Monday, October 22, 2018

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msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 21 02:09PM -0500

[Reposting again, new *improved* version with *two* corrections!]
 
This is RQ 310. I'd like to thank Dan Tilque for running RQ 309
and writing a contest that allowed me to win, and to complain
about Stephen Perry not entering and winning. As usual, the
winner of this contest will be the first choice to run RQ 311.
 
You can have until Friday, October 26, by Toronto time (zone -4)
to enter this one -- that gives you about 5 days 22 hours from the
original time of posting, or 5 days 9 hours from this second repost.
 
 
This one 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 297. For each of questions #1-9, write
down the thing being described or referred to. All answers are
in English. (In this contest, in fact, all of them are movie or
TV series titles.)
 
If you write down the correct answers to these 9 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,
reading vertically; (2) THE, EHT, MHO, or OHM, reading diagonally;
or (3) SHY, or YHS, reading the last letters. 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*.
The quiz title is a clue pointing to it.
 
 
For this contest, all the questions are in the field of entertainment.
I give a brief description of a movie or TV series, and you supply
the title. Most of the descriptions were either taken directly
from the IMDB or else edited from wording given there.
 
In alphabetical order by their names, leading cast members of
these movies and shows include Christine Baranski, Kristen Bell,
George Clooney, Matt Damon, Tony Danza, Freddie Highmore, Julianna
Margulies, Raymond Ochoa, and Reese Witherspoon.
 
 
I will give 1 point each for answers #1-9 and 2 points for the quilt,
so scores are out of 11. In case of a tie, the first 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.
 
 
1. A disgraced former NYPD officer lives with his son, an earnest,
obsessively honest NYPD detective. (TV series.)
 
2. An apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.
(2015 movie.)
 
3. She must now provide for her family and returns to work as a
litigator in a law firm. (CBS TV series, 2009-16.)
 
4. Followup TV series to <answer 3>, with some of the same
characters.
 
5. A dead woman struggles to define what it means to be good.
(TV series.)
 
6. While in post-war Berlin to cover the Potsdam Conference, an
American military journalist is drawn into a murder
investigation. (2006 movie.)
 
7. The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency
is viewed through the prism of one man's life. (Also a 2006
movie.)
 
8. A group of refugees given the chance to resettle in the US meet
an employment agency counselor in Kansas City, and all of their
lives are changed. (2014 movie.)
 
9. A young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome is recruited
by a prestigious hospital. (TV series.)
 
10. Quilt?
 
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "...good to see you back in the 'From' column."
msb@vex.net | --Maria Conlon
 
My text in this article is in the public domain.
tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Oct 21 07:22PM


> 1. A disgraced former NYPD officer lives with his son, an earnest,
> obsessively honest NYPD detective. (TV series.)
 
Good Cop / Bad Cop
 
> 2. An apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.
> (2015 movie.)
 
The Good Dinosaur
 
> 3. She must now provide for her family and returns to work as a
> litigator in a law firm. (CBS TV series, 2009-16.)
 
The Good Wife
 
> 5. A dead woman struggles to define what it means to be good.
> (TV series.)
 
The Good Place
 
> 10. Quilt?
 
pretender
 
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum tool@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Oct 21 06:56PM -0700

On Monday, October 22, 2018 at 5:09:35 AM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
 
> Margulies, Raymond Ochoa, and Reese Witherspoon.
 
> 1. A disgraced former NYPD officer lives with his son, an earnest,
> obsessively honest NYPD detective. (TV series.)
 
I put Brooklyn 99 but that doesn;t seem to match the theme.
 
> 2. An apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.
> (2015 movie.)
 
The Good Dragon
 
> 3. She must now provide for her family and returns to work as a
> litigator in a law firm. (CBS TV series, 2009-16.)
 
The Good Wife
 
> 4. Followup TV series to <answer 3>, with some of the same
> characters.
 
The Good Wife
 
> 5. A dead woman struggles to define what it means to be good.
> (TV series.)
 
The Good Wife
 
> lives are changed. (2014 movie.)
 
> 9. A young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome is recruited
> by a prestigious hospital. (TV series.)
 
The Good Doctor
 
> 10. Quilt?
 
Not even close.
 
cheers,
calvin
tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Oct 21 02:41PM


> 1. The main weapons of the always-unexpected Cardinals Ximinez,
> Biggles, and Fang are fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency,
> and a fanatical devotion to the Pope.
 
Spanish Inquisition
 
> 2. A man comes into a shop wishing to register a complaint about
> a recent purchase that isn't just "pining for the fjords."
 
Dead Parrot
 
> 3. A man in a pub asks another man he refers to as "squire" if his
> wife is "a goer, know-what-I-mean, know-what-I-mean? A nod's
> as good as a wink to a blind bat."
 
