- Calvin's Quiz #525 - 3 Updates
- QFTCIBP Final, Round 4 - Geography - 5 Updates
- Rotating Quiz #295 *results* - 1 Update
- Calvin's Quiz #524 - ANSWERS & SCORES - 3 Updates
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jun 28 09:16PM -0700 1 The HBO series 'Boardwalk Empire' was set in the 1920s in which US city? 2 The Khaled Hosseini novels 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' are primarily set in which Asian country? 3 The last line of which 1933 film is: "Oh no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast"? 4 The stylised rabbit featured in the famous Playboy logo wears which specific item of clothing? 5 The TV shows 'Glee' and 'Freaks and Geeks' are both set at high schools named after which ill-fated U.S. president? 6 The Vedas are sacred texts in what religion? 7 The Winter War [1939 - 1940] was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and which other country? 8 There are two sub-orders of whale, toothed and which other? 9 What is the common name of the marine creatures which belong to the genus hippocampus? 10 What was the pre-1998 name of the Indian city now known as Mumbai? I am away for a week so answers will not appear before 9th July. cheers, calvin |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 28 11:29PM -0500 Calvin: > 1 The HBO series 'Boardwalk Empire' was set in the 1920s in > which US city? Atlantic City. > 2 The Khaled Hosseini novels 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand > Splendid Suns' are primarily set in which Asian country? Iran? > 3 The last line of which 1933 film is: "Oh no, it wasn't the > airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast"? "King Kong". > 4 The stylised rabbit featured in the famous Playboy logo wears > which specific item of clothing? Top hat. > 5 The TV shows 'Glee' and 'Freaks and Geeks' are both set at > high schools named after which ill-fated U.S. president? Linvoln. (Genuine typo left in for amusement value.) Lincoln. > 6 The Vedas are sacred texts in what religion? Hinduish. (Genuine typo left in for amusement value.) Hinduism. > 7 The Winter War [1939 - 1940] was a military conflict between > the Soviet Union and which other country? Finland. > 8 There are two sub-orders of whale, toothed and which other? Baleen. > 9 What is the common name of the marine creatures which belong > to the genus hippocampus? Seahorse. > 10 What was the pre-1998 name of the Indian city now known as Mumbai? Bombay. > I am away for a week so answers will not appear before 9th July. Enjoy your trip, if applicable. -- Mark Brader "Exercise 5-3: ... When should you Toronto have stopped adding features...?" msb@vex.net -- Kernighan & Pike |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Jun 29 07:55AM Calvin wrote: > 1 The HBO series 'Boardwalk Empire' was set in the 1920s in which US city? Atlantic City > 2 The Khaled Hosseini novels 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' are primarily set in which Asian country? Iran > 3 The last line of which 1933 film is: "Oh no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast"? > 4 The stylised rabbit featured in the famous Playboy logo wears which specific item of clothing? Bow Tie > 5 The TV shows 'Glee' and 'Freaks and Geeks' are both set at high schools named after which ill-fated U.S. president? Lincoln > 6 The Vedas are sacred texts in what religion? Hinduism > 7 The Winter War [1939 - 1940] was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and which other country? > 8 There are two sub-orders of whale, toothed and which other? Non-toothed > 9 What is the common name of the marine creatures which belong to the genus hippocampus? > 10 What was the pre-1998 name of the Indian city now known as Mumbai? Bombay Peter Smyth |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jun 28 02:16PM > ** Final, Round 4 - Geography > * TTC Bus Routes > 1. #6. Bloor; Yonge > 2. #29. Yonge; Bloor > 3. #94. Bloor; Yonge > 4. One man became Prime Minister of his country in 1980, and > then was President from 1987 until his resignation in 2017. > Name the *country*. Zimbabwe > 5. Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of what landlocked > country in southern Africa, after it gained independence from > the UK in 1964? Zambia > Mobutu Sese Seko and his ruling "Popular Movement of the > Revolution" party. He renamed the country, but it changed back > after his ouster in 1997. What was the name he gave the country? Zaire > * East-er > 7. Kingston ON, Syracuse NY, Philadelphia PA, Norfolk VA. Norfolk VA > 8. IKEA North York, Ontario Science Centre, Greenwood subway yard, > Ashbridges Bay. IKEA North York; Ashbridges Bay > 9. 