| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 22 12:32AM -0600 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-01-21, 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. (Not 4 any more. I was trying to stretch out the last season I did so it would last approximately until the start of this one.) All questions were written by members of the Cellar Rats 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 recent companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". * Game 1, Round 2 - Entertainment - Cats and Dogs These are songs whose titles each contain either the word "Cat" or the word "Dog". We'll tell you which one and we'll give you the year, the artist or group, and a line or two from the lyrics. You give the full title. 1. "Dog", 1974, David Bowie. This ain't no rock and roll, This is genocide. 2. "Cat", 1972, Elton John. Better get back to the woods. 3. "Cat", 1977, Ted Nugent. When they need their lovin' man, They know I do it for free. 4. "Dog", 1953, Big Mama Thornton. There was also a cover version in 1956. You ain't no real cool cat And you ain't no friend of mine. 5. "Dog", 1971, Led Zeppelin. Oh yeah, oh yeah, ah ah ah ah. 6. "Cat", 1982 and 1983, David Bowie. I've been putting out fire with gasoline. 7. "Cat", 1974, Harry Chapin. Little Boy Blue and the Man in the Moon. 8. "Dog", 1969, the Stooges. I'll lay right down in my favorite place. 9. "Cat", 1976, Al Stewart. On a morning from a Bogart movie. 10. "Cat", 1979, Squeeze. The Indians send signals from The roads above the pass. * Game 1, Round 3 - Science - The Apollo Space Program (With apologies to those who think it never happened.) 1. Three astronauts died tragically aboard "Apollo 1" as a result of a fire on a pre-flight test. Name any one of them. 2. What was the name of the principal rocket used for the Apollo program? 3. Name the astronaut who commanded Apollo 13 and was also a member of the Apollo 8 mission, the first to send men to the vicinity of the Moon? 4. How many Apollo missions actually landed men on the moon? 5. The last three Apollo missions -- Apollo 15 through 17 -- carried *what* to make the exploration of the Moon easier for the astronauts? 6. Harrison Schmidt was one of the astronauts who landed on the Moon in Apollo 17, the last Apollo mission. Which area of science, relevant to the exploration of the Moon, was he trained in? 7. In what year, exactly, was Apollo 17 launched? 8. Apollo 12 was the second mission to land men on the Moon, in November 1969. It visited a previous unmanned space probe. The probe was number 3 in *which series* launched by the US to the Moon? 9. Apollo 11 was the first mission to land men on the Moon. At the same time the Soviet Union launched an unmanned space probe, Lunik 15, which was unsuccessful. Other than propaganda, what was its intended purpose? 10. Two Apollo manned missions took place entirely in Earth orbit and did not go near the Moon. Name either one. -- Mark Brader | "To a security officer the ideal world was one where Toronto | nobody talked to anyone else... [But] of course... msb@vex.net | such a world rarely did anything worth securing | in the first place." -- Tom Clancy My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Jan 22 06:56AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:rcmdne6MHMKNJNvBnZ2dnUU7- > 1. "Dog", 1974, David Bowie. > This ain't no rock and roll, > This is genocide. "Diamond Dogs" > 2. "Cat", 1972, Elton John. > Better get back to the woods. "Honky Cat" > 3. "Cat", 1977, Ted Nugent. > When they need their lovin' man, > They know I do it for free. "Cat Scratch Fever" > in 1956. > You ain't no real cool cat > And you ain't no friend of mine. "Hound Dog" > 5. "Dog", 1971, Led Zeppelin. > Oh yeah, oh yeah, ah ah ah ah. "Black Dog" > 6. "Cat", 1982 and 1983, David Bowie. > I've been putting out fire with gasoline. "Cat People" > 7. "Cat", 1974, Harry Chapin. > Little Boy Blue and the Man in the Moon. "Cat's in the Cradle" > 8. "Dog", 1969, the Stooges. > I'll lay right down in my favorite place. "I Wanna Be Your Dog" > 9. "Cat", 1976, Al Stewart. > On a morning from a Bogart movie. "Year of the Cat" > 10. "Cat", 1979, Squeeze. > The Indians send signals from > The roads above the pass. "Cool for Cats" > (With apologies to those who think it never happened.) > 1. Three astronauts died tragically aboard "Apollo 1" as a result > of a fire on a pre-flight test. Name any one of them. Grissom > 2. What was the name of the principal rocket used for the Apollo > program? Atlas V > 3. Name the astronaut who commanded Apollo 13 and was also a member > of the Apollo 8 mission, the first to send men to the vicinity > of the Moon? Lovell > 4. How many Apollo missions actually landed men on the moon? 6 > 5. The last three Apollo missions -- Apollo 15 through 17 -- > carried *what* to make the exploration of the Moon easier for > the astronauts? moon buggies > Moon in Apollo 17, the last Apollo mission. Which area of > science, relevant to the exploration of the Moon, was he > trained in? geology > 7. In what year, exactly, was Apollo 17 launched? 