Saturday, January 06, 2018

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Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Dec 30 12:17AM

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".
 
Aspects of 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"".
 
Guys and Dolls
 
 
> 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".
 
Music Man
 
 
> 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
 
 
> 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
 
> 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?
 
Bechamel
 
> 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
 
> 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?
 
Braise
 
 
Pete Gayde
"Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Jan 05 11:33AM

Mark Brader wrote:
 
> the Shakespearean play. In a few cases we will tell you who is
> speaking, or provide a stage direction.
 
> 1. [To soothsayer] "The Ides of March are come."
Julius Caesar
> The day is hot, the Capulets abroad.
> And if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl,
> For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring."
Romeo and Juliet
> It should not stand in thy posterity,
> But that myself should be the root and father
> Of many kings."
Macbeth
> Make me revenger. Bear the King's son's body
> Before our army. Thy Pacorus, Orodes,
> Pays this for Marcus Crassus."
Antony and Cleopatra
> 2. "Ah Holy Jesus" (1727).
> 3. "The Wonder of His Works" (1797).
> 4. "Ode to Joy" (1824).
Beethoven
> 7. "Requiem Aeternam" (1791).
> 8. "Thanks Be to God" (1846).
> 9. "Zadok the Priest" (1727).
Handel
> 10. "Jerusalem" (1916).
Parry
 
> questions on the Canadian Football League championship.
 
> 1. What team holds the record for consecutive Grey Cup titles,
> namely 5, from 1978 to 1982?
Roughriders
> 2. What team has the most Grey Cup victories, namely 16?
Roughriders
> 3. What current CFL team has gone the longest without winning the
> Grey Cup, their last title coming in 1990?
Roughriders
> 4. The Grey Cup attendance record dates back to 1977, when more
> than 68,000 fans attended the game in which city?
Vancouver
> 5. Where will next Sunday's game be played?
Vancouver
> 6. Who won last year's Grey Cup?
Roughriders
> 7. Name the quarterback who holds the record of 4 touchdown passes
> in a Grey Cup game (in 1969), and shares the record of 8 career
> Grey Cup TD passes.
Jones
> 8. The first Grey Cup game was played in 1909 in which upscale
> Toronto neighborhood?
Mark Brader's grandfather's back garden
> his assistant coach, who then won 5 as a head coach with
> four other clubs. The third record-holder won his 5 with two
> different teams. Name *any one* of the three.
Jones
> 10. Name either of the 2 head coaches who have led Grey-Cup-winning
> teams and also led American football teams to the Super Bowl
> (though they did not win that).
Jones
Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Jan 05 09:50AM -0600

In article <KqadnVPeDaY1btPHnZ2dnUU7-V_NnZ2d@giganews.com>, msb@vex.net says...
> the Shakespearean play. In a few cases we will tell you who is
> speaking, or provide a stage direction.
 
> 1. [To soothsayer] "The Ides of March are come."
Julius Caesar
 
> The day is hot, the Capulets abroad.
> And if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl,
> For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring."
Romeo & Juliet
 
> It should not stand in thy posterity,
> But that myself should be the root and father
> Of many kings."
MacBeth
 
> Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
> Grating so harshly all his days of quiet
> With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?"
Hamlet
 
> 2. "Ah Holy Jesus" (1727).
> 3. "The Wonder of His Works" (1797).
> 4. "Ode to Joy" (1824).
Beethoven
 
 
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Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jan 05 11:07AM -0800

Mark Brader wrote:
> the Shakespearean play. In a few cases we will tell you who is
> speaking, or provide a stage direction.
 
> 1. [To soothsayer] "The Ides of March are come."
 
Julius Caesar
 
> The day is hot, the Capulets abroad.
> And if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl,
> For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring."
 
Romeo and Juliet
 
> Whisper her ear and tell her, I and Ursley
> Walk in the orchard, and our whole discourse
> Is all of her."
 
Love's Labour's Lost
 
 
> 4. Solanio: "Now, what news on the Rialto?"
> Salarino: "Why, yet it lives there unchecked that Antonio hath
> a ship of rich landing wrecked on the narrow seas..."
 
Merchant of Venice
 
> It should not stand in thy posterity,
> But that myself should be the root and father
> Of many kings."
 
Macbeth
 
> Make me revenger. Bear the King's son's body
> Before our army. Thy Pacorus, Orodes,
> Pays this for Marcus Crassus."
 
Antony and Cleopatra
 
> rehearsal. This green plot shall be our stage, this hawthorn
> brake our tiring-house; and we will do it in action, as we will
> do it before the Duke."
 
A Midsummer Night's Dream
 
> Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
> Grating so harshly all his days of quiet
> With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?"
 
King Lear
 
> Gentleman: "One minded like the weather, most unquietly."
> Kent: "I know you. Where's the King?"
> Gentleman: "Contending with the fretful elements..."
 
Richard III
 
> 2. "Ah Holy Jesus" (1727).
> 3. "The Wonder of His Works" (1797).
> 4. "Ode to Joy" (1824).
 
Beethoven
 
> 5. "For the Love of Jesus" (1865).
> 6. "Blessed Are" (1865).
> 7. "Requiem Aeternam" (1791).
 
Mozart
 
> Grey Cup, their last title coming in 1990?
 
> 4. The Grey Cup attendance record dates back to 1977, when more
> than 68,000 fans attended the game in which city?
 
Buffalo
 
 
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Dan Tilque
Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jan 05 10:02PM +0100

> * Game 9, Round 4 - Literature: Act III, Scene I
 
I'm avoiding committing heresies with my wild guesses and abstain
this round.
 
Can't these quizzes never use Strindberg's works instead? :-) (Actually, it
would not help much.)
 
> * Game 9, Round 5 - Audio - Great Choral Works
> 1. "Worthy is the Lamb" (1741).
 
Händel; J.S. Bach
 
> 2. "Ah Holy Jesus" (1727).
 
J.S. Bach; Händel
 
> 3. "The Wonder of His Works" (1797).
 
Mozart
 
> 4. "Ode to Joy" (1824).
 
Ludvig van Beethoven
 
> 7. "Requiem Aeternam" (1791).
 
Mozart
 
> 9. "Zadok the Priest" (1727).
 
J.S. Bach
 
> 10. "Jerusalem" (1916).
 
Blake
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