- Rotating Quiz #308 ANSWERS - 2 Updates
- QFTCIWSS Game 7, Rounds 2,4: explosives and CBC Radio - 2 Updates
| Don Piven <don@piven.net>: Oct 09 08:47PM -0500 And now, the answers to Rotating Quiz #308: 1) The Art Institute of Chicago has carved into its exterior the names of the members of what famous cartoon quartet? Among the names of famous artists incised on the exterior of the Art Institute are Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo, collectively known as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 2) Golfer Tiger Woods recently won the PGA's "The Tour Championship" by two strokes over Billy Horschel. Woods last won a PGA Tour event in what year? Tiger's next-most-recent PGA Tour victory was the Bridgestone Invitational in 2013. (2010 was a popular answer, but Tiger had no wins that year.) 3) In the 2018 Emmy Awards, which network received the most awards? Netflix took home seven Emmys, followed by HBO (6), Amazon (5) and FX (5). 4) Marty Balin, one of the founders of famed rock group Jefferson Airplane, recently passed away. Of the seven people performing on the Airplane's first release, "Jefferson Airplane Takes Off", how many are still living? Two; bassist Jack Casady and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen. (Grace Slick joined the Airplane after "Takes Off" was released.) 5) Hurricane Florence caused extensive damage on the east coast of the US earlier this month. An earlier storm named Florence caused damage to Bermuda and Newfoundland in what year? 2006. In the North Atlantic, storm names are used on a six-year cycle; in 2012, a tropical storm named Florence spun up near the Cape Verde Islands but soon dissipated. 6) Christian Yelich of the Milwaukee Brewers recently achieved a rare and notable feat in baseball -- twice in the space of three weeks! -- and did this both times against the Cincinnati Reds. What did he do? Yelich hit for the cycle (hitting a single, double, triple, and home run in the same game) against the Reds on August 29, and again on September 17. He was the fifth player to hit for the cycle twice in one season, and the only one to do it twice against the same team. 7) Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is not particularly renowned for keeping fast company, but his current girlfriend would certainly qualify in that category. Who is she? Former NASCAR and Indy Car racer Danica Patrick. 8) 8 October 1871 is a date that lives in infamy in Chicago history, that being the date of a fire that destroyed about three square miles of the city and killed up to 300 people. On the same day, another fire started in the midwestern US that eventually killed over 1500 people and consumed an area 50% larger than the state of Rhode Island. What town is most closely associated with this fire? (Answer must include the town name and state.) Peshtigo, Wisconsin. 9) 2+2=3, for sufficiently large values of 3. How many college football teams comprise the Big Ten Conference? Most people guessed 12, for some reason. The Big Ten became the Bigger Ten in 1990 when Penn State joined, followed by Nebraska in 2011, and both Maryland and Rutgers in 2014, bringing the current team count to 14. 10) 5-1=5, for sufficiently small values of 1. How many college football teams are in the Big 12 Conference? Ten. (Go figure.) Current Big Ten member Nebraska was a former member of the Big 12. 11) The United States Senate consists of 100 members who serve six-year terms and are elected in three "classes", one class every two years. How many Senate seats are up for election in 2018? 35. This was a tricky one. There are indeed 33 regular elections coming up, but also two special elections in Minnesota and Mississippi to fill unexpired terms of senators who resigned during the past two years, so the correct answer was 35. (Curiously, both of those states are electing both of their senators this year.) 12) Elon Musk is not having a good 2018. He and his company Tesla have just shelled out US$40 million to avoid being sued for securities fraud (and was invited to not run Tesla for the next three years); he is being sued by one of the swimmers who rescued a group of Thai children caught in a flooded cave; and he racked up more notoriety when he was seen doing what on a live webcast with Joe Rogan? Smoking marijuana. 13) Apple recently released the latest version of its operating system for Macintosh computers, variously named OS X, Mac OS X, or macOS. Since the first release of OS X, each release has had a one- or two-word nickname. Which is the only nickname which does NOT identify a large cat or a California landform? OS X 10.9 was named Mavericks, after a surfing area a mile or so offshore from Half Moon Bay in northern California. All previous releases were named for big cats, and all subsequent releases to date are named for inland geologic formations. (Mavericks itself was named for a dog belonging to a surfer who frequented that area.) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 : TOTAL -------------------------------------------------+------ Dan B. 1 0 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 0 0 1 - : 4 Mark B. 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 - 0 : 4 Dan T. 1 0 - 0 - 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 - : 6 Erland S. 0 1 0 0 0 - - - 0 0 0 - - : 1 Calvin - 0 0 0 - 0 - - - - 0 1 - : 1 Congratulations to Dan Tilque for winning RQ #308 -- #309 is yours! |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 10 12:13AM -0500 Don Piven: > 3) In the 2018 Emmy Awards, which network received the most awards? > Netflix took home seven Emmys, followed by HBO (6), Amazon (5) and FX (5). Then the correct answer is HBO, as I said. You only asked about TV networks, not Internet suppliers. > Congratulations to Dan Tilque for winning RQ #308... Hear, hear! -- Mark Brader "Finally no number of additional epicycles can Toronto hide the fact that We've Got a Problem Here." msb@vex.net -- from a science book club promotion |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Oct 09 07:59PM +0200 > * Game 7, Round 2 - Science - Explosives and Explosions > 1. The chemical compound C3H5N3O9 is better known as what? Nitroglycerin > 2. The chemical compound C3H6N6O6 is better known as what? Nitrotoulen > 5. What is an explosive train? A train loaded with nitroglycerin is certainly explosive. :-) > 6. How do entropic explosions differ from others? They explode by themselves, no sugar, eh I mean oxygen, added. Case in point: nitroglycerin. > 10. The largest explosion in human history was a volcanic explosion > in 1883 which measured at approximately 200 megatons of > explosive power. Name the volcano. Kratakoa |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Oct 09 09:21PM -0700 On Tuesday, October 9, 2018 at 1:13:45 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > * Game 7, Round 2 - Science - Explosives and Explosions > 1. The chemical compound C3H5N3O9 is better known as what? Nitroglycerine, TNT > 2. The chemical compound C3H6N6O6 is better known as what? Nitroglycerine, TNT > Of what is brisance a measurement? > 4. And the Trauzl number of an explosive measures what? > 5. What is an explosive train? A chain reaction? > 6. How do entropic explosions differ from others? They have a higher degree of disorder presumably. > 7. This man was considered the lead physicist on the Manhattan > Project; he would later die of throat cancer. Who? Oppenheimer > 10. The largest explosion in human history was a volcanic explosion > in 1883 which measured at approximately 200 megatons of > explosive power. Name the volcano. Krakatoa > After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh fnvq > "cynfgvp rkcybfvir" sbe bar bs gur svefg gjb dhrfgvbaf, cyrnfr tb > onpx naq or zber fcrpvsvp. Cynfgvp Rkcybfvir We :-) > * Game 7, Round 4 - Canadiana - CBC Radio No thanks. cheers, calvin |
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