| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Aug 10 09:26AM -0700 On 8/7/20 9:34 PM, Mark Brader wrote: > made of." This is not a Shakespeare movie. Give *any two* > of the performer, the character, and the movie, for the regular > score. Bogart, Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon > been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, > which is what I am." Again, give *any two* of the performer, > the character, and the movie, for the regular score. On the Waterfront (don't remember either of the other two answers, alas) > 3. #26: "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?" This time just > name *any one* for the regular score: the performer, the > character, or the movie. Mae West > a sequel, but we want the original movie where it was spoken. > For the regular score just give the *title*. If going for the > bonus you'll need to include the *character's first name*. In the Heat of the Night > 6. #6: "Go ahead... make my day!" Again, for the regular score > just name the *title*. Magnum Force, Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan > 9. #53: "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got > in my pajamas, I don't know." For the regular score name *any > one*: the performer, the character, or the movie. Groucho Marx > And here we go: > * A. World Capital > A1. What """is""" the basic unit of money in Sweden? krona > A2. What """is""" the basic unit of money in Israel? shekel > US vice-president to succeed a dead president, this in 1841. > He was also notable for siring more children than any > other president. How many altogether, within 1? 17 > her children. This is now fairly widely accepted, but the > facts have never been definitively resolved; eventual DNA > testing left the question open. Name the *slave*. Sally Hemings > Or so they said. But the company's real source of money > was the millions deposited by new investors. It was shut > down the same year and its president imprisoned. Name him. Ponzi > in 1996-97. The riots were so bad, the UN intervened to > prevent a civil war. An early election was then called > and Berisha was turfed out. Name the country. Romania > wrong on "Final Jeopardy!". *Either* name the woman who > beat him, *or* name the US-based firm most of whose 70,000 > seasonal white-collar employees work only 4 months a year. H & R Block > *Either* name him, *or* name the *two* Mercury astronauts > who orbited Earth in May 1962 and May 1963 and whose surnames > are also occupations. Carpenter and Shepard -- Dan Tilque |
| Bruce Bowler <bruce.bowler@gmail.com>: Aug 10 07:16PM On Fri, 07 Aug 2020 23:34:58 -0500, Mark Brader wrote: > been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is > what I am." Again, give *any two* of the performer, > the character, and the movie, for the regular score. Marlon Brando, "On The Waterfront" > 3. #26: "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?" This time just > name *any one* for the regular score: the performer, the character, > or the movie. Mae West, "My Little Chickadee" > you'll need to include the *character's first name*. > 6. #6: "Go ahead... make my day!" Again, for the regular score > just name the *title*. Dirty Harry > regular score. > 8. #56: "A boy's best friend is his mother." Give *any two* of > the performer, the character, and the movie for the regular score. Norman Bates, "Psycho", Anthony Perkins > 9. #53: "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got > in my pajamas, I don't know." For the regular score name *any one*: > the performer, the character, or the movie. Groucho Marx > And here we go: > * A. World Capital > A1. What """is""" the basic unit of money in Sweden? Krone > A2. What """is""" the basic unit of money in Israel? Shekel > vice-president to succeed a dead president, this in 1841. He was > also notable for siring more children than any other president. > How many altogether, within 1? 15 > This is now fairly widely accepted, but the facts have never been > definitively resolved; eventual DNA testing left the question > open. Name the *slave*. Sally Hemings > Or so they said. But the company's real source of money was the > millions deposited by new investors. It was shut down the same > year and its president imprisoned. Name him. Ponzi > style by being the only one to get it right. *Either* name him, > *or* name the *two* Mercury astronauts who orbited Earth in May > 1962 and May 1963 and whose surnames are also occupations. Brad Rutter, Carpenter and Cooper |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Aug 11 12:29AM -0500 Mark Brader: > and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information... > see my 2020-06-23 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from > the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)". Game 4 is over and it's been a close one, but the winner is JOSHUA KREITZER. Hearty congratulations, sir! > I originally wrote one of these rounds, as I mention below. I don't remember *not* writing the other one, either. No way to tell now, and the bonus scoring does sound like something I would've come up with. > those, sometimes any one, sometimes a specific one. But in all > cases, if you give all three parts correctly, you score a 2-point > bonus for a possible 6 on each question.