- Rotating Quiz #297 - 2 Updates
- Rotating Quiz #296: best 5 -- Answers and scores - 3 Updates
- QFTCIBP Final, Round 9: Canadiana - 1 Update
- QFTCIBP Final, Round 8 answers: Science - 1 Update
- Calvin's Quiz #526 - 7 Updates
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 10 05:35AM -0500 This is RQ 297. I'd like to thank Dan Tilque for running RQ 296 and writing a contest that allowed me to win. As usual, the winner of this contest will be the first choice to run RQ 298. You can have 5½ days from the instant of posting to enter this one -- that's until about 6:35 pm Toronto time (zone -4) on Sunday, July 15. This is a Quiz Quilt in the manner of Robert Jen, but not exactly. I'll repeat, with minor changes, the explanation of what that means that I used in RQ 246. For each of questions #1-8, write down the thing being described or referred to. All answers are in English. If you write down the correct answers to these 8 questions in order along successive rows of a grid, you will find the "quilt" answer reading *either upward or downward* in one of these positions: (1) vertically along a column, or (2) diagonally to/from one of the left-hand corners, or (3) zigzaggily along the last letters of the answers. For example, if there were only 3 questions and the answers were T W O H Y A H M O E S then the quilt answer might be any of (1) TAM, MAT, WHO, or OHW; (2) THE, EHT, MHO, or OHM; (3) SHY, or YHS -- but, as they are not (as far as I know) words or names, you could immediately eliminate OHW, EHT, and YHS. In fact the quilt answer is a *single word or name in English*. In this case I will not gave an explicit clue pointing to it. This time the scoring will be out of 10: 1 point each for answers tiebreaker is who got the quilt answer; the second tiebreaker is who scored on the hardest questions; and the third tiebreaker is who posted first. Naturally, you are to answer all questions from your own knowledge only. Please post a single message with your answers, quoting the questions you are answering and placing your answer below each one. * Languages 1. This is an official language of Haiti and of nowhere else. Its full name in English is two words, but just give the second one. 2. If Wikipedia is correct, "hlutabréfamarkaður" is the word for "stock market" in this language. * Geography 3. This British possession is considered the world's most isolated inhabited island. It has about 250 residents and no airport, and is 1,500 miles from either St. Helena or South Africa. 4. In connection with the last RQ, I mentioned the three Canadian islands in the Arctic Ocean that are among the 10 largest islands in the world. But what is Canada's largest island that is *not* in the Arctic Ocean? * Vehicles 5. This ocean liner sank in 1956 after colliding with the Stockholm. 6. The Ryan company designed the model NYP airplane, and built just one of them, for a single flight planned by this pilot. Give just the surname. * History 7. In 1494 the Portuguese signed a treaty with the Spanish, or more precisely the Castilians, assigning all future discoveries of land to Spain or Portugal according to their location. (Other countries were beneath mention.) Although the treaty was based on a boundary line that there was no practical way to locate, it led to the present division of South America between Portuguese-speaking Brazil and Spanish-speaking almost everywhere else. This was the treaty of what? 8. The last time that the UK *on its own* went to war (de facto), which country were they fighting against? * Quilt 9. What is the quilt answer? -- Mark Brader "I am taking what you write in the spirit in Toronto which it is intended. That's the problem." msb@vex.net -- Tony Cooper My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Don Piven <don@piven.net>: Jul 10 05:58AM -0500 On 7/10/18 05:35, Mark Brader wrote: > 1. This is an official language of Haiti and of nowhere else. > Its full name in English is two words, but just give the > second one. Creole > 2. If Wikipedia is correct, "hlutabréfamarkaður" is the word for > "stock market" in this language. Icelandic > 3. This British possession is considered the world's most isolated > inhabited island. It has about 250 residents and no airport, > and is 1,500 miles from either St. Helena or South Africa. Tristan da Cunha > islands in the Arctic Ocean that are among the 10 largest islands > in the world. But what is Canada's