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| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 07 09:39PM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2006-01-09, 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. For further information see my recent companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)". In this first game the usual QFTCI scoring does not apply: you are allowed up to 3 guesses on each questions, but will be penalized for extra guesses after the correct answer. For the exact scoring and other details, see the companion posting. 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. As usual in QFTCI, please post all your answers in one posting. (Quote the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal the correct answers in about 3 days. 1. What is a lusophone? 2. We're going to list the names of most of the teams in a certain league. You simply have to tell us what sport they """play""". * the Saints and the Demons; * the Lions, the Tigers, and the Cats; * the Eagles, the Hawks, the Crows, the Swans, and the Magpies; * the Bombers, the Dockers, and the Power. 3. This actor was born Krishna Bhanji, the son of an Indian father and a half-Jewish mother. By what name """is""" he better known? 4. What is the name for a formal papal decree to which a traditionally a metal seal was appended, a practice followed today only on the most solemn occasions? 5. Name the Italian verse form used by Dante, and also by Shelley in "Ode to the West Wind": it consists of a series of three-line stanzas followed by a final couplet. 6. Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown had a bestseller with a 2003 book. Name the book. 7. What """is the movie""" that Atom Egoyan won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes for? 8. What number will """this year"""'s Super Bowl be? You must, of course, answer with a Roman numeral. *Note*: for this question you must give the answer that was correct when this game was originally played. 9. What is the Apgar scale used for? 10. One time when mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan was ill, he was visited by his friend and mentor G.H. Hardy. By way of chit-chat, Hardy mentioned the 4-digit number of the taxicab he'd arrived in, and said it wasn't a very interesting number; but Ramanujan disagreed. *Either* tell us the number, *or* what Ramanujan said was so interesting about it. 11. """In March""", France, Germany and other European governments and corporations are set to release "Quaero" -- that's Latin for "I seek". What is Quaero? 12. Name either of the actors who have portrayed the Doctor in the """recent""" revival of "Doctor Who". *Note*: Now you can name anyone who has had a regular role as the Doctor since the show was revived. 13. In what field of accomplishment """is""" the French prize called the César awarded? 14. Melissa McCarthy, Keiko Agena, Yanic Truesdale, Kelly Bishop, and Edward Herrmann all """play""" supporting roles in which TV comedy-drama that """has been running""" since 2000? 15. Name the Canadian poet who wrote the novel "King of Egypt, King of Dreams". 16. Who was the Polish-born makeup artist for the Russian royal ballet who moved to the US and started a cosmetics firm that was closely associated with Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s? The firm """is now""" owned by Procter and Gamble. 17. You have three ordinary-size postcards to mail, one to Alberta, one to Alabama, and one to Albania. If you don't send them until a week from """today""", how much *more* will the postage cost you, ignoring tax? *Note*: As usual you may give the correct answer to the question as of the original game date, but if you prefer to give an answer that's more up-to-date, then you must give the answer that was applicable on the *same date in 2020* as the original game in 2006. In either case, for this question you must *say* whether you are giving the 2006 or the 2020 answer. 18. What was Norman Mailer's first novel, published in 1948? 19. What US secretary of state was responsible for the Alaska Purchase? 20. Until 1942 all Canadian coins were circular; since then, some have had other shapes. Name all the denominations that at one time or another have not been circular. You must give the exact list; any partial answer is wrong. -- Mark Brader | "To judge by this film, the life of a cold war spy consists Toronto | of sitting for endless hours in soundproof rooms with peo- msb@vex.net | ple you do not particularly like, waiting for something to | happen. Sort of like being a movie critic." --Roger Ebert My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Jun 08 04:52AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:HMudnYd4Z-JhOUDDnZ2dnUU7- > 1. What is a lusophone? someone who speaks Portuguese > * the Lions, the Tigers, and the Cats; > * the Eagles, the Hawks, the Crows, the Swans, and the Magpies; > * the Bombers, the Dockers, and the Power. Australian rules football > 3. This actor was born Krishna Bhanji, the son of an Indian father > and a half-Jewish mother. By what name """is""" he better > known? Ben Kingsley > 4. What is the name for a formal papal decree to which a > traditionally a metal seal was appended, a practice > followed today only on the most solemn occasions? bull > 5. Name the Italian verse form used by Dante, and also by Shelley > in "Ode to the West Wind": it consists of a series of three-line > stanzas followed by a final couplet. terza rima > 6. Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown had a bestseller with a > 2003 book. Name the book. "True Story, Swear to God" (?) > 7. What """is the movie""" that Atom Egoyan won the Grand Jury > Prize at Cannes for? "The Sweet Hereafter" > of course, answer with a Roman numeral. *Note*: for this > question you must give the answer that was correct when this > game was originally played. XL > 9. What is the Apgar scale used for? rating the health of a newborn baby > he'd arrived in, and said it wasn't a very interesting number; > but Ramanujan disagreed. *Either* tell us the number, *or* > what Ramanujan said was so interesting about it. 1729 > """recent""" revival of "Doctor Who". *Note*: Now you can > name anyone who has had a regular role as the Doctor since > the show was revived. Tennant > 13. In what field of accomplishment """is""" the French prize > called the César awarded? film > 14. Melissa McCarthy, Keiko Agena, Yanic Truesdale, Kelly Bishop, > and Edward Herrmann all """play""" supporting roles in which > TV comedy-drama that """has been running""" since 2000? "Gilmore Girls" > ballet who moved to the US and started a cosmetics firm that > was closely associated with Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s? > The firm """is now""" owned by Procter and Gamble. Max Factor > 18. What was Norman Mailer's first novel, published in 1948? "The Naked and the Dead" > 19. What US secretary of state was responsible for the Alaska > Purchase? Seward -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jun 08 12:14AM -0700 On 6/7/20 7:39 PM, Mark Brader wrote: > 1. What is a lusophone? speaker of Portuguese > 4. What is the name for a formal papal decree to which a > traditionally a metal seal was appended, a practice > followed today only on the most solemn occasions? bull > of course, answer with a Roman numeral. *Note*: for this > question you must give the answer that was correct when this > game was originally played. XL > 18. What was Norman Mailer's first novel, published in 1948? > 19. What US secretary of state was responsible for the Alaska > Purchase? Seward > some have had other shapes. Name all the denominations that > at one time or another have not been circular. You must > give the exact list; any partial answer is wrong. nickel, dollar -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 07 09:23PM -0500 On 2020-03-14, I wrote: | MI5 have decided it's safest to postpone the rest of the Spring 2020 | season, so QFTCIMI520 Current Events will not be appearing again in | two weeks. Presumably it will resume when the Inquisition does. Two days later Toronto Public Health decided we were right, and demanded the closure of all restaurants, pubs, bars, clubs, etc. (except for take-out service) effective the next day -- which was St. Patrick's Day, when they would have been particularly busy. So if we had gone ahead with Game 9 of the January-April season, Game 10 would still have been canceled or postponed. All of our league venues are still closed, and even if they are soon allowed to reopen with customers required to space themselves out, it's still not obvious whether the league will attempt to resume play under such conditions. So there's no guessing when the current season will resume. | As for non-current-events rounds, I have 27 more sets of QFTCIMI520 | questions from Games 2-8 ready to use, which at the current rate of | posting should last us here until the end of May. Considering how little traffic rec.games.trivia has these days, I'm not going to stop posting QFTCI just because there are no new questions. It's been 12 years since I started doing this, and I'm simply going to start over, reusing the same questions (sometimes with additional edits) that I posted previously. If you can remember the answers after that amount of time, when bully for you! 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. Now, the first game I'm going to repost will be one that did not have the usual rules. On 2008-02-04, I posted this introduction to the league and to QFTCI: | The Canadian Inquisition is a team trivia league that plays in Toronto | pubs. It's a cooperative league, whose teams take turns to write and | ask the questions that the others answer. My team is the Usual Suspects, | and a couple of years ago we put together a special non-team game that | contained 101 questions. With the concurrence of our team captain, | Rodney Boyd, I'm going to post those questions here in 5 sets over the | next while. | | Since people seem to like posting answers in the newsgroup these days, | I'll go along with that style. I won't respond to each individual | posting of answers the way Robert Jen does for his quizzes, though. | (Well, I may do so if I see a partial answer posted, to ask for more.) (Posting followups to ask entrants to clarify proved impractical, so I soon substituted the method