- QFTCIWSS Game 10, Rounds 9-10: dancing movies, colorful challenge - 1 Update
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- Calvin's Quiz #547 - 1 Update
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| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 10 04:00AM -0600 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2018-07-30, 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 10, Round 9 - Entertainment - Dancing Movies 1. The 1980s had no shortage of box-office hits featuring dancing. There was "Footloose"; there was "Dirty Dancing". And there was "Flashdance", which was the third-highest-grossing movie of any kind in 1983. In "Flashdance", *who plays Alex Owens*, welder by day, exotic dancer by night? 2. Also from the 1980s, "White Nights" featured Mikhail Baryshnikov as -- wait for it -- a Soviet ballet dancer who has defected to the West! Co-starring in the movie, as an American tap dancer who has defected to the USSR, was this actor and dancer, who died in 2003. Who? 3. Born Tula Ellice Finklea in 1922, she started dancing to increase her strength after a childhood bout of polio. She went on to appear in "The Band Wagon", "Brigadoon", "Silk Stockings", and "Singin' in the Rain". Film critic Pauline Kael said of her: "When she wraps her phenomenal legs around Astaire, she can be forgiven everything." By what name is she best known? 4. Born in Alabama in 1980, this actor worked as a roofer and stripper before gaining fame in 2006's hip-hop dance drama "Step Up". Of his performance in 2015's "Magic Mike XXL", writer Roxane Gay wrote: "I wanted to hug every part of him with my mouth." Name him. For questions #5-10, name the movie. 5. Of all the movies co-starring Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, this one from 1935 was the most successful. It featured songs by Irving Berlin, and is perhaps best known for its "cheek-to-cheek" dance routine, with Rogers wearing an elaborate ostrich-feather dress. 6. This 1948 film by the British filmmakers Powell and Pressburger was based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, and featured extended ballet sequences. It is said that Gene Kelly was only able to convince studio execs to allow ballet in "An American in Paris" after making them watch this movie several times. 7. This 1954 MGM musical directed by Stanley Donen ["DONN-en"], one of the first to be filmed in CinemaScope, jump-started the career of acrobatic actor Russ Tamblyn, who later appeared in "West Side Story". In this movie, he is prominently featured in dance sequences around farm activities like woodchopping and raising a barn. 8. This 1979 semi-autobiographical Bob Fosse film, which stars Roy Scheider as an egomaniacal director and choreographer, was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. 9. This Australian movie by Baz Luhrmann about the "Pan-Pacific Grand Prix Dancing Championship" won the People's Choice award at the 1992 Toronto International Film Festival. 10. This 1996 Japanese movie about a middle-aged accountant who signs up for ballroom lessons to reinvigorate his life was so successful in Japan that ballroom dancing, previously considered odd, became a national craze. It was remade in English in 2004, starring Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez. Both versions have the same title in English -- what is it? ** Game 10, Round 10 - Challenge - Color My World A colorful challenge round to cap off a colorful season -- every answer mentions a color. * A. History: Colorful Diseases A1. In 1900, US Army physician James Carroll allowed a disease-infected mosquito to feed on him. He developed a severe case of this disease -- which helped his colleague, Walter Reed, prove that mosquitoes were responsible for its spread. Name the disease. A2. One of the most devasting pandemics in human history resulted in the deaths of an estimated 75-200 million people in Europe and Asia, the peak of which was in the mid-14th century. What is it commonly known as? * B. Sport: Colorful Athletes Name these baseball players. B1. During his 17-year career, this southpaw pitcher played for the Oakland Athletics, the San Francisco Giants and the Kansas City Royals. He won the American League Cy Young Award and MVP Award in 1971 and is a six-time All-Star, and one of five players to start in the All-Star Game for both the American and National Leagues. B2. This Jamaican-born former center fielder played with the Blue Jays from 1991 to 1995. His other teams included the California Angels and the Florida Marlins. He is a Gold Glove winner and is now working as a batting coach for the Buffalo Bisons. * C. Geography: Water Colors (or Close-to-Water Colors) C1. This geological formation up to 350 feet (110 m) high forms an 8-mile (13 km) section of the Kent coastline in England, facing France. What is it called? C2. This river flows southeast from Lake Tana in Ethiopia, then curves west across Ethiopia and northwest into Sudan, a total of at least 900 miles (1,450 km), before becoming part of a larger river system. Name this specific river. * D. Science: Flying Colors In each case, name the bird. D1. This marine bird is native to subtropical and tropical regions of the eastern Pacific Ocean, and primarily on the Galapagos Islands. It is easily recognizable by its distinctive colored feet, which males display in an elaborate mating ritual by lifting them up and down while strutting before the female. D2. This small North American migratory bird is known for its distinctive color. It ranges from mid-Alberta to North Carolina during the breeding season, and from just south of the Canada-US border to Mexico during the winter. It shares its name with a Pulitzer-prizewinning novel. * E. History: Colorful Reading In each case, name the book. E1. This 1961 nonfiction book by John Howard Griffin recounted his journey in the segregationist US Deep South. Griffin temporarily darkened his skin to pass as a black man and explore life from