| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 12 12:13AM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2007-01-29, 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 2020-06-23 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 originally wrote one of these rounds. * Game 2, Round 7 - Canadiana Arts - Canadian Painters http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/2/art.pdf At the above URL is a handout in PDF showing some paintings by Canadian artists. *Note*: none of them is by Tom Thomson, or Emily Carr, or any member of the Group of Seven! For the first six questions, we'll tell you the artist and ask you to give us the number of the painting. 1. Jack Bush. 2. Harold Town. 3. Kazuo Nakamura. 4. Greg Curnoe. 5. Attila Richard Lukacs. 6. David Milne. For the last four, we'll give you the number of a painting and you name the artist. Since these questions would spoil the first six questions, I'll present them in rot13. Decode them after you've finished with the first six. 7. Jub cnvagrq ahzore svsgrra? 8. Gur cnvagre bs ahzore frira jnf jub? 9. Cnvagvat ahzore avar jnf qbar ol jub? 10. Rvtug vf gur ahzore bs gur ynfg cnvagvat jubfr negvfg lbh zhfg anzr. 11. Jub'f ba svefg? :-) * Game 2, Round 8 - History - Assassination Failures This round is about people who tried to assassinate someone and either killed the wrong person or nobody at all. 1. Name the man who shot Pope John Paul II. 2. Frederick Zangara was so short he had to stand on a chair for his assassination attempt, which did not help his aim. One of his shots killed Anton Cermak, the mayor of Chicago, but who was he trying to kill? 3. This man who led his country as prime minister and then president from 1958 to 1969 survived about 30 assassination attempts during that period, mostly by people who wanted a certain colony to stay a colony. Name him. 4. Which American politician did Arthur Bremer shoot in 1972? He was running for the presidency, but in the end did not gain his party's nomination. 5. This man led a conspiracy to kill the King of England and many politicians as part of a planned revolution in 1605. 6. In July 1944 a conspiracy of army officers tried to kill Adolf Hitler with what type of weapon? 7. Name either of the women who tried to shoot Gerald Ford in September 1975. 8. The White House was closed for renovations, so it was Blair House that Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola tried to shoot their way into and kill which president? 9. This man was shot in the chest by John Schrank while -- and because -- he was campaigning for a third term of office as US President. The injury was so slight that he went on with his speech as planned. 10. Name the man who shot Ronald Reagan. After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh fnvq "Ebbfriryg" sbe nal nafjre, jr arrq gur svefg anzr. Cyrnfr tb onpx naq fhccyl vg. -- Mark Brader | "/dev/null institutionalizes a regrettable loss of bits Toronto | that could have been transmitted to mailing lists and msb@vex.net | netnews. Our grandchildren will miss them." --Ritchie My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Jul 12 05:27AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:LaudnV4P5v-NAZfCnZ2dnUU7- > For the first six questions, we'll tell you the artist and ask > you to give us the number of the painting. > 1. Jack Bush. 10; 11 > 2. Harold Town. 12; 13 > 3. Kazuo Nakamura. 14; 15 > 4. Greg Curnoe. 1; 2 > 5. Attila Richard Lukacs. 3; 4 > 6. David Milne. 5; 6 > six questions, I'll present them in rot13. Decode them after you've > finished with the first six. > 11. Jub'f ba svefg? :-) Lrf, ur vf. > This round is about people who tried to assassinate someone and > either killed the wrong person or nobody at all. > 1. Name the man who shot Pope John Paul II. Mehmet Ali Agca > his assassination attempt, which did not help his aim. One of > his shots killed Anton Cermak, the mayor of Chicago, but who > was he trying to kill? Franklin D. Roosevelt > from 1958 to 1969 survived about 30 assassination attempts during > that period, mostly by people who wanted a certain colony to > stay a colony. Name him. Charles De Gaulle > 4. Which American politician did Arthur Bremer shoot in 1972? > He was running for the presidency, but in the end did not gain > his party's nomination. George Wallace > 5. This man led a conspiracy to kill the King of England and many > politicians as part of a planned revolution in 1605. Guy Fawkes > 6. In July 1944 a conspiracy of army officers tried to kill Adolf > Hitler with what type of weapon? bomb > 7. Name either of the women who tried to shoot Gerald Ford in > September 1975. Lynette Fromme > 8. The White House was closed for renovations, so it was Blair > House that Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola tried to shoot > their way into and kill which president? Harry Truman > because -- he was campaigning for a third term of office as > US President. The injury was so slight that he went on with > his speech as planned. Theodore Roosevelt > 10. Name the man who shot Ronald Reagan. John Hinckley Jr. -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jul 