| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 01 12:53AM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-09-18, 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 Smith & Guessin' 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 2017-09-25 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". * Game 1, Round 7 - Entertainment - A Date with the Grim Reaper We give you the date, place, and age, and you identify the musician who died. Look, some of them actually made it past 27. 1. 1977-08-16, Memphis TN, age 42. 2. 1980-12-08, Manhattan, New York NY, age 40. 3. 2011-07-23, Camden, London, UK, age 27. 4. 1994-04-05, Seattle WA, age 27. 5. 1971-07-03, Paris, France, age 27. 6. 1959-02-03, Clear Lake IA, age 22. 7. 2016-04-21, Chanhassen MN, age 57. 8. 2006-12-25, Atlanta GA, age 73. 9. 2016-01-10, Manhattan, New York NY, age 69. 10. 1970-09-18, Kensington, London, UK, age 27. * Game 1, Round 8 - Canadiana - Canada 150 This round consists of miscellaneous trivia items inspired by "Canada 150" web sites. 1. Which province was the first to grant women the right to vote, in 1916? 2. Dawson City, Yukon, is home to the Sour Toe Cocktail. What garnish is put into the drink? 3. In 1934 the Bank of Canada was designated as the only source to produce Canadian paper money. Among the denominations first issued, two were short-lived and both had been withdrawn from circulation by 1938. Name *either* of those two. 4. Long before the Raptors, this Toronto team was the first Canadian team in the NBA, playing out of Maple Leaf Gardens from 1946 until 1947. What were they called? (Full name required, like "Toronto Maple Leafs".) 5. What province claims to be the first to be free of rats -- the actual rodent kind, that is? 6. Around the world 7,000,000 boxes of this product are sold weekly. Canada is the #1 consumer, at 1,700,000 boxes per week. What is it? Brand name required. 7. The first "Hockey Night in Canada" broadcast televised in English was in November 1952, from Toronto. Who did the Leafs face in that game? (Full name required.) 8. "O Canada" was first performed in Quebec City in 1880, but it did not become our official national anthem until Parliament passed the National Anthem Act. Within 5 years, when did that happen? 9. In 1959 this city became the first to have a special short phone number for emergency calls -- 999, later changed to 911. What city? 10. In 1953 Trans-Canada became the first airline in the world to use a computer for what function? -- Mark Brader "As penance, I suppose I should read the standard Toronto again, but I've already lost as much hair as msb@vex.net I can afford." -- Tom Kelly My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Oct 01 11:36AM +0200 > We give you the date, place, and age, and you identify the musician > who died. Look, some of them actually made it past 27. > 1. 1977-08-16, Memphis TN, age 42. Elvis Presley > 2. 1980-12-08, Manhattan, New York NY, age 40. John Lennon > 3. 2011-07-23, Camden, London, UK, age 27. Amy Whitehouse > 4. 1994-04-05, Seattle WA, age 27. Kurt Cobain > 5. 1971-07-03, Paris, France, age 27. Jim Morrison > 6. 1959-02-03, Clear Lake IA, age 22. Buddy Holly > 7. 2016-04-21, Chanhassen MN, age 57. Prince > 8. 2006-12-25, Atlanta GA, age 73. Chuck Berry > 9. 2016-01-10, Manhattan, New York NY, age 69. David Bowie > 10. 1970-09-18, Kensington, London, UK, age 27. Jimi Hendrix > * Game 1, Round 8 - Canadiana - Canada 150 > 1. Which province was the first to grant women the right to vote, > in 1916? New Brunswick > 2. Dawson City, Yukon, is home to the Sour Toe Cocktail. > What garnish is put into the drink? Seal tar > to produce Canadian paper money. Among the denominations first > issued, two were short-lived and both had been withdrawn from > circulation by 1938. Name *either* of those two. 3$ > 5. What province claims to be the first to be free of rats -- > the actual rodent kind, that is? Prince Edward Island > 7. The first "Hockey Night in Canada" broadcast televised in > English was in November 1952, from Toronto. Who did the Leafs > face in that game? (Full name required.) Montréal Canadiens > did not become our official national anthem until Parliament > passed the National Anthem Act. Within 5 years, when did > that happen? 