largest island that is *not* > in the Arctic Ocean? Newfoundland > * Vehicles > 5. This ocean liner sank in 1956 after colliding with the Stockholm. Andrea Doria > 6. The Ryan company designed the model NYP airplane, and built > just one of them, for a single flight planned by this pilot. > Give just the surname. Lindbergh > everywhere else. This was the treaty of what? > 8. The last time that the UK *on its own* went to war (de facto), > which country were they fighting against? Argentina > * Quilt > 9. What is the quilt answer? Atlantic |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jul 09 09:35PM -0700 Dan Tilque wrote: > This quiz will run until Monday, 09 July 2018 in the evening my time > (time zone -7 UTC). > 1. What are the 5 largest countries? (by area, not population) Russia Canada USA China Brazil > 2. What are the 5 longest rivers in the world? Amazon Nile Yangtze Huang He (Yellow River) Paraná Wikipedia only lists longest rivers by combined main+tributary, so I had to compile this list myself. See below for full list. > 3. What are the 5 largest islands in the world? (not Australia) Greenland New Guinea Borneo Madagascar Baffin Mark gets credit for being the only one to name Baffin. > 4. What are the 5 largest planets in the solar system? Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Earth > 5. What are the 5 nearest star systems to the sun? (not brown dwarfs) Alpha Centauri Barnard's Star Wolf 359 Lalande 21185 Sirius Didn't really expect anyone to get #4, although Mark knew the name of the astronomer/catalog that its name comes from. As for Proxima, there was a paper earlier this year that strongly supported it being part of the Alpha C system, so I'm going with that. If you include brown dwarfs, there are two systems that fit in between Barnard's and Wolf 359: Luhman 16 and WISE 0855. I didn't expect anyone to know those, so I excluded them. > 6. What are the 5 largest first level administrative subdivisions of the > various countries? (by area, not population) Sakha Republic (Russia) Western Australia Krasnoyarsk Krai (Russia) Greenland Nunavut Erland is the only one to get Sakha. Also see below for full list. Scores: Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 T -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Mark 5 2 4 5 4 2 22 Dan Blum 4 3 4 5 4 1 21 Calvin 5 3 4 5 3 1 21 Erland 5 3 4 5 2 1 20 Peter Smyth 5 3 3 4 1 2 18 So Mark edges out Dan and Calvin, so it's back to him for RQ #297. Congratulations, Mark. Besides the list of rivers, I also had to compile a list of internal regions. Here are the two lists. I may have missed a river or two, but I'm fairly certain not among the top five. Rivers length (km) ====== =========== Amazon 6992.6 Nile 6853 Yangtze 6357 Huang He 5464 Paraná 4880 Lena 4400 Congo 4370 Missouri 3767 Mississippi 3734 Ob 3650 Volga 3530 Yenisei 3438 Internal subdivisions size (sq km) ===================== ============ Sakha Republic (Russia) 3,103,200 Western Australia 2,645,615 Krasnoyarsk Krai (Russia) 2,339,700 Greenland 2,166,086 Nunavut 2,038,722 Queensland 1,852,642 Alaska 1,717,856 Xinjiang (China) 1,664,897 Amazonas (Brazil) 1,570,745.7 Quebec 1,542,056 Tyumen Oblast (Russia) 1,435,200 Northwest Territories 1,346,106 Pará (Brazil) 1,247,689.5 Tibet 1,228,400 Inner Mongolia 1,183,000 Ontario 1,076,395 These were all that I could find with at least 1,000,000 sq km. -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 10 01:13AM -0500 Dan Tilque: > > 3. What are the 5 largest islands in the world? (not Australia) ... > Mark gets credit for being the only one to name Baffin. Well, I think I am the closest of the entrants to it. I commented: "I hope Ellesmere isn't on there -- I think it might be #6." In fact it's #10 and another Canadian Arctic island, Victoria, is larger at #9. #6 is Sumatra, which was a wrong answer for me. > > 5. What are the 5 nearest star systems to the sun? (not brown dwarfs) > Didn't really expect anyone to get #4, although Mark knew the name of > the astronomer/catalog that its name comes from. I knew it had a 5-digit number too. > there are two systems that fit in between Barnard's and Wolf 359: Luhman > 16 and WISE 0855. I didn't expect anyone to know those, so I excluded them. Oh, I say! In that case Sirius is a wrong answer and I request a rescoring with it not accepted. > So Mark edges out Dan and Calvin, so it's back to him for RQ #297. And so I still