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| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Jul 30 12:05PM +0100 Please Identify : 1. Willed his second best bed to wife Anne 2. Printed "The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye" around 1475 3. With his sister Caroline discovered the sixth and seventh moons of Saturn 4. Won best actor Oscar for "Kiss of the Spider Woman". 5. Succeeded Jeffrey Hunter in role of Captain. 6. Colonel in the 13th US Infantry Regiment during the Battle of Bull Run. 7. Defensive Lineman who scored an offensive touchdown in SuperBowl XX. 8. Founder of Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company. 9. Nobel Prize winning author of "As I Lay Dying" 10. Landed at Pevensey, defeated Harold Godwinson. 11. 27th US President. 12. Fifth single by The Smiths, with "How Soon Is Now" and "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" on the flip side. (They don't release singles like that any more). |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jul 30 01:38PM +0200 > Please Identify : With the risk of scoring a zero slate: > 2. Printed "The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye" around 1475 Gutenberg > 3. With his sister Caroline discovered the sixth and seventh moons of > Saturn Gallileo > 8. Founder of Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company. Kellog > 9. Nobel Prize winning author of "As I Lay Dying" Harold Pinter > 11. 27th US President. McKinley > 12. Fifth single by The Smiths, with "How Soon Is Now" and "Heaven Knows > I'm Miserable Now" on the flip side. (They don't release singles like > that any more). Let's all be happy for that. I've two albums with The Smiths, but I will have to that I find Morrisey to be one of those pretentious guys that take himself far too seriously. (I do have "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now", but only with Act, in a 50-plus re-release box of their "Laughters, Tears and Rage".) -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Jul 30 01:42PM +0100 > Let's all be happy for that. I've two albums with The Smiths, but I will > have to that I find Morrisey to be one of those pretentious guys that > take himself far too seriously. Oh, he's insufferable. But those records are *brilliant*. |
| swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Jul 30 08:00AM -0700 On Saturday, July 30, 2016 at 7:05:04 AM UTC-4, Gareth Owen wrote: > Please Identify : > 1. Willed his second best bed to wife Anne william shakespeare > 2. Printed "The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye" around 1475 lefevre? (it was the first book printed in english) > 3. With his sister Caroline discovered the sixth and seventh moons of Saturn I was going to say cassini, but that doesn't fit the pattern. so I will go with william herschel (didn't know about his sister) > 4. Won best actor Oscar for "Kiss of the Spider Woman". william hurt > 5. Succeeded Jeffrey Hunter in role of Captain. william shatner > 6. Colonel in the 13th US Infantry Regiment during the Battle of Bull Run. colonel william t. sherman > 7. Defensive Lineman who scored an offensive touchdown in SuperBowl XX. william 'the refrigerator' perry (no relation) > 8. Founder of Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company. william kellog > 9. Nobel Prize winning author of "As I Lay Dying" william faulkner > 10. Landed at Pevensey, defeated Harold Godwinson. duke william the 2nd(?) of normandy (battle of hastings) > 11. 27th US President. william howard taft > 12. Fifth single by The Smiths, with "How Soon Is Now" and "Heaven Knows I'm > Miserable Now" on the flip side. (They don't release singles like that > any more). morrissey ... ugh! ... william in the title ... nope, not recalling it. swp (the w is for william) p.s. not bad for a guy who just turned 51 today. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jul 30 03:08PM > Please Identify : > 1. Willed his second best bed to wife Anne William Shakespeare > 2. Printed "The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye" around 1475 William Caxton > 3. With his sister Caroline discovered the sixth and seventh moons of Saturn William Herschel > 4. Won best actor Oscar for "Kiss of the Spider Woman". William Hurt > 5. Succeeded Jeffrey Hunter in role of Captain. William Shatner > 6. Colonel in the 13th US Infantry Regiment during the Battle of Bull Run. William Tecumseh Sherman > 8. Founder of Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company. William Kellogg > 9. Nobel Prize winning author of "As I Lay Dying" William Faulkner > 10. Landed at Pevensey, defeated Harold Godwinson. William the Conqueror > 11. 27th US President. William Howard Taft -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 30 11:15AM -0500 Gareth Owen: > 1. Willed his second best bed to wife Anne William Shakespeare. > 3. With his sister Caroline discovered the sixth and seventh moons of Saturn William Herschel. > 4. Won best actor Oscar for "Kiss of the Spider Woman". William Hurt. > 5. Succeeded Jeffrey Hunter in role of Captain. William Shatner. > 6. Colonel in the 13th US Infantry Regiment during the Battle of Bull Run. William Burnside? > 7. Defensive Lineman who scored an offensive touchdown in SuperBowl XX. William Onside. :-) > 8. Founder of Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company. William Kellogg. > 9. Nobel Prize winning author of "As I Lay Dying" William Faulkner. > 10. Landed at Pevensey, defeated Harold Godwinson. King William I of England. > 11. 27th US President. William Taft. -- Mark Brader, Toronto "Well, I'm back", he said. msb@vex.net -- Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings) My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Jul 30 05:45PM Gareth Owen wrote: > Please Identify : > 1. Willed his second best bed to wife Anne William Shakespeare > 2. Printed "The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye" around 1475 > 3. With his sister Caroline discovered the sixth and seventh moons of > Saturn William Herschel > Run. > 7. Defensive Lineman who scored an offensive touchdown in > SuperBowl XX. William Perry > 8. Founder of Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company. > 9. Nobel Prize winning author of "As I Lay Dying" > 10. Landed at Pevensey, defeated Harold Godwinson. William the Conqueror > 11. 27th US President. William Taft > 12. Fifth single by The Smiths, with "How Soon Is Now" and "Heaven > Knows I'm Miserable Now" on the flip side. (They don't release > singles like that any more). Peter Smyth |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jul 30 04:09PM -0700 Gareth Owen wrote: > Please Identify : > 1. Willed his second best bed to wife Anne Shakespeare > 2. Printed "The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye" around 1475 > 3. With his sister Caroline discovered the sixth and seventh moons of Saturn Herschel > 4. Won best actor Oscar for "Kiss of the Spider Woman". > 5. Succeeded Jeffrey Hunter in role of Captain. Shatner > 6. Colonel in the 13th US Infantry Regiment during the Battle of Bull Run. > 7. Defensive Lineman who scored an offensive touchdown in SuperBowl XX. Perry > 8. Founder of Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company. Kellogg > 9. Nobel Prize winning author of "As I Lay Dying" > 10. Landed at Pevensey, defeated Harold Godwinson. Duke of Normandy > 11. 27th US President. Taft -- Dan Tilque |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Jul 31 03:45AM -0500 In article <87y44jfktb.fsf@gmail.com>, gwowen@gmail.com says... > 2. Printed "The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye" around 1475 > 3. With his sister Caroline discovered the sixth and seventh moons of Saturn > 4. Won best actor Oscar for "Kiss of the Spider Woman". William Hurt > 5. Succeeded Jeffrey Hunter in role of Captain. > 6. Colonel in the 13th US Infantry Regiment during the Battle of Bull Run. > 7. Defensive Lineman who scored an offensive touchdown in SuperBowl XX. William "The Refrigerator" Perry > 8. Founder of Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company. William Kellogg > 9. Nobel Prize winning author of "As I Lay Dying" William Faulkner > 10. Landed at Pevensey, defeated Harold Godwinson. > 11. 