| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 26 11:23PM -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 7 - Entertainment - Stage Musicals In this round we give you 3-4 song titles from a classic stage musical, and you give the title of the musical. 1. "Memory", "Old Deuteronomy", "Mr. Mistoffelees". 2. "America", "Tonight", "Somewhere", "I Feel Pretty". 3. "The Oldest Established", "Luck Be a Lady Tonight", "Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat". 4. "Some Enchanted Evening", "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair", "Bali Hai". 5. "Seasons of Love", "La Vie Boheme", "Goodbye Love". 6. "I Dreamed a Dream", "Master of the House", "Do You Hear the People Sing?". 7. "Heart", "Whatever Lola Wants", "Those were the Good Old Days". 8. "Put on a Happy Face", "Kids", "A Whole Lot of Livin' to Do"". 9. "On the Street Where You Live", "I Could Have Danced All Night", "Get Me to the Church on Time". 10. "76 Trombones", "Trouble", "Till There was You". * Game 8, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - French Cooking Terms 1. Most cooks love making sauces and stocks. In 1903 chef Auguste Escoffier wrote that there are just five sauces which all other Western sauces were fundamentally based on. In English, what collective term is used for the five? For all the remaining questions, your answers must be French words or phrases that are used in English. 2. Before you can start cooking, of course you need to get all your ingredients ready. What is the French term for getting all your ingredients measured and prepared before you begin cooking? 3. To thicken sauces a mixture of fat (usually an oil or butter) and flour is quickly heated and added to the sauces. What is the term for this mixture? 4. Sauces need vegetables to help build flavor. What is the French term used for the combination of vegetables (usually onion, celery, and carrots) that is slow-cooked to help build the flavor base? 5. One way to cut your vegetables is into long, thin strips, usually an inch long, like you might do for French fries. What is the name of this cut? 6. For a(n) <answer 4>, we want our vegetables a bit more finely cut. What is the term for the finely diced vegetables used for sauces and stocks? 7. One of the <answer 1>, this sauce is simply a(n) <answer 3> whisked with milk or another dairy product. It is often rather tasteless, so it's generally not used as a finishing sauce. What is this sauce? 8. This sauce is the only one of the <answer 1> that does not use a(n) <answer 3> at all. Instead it is a thickened emulsion of egg yolks and melted butter. It is a very delicate sauce and so is used as a finishing sauce. What it is? 9. This technique has been gaining popularity these days. It involves cooking in vacuum-sealed bag in a heated water bath. The technique can achieve a more even cooking that seals in the juiciness of meat. What is this cooking technique, whose French name refers to vacuum? 10. Similar to <answer 9>, this cooking technique involves slow-cooking meats at a low temperature, but this time in oil. For example, this is a popular method to prepare duck by cooking it in its own rendered fat. What is this cooking technique? -- Mark Brader, Toronto "For want of a bit the loop was lost..." msb@vex.net -- Steve Summit My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Dec 27 06:28AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:Ap6dnbPiyZels97HnZ2dnUU7- > In this round we give you 3-4 song titles from a classic stage > musical, and you give the title of the musical. > 1. "Memory", "Old Deuteronomy", "Mr. Mistoffelees". "Cats" > 2. "America", "Tonight", "Somewhere", "I Feel Pretty". "West Side Story" > 3. "The Oldest Established", "Luck Be a Lady Tonight", "Sit Down > You're Rocking the Boat". "Guys and Dolls" > 4. "Some Enchanted Evening", "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out > of My Hair", "Bali Hai". "South Pacific" > 5. "Seasons of Love", "La Vie Boheme", "Goodbye Love". "Rent" > 6. "I Dreamed a Dream", "Master of the House", "Do You Hear the > People Sing?". "Les Miserables" > 7. "Heart", "Whatever Lola Wants", "Those were the Good Old Days". "Damn Yankees" > 8. "Put on a Happy Face", "Kids", "A Whole Lot of Livin' to Do"". "Bye Bye Birdie" > 9. "On the Street Where You Live", "I Could Have Danced All Night", > "Get Me to the Church on Time". "My Fair Lady" > 10. "76 Trombones", "Trouble", "Till There was You". "The Music Man" > Escoffier wrote that there are just five sauces which all other > Western sauces were fundamentally based on. In English, what > collective term is used for the five? mother sauces > 3. To thicken sauces a mixture of fat (usually an oil or butter) > and flour is quickly heated and added to the sauces. What is > the term for this mixture? roux > term used for the combination of vegetables (usually onion, > celery, and carrots) that is slow-cooked to help build the > flavor base? mirepoix > 5. One way to cut your vegetables is into long, thin strips, > usually an inch long, like you might do for French fries. > What is the name of this cut? julienne > a(n) <answer 3> at all. Instead it is a thickened emulsion of > egg yolks and melted butter. It is a very delicate sauce and > so is used as a finishing sauce. What it is? bechamel -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 26 11:21PM -0600 Mark Brader: > twilight, and upon it was set a circlet of silver; his eyes > were grey as a clear evening, and in them was a light like the > light of stars." Elrond, "The Fellowship of the Ring" (by J.R.R. Tolkien; accepting "The Lord of the Rings", though it wasn't published as a single book until later). 4 for Gareth, Marc, Dan Blum, Peter, and Dan Tilque. > a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened > by the fact that it seemed as cold as ice -- more like the hand > of a dead than a living man." Dracula. (By Bram Stoker.) 4 for Gareth, Marc, and Dan Blum. > and beard hid most of his face, he had hands the size of dustbin > lids and his feet in their leather boots were like baby dolphins. > In his vast, muscular arms he was holding a bundle of blankets." Rubeus Hagrid, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's [accepting Sorcerer's] Stone" (by J.K. Rowling). 