Tuesday, September 20, 2016

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Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Sep 19 07:48PM -0700

1 Which Trinidad and Tobago politician and businessman was vice president of FIFA and president of CONCACAF until his suspension and eventual resignation from these roles in 2011?
2 Reflecting the company's background in weapons manufacturing, which British brand of motorcycle is "made like a gun"?
3 Which British director created the animated characters Wallace, Grommet and Shaun the Sheep?
4 Which 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical features the songs "Shall We Dance?" and "Getting to Know You"?
5 Felipe Calderón and Vicente Fox are former presidents of which country?
6 Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon co-starred in which 2005 bio-pic?
7 Another name for a helium nucleus, which particle containing two protons and two neutrons is most commonly produced by radioactive decay?
8 Those born on April Fools' Day fall under what star sign?
9 What is both a musical instrument and the French word for a paper clip?
10 Turks head, Granny and Bowline are types of what?
 
cheers,
calvin
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Sep 19 11:08PM -0500

"Calvin":
> 2 Reflecting the company's background in weapons
> manufacturing, which British brand of motorcycle is "made
> like a gun"?
 
Webley?
 
> Wallace, Grommet and Shaun the Sheep?
> 4 Which 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical features the
> songs "Shall We Dance?" and "Getting to Know You"?
 
"South Pacific"?
 
> 5 Felipe Calderón and Vicente Fox are former presidents
> of which country?
 
Mexico.
 
> 6 Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon co-starred in
> which 2005 bio-pic?
 
"Walk the Line".
 
> 7 Another name for a helium nucleus, which particle
> containing two protons and two neutrons is most commonly
> produced by radioactive decay?
 
Alpha.
 
> 8 Those born on April Fools' Day fall under what star sign?
 
Aries.
 
> 9 What is both a musical instrument and the French word
> for a paper clip?
 
Trombone.
 
> 10 Turks head, Granny and Bowline are types of what?
 
Knots.
--
Mark Brader | "To a guy, an RGB value is three bits rather than bytes.
Toronto | ...000 Black, 001 Blue, 010 Green, ..., 111 White."
msb@vex.net |
 
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Sep 20 12:49AM -0700

Calvin wrote:
> 3 Which British director created the animated characters Wallace, Grommet and Shaun the Sheep?
> 4 Which 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical features the songs "Shall We Dance?" and "Getting to Know You"?
> 5 Felipe Calderón and Vicente Fox are former presidents of which country?
 
Mexico
 
> 6 Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon co-starred in which 2005 bio-pic?
> 7 Another name for a helium nucleus, which particle containing two protons and two neutrons is most commonly produced by radioactive decay?
 
alpha particle
 
> 8 Those born on April Fools' Day fall under what star sign?
 
Aries
 
> 9 What is both a musical instrument and the French word for a paper clip?
 
trombone
 
> 10 Turks head, Granny and Bowline are types of what?
 
flies
 
--
Dan Tilque
Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Sep 20 10:35AM

> 1 Which Trinidad and Tobago politician and businessman was vice
> president of FIFA and president of CONCACAF until his suspension and
> eventual resignation from these roles in 2011?
 
Jack Warner
 
> 2 Reflecting the company's background in weapons manufacturing,
> which British brand of motorcycle is "made like a gun"?
 
Trident
 
> 5 Felipe Calderón and Vicente Fox are former presidents of which
> country?
 
México
 
> 7 Another name for a helium nucleus, which particle containing two
> protons and two neutrons is most commonly produced by radioactive
> decay?
 
Alpha
 
> 8 Those born on April Fools' Day fall under what star sign?
 
Väduren (Is that Sagitaurus in English?)
 
> 9 What is both a musical instrument and the French word for a paper
> clip?
 
Basoon
 
> 10 Turks head, Granny and Bowline are types of what?
 
