- RQ #276 - ANSWERS & SCORES - 2 Updates
- QFTCISG Game 8, Rounds 2-3: Russian revolution, Merry Isthmus! - 2 Updates
- QFTCISG Game 7, Rounds 9-10: physics equations, Holly challenge - 2 Updates
- Calvin's Quiz #512 - 1 Update
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Dec 18 05:45PM -0800 On Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 2:16:01 PM UTC+10, Calvin wrote: > 1 Which Australian rock band had hits with "April Sun in Cuba" (1977) and "Are You Old Enough?" (1978)? DRAGON Variation No-one got this- I didn't realise how unknown they are internationally. > 2 Which six-letter word can mean to wedge something, an alcoholic spirit, a cut or score the skin, or to decisively end? SCOTCH Opening > 3 What links Bob Hope, Henry Winkler, Dwight Eisenhower, James Watson and Billy Graham? FOUR KNIGHTS Opening I was messing around with different name combinations and inadvertently left the fifth one in there. They are honourary awards of course. No one got this, which is no surprise given the error in the question and the fact that no-one nailed the theme. > 4 What is the official language of Suriname? DUTCH Opening > 5 What is the largest internal organ in the human body? Fried LIVER Attack > 6 Which ethno-linguistic group, native to Europe and Asia, is classified into East, West and South? SLAV Defence > 7 What word of Greek origin refers to (among other meanings) the complete final destruction of the world, as described in the book of Revelation. APOCALYPSE Attack > 8 A famous painting by Jacques-Louis David shows which leader crossing the Alps on horseback? NAPOLEON Opening https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Crossing_the_Alps > 9 What is the official language of Andorra? CATALAN Opening > 10 What was the nickname of American jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker? BIRD's Opening > 11 Which lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for correctly assessing in 1983 that reports of incoming American missiles were a false positive? [Stanislav] PETROV Defence Singleton for Dan B > 12 What links the previous 11 answers? They are all chess opening as you must have gathered by now. I clearly needed to include some better known ones such as Sicilian or Ruy Lopez to give you more to go on. http://www.thechesswebsite.com/chess-openings/ Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 Q11 Q12 TOTAL TB RQ276 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 8 26 Mark Brader 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 6 22 Dan Tilque 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 5 17 Dan Blum 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 5 18 Erland S 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 14 Peter Smyth - - - - - - - - - - - - --- ---------- 0 2 0 5 5 3 4 2 3 2 1 0 27 54% Congratulations Mark, and over to you for RQ277. cheers, calvin |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Dec 19 09:10AM +0100 >> (1977) and "Are You Old Enough?" (1978)? > DRAGON Variation > No-one got this- I didn't realise how unknown they are internationally. Had you include "The Body and the Beat", I should have spotted them. I have that album, and that song is also the only memorable song on the album. (So if any of these songs are on that album, I don't recall it anyway.) I don't think I knew they were from Australia. It is something I picked up in a cut-out bin many years ago. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 18 11:53PM -0600 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-11-13, 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 8, Round 2 - History - Russian Revolution Last Tuesday was the 100th anniversary of the start of the second of two revolutions in 1917 that, between them, ended the Russian monarchy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union. And now, a look back at those interesting times. 1. Name the Russian czar who was forced to abdicate in the first 1917 revolution. (Name and number required if applicable.) 2. A failed 1905 revolt against the czar led to the formation of various revolutionary movements in Russia, as well as a parliament. The Russian name of that parliament is also the name of the lower house of Russia's current parliament -- what is it? 3. After Czar <answer 1> abdicated, the <answer 2> set up a provisional government to organize elections while continuing to fight Germany in World War I. Name the lawyer (and <answer 2> member) who was the key member of that government, which lasted only 8 months. 