- RQFTCI07 Game 1 Rounds 2-3: conquerors, similar titles - 1 Update
- Reposted Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*) - 1 Update
- RQFTCI06 questions 81-101 answers - 1 Update
- CQ #604 - 2 Updates
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 23 12:45AM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2007-01-22, and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written by members of the Usual Suspects, but have been reformatted and may have been retyped and/or edited by me. I will reveal the correct answers in about 3 days. We are back to the usual QFTCI rules: you are allowed up to two guesses on each questions, but if you give both a right and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty. For further information see my recent companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)". In some cases either the answers or the facts stated as current in the question have changed since the question was written. I've tried to call attention to such possibilities by inserting *tripled quotation marks* around words that were correct at the time of the original game -- for example, """now""" or """is""" (pretty much any present-tense verb may be marked). I will always accept the answer that was correct when the question was originally asked. If the facts have changed in such a way that a different answer is now correct (rather than some other sort of change), I will also accept the new correct answer -- unless there is an explicit note requiring otherwise. See the companion posting for further details. I wrote one of these two rounds. * Game 1, Round 2 - History - Conquerors Given the years, and a description of the area conquered and its size, name the conqueror. The sizes are, of course, approximate, and dates are, of course, AD unless otherwise indicated. 1. From 334 to 326 BC, he conquered 2,180,000 square miles of territory, from the Balkans to as far as the Indus River. 2. From 1370 to 1402, he conquered 2,145,000 sq.mi. This included most of the Near East, from the Indus river to the Mediterranean Sea. 3. From 1933 to 1942, conquered 1,370,000 sq.mi., an area that included most of continental Europe, from the English Channel to the outskirts of Moscow, and from North Africa to Norway. 4. From 1796 to 1810, he conquered 720,000 sq.mi., including France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, and Spain. 5. From 997 to 1030, he conquered 680,000 sq.mi. His empire extended from the Indian Ocean to the Amu Darya River, and from the Tigris east to the Ganges River. 6. From 1531 to 1541, he conquered 480,000 sq.mi. He subjugated the Incan empire, which extended from modern Ecuador south through to Bolivia. 7. From 1519 to 1526, he conquered 315,000 sq.mi., defeating the Aztecs. He seized Central and South Mexico and later subjugated Guatemala and Honduras to Spanish rule. 8. From 1206 to 1227, this man conquered 4,860,000 sq.mi. His empire spanned from China to Southern Siberia and Central Asia. 9. From 433 to 453, he conquered 1,450,000 sq.mi. He ruled an empire encompassing Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Russian plain. 10. From 559 to 539 BC, he conquered 2,090,000 sq.mi. He conquered the Median (or Medean) Empire, Babylonia, Assyria, Syria, Palestine, the Indus Valley, and Southern Turkestan. After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Ba rnpu bs gur *ynfg guerr* dhrfgvbaf jr arrq gur anzr naq fbhoevdhrg, be gur svefg naq ynfg anzr, nf nccyvpnoyr, sbe shyy cbvagf. Vs lbh tnir bayl bar anzr ba nal thrff ba nal bs gurfr guerr dhrfgvbaf, cyrnfr tb onpx naq fhccyl zber. Bzvggvat n erdhverq fbhoevdhrg jvyy fpber nf "nyzbfg pbeerpg"; bzvggvat n erdhverq anzr jvyy or pbafvqrerq jebat. * Game 1, Round 3 - Entertainment - Not to be Confused With This round was inspired by the near-simultanous release """last month""" of movies both involving the aftermath of World War II and titled "The Good German" and "The Good Shepherd". For each question we will describe two movies with similar or identical titles, in most cases produced within a few years, and having thematic similarities as well, although none of them are sequels or remakes. You will need to give us *both titles*, if different (we hope the one will be a hint to the other); but at least you won't need to say which movie is which. 