- QFTCIBSI Final, Round 10 answers: Challenge Round - 2 Updates
- QFTCI16 Game 1, Rounds 2-3: CanArtGeo, Train Movies - 3 Updates
- Rotating Quiz #223 - 3 Updates
- Calvin's Quiz #443 - 1 Update
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 11 11:13PM -0500 Mark Brader: > and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information > see my recent companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian > Inquisition (QFTCI*)". That's it! The season written by the Bloor St. Irregulars is over, and the winner of the Final game is once again STEPHEN PERRY, and this by a large margin. Hearty congratulations, sir! Next we will continue with questions the current season by my team, the Usual Suspects. > ** Final, Round 10 - Challenge Round This was the easiest round in the original game. > * A. US State Capitals > A1. The name of which state capital can be found in the title > of three different movies starring Mike Myers? Austin. (The "Austin Powers" series.) 4 for Dan Tilque, Joshua, Marc, Pete, Peter, Stephen, Dan Blum, Bruce, and Jason. > A2. Which state capital is the only one *with a one-word name* > that includes the name of the state that it's the capital of? Indianapolis. 4 for Dan Tilque, Joshua, Marc, Pete, Stephen, Dan Blum, and Bruce. > founded by Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts in 1934? Hint: > The club is in a *different state* from the capital city in > question, and is 1,146 miles south of the state capital. Augusta. (The golf club is in the like-named city in Georgia.) 4 for Joshua, Pete, Peter, Stephen, Dan Blum, Calvin, and Bruce. > the big screen in 1943, was portrayed by 6 male members > of the same family in a number of movies and a television > series that aired from 1954 to 1973? Lassie. (A dog.) 4 for Joshua, Marc, Pete, Peter, Stephen, and Bruce. > Margaret Roberts of Willows, Wisconsin. Skipper is the > younger sister of -- and 2¼ inches shorter than -- which > fictional woman who was first introduced in 1959? Barbie. (A doll.) 4 for Dan Tilque, Joshua, Pete, Stephen, Dan Blum, Calvin, Bruce, and Jason. > B3. According to "TV Guide", this character -- best known by > his one-word nickname -- is the fourth-greatest TV character > of all time. In 1977 he literally jumped the shark. Fonzie. (Arthur Fonzarelli, on "Happy Days".) 4 for Dan Tilque, Joshua, Marc, Pete, Peter, Stephen, Dan Blum, Calvin, Bruce, and Jason. > Name these people, who are all leaders of G20 countries. > (You must still name them even if they are no longer leaders.) > C1. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/leader/c1.jpg Dilma Rousseff. (Brazil.) 4 for Björn, Joshua, Marc, Pete, Erland, Stephen, Dan Blum, and Calvin. > C2. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/leader/c2.jpg Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (Turkey.) 4 for Björn, Pete, Erland, Stephen, and Calvin. > C3. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/leader/c3.jpg Shinzo Abe. (Japan.) 4 for Marc, Peter, Erland, Stephen, and Calvin. > its cover (not necessarily from the first edition). You give > the title of the book. > D1. 1996 -- http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/cover/d1.jpg "Angela's Ashes". No points for "The Ashes". 4 for Joshua, Marc, Peter, Stephen, Calvin, and Jason. > D2. 1951 -- http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/cover/d2.jpg "The Catcher in the Rye". 4 for Dan Tilque, Joshua, Pete, and Stephen. > D3. 2003 -- http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/cover/d3.jpg "The Devil Wears Prada". 4 for Dan Tilque, Björn, Joshua, Marc, Pete, Peter, Stephen, Dan Blum, Calvin, Bruce, and Jason. > * E. It's Elementary > We name an element from the periodic table; you name the *next > element in alphabetical order*. I was puzzled by a few of the wrong answers on this triple until I figured out that those entrants had misread the question. > E1. Indium. Iodine. 4 for Joshua, Marc, Pete, Peter, Stephen, Dan Blum, and Bruce. > E2. Argon. Arsenic. 4 for Dan Tilque, Joshua, Marc, Pete, Peter, Stephen, and Bruce. > E3. Silicon. Silver. 4 for Joshua, Marc, Pete, Peter, Stephen, Dan Blum, and Bruce. > kept the same name, despite moving to a city which is > decidedly lacking in fresh water. Give the team's full > current name. Los Angeles Lakers. No points for "LA Lakers", as you were asked for the full name. 4 for Dan Tilque, Joshua, Marc, Pete, Stephen, Dan Blum, Calvin, and Jason. > F2. This NBA team started in New Orleans. In 1979 they kept the > same name, despite moving to this extremely unfunky location. > Again, give the team's full current name. Utah Jazz. 4 for Dan Tilque, Joshua, Marc, Pete, Peter, Stephen, Dan Blum, Bruce, and Jason. > seasons, they've had to play their home games in Lviv, > but the team's name remains unchanged. Name *either* > the team or the city where they played until 2014. Shaktar Donetsk. (Either word was sufficient.) 