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| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 22 02:58AM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2018-01-29, 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 Bill Psychs 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 3, Round 7 - Sports Movies 1. What 1980 golf movie was directed by Harold Ramis? 2. A rare romantic-comedy sports film, what 1992 movie was about a rich figure skater and a has-been hockey player? 3. What 2009 movie was directed by Drew Barrymore and stars Ellen Page, whose character joins a roller-derby team? 4. What 2004 sports film won its lead actress, Hilary Swank, an Oscar? 5. What 1978 movie was co-directed by Warren Beatty and Buck Henry? It starred one of them as well as Jack Warden and Julie Christie. 6. What 2005 movie starred Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon and was loosely based on Nick Hornby's best-selling memoir? 7. What 1993 movie has a 12-year-old Little Leaguer join the Chicago Cubs as a pitcher after he breaks his arm and it heals a little too tight? 8. What 2001 movie stars Marla Sokoloff, Mena Suvari, and James Marsden and features bank-robbing high-school cheerleaders? 9. A rare sailing movie, what 1992 film stars Matthew Modine and Jennifer Grey? 10. What 1977 movie stars Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean as minor-league hockey hooligans? * Game 3, Round 8 - Science - Exotic Fruit I have rearranged the round in order of the picture numbers on the handout: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/3-8/exot.pdf In each case, please name the fruit. There are two decoys, which you may answer if you wish for fun, but for no points. 1. Name it. 2. Name it. 3. Name it. 4. Name it. 5. Name it. 6. Name it. 7. Name it. 8. Name it. 9. Name it. 10. Name it. 11. (Decoy.) 12. (Decoy.) -- Mark Brader | Plan B is: Toronto | "Try Plan A again; if this fails, try Plan B". msb@vex.net | --Michael Wares My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 22 02:55AM -0500 Mark Brader: > e.g. "Sheppard-Yonge", not "Sheppard". > 1. Part of the Line 1 subway extension into York Region, what is > the only TTC station named for a highway? Highway 407. Considering that the 407 is an expressway, with no pedestrians allowed, that naming struck me as a really weird idea -- until I realized that a large parking lot has been built alongside the new station. > 2. What station is the northern terminus of that extension? Vaughan Metropolitan Centre. > 3. What station on the future Eglinton Crosstown LRT will be located > at the intersection of Bathurst Street and Eglinton Avenue West? Forest Hill. > 4. When that line opens, Eglinton West will become an interchange > station -- and is to be given what new name? Cedarvale. > 5. What station on Danforth is currently planned to become an > interchange station if the Downtown Relief Line subway ever > gets built? Pape. > 6. What is the only TTC subway station in the City of Toronto > without [any] connections to regular TTC bus or streetcar routes? Chester. Sorry about the typo that made nonsense of the posted wording. I presume everyone understood the intent, anyway. > 7. Two TTC stations were named after the city's former electoral > wards where they were located. Name *either*. St. Andrew, St. Patrick. > 8. What street name has rapid transit stations with both "East" > and "West" suffixes? Lawrence. > 9. What station was the original northern terminus of the Yonge > subway? Eglinton. (Terminus from 1954 until 1973.) > 10. Name *either* original terminus for the Bloor-Danforth subway > when it opened in 1966. Keele, Woodbine. And so this round never happened. (Where *is* Stephen Perry when we need him?) > There are two decoys, interspersed with the others, which you may > answer if you like for fun, but for no points. > 1. A, "Fire Down on the Labrador". David Blackwood. > 2. B, a self-portrait. David Bowie. (David Robert Jones.) > 3. C, "David". Donatello. (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi.) > 4. No, there is no image D. Image E is a 1793 painting by > Jacques-Louis David -- give the *title*. "The Death of Marat" ("La Mort de Marat" or "Marat Assassiné"). 