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- RQ #245 Answers and Results - 4 Updates
- QFTCIMM16 Game 7, Rounds 9-10: ungulates, challenge - 4 Updates
- Rotating Quiz #246, Containing a House - 4 Updates
| ArenEss <areness1@yahoo.com>: Feb 20 09:16AM -0600 On Sun, 19 Feb 2017 14:23:56 -0800 (PST), Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote: >1 Head brand goods are primarily associated with which sport? Tennis >2 The disease quinsy is inflammation of which part of the human body? Tonsils >3 In what language was "The Communist Manifesto" written? German >4 Which planet did JG Galle discover it in 1846? Neptune >5 Which actor portrayed English aristocrat John Morgan, who is captured by Sioux Indians, in the 1970 film "A Man Called Horse"? Richard Harris >6 "The Bare Necessities" is a song from which 1967 Disney animated film? The Jungle Book >7 What is the capital city of Bali? Denpassar >8 The "Ode to Joy" is part of the final movement of which Beethoven symphony? 9th >9 What sport appears in the NATO phonetic alphabet? Golf >10 Which British university is often known by the acronym KCL? >cheers, >calvin ArenEss |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Feb 20 04:40PM Calvin wrote: > 1 Head brand goods are primarily associated with which sport? Tennis > 2 The disease quinsy is inflammation of which part of the human body? Lungs > 3 In what language was "The Communist Manifesto" written? German > 4 Which planet did JG Galle discover it in 1846? Neptune > 5 Which actor portrayed English aristocrat John Morgan, who is > captured by Sioux Indians, in the 1970 film "A Man Called Horse"? John Wayne > 6 "The Bare Necessities" is a song from which 1967 Disney animated > film? Jungle Book > 7 What is the capital city of Bali? > 8 The "Ode to Joy" is part of the final movement of which Beethoven > symphony? 9th > 9 What sport appears in the NATO phonetic alphabet? Golf > 10 Which British university is often known by the acronym KCL? Kings College London (arguably not actually a university) Peter Smyth |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Feb 21 01:28AM -0600 In article <f3fbcae0-a077-427c-a929-5af1053b40e7@googlegroups.com>, 334152@gmail.com says... > 1 Head brand goods are primarily associated with which sport? skiing > 2 The disease quinsy is inflammation of which part of the human body? > 3 In what language was "The Communist Manifesto" written? German > 4 Which planet did JG Galle discover it in 1846? Neptune > 5 Which actor portrayed English aristocrat John Morgan, who is captured by Sioux Indians, in the 1970 film "A Man Called Horse"? > 6 "The Bare Necessities" is a song from which 1967 Disney animated film? The Jungle Book > 7 What is the capital city of Bali? > 8 The "Ode to Joy" is part of the final movement of which Beethoven symphony? 9 > 9 What sport appears in the NATO phonetic alphabet? rugby > 10 Which British university is often known by the acronym KCL? King's College London -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| Don Piven <don@piven.net>: Feb 20 07:45AM -0600 Here are the answers and results for RQ #245. A couple of the answers have additional informative or explanatory information below the scores. 1) In 1989, Metallica was widely expected to win the Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance (the first such award in that category). Which decidedly non-metal rock group actually won the 1989 Grammy in that category? Jethro Tull. 2) The National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame in Hayward, Wisconsin is the home of the world's largest fiberglass fish, checking in at 143 feet (44m). What species of fish is it an outsized model of? Muskellunge. (There is an observation platform inside the musky's mouth.) 3) The Cleveland Indians now hold the dubious record of the longest time since their last Major League Baseball World Series championship (68 years). Ignoring teams which have never won a Series, which MLB team is second in terms of years since their last World Series championship? The Pittsburgh Pirates, who last won a Series in 1979. The Mets, A's, Reds, and White Sox have all won World Series after '79. Teams that have never won a Series were specifically excluded from consideration, so the Mariners were out of the running. 4) In Monty Python's Flying Circus, Spiny Norman was what kind of animal? Hedgehog. 