| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 25 11:36PM -0600 Mark Brader: > and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information > see my 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian > Inquisition (QFTCI*)". And we're done! This completes the season written by the Usual Suspects and played from May to August of this year. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed participating in creating it. And the winner of the Final game is JOSHUA KREITZER. Congratulations, eh? > I conceived this round and wrote 6 of the triples in it. I asked someone else to write triple G, and they produced three Canadiana Literature questions, when I'd intended "Literature Canadiana" to mean references to Canada in *non-Canadian* books. Oh well, at least it was a good idea, I thought. > * A. Canadiana Sports > A1. Which Toronto Argonaut and Chicago Black Hawk -- and later > the MP for Trinity -- was known as the Big Train? Lionel Conacher. (Lived 1900-54. As well as football and hockey, in the 1920s and 1930s he was also a star in lacrosse, baseball, and boxing.) > A2. Which Edmonton Eskimo -- and later Lieutenant Governor of > Alberta -- was known as the China Clipper? Normie Kwong. (Lived 1929-2016, played pro football 1948-60.) > A3. Which Toronto Argonaut did not have a famous nickname, > but later joined the Supreme Court of Canada? John Sopinka. (Lived 1933-97, played pro football 1955-57, and also the violin.) > what they represent. If there are multiple dots within the same > metropolitan area, their exact positions may not be meaningful. > B1. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b1.jpg National Hockey League (NHL) teams. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Dan Tilque, Peter, Marc, Bruce, Erland, Gareth, and Joshua. Of course, "National" in this case refers to a different nation than with the other two below. > B2. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b2.jpg National Football League (NFL) teams. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Peter, Marc, Bruce, Erland, Gareth, and Joshua. All the teams are in fact shown. > B3. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b3.jpg National League (NL) baseball teams. 4 for Dan Tilque, Peter, Marc, Gareth, and Joshua. 3 for Dan Blum. All of the NL teams are shown; the gold dots, of course, are the American League (AL), with Toronto omitted. > C1. Today the main island of the Toronto Islands is variously > called Toronto Island or Centre Island. But in the 19th > century, it was called the Peninsula. What changed it? The low-lying isthmus at its eastern end was destroyed by a storm (in 1858). I did not actcept "it got cut off from the mainland" as sufficient. [in 1834] http://www.biographi.ca/bioimages/original.3559.jpg [in 1889] http://static.torontopubliclibrary.ca/da/images/MC/maps-r-152.jpg [in 2001] http://i810.photobucket.com/albums/zz28/tangledline_bucket/map2001.jpg > entering it for agricultural use. Most of the lake has > now evaporated. Before all this happened, what was this > lake called in English? Aral Sea. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Dan Tilque, Peter, Marc, Erland, and Joshua. 3 for Björn. [in 1960, 1990, 2000, and 2010] http://mapsofworld.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/aral-map.jpg > been reclaimed as land. The lake is called the IJsselmeer; > what was its name when it was part of the ocean? The name > in Dutch is also used in English. Zuider Zee. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Marc, Bruce, Gareth, and Joshua. [before] http://img0.etsystatic.com/000/0/5229213/il_570xN.263838770.jpg [modern] http://rabbel.nl/images/ijsselmeer.gif > and his wife, who he keeps imprisoned most of the time. > "It's 1183 and we're barbarians", she tells him at one point. > Name *both* characters. Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, and Gareth. > D2. The movie "300" is about an ancient battle between which > *two* armies? Spartan and Persian. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Dan Tilque, Marc, Bruce, and Björn. 3 for Joshua. > D3. A large part of the movie "The Life of Emile Zola" is about > Émile Zola's long effort to save an unjustly convicted man. > Name that man *and* tell what he was convicted of. Albert Dreyfus, treason (accepting espionage; what he supposedly did was to pass military secrets to German spies). 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Marc, Joshua, and Björn. You will remember from QFTCIMI515 Game 10, Round 2, posted here on 2016-06-25, that MI5 asked a question about the Dreyfus affair in their game originally played 2015-03-23. At that time I recommended, and I still recommend, Robert Harris's 2013 novelization of the whole sorry story, "An Officer and a Spy". > mentioned "Henry" or just "Eleanor" in an answer, please go back and > be more specific for each of them. And if you mentioned the "Greek" > army in an answer, likewise please go back and be more specific. This did not constitute permission to go back and *delete* content. > E1. Give either the width or the height of an HD television > screen in pixels, within 10% of the true number. You must > say which answer you are giving. 