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| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 10 03:19AM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-09-25, 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 2, Round 4 - Arts and Literature - Art Museums We give you the name of a famous museum; you name the city it's in. Some of the names have been translated into English. 1. Hermitage Museum. 2. Salvador Dalí Museum. 3. Uffizi Gallery. 4. Prado Museum. 5. Musée D'Orsay. 6. Getty Museum. 7. Rijksmuseum ["Rikes Museum"]. 8. Picasso Museum. 9. Rubens House. 10. Guggenheim Museum -- *not* New York, please, but any of the other ones. After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs nal bs lbhe nafjref jnf whfg "Fg. Crgrefohet", lbh zhfg nyfb anzr gur pbhagel. Tb onpx naq nqq vg. * Game 2, Round 6 - Sports - Big Stadiums The following is a round on some of the biggest stadiums in the world, by capacity. 1. The largest stadium in the world, named the "Rungrado 1st of May Stadium", is where this country's national soccer team plays. Boasting seating for 114,000, it also hosts athletics and festivals such as the Arirang Festival. In which *country* can you find this stadium? 2. The next-largest stadium is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and is home to the University of Michigan's Wolverines. With seating for approximately 107,000, it has earned what *nickname*? 3. The largest soccer-only stadium in the world has seating of 99,000. Located in Barcelona, Spain, and home to Barcelona FC, what is the name of this huge stadium? 4. The 14th-largest stadium in the world is the largest that has hosted a team in of North America's "big four" sports leagues. It currently is the temporary home for a recently moved team; it is also the home of the USC Trojans football team. Name it. 5. Two of the top 30 largest stadiums are located in the UK. Both are located in and around London. One Wembley, is the home of the English national soccer team; the other is the home of the English national *rugby* team. What is that latter stadium's name? 6. Croke Park is the 27th-largest stadium in the world, located in Dublin. It is one of the few top stadiums in the world that does not host either soccer or American football. It instead hosts events organized by the Gaelic Athletic Association. Name any sport that is hosted there. 7. Canada's largest stadium is only the 201st-largest in the world. With seating for 56,000, it is the home of a West Division CFL team, as well as for select games for this city's soccer team in the Canadian championship. What is the stadium? 8. The largest stadium in the NHL has seating for around 21,000. Built in the mid-1990s, it hosts one of the league's most storied franchises. Give the current name of this stadium. The last two question are not about stadiums, but the largest sporting venues (by capacity) of any type -- both are for car racing. 9. The largest sporting venue in the world is located in an American state capital and boasts a capacity of over 250,000. It hosts one of the events in the triple crown of motor sports, a race that has been run since 1911. Best not to compete if you are lactose intolerant. Give the venue's full name or nickname. 10. The Circuit de la Sarthe used to be the world's largest sporting venue, seating upwards of 260,000, until recent renovations. It is host to the oldest endurance road race in the world, where a team of drivers race for an extended period. Name that race. After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Ba gur ynfg dhrfgvba, gur anzr bs gur enpr vapyhqrf gur anzr bs gur pvgl, ohg gurer'f zber gb vg. Vs lbh bayl zragvbarq gur pvgl, tb onpx naq nqq gur erfg. -- Mark Brader "After all, it is necessary to get behind Toronto someone before you can stab them in the back." msb@vex.net -- Lynn & Jay, "Yes, Prime Minister" My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Don Piven <don@piven.net>: Oct 10 05:56AM -0500 On 10/10/17 03:19, Mark Brader wrote: > We give you the name of a famous museum; you name the city it's in. > Some of the names have been translated into English. > 1. Hermitage Museum. St. Petersburg, Russia > 2. Salvador Dalí Museum. > 3. Uffizi Gallery. Florence. > 4. Prado Museum. Madrid. > 5. Musée D'Orsay. Paris. > 6. Getty Museum. > 7. Rijksmuseum ["Rikes Museum"]. Amsterdam. > 2. The next-largest stadium is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and > is home to the University of Michigan's Wolverines. With seating > for approximately 107,000, it has earned what *nickname*? The Big House. > hosted a team in of North America's "big four" sports leagues. > It currently is the temporary home for a recently moved team; > it is also the home of the USC Trojans football team. Name it. Los Angeles Coliseum. > does not host either soccer or American football. It instead > hosts events organized by the Gaelic Athletic Association. > Name any sport that is hosted there. Hurling. > With seating for 56,000, it is the home of a West Division CFL > team, as well as for select games for this city's soccer team > in the Canadian championship. What is the stadium? The Brick Field. > 8. The largest stadium in the NHL has seating for around 21,000. > Built in the mid-1990s, it hosts one of the league's most > storied franchises. Give the current name of this stadium. Bell