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| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Oct 13 03:38AM -0700 1727 25. James Wolfe, general 1739 1. Ethan Allen, militia leader 1751 20. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, author 1763 3. John Jacob Astor I, businessman 1775 21. John M.W. Turner, artist 1787 15. Auguste Renoir, artist 1799 17. Sacagawea, expedition member 1811 18. Camille Saint-Saëns, composer 1823 13. Elisha Otis, inventor 1835 4. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor 1847 22. William "Boss" Tweed, politician 1859 24. Quvenzhané Wallis, actress 1871 14. Aleksandr Pushkin, author 1883 9. Pierre Curie, scientist 1895 16. Babe Ruth, baseball player 1907 11. Pierre Laval, politician 1919 8. Stephen Crane, author 1931 6. Rachel Carson, scientist 1943 19. William Shatner, actor 1955 5. Mark Brader, computer programmer 1967 10. John Kerry, politician 1979 2. Pamela Anderson, actress 1991 23. Nik Wallenda, daredevil 2003 12. Kawhi Leonard, basketball player 2015 7. Charlotte of Cambridge, princess -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 13 02:18AM -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 7 - Entertainment - "I Beat Meryl Streep!" Meryl Streep has the record for most Oscar Best Actress nominations at 16, yet has only won twice. This is a round about the women who beat her. In each case, *name that other actress*. All dates shown relate to the release of the movies, not the Oscar ceremony itself. 1. Meryl's first nomination came in 1981 for her role in the "French Lieutenant's Woman", but the award that year went to the same actress whose record for most acting nominations Meryl eventually surpassed. Name that actress who beat Meryl, in the character of Ethel. 2. After a win in 1982 for her role in "Sophie's Choice", Meryl was nominated in '83 for "Silkwood". The Oscar ended up going to this actress who won, after five nominations, for her role in "Terms of Endearment". Who was that? 3. In 1988 Meryl was nominated for "A Cry in the Dark", but the Oscar ended up going to this actress, who portrayed a rape victim in "The Accused". 4. While Meryl's performance in 1990 in Carrie Fisher's "Postcards from the Edge" was well received, she lost to which woman who played "Superfan" Annie Wilkes? 5. Meryl's role as a war bride in 1995's "The Bridges of Madison County" was no match for which actress playing a nun comforting a convicted killer on death row in "Dead Man Walking"? 6. Meryl couldn't nab an Oscar as a cancer patient in the 1998 film "One True Thing", losing to this actress who literally defied gender roles in "Shakespeare in Love". 7. The next year Meryl was nominated for her role as a music teacher in "Music of the Heart", but this time the lost to a woman portraying a trans-man in the docudrama "Boys Don't Cry". Who is this actress? 8. Meryl's role as Miranda Priestly in the 2006 film "The Devil Wears Prada" was no match for royalty, as "The Queen" nabbed this portrayer of Queen Elizabeth II the Oscar that year. Who played the Queen? 9. Meryl tried to keep everything together in 2013 after her husband disappeared in "August: Osage County", but lost to this woman portraying a socialite's fall from the upper class in "Blue Jasmine". 10. Meryl's most recent nomination came as her role as Florence in "Florence Foster Jenkins", which saw her losing to "Moonlight". --No, wait, I mean she lost to the struggling actress Mia in the film "La La Land". Who played Mia? * Game 2, Round 8 - Misc - Do You Want to Be a Millionaire? All the following questions were $1,000,000 questions on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire". See if you could've won $1,000,000. Unfortunately there are no lifelines for you, and no multiple-choice either. 1. In the children's book series, where is Paddington Bear originally from? 2. Nephelococcygia is the practice of doing what? 3. Which insect shorted out an early supercomputer and inspired the term "computer bug"? 4. Name any one of the ships taken over during the Boston Tea Party. 5. Now used to refer to a cat, the word "tabby" is derived from the name of a district in what world capital? 6. For ordering his favorite beverages on demand, Lyndon Johnson had four buttons installed in the Oval Office -- labeled coffee, tea, Coke, and what? 7. Krushchev's famous 1960 "shoe-banging" outburst at the UN was in response to a delegate from which nation? 8. Which US president appeared on the television series "Laugh-in"? 9. Who did artist Grant Wood use as the model for the farmer in his classic painting "American Gothic"? 