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| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 25 05:57PM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-07-25, 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 10, Round 7 - Literature - Poetic First Lines "Well begun is half done", or so they say. For each of the following openings, *either* name the poet *or* just give the title of the poem. 1. Come live with me and be my love And we will all the pleasures prove... 2. When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide... 3. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea... 4. I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert..." 5. I wander'd lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills... 6. The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits... 7. Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy..." 8. "What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade. "To turn you out, to turn you out", the Colour-Sergeant said. "What makes you look so white, so white?" said Files-on-Parade. "I'm dreadin' what I've got to watch", the Colour-Sergeant said... 9. Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green... 10. The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, And... * Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - Grand Slam Tournaments 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals. Name all four. 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all three. For the remaining questions, please decode the rot13 for *each question individually*, only after you have finished with all the ones before it. (Sorry, but it's that sort of round.) In each case name the player. 3. Fvapr 2000 bayl 18 qvssrerag zra unir jba n zra'f graavf Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag. Bar bs gur znva ernfbaf vf orpnhfr guvf Fjvff cynlre unf jba 17 bs gur 67 gbgny Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf qhevat gung crevbq. Uvf 17 jvaf vf gur pheerag erpbeq. 4. Evtug oruvaq Srqrere vf guvf Fcnavneq jub unf jba 14 Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf fvapr 2000. Guvf cynlre vf n pynl pbheg fcrpvnyvfg, naq 9 bs gubfr 14 jvaf jrer ng gur Serapu Bcra, gur bayl Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag gung hfrf pynl pbhegf. 5. Guvf Freovna cynlre vf ba genpx gb fhecnff Ensnry Anqny va Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf. Ur pheeragyl unf 12, vapyhqvat obgu gur Nhfgenyvna naq Serapu Bcraf guvf lrne. 6. Guvf Oevgvfu cynlre zvtug unir jba znal zber guna uvf pheerag gbgny bs 3 Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf vs ur jnfa'g fb hayhpxl nf gb or cynlvat qhevat gur ervta bs obgu Srqrere naq Qwbxbivp. Ur unf ybfg gb bar be gur bgure va 7 Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag svanyf. Ur zbfg erpragyl orng Zvybf Enbavp [eulzrf jvgu "pbj avgpu"] ng guvf lrne'f Jvzoyrqba. 7. Gur zbfg zvenphybhf Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jva fvapr 2000 (naq cbffvoyl rire) jnf va gur 2001 Jvzoyrqba gbheanzrag, ol guvf Pebngvna cynlre jub jnf enaxrq 125gu ng gur gvzr naq bayl ragrerq gur gbheanzrag orpnhfr gur betnavmref tnir uvz n jvyq-pneq fcbg. Va gur svanyf ur znantrq gb orng Cngevpx Ensgre. Uvf jva vafcverq gur 2004 zbivr "Jvzoyrqba", fgneevat Cnhy Orggnal naq Xvefgra Qhafg. 8. Guvf sbezre #1-enaxrq cynlre, n freir fcrpvnyvfg, vf gur ynfg Nzrevpna gb jva n Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag, anzryl gur HF Bcra va 2003. Ur qvq znxr gur svanyf bs Jvzoyrqba guerr gvzrf, ohg ybfg nyy guerr gvzrf gb, lrf, Srqrere. 9. Fjvgmreynaq pheeragyl bayl unf gjb graavf cynlref va gur gbc 300 naq obgu unir jba Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf guvf praghel. Gur bar abg anzrq Srqrere vf guvf cynlre jub jba gur 2014 Nhfgenyvna Bcra naq gur 2015 Serapu Bcra. 10. Gur bayl Nhfgenyvna gb jva n Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag fvapr 2000 vf guvf cynlre jub vf xabja sbe uvf genqrznex "onpxjneqf onfronyy pnc" ybbx. Ur jba gur HF Bcra va 2001 naq Jvzoyrqba va 2002. -- Mark Brader | "And remember, my friends, future events such as Toronto | these will affect you, in the future." msb@vex.net | -- Ed Wood, Plan 9 from Outer Space My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Oct 25 11:11PM > * Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Poetic First Lines > 1. Come live with me and be my love > And we will all the pleasures prove... Donne > 2. When I consider how my light is spent > Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide... Milton > 3. