Monday, April 04, 2016

Digest for rec.games.trivia@googlegroups.com - 5 updates in 3 topics

swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Apr 03 08:22PM -0700

On Sunday, March 27, 2016 at 2:12:04 PM UTC-4, swp wrote:
 
> In case of a tie, the first tiebreaker will be who scored on the hardest questions; and the second tiebreaker will be who posted first.
 
> Correct answers are worth 1 point each.
 
> Have fun!
 
ok, so I was off by a day. I blame the ass kicking that Villanova gave to oklahoma yesterday. and wrestlemania. and swamp gas reflecting off the light from venus. or something like that.
 
first up, the expected answers.
 
1. who are the 2 left-handed members of the beatles?
 
paul & ringo (the beatles are immortal, or so I am told)
 
2. they were 1st trained to help with police work about 1900 in Ghent, Belgium.
 
dogs
 
3. what is the currency of liechtenstein, luxembourg & andorra
 
the euro, of course. I tried to set a trap thinking that some may have said "the franc" which they all used to use. ah well, so much for trying to use tricky and deceit.
 
4. the prime minister of england lives at this street address
 
#10 downing street is the traditional address. but the current PM has a big family and lives at #11 downing street.
 
5. feathered friend who lives at 123 1/2 sesame street
 
big bird
 
6. boxer whose life was portrayed in "Somebody Up There Likes Me"
 
rocky graziano
 
7. patti page hit that is the official song of a southern state
 
the tennessee waltz
 
8. poe's tale of torture in a spanish castle
 
the pit and the pendulum. the cask of amontillado is set in italy.
 
9. found in rye bread, these seeds are also flavoring of kummel liqueur
 
caraway seeds
 
10. breeches cut full above the knee used for horseback riding
 
jodhpurs
 
11. the only day of the week named for a roman god
 
saturday. thursday was named for 'thor' from the comic strip "b.c." of course
 
12. helping to found it in 1957, martin luther king, jr. headed this civil rights group until his death
 
southern christian leadership conference
 
13. clyde barrow's female crime partner (first and last name, please)
 
bonnie parker
 
14. hollandaise seasoned with chervil, shallots & tarragon becomes this sauce named for region of southwestern france
 
bernaise
 
15. jimmy durante would yell it to bring a song to a grinding & funny halt
 
"stop the music"
 
 
my attempt at scoring:
 
name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 total
---------- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -----
Chris J 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 8
Dan B 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 8
ArenEss 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 8
Marc D 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 + 0 0 7+
Mark B 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 7
Calvin 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 7
Peter S 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 6
Dan T 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 6
Pete 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 5
Erland 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 4
---------- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -----
totals 4 9 8 1 8 2 1 3 5 7 9 0 5+ 4 0 0
 
 
Winning on the tie breaker of who answered the harder question, Chris F.A. Johnson is the winner! Congratulations Chris! Well done, young man. You may now set Rotating Quiz #216 in a manner of your choosing.
 
Marc would have won if he could have remembered bonnie parker's last name.
 
I did not think jimmy durante was already forgotten. nor the organization that dr king helped found.
 
thank you each for participating. I hope it was enjoyable.
 
swp
"Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@cfaj.ca>: Apr 04 12:48AM -0400

In rec.games.trivia, you wrote:
> On Sunday, March 27, 2016 at 2:12:04 PM UTC-4, swp wrote:
...
> Chris F.A. Johnson is the winner! Congratulations Chris! Well done,
> young man. You may now set Rotating Quiz #216 in a manner of your
> choosing.
 
I'll have it posted in a day or two.
 
--
Chris F.A. Johnson
Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Apr 03 10:36AM -0500

In article <bfOdnZVlzr5LymLLnZ2dnUU7-N_NnZ2d@giganews.com>, msb@vex.net says...
> cataract with the 6th-highest annual water flow of any waterfall
> is second only in length and size to Victoria Falls, and is
> located on the border of *which two South American countries*?
Uruguay and Brazil
 
> from each other, in the real world the pyramid is a part of the
> ancient Mayan city of Tikal -- which can be found today in what
> Central American country?
Honduras; Guatemala
 
> Catholic cathedral, and an imperial mosque. It was the largest
> cathedral in the world for over 1,000 years, but it's now the
> second-most-visited museum in Turkey. What is its name?
Hagia Sofia
 
> US gold bullion supply, thus increasing the value of his
> own gold. This requires a daring raid on the US Gold Bullion
> Depository located on an army base in *what US state*?
Kentucky
 