the other side of the color line. E2. This 1962 dystopian satire was written by English writer Anthony Burgess. It's set in a near-future English society featuring a subculture of extreme youth violence. The book is partially written in a Russian-influenced argot called Nadsat. * F. Entertainment: Colorful Movies These two movies were both directed by Woody Allen. Name them. F1. This 1985 romantic fantasy starred Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, and Danny Aiello. Set in New Jersey during the Great Depression, it tells the story of Cecilia, a clumsy waitress who goes to the movies to escape her bleak life and lousy marriage. F2. This 2013 dark comedy features a Manhattan socialite who falls on hard times and has to move in with her working-class sister in San Francisco. They're played by Cate Blanchett and Sally Hawkins. -- Mark Brader | "Continuing to be predictable, I looked at Wikipedia Toronto | and saw that some people agree with you msb@vex.net | and some don't." --Jerry Friedman My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Dec 09 03:54PM -0800 Mark Brader wrote: > skilled gunfighter during his time with the Wild Bunch and the > Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, but you probably know him better by a > different soubriquet. What's that? Butch Cassidy > he was simply paying initial investors with the investments > of later investors -- and pocketing a large share for himself. > This type of con is now named after him. What's his name? Ponzi > being hired by other crime syndicates to assassinate whoever > the gangs thought needed killing. The group was responsible > for as many as 1,000 contract killings. What was it called? Murder Inc. > Las Vegas. Legend has it that the reason he was whacked by > the Mob in 1947 was because he spent too much money upgrading > the Flamingo Hotel to his high standard. Who is #15? Bugsy Siegel > is also somewhere on the handout. Which number is he? *Hint*: > his handout picture was taken when he was 24, about 6 months > before he and Bonnie were killed. 13 > 6. Jesse James was one of the most successful Wild West outlaws, > committing a large number of train robberies before being killed > by Robert Ford in 1882. 10 > 7. Lucky Luciano was the first boss of the Genovese crime family > and is considered the father of modern American organized crime. 18 > 8. John Dillinger was the second man to be named Public Enemy #1; > he robbed 24 banks and four police stations, and escaped from > jail twice. 6 > of dollars, but many of the details of that confession -- such > as the now-legendary "Murder Hotel", designed to let him kill > guests in their sleep -- were fabricated, or very likely so. 14 > 10. Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd was named Public Enemy #1 after > Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents in 1934; Floyd was > killed by the FBI less than 6 months later. Which number is he? 8 > horizontally from back to front across the larynx, these vibrate, > modulating the flow of air being expelled from the lungs during > phonation. What are they? vocal chords > It also performs an important function in respiration: as it > contracts, the volume of the thoracic cavity increases and air > is drawn into the lungs. Name it. diaphram > cartilages of the larynx. A consonantal sound or "stop", common > in many languages, is produced by obstructing airflow across it. > What is this opening called? Exact answer required. pharynx > pulsating change of pitch. It is used to add expression to > vocal and instrumental music. In well-produced singing it occurs > naturally. Distortions of it are known as a bleat or a wobble. reverberation > greater amplitude at specific frequencies. In singing, the > different areas where this may occur are in the chest, mouth, > nose, and head. What is this phenomenon called? resonance > For the purposes of Western classical choral singing, however, > voices are usually classified into just four categories. > Name *all four*. alto tenor baritone bass -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 10 03:56AM -0600 Mark Brader: > skilled gunfighter during his time with the Wild Bunch and the > Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, but you probably know him better by a > different soubriquet. What's that? Sundance Kid. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, and Pete. 3 for Joshua. > he was simply paying initial investors with the investments > of later investors -- and pocketing a large share for himself. > This type of con is now named after him. What's his name? Charles Ponzi. 4 for everyone -- Dan Blum, Erland, Calvin, Joshua, Pete, and Dan Tilque. > being hired by other crime syndicates to assassinate whoever > the gangs thought needed killing. The group was responsible > for as many as 1,000 contract killings. What was it called? Murder Inc. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. > Las Vegas. Legend has it that the reason he was whacked by > the Mob in 1947 was because he spent too much money upgrading > the Flamingo Hotel to his high standard. Who is #15? Bugsy Siegel. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. A much shorter version of this question, with the man's initials given rather than his photo, was a $1,600 question on "Jeopardy!" on 2018-11-23. > is also somewhere on the handout. Which number is he? *Hint*: > his handout picture was taken when he was 24, about 6 months > before he and Bonnie were killed. #4. 3 for Calvin. 2 for Dan Blum and Joshua. > 6. Jesse James was one of the most successful Wild West outlaws, > committing a large number of train robberies before being killed > by Robert Ford in 1882. #8. 4 for Dan Blum. 3 for Calvin. 2 for Joshua. > 7. Lucky Luciano was the first boss of the Genovese crime family > and is considered the father of modern American organized crime. #3. 4 for Pete. 3 for Calvin. > 8. John Dillinger was the second man to be named Public Enemy #1; > he robbed 24 banks and four police stations, and escaped from > jail twice. #5. 