Nudge-Nudge (?)
 
> he curtailed his Walpoling activities, sallied forth, and
> infiltrated this place of purveyance to negotiate the vending
> of a comestible.
 
Cheese Shop
 
> a house with holes in the roof, but was lucky to have a house
> because another lived in a room; but he was luckier than the
> one who had to live in a corridor?
 
Four Yorkshiremen
 
> area, and Scotland Yard's crack inspector dies trying to remove
> the cause of his death -- which is eventually weaponized to
> help defeat the Nazis.
 
World's Funniest Joke
 
> 8. She's being interviewed about her new theory about the
> brontosaurus. It's her theory, the theory which is hers.
 
Anne Elk
 
> 9. This Sergeant Major has been teaching *this* to recruits for
> 9 weeks, when all they want to learn is how to defend against,
> say, point-ed sticks.
 
Self Defense
 
> Gervaise Brook-Hampster. Challenges include walking in a
> staright line without falling over, and jumping over three
> layers of matchboxes.
 
Upper-Class Twit
 
 
> * A. National Dishes, or As Canadian as Butter Tarts
 
> A1. One of the national dishes of both Australia and New Zealand
> is this sweet meringue dessert. Name it.
 
floating island
 
> A2. One of the few things they agree on: this dish of thinly
> sliced, marinated meats is the national dish of North *and*
> South Korea. Name it.
 
bulgogi
 
> * B. Sports Foodie Nicknames
 
> B1. What US professional sports team is nicknamed "the Twinkies"?
> Full name required, like "Toronto Argonauts".
 
Dallas Stars
 
> B2. Which US professional athlete was nicknamed after a kitchen
> appliance?
 
William "Refrigerator" Perry
 
> * C. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, or Food at the Movies
 
> C1. In this 2004 documentary, Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but
> McDonald's food for an entire month. Name it.
 
Super-Size Me
 
> C2. Meryl Streep and Amy Adams starred in this twinned story of
> a TV chef and food writer, and of a food blogger. Name the
> movie.
 
Julie and Julia
 
> painting included the number of soup cans depicted,
> which equaled the number of varieties of soup Campbell
> then produced. Within 2, what is the number?
 
24
 
> D2. Created by Claes Oldenberg in 1962, this "sculpture" of a
> favorite American food has been at the AGO since the 1960s,
> and was in 2016 re-installed. Name it.
 
French Fry; Hamburger
 
 
> E1. With its first soda shack opening in Sacramento, CA in 1923,
> this fast food chain, originally famed for their frosty mugs,
> is still going strong. Name it.
 
A&W
 
> E2. In 1965, Fred deLucca opened his first sandwich shop in
> Bridgeport, CT. Now one of the largest outfits in the world,
> what is this chain now known as?
 
Subway
 
 
> F1. According to Wikipedia, the first successful, commercial GMO
> plant was an antibiotic-resistant tobacco plant. Within
> 5 years, when was it introduced?
 
1982
 
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum tool@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Oct 21 11:43AM -0700

Mark Brader wrote:
 
> 1. The main weapons of the always-unexpected Cardinals Ximinez,
> Biggles, and Fang are fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency,
> and a fanatical devotion to the Pope.
 
Spanish Inquisition
 
 
> 2. A man comes into a shop wishing to register a complaint about
> a recent purchase that isn't just "pining for the fjords."
 
Dead Parrot
 
 
> A2. One of the few things they agree on: this dish of thinly
> sliced, marinated meats is the national dish of North *and*
> South Korea. Name it.
 
Kimchi
 
 
> * B. Sports Foodie Nicknames
 
> B1. What US professional sports team is nicknamed "the Twinkies"?
> Full name required, like "Toronto Argonauts".
 
New York Yankees
 
 
> B2. Which US professional athlete was nicknamed after a kitchen
> appliance?
 
William Perry
 
[Followup question: Which baseball player was nicknamed after a cereal?
He officially changed his name to the nickname. Retired a couple years ago.]
 
 
> * C. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, or Food at the Movies
 
> C1. In this 2004 documentary, Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but
> McDonald's food for an entire month. Name it.
 
Supersize me!
 
 
> E1. With its first soda shack opening in Sacramento, CA in 1923,
> this fast food chain, originally famed for their frosty mugs,
> is still going strong. Name it.
 
A&W
 
 
> E2. In 1965, Fred deLucca opened his first sandwich shop in
> Bridgeport, CT. Now one of the largest outfits in the world,
> what is this chain now known as?
 
Subway Sandwiches
 
 
--
Dan Tilque
Don Piven <don@piven.net>: Oct 21 02:09PM -0500

> [Followup question: Which baseball player was nicknamed after a cereal?
> He officially changed his name to the nickname. Retired a couple years
> ago.]
 