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, > The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea... Gray > 4. I met a traveller from an antique land > Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone > Stand in the desert..." Ozymandias > 5. I wander'd lonely as a cloud > That floats on high o'er vales and hills... Wordsworth; Tennyson > 6. The sea is calm tonight. > The tide is full, the moon lies fair > Upon the straits... Arnold > Maids heard the goblins cry: > "Come buy our orchard fruits, > Come buy, come buy..." Rosetti > "To turn you out, to turn you out", the Colour-Sergeant said. > "What makes you look so white, so white?" said Files-on-Parade. > "I'm dreadin' what I've got to watch", the Colour-Sergeant said... Danny Deever > 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of > the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals. > Name all four. English Open, American Open, Australian Open, French Open > 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all > three. grass, concrete, astroturf > Fynz gbheanzrag. Bar bs gur znva ernfbaf vf orpnhfr guvf Fjvff > cynlre unf jba 17 bs gur 67 gbgny Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf qhevat > gung crevbq. Uvf 17 jvaf vf gur pheerag erpbeq. Agassi -- _______________________________________________________________________ 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>: Oct 26 12:29AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:qc-dnfEqnNKifpLFnZ2dnUU7- > 4. I met a traveller from an antique land > Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone > Stand in the desert..." "Ozymandias" > Maids heard the goblins cry: > "Come buy our orchard fruits, > Come buy, come buy..." "Goblin Market" > The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, > The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, > And... "The Highwayman" > 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of > the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals. > Name all four. Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, U.S. Open > 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all > three. hard court, clay, grass > Fynz gbheanzrag. Bar bs gur znva ernfbaf vf orpnhfr guvf Fjvff > cynlre unf jba 17 bs gur 67 gbgny Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf qhevat > gung crevbq. Uvf 17 jvaf vf gur pheerag erpbeq. Federer > Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf fvapr 2000. Guvf cynlre vf n pynl pbheg > fcrpvnyvfg, naq 9 bs gubfr 14 jvaf jrer ng gur Serapu Bcra, > gur bayl Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag gung hfrf pynl pbhegf. Nadal > 5. Guvf Freovna cynlre vf ba genpx gb fhecnff Ensnry Anqny va > Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf. Ur pheeragyl unf 12, vapyhqvat > obgu gur Nhfgenyvna naq Serapu Bcraf guvf lrne. Novak Djokovic > naq Qwbxbivp. Ur unf ybfg gb bar be gur bgure va 7 Tenaq > Fynz gbheanzrag svanyf. Ur zbfg erpragyl orng Zvybf Enbavp > [eulzrf jvgu "pbj avgpu"] ng guvf lrne'f Jvzoyrqba. Andy Murray > jvyq-pneq fcbg. Va gur svanyf ur znantrq gb orng Cngevpx Ensgre. > Uvf jva vafcverq gur 2004 zbivr "Jvzoyrqba", fgneevat Cnhy > Orggnal naq Xvefgra Qhafg. Ivanesevic (?) > Nzrevpna gb jva n Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag, anzryl gur HF Bcra > va 2003. Ur qvq znxr gur svanyf bs Jvzoyrqba guerr gvzrf, > ohg ybfg nyy guerr gvzrf gb, lrf, Srqrere. Roddick -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Oct 25 09:25PM -0700 On Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 8:57:08 AM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > Stand in the desert..." > 5. I wander'd lonely as a cloud > That floats on high o'er vales and hills... Wordsworth > 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of > the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals. > Name all four. Australian, French and US Opens and the Wimbledon Championships > 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all > three. Grass, Clay, Hardcourt > Fynz gbheanzrag. Bar bs gur znva ernfbaf vf orpnhfr guvf Fjvff > cynlre unf jba 17 bs gur 67 gbgny Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf qhevat > gung crevbq. Uvf 17 jvaf vf gur pheerag erpbeq. Federer > Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf fvapr 2000. Guvf cynlre vf n pynl pbheg > fcrpvnyvfg, naq 9 bs gubfr 14 jvaf jrer ng gur Serapu Bcra, > gur bayl Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag gung hfrf pynl pbhegf. Nadal > 5. Guvf Freovna cynlre vf ba genpx gb fhecnff Ensnry Anqny va > Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf. Ur pheeragyl unf 12, vapyhqvat > obgu gur Nhfgenyvna naq Serapu Bcraf guvf lrne. Djokovic > naq Qwbxbivp. Ur unf ybfg gb bar be gur bgure va 7 Tenaq > Fynz gbheanzrag svanyf. Ur zbfg erpragyl orng Zvybf Enbavp > [eulzrf jvgu "pbj avgpu"] ng guvf lrne'f Jvzoyrqba. Murray But what I wanna know is what's a cow nitch? > jvyq-pneq fcbg. Va gur svanyf ur znantrq gb orng Cngevpx Ensgre. > Uvf jva vafcverq gur 2004 zbivr "Jvzoyrqba", fgneevat Cnhy > Orggnal naq Xvefgra Qhafg. Ivanisevic > Nzrevpna gb jva n Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag, anzryl gur HF Bcra > va 2003. Ur qvq znxr gur svanyf bs Jvzoyrqba guerr gvzrf, > ohg ybfg nyy guerr gvzrf gb, lrf, Srqrere. Roddick > 300 naq obgu unir jba Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf guvf praghel. > Gur bar abg anzrq Srqrere vf guvf cynlre jub jba gur 2014 > Nhfgenyvna Bcra naq gur 2015 Serapu Bcra. Wawrinka > 10. Gur bayl Nhfgenyvna gb jva n Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag fvapr 2000 > vf guvf cynlre jub vf xabja sbe uvf genqrznex "onpxjneqf onfronyy > pnc" ybbx. Ur jba gur HF Bcra va 2001 naq Jvzoyrqba va 2002. Hewitt cheers, calvin |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 25 11:39PM -0500 "Calvin": > But what I wanna know is what's a cow nitch? The female equivalent of a bull nitch, of course. -- Mark Brader "Three minutes' thought would suffice to Toronto find this out; but thought is irksome and msb@vex.net three minutes is a long time." --A.E. Housman |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Oct 26 08:31AM +0100 > openings, *either* name the poet *or* just give the title of the poem. > 1. Come live with me and be my love > And we will all the pleasures prove... Shakespeare? > 2. When I consider how my light is spent > Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide... Milton > 3. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, > The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea... "Elegy In a Country Churchyard" (Gray) > 4. I met a traveller from an antique land > Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone > Stand in the desert..." "Ozymandias of Egypt" (Tennyson) > 5. I wander'd lonely as a cloud > That floats on high o'er vales and hills... "Daffodils" (Wordsworth) > Maids heard the goblins cry: > "Come buy our orchard fruits, > Come buy, come buy..." "Goblin Market" (Rosetti) > "To turn you out, to turn you out", the Colour-Sergeant said. > "What makes you look so white, so white?" said Files-on-Parade. > "I'm dreadin' what I've got to watch", the Colour-Sergeant said... Sounds like Kipling > 9. Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs > About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green... "Fern Hill" (Thomas) .... though I sighed in my chains, like the sea. > The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, > The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, > And... The Highwayman (the version I've got is on a Phil Ochs album) > 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of > the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals. > Name all four. French Open, US Open, Australian Open, The Wimbledon Championships > 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all > three. Grass, Clay, Hardcourt > Fynz gbheanzrag. Bar bs gur znva ernfbaf vf orpnhfr guvf Fjvff > cynlre unf jba 17 bs gur 67 gbgny Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf qhevat > gung crevbq. Uvf 17 jvaf vf gur pheerag erpbeq. Ebtre Srqrere > Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf fvapr 2000. Guvf cynlre vf n pynl pbheg > fcrpvnyvfg, naq 9 bs gubfr 14 jvaf jrer ng gur Serapu Bcra, > gur bayl Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag gung hfrf pynl pbhegf. Ensn Anqny > 5. Guvf Freovna cynlre vf ba genpx gb fhecnff Ensnry Anqny va > Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf. Ur pheeragyl unf 12, vapyhqvat > obgu gur Nhfgenyvna naq Serapu Bcraf guvf lrne. Abinx Qwbxbivp > naq Qwbxbivp. Ur unf ybfg gb bar be gur bgure va 7 Tenaq > Fynz gbheanzrag svanyf. Ur zbfg erpragyl orng Zvybf Enbavp > [eulzrf jvgu "pbj avgpu"] ng guvf lrne'f Jvzoyrqba. Naql Zheenl > jvyq-pneq fcbg. Va gur svanyf ur znantrq gb orng Cngevpx Ensgre. > Uvf jva vafcverq gur 2004 zbivr "Jvzoyrqba", fgneevat Cnhy > Orggnal naq Xvefgra Qhafg. Tbena Vinavfbivp (fc) > Nzrevpna gb jva n Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag, anzryl gur HF Bcra > va 2003. Ur qvq znxr gur svanyf bs Jvzoyrqba guerr gvzrf, > ohg ybfg nyy guerr gvzrf gb, lrf, Srqrere. Naql Ebqqvpx > 300 naq obgu unir jba Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf guvf praghel. > Gur bar abg anzrq Srqrere vf guvf cynlre jub jba gur 2014 > Nhfgenyvna Bcra naq gur 2015 Serapu Bcra. Fgna Jnjevaxn (fc) > 10. Gur bayl Nhfgenyvna gb jva n Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag fvapr 2000 > vf guvf cynlre jub vf xabja sbe uvf genqrznex "onpxjneqf onfronyy > pnc" ybbx. Ur jba gur HF Bcra va 2001 naq Jvzoyrqba va 2002. Yyrlgba Urjvgg |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Oct 26 02:39AM -0500 In article <qc-dnfEqnNKifpLFnZ2dnUU7-R3NnZ2d@giganews.com>, msb@vex.net says... > 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of > the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals. > Name all four. French Open, Australian Open, U.S. Open, Wimbledon > 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all > three. clay, grass, hardcourt > Fynz gbheanzrag. Bar bs gur znva ernfbaf vf orpnhfr guvf Fjvff > cynlre unf jba 17 bs gur 67 gbgny Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf qhevat > gung crevbq. Uvf 17 jvaf vf gur pheerag erpbeq. Federer > Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf fvapr 2000. Guvf cynlre vf n pynl pbheg > fcrpvnyvfg, naq 9 bs gubfr 14 jvaf jrer ng gur Serapu Bcra, > gur bayl Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag gung hfrf pynl pbhegf. Nadal > naq Qwbxbivp. Ur unf ybfg gb bar be gur bgure va 7 Tenaq > Fynz gbheanzrag svanyf. Ur zbfg erpragyl orng Zvybf Enbavp > [eulzrf jvgu "pbj avgpu"] ng guvf lrne'f Jvzoyrqba. Andy Roddick -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Oct 25 01:56PM > 2. [Entertainment] What US TV series that ran 2005-10 did this > round make me think of? Lost > 3. [Literature] How many books by Douglas Adams comprised the > "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" trilogy"? 5 > 4. [History] French history includes the First Republic, Second > Republic, and so on. What number is the present republic? fifth > sued by Adam Kelno for defamation after writing a novel > describing events at a concentration camp. In which Queen's > Bench courtroom does the trial take place? QB-5 > 6. [Sports] How many inches in diameter is a soccer ball? 12 > 7. [Science] The "astronomical unit" is the radius, or to be > more precise the semi-major axis, of the Earth's orbit. How > many astronomical units is the same measure for Saturn's orbit? 13 > 8. [Geography] How many countries does the Danube River enter? > This includes countries that it only runs along the border of. 14 > 9. [Science] How many vertebrae are in a normal human spine, > not counting fused vertebrae such as the coccyx? 7 > 10. [Sports] What was the first player number to be officially > retired throughout major-league baseball? 42 > into polities mostly known in English as states. Ignoring any > other types of subdivisions, how many states are there in all > three countries combined? 50 > Minister of the UK began with Sir Robert Walpole even though > that title had not yet been invented, how many different people > have held it? 45 > of an atom generally considered non-radioactive? (Actually it > is very, *very* slightly radioactive, with a half-life around > 20,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.) 82 > 14. [Sports] What year was the last time the Toronto Maple Leafs > won the Stanley Cup? 1979 > 15. [Literature] In what novel is it explained: "Everyone knows it. > The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world"? 1984 > 16. [History] What year were East and West Germany reunited as a > single country? 1989 > 17. [Entertainment] According to a movie starring Raquel Welch, > in what year BC were cavemen attacked by dinosaurs? 1,000,000 > 18. [Geography] According to the CIA World Factbook, how many > square kilometers is the land area of Russia? 