- QFTCIMM16 Game 1, Rounds 2-3: baseball movies, Canlogos - 2 Updates
- QFTCI16 Final, Round 10 answers: Challenge Round - 4 Updates
- Calvin's Quiz #464 - 1 Update
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Nov 26 08:24PM -0800 Mark Brader wrote: > "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 > 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 -- Dan Tilque |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Nov 27 10:05AM +0100 On 2016-11-26 06:49, Mark Brader wrote: > * 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. Not my game > * Game 1, Round 3 - Canadiana - Canadian Logos Past and Present No luck here either -- Björn |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Nov 26 07:23PM -0800 Mark Brader wrote: > 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. After I posted my answers, I went and looked up the answer for this. From everything I've read, there are actually two sets of answers: 1920 x 1080 1280 x 720 Those are the number of pixels that the signal can be transmitted in, although perhaps no one actually uses the smaller size anymore. (I have no idea.) However, the question actually asked about the screen size, not the transmission size. There's lots and lots more sizes than that in monitors, although the ones with at least 3840 x 2160 are generally called UHD (ultra-high def). Now Mark is going to think I'm protesting the question, but I'm not, at least not for myself. My answer would not fit either of the two sizes above, and probably not any of the various monitors out there on the market. None matched my answer exactly and I don't think I was close enough to be within 10% of any of them. Admittedly, I stopped worrying about that after seeing so many different sizes. Anyway, what I'm really doing is pointing out is that this was a poorly worded question. I'm not asking Mark to do anything here, except try to avoid this kind of thing in the future. -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 26 09:45PM -0600 Dan Tilque: > Anyway, what I'm really doing is pointing out is that this was a poorly > worded question. Sorry about that, Chief. > I'm not asking Mark to do anything here, except try to avoid this kind > of thing in the future. I do. -- Mark Brader | "In a perfect world, the person of authority responds Toronto | to needs rather than to demands. That's not the way msb@vex.net | the system works, though." --Tony Cooper |
| Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Nov 26 11:28PM Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote in > 1 Which Asian country is home to the most Christians, around 85 > million? Philippines > 2 Pride, Avarice, Envy, Gluttony, Sloth, Lust - which > deadly sin is missing? Greed > 3 In which country was actress Greta Garbo born? Sweden > 4 Which Pacific island is known as Rapa Nui in its native > language? Cook Island > 5 In 79 AD, Pompeii and which other city were buried by > the eruption of Mount Vesuvius? Herculaneum > 6 What is the SI base unit of electrical current? Ampere > 7 What is the only US State that has the name > of an English county in it? New Hampshire > 8 Which segment of an insect is > located between its head and abdomen? Thorax > 9 Which European country's internet domain is .ch? Switzerland > 10 Which city, the third largest in Egypt, > lies at the northern end of the Suez Canal? Alexandria > cheers, > calvin Pete Gayde |
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