Friday, January 25, 2019

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msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 25 01:17AM -0600

These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-01-21,
and should be interpreted accordingly.
 
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Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
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the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will
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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
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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 4 - Sports - Table Tennis
 
1. The official name for it is "racket". In Canada and the US
it's often called the "paddle". What is it in Britain?
 
2. How high off the floor is an official table-tennis table?
Answer to the nearest whole unit in centimeters or inches.
 
3. Until 2015, official table-tennis balls were made of celluloid.
What alternative is now allowed?
 
4. In what year was the first summer Olympics where table tennis
was an official sport? Answer within one Olympiad, but you
must give an actual Olympic year.
 
5. Please answer the previous question before decoding the rot13.
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fcrpgngbe fcbeg". N arj gnoyr-graavf onyy zrnfhevat 40 zz va
qvnzrgre jnf vagebqhprq, pnhfvat fbzr pbagebirefl: gur Puvarfr
angvbany grnz nethrq gung guvf onyy jbhyq geniry fybjre naq
guhf tvir aba-Puvarfr cynlref n orggre punapr. Jvguva 1 zz,
jung jnf gur qvnzrgre bs gur *byq* onyyf?
 
6. A makeshift version of table tennis was played by British
military officers in India in the 1860s/1870s or so. They used
a golf ball, and improvised a net by standing a row of books
along the center of the table. What did they use as rackets
to hit the ball with?
 
7. If a serve touches the net but still goes over, it needs to
be retaken. What is the term for this?
 
8. In the world table-tennis championships, China has earned the
most gold medals with 140. Which country ranks second, with 68?
 
9. As well as the world championships, there is also a Table
Tennis World Cup. The last time that Canada figured in the
medal count for this one was when Johnny Huang won the bronze
medal in Guangzhou, China. Within 3 years, when was that?
 
10. What is the flat part of a table-tennis racket called?
 
 
* Game 1, Round 6 - Geography - Countries of the World
 
(As opposed to all those *other* countries.)
 
In each case, name the country.
 
1. In 1967 the leader of this country, Enver Hoxha ["Ho-jah"],
declared his nation to be the world's first atheist state.
 
2. What current nation was ruled in South Africa and Germany at
different times in the past?
 
3. From the UK, this is the closest other Commonwealth country.
One of its former leaders was Dom Mintoff, who played a
controversial role in its development.
 
4. Which island nation was expelled from the UN in 1971?
 
5. Which German-speaking nation is doubly landlocked?
 
6. This country's capital was formerly called Batavia. A coup in
1965 resulted in massive loss of life, as depicted in the movie
"The Year of Living Dangerously". What country?
 
7. This country was liberated from colonial status by Bernardo
O'Higgins. In 1973 its democratically elected government was
overthown in a coup, resulting in many years of military rule.
 
8. Once colonized by Portugal, this group of islands west of
Senegal is now an independent nation, called what?
 
9. What nation is jointly ruled by a bishop and the president
of France?
 
10. Of the 14 countries that have land borders with Russia, this
one has the shortest. The country was established on 1948-09-09.
 
--
Mark Brader "Poor spelling does not prove poor knowledge,
Toronto but is fatal to the argument by intimidation."
msb@vex.net -- Gene Ward Smith
 
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Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jan 24 04:11PM -0800

On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 4:32:53 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
 
> This is genocide.
 
> 2. "Cat", 1972, Elton John.
 
> Better get back to the woods.
 
Funky Cat
 
 
> I've been putting out fire with gasoline.
 
> 7. "Cat", 1974, Harry Chapin.
 
> Little Boy Blue and the Man in the Moon.
 
Cat's in the Cradle
 
 
> 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.
 
Gus Grissom
 
 
> 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?
 
Jim 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?
 
Lunar vehicle
 
> science, relevant to the exploration of the Moon, was he
> trained in?
 
> 7. In what year, exactly, was Apollo 17 launched?
 
1971, 1972
 
> 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.
 
Apollo 3, Apollo 6
 
cheers,
calvin
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 25 01:15AM -0600

Mark Brader:
 
> 1. "Dog", 1974, David Bowie.
 
> This ain't no rock and roll,
> This is genocide.
 
"Diamond Dogs". 4 for Joshua and Erland.
 
> 2. "Cat", 1972, Elton John.
 
> Better get back to the woods.
 
