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| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 07 12:35AM -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 8 - Science * More Keyboard Pairs Please keep your eyes away from your keyboard until you have finished thinking about these questions! Remember back in Game 1: In each question we will name one character on a key and you must name the other one that is produced on a typical modern QWERTY keyboard by changing the shift setting. For example, if we said "4" you would answer "$" -- and vice versa. Here we go again. 1. "%". 2. "/". 3. ">". * Vaguely Diseasey 4. Barry Marshall ingested Helicobacter pylori to prove that it caused certain diseases. Name either disease. 5. Which deadly virus has been modified to be used to map the brain? 6. Treponema pallidum causes which sexually transmitted infection? * Airplane Flight 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. 8. Unlike ships, airplanes are not usually turned simply by moving the rudder. Instead, parts of the wing are raised or lowered, 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? 9. What is the name for the angle formed between the wing or fuselage itself and its relative motion through the air? * Sound and Hearing 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? 11. The <answer 10> serve to transmit vibrations from the eardrum to *what organ* within the inner ear? 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.) * Vitamins We give you the chemical name of the compound; you give the usual short term for the vitamin. For example, if we say ascorbic acid, you say C. Some vitamins actually consist of any of multiple compounds; we may not name them all. 13. Tocopherols, tocotrienols. 14. Retinol. 15. Phylloquinone, menaquinones. -- Mark Brader | "Simple things should be simple." -- Alan Kay, on UIs msb@vex.net | "Too many ... try to make complex things simple ... Toronto | and succeed ... only in making simple things complex." | -- Jeff Prothero My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jul 07 11:04AM +0200 > Here we go again. > 1. "%". 5 > 2. "/". 7 > 3. ">". < All answers relates to a Swedish keyboard. (Which definitely is a typical modern QWERTY keyboard.) > 4. Barry Marshall ingested Helicobacter pylori to prove that it > caused certain diseases. Name either disease. Then I only need to know what they are called in English... Ulcerit? > 11. The <answer 10> serve to transmit vibrations from the eardrum > to *what organ* within the inner ear? The snail > 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.) Nine |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 07 12:34AM -0500 Mark Brader: > James Bond usually tours the world in each of his movies. We give > you some locations where a Bond movie was set; you name the movie. > 1. Florida and the fictional country Isthmus. "License to Kill". 2 for Joshua. > 2. Siberia, Hamburg, Vietnam, South China Sea. "Tomorrow Never Dies". > 3. Miami Beach, Switzerland, Fort Knox. "Goldfinger". 4 for everyone -- Joshua, Jason, Pete, and Dan. > 4. This Rat Pack actor was a nominated for 3 Oscars (and won one > of them) for Best Actor. Died 1957: "I should never have > switched from scotch to martinis." Humphrey Bogart. (Won Oscar for "The African Queen"; also nominated for "Casablanca" and "The Caine Mutiny".) 4 for Joshua. I for one was surprised when this came up during the original game: I thought the group of entertainers who were friends and were nicknamed the Rat Pack consisted of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and a couple of others I couldn't think of (looking it up later, I had Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop in mind), but not Bogart. But people come and go from groups of friends, and it turns out that the term was originally applied to Bogart and a group of his friends including Sinatra. See for example: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/1997/05/rat-pack-vegas > 5. This American actor developed a routine as a wisecracking > hustler with an ever-present cigar. Died 1977: "Die, my dear? > Why, that's the last thing I'll do!" Groucho (or his real name, Julius) Marx. (Both names required.) 4 for everyone. > Her famed rivalry with actor Bette Davis is portrayed in the > FX television series "Feud". Died 1977: "Dammit! Don't you > dare ask God to help me!" Joan Crawford (or her real name, Lucille LeSueur). 4 for Joshua, Jason, and Pete. > with human emotions who is created by Umataro Tenma after the > death of his son. The original name of the series translates as > "Mighty Atom". "Astro Boy" (or "Tetsuwan Atomu", if you saw it in Japanese). 4 for Joshua. > a wish-granting creature. You might have also seen a related > later and more violent series, under the same name with the > additional suffix of "Z". "Dragon Ball". 4 for Joshua and Dan. > him the ability to kill most adversaries through the use of > the human body's secret vital points. This often results in > an exceptionally violent and gory death. "Fist of the North Star" (or "Hokuto no Ken"). 4 for Joshua. > * TV Show Composers > We'll name a TV show; you tell us who composed its theme music. > 10. "A Charlie Brown Christmas". Vince Guaraldi. 4 for Joshua and Pete. > 11. "The Simpsons". Danny Elfman. 4 for Joshua and Jason. > 12. "The Facts of Life". Alan Thicke. 4 for Joshua. > * Movie Sequel Subtitles > In each case, complete the title. "Jeopardy!" did this on Thursday, only they went the other way, giving the sequence number and the subtitle and asking for the main title. Their $600 question was #13 the other way. > 13. "Speed 2: ..." "Cruise Control". 4 for Joshua and Jason. > 14. "Star Trek III: ..." (1984). "The Search for Spock". 4 for everyone. > 15. "Sister Act 2: ..." "Back in the Habit". 4 for Joshua and Jason. Scores, if there are no errors: FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 BEST TOPICS-> His A+L Geo Spo Ent THREE Joshua Kreitzer 40 32 23 24 54 126 Dan Blum 36 40 18 0 -- 94 "Calvin" 32 27 15 -- -- 74 Peter Smyth 36 -- 12 24 -- 72 Pete Gayde 20 16 14 32 20 72 Dan Tilque 32 4 24 12 16 72 Erland Sommarskog 24 -- 20 24 -- 68 Jason Kreitzer 16 16 -- -- 28 60 -- Mark Brader, Toronto "The English future is very confusing! msb@vex.net (This is not a political statement.)" My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jul 06 12:11PM -0700 Erland Sommarskog wrote: > himself. Presumably, the governors have some people around them, but there > is no locally elected body. Then again, that was not required in the > original question. In the US, various agencies of the federal government chop the country up into a small number (usually 10 to 12) regions or districts for ease of administration. The Forest Service, Environmental Protection Agency, Bureau of Land Management, Geologic Survey, Coast Guard, and others all do this. And these districts all have an appointed administrator. I could be wrong, but it looks like the Russian regions are roughly the same, except at a higher level. -- Dan Tilque |
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