10. Which English king was married to Eleanor of Aquitaine? -- Mark Brader | "But this still doesn't explain spousal resemblance Toronto | in earlobe length, which is only rarely cited as a msb@vex.net | factor in divorce." --Jared Diamond My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Oct 12 04:10AM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: > Some of the names have been translated into English. > 1. Hermitage Museum. > 2. Salvador Dalí Museum. Seville > 3. Uffizi Gallery. Venice > 4. Prado Museum. Milan > 5. Musée D'Orsay. Paris > 6. Getty Museum. Los Angeles > 7. Rijksmuseum ["Rikes Museum"]. Amsterdam > 8. Picasso Museum. Zurich > 9. Rubens House. Amsterdam > 10. Guggenheim Museum -- *not* New York, please, but any of the > other ones. Bilbao, Spain > Boasting seating for 114,000, it also hosts athletics and > festivals such as the Arirang Festival. In which *country* > can you find this stadium? China > 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? BC Place > 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 LeMans -- Dan Tilque |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Oct 12 06:03PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:w8idnWfL_tE4H0HEnZ2dnUU7- > 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. St Petersburg, Florida, USA > 3. Uffizi Gallery. Florence > 4. Prado Museum. Madrid > 5. Musée D'Orsay. Paris > 6. Getty Museum. Los Angeles > 7. Rijksmuseum ["Rikes Museum"]. Amsterdam > 8. Picasso Museum. Barcelona > 9. Rubens House. Brussels > 10. Guggenheim Museum -- *not* New York, please, but any of the > other ones. London > Boasting seating for 114,000, it also hosts athletics and > festivals such as the Arirang Festival. In which *country* > can you find this stadium? North Korea > 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 > 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? Camp Nou > 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 > 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? Twickenham > 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? BC Place > 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. United Center > 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. Talladega Motor Speedway > 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 > 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. Pete Gayde |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 13 02:16AM -0500 Mark Brader: > * 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. For several of the questions it turns out that there are multiple museums by the same or similar name -- for example, Salvador Dalí Museum, Salvador Dalí Space, and Dalí Theater-Museum -- and in such cases I'm accepting any one of the applicable cities. This was the second-easiest round in the original game, after the current-events round. > 1. Hermitage Museum. St. Petersburg, Russia (the country was required). 4 for Don, Dan Blum, Joshua, Bruce, Marc, Calvin, and Pete. > 2. Salvador Dalí Museum. St. Petersburg, USA (the country was required); Paris, France; Figueres, Spain (reluctantly accepting Barcelona, the nearest major city, because it was accepted on protest in the original game). 4 for Joshua, Jason, and Pete. 2 for Calvin. > 3. Uffizi Gallery. Florence. 4 for Don, Dan Blum, Joshua, Bruce, Marc, Erland, and Pete. > 4. Prado Museum. Madrid. 4 for Don, Dan Blum, Joshua, Bruce, Marc, Jason, and Pete. 3 for Calvin. > 5. Musée D'Orsay. Paris. 4 for everyone -- Don, Dan Blum, Joshua, Bruce, Peter, Marc, Erland, Calvin, Jason, Dan Tilque, and Pete. > 6. Getty Museum. Los Angeles; Pacific Palisades (accepting Malibu). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Bruce, Marc, Dan Tilque, and Pete. > 7. Rijksmuseum ["Rikes Museum"]. Amsterdam. 4 for Don, Dan Blum, Joshua, Bruce, Peter, Marc, Erland, Calvin, Dan Tilque, and Pete. > 8. Picasso Museum. Paris; Antibes; Vallauris; Münster; Barcelona; Buitrago del Lozoya; Málaga. 4 for Bruce, Erland, and Pete. 3 for Dan Blum. 2 for Calvin. > 9. Rubens House. Antwerp. 4 for Erland. 3 for Calvin. > 10. Guggenheim Museum -- *not* New York, please, but any of the > other ones. Bilbao; Venice; Las Vegas; Berlin; Vilnius; Helsinki; Guadalajara. 4 for Joshua, Bruce, Erland, and Dan Tilque. > Boasting seating for 114,000, it also hosts athletics and > festivals such as the Arirang Festival. In which *country* > can you find this stadium? North Korea. 4 for Joshua, Peter, Erland, Calvin, and Pete. > 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. 