| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: May 28 04:26AM -0700 On 5/26/20 12:04 AM, Mark Brader wrote: > Note: I have rendered all station names in ISO 8859-1; in some > cities other characters would appear in the name's primary form. > 1. Schönbrunn, Stephansplatz, Rochusgasse. Vienna > 2. Parc Nou, El Prat Estació, Catalunya. Barcelona > 3. Baixa-Chiado, Campo Grande, Martim Moniz. Rio de Janiero > 4. Tagore Garden, Jangpura, Nehru Place. Delhi > 5. Göztepe, Merter, Topkapi-Ulubatli. Istanbul > 6. Pulaski, Logan Square, Jackson. Boston > 7. Hasan Abad, Hossein Abad, Zam Zam. Cairo > 8. Castle Hill, Tallawong, Chatswood. Sydney > 9. Lufthavnen, Ørestad, Trianglen. Copenhagen > 10. Cristóbal Colón, San José de la Estrella, San Pablo. Mexico City > 7. This villain, a wicked employer and heartless miser, is allowed > to repent and see the error of his ways via a very disturbed > night's sleep. Scrooge -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 01 05:13PM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2020-03-02, 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 MI5 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 2019-10-16 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - Unusual Units of Measurement We'll give you the definition, and you select the unusual unit of measurement it refers to, from the handout list: | Arpent | Furman | Nibble | Barleycorn | Gal | Olf | Barrel | Hobo power | Oxgang | Big Mac index | Hogshead | Pinch | Bloit | Horsepower | Pood | Butt | Jiffy | Puncheon | Darwin | Li | Siriometer | Dash | Megafonzie | Slug | Donkeypower | Megalithic yard | Smidgen | Ell | Mickey | Smoot | Firkin | Micromort | Warhol | Frigorie | Nail | Wheaton 1. What is defined as a measure of capacity for wine equal to 63 US gallons? 2. What measure, defined as the amount of land tillable in one plowing season, is equal to about 15 acres? 3. What is defined in computing as a 4-bit aggregation, or half an octet? 4. What is defined as 500,000 Twitter followers? 5. What is defined as a length equal to exactly 5'7" -- the height of an MIT freshman in 1958 when he was used to measure the length of the Harvard Bridge between Boston and Cambridge? 6. What is defined as a measure of time equal to 15 minutes? 7. What is defined as the smallest detectable movement of a computer mouse? 8. What is defined as the risk equal to a one-in-a-million chance of death? 9. What is defined as the amount of odor of one standard person? 10. What unit of measure is, or has been, used by physicists to talk about gravitational acceleration? * Game 8, Round 8 - Canadiana Sports - The CFL 1. Name the QB -- nicknamed "the Rifle" -- who played for the Montreal Alouettes 1952-60, and who still holds the record for most passing yards in a Grey Cup game, with 508 in the 1955 game that the Als lost. 2. Name the QB, famous for a "Hail Mary" pass, who refused to wear gloves in freezing conditions and was hampered by the opinion that he could not win in cold weather after losing two Western Finals at home in Calgary. 3. Being a QB can lead to great rewards. Name the Edmonton Eskimos QB who went on to become the premier of Alberta. 4. The first Grey Cup game was played in Toronto on 1909-12-04 at Rosedale Field. Name *either* team involved. Be specific. 5. In the 1957 Grey Cup game in Toronto, Hamilton defensive back Ray "Bibbles" Bawel picked off his second pass of the game with a clear path to the end zone, be he did not score a touchdown. Why not? 6. Who holds the CFL record for all-time passing yards with 79,816? He retired in 2014 at age 41. 7. Give the city and team name of the only team *not* based in Canada that has won the Grey Cup. 8. The phrases "double blue" and "boatmen" are synonymous with the Toronto Argonauts. Okay, so they started as a rowing club, but why did they choose the double-blue uniform colors? 9. Name the stadium that stood at the Pacific National Exhibition site at Hastings Park in Vancouver, where the BC Lions played until 1982. 