* ... > made of." This is not a Shakespeare movie. Give *any two* > of the performer, the character, and the movie, for the regular > score. Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon" (1941). 6 for Joshua, Stephen, and Dan Tilque. > been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, > which is what I am." Again, give *any two* of the performer, > the character, and the movie, for the regular score. Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy in "On the Waterfront" (1954). 6 for Joshua and Stephen. 4 for Dan Blum, Pete, and Bruce. > 3. #26: "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?" This time just > name *any one* for the regular score: the performer, the > character, or the movie. Mae West as Lady Lou in "She Done Him Wrong" (1933). 6 for Stephen. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Pete, and Dan Tilque. 3 for Bruce. > 4. #18: "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" Again, give *any one* > for the regular score: the performer, the character, or the > movie. James Cagney as Arthur "Cody" Jarrett in "White Heat" (1949). 6 for Stephen. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Pete. > a sequel, but we want the original movie where it was spoken. > For the regular score just give the *title*. If going for the > bonus you'll need to include the *character's first name*. Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs in "In the Heat of the Night" (1967). 6 for Joshua and Stephen. 4 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque. > 6. #6: "Go ahead... make my day!" Again, for the regular score > just name the *title*. Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan in "Sudden Impact" (1983), fourth movie in the "Dirty Harry" series. 6 for Joshua and Stephen. > ends with "to be let alone" or "left alone". In any case, > name *any two* of the performer, the character, and the movie > for the regular score. Greta Garbo as Mme. Grusinskaya in "Grand Hotel" (1932). 6 for Stephen. 4 for Joshua. > 8. #56: "A boy's best friend is his mother." Give *any two* of > the performer, the character, and the movie for the regular > score. Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in "Psycho" (1960). 6 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Stephen, and Bruce. 4 for Pete. > 9. #53: "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got > in my pajamas, I don't know." For the regular score name *any > one*: the performer, the character, or the movie. Groucho Marx as Capt. Jeffrey T. Spaulding in "Animal Crackers" (1930). 6 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Stephen. 4 for Pete, Dan Tilque, and Bruce. > is: "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" > Again, name *any one* for the regular score: the performer, > the character, or the movie. Peter Finch as Howard Beale in "Network" (1976). 6 for Joshua and Stephen. 4 for Dan Blum and Pete. The first people to repeat it improve it by dropping the first "as". Someone else then further improves it by changing "this" to "it". > Business & Infamy > Art & Alex > Ken Lost on "Jeopardy!" This was the hardest round in the original game, though still not all that hard. > And here we go: > * A. World Capital > A1. What """is""" the basic unit of money in Sweden? Krona. (Still true.) The plural "kronor" or the English "crown" was also acceptable; and since I'm not insisting on perfect spelling, I also decided to accept the Norwegian or Danish "krone" or its plural "kroner". 4 for everyone -- Erland, Dan Blum, Joshua, Pete, Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Bruce. > A2. What """is""" the basic unit of money in Israel? (New) shekel. (Still true.) 4 for everyone. > of Canada from 1872 to 1878. He established the Governor- > General's Academic Medals. A major street in Toronto > """bears""" his 8-letter name. Lord Dufferin (or Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Earl of Dufferin, Marquess of Dufferin and Ava). (Still true.) 4 for Stephen. > B2. This British lord was Governor-General of Canada from 1893 > to 1898. He was born in Edinburgh and, not coincidentally, > bore the name of another Scottish city. It's 8 letters. Lord Aberdeen (or Sir John Campbell Hamilton Gordon, Earl and Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair). 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, and Stephen. > US vice-president to succeed a dead president, this in 1841. > He was also notable for siring more children than any > other president. How many altogether, within 1? 15 (accepting 14-16). 