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| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 16 03:37AM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-01-23, 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 2, Round 9 - Literature - Steven King Title Anagrams Each of the following anagrams can be unscrambled into the the name of a Stephen King novel or a short story that has been adapted for the screen, either film or as TV-movies; in one case, the anagram is of the movie title. We'll provide the number of words in the title -- you name it. 1. Two words: OMLASTELS. 2. Two words: NIGHTHINES. 3. Two words: TRAMPEYEAST. 4. Two words: SHEETINGFLUND. 5. Three words: HUNTINGMANNER. 6. Two words: SHATTEND. 7. One word: NICERSHIT. 8. One word: SYMIRE. 9. One word: CHOPSWERE. 10. One word: STRAITFREER. ** Game 2, Round 10 - Challenge Round * A. European Union A1. What is the official anthem of the European Union? A2. In what year was the EU formed? * B. Glands B1. This gland, often referred to as the master gland of the body, is located at the base of the hypothalamus and is about the size of a pea. It produces many hormones that control other glands and body functions, including growth. B2. This small endocrine gland, referred to as the "third eye", produces melatonin, which affects the modulation of wake/sleep patterns. * C. Treaties Which war was ended by the... C1. Treaty of Portsmouth? C2. Treaty or Peace of Westphalia? * D. African Capitals What is the current capital city of... D1. Burkina Faso? D2. Namibia? * E. Billiards E1. Including the cue ball, how many balls are on the table at the start of a snooker game? E2. What term is usually used to refer to sidespin (and sometimes to any type of spin) is applied to the cue ball? * F. Art Gallery of Ontario Exhibitions F1. What is the title of the current AGO exhibition running until February 2017 that features masterpieces by Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh? F2. In April 2017, the AGO will present a major retrospective of which pioneering American modernist painter (1887-1986), featuring over 100 works of art. The show will definitely include several representations and abstractions of flowers. -- Mark Brader | "And so it went. Tens of thousands of messages, Toronto | hundreds of points of view. It was not called the msb@vex.net | Net of a Million Lies for nothing." --Vernor Vinge My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 16 03:35AM -0500 Mark Brader: > Mark Brader: (Oops.) > 1. Ralph Meeker plays Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in this > film-noir thriller with an apocalyptic ending, directed by > Robert Aldrich and released in 1955. "Kiss Me Deadly". 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Marc. > 2. Robert De Niro plays a halfwit catcher with a terminal illness > in this 1973 baseball drama. "Bang the Drum Slowly". 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Gareth, Jason, Pete, and Marc. > 3. Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer star in this 2005 murder > mystery that brings together a private eye, a struggling > actress, and a thief masquerading as an actor. "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang". (Yes!) 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Gareth, and Jason. > that Walston has a hot wife, played by Felicia Farr, and > Walston promises to pimp her out to the crooner -- but instead > substitutes a local hooker, played by Kim Novak. "Kiss Me Stupid". 4 for Joshua. > who tells stories to his cellmate, played by Raúl Juliá. > His tales come across like old movies, but they reveal a subtle > meaning. "Kiss of the Spider Woman". 4 for Joshua, Calvin, Dan Blum, Gareth, Jason, and Marc. > 6. This 1968 British musical adventure, co-written by Roald Dahl, > is about a down-on-his-luck inventor who turns his jalopy into > a flying fantasy car for his children. "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Calvin, Peter, Dan Blum, Gareth, Jason, Pete, and Marc. > 7. Stanley Kubrick's second film, released in 1955, is about a > 29-year-old welterweight boxer, at the end of his career, > who rescues his neighbor who's been kidnapped. "Killer's Kiss". 4 for Joshua. > in which he straps an elderly woman into a wheelchair and sends > her down a staircase. Ouch! The movie was remade in 1995, but > if it matters, we're talking about the original version's title. "Kiss of Death". (Which was in fact also the 1995 title.) 4 for Joshua and Jason. > a plot involving hate literature, white-supremacist militias, > and arms trafficking. Filmed in Calgary, the movie also features > Penelope Ann Miller. "Dead Bang". 