4 for Pete. 2 for Joshua. > of dollars, but many of the details of that confession -- such > as the now-legendary "Murder Hotel", designed to let him kill > guests in their sleep -- were fabricated, or very likely so. #16. 4 for Dan Blum. 3 for Joshua. > 10. Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd was named Public Enemy #1 after > Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents in 1934; Floyd was > killed by the FBI less than 6 months later. Which number is he? #14. 3 for Dan Blum. 2 for Joshua and Pete. > And if you like, decode the rot13 to see who the 7 decoys were, > and give their photo numbers for fun, but for no points. Nobody tried these. > 11. Butch Cassidy. #13. > 12. Ma Barker. #2. > 13. Machine Gun Kelly. #17. > 14. Meyer Lansky. #7. > 15. Al Capone. #18. > 16. John Wesley Hardin. #10. > 17. Bumpy Johnson. #6. > horizontally from back to front across the larynx, these vibrate, > modulating the flow of air being expelled from the lungs during > phonation. What are they? Vocal cords (or folds). 4 for Dan Blum, Erland, Joshua, Pete, and Dan Tilque. Spelling not: they're *cords*! A "chord" is a musical sound. > It also performs an important function in respiration: as it > contracts, the volume of the thoracic cavity increases and air > is drawn into the lungs. Name it. Diaphragm. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Pete, and Dan Tilque. > cartilages of the larynx. A consonantal sound or "stop", common > in many languages, is produced by obstructing airflow across it. > What is this opening called? Exact answer required. Glottis. 4 for Dan Blum, Erland, and Joshua. > throat is opened and relaxed by raising the velum, like at > the beginning of a yawn. The velum also has a different, > more common, 2-word name. What is it? Soft palate. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua. > pulsating change of pitch. It is used to add expression to > vocal and instrumental music. In well-produced singing it occurs > naturally. Distortions of it are known as a bleat or a wobble. Vibrato. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Pete. > greater amplitude at specific frequencies. In singing, the > different areas where this may occur are in the chest, mouth, > nose, and head. What is this phenomenon called? Resonance. I accepted "sympathetic vibration". 4 for Dan Blum, Erland, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. > For the purposes of Western classical choral singing, however, > voices are usually classified into just four categories. > Name *all four*. Soprano, alto, tenor, bass. 4 for Erland, Joshua, and Pete. The others are baritone (which two people guessed in place of one of the basic four -- no points for that), mezzo-soprano, and countertenor. > they reach puberty. The male voice typically deepens an octave, > while the female voice usually deepens by just a few notes. > What's it called? Change, break, or mutation of the voice. 4 for Erland. > closure of the <answer 3>, thus emitting a low frequency popping > or rattling sound. Its use is often criticized, especially > in women. Vocal fry. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua. > This tuning allows singers to appear to produce more than one > pitch at the same time. By what 2-word name is overtone singing > more commonly known? Throat singing. 4 for Dan Blum. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 BEST TOPICS-> Geo Lei Lit Aud Can His Sci FIVE Dan Blum 20 35 31 13 2 29 32 147 Joshua Kreitzer 24 27 36 26 9 26 32 147 Pete Gayde 19 32 24 30 3 18 16 123 Dan Tilque 20 32 16 4 4 12 12 92 Erland Sommarskog 20 28 8 0 0 4 20 80 "Calvin" -- -- 15 6 0 17 0 38 -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "I can't tell from this... whether you're msb@vex.net | a wise man or a wise guy." --Ted Schuerzinger My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Dec 09 02:22PM -0800 Calvin wrote: > 1 Who co-starred with Doris Day in the 1959 romantic comedy 'Pillow Talk'? Cary Grant > 2 What is a person most likely to purchase when visiting London's Savile Row? clothes ( a suit, if you want more specific answer) > 3 In 1867 who first said "Politics is the art of the possible"? Gladstone > 4 Which British theatrical company is also known as the RSC? Royal Shakespeare Company > 5 Which 1797 poem by Johann Goethe was the inspiration for a musical composition by Paul Dukas that appears in the 1940s Disney film 'Fantasia'? > 6 Why was Muhammad Ali stripped of his World Heavyweight title in 1967? resisted the draft > 7 What was the surname of the brothers who gave the world's first commercial cinema screening in Paris in 1895? > 8 The adrenal, thyroid and pituitary glands are components of which bodily system? endocrine > 9 What European city does Schiphol airport serve? Belfast > 10 in 1976 which Asian country became to host a F1 Grand Prix? Japan -- Dan Tilque |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Dec 09 12:33PM -0800 Mark Brader wrote: > that was going to be the right answer. I would not have thought that > "two" would be so common (and I also don't think "to" really qualifies > as a homophone of it). I expected "too" not to be that common. -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 09 03:52PM -0600 "Calvin": >>>> 4 Which 3 homophones make the list of the 200 most commonly used >>>> English words? >>> To, too, two Mark Brader: >> that was going to be the right answer. I would not have thought that >> "two" would be so common (and I also don't think "to" really qualifies >> as a homophone of it). Dan Tilque: > I expected "too" not to be that common. So, Calvin, which list of the 200 most commonly used English words were you referring to? -- Mark Brader, Toronto "Information! ... We want information!" msb@vex.net -- The Prisoner My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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