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| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 01 04:18AM -0500 Mark Brader: > the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". > * Game 5 (2016-06-20), Round 1 - Current Events > 1. At the 70th Tony Awards last Sunday, which show won Best Musical? "Hamilton". 4 for Bruce, Pete, Peter, and Joshua. > 2. Microsoft announced last week that it would buy which social > media company, for $26,200,000,000? LinkedIn. 4 for Bruce, Pete, Peter, Erland, and Joshua. > are pretty forgettable. So just tell us how big the cabinet > currently is, including the Premier herself, within 1 in either > direction. 30 (accepting 29-31). > (22 pounds) of *what* buried in a bog? The find, which > surprisingly enough is reportedly not unique, has been estimated > to be around 2,000 years old. Butter. 4 for Bruce and Pete. > confirmed, that the NHL would add a franchise in *what city*, > which currently represents the largest North American market > without a major-league sports team? Las Vegas. 4 for Bruce, Pete, Peter, Joshua, and Dan. > father, as it was turning violent -- a propane tank was thrown > into a campfire at one point. *What topic of discussion* > led to this heated fracas? Whether or not the Earth is flat. 4 for Dan. > 7. Why was 94-year-old Reinhold Hanning in the news last week? > Be sufficiently specific. He was convicted and sentenced to 5 years in jail for complicity in at least 170,000 deaths when he was a guard at Auschwitz. (For full points you needed to mention conviction or sentencing in relation to a concentration camp.) 4 for Pete and Erland. 3 for Peter. > mid-song on an Edmonton stage last week, or tell us which singer > fell into a hole in a Saskatoon stage, apparently while adjusting > his pants. You don't need to say which one you're referring to. Meat Loaf (Michael Lee Aday), Justin Bieber. 4 for Bruce, Peter, Erland, and Joshua. > 9. Who is the British Labour Party MP who was murdered last > Thursday, apparently for political motives in the midst of the > rancorous campaign over the so-called Brexit? Jo(anne) Cox. 4 for Pete, Peter, Erland, and Joshua. > 10. A new series of public-service ads sponsored by the Government > of Ontario, and only airing after 8:00 pm, was rolled out > on Thursday. What problem are the ads targeting? Distracted driving, or specifically texting and driving. > a freak accident in which his Jeep Grand Cherokee, a model that > is subject to a recall, rolled back and pinned him against a > pillar outside his house? Anton Yelchin. (Pavel Chekov, in the current movie series.) 4 for Joshua. > 2. What did Toronto police chief Mark Saunders offer an apology > for last Wednesday? The gay-bathhouse raids by police in 1981. > for the first time in 52 years, and a ceasefire agreement was > signed to end (officially, at least) a conflict that had also > lasted 52 years. In what country did this armistice take place? Colombia. (The conflict with the FARC or "Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia".) 4 for Pete, Erland, and Joshua. > 4. A pregnant woman, an avocado, Mrs. Santa Claus, and a gorilla > made the cut, but a rifle didn't. What set of things are we > referring to? 72 new emojis announced by the Unicode consortium. Any reference to icons was sufficient. 4 for Bruce. > 5. Netflix and the CBC announced last week that filming would begin > later this summer on a miniseries based on what Canadian novel? > Sarah Polley is the producer. "Alias Grace" (by Margaret Atwood). > 6. What was unusual about a concert given last week by Italian > composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi ["en-OW-dee"]? He was on a small, artifical iceberg in the Atlantic off Norway. 4 for Bruce. > 7. Which organization last week made a $5,000,000 gift to the Hot > Docs Festival, thereby giving it the funds to buy the Bloor > Hot Docs Cinema? Rogers Foundation. > 8. Corey Lewandowski lost his job last Monday. What had he been > doing prior to this summary dismissal? Donald Trump's campaign manager. I did not think "working for Donaland Trump" was sufficient. 