| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 18 11:17PM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2018-03-26, 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 10, Round 9 - History - That's Not Nice! or Insults of the Past There's always that one person you just can't, or simply don't want to, say anything nice about. Here are a few select insults from history that we would never suggest you actually use... nope, never, not us. Many of these terms come from the 1811 "Dictionary in the Vulgar Tongue", by Francis Grose. We'll give you the definition, and you pick the corresponding insult. Answers #1-4 are 1-word insults, from the following list: | Bedswerver | Mumblecrust | Flibbertigibbet | Rantallion | Foozle | Smellfungus | Mafflard | Stampcrab | Mollisher | Wandought 1. A toothless beggar. (Derived from the name of a stock character in medieval theatrical farces.) 2. Someone who's clumsy and heavy of foot. 3. In Victorian England, the lover of a villain or gangster. 4. An adulterer. And #5-10 are 2-word insults, from this list: | Arsy yarsey | Loiter-sack | Dark cully | Lully triggers | Dirty puzzle | Muck-spout | Dolly-mop | Smell-feast | Hedge-creeper | Whiffle-whaffle 5. Noted in 1594 as a term for a lazy slacker. Literally somebody who seems to spend all day in bed. 6. In the late 19th century, it applied to an amateur or part-time prostitute. 7. A married man that keeps a mistress, whom he visits only at night, for fear of discovery. 8. Someone who turns up uninvited at a meal or party and expects to be fed. 9. An 1800s term for a prostitute who worked in the countryside. 10. Someone who not only talks a lot, but who seems to constantly swear. ** Game 10, Round 10 - Challenge Round * A. Corporate Headquarters In each case, in what city does the company have its headquarters? A1. Proctor & Gamble. A2. General Electric. * B. Stratford Festival 2018 B1. One of the headlining shows this year is a Meredith Willson musical about a fraudulent salesman who comes to River City. Name that musical. B2. This summer's headlining Shakespeare production casts Martha Henry in the lead role, which is traditionally given to a man. In what play? * C. Tragically Hip Album-Cover Art We describe the cover; you name the Tragically Hip album. C1. Mechanical dials and gauges are arrayed across a yellow background. A metal label includes the album title and the words "Manufactured by THE TRAGICALLY HIP". C2. Designed by Dutch artist Lieve Prins, who was given the idea of "a bacchanalian sort of scene -- lots of decadence, decay and rebirth". The final artwork was created using a Canon color photocopier and the cover consists of 30 segmented photocopied images pasted together. * D. The 2014 Oscar Selfie How memorable was that selfie? Let's find out. D1. Ellen DeGeneres may have instigated the selfie, but she did not take it herself. So who did? He's prominently featured in the foreground, of course, his head a little bigger than everyone else's. D2. Probably the *least* famous person in the selfie is the brother of an actress who won an award at those Oscars. He's seen to the viewer's right, partially blocking Angelina Jolie. Give the surname he shares with his more famous sister. * E. Famous Sports Injuries E1. In 1985, what Washington DC quarterback's career ended with a compound fracture of the tibia suffered from a tackle by Lawrence Taylor? E2. What Buffalo Sabres goalie was lucky to survive when, in 1989, his jugular vein was severed by the skate of Steve Tuttle? According to reports, the excessive amount of blood caused three players to vomit on the ice, eleven fans to faint, and two more to suffer heart attacks. * F. Ontario Power Generation F1. What former coal-burning generating station, whose smoke- stacks were demolished last month, is to be converted to a solar farm in the future? F2. Ontario Power Generation has only one wind turbine generating electricity. It is located on the same site as another, larger generating station. What other station? -- Mark Brader I "need to know" *everything*! How else Toronto can I judge whether I need to know it? msb@vex.net -- Lynn & Jay: YES, PRIME MINISTER My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Jun 19 05:12AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:QfqdnaoAN6RZHrXGnZ2dnUU7- > | Mollisher | Wandought > 1. A toothless beggar. (Derived from the name of a stock character > in medieval theatrical farces.) mumblecrust; foozle > 2. Someone who's clumsy and heavy of foot. stampcrab; mafflard > 3. In Victorian England, the lover of a villain or gangster. bedswerver; mollisher > 4. An adulterer. bedswerver > | Hedge-creeper | Whiffle-whaffle > 5. Noted in 1594 as a term for a lazy slacker. Literally somebody > who seems to spend all day in bed. loiter-sack > 6. In the late 19th century, it applied to an amateur or part-time > prostitute. dolly mop; dark cully > 7. A married man that keeps a mistress, whom he visits only at > night, for fear of discovery. hedge-creeper; dark cully > 8. Someone who turns up uninvited at a meal or party and expects > to be fed. smell-feast > 9. An 1800s term for a prostitute who worked in the countryside. dolly mop; hedge-creeper > 10. Someone who not only talks a lot, but who seems to constantly > swear. arsy yarsey > * A. Corporate Headquarters > In each case, in what city does the company have its headquarters? > A1. Proctor & Gamble. Cincinnati > A2. General Electric. Boston > B1. One of the headlining shows this year is a Meredith Willson > musical about a fraudulent salesman who comes to River City. > Name that musical. "The Music Man" > B2. This summer's headlining Shakespeare production casts Martha > Henry in the lead role, which is traditionally given to > a man. In what play? "Macbeth"; "King Lear" > E1. In 1985, what Washington DC quarterback's career ended > with a compound fracture of the tibia suffered from a tackle > by Lawrence Taylor? Theismann -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 18 11:14PM -0500 Mark Brader: > Last week we had a round on TV moms; this week it's the dads' turn. > We'll give you a brief description; you give us the TV character's > *first name*. Again, I'm showing full names for your information. > their rule. This has become increasingly difficult since > he lost a hand. Oh, and he's not officially his kids' dad. > He's presented as their uncle. Jamie Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, "Game of Thrones", 2011-). 