4 for Don, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Pete. > 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? Camp Nou ["New"]. 4 for Joshua, Peter, Erland, Calvin, and Pete. > 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. (Los Angeles Rams.) 4 for Don, Joshua, Marc, Dan Tilque, and Pete. > 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? Twickenham. 4 for Bruce, Peter, Erland, Calvin, and Pete. > 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. Gaelic (Irish) football; hurling (or camogie). 4 for Don, Joshua, Peter, Erland, Calvin (the hard way), Dan Tilque, and Pete. 3 for Dan Blum. Shinty is a Scottish sport similar to field hockey and the Irish sport of hurling -- similar enough that's it's possible to play a hybrid game combining shinty and hurling rules. Shinty itself is not played at Croke Park as far as I can tell, but this hybrid game is. I therefore scored shinty as almost correct. > 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? Commonwealth Stadium (Edmonton Eskimos). > 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 (or Place Bell). 4 for Don. > 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. Indianapolis Motor Speedway, "the Brickyard". 4 for Don, Dan Blum, Joshua, Bruce, Marc, and Dan Tilque. > 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 (or 24 heures du Mans). Anything with "24 hours" and "Le Mans" was acceptable. 4 for Don, Dan Blum, Joshua, Bruce, Peter, Calvin, Dan Tilque, and Pete. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 2 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS TOPICS-> Can Geo Art Spo Joshua Kreitzer 8 24 32 28 92 Don Piven 0 32 20 24 76 "Calvin" 0 26 22 20 68 Erland Sommarskog 4 20 24 16 64 Dan Tilque 8 20 16 20 64 Dan Blum 4 18 27 11 60 Pete Gayde -- -- 32 28 60 Marc Dashevsky 0 16 24 8 48 Bruce Bowler -- -- 32 12 44 Peter Smyth -- -- 8 20 28 Jason Kreitzer 0 12 12 0 24 -- Mark Brader, Toronto "In my case, self-absorption is msb@vex.net completely justified." -- LAURA My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Oct 12 05:49PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:TZydncaFsdEC9EXEnZ2dnUU7- > 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." Diefenbaker > 2. "Not necessarily conscription, but conscription if necessary." > 3. "For me, pepper, I put it on my plate." Pierre Trudeau; Justin Trudeau > 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!" Diefenbaker > 5. "There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation." Pierre Trudeau > 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.'" Harper > 7. "A British subject I was born; a British subject I will die." Diefenbaker; MacDonald > 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." Pierre Trudeau; Justin Trudeau > 10. "At one point people are going to have to realize that maybe > I know what I'm doing." Pierre Trudeau; Justin Trudeau > * Game 2, Round 3 - Geography - Famous Streets of the World > 1. In what European city would you find the Unter den Linden? Berlin > 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 > 4. Still with high priced and très chic, in what American city > would you drop lots of money on Worth Av.? Dallas; New York > 5. In which European city would you find Varvaka St., the oldest > street in the city, known for its churches and medieval sites? Prague; Belgrade > 6. Which American city has Woodward Av. as its main drag? Detroit > 7. In which Asian city would you head to Orchard Rd. for shopping > and entertainment? Singapore; Hong Kong > 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, England; Toronto > 9. In which American city would you find Lombard St., called the > crookedest street in the world? San Francisco > 10. Which Canadian city is famous for the intersection of > Portage Av. and Main St.? Winnipeg; Saskatoon Pete Gayde |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 12 02:47PM -0500 If Pete Gayde's answers had been posted on time, he would have scored 12 points on Round 2 (questions 4, 5, 7, and 10) and a rare 25 on Round 3 (questions 1-3 and 6-10). -- Mark Brader, Toronto "Infinity is not a big number." msb@vex.net --Matt Parker My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Oct 12 05:54PM Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote in > 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 > 1848 by the English painters William 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? Moonraker > cheers, > calvin Pete Gayde |
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