- RQFTCI07 Game 2 Rounds 7-8: CanArt and bad assassinations - 5 Updates
- Erland's occasional quiz: Odd one out - 1 Update
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jul 12 02:42PM > * Game 2, Round 7 - Canadiana Arts - Canadian Painters > 1. Jack Bush. 15; 14; 13 > 2. Harold Town. 12; 11; 10 > 3. Kazuo Nakamura. 9; 8; 7 > 4. Greg Curnoe. 6; 5; 4 > 5. Attila Richard Lukacs. 3; 2; 1 > 6. David Milne. 5; 10; 15 > * Game 2, Round 8 - History - Assassination Failures > 1. Name the man who shot Pope John Paul II. 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? Huey Long > 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. Frome > 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. Hinckley -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jul 12 02:46PM > > 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? This didn't affect my answer, but for foture reference I note that Zangara's first name was Giuseppe. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 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): Jul 12 03:06PM -0500 Mark Brader: > > * Game 2, Round 7 - Canadiana Arts - Canadian Painters > > 1. Jack Bush. Dan Blum: > 15; 14; 13 I will score this as two guesses of 15 and 14, and similarly the others. -- Mark Brader "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you Toronto do say can and will be misquoted and used against msb@vex.net you in a future post." -- Tanja Cooper, misquoted |
| swp <stephen.w.perry@gmail.com>: Jul 12 01:27PM -0700 On Sunday, July 12, 2020 at 1:13:57 AM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote: > 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. noted > 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. not painting, I think > 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! boo! > For the first six questions, we'll tell you the artist and ask > you to give us the number of the painting. I am ashamed to say that I remember these, but never studied. > 1. Jack Bush. 4 > 2. Harold Town. 11 > 3. Kazuo Nakamura. 6 > 4. Greg Curnoe. 3 > 5. Attila Richard Lukacs. 10 > 6. David Milne. 13 > six questions, I'll present them in rot13. Decode them after you've > finished with the first six. > 7. Who painted number fifteen? brader ; johnson > 8. The painter of number seven was who? chris pratt > 9. Painting number nine was done by who? cranston > 10. Eight is the number of the last painting whose artist you must name. I aint no rat, you'll never get it outta me > 11. Who's on first? :-) I don't know ; third base! > 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 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. chuck 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. 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. squeaky 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? 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. teddy roosevelt > 10. Name the man who shot Ronald Reagan. hinckley > 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. swp |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jul 13 03:28AM -0700 On 7/11/20 10:13 PM, Mark Brader wrote: > 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 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. 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. 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? 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 -- Dan Tilque |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jul 13 11:50AM +0200 It's time again for an odd-one-out quiz. (This one may be a tad more difficult that the previous ones.) For each question, you are given five items that all have something basic in common. Four of them have something more notable in common, and your task is to find the odd one that does not fit in. You can motivate your answer, but you don't have to. However, if you don't give a motivation, your answer must agree with what I have in mind. For all questions, save for the last (where I give the motivation), you can still be awarded for answer different from what I had in mind, if you give a correct motivation for what is notable is common for the other four. There is no penalty if you give the indended answer with an incorrect motivation. The usual rule applies: only use your own knowledge, no googling, not asking the wife, the dogs, the cats etc. Post answers to the newsgroup. I'll plan to score this quiz by Saturday 18th. Have fun! 1. Superheroes: Captain America, Green Lantern, Hulk, Silver Surfer, Spiderman 2. Numbers: 168, 1440, 3600, 6200, 86400 3. Events in European history: 1569, 1772, 1793, 1795, 1939 4. Phonetics: [b], [g], [k], [n], [t] 5. Geographical science: AL, CA, MN, NE, OR 6. Cars: Hyundai, Mazda, Nissan, Subaru, Toyota 7. Music: Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Il barbiere di Siviglia, La clemenza di Tito, Le Nozze di Figaro 8. Literature: And Then There Were None, Evil Under the Sun, Murder on the Orient Express, The Nine Tailors, Why Didn't They Ask Evans? 9. Computing: Amber Lake, Bulldozer, Ivy Bridge, Nehalem, Sandy Bridge 10. Religion: Brahma, Kami, Lakshmi, Shiva, Vishnu 11. Islands: Crete, Timor, Ireland, Tierra del Fuego, Saint Martin, 12. Four of these pictures are from the same country. Which is from a different country? E: http://www.sommarskog.se/temp/E.jpg H: http://www.sommarskog.se/temp/H.jpg P: http://www.sommarskog.se/temp/P.jpg T: http://www.sommarskog.se/temp/T.jpg V: http://www.sommarskog.se/temp/V.jpg First tie breaker: Which country are the four pictures from? Second tie breaker: From which country is the odd one? |
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