- QFTCI5EP Game 2, Rounds 4,6: science frauds, 1917 - 9 Updates
- Rotating Quiz 254 - Answers & Results - 2 Updates
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): May 10 12:26PM > lasted 45 years before being definitively disproved. Charles > Dawson seemingly unearthed the missing link between apes > and humans. What was this specimen generally called? Piltdown Man > puvpxra" jnf nyfb gur fhowrpg bs na rkgrafvir negvpyr va gur > fnzr zntnmvar. Gur zntnmvar choyvfurq n ergenpgvba 5 zbaguf > yngre naq nqzvggrq vg unq orra qhcrq. Anzr gur zntnmvar. Nature; Science > he made his own similar fake! A reporter wrote: "There's a > sucker born every minute", referring to the paying public. > Both fakes are still on display today. Name this "discovery". Cardiff Giant > Internet, most notably the invention of a "black box" that > harnessed cosmic energy and was used to power the first electric > car in 1931. Name the scientist. Nikola Tesla > members then admitted they had moved to caves in the previous > decade and pretended to be Stone Age people under pressure from > a government minister. In what country did this take place? Brazil; India > manufacturers. The physician was stripped of his medical > license, but the myth he started has been perpetuated by the > Internet. Name the perpetrator. Wakefield > sailors, likewise by stitching together parts of different > animals. But this one was no hoax -- what Australian animal > was it? platypus > * Game 2, Round 6 - History - Events of 1917 > 1. On 1917-01-17, the United States finalized its $25,000,000 > purchase from Denmark of which islands? US Virgin Islands > though more well known for her extravagant lifestyle and numerous > marriages than her acting ability. She died in 2016 at age 99. > Name her. Zsa Zsa Gabor; Eva Gabor > 3. On 1917-03-02, the US created which territory, making its > people US citizens? US Virgin Islands; Puerto Rico > 5. Which ruler abdicated the throne on 1917-03-15? Tsar Nicholas II of Russia > 6. Which 6-day battle that cost more than 6,500 Canadians their > lives began on 1917-04-09? Third Ypres > 7. On 1917-04-16, which man issued his radical April Theses? Lenin; D'Annunzio > 9. On 1917-10-15, this mother of two was executed in France. > Who was she? Mata Hari -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: May 10 01:06PM Mark Brader wrote: > lasted 45 years before being definitively disproved. Charles > Dawson seemingly unearthed the missing link between apes > and humans. What was this specimen generally called? Piltdown Man > chicken" was also the subject of an extensive article in the > same magazine. The magazine published a retraction 5 months > later and admitted it had been duped. Name the magazine. National Geographic > he made his own similar fake! A reporter wrote: "There's a > sucker born every minute", referring to the paying public. > Both fakes are still on display today. Name this "discovery". Unicorn > faked it -- but insisted it was a re-creation of genuine footage > he had seen in 1992, which had deteriorated and become unusable! > Name the program. Bigfoot > Internet, most notably the invention of a "black box" that > harnessed cosmic energy and was used to power the first electric > car in 1931. Name the scientist. Einstein > members then admitted they had moved to caves in the previous > decade and pretended to be Stone Age people under pressure from > a government minister. In what country did this take place? Brazil > harvesting from a "spaghetti tree". Hundreds of British viewers > called in to find out how they could grow their own pasta. > Name the BBC series. Panorama > the creature's beauty, it was described as the very incarnation > of ugliness. What was the name of the creature in this hoax? > (Hint: it's more than one word.) Pushmi Pullyu > sailors, likewise by stitching together parts of different > animals. But this one was no hoax -- what Australian animal > was it? Duck Billed Platypus > * Game 2, Round 6 - History - Events of 1917 > 1. On 1917-01-17, the United States finalized its $25,000,000 > purchase from Denmark of which islands? Aleutian > though more well known for her extravagant lifestyle and numerous > marriages than her acting ability. She died in 2016 at age 99. > Name her. Zsa Zsa Gabor > 4. On 1917-03-26, which now-defunct team became the first US-based > hockey team to win the Stanley Cup? City and team name required. > 5. Which ruler abdicated the throne on 1917-03-15? King Zog of Albania > 6. Which 6-day battle that cost more than 6,500 Canadians their > lives began on 1917-04-09? Somme > 7. On 1917-04-16, which man issued his radical April Theses? Lenin > 8. On 1917-05-21, a great fire swept though which southern American > city, raging for 10 hours and destroying 1,900 structures? Atlanta > 9. On 1917-10-15, this mother of two was executed in France. > Who was she? Mata Hari |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: May 10 09:40AM -0500 In article <69ydneepEu_sNI_EnZ2dnUU7-I3NnZ2d@giganews.com>, msb@vex.net says... > lasted 45 years before being definitively disproved. Charles > Dawson seemingly unearthed the missing link between apes > and humans. What was this specimen generally called? Piltdown Man > he made his own similar fake! A reporter wrote: "There's a > sucker born every minute", referring to the paying public. > Both fakes are still on display today. Name this "discovery". Cardiff Giant > Internet, most notably the invention of a "black box" that > harnessed cosmic energy and was used to power the first electric > car in 1931. Name the scientist. Tesla > harvesting from a "spaghetti tree". Hundreds of British viewers > called in to find out how they could grow their own pasta. > Name the BBC series. dunno, but WGBH Boston would show it on occasion on April 1 in the '70s. > the creature's beauty, it was described as the very incarnation > of ugliness. What was the name of the creature in this hoax? > (Hint: it's more than one word.) I only have one word: mermaid > sailors, likewise by stitching together parts of different > animals. But this one was no hoax -- what Australian animal > was it? platypus > * Game 2, Round 6 - History - Events of 1917 > 1. On 1917-01-17, the United States finalized its $25,000,000 > purchase from Denmark of which islands? what became the U.S. Virgin Islands > though more well known for her extravagant lifestyle and numerous > marriages than her acting ability. She died in 2016 at age 99. > Name her. Zsa Zsa Gabor > 3. On 1917-03-02, the US created which territory, making its > people US citizens? Puerto Rico > 4. On 1917-03-26, which now-defunct team became the first US-based > hockey team to win the Stanley Cup? City and team name required. > 5. Which ruler abdicated the throne on 1917-03-15? Tsar Nicolas > 7. On 1917-04-16, which man issued his radical April Theses? > 8. On 1917-05-21, a great fire swept though which southern American > city, raging for 10 hours and destroying 1,900 structures? Atlanta -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| Bruce <bbowler@bigelow.org>: May 10 02:50PM On Wed, 10 May 2017 00:47:29 -0500, Mark Brader wrote: > lasted 45 years before being definitively disproved. Charles Dawson > seemingly unearthed the missing link between apes and humans. What > was this specimen generally called? Piltdown man > gur fhowrpg bs na rkgrafvir negvpyr va gur fnzr zntnmvar. Gur > zntnmvar choyvfurq n ergenpgvba 5 zbaguf yngre naq nqzvggrq vg unq > orra qhcrq. Anzr gur zntnmvar. Smithsonian > own similar fake! A reporter wrote: "There's a sucker born every > minute", referring to the paying public. > Both fakes are still on display today. Name this "discovery". Cardiff Man > -- but insisted it was a re-creation of genuine footage he had seen > in 1992, which had deteriorated and become unusable! Name the > program. Alien Autopsy > Internet, most notably the invention of a "black box" that harnessed > cosmic energy and was used to power the first electric car in 1931. > Name the scientist. Tesla > creature's beauty, it was described as the very incarnation of > ugliness. What was the name of the creature in this hoax? (Hint: > it's more than one word.) The Fiji Mermaid > specimen of a creature that it labeled a hoax perpetrated by sailors, > likewise by stitching together parts of different animals. But this > one was no hoax -- what Australian animal was it? Platypus > though more well known for her extravagant lifestyle and numerous > marriages than her acting ability. She died in 2016 at age 99. Name > her. Zsa Zsa Gabor > 3. On 1917-03-02, the US created which territory, making its > people US citizens? Puerto Rico > 7. On 1917-04-16, which man issued his radical April Theses? > 8. On 1917-05-21, a great fire swept though which southern American > city, raging for 10 hours and destroying 1,900 structures? Atlanta > 9. On 1917-10-15, this mother of two was executed in France. > Who was she? Mata Hari > 10. On 1917-12-06, what was the name of munitions ship that exploded > in Halifax harbor, creating the largest man-made explosion to that > date? Mont Blanc |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: May 10 09:13PM +0200 > puvpxra" jnf nyfb gur fhowrpg bs na rkgrafvir negvpyr va gur > fnzr zntnmvar. Gur zntnmvar choyvfurq n ergenpgvba 5 zbaguf > yngre naq nqzvggrq vg unq orra qhcrq. Anzr gur zntnmvar. Nature > though more well known for her extravagant lifestyle and numerous > marriages than her acting ability. She died in 2016 at age 99. > Name her. Zsa Zsa Gabor > 3. On 1917-03-02, the US created which territory, making its > people US citizens? Hawaii > 5. Which ruler abdicated the throne on 1917-03-15? Tsar Nikolai II > 7. On 1917-04-16, which man issued his radical April Theses? Lenin > 8. On 1917-05-21, a great fire swept though which southern American > city, raging for 10 hours and destroying 1,900 structures? Charleston, SC -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: May 10 