| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 03 12:51AM -0600 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-02-25, 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. 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 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". * Game 4, Round 2 - Sports - Baseball Records All records apply to major-league baseball (MLB). Where a team is asked for, you can give either the city or team name as long as it is not ambiguous. 1. The career record for the most singles is 3,215. It's held by someone who played for the Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, and Montreal Expos. He also holds the records for most hits (4,256) and most games played (3,562). Name him. 2. Which pitcher holds the record for most strikeouts in a single season (383 in 1973)? 3. <answer 2> also holds the career records for most strikeouts (5,714) and for most no-hitters. How many no-hitters? 4. National League outfielder Barry Bonds holds the record for most MVP awards with 7. He won the last 5 while playing for the San Francisco Giants, and the others with which other team? 5. This past year, 2018, the New York Yankees set a new record for the most home runs by a team in one season. How many, within 5? 6. The record for most regular-season wins by a team is 116. It was set in 2001, by which team? 7. Only two players have ever turned the first pitch of their MLB career into a grand slam -- one in 2006 and the other in 2010. Name *either* player. 8. On 2002-05-23, L.A. Dodgers right fielder Shawn Green set the record for most total bases by a player in a single game. Within 2, how many? 9. Name the player who holds the record for stealing home plate the most times in his career, with 54. 10. Okay, this question isn't about a record. Only two Toronto Blue Jays have won the American League MVP award. The second one was Josh Donaldson in 2015. *Either* tell us who was the first, or tell us what year that was. Game 4, Round 3 - Geography - Ancient Latin Place Names We give you the ancient Roman name, except as noted. For #1-6 name the corresponding modern country. (Not all are independent countries, and the correspondence of old and new place names may not be exact). 1. Lusitania. 2. Helvetia. 3. Cambria. 4. Anglia. (This one is medieval Latin.) 5. Hibernia. 6. Batavia. For #7-10, name the corresponding modern *city*. 7. Portus Magnus. 8. Olisipo. 9. Lutetia. 10. Aquae Sulis. It's in Great Britain. -- Mark Brader Table feel plays a large part, but here Toronto I only have keyboard feel. msb@vex.net --Stu Goodgold, in rec.games.bridge My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 03 12:49AM -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 3 is over and JOSHUA KREITZER has made a late charge to win! Hearty congratulations, sir. > http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/3-9/sym.png > In each case we will name a symbol or describe what it means, > and you must give us its number on the handout. This was the easiest round in the original game. > 1. The square root of -1. #5. 4 for everyone -- Erland, Dan Blum, Bruce, Calvin, Dan Tilque, Pete, and Joshua. > 2. Octothorpe. #1. Of course it has other names too. 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, Bruce, Calvin, Dan Tilque, and Joshua. > 3. Tilde. #16. 4 for everyone. > 4. Null set (in set theory). #13. 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Pete, and Joshua. 2 for Calvin. > 5. Infinity. #2. 4 for everyone. > 6. Euro (currency). #18. 4 for everyone. > 7. Ellipsis. #20. 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, Bruce, Dan Tilque, Pete, and Joshua. > 8. Indicates that two triangles are congruent (in geometry). #6. 4 for Erland, Bruce, and Joshua. 2 for Calvin. When I learned about congruence, the symbol for it was one that's not on the handout -- instead of the tilde-like upper element, it has a third horizontal bar. And I wasn't the only one: this question drew some complaints in the original game. According to Wikipedia, that symbol is more common in the UK while the one on the handout is more common in the US. (And since both are used, I decided to leave the question alone when posting it here.) In Unicode the symbol on the handout has hexadecimal value 2245 and is named "approximately equal to", which is another of its meanings. (Still another meaning, according to mathworld.wolfram.com, is "isomorphic to".) For the meaning "approximately equal to", the lower bar is more commonly omitted, making Unicode 2243, which Unicode calls "asymptotically equal to", or else two of the tilde-like elements are used with no straight bar, making Unicde 2248, which Unicode calls "almost equal to". The triple bar that I learned for congruence is Unicode 2261, which Unicode calls "identical to". For the Unicode symbols and names see: http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2200.pdf Wotta mess. > 9. Factorial (in math). #4. 4 for everyone. > 10. Used in the German language to represent a double S or "sz" > sound, for example replacing the "ss" in "Strasse" (street). #8. 