Sunday, February 23, 2020

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tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Feb 22 02:57PM


> Name the movies.
 
> 4. This David Fincher movie from 1999 features a main character
> who is never named.
 
Memento
 
> 5. Two men forge a tense alliance against a third, as they all
> search for buried gold in a remote cemetery. The main character
> has a nickname, but is never named.
 
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
 
> 6. Harvey Keitel is never named in this 1992 crime-drama cult movie,
> but his character was given a name in the bizarre 2009 Werner
> Herzog followup.
 
Reservoir Dogs
 
> musician as a major influence on his character, and the
> musician was brought in to play Jack Sparrow's father in the
> third installment of the movie series. Name the musician.
 
Keith Richards
 
> * TV Spinoffs
 
> In each case, name the series that these were spun off from.
 
> 10. "Joey".
 
Friends
 
> 11. "Better Call Saul".
 
Breaking Bad
 
> 12. "Mork & Mindy".
 
Joanie Loves Chachi
 
> second coming of Christ. He is also vehemently anti-Islamic,
> and as of 2017 has referred to himself as God's final prophet.
> Give his name as it appears in the title.
 
Peter Popoff
 
> 16,000-seat stadium. He was heavily criticized for not opening
> his church to those seeking refuge from Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
> Name him.
 
Joel Osteen
 
> in the late 1940s. One of his biographers has placed him "among
> the most influential Christian leaders" of the 20th century.
> Who?
 
Billy Graham
 
> ** Final, Round 6 - Science
 
> * Household Chemicals
 
> 1. NH3, http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-6/chem/1.png
 
ammonia
 
> * Famous Thought-Experiments
 
> 4. What is the linguistic name of John Searle's 1980 thought-
> experiment that argues against strong artificial intelligence?
 
Chinese Room
 
> 5. What general concept does David Hilbert's Grand Hotel paradox
> seek to address?
 
infinity
 
> 6. Who is the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise attributed to?
> This thought-experiment argues against the possibility of motion.
 
Zeno of Elea
 
 
> 7. What name was given to the virus believed to have been written
> for the US Government to attack Iranian nuclear facilities
> in 2010?
 
Stuxnet
 
> day every year, so many users did not boot their computers on
> that date just to "be safe". The virus was given the name of
> a painter and sculptor who was born on March 6. Give that name.
 
Michelangelo
 
> * Name the Vitamin
 
> 10. Ascorbic acid.
 
C
 
> 11. Tocopherol.
 
B2; B6
 
> 12. Calciferol.
 
D
 
> * Language Families
 
> 13. English, Faroese, Hindi, Hungarian, Spanish.
 
Hungarian
 
> 14. Burmese, Cantonese, Japanese, Mandarin, Tibetan.
 
Japanese
 
> 15. Amharic, Arabic, Hebrew, Maltese, Persian (or Farsi).
 
Persian
 
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_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum tool@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Feb 22 03:22PM

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:8u-dnT5gm7syUs3DnZ2dnUU7-
> Shape of Water" (2017), it was the fourth time in 5 years that
> the prize had been claimed by a Mexican director. Name *any one*
> of the others.
 
Cuaron

> 2. Name the Mexican director responsible for movies such as "The
> Holy Mountain", "El Topo", and "Fando y Lis".
 
Jodorowsky
 
> 3. Name the Latino director who shared some award nominations
> with Quentin Tarantino for the 2007 "double-feature" horror movie
> "Grindhouse".
 
Rodriguez

 
> Name the movies.
 
> 4. This David Fincher movie from 1999 features a main character
> who is never named.
 
"Fight Club"
 
> 5. Two men forge a tense alliance against a third, as they all
> search for buried gold in a remote cemetery. The main character
> has a nickname, but is never named.
 
"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"
 
> 6. Harvey Keitel is never named in this 1992 crime-drama cult movie,
> but his character was given a name in the bizarre 2009 Werner
> Herzog followup.
 
