| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 29 02:13AM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2018-07-16, 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 4 days. All questions were written by members of What She Said 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 2018-07-16 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". * Game 8, Round 4 - Science - Collective Nouns The English language has many very interesting collective nouns for creatures -- mammals, birds, fish, and insects. In this round, you'll be given two or more collective nouns that apply to the same type of creature, and you must name the type of creature that they all apply to. 1. Shrewdness, troop. 2. Colony, cloud. 3. Unkindness, conspiracy. 4. Parliament, stare. 5. Team, passel, drift, parcel. 6. Kaleidoscope, flutter, rabble. 7. Bale, nest, turn, dole. 8. Labor, company, movement. 9. Bask, float, congregation. 10. Rookery, colony, huddle; also a raft, if they are in water, or a waddle, if they are on land. * Game 8, Round 5 - Audio - 1990s One-Hit Wonders Yes, once again you're getting the audio round. (So even with a canceled round in the last set, you can still be scored on your best 6 out of 8 rounds.) Plenty of musical artists in the 1990s hit it big exactly once before fading back into obscurity. Instead of playing a clip from their one big hit, I'll give you the title, year, and three lines from the song; you'll also be told what type of answer is wanted. In each case, name the singer or group. (In the original game, questions #9-10 were "name the title or the band", but I'm changing them to work the same way as the others.) 1. "Unbelievable" (1991): name the band. The things, you say, Your purple prose just gives you away, The things, you say... 2. "Right Here, Right Now" (1991): name the band. I was alive and I waited, waited, I was alive and I waited for this, Right here, right now... 3. "I Wish" (1995): name the rapper. I wish I was little bit taller, I wish I was a baller, I wish I had a girl who looked good... 4. "Jump" (1992): name the duo. Jump, jump, The Mac Dad will make you jump, jump, A Daddy Mac will make you jump, jump... 5. "Stay" (1992): name the duo. Back in your own world, Stay with me, stay with me, Stay with me, stay with me... 6. "Closing Time" (1998): name the band. I know who I want to take me home, I know who I want to take me home, I know who I want to take me home... 7. "One Of Us" (1995): name the artist. What if God was one of us? Just a slob like one of us, Just a stranger on the bus... 8. "Bitch" (1997): name the artist. I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint... 9. "Flagpole Sitta" (1997); name the band. I'm not sick but I'm not well, And I'm so hot 'cause I'm in Hell, I'm not sick but I'm not well... 10. "Lovefool" (1996); name the band. Love me, love me, Say that you love me, Fool me, fool me... * Game 8, Round 6 - Literature/Entertainment - Fictional Cities Hey, they're real to us! In case, name the fictional place we know from books, TV, or movies. 1. This pair of cities, which exist within the same comic-book universe, have been described as "New York during the day" and "New York at night" -- which also serves to explain the characters who famously reside in them. Name *both*. 2. Stephen King sets many of his stories in two fictional towns in Maine. One is the setting of "Cujo", "Stand By Me", and "The Dead Zone" among others; the other is the setting of "It", "Insomnia", and "11/22/63". Name *either* town. 3. This town in Middle-Earth, just outside the Shire, is known for being home to both men and hobbits alike. 4. This town in Massachusetts appears in many of H.P. Lovecraft's short horror stories. 5. Many of Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" novels are set in this, the largest and most diverse city on the Disc. 6. Harry Potter and his friends required permission from a parent or guardian to visit this small town located near their school. 7. Garrison Keillor set most of his stories in this Minnesota town. 8. Stephen Leacock modeled the setting for many of his stories after Orillia, Ontario, but named it this instead. 9. Fans have calculated that the murder rate of this seaside town in Maine, the setting for the TV show "Murder, She Wrote", is higher than that of wartime El Salvador or Honduras. 10. This spaceport on Tatooine is described as "a wretched hive of scum and villainy". -- Mark Brader, Toronto, msb@vex.net "History tells us that the Boston 'T' Party was succeeded the next day by the Boston 'U' Party, where American rebels yanked all the extraneous U's out of words like 'colour' and threw them into Boston Harbour. Harbor. Whatever." --Adam Beneschan My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 29 02:09AM -0500 Mark Brader: > * Game 8, Round 2 - Canadiana Geography - Toronto Parks > There are literally thousands of parks in Toronto, ranging from > Abbotsford Park in Willowdale to Zooview Park in Scarborough. To be exact, as of the last time I checked, http://www.toronto.ca/data/parks/prd/facilities/parks/index.html has 1,427 entries, of which 983 are named using the word Park and 289 using Parkette. > We'll give you an address and a description; in each case, you > just have to name the park. This was the easiest round in the original game. > 1. This park, at 1873 Bloor St. W., one of the largest in the city, > is based on a bequest of land by John Howard, and features > sporting facilities, an amphitheater, and a zoo. High Park. > this park features a playground, baseball diamonds, a soccer > pitch, and a swimming pool; and it was the site of a famous > riot in the 1930s. Christie Pits. > 3. This recently refurbished park at 35 Wellington St. E. features > a huge mural and a spectacular dog fountain, and is named after > John Graves Simcoe's surveyor. Berczy Park. The dog fountain: http://s3.amazonaws.com/btoimage/prism-thumbnails/articles/2017627-park1.jpg-resize_then_crop-_frame_bg_color_FFF-h_1365-gravity_center-q_70-preserve_ratio_true-w_2048_.jpg The background's a bit different if you look at it the other way: http://mcfcrandall.