Cabbage
 
 
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Sep 19 06:05PM -0700

On Sunday, September 18, 2016 at 5:35:57 AM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-07-04,
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
 
noted
 
> see my 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
 
> I wrote both of these rounds.
 
its been a busy week for you
 
 
> 1. In the 1990s, two Canadian cities that had NHL teams lost them
> when they each moved to the US just one year apart. Name *both*
> Canadian cities.
 
winnipeg, quebec
 
> teams at different times that both moved to Canada? The moves
> were 31 years apart, one in the 20th century and one in the 21st.
> One team kept its name when it moved; the other didn't.
 
atlanta
 
> Both teams went to cities whose names end in the word "City",
> although one did not take on that city's name. Name the city
> that the two teams moved away *from*.
 
san diego
 
> the same year* as they each moved to other cities? Both teams
> kept their names when they moved. One of them was returning
> to a city where it had played previously; the other wasn't.
 
los angeles
 
> The Rams, of course, have now moved back to Los Angeles.
> But within 2, what was the last year that the Rams and the
> Raiders both played there?
 
1995
 
> after that first move, their second team moved directly to
> the US. There is no NHL team there today. Name the Canadian
> city that lost these two teams.
 
quebec
 
> three teams is still around today, but they lost the other two
> when they each shut down, 20 years apart, in both cases before
> World War II. Name the city.
 
ottawa
 
> team with the *same name*; but 11 years later, that team in
> turn moved away. Today the city has a National League team.
> Name the city.
 
washington, d.c.
 
> 9. Which US city had two National League baseball teams that both
> moved away in the *same year* -- and the two new cities that
> they moved to were in the same state as each other?
 
new york
 
> (But you've guessed the question this time already, haven't you?)
> Within 2, what was the last year the Giants and the Dodgers
> played in New York?
 
1958
 
 
> "almost correct", so if your opponents do badly enough then you
> can also get 3, 2, or 1 that way.
 
> Got it? Then here we go.
 
um ... tl;dr ... but I trust you to follow your own rules.
 
> party was reduced to a minority of seats, and after a vote of
> no confidence, David Peterson became premier instead. In what
> year, within 1, was the election that led to this result?
 
1985
 
> 2. In what year, within 1, was the election that reduced the
> federal Progressive Conservative Party to 2 seats in Parliament
> and made Jean Chrétien the prime minister?
 
1993
 
> year they won more seats than any other party, and their leader,
> some guy named Adolf Hitler, did become chancellor. Within 1,
> in what year was the *last* of these three rapid-fire elections?
 
1930
 
> election where Clement Attlee replaced him? For this one we
> need the *month* and year; answer within 4 months for normal
> score or within 1 month for the bonus.
 
july 1945
 
> 5. What year was the first federal election in Canada where most
> adult Canadian women were allowed to vote? It was also the first
> election where women could be candidates. Answer within 3 years.
 
1918
 
> 6. What year was the *last* *provincial* election in Canada where
> women were *not* allowed to vote? Answer within 5 years.
 
1939
 
> 7. What was the first year when the mayor and city council of
> Toronto were elected for a term of 4 years? Answer within
> 1 year.
 
2006
 
> 8. What was the *last* year when the mayor and city council of
> Toronto were elected for a term of 2 years? Answer within
> 4 years.
 
1982
 
> Subsequent events showed party politics at their worst, but
> eventually Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner over
> Samuel Tilden. Within 8 years, when was this botched election?
 
1876
 
> had to decide which one would be president and which would
> be vice-president -- but it took them 36 ballots to settle
> the question. Within 8 years, when was *this* botched election?
 
1800
 
swp
Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Sep 20 12:44AM -0700

Mark Brader wrote:
 
> 1. In the 1990s, two Canadian cities that had NHL teams lost them
> when they each moved to the US just one year apart. Name *both*
> Canadian cities.
 
Quebec, Ottawa
 
> teams at different times that both moved to Canada? The moves
> were 31 years apart, one in the 20th century and one in the 21st.
> One team kept its name when it moved; the other didn't.
 
Houston
 
> Both teams went to cities whose names end in the word "City",
> although one did not take on that city's name. Name the city
> that the two teams moved away *from*.
 
Seattle
 
> the same year* as they each moved to other cities? Both teams
> kept their names when they moved. One of them was returning
> to a city where it had played previously; the other wasn't.
 
Los Angeles
 
> Gur Enzf, bs pbhefr, unir abj zbirq onpx gb Ybf Natryrf.
> Ohg jvguva 2, jung jnf gur ynfg lrne gung gur Enzf naq gur
> Envqref obgu cynlrq gurer?
 