4 for Björn, Pete, Peter, Erland, and Stephen. 3 for Calvin. Erland believes they play most of their home games in Kyiv, and only the international games in Lviv. I wouldn't know. Scores, if there are no errors: FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST TOPICS-> Lit Sci His Spo Geo Mis Ent Cha SIX Stephen Perry -- 60 56 56 -- 55 60 72 359 Joshua Kreitzer 48 33 48 28 32 36 48 60 273 Marc Dashevsky 32 51 48 28 24 36 14 52 247 Peter Smyth -- 38 38 27 21 43 16 48 215 Dan Blum 40 32 28 18 34 34 31 44 215 Dan Tilque 16 40 44 8 28 40 16 36 204 "Calvin" 20 25 34 34 27 44 14 39 203 Pete Gayde 4 -- -- 28 28 33 32 64 189 Bruce Bowler -- 48 -- -- -- 39 28 44 159 Erland Sommarskog -- 31 32 12 20 28 -- 16 139 Björn Lundin 0 29 40 8 19 16 15 16 135 Jason Kreitzer 8 4 8 12 16 28 16 28 108 -- Mark Brader, Toronto, msb@vex.net "sci fi: the plural of scum fum" -- Spider Robinson My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jun 12 10:50AM +0200 >> question, and is 1,146 miles south of the state capital. > Augusta. (The golf club is in the like-named city in Georgia.) > 4 for Joshua, Pete, Peter, Stephen, Dan Blum, Calvin, and Bruce. Didn't Stephen answer "Augusta, Georgia"? That's looks like a wrong answer to me. Not many state captals thousand miles south of that city. And the capital of Georgia is Atlanta, as far as I know. >> C2. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/leader/c2.jpg > Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (Turkey.) 4 for Björn, Pete, Erland, Stephen, > and Calvin. Then again, I put in an incorrect initial here, but still survived. That's not like Mark. > I was puzzled by a few of the wrong answers on this triple until > I figured out that those entrants had misread the question. Yeah, I had an unusually bad day. Not only did I screw up on this set, but I also misread the Indianapolis question. For some reason, I read it as asking for a state captial which included the name of *another* state in the name. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 11 11:19PM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-05-16, 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 Usual Suspects 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 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". I did not write either of these rounds. * Game 1, Round 2 - Canadiana - The Geography of Art in Canada Please see the handout at: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/1-2/canart.pdf All of these questions celebrate great artists and works of art in a Canadian geographical context. I have rearranged the questions in order by picture number. There were 7 decoys; for each one, you may name the artist if you like for fun, but for no points. 1. Painting #1 on the handout caused a stir when a Canadian museum paid what some people felt was too much to acquire it. What is the *title* of the painting? 2. (decoy) 3. This First Nations artist is celebrated for establishing a style of art that became known as the Woodland School. Name the artist of #3. 4. (decoy) 5. (decoy) 6. Of Ukrainian descent, this artist is known for illustrating books such as "A Prairie Boy's Winter", shown in image #6. However, many of his works have religious themes and one of them is a mural in Corpus Christi Church in the Beach in Toronto. Name him. 7. Which artist, represented by image #7, lived and painted at Fool's Paradise in Scarborough? The painting shown was donated by the artist to the Ontario Heritage Trust. 8. The biggest public collection of *which famed British artist*'s work is in Toronto (most of it donated by the artist)? See image #8 for an example. 9. (decoy) 10. Give the specific *location* of work #10 in the handout. 11. Painting #11 on the handout is called "The Jack Pine". Where did its painter *die*? 12. The creator of #12 lived in Canada and painted scenes of daily life in Quebec that are now valued for their anthropological as well as their artistic value. Who was he? 13. (decoy) 14. The setting of #14, one featured in many of this painter's works, is contained in the name of the painting. What is that setting? 15. The painting shown in #15 is found in a certain art gallery and on the cover of an album by a Canadian musician. Name *either* the gallery or the album. 16. (decoy) 17. (decoy) * Game 1, Round 3 - Entertainment - Train Movies This round is about movies that deal with or take place mostly on trains. Amazingly, it wasn't Mark who wrote it! In each case, name the movie. Generally, the exact title is required. 