4 for Bruce, Pete, Erland, Joshua, and Dan. > 9. It wasn't John Bradley, it was Harold Schultz after all. > "After all" in this case means 61 years after the event in > question. What Second World War event are we referring to? Raising the US flag at Iwo Jima, in the famous photo by Joe Rosenthal. 4 for Bruce, Pete, and Joshua. And okay, yes, it has actually been 71 years since 1945. Where did the time go? Apparently Bradley had taken part in an earlier flag-raising nearby, and didn't even realize himself that he wasn't present at the more famous event; his son wrote "Flags of Our Fathers", which Clint Eastwood made a movie based on. > up goaltender Frederik Anderson from Anaheim, but last Friday > they did exercise their 2016 entry draft first-round #1 pick -- > to select what 18-year-old player? Auston Matthews. Scores, if there are no errors: GAMES-> 1 2 3 4 5 6 BEST FOUR Pete Gayde 16 14 15 4 24 12 69 Joshua Kreitzer 16 8 12 4 20 16 64 Erland Sommarskog 4 8 20 0 16 8 52 Peter Smyth 12 4 12 4 23 0 51 Dan Blum 16 23 11 0 -- -- 50 Dan Tilque 12 12 16 0 8 4 48 Bruce Bowler -- -- 12 0 20 16 48 Jason Kreitzer 12 8 -- -- -- -- 20 Marc Dashevsky 8 12 -- -- -- -- 20 -- Mark Brader | "[In a country with] the dream that... anyone can grow up Toronto | to be President... there's also a nightmare where msb@vex.net | *anyone* can grow up to be President." --Mark Steese My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 01 04:09AM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-05-30, 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 wrote one of these rounds. * Game 2, Round 7 - Canadiana History - Prime Ministers Another simple one. We name a prime minister; you give the photo number on the handout: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/2-7/pms.jpg 1. Robert Borden. 2. Joe Clark. 3. Lester Pearson. 4. Mackenzie Bowell. 5. Alexander Mackenzie. 6. Richard B. Bennett. 7. Charles Tupper. 8. William Lyon Mackenzie King. 9. Louis St-Laurent. 10. Arthur Meighen. So again there were 14 decoys, including all 13 of the other prime ministers. Decode the rot13 if you'd like to see the unused picture numbers and identify these prime ministers (and the other guy) for fun, but for no points. 11. Guvegrra. 12. Avargrra. 13. Friragrra. 14. Gjb. 15. Ryrira. 16. Gjryir. 17. Gjragl-gjb. 18. Sbhe. 19. Rvtugrra. 20. Gjragl-sbhe. 21. Avar. 22. Fvk. 23. Gjragl-guerr. 24. Svsgrra. * Game 2, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Thanks but No Thanks Some people just can't take a compliment. This round is about people who were offered great honors, but in each case turned them down -- sometimes under force. 1. In 1971 Marlon Brando declined the Academy Award for Best Actor in "The Godfather" and sent a representative to give a speech in his place. What issue was he protesting with this action? 2. Who declined the Best Actor Oscar the previous year -- the first person ever to decline an Academy Award? 3. Turning down an Oscar is one thing, but in 1657 this man declined the British crown when it was offered to him! Name him. 4. Which British actor, comedian, and writer turned down a seat in the House of Lords -- because, he claimed, remaining in England during the winter months to fulfill his role as a working peer was "too much of a price to pay"? 5. In 1939 Gerhard Domagk was announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, but the Gestapo arrested him and kept him in prison for seven days, and he had to refuse the prize. The story wasn't over yet, though. The denouement did not occur until after the war, in 1947. What happened then? 6. This winner was forced to decline his Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 when the Soviet Union threatened that he wouldn't be allowed to reenter the country if he went to Stockholm to receive the award. Who was he? 7. This philosopher declared both a personal and an ideological motive for rejecting the Nobel literature prize a few years later. His stated reason was his conviction that the "only battle possible today on the cultural front is the battle for the peaceful coexistence of the two cultures, that of the East and that of the West." Who? 8. This man was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, jointly with Henry Kissinger, but refused to accept it -- simply because Vietnam was not yet, in fact, at peace! Name him. 9. Who declined the Pulitzer Prize for his novel "Arrowsmith"? He said it was because candidates for the prize were supposed to be "wholesome" novels rather than necessarily those with literary merit. He did accept the 1930 Nobel Prize, though. 