1,920 pixels wide by 1,080 high (accepting 1,728 to 2,112 wide or 972 to 1,188 high). 4 for Dan Blum, Peter, Bruce, and Gareth. 3 for Calvin. > same 70 mm film that was also used for major releases that > weren't in IMAX. The difference is in how it uses it. > Explain that difference. The film is used sideways. 4 for Joshua. So if the image is 1.4 times as wide as it it's high, it's the height and not the width that's limited by the 70 mm width of the strip of film. Therefore each frame can be 1.4 times as wide as in a standard 70 mm release, or about twice the area. Compared to 35 mm film, IMAX would be about 8 times the area. Incidentally, standard still photography in 35 mm also uses the film sideways, so each image is similarly larger in area than a frame on standard movie film. > E3. Although people continued to speak of celluloid, that > particular plastic stopped being used for movie film in > the 1950s. Why? Fire safety -- it was extremely flammable. Or as Gareth but it, "It burns like a bastard". 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Dan Tilque, Peter, Marc, Bruce, Erland, Gareth, and Joshua. > Blind Watchmaker". He invented the word "meme", and (in > case you thought he wasn't notable) he's married to a woman > who used to appear on "Doctor Who". Richard Dawkins. (Lalla Ward played Princess Astra in a 6-part episode, then Romana for most of the following two seasons, when Tom Baker was the Doctor.) 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Dan Tilque, Peter, Marc, Gareth, and Joshua. > in "Scientific American". In the book he set out his law, > which says that things always take longer than you expect, > even when you take his law into account. Douglas Hofstadter. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Marc, Gareth, and Joshua. > By the third edition, in 1972, it had his own name in the > title instead. Even though he mostly wrote non-fiction, > he is better remembered for fiction. Isaac Asimov. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Dan Tilque, Marc, Gareth, and Joshua. > him the Governor-General's award, and with "Lines on the > Water", about fishing the same river, Richards also won a > non-fiction GG. Miramichi. > G2. Which Canadian author set several novels and stories in > the fictional town of Manawaka, a stand-in for the author's > hometown of Neepawa, Manitoba? Margaret Laurence. > G3. Which Canadian mystery writer has set a series of books in > the fictional town of Three Pines, located in Quebec's > Eastern Townships? Louise Penny. Scores, if there are no errors: FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST TOPICS-> Ent Geo Mis Spo His Sci Lit Cha SIX Joshua Kreitzer 44 48 48 12 40 27 39 47 266 Dan Blum 36 30 36 28 24 56 40 51 249 Gareth Owen 44 -- 46 36 24 44 31 40 241 Dan Tilque 16 56 20 28 36 40 27 40 227 Marc Dashevsky 48 24 32 16 16 55 20 44 223 Pete Gayde 43 34 16 23 23 28 16 -- 167 Peter Smyth -- 30 12 24 20 32 -- 28 146 Erland Sommarskog -- 40 -- 8 19 16 -- 16 99 "Calvin" -- -- -- -- 27 13 20 35 95 Bruce Bowler -- -- -- -- -- 68 -- 24 92 Björn Lundin 4 20 4 4 4 16 8 11 63 Jason Kreitzer 28 -- 12 -- -- -- -- -- 40 -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "If we gave people a choice, there would be chaos." msb@vex.net | -- Dick McDonald My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Nov 26 06:36AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in >> be more specific for each of them. And if you mentioned the "Greek" >> army in an answer, likewise please go back and be more specific. > This did not constitute permission to go back and *delete* content. Sincere question: If one's original response to D2 was: "Persia and Sparta; Persia and Greece" and then one read the rot13 comment, but didn't want to guess anywhere in Greece other than Sparta, what should one do? (This was my actual situation. I've never seen "300", but I knew it involved Sparta, although I didn't know whether they were fighting Persia on their own or in collaboration with other Greek city-states.) -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 26 12:54AM -0600 Mark Brader: >>> be more specific for each of them. And if you mentioned the "Greek" >>> army in an answer, likewise please go back and be more specific. >> This did not constitute permission to go back and *delete* content. Joshua Kreitzer: > "Persia and Sparta; Persia and Greece" > and then one read the rot13 comment, but didn't want to guess anywhere in > Greece other than Sparta, what should one do? Make no change, the same as you'd do if you hadn't mentioned Greece. -- Mark Brader | "The good news is that the Internet is dynamic. Toronto | The bad news is that the Internet is dynamic." msb@vex.net | -- Peter Neumann My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 25 11:49PM -0600 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-09-19, 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 Misplaced Modifiers 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 recent companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". * Game 1, Round 2 - Entertainment - The Boys (and Girls and Dogs) of Summer This round is about baseball movies. (In this case the term "movie" includes TV-movies.) We describe it -- you name it. 1. A 1988 dramatization of the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919, starring John Cusack, John Mahoney, and Charlie Sheen. 