Centre. > It hosts one of the events in the triple crown of motor sports, > a race that has been run since 1911. Best not to compete if you > are lactose intolerant. Give the venue's full name or nickname. The Brickyard. > venue, seating upwards of 260,000, until recent renovations. > It is host to the oldest endurance road race in the world, where > a team of drivers race for an extended period. Name that race. 24 Hours of Le Mans |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 10 03:46AM -0500 Welcome to Rotating Quiz #271. My thanks to Dan Blum for writing the last quiz and choosing a question set that allowed me to win. Back in 2013, I had an idea for RQ 120 that I thought was interesting, but it proved hard enough that it only drew a low turnout. I'm reusing the same idea this time, but I've tweaked some details to make it easier, in the hope that more people will enter this time. I'm going to allow 8 days (from the moment of posting) for entries on this one, and I intend to post a reminder later on. This means you have until about 4¾ hours after midnight (by Toronto time, zone -4) next Tuesday night, the night of October 17, 2017. RQ 271, then, is about these people: 1. Ethan Allen, militia leader 2. Pamela Anderson, actress 3. John Jacob Astor I, businessman 4. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor 5. Mark Brader, computer programmer 6. Rachel Carson, scientist 7. Charlotte of Cambridge, princess 8. Stephen Crane, author 9. Pierre Curie, scientist 10. John Kerry, politician 11. Pierre Laval, politician 12. Kawhi Leonard, basketball player 13. Elisha Otis, inventor 14. Aleksandr Pushkin, author 15. Auguste Renoir, artist 16. Babe Ruth, baseball player 17. Sacagawea, expedition member 18. Camille Saint-Saëns, composer 19. William Shatner, actor 20. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, author 21. John M.W. Turner, artist 22. William "Boss" Tweed, politician 23. Nik Wallenda, daredevil 24. Quvenzhané Wallis, actress 25. James Wolfe, general As you see, I've just listed them in alphabetical order, for a suitable definition thereof. But as you have no doubt noticed, they were born at 12-year intervals, from 1727 on. Or more precisely, their *years of birth* were at 12-year intervals -- 1727, 1739, 1751, and so on. Your task, of course, is simply to give the year of birth for each person -- or, equivalently, to put them in order by date of birth. I will accept answers in either of two formats, corresponding to those two formulations of the question. First, you may answer this the same way you would a QFTCI or similar contest: quote the names, or some of them, in the order given here, and put one of the possible years on the line below any or all of them. (I assume everyone is capable of generating the list of possible years without my help!) This format allows you to answer for only some of the people if that's what you want to do. Note that [1] you are only allowed one answer per name, and [2] you are *not allowed to repeat* any years. If you do, only the first time you give a year will count. For example, if you thought Pushkin was not only first in another kind of alphabetical sort but was also the first of the group to be born, Bell was the second, and Pushkin third, then your answer posting might include these lines: > 4. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor 1739 > 14. Aleksandr Pushkin, author 1727 > 15. Auguste Renoir, artist 1751 Your other choice is to take the *complete* list and *rearrange it* into chronological order, *earliest to latest born*. Then post it that way (retaining the "question numbers" along with the names). Using the above example, your answer posting would contain 25 lines, starting with these three: 14. Aleksandr Pushkin, author 4. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor 15. Auguste Renoir, artist You may insert dates in the list as well, for your own reference, if you find it easier to work that way. But if you post an answer in this format, *any dates you write will be ignored*; only the sequence of the names will actually count. Before posting in this format, make sure your list still contains 25 different names; if you repeat any names, I'll take the first instance of each, and if you omit any names, they are automatically wrong and no names will be associated with the most recent dates. The scoring is 25 points for each correct answer, 5 points for each answer where you are off by 12 years, and 1 point for each answer where you are off by 24 years. So a perfect score is 625. In case of a tie, the tiebreaker will be who scored the most on the hardest questions; and if necessary, who posted first. As usual, you must answer based only on your own knowledge. The winner will be the first choice to host RQ 272. Have fun! -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "My ambition is to see a saying of mine attributed msb@vex.net | to Dorothy Parker or Mark Twain." -- Joe Fineman My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Oct 10 03:05AM Rotating Quiz #270 is over and Mark Brader is the winner. He may now set RQ #271. > Ottoman rule for some time it acted independently and was a major > pirate base before the Barbary Wars. Not longer after those it fell > under colonial rule. Algiers > with mercury vapor, so it unsurprisingly was mostly replaced by easier > methods within about