Thursday, September 15, 2016

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Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Sep 14 03:23PM -0700

1 Who directed the Oscar-wining 1987 film "Full Metal Jacket"?
2 Which author wrote "The Picture of Dorian Grey" in 1891?
3 Which one-hit wonder released the 1982 single "Come On, Eileen"?
4 Who was the producer of the TV series "Starsky & Hutch" and "Beverly Hills 91210"?
5 Which British author and women's rights campaigner (180-1958) was the first female academic appointed to the University of Manchester and founded the first birth control clinic in Britain in 1920?
6 Nadsat was a slang language in which dystopian 1962 novel, later made into a film starring Malcolm McDowell?
7 The two official languages of Finland are Finnish and which other language?
8 The centre of the country's high-tech industries, which city is nicknamed "India's Silicon Valley"?
9 Who became president of Indonesia in October 2014?
10 Invented independently by German Ewald Georg von Kleist and Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek in the mid-18th century, which device was the first capacitor, "storing" static electricity between electrodes inside and outside a glass jar?
 
cheers,
calvin
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Sep 14 09:01PM -0500

"Calvin":
> 1 Who directed the Oscar-wining 1987 film "Full Metal Jacket"?
 
Hmm. It's either Stone or Kubrick. I think Stone did "Platoon", so
I'll go with Kubrick.
 
> 2 Which author wrote "The Picture of Dorian Grey" in 1891?
 
Wilde.
 
> 3 Which one-hit wonder released the 1982 single "Come On, Eileen"?
 
Dexy's Midnight Runners?
 
> 4 Who was the producer of the TV series "Starsky & Hutch" and
> "Beverly Hills 91210"?
 
Spelling.
 
> was the first female academic appointed to the University of
> Manchester and founded the first birth control clinic in Britain
> in 1920?
 
My goodness, she *did* live a long time! :-) I'll have to say
Sanger, even though I think she might not even have been British.
 
> 6 Nadsat was a slang language in which dystopian 1962 novel, later
> made into a film starring Malcolm McDowell?
 
"A Clockwork Orange".
 
> 7 The two official languages of Finland are Finnish and which
> other language?
 
Swedish.
 
> 8 The centre of the country's high-tech industries, which city is
> nicknamed "India's Silicon Valley"?
 
Bangalore.
 
> 9 Who became president of Indonesia in October 2014?
 
Johnson.
 
> Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek in the mid-18th century,
> which device was the first capacitor, "storing" static electricity
> between electrodes inside and outside a glass jar?
 
Leyden jar.
 
Weird timing. Earlier this evening my wife and I watched the
opening minutes of an early episode of "Murdoch Mysteries",
a period detective show made in Canada, to confirm that she'd
seen the episode. In the scene, which actually has nothing to do
with the main story, Murdoch's boss tells the story of finding an
electrocuted man in a locked room where no electricity was supplied,
and it turns out that he accidentally electrocuted himself with a
Leyden jar. Then Murdoch has to explain what a Leyden jar is...
 
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Toronto more than a rich, powerful Canada...."
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Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Sep 15 07:25AM

> 3 Which one-hit wonder released the 1982 single "Come On, Eileen"?
 
Dexy & the Midnight Runners
 
> 6 Nadsat was a slang language in which dystopian 1962 novel, later
> made into a film starring Malcolm McDowell?
 
A Clockwork Orange
 
> 7 The two official languages of Finland are Finnish and which other
> language?
 
Swedish
 
> 8 The centre of the country's high-tech industries, which city is
> nicknamed "India's Silicon Valley"?
 
Bangalore
 
> 9 Who became president of Indonesia in October 2014?
 
Jo-something. I recognize it when I see it.
 
 
 
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Sep 15 02:39AM -0700

Calvin wrote:
> 1 Who directed the Oscar-wining 1987 film "Full Metal Jacket"?
> 2 Which author wrote "The Picture of Dorian Grey" in 1891?
 
Oscar Wilde
 
> 3 Which one-hit wonder released the 1982 single "Come On, Eileen"?
> 4 Who was the producer of the TV series "Starsky & Hutch" and "Beverly Hills 91210"?
 
Spelling
 
> 5 Which British author and women's rights campaigner (180-1958) was the first female academic appointed to the University of Manchester and founded the first birth control clinic in Britain in 1920?
> 6 Nadsat was a slang language in which dystopian 1962 novel, later made into a film starring Malcolm McDowell?
 
A Clockwork Orange
 
> 7 The two official languages of Finland are Finnish and which other language?
 
