| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 30 09:55PM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-01-16, 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 5 Easy Pieces 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 1, Round 7 - Literature - Unreliable Narrators in Fiction Unreliable narrators have had a long tradition in literature. They're characters whose credibility has been compromised and whose telling of the tale should be suspect. 1. Joseph Conrad employed the same unreliable narrator in four of his works of fiction: "Heart of Darkness", "Lord Jim", "Youth", and "Chance". What is his name? 2. Emily Brontė's Wuthering Heights has two unreliable narrators. Name one of them. (First or last name.) 3. Oskar Matzerath, who's confined in a mental hospital, is the narrator of one of the novels of the German writer Gunter Grass. What is the title (in English) of that novel? 4. An amateur scholar named Geoffrey Braithwaite, the narrator of one of British writer Julian Barnes's novels, is tormented by memories of his adulterous wife, whose life support he shut off. What is the title of that novel? 5. Husband and wife Nick and Amy serve as dual unreliable narrators in this bestselling Gillian Flynn novel. What is its title? 6. This novel by S.J. Watson features a near-term amnesiac narrator named Christine Lucas, whose husband may or may not be malevolent. Perhaps one morning when she awakes, she'll discover the truth. What is the novel's title? 7. Ken Kesey's "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" has one of the most surprising unreliable narrators in literature. He's half Native American and appears to be deaf and mute. What is his name? 8. The narrator of Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca" labors under a mysterious and gross misapprehension. Who is the narrator? Be sufficiently specific. 9. In the opening line of this Ford Madox Ford novel, American Quaker John Dowell says, "This is the saddest story I have ever heard". Dowell is either a master manipulator of facts or a supremely gullible fellow. What is the novel's title? 10. Crime novels often employ unreliable narrators. US writer Jim Thompson frequently did so. Two of his novels feature psychopathic lawmen as unreliable narrators. Name either novel. * Game 1, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Donald J. Trump In just a few days, Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. This round isn't about Trump the politician, but Trump the businessman and family man. This round is so incredible, I promise you, you're going to love it! 1. In the late 1980s, this satirical New-York-based magazine referred to Trump as a "short-fingered vulgarian". Name the magazine. 2. <answer 1> referred to the ghostwriter for Trump's "Art of the Deal" as a "former journalist" once the book came out. Last year the ghostwriter publicly regretted his work on the 1987 book and spoke out against Trump. Name him. 3. Trump always says to buy American, but only one of his three wives was born in the United States. Give her maiden name. 4. Family man Trump has fathered at least five children with three different women. What is the first name of the daughter he fathered with <answer 3>? 5. Trump has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for six of his business properties since 1991. Name any one of these six properties. The full name must be exact. 6. Trump is currently embroiled in lawsuits with two high-profile chefs who withdrew from planned restaurants in his new Washington hotel because of his comments about Mexican immigrants. Name either chef / restaurant owner. 7. Trump's son-in-law was admitted to Harvard in 1998, shortly after his New Jersey real-estate developer father donated $2,500,000 to the university. Name the son-in-law. 8. Please decode the rot13 only after you have finished with the previous question: Wnerq'f sngure, Puneyrf Xhfuare, jnf fragraprq gb 2 lrnef va cevfba va 2005 sbe gnk rinfvba, jvgarff gnzcrevat, naq vyyrtny pnzcnvta pbagevohgvbaf. Jub jnf gur *HF nggbearl* va punetr bs gung cebfrphgvba? 9. Trump has been praising Julian Assange and WikiLeaks lately. In 2010, though, private citizen Trump had a different view. What did he say then about what should be done to those responsible for WikiLeaks? Be sufficiently specific. 10. In 1989 Trump took out a full-page newspaper ad calling for the death penalty for a group of young men convicted of a notorious rape. They were later exonerated, but Trump said last year that he still thinks they're guilty. What name is used to refer to these wrongly convicted individuals? -- Mark Brader, Toronto "I'd opt for Oz, myself." msb@vex.net --Buck Henry My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): May 01 03:40AM > 3. Oskar Matzerath, who's confined in a mental hospital, is the > narrator of one of the novels of the German writer Gunter Grass. > What is the title (in English) of that novel? The Tin Drum > 5. Husband and wife Nick and Amy serve as dual unreliable narrators > in this bestselling Gillian Flynn novel. What is its title? Gone Girl > 1. In the late 1980s, this satirical New-York-based magazine > referred to Trump as a "short-fingered vulgarian". Name the > magazine. Spy > 3. Trump always says to buy American, but only one of his three > wives was born in the United States. Give her maiden name. Maples > 4. Family man Trump has fathered at least five children with three > different women. What is the first name of the daughter he > fathered with <answer 3>? Tiffany > 5. Trump has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for six of his business > properties since 1991. Name any one of these six properties. > The full name must be exact. Trump Air > 7. Trump's son-in-law was admitted to Harvard in 1998, shortly > after his New Jersey real-estate developer father donated > $2,500,000 to the university. Name the son-in-law. Jred Kushner > gb 2 lrnef va cevfba va 2005 sbe gnk rinfvba, jvgarff gnzcrevat, > naq vyyrtny pnzcnvta pbagevohgvbaf. Jub jnf gur *HF nggbearl* > va punetr bs gung cebfrphgvba? Chris Christie > a notorious rape. They were later exonerated, but Trump said > last year that he still thinks they're guilty. What name is > used to refer to these wrongly convicted individuals? Central Park Five -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: May 01 05:30AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:_uCdnf-gUe8DPpvEnZ2dnUU7- > * Game 1, Round 7 - Literature - Unreliable Narrators in Fiction > 2. Emily Brontė's Wuthering Heights has two unreliable narrators. > Name one of them. (First or last name.) Heathcliff > 3. Oskar Matzerath, who's confined in a mental hospital, is the > narrator of one of the novels of the German writer Gunter Grass. > What is the title (in English) of that novel? "The Tin Drum" > 5. Husband and wife Nick and Amy serve as dual unreliable narrators > in this bestselling Gillian Flynn novel. What is its title? "Gone Girl" > 8. The narrator of Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca" labors under a > mysterious and gross misapprehension. Who is the narrator? > Be sufficiently specific. The second Mrs. de Winter > 1. In the late 1980s, this satirical New-York-based magazine > referred to Trump as a "short-fingered vulgarian". Name the > magazine. "Spy" > 3. Trump always says to buy American, but only one of his three > wives was born in the United States. Give her maiden name. Marla Maples > 4. Family man Trump has fathered at least five children with three > different women. What is the first name of the daughter he > fathered with <answer 3>? Tiffany > 5. Trump has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for six of his business > properties since 1991. Name any one of these six properties. > The full name must be exact. Trump Taj Mahal > 7. Trump's son-in-law was admitted to Harvard in 1998, shortly > after his New Jersey real-estate developer father donated > $2,500,000 to the university. Name the son-in-law. Jared Kushner > gb 2 lrnef va cevfba va 2005 sbe gnk rinfvba, jvgarff gnzcrevat, > naq vyyrtny pnzcnvta pbagevohgvbaf. Jub jnf gur *HF nggbearl* > va punetr bs gung cebfrphgvba? Chris Christie (?) > a notorious rape. They were later exonerated, but Trump said > last year that he still thinks they're guilty. What name is > used to refer to these wrongly convicted individuals? Central Park Four -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Apr 30 10:49PM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: > president of the United States. This round isn't about Trump the > politician, but Trump the businessman and family man. This round > is so incredible, I promise you, you're going to love it! Sad! > 1. In the late 1980s, this satirical New-York-based magazine > referred to Trump as a "short-fingered vulgarian". Name the > magazine. National Lampoon > and spoke out against Trump. Name him. > 3. Trump always says to buy American, but only one of his three > wives was born in the United States. Give her maiden name. Maples > 5. Trump has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for six of his business > properties since 1991. Name any one of these six properties. > The full name must be exact. Trump Tower > 7. Trump's son-in-law was admitted to Harvard in 1998, shortly > after his New Jersey real-estate developer father donated > $2,500,000 to the university. Name the son-in-law. Jared Kushner > gb 2 lrnef va cevfba va 2005 sbe gnk rinfvba, jvgarff gnzcrevat, > naq vyyrtny pnzcnvta pbagevohgvbaf. Jub jnf gur *HF nggbearl* > va punetr bs gung cebfrphgvba? Chris Christie > a notorious rape. They were later exonerated, but Trump said > last year that he still thinks they're guilty. What name is > used to refer to these wrongly convicted individuals? Central Park 5 -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 30 09:53PM -0500 Mark Brader: > to three colors), produced the first color photograph (in the > mid-1800s), and paved the way for color film. He later became > the founder of the study of electromagnetism. James Maxwell. 4 for Peter, Gareth, and Dan Tilque. > through a red-green flywheel, the result was a surprisingly > good color image. Aside from the appearance of fringing around > fast-moving objects, what was its major shortfall? It couldn't render blue. 4 for Peter and Dan Tilque. > The two films were cemented together and could be played on a > standard projector. It was later refined into a hugely popular > three-strip system in 1932. Name the process. Technicolor. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Calvin, Peter, Gareth, and Dan Tilque. > film until the 1980s. What was its major drawback, prompting > Martin Scorsese to lead a campaign urging the company to > change it? It wasn't very stable over time and faded quickly if not stored properly. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Gareth, and Dan Tilque. The company was Kodak, of course. > film tones. What was the first movie to be entirely digitally > manipulated to achieve a golden, dusty, desaturated look, > in 2000? "O Brother Where Art Thou?". One entrant guessed "Traffic", which came out the same year. Its color was similarly manipulated, but this was done to obtain different looks in different scenes. > was a refinement of the French Anamorphoscope. The anamorphic > camera lens employs an optical trick to produce an image twice > as wide as a conventional lens and continues to be used today. 20th Century Fox. 3 for Joshua. > approach. It later settled on a single-screen, single-projector, > single-camera system that increases film resolution by using > a larger film frame. The format is still in use today; name it. IMAX. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Jason, and Dan Tilque. > noise-reduction track. Theatres were reluctant to upgrade, > however, until the firm developed, together with Kodak, a > Quadraphonic system in 1976. Name the firm. Dolby Labs. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Calvin, Erland, Peter, Gather, and Dan Tilque. > image with that of an actor against a blue or green screen? > The name reflects the fact that the images are combined or > layered together based on color hues. Chroma-key (compositing). 4 for Joshua and Gareth. > uses the concepts of cultural signs, codes, and conventions to > explain why bad guys wear black hats -- and why Terrence Malick > has a career. Name the science. Semiotics. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Gareth. > 1. This high jumper won a silver medal for Canada at the 1976 > Olympics in Montreal. His performance was also featured for > many years on TV stations as they signed off for the night. Greg Joy. > 2. He set a world record in the decathlon in 1976, and might > be even better-known now, but with a different first name. > Give this person's last name. (Caitlyn, formerly Bruce) Jenner. 4 for everyone -- Dan Blum, Joshua, Calvin, Erland, Peter, Gareth, Jason, and Dan Tilque. > gold medal being awarded to Carl Lewis. To this day there are > suspicions that everyone else in the final was also cheating. > Name any one of the other six sprinters in that 100 m final. In order from silver (was bronze) medal to 7th (was 8th) place: Linford Christie, Calvin Smith, Dennis Mitchell, Róbson da Silva, Desai Williams, Ray Stewart. 4 for Calvin (the hard way), Peter, and Gareth. > Donovan Bailey won gold in the 100 m. And Canada won gold > in the 4×100 m relay. Name any of the other three men on the > Canadian relay team in the final. Robert Esmie, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin. 4 for Peter. > for 16 years, went on to be an MP, and was named a life peer. > Now the president of the global body for track and field, > who is he? Lord Sebastian Coe. 4 for Joshua, Calvin, Erland, Peter, Gareth, and Dan Tilque. > Mary Decker lost her chance for gold in a collision with another > runner, who used to run barefoot. Name the other runner in > this infamous collision. Zola Budd. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Calvin, Erland, Peter, and Gareth. > 800 m in a world-record time. In minutes and seconds, within > plus or minus 1.1 seconds, what was that time? Hint: it is > less than 2 minutes. 1:40.91 s. (Accepting 1:39.81 - 1:42.01.) 4 for Peter and Gareth. 3 for Joshua. 2 for Calvin. > 8. At the 2012 games there was only one individual track event > in which the same country won gold, silver, and bronze. Name > the country *and* the event. Hint: it was one a men's event. Jamaica, 200 m. (From gold to bronze: Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake, Warren Weir.) > 9. Andre De Grasse won three medals at the Rio games last year. > He now has a street named after him in his hometown in Southern > Ontario. What's the name of this municipality? Markham. > 10,000 m in 2012 and again in 2016. He's a huge fan of the > Arsenal soccer team and is considered one of the best distance > runners ever. Who is he? Sir Mohamed Farah. 4 for Calvin, Erland, Peter, Gareth, and Dan Tilque. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 1 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS TOPICS-> His Geo Sci Spo Joshua Kreitzer 28 28 27 15 98 Peter Smyth 20 27 16 28 91 "Calvin" 22 14 8 22 66 Dan Tilque 19 8 24 12 63 Dan Blum 22 4 20 8 54 Gareth Owen -- -- 24 24 48 Erland Sommarskog 18 0 4 16 38 Bruce Bowler 16 20 -- -- 36 Pete Gayde 28 6 -- -- 34 Marc Dashevsky 16 12 -- -- 28 Jason Kreitzer -- -- 4 4 8 -- Mark Brader | "It is in the nature of precaution Toronto | that the more successful it is msb@vex.net | the less necessary it appears to have been..." --Henry Jones Ford My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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