- QFTCISG Game 9, Rounds 2-3: Israel, bays/gulfs - 4 Updates
- QFTCISG Game 8, Rounds 9-10 answers: anatomy, cynical challenge - 1 Update
- Rotating Quiz #278: Double or nothing - 5 Updates
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 01 09:59PM -0600 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-11-20, 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 9, Round 2 - History - Israel 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following the end of the British mandate for Palestine? 2. Who was Israel's founding prime minister? 3. Name the only woman to serve as Israel's prime minister. 4. Britain captured Palestine from the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey) 100 years ago, in 1917, during World War I. That same year, Britain's foreign minister said his government favored creating a Jewish national home in the region. Name that foreign minister. 5. Moving to sports, how many times has Israel played in the World Cup soccer finals (tournament)? 6. Israel has won 9 Olympic medals, but only one gold, in windsurfing in 2004. Name the host city where those games were played. 7. In what year did Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visit Israel in what was the first recognition of Israel by an Arab head of state? 8. One of the most dramatic events in Israeli history occurred in 1976. Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages from a hijacked Air France plane. In what country did the rescue take place? 9. That hostage rescue was ordered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. In what year was he assassinated by a right-wing Jew who opposed Rabin's peace accords with the PLO and Jordan? 10. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann remains the only person executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country was Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel? * Game 9, Round 3 - Geography - Bays and Gulfs I've rearranged the round in order by image number on the handout: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/g9r3/bays.pdf Unless stated otherwise, name the bay or gulf on each question. There were two decoys, which appear in their sequence interspersed with the others, and I've supplied questions for those. Answer them if you like for fun, but for no points. 1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain. 2. Name the two European *countries* that border the Gulf of Bothnia. 3. (Decoy.) This cove is on the Greek island of Zakynthos, off the west coast of the Peloponnese. It's named after a man-made artifact. What is it, in English? 4. Name this bay in northeastern Vietnam, known for its emerald wters and towering limestone islands. 5. This body of water is the largest bay in the world. 6. This bay is an estuary; Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia each either have shoreline on the bay or are nearby. 7. This bay or gulf, named after the adjacent city, can be found in southwestern Italy. That's a volcano in the background. 8. This gulf is located in the northeastern part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean, between Cape Lopez in Gabon and Cape Palmas in Liberia. 9. (Decoy.) This bay lies near the northernmost point of New Zealand's South Island, about 110 miles WNW of Wellington on the North Island. 10. This bay is a large body of water on the southern end of Hudson Bay. 11. This gulf, near the center of the picture, connects the Strait of Hormuz (at left) with the Arabian Sea. 12. This bay, near the southern tip of Africa, is named after the more famous mountain in the right background. -- Mark Brader "You can't [compare] computer memory and recall Toronto with human memory and recall. It's comparing msb@vex.net apples and bicycles." -- Ed Knowles My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jan 02 04:28AM > * Game 9, Round 2 - History - Israel > 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following > the end of the British mandate for Palestine? 1948 > 2. Who was Israel's founding prime minister? David Ben-Gurion > 3. Name the only woman to serve as Israel's prime minister. Golda Meir > 100 years ago, in 1917, during World War I. That same year, > Britain's foreign minister said his government favored creating a > Jewish national home in the region. Name that foreign minister. Balfour > 5. Moving to sports, how many times has Israel played in the World > Cup soccer finals (tournament)? 1; 0 > 7. In what year did Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visit Israel in > what was the first recognition of Israel by an Arab head > of state? 1978; 1979 > in 1976. Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages from > a hijacked Air France plane. In what country did the rescue > take place? Uganda > 9. That hostage rescue was ordered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. > In what year was he assassinated by a right-wing Jew who opposed > Rabin's peace accords with the PLO and Jordan? 