twenty years. However, the name is often > incorrectly applied to other types of 19th-century photograph. daguerreotype "Daguerretype" is worth 1 point. > single piece of wood, unlike later string instruments such as > viols. These days it sees some use in folk music in regions such as > North Africa. rebec I decided "rabac" is worth 1 point, what with the Great Vowel Shift and all. Lutes are plucked or strummed, not bowed (and not generally made from a single piece of wood, although that probably varies). Even if I accepted "gamba" for "viola da gamba," that instrument was made much like a violin, e.g. from several pieces of wood joined together. (It also doesn't date back as far as the 13th century.) > (as one might expect) it is the closest capital to the equator, so > there's that. (The answer is the name of the country, not the > capital.) Ecuador > 5. This large coral atoll is self-governing but exists in free > association with New Zealand, which generally handles its foreign > affairs. Niue > accessed via more or less horizontal tunnels ("more or less" because > they often slope a bit to drain water from the mine). Such a tunnel is > generally called what? adit "Drift" is a word for a horizontal tunnel within a mine, but doesn't appear to be used for those that exit the mine. "Ort" might be the correct Swedish term for this but I can't find anything that says so. (If it is, it's probably not borrowed from English, since it means something different in English.) > 7. This Italian chemist gained fame as an author, in particular for > his memoir of his time in Auschwitz and his short story collection The > Periodic Table. (Primo) Levi > 8. In painting this refers to a technique whereby the paint (usually > oil paint) is applied in very thick layers, giving texture to the > finished canvas. impasto > 9. Among the notable deaths of 2016 was that of the musician generally > known as Prince. What was his surname? Nelson > where they were first sold, are round, make of a flaky pastry, and > filled with currants. They are rounder than Banbury cakes and taller > than Chorley cakes. Eccles > 11. The first letters spell what? adrenaline > 12. The last letters spell what? secretions Scores: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Total ---------------------------------------- Mark 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 0 2 0 1 1 17 Marc 2 1 2 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 1 13 Dan 2 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 Calvin 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 6 Peter 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 6 Erland 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Oct 10 07:23AM > "Ort" might be the correct Swedish term for this but I can't find > anything that says so. (If it is, it's probably not borrowed from > English, since it means something different in English.) Looking up "adit" in Wikipedia, and then choosing the Swedish article, leads me to an entry for "stoll" (a word that I have never heard). The entry starts "En *stoll* or /dagort/ är en..." Thus, would mean that this is a special kind of "ort" which then is a more general word. Swedish Wikipedia has an entry for "ort" alone, but this entry has no links to any other language. As I understand from the entry for "stoll", this an horisontal shaft with an entry to the land around (that would explain dag-). I believe "ort" can refer to any horizontal shaft, including those deep underground. Mining is certainly not my area. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 10 03:22AM -0500 Dan Blum: > ...Mark Brader is the winner. He may now set RQ #271. Oh, I was afraid of that. Okay, you asked for it... -- Mark Brader | "Yeah. Writers working under tight restrictions produce Toronto | novel material -- like, for example, epigrams employing msb@vex.net | backward alphabetization." --Randall Munroe |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Oct 09 12:36PM -0500 In article <TZydncaFsdEC9EXEnZ2dnUU7-KnNnZ2d@giganews.com>, msb@vex.net says... > 1. In what European city would you find the Unter den Linden? > 2. Which street in Washington DC links the White House and > Capitol Hill? Pennsylvania Avenue > 3. Name the famous high-priced, très-chic shopping street in > Beverly Hills. Rodeo Drive > and entertainment? > 8. In which city would you find more than 300 shops and stores on > Oxford St. -- a mecca for, among other things, men's fashion? London > 9. In which American city would you find Lombard St., called the > crookedest street in the world? San Francisco -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com |