5,271,009 -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Oct 25 10:38AM -0500 In article <v72dnSskE5l8sZLFnZ2dnUU7-TPNnZ2d@giganews.com>, msb@vex.net says... > round make me think of? > 3. [Literature] How many books by Douglas Adams comprised the > "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" trilogy"? 4 > 4. [History] French history includes the First Republic, Second > Republic, and so on. What number is the present republic? 5th > describing events at a concentration camp. In which Queen's > Bench courtroom does the trial take place? > 6. [Sports] How many inches in diameter is a soccer ball? 8 < diameter < 9 > 7. [Science] The "astronomical unit" is the radius, or to be > more precise the semi-major axis, of the Earth's orbit. How > many astronomical units is the same measure for Saturn's orbit? 10 > 8. [Geography] How many countries does the Danube River enter? > This includes countries that it only runs along the border of. 12 > 9. [Science] How many vertebrae are in a normal human spine, > not counting fused vertebrae such as the coccyx? 31 > 10. [Sports] What was the first player number to be officially > retired throughout major-league baseball? 42 > into polities mostly known in English as states. Ignoring any > other types of subdivisions, how many states are there in all > three countries combined? 52 > Minister of the UK began with Sir Robert Walpole even though > that title had not yet been invented, how many different people > have held it? 62 > of an atom generally considered non-radioactive? (Actually it > is very, *very* slightly radioactive, with a half-life around > 20,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.) 82 > 14. [Sports] What year was the last time the Toronto Maple Leafs > won the Stanley Cup? 1970 > 15. [Literature] In what novel is it explained: "Everyone knows it. > The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world"? 1984 > 16. [History] What year were East and West Germany reunited as a > single country? 1989 > 17. [Entertainment] According to a movie starring Raquel Welch, > in what year BC were cavemen attacked by dinosaurs? 1,000,000 > 18. [Geography] According to the CIA World Factbook, how many > square kilometers is the land area of Russia? 20,000,000 -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Oct 25 03:45PM Mark Brader wrote: > Coca-Cola representative in Berlin? > 2. [Entertainment] What US TV series that ran 2005-10 did this > round make me think of? Lost > 3. [Literature] How many books by Douglas Adams comprised the > "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" trilogy"? 5 > 4. [History] French history includes the First Republic, Second > Republic, and so on. What number is the present republic? 5 > sued by Adam Kelno for defamation after writing a novel > describing events at a concentration camp. In which Queen's > Bench courtroom does the trial take place? 10 > 6. [Sports] How many inches in diameter is a soccer ball? 10 > 7. [Science] The "astronomical unit" is the radius, or to be > more precise the semi-major axis, of the Earth's orbit. How > many astronomical units is the same measure for Saturn's orbit? 8 > 8. [Geography] How many countries does the Danube River enter? > This includes countries that it only runs along the border of. 8 > 9. [Science] How many vertebrae are in a normal human spine, > not counting fused vertebrae such as the coccyx? 15 > 10. [Sports] What was the first player number to be officially > retired throughout major-league baseball? 15 > into polities mostly known in English as states. Ignoring any > other types of subdivisions, how many states are there in all > three countries combined? 53 > Minister of the UK began with Sir Robert Walpole even though > that title had not yet been invented, how many different people > have held it? 53 > of an atom generally considered non-radioactive? (Actually it > is very, very slightly radioactive, with a half-life around > 20,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.) 84 > 14. [Sports] What year was the last time the Toronto Maple Leafs > won the Stanley Cup? 1989 > 15. [Literature] In what novel is it explained: "Everyone knows it. > The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world"? 1984 > 16. [History] What year were East and West Germany reunited as a > single country? 1989 > 17. [Entertainment] According to a movie starring Raquel Welch, > in what year BC were cavemen attacked by dinosaurs? 2 million > 18. [Geography] According to the CIA World Factbook, how many > square kilometers is the land area of Russia? 2 million Peter Smyth |