27th US President. William Howard Taft -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 30 10:18PM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-06-13, 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 4, Round 7 - History - In the Midst of the Great War 100 years ago, we found ourselves in the midst of the Great War, now known as World War I. The following questions relate largely to events that occurred during 1916. 1. Who was the British Minister of War from 1914 until 1916, when he died when the ship carrying him on a visit to Russia struck a mine and sank? 2. Which battle started in February 1916 with a German attack in France, and continued until December 1916? It was one of the war's bloodiest, with each side suffering casualties in the hundreds of thousands, and ended with a French victory. It is named after the town in northeast France whose nearby hills hosted the fighting. 3. Who was the Chief of Staff of the French armies until replaced at the end of 1916? 4. Name any one of the three prominent German generals who became Chief of Staff after the war began. 5. In May 1916, the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet encountered the German High Seas Fleet in the North Sea, between them amounting to 250 warships. In the ensuing battle over 6,000 British sailors died compared with about 2,500 Germans; then, during the night, the German fleet... fled. Name this battle. 6. After the Battle of <answer 5>, Winston Churchill, who was then Lord of the Admiralty, described the admiral who allowed the Germans to escape as as "the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon." Which admiral? 7. Please decode the rot13 only after you have finished with the previous questions. Gur Onggyr bs gur Fbzzr ortna ba Whyl 1, 1916, naq pbagvahrq sbe svir zbaguf jvgubhg tnvaf ol rvgure fvqr. Ba gur svefg qnl bs gur onggyr, arne gur Serapu ivyyntr bs Ornhzbag-Unzry ["obj-zbna-gnz-ryy"], gur ertvzrag sebz *juvpu qbzvavba bs gur Oevgvfu Rzcver* jnf ynetryl phg qbja ol thasver nsgre na vyy-pbaprvirq Oevgvfu beqre gb nqinapr bire rkcbfrq tebhaq gbjneq Trezna gerapurf? Gur arkg qnl, srjre guna bar zna va gra jnf cerfrag sbe ebyy pnyy. 8. What new method of attack was first used during the Battle of the Somme? It did not give the decisive advantage hoped for at the time, but became immensely important during World War II. 9. The Military Service Act of January 1916 introduced conscription to the United Kingdom. To which part of the UK did the Act not apply? 10. Resistance was an important activity in German-occupied Belgium. A British nurse was executed for assisting Allied soldiers and prisoners of war to escape into the neutral Netherlands. What was her name? * Game 4, Round 8 - Science - Don't Panic! It May Not be as Bad as it Sounds Hypochondriacs, be reassured: none of the scary-sounding things on this handout will kill you, and very few are contagious. (On the other hand, you do have at least two of them.) From the handout: Alopecia | Epispadias | Lentigo senilis Anosmia | Eructation | Mathematics disorder Aperient | Fasciculation | Micturition Bezoar | Fish-odor syndrome | Nares Bruxism | Icterus | Nevus Cachexia | Keratoma | Pyrexia Darier disease | Kyphosis | Singultus Doraphobia | Laminaria | Tachypnea pick the alternative term that doctors use when they want to impress you. 1. Hiccups. 2. A callus. 3. Urination. 4. Muscle twitch. 5. Baldness or hair loss. 6. Age spot or liver spot. 7. Lack of the sense of smell. 8. Fever. 9. Fast breathing. 10. A mole. So there were 14 decoys. Decode the rot13 if you'd like to identify them for fun, but for no points. 11. Rkprffvir grrgu tevaqvat naq/be wnj pyrapuvat. 12. Gevzrgulynzvahevn, n pbatravgny zrgnobyvp reebe gung cebqhprf n obql bqbe erfrzoyvat gur fzryy bs ebggvat svfu. 13. Trareny culfvpny jnfgvat jvgu ybff bs jrvtug naq zhfpyr znff qhr gb n qvfrnfr. 14. Bhgjneq pheingher bs gur fcvar, pnhfvat n uhzcrq onpx. 15. Pbatravgny znysbezngvba va juvpu gur bcravat bs gur herguen vf ba gur gbc fvqr bs gur cravf. 