| Jason Kreitzer <jk71875@gmail.com>: Oct 09 01:17PM -0700 On Saturday, October 7, 2017 at 1:44:04 AM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote: > 1. In what European city would you find the Unter den Linden? > 2. Which street in Washington DC links the White House and > Capitol Hill? Pennsylvania Avenue > 3. Name the famous high-priced, très-chic shopping street in > Beverly Hills. Rodeo Drive > and entertainment? > 8. In which city would you find more than 300 shops and stores on > Oxford St. -- a mecca for, among other things, men's fashion? London |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 10 03:17AM -0500 Mark Brader: > leave the answer ambiguous. > 1. "The 19th century was the century of the United States. I think > we can claim it is Canada that shall fill the 20th century." Sir Wilfrid Laurier. 4 for Dan Tilque. > 2. "Not necessarily conscription, but conscription if necessary." William Lyon Mackenzie King. 4 for Dan Tilque. > 3. "For me, pepper, I put it on my plate." Jean Chrétien (in reference to pepper-spraying of protesters). 4 for Joshua. > preserved to them the control of their own economic and > political destiny. Sir John A. MacDonald opened the West. > I see a Canada of the North. This is the vision!" John Diefenbaker. > 5. "There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation." Pierre Trudeau. (Both names required.) 4 for Joshua, Erland (yes!), and Dan Blum. > 6. "You had an option, sir. You could have said: 'No, I am not > going to do it. This is wrong for Canada, and I am not going > to ask Canadians to pay the price.'" Brian Mulroney (about patronage). > 7. "A British subject I was born; a British subject I will die." Sir John A. MacDonald. > 8. "Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects." Hint: it was > after 1950. Lester Pearson. > Act II. I hope you enjoyed the intermission. As Sheila said, > think about it: almost two weeks without a speech from me. > You can't say you didn't get something nice for Christmas." Paul Martin. > 10. "At one point people are going to have to realize that maybe > I know what I'm doing." Justin Trudeau. (Both names required.) > * Game 2, Round 3 - Geography - Famous Streets of the World > 1. In what European city would you find the Unter den Linden? Berlin. 4 for Joshua, Erland, Don, and Calvin. > 2. Which street in Washington DC links the White House and > Capitol Hill? Pennsylvania Av. 4 for everyone -- Joshua, Erland, Don, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Calvin, Marc, and Jason. > 3. Name the famous high-priced, très-chic shopping street in > Beverly Hills. Rodeo Dr. 4 for Joshua, Don, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Calvin, Marc, and Jason. > 4. Still with high priced and très chic, in what American city > would you drop lots of money on Worth Av.? Palm Beach. 4 for Joshua and Don. > 5. In which European city would you find Varvaka St., the oldest > street in the city, known for its churches and medieval sites? Moscow. > 6. Which American city has Woodward Av. as its main drag? Detroit. (Also Highland Park, Ferndale, Royal Oak, Huntingdon Woods, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, and Pontiac. The street is 25 miles long.) 4 for Don. Curiously, in the original game instead of the above suburbs the question-writer named Dearborn and Dearborn Heights as alternate answers. Perhaps they were thinking of Michigan Av., which does extend from Detroit through those two suburbs -- and then continues through Inkster, Westland, Wayne, Canton, Ypsilanti, Saline, and (if Google Maps is correct) well beyond, for something like 65 miles. > 7. In which Asian city would you head to Orchard Rd. for shopping > and entertainment? Singapore. 4 for Erland and Calvin. 2 for Dan Blum. > 8. In which city would you find more than 300 shops and stores on > Oxford St. -- a mecca for, among other things, men's fashion? London. (Also accepting Westminster, which is technically more correct.) 4 for everyone. > 9. In which American city would you find Lombard St., called the > crookedest street in the world? San Francisco. 4 for Joshua, Don, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Calvin, and Marc. Lombard St. is actually straight for more than 2 miles of its total length, but some decades ago a 450-foot section between Hyde and Leavenworth_Sts. where it goes steeply down Russian Hill was converted into a switchback with 8 hairpin turns and an additional turn at each end; hence the soubriquet. See: http://www.qsview.com/@37.802205,-122.418083,270.54h,7.89p,0.02z > 10. Which Canadian city is famous for the intersection of > Portage Av. and Main St.? Winnipeg. 4 for Erland, Don, and Dan Tilque. 2 for Calvin. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 2 ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS TOPICS-> Can Geo Joshua Kreitzer 8 24 32 Don Piven 0 32 32 Dan Tilque 8 20 28 "Calvin" 0 26 26 Erland Sommarskog 4 20 24 Dan Blum 4 18 22 Marc Dashevsky 0 16 16 Jason Kreitzer 0 12 12 -- Mark Brader "He added a 3-point lead" is pronounced Toronto differently in Snooker than in Typography... msb@vex.net -- Liam Quin My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Oct 09 02:50PM Calvin wrote: > 1 The Prince of Orange is the title carried by the heir to which > European crown? Netherlands > 2 Which straits separate Sri Lanka from India? > 3 What term describes musical instruments that produce sound when struck? Percussion > 4 "Love Never Dies" is the sequel to which other musical? Phantom of the Opera > 5 What phobia an irrational fear of strangers or foreigners? Xenophobia > 6 In the United States, who is next in the presidential line of > succession after the vice president? Speaker of the House of Representatives > Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti? > 8 The first Paralympic Games took place in 1960 > in which city? Rome > 9 Whisky and Drambuie combine to form which cocktail? > 10 Which 1977 Bond film's theme was "Nobody Does It Better" by Carly > Simon? Octopussy Peter Smyth |
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