Coco Crisp?
Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Oct 21 06:50PM -0700

On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 4:00:41 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
 
 
> 1. The main weapons of the always-unexpected Cardinals Ximinez,
> Biggles, and Fang are fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency,
> and a fanatical devotion to the Pope.
 
The Spanish Inquisition
 
> 2. A man comes into a shop wishing to register a complaint about
> a recent purchase that isn't just "pining for the fjords."
 
Dead Parrot
 
> 3. A man in a pub asks another man he refers to as "squire" if his
> wife is "a goer, know-what-I-mean, know-what-I-mean? A nod's
> as good as a wink to a blind bat."
 
Say no more? "What's it like?" is the punchline.
 
> a house with holes in the roof, but was lucky to have a house
> because another lived in a room; but he was luckier than the
> one who had to live in a corridor?
 
Four Yorkshiremen
 
> area, and Scotland Yard's crack inspector dies trying to remove
> the cause of his death -- which is eventually weaponized to
> help defeat the Nazis.
 
World's Funniest Joke
 
> Gervaise Brook-Hampster. Challenges include walking in a
> staright line without falling over, and jumping over three
> layers of matchboxes.
 
Upper Class Twit of the Year
 
 
 
> * A. National Dishes, or As Canadian as Butter Tarts
 
> A1. One of the national dishes of both Australia and New Zealand
> is this sweet meringue dessert. Name it.
 
Pavlova
 
> A2. One of the few things they agree on: this dish of thinly
> sliced, marinated meats is the national dish of North *and*
> South Korea. Name it.
 
Kimchee
 
 
> Full name required, like "Toronto Argonauts".
 
> B2. Which US professional athlete was nicknamed after a kitchen
> appliance?
 
The Refrigerator. Someone Perry iirc.

> * C. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, or Food at the Movies
 
> C1. In this 2004 documentary, Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but
> McDonald's food for an entire month. Name it.
 
Supersize Me
 
> C2. Meryl Streep and Amy Adams starred in this twinned story of
> a TV chef and food writer, and of a food blogger. Name the
> movie.
 
Julie / Julia (or something like that)

> painting included the number of soup cans depicted,
> which equaled the number of varieties of soup Campbell
> then produced. Within 2, what is the number?
 
57
 
 
> E2. In 1965, Fred deLucca opened his first sandwich shop in
> Bridgeport, CT. Now one of the largest outfits in the world,
> what is this chain now known as?
 
McDonalds, Subway
 

 
> F1. According to Wikipedia, the first successful, commercial GMO
> plant was an antibiotic-resistant tobacco plant. Within
> 5 years, when was it introduced?
 
1977, 1988
 
> F2. The first genetically modified *food* item approved for
> release was in 1994, by Calgene. The item was modified to
> increase its shelf life. What was it?
 
nope
 
cheers,
calvin
tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Oct 21 02:44PM


> 4. Followup TV series to <answer 4>, with some of the same
> characters.
 
There seems to be a mistake here.
 
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum tool@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 21 02:10PM -0500

Dan Blum:
> There seems to be a mistake here.
 
Er, thanks.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "Damn! Damn! Damn! Er, I mean thanks, Mark."
msb@vex.net | --Steve Ball
swp <stephen.w.perry@gmail.com>: Oct 21 02:29PM -0700

On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 2:15:55 AM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:
> these movies and shows include Christine Baranski, Kristen Bell,
> George Clooney, Matt Damon, Tony Danza, Freddie Highmore, Julianna
> Margulies, Raymond Ochoa, and Reese Witherspoon.
 
noted
 
> 1. A disgraced former NYPD officer lives with his son, an earnest,
> obsessively honest NYPD detective. (TV series.)
 
the good cop
 
> 2. An apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.
> (2015 movie.)
 
the good dinosaur
 
> 3. She must now provide for her family and returns to work as a
> litigator in a law firm. (CBS TV series, 2009-16.)
 
the good wife
 
> 4. Followup TV series to <answer 4>, with some of the same
> characters.
 
the good fight
 
> 5. A dead woman struggles to define what it means to be good.
> (TV series.)
 
the good place
 
> 6. While in post-war Berlin to cover the Potsdam Conference, an
> American military journalist is drawn into a murder
> investigation. (2006 movie.)
 
the good german
 
> 7. The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency
> is viewed through the prism of one man's life. (Also a 2006
> movie.)
 
the good shepard
 
> 8. A group of refugees given the chance to resettle in the US meet
> an employment agency counselor in Kansas City, and all of their
> lives are changed. (2014 movie.)
 
the good lie
 
> 9. A young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome is recruited
> by a prestigious hospital. (TV series.)
 
the good doctor
 
> 10. Quilt?
 
pretender
 
swp
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