16. N pyhzc be jnq bs fjnyybjrq sbbq be unve. 17. N guva cvrpr bs fgrevyr frnjrrq gung pna or hfrq gb tenqhnyyl qvyngr gur preivk (jung, sbe jbzra tvivat ovegu ng gur ornpu?). 18. Na noabezny naq crefvfgrag srne bs she. 19. Gur abfgevyf. 20. N trargvp fxva qvfrnfr punenpgrevmrq ol na noabeznyvgl bs gur ubeal ynlre bs gur fxva nebhaq gur unve sbyyvpyrf. 21. N ynkngvir. 22. N pbaqvgvba punenpgrevmrq ol zngu fxvyyf gung ner fvtavsvpnagyl orybj abezny, tvira gur crefba'f ntr, vagryyvtrapr, naq rqhpngvba. 23. Wnhaqvpr. 24. Orypuvat. -- Mark Brader "Finally no number of additional epicycles can Toronto hide the fact that We've Got a Problem Here." msb@vex.net -- from a science book club promotion My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jul 31 03:56AM > the hundreds of thousands, and ended with a French victory. > It is named after the town in northeast France whose nearby > hills hosted the fighting. Verdun > 3. Who was the Chief of Staff of the French armies until replaced > at the end of 1916? Foch > 4. Name any one of the three prominent German generals who became > Chief of Staff after the war began. Hindenburg > to 250 warships. In the ensuing battle over 6,000 British > sailors died compared with about 2,500 Germans; then, during > the night, the German fleet... fled. Name this battle. Jutland > then Lord of the Admiralty, described the admiral who allowed > the Germans to escape as as "the only man on either side who > could lose the war in an afternoon." Which admiral? Fisher > nsgre na vyy-pbaprvirq Oevgvfu beqre gb nqinapr bire rkcbfrq > tebhaq gbjneq Trezna gerapurf? Gur arkg qnl, srjre guna bar > zna va gra jnf cerfrag sbe ebyy pnyy. Australia; New Zealand > 8. What new method of attack was first used during the Battle of > the Somme? It did not give the decisive advantage hoped for > at the time, but became immensely important during World War II. tanks > 9. The Military Service Act of January 1916 introduced conscription > to the United Kingdom. To which part of the UK did the Act > not apply? Ireland > * Game 4, Round 8 - Science - Don't Panic! It May Not be as Bad as it Sounds > 1. Hiccups. Singultus > 2. A callus. Kyphosis > 3. Urination. Micturition > 4. Muscle twitch. Fasciculation > 5. Baldness or hair loss. Alopecia > 6. Age spot or liver spot. Nevus; Keratoma > 7. Lack of the sense of smell. Anosmia > 8. Fever. Pyrexia > 9. Fast breathing. Tachypnea > 10. A mole. Keratoma; Nevus -- _______________________________________________________________________ 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>: Jul 31 05:08AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in > the hundreds of thousands, and ended with a French victory. > It is named after the town in northeast France whose nearby > hills hosted the fighting. Passchendaele > nsgre na vyy-pbaprvirq Oevgvfu beqre gb nqinapr bire rkcbfrq > tebhaq gbjneq Trezna gerapurf? Gur arkg qnl, srjre guna bar > zna va gra jnf cerfrag sbe ebyy pnyy. Canada; Australia > 9. The Military Service Act of January 1916 introduced conscription > to the United Kingdom. To which part of the UK did the Act > not apply? Ireland > on this handout will kill you, and very few are contagious. > (On the other hand, you do have at least two of them.) > 1. Hiccups. Epispadias; Fasciculation > 2. A callus. Bezoar; Nevus > 3. Urination. Micturition > 4. Muscle twitch. Icterus; Fasciculation > 5. Baldness or hair loss. Alopecia > 6. Age spot or liver spot. Keratoma; Bezoar > 7. Lack of the sense of smell. Anosmia > 8. Fever. Pyrexia > 9. Fast breathing. Tachypnea > 10. A mole. Keratoma; Bezoar > So there were 14 decoys. Decode the rot13 if you'd like to identify > them for fun, but for no points. > 11. Rkprffvir grrgu tevaqvat naq/be wnj pyrapuvat. Bruxism > 12. Gevzrgulynzvahevn, n pbatravgny zrgnobyvp reebe gung cebqhprf > n obql bqbe erfrzoyvat gur fzryy bs ebggvat svfu. Fish-odor syndrome > 14. Bhgjneq pheingher bs gur fcvar, pnhfvat n uhzcrq onpx. Kyphosis > 18. Na noabezny naq crefvfgrag srne bs she. Doraphobia > 19. Gur abfgevyf. Nares > 20. N trargvp fxva qvfrnfr punenpgrevmrq ol na noabeznyvgl bs gur > ubeal ynlre bs gur fxva nebhaq