07:27PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:69ydneepEu_sNI_EnZ2dnUU7- > lasted 45 years before being definitively disproved. Charles > Dawson seemingly unearthed the missing link between apes > and humans. What was this specimen generally called? Piltdown man > puvpxra" jnf nyfb gur fhowrpg bs na rkgrafvir negvpyr va gur > fnzr zntnmvar. Gur zntnmvar choyvfurq n ergenpgvba 5 zbaguf > yngre naq nqzvggrq vg unq orra qhcrq. Anzr gur zntnmvar. Science; Time > he made his own similar fake! A reporter wrote: "There's a > sucker born every minute", referring to the paying public. > Both fakes are still on display today. Name this "discovery". Sasquatch > Internet, most notably the invention of a "black box" that > harnessed cosmic energy and was used to power the first electric > car in 1931. Name the scientist. Tesla; Edison > members then admitted they had moved to caves in the previous > decade and pretended to be Stone Age people under pressure from > a government minister. In what country did this take place? New Guinea; Brazil > harvesting from a "spaghetti tree". Hundreds of British viewers > called in to find out how they could grow their own pasta. > Name the BBC series. Omnibus > manufacturers. The physician was stripped of his medical > license, but the myth he started has been perpetuated by the > Internet. Name the perpetrator. Kaufman > sailors, likewise by stitching together parts of different > animals. But this one was no hoax -- what Australian animal > was it? Wallaby; Emu > * Game 2, Round 6 - History - Events of 1917 > 1. On 1917-01-17, the United States finalized its $25,000,000 > purchase from Denmark of which islands? U.S. Virgin Islands > though more well known for her extravagant lifestyle and numerous > marriages than her acting ability. She died in 2016 at age 99. > Name her. Zsa Zsa Gabor > 3. On 1917-03-02, the US created which territory, making its > people US citizens? Puerto Rico > 4. On 1917-03-26, which now-defunct team became the first US-based > hockey team to win the Stanley Cup? City and team name required. Seattle Sounders > 5. Which ruler abdicated the throne on 1917-03-15? King Charles of Austria-Hungary > 6. Which 6-day battle that cost more than 6,500 Canadians their > lives began on 1917-04-09? Paschendale; Doian > 7. On 1917-04-16, which man issued his radical April Theses? Lenin > 8. On 1917-05-21, a great fire swept though which southern American > city, raging for 10 hours and destroying 1,900 structures? Galveston > 9. On 1917-10-15, this mother of two was executed in France. > Who was she? Mata Hari > After completing the round, please decode the rot13: ba gur > frpbaq dhrfgvba, vs lbh bayl tnir gur fheanzr, tb onpx naq nqq > ure svefg anzr. Pete Gayde |
| Jason Kreitzer <jk71875@gmail.com>: May 10 03:46PM -0700 On Wednesday, May 10, 2017 at 1:47:35 AM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote: > lasted 45 years before being definitively disproved. Charles > Dawson seemingly unearthed the missing link between apes > and humans. What was this specimen generally called? Piltdown Man > puvpxra" jnf nyfb gur fhowrpg bs na rkgrafvir negvpyr va gur > fnzr zntnmvar. Gur zntnmvar choyvfurq n ergenpgvba 5 zbaguf > yngre naq nqzvggrq vg unq orra qhcrq. Anzr gur zntnmvar. In 1999 this magazine held a press conference > chicken" was also the subject of an extensive article in the > same magazine. The magazine published a retraction 5 months > later and admitted it had been duped. Name the magazine. Smithsonian? > though more well known for her extravagant lifestyle and numerous > marriages than her acting ability. She died in 2016 at age 99. > Name her. Zsa Zsa Gabor > 4. On 1917-03-26, which now-defunct team became the first US-based > hockey team to win the Stanley Cup? City and team name required. > 5. Which ruler abdicated the throne on 1917-03-15? Czar Nicolas II > 6. Which 6-day battle that cost more than 6,500 Canadians their > lives began on 1917-04-09? > 7. On 1917-04-16, which man issued his radical April Theses? Lenin? |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: May 10 07:47PM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: > lasted 45 years before being definitively disproved. Charles > Dawson seemingly unearthed the missing link between apes > and humans. What was this specimen generally called? Piltdown Man > Internet, most notably the invention of a "black box" that > harnessed cosmic energy and was used to power the first electric > car in 1931. Name the scientist. Tesla > members then admitted they had moved to caves in the previous > decade and pretended to be Stone Age people under pressure from > a government minister. In what country did this take place? Philippines > manufacturers. The physician was stripped of his medical > license, but the myth he started has been perpetuated by the > Internet. Name the perpetrator. Wakefield > sailors, likewise by stitching together parts of different > animals. But this one was no hoax -- what Australian animal > was it? duckbill platypus > * Game 2, Round 6 - History - Events of 1917 > 1. On 1917-01-17, the United States finalized its $25,000,000 > purchase from Denmark of which islands? US Virgin Islands > though more well known for her extravagant lifestyle and numerous > marriages than her acting ability. She died in 2016 at age 99. > Name her. Zsa Zsa Gabor > 3. On 1917-03-02, the US created which territory, making its > people US citizens? Puerto Rico > 4. On 1917-03-26, which now-defunct team became the first US-based > hockey team to win the Stanley Cup? City and team name required. > 5. Which ruler abdicated the throne on 1917-03-15? Tsar Nicholas II > 6. Which 6-day battle that cost more than 6,500 Canadians their > lives began on 1917-04-09? Marne > 7. On 1917-04-16, which man issued his radical April Theses? Lenin ?? > 8. On 1917-05-21, a great fire swept though which southern American > city, raging for 10 hours and destroying 1,900 structures? Memphis > 9. On 1917-10-15, this mother of two was executed in France. > Who was she? Mata Hari -- Dan Tilque |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: May 11 03:21AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:69ydneepEu_sNI_EnZ2dnUU7- > lasted 45 years before being definitively disproved. Charles > Dawson seemingly unearthed the missing link between apes > and humans. What was this specimen generally called? Piltdown Man > he made his own similar fake! A reporter wrote: "There's a > sucker born every minute", referring to the paying public. > Both fakes are still on display today. Name this "discovery". Cardiff Giant > faked it -- but insisted it was a re-creation of genuine footage > he had seen in 1992, which had deteriorated and become unusable! > Name the program. "Alien Autopsy" > Internet, most notably the invention of a "black box" that > harnessed cosmic energy and was used to power the first electric > car in 1931. Name the scientist. Tesla > members then admitted they had moved to caves in the previous > decade and pretended to be Stone Age people under pressure from > a government minister. In what country did this take place? Philippines > sailors, likewise by stitching together parts of different > animals. But this one was no hoax -- what Australian animal > was it? platypus > * Game 2, Round 6 - History - Events of 1917 > 1. On 1917-01-17, the United States finalized its $25,000,000 > purchase from Denmark of which islands? Virgin Islands > though more well known for her extravagant lifestyle and numerous > marriages than her acting ability. She died in 2016 at age 99. > Name her. Zsa Zsa Gabor > 3. On 1917-03-02, the US created which territory, making its > people US citizens? Puerto Rico > 5. Which ruler abdicated the throne on 1917-03-15? Nicholas II of Russia > 9. On 1917-10-15, this mother of two was executed in France. > Who was she? Mata Hari (?) -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: May 10 10:25PM +0200 Rotating Quiz 254 is over. With Stephen Perry abstaining and Gareth hiding in some unknown place despite the rock'n'roll questions, it was a very tight race with six entrants within a margin of two points! Two entrants were in a tie, but I ruled Calvin as the winner on the grounds that Peter Smyth was way off on the canasta question. Calvin was alone to miss the Gaijin question, but he had hedged with the correct answer. And his addition on #9 was hilarous. So Calvin, come on and set Rotating Quiz 0xFF at your liking! Here is the full scoreboard: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 a b c d e f TOTAL Calvin - - - 3 3 - - 3 3 - - - 3 1 - 1 - - 1 18 Peter S - - - - - - 1 3 3 3 - 3 3 1 - 1 - - - 18 Mark B 3 - - - - 3 - 3 - 3 - - 3 1 - 1 - - - 17 Dan B - - - 3 - - - 3 - 3 3 - 3 1 - 1 - - - 17 Don P - - - 3 3 - - 3 - 3 - - 3 - - 1 - - - 16 Dan T - - - - - 3 - 3 3 3 - - 3 - - 1 - - - 16 Marc D - - - 3 - - - - - 3 - - 3 - - 1 - - - 10 Here are the answers: > 1. The catalogue of which director includes titles such as "Women > on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" and "All About My Mother"? Pedro Almodóvar Those are two very good films. The first his a hilarious comedy and "All About My Mother" is one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen. > 2. Dalia Grybauskaite is President of Lithuania. Is she married or > not? Justify your answer! She is not married. We can tell this from that her names ends with -aité. Had she been married her last name would probably have been Grybauskiene and her husband's last name would have been something like Grybauskas. I see on Wikipedia that recent laws now permit Lithuanian women to use only -e as the suffix if they wish not to disclose their martial status. > 3. How did Sophie Chotek von Chotkova and Wognin die? Be sufficiently > specific. Shot by Gavralo Princip on June 28th 1914 in Sarajevo. Yes, she was the wife of Franz Ferdinand. > 4. The debut album of which iconic rocker included titles such as > "Spirits in the Night" and "Blinded by the Light"? Bruce Springsteen. Both songs have been covered by Mannfred Mann's Earth Band, but on different albums, of which none was the debut for the Earth Band and even less for Mannfred Mann. > 5. And, speaking of rock'n'roll, which classic rock group does > potassium permanganate make you think of? Deep Purple. The crystals are indeed very purple to the colour. > 6. How many cards in total are there in a game of canasta? 