1. This 1926 film features Buster Keaton as a train engineer who, after being rejected by the Confederate army during the US Civil War, has his locomotive stolen by Union spies. 2. This 1938 Alfred Hitchcock film has Margaret Lockwood, with the help of Michael Redgrave, searching for an old woman who seems to have completely disappeared from the train they are on. Maybe, if Paul Lukas is to be believed, she never existed and is only part of our protagonist's hallucinations. 3. This 1976 comedy was the first collaboration between Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. After Wilder witnesses what could be a murder, he gets thrown off the title train. 4. This 1987 comedy goes meta when, after watching Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train", Danny DeVito's character ropes his community-college teacher, played by Billy Crystal, into a murderous plot. 5. Based on a real-life incident involving a CSX train, this 2010 movie features Denzel Washington playing the experienced engineer and Chris Pine playing the rookie, as they work together to make sure an out-of-control train full of chemicals doesn't derail in a populated area. 6. This 2011 sci-fi action film features Jake Gyllenhaal playing an army pilot who wakes up on a train to Chicago. A few minutes later, the train is destroyed in an explosion. He then wakes up again in the exact same place and time, but *with* the memory of what just happened -- and now he must stop it from happening again. 7. This 1964 film features Burt Lancaster as a French railway inspector involved in a plan to stop the Nazis from removing priceless French art from Paris and transporting it to Germany before the Allies arrive to liberate the city. 8. This 1965 film takes place at the time when Fascist Italy has just collapsed and the Germans are occupying the country in order to keep the Allies from marching through it. This creates a time window in which a group of Allied POWs, led by Frank Sinatra, can escape by hijacking a train. Sinatra's loyalty is questioned by his group and an insult applied to him appears in the title. 9. This 1974 film features Robert Shaw as the leader of four men who hijack a New York City subway train and hold the passengers hostage for a million-dollar ransom. It's up to Walter Matthau to save the day. 10. This 1974 film has Albert Finney playing a famous detective trying to solve a murder that occurs on the train he's aboard. Ingrid Bergman, Vanessa Redgrave, Lauren Bacall, and many other famous actors play smaller roles in this star-studded film. The title refers to the specific train. -- Mark Brader, Toronto, msb@vex.net "A system which depends upon the secrecy of its algorithm is effectively a single-key code." -- William Brown II My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jun 12 04:50AM > 1. Painting #1 on the handout caused a stir when a Canadian museum > paid what some people felt was too much to acquire it. What is > the *title* of the painting? Stripes; Blue and Red > 8. The biggest public collection of *which famed British artist*'s > work is in Toronto (most of it donated by the artist)? See image > #8 for an example. Francis Bacon > 1. This 1926 film features Buster Keaton as a train engineer who, > after being rejected by the Confederate army during the US Civil > War, has his locomotive stolen by Union spies. The General > to have completely disappeared from the train they are on. > Maybe, if Paul Lukas is to be believed, she never existed and > is only part of our protagonist's hallucinations. The Lady on the Train > 3. This 1976 comedy was the first collaboration between Gene Wilder > and Richard Pryor. After Wilder witnesses what could be a > murder, he gets thrown off the title train. Silver Streak > Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train", Danny DeVito's character > ropes his community-college teacher, played by Billy Crystal, > into a murderous plot. Throw Momma From the Train > and Chris Pine playing the rookie, as they work together to > make sure an out-of-control train full of chemicals doesn't > derail in a populated area. Runaway Train > up again in the exact same place and time, but *with* the > memory of what just happened -- and now he must stop it from > happening again. Source Code > inspector involved in a plan to stop the Nazis from removing > priceless French art from Paris and transporting it to Germany > before the Allies arrive to liberate the city. Treasure Train > who hijack a New York City subway train and hold the passengers > hostage for a million-dollar ransom. It's up to Walter Matthau > to save the day. The Taking of