gur unve sbyyvpyrf. Keratoma > 22. N pbaqvgvba punenpgrevmrq ol zngu fxvyyf gung ner fvtavsvpnagyl > orybj abezny, tvira gur crefba'f ntr, vagryyvtrapr, naq > rqhpngvba. Mathematics disorder > 24. Orypuvat. Eructation -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jul 31 09:45AM +0200 > 1. Who was the British Minister of War from 1914 until 1916, when > he died when the ship carrying him on a visit to Russia struck > a mine and sank? Lord Kitchner > the hundreds of thousands, and ended with a French victory. > It is named after the town in northeast France whose nearby > hills hosted the fighting. Verdun > 3. Who was the Chief of Staff of the French armies until replaced > at the end of 1916? Joffre > 4. Name any one of the three prominent German generals who became > Chief of Staff after the war began. Falkenhayn and Hindenburg are two of them. (I'm right now reading a book on WWI, but I have not come to the third yet.) > to 250 warships. In the ensuing battle over 6,000 British > sailors died compared with about 2,500 Germans; then, during > the night, the German fleet... fled. Name this battle. Skagerrak > then Lord of the Admiralty, described the admiral who allowed > the Germans to escape as as "the only man on either side who > could lose the war in an afternoon." Which admiral? Beatty > nsgre na vyy-pbaprvirq Oevgvfu beqre gb nqinapr bire rkcbfrq > tebhaq gbjneq Trezna gerapurf? Gur arkg qnl, srjre guna bar > zna va gra jnf cerfrag sbe ebyy pnyy. Canada (I have not come to this battle yet in the book.) > 9. The Military Service Act of January 1916 introduced conscription > to the United Kingdom. To which part of the UK did the Act > not apply? Ireland -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jul 31 01:11AM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: > the hundreds of thousands, and ended with a French victory. > It is named after the town in northeast France whose nearby > hills hosted the fighting. The Somme > to 250 warships. In the ensuing battle over 6,000 British > sailors died compared with about 2,500 Germans; then, during > the night, the German fleet... fled. Name this battle. Battle of Jutland > nsgre na vyy-pbaprvirq Oevgvfu beqre gb nqinapr bire rkcbfrq > tebhaq gbjneq Trezna gerapurf? Gur arkg qnl, srjre guna bar > zna va gra jnf cerfrag sbe ebyy pnyy. Canada > 8. What new method of attack was first used during the Battle of > the Somme? It did not give the decisive advantage hoped for > at the time, but became immensely important during World War II. combined armor and infantry > 9. The Military Service Act of January 1916 introduced conscription > to the United Kingdom. To which part of the UK did the Act > not apply? Scotland > pick the alternative term that doctors use when they want to > impress you. > 1. Hiccups. eructation > 2. A callus. keratoma > 3. Urination. micturation > 4. Muscle twitch. fasciculation > 5. Baldness or hair loss. alopecia > 6. Age spot or liver spot. lentigo senilis > 7. Lack of the sense of smell. asnomia > 8. Fever. pyrexia > 9. Fast breathing. tachypnea > 10. A mole. nares -- Dan Tilque |
| Jason Kreitzer <jk71875@gmail.com>: Jul 31 01:21AM -0700 On Saturday, July 30, 2016 at 11:18:57 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote: > 8. What new method of attack was first used during the Battle of > the Somme? It did not give the decisive advantage hoped for > at the time, but became immensely important during World War II. Arial > 9. The Military Service Act of January 1916 introduced conscription > to the United Kingdom. To which part of the UK did the Act > not apply? Northern Ireland? > pick the alternative term that doctors use when they want to > impress you. > 1. Hiccups. Anosmia? > 2. A callus. Icterus? > 3. Urination. Eructation? > 4. Muscle twitch. Bezoar? > 5. Baldness or hair loss. Alopecia > 6. Age spot or liver spot. Nevus? > 7. Lack of the sense of smell. Bruxism? > 8. Fever. Pyrexia? > 9. Fast breathing. Micturition? > 10. A mole. Cachexia? |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 30 10:20PM -0500 Mark Brader: > that were correct on