> in Bilbao, Spain -- mostly because the filmmakers wanted to
> get a shot of James Bond walking by the Frank-Gehry-designed
> Bilbao branch of *what museum*?
Guggenheim
 
> which he named Goldeneye. On *what Caribbean island*, location
> of the very first James Bond movie, "Dr. No", is Goldeneye
> located?
Jamaica
 
> a river. Says Mr. Kidd, "Mrs. Whistler did want some pictures of
> the canals for the children". Responds Mr. Wint, "the children
> will be thrilled". In *which European city* is this scene?
Amsterdam
 
 
> 1. American intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was sentenced
> to life imprisonment for stealing thousands of documents from the
> US Navy in the mid-1980s. What country was Pollard spying for?
Israel
 
> Abel was exchanged for an American, on a Berlin bridge in 1962.
> Name that American, portrayed in a recent movie adaptation by
> Austin Stowell.
Powers
 
 
> 7. Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was assassinated on a London
> street in 1978. The cause of death was a micro-engineered pellet
> containing ricin, but what was the unusual delivery mechanism?
umbrella tip
 
> 8. In another assassination, fugitive Russian FSB agent Alexander
> Litvinenko was killed by KGB agents who served him poisoned tea.
> With what radioactive element was it poisoned?
polonium
 
> Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and later in China. Her first TV show had its
> debut on PBS and ran for ten years. Name this OSS agent, better
> known to us from books and TV, and depicted in a 2009 movie.
Julia Child
 
> executed by the OGPU in 1925. He was the inspiration for James
> Bond and for a 1983 miniseries starring Sam Neill. Name this
> "ace of spies".
Reilly
 
 
--
Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address.
swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Apr 03 09:44AM -0700

On Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 1:25:43 AM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:
> > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-11-09,
> > and should be interpreted accordingly.
 
noted
 
> cataract with the 6th-highest annual water flow of any waterfall
> is second only in length and size to Victoria Falls, and is
> located on the border of *which two South American countries*?
 
argentina, brazil
 
> from each other, in the real world the pyramid is a part of the
> ancient Mayan city of Tikal -- which can be found today in what
> Central American country?
 
guatemala
 
> Catholic cathedral, and an imperial mosque. It was the largest
> cathedral in the world for over 1,000 years, but it's now the
> second-most-visited museum in Turkey. What is its name?
 
hagia sophia
 
> the Cunard line and launched in 1939 when it was the largest
> passenger liner in the world -- a record it would hold at least
> until it caught fire and sank in 1973. Name the ship.
 
rms queen elizabeth
 
> US gold bullion supply, thus increasing the value of his
> own gold. This requires a daring raid on the US Gold Bullion
> Depository located on an army base in *what US state*?
 
kentucky
 
> in Bilbao, Spain -- mostly because the filmmakers wanted to
> get a shot of James Bond walking by the Frank-Gehry-designed
> Bilbao branch of *what museum*?
 
the guggenheim museum
 
> which he named Goldeneye. On *what Caribbean island*, location
> of the very first James Bond movie, "Dr. No", is Goldeneye
> located?
 
jamaica
 
> a river. Says Mr. Kidd, "Mrs. Whistler did want some pictures of
> the canals for the children". Responds Mr. Wint, "the children
> will be thrilled". In *which European city* is this scene?
 
amsterdam
 
> as a staging point to help Soviet defector Koskov escape
> Czechoslovakia in 1987's "The Living Daylights". Name this
> capital city.
 
bratislava
 
> of a famous author; Bond resigns from the Secret Service
> and M demands that he hand over his gun. Quips James Bond,
> "I guess this is a farewell to arms". What *city* are they in?
 
key west
 
 
> 10 songs that were produced by that villainous murderous criminal,
> Phil Spector.
 
> (Cf. Game 10, Round 10, of the previous season, question #E2.)
 