2. A player seemingly comes out of nowhere and displays almost divine talent with the aid of his bat "Wonderboy". 1984, starring Wilfred Brimley and Robert Redford. 3. 1973. Examines the friendship between a star pitcher and his half-wit tobacco-chewing catcher as they deal with the catcher's mortal illness. Starring Michael Moriarty and Robert De Niro. 4. An aimless young petty crook agrees to coach a Chicago little-league team in order to settle his debts. 2001, starring Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, and D.B. Sweeney. 5. A scientist makes a substance which causes a baseball to be repelled by wood. He becomes a major-league pitcher and wins the World Series. 1949, starring Ray Milland, Jean Peters, and Paul Douglas. 6. A losing baseball team gets some supernatural help to become winners. Original made in 1951 starring Paul Douglas and Janet Leigh; remade in 1984 with Danny Glover and Brenda Fricker. 7. A 1992 depiction of the All American Girls Baseball League. Starring Geena Davis, Lori Petty, and Madonna. 8. An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California Little League. Starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, and Jackie Earle Haley. Billy Bob Thornton starred in an ill-considered 2005 remake. 9. A 2001 movie starring Barry Pepper and Thomas Jane, about the race between Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle to break Babe Ruth's single-season home run record. 10. 2013 story of Jackie Robinson's historic breaking of the major-league color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Starring Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford. * Game 1, Round 3 - Canadiana - Canadian Logos Past and Present Ottawa advertising agency Northern Army has created a website to collect what they consider to be the best logos in Canada -- "preserved in the moment in time we felt they were at their best. Some of them are no longer in use, or have been updated, for better or worse." Please see the handout at: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/1-3/logos/logos.pdf In each case, we give you the number of the logo; you tell us the organization, company, government department, agency, event, program, or group that is (or was) represented by that logo. In some cases short forms are sufficient. If you aren't sure of the correct long form, you can try just giving a short form; but I'll also allow you to give *within a single guess* a short form and a corresponding long form, in which case I'll look only at the one that fits the type of answer required. If you do this, please put one of the forms in parentheses so I can be sure they aren't two separate guesses. I've rearranged the round in order by logo number. As you see, there were 22 decoys, which are now interspersed with the others; identify those logos if you like for fun, but for no points. 1. (decoy) 2. Name it. 3. (decoy) 4. Name it. 5. (decoy) 6. (decoy) 7. (decoy) 8. Name it. 9. (decoy) 10. (decoy) 11. (decoy) 12. (decoy) 13. (decoy) 14. (decoy) 15. Name it. 16. (decoy) 17. (decoy) 18. (decoy) 19. (decoy) 20. (That's the unnumbered one, of course.) Name it. 21. (decoy) 22. (decoy) 23. (decoy) 24. Name it. 25. Name it. 26. (decoy) 27. (decoy) 28. (decoy) 29. Name it. 30. Name it. 31. (decoy) 32. Name it. After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh fnvq "GQ Pnanqn Gehfg" sbe nal ybtb, jr arrq lbh gb or yrff fcrpvsvp, be zber fcrpvsvp, qrcraqvat ba ubj lbh ybbx ng vg. Naq vs lbh ersreerq gb gur Bylzcvpf, jr arrq fbzrguvat zber fcrpvsvp gurer nyfb. Yvxrjvfr, vs sbe nal nafjre nyy lbh fnvq jnf "Pnanqvna", be nyy lbh fnvq jnf "fhojnl" be n fvzvyne jbeq, ntnva jr arrq zber. Cyrnfr tb onpx naq rqvg nf nccyvpnoyr. -- Mark Brader | "/dev/null institutionalizes a regrettable loss of bits Toronto | that could have been transmitted to mailing lists and msb@vex.net | netnews. Our grandchildren will miss them." --Ritchie My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Nov 26 06:32AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in > "movie" includes TV-movies.) We describe it -- you name it. > 1. A 1988 dramatization of the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919, > starring John Cusack, John Mahoney, and Charlie Sheen. "Eight Men Out" > 2. A player seemingly comes out of nowhere and displays almost > divine talent with the aid of his bat "Wonderboy". 1984, > starring Wilfred Brimley and Robert Redford. "The Natural" > 3. 1973. Examines the friendship between a star pitcher and his > half-wit tobacco-chewing catcher as they deal with the catcher's > mortal illness. Starring Michael Moriarty and Robert De Niro. "Bang the Drum Slowly" > 4. An aimless young petty crook agrees to coach a Chicago > little-league team in order to settle his debts. 