that date... For further information see > my 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian > Inquisition (QFTCI*)". So far the current-events game is neck-and-neck. It will be decided the first week of August. > 1. Canada gained a UNESCO World Heritage Site last week, so > designated because of its collection of fossils, some in excess > of 500,000,000 years old. In which province is it located? Newfoundland and Labrador. ("Newfoundland" was sufficient. The site is called Mistaken Point.) > ["KAN-deal"] Baloch was murdered, apparently strangled by > her own brother in a so-called honour killing because of her > provocative online persona. In what country did this occur? Pakistan. 4 for Joshua, Erland, Dan Blum, Peter, Marc, and Pete. > 3. Many qualities win competitions: talent, perseverance, and luck > among them, but what did Will Power win last Sunday? -- Yeah, > Will Power is the dude's name. Tell us what he won. Honda Indy Toronto. ("Indy" with either of the other words was sufficient.) > 4. What form of payment did the three Wal-Mart stores in Thunder > Bay stop accepting last week, with a threat from the company > to extend the ban country-wide? Be specific. Visa. > people trying to fly airplanes. Two pilots from which airline > were arrested last week in Glasgow on suspicion of being > intoxicated, just before their flight was set to take off? Air Transat. > government last week carried out a purge of supposed followers > of what Muslim cleric, who it is also demanding be extradited > from the US? Fethullah Gülen ["Fet-HOO-luh Goo-LAHN"]. 4 for Erland and Dan Blum. > 7. Who is the well-known writer, film director, and TV producer, > among his other talents, who died last week at age 81? Garry Marshall. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Marc, Jason, and Pete. > 8. Name the Canadian scientist, metallurgist, anti-nuclear activist, > author, and educator who died last Friday at age 94. Ursula Franklin. > grief for his parents after pictures of him doing *what* were > released last week? (In response, of course. the Twitter-verse > did what it does.) Be specific. Feeding ice cream to a dog. 4 for Peter. > 10. Last week it was Hillary Clinton's turn to name a vice- > presidential minion -- er, running mate. Who did she pick? Tim Kaine. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Peter, Marc, Jason, Dan Tilque, and Pete. 3 for Erland. Scores, if there are no errors: GAMES-> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 BEST EIGHT Pete Gayde 16 14 15 4 24 12 16 24 20 12 141 Joshua Kreitzer 16 8 12 4 20 16 20 20 24 12 140 Dan Blum 16 23 11 0 -- -- 12 24 12 16 114 Peter Smyth 12 4 12 4 23 0 8 20 20 12 111 Erland Sommarskog 4 8 20 0 16 8 16 12 12 11 103 Dan Tilque 12 12 16 0 8 4 8 20 8 4 88 Marc Dashevsky 8 12 -- -- -- -- 16 20 8 12 76 Jason Kreitzer 12 8 -- -- -- -- 8 4 12 8 52 Bruce Bowler -- -- 12 0 20 16 -- -- -- -- 48 Stephen Perry -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40 -- 40 "Joe" -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 12 -- 12 -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "Police Stop Slaying Suspect Look-alikes" msb@vex.net | --Yakima, WA, Herald-Republic, 2001-08-26 My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Jul 30 09:51PM +0200 On 2016-07-28 05:34, Mark Brader wrote: > How does Scrooge explain away the situation when the first > visitor asks why he doubts his senses? > 2. Who is that first supernatural visitor? ghost > rot13 for the next two. Jung jnf Zneyrl'f pbaarpgvba jvgu > Fpebbtr? > 4. Jung cnvashyyl urnil bowrpg qbrf Zneyrl'f tubfg unir gb jrne? Ball and chain? > donation on behalf of the poor and destitute. He explains that > he sees no need of such charity, because of four things that > already exist. Name *any one* of them. coal for heating? > 8. What present does Scrooge give <answer 7> on Christmas Day? a piece of coal ? > merry Christmas and he replies with the words "Bah! Humbug!" > Which relative? Give either the relationship or the relative's > first name. nephew > 1. While Ali was still known as Cassius Clay, and before he turned > pro, he won gold at the Olympics. Either name the city where > he won, or the weight class of the event. heavyweight > butterfly" line, and the first time he captured the heavyweight > championship belt. How many times in total did he gain the > title? (Defending it while already champion does not count.) 