Swedish
 
> 8 The centre of the country's high-tech industries, which city is nicknamed "India's Silicon Valley"?
 
Bangalore
 
> 9 Who became president of Indonesia in October 2014?
> 10 Invented independently by German Ewald Georg von Kleist and Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek in the mid-18th century, which device was the first capacitor, "storing" static electricity between electrodes inside and outside a glass jar?
 
Leyden jar
 
(useful for reanimating the dead)
 
 
--
Dan Tilque
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Sep 15 03:13AM -0500

These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-07-04,
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 7, Round 4 - Miscellaneous - "Newark, Newark"
 
This is a music round, but without the music. We're calling
it miscellaneous, and it's about songs with cities (or towns,
etc.) in the title. Unless otherwise indicated, you just need
to name the city, not the full title of the song. Of course,
sometimes the city name *is* the full title.
 
1. Which 1953 geographical swing song did They Might Be Giants
cover with a more upbeat version? (Why they changed it I can't
say, people just liked it better that way.) The title and the
city are the same. Name that city.
 
2. What Pennsylvania town did Billy Joel pay tribute to, in his
song about its blue-collar residents coping with the decline
and closure of a steel mill?
 
3. During his "Dangerous" World Tour, in which city did Michael
Jackson apparently feel like a stranger, inspiring him to write
a song on his state of mind during the height of the child-abuse
accusations made against him?
 
4. At 11 minutes and 22 seconds, what is the longest song released
on a studio album by "Weird Al" Yankovic? It's not a parody,
but was styled after "Dick's Automotive" by the Rugburns,
and most of it consists of spoken-word narration made up of
loosely connected anecdotes.
 
5. Which city does Graham Nash sing of, in reference to riots in
1968 and those who went on trial for intent to incite them?
 
6. A 2015 Top-10 Billboard house track by Mike Posner, remixed
by Seeb, depicts his drug-fueled night while attending an
Avicii concert. In this case, the city whose name we want is
on an island whose name is the same.
 
7. Originally sung by Murray Head and part of the score for
the musical "Chess", a new-wave/disco hit finds the protagonist
denouncing this city's Chao Phraya River ["chow prah-YAH"]
and Wat Pho statue. Name the city.
 
8. Which song by the Clash refers to concerns about nuclear errors
and flooding of the River Thames? The *full title* is needed
for this one.
 
9. Ian Hunter wrote the song that was the opening theme for the
Drew Carey Show from 1997 to 2004. Name the city in the title.
 
10. A 1972 hit by the Guess Who mentions Moose Jaw, Moosomin,
Red Deer, Terrace, and Medicine Hat. But another city is in
the title -- which one is that?
 
 
* Game 7, Round 6 - Entertainment - Movie Franchises
 
In 1925, Gösta Ekman starred in "Karl XII" and "Karl XII, Del II"
-- that's Swedish for "Part II". And while filmmakers have been
numbering some of their sequels ever since, they also use other ways
to distinguish them. Some have subtitles, like "The Hunger Games:
Catching Fire"; some use both methods in combination; and sometimes
the sequel has a completely new title, like "Minions". In this
round we test your familiarity with different movie franchises.
 
1. Before last year, the last live-action "Star Wars" movie appeared
in 2005. Give *either* its episode number or its subtitle.
 
2. The titles of the "Star Trek" movies stopped using sequence
numbers when the Next Generation cast joined the series.
The last of the numbered movies was released in 1991.
Give either its sequence number or its subtitle.
 
3. There have been four movies in the "Pirates of the Caribbean"
series, each with a subtitle. We'll list three of those
subtitles in alphabetical order: "At World's End", Dead Man's
Chest", and "On Stranger Tides". What was the subtitle of the
other movie?
 
4. For this question you must give the exact title, and we mean
completely exact: if you add or omit the word "the", you're
wrong. Now, name *any one of the first three* sequels to "The
Fast and the Furious" (2001). They were released in 2003,
2006, and 2009.
 
5. There were 7 novels in the Harry Potter series, but 8 movies.
Give the *full title* of the *7th movie*, from 2010.
 
6. There was one novel "The Hobbit", but it became three movies.
Give the subtitle of the last one, released in 2014.
 
7. We need a two-part answer here. Name any actor who played James
Bond in a movie *after* Sean Connery, *and* name the *first*
movie that that actor played him in.
 