4 for Joshua. > her past and enlisting the aid of a private investigator played > by Samuel L. Jackson, in this convoluted thriller shot in the > Greater Toronto Area in 1995. "The Long Kiss Goodnight". 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Jason. 3 for Gareth. > 1. Found in the Caucasus, this 18,510-foot (5,642 m) mountain > is the highest in Russia. Ancient Greek mythology saw it as > the place where Zeus chained Prometheus. Name it. Mt. Elbrus. 4 for Joshua, Erland, and Peter. Several entrants tried Mt. Erebus. Sorry, but that's a different mountain -- 15,500 km away in Antarctica! > 2. At 2,294 miles (3,692 km) in length, what is the longest river > in Russia? It rises in hills northwest of Moscow and empties > into the Caspian Sea. Volga R. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Erland, Calvin, Dan Blum, Jason, Pete, and Marc. > deepest in the world. With a maximum depth of 5,387 feet > (1,642 m), it contains 1/5 of the world's fresh water. What is > its name? L. Baikal. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Erland, Calvin, Peter, Dan Blum, and Marc. > 4. At 6,800 sq.mi. (17,700 km²), this lake is the largest within > Russia by surface area. A methane lake on Saturn's moon Titan > is named after it. Name the Russian lake. L. Ladoga. 4 for Erland and Dan Blum. > has had the second-largest international border. With a length > of 4,254 miles (6,846 km), this Russian border is shared with > which country? Kazakhstan. 4 for Dan Tilque, Erland, Peter, and Marc. 3 for Joshua. 2 for Pete. > 6 others. Which of the second group -- which country that > was not a Soviet republic, but does border Russia -- extends > farthest west? Norway. 4 for Joshua and Marc. 3 for Dan Blum. And shame for Erland! (It's followed in order by Poland, Finland, China, Mongolia, and North Korea. The 8 former Soviet republics, also in order by westernmost point, are Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan.) > natural and 16 cultural. One of the natural sites features some > of the world's most magnificent volcanoes -- and is located on > what Far East Russian peninsula? Kamchatka Peninsula. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Erland, Dan Blum, and Pete. > this mountain range in Russia is found far to the west of > <answer 7> and divides European Russia from Asian Russia. > What is it? Ural Mtns. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Erland, Peter, Dan Blum, Jason, Pete, and Marc. > 9. Russia once shared this North Pacific island with Japan. > It is Russia's largest. Name it. Sakhalin I. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Erland, and Dan Blum. > of <answer 8>. It briefly served as a Nazi seaplane base, > established by U-boats. In the Cold War era, Russia tested more > than 200 nuclear devices on the archipelago. What is it called? Novaya Zemlya. I accepted "Novaya Zelyma". 4 for Erland. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 2 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST TOPICS-> Can Spo Sci His Ent Geo FOUR Joshua Kreitzer 4 23 24 20 40 31 118 Dan Blum -- -- 20 20 24 27 91 Dan Tilque 4 12 20 24 4 24 80 Peter Smyth 0 32 16 16 4 16 80 Marc Dashevsky 24 12 16 19 16 20 79 Pete Gayde 4 32 7 20 8 14 74 Erland Sommarskog 0 16 0 12 0 36 64 "Calvin" 0 28 4 12 8 8 56 Jason Kreitzer 0 4 4 12 24 8 48 Bruce Bowler -- -- 23 20 -- -- 43 Gareth Owen -- -- -- -- 19 0 19 -- Mark Brader | "UNIX are quality sectional bookcases, made of solid oak. Toronto | Open or glass-fronted, in three sizes and three finishes, msb@vex.net | UNIX gives unapproached flexibility." | -- Daily Mail Ideal Home Book, 1951-52 My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 16 03:18AM -0500 This is Rotating Quiz #256. I'd like to thank Calvin for running RQ 255 and for choosing a theme that helped enable me to win. The winner of this contest, in turn, will be the first choice to set RQ 257. As usual, please answer only from your own knowledge and post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single posting, quoting the questions you are answering and placing your answers below each one. You have 5 days to enter from the moment of posting, which gives you until just about 4:15 AM Toronto time (zone -4) on Sunday, April 21, 2017. Nothing fancy here, just 10 questions, 2 each in 5 categories. 1 point each. In case of a tie, the first tiebreaker will be who scored in the most categories, the second tiebreaker will be who scored on the hardest questions, and the third tiebreaker will be who posted first. * Science 1. This is Rotating Quiz 256. List *all* the ways to express the number 256 as an integer raised to an integer power. (Please use the ^ notation, e.g. 81 is 3^4, meaning 3 to the 4th power.) 