5) On August 21, 1961, William Magruder broke Mach 1.0 with what kind of commercial aircraft? (Answer with manufacturer and model name; e.g., "Boeing 747" except that's not the answer.) A Douglas DC-8. 6) In the original "Get Smart" television series, Maxwell Smart drove three makes of automobile during the series' five-year run. Name any of those cars. Sunbeam Tiger, Volkswagen Karmann Ghia, Opel GT. See below for more information. 7) You have just won an event sanctioned by Worldloppet. What sport do you compete in? Long-distance cross-country skiing. Worldloppet sanctions 20 races across the world which are marathon-length or longer. 8) The Emmy Awards recognize excellence in the television industry. From which electronic device did the name "Emmy" originate? The image orthicon, or "Immy", used in early television cameras to capture images and convert them to video signals. 9) Austria's Christoph Strasser holds the current record for riding a bicycle 3,020 miles between Oceanside, California and Annapolis, Maryland in the annual Race Across America. Within six hours, what was Strasser's time? Strasser rode the 2014 RAAM in 7 days, 15 hours, 56 minutes, or 183 hours, 56 minutes. Anything between 177:56 and 189:56 would have fallen inside the "correct window". (This was the time elapsed between his crossing the starting line and crossing the finish line, including rest time.) 10) Travel writer William Least Heat-Moon wrote about crossing the United States on a vehicle named "Nikawa". What kind of vehicle was it? Nikawa was a C-Dory boat used to cross the US via navigable waterways (minus a few trailer portages and short segments traveled via canoe). This trip was documented in Heat-Moon's book, "River Horse". 11) Amtrak's Auto Train service is the only passenger rail service in the US that allows passengers to bring their cars with them. Which two states does the Auto Train operate between? Virginia (Lorton) and Florida (Sanford). 12) What was the name of the noxious fluid prepared at the original "Skonk Works"? Kickapoo Joy Juice, in the "Li'l Abner" comic strip. 13) Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and George Harrison, along with two other famous rock musicians, were members of the "Traveling Wilburys", who recorded two top-selling albums between 1988 and 1990. Name one of the other two members of the Wilburys. Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty. 14) Patrick Marleau of the NHL's San Jose Sharks recently performed a very uncommon feat; the last time it was done in an NHL game was almost exactly twenty years prior to Marleau, that time by Mario Lemieux. What did these two players do? Score four goals in one period. See below for more information. 15) Haggis, by tradition, is cooked in what unconventional container? A sheep's stomach. Any answer that contained "stomach" was counted correct. And now, the scores: Contestants 1 1 1 1 1 1 Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 Total ======================= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ==== ArenEss 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 6 Dan Blum 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 Mark Brader 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 7 WINNER Marc Dashevsky 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 5 Gareth Owen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 Erland Sommarskog 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 Dan Tilque 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ----------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ---- Correct answers 1 1 0 4 2 2 1 1 0 1 3 1 4 1 3 Congratulations to Mark Brader for winning RQ #245! Some notes on a few of the questions: 6) In addition to the three cars listed as answers (which were frequently used in the opening sequence or during the episodes), Smart also drove a Ferrari 250 GT (in the pilot episode), a Citroen 2CV (in one episode), and a Ford Shelby Mustang (in two episodes). The VW and Opel cars were included when their respective manufacturers became major sponsors of the series. After posting the questions, I realized that I had asked just for the car's manufacturer instead of "make and model" (which I did do for the previous question). Those of you who provided a correct manufacturer got a correct answer. 