"Honky Cat". 4 for Joshua, Erland, and Don.
 
> 3. "Cat", 1977, Ted Nugent.
 
> When they need their lovin' man,
> They know I do it for free.
 
"Cat Scratch Fever". 4 for Joshua and Don.
 
> in 1956.
 
> You ain't no real cool cat
> And you ain't no friend of mine.
 
"Hound Dog". 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.
 
> 5. "Dog", 1971, Led Zeppelin.
 
> Oh yeah, oh yeah, ah ah ah ah.
 
"Black Dog". 4 for Joshua and Don.
 
> 6. "Cat", 1982 and 1983, David Bowie.
 
> I've been putting out fire with gasoline.
 
"Cat People". 4 for Joshua and Erland.
 
> 7. "Cat", 1974, Harry Chapin.
 
> Little Boy Blue and the Man in the Moon.
 
"Cat's in the Cradle". 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Don,
and Calvin.
 
> 8. "Dog", 1969, the Stooges.
 
> I'll lay right down in my favorite place.
 
"I Wanna be Your Dog". 4 for Joshua and Erland.
 
> 9. "Cat", 1976, Al Stewart.
 
> On a morning from a Bogart movie.
 
"Year of the Cat". 4 for Joshua, Erland, and Don.
 
> 10. "Cat", 1979, Squeeze.
 
> The Indians send signals from
> The roads above the pass.
 
"Cool for Cats". 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Erland, and Calvin.
 
 
 
> (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.
 
Roger Chaffee, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White. 4 for Joshua,
Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Bruce, Don, and Calvin.
 
> 2. What was the name of the principal rocket used for the Apollo
> program?
 
Saturn V. "Saturn" was sufficient. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque,
Bruce, and Don.
 
> 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?
 
Jim Lovell. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Bruce, Don,
and Calvin.
 
> 4. How many Apollo missions actually landed men on the moon?
 
6. 4 for Joshua, Erland, Dan Tilque, Don, and Calvin.
 
> 5. The last three Apollo missions -- Apollo 15 through 17 --
> carried *what* to make the exploration of the Moon easier for
> the astronauts?
 
A lunar rover. (Exact name not required.) 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum,
Dan Tilque, Bruce, Don, and Calvin.
 
> Moon in Apollo 17, the last Apollo mission. Which area of
> science, relevant to the exploration of the Moon, was he
> trained in?
 
Geology. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Bruce, and Don.
 
> 7. In what year, exactly, was Apollo 17 launched?
 
1972. 4 for Joshua, Erland, Dan Tilque, Bruce, and Don.
3 for Dan Blum. 2 for Calvin.
 
> 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?
 
Surveyor. 4 for Dan Tilque and Don.
 
> 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?
 
To return a sample of the lunar surface. 4 for Dan Tilque and Don.
 
> 10. Two Apollo manned missions took place entirely in Earth orbit
> and did not go near the Moon. Name either one.
 
Apollo 7 and 9. 4 for Don. 3 for Bruce.
 
At the time of the fatal fire, the numbering of the Apollo missions
had not been positively settled, and the name Apollo 1 was applied
retrospectively by way of a memorial. By the time the program started
again after the fire, they were ready to skip the numbers to Apollo 4,
and the first 6 missions then were:
 
Apollo 4 - Saturn V rocket launched with a Command/Service Module (CSM),
unmanned. First test of Saturn V launch and third-stage restart. Test
of CSM functions.
 
Apollo 5 - Saturn I-B rocket launched with a Lunar Module (LM), unmanned.
Test of LM functions conducted in Earth orbit.
 
Apollo 6 - Saturn V launched with a CSM and LM, unmanned. Further testing
of functions.
 
Apollo 7 - Saturn I-B launched with a CSM. First manned flight of CSM,
testing functions and maneuvering.
 
Apollo 8 - Saturn V launched with a CSM. First manned flight of the
Saturn V, and first manned flight to lunar orbit.
 
Apollo 9 - Saturn I-B launched with a CSM and LM. First manned testing
of the LM in orbit, including the maneuvers that would be needed for the
actual landing.
 
Apollo 10 - Saturn V launched with a CSM and LM. As mentioned up on
"Jeopardy!" the day after the original game, this one was Apollo 11's
"dress rehearsal", doing all the steps except the actual landing;
they put the LM into a descent trajectory toward the Moon, then
aborted the descent and returned to orbit.
 