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/blog_dog_fountain_berczy_park.jpg > park at 1 Leslie St. is officially named after a former Toronto > Parks Commissioner, who had almost the same name as a famous > Canadian painter. What is the park's official name? Tommy Thompson Park. (Accepting "Tom Thomson", the painter's name.) > Pukka Orchestra song that Toronto police tried to have banned. > Originally named Clarke Beach Park after a city alderman, it > was officially renamed in 2003 to this, its commonly used name. Cherry Beach. > gay-rights activist, who died in 2005, and was cited in his > obit as the "unofficial mayor of Toronto's gay community". > Name him, or the park. George Hislop Park. > that ran from St. Clair and Bathurst, through the University > of Toronto, and eventually into Lake Ontario. The stream has > also lent its name to a Toronto literary journal. Name the park. Taddle Creek Park. > 8. This park at 600 Dundas St. E. gives its name to its entire > neighborhood, currently undergoing a revitalization. Regent Park. > park at 755 Lawrence Av. E. was purchased by the city in 1955. > The Toronto Botanical Garden relocated to the site shortly after. > What is the park's official name? Edwards Gardens. > the neighborhood, which is slowly gentrifying. It features > a baseball diamond, several tennis courts, an arena, and the > John Innes Community Centre. Moss Park. And so we have another round that never happened. Nobody even made any guesses on this one! > composed of delegations from the nobility, the clergy, and the > rest of the French population. It was the first time this body > had been convened since 1626. What was it called? (E)states-General (États-Généraux). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. > the Estates-General and with their own lack of power, declared > themselves to be a politically empowered body independent of > the King. What was this first revolutiionary body called? National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale). 4 for Erland. > nearby athletic facility and swore an oath "not to separate, > and to reassemble whenever circumstances require". What was > this oath called? Tennis-Court Oath (Serment du Jeu de Paume). 4 for Joshua. > 4. Two members of the <answer 2> enumerated a list of civil rights, > which remain in force as part of France's constitution today. > What was this document called? Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (Déclaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen). The "citizen" part was not required. 4 for Joshua (the hard way). > count of Mirabeau; by Thomas Jefferson; and by which third man, > a French aristocrat who had served in the American forces during > the Revolutionary War? Gilbert du Motier, Marquis of Lafayette. "Lafayette" was sufficient. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Pete. > Amis de la Constitution) was the most influential political > organization during the Revolution. By which other name were > they were better known? Jacobins. 4 for Dan Blum. > 7. Brumaire, pluviôse, germinal, and thermidor are all examples > of what? Months in the French revolutionary (or republican) calendar. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. Late in 1793 the National Convention decreed that the year was now 2, years 1 and 2 having started on September 22 of 1792 and 1793 respectively. The accompanying transition to metric time with the day divided into 10 hours (or 1,000 minutes or 100,000 seconds) was less popular and never really took hold, and the new 10-day week (with 9 working days, of course) wasn't liked either. (Each month was 3 weeks, and the whole year was 36 weeks and another 5 or 6 days not part of any week or month.) The Gregorian calendar was readopted in 1806. > 8. Georges Danton founded this committee, which executed him for > being lenient towards the enemies of the Revolution. After that, > it was commanded by Robespierre. What committee? Committee of Public Safety (Comité de Salut Public). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. > prominent people remaining from the <answer 6>, on July 28, 1794. > Which centrist political faction, whose strength was found in > the non-noble upper classes, then took power? Girondins. 3 for Dan Blum. > the greatest honor France can bestow upon any of its citizens: > later internees include Victor Hugo, Marie and Pierre Curie, > Louis Braille, and Antoine de St-Exupéry. What is its name now? Pantheon (Panthéon). 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 8 ROUNDS-> 3 TOPICS-> His Joshua Kreitzer 28 Dan Blum 27 Dan Tilque 16 Pete Gayde 4 Erland Sommarskog 4 -- Mark Brader | "It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. Toronto | By definition, there are already enough people to do that." msb@vex.net | --G.H. Hardy My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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