| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Feb 03 09:51PM -0800 Mark Brader wrote: > * Game 1, Round 9 - Canadiana - Famous Dates in Canadian History > 1. In 1919 there was a general strike in which Canadian city? > 2. Canadian forces most notably did what on 1944-06-06? invaded Normandy > 3. Pierre Elliott Trudeau brought what into effect on 1970-10-16? > 4. Who set a world record in 1996 for the 100 m dash and won two > gold medals? Donovan Bailey > 8. In what year was equal access to government services in English > and French become available? > 9. From what country did Canada accept 50,000 refugees in 1975? Vietnam > 10. Which group of Canadians were given the vote in 1960? First Nations > forms of cancer, but in the late 1950s and early 1960s it > was found that children of mothers who had taken it during > pregnancy were born with deformed limbs. What was the drug? thalidomide > for palliative care. They claimed it was non-addictive, > but by 2011 the deaths from overdoses of this drug had > exceeded those from heroin. What drug? oxycodone > D. World Cup Soccer > D1. This country was the first to both host and win the World > Cup soccer final. The year was 1930. What country? Germany > D2. The last time the host country won the World Cup was 1998. > What country? France > F1. The author of "Doctor Zhivago" was prevented from collecting > his Nobel Prize for Literature by the Soviet authorities. > Who was he? Solzhenitsyn ?? > F2. The North Vietnamese politician Le Duc Tho refused to accept > his half of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1973. Who received > the other half? Henry Kissinger -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 04 03:41AM -0600 Mark Brader: > and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information > see my 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian > Inquisition (QFTCI*)". Game 1 is over and JOSHUA KREITZER has won by a considerable margin. Hearty congratulations! Due to weather, Game 2 will be start in a day or so. > * Game 1, Round 9 - Canadiana - Famous Dates in Canadian History This was the easiest round in the original game. > 1. In 1919 there was a general strike in which Canadian city? Winnipeg. > 2. Canadian forces most notably did what on 1944-06-06? Took part in Operation Overlord, the "D-Day" invasion of Normandy, specifically at "Juno" Beach. Any reference to the invasion was sufficient. 4 for Dan Blum, Erland, Pete, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. > 3. Pierre Elliott Trudeau brought what into effect on 1970-10-16? The War Measures Act. See: http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/october-crisis > 4. Who set a world record in 1996 for the 100 m dash and won two > gold medals? Donovan Bailey. 4 for Dan Tilque. > 5. Paul Henderson most notably did what on 1972-09-28? Scored the winning goal in the hockey series against the USSR. 4 for Pete. This series was a very big deal. At the time professional players were not allowed in the Olympics or international league play, but the Soviets routinely entered their best players anyway, under the pretense that they were amateurs. In the 1972 series, the NHL agreed to supply professional players for a "Team Canada", to play against the usual Soviet team. At the time it was still true that practically all NHL players, and certainly all their star players, were Canadian, so equating the NHL with Canada made sense -- until Bobby Hull, who would certainly have been selected for the team, chose that year to join the new rival league, the WHA. So he was excluded from a team supposedly representing Canada's best. Anyway, the series was fixed at 8 games, 4 in different Canadian cities and 4 in Moscow. Overtime was not used, and after 7 games it was tied, 3 wins each with one tie game. And the score in the last game was itself tied into the last minute of the 3rd period -- until Henderson scored. > 6. Following an agreement several years earlier, what law or treaty > in 1931 officially removed from the British Parliament the power > to unilaterally amend Canadian laws? Statute of Westminster. 4 for Joshua. > 7. In what year did the federal government establish unemployment > insurance? 1940. The "un" was dropped from the name in 1996. Apparently the program now provides insurance against the risk of being employed. :-) > 8. In what year [did] equal access to government services in English > and French become available? 1969. > 9. From what country did Canada accept 50,000 refugees in 1975? (South) Vietnam. 4 for Dan Blum, Erland, Pete, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. > 10. Which group of Canadians were given the vote in 1960? Status Indians. I'm accepting First Nations and scoring "Inuit" (different aboriginal people) as almost correct. 4 for Dan Blum, Bruce, Pete, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. 3 for Erland. > - A 19th-century English farmer > - A former member of a US terrorist group > - A victim raped by a computer Julie Christie. ("Doctor Zhivago" (1965), "Far from the Madding Crowd" (1967), "The Company You Keep" (2012), "Demon Seed" (1977).) 