1995 > 10. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann remains the only person > executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country > was Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel? Argentina > * Game 9, Round 3 - Geography - Bays and Gulfs > 1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain. Bay of Biscay > 2. Name the two European *countries* that border the Gulf of > Bothnia. Sweden and Finland > 5. This body of water is the largest bay in the world. Bay of Bengal > 6. This bay is an estuary; Delaware, the District of Columbia, > Maryland, and Virginia each either have shoreline on the bay > or are nearby. Chesapeake Bay > 7. This bay or gulf, named after the adjacent city, can be found > in southwestern Italy. That's a volcano in the background. Bay of Naples > 8. This gulf is located in the northeastern part of the tropical > Atlantic Ocean, between Cape Lopez in Gabon and Cape Palmas > in Liberia. Gulf of Guinea > 11. This gulf, near the center of the picture, connects the Strait > of Hormuz (at left) with the Arabian Sea. Persian Gulf -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Jan 02 06:47AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:Mq2dne1_DpkZntbHnZ2dnUU7- > * Game 9, Round 2 - History - Israel > 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following > the end of the British mandate for Palestine? 1948 > 2. Who was Israel's founding prime minister? David Ben-Gurion > 3. Name the only woman to serve as Israel's prime minister. Golda Meir > 100 years ago, in 1917, during World War I. That same year, > Britain's foreign minister said his government favored creating a > Jewish national home in the region. Name that foreign minister. Balfour > 5. Moving to sports, how many times has Israel played in the World > Cup soccer finals (tournament)? 1 > 6. Israel has won 9 Olympic medals, but only one gold, in > windsurfing in 2004. Name the host city where those games > were played. Athens > 7. In what year did Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visit Israel in > what was the first recognition of Israel by an Arab head > of state? 1977; 1978 > in 1976. Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages from > a hijacked Air France plane. In what country did the rescue > take place? Uganda > 9. That hostage rescue was ordered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. > In what year was he assassinated by a right-wing Jew who opposed > Rabin's peace accords with the PLO and Jordan? 1995; 1996 > 10. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann remains the only person > executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country > was Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel? Argentina > with the others, and I've supplied questions for those. Answer them > if you like for fun, but for no points. > 1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain. Bay of Biscay > 2. Name the two European *countries* that border the Gulf of > Bothnia. Sweden and Finland > 4. Name this bay in northeastern Vietnam, known for its emerald > wters and towering limestone islands. Gulf of Tonkin > 5. This body of water is the largest bay in the world. Bay of Bengal > 6. This bay is an estuary; Delaware, the District of Columbia, > Maryland, and Virginia each either have shoreline on the bay > or are nearby. Chesapeake Bay > 7. This bay or gulf, named after the adjacent city, can be found > in southwestern Italy. That's a volcano in the background. Gulf of Naples > 10. This bay is a large body of water on the southern end of > Hudson Bay. James Bay > 11. This gulf, near the center of the picture, connects the Strait > of Hormuz (at left) with the Arabian Sea. Persian Gulf > 12. This bay, near the southern tip of Africa, is named after the > more famous mountain in the right background. Table Bay -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jan 01 11:39PM -0800 Mark Brader wrote: > * Game 9, Round 2 - History - Israel > 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following > the end of the British mandate for Palestine? 1948 > 2. Who was Israel's founding prime minister? Ben-Gurion > 3. Name the only woman to serve as Israel's prime minister. Golda Meir > 100 years ago, in 1917, during World War I. That same year, > Britain's foreign minister said his government favored creating a > Jewish national home in the region. Name that foreign minister. Balfour > 5. Moving to sports, how many times has Israel played in the World > Cup soccer finals (tournament)? 1 > 6. Israel has won 9 Olympic medals, but only one gold, in > windsurfing in 2004. Name the host city where those games > were played. Athens > 7. In what year did Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visit Israel in > what was the first recognition of Israel by an Arab head > of state? 1978 > in 1976. Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages from > a hijacked Air France plane. In what country did the rescue > take place? Uganda > 9. That hostage rescue was ordered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. > In what year was he assassinated by a right-wing Jew who opposed > Rabin's peace accords with the PLO and Jordan? 1995 > 10. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann remains the only person > executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country > was Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel? Argentina > with the others, and I've supplied questions for those. Answer them > if you like for fun, but for no points. > 1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain. Biscayne Bay > 2. Name the two European *countries* that border the Gulf of > Bothnia. Sweden, Finland > 4. Name this bay in northeastern Vietnam, known for its emerald > wters and towering limestone islands. > 5. This body of water is the largest bay in the world. Bay of Bengal > 6. This bay is an estuary; Delaware, the District of Columbia, > Maryland, and Virginia each either have shoreline on the bay > or are nearby. Chesapeake Bay > 7. This bay or gulf, named after the adjacent city, can be found > in southwestern Italy. That's a volcano in the background. Gulf of Naples > 8. This gulf is located in the northeastern part of the tropical > Atlantic Ocean, between Cape Lopez in Gabon and Cape Palmas > in Liberia. Gulf of Guinea > the North Island. > 10. This bay is a large body of water on the southern end of > Hudson Bay. James Bay > 11. This gulf, near the center of the picture, connects the Strait > of Hormuz (at left) with the Arabian Sea. Gulf of Oman > 12. This bay, near the southern tip of Africa, is named after the > more famous mountain in the right background. Table Bay -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 01 09:57PM -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*)". Game 8 is over and, if there are no errors, congratulations are in order for DAN BLUM -- who wins by a single point! > ** Game 8, Round 9 - Science - Where in the Body? > In which organ of the body would you find these parts? > 1. Kupffer cells, central portal area, bile canaliculi? Liver. 4 for Dan Blum, Peter, and Jason. 2 for Pete. > 2. Loop of Henie, juxtaglomerular apparatus, renal pyramids? Kidney. 4 for Dan Blum, Peter, Pete, and Jason. > 3. Bronchiole, alveoli, pneumocytes? Lung. 4 for everyone -- Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Joshua, Peter, Pete, and Jason. > 4. Fundus, cardiac sphincter, gastric pit? Stomach. 4 for Dan Tilque and Peter. 3 for Pete. > 5. White pulp, red pulp, Malpighian corpuscles? Spleen. 3 for Pete. > 6. Broad ligament, infundibulum, corpus luteum (sometimes)? Uterus. > And in which part of the body would you find these bones? > 7. Frontal bone, zygomatic bone, mandible? Head (accepting skull or face, but not jaw, which is just the mandible). 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, and Jason. > 8. Ischium, ilium, sacrum. Pelvis (waist, hips, base of spine; not accepting "spine"). 4 for Joshua and Peter. > 9. Coracoid process, glenoid fossa, scapular spine? Shoulder. 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Peter, and Pete. > 10. Calcaneus, talus, phalanges? Foot. (There are phalanges in the hand also, but not the others.) I'm accepting "boot" on the assumption that it was a typo. 4 for Dan Tilque, Pete, and Jason. 2 for Joshua. > call [themselves] "juggalos"? And what's with the bizarre > makeup? They look like a scary Ronald McDonald and Bozo. > Jeez, the '90s had some terrible bands. Insane Clown Posse. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Pete, and Jason. See: http://img.wennermedia.com/social/rs-185664-2685580.jpg > costume changes? First a jacket covered in Kermit the > Frog stuffed animals, then a suit made out of real meat? > Did she have a bad childhood or was she just born that way? Lady Gaga. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Peter, Pete, and Jason. See: http://peopledotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/lady-gaga-15.jpg > whether or not he was really killed by that soldier, or if > he was still living in a display about humans in a zoo on > some alien planet. "Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children's Crusade" (by Kurt Vonnegut). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Pete, and Jason. > B2. They call this a novel? It's just a long comic book with > fake superheroes and a glowing blue giant dude, that > supposedly won the Vietnam War! "Watchmen" (writing by Alan Moore). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Jason. > C1. But there's no skill involved, all you do is spin the > spinner and decide whether or not you want to buy insurance. > What a dumb game! (The Game of) Life. 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Joshua, Peter, and Jason. > C2. But no one ever finishes the game, it takes forever and > we always end up just calling it when someone builds the > first hotel. Monopoly. 