4 for Joshua, Stephen, and Bruce. 2 for Pete. While he was president, his wife died and he married again -- to a woman younger than three of his children. Over a span of 45 years Tyler had 8 children with the first wife and 7 with the second. By the time last of the 15 was born, one of the other 14 already had 9 children of his own. Incidentally, it made the news in 2018 that two of President Tyler's grandchildren were still alive -- over 200 years after he became president. I don't know if they still are. > her children. This is now fairly widely accepted, but the > facts have never been definitively resolved; eventual DNA > testing left the question open. Name the *slave*. Sally Hemings. (Property of Thomas Jefferson.) 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Pete, Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Bruce. The DNA testing showed that she had at least one child with *either* Jefferson or a man related to him. Since he left no known descendants (and neither did her other children), and his own DNA is no longer available, this is the most that can be definitively said. > Or so they said. But the company's real source of money > was the millions deposited by new investors. It was shut > down the same year and its president imprisoned. Name him. Charles or Carlo Ponzi. I accepted "Ponzo" as close enough. 4 for everyone. > in 1996-97. The riots were so bad, the UN intervened to > prevent a civil war. An early election was then called > and Berisha was turfed out. Name the country. Albania. 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, and Stephen. > a child in 1929. He painted Canadian troops at the Juno > Beach landing and later taught at Mt. Allison University. > His name is Alex what? Colville. 4 for Stephen. (He died in 2013.) > "Green Cap", "Red Coat", and "Ada in a Pillbox Hat". > Colby College in Waterville, Maine, has a museum wing > devoted to his paintings. His name """is""" Alex what? Katz. (Still alive.) 4 for Stephen. > wrong on "Final Jeopardy!". *Either* name the woman who > beat him, *or* name the US-based firm most of whose 70,000 > seasonal white-collar employees work only 4 months a year. Nancy Zerg; H&R Block. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua (the hard way), Pete, Stephen (the hard way), and Dan Tilque. Jennings, who had always done his own taxes, didn't think of the right "season". Rather than leave a blank, he guessed FedEx. Zerg lost the next day. I should've put "work" in triple quotes; I haven't checked for current information about the company. > *Either* name him, *or* name the *two* Mercury astronauts > who orbited Earth in May 1962 and May 1963 and whose surnames > are also occupations. Brad Rutter; Scott Carpenter and Gordon Cooper. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua (the hard way), Pete, Stephen, and Bruce (the hard way). Like Dan Tilque, Ken Jennings tried Carpenter and Alan Shepard; the third player, Jerome Vered, put Cooper and Shepherd. Spelling errors don't matter either here or on "Jeopardy!" if they doesn't affect the pronunciation, but Shepard was wrong anyway: his Mercury flight, also in May but in 1961, was suborbital. Neither Jennings nor Rutter was finished with "Jeopardy!" after this. Most notably, they competed in special tournaments in 2011 against a computer system named Watson, designed for the purpose, and then in 2020 against James Holzhauer, the *fastest* money-winning player in the history of the show. Watson won, with Jennings second; then Jennings won, with Holzhauer second. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 4 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST TOPICS-> Geo Can Sci His Spo Lit Ent Cha SIX Joshua Kreitzer 40 12 8 20 19 32 54 28 193 Dan Blum 40 0 24 39 12 19 32 32 186 Stephen Perry 40 32 -- -- -- -- 60 48 180 Dan Tilque 40 4 12 32 16 12 18 20 138 Pete Gayde 40 2 12 16 16 11 24 26 134 Bruce Bowler 36 0 32 8 16 7 17 24 133 Erland Sommarskog 40 0 3 8 12 4 0 20 87 "Calvin" -- -- 0 35 -- -- -- -- 35 -- Mark Brader 1. remove ball from package. 2. place in hand. msb@vex.net 3. call dog by name. 4. throw ball. Toronto -- directions seen on rubber ball package My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Aug 11 05:35AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:nZGdnW_cT80Asa_CnZ2dnUU7- > had 9 children of his own. Incidentally, it made the news in 2018 > that two of President Tyler's grandchildren were still alive -- over > 200 years after he became president. I don't know if they still are. As far as I know, Tyler's grandsons Lyon Tyler Jr. and Harrison Tyler are both still alive (both over age 90), but it has only (only?) been 179 years since their grandfather became president. -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Aug 11 12:53AM -0500 Mark Brader: >> Incidentally, it made the news in 2018 >> that two of President Tyler's grandchildren were still alive -- over >> 200 years after he became president. I don't know if they still are. Joshua Kreitzer: > As far as I know, Tyler's grandsons Lyon Tyler Jr. and Harrison Tyler are > both still alive... but it has only (only?) been 179 years since their > grandfather became president. Oops! I wonder if that was my mistake or if I copied it from one of the articles from 2018 that I came across. Apologies, anyway. It has been 230 years since he was born, though. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | English is just getting used to the telephone. msb@vex.net | -- John Lawler My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Aug 11 12:30AM -0500 Mark Brader: These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2007-02-19, 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. For further information, including an explanation of the """ notation that may appear in these rounds, see my 2020-06-23 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)". I originally wrote one of the rounds in this set. * Game 5, Round 2 - History - The Cold War Era You may have seen the newspaper headline """last week""": "COLD WAR OVER, U.S. TELLS PUTIN". *Therefore*, this is the history round. 1. The term "Iron Curtain" was popularized in a 1946 speech by what former world leader? 2. What agreement did the US and the USSR sign in 1972, limiting anti-ballistic missile systems and ICBM launchers? (The short form of the name is okay.) 3. What is the loose grouping of former Soviet republics that was formed after the breakup of the USSR? (Full name required.) 4. Who was the first secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia during the so-called "Prague Spring" of 1968? 5. President Richard Nixon is remembered for his historic visit to Communist China to begin normalizing relations with that country, but Canada and China had already opened embassies in each other's capitals the year before. Name *either* of the two years when these events occurred. 6. Vice-President Richard Nixon, on a 1959 visit to the Soviet Union, engaged in a widely publicized debate with Nikita Khrushchev on the merits of the capitalist and communist economic systems. It took place in a model American home built for the American National Exhibition in Moscow. What name was given to this exchange of views? 7. What term was applied to the thawing of US-Soviet relations that occurred during the 1970s but was brought to an end by such events as the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Iranian hostage crisis, and the election of Ronald Reagan? 8. The Soviet Union had two other leaders between Leonid Brezhnev and Mikhail Gorbachev. Name *either one*. 9. Which country did the US invade in October 1983, shortly after a coup by a Cuban-linked group? 10. What were the two key principles of Mikhail Gorbachev's reform program for the Soviet Union? Please answer in Russian. (Transliterated into the English alphabet, that is; no Cyrillic!) * Game 5, Round 3 - Literature - Hugo and Nebula As you know, the highest awards in science fiction writing are the Hugo and the Nebula, given by fans and writers respectively. In the Best Novel category, both awards """have been""" won by the same book 18 times, representing 14 authors. We will name 10 of these authors and describe their double-winning works; for each question you must name the novel, or one of the two novels for authors who have managed the feat twice. All dates that we mention are the year of first publication in book form. 1. Sir Arthur C. Clarke did it twice. 1973: an asteroid-sized body enters our solar system and proves to be a starship, but apparently uninhabited. Humankind has only weeks to explore its interior before it returns to interstellar space. 1979: a space elevator is constructed, providing a fixed link between geostationary orbit and the Earth's surface at an island named Taprobane ["ta-PRO-ban-ee"]. Name either book. 2. Larry Niven, 1970. This novel in the Known Space series also features the exploration of an artificial construction traveling through space, but this one is so large, it has over a trillion inhabitants and surrounds a star that is traveling with it. The title refers to its shape. 3. Joe Haldeman did it twice. 1974: Soldiers go to fight in an interstellar war, but relativistic time dilation means that each time they return, many, many years have passed at home. When the war is over, human society has changed beyond their recognition. 1997: Guerrilla warfare on a near-future Earth between third-world countries and powerful nations capable of weaponized nanotechnology. The titles are similar; name either one. 4. Isaac Asimov, 1972. A scientist stumbles on a new source of energy, which turns out to be a gateway to a parallel universe with physical laws very different from those we know. Part of the novel is set in that universe, and involves a species with three sexes. 