14) Marleau did it in the Sharks' 5-2 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Jan 24 2017; Super Mario did it on Jan 26 1997 in the Pittsburgh Penguins' win over the Montreal Canadiens, also with a score of 5-2. "Six goals in a game" was mentioned surprisingly often. This has been done in NHL games, but not since Darryl Sittler did it in 1976 for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Lemieux has scored five goals in a game four different times, the latest in 1996. Marleau hasn't yet managed five in a game. Technically, these two players also scored four goals in a game. However, I did mention in the question that this particular achievement hadn't been done for twenty years, and scoring four goals in a game was done as recently as October 2016 by the Leafs' Auston Matthews. So, "four goals in a game" didn't make it. I had fun coming up with the questions, and I hope you all had fun answering them! |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 20 12:20PM -0600 Don Piven: > you compete in? > Long-distance cross-country skiing. Worldloppet sanctions 20 races > across the world which are marathon-length or longer. Hah, I wasn't far off! > inside the "correct window". (This was the time elapsed between his > crossing the starting line and crossing the finish line, including rest > time.) You might have said that was how the time was being computed! I assumed that only the time while racing each stage would count. (As a matter of interest, do you have that number?) > Congratulations to Mark Brader for winning RQ #245! Oh! Well, that's all right, then. Thanks. -- Mark Brader | "...people continue to wish that C were something it is not, Toronto | not realizing that if C were what they thought they wanted msb@vex.net | it to be, it would never have succeeded and they wouldn't | be using it in the first place." -- Steve Summit My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Feb 21 06:38AM > You might have said that was how the time was being computed! > I assumed that only the time while racing each stage would count. > (As a matter of interest, do you have that number?) The NY Times quotes him as having 7.5 hours of sleep over the course of the race... Almost all competitors are in the saddle 22+ hours a day. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/sports/cycling/in-cycling-race-across-america-sleep-is-shunned.html |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 21 01:20AM -0600 Mark Brader: >> You might have said that was how the time was being computed! >> I assumed that only the time while racing each stage would count. >> (As a matter of interest, do you have that number?) Gareth Owen: > The NY Times quotes him as having 7.5 hours of sleep over the course of > the race... Almost all competitors are in the saddle 22+ hours a day. > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/sports/cycling/in-cycling-race-across-america-sleep-is-shunned.html Thanks. Obviously, I had no idea it was that sort of race. I envisioned something for *sane* crazy people, like the Tour de France where, as it says, "you stop at the end of the day -- you rest, you get a massage, eat a meal, sleep and then start fresh the next day". -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "It was too crazy to be true, msb@vex.net | and too crazy to be false." --Tom Clancy My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Don Piven <don@piven.net>: Feb 20 08:59AM -0600 On 2/20/17 00:02, Mark Brader wrote: > toenails. Please see the 2-page handout at: > http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/7-9/ungu/lates.pdf > 1. No gnus would be bad news. Which picture shows a wildebeest? L > 2. An alpaca? E > 3. A Barbary sheep? > 4. A mouflon? > 5. An oryx? A > 6. An okapi? D > 8. O (qrpbl) > 9. S (qrpbl) > 10. U. Tapir. > 11. W -- gjb jbeqf. Cape Buffalo. > 13. Z (qrpbl) > 14. A (qrpbl) > 15. B. Impala > 16. C. Warthog > Europe in the 1800s, now grows in ditches, canals, and > marshes, and degrades wetlands by choking out native species > that provide animal and bird habitat. Name it. Purple loosestrife. > to 5.5 m tall, with white flower clusters similar to Queen > Anne's lace, and can form a flower-head almost a meter wide. > The sap is a severe skin irritant. Name the invader. Giant hogweed |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Feb 20 03:04PM > ** Game 7, Round 9 - Science - When You Hear Hoofbeats... Think Ungulates > 1. No gnus would be bad news. Which picture shows a wildebeest? L > 2. An alpaca? E > 3. A Barbary sheep? K; C > 4. A mouflon? I; K > 5. An oryx? N; A > 6. An okapi? O; G > 