108. Two full decks with jokers. > 7. Joseph Kony is a true scumbag. Which organisation does he lead? Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) I gave partial credit for Children of the Lord's Army. > 8. Easter Island belongs to which country? Chile. Almost all entrants got this one right. I will have to admit that before that I started to read the guide book for Chile that I might have guessed on one of the regular colonial suspects. > 9. What does CONCACAF organise? Football in North America (and the Carribean, as if that is not included in North America. Surinam and Guyana also team up with CONCACAF.) And, yes, as Calvin indicated, CONCACAF has been severely struck by corruption. > 10. In the company of strangers... In which country are you if someone > calls out "Gaijin!" and means you? Japan. > 11. And among which people are you if you are being referred to as > "gadjo"? Gypsies. > 12. Later this month, with the final on Saturday 13th, is the > Eurovision Song Contest. In which city is ESC held this year? Kiev. Stockholm was last year. (I think. At least it was in Sweden.) The way it works is that winning nation gets the honour to arrange it the next year, just like a rotating quiz. Despite the name, it is not really restricted to Europe anymore. Among the competing countries, you find Australia. > 13. And towards the end of the month, the 27th, starts what period that > is important for many people on this planet? Ramdan. Everyone knew this. > the top-ranked country for each continent. To make the question > a little easier, for continents with many countries, I will permit > you give any of the top countries as specified below: Yes, this was difficult! Below I give the total list position in parenthesis after the name. > a) Europe (any of the top 3): Norway (1), Sweden (2), Finland (3) I feel sorry for the entrant who had Denmark(4). > b) North America (any of the top 2): Costa Rica (6), Jamaica (8) No, I would not have figured that out myself. So Costa Rica was maybe not a total surprise, but Jamaica? As for Canada, we will return to that. > c) Oceania (the top 1): New Zealand (13) The easy one. > d) South America (the top 1): Surinam (20) Wow! Completely unexpected. Uruguay (25) and Chile (33) seemed like reasonable guesses. > e) Africa (any of the top 3): Namibia (24), Ghana (26), Cabo Verde (27) > f) Asia (any of the top 3): Cyprus (30), Taiwan (45), South Korea (63) You may recall from my similar question on Transperancy International's ranking that Singapore ranked #5 that year. But when it comes to the freedom of the press in Singapore, the situation is really bad. They are on place 151. > My definition of continents is strictly geographical. To save space, > I don't detail them, but I will leave the hint that there are no > trick answers here. I made this comment with Cyprus in mind. As for other "difficult" cases, I decided to ignore them to not make the questions even more difficult, but had anyone been smart and entered a country on a continent where is in the top, I would have approved of that. Greenland has some autotonmy from Denmark, but then again Greenland is not on the list of its own, so you could say that they are best in North America. Strictly geographcially, Iceland sits on the crack between the European and North American plates, with the majority of the people living on the North American side. Being #10 globally they still trail behind Jamaica, but before Canada (22). I had already decided to only ask for the top 2 when I made this realisation. Portugal(18) is also a country that possibly crosses the plate barrier in the Azores. More important is that the island of a Madeira, an integral part of Portugal, is definitely in Africa, so it could be said to be the top country in Africa. What about France then? France has departements and territories in about every continent - except in Asia which is the only place where it can compete with its position as #39. Spain(29) has several African outliers, but it still trails behind Cabo Verde. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 10 03:57PM -0500 Erland Sommarskog: > > 2. Dalia Grybauskaite is President of Lithuania. Is she married or > > not? Justify your answer! > She is not married. We can tell this from that her names ends with -aité. Oh, very good! I had never heard of such a thing. -- Mark Brader | "And remember, my friends, future events such as Toronto | these will affect you, in the future." msb@vex.net | -- Ed Wood, Plan 9 from Outer Space |
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