4;3 > 3. Shortly after beating Liston, Clay confirmed that he had joined > the Nation of Islam, and changed his name to *what*, before > changing it again to Muhammad Ali a bit later? Muhammar Ali > became known as "The Fight of the Century". Either give the > venue, or name Ali's opponent in the bout, who was the world > champion at the time. Holyfield > "Rumble in the Jungle", using a method he called "Rope a Dope". > Either name his opponent--the "dope"--or give the *current name* > of the country where the fight took place. Congo-Kinshasa ; Congo Republic > considered to be one of the most brutal fights in modern boxing > history, when Ali and Frazier met for the third and final time. > How many rounds did the fight last? 10;11 > December 1981. In his 61 professional bouts, he finished with > a record of 56-5. Within 2 on either side, how many of his 56 > victories were by knockout? 42;36 -- -- Björn |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 30 10:16PM -0500 Mark Brader: > see my 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian > Inquisition (QFTCI*)". > I wrote one of these rounds. That was the literature round. > visitors. But at first he doesn't believe in any such thing. > How does Scrooge explain away the situation when the first > visitor asks why he doubts his senses? Indigestion. (Anything along these lines was acceptable.) 4 for Dan Blum and Pete. "Because a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!" > 2. Who is that first supernatural visitor? The ghost of Jacob Marley. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Calvin, Peter, Dan Tilque, Jason, and Pete. > 3. Please complete the first two questions before decoding the > rot13 for the next two. What was Marley's connection with > Scrooge? They were business partners and then Scrooge was Marley's heir. (Either part was sufficient. The inheritance included Marley's share of the business, by the way.) 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Calvin, Peter, Dan Tilque, and Pete. > 4. What painfully heavy object does Marley's ghost have to wear? "The chain I forged in life." ("Chain" was sufficient.) 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Peter, and Pete. 3 for Björn. > 5. Give the correct name of the *last* of the supernatural visitors. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. Exact answer required. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Jason. Or maybe: http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWXwyFSWwAA8XK_.jpg > donation on behalf of the poor and destitute. He explains that > he sees no need of such charity, because of four things that > already exist. Name *any one* of them. The prisons, the workhouses, the treadmill, the Poor Law. Any reference along these lines was sufficient. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Pete. 3 for Calvin and Peter. > 7. Give the first and last name of Ebenezer Scrooge's clerk (or > as he would pronounce it, "clark"). Bob Cratchit. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Peter, Dan Tilque, Marc, Jason, and Pete. > 8. What present does Scrooge give <answer 7> on Christmas Day? The prize turkey that was hanging in the window of a local shop. ("Turkey" was sufficient.) 4 for Joshua. Fortunately the shopkeeper was not taking Christmas Day off, otherwise Scrooge could not have bought the turkey! > merry Christmas and he replies with the words "Bah! Humbug!" > Which relative? Give either the relationship or the relative's > first name. His nephew, Fred. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua (the hard way), Pete, and Björn. > 10. Because the story is called "A Christmas Carol", its sections > are not called chapters or parts; what term related to music > notation is used instead? Staves. (I'm generously accepting "staffs", the term we'd use.) 4 for Joshua. > 1. While Ali was still known as Cassius Clay, and before he turned > pro, he won gold at the Olympics. Either name the city where > he won, or the weight class of the event. Rome, light heavyweight. 