1. Two early Alfred Hitchcock thrillers. We want their original release titles, which are the ones people use today. The 1936 movie, starring Sylvia Sidney with Oscar Homolka as the villain, includes what we would now call a terrorist attack on a London bus; the 1942 movie stars Robert Cummings as a man falsely accused of being an enemy agent, and climaxes on the Statue of Liberty's torch. 2. Two hard-hitting dramas whose stories relate to crime in different ways, these movies from 2001 and 2003 won the Best Actress Oscar for Halle Berry and Charlize Theron respectively. 3. In 1964, Sean Connery was James Bond. In 1995 it was Pierce Brosnan. 4. Two movies featuring messages across time. In the 1997 Henry Jaglom film, Victoria Foyt has an odd encounter with an older woman, and then finds herself mysteriously drawn to go to England and meet Stephen Dillane. In 2006, it's Denzel Washington and a more technological type of communication. Both movies have the same title, so we only need one answer. 5. Two foreign-language dramas set among German civilians in the 1940s; we want the titles used in Canada. In the 1990 movie by Agnieszka Holland, a Jewish boy decides to save himself from the Nazis by passing as a Christian and joining the Hitler Youth. The 1991 film, directed by Lars von Trier, features an American whose loyalties are divided when he takes a job on the German railways after the war. 6. Two crime dramas set in 1940s Los Angeles. One was made in 1946, starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, with a screenplay by Raymond Chandler. The other is a 2006 adaptation of a James Ellroy novel, with Josh Hartnett and Scarlett Johansson. 7. Two madcap comedies. The 1931 movie starred the four Marx Brothers on a ship, four years before "A Night at the Opera"; the second movie was from 1952, starring Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers, with Marilyn Monroe appearing as a secretary, and Howard Hawks directed. Their title is the same, so we only need one answer. 8. Two Frank Capra classics combining comedy and a social message. In 1936 Gary Cooper plays an unconventional heir to a fortune; in 1939 Jimmy Stewart plays an unconventional heir to a Senate seat. Jean Arthur co-stars in both movies. The titles have the *same number* of words, but differ in *two places*. 9. Two thrillers. The first begins with a terrorist-style attack and was therefore postponed from a 2001 to a 2002 release; Arnold Schwarzenegger avenges his wife's death by hunting down drug dealers in Colombia and foiling another murder in the US. Then in 2004, Tom Cruise gets into Jamie Foxx's taxicab and soon reveals himself to be a murderer. 10. Two dramas of love and chance. In 1942 Ronald Colman plays a man who suffers amnesia twice, so he has to fall for Greer Garson twice. In 1999, Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas are drawn together when they realize their spouses, both killed in the same plane crash, were having an affair together. -- Mark Brader, Toronto "Big programs are a bug." msb@vex.net -- Geoff Collyer My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 23 12:38AM -0500 2020-06-07, I wrote: > (sometimes with additional edits) that I posted previously. > If you can remember the answers after that amount of time, when > bully for you! The first seasons that I posted in 2008 were ones that were written by the Usual Suspects, and I'm going to continue with those now in the same order that I originally posted them. This means that I'll start with the January-April 2007 season of 10 games and a Final. If the Canadian Inquisition resumes before I finish with season, then I'll return to posting new material from our recent games. * Out-of-Date Questions (This section is repeated from the 2020-06-07 posting) When reposting games I'll put R on the beginning of the previous posting tag and an indication of the original year on the end if it was not there already, e.g. RQFTCI06. Of course it's also possible that for some questions the answers have changed. My general rule in that case will be to accept *either* the answer that was correct when the game was originally played, *or* the current correct answer. If the answer has changed, then you'll need to be aware that some subsidiary information provided as hints within the original question may be out of date. For example, if the original game date was 2006 and the question was "What European city was the home of the most recent summer Olympics?", then you could give the 2006 answer of Athens (2004) or the 2020 answer of Rio