| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 22 11:35PM -0600 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-10-03, 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 5 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 2016-11-26 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". * Game 3, Round 4 - Geography - Gently down the Stream We name three cities/towns; you name the river that joins them. Warning: the three cities won't necessarily be the largest or most famous ones along that river. 1. Basel, Strasbourg, Bonn. 2. Waterloo, Cambridge, Paris. 3. Bismarck, Omaha, Kansas City. 4. Regensburg, Bratislava, Belgrade. 5. Geneva, Lyon, Arles. 6. Prince George, Chilliwack, Maple Ridge. 7. Minneapolis, St. Louis, Memphis. 8. Turin, Piacenza, Cremona. 9. Dresden, Wittenberg, Hamburg. 10. Revelstoke, Portland, Astoria. * Game 3, Round 6 - Entertainment - Tomorrow's Classics... Maybe The BBC recently surveyed film critics from around the world and compiled a list of "the 100 greatest films of the 21st century". We wondered why they left it so late in the century. But anyway, we hope these questions on 10 of the Beeb's top 25 will help you choose what to watch tomorrow night. All answers are movie titles (in English, even if the movie wasn't). 1. Ranked #25. The BBC started the century early, in 2000, the year this film was made. Christopher Nolan directs Guy Pearce and Carrie-Anne Moss in a story about an amnesiac avenger. 2. Ranked #13. P.D. James wrote the novel this 2006 dystopian vision is based on. Clive Owen's character tries to save a baby in a world where most women have become infertile. Alfonso Cuarón directs. 3. Ranked #2. Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung play neighbors drawing closer, but the real stars are the leading lady's cheongsam dresses. Wong Kar-Wai directed this 2000 release. 4. Ranked #9. In 2011, writer-director Asghar Farhadi gave us this tale of marital discord in Iran. The wife (Leila Hatami) wants to emigrate, the husband (Peyman Moaadi) to stay and see that his father is cared for. 5. Ranked #3. Paul Thomas Anderson directs and Daniel Day-Lewis strikes oil. The Washington Post called this 2007 film "a sprawling, half-mad testament to greed, industry, moral hypocrisy, and ballyhoo". 6. Ranked #1. In 2001, David Lynch turned a rejected TV pilot into a feature film starring Naomi Watts and Laura Harring. It's named for a road in Los Angeles. 7. Ranked #17. In 2006, Guillermo del Toro wrote and directed this story set partly in Franco's Spain and partly in the fantasy world of its pre-teen protagonist, Ofelia. 8. Ranked #24. Philip Seymour Hoffman is married to Amy Adams but still curiously interested in Joaquin Phoenix. Paul Thomas Anderson directs this 2012 story of a cult called the Cause. 9. Ranked #10. The Coen brothers picked up the 2007 Best Picture Oscar for this modern-day western starring Josh Brolin as Llewelyn Moss and Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh. 10. Ranked #5. Released in 2014 but started a dozen years earlier, Richard Linklater's film takes Mason from Grade 1 to the end of high school. Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, and Ellar Coltrane star. -- Mark Brader | But I think we can do better next time. (Where the Toronto | word "we" refers to [those] who do the hard work while msb@vex.net | I sit back and complain...) -- Keith Thompson My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Dec 23 06:31AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:l-OdnSi5lZwqKsHFnZ2dnUU7- > Warning: the three cities won't necessarily be the largest or most > famous ones along that river. > 1. Basel, Strasbourg, Bonn. Rhine > 2. Waterloo, Cambridge, Paris. Seine > 3. Bismarck, Omaha, Kansas City. Missouri > 4. Regensburg, Bratislava, Belgrade. Danube > 7. Minneapolis, St. Louis, Memphis. Mississippi > 9. Dresden, Wittenberg, Hamburg. Rhine > 1. Ranked #25. The BBC started the century early, in 2000, the > year this film was made. Christopher Nolan directs Guy Pearce > and Carrie-Anne Moss in a story about an amnesiac avenger. "Memento" > vision is based on. Clive Owen's character tries to save > a baby in a world where most women have become infertile. > Alfonso Cuarón directs. "Children of Men" > 3. Ranked #2. Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung play neighbors drawing > closer, but the real stars are the leading lady's cheongsam > dresses. Wong Kar-Wai directed this 2000 release. "In the Mood for Love" > this tale of marital discord in Iran. The wife (Leila Hatami) > wants to emigrate, the husband (Peyman Moaadi) to stay and see > that his father is cared for. "A Separation" > strikes oil. The Washington Post called this 2007 film > "a sprawling, half-mad testament to greed, industry, moral > hypocrisy, and ballyhoo". "There Will Be Blood" > 6. Ranked #1. In 2001, David Lynch turned a rejected TV pilot > into a feature film starring Naomi Watts and Laura Harring. > It's named for a road in Los Angeles. "Mulholland Dr." > 7. Ranked #17. In 2006, Guillermo del Toro wrote and directed > this story set partly in Franco's Spain and partly in the > fantasy world of its pre-teen protagonist, Ofelia. "Pan's Labyrinth" > 8. Ranked #24. Philip Seymour Hoffman is married to Amy Adams > but still curiously interested in Joaquin Phoenix. Paul Thomas > Anderson directs this 2012 story of a cult called the Cause. "The Master" > 9. Ranked #10. The Coen brothers picked up the 2007 Best Picture > Oscar for this modern-day western starring Josh Brolin as > Llewelyn Moss and Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh. "No Country for Old Men" > Richard Linklater's film takes Mason from Grade 1 to the end > of high school. Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, and Ellar > Coltrane star. "Boyhood" -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Dec 23 12:01AM -0800 Mark Brader wrote: > Warning: the three cities won't necessarily be the largest or most > famous ones along that river. > 1. Basel, Strasbourg, Bonn. Rhine > 2. Waterloo, Cambridge, Paris. Thames ?? (some Ontario river, anyway) > 3. Bismarck, Omaha, Kansas City. Missouri > 4. Regensburg, Bratislava, Belgrade. Danube > 5. Geneva, Lyon, Arles. Rhone > 6. Prince George, Chilliwack, Maple Ridge. Fraser > 7. Minneapolis, St. Louis, Memphis. Mississippi > 8. Turin, Piacenza, Cremona. Po > 9. Dresden, Wittenberg, Hamburg. Elbe > 10. Revelstoke, Portland, Astoria. Columbia > 6. Ranked #1. In 2001, David Lynch turned a rejected TV pilot > into a feature film starring Naomi Watts and Laura Harring. > It's named for a road in Los Angeles. Sunset Boulevard; Mulholland Drive (the two default LA streets -- OK, Rodeo Drive too, but I only get two guesses) -- Dan Tilque |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Dec 23 08:41AM > 1. Ranked #25. The BBC started the century early, in 2000, the > year this film was made. Christopher Nolan directs Guy Pearce > and Carrie-Anne Moss in a story about an amnesiac avenger. Memento > vision is based on. Clive Owen's character tries to save > a baby in a world where most women have become infertile. > Alfonso Cuarón directs. Children of Men > 3. Ranked #2. Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung play neighbors drawing > closer, but the real stars are the leading lady's cheongsam > dresses. Wong Kar-Wai directed this 2000 release. Nope. > this tale of marital discord in Iran. The wife (Leila Hatami) > wants to emigrate, the husband (Peyman Moaadi) to stay and see > that his father is cared for. Nope. Remember hearing it reviewed on Kermode & Mayo though. > strikes oil. The Washington Post called this 2007 film > "a sprawling, half-mad testament to greed, industry, moral > hypocrisy, and ballyhoo". There Will Be Blood (exhibit A in the case for "Paul Thomas Anderson is a certified genius") > 6. Ranked #1. In 2001, David Lynch turned a rejected TV pilot > into a feature film starring Naomi Watts and Laura Harring. > It's named for a road in Los Angeles. Mulholland Drive > 7. Ranked #17. In 2006, Guillermo del Toro wrote and directed > this story set partly in Franco's Spain and partly in the > fantasy world of its pre-teen protagonist, Ofelia. Pan's Labyrinth > 8. Ranked #24. Philip Seymour Hoffman is married to Amy Adams > but still curiously interested in Joaquin Phoenix. Paul Thomas > Anderson directs this 2012 story of a cult called the Cause. The Master (exhibit A in the case for "Paul Thomas Anderson is an overrated pretentious hack beloved by critics because he looks like a film critic") > 9. Ranked #10. The Coen brothers picked up the 2007 Best Picture > Oscar for this modern-day western starring Josh Brolin as > Llewelyn Moss and Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh. No Country For Old Men > Richard Linklater's film takes Mason from Grade 1 to the end > of high school. Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, and Ellar > Coltrane star. Boyhood |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 22 11:32PM -0600 Mark Brader: > Given the title of a winning book (or two books by the same author) > and the date of the award, you name the author from the above list. > 1. "The Sentimentalists", 2010. Johanna Skibsrud. > 2. "Through Black Spruce", 2008. Joseph Boyden. > 3. "The Polished Hoe", 2002. Austin Clarke. 2 for Joshua. > 4. "The Love of a Good Woman", 1998; "Runaway", 2004. Alice Munro. > 5. "Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures", 2006. Vincent Lam. > 6. "Clara Callan", 2001. Richard B. Wright. 3 for Joshua. > 7. "Fifteen Dogs", 2015. André Alexis. > 8. "Barney's Version", 1997. Mordecai Richler. 4 for Joshua. > 9. "The Bishop's Man", 2009. Linden McIntyre. > 10. "The Book of Secrets", 1994; "The In-Between World of Vikram > Lall", 2003. M.G. Vassanji. 3 for Dan Blum. > 1. Gravity is the weakest of the four fundamental forces (or > interactions). Another one of the four is electromagnetism. > Name one of the other two. Strong (nuclear) force, weak (nuclear) force. 4 for Marc, Dan Tilque, Peter, Don (the hard way), Dan Blum, Joshua, Calvin, and Gareth. 