4 for everyone. The game is commonly played, I hear, with the addition of unofficial rules that increase players' incomes, either by turning the Free Parking space into a second source of income or by increasing the payment from the Go space in at least some cases. Since the game is won when all players but one are bankrupt, any such rules tend to prolong it beyond its proper length. > stone in a fancy box and charge a fortune? And it comes with > a -- "Trainer's Manual"? I guess some people in the '70s > were really lonely. And guess what dumb name they gave it! Pet Rock. 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Joshua, Pete, and Jason. > to please, they can easly be trained". For frick's sake, > they're just *brine shrimp*. But guess what dumb name they > gave them! Sea Monkeys. 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Joshua, and Jason. > E1. That was soooo boring to see. Reversing tides? The water > is flowing in one direction, and you have to wait 3 hours > to see it flow back the other way. Remember that city? St. John, NB. (Not St. John's, NL.) 4 for Dan Tilque. You may remember the so-called Reversing Falls from either or both of two rounds I wrote on waterfalls -- a standard round from 2007-03-05, posted here on 2008-05-23, and a high-quality-handout round from 2016-06-27, posted here on 2016-09-06.) > Good thing this was along the way, I can't imagine someone > would come all the way to the middle of nowhere just to > see this. Remember that town? Wawa, ON. > and they spent $1,800,000 on it to boot! It's garbage, > just a white blob on a red background with a horizontal > stripe through it. What talentless artist painted that? Mark Rothko. See: http://www.gallery.ca/sites/default/files/styles/ngc_scape_480/public/No.%2016.jpg > painting they bought in 1990, "Voice of Fire", and spend > more than $1,700,000 on it to boot! It's garbage, just > three vertical stripes. What talentless artist painted that? Barnett Newman. See: http://www.gallery.ca/sites/default/files/styles/ngc_scale_1200/public/Voice%20of%20Fire.jpg My reaction to this one at the time: it's not garbage, it's a nice piece of real art. It's obviously worth at least, oh, $200. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 8 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST TOPICS-> His Geo Lit Can Ent Mis Sci Cha SIX Dan Blum 32 16 40 0 24 24 20 32 172 Joshua Kreitzer 40 19 24 3 40 16 10 32 171 Dan Tilque 24 28 24 0 4 0 20 20 120 Marc Dashevsky 12 24 24 0 36 24 -- -- 120 Jason Kreitzer 27 0 4 0 36 0 20 32 119 Peter Smyth 24 19 16 0 8 24 24 12 119 Pete Gayde -- -- 8 12 34 12 24 20 110 Gareth Owen 24 12 36 0 -- -- -- -- 72 Erland Sommarskog 36 20 -- -- 0 8 -- -- 64 Bruce Bowler -- -- -- -- 8 40 -- -- 48 "Calvin" 27 16 -- -- -- -- -- -- 43 -- Mark Brader | "Don't you want to... see my ID? ... I could be anybody." Toronto | "No you couldn't, sir. This is Information Retrieval." msb@vex.net | --Brazil My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jan 01 11:51AM -0800 Happy New Year and welcome to Rotating Quiz #278. Hope there's more participation than the last RQ. This quiz may look like it's just a random collection of questions. Well it is, but it does have a theme. However it's not like the usual themes for RQs. There's no pattern or commonality in the answers, but rather there's something unusual about the questions. You won't get any points for finding the theme, but that could get you more points than otherwise. Like Mark's Canadian Inquisition quizzes, you can give two answers for each question, but unlike them, there's no penalty for giving wrong answers. One point for every right answer and the usual rules apply. Quiz concludes in 7 days on 08-Jan-2018. 1. Which actor-turned-politician was Jerry Brown's immediate predecessor as governor of California? 2. What was the first NASDAQ-traded stock to be included in the Dow-Jones Industrial Average? 3. Hyderabad, a city of over 1 million people, is located in which country? 4. What Olympic sport was invented at a western Massachusetts YMCA in the 1890s? 5. What artist created the character Dennis The Menace, first published on or about 12 March 1951? 6. What defensive wall, named for an emperor, was built by the Roman Empire on the northern border of Roman Britain? 7. Who won an Academy Award for playing the role of Vito Corleone? 8. What famous person was born on 12 February 1809? 9. What is the penalty for an offside violation in football? 10. He was probably the most famous writer that his country has ever produced, and he died on or about 23 April 1616. Who was he? 11. What 1987 action-adventure movie featured an actor who would later be elected governor of a US state? 