12 11:30AM +0200 > from 1958 to 1969 survived about 30 assassination attempts during > that period, mostly by people who wanted a certain colony to > stay a colony. Name him. Charles de Gaulle > 4. Which American politician did Arthur Bremer shoot in 1972? > He was running for the presidency, but in the end did not gain > his party's nomination. George Wallace > 5. This man led a conspiracy to kill the King of England and many > politicians as part of a planned revolution in 1605. Guy Fawkes > because -- he was campaigning for a third term of office as > US President. The injury was so slight that he went on with > his speech as planned. Theodore Roosevelt |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 12 12:10AM -0500 Mark Brader: > the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)". > I did not write either of these rounds. > * Game 2, Round 4 - Miscellaneous - Buddhism Yeah, I thought this was very hard too -- in fact, in the original game it was the hardest round of the entire season. > 1. The historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, was born in the > sixth century BC, in a village in what modern-day country? Nepal. 4 for Joshua and Stephen. > compiled by various monastic councils in the centuries after > the Buddha's death, and eventually written down on dried palm > leaves. In what language was this canon written? Pali. 4 for Joshua. > the Buddha preached his first sermon in an area called the > Deer Park, near what northern Indian city, regarded as holy > in Hinduism? Varanasi (a.k.a. Benares). 4 for Joshua and Stephen. > 4. Present-day Buddhism can be divided into three main branches; > Zen Buddhism, for example, is a sub-set of one of these main > branches. Name any one of the main branches. Mahayana (or "Great Vehicle"); Theravada (or "Hinayana" or "Lesser Vehicle"); Tantrayana (or "Vajrayana", "Mantrayana", or "Tantric Buddhism"). 4 for Joshua (the hard way) and Stephen. > certain beings, despite reaching enlightenment, choose to > postpone their own attainment of Nirvana in order to help the > unenlightened obtain liberation. What is such a being called? Bodhisattva. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. > 6. The Buddha taught a number of so-called Noble Truths regarding > suffering. How many? 4. 4 for Stephen. > 7. What is the Buddhist (that is to say, Sanskrit and <answer 2>) > term for the cycle of birth, suffering, death, and rebirth that > the Buddha's teaching attempts to put an end to? Samsara. 4 for Joshua and Stephen. > 8. Who was the colorful religious writer, sometime Episcopalian > priest, and psychedelic drug-taker whose book "The Way of Zen" > was published in 1957? Alan Watts. 4 for Stephen. > 9. Speaking of Zen, what is the Zen term for enlightenment, in > either Japanese or Chinese? Satori or Kensho; Wu. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Stephen (the hard way). > 10. What is the significance of Tenzin Gyatso in the world of > Buddhism? He is the current Dalai Lama (still true). 4 for Joshua and Stephen. I really should have written """is""" in the question, but I decided it was important not to give away that the fact that this was a question whose answer could change with time. Sorry, but as I said, it hasn't yet changed anyway. > would've had.) > Some answers may repeat. > 1. "Jaws". 1975 (accepting 1973-77). 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Stephen, and Pete. > 2. "Doctor Zhivago". 1965 (accepting 1962-68). 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Stephen, and Pete. > 3. "Ben-Hur" (the version with Charlton Heston). 1959 (accepting 1956-62). 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Stephen, and Pete. > 4. "Ghostbusters" (the original version). 1984 (accepting 1982-86). 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Erland, and Stephen. > 5. "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". 1969 (accepting 1967-71). 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Stephen, and Pete. > 6. "The Towering Inferno". 1974 (accepting 1972-76). 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Stephen, and Pete. > 7. "Home Alone" (the original movie). 1990 (accepting 1988-92). 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Stephen. > 8. "The Robe". 1953 (accepting 1950-56). 4 for Joshua, Stephen, and Pete. > 9. "One Hundred and One Dalmatians" (the original, animated movie). 1961 (accepting 1958-64). 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Stephen. 3 for Pete. > 10. "Sleeping Beauty" (the animated movie from Disney). 1959 (accepting 1956-62). 4 for Joshua and Stephen. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 2 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS TOPICS-> Lei Sci Mis Ent Stephen Perry 39 39 32 40 150 Dan Blum 40 31 8 24 103 Joshua Kreitzer 4 24 32 40 100 Dan Tilque 39 32 0 16 87 Pete Gayde 27 12 0 27 66 Bruce Bowler 28 32 -- -- 60 "Calvin" 28 16 -- -- 44 Erland Sommarskog 8 15 0 4 27 -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years." msb@vex.net | -- Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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