4. Czar <answer 1> and his family were executed in July 1918 in what is now Russia's 4th-largest city. Name it. 5. The faction that eventually won the Russian Revolution and the ensuing civil war was originally a wing of a revolutionary Marxist political party. Their Russian name's literal meaning refers to "the majority" -- what is it? 6. In April 1917 <answer 5> leader Vladimir Lenin returned to Russia, crossing Germany by a special train. In what neutral country had he been living? 7. In March 1918 the <answer 5>s pulled Russia out of the war by signing a treaty with Germany and its allies. The treaty is named after the city, now in Belarus, where it was signed. What city? 8. Perhaps the best-known account of the <answer 5> revolution was written by American journalist John Reed. Name the book. 9. The <answer 5> takeover in 1917 provoked a 4-year civil war which brought death and suffering to millions. The <answer 5>s' ultimate victory is largely credited to the founder and commander of the Red Army. He was born Lev Bronstein, but what did he change his name to? 10. And now the calendar question. What are termed the February and October Revolutions of 1917 actually took place in March and November according to our current calendar -- the Gregorian calendar. What calendar was in use in Russia in 1917? * Game 8, Round 3 - Geography - It's Isthmus Time An isthmus is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land masses. 1. Canada has three isthmuses. The Isthmus of Chignecto connects which *two* provinces? 2. The Isthmus of Darien in Central America is better known by what other name? 3. The Isthmus of Perekop is a strategic strip of land connecting mainland Ukraine to a much-fought-over peninsula. What peninsula? 4. The Isthmus of Kra forms the narrowest part of which peninsula located in Asia? 5. The Isthmus of Suez is located on a peninsula with the same name as the canal that runs through it. But what *year* was the Suez Canal opened, within 2? 6. Clear Island, or Cape Clear Island, is the southermost inhabited island of Ireland and is divided by an isthmus called the Waist. What *county* is it located in? 7. The word "isthmus" comes from the ancient Greek word for neck. In Greece, then, what is the name of the isthmus that connects the mainland to the Peloponnese or Peloponnesian Peninsula? 8. The Karelian Isthmus is a stretch of land where what *two* northern European countries are connected? 9. The Eaglehawk Neck Isthmus connects two peninsulas in *what Australian state*? One was the infamous penal colony of Port Arthur, so chosen to make escape especially difficult. Name the state. 10. This isthmus forms part of an area disputed between Spain and Great Britain. Name the isthmus. -- 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. |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Dec 19 06:50AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:eM6dnbNb2IjINKXHnZ2dnUU7- > back at those interesting times. > 1. Name the Russian czar who was forced to abdicate in the first > 1917 revolution. (Name and number required if applicable.) Nicholas II > of various revolutionary movements in Russia, as well as a > parliament. The Russian name of that parliament is also the name > of the lower house of Russia's current parliament -- what is it? Duma > fight Germany in World War I. Name the lawyer (and <answer 2> > member) who was the key member of that government, which lasted > only 8 months. Kerensky > 4. Czar <answer 1> and his family were executed in July 1918 in > what is now Russia's 4th-largest city. Name it. Yekaterinburg > ensuing civil war was originally a wing of a revolutionary > Marxist political party. Their Russian name's literal meaning > refers to "the majority" -- what is it? Bolsheviks > 6. In April 1917 <answer 5> leader Vladimir Lenin returned to > Russia, crossing Germany by a special train. In what neutral > country had he been living? Switzerland > signing a treaty with Germany and its allies. The treaty is > named after the city, now in Belarus, where it was signed. > What city? Brest-Litovsk > 8. Perhaps the best-known account of the <answer 5> revolution > was written by American journalist John Reed. Name the book. "Ten Days That Shook the World" > ultimate victory is largely credited to the founder and commander > of the Red Army. He was born Lev Bronstein, but what did he > change his name to? Leon Trotsky > and October