- QFTCIMM16 Final, Round 10: Challenge Round - 2 Updates
- QFTCIMM16 Final, Round 9 answers: Canadiana - 2 Updates
| Jason Kreitzer <jk71875@gmail.com>: Apr 22 08:03PM -0700 On Friday, April 21, 2017 at 10:18:08 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote: > A3. After becoming a woman in 1976, she sued the US Tennis > Association for barring her from playing in the US Open > and Wimbledon. Name her. Renee Richards > in either order. Each name you give must be correct. > B1. Who directed "Lust, Caution" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden > Dragon"? Ang Li > Sumerians, Babylonians, Elamites, Akkadians, and Assyrians. > What other name, derived from ancient Akkadian, are these > step pyramids known by? Ziggurats > D2. "If a son strike his father, they shall cut off his fingers." > This law is part of a code issued by a Babylonian king whose > name means "the kinsman is a healer." What is that name? Hammurabi > F1. We know what it means to be "embarrassed" in English. > What does it mean in Spanish to be "embarazada" > ["em-ba-ra-SA-da"]? Pregnant > F2. If a Spanish-speaker says that he hopes he is not "molesting" > you, he probably isn't referring to sexual abuse. What does > the Spanish verb "molestar" {"mole-est-AR"] mean? Bothering > F3. In English, a "bomber" drops bombs. In Spanish, what does a > "bombero" ["bom-BAIR-oh"] do? Fights fires? |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Apr 22 08:56PM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: > A1. *He* was convicted for violating the US Espionage Act in > 2013 after disclosing sensitive material to WikiLeaks. > *She* is now serving 35 years. Name her. Manning (and her sentence has been commuted to 7 years. She'll be getting out next month, I think.) > in 1974, but she's mostly known as an award-winning travel > writer of such titles as "Venice" (1960) and the "Pax > Britannica" trilogy. Name her. Jorgensen > A3. After becoming a woman in 1976, she sued the US Tennis > Association for barring her from playing in the US Open > and Wimbledon. Name her. Richards > * C. Kings of Sport > C1. Name the current Seattle Mariners pitcher whose nickname > is King. Felix Hernandez > Sumerians, Babylonians, Elamites, Akkadians, and Assyrians. > What other name, derived from ancient Akkadian, are these > step pyramids known by? ziggarat > D2. "If a son strike his father, they shall cut off his fingers." > This law is part of a code issued by a Babylonian king whose > name means "the kinsman is a healer." What is that name? Hammurabi > system used by all the great Mesopotamian civilizations for > the next 3,000 years. The name that we know this system by > derives from the Latin word for "wedge". What is that name? cuneiform > E1. New England clam chowder is typically made with a cream > or milk base. Manhattan clam chowder replaces the cream > with what ingredient? tomato > its thickening agent. There are three possible thickeners: > a browned roux ["roo"], sassafras leaves known as filé > ["FEE-lay"], and... which plant of the mallow family? okra > F2. If a Spanish-speaker says that he hopes he is not "molesting" > you, he probably isn't referring to sexual abuse. What does > the Spanish verb "molestar" {"mole-est-AR"] mean? disturb -- Dan Tilque |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Apr 22 07:47PM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: >> Union Carbide Company bought the idea and brought it into homes >> in the late '60s. > Garbage bag. 4 for Dan Tilque. Hah! I knew it wasn't Saran wrap, as everyone else guessed. That has been around since time immemorial (i.e. before I can remember). There was a plethora of other brands of plastic wrap in the late 60s, but that was probably because the patent on Saran had lapsed. Sandwich bags was another possibility, but I'm certain Glad Bags were introduced in the mid-60s. That left garbage bags as the only likely answer. -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 22 10:20PM -0500 Mark Brader: > > Garbage bag. 4 for Dan Tilque. Dan Tilque: > was probably because the patent on Saran had lapsed. Sandwich bags was > another possibility, but I'm certain Glad Bags were introduced in the > mid-60s. That left garbage bags as the only likely answer. Well solved. -- Mark Brader, Toronto "Just because it's correct doesn't msb@vex.net make it right!" -- Jonas Schlein |
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