do with the rescoring. I don't have one ready to go this time, but I'll think about it shortly. -- Mark Brader, Toronto "Let us knot coin gnu werds huitch msb@vex.net are spelld rong." -- Rik Fischer Smoody My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jul 10 09:42AM +0200 > Greenland > Nunavut > Erland is the only one to get Sakha. Also see below for full list. If Sakha does not ring a bell: it is also known as Yakutia. I feel sort of stupid for not spotting Western Australia. At least my Chinese entries were correct so far that they are actual subdivisions. I would question Greenland on this list. Greenland is not an "administrative subdivision" of Denmark, but rather an un-independent country with a high degree of autonomy. For instance, so far, it is the only area to have left the European Union. That would make Queensland the next in line, which some entrants (not me) had. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 10 01:01AM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2018-04-03, 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*)". ** Final, Round 9 - Canadiana * Firsts -- Where in Canada? 1. In what city was "O Canada" first performed, in 1880? 2. In 1887, the first migratory bird sanctuary in North America -- The "Last Mountain Lake Bird Sanctuary" -- was established by Lieutenant-Governor Edgar Dewdney in what current-day province? 3. In 1959, at the urging of its mayor Stephen Juba, what city was the first in North America to use a central emergency number? * Discount Canadian Airlines Name these current and aspiring discount airlines: 4. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-9/air/4.jpg 5. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-9/air/5.jpg 6. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-9/air/6.jpg * Famous Chefs 7. Name the chef who is known for his cooking show called "The Heat" and has appeared as a judge on "Top Chef Canada". His first restaurant was North 44 )° [sic]. 8. Name the chef who was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to Canada in 1978. The names of his restaurants often incorporate his first or last name. Some of those that *don't* are Luckee, Fring's, and Bent. 9. Name the Toronto "bad boy" chef who ran Black Hoof, Bar Isabel, Bar Raval, and Tennessee Tavern. * Charter of Rights and Freedoms We will name a section or subsection of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and tell you what heading that section appears under. You say what it is about. For example, if we said "section 6, under Mobility Rights", you would say the right to enter, remain in, or leave the country. 10. Section 25, under "General". 11. Subsection 16(2), under "Official Languages of Canada". 12. Section 33, under "Application of Charter". * Famous Interior Designers 13. Name the TV show that is a combination of the first names of the two head designers. These designers also appeared on "Designer Guys" and "Design Rivals". One of them died in 2015 after allegedly sleepwalking off his balcony. 14. Name the designer whose TV shows include "Design Inc." and "Room Service". She also had another show where she renovated her Toronto home, and yet another show where she renovated her Muskoka cottage. 15. Name the designer who has been appearing on "Cityline" on CITY-TV for over 20 years and whose line of products is sold at the Bay. His interior design company is located near Avenue and Davenport. -- Mark Brader, Toronto "(A topological cat is essential here.)" msb@vex.net --Ian Stewart My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 10 01:00AM -0500 Mark Brader: > if we said "4" you would answer "$" -- and vice versa. > Here we go again. > 1. "%". "5". 4 for Erland, Dan Tilque, Peter, Jason, and Dan Blum. > 2. "/". "?". 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Peter, and Jason. > 3. ">". ".". 4 for Dan Tilque, Peter, and Jason. > * Vaguely Diseasey > 4. Barry Marshall ingested Helicobacter pylori to prove that it > caused certain diseases. Name either disease. (Peptic) ulcers, gastritis. 4 for Dan Tilque and Dan Blum. 3 for Erland. > 5. Which deadly virus has been modified to be used to map the brain? Rabies. > 6. Treponema pallidum causes which sexually transmitted infection? Syphilis. 4 for Dan Tilque. 