2. Give the metric equivalent value of the "horsepower" unit traditionally used in English-speaking countries. Answers must be accurate to 3 significant digits. * Literature 3. According to a verse in "The Lord of the Rings", a part of which is concealed on the One Ring that the story focuses on, how many rings of power did Sauron create altogether? 4. "The Power Broker" is a biography by Robert Caro, about which highly influential New Yorker? * Government 5. The same sentence appears almost identically, varying only in the use of the word "the", in 6 places in the US Constitution -- as the last sentence of each of the 13th, 15th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, and 26th Amendments. What does it say? (Answers must be close, but not necessarily exact.) 6. In British politics, what term is used for the transfer of powers from the UK government to lower level of government? * Sports 7. Which Australian city (or other place) has a football team known as the Power? 8. During this man's NHL career from 1982 to 2006, he scored 274 goals on power plays -- a record that still stands. He played with Buffalo for 10 seasons, then Toronto, then New Jersey and other teams. Name him. * Movies 9. In "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery", Dr. Evil announces to his henchmen his plan to hijack a nuclear weapon and hold the world hostage for how much money? And then, when advised that a larger amount might be better, how much does he decide to change his demand to? Give both numbers. 10. In which movie, based on a David Baldacci novel, does Clint Eastwood play Luther Whitney, a thief who witnesses the US president committing a crime? -- Mark Brader | "We didn't just track down that bug, Toronto | we left evidence of its extermination msb@vex.net | as a warning to other bugs" --Dan Lyke My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: May 15 10:08PM -0700 On Friday, May 12, 2017 at 11:01:15 AM UTC+10, Calvin wrote: > This is Rotating Quiz #255, consisting of 12 questions. Post your answers here but first you will need to access the PDF located at: > http://www.quizzingaustralia.org/uploads/7/7/8/1/7781317/rq255.pdf > Answers in a week or so. Good Luck! I can't see us getting any more entries so here are the answers & results: 1 Wellington 2 Queenstown 3 Dunedin 4 Auckland 5 Waitangi 6 Napier Singleton for Dan 7 Taupo The only question no-one got right and it is pretty obscure from an international perspective. 8 Christchurch 9 Invercargill Singleton for Erland 10 Hamilton Singleton for Mark 11 Rotorua Singleton for Mark 12 Aotearoa Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 Q11 Q12 TOTAL TB RQ255 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 9 27 Mark Brader 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 7 24 Dan Tilque 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 4 18 Erland S 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 19 Peter Smyth 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 17 Marc Dashevsky 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 12 Dan Blum - - - - - - - - - - - - --- ---------- 6 2 2 6 2 1 0 5 1 1 1 2 29 48% Hope you enjoyed it. Mark is the clear winner and claims RQ256 hosting rights. cheers, calvin |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 16 12:55AM -0500 "Calvin": > > Answers in a week or so. Good Luck! > I can't see us getting any more entries so here are the answers & results: !! I was waiting to see if Stephen came along and beat me. > 7 Taupo > The only question no-one got right and it is pretty obscure from an > international perspective. Well, to be fair, it *has* been 33.5 years since I was there. (I named the national park near the lake instead of the lake itself.) > 9 Invercargill > Singleton for Erland I missed by about 35 miles, instead naming the southernmost place *we* went through on the trip. > 10 Hamilton > Singleton for Mark Sheer luck -- just naming a city I hadn't given as another answer. > 11 Rotorua > Singleton for Mark The only place where I've seen a geyser deliberately induced to erupt for the tourists. (They dumped powdered soap into it.) (Okay, it's not exactly in Rotorua, but it's only 35 miles away.) > Mark is the clear winner and claims RQ256 hosting rights. So be it. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. -- Mark Brader | "My mind is like a steel trap; it snaps closed Toronto | and is almost impossible to pry open" msb@vex.net | --Michael Wares My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: May 15 12:34PM Mark Brader wrote: > lighting. What is the shorter one of these two wavelengths? > This is the last time I'll remind you: units of measure must be > stated. 457 nm Peter Smyth |