Revolutions of 1917 actually took place in March > and November according to our current calendar -- the Gregorian > calendar. What calendar was in use in Russia in 1917? Julian calendar > masses. > 1. Canada has three isthmuses. The Isthmus of Chignecto connects > which *two* provinces? New Brunswick and Nova Scotia > 2. The Isthmus of Darien in Central America is better known by > what other name? Panama Canal Zone > 3. The Isthmus of Perekop is a strategic strip of land connecting > mainland Ukraine to a much-fought-over peninsula. > What peninsula? Crimea > 5. The Isthmus of Suez is located on a peninsula with the same > name as the canal that runs through it. But what *year* was > the Suez Canal opened, within 2? 1867; 1872 > 6. Clear Island, or Cape Clear Island, is the southermost inhabited > island of Ireland and is divided by an isthmus called the Waist. > What *county* is it located in? Kerry > 8. The Karelian Isthmus is a stretch of land where what *two* > northern European countries are connected? Finland and Russia > Australian state*? One was the infamous penal colony of > Port Arthur, so chosen to make escape especially difficult. > Name the state. New South Wales; Victoria > 10. This isthmus forms part of an area disputed between Spain and > Great Britain. Name the isthmus. Gibraltar -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Dec 18 05:29PM -0800 On Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 3:51:30 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > 1. This equation is used to calculate the energy of a certain > elementary particle, equal to its frequency times Planck's > constant. Which particle? Electron > Postulated in 1687, it states that a force is equal to the mass > of an object times the resulting acceleration. What is this > equation commonly known as? Newton's first law of motion > time taken to do it. This rate, represented by the letter P, > is measured in joules per second, otherwise known as watts -- > but what is it called? Power > calculation is a linear partial differential equation used to > describe a system's wave function. Name the Austrian physicist > who derived this equation, which won him a Nobel Prize in 1933. Schrodinger > distance from the axis of rotation times the strength of > force times the sine of the angle of the force. What is this > rotational force commonly known as? Torque > you can know about the other one. Which German physicist laid > the groundwork for this principle? (The equation itself wasn't > created until several years later.) Heidegger > of the source of the object creating the noise, and the > original frequency. What's the name for the common effect it > is describing? Doppler effect > never decrease over time in a closed system. Since our universe > is technically a closed system, it says that this is always > increasing in the universe. What is represented by "delta S"? Entropy > The equation is read as pressure times volume equals the gas > constant r times temperature times -- <answer 10>, denoted by > the letter n. What does n represent? Number > discovered that an electromotive force could be induced across > an electrical conductor by changing the <answer 12>, letter B. > What does B stand for or represent in this equation? Direction > C1. Name the pro golfer who won the 1997 PGA Championship, > and is one of only three players to win PGA Tour events in > four different decades. Davis Love III > C2. Turning to the NBA, Cleveland Cavaliers centre Kevin Love > is the nephew of a founding member and the lead singer of > which iconic music group? The Beach Boys > * D. History: Maybe Baby > D1. Why was Louise Brown so famous after she was born in Britain > in 1978? First test tube baby > expecting their third child. Who were the last members > of the Queen's immediate family to have a third child? > Name *either* member of the couple. Edward, Anne > * E. Canadiana: Peggy Sue Got Married > E1. Name the celebrity couple who got married at a Montreal > hotel on 1964-03-15. Liz Taylor and Richard Burton > Red Raiders, plays in the Big 12 Conference. Alumni include > Dr. Phil, singer John Denver, and CBS News reporter Scott > Pelley. Name that university. Texas A&M? cheers, calvin |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 18 11:50PM -0600 Mark Brader: > and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information > see my 2017-09-25 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian > Inquisition (QFTCI*)". Well, Game 7 is over and JOSHUA KREITZER is the winner by a goodish margin. Hearty congratulations, sir! (But where the hell has Stephen Perry gone, HMMMM??) > 1. This equation is used to calculate the energy of a certain > elementary particle, equal to its frequency times Planck's > constant. Which particle? Photon. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Peter, and Gareth. Several people tried the electron. In view of wave-particle duality an electron can be said to have a frequency, but because electrons have a rest mass, the formula for their energy requires taking their speed into account. > Postulated in 1687, it states that a force is equal to the mass > of an object times the resulting acceleration. What is this > equation commonly known as? Newton's Second Law of Motion (full answer required). 4 for Dan Tilque, Peter, Gareth, and Marc. The first law of motion is just the special case of the second law where a = 0. The third law is the one about actions and reactions. > time taken to do it. This rate, represented by the letter P, > is measured in joules per second, otherwise known as watts -- > but what is it called? Power. 4 for Erland, Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Peter, Gareth, Marc, and Calvin. > calculation is a linear partial differential equation used to > describe a system's wave function. Name the Austrian physicist > who derived this equation, which won him a Nobel Prize in 1933. Erwin Schrödinger. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Gareth, and Calvin. > distance from the axis of rotation times the strength of > force times the sine of the angle of the force. What is this > rotational force commonly known as? Torque. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Gareth, Marc, and Calvin. 3 for Dan Blug. > you can know about the other one. Which German physicist laid > the groundwork for this principle? (The equation itself wasn't > created until several years later.) Werner Heisenberg. No, not Heisinger or Heidegger! 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Peter, Gareth, and Marc. 2 for Pete. As Erland noticed, "greater" in the question should have been "less". At least the inequality sign on the handout was right. Sorry about that. > of the source of the object creating the noise, and the > original frequency. What's the name for the common effect it > is describing? Doppler effect. 4 for Erland, Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Peter, Gareth, Marc, and Calvin. > never decrease over time in a closed system. Since our universe > is technically a closed system, it says that this is always > increasing in the universe. What is represented by "delta S"? Sorry, I missed the defect in this one: *entropy* is what never decreases, but it's represented by the S alone; "Delta S" represents the *change* in entropy. So I'm accepting either answer, so: 4 for Erland, Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Peter, Gareth, Marc, and Calvin. > The equation is read as pressure times volume equals the gas > constant r times temperature times -- <answer 10>, denoted by > the letter n. What does n represent? Number of moles of the gas. 4 for Marc. > discovered that an electromotive force could be induced across > an electrical conductor by changing the <answer 12>, letter B. > What does B stand for or represent in this equation? Magnetic flux density (not magnetic flux), or magnetic field. 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Gareth. > them for fun, but for no points. > 13. In Einstein's equation #3, what constant is represented by > the letter c? Speed of light (in vacuum). Erland, Joshua, Peter, Gareth, and Marc got this. > 14. Equation #11 resembles Newton's Law of Gravitation, but relates > to a different force. Which one? Electrical attraction. Peter and Gareth got this. > Finally, C represents the contribution of the object's *shape* > to its resistance -- for example, a streamlined object will > have a low C. By what name, a three-word phrase, is C known? Coefficient of drag. Peter and Gareth got this. > A1. In which Midwestern American state did Buddy Holly play > his *last show* before the 1959 plane crash that killed him, > Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper? Iowa. (The place was Clear Lake.) 4 for Joshua, Peter, and Marc. 2 for Pete. > A2. The title of one of Buddy Holly's biggest hits comes from a > John Wayne movie. What phrase is repeatedly uttered by > Wayne's character in "The Searchers"? "That'll be the day." 4 for Joshua, Pete, Gareth, and Marc. > B1. Name the third of Charles Dickens's five Christmas books. > It was an 1845 novella about a cricket that acts as a > guardian angel to a family. "The Cricket on the Hearth". 