Apollo 11 through 17, of course, were the lunar-landing missions, all
using the Saturn V, with Apollo 13 aborted due to an accident and the
other six successful.
 
 
Scores, if there are no errors:
 
GAME 1 ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Ent Sci
Joshua Kreitzer 40 24 64
Don Piven 20 40 60
Dan Tilque 4 36 40
Dan Blum 12 23 35
Erland Sommarskog 24 8 32
Bruce Bowler 0 27 27
"Calvin" 8 18 26
 
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Toronto "Well, he went through all the emotions."
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Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jan 24 04:29PM -0800

1 The phrase 'God is dead' is attributed to which German philosopher (1844-1900)?
2 Which football (soccer) World Cup was the first to be broadcast in colour? [Year or Country]
3 Which blood cell is also known as an erythrocyte?
4 What does an entomologist study?
5 What is the stage name of the British singer born Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong in 1971?
6 Which Argentine football player (b. 1952) played over 200 games for Tottenham Hotspur?
7 What name is shared by a 1971 film starring Clint Eastwood, and its 2017 remake starring Nicole Kidman?
8 'The Son of Man' by surrealist Rene Magritte depicts a businessman in a bowler hat with his face obscured by a what fruit?
9 What is the common name for the plant of the ginger family with the botanical name Curcuma longa? Native to south-east Asia, its deep yellow/orange powder has several uses including dyeing and a flavour for curries.
10 In Greek mythology, which goddess is the personification of rainbows and messenger of the gods?
 
 
cheers,
calvin
tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jan 25 01:55AM


> 1 The phrase 'God is dead' is attributed to which German philosopher (1844-1900)?
 
Nietzsche
 
> 2 Which football (soccer) World Cup was the first to be broadcast in colour? [Year or Country]
 
1964
 
> 3 Which blood cell is also known as an erythrocyte?
 
T-cell
 
> 4 What does an entomologist study?
 
insects
 
> 8 'The Son of Man' by surrealist Rene Magritte depicts a businessman in a bowler hat with his face obscured by a what fruit?
 
apple
 
> 9 What is the common name for the plant of the ginger family with the botanical name Curcuma longa? Native to south-east Asia, its deep yellow/orange powder has several uses including dyeing and a flavour for curries.
 
turmeric
 
> 10 In Greek mythology, which goddess is the personification of rainbows and messenger of the gods?
 
Iris
 
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msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 24 09:32PM -0600

Calvin:
> 1 The phrase 'God is dead' is attributed to which German philosopher
> (1844-1900)?
 
Nietzsche. [This one *should* be a spelling question! :-)]
 
> 2 Which football (soccer) World Cup was the first to be broadcast in
> colour? [Year or Country]
 
Must be 1962 or 1966 -- I'll go with 1962.
 
> 3 Which blood cell is also known as an erythrocyte?
 
White.
 
> 4 What does an entomologist study?
 
Insects.
 
> 5 What is the stage name of the British singer born Florian Cloud de
> Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong in 1971?
 
Somebody I've heard of... Boy George?
 
> 6 Which Argentine football player (b. 1952) played over 200 games for
> Tottenham Hotspur?
 
Johnson. In Spanish. :-)
 
> 7 What name is shared by a 1971 film starring Clint Eastwood, and its
> 2017 remake starring Nicole Kidman?
 
"Misty"?
 
> 8 'The Son of Man' by surrealist Rene Magritte depicts a businessman in
> a bowler hat with his face obscured by a what fruit?
 
Apple.
 
> botanical name Curcuma longa? Native to south-east Asia, its deep
> yellow/orange powder has several uses including dyeing and a flavour for
> curries.
 
Saffron?
 
> 10 In Greek mythology, which goddess is the personification of rainbows
> and messenger of the gods?
 
You must want Iris. But shirley Hermes is the messenger of the gods,
and he's no goddess.
--
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msb@vex.net | it can be delivered in about eight minutes, but there must
Toronto | be lots of paperwork involved." -- Michael Wares
 
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tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jan 25 04:23AM

> > and messenger of the gods?
 
> You must want Iris. But shirley Hermes is the messenger of the gods,
> and he's no goddess.
 
They both are. Greek mythology rarely restricted itself to one of anything.
 