4 for Joshua, Calvin, Peter, Dan Tilque, Marc, and Pete. > butterfly" line, and the first time he captured the heavyweight > championship belt. How many times in total did he gain the > title? (Defending it while already champion does not count.) 3. (It's still the record.) 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Calvin, Erland, Peter, Dan Tilque, Marc, and Pete. 2 for Björn. > 3. Shortly after beating Liston, Clay confirmed that he had joined > the Nation of Islam, and changed his name to *what*, before > changing it again to Muhammad Ali a bit later? Cassius X Clay. (Accepting Cassius X.) 4 for Joshua. In the original game we expected the answer Cassius X, but some players thought the answer was Muhammad X, so we had to rule on a protest. A few Internet sources can be found to support this latter answer, but they seem to be wrong. I checked several newspaper reports from 1964 and found some that said his new name was Cassius X, so I'll continue to accept that answer; but the New York Times not only said it was Cassius X Clay, it showed an autograph to prove it. Quite a few news reports of the time simply refused to take the name change seriously, and you'd see things like "Cassius Clay, who calls himself Muhammad Ali" written well after the change. > became known as "The Fight of the Century". Either give the > venue, or name Ali's opponent in the bout, who was the world > champion at the time. Madison Square Garden, Joe Frazier. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Calvin, Erland, Peter, Marc, and Pete. > "Rumble in the Jungle", using a method he called "Rope a Dope". > Either name his opponent--the "dope"--or give the *current name* > of the country where the fight took place. George Foreman, DR Congo. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Calvin, Erland, Peter, Dan Tilque, Marc, and Pete. 3 for Björn. > considered to be one of the most brutal fights in modern boxing > history, when Ali and Frazier met for the third and final time. > How many rounds did the fight last? 14. (Frazier's trainer refused to let him come out for the 15th. After the fight, Ali said, "This must be what death feels like.") > 7. 1978 marked a period where the Champ lost the world title in > February, and regained it 7 months later. Both fights went the > full 15 rounds. Name the man who was his opponent both times. Leon Spinks. 4 for Calvin, Marc, and Pete. > 8. Ali came out of retirement in October 1980, in an ill-conceived > attempt at a fourth world title. This marked the only time Ali > was knocked out in his professional career. Name his opponent. Larry Holmes. 4 for Joshua, Calvin, Peter, and Pete. > December 1981. In his 61 professional bouts, he finished with > a record of 56-5. Within 2 on either side, how many of his 56 > victories were by knockout? 37 (accepting 35-39). 4 for Erland. 3 for Pete. 2 for Dan Blum and Björn. > major religion, as well as friends and family. The keynote > eulogy, the last of about a dozen such tributes, was delivered > by who? Bill Clinton. ("Clinton" was sufficient.) 4 for Joshua and Calvin. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 4 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS TOPICS-> Ent Mis Lit Spo Joshua Kreitzer 4 28 36 28 96 Pete Gayde 16 16 28 27 87 Dan Blum 12 28 28 14 82 Stephen Perry 36 40 -- -- 76 Peter Smyth 0 20 19 20 59 Dan Tilque 0 27 16 12 55 Marc Dashevsky 8 12 4 20 44 Bruce Bowler 12 28 -- -- 40 "Calvin" -- -- 11 28 39 Jason Kreitzer 0 12 12 0 24 Björn Lundin 0 4 7 7 18 Erland Sommarskog -- -- 0 16 16 -- Mark Brader | "If you have any problems, any at all, you come see me... Toronto | although that would be a huge admission of failure on your part." msb@vex.net | --Veronica, "Better Off Ted" (Becky Mann & Audra Sielaff) My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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