4 for Gareth. > Cricket, a minor character in the original fairy-tale novel > "The Adventures of Pinocchio". Name the Italian *author* > of that novel. Carlo Collodi. (Also accepting his real name, Carlo Lorenzini.) 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. > C1. Name the pro golfer who won the 1997 PGA Championship, > and is one of only three players to win PGA Tour events in > four different decades. Davis Love III. (First and last names required, but not the serial number.) 4 for Joshua, Peter, Gareth, and Calvin. > C2. Turning to the NBA, Cleveland Cavaliers centre Kevin Love > is the nephew of a founding member and the lead singer of > which iconic music group? The Beach Boys. (His uncle is Mike Love.) 4 for Gareth, Marc, and Calvin. As far as I know he is not related to Courtney Love of the group Hole. > * D. History: Maybe Baby > D1. Why was Louise Brown so famous after she was born in Britain > in 1978? She was the world's first test-tube baby (human birth following in-vitro fertilization). 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Peter, Pete, Gareth, Marc, and Calvin. > expecting their third child. Who were the last members > of the Queen's immediate family to have a third child? > Name *either* member of the couple. The Queen herself, Prince Philip. (Prince Andrew, 1960.) 4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque. > * E. Canadiana: Peggy Sue Got Married > E1. Name the celebrity couple who got married at a Montreal > hotel on 1964-03-15. Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton. 4 for Erland, Joshua, Pete, and Calvin (all the hard way!). > E2. Name the former union official who has served two terms as > the New Democrat MP for the riding of Parkdale - High Park. Peggy Nash. > acting success. Name this writer of "Baby, Don't Get > Hooked on Me" and of Elvis's "In the Ghetto" and "A Little > Less Conversation." Mac Davis. 4 for Joshua, Gareth, and Marc. > Red Raiders, plays in the Big 12 Conference. Alumni include > Dr. Phil, singer John Denver, and CBS News reporter Scott > Pelley. Name that university. Texas Tech. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Pete, and Gareth. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 7 ROUNDS-> 2 3 6 7 7 8 9 10 BEST TOPICS-> Can Geo Lit Spo Ent Mis Sci Cha SIX Joshua Kreitzer 0 39 40 16 40 27 24 36 206 Marc Dashevsky 0 36 28 4 36 24 28 20 172 Dan Tilque 4 40 32 20 28 20 32 12 172 Dan Blum 8 28 40 0 36 24 31 8 167 Pete Gayde 3 19 32 28 28 20 2 18 145 Peter Smyth 0 32 28 18 12 20 24 12 134 "Calvin" 0 25 24 14 31 18 20 16 134 Jason Kreitzer 0 20 28 0 36 16 -- -- 100 Erland Sommarskog 4 36 8 7 8 16 20 4 95 Bruce Bowler -- -- 20 0 36 28 -- -- 84 Gareth Owen -- -- -- -- -- -- 36 28 64 -- Mark Brader, Toronto, msb@vex.net Western Electric distributes UNIX software without warranty or any after-sales support. There is no publicity and new releases outside the Bell System are made only very irregularly. (More than 3 years after the release of the sixth edition of the UNIX system, the seventh edition had still not appeared.) -- John Lions My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@cfaj.ca>: Dec 14 07:01PM -0500 On 2017-12-11, Calvin wrote: > 1 In 1908 who became the first black boxer to be world heavyweight boxing champion? > 2 In 1903 who became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize? Curie > 3 Which country's secret intelligence service is known as Mossad? Israel > 4 Which website's slogan is 'We Open Governments'? Wikileaks > 5 Josep Broz Tito was president of which country from 1943-1980? Yugoslavia > 6 Which animal appears on the state flag of California? > 7 Name any TWO of the three locations which have hosted the Winter Olympics on more than one occasion. Grenoble, Lake Placid > 8 With the slogan 'Rumour has it' and receiving over 300,000 hits per day, which US website debunks/validates urban myths? Ripley's > 9 In the nervous system, which structure enables a neuron (i.e. nerve cell) to pass a signal to another neuron? Synapse > 10 The name of which American music trio is sometimes abbreviated to DCX? The Dave Clark Ten? -- Chris F.A. Johnson |
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