| "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@cfaj.ca>: Oct 25 02:43PM -0400 On 2016-10-25, Mark Brader wrote: > Welcome to Rotating Quiz #237. ... > 1. [Entertainment] In what 1961 movie does James Cagney play a > Coca-Cola representative in Berlin? "One, Two, Three" > round make me think of? > 3. [Literature] How many books by Douglas Adams comprised the > "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" trilogy"? 5 > 4. [History] French history includes the First Republic, Second > Republic, and so on. What number is the present republic? 7 > sued by Adam Kelno for defamation after writing a novel > describing events at a concentration camp. In which Queen's > Bench courtroom does the trial take place? The Old Bailey > 6. [Sports] How many inches in diameter is a soccer ball? 10 > 7. [Science] The "astronomical unit" is the radius, or to be > more precise the semi-major axis, of the Earth's orbit. How > many astronomical units is the same measure for Saturn's orbit? 2 > 8. [Geography] How many countries does the Danube River enter? > This includes countries that it only runs along the border of. 9 > 9. [Science] How many vertebrae are in a normal human spine, > not counting fused vertebrae such as the coccyx? 15 > 10. [Sports] What was the first player number to be officially > retired throughout major-league baseball? 9 > into polities mostly known in English as states. Ignoring any > other types of subdivisions, how many states are there in all > three countries combined? 42 > Minister of the UK began with Sir Robert Walpole even though > that title had not yet been invented, how many different people > have held it? 17 > 20,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.) > 14. [Sports] What year was the last time the Toronto Maple Leafs > won the Stanley Cup? 1967 > 15. [Literature] In what novel is it explained: "Everyone knows it. > The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world"? 1984 > 16. [History] What year were East and West Germany reunited as a > single country? 1991 > 17. [Entertainment] According to a movie starring Raquel Welch, > in what year BC were cavemen attacked by dinosaurs? 1,000,000 > 18. [Geography] According to the CIA World Factbook, how many > square kilometers is the land area of Russia? 7 -- Chris F.A. Johnson |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 25 05:59PM -0500 Mark Brader: > > 6. [Sports] How many inches in diameter is a soccer ball? Marc Dashevsky: > 8 < diameter < 9 I will score this answer as 8 or 9, whichever is worse. -- Mark Brader, Toronto, msb@vex.net "Omit needless code! Omit needless code! Omit needless code!" -- Chip Salzenberg (after Strunk & White) |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Oct 24 06:31PM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: > 1. [Entertainment] In what 1961 movie does James Cagney play a > Coca-Cola representative in Berlin? One, Two, Three > 2. [Entertainment] What US TV series that ran 2005-10 did this > round make me think of? Numb3rs > 3. [Literature] How many books by Douglas Adams comprised the > "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" trilogy"? 5 > 4. [History] French history includes the First Republic, Second > Republic, and so on. What number is the present republic? 5th > describing events at a concentration camp. In which Queen's > Bench courtroom does the trial take place? > 6. [Sports] How many inches in diameter is a soccer ball? 8 > 7. [Science] The "astronomical unit" is the radius, or to be > more precise the semi-major axis, of the Earth's orbit. How > many astronomical units is the same measure for Saturn's orbit? 9.8 > 8. [Geography] How many countries does the Danube River enter? > This includes countries that it only runs along the border of. 13 > 9. [Science] How many vertebrae are in a normal human spine, > not counting fused vertebrae such as the coccyx? 14 > 10. [Sports] What was the first player number to be officially > retired throughout major-league baseball? 42 > into polities mostly known in English as states. Ignoring any > other types of subdivisions, how many states are there in all > three countries combined? 67 > of an atom generally considered non-radioactive? (Actually it > is very, *very* slightly radioactive, with a half-life around > 20,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.) 