2001, > starring Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, and D.B. Sweeney. "Hardball" (?) > repelled by wood. He becomes a major-league pitcher and wins > the World Series. 1949, starring Ray Milland, Jean Peters, > and Paul Douglas. "It Happens Every Spring" > 6. A losing baseball team gets some supernatural help to become > winners. Original made in 1951 starring Paul Douglas and Janet > Leigh; remade in 1984 with Danny Glover and Brenda Fricker. "Angels in the Outfield" (?; if so, the remake date looks wrong) > 7. A 1992 depiction of the All American Girls Baseball League. > Starring Geena Davis, Lori Petty, and Madonna. "A League of Their Own" > of misfits in an ultra-competitive California Little League. > Starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, and Jackie Earle Haley. > Billy Bob Thornton starred in an ill-considered 2005 remake. "The Bad News Bears" > 9. A 2001 movie starring Barry Pepper and Thomas Jane, about the > race between Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle to break Babe Ruth's > single-season home run record. "61*" > 10. 2013 story of Jackie Robinson's historic breaking of the > major-league color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers. > Starring Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford. "42" > the organization, company, government department, agency, event, > program, or group that is (or was) represented by that logo. > 17. (decoy) Men Without Hats > 20. (That's the unnumbered one, of course.) Name it. National Film Board of Canada . > 30. Name it. 1988 Winter Olympics; 2010 Winter Olympics -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Nov 26 06:39AM > 1. A 1988 dramatization of the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919, > starring John Cusack, John Mahoney, and Charlie Sheen. Eight Men Out > 2. A player seemingly comes out of nowhere and displays almost > divine talent with the aid of his bat "Wonderboy". 1984, > starring Wilfred Brimley and Robert Redford. The Natural > 3. 1973. Examines the friendship between a star pitcher and his > half-wit tobacco-chewing catcher as they deal with the catcher's > mortal illness. Starring Michael Moriarty and Robert De Niro. Bang The Drum Slowly. I've not seen the film, but the book on which its based, and its predecessor "The Southpaw" are terrific. The last two in the sequence are less good. > 4. An aimless young petty crook agrees to coach a Chicago > little-league team in order to settle his debts. 2001, > starring Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, and D.B. Sweeney. Nope > repelled by wood. He becomes a major-league pitcher and wins > the World Series. 1949, starring Ray Milland, Jean Peters, > and Paul Douglas. Nope > 6. A losing baseball team gets some supernatural help to become > winners. Original made in 1951 starring Paul Douglas and Janet > Leigh; remade in 1984 with Danny Glover and Brenda Fricker. Angels In The Outfield > 7. A 1992 depiction of the All American Girls Baseball League. > Starring Geena Davis, Lori Petty, and Madonna. A League Of Their Own > of misfits in an ultra-competitive California Little League. > Starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, and Jackie Earle Haley. > Billy Bob Thornton starred in an ill-considered 2005 remake. The Bad News Bears > 9. A 2001 movie starring Barry Pepper and Thomas Jane, about the > race between Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle to break Babe Ruth's > single-season home run record. 61* > 10. 2013 story of Jackie Robinson's historic breaking of the > major-league color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers. > Starring Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford. 42 > * Game 1, Round 3 - Canadiana - Canadian Logos Past and Present Pass Right, I'm off for a game of TEGWAR |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 25 11:43PM -0600 This is a repeat of my 2016-05-31 introductory posting with some minor updates. If you were already familiar with the content and the way I'm scheduling things, then there's no real need to reread it now. * Introduction As most of you will remember, the Canadian Inquisition is a team trivia league that plays in Toronto pubs. It's a cooperative league, whose teams take turns to write and ask the questions that the others answer. In the current season, September-December 2016, the questions are being written by the Misplaced Modifiers. Next season, January-April 2017, they will be written by 5 Easy Pieces. I have obtained both teams' permission to post to this newsgroup the questions from these seasons, to be respectively tagged QFTCIMM16 and QFTCI5EP in the subject line. Before posting them here, I'm editing some of them for various reasons -- for brevity, to clarify their intent, to avoid issues raised on protests, for suitability in this medium, and so on. As you may remember, the league's season consists of 10 regular games and a