4 for Peter and Dan Blum. > 2. Name the widowed TV dad who raised his three daughters with > the help of his brother-in-law and best friend in downtown > San Francisco. Danny Tanner (Bob Saget, "Full House", 1987-95). 4 for Joshua and Jason. > to adulthood. He also adopted one of his son's friends and his > new wife's daughter. His series aired on ABC from 1960 to 1965 > and then on CBS until 1972. Steve Douglas (Fred MacMurray, "My Three Sons"). 4 for Pete. > 4. Continuing with the trend of widowed TV dads, name the one who > raised a spirited little boy named Opie in Mayberry, North > Carolina, and really loves fishing. Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith, "The Andy Griffith Show", 1960-68). 4 for Dan Tilque, Joshua, Dan Blum, Jason, and Pete. > and a fourth was born in season 4. This show faced a lot of > controversy for the fat jokes about the middle daughter and > her eventual bulimia and anorexia. Jason Seaver (Alan Thicke, "Growing Pains", 1985-92). 4 for Joshua. > 6. Name the TV dad who is a real estate agent and whose wife runs > her father's closets business. He has three kids and spends > a lot of time with his wife's extended family. Phil Dunphy (Ty Burrell, "Modern Family", 2009-). 4 for Joshua. > with his friend. He also spent a lot of time seeking advice > from his neighbor, Wilson, whose face is always partly hidden > behind a fence or something. Tim Taylor (Tim Allen, "Home Improvement", 1991-99). 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Jason, Pete, and Calvin. Wilson's full name, by the way, was eventually revealed to be Wilson Wilson. > 8. Name the TV dad who was a judge and lived in a fancy house > in Bel-Air. He had three kids and was also raising his nephew > who was from West Philadelphia. Phil Banks (James Avery, "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air", 1990-96). 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Jason. > 9. Name the TV dad who was raising his family on a farm in Walnut > Grove, Minn., in the 1870s and 1880s. Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon, "Little House on the Prairie", 1974-83). 4 for Joshua. > wife, kids, mother, sister-in-law, and nephew in Chicago. > He was constantly being annoyed by their nerdy teenage next-door > neighbor. Carl Otis Winslow (Reginald VelJohnson, "Family Matters", 1989-98). 4 for Joshua and Jason. > Norway, she went on to win gold for both the 7.5 km and 15 km > events. She was the first non-European to win gold in biathlon. > Name her. Myriam Bédard. > by a non-US player. Until Brooke Henderson in 2016, she was the > only Canadian to win a major -- a status she held for 48 years. > Name her. Sandra Post. > marathon swim race across Lake Ontario to actually finish the > 32-mile race -- making her the first person ever to swim across > the lake. Name her. Marilyn Bell. Someone later commented that the public reaction to this event established "the Toronto tradition that it is permissible to get excited only about marathon swims". > and participated in four Olympic games starting in 1972. They > became the first indigenous women to be inducted into Canada's > Sports Hall of Fame in 2015. Name the sport or discpline. Cross-country skiing (full answer required). 3 for Pete. > 5. Phyllis Munday and Annette Buck were avid mountain climbers and, > in 1924, were the first women to reach the summit of the highest > peak in the Canadian Rockies. Name this mountain. Mt. Robson. (Not Mt. Logan, which is higher but is in the St. Elias range.) > 6. This champion curler from Saskatchewan led her team in 1998 to > the first-ever Olympic gold medal in women's curling. Name her. Sandra Schmirler. > 7. Born in Winnipeg, she is the first athlete in history to win > multiple medals in both summer and winter Olympic Games. > Name her. Clara Hughes. (Cycling, speed skating.) 4 for Calvin. > 8. What was the first time the Canadian women's *and* men's teams > in one sport won Olympic gold medals? Give either the year or > the city. 2002, Salt Lake City. (Hockey.) 3 for Pete. > event the following year. Also in 1968, she brought home > Canada's first Olympic gold medal in giant slalom, and a silver > medal in slalom events. Name her. Nancy Greene (Raine). > yet been repeated. Considered one of Canada's best-remembered > sports personalities, after the Olympics she toured North > American and British ice shows as the headliner. Name her. Barbara Ann Scott. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 BEST TOPICS-> Lit Geo Mis Aud Sci Ent Can FIVE Joshua Kreitzer 32 32 4 39 15 32 0 150 Dan Blum 36 32 36 16 24 16 0 144 Peter Smyth 12 30 0 24 20 4 0 90 Jason Kreitzer 12 12 0 40 4 20 0 88 Dan Tilque 12 28 31 0 12 4 0 87 Pete Gayde 16 24 2 0 4 12 6 62 "Calvin" 16 19 7 12 0 4 4 58 Erland Sommarskog 0 32 8 0 8 -- -- 48 -- Mark Brader "Metal urgy. The urge to use metals. Toronto That was humans, all right." msb@vex.net -- Terry Pratchett: Truckers My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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