"Bad Lieutenant"

> * Weird Movie Cameos
 
> 7. One of the few human characters in "The SpongeBob SquarePants
> Movie", this actor is first seen running along the beach.
 
David Hasselhoff
 
> 8. Glenn Close had a bearded, seconds-long cameo in this 1991
> Spielberg movie before her character was placed in the "Boo Box".
> What movie?
 
"Hook"

> musician as a major influence on his character, and the
> musician was brought in to play Jack Sparrow's father in the
> third installment of the movie series. Name the musician.
 
Keith Richards
 
> * TV Spinoffs
 
> In each case, name the series that these were spun off from.
 
> 10. "Joey".
 
"Friends"
 
> 11. "Better Call Saul".
 
"Breaking Bad"
 
> 12. "Mork & Mindy".
 
"Happy Days"

> 16,000-seat stadium. He was heavily criticized for not opening
> his church to those seeking refuge from Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
> Name him.
 
Joel Osteen
 
> in the late 1940s. One of his biographers has placed him "among
> the most influential Christian leaders" of the 20th century.
> Who?
 
Billy Graham

> chemical (perhaps diluted with water or otherwise). Give the
> generic terms, not brand names.
 
> 1. NH3, http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-6/chem/1.png
 
ammonia
 
> 3. NaClO, http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-6/chem/3.png
 
lye
 
> * Famous Thought-Experiments
 
> 4. What is the linguistic name of John Searle's 1980 thought-
> experiment that argues against strong artificial intelligence?
 
Chinese box
 
> 5. What general concept does David Hilbert's Grand Hotel paradox
> seek to address?
 
infinity

> 6. Who is the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise attributed to?
> This thought-experiment argues against the possibility of motion.
 
Zeno
 
 
> In each case give the usual single-letter (or for any B vitamins,
> letter-and-number) name.
 
> 10. Ascorbic acid.
 
C
 
 
> Here's an easy triple -- it's multiple-choice. In each list,
> which language is *not* in the same family as the others?
 
> 13. English, Faroese, Hindi, Hungarian, Spanish.
 
Hungarian
 
> 14. Burmese, Cantonese, Japanese, Mandarin, Tibetan.
 
Japanese; Burmese
 
> 15. Amharic, Arabic, Hebrew, Maltese, Persian (or Farsi).
 
Persian
 
--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com
Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Feb 22 12:56PM -0800

On 2/21/20 10:52 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
 
> 5. Two men forge a tense alliance against a third, as they all
> search for buried gold in a remote cemetery. The main character
> has a nickname, but is never named.
 
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
 
 
> 10. "Joey".
> 11. "Better Call Saul".
> 12. "Mork & Mindy".
 
Happy Days ??
 
> in the late 1940s. One of his biographers has placed him "among
> the most influential Christian leaders" of the 20th century.
> Who?
 
Billy Graham
 
> chemical (perhaps diluted with water or otherwise). Give the
> generic terms, not brand names.
 
> 1. NH3, http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-6/chem/1.png
 
ammonia
 
> 2. CH3COOH, http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-6/chem/2.jpg
 
methanol
 
> 3. NaClO, http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-6/chem/3.png
 
bleach
 
> seek to address?
 
> 6. Who is the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise attributed to?
> This thought-experiment argues against the possibility of motion.
 
Xeno
 
 
> 7. What name was given to the virus believed to have been written
> for the US Government to attack Iranian nuclear facilities
> in 2010?
 
Stuxnet
 
> day every year, so many users did not boot their computers on
> that date just to "be safe". The virus was given the name of
> a painter and sculptor who was born on March 6. Give that name.
 
Michelangelo
 
 
> In each case give the usual single-letter (or for any B vitamins,
> letter-and-number) name.
 
> 10. Ascorbic acid.
 
C
 
> 11. Tocopherol.
 
E
 
> 12. Calciferol.
 
D
 
 
> Here's an easy triple -- it's multiple-choice. In each list,
> which language is *not* in the same family as the others?
 