1935 > 9. In 1959 this city became the first to have a special short phone > number for emergency calls -- 999, later changed to 911. > What city? Ottawa > 10. In 1953 Trans-Canada became the first airline in the world to > use a computer for what function? Flight planning -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Oct 01 09:54AM Mark Brader wrote: > We give you the date, place, and age, and you identify the musician > who died. Look, some of them actually made it past 27. > 1. 1977-08-16, Memphis TN, age 42. Elvis Presley > 2. 1980-12-08, Manhattan, New York NY, age 40. John Lennon > 3. 2011-07-23, Camden, London, UK, age 27. Amy Winehouse > 4. 1994-04-05, Seattle WA, age 27. Kurt Cobain > 5. 1971-07-03, Paris, France, age 27. Jim Morrison > 6. 1959-02-03, Clear Lake IA, age 22. Buddy Holly > 7. 2016-04-21, Chanhassen MN, age 57. Prince > 8. 2006-12-25, Atlanta GA, age 73. > 9. 2016-01-10, Manhattan, New York NY, age 69. David Bowie > 10. 1970-09-18, Kensington, London, UK, age 27. Jimi Hendrix > "Canada 150" web sites. > 1. Which province was the first to grant women the right to vote, > in 1916? Manitoba, Nova Scotia > 2. Dawson City, Yukon, is home to the Sour Toe Cocktail. > What garnish is put into the drink? An amputated toe > to produce Canadian paper money. Among the denominations first > issued, two were short-lived and both had been withdrawn from > circulation by 1938. Name either of those two. $1000 > Canadian team in the NBA, playing out of Maple Leaf Gardens from > 1946 until 1947. What were they called? (Full name required, > like "Toronto Maple Leafs".) Toronto St Patricks > 5. What province claims to be the first to be free of rats -- > the actual rodent kind, that is? Newfoundland & Labrador > What city? > 10. In 1953 Trans-Canada became the first airline in the world to > use a computer for what function? Reservations Peter Smyth |
| Don Piven <don@piven.net>: Oct 01 05:54AM -0500 On 10/1/17 00:53, Mark Brader wrote: > We give you the date, place, and age, and you identify the musician > who died. Look, some of them actually made it past 27. > 1. 1977-08-16, Memphis TN, age 42. Elvis Presley > 2. 1980-12-08, Manhattan, New York NY, age 40. John Lennon > 3. 2011-07-23, Camden, London, UK, age 27. > 4. 1994-04-05, Seattle WA, age 27. Kurt Cobain > 5. 1971-07-03, Paris, France, age 27. Jim Morrison > 6. 1959-02-03, Clear Lake IA, age 22. Buddy Holly > 7. 2016-04-21, Chanhassen MN, age 57. Prince > 8. 2006-12-25, Atlanta GA, age 73. Ray Charles > 9. 2016-01-10, Manhattan, New York NY, age 69. David Bowie > 10. 1970-09-18, Kensington, London, UK, age 27. Jimi Hendrix > "Canada 150" web sites. > 1. Which province was the first to grant women the right to vote, > in 1916? British Columbia > 2. Dawson City, Yukon, is home to the Sour Toe Cocktail. > What garnish is put into the drink? A human toe > to produce Canadian paper money. Among the denominations first > issued, two were short-lived and both had been withdrawn from > circulation by 1938. Name *either* of those two. $25 > like "Toronto Maple Leafs".) > 5. What province claims to be the first to be free of rats -- > the actual rodent kind, that is? PEI ; Nova Scotia > 6. Around the world 7,000,000 boxes of this product are sold weekly. > Canada is the #1 consumer, at 1,700,000 boxes per week. > What is it? Brand name required. Kellogg's Corn Flakes > 7. The first "Hockey Night in Canada" broadcast televised in > English was in November 1952, from Toronto. Who did the Leafs > face in that game? (Full name required.) Chicago Black Hawks > did not become our official national anthem until Parliament > passed the National Anthem Act. Within 5 years, when did > that happen? 1950 > 9. In 1959 this city became the first to have a special short phone > number for emergency calls -- 999, later changed to 911. > What city? Montreal ; Ottawa > 10. In 1953 Trans-Canada became the first airline in the world to > use a computer for what function? Flight dispatching |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 01 12:51AM -0500 Mark Brader: > colonial name. > 1. A colony from 1937 to 1967, located on the south of today's > Yemen, it became part of the Federation of Saudi Arabia. Urk! As Joshua and Dan Blum noted, there was no such federation; it was the Federation of *South* Arabia. My error when retyping the round for use here; sorry! Some people did get the answer anyway, which is Aden. 4 for Peter, Don, Erland, and Dan Tilque. > 2. A colony from 1733 to 1776, it became part of the USA. Georgia. 