100? W longitude, Winnipeg MB, Kansas City MO, Dallas TX. Winnipeg MB; Kansas City MO > * Rivers by Shape > 13. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/river/13.png Danube; Yangtze > 14. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/river/14.png Yellow; Euphrates > 15. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/river/15.png Loire; Missouri -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jun 28 04:56PM +0200 > 4. One man became Prime Minister of his country in 1980, and > then was President from 1987 until his resignation in 2017. > Name the *country*. Zimbabwe > 5. Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of what landlocked > country in southern Africa, after it gained independence from > the UK in 1964? Zambia > Mobutu Sese Seko and his ruling "Popular Movement of the > Revolution" party. He renamed the country, but it changed back > after his ouster in 1997. What was the name he gave the country? Zaire > Which location on each list is the farthest east? (True east, > not Toronto street grid east.) > 7. Kingston ON, Syracuse NY, Philadelphia PA, Norfolk VA. Syracuse NY > 8. IKEA North York, Ontario Science Centre, Greenwood subway yard, > Ashbridges Bay. IKEA > 9. 100° W longitude, Winnipeg MB, Kansas City MO, Dallas TX. Kansas City > 13. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/river/13.png Yellow River > 14. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/river/14.png Yangtze-Kiang > 15. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/river/15.png Volga |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Jun 29 02:33AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:sqOdnWAbK4RxFanGnZ2dnUU7- > Typically, a TTC bus route takes its name from the street that most > of the route runs along. Give the names of the following routes. > 1. #6. 6th Street > 2. #29. 29th Street > 3. #94. 94th Street > 4. One man became Prime Minister of his country in 1980, and > then was President from 1987 until his resignation in 2017. > Name the *country*. Zimbabwe > 5. Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of what landlocked > country in southern Africa, after it gained independence from > the UK in 1964? Zambia > Mobutu Sese Seko and his ruling "Popular Movement of the > Revolution" party. He renamed the country, but it changed back > after his ouster in 1997. What was the name he gave the country? Zaire > Which location on each list is the farthest east? (True east, > not Toronto street grid east.) > 7. Kingston ON, Syracuse NY, Philadelphia PA, Norfolk VA. Philadelphia PA; Norfolk VA > 8. IKEA North York, Ontario Science Centre, Greenwood subway yard, > Ashbridges Bay. Ashbridges Bay > 9. 100° W longitude, Winnipeg MB, Kansas City MO, Dallas TX. Kansas City MO -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jun 28 09:06PM -0700 On Thursday, June 28, 2018 at 5:06:26 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > 4. One man became Prime Minister of his country in 1980, and > then was President from 1987 until his resignation in 2017. > Name the *country*. Zimbabwe > 5. Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of what landlocked > country in southern Africa, after it gained independence from > the UK in 1964? Zambia > Mobutu Sese Seko and his ruling "Popular Movement of the > Revolution" party. He renamed the country, but it changed back > after his ouster in 1997. What was the name he gave the country? Zaire > * Rivers by Shape > In each case, name the river. > 13. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/river/13.png Yangtze, Amazon > 14. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/river/14.png Yangtze, Amazon > 15. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/river/15.png Mississippi cheers, Calvin |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 28 11:24PM -0500 Mark Brader and Joshua Kreitzer: > 29th Street >> 3. #94. > 94th Street If only! -- Mark Brader "After many years of teaching, you get to learn Toronto quite a lot about how to design a better idiot." msb@vex.net --Peter Moylan My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 28 11:23PM -0500 Mark Brader: > writing a contest that allowed me to win. The winner of RQ 295, > in turn, will be the first choice to set RQ 296, in whatever manner > they prefer. And that winner is DAN TILQUE -- on the third tiebreaker! Hearty congratulations! > Scores on this quiz will be out of 20 or more, depending on how > many correct answers question #13 