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| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 30 10:38PM -0600 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-10-30, 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 6, Round 7: Entertainment - David Cronenberg Movies These are films by Canadian director David Cronenberg. From the year and a short description, name the movie. 1. 1981: A scientist sends a man with extraordinary psychic powers to hunt others like him. 2. 2002: A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood. 3. 1986: A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong. 4. 1988: Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman. 5. 1983: When he acquires a different kind of show for his station, a sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a terrifying new reality. 6. 1983: A man awakens from a coma to discover he has psychic powers. 7. 2011: A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis. 8. 2005: A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero when he foils a vicious robbery attempt, but this sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core. 9. 1999: A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual-reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged. 10. 2007: The journal of a Russian teenager living in London who died during childbirth containes clues to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family. * Game 6, Round 8 - Misc - Squash In the spirit of Halloween: pumpkins are part of the squash family, which comes in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. We will name a variety of squash, and you give us the corresponding number on the 3-page handout: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/g6r8/squash.pdf 1. Acorn Squash. 2. Banana Squash. 3. Buttercup Squash. 4. Butternut Squash, Butternut Pumpkin, or Gramma Pumpkin. 5. Delicata Squash, Sweet Potato Squash, or Bohemian Squash. 6. Hubbard Squash. 7. Kabocha Squash, Japanese Pumpkin, or Kent Pumpkin. 8. Spaghetti Squash, also called Vegetable Spaghetti or Calabash. 9. Summer Squash. 10. Turban Squash, or Turk's Turban. So there were 8 decoys. After completing the round, decode the rot13 if you want to identify them for fun, but for no points. 11. Pneaviny Fdhnfu. 12. Phfgneq Juvgr Fdhnfu. 13. Rvtug-Onyy Fdhnfu. 14. Erq Xhev Fdhnfu. 15. Fhtne Chzcxva. 16. Fhaohefg Fdhnfu. 17. Fjrrg Qhzcyvat Fdhnfurf (gurer ner gjb bs gurz). -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "True excitement lies in doing msb@vex.net | 'sdb /unix /dev/kmem'" -- Pontus Hedman My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Dec 01 05:52AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:x9udnSffFJ0oQb3HnZ2dnUU7- > 3. 1986: A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform > into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes > horribly wrong. "The Fly" > 4. 1988: Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that > nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to > deteriorate over a woman. "Dead Ringers" > 5. 1983: When he acquires a different kind of show for his station, > a sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the > future of media spin out of control in a terrifying new reality. "Scanners" > 6. 1983: A man awakens from a coma to discover he has psychic > powers. "The Dead Zone" > 7. 2011: A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung > and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis. "A Dangerous Method" > 8. 2005: A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero when he foils > a vicious robbery attempt, but this sets off repercussions that > will shake his family to its very core. "A History of Violence" > 9. 1999: A game designer on the run from assassins must play > her latest virtual-reality creation with a marketing trainee > to determine if the game has been damaged. "eXistenZ" > the 3-page handout: > http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/g6r8/squash.pdf > 1. Acorn Squash. 3; 4 > 2. Banana Squash. 15; 13 > 3. Buttercup Squash. 18 > 4. Butternut Squash, Butternut Pumpkin, or Gramma Pumpkin. 1; 2 > 5. Delicata Squash, Sweet Potato Squash, or Bohemian Squash. 5; 13 > 6. Hubbard Squash. 6; 7 > 7. Kabocha Squash, Japanese Pumpkin, or Kent Pumpkin. 8; 9 > 8. Spaghetti Squash, also called Vegetable Spaghetti or Calabash. 1; 12 > 9. Summer Squash. 12; 1 > 10. Turban Squash, or Turk's Turban. 14 -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Nov 30 01:58PM -0600 In article <y7OdncjU58dWC4HHnZ2dnUU7-KHNnZ2d@giganews.com>, msb@vex.net says... > The band stayed in their home city and played at other sporting > events until the city was rewarded with a new NFL franchise > in 1996. What city? Baltimore > as he decided to directly challenge the NFL in an anti-monopoly > lawsuit, and was awarded all of $3. What was the name of this > league? (Short form acceptable.) USFL > overall in the 1986 NBA draft. This event would lead to the > changing of the NBA's view on casual drug use in the league. > What team was it that selected him in the draft? Boston Celtics > 15 years in prison, he was pardoned after 4 months and went on > to be selected 1st overall in 1996 by the Philadelphia 76ers. > Name him. Iverson > Game 5 of the NBA finals. But they were all overshadowed > by one athlete's run-in with the law. What was this event? > Be specific, don't just name the athlete. freeway chase of O.J. Simpson > They would meet in 80 matches, including 14 Grand Slam event > finals. Both have 18 Grand Slam event final titles and have > been inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame. Name both players. Chris Evert and Martina Navratalova > 9. "One Night in Vegas" is about Mike Tyson and his friendship with > this rapper, who was murdered after attending the Tyson-Sheldon > fight in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996. Who is this rapper? Tupac Shakur -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 30 10:36PM -0600 Mark Brader: > and you give us the artist. There were 3 decoys, which appear in > their numerical position, interspersed with the rest; answer the > decoys if you like for fun, but for no points. Nobody tried the decoys. > 1. "Electric Chair" (1964). Andy Warhol. 