4 for Don, Dan Blum, Marc, Bruce, Erland, and Dan Tilque. > 3. A colony from 1843 to 1910, it became part of the Union of > South Africa. Natal. 2 for Marc. The Cape Colony was the most popular wrong answer (and my suggestion too, at the original game), but it was actually a British colony as early as 1795. I have to say I didn't think much of these questions where you had to pick out a colony from multiple possible answers solely by the date it was establsihed. > of New South Wales until it became an independent colony in 1825. > In 1901 it became part of the Commonwealth of Australia. > What is it called *today*? Tasmania. 4 for Peter, Don, Dan Blum, Marc, Bruce, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Joshua. > separate colonies; in 1783 they ceded it back to Spain, and in > 1821 it joined the USA. Give its present name *or* name either > of the two British colonies. Florida, East Florida, West Florida. 4 for Peter, Don, Dan Blum, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Joshua. > 6. A self-governing colony from 1923, Britain accepted its > independence in 1980 and it became Zimbabwe. Southern Rhodesia. (Both words required. Northern Rhodesia was a separate colony that became Zambia. Rhodesia was the name adopted by Southern Rhodesia when it first declared independence in 1965, not a colonial name.) 4 for Don, Marc, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Joshua. > 7. A colony from 1884 to 1981, it changed its name to Belize and > then became independent in 1981. Give its previous name. British Honduras. 4 for everyone -- Peter, Don, Dan Blum, Marc, Bruce, Erland, Dan Tilque, Jason, and Joshua. > 8. This colony was founded in 1858, absorbed an adjacent, older > colony in 1866, and became part of the Dominion of Canada > in 1871. British Columbia. (Amalgamated with Vancouver Island.) 4 for Don, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque. 3 for Erland. > 9. It separated from British India in 1937 and became a Crown > Colony until its independence in 1948. Give *either* the > colonial or the present name. Burma, Myanmar. 4 for Marc. > 10. This archipelago separated from British Mauritius in 1903 and > was a distinct Crown Colony until gaining independence in 1976. Seychelles. 4 for Don, Dan Blum, Erland, and Joshua. > indicated range. If the name has changed over the years, we mean the > first year under the original name. > 1. Beaches International Jazz Festival, within 3 years. 1989 (accepting 1986-92). > 2. Nuit Blanche, 2 years. 2006 (accepting 2004-08). > 3. Toronto International Film Festival, 4 years. 1976 (accepting 1972-80). 3 for Dan Blum. > 4. Taste of the Danforth, 3 years. 1994 (accepting 1991-97). > 5. Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival, 4 years. 1987 (accepting 1983-91). 2 for Dan Blum. > 6. Luminato, 2 years. 2007 (accepting 2005-09). 4 for Dan Blum (the hard way). > 7. Caribana, 6 years. 1967 (accepting 1961-73). I think this is the only one where the question did not use the event's current name. It was renamed in 2011 for trademark reasons and is now officially the Toronto Caribbean Carnival. > 8. Pride Parade, 4 years. 1979 (accepting 1975-83). 4 for Joshua. > 9. Santa Claus Parade, 8 years. 1905 (accepting 1897-1913). > 10. Doors Open Toronto, 3 years. 2000 (accepting 1997-2003). 3 for Dan Blum. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 1 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS TOPICS-> His Lit Geo Can Dan Blum 28 28 24 12 92 Don Piven 28 32 32 0 92 Dan Tilque 28 32 28 0 88 Joshua Kreitzer 28 28 20 4 80 Marc Dashevsky 24 20 22 0 66 Bruce Bowler 24 16 12 0 52 Erland Sommarskog 16 4 31 0 51 Peter Smyth 18 12 16 0 46 Jason Kreitzer 4 20 4 0 28 Pete Gayde 16 12 -- -- 28 -- Mark Brader | "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, Toronto | when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" msb@vex.net | --Upton Sinclair My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 01 12:34AM -0500 Mark Brader: > these will be the first tiebreaker in case of a tie. The second > tiebreaker is who scored on the hardest questions of #1-12, and > the third tiebreaker is who posted first. No tiebreakers were needed. The clear winner is DAN BLUM with a score of 6 points. Hearty congratulations! > playing right tackle, and was a great help to his team's offense. > He made the Pro Bowl 7 times and is in the Hall of Fame. > Name him. Jackie Slater. > only in Latin, of course. The proclamation is now known by > the first two Latin words of that phrase: "Inter Gravissimas". > What did it tell people to do? Switch to the calendar now named for that pope -- the Gregorian one. I accepted any reference to a calendar change. 