4 for Dan. His name is in the painting. And not only that, but it came up yesterday at sporcle.com, along with one other artwork from this round's handout: https://www.sporcle.com/games/MoMosMoProblems/hands-in-art > 5. F, "A Bigger Splash". David Hockney. 4 for, uh, everyone -- Dan and Joshua. > 6. G, "David and Uriah". Rembrandt. (Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn.) > 7. (Decoy.) H, "David". Michelangelo. > 8. I, "David with the Head of Goliath". Caravaggio. (Michelangelo Merisi, or Merigi or Amerighi, da Caravaggio.) > 9. J, "David". Gian Lorenzo Bernini. > 10. Give the *title* of image K, a 1784 painting by Jacques-Louis David. "Oath of the Horatii" ("Le Serment des Horaces"). 4 for Joshua. > 11. (Decoy.) L, "Against Goliath 2". Richard L. Minns. > 12. M, "Pink Reflections, Bishop's Pond". David Milne. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 3 ROUNDS-> 2 3 6 TOTALS TOPICS-> His Ent Art Dan Blum 40 32 8 80 Joshua Kreitzer 20 40 8 68 Pete Gayde 12 28 -- 40 Marc Dashevsky 16 16 -- 32 Dan Tilque 28 0 -- 28 Peter Smyth 12 12 -- 24 Jason Kreitzer 0 16 -- 16 Erland Sommarskog 12 0 -- 12 -- Mark Brader | Plan B is: Toronto | "Try Plan A again; if this fails, try Plan B". msb@vex.net | --Michael Wares My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Mar 21 12:40PM > 1) Almayer's Folly (1895) Henry James > 2) The White Peacock (1911) Robert Graves > 3) Cup of Gold (1929) F. Scott Fitzgerald > 4) Lord Byron George > 7) Eric Arthur Blair George Orwell > 8) David Cornwell John Le Carre > 9) Francois-Marie Arouet George Sand > 10) Newspeak 1984 > 11) Nadsat A Clockwork Orange > 13) Greene/Easton Ellis The Ugly American Psycho > 18) Tom Sawyer Rush -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Mar 21 09:55AM -0500 In article <fhei7uFs552U1@mid.individual.net>, joe@oxtedonline.com says... > Pseudonyms. I give you the real name of a well known author, you supply > their pen name. > 7) Eric Arthur Blair George Orwell > 8) David Cornwell John le Carre > Fictional languages. In which books were the following fictional > languages introduced? > 10) Newspeak 1984 > 11) Nadsat A Clockwork Orange > 12) Lapine Watership Down > first word or words of the second. e.g. Mitchell/Grahame would be 'Gone > with the Wind in the Willows'. > 13) Greene/Easton Ellis The Quiet American Psycho > 14) Moore/Gray > 15) Kerouac/Boyle On The Road to . . . -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Mar 21 05:32PM Joe wrote: > 6) Salman Rushdie > Pseudonyms. I give you the real name of a well known author, you supply their pen name. > 7) Eric Arthur Blair George Orwell > 9) Francois-Marie Arouet > Fictional languages. In which books were the following fictional languages introduced? > 10) Newspeak Nineteen Eighty Four > 18) Tom Sawyer > 19) Bell Jar > 20) All Quiet on the Western Front Peter Smyth |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 21 01:33PM -0500 John Masters: > 7) Eric Arthur Blair George Orwell. > 8) David Cornwell , John le Carre. > 9) Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire. > 10) Newspeak "Nineteen Eighty-Four". > 11) Nadsat "A Clockwork Orange". > first word or words of the second. e.g. Mitchell/Grahame would be 'Gone > with the Wind in the Willows'. > 13) Greene/Easton Ellis "The Quiet American Psycho". -- Mark Brader | I rise to speak ... well, actually, I don't rise, Toronto | nor do I speak, but I lounge to type in his defense. msb@vex.net | -- Bob Lipton My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Mar 21 08:54PM +0100 > 7) Eric Arthur Blair George Orwell > 10) Newspeak 1984 > 16) Rime of the Ancient Mariner Don't know if Tasavallan Presidentti counts as well-known, but they recorded a track on their self-titled debut album. > 18) Tom Sawyer There is a song by Rush with this title on Moving Pictures, but I am not certain that it's really related to the book in more than the title. |
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