1972 > in November 1969. It visited a previous unmanned space probe. > The probe was number 3 in *which series* launched by the US to > the Moon? Gemini -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 22 12:27AM -0600 This is a repeat of my 2018-07-16 introductory posting with some minor updates. If you were already familiar with the content and the way I'm scheduling things, then there's no real need to reread it now. On the other hand, it wouldn't hurt to. * Introduction As most of you will remember, the Canadian Inquisition is a team trivia league that plays in Toronto pubs. It's a cooperative league, whose teams take turns to write and ask the questions that the others answer. In the current season, January-April 2019, the questions are being written by the Cellar Rats. I have obtained their permission to post to this newsgroup the questions from this seasons, to be tagged QFTCICR19 in the subject line. Before posting them here, I'm editing some of them for various reasons -- for brevity, to clarify their intent, to avoid issues raised on protests, for suitability in this medium, and so on. When the current season ends I intend to similarly ask permission from the next team writing questions, which is scheduled to be the Red Smarties. As you may remember, the league's season consists of 10 regular games and a Final. A regular game contains 102 questions. Most of the game is in rounds of 10 questions on a specific topic within a different general area. For example, one game in 2008 included a geography round on former place names, an entertainment round on Morgan Freeman movies, and a sports round on things that happened during Toronto Blue Jays games. Round 1 is always a current-events round; Round 5 is always an audio round; and Round 10 (the "challenge round") normally contains 12 questions, 2 each on 6 different subjects. I won't be posting audio questions (except if I think they can be answered without the audio), nor will I post the video questions that sometimes occur in the Final. * Scheduling - Regular Games My intent is that for each quiz you'll get about 3 days to answer, plus or minus a few hours, but I'm not going to set exact deadlines; I'll cut off entries at whatever time (after 2 days and about 21 hours) that it's convenient for me to do the scoring and post the results. One series of postings will consist of rounds from a single game: normally those will be Rounds 2-4 and 6-10. I will normally post the questions as four sets of two rounds each: Rounds 2-3 in one posting, Rounds 4 and 6 in the next, and so on. In the Final, most rounds have 15 questions, and these I'll post one round at a time. For each game, I'll keep a cumulative score over the group of postings, counting your best 6 rounds out of 8 (or 5 out of 7, etc.) -- that way if you miss a set, or if there's a subject you're weak on, you still have a chance to finish well. Each game will be totaled after the last round is posted and scored. In a normal game usually one round is Canadiana (this may also fall under another subject such as history or geography), which those of you in distant places may have some trouble with, but I am including them in the posting series anyway. This is your chance to shine by displaying your knowledge of Canadiana. However, if *nobody* in the newsgroup scores *any* points on a round (which has happened with Canadiana occasionally), then I will score as if that round had never existed. * Scheduling - Current Events I will also do a separate series of postings consisting of current-events rounds only, also to be posted two at a time. These will all appear while they're still reasonably current -- normally within a couple of days of the second of the two original games. For this series I'll accumulate scores over all the games from the season, similarly counting the best 9 out of 11 games. So there will be an overall current-events winner for the season. I'm posting current-events games independently of the posting of other games, so there will normally be a regular game running concurrently with each set of current-events questions. The first pair of current-events rounds will be posted next week. Current-events rounds generally refer to events that took place the week before the original game, sometimes also the week before that. If answers have changed since the date of the original game due to newer news, you are still expected to give the answer that was correct as of the game date. * Procedures and Scoring The usual rule in our regular league games is that each question goes to an individual who can answer for 2 points without assistance, and if he misses, he can consult his team and try again for 1 point. If the quizmaster judges that an answer is incomplete, she can ask for more details before ruling the answer right or wrong. To maintain the spirit of these rules, I will say that you can give two answers on every question. But I will penalize you if you give both a right answer and a wrong answer. My scoring is: 4 points - if you answer once and are right (or twice, both right) 3 points - if you guess twice and are right only the first time 2 points - if you guess twice and are right only the second time Bonus points may occasionally be available and will be explained in the relevant round. If you give only one answer, but with only some sort of additional comment, please make it clear that that's what you're doing. If there is any doubt I'll assume that you are giving two answers. If I see more than two answers, the third and any later ones will be ignored. Although there is no rule like this in the Canadian Inquisition, where it makes sense I will accept answers that I think are almost close enough (*more than half right*), with a 1-point penalty. But I will reject answers that I do not think are sufficiently specific, since there is no opportunity to ask for clarification when answers are posted in the newsgroup. If I anticipate the possibility of insufficiently specific answers I will try to provide guidance in a way that does not spoil the questions, such as a note in rot13 to be read after you have answered. You must, of course, answer based on your own knowledge and nothing else. You must post all your answers in a single posting (Except in case of technical difficulties, when emailed answers or multiple postings will be accepted.) Where a person's name is asked for, *normally you need only give the surname*. If you do give another part of the name and you're wrong, your answer is wrong. -- Mark Brader | "(I've been told that I suffer from rampant narcissism. Toronto | Just to confirm the accuracy of this character assessment, msb@vex.net | I have now shared it with the whole world.)" --Laura Spira My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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