Pelham 123 > Ingrid Bergman, Vanessa Redgrave, Lauren Bacall, and many other > famous actors play smaller roles in this star-studded film. > The title refers to the specific train. Murder on the Orient Express -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Jun 12 05:32AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:Ytudndb3qcJLf8HKnZ2dnUU7- > 8. The biggest public collection of *which famed British artist*'s > work is in Toronto (most of it donated by the artist)? See image > #8 for an example. Henry Moore > 10. Give the specific *location* of work #10 in the handout. Hockey Hall of Fame > 1. This 1926 film features Buster Keaton as a train engineer who, > after being rejected by the Confederate army during the US Civil > War, has his locomotive stolen by Union spies. "The General" > to have completely disappeared from the train they are on. > Maybe, if Paul Lukas is to be believed, she never existed and > is only part of our protagonist's hallucinations. "The Lady Vanishes" > 3. This 1976 comedy was the first collaboration between Gene Wilder > and Richard Pryor. After Wilder witnesses what could be a > murder, he gets thrown off the title train. "Silver Streak" > Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train", Danny DeVito's character > ropes his community-college teacher, played by Billy Crystal, > into a murderous plot. "Throw Momma from the Train" > who hijack a New York City subway train and hold the passengers > hostage for a million-dollar ransom. It's up to Walter Matthau > to save the day. "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" > Ingrid Bergman, Vanessa Redgrave, Lauren Bacall, and many other > famous actors play smaller roles in this star-studded film. > The title refers to the specific train. "Murder on the Orient Express" -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 11 12:55PM -0500 Mark Brader: > a tie, the first tiebreaker is who scored on the hardest questions; > the second tiebreaker is who scored in the most categories; and > the third tiebreaker is who posted first. Hearty congratulations to STEPHEN PERRY, who wins by a margin of 6 points! > * Sports > 1. Baltimore Orioles. New York Yankees. (In between they were the New York Highlanders. Since this was an odd-numbered question it couldn't be about today's Baltimore Orioles, who in fact were originally the Milwaukee Brewers.) I thought this would be tough but I did expect someone to get it. > 2. Cassius Clay. Muhammad Ali. 2 for everyone -- Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Stephen, Marc, Calvin, Chris, Peter, and Erland. This is the one I put in the spelling tiebreaker because of, but everyone spelled it correctly. > * Literature > 3. David Cornwell. John le Carré. 2 for Stephen and Chris. > 4. Jozef Korzeniowski. Joseph Conrad. 2 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, and Stephen. > * Geography > 5. Upper Canada. Ontario. (Lower -- that is, downriver -- Canada was Quebec.) 2 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Stephen, and Chris. > 6. Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Yugoslavia. 2 for everyone. > * Entertainment > 7. Ramon Estevez. Martin Sheen. (Charlie Sheen was Carlos Estevez.) 2 for Stephen, Marc, and Peter. > 8. Marion Morrison. John Wayne. 2 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Stephen, Calvin, Chris, and Peter. > * Business > 9. Haloid Photographic. Xerox. 2 for Stephen and Marc. > 10. All American Airways. US Airways. (In between they were Allegheny Airlines, then US Air. Since this was an even-numbered question, American Airlines would have been impossible.) I was intending to ask about "Allegheny Airlines" on this one, with the final change from "US Air" to "US Airways" being the tricky bit; but on checking the facts I discovered their earlier name change, so I had to go with that or find another question. > * Other Forms of Public Life > 11. Joseph Ratzinger. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. I required the number. 2 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Stephen, Calvin, Peter, and Erland. > 12. Ioseb Dzhugashvili. Joseph Stalin. I accepted "Stalin". 2 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Stephen, Marc, Chris, and Peter. 