has. Scores were out of 20. This was a little harder than I thought, and it only took 8/20 to win. > if you want to show off. However, there is a penalty of 1 point > for wrong answers -- to a maximum of 1 penalty point per question > and then only if you also gave a correct answer on that question. I was surprised at how many penalties there were. Entrants marked as scoring either "0" or "1*" on a question reached those results by giving one or two right answers and, instead of stopping there, giving a wrong answer as well. Indeed, without the penalty points, Calvin would have won. > 1. Two states of Australia are named after the same person. > Name both of them *and* the capital of each one. 1 point > per state. Queensland: Brisbane. Victoria: Melbourne. 2 for everyone -- Erland, Dan Blum, Calvin, Dan Tilque, and Peter. > 2. Two capital cities in Canada are also named after that same > person. Name both of them *and* say what they are the capital > of. Do not use abbreviations. 1 point per city. Victoria, British Columbia. Regina, Saskatchewan. 2 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque. 0 for Erland and Calvin. > * Holidays > 3. In Canada, what was the traditional date of Victoria Day? > 1 point. May 24. > 4. When is the holiday now observed? 1 point. May 18-24, whichever one is a Monday. > structures sharing a common wall, originally built and operated > by different railways. They are known as the two "sides" > of the station. Name them for 1 point each. Chatham side -- London, Chatham & Dover Railway. Brighton side -- London, Brighton & South Coast Railway. 2 for Peter. In Oscar Wilde's play "The Importance of Being Earnest", the place where the infant who grew up as Jack Worthing was Victoria Station -- "the Brighton line". Lady Bracknell's comment is that "the line is immaterial", but this proves not to be exactly true. > 6. Adjacent to this station is Victoria station on the London > Underground. Name all the Underground lines serving it, for > 1 point each to a maximum of 2. Circle Line -- Inner Circle. District Line -- Metropolitan District Railway. Victoria Line. 2 for Peter. 1* for Calvin. 0 for Erland and Dan Blum. > For questions #5-6, most of the acceptable answers are shortened from > original names that had additional words. If you want to show off, > for fun but for no extra points, give any or all of the full names. Peter got one of these. > * Military Awards > 7. Give the exact name of the highest medal for gallantry in the > British military. 1 point. Victoria Cross. 1 for Calvin, Dan Tilque, and Peter. > 8. What text is on the medal? 1 point. "For Valour". 1 for Calvin and Peter. Actually that's on the front of the medal, while the back shows the date that it was earned. I meant to only ask for the text on the front, but would have accepted either answer. Some time after World War II, the Canadian government decided that Canada should have its own military medals instead of using British ones, so the Victoria Cross from Britain is no longer awarded here -- Canada now has its own Victoria Cross, which has never actually been awarded either. Well, apparently they decided that having "For Valour" only in English wasn't appropriate, but they didn't want to take the space to show it in French as well. Instead they finagled the point by translating it into Latin: "Pro Valore". > seen in the prologue; "Mrs. Brown" (1997) and "Victoria & > Abdul" (2017); "Victoria & Albert" (2001); "The Young Victoria" > (2009); and "Victoria" (TV series 2016-). Margaret Mann in 1929; Anna Neagle in 1937 and 1938; Romy Schneider in 1954; Julie Harris in 1961; Avis Bunnage in 1966; Judi Dench in 1997 and 2017; Victoria Hamilton and Joyce Redman in 2001; Grace Smith, Michaela Brooks, and Emily Blunt in 2009; Jenna Coleman in 2016-. 2 for Calvin. 1 for Dan Blum. > Heavy with proverbs and corrections, > Confusing the star-dazed tourists > With our incomparable sense of loss. Leonard Cohen, Ray Davies (of the Kinks). > * Herself > 11. What was Queen Victoria's first name? 1 point. Alexandrina. > 12. What did Edward Oxford do in 1840 that gets him into this quiz? > 1 point. He was the first of the 7 people who tried to assassinate Queen Victoria. The only one to injure her was the one who hit her with his cane instead of firing a gun. One gunman even tried twice -- the first time the thing didn't go off. > have been her descendants. Which of her children either took > the British throne or had descendants who did? 1 point per > relevant child. Prince Edward, who became King Edward VII, is the only one. (The four later monarchs have been his son, two grandsons, and great-granddaughter.) 