4 for Joshua. > - Queen Elizabeth II > - Wife of astronaut Neil Armstrong > - Lisbeth Salander, the character created by Stieg Larsson Claire Foy. ("The Crown" (2016-17), "First Man" (2018), "The Girl in the Spider's Web" (2018).) 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua. > B. Predecessors and Successors to Legends > B1. Who succeeded Charles de Gaulle as president of France? Georges Pompidou. 4 for Pete. Essentially the same question was asked on "Jeopardy!" the day after the original game. > B2. Who preceded Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa? F.W. (Frederik Willem) de Klerk. 4 for Dan Blum, Bruce, Erland, Pete, Joshua, and Calvin. > forms of cancer, but in the late 1950s and early 1960s it > was found that children of mothers who had taken it during > pregnancy were born with deformed limbs. What was the drug? Thalidomide. 4 for everyone -- Dan Blum, Bruce, Erland, Pete, Joshua, Calvin, and Dan Tilque. > for palliative care. They claimed it was non-addictive, > but by 2011 the deaths from overdoses of this drug had > exceeded those from heroin. What drug? Oxycodone (trade name Oxycontin). (Not Fentanyl -- different opioid.) 4 for Dan Blum, Bruce, Pete, and Dan Tilque. > D. World Cup Soccer > D1. This country was the first to both host and win the World > Cup soccer final. The year was 1930. What country? Uruguay. 4 for Erland, Pete, Joshua, and Calvin. > D2. The last time the host country won the World Cup was 1998. > What country? France. 4 for Erland, Pete, Joshua, Calvin, and Dan Tilque. 2 for Dan Blum. > E. Literary Opening Lines > E1. Which novel opens with the words, "Last night I dreamed I > went to Manderley again"? "Rebecca" (Daphne du Maurier). 4 for Dan Blum, Bruce, Joshua, and Calvin. > E2. Which novel opens with the words, "Ours is essentially a > tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically"? "Lady Chatterley's Lover" (D.H. Lawrence). > F1. The author of "Doctor Zhivago" was prevented from collecting > his Nobel Prize for Literature by the Soviet authorities. > Who was he? Boris Pasternak. 4 for Dan Blum, Erland, and Pete. > F2. The North Vietnamese politician Le Duc Tho refused to accept > his half of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1973. Who received > the other half? Henry Kissinger. 4 for Dan Blum, Erland, Pete, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 1 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST TOPICS-> Ent Sci Spo Geo His Mis Can Cha SIX Joshua Kreitzer 40 24 6 40 35 28 16 32 199 Dan Tilque 4 36 8 40 8 20 16 16 136 Pete Gayde -- -- 11 26 19 26 16 32 130 Don Piven 20 40 0 32 4 32 -- -- 128 Erland Sommarskog 24 8 4 40 8 20 11 24 127 Dan Blum 12 23 6 33 10 16 12 30 126 "Calvin" 8 18 -- -- 32 23 0 20 101 Bruce Bowler 0 27 -- -- -- -- 4 16 47 -- Mark Brader | "[In a country with] the dream that... anyone can grow up Toronto | to be President... there's also a nightmare where msb@vex.net | *anyone* can grow up to be President." --Mark Steese My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 04 03:19AM -0600 Mark Brader: > for this), then how many different prime ministers have > served under Queen Elizabeth II -- in *all* of the independent > countries that she's been queen of, rather than only the UK? I was surprised that nobody thought it would be fun to estimate this. The answer is at least 169. There have been 138 PMs in the countries that she's now queen of -- the 16 Commonwealth realms -- including 16 in New Zealand, 15 in Australia, and 12 each in Canada, the Solomon Is., and Tuvalu, and so on down to as few as 3 in St. Kitts & Nevis, where two of them have each had over 19 years in power. Then there are another 16 countries that became independent while she was Queen and *later* abolished that status for her, contributing 31 more PMs: 6 in Ceylon (as it then was), 3 each in Pakistan, Sierra Leone, and South Africa; and 1 or 2 each in Fiji, Gambia, Ghana, Guyana, Kenya, Malawi, Malta, Mauritius, Nigeria, Tanganyika, Trinidad & Tobago, and Uganda. There was also a later period in Fiji when they decided to declare that Elizabeth II would be "supreme tribal chief", since when they have had at least another 5 PMs, but apparently it is not usually considered that this ever made her Queen again. The other questionable case is Rhodesia. As a British colony in 1965 it was ruled only by white people, and they declared it an independent country *with themselves in charge*. This did not sit well with the British, who wanted their colonial period to end with the installation of non-racist governments. (South Africa was already available as an example they did not want to repeat.) So Rhodesia found itself an unrecognized country, though de facto independent. They continued to recognize Elizabeth II as their Queen for a few years, although nobody else did. So if you do count that, then Rhodesia adds one more PM to the list. -- Mark Brader | "The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. Toronto | This is the ordinary course in a free society." msb@vex.net | --Anthony Kennedy, US Supreme Court My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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