:-)
 
 
> 1. American intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was sentenced
> to life imprisonment for stealing thousands of documents from the
> US Navy in the mid-1980s. What country was Pollard spying for?
 
israel
 
> started selling secret information to the Russian GRU in 2007,
> and wasn't caught until 2011. In 2013, he was sentenced to
> 20 years imprisonment. Name the man.
 
jeff delisle
 
> 3. Although not a spy himself, this physicist was the guiding force
> behind a network which disseminated Pakistani nuclear secrets
> to nations such as Iran, North Korea, and Libya. Name the man.
 
khan
 
> Abel was exchanged for an American, on a Berlin bridge in 1962.
> Name that American, portrayed in a recent movie adaptation by
> Austin Stowell.
 
f. g. powers
 
> game, and while the Irregulars did come up with an emergency
> substitute question after the game started, I'll present the round
> here without that addition.
 
you are number 5. ;-)
 
> John Profumo resigned in disgrace after it was discovered that
> the showgirl he was seeing was also seeing GRU agent Yevgeni
> Ivanov. Name the showgirl who brought down Profumo.
 
christine keeler
 
> 7. Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was assassinated on a London
> street in 1978. The cause of death was a micro-engineered pellet
> containing ricin, but what was the unusual delivery mechanism?
 
an umbrella
 
> 8. In another assassination, fugitive Russian FSB agent Alexander
> Litvinenko was killed by KGB agents who served him poisoned tea.
> With what radioactive element was it poisoned?
 
polonium
 
> Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and later in China. Her first TV show had its
> debut on PBS and ran for ten years. Name this OSS agent, better
> known to us from books and TV, and depicted in a 2009 movie.
 
julia child
 
> executed by the OGPU in 1925. He was the inspiration for James
> Bond and for a 1983 miniseries starring Sam Neill. Name this
> "ace of spies".
 
sidney reilly
 
 
swp
Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Apr 03 02:13PM +0200

It's my turn to run a Rare Entries contest, and this one has a novelty:
this quiz has a theme, meaning that all questions are designed to have
at least one correct answer that adheres to the theme. And if you pick
such an answer, there is a bonus of 0.8 multiplied to your score. That is,
by finding answer that matches the theme, you can improve your score -
unless everyone else does the same and collides.
 
The theme is.., ah, you will figure that out.
 
Compared to Mark's quizzes, I am also making some other changes. The penalty
for an incorrect answer is different: twice the highest score for a correct
answer for a minimum of 7. The penalty for not answering a question at all
is lower: 1.5 times the score for the most common correct answer for a
minimum of 5.
 
Please mail your answers to esquel@sommarskog.se. Deadline for entries
is 2016-04-15 12.00, Swedish time. I plan to post two reminders until
then. Beware that mails formatted in HTML only may be trapped by my spam
filter.
 
DO NOT post or discuss your answers publicly answer before that date!
 
Please delete everything before and after the questions, but retain
the questions, and put your answers after the question. Put any comments
or clarifications you make on a separate line with a blank line after
the answer.
 
 
----------------------------- Questions ----------------------------------
1. Name a person who has been King of Sweden.
 
2. Name a company with business in at least 28 countries and which is
commonly referred by a name or an abbreviation that includes one or more
of the initials of one or more of the founders. There may be a full name
of the company that includes a longer part of the names of the founders,
but there must be a common form that consists of only the initials.
Example: Say that there is a company of which the full name is
Abraham & Joseph Corporation. If this company is commonly referred to as
AJC, that is a correct answer. However, if the common short name is
AbeJoe, that would not be a correct answer.
 
3. Name a country where I have spent at least 24 hours. Country here refers
to a territory with an officially assigned country code in ISO 3166.
 
4. Give a city with a population of at least 400 000 that is located on the
sea, and which also has a border on a sweetwater lake with a surface of
at least 1 km². A lake which is entirely included within the city limits
does not count; the borders of the city must traverse the lake. "City"
here refers to the city proper, not metropolitan area.
 
5. Name a person who was born after AD 1000 outside any nobility, but who
reached a position as state ruler for which inheritance wss the norm,
or became the norm with this person.
 
6. Name a team that at least on one occasion reached the semi-finals in
FIFA World Cup in football, but which never has become World Champions.
 
7. Name a person who simultaneously was, or still is, the head of state of
two countries that for all other practical matters were entirely
independent from each other during the entire rule of this person.
 
8. Name a person who was assassinated while holding a position as head of
state, head of government or foreign minister, and who had reached that
position, directly or indirectly, as a result of democratic elections,
generally considered free and fair by today's standards.
 
9. Name a person who is generally considered to have been involved in
the discovery or the first isolation of one or more chemical element
with an atomic number <= 96.
 
10. Give a word used in English that is of Swedish origin, and which
entered the English language in the 19th century or later. The word
should be present in an online general dictionary for English. That is,
a dictionary for a certain field does not qualify.
 