of anticipating partial answers and posting a likely "more specific" question in rot13.) | Naturally, I expect people to answer based on their own knowledge and | nothing else. | | When these questions were originally used, they were asked on a | time-limited basis but several players were allowed to guess in | succession on the same question until someone got it right, even | including multiple guesses by the same player. For your interest, the scoring rules in the original game (there were also timing rules, but never mind that) were as follows: Each question was first posed to a specific player, and if they didn't get it, it went to the other players in turn until somebody did. (The players were called on in a specific order defined by a stack of cards in the hands of the scorekeeper -- me -- and changed during the game). The scoring was 3 points if the first player got it, 2 if someone else did, and -1 for a wrong answer -- to avoid the penalty each player had the right to pass. If nobody got it, it went around a second time, this time for 1 point and no penalty for wrong answers. The right to be asked the question first was advanced from one player to the next on each new question, but in order of seating. | What I'll do to maintain the spirit of that rule is to say that | when you post your answers, you may give up to 3 guesses on | any question. That means 3 guesses in the same answer-posting, | not successive tries. And there'll be a penalty for guessing | more times than you need to. | | Specifically, the scoring on each question will be: | * 6 points for a right answer on the first guess | * 3 points for a right answer on the second guess | * 1 point for a right answer on the third guess | * -1 point for each additional guess after the | correct answer. And this scoring is what I'll be using again this time around. | So if the question is "What is the capital of Canada", the answer | "Ottawa" scores 6; "Montreal or Ottawa" scores 3; "Montreal, | Ottawa, or Toronto" scores 3-1 = 2; and "Five" is right out. | | If I ask for a person, just give their surname unless I say | otherwise. If you give unnecessary detail such as a first name, | you have to be right. | | I'll reveal the answers and tabulate scores about 3 days after | each posting, and then continue with the next set of questions. | I'll keep cumulative scores through the whole set of 101 | questions. } | Have fun. } | After the 5 sets of questions from this old game, I will probably | post other question sets that the Suspects wrote for past regular | Canadian Inquisition games. If I do, the scoring will be different. And I similarly expect to do that again. So, once again: Have fun. -- Mark Brader | "...it doesn't even fulfill the most basic Toronto | requirements for a good text editor, such as msb@vex.net | having a built-in mail reader." -- Per Abrahamsen My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 07 09:15PM -0500 Mark Brader: > and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information > see my 2019-10-16 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian > Inquisition (QFTCI*)". Game 8 is over, the last "new" game before we sink into reruns, and JOSHUA KREITZER is the winner by a goodish margin. Hearty congratulations, sir! > by Albanian sex traffickers as soon as she steps out of Charles > de Gaulle Airport. Luckily her dad's particular set of skills > helps get her back. "Taken". 4 for Joshua, Pete, Dan Blum, and Calvin. > surface, only to find that their boat has left them stranded, > miles from the Australian coast, surrounded by sharks and > jellyfish. "Open Water". Sorry, no points for "Blue Waters". > perfect family is having lunch. The husband sprints away, > taking his phone and his gloves, but leaving behind his wife > and children. "Force Majeure". > prospect of no-strings sex with the eager locals, so it's hard > to be all that upset when instead they are maimed with power > drills, chainsaws, and blowtorches. "Hostel". 4 for Joshua. > trip-of-a-lifetime implanted into his brain. Unfortunately, > the process reveals that he is really a secret agent with a > history of Martian missions. "Total Recall". 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Calvin. > heating, no food and no access to the finest wines available to > humanity, one of them says, "We've gone on holiday by mistake!" > Then they strangle, half-pluck, and cook a chicken. "Withnail and I". 4 for Dan Blum and Calvin. > 7. 1977. Cave-dwelling cannibals attack, the Carter family fights > back, and as the trailer's peerless tag line puts it: "The > lucky ones died first." "The Hills Have Eyes". 4 for Joshua. > A New Year's Eve party is in full swing on board when an aging > ship is capsized by a tsunami and the passengers experience > "hell upside down". "The Poseidon Adventure". 4 for Joshua, Pete, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque. > and confined to her hotel room on her Miami Beach honeymoon. > Her husband Lenny then meets a blonde goddess who he imagines > is his soulmate. "The Heartbreak Kid". 4 for Joshua. > couple travel to a fabled Swedish festival where a seemingly > pastoral paradise transforms into a sinister, dread-soaked > nightmare as the locals reveal their terrifying agenda. "Midsommar". 