1 for Erland. Scores, if there are no errors: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 TOTALS Stephen Perry 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 2 2 20 Dan Tilque 0 2 0 2 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 2 14 Dan Blum 0 2 0 2 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 2 14 Chris Johnson 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 12 Peter Smyth 0 2 0 0 0 2 2 2 0 0 2 2 12 Marc Dashevsky 0 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 10 "Calvin" 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 8 Erland Sommarskog 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 7 0 16 4 6 8 16 6 12 4 0 12 13 Congrats again, Stephen, and over to you for RQ 224. -- Mark Brader | Given the degree of bitterness... here recently, it might Toronto | [be better described] as an againstum than a forum. msb@vex.net | --Peter Moylan My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 11 02:24PM -0500 Sorry, I posted the results without remembering to change the subject line. Here goes again. Mark Brader: > a tie, the first tiebreaker is who scored on the hardest questions; > the second tiebreaker is who scored in the most categories; and > the third tiebreaker is who posted first. Hearty congratulations to STEPHEN PERRY, who wins by a margin of 6 points! > * Sports > 1. Baltimore Orioles. New York Yankees. (In between they were the New York Highlanders. Since this was an odd-numbered question it couldn't be about today's Baltimore Orioles, who in fact were originally the Milwaukee Brewers.) I thought this would be tough but I did expect someone to get it. > 2. Cassius Clay. Muhammad Ali. 2 for everyone -- Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Stephen, Marc, Calvin, Chris, Peter, and Erland. This is the one I put in the spelling tiebreaker because of, but everyone spelled it correctly. > * Literature > 3. David Cornwell. John le Carré. 2 for Stephen and Chris. > 4. Jozef Korzeniowski. Joseph Conrad. 2 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, and Stephen. > * Geography > 5. Upper Canada. Ontario. (Lower -- that is, downriver -- Canada was Quebec.) 2 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Stephen, and Chris. > 6. Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Yugoslavia. 2 for everyone. > * Entertainment > 7. Ramon Estevez. Martin Sheen. (Charlie Sheen was Carlos Estevez.) 2 for Stephen, Marc, and Peter. > 8. Marion Morrison. John Wayne. 2 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Stephen, Calvin, Chris, and Peter. > * Business > 9. Haloid Photographic. Xerox. 2 for Stephen and Marc. > 10. All American Airways. US Airways. (In between they were Allegheny Airlines, then US Air. Since this was an even-numbered question, American Airlines would have been impossible.) I was intending to ask about "Allegheny Airlines" on this one, with the final change from "US Air" to "US Airways" being the tricky bit; but on checking the facts I discovered their earlier name change, so I had to go with that or find another question. > * Other Forms of Public Life > 11. Joseph Ratzinger. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. I required the number. 2 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Stephen, Calvin, Peter, and Erland. > 12. Ioseb Dzhugashvili. Joseph Stalin. I accepted "Stalin". 2 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Stephen, Marc, Chris, and Peter. 1 for Erland. Scores, if there are no errors: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 TOTALS Stephen Perry 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 2 2 20 Dan Tilque 0 2 0 2 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 2 14 Dan Blum 0 2 0 2 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 2 14 Chris Johnson 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 12 Peter Smyth 0 2 0 0 0 2 2 2 0 0 2 2 12 Marc Dashevsky 0 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 10 "Calvin" 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 8 Erland Sommarskog 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 7 0 16 4 6 8 16 6 12 4 0 12 13 Congrats again, Stephen, and over to you for RQ 224. -- Mark Brader | Given the degree of bitterness... here recently, it might Toronto | [be better described] as an againstum than a forum. msb@vex.net | --Peter Moylan My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jun 11 12:50PM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: > Since this was an odd-numbered question it couldn't be about today's > Baltimore Orioles, who in fact were originally the Milwaukee Brewers.) > I thought this would be tough but I did expect someone to get it. I knew it was the original name of one of the other east coast teams, I just couldn't remember which. My guess (Red Sox) was wrong. -- Dan Tilque |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Jun 11 06:10PM +0100 >> the football (soccer) rugby world cups? > Not sure it is the answer you are looking for, but Wembley Stadium has > hosted football and rugby league world cup finals. Oh, I wish I'd thought of that. |
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