1994
 
> after that first move, their second team moved directly to
> the US. There is no NHL team there today. Name the Canadian
> city that lost these two teams.
 
Ottawa
 
> three teams is still around today, but they lost the other two
> when they each shut down, 20 years apart, in both cases before
> World War II. Name the city.
 
Toronto
 
> team with the *same name*; but 11 years later, that team in
> turn moved away. Today the city has a National League team.
> Name the city.
 
Philadelphia
 
 
> 9. Which US city had two National League baseball teams that both
> moved away in the *same year* -- and the two new cities that
> they moved to were in the same state as each other?
 
New York
 
> (But you've guessed the question this time already, haven't you?)
> Jvguva 2, jung jnf gur ynfg lrne gur Tvnagf naq gur Qbqtref
> cynlrq va Arj Lbex?
 
1958
 
 
> 2. In what year, within 1, was the election that reduced the
> federal Progressive Conservative Party to 2 seats in Parliament
> and made Jean Chrétien the prime minister?
 
1992
 
> year they won more seats than any other party, and their leader,
> some guy named Adolf Hitler, did become chancellor. Within 1,
> in what year was the *last* of these three rapid-fire elections?
 
1933
 
> election where Clement Attlee replaced him? For this one we
> need the *month* and year; answer within 4 months for normal
> score or within 1 month for the bonus.
 
November 1945
 
 
> 5. What year was the first federal election in Canada where most
> adult Canadian women were allowed to vote? It was also the first
> election where women could be candidates. Answer within 3 years.
 
1922
 
 
> 6. What year was the *last* *provincial* election in Canada where
> women were *not* allowed to vote? Answer within 5 years.
 
1937
 
> Subsequent events showed party politics at their worst, but
> eventually Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner over
> Samuel Tilden. Within 8 years, when was this botched election?
 
1876
 
> had to decide which one would be president and which would
> be vice-president -- but it took them 36 ballots to settle
> the question. Within 8 years, when was *this* botched election?
 
1800
 
 
--
Dan Tilque
Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Sep 16 07:28PM

Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote in
 
> 1 Who directed the Oscar-wining 1987 film "Full Metal Jacket"?
 
Kubrick
 
> 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
 
> 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?
 
Russian
 
> 8 The centre of the country's high-tech industries,
> which city is nicknamed "India's Silicon Valley"?
 
Bangalore
 
> outside a glass jar?
 
> cheers,
> calvin
 
Pete Gayde
Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Sep 19 07:45PM -0700

On Thursday, September 15, 2016 at 8:23:17 AM UTC+10, Calvin wrote:
 
> 1 Who directed the Oscar-wining 1987 film "Full Metal Jacket"?
 
Stanley Kubrick
 
> 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"?
 
Dexy's Midnight Runners
 
> 4 Who was the producer of the TV series "Starsky & Hutch" and "Beverly Hills 91210"?
 
Aaron 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?
 
Marie Stopes
 
> 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?
 
Joko Widodo / AKA Jokowi
No-one got this.
 
> 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?
 
Leiden / Leyden Jar
 
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 457
1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 8 46 Mark Brader
1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 7 41 Chris Johnson
0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 7 42 Marc Dashevsky
1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 6 32 Gareth Owen
0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 6 35 Peter Smyth
0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 6 37 Dan Tilque
0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 4 25 Erland S
1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 4 26 Pete Gayde
- - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
4 6 5 7 2 8 5 7 0 4 48 60%
 
Congratulations Mark.
 
cheers,
calvin
swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Sep 19 04:16PM -0700

On Sunday, September 18, 2016 at 9:59:44 AM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:
> Welcome to Rotating Quiz #232.
 
thanks, it's nice to be here.
 
> I'd like to thank Dan Tilque for running RQ 231 and for writing a
> contest that allowed me to win
 
mostly
 
> , even if I didn't notice that the
> contest number was one of the answers.
 
and yet you were not penalized for it
 
 
> In case of a tie, the first tiebreaker is who scored on the
> hardest questions; the second tiebreaker is correct spelling;
> and the third tiebreaker is who posted first.
 
that second tiebreaker should be renamed in my honor. or something close to it.
 