1 for Calvin and Dan Tilque. > become a queen and empress by marriage. Identify her by name, > by who she married, *and* by where she was queen and empress of. > 1 point per relevant fact to a maximum of 2. Princess Victoria, Prince Frederick who became Emperor Frederick III, queen of Prussia and empress of Germany. 2 for Dan Tilque. 0 for Dan Blum. Princess Alice married (and introduced hemophilia) into the Russian royal family, but she did not become a queen or empress herself. Scores, if there are no errors: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 TOTALS Dan Tilque 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 8 Peter Smyth 2 0 0 0 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 "Calvin" 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 8 Dan Blum 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 Erland Sommarskog 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 10 4 0 0 2 3 3 2 3 0 0 0 2 2 > In case of a tie, the first tiebreaker is correct spelling and > capitalization; the second tiebreaker is who scored on the hardest > questions; and the third tiebreaker is who posted first. None of the tied players made any errors in spelling of capitalization, so the first tiebreaker is moot. I decided to work the second tiebreaker based only on how many people scored points on each question and not how many points they scored. With the questions ranking unequally, this seemed fairest. Dan Tilque and Peter Smyth each scored points on one question that nobody else scored on, which Calvin did not, so Calvin is eliminated. Dan Tilque and Peter each scored their other points on two questions that only two people scored on, one question that three people scored on, and one that five people scored on. So we go to the third tiebreaker. Dan Tilque posted his answers about a day before Peter posted his, so Dan Tilque wins. Congratulations once again, and it's over to Dan Tilque for RQ 296. -- Mark Brader | It's practically impossible to keep two separate databases Toronto | in step for any length of time. That's true even when one msb@vex.net | of the "databases" is reality itself. -- Andrew Koenig My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jun 28 09:14PM -0700 On Monday, June 25, 2018 at 1:24:53 PM UTC+10, Calvin wrote: > 1 In which decade was Yoko Ono born? 1930s [1933 in fact] > 2 In which modern day-US State did the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 take place? Massachusets > 3 Jimmy Smits and Dennis Franz co-starred in which US TV series? NYPD Blue > 4 Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling are former employees of which US corporation? Enron > 5 Lever, rabbit and twist are varieties of which device? Corkscrew > 6 Montevideo is located at the mouth of which river? Plata / Plate > 7 On which river does the Hoover Dam stand? Colorado > 8 Russian Valentina Tereshkova become the first woman to travel in space in which decade? 1960s [1963] > 9 Sana'a is the capital city of which country? Yemen > 10 Similar to egg nog, which traditional Dutch alcoholic beverage is a mixture of brandy, egg yolks & vanilla? Advocaat Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 524 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 8 48 Gareth Owen 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 8 48 Bruce Bowler 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 8 50 Peter Smyth 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 8 54 Mark Brader 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 8 54 Dan Blum 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 7 47 Pete Gayde 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 6 41 Erland S 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 6 43 Dan Tilque - - - - - - - - - - --- ---------- 5 7 6 7 2 8 8 7 6 3 59 74% Congratulations Gareth and Bruce! cheers, Calvin |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jun 28 09:16PM -0700 On Tuesday, June 26, 2018 at 8:43:36 AM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > Erland Sommarskog: > > MA > Don't you think you should answer with the name of a state? It's both accurate and specific so I will allow it. cheers, calvin |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jun 28 09:18PM -0700 On Thursday, June 28, 2018 at 7:01:30 AM UTC+10, Gareth Owen wrote: > Corkscrew (Cheers!) Cheers! > > 9 Sana'a is the capital city of which country? > Fiji?? Sounds Polynesian, anyway Ummm.... cheers, calvin |
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