5. Connie Willis, 1992. One of a series of time-travel stories, this novel is set mainly in 14th-century England. A history student from our future accidentally travels to the wrong decade and finds herself confronted by the horrors of the Black Death. 6. Frederik Pohl, 1977. Once again it's humans and an uninhabited alien artifact. This one is an abandoned base full of automatically guided starships that can be flown to any location pre-set by their builders, who humans call the Heechee. 7. Frank Herbert, 1965. This complex story of intrigues is set on the planet Arrakis, which is the only source of a substance called spice (or melange) that gives long life and other powers, particularly to a mystical group called the Bene Gesserit. Arrakis is also home to a species of giant animals called sandworms. 8. Two novels by Orson Scott Card. 1985: A talented youth thinks he's doing simulation exercises preparing him to fight an interstellar war, but actually they aren't simulations. The war proves to have been based on a misunderstanding, and in the 1986 sequel, he tries to atone for the harm he did. The novels won back-to-back Hugos and Nebulas; name either book. 9. William Gibson, 1984. This seminal cyberpunk novel features direct brain-computer interfaces and other sorts of high-tech implant as well as computer networks, artificial intelligences, and powerful global corporations. 10. Two books by Ursula K. Le Guin. 1969: This novel is set on a world whose people are neuter most of the time and become male or female temporarily. Both interpersonal and international conflicts are involved. 1974: This novel, in the same fictional universe, is set on a double planet whose society was founded on an anarchistic basis. Name either book. -- Mark Brader | But it doesn't matter what I plead; Toronto | the universe doesn't provide an appeals process msb@vex.net | when you make a mistake. --Paul Robinson My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Aug 11 05:39AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:l-CdnbLjJemZsK_CnZ2dnUU7- > OVER, U.S. TELLS PUTIN". *Therefore*, this is the history round. > 1. The term "Iron Curtain" was popularized in a 1946 speech by what > former world leader? Winston Churchill > 2. What agreement did the US and the USSR sign in 1972, limiting > anti-ballistic missile systems and ICBM launchers? (The short > form of the name is okay.) SALT > 3. What is the loose grouping of former Soviet republics that was > formed after the breakup of the USSR? (Full name required.) Commonwealth of Independent States > 4. Who was the first secretary of the Communist Party of > Czechoslovakia during the so-called "Prague Spring" of 1968? Dubcek > but Canada and China had already opened embassies in each other's > capitals the year before. Name *either* of the two years when > these events occurred. 1971; 1972 > It took place in a model American home built for the American > National Exhibition in Moscow. What name was given to this > exchange of views? kitchen debate > 8. The Soviet Union had two other leaders between Leonid Brezhnev and > Mikhail Gorbachev. Name *either one*. Yuri Andropov > 9. Which country did the US invade in October 1983, shortly after > a coup by a Cuban-linked group? Grenada > 10. What were the two key principles of Mikhail Gorbachev's reform > program for the Soviet Union? Please answer in Russian. > (Transliterated into the English alphabet, that is; no Cyrillic!) glasnost, perestroika > a space elevator is constructed, providing a fixed link between > geostationary orbit and the Earth's surface at an island named > Taprobane ["ta-PRO-ban-ee"]. Name either book. "Rendezvous with Rama" > through space, but this one is so large, it has over a trillion > inhabitants and surrounds a star that is traveling with it. > The title refers to its shape. "Ringworld" > between third-world countries and powerful nations capable > of weaponized nanotechnology. The titles are similar; name > either one. "The Forever War" > with physical laws very different from those we know. Part of > the novel is set in that universe, and involves a species with > three sexes. "The Gods Themselves" > novel is set mainly in 14th-century England. A history student > from our future accidentally travels to the wrong decade and > finds herself confronted by the horrors of the Black Death. "Domesday Book" > particularly to a mystical group called the Bene Gesserit. > Arrakis is also home to a species of giant animals called > sandworms. "Dune" > proves to have been based on a misunderstanding, and in the 1986 > sequel, he tries to atone for the harm he did. The novels won > back-to-back Hugos and Nebulas; name either book. "Ender's Game" > direct brain-computer interfaces and other sorts of high-tech > implant as well as computer networks, artificial intelligences, > and powerful global corporations. "Neuromancer" -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
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