> the students are, let's say, completely uncontrolled, was
> invented by Ronald Searle in a series of cartoons, and first
> appeared in movies in the 1950s. Name it.
 
saint trinian's
 
> 2. The 1980s American TV series "St. Elsewhere" was set at an
> inferior hospital. What was its actual name?
 
saint eligius
 
> 3. If every wife had seven sacks, and every sack had seven cats,
> where was I going?
 
saint ives
 
 
> * US Cities
 
> 4. What is the capital of Minnesota?
 
saint paul
 
> 5. What city of about 300,000 people lies near the confluence of
> the two longest rivers in the US?
 
saint louis
 
> 6. What city is the oldest place in North America to have been
> founded by European settlers and continuously inhabited ever
> since?
 
saint augustine, florida (my wife's sister and her family live there)(also has the oldest winery in the us, I think)
 
 
> * Rail Geography
 
> 7. If you were going from <answer 13> station to Castle Frank
> station, at what station would you normally change trains?
 
not having read ahead, I'll guess saint george
 
> 8. If you were going from Brussels to Leicester, at what station
> in London would you normally change trains?
 
heathrow airport...
 
> 9. If you were going from London to <answer 3>, at what station
> in Cornwall would you normally change trains?
 
saint ives
 
> airplane wings and sailing-ship masts may produce a corona
> discharge of static electricity. What term relevant to this
> quiz describes this phenomenon?
 
saint elmo's fire

> and adventitious movements of the face, neck, trunk, and
> extremities. It is also known by what other term relevant to
> this quiz?
 
saint valentine's malady
 
> 12. Ergotism, or ergot poisoning, may produce symptoms from
> itchiness and hallucinations to gangrene and death. It is
> also known by what other term relevant to this quiz?
 
saint snail's suffering
 
 
> titled the "Confessio". One deed that he's popularly famous
> for never happened, as there never were any of the things in
> the first place. Name him, in a manner relevant to this quiz.
 
saint stephen
 
> church than to him. Allegedly the king called for someone to
> "rid him" of the archbishop; in any event, soon enough someone
> did. Name the archbishop, in a manner relevant to this quiz.
 
saint thomas aquinas
 
> 15. This man, on the other hand, qualifies for this quiz in
> his own right, but was himself a king, in 11th-century Hungary.
> Name him in a manner relevant to the quiz.
 
saint stephen
 
 
swp
Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Sep 19 06:37PM -0700

Mark Brader wrote:
> appeared in movies in the 1950s. Name it.
 
> 2. The 1980s American TV series "St. Elsewhere" was set at an
> inferior hospital. What was its actual name?
 
St Eligius
 
> where was I going?
 
> * US Cities
 
> 4. What is the capital of Minnesota?
 
St Paul
 
 
> 5. What city of about 300,000 people lies near the confluence of
> the two longest rivers in the US?
 
St Louis
 
 
> 6. What city is the oldest place in North America to have been
> founded by European settlers and continuously inhabited ever
> since?
 
St Augustine
 
> airplane wings and sailing-ship masts may produce a corona
> discharge of static electricity. What term relevant to this
> quiz describes this phenomenon?
 
St Elmo's Fire
 
 
> 12. Ergotism, or ergot poisoning, may produce symptoms from
> itchiness and hallucinations to gangrene and death. It is
> also known by what other term relevant to this quiz?
 
St Vitus' Dance
 
> titled the "Confessio". One deed that he's popularly famous
> for never happened, as there never were any of the things in
> the first place. Name him, in a manner relevant to this quiz.
 
St Patrick
 
> church than to him. Allegedly the king called for someone to
> "rid him" of the archbishop; in any event, soon enough someone
> did. Name the archbishop, in a manner relevant to this quiz.
 
St Thomas a Becket
 
 
> 15. This man, on the other hand, qualifies for this quiz in
> his own right, but was himself a king, in 11th-century Hungary.
> Name him in a manner relevant to the quiz.
 
St Wenceslaus
 
 
 
--
Dan Tilque
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