10. What honor has been declined by all of the following: David Bowie, Francis Crick, Michael Faraday, Albert Finney, T.E. Lawrence, Henry Moore, and George Bernard Shaw? After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh fnvq "Pebzjryy" ba gur guveq dhrfgvba, jr arrq n svefg anzr. Tb onpx naq fhccyl vg. Naq ba gur gragu dhrfgvba: fbzr bs gurz qrpyvarq gur POR, ohg jr'er ybbxvat sbe n uvture ubabe gung nyy bs gurz qrpyvarq. Vs lbh zragvbarq gur Beqre bs gur Oevgvfu Rzcver va nal jnl, qryrgr gung nafjre naq gel ntnva. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "Alas, there is NO SUCH THING as 'NO SUCH THING as msb@vex.net | privileged access.'" -- Alan Silverstein My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Jun 30 11:25PM -0500 In article <56udnVE9m9Z9rO_KnZ2dnUU7-UfNnZ2d@giganews.com>, msb@vex.net says... > on the handout: > http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/2-4/flags.png > 1. South Africa. 13 > 2. Nepal. 11 > 3. Turkey. 21 > 4. Israel. 22 > 5. Brazil. 17 > 6. Vatican City. 20 > 7. Czech Republic. 14 > 8. Switzerland. 24 > 9. Japan. 18 > 10. Jamaica. 16 > | Love's Labour's Lost | Twelfth Night > 1. This line is spoken on a ship at sea: "A pox o'your throat, > you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog." The Tempest > an easy glove, my lord, she goes off and on at pleasure". > 3. "Frailty, thy name is woman!" > 4. "Nothing in his life became him like the leaving of it." MacBeth > 8. This remark is aimed at a close relative of the speaker: Thou art > a boil, a plague-sore, or embossed carbuncle in my corrupted > blood." King Lear -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 01 04:06AM -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 flags round, and it was by far the easiest round in the original game. > Simple round: we name the country and you give us the flag number > on the handout: > http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/2-4/flags.png Who needs color just because the round is about flags? > 1. South Africa. #13. 4 for everyone -- Bruce, Pete, Peter, Erland, Joshua, Jason, Calvin, Dan, Stephen, and Marc. > 2. Nepal. #11. 4 for everyone. > 3. Turkey. #21. 4 for everyone. > 4. Israel. #22. 4 for everyone. > 5. Brazil. #17. 4 for everyone. > 6. Vatican City. #20. 4 for everyone. > 7. Czech Republic. #14. 4 for Bruce, Pete, Peter, Erland, Joshua, Calvin, Dan, Stephen, and Marc. > 8. Switzerland. #24. 4 for everyone. > 9. Japan. #18. 4 for everyone. > 10. Jamaica. #16. 4 for Pete, Peter, Erland, Joshua, Jason, Calvin, Dan, Stephen, and Marc. > and identify those flags for fun, but for no points. Only one > guess for each, please. > 11. Barbados. #19. Bruce, Peter, Joshua, Jason, and Stephen got this. > 12. Chad. #5. Peter got this. > 13. Bahrain. #9. Peter, Joshua, and Stephen got this. > 14. France. #1. Peter, Erland, and Jason got this. > 15. Ireland. #3. Peter, Erland, and Jason got this. > 16. Nigeria. #4. Peter and Erland got this. > 17. Belgium. #7. Peter and Stephen got this. > 18. Italy. #2. Peter got this. > 19. Thailand. #10. Peter, Erland, Joshua, and Stephen got this. > 20. Romania. #6. Peter got this. > 21. Georgia (the country). #23. Peter, Erland, Joshua, Jason, and Stephen got this. > 22. Chile. #12. Peter, Joshua, and Stephen got this. > 23. Macedonia. #15. Peter, Erland, Joshua, Jason, and Stephen got this. > 24. Canada. #8. Bruce, Peter, Joshua, Jason, Stephen, and presumably Erland got this. > | Julius Caesar | The Tempest > | King Lear | Titus Andronicus > | Love's Labour's Lost | Twelfth Night This round, on the other hand, it was by some margin the hardest in the original game. > 1. This line is spoken on a ship at sea: "A pox o'your throat, > you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog." "The Tempest". 