83 > 14. [Sports] What year was the last time the Toronto Maple Leafs > won the Stanley Cup? 1966 > 15. [Literature] In what novel is it explained: "Everyone knows it. > The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world"? 1984 > 16. [History] What year were East and West Germany reunited as a > single country? 1991 > 17. [Entertainment] According to a movie starring Raquel Welch, > in what year BC were cavemen attacked by dinosaurs? 1,000,000 > 18. [Geography] According to the CIA World Factbook, how many > square kilometers is the land area of Russia? 8,300,000 -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 25 05:55PM -0500 Mark Brader: > see my 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian > Inquisition (QFTCI*)". > I wrote one of these rounds and one question in the other. I wrote the entertainment round and question #5 in geography. > greatest quotes of all time from American movies. In most cases > you will have to give one sentence (if not, then we'll tell you) > and it's only the key phrases in it that you'll be scored on. Specifically, any answer where the phrases marked by *...* were correct was acceptable. > don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything. > Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle." Give the continuation -- > the next two sentences. "You know *how to whistle*, don't you, Steve? You just *put your lips together and -- blow*." 4 for Gareth, Joshua, Stephen, Pete, Dan Blum, Jason, Marc, and Bruce. (Lauren Bacall as Marie Browning, known as Slim, in "To Have and Have Not"; screenplay by Jules Furthman and William Faulkner based [very loosely!] on a novel by Ernest Hemingway. Note: In these credit notes I'm only including people who had screen credit according to the IMDB.) > 2. 1942: "Major Strasser has been shot." Give the continuation. "*Round up the usual suspects.*" 4 for Gareth, Joshua, Stephen, Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Marc, and Bruce. (Claude Rains as Louis Renault in "Casablanca"; screenplay by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch, based on a play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison.) > 3. 1941, spoken while picking up a black statuette: "Heavy. > What is it?" Give the reply. "The *stuff that*, uh, *dreams are made of*." 4 for Gareth, Joshua, Stephen, Jason, and Marc. 3 for Dan Tilque. (Ward Bond as Tom Polhaus and Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon"; screenplay by John Huston, based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett; the line alludes to William Shakespeare's "The Tempest".) > 4. 1979, two people talking: "You smell that?" -- "What?" -- > "Napalm, boy. Nothing else in the world smells like that." > Give the sentence that continues the last line. "I *love* the smell of *napalm in the morning*." 4 for Gareth, Joshua, Pete, Dan Blum, Jason, Calvin, Marc, and Bruce. (Robert Duvall as Bill Kilgore and Sam Bottoms as Lance Johnson in "Apocalypse Now"; screenplay by John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola. Kilgore goes on to say how it smells like victory, but that's not the next sentence.) > 5. 1992, two people talking: "You want answers?" -- "I think I'm > entitled to them." -- "You want answers?" -- "I want the truth!" > Give the reply to the last line. "*You can't handle the truth!*" 4 for everyone -- Gareth, Joshua, Stephen, Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Björn, Jason, Calvin, Marc, and Bruce. (Tom Cruise as Daniel Kaffee and Jack Nicholson as Nathan Jessup in "A Few Good Men"; by Aaron Sorkin, based on his own play.) > 6. 1939: "Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get > him back." Give the continuation. "After all, *tomorrow is another day*!" 4 for Gareth, Joshua, Stephen, Dan Tilque, Marc, and Bruce. (Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind"; screenplay by Sidney Howard, based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell.) > 7. 1933: "What does it matter? The airplanes got him." Give the > reply. It's two sentences long, but the second one is the one > that will count. "Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was *Beauty killed the Beast*." 4 for Gareth, Joshua, Stephen, Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Jason, Marc, and Bruce. 