4 for Joshua and Erland. > ** Game 8, Round 10 - Challenge Round of the TTC Subway Stations In the original game the audio round was the easiest in the game, the current-events round was next-easiest, and this one was third-easiest. > * A. Geography, or "Museum" > A1. In what city is the Van Gogh Museum located? Amsterdam. 4 for Joshua, Pete, Dan Blum, and Erland. 3 for Calvin. > A2. In what city is the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum located? Jerusalem. 4 for Joshua and Pete. Sorry, no points for "Israel"! > B1. In what popular 1990s TV show was the next-door neighbor > Wilson's face never shown in full? Instead it was always > obscured by a tall fence between yards, or some other object. "Home Improvement". 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Calvin. For a long time another thing not fully revealed was Wilson's name. It turned out to be Wilson Wilson. > B2. In what popular 2004-12 TV show was the title character's > best friend an oncologist named James Wilson? "House, MD". 4 for Joshua and Pete. > We will give you three characters from the same Jane Austen > novel. You give the title. > C1. Jane Fairfax, Frank Churchill, George Knightley. "Emma". 4 for Calvin. 3 for Joshua and Dan Blum. > C2. Col. Brandon, Elinor Dashwood, John Willoughby. "Sense and Sensibility". 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Calvin. > * D. Sports, or "University" > Name the men's basketball teams of these universities. > D1. Villanova U. Wildcats. 4 for Joshua and Pete. > D2. Gonzaga U. Bulldogs. 4 for Dan Tilque. Sorry, "Zags" is a nickname. > John F. Kennedy's PT Boat 109, slicing it in two and > igniting its fuel tanks. In what *Pacific island group* > did this incident occur? Solomon Is. 4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque. > E2. Name the book of short biographies for which Kennedy won > the Pulitzer Prize. "Profiles in Courage". 4 for Joshua, Pete, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque. 3 for Calvin. > Zoo escaped and evaded capture for weeks. Due to their > outlaw exploits, they were given nicknames. Give *either* > nickname. Bonnie, Clyde. 4 for Dan Tilque (the hard way) and Calvin. > large in the surrounding neighborhood for several weeks > before returning to the zoo on its own. What kind of > creature escaped? Peacock. > * G. For Fun, but for No Points (or Switches) I was hoping Stephen would pop up and get these. > G1. Which one of category titles A-F in this round is not in > fact the name of a TTC subway station? University. It's the name of part of a line, or part of the name of the line. > G2. Which two of the five actual stations in the category titles > are closest together geographically, and opened on the > same day? Jane and High Park (about 1 mile apart, opened 1968-05-11 with the extension from Keele to Islington). As to the others, Museum station opened in 1963, Wilson in 1978, and Kennedy in 1980. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 8 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST TOPICS-> Geo Lit Mis His Sci Can Ent Cha SIX Joshua Kreitzer 24 28 32 22 28 4 28 35 175 Pete Gayde 31 15 28 28 7 0 8 20 130 Dan Blum 12 20 24 14 22 0 16 19 115 Dan Tilque 24 4 12 20 28 0 8 20 112 "Calvin" 11 32 8 14 -- -- 12 22 99 Erland Sommarskog 22 0 8 8 8 0 4 4 54 Bruce Bowler -- -- -- -- 24 4 -- -- 28 -- Mark Brader, Toronto "C and C++ are two different languages. msb@vex.net That's UK policy..." -- Clive Feather My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jun 07 01:25PM -0700 On 6/6/20 10:18 AM, Erland Sommarskog wrote: > Portland does not have an NFL team. I've been riding the train from Portland > to Seattle a Sunday morning when there was a Seahawks game. The train was > packed. Yes, Portland sports fans are a bit inconsistent about Seattle. If the two cities have teams in the same league, they're total rivals. That's the case between the Timbers and Sounders, which is the biggest rivalry in MLS, and was the case when Seattle still had an NBA team. But when they don't, Portland fans are mostly Seattle fans (Seahawks in the NFL and Mariners in MLB). If Portland ever gets an MLB team (which many people have wanted for a long time), they'll immediately have a rivalry with Seattle. It can't be helped. -- Dan Tilque |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jun 07 01:28PM -0700 On 6/6/20 12:19 PM, Mark Brader wrote: > Dan Tilque: >> No, the *other* other kind of football. > You must be talking about some sport other than football. Yes, the game played by Toronto FC. Where FC stands for 'football club'. -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 07 05:38PM -0500 Dan Tilque: >>> No, the *other* other kind of football. Mark Brader: >> You must be talking about some sport other than football. Dan Tilque: > Yes, the game played by Toronto FC. Where FC stands for 'football club'. Etymological fallacy. :-) -- Mark Brader Then, putting them together, we get Toronto "Politicians lie in cast-iron sinks". msb@vex.net -- Tortoise (Douglas R. Hofstadter) |
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