de Janeiro (2016), even though Rio is not a European city". In general with questions like this I'll try to call attention to words that might be out of date, by marking them with triple quotation marks. So the actual form of that question when reposted would be something like: "What European city was the home of the """most recent""" summer Olympics?" And the peculiar punctuation is your hint that the facts might have changed. I said *might* be out of date, and *might* have changed, because if you see that punctuation it doesn't mean that the answer *has* changed. It might be that nothing has changed, or it might be that a person referred to in the present tense has died, but the answer is still the same; or anything like that. For example, if the question was "Who """has""" had the most years in office as US president?", Franklin Roosevelt would be the only possible answer. When I post the answer in a case like that, I'll give the answer and put something like "(still true)" or "(died in 2010)" after it. For some questions I will use a different rule, such as requiring the original answer, or requiring you to say which year you are answering for, and in those cases I will include an explicit note. * Procedures and Scoring (This section, however, is repeated from my regular QFTCI introductory posting.) The usual rule in our regular league games is that each question goes to an individual who can answer for 2 points without assistance, and if he misses, he can consult his team and try again for 1 point. If the quizmaster judges that an answer is incomplete, she can ask for more details before ruling the answer right or wrong. To maintain the spirit of these rules, I will say that you can give two answers on every question. But I will penalize you if you give both a right answer and a wrong answer. My scoring is: 4 points - if you answer once and are right (or twice, both right) 3 points - if you guess twice and are right only the first time 2 points - if you guess twice and are right only the second time Bonus points may occasionally be available and will be explained in the relevant round. If you give only one answer, but with only some sort of additional comment, please make it clear that that's what you're doing. If there is any doubt I'll assume that you are giving two answers. If I see more than two answers, the third and any later ones will be ignored. Although there is no rule like this in the Canadian Inquisition, where it makes sense I will accept answers that I think are almost close enough (*more than half right*), with a 1-point penalty. But I will reject answers that I do not think are sufficiently specific, since there is no opportunity to ask for clarification when answers are posted in the newsgroup. If I anticipate the possibility of insufficiently specific answers I will try to provide guidance in a way that does not spoil the questions, such as a note in rot13 to be read after you have answered. You must, of course, answer based on your own knowledge and nothing else. You must post all your answers in a single posting (Except in case of technical difficulties, when emailed answers or multiple postings will be accepted.) Where a person's name is asked for, *normally you need only give the surname*. If you do give another part of the name and you're wrong, your answer is wrong. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "It's easier to deal with 'opposite numbers' msb@vex.net | when you know you cannot trust them." --Chess My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 23 12:25AM -0500 Mark Brader: > have been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information > see my recent companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the > Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)". And this special game is over and by a large margin the winner is JOSHUA KREITZER -- who finished last of 10 entrants when these questions were posted in 2008. Nice improvement! > 81. If you're wiring a house, you might need to buy a single-pole, > double-throw switch. What would you expect them to call this > switch at the hardware store? Two-way or three-way switch. An ordinary light switch is single-pole, single-throw. The single-pole, double-throw switch is the type that you use to control the same light from two places, like both ends of a flight of a stairs. In hardware-store language in Canada it's a two-way switch because it has two "on" positions, or a three-way switch because it has three connections. > 82. Anglophone Riverview and francophone Dieppe """are""" suburbs > of which linguistically divided Canadian city? Moncton. New Brunswick is Canada's only officially bilingual province. (All still true.) 6 for Dan Tilque. > 83. The Literary Review of Canada list of the 100 most influential > Canadian Books, published in 2006, """includes""" one book > about hockey. Give either the book's title or its author. "Hockey Basics" (1973) by Howie Meeker. For an analysis of their decision, see: http://www.hockeybookreviews.com/2008/06/howie-meekers-hockey-basics.html The first half of the list is posted here, with a link to the second half at the bottom: http://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2006/01/the-lrc-100-part-one/ Scanning it, I find that of the 100 books there are only about 20 that I've even heard of, and of those, about 5 that I've actually read (or bought and used, in the case of a reference book). > 84. What Soviet ambassador to Canada inspired Mikhail Gorbachev > to implement his reform policies and later became his close > adviser? Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev. > from at least 51% (typically about 70%) corn with the remainder > being wheat, rye, and malted barley? It is predominantly, > though not exclusively, distilled in Kentucky. Bourbon. 6 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Pete, and Dan Tilque. > 86. Name the rookie driver who placed fourth in the 2005 Indy 500, > becoming a media sensation in the process. Danica Patrick -- a (gasp) woman! 6 for Joshua, Pete, and Dan Tilque. > 87. What country """is""" this? > http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/0/country.png Nicaragua. (Still true.) 6 for Dan Tilque. 3 for Pete. Cf. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/nicaragua_pol_97.jpg > 88. What """is""" the name of the passenger train from here to > Vancouver? The Canadian. (Still true.) > 89. The Gregorian calendar was adopted by much of Europe in 1582. > Within 15 years, when was it adopted in England? 1752 (accepting 1737-1767). The exact date was September 14, which, of course, followed September 2. 6 for Joshua, Erland, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque. > 90. Which community was renamed Iqaluit on 1987-01-01? Frobisher Bay -- then in the NWT, """now""" (and still true) the capital of Nunavut. 6 for Dan Tilque. > 91. Conrad Black's "noble" title """is""" Lord Black of... where? Crossharbour. 6 for Joshua. Still true. He abandoned his Canadian citizenship in order to be able to accept the title, and retains it to this day (he's now 75) despite his criminal conviction. > the supposed goal of members of the satirical pseudo-religion > "Church of the SubGenius"? Or, name the Church's pipe-smoking > prophet. Slack; J.R. "Bob" Dobbs. 6 for Joshua (the hard way), Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque. > 93. Of countries in Africa, which one """contains""" the longest > section of the equator? DR Congo. Still true. 6 for Joshua, Erland, and Dan Blum. > 94. Time magazine named three people as Persons of the Year > for 2005. Name *all* of them. (If you make multiple guesses, > please list three people in each one.) Bono (Paul Hewson) and Bill and Melinda Gates. 6 for Joshua. We originally required first names for the Gateses, but I didn't insist on it here. > 95. Who recorded the jazz album "A Love Supreme"? John Coltrane. 6 for Joshua, Erland, and Pete. > 96. Who or what is Ötzi? The late Neolithic-Chalcolithic "iceman" mummy (anything like this was acceptable) found in a glacier near the Italian-Austrian border. 6 for Joshua, Erland, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque. > 97. In which *city* did the Dada movement originate in 1916, > through the activities of writers such as Hugo Ball and Tristan > Tzara, and artists such as Hans Arp? Zürich. 6 for Joshua. > 98. On May 13, 1940, the new Prime Minister of the UK spoke in the > House of Commons. He said: "I have nothing to offer but > blood..." Finish the sentence. Exact wording required. "...toil, tears and sweat." 6 for Joshua. Churchill had used other variations on of this phrase before, including "blood, sweat and tears", but not in this famous speech. Unfortunately, the American edition of a book containing the speech used the other version of the phrase as its title, which started it on its way to being widely misremembered. > 99. What member of the Presidium of the USSR, formerly Stalin's > secret police chief, was purged and executed in 1953, shortly > after Stalin's death? Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria. On the original posting I accepted "Biera". 6 for Joshua, Erland, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque. > 100. Who invented Esperanto? Ludwik Zamenhof. I accepted "Zamehof". 6 for Joshua and Erland. > 101. Which musician and exponent of so-called "Cowboy Psychedelia" > wrote the Nancy Sinatra hit "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" > and collaborated with Nancy in singing "Some Velvet Morning"? Lee Hazlewood. 6 for Joshua. In this game I'm pretty sure I wrote questions #1, #2, #8, #9, #10, #12, #17, #20, #21, #23, #24, #27, #36, #37, #38, #49, #52, #53, #59, #60, #63, #68, #69, #79, #81, #87, #88, #89, and #98; and I may also have written some of #4, #13, #14, #19, #33, #43, #56, #90, and #91. Scores, if there are no errors: QUESTIONS-> #1-20 #21-40 #41-60 #61-80 #81-101 TOTALS Joshua Kreitzer 90 54 66 36 84 240 Dan Blum 60 42 48 48 36 156 Dan Tilque 24 30 24 34 54 118 Pete Gayde 30 36 41 24 21 107 Erland Sommarskog 0 18 24 30 36 90 "Calvin" 47 -- 18 0 -- 65 These scores may be compared, if you like, with the results from my original posting of these questions in 2008: Stephen Perry 72 50 72 41 44 279 Keith Willoughby 24 18 66 24 41 173 Dan Tilque -- 30 36 36 48 150 Peter Smyth 35 19 48 24 24 150 Marc Dashevsky 33 36 21 6 42 138 Rob Parker 18 30 39 22 24 133 Barbara Bailey 24 24 18 30 24 120 Erland Sommarskog -- 12 34 18 41 105 Jeff Turner 11 12 30 18 24 95 Joshua Kreitzer 6 -- -- -- -- 6 -- Mark Brader "Male got pregnant -- on the first try." Toronto Newsweek article on high-tech conception msb@vex.net November 30, 1987 My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Bruce Bowler <bruce.bowler@gmail.com>: Jun 22 01:08PM On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 15:31:47 -0700, Calvin wrote: > 1 Which legendary guitarist is also known as Slowhand? Eric Clapton > 2 Following the crash landing of an Israeli spacecraft and its > dehydrated payload in April 2019, which almost indestructible creatures > are believed to be living on the Earth's moon? tardigrades > 3 Dubbed the "Subway Vigilante", who shot and wounded four > African-Americans in New York in December 1984, claiming he acted in > self-defence? Bernie Goetz > 4 Megan Rapinoe represents the USA in which sport? Soccer > 5 The Broadway musical American Idiot is a stage adaptation of a 2004 > including The Millionaires Factory, The Silver Doughnut and The Vampire > Kangaroo? > 7 John D. Rockefeller made his fortune in which industry? Oil > 8 Which character from the book Alice's Adventures in > Wonderland frequently utters the catchphrase "Off with his/her head!"? Queen of Hearts > 9 Which country has hosted the Isu-1 Grand Prix office chair race since |
| R. Ess <Chifan@yahoo.com>: Jun 22 08:53AM -0500 On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 15:31:47 -0700 (PDT), Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote: >1 Which legendary guitarist is also known as Slowhand? Eric Clapton >2 Following the crash landing of an Israeli spacecraft and its dehydrated payload in April 2019, which almost indestructible creatures are believed to be living on the Earth's moon? Water Bears >3 Dubbed the "Subway Vigilante", who shot and wounded four African-Americans in New York in December 1984, claiming he acted in self-defence? Bernhard Goetz >4 Megan Rapinoe represents the USA in which sport? Womens Profession Soccer, World Cup Soccer, and Olympic Soccer >5 The Broadway musical American Idiot is a stage adaptation of a 2004 album by what band? Green Day >6 Which investment bank and financial services company has nicknames including The Millionaires Factory, The Silver Doughnut and The Vampire Kangaroo? >7 John D. Rockefeller made his fortune in which industry? Standard Oil Company >8 Which character from the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland frequently utters the catchphrase "Off with his/her head!"? The Queen of Hearts >9 Which country has hosted the Isu-1 Grand Prix office chair race since 2009? Sounds like Isuzu, so I'll go with Japan >10 Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway co-starred in which 1967 film? Bonnie and Clyde ArenEss |
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