8. And then there's the other J.B. In the series that started
in 2002 with "The Bourne Identity", the next two movies also
starred Matt Damon as Jason Bourne and were based on novels by
Robert Ludlum. They came out in 2004 and 2007. Give *both*
titles *in order* of release.
 
9. There were five sequels to "The Thin Man" (1934), all starring
William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles.
Name *any one*.
 
10. This lawyer was first played by Warren William in "The Case
of the Howling Dog", "The Case of the Curious Bride", "The
Case of the Lucky Legs", and "The Case of the Velvet Claws",
all made in the 1930s. You might know him better as the title
character of a TV series with a different star, which ran from
1957 to 1966. Name the *character*.
 
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Toronto "Hey, don't worry, I've read all about
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msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Sep 15 03:09AM -0500

Mark Brader:
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/7-2/flags.pdf ...
 
> 1. Which flag on the handout is the ensign of the Royal Canadian
> Air Force?
 
#22. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Calvin.
 
> 2. Flag #5 represents a Canadian cultural group. Which one?
 
Acadians. The specific name was required. 4 for Dan Blum.
 
The Acadians descend from people who were French colonists in what
is now Nova Scotia. After it became a British colony, there was a
period when they were suspected of disloyalty and deported to other
British colonies (unless they successfully hid from the British).
Eventually they were welcomed back, often settling in the other
colonies that are now Atlantic Canada; however, some chose to go to
the French colony of Louisiana, where they became known as "Cajuns".
 
> 3. Flag #7 belongs to which southern Ontario city?
 
Hamilton. 4 for Dan Tique.
 
> 4. Which flag is for the Métis Nation of Canada?
 
#17.
 
> 5. Which flag is for the City of Vancouver?
 
#19. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Erland. 3 for Dan Blum.
 
> 6. Which fraternal organization does flag #21 represent?
 
Grand Orange Lodge of Canada (any reference to Orangemen or the
Orange Order was acceptable). 4 for Joshua and Erland.
 
> 7. Flag #16 belongs to which Canadian Crown Corporation?
 
Royal Canadian Mint. See the M?
 
> 8. The unofficial flag in picture #9 represents a geographically
> distinct region of a Canadian province. Name the region *or*
> the province.
 
Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador. 4 for Joshua and Erland.
3 for Calvin. 2 for Dan Blum.
 
9. Flag #13 represents the francophone community in which province?
 
Manitoba. 2 for Calvin.
 
> 10. Which flag belongs to a Canadian religious organization?
 
#1. (Anglican Church of Canada -- the folks who, as you may remember
from the current-events round from Game 9, seem to have some trouble
counting ballots). 4 for Dan Tilque and Erland. 3 for Dan Blum.
 
Erland wondered if Canada had conquered Georgia (the ex-USSR one)
recently. Well, not that I've heard of.
 
 
> what they represent, and in each case identify the flag number
> for fun, but for no points.
 
> 11. Calgary.
 
#6. Joshua got this.
 
> 12. Canada.
 
#4. (This was a proposed flag, nicknamed the "Pearson Pennant",
during the process that led up to the present flag being chosen.)
Joshua got this.
 
> 13. Canadian Army.
 
#11. Joshua got this.
 
> 14. Canadian Forces.
 
#3. Joshua got this.
 
> 15. Francophones in BC (Franco-Columbiens).
 
#12.
 
> 16. Francophones in Ontario (Franco-Ontariens).
 
#18. Note the Ontario trillium logo.
 
> 17. Francophones in Saskatchewan (Fransaskois).
 
#2. Note the prairie colors.
 
> 18. Lower Canada "patriots", before the 1837 rebellion.
 
#14.
 
> 19. Metropolitan Toronto, before 1998.
 
#10. Note the six links symbolizing the six municipalities remaining
after 1966.
 
> 20. Mi'kmaq people of Natuaqanek, otherwise known as Eel Ground, NB.
 
#8. Joshua got this.
 
> 21. Newfoundland (unofficial flag for the island or sometimes
> gur cebivapr).
 
#20.
 
(Sorry, the parenthetical note should have been included with the
answer, not the question, as with question #12. Editing error when
converting the decoys for use in this medium.)
 
> 22. The RCMP.
 
#15.
 
 
> public -- or who have otherwise gotten widespread notice. We've tried to
> avoid crackpots, inspirational writing, New Age, and, for the most
> part, Dan Brown. In all cases, name the writer.
 
This was the hardest round in the original game, and the 6th-hardest
-- or 4th-hardest excluding two audio rounds -- of the entire season.
 