3 for Erland. > the same as the speed of light. Therefore, if the Sun suddenly > disappeared, how long -- rounded to the nearest whole minute -- > would it take for the Earth to start spinning out of orbit? 8 minutes. 4 for Dan Tilque, Peter, Don, Dan Blum, Erland, and Joshua. 3 for Calvin. More precisely, if I compute correctly, it's 8 minutes and anywhere from 10.6 to 27.4 seconds, depending on the Earth's position in its orbit at the time. > in such a way that smaller objects such as asteroids and > spacecraft can remain in a relatively stable position relative > to the two bodies. What are these points called? Lagrange or libration points. Also accepting L-points. 4 for Dan Tilque, Peter, Don, Dan Blum, Joshua, and Gareth. Three points are collinear with the two bodies, one near each side of the smaller body (L1 and L2) and one 180° around its orbit (L3). The other two points (L4 and L5), the only ones that are really stable, are 60° each way around its orbit. More precisely, this is true if the orbit is circular. > 4. The formula to calculate the acceleration due to gravity at the > Earth's surface is Gm/r, where m is the mass of the Earth and > r is the radius of the Earth. What is G called? The (universal) gravitational constant. 4 for Marc, Dan Tilque, Peter, Don, Dan Blum, Erland, and Gareth. > commonly quoted rounded values is acceptable), What is the > escape velocity from Earth? That is, the speed required to > escape the Earth's gravitational pull. 11.2 km/s (accepting 10.64-11.76), 40,300 km/h (accepting 38,285-42,315), 6.95 mi/s (accepting 6.60-7.30), or 25,000 mph (accepting 23,750-26,250). 4 for Marc, Dan Tilque, Don, Dan Blum, and Gareth. It is technically a speed, as the question indicates: the direction doesn't matter, unless it means something gets in the way. Even though "velocity" in physics normally means a speed *and* direction, in astronautical usage it generally doesn't; hence the common term "escape velocity". You can find it called "escape speed" in some older books. Sorry, no points for getting it wrong by a factor of 1,000. I am curious what the entrant who was low by about a factor of 80 had in mind, though. > 6. What is the term given to an object of such mass and gravity > that it can be observed to bend light? Gravitational lens. 4 for Marc, Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, and Gareth. Some entrants named specific bodies that might have that property, but the key word in the question was *observed*. > 7. What is the name given to the 84% of the universe which, although > not directly observable, is detected by gravitational effects? Dark matter. 4 for Dan Tilque, Peter, Don, Dan Blum, Erland, Pete, Joshua, Calvin, and Gareth. > at the Delft church tower in the Netherlands. He set out > to demonstrate what is now known as the "weak equivalency > principle". How did he do that? He dropped two different objects from the tower to show they fall at the same rate. (See also last season's Game 6, Round 2.) 4 for Marc, Dan Tilque, Peter, and Gareth. > David Scott of the Apollo 15 mission conducted the same > experiment on the moon in 1971. Name *either* of the two > objects that he dropped. Feather, hammer. 4 for Dan Tilque, Peter, Dan Blum, Pete, and Gareth. > fixed in position. This orbit, or belt, is named after a > science-fiction writer who first recognized its importance in > a 1945 article. Who? Sir Arthur C. Clarke. 4 for Marc, Dan Tilque, Don, Dan Blum, and Gareth. In a 4-page non-fiction article in "Wireless World". Here's a copy: http://www.tnmoc.org/sites/default/files/Extra-Terrestrial%20Relays2.pdf Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 3 ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS TOPICS-> Can Sci Dan Tilque 0 40 40 Dan Blum 3 36 39 Gareth Owen 0 36 36 Peter Smyth 0 28 28 Don Piven 0 28 28 Joshua Kreitzer 9 16 25 Marc Dashevsky 0 24 24 Erland Sommarskog 0 15 15 "Calvin" 0 11 11 Pete Gayde 0 8 8 -- Mark Brader, Toronto, msb@vex.net MARTIANS BUILD TWO IMMENSE CANALS IN TWO YEARS. Vast Engineering Works Accomplished in an Incredibly Short Time by Our Planetary Neighbors. --N.Y.Times headline, August 27, 1911 My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 22 11:33PM -0600 Gareth Owen: > So with some handy rounding, call that 20 * 6,400,000 or 2 * 64,000,000 > v = \sqrt{2} * \sqrt{8000*8000} = 1.4*8000 = 11,200 m/s > Do I get any marks for the working? This is trivia -- you're supposed to *know* the answers, so I should take marks away for that! (Yes, I am joking.) -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "(And then there were the mtimes. msb@vex.net | Oh, the mtimes...)" --Steve Summit |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Dec 23 08:13AM > Sorry, no points for getting it wrong by a factor of 1,000. What! Don't you permit any leeway at all!!??!?!?! The whole story is embarrasing. I put down 11 at first, possibly in the wrong unit. But at some point I thought it just wasn't realistic, and thought that my memory was failing me and added three zeroes. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
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