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The rules for this quiz are basically the same as in Mark Brader's quizzes,
but I am introducing some changes. I am not repeating all of Mark's rules,
but instead I give a briefer version. Particularly note that the scoring is
somewhat different and that I use a different definition for countries.
 
1. The game as such
 
For each question you are supposed give one single answer that is correct.
(Typically, there is always more than one correct answer.) Your aim is
to find an answer that is given by as few entrants as possible.
 
For this particular quiz, there is a theme, meaning that all questions
have at least one correct answer that adheres to the theme. If you give
such an answer, there is a bonus for this answer, see further the scoring
below.
 
You are entitled to use all forms of sources to research the answer, but
you are not permitted to discuss the questions in public, nor are you
permitted to post your answers in public before the closing date of the
quiz.
 
When you have found a couple of possible answers, you are supposed to
make a conscious choice among the choices. That is, you must not use any
form of randomisation.
 
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 
2. Scoring
 
a) Your score for a correct answer that does not adhere to the theme is
the number of entrants who gave that answer.
 
b) Your score for a correct answer that adheres to the theme is 0.8 times
the number of entrants who gave that answer.
 
c) Your score for an incorrect answer is twice the highest score given for
a for correct answer for a minimum of 7. Whether the answer adheres
to the theme is irrelevant; the penalty is the same.
 
d) If you don't answer a question at all, your score is 1½ the highest
score given for a correct answer for a minimum of 5.
 
As in Mark's quizzes a specific/generic rule a apply, meaning that if one
answer can somehow be considered to be a subset of an another answer,
the score for the subset answer will be the number of persons who gave that
more specific answer (multiplied with 0.8 if the answers adheres to the
theme), while the score for the entrants who gave the superset answer will
be number of entrants who gave either the superset or the subset answer
(again multiplied with 0.8 if the superset answer adheres to the theme).
 
2.1 Scoring example.
 
Say that the question is "Name a major battle that took place in Europe
after year 1000". The theme is the Swedish pop group ABBA. I have these
entries, the number before the entry is the number of entrants who gave
that answer:
 
9 Battle of Hastings
9 Battle of Waterloo
1 Napoleon's last battle
2 Battle of Kosovo
3 Battle of Kosovo in 1389
1 Battle of Kosovo in 1448
3 Battle of Fernando
1 Battle of Mandzikert
1 (no answer)
 
The score is as follows
 
Battle of Hastings -> 9 points, 9 persons gave that answer.
 
Battle of Waterloo &
Napoleon's last battle -> 8 points. "Waterloo" is an Abba tune, and the
bonus applies. Since the question was "name a
battle", I deem that the answer is equivalent
with "Battle of Waterloo".
 
Battle of Kosovo -> 6 points. There were two battles of Kosovo, but two
entrants did not specify which. Therefore, their score
is the total number of entries that mentioned any of
the battles of Kosovo.
 
Battle of Kosovo 1389 -> 3 points. Three persons gave this answer. The other
Kosovo entries do not matter here.
 
Battle of Kosovo 1448 -> 1 point. One person gave this answer.
 
Battle of Fernando
Battle of Mandzikert -> Both these gets 18 points, twice the highest score
awarded for a correct answer. There was a battle at
Mandzikert in 1071, but that site is in Asia. And
while "Fernando" is an ABBA tune, I can't find any
battle with this name. There is no bonus for
incorrect answers adhering to the theme.
 
(no answer) -> 13.5 points, 1½ times the highest score.
 
 
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3. Judging of answers
 
I will solely judge whether answer is correct or not. To be able to that
I may mail you for information supporting your answer, for instance a
reference.
 
Rare Entries questions often lend themselves to bending, and you are
welcome to try to bend the questions. However, be careful that you don't
bend yourself out of shape. I reserve to rule an answer as incorrect if I
find that strays too far from my original intention. By bending the
question, I am assuming that are you making a gamble for a top score
with the risk to lose it all.
 
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4. Entries
 
Entries should be submitted by mail only to the address given on the top
of the posting, and they should arrive no later than the time given.
 
The preferred format is plain text. Please include the questions in the
response, but delete the introduction and the rules after the introduction.
 
If you give multiple answers, I will take the first answer and ignore the
rest, no matter whether I judge the first answer correct or not.
 
If you wish to include supporting information or comments, please separate
these clearly from the answers.
 
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5. Specific terms of questions
 
In his rules, Marks gives some general definitions of countries, words,
movies etc. These rules may not apply exactly to my quiz(zes). For this
particular quiz there are deviations to Mark's rules for "country"
and "word".
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