10. The Calgary Stampeders celebrate touchdowns by racing their touchdown horse down the sidelines. How do the Ottawa Redblacks celebrate touchdowns at their home stadium? -- Mark Brader, Toronto, msb@vex.net "History tells us that the Boston 'T' Party was succeeded the next day by the Boston 'U' Party, where American rebels yanked all the extraneous U's out of words like 'colour' and threw them into Boston Harbour. Harbor. Whatever." --Adam Beneschan My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Jun 01 10:41PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:bZqdnZS4caLr4EjDnZ2dnUU7- > measurement it refers to, from the handout list: > 1. What is defined as a measure of capacity for wine equal to > 63 US gallons? Hogshead > 2. What measure, defined as the amount of land tillable in one > plowing season, is equal to about 15 acres? Li; Arpent > 3. What is defined in computing as a 4-bit aggregation, or half > an octet? Nibble > 4. What is defined as 500,000 Twitter followers? Wheaton > 5. What is defined as a length equal to exactly 5'7" -- the height > of an MIT freshman in 1958 when he was used to measure the > length of the Harvard Bridge between Boston and Cambridge? Smoot > 6. What is defined as a measure of time equal to 15 minutes? Warhol > 7. What is defined as the smallest detectable movement of a > computer mouse? Bloit > 8. What is defined as the risk equal to a one-in-a-million chance > of death? Micromort > 9. What is defined as the amount of odor of one standard person? Pood > 10. What unit of measure is, or has been, used by physicists to > talk about gravitational acceleration? Gal > gloves in freezing conditions and was hampered by the opinion > that he could not win in cold weather after losing two Western > Finals at home in Calgary. Doug Flutie > 7. Give the city and team name of the only team *not* based in > Canada that has won the Grey Cup. Baltimore CFL Colts -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jun 01 10:42PM > * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - Unusual Units of Measurement > 1. What is defined as a measure of capacity for wine equal to > 63 US gallons? butt; hogshead > 2. What measure, defined as the amount of land tillable in one > plowing season, is equal to about 15 acres? oxgang > 3. What is defined in computing as a 4-bit aggregation, or half > an octet? nibble > 4. What is defined as 500,000 Twitter followers? Wheaton > 5. What is defined as a length equal to exactly 5'7" -- the height > of an MIT freshman in 1958 when he was used to measure the > length of the Harvard Bridge between Boston and Cambridge? Smoot > 6. What is defined as a measure of time equal to 15 minutes? jiffy > 7. What is defined as the smallest detectable movement of a > computer mouse? smidgen > 8. What is defined as the risk equal to a one-in-a-million chance > of death? micromort > 9. What is defined as the amount of odor of one standard person? hobo power > 10. What unit of measure is, or has been, used by physicists to > talk about gravitational acceleration? slug > * Game 8, Round 8 - Canadiana Sports - The CFL > 4. The first Grey Cup game was played in Toronto on 1909-12-04 at > Rosedale Field. Name *either* team involved. Be specific. Toronto Argonauts; Ottawa Roughriders -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 01 05:10PM -0500 Mark Brader: > 1. William Shockley earned wide notoriety in the 1960s and 1970s > for his racial beliefs. But in 1956 he shared a Nobel Prize > in Physics for developing what? Transistors, and semiconductors generally. 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, Joshua, Pete, and Dan Tilque. > 2. Which Prime Minister of Poland remains better known as a > concert pianist? Jan Paderewski. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Pete. > 3. Which prominent politician opened a supper club, Le Vaisseau > d'Or, in Montreal's Windsor Hotel in 1969? Jean Drapeau. (Mayor there 1954-57 and 1960-86.) > 4. Which decorated American war hero pursued a career as a B-movie > actor, taking the lead role in his own life story? Audie Murphy. ("To Hell and Back" (1955).) 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Pete, and Calvin. > 5. Martin Luther, a religious reformer, dabbled in music. What was > his greatest musical hit, still in use today in most Protestant > denominations? "A Mighty Fortress" ("Ein' Feste Burg"). Also accepting "Away in a Manger", although the attribution to Luther is dubious. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Pete. > 6. Moe Berg gathered intelligence for the OSS, the predecessor of > the CIA, during World War II. How was he employed in the 1920s > and early 1930s? Baseball player. (Usually a catcher, mostly for the White Sox, Senators, and Red Sox.) 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Pete, and Dan Tilque. > 7. Which Tory MP and ambassador to the Czech Republic first made > headlines in Canada as a figure skater? Otto Jelinek. > 8. George Bernard Shaw is best remembered as a playwright. But what > profession did he pursue in the late 1880s and early 1890s > under the pseudonym Corno di Bassetto? Music critic. 4 for Joshua. > 9. Which author of plays featuring the character Vanek also served > as the first President of the Czech Republic? Vaclav Havel. 4 for everyone -- Erland, Dan Blum, Joshua, Pete, Calvin, and Dan Tilque. > 10. Which defensive end for the New York Giants pursued a media > career on "Good Morning America" and other television shows? Michael Strahan. 4 for Joshua and Pete. > 1. Photo A. Site of one of the seven ancient Christian churches > of Asia, this Roman building was a public library begun in the > time of Hadrian. Turkey. (It's the Library -- and tomb -- of Celsus, in Ephesus, near present-day Selçuk.) 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, Joshua, Pete, and Dan Tilque. 3 for Calvin. > 2. Photo B (decoy). France. (Pont du Gard, an aqueduct bridge between Avignon and Nîmes.) Pete got this. > 3. Photo C (decoy). Germany. (Black Gate, in Trier.) > 4. Photo D. Built entirely without nails, this Buddhist temple > was founded in 778. The present buildings date from 1633. Japan. (Kiyo Mizu-Dera, in Kyoto.) 4 for Joshua, Pete, and Dan Tilque. 3 for Calvin. 2 for Dan Blum. > 5. Photo E. This stone city was constructed in the 11th century > was abandoned in the 15th century. Zimbabwe. (Great Zimbabwe, near Masvingo.) 4 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque. > from fire several times, with the most recent reconstruction > dating to 1702. The foreign merchants who used this building > were expelled from the country in 1754. Norway. (Bryggen, the Hanseatic League's trading post in Bergen.) 4 for Erland and Dan Tilque. As Erland noted, "this building" should have been in the plural. > 7. Photo G (decoy). Syria. (Palmyra.) 4 for Pete. > was designated in its entirety due to its Baroque architecture. > The municipality was the most populous in Latin America, in > the 18th century. Brazil. (Ouro Preto, gold mining town near Belo Horizonte.) 4 for Joshua. > 9. Photo I. A royal residence from 1732, this building contains > 1,500 rooms and 117 staircases, all in the Elizabethan Baroque > style. (No, that is not a typo!) Russia. (The Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, now part of the Hermitage.) 4 for Joshua, Pete, and Calvin. > culture and learning. A legendary city, it was a center for > the trade in both salt and gold. Remember, we need the name > of the country. Mali. (Timbuktu.) 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Pete, and Dan Tilque. > 11. Photo K. This chapel completed in 1215 is part of the monastery > complex begun by Gregory the Illuminator. Armenia. (Geghardavank.) 2 for Joshua. > 12. Photo L. This is the largest Buddhist temple complex in the > world, built in the 9th century by the Sailendra dynasty. Indonesia. (Borobudur, near Yogyakarta.) 4 for Pete. > 13. Photo M. This church honoring St. George was dug out of the > living rock, as they say, in the late 12th century. Ethiopia. (At Lalibela.) 4 for Pete and Calvin. The last two sites were also "dug out of the living rock": > 14. Photo N (decoy). Jordan. (Petra, near Wadi Musa. ObMovie: "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade".) Joshua and Pete got this. > 15. Photo O (decoy). India. (Elephanta Cave, near Mumbai.) Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 8 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS TOPICS-> Geo Lit Mis His Joshua Kreitzer 24 28 32 22 106 Pete Gayde 31 15 28 28 102 Dan Blum 12 20 24 14 70 "Calvin" 11 32 8 14 65 Dan Tilque 24 4 12 20 60 Erland Sommarskog 22 0 8 8 38 -- Mark Brader | "...so I'm going to be a good boy till the New Year Toronto | when a new issue of luck is handed out." msb@vex.net | --Robert Bannister My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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