- Rotating Quiz #233 RESULTS - 2 Updates
- QFTCI16 Game 8, Rounds 7-8: map errors, ye olde disease - 1 Update
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Oct 03 03:10AM Rotating Quiz #233 is over and Calvin is the winner. He may now set RQ #234. > Chinese literature. While you probably haven't read either book, the > novel has inspired lots of things, including many computer and video > games. What's the rest of the title? Three Kingdoms > he has also produced a number of television series on historical > topics and written a book examining the history behind the caharacter > of the knight from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Terry Jones > was not holy, Roman, or an empire. This originated in a two-volume > history of Germany titled Annales de l'Empire written by which French > author? Voltaire > first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. > This is the first sentence of the English version of a work by which > historian? The subject is Louis Napoleon's 1851 coup. Karl Marx > the Father of History. However, he was criticized for including > legendary material even in his own time and some later called him the > Father of Lies because of the unreliability of his work. Herodotus > first of the three volumes of this history had to be rewritten from > scratch because John Stuart Mill's maid thought the manuscript was > scrap paper and burned it. Thomas Carlyle > thought to allude to him in some critical statements. His history of > the Peloponnesian Wars relies on eyewitness accounts (including his > own) and is still studied today, particularly in military colleges. Thucydides > light; the truth is presumably somewhere in the vast gulf between the > two. (Certainly the secret history is not entirely reliable since at > one point it claims Justinian could make his head disappear.) Procopius > 9. Behemoth is the title of a work about the English Civil Wars by > which 17h-century English historian? Thomas Hobbes The title is a reference to Hobbes' earlier Leviathan. > Canterbury, who was one of Richard's enemies, and modern historians > believe the work is heavily influenced by Morton's opinions, with some > even thinking that Morton wrote it and <answer 10> merely edited it. Thomas More Scoring: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total ---------------------------------- Calvin 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 4 Dan 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 Mark 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 Marc 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 -- _______________________________________________________________________ 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): Oct 03 01:16AM -0500 Dan Blum: > Rotating Quiz #233 is over and Calvin is the winner. Well done, Calvin! -- Mark Brader | lying Toronto | abort reply. msb@vex.net | -- random words at end of a spam message |
| swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Oct 02 07:55AM -0700 On Friday, September 30, 2016 at 2:18:57 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote: > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-07-11, > and should be interpreted accordingly. so my plan to rearrange things to make all of your maps correct won't help. hmmm. well played. > see my 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian > Inquisition (QFTCI*)". > I wrote one of these rounds. map round? > 1. (Map C is a decoy. All street names and buildings are correct. > Which label that you see is wrong?) > 2. Which label that you see on Map D is wrong? laqke titicaca > 3. Which *city* is wrong on Map E? asuncion > 4. (Map F is a decoy. Which label for a landmark is wrong?) > 5. (Map G is a decoy. Which station label is wrong?) > 6. Which *city* label is wrong on Map H? denver > 7. On Map I, don't worry about the bodies of water; we'll > tell you that those are correct. But which label for a > *city, state, or territory* is wrong? wellington > 8. On Map J, everything is correct in the small print showing > street names, subway stations, and so on. Which *landmark* > label in large print is wrong? tour eiffel > correct when this map was made. That is, all the circles with > building codes, and all the names of other U of T facilities, > those are all correct. So which label that you see is wrong? back campus? > 10. On Map L, which *country* label is wrong? botswana (and you have clearly left our wakanda...) > 11. On Map M, which *city* label is wrong? pyongyang > 13. On Map O, all the street names and numbers are correct and so are > the bridges and tunnels. The label that's wrong is for *a river, > a district, or a park or square*. Which one is wrong? times square > 14. On Map P, we'll tell you that once again all the bodies of > water are correct. Which *city* label is wrong? warsaw > are, the more fun you'll have with this round. Go try some of > them on your doctor the next time you're afflicted. > 1. Dropsy. edema > 2. Ague ["EH-gyoo"]. malaria > 3. Apoplexy. stroke > 4. Carbuncle. cluster of boils, usually swollen and very painful > 5. Neurasthenia. fatigue > 6. Quinsy. abscess in tonsils > 7. Falling sickness. epilepsy > 8. Hydrophobia. ... this is literally "fear of water" which is still a thing, but I think they are going for 'rabies' because of the symptom > 9. Consumption. tuberculosis > 10. Wen. a cyst > about ague, if you named a symptom rather than a disease and gave > only a one-word answer, please go back and expand it to indicate > a combination of two symptoms. swp |
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