4 for Joshua, Jason, Dan, Stephen, and Marc. > 2. Diana is the target of this dismissive comment: "This woman's > an easy glove, my lord, she goes off and on at pleasure". "All's Well That Ends Well". 4 for Stephen. 3 for Joshua. > 3. "Frailty, thy name is woman!" "Hamlet". 4 for Pete, Joshua, Jason, and Stephen. > 4. "Nothing in his life became him like the leaving of it." "Macbeth". 4 for Jason, Stephen, and Marc. 3 for Joshua. > 5. "How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see him but I am > heart-burned an hour after." "Much Ado About Nothing". 4 for Joshua and Stephen. > 6. This line is spoken in an orchard: "Where wilt thou find a > cavern dark enough to mask thy monstrous visage?" "Julius Caesar". 4 for Stephen. > 7. This was not the only slander the speaker leveled at the woman > in question: "You rise to play, and go to bed to work." "Othello". 4 for Stephen. > 8. This remark is aimed at a close relative of the speaker: Thou art > a boil, a plague-sore, or embossed carbuncle in my corrupted > blood." "King Lear". 4 for Joshua, Stephen, and Marc. > 9. For this question, you can name either the play or the character > speaking. "Away, you scullion! You rampallion! You fustilarian! > I'll tickle your catastrophe." Falstaff in "Henry IV, Part II". 4 for Stephen (the hard way). > 10. A woman is described as: "No longer from head to foot than > from hip to hip; she is spherical, like a globe; I could find > out countries in her." "The Comedy of Errors". 4 for Stephen. 3 for Joshua. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 2 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS TOPICS-> Spo Ent Geo Lit Stephen Perry 36 36 40 40 152 Joshua Kreitzer 16 30 40 25 111 Dan Tilque 20 12 40 4 76 Jason Kreitzer 4 12 36 12 64 Peter Smyth 18 0 40 0 58 "Calvin" 6 7 40 0 53 Marc Dashevsky -- -- 40 12 52 Pete Gayde -- -- 40 4 44 Erland Sommarskog 0 4 40 0 44 Bruce Bowler -- -- 36 0 36 Björn Lundin 4 2 -- -- 6 -- Mark Brader "I wasn't the one who misplaced the entire Toronto Deltivid asteroid belt!" msb@vex.net "Deja Q", ST:TNG, Richard Danus My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Jun 30 09:37PM +0100 >>> but maybe not so many others.) >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWgphYPf0PA > Yeah, this is It! Ah. Don't have any Genesis albums after Peter Gabriel left. Can't get past how annoying I find Phil Collins. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jun 30 11:50PM +0200 >> Yeah, this is It! > Ah. Don't have any Genesis albums after Peter Gabriel left. Can't get > past how annoying I find Phil Collins. And yet you knew "Invisible Touch", but not "It"! -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Jun 30 11:15PM -0500 In article <2dd0c251-7edf-4e20-a363-477b838b3d45@googlegroups.com>, 334152@gmail.com says... > 1 "Invisible Touch" was a 1986 hit for which British band? > 2 Which 1986 Stephen King novel features a shape shifting entity that preys on young children in the form of a clown? > 3 Which architect went on to become Hitler's Minister of Armaments and War Production? Albert Speer > 4 Epistemophobia is the fear of what? knowledge? > 5 What is the better-known name of "La fête nationale du 14 juillet"? Bastille Day > 6 Which two-word term refers to the setting of charges for goods and services sold between entities within an organisation, for example a subsidiary company selling goods to a parent company? > 7 Apart from mercury, which element is a liquid at room temperature? gallium > 8 How long is each quarter of play in a standard American football match? 15 minutes > 9 Marion Cotillard won as Oscar in 2008 for her portrayal of Edith Piaf in which film? La Vie En Rose > 10 Which children's toy is a cylinder with mirrors containing loose, coloured objects such as beads, pebbles or pieces of glass? kaleidescope -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Jul 01 05:24AM +0100 >> Ah. Don't have any Genesis albums after Peter Gabriel left. Can't get >> past how annoying I find Phil Collins. > And yet you knew "Invisible Touch", but not "It"! It was a big hit single. |
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