4 for Dan Blum. > 2. Untitled devil's head (1987). Jean-Michel Basquiat. > 3. "The Nightmare" (1781). Henry Fuseli. > 4. "The Face of War" (1940). Salvador Dali. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Pete, and Jason. > 5. "Skull of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette" (1885). Vincent van Gogh. > 6. Decoy -- "Saturn Devouring His Son" (1636). Peter Paul Rubens. > 7. This is also titled "Saturn Devouring His Son" (but it's from > c.1819-23). Francisco Goya. 2 for Dan Blum. > 8. "Massacre of the Innocents" (1611-12). Peter Paul Rubens. > 9. "Flaying of the Marsyas" (c.1570). Titian. > 10. "The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea" (c.1805-10). William Blake. > 11. Decoy -- "Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X" > (1953). Francis Bacon. > 12. Decoy -- "Vienna State Opera House" (1912). Adolf Hitler. And you thought that one didn't look evil! > 13. "Head" (1938). Pablo Picasso. 4 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque. > The band stayed in their home city and played at other sporting > events until the city was rewarded with a new NFL franchise > in 1996. What city? Baltimore. (Indianapolis Colts, Baltimore Ravens.) 4 for Joshua, Jason, and Marc. > as he decided to directly challenge the NFL in an anti-monopoly > lawsuit, and was awarded all of $3. What was the name of this > league? (Short form acceptable.) USFL (United States Football League). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Pete, Dan Tilque, Jason, and Marc. > overall in the 1986 NBA draft. This event would lead to the > changing of the NBA's view on casual drug use in the league. > What team was it that selected him in the draft? Boston Celtics. 4 for Joshua, Pete, Jason, and Marc. > 15 years in prison, he was pardoned after 4 months and went on > to be selected 1st overall in 1996 by the Philadelphia 76ers. > Name him. Allen Iverson. 4 for Joshua, Pete, and Marc. > Game 5 of the NBA finals. But they were all overshadowed > by one athlete's run-in with the law. What was this event? > Be specific, don't just name the athlete. O.J. Simpson was chased and finally arrested by police. 4 for Joshua, Pete, Dan Tilque, Peter, Jason, and Marc. 3 for Erland. > built the sport into what it is today. In fact, the BMX sporting > association responsible for organizing BMX events around the > world, including for the X Games, is named after him. Who is he? Matt Hoffman. > consider one of the most famous finals moments in sports history. > A movie was made on the subject in 2009. Which country hosted > the event? South Africa. (Nelson Mandela, "Invictus".) 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Pete, Dan Tilque, Peter, and Erland. > They would meet in 80 matches, including 14 Grand Slam event > finals. Both have 18 Grand Slam event final titles and have > been inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame. Name both players. Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova. 4 for Joshua, Pete, Peter, Erland, Jason, and Marc. > 9. "One Night in Vegas" is about Mike Tyson and his friendship with > this rapper, who was murdered after attending the Tyson-Sheldon > fight in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996. Who is this rapper? Tupac Shakur. 4 for Joshua, Pete, Dan Tilque, Peter, Jason, and Marc. 3 for Dan Blum. > performance at the 2000 Olympics, and her ultimate fall after > admitting to using performance-enhancing drugs in 2007. She was > stripped of all her Olympic medals. Who is this athlete? Marion Jones. 4 for Pete, Peter, and Erland. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 6 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS TOPICS-> His Can Art Spo Joshua Kreitzer 19 16 4 32 71 Pete Gayde 13 6 4 32 55 Dan Blum 17 2 14 11 44 Marc Dashevsky -- -- 0 28 28 Jason Kreitzer -- -- 4 24 28 Peter Smyth -- -- 0 20 20 Dan Tilque -- -- 4 16 20 Erland Sommarskog -- -- 0 15 15 -- 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. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Nov 30 09:21AM -0800 Erland Sommarskog wrote: > Dan Tilque (dtilque@frontier.com) writes: > I saw you had a few street names. I don't know about these; were the > abbreivation just created for the streets? I asked for help in a different forum and others supplied them. I haven't googled them, but I expect they're existing acronyms for the utilities. > Asea is originally an acronym - Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget - > but it has since long been a name of its own. (Today you find it as the > A in ABB, ASEA-Brown Boveri.) So I would not really count it. Age doesn't make a difference. I'll consider it. -- Dan Tilque |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Nov 30 08:24PM +0100 >> (Today you find it as the A in ABB, ASEA-Brown Boveri.) So I would not >> really count it. > Age doesn't make a difference. I'll consider it. It occurred to me that there is an Agavägen on Lidingö, which is a city adjacent to Stockholm. Aga comes from AGA, Allmänna Gasaccumulator, a company stated by amongs others Nobel laureate Gustaf Dalén. Their had their head office on that street. (The company as such no longer exists, but is now now part of Linde AG.) There is also an Agavägen in Kalmar and Sandviken, and I will have to assume they are also named after the company. There is a Swedish word "aga", but it seems unlikely that some would name a street "Corporal Punishment Street". |
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