> 13. English, Faroese, Hindi, Hungarian, Spanish.
 
Hungarian
 
> 14. Burmese, Cantonese, Japanese, Mandarin, Tibetan.
 
Japanese
 
> 15. Amharic, Arabic, Hebrew, Maltese, Persian (or Farsi).
 
Persian
 
--
Dan Tilque
tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Feb 22 02:49PM


> Hans I. -- as you will remember from Game 8, Round 2, where the
> reverse of this question was asked. 4 for Dan Blum, Erland,
> and Dan Tilque.
 
It was also on Jeopardy recently. That's where I remembered it from.
 
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_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum tool@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Feb 22 04:47PM

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:1-ydnZbqHdvkVNHDnZ2dnUU7-
> ended up on the wall of Hermann Göring, and he also sold to
> the government of the Netherlands. Which artist's paintings
> was he forging?
 
Brughels; Rembrandt
 
> "Flower Portrait"?
 
> 3. A fake sculpture by Cellini was depicted in which 1966
> art-forgery film starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole?
 
The Thomas Crown Affair
 
 
> * Flemish Painters
 
> In each case name the artist.
 
> 4. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/art/4.jpg
 
Breughel
 
> 5. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/art/5.jpg
 
Breughel
 
> 6. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/art/6.jpg
 
Breughel
 
 
> * Marvel Supervillains
 
> In each case name the supervillain.
 
> 7. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/marv/7.jpg
 
Dr. Doom
 
> 8. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/marv/8.jpg
> 9. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/marv/9.jpg
 
Dr. Doom
 
 
> * Literary Ghosts
 
> 13. In "Macbeth", whose ghost walks right into a banquet hall
> covered in blood and sits down in Macbeth's seat?
 
MacDuff
 
> (This means the principal city served by the airport -- If we
> said Lester Pearson you'd say Toronto, not Mississauga.)
 
> 4. James Armstrong Richardson, founder of Western Canadian Airways.
 
Victoria; Vancouver
 
> 5. Roméo LeBlanc, 25th governor-general of Canada.
 
Quebec City; Montreal
 
> 6. John Diefenbaker, 13th prime minister of Canada.
 
Winnipeg; Regina
 
 
> * Canadian Neighbors
 
> 10. Cities on the Canadian and American sides of the St. Mary's
> River share the same name: what is it?
 
Sault St Marie
 
 
> 11. Name the French dependency, a former overseas department,
> that lies west of Point May, Newfoundland.
 
St Pierre et Miquelon
 
 
> 13. Many Canadian prime ministers were made British knights, but
> there is one who was named a British lord, and he's also the
> only one to be buried outside of Canada. Name him.
 
McKenzie
 
 
> 15. Who was the first Canadian prime minister who was born in
> Canada -- or more precisely, whose birthplace was within the
> *current* borders of Canada?
 
Diefenbaker
 
 
> 17. Who was the first Canadian prime minister who was born in Canada
> -- or more precisely, who was born at a place that was *then*
> within the borders of the *same* Canada that exists today?
 
Pete Gayde
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 22 01:15PM -0600

Mark Brader:
>> Hans I. -- as you will remember from Game 8, Round 2, where the
>> reverse of this question was asked. 4 for Dan Blum, Erland,
>> and Dan Tilque.

Dan Blum:
> It was also on Jeopardy recently. That's where I remembered it from.
 
Oh, right, on 2020-01-14 in the special "Greatest of All Time" tournament.
They named Canada and asked for the other country, giving a hint that
referred to aquavit. Ken Jennings knew it.
--
Mark Brader | "...not one accident in a hundred deserves the name.
Toronto | [This occurrence] was simply the legitimate result
msb@vex.net | of carelessness." -- Washington Roebling
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 22 01:33PM -0600

If Pete Gayde had posted his answers on time, he would have scored
8 points in Round 2 and 8 in Round 3.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "When you're up to your ass in alligators, maybe
msb@vex.net | you're in the wrong swamp." -- Bill Stewart
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