Final. A regular game contains 102 questions. Most of the game is in rounds of 10 questions on a specific topic within a different general area. For example, one game in 2008 included a geography round on former place names, an entertainment round on Morgan Freeman movies, and a sports round on things that happened during Toronto Blue Jays games. Round 1 is always a current-events round; Round 5 is always an audio round; and Round 10 (the "challenge round") normally contains 12 questions, 2 each on 6 different subjects. I won't be posting audio questions (except if I think they can be answered without the audio), nor will I post the video questions that sometimes occur in the Final. * Scheduling - Regular Games My intent is that for each quiz you'll get about 3 days to answer, plus or minus a few hours, but I'm not going to set exact deadlines; I'll cut off entries at whatever time (after 2 days and about 21 hours) that it's convenient for me to do the scoring and post the results. One series of postings will include Rounds 2-4 and 6-10 for each of Games 1-10. I will normally post the questions as four sets of two rounds each: Rounds 2-3 in one posting, Rounds 4 and 6 in the next, and so on. In the Final, most rounds have 15 questions, and these I'll post one round at a time. For each game, I'll keep a cumulative score over the group of postings, counting your best 6 rounds out of 8 (or 5 out of 7, etc.) -- that way if you miss a set, or if there's a subject you're weak on, you still have a chance to finish well. Each game will be totaled after the last round is posted and scored. In a normal game usually one round is Canadiana (this may also fall under another subject such as history or geography), which those of you in distant places may have some trouble with, but I am including them in the posting series anyway. This is your chance to shine by displaying your knowledge of Canadiana. However, if *nobody* in the newsgroup scores *any* points on a round, which has happened with Canadiana occasionally, then I will score as if that round had never existed. * Scheduling - Current Events I will also do a separate series of postings consisting of current-events rounds only, also to be posted two at a time. These will all appear while they're still reasonably current -- normally within a couple of days of the second of the two original games. For this series I'm accumulating scores over all the games from the Usual Suspects' season, similarly counting the best 9 out of 11. So there will be an overall current-events winner for the season. I'm posting current-events games independently of the posting of other games, so there will normally be a regular game running concurrently with each set of current-events questions. The first pair of current-events rounds will be posted right after this introduction. Current-events rounds generally refer to events that took place the week before the original game, sometimes also the week before that. If answers have changed due to newer news, you are still expected to give the answer that was correct as of the game date. * Procedures and Scoring The usual rule in our regular league games is that each question goes to an individual who can answer for 2 points without assistance, and if he misses, he can consult his team and try again for 1 point. If the quizmaster judges that an answer is incomplete, she can ask for more details before ruling the answer right or wrong. To maintain the spirit of these rules, I will say that you can give two answers on every question. But I will penalize you if you give both a right answer and a wrong answer. My scoring is: 4 points - if you answer once and are right (or twice, both right) 3 points - if you guess twice and are right only the first time 2 points - if you guess twice and are right only the second time Bonus points may occasionally be available and will be explained in the relevant round. If you give only one answer, but with only some sort of additional comment, please make it clear that that's what you're doing. If there is any doubt I'll assume that you are giving two answers. If I see more than two answers, the third and any later ones will be ignored. Where it makes sense, I will accept answers that I think are almost close enough (*more than half right*), with a 1-point penalty. But I will reject answers that I do not think are sufficiently specific, since there is no opportunity to ask for clarification when answers are posted in the newsgroup. You must, of course, answer based on your own knowledge and nothing else. You must post all your answers in a single posting. Where a person's name is asked for, *normally you need only give the surname*. If you give another part of the name and you're wrong, your answer is wrong. -- Mark Brader | "(I've been told that I suffer from rampant narcissism. Toronto | Just to confirm the accuracy of this character assessment, msb@vex.net | I have now shared it with the whole world.)" --Laura Spira My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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