11. And image #11, you ask? Why, he's just along for the ride! > Identify the card if you like for fun, but for no points. Shuriken. Stephen got this. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 9 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 5 6 BEST TOPICS-> Spo Sci Can Aud Mis THREE Stephen Perry 32 0 30 40 40 112 Joshua Kreitzer 36 20 7 40 28 104 Dan Tilque 32 24 0 8 36 92 Marc Dashevsky 32 40 0 16 20 92 Pete Gayde 36 21 0 20 31 88 "Calvin" 20 36 0 16 16 72 Jason Kreitzer 20 8 0 28 0 56 Dan Blum 16 20 -- -- -- 36 Peter Smyth 0 32 -- -- -- 32 Erland Sommarskog 0 8 0 20 0 28 Björn Lundin 0 0 0 4 8 12 -- Mark Brader "It flies like a truck." Toronto "Good. What is a truck?" msb@vex.net -- BUCKAROO BANZAI My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Apr 29 03:10AM Rotating Quiz #218 is over and Stephen Perry wins over a small group of competitors. Where is everyone? > 1. One of the daughters of Asclepius and Epione in Greek mythology, > she was the goddess of universal health. Panacea > 661-750 CE and expanded the Islamic world considerably. After the fall > of the caliphate part of the ruling family established the caliphate > of Cordoba. Umayyad > mid-12th century (the oldest extant Danube bridge as far as I can > tell), and still later the home of the Perpetual Diet of the Holy > Roman Empire. Regensburg (or Ratisbon) I almost changed this to Ravensburg on the grounds that Regensburg was too obvious, which shows how little I know. > 4. This metallic element is the lightest and least dense of its group. > It is used extensively in catalytic converters and fuel cells, but > also appears in jewelry, particularly in white gold alloys. palladium > inhabitant of a region of northern Italy; enough people from this > region became pawnbrokers and bankers in the medieval period to > associate the name with these activities in many countries. Lombard (accepting Lombardy) > Leuctra, where he was the first person in recorded history to use > oblique order (or refusing a flank), concentrating his left flank much > more than normal in order to crush the elite Spartan right flank. Epaminondas > 7. This Varangian prince ruled Novgorod and his descendants ruled > Kievan Rus and became the first tsars of Russia. His eponymous dynasty > lasted until the Time of Troubles began in 1598. Rurik > Force, the only person to hold that rank. He is also known for > starting Project RAND (which became the RAND Corporation) and for > being one of the founders of Pan Am in 1927. Henry "Hap" Arnold > fewer than 100K inhabitants (the Highlands are sparsely populated). > It is located where a river flowing from a large loch enters the Moray > Firth. Inverness > desert that gives its name to the country; this is a coastal desert > that may be the oldest desert in the world, having been in this state > for 55 million years or more. Namibia > 11. Acrostic (for tie-breaking purposes) PURPLERAIN Scores: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total ---------------------------------- Stephen 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 7 Dan 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 4 Mark 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 Erland 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 3 -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Apr 28 05:57PM -0700 On Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 8:45:13 AM UTC+10, Peter Smyth wrote: > > It is customary to cite some evidence in support of such a claim. > The Wikipedia article you provided lists 37 countries and only 3 of > them mention using a post office to measure distances. Well the question was originally written for an Australian audience but I accept that internationally things can be different. So I'm accepting town hall (or similar). Revised scores, if there are no further protests: Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 436 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10 75 Peter Smyth 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 67 Aren Ess 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 9 67 Gareth Owen 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 9 69 Mark Brader 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 9 71 Chris Johnson 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 7 61 Erland S 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 6 53 Marc Dashevsky 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 6 55 Pete Gayde 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 6 55 Dan Tilque 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 4 38 Bjorn Lundin - - - - - - - - - - --- ---------- 5 10 8 9 10 10 6 8 5 4 75 75% cheers, calvin |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Apr 28 05:58PM -0700 On Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 4:44:53 PM UTC+10, Erland Sommarskog wrote: > assume that having a point zero is a fairly old thing - quite a bit older > than having a central post office. Town halls, on the other hand, have > also been around for a long time. Not where I come from :-) cheers, calvin |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 28 09:18PM -0500 "Calvin": > ...So I'm accepting town hall (or similar). Thanks. And congratulations to Peter Smyth! -- Mark Brader "All this government stuff, in other words, Toronto is not reading matter, but prefabricated msb@vex.net parts of quarrels." -- Rudolf Flesch |
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