> was also an accomplished organist and music scholar -- and
> then he gained wider renown when he became a medical doctor,
> and a missionary in Gabon. In 1952 he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
 
Albert Schweitzer. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Calvin.
 
> books, the best-known of which is the spiritual autobiography
> "The Seven Storey Mountain". A school near Dundas West subway
> station is partly named after him.
 
Thomas Merton. 4 for Joshua.
 
(The full name of the school is the "Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton
Catholic Secondary School and Regional Arts Centre"!)
 
> writer on spiritual subjects, authoring at least two dozen
> books on diverse topics, such as biographies of Muhammad and
> the Buddha, and a history of the idea of God.
 
Karen Armstrong. 4 for Joshua.
 
> with the Vatican throughout his career, eventually losing his
> licence to teach Catholic theology but not his priestly vocation.
> He is the author of "Does God Exist?" and "On Being a Christian".
 
Hans Küng. 4 for Joshua.
 
> The latter novel, incidentally, resulted in his being "read
> the Riot Act" by the Church for his portrayal of an alcoholic
> Mexican priest. Name this British author, who died in 1991.
 
Graham Greene. 4 for Marc and Joshua.
 
> apologist. In addition to his theological works, he produced
> an impressive body of fiction, including many stories of a
> clergyman who was a sometime detective.
 
G.K. Chesterton. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Calvin.
 
> resistance to Nazism and his (at least peripheral) connection
> to the 1944 plot on Hitler's life. This led to him being hanged
> in 1945, just three weeks before the downfall of the Third Reich.
 
Dietrich Bonhoeffer. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
 
> 8. This American psychologist, philosopher, and seeker of mystical
> experiences through drug use was the author of the 1902 work
> "The Varieties of Religious Experience".
 
William James. 4 for Marc, Dan Blum, and Joshua.
 
> Jewish priesthood. When the author appeared on Fox News, the
> interviewer evinced incredulity that a Muslim could validly
> write about Jesus.
 
Reza Aslan.
 
> screenplay for "Star Wars". Dan Brown claims that the character
> of Robert Langdon (in "The Da Vinci Code" and other books)
> was based on him.
 
Joseph Campbell. 4 for Marc, Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque.
 
 
Scores, if there are no errors:
 
GAME 7 ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Can Lit
Joshua Kreitzer 16 32 48
Dan Blum 16 20 36
Dan Tilque 16 8 24
"Calvin" 9 8 17
Erland Sommarskog 15 0 15
Marc Dashevsky 0 12 12
 
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msb@vex.net | like the USA's hat... --Anthony McCarron
 
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Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Sep 14 03:18PM -0700

On Thursday, September 8, 2016 at 10:04:41 AM UTC+10, Calvin wrote:
 
> 1 Which useful alloy commonly consists of 60% tin and 40% lead?
 
Solder
 
> 2 "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?" was a sequel to which 1990 film?
 
Once Were Warriors
It clearly wasn't too well known internationally.
 
> 3 Who co-starred with Heath Ledger in the 2008 movie "Brokeback Mountain"?
 
Jake Gyllenhaal
 
> 4 An Olympic decathlon is contested over how many days?
 
2
 
> 5 In 1947 Boulder Dam was officially re-named in honour of which former US president?
 
Herbert Hoover
 
> 6 What flavouring is used in Frangelico liqueur?
 
Hazelnut
Singleton for Marc
 
> 7 If you travelled the "Road to Mandalay", which Asian country would you be in?
 
Burma / Myanmar
 
> 8 What 1973 film was Bruce Lee's last?
 
Enter the Dragon
 
> 9 What planet is nearest in size to the Earth?
 
Venus
Within 1 parsec anyway
 
> 10 The first human heart transplant was performed in 1967 in which country?
 
South Africa
 
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 456
1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 7 38 Gareth Owen
1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 6 32 Marc Dashevsky
0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 6 37 Chris Johnson
0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 6 38 Pete Gayde
0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 6 38 Dan Tilque
0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 5 31 Mark Brader
0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 5 34 Peter Smyth
0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 4 27 Erland S
- - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
2 0 4 5 7 1 6 4 8 8 45 56%
 
Congratulations Gareth.
 
cheers,
calvin
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Sep 14 08:53PM -0500

"Calvin":
> > 1 Which useful alloy commonly consists of 60% tin and 40% lead?
 
> Solder
 
Protest. All the solder I've ever used has been lead-free.
 
Unfortunately for my answer, there is also lead-free pewter these days
and the question was in the present sense. But at one time the above
composition would have been within the possible range for pewter.
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