12. Who was he? Have fun, everybody. -- Dan Tilque |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jan 01 10:03PM +0100 > 1. Which actor-turned-politician was Jerry Brown's immediate predecessor > as governor of California? Arnold Schwarzenegger > 2. What was the first NASDAQ-traded stock to be included in the > Dow-Jones Industrial Average? Microsoft > 3. Hyderabad, a city of over 1 million people, is located in which > country? India > 4. What Olympic sport was invented at a western Massachusetts YMCA in > the 1890s? Basketball > 6. What defensive wall, named for an emperor, was built by the Roman > Empire on the northern border of Roman Britain? Hadrian Wall > 7. Who won an Academy Award for playing the role of Vito Corleone? Marlon Brando > 8. What famous person was born on 12 February 1809? Abraham Lincoln > 9. What is the penalty for an offside violation in football? Free-kick > 10. He was probably the most famous writer that his country has ever > produced, and he died on or about 23 April 1616. Who was he? Shakespear > 11. What 1987 action-adventure movie featured an actor who would later > be elected governor of a US state? The Running Man > 12. Who was he? Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Jan 01 09:29PM > 1. Which actor-turned-politician was Jerry Brown's immediate > predecessor as governor of California? Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger > 2. What was the first NASDAQ-traded stock to be included in the > Dow-Jones Industrial Average? Apple, NeXT > 3. Hyderabad, a city of over 1 million people, is located in which > country? Pakistan, India > 4. What Olympic sport was invented at a western Massachusetts YMCA in > the 1890s? Basketball, Volleyball? > published on or about 12 March 1951? > 6. What defensive wall, named for an emperor, was built by the Roman > Empire on the northern border of Roman Britain? Hadrian's, Antonine > 7. Who won an Academy Award for playing the role of Vito Corleone? Marlon Brando, Robert de Niro [this is where I got the link] > 8. What famous person was born on 12 February 1809? Queen Victoria?? Prince Albert??? > 9. What is the penalty for an offside violation in football? Free Kick, 5 yards > 10. He was probably the most famous writer that his country has ever > produced, and he died on or about 23 April 1616. Who was he? Shakespeare, Cervantes? > 11. What 1987 action-adventure movie featured an actor who would later > be elected governor of a US state? Predator, > 12. Who was he? Arnold Schwarzenegger, .... Jesse Ventura?? |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 01 04:45PM -0600 Dan Tilque: > 1. Which actor-turned-politician was Jerry Brown's immediate predecessor > as governor of California? Reagan, Schwarzenegger. > 3. Hyderabad, a city of over 1 million people, is located in which country? India, Pakistan? > 4. What Olympic sport was invented at a western Massachusetts YMCA in > the 1890s? Basketball, handball. > 6. What defensive wall, named for an emperor, was built by the Roman > Empire on the northern border of Roman Britain? Hadrian's Wall, Antonine Wall? (I'm sure it starts with A, anyway.) > 7. Who won an Academy Award for playing the role of Vito Corleone? Brando, Pacino? > 8. What famous person was born on 12 February 1809? Lincoln, Darwin. > 9. What is the penalty for an offside violation in football? 5 yards, corner kick. > 10. He was probably the most famous writer that his country has ever > produced, and he died on or about 23 April 1616. Who was he? Shakespeare, Cervantes. > 11. What 1987 action-adventure movie featured an actor who would later > be elected governor of a US state? "Predator", "Predator". > 12. Who was he? Ventura, Schwarzenegger. -- Mark Brader | Republicans... admire the Government of the United States Toronto | so much that they would like to buy it. msb@vex.net | --Harry Truman, 1948 My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jan 02 01:58AM > 1. Which actor-turned-politician was Jerry Brown's immediate predecessor > as governor of California? Arnold Schwarzenegger > 2. What was the first NASDAQ-traded stock to be included in the > Dow-Jones Industrial Average? Apple; Google > 3. Hyderabad, a city of over 1 million people, is located in which country? India > 4. What Olympic sport was invented at a western Massachusetts YMCA in > the 1890s? basketball > 5. What artist created the character Dennis The Menace, first published > on or about 12 March 1951? Hank Ketcham > 6. What defensive wall, named for an emperor, was built by the Roman > Empire on the northern border of Roman Britain? Hadrian's Wall > 7. Who won an Academy Award for playing the role of Vito Corleone? Marlon Brando > 8. What famous person was born on 12 February 1809? Abraham Lincoln > 10. He was probably the most famous writer that his country has ever > produced, and he died on or about 23 April 1616. Who was he? Miguel Cervantes; William Shakespeare > 11. What 1987 action-adventure movie featured an actor who would later > be elected governor of a US state? Predator > 12. Who was he? Arnold Schwarzenegger -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
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