- QFTCISG Current Events 9-10 answers - 3 Updates
- QFTCISG Game 6, Rounds 7-8: Cronenberg, squash! - 3 Updates
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 01 07:38PM -0600 Mark Brader: > give the answers that were correct on that date... For further > information see my recent companion posting on "Questions from > the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". I'm assuming that I will be getting the questions from next week's Final, so the QFTCISG Current Events has one more round to run. > 1. Which European country will miss next year's World Cup soccer > finals (tournament) for the first time since 1958 after being > eliminated by Sweden last week? Italy. 4 for Joshua, Peter, Erland, Gareth, and Pete. > 2. The 2017 Cy Young Awards for the best pitcher in each of the > American League and National League were announced this past > week. Both winners are repeat winners. Name either. Corey Kluber (Cleveland Indians, AL), Max Scherzer (Washington Nationals, NL). 4 for Gareth and Pete. > 3. What is the name of the ride-sharing competitor to Über who > announced that they plan to enter the Toronto market by the > end of the year? Lyft. 4 for Dan, Joshua, Jason, and Pete. > performed in-utero surgery on a baby to repair *what birth-defect > condition* where there is incomplete closing of the backbone > and membranes around the spinal cord? Spina bifida, or specifically myelominengocele. 4 for Dan, Joshua, Peter, and Pete. > 5. The president of what country announced last week to a United > Nations panel that they will cover the US contribution for > climate-science research? France. 4 for Gareth. 3 for Dan. > 6. What African country's military seized control of the government > last week? Zimbabwe. 4 for everyone -- Dan, Joshua, Peter, Erland, Gareth, Jason, and Pete. > 7. The American Heart Association and several other groups > redefined high blood pressure as starting at what reading? > Both numbers required. 130/80. 4 for Pete. > selling a single painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci > for approximately $450,000,000 US (including commission). > What's the name of the painting? "Salvador Mundi", or in English, "Savior of the World". 4 for Pete. > 9. This songwriter, rhythm guitarist and co-founder of the band > AC/DC died on Saturday. Give his first and last name. Malcolm Young. 4 for Joshua, Erland, Gareth, and Jason. 2 for Peter. > 10. Over 500 people were killed and thousands injured when a > powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck near the border of > *what two countries* last week? Iran, Iraq. 4 for Dan, Erland, and Gareth. > * Game 10 (2017-11-27), Round 1 - Current Events > 1. David Cassidy, a teen heartthrob of television and records, > died last week at age 67. What hit TV show launched him to fame? "The Partridge Family" (1970-74). 4 for Dan, Joshua, Peter, Gareth, Jason, and Pete. > 2. 83-year-old cult leader Charles Manson also died last week. > In the summer of 1969, Manson and his followes murdered a total > of nine people, including a well-known actress. Name her. Sharon Tate. 4 for Dan, Joshua, Gareth, Jason, and Pete. > things that will not be allowed. (If you get 3 right I'll > score it as "almost correct" -- an option that not available > in the original game.) Playing hockey, playing tag, speed skating, figure skating, rough play, carrying children, using cellphones, eating. 3 for Peter. > 4. The Toronto School Board voted 18-3 to eliminate a controversial > program which has been around for 9 years. What? Police officers in schools. > 5. The Vanier Cup, symbolizing football supremacy among Canadian > universities, was played Saturday in Hamilton between two > perennial powerhouses. Who won? University of Western Ontario Mustangs. ("Western" or "UWO" was sufficient.) > 6. During the week leading up to the Grey Cup, the Canadian > Football League hands out its individual awards. Who won the > Most Outstanding Player award for 2017? Mike Reilly (Edmonton Eskimos). > UN tribunal of genocide and crimes against humanity. In the > 1990s he ordered massacres of Bosnian Musliums, and "ethnic > cleansing" campaigns. Name him. Radko Mladic. I did not accept any combinations made from his first and last name. 4 for Joshua, Peter, Gareth, and Pete. > for shoplifting -- and the father *didn't express sufficient > gratitude* to Trump. Name the father, who has another son > playing for the L.A. Lakers. The surname will do. LaVar Ball (father of Lonzo Ball and LiAngelo Ball). Inconsistently with the last question, I scored "Laball" here as almost correct. 