--
_______________________________________________________________________
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"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jan 24 04:16PM -0800

On Thursday, January 17, 2019 at 4:03:28 AM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
> Mark Brader:
> > Raligh.
 
> (Raleigh, that is.)
 
It's not a spelling contest :-)
 
cheers,
calvin
Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jan 24 04:22PM -0800

On Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 11:09:36 AM UTC+10, Calvin wrote:
 
> 1 For what purpose would a tandoor normally be used?
 
Baking [or similar, but "to make tandoori chicken" is not specific enough sorry :-)]
 
> 2 Which infamous island can be viewed from the Golden Gate Bridge?
 
Alcatraz
I doubt that Treasure Island can genuinely be considered infamous, but it's a great answer all the same
 
> 3 Which author wrote the 1844 fairy-tale 'The Snow Queen'?
 
Hans Christian Andersen
 
> 4 Commonly used in biology, which word means 'state of living together'?
 
Symbiosis
 
> 5 A line from whose 1819 poem inspired the title of F Scott Fitzgerald's 1934 novel 'Tender is the Night'?
 
John Keats
 
> 6 What country was divided into four different occupied zones from 1945-1949?
 
Germany
Austria's was 1945-55
 
> 7 According to a 2006 hit by Shakira, which body part doesn't lie?
 
the hips
 
> 8 Named after a famous Briton, what is the capital city of North Carolina?
 
Raleigh
 
> 9 A sesquicentennial celebrates how many years?
 
150
 
> 10 Which rock band had hits in the 1980s with 'Welcome to the Jungle' and 'Paradise City'?
 
Guns 'n' Roses
 
 
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 551
1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 9 40 Dan Blum
1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 8 33 Aren Ess
1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 8 34 Mark Brader
1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 6 28 Pete Gayde
0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 6 28 Dan Tilque
0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 5 21 Erland S
- - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
4 5 5 4 2 4 4 5 5 4 42 70%
 
Congratulations Dan B.
 
At last two people got each question right, but no question was answered correctly by all six!
 
cheers,
calvin
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 24 06:24PM -0600

"Calvin":
> > 6 What country was divided into four different occupied zones from 1945-1949?
 
> Germany
> Austria's was 1945-55
 
Did you read my answer posting? Germany was occupied from 1945 until 1990.
--
Mark Brader "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you
Toronto do say can and will be misquoted and used against
msb@vex.net you in a future post." -- Tanja Cooper, misquoted
Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jan 24 04:32PM -0800

On Friday, January 25, 2019 at 10:24:53 AM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
 
> > Germany
> > Austria's was 1945-55
 
> Did you read my answer posting? Germany was occupied from 1945 until 1990.
 
There was no such country for those dates.
 
cheers,
calvin
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 24 09:26PM -0600

Mark Brader:
>> Did you read my answer posting? Germany was occupied from 1945 until 1990.

"Calvin":
> There was no such country for those dates.
 
I think that's pretty nitpicky, but nitpicky is what we *do* in trivia.
I concede the point.
 
I would like to argue that the country we used to call "West Germany" is
the same one we call "Germany" today (which it is), but unfortunately it
was only ever occupied in *three* zones.
--
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msb@vex.net that I wish were typos" --Marcy Thompson
Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jan 24 08:00PM -0800

On Friday, January 25, 2019 at 1:27:00 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
 
> I would like to argue that the country we used to call "West Germany" is
> the same one we call "Germany" today (which it is), but unfortunately it
> was only ever occupied in *three* zones.
 
Thanks. The only two feasible wrong answers are Austria and West Germany, so I tried to word it in a way which would rule them out, i.e. 4 zones and the dates. But you can't anticipate how everyone will approach a question, and we've all got on the wrong train.
 
cheers,
calvin
Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jan 24 04:24PM -0800

On Saturday, January 19, 2019 at 12:59:08 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
 
 
> > F1. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/where/f1.jpg
 
> > In *what country* was NBA player Steven Adams born?
 
> New Zealand. 4 for Dan Blum. 3 for Pete.
 
I just got back from a week in NZ and he was all over the sports pages. So I know it *now* :-)
 
cheers,
calvin
Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jan 24 04:22PM -0800

On Thursday, January 17, 2019 at 3:57:51 AM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
 
> A hint.
 
> > Gives it away entirely.
 
> With only a few seconds to answer, that's not necessarily the case.
 
Indeed.
 
cheers,
calvin
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