1 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Erland. > 3. The "Guinness Book of Records", as it was originally known, > was first published in 1955. For its first 20 years it was > edited by two brothers. Name them. Norris and Ross McWhirter. 1 for Dan Blum, Peter, and Pete. > else in the night sky except the Moon. What's the name of the > object that you'll see if you look today at the place where it > was, using a suitably large telescope? Crab Nebula. 1 for Dan Blum, Marc, Dan Tilque, and Erland. > 5. How did Saroo Brierley identify where he'd come from? With Google Earth. At age 5 he got onto a train without a ticket, and fell asleep. He was carried about 900 miles across India and did not know which way he had come or what his home town was called -- until 25 years later, when he was able to browse in Google Earth to find the landmarks he still remembered. > 6. Many Roman Catholics denied that Elizabeth I was the legitimate > Queen of England because they considered her parents' marriage > to be invalid due to bigamy. Name both parents. King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn. 1 for Peter and Dan Tilque. Henry's marriage to Katherine of Aragon had been annulled by Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, who not-so-incidentally had been nominated for that job by Henry himself -- but the Catholic point of view was that nobody could annul a marriage except the Pope. > 7. Name the temperature scale, formerly used in Europe, that has > the same zero point as Celsius, but even larger degrees, so > that water boils at 80 degrees. Réaumur. 1 for Erland. > thought about it, and finally agreed. But halfway across the > river, the scorpion did sting the fox! Before they drowned, > he asked the scorpion why. What did the scorpion say? It's my nature. I accepted "I'm a scorpion". 1 for Dan Blum and Pete. > straight path to the stage. I reach her just as she is about to > mount the steps. With one sweep of my arm, I push her being me. > "I volunteer!" I gasp. --Who am "I"? (First or last name.) Katniss Everdeen. (In "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins.) 1 for Dan Blum. > this man has a record 19 wins. He has never completed the > Grand Slam by winning all four in one year, but three times he > has won three out of four. Name him. Roger Federer. 1 for Peter and Erland. > built using three levels of arches. Another unusual feature, > compared to most other bridges, is the reason why it was built. > What's that? To carry an aqueduct (over the Gardon River). 1 for Marc, Dan Tilque, and Pete. > Anyway, the portrait on the bill shows the man who was Secretary > of the Treasury during most of the Civil War and then became > Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Name him. Salmon P. Chase. 1 for Dan Blum, Marc, Dan Tilque, and Pete. > 13. What is the hidden theme in #1-12? > 14. Explain in detail how the theme applies in each case. Somewhat to my surprise, nobody got these. So I'm going to suppress these answers for the moment and just give a hint. There's a reason why there were 12 questions and not more, and their sequence was relevant as well. Now do you get it? Scores, if there are no errors: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 TOTALS Dan Blum 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 6 Dan Tilque 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 Pete Gayde 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 4 Erland Sommarskog 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 4 Peter Smyth 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 Marc Dashevsky 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 3 3 4 0 2 1 2 1 2 3 4 So now it's over to Dan Blum for RQ 270. But come on, let's see *someone* come up with answers on #13-14 of this contest, eh? If the complete answers aren't given sooner, I'll reveal them in another 36 hours or so from the time of this posting. -- Mark Brader | "'Settlor', (i) in relation to a testamentary trust, Toronto | means the individual referred to in paragraph (i)." msb@vex.net | -- Income Tax Act of Canada (1972-94), 108(1)(h) My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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