| bbowler <bruce.bowler@gmail.com>: May 15 03:26PM > called the D-lines, which have almost the same wavelength and are > responsible for the strong yellowish color of low-pressure sodium > lighting. What is the shorter one of these two wavelengths? 570 nm |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 15 12:26PM -0500 Mark Brader: > called the D-lines, which have almost the same wavelength and are > responsible for the strong yellowish color of low-pressure sodium > lighting. What is the shorter one of these two wavelengths? Calvin 33 nm /17.85 Joshua Kreitzer 0.0001 mm /5.890 Peter Smyth 457 nm /1.289 Dan Tilque 535 nm /1.101 Bruce Bowler 570 nm /1.0333 ** CORRECT ** 588.995 nm ArenEss 589.0 nm *1.0000 Stephen Perry 589 nm *1.0000 Marc Dashevsky 1,000 nm *1.698 Gareth Owen 1,000 nm *1.698 Erland Sommarskog 5,600 nm *9.508 When I learned about wavelengths of light, they were measured in angstroms, but in these SI days, the usual unit is nanometers. I wonder if Erland was thinking in angstroms. Anyway, it's Calvin who's eliminated. This contest is now open only to Bruce Bowler, Marc Dashevsky, Joshua Kreitzer, Gareth Owen, Stephen Perry, Peter Smyth, Erland Sommarskog, Dan Tilque, and the entrant posting as "ArenEss". Round 3 will be open for 4 days from the moment of posting, or until everyone has posted an entry. 3. Using the IEEE standard representation of floating-point numbers, what is the largest value that can be represented in 32 bits? -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "In cyberspace, the lunatics not only run the asylum, msb@vex.net | but they helped build it..." --Richard Kadrey My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: May 15 06:43PM +0100 > 3. Using the IEEE standard representation of floating-point numbers, > what is the largest value that can be represented in 32 bits? 2^127 |
| ArenEss <areness1@yahoo.com>: May 15 01:22PM -0500 >everyone has posted an entry. >3. Using the IEEE standard representation of floating-point numbers, > what is the largest value that can be represented in 32 bits? 2^31 - 1 ArenEss |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: May 15 02:44PM -0500 In article <WKydnVI72dpDeYTEnZ2dnUU7-TXNnZ2d@giganews.com>, msb@vex.net says... > everyone has posted an entry. > 3. Using the IEEE standard representation of floating-point numbers, > what is the largest value that can be represented in 32 bits? 8388608 x 2^127 -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| Bruce <bbowler@bigelow.org>: May 15 08:02PM On Mon, 15 May 2017 12:26:54 -0500, Mark Brader wrote: > 3. Using the IEEE standard representation of floating-point numbers, > what is the largest value that can be represented in 32 bits? 1.7*10^38 |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: May 15 11:23PM +0200 > When I learned about wavelengths of light, they were measured in > angstroms, but in these SI days, the usual unit is nanometers. > I wonder if Erland was thinking in angstroms. Nope. Possibly I was thinking in Ångström. I seemed to recall that the interval for visible light was 4000-8000 but I was uncertain of the unit. It did seem a litte funny that it was 4000-8000 and just 4-8, but I thought that is just the way things are. Anyway, I could think of another unit that was som SI division of metres, and nanometres was the only thing that made sense. When I saw the other answers, I thought that maybe my memory was wrong. But it's possible that my recollection was distorted by numbers in Ångström. > 3. Using the IEEE standard representation of floating-point numbers, > what is the largest value that can be represented in 32 bits? 1E24 |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: May 16 02:09AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:WKydnVI72dpDeYTEnZ2dnUU7- > everyone has posted an entry. > 3. Using the IEEE standard representation of floating-point numbers, > what is the largest value that can be represented in 32 bits? I don't know what the IEEE standard representation of floating-point numbers is, but my answer is: 4.29496725 * 10^9 -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: May 15 08:25PM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: > 3. Using the IEEE standard representation of floating-point numbers, > what is the largest value that can be represented in 32 bits? 10^128 -- Dan Tilque |
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