3 for Calvin. (George MacQuarrie as a policeman and Robert Armstrong as Carl Denham in "King Kong"; screenplay by James Creelman and Ruth Rose, based on a story by Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace.) > 8. 1972, two people talking: "And in a month from now, this > Hollywood big shot's going to give you what you want." -- > "It's too late; they start shooting in a week." Give the reply. "I'm going to make him an *offer he can't refuse*." 4 for Gareth, Joshua, Stephen, Pete, Calvin, and Marc. (Al Martino as Johnny Fontane and Marlon Brando as Don Corleone in "The Godfather"; by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel by Puzo.) > 9. 1976: "I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want > you to get up right now, and go to the window, open it, and > stick your head out and yell: ..." Yell what? "'I'm as *mad as hell* and I'm *not going to take* this *anymore*!'" (In this case either the first two or the last two of the three indicated phrases were required.) 4 for Gareth, Joshua, Pete, Jason, Calvin, Marc, Bruce, Stephen, and Dan Blum. (Peter Finch as Howard Beale in "Network"; by Paddy Chayefsky. His listeners do start yelling the line from their windows, but they improve the wording slightly, dropping the first "as" and sometimes changing "this" to "it" -- a very nice writing touch.) > 10. 1967: "Virgil. Funny name for a nigger boy from Philadelphia. > What do they call you up there?" Give the reply. "They call me *MR. TIBBS!*" 4 for Gareth, Joshua, Stephen, Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Jason, Calvin, Marc, and Bruce. (Rod Steiger as Gillespie and Sidney Poitier as Mr. Tibbs in "In the Heat of the Night"; screenplay by Stirling Silliphant, based on a novel by John Ball.) > name before the intersection, the cross street where it changes, > and some other information. You tell us the street name after > the intersection. And Stephen makes the round count. > begins -- never mind that. > 1. Going south, Christie St. ends at Bloor; the street it becomes > continues south to Dundas, ending near Trinity Bellwoods Park. Grace St. 4 for Stephen. > 2. Going south, St. George St. ends at College. Cross College > and you're on this street, which continues south to Queen. Beverley St. > 3. Going west, Hoskin Av. starts at Queen's Park Crescent and ends > shortly thereafter at St. George. Then it becomes this street, > which continues west to Ossington. Harbord St. > Coxwell continues all the way to University Av., its directional > suffix changing from "East" to "West" when it crosses Yonge. > Hint: this one is a little bit of a trick question. Gerrard St. 4 for Stephen. (Gerrard actually starts east of Victoria Park Rd., runs west to Coxwell, and then jogs sideways a full block to the south, *re*starting across from Eastwood.) > 5. Going southwest, Kingston Rd. ends at Queen St.; the street it > becomes turns west, mostly, and ends at Front near Parliament. Eastern Av. > 6. In the Annex, going north, Robert St. ends at Bloor; the street > it becomes continues a mere 4 blocks to Dupont St., with a jog > where it crosses Kendal Av. Walmer Rd. > 7. Going east, or southeast, Davenport Rd. ends at Yonge; the new > street turns south and continues to a little past the Esplanade. Church St. > becomes continues north, weirdly changing from an "avenue" to a > "boulevard", back to an "avenue", then to a "square", and finally > back to an "avenue" again before ending a little past Dupont. Palmerston Av. > 9. Going east, Irwin Av. ends at Yonge, close to a couple of our > trivia pubs; the new street continues east to Jarvis. Gloucester St. > 10. Going north, Parkside Dr. ends at Bloor; the street it becomes > continues north to St. Clair, and then after a gap, continues > north again. Keele St. 4 for Stephen. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS TOPICS-> His Mis Ent Can Joshua Kreitzer 40 32 40 0 112 Marc Dashevsky 32 32 40 0 104 Dan Blum 40 36 28 0 104 Dan Tilque 32 32 23 0 87 Bruce Bowler 24 24 32 0 80 Pete Gayde 32 15 32 0 79 Jason Kreitzer 36 0 28 0 64 Erland Sommarskog 20 28 -- -- 48 Stephen Perry -- -- 36 12 48 Peter Smyth 31 16 -- -- 47 Gareth Owen -- -- 40 0 40 "Calvin" 15 0 23 0 38 Björn Lundin 8 18 4 0 30 -- Mark Brader, Toronto "Tools, not solutions. :-)" msb@vex.net -- Henry Spencer My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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