4 for Gareth, Dan Blum, and Peter. In "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", the word "motorbike" is actually translated into "motorcycle" and "dustbin" into "trash can". > of choice a spiked iron warhammer that Ned could scarcely lift. > In those days, the smell of leather and blood had clung to him > like perfume." Robert Baratheon, "A Game of Thrones" (by George R.R. Martin; not "A Song of Ice and Fire", which is the series title). 4 for Gareth, Dan Blum, and Peter. > Then they had long black very straight dresses, and on the > groody part of them they had little badges of like silver with > different malchicks' names on them -- Joe and Mike and suchlike." The Devotchkas, "A Clockwork Orange" (by Anthony Burgess). 4 for Joshua, Gareth, Marc, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Pete. > A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League, > was wound several times around the waist of her overalls, > just tighly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips." Julia, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (by George Orwell). 4 for Joshua, Gareth, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque (the hard way). > horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed 'almost of > the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, > his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips." The monster, "Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus" (by Mary Shelley). "Frankenstein" was sufficient. 4 for Joshua, Gareth, Marc, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Jason, and Pete. > that the dress had been put upon the rounded figure of a young > woman, and that the figure upon which it now hung loose, had > shrunk to skin and bone." Miss Havisham, "Great Expectations" (by Charles Dickens). 4 for Joshua, Gareth, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque. > two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the > bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little > folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs." Ignatius J. Reilly, "A Confederacy of Dunces" (by John Kennedy Toole). 4 for Joshua, Marc, and Dan Blum. > head of hair. A polka-dotted black kerchief tied around her > chest hid from my aging ape eyes, but not from the gaze of young > memory, the juvenile breasts I had fondled one immortal day." Dolores Haze, "Lolita" (by Vladimir Nabokov). (Accepting Lolita Haze.) 4 for Joshua, Gareth, Marc, Dan Blum, Peter, and Dan Tilque. > Leafs, a round on our hometown team. (Okay, it's been 100 years, > so you might say it's the 101st, but the entire NHL missed the > 2004-05 season due to a labor dispute, so really it isn't.) This round was tied with Round 3, the geography round, as being the hardest in the original game. > 1. From 1927 to the present the team has played as the Toronto > Maple Leafs in the NHL. From 1919 to 1926 they were the Toronto > St. Patricks. What were they called before that? Toronto Arenas, although some other names were also used at first. > 2. The Tragically Hip have memorialized that Bill Barilko scored > the last goal of a playoff championship game in overtime in 1951. > Who were they playing against? Montreal Canadiens. 2 for Pete. > 3. Who coached the Leafs to 4 Stanley Cup wins, including the last > time they won, in 1967? George "Punch" Imlach. 4 for Pete. > 4. The trophy awarded each year to the Most Valuable Player in > the Stanley Cup Playoffs is named after a former Leafs owner. > Who? Conn Smythe. 4 for Pete. > 5. The Captain of the Maple Leafs from 1957 to 1969 was nicknamed > "the Chief". What was his name? George Armstrong. > 6. Which goalie was nicknamed "the China Wall"? Johnny Bower. > 7. What former Leafs player had the nickname Superman? Tim Horton. Those last two questions surprised me. I was a big fan of hockey generally and the Leafs in particular in the late 1960s when Bower and Horton were both active, and I didn't remember either of them having a nickname. Armstrong, yes, but not the other two. However, Bower's obituary tonight on the CTV National News did mention it. One of the current players on the Usual Suspects is a recent immigrant from Australia. On hearing the answer "Tim Horton", he said in some surprise: "You mean he's a *real person*?" > 8. Darryl Sittler holds an NHL record that has been unbroken > since 1976. What record? Say what it's for doing and include > the numerical value. Most points in one game: 10. (It was 6 goals and 4 assists.) Looking at goals alone, the record for a player in one game is 7, set by Joe Malone of the Quebec Bulldogs, who later that year became the Hamilton Tigers, in 1920. Curiously, the NHL web page at http://www.nhl.com/ice/m_records.htm lists this record but gives the season as 1981-82! > conference that the Leafs then played in. That is, you must > either say 1974-81 or 1981-93 *and* give either a division or > a conference name. 1974-81: Adams Division, (Prince of) Wales Conference. 1981-93: Norris Division, (Clarence) Campbell Conference. 3 for Joshua. 2 for Pete. The Norris Division was part of the Prince of Wales Conference originally, but was moved to the other conference as part of the realignment. Many Internet sources do not manage to include all the details of the changes. No doubt due to this complexity, the original version of the question and its list of expected answers were inadequate. I decided to explicitly allow either time period but require you to say which one you meant. > Gardens in 1999 because of personal conflicts with past and > present team ownership. He publicly stated that the new > ownership was no different than Harold Ballard. Give his name. Dave Keon. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 8 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS TOPICS-> His Geo Lit Can Dan Blum 32 16 40 0 88 Joshua Kreitzer 40 19 24 3 86 Dan Tilque 24 28 24 0 76 Gareth Owen 24 12 36 0 72 Marc Dashevsky 12 24 24 0 60 Peter Smyth 24 19 16 0 59 Erland Sommarskog 36 20 -- -- 56 "Calvin" 27 16 -- -- 43 Jason Kreitzer 27 0 4 0 31 Pete Gayde -- -- 8 12 20 -- Mark Brader "'... Fifty science-fiction magazines don't give Toronto you half the naked women that a good issue of msb@vex.net the Sunday Times does.'" --SPACE, James Michener My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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