2 for Dan Blum. > 7. In aviation, what is the term for the speed beyond which a > takeoff can no longer be safely aborted? Once a plane reaches > this speed, it can no longer stop before the end of the runway. V-1. As this is paraphrased in various ways and the question neglected to specify what sort of answer was intended, I decided to treat the answers "decision point" and "critical speed" as almost correct. So, 3 for Peter and Dan Blum. > rolling the plane so that some of the lift acts sideways. > What is the name for these parts of the wing, on a conventional > airplane? Ailerons. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Peter, and Pete. > 9. What is the name for the angle formed between the wing or > fuselage itself and its relative motion through the air? Angle of attack (or incidence). 4 for Joshua, Peter, and Dan Blum. > 10. The three bones in the middle ear are the hammer, anvil, > and stirrup -- or if you prefer, the malleus, incus, and stapes. > But by what one-word name are they *collectively* known? Ossicles. > 11. The <answer 10> serve to transmit vibrations from the eardrum > to *what organ* within the inner ear? Cochlea. Based on the Swedish translation I scored "snail" as almost correct. 4 for Peter. 3 for Erland. > 12. The typical frequency range of human hearing is from 20 Hz > to about 20,000 Hz -- which is how many octaves? (To the > nearest whole number.) 10. (Because 20,000/20 = 1,000, which is close to 2^10 = 1,024.) 4 for Dan Tilque, Peter, and Dan Blum. > you say C. Some vitamins actually consist of any of multiple > compounds; we may not name them all. > 13. Tocopherols, tocotrienols. E. 4 for Dan Tilque. > 14. Retinol. A. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Peter, and Dan Blum. > 15. Phylloquinone, menaquinones. K. 4 for Peter. Scores, if there are no errors: FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST TOPICS-> His A+L Geo Spo Ent Sci FOUR Joshua Kreitzer 40 32 23 24 54 16 150 Dan Blum 36 40 18 0 -- 25 119 Peter Smyth 36 -- 12 24 -- 39 111 Dan Tilque 32 4 24 12 16 36 108 Pete Gayde 20 16 14 32 20 4 88 Erland Sommarskog 24 -- 20 24 -- 10 78 "Calvin" 32 27 15 -- -- -- 74 Jason Kreitzer 16 16 -- -- 28 12 72 -- Mark Brader "Just because the standard provides a cliff in Toronto front of you, you are not necessarily required msb@vex.net to jump off it." -- Norman Diamond My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jul 09 02:01PM > 1 Which 2003 movie's subtitle was 'Rise of the Machines'? Terminator Genisys > 2 Which Australian singer/songwriter has a backing group called the Bad Seeds? Kylie Minogue > 3 Which Austrian composer (1732-1809) is recognised as the 'Father of the Symphony'? Haydn > 4 Which continent lies in the northern, southern, eastern and western Hemispheres? Africa > 5 Which corpulent, orchid-loving private eye was created by Rex Stout? Nero Wolfe > 6 Which creature is most likely to make a sibilant noise? snake > 7 Which German Admiral offered his country's unconditional surrender on the 7th May 1945? Doenitz > 8 Which individual (b. 1941) has been awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature, a Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the L??gion d'Honneur, as well as one (or more) Grammies, Oscars and Golden Globe? Bob Dylan > 9 Which movie was released in France under the title 'La Guerre des Etoiles'? Star Wars > 10 Which NFL team lost four consecutive Superbowls from 1990-1993? New York Giants -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jul 09 02:03PM > > Africa. > 4A Which *country* lies in the northern, southern, eastern and > western hemisphere? Overseas dependencies do not count. Mali? -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Don Piven <don@piven.net>: Jul 09 10:34AM -0500 On 7/9/18 01:38, Mark Brader wrote: >> Africa. > 4A Which *country* lies in the northern, southern, eastern and > western hemisphere? Overseas dependencies do not count. France. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jul 09 07:08PM +0200 >> 4A Which *country* lies in the northern, southern, eastern and >> western hemisphere? Overseas dependencies do not count. > France. I was considering to add that answer to my slate just to pull Mark's legs. French Guyana (and Réunion and some more) are DOM, is a "Départment outre Mèr", so you could argue that it is a fully integrated part of France, and not a dependency. Then again, it has its own country code, and apparently it is not part of Schengen. I also take this post to correct my original answer to what I believe Mark is looking for, and which I should have known from the start since I had a question related to this in one of my rotating quizzes. São Tomé e Principe. If memory serves, 0°N, 0°E is in a strait between the main São Tomé island and a smaller island. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 09 01:59PM -0500 "Calvin": >>>>> 4 Which continent lies in the northern, southern, eastern and >>>>> western Hemispheres? Mark Brader: >>> 4A Which *country* lies in the northern, southern, eastern and >>> western hemisphere? Overseas dependencies do not count. (Why did I not capitalize the hemispheres there? Oh well.) Don Piven: >> France. Correct. Erland Sommarskog: > French Guyana (and Réunion and some more) are DOM, is a "Départment > outre Mèr", so you could argue that it is a fully integrated part of France, > and not a dependency. Yes, exactly. (French Guiana by itself does not provide an answer since it's in the Northern Hemisphere, but Réunion and Mayotta are in the Southern.) > Then again, it has its own country code, Nothing to do with being a country. > and apparently it is not part of Schengen. Huh! > had a question related to this in one of my rotating quizzes. > São Tomé e Principe. > If memory serves, 0°N, 0°E Hey, quit claiming that point for the Eastern Hemisphere! That's 0°N, 0°W, I'll have you know! <grin> > is in a strait between the main São Tomé island and a smaller island. ST&P does extend into the Southern Hemisphere at Ilhéu das Rolas, but not into the Western Hemisphere as far as I can tell. However, I don't have a good source for this. For what it's worth, the English-language Wikipedia thinks the country's westernmost point is "Ponta Azeitona", but it doesn't say where that is. The Portuguese-language Wikipedia thinks and thinks the westermost point of the country is on the island of São Tomé, and also thinks Ponta Azeitona is on the island of São Tomé, but does not say (at least not on the obvious pages) they are the same place. Other guesses posted were Mali and Algeria. As to those, note that the entire section of south-facing coastline from Liberia to Cameroon is in the Northern Hemisphere -- the (0°, 0°) point is south of it -- and both countries are north well of that coastline. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "One thing that has not changed much in recent years msb@vex.net | is gravity." --David D. Dunlap, N.Y. Times My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Jul 10 04:07AM Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote in > 1 Which 2003 movie's subtitle was 'Rise of the Machines'? Terminator 3 > the Bad Seeds? > 3 Which Austrian composer (1732-1809) is recognised > as the 'Father of the Symphony'? Haydn > 4 Which continent lies in the > northern, southern, eastern and western Hemispheres? Asia > 5 Which > corpulent, orchid-loving private eye was created by Rex Stout? Nero Wolfe > 6 Which creature is most likely to make a sibilant noise? Goat > 7 Which > German Admiral offered his country's unconditional surrender on the > 7th May 1945? Donitz > Oscars and Golden Globe? > 9 Which movie was released in France > under the title 'La Guerre des Etoiles'? Star Wars > 10 Which NFL team lost four consecutive Superbowls from 1990-1993? Buffalo Bills > cheers, > calvin Pete Gayde |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jul 09 10:07PM -0700 Calvin wrote: > 1 Which 2003 movie's subtitle was 'Rise of the Machines'? > 2 Which Australian singer/songwriter has a backing group called the Bad Seeds? > 3 Which Austrian composer (1732-1809) is recognised as the 'Father of the Symphony'? Bach > 4 Which continent lies in the northern, southern, eastern and western Hemispheres? Africa > 5 Which corpulent, orchid-loving private eye was created by Rex Stout? Nero Wolf > 6 Which creature is most likely to make a sibilant noise? snake > 7 Which German Admiral offered his country's unconditional surrender on the 7th May 1945? Doenitz > 8 Which individual (b. 1941) has been awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature, a Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Légion d'Honneur, as well as one (or more) Grammies, Oscars and Golden Globe? > 9 Which movie was released in France under the title 'La Guerre des Etoiles'? Star Wars > 10 Which NFL team lost four consecutive Superbowls from 1990-1993? Pittsburgh Steelers -- Dan Tilque |
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