4 for Dan, Joshua, Gareth, and Pete. 3 for Jason. > 9. The author of a "literary thriller" called "Bellevue Square" took > him the Giller Prize, Canada's richest literary award, last week. > Name him. Michael Redhill. > value recently. Last week it passed a new milestone, despite > warnings of a currency bubble. In US dollars, what was the > milestone value Bitcoin surpassed? $9,000 US. And this week it hit $10,000 -- and then, in less than 24 hours, rose to over $11,000 *and* dropped back under $9,200. Now it's close to $11,000 again. Insane! Scores, if there are no errors: GAMES-> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 BEST EIGHT Pete Gayde 14 15 20 28 14 20 10 4 28 16 155 Joshua Kreitzer 20 20 20 16 8 16 -- -- 20 16 136 Dan Blum 15 19 12 20 14 20 15 4 19 12 134 Peter Smyth 20 15 16 12 8 12 17 4 14 11 117 Marc Dashevsky 12 12 20 16 8 20 16 4 -- -- 108 Erland Sommarskog 12 12 4 19 8 8 10 4 16 0 89 Dan Tilque 11 12 8 16 8 4 4 4 -- -- 67 Bruce Bowler 7 20 8 16 -- -- -- -- -- -- 51 Gareth Owen -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 24 16 40 Jason Kreitzer -- -- 4 12 -- -- -- -- 12 11 39 -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "Unfortunately, real life is usually msb@vex.net | not a movie." --Al Kriman My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Dec 01 06:00PM -0800 I guess you didn't see my entry. Do you want me to repost or email? -- Dan Tilque |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Dec 02 11:03AM +0100 >> cleansing" campaigns. Name him. > Radko Mladic. I did not accept any combinations made from his first > and last name. 4 for Joshua, Peter, Gareth, and Pete. Nor should you. I had a complete standstill which irritated me, since I thought that I knew this bastard. I seemed to recall a -tk- combination somewhere, but I couldn't fit it in. Somehow, all I could think was this contraction of his first and last names that I entered. I would really have been embarrased if I had gotten any points. By the way, you have his first name wrong. It's Ratko. |
| Bruce Bowler <bbowler@bigelow.org>: Dec 01 01:00PM On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 22:38:13 -0600, Mark Brader wrote: > 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 no thanks. > 3-page handout: > http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/g6r8/squash.pdf > 1. Acorn Squash. 9 > 2. Banana Squash. 13 > 3. Buttercup Squash. 8 > 4. Butternut Squash, Butternut Pumpkin, or Gramma Pumpkin. 2 > 5. Delicata Squash, Sweet Potato Squash, or Bohemian Squash. 6 > 6. Hubbard Squash. 11 > 7. Kabocha Squash, Japanese Pumpkin, or Kent Pumpkin. 1 > 8. Spaghetti Squash, also called Vegetable Spaghetti or Calabash. 5 > 9. Summer Squash. 15 > 10. Turban Squash, or Turk's Turban. 14 |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Dec 01 02:49PM > 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. Videodrome > 6. 1983: A man awakens from a coma to discover he has psychic > powers. The Dead Zone > * Game 6, Round 8 - Misc - Squash > 1. Acorn Squash. 7; 10 > 2. Banana Squash. 15; 13 > 3. Buttercup Squash. 18 > 4. Butternut Squash, Butternut Pumpkin, or Gramma Pumpkin. 12; 3 > 5. Delicata Squash, Sweet Potato Squash, or Bohemian Squash. 6; 5 > 6. Hubbard Squash. 16; 17 > 7. Kabocha Squash, Japanese Pumpkin, or Kent Pumpkin. 9; 8 > 8. Spaghetti Squash, also called Vegetable Spaghetti or Calabash. 2 > 9. Summer Squash. 4; 6 > 10. Turban Squash, or Turk's Turban. 14 -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Dec 01 05:52PM -0800 Mark Brader wrote: > 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 > the 3-page handout: > http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/g6r8/squash.pdf > 1. Acorn Squash. 14 > 2. Banana Squash. 15 > 3. Buttercup Squash. 18 > 4. Butternut Squash, Butternut Pumpkin, or Gramma Pumpkin. 5 > 8. Spaghetti Squash, also called Vegetable Spaghetti or Calabash. > 9. Summer Squash. > 10. Turban Squash, or Turk's Turban. 14 -- Dan Tilque |
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