4 for everyone. The form ß is only used in lower case, and only in Germany and Austria (of the four predominantly German-speaking countries); Straße becomes STRASSE when written in block capitals, and Strasse in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, as you can verify by looking at street signs in Google Street View. > but I will. If you want to identify them for fun, but for no points, > decode the following rot13: > 11. Square root. #10. Erland, Bruce, and Joshua got this. Historically at least, the horizontal bar is a vinculum serving like parentheses to group the operand, and not part of the square-root symbol, Unicode 221A. The bar might be omitted when the operand is a simple expression such as a number or a variable. > 12. Japanese yen. #3. Erland, Bruce, and Joshua got this. > 13. Ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter (in geometry). #11. Erland, Bruce, and Joshua got this. > 14. Indicates summation of a series (in math). #7. (Unicode 2211, named "n-ary summation".) Erland, Bruce, and Joshua got this. > 15. "Is a proper subset of" (in set theory). #14. (Unicode 2282, named "subset of".) Erland and Joshua got this. > 16. Indicates integration (in calculus). #9. (Unicode 222B.) Erland, Bruce, and Joshua got this. > 17. Therefore (in math). #19. (Unicode 2234.) Erland, Bruce, and Joshua got this. > 18. "Is proportional to" (in math). #12. (Unicode 221D.) Erland and Joshua got this. > 19. British pound (currency). #17. (Also used for some other currencies with similar names.) Erland, Bruce, and Joshua got this. > 20. The set of integers. #15. Erland and Joshua got this. > quiz show by having a member of the audience send him signals > by coughing. Give the title *and* name the country where > the show was produced. "Who Wants to be a Millionaire", UK version. 4 for Calvin and Joshua. > He eventually admitted he had been given information by the > producers to prepare before the show -- they wanted to keep > him on the air because he was quite photogenic. What show? "Twenty-One". (These events were fictionalized in the 1994 movie "Quiz Show".) 4 for Joshua. > Cuba in an attempt to overthrow the Castro regime. In fact > they were rapidly captured by the Cuban authorities. > How is this incident usually referred to? The Bay of Pigs. (From the Bahía de Cochinos, where they landed.) 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, Calvin, Dan Tilque, Pete, and Joshua. > It later emerged that their spy in Britain, Kim Philby, > had tipped off the Soviets to the correct time and place. > In which country was this failed attack? Albania. 2 for Calvin. > * C. Sports Competitions > C1. The Ryder Cup golf tournament takes place every two years -- > always between which two teams? United States vs. Europe. 4 for Erland, Bruce, Calvin, Dan Tilque, and Pete. Originally it was the US vs. Great Britain, but the US came to dominate it to such an extent that the format was changed. > C2. The Ashes is a test cricket series between two countries, > which emerged out of a resounding victory in 1892 of one > of them over the other. Which two countries play? England (not UK) vs. Australia. 4 for Erland, Calvin, Pete, and Joshua. > * D. City Centers > D1. What type of geographical feature is at the center of the > Hanoi Capital Region? A lake. 4 for Erland and Pete. 2 for Calvin. This was the second Hanoi question in this game. The first one was in the current-events round and only asked what country Trump was going to meet Kim Jong Un in, but the specific city was Hanoi. > D2. In the center of Milan are many shops and restaurants, > the cathedral known as the Dome, and which famous opera > house? La Scala. 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, Calvin, Pete, and Joshua. > the development of the atom bomb during the Manhattan > Project. After the war his security clearance was revoked > due to his association with left-wing individuals. Robert Oppenheimer. 4 for Dan Blum, Bruce, Calvin, Pete, and Joshua. > the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s. A dissident and > human-rights activist, he was exiled to the city of Gorky > after criticizing the invasion of Afghanistan. Andrei Sakharov. 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, and Joshua. > but never mind that, these are not the physicist questions. > Just name his famous *granddaughter*, who was born in Wales > but moved at an early age to Australia. Olivia Newton-John. 4 for Calvin and Joshua. > Mitchell's son-in-law on the British TV series "Till Death > Us Do Part" -- but these are not actor questions either. > Booth had a very famous *son-in-law*: who? Tony Blair. 4 for Calvin and Joshua. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 3 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 7 8 9 10 BEST TOPICS-> Spo His Ent Sci Geo Mis Cha FIVE Joshua Kreitzer 8 12 40 30 36 40 36 182 Erland Sommarskog 0 28 4 36 44 40 24 172 "Calvin" 15 20 8 24 38 32 36 150 Dan Blum 4 16 28 40 24 36 16 144 Dan Tilque 12 20 4 36 36 36 8 140 Pete Gayde 16 6 11 23 26 32 24 121 Bruce Bowler -- -- -- 36 36 36 8 116 -- Mark Brader | "...as many as my brain could handle Toronto | off the top of its head..." msb@vex.net | --Steve Summit My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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