10. U. tapir > 11. W -- gjb jbeqf. water buffalo > 15. B. springbok > 16. C. warthog > to 5.5 m tall, with white flower clusters similar to Queen > Anne's lace, and can form a flower-head almost a meter wide. > The sap is a severe skin irritant. Name the invader. wild parsnip > * D. Literature: Wordsworth et al. > D1. Wordsworth's most popular work begins, "I wandered lonely > as a cloud." Name the flowers that give the poem its name. daffodils > magnum opus "The Prelude" upon his death in 1850 concluded > the period. It included works by Wordsworth and *which > poet friend* of his, who he dedicated "The Prelude" to? Shelley > The actress playing the mother won. On set they fought. > Some say one of them passed gas in the other's face. > Name either actress. Shirley Maclaine -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Feb 20 04:59PM -0300 > 1. No gnus would be bad news. Which picture shows a wildebeest? C > 2. An alpaca? M > 3. A Barbary sheep? E > 4. A mouflon? A > 5. An oryx? J > 6. An okapi? D > 10. U. Tapir > 16. C. Rhinocerus > on May 2, 1982, when British submarine HMS Conqueror sank a > World War II vintage cruiser of the Argentine Navy, resulting > in the death of 323 crew members. Name the Argentine ship. General Belgrano |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Feb 20 05:32PM -0800 On Monday, February 20, 2017 at 4:02:46 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > toenails. Please see the 2-page handout at: > http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/7-9/ungu/lates.pdf > 1. No gnus would be bad news. Which picture shows a wildebeest? L > 2. An alpaca? B, M > 3. A Barbary sheep? C, K > 4. A mouflon? F, K > 5. An oryx? G, A > 6. An okapi? D > answer these if you like for fun, but for no points.) All answers > are one word except as noted. > 10. U. Tapir > 11. W -- gjb jbeqf. Water Buffalo > 15. B. Springbok, Gazelle > 16. C. Warthog > * D. Literature: Wordsworth et al. > D1. Wordsworth's most popular work begins, "I wandered lonely > as a cloud." Name the flowers that give the poem its name. Daffodils > magnum opus "The Prelude" upon his death in 1850 concluded > the period. It included works by Wordsworth and *which > poet friend* of his, who he dedicated "The Prelude" to? Keats, Shelley > to punch him. Their feud grew, and he refused to return > in the sequel to reprise his role as Bosley. Name either > him or her. Murray > The actress playing the mother won. On set they fought. > Some say one of them passed gas in the other's face. > Name either actress. Fisher, Reynolds > on May 2, 1982, when British submarine HMS Conqueror sank a > World War II vintage cruiser of the Argentine Navy, resulting > in the death of 323 crew members. Name the Argentine ship. Belgrano > F2. Two days later, Argentine forces responded by sending > an Exocet missile into a British destroyer, with the loss > of 20 lives. Name the British ship. Nope cheers, calvin |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 20 12:40PM -0600 Welcome to Rotating Quiz #246, Containing a House. I'd like to thank Don Piven for running RQ 245 and for writing a contest that allowed me to win. The winner of RQ 246, in turn, will be the first choice to set RQ 247, in whatever manner they prefer. Please answer these questions based only on your own knowledge; put all of your answers in a single posting, quoting the question before each one. You have 6 days from the time of posting, which means that answer slates must be posted before about 1:40 pm (by Toronto time, zone -5) on Sunday, February 26. This is a Quiz Quilt in the manner of Robert Jen, but not exactly. As we haven't had one for a while, I'll spell out what that means. For each of questions #1-10, write down the thing being described or referred to. A few questions may have multiple possible answers, but only the ones that fit with the quilt are valid. If you write down the correct answers to these 10 questions in order along successive rows of a grid, you will find the "quilt" answer reading *either upward or downward* in one of these positions: (1) vertically along a column, or (2) diagonally to/from one of the left-hand corners, or (3) zigzaggily along the last letters of the answers. For example, if there were only 3 questions and the answers were T W O H Y A H M O E S then the quilt answer might be any of (1) TAM, MAT, WHO, or OHW; (2) THE, EHT, MHO, or OHM; (3) SHY, or YHS -- but, as they are not (as far as I know) words or names, you could immediately eliminate OHW, EHT, and YHS. In fact the quilt answer is a *single English word or name* and the contest title is a clue, possibly a vague or cryptic one, pointing to it. Scoring is out of 13: 1 point each (half a point if misspelled) for answers #1-10 and 3 points for the quilt. In case of a tie, the first tiebreaker is who got the quilt answer; the second tiebreaker is who scored on the hardest questions; and the third tiebreaker is who posted first. Naturally, you are to answer all questions from your own knowledge only. Please post a single message with your answers, quoting the questions you are answering and placing your answer below each one. 1. Of all the countries in the world, this small one in Asia has the longest name where, as it is spelled in English, vowels and consonants alternate for the entire name. 2. Two principal types of metamorphic rock are formed from granite. One is schist. The other tends to be more boldly striped; what's it called? 3. Hillary Clinton seems to have bumped into a glass one after all. 4. This is a synonym (or a near-synonym, depending on which definition you use) for "vaccination". Looking at the word's etymology, you might think it involves an injection into the eye; but, thankfully, it doesn't. 5. This was the title of the ancient Egyptian monarchs. 6. This can be a synonym for "lodging", such as hotels and inns. It can also refer to a compromise to settle a dispute; still another meaning refers or to a person's way of adapting to a situation such as a disability. 7. Fill in the blank: in this sentence there are five _____ of the upper or lower case letter O. 8. This may refer to a model or statue of something or someone, specifically one that's considerably smaller than the real thing. 9. This adjective is used for books such as Ecclesiasticus and Tobit that appear in the original King James version of the Christian Bible, but not in some other versions; and, more generally, it refers to "facts" that may be well known but are, let's say, dubious at best. 10. An oil company takes its name from this word, the opposite of the traditional geographic term Oriental. 11. Give the quilt answer. -- Mark Brader "The routes 'London' and 'not London' are Toronto not necessarily mutually exclusive." msb@vex.net --Tim Stevens for ATOC, UK My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Feb 20 08:12PM > 1. Of all the countries in the world, this small one in Asia has > the longest name where, as it is spelled in English, vowels > and consonants alternate for the entire name. United Arab Emirates > 2. Two principal types of metamorphic rock are formed from granite. > One is schist. The other tends to be more boldly striped; > what's it called? gniess > 3. Hillary Clinton seems to have bumped into a glass one after all. ceiling > definition you use) for "vaccination". Looking at the word's > etymology, you might think it involves an injection into the > eye; but, thankfully, it doesn't. inoculation > 5. This was the title of the ancient Egyptian monarchs. pharaoh > It can also refer to a compromise to settle a dispute; still > another meaning refers or to a person's way of adapting to a > situation such as a disability. accommodation > 7. Fill in the blank: in this sentence there are five _____ of > the upper or lower case letter O. occurrences > 8. This may refer to a model or statue of something or someone, > specifically one that's considerably smaller than the real thing. miniature > Bible, but not in some other versions; and, more generally, > it refers to "facts" that may be well known but are, let's say, > dubious at best. apocryphal > 10. An oil company takes its name from this word, the opposite of > the traditional geographic term Oriental. Occidental > 11. Give the quilt answer. unicameral -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Don Piven <don@piven.net>: Feb 20 04:38PM -0600 On 2/20/17 12:40, Mark Brader wrote: > 10. An oil company takes its name from this word, the opposite of > the traditional geographic term Oriental. > 11. Give the quilt answer. L E B A N O N G N E I S S C E I L I N G I N O C U L A T I O N P H A R A O H A C C O M M O D A T I O N O C C U R R E N C E S M I N I A T U R E A P O C R Y P H A L O C C I D E N T A L |
| Don Piven <don@piven.net>: Feb 20 04:41PM -0600 That's an EVIL quiz format! More! |
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