| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Sep 04 11:09PM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2007-03-05, 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 wrote one of these rounds. * Game 7, Round 4 - Sports - Blue Jay Records 1. *As of 2020*, of all players who have pitched for the Blue Jays, who has the lowest career ERA (3.12)? *Note*: I substituted the above question for one in the original game where I not only could not find the correct answer today, I had reason to believe that the original expected answer was wrong. The remaining 9 questions are from the round as originally written and as usual you can give the 2007 answer or the current answer. Name the """current""" holders of the following Toronto Blue Jay records. All questions refer to records among Jays players during the time they were Jays; that is, these are Blue Jay team records only. 2. Highest batting average (.307). """This player""" was a Blue Jay 1991-95. 3. Number of games played (1,450). This player was a Blue Jay from 1983 to 1990, then in 1993, 1998, 1999, and 2001. 4. Number of wins by a pitcher (175). This player was a Blue Jay from 1979 to 1992, and again briefly in 1998. 5. Highest on-base percentage (.395). This player was a Blue Jay from 1989 to 1996. 6. Highest slugging percentage (.556). This player was a Blue Jay from 1993 to 2004. The last four records are single-season records. They are still team records only, for Toronto Blue Jays players during the time they were Jays, and you name the player. 7. Greatest number of hits in a season (215). Accomplished in 2003. 8. Most wins as a starting pitcher (22). Accomplished in 2003. 9. Most saves by a pitcher (45). Accomplished in 1993. 10. Greatest number of home runs (47). Accomplished in 1987. * Game 7, Round 6 - History - Around the World Traveling "around the world" is a rather loose expression that rarely involves an exact great circle or even going from one point to its antipodal point and back; some trips so called have been as short as 15,000 miles, or have not returned exactly to their starting point. In this, uh, *round*, we'll consider all such variant definitions as legitimate; what we're concerned with is the different ways it has been done, or in one case, depicted in fiction. 1. In Jules Verne's novel, Phileas Fogg attempts to demonstrate that modern public transportation will allow a trip "Around the World in 80 Days". What is the appropriate French name of his valet who travels with him? 2. Who was the first man to travel around the world in under 2 hours? 3. In 1931 this pilot and his navigator Harold Gatty set a speed record for flying around the world; their book about the flight was titled "Around the World in *Eight* Days". Two years later he became the first to fly *solo* around the world. He died in a 1935 crash that also killed his passenger, Will Rogers. Name him. 4. The *first* trip around the world by air was made by a team of US Army pilots flying Douglas World Cruisers, fitted with floats for part of the journey and wheels for the rest. Due to many repairs and other problems, it took 175 days. Within 5, what was the *year*? 5. This man and his crew once held the speed record for *sailing a boat* around the world, and he has many records for other journeys. In 2002 he became the first person to fly around the world *solo and nonstop* in a balloon, the charmingly named "Bud Light Spirit of Freedom". In 2005, he became the first to do the same in an airplane, which was sponsored by Richard Branson and therefore named the "Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer". Who are we talking about? 6. This man wrote the book "Sailing Alone Around the World", after doing just that between 1895 and 1898; he was the first to do so. Name him. 7. By one interpretation, the first man to ever travel around the world, this starting in 1511, was a slave. How was this possible? 8. In 1947, this airline became the first to offer a regularly scheduled flight that made a series of stops around the world and returned to its starting point. You may remember that in a famous movie about 20 years later, it was depicted as operating commercial flights to the Moon. Name the airline. 9. Speaking of the Moon, let's switch worlds for a moment. Three men together were the first to travel around the Moon. Either name the mission (be sufficiently specific) or name any one of the three astronauts, one of whom was played by Tom Hanks in a movie about a later real-life spaceflight. 10. To bring this *round* *around* *full circle*, we finish with a real-life round-the-world trip by ordinary public transportation, inspired by the fictional Phileas Fogg. It began in 1889 and was, appropriately, sponsored by the "New York *World*". Name the reporter, also the author of the exposé "Ten Days in a Madhouse", who completed her trip on the 73rd day. -- Mark Brader | "If you're incompetent, you can't know you're incompetent... Toronto | the skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly msb@vex.net | the skills you need to recognize what a right answer is." --David Dunning My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Sep 04 11:05PM -0500 Mark Brader: > giving the number from one of the handout pages. All of them > are women. > 1. Emily Carr. #12. > 2. Mary Cassatt. #2. 3 for Joshua and Bruce. > 3. Artemisia Gentileschi. #18. 3 for Joshua. > 4. Judith Leyster. #14. > 5. Frida Kahlo. #7. 4 for Joshua and Bruce. > 6. Georgia O'Keefe. #8. 4 for everyone -- Joshua, Bruce, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque. > 7. Berthe Morisot. #19. 2 for Dan Blum. > 8. Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. #9. 3 for Dan Blum. 2 for Joshua. > 9. Anna Mary "Grandma" Moses. #3. 4 for Dan Tilque. 3 for Bruce. 2 for Joshua. > 10. Mary Pratt. #1. > So there were 10 decoys. Decode the rot13 if you'd like to see > the picture numbers and identify those painters for fun, but for > no points. This time they were all men, and nobody tried them. > 11. Picture eleven. Ramón Cano Manilla. > 12. Picture fifteen. Lawren Harris. > 13. Picture five. Thomas Gainsborough. > 14. Picture four. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. > 15. Picture seventeen. Pierre-Auguste Renoir. > 16. Picture six. Ken Danby. > 17. Picture sixteen. Jose Orozco. > 18. Picture ten. Claude Monet. > 19. Picture thirteen. Jack Savitsky. > 20. Picture twenty. Frans Hals. > we won't always be giving you the top-billed stars. > 1. Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Jennifer Morrison, Robert Sean > Leonard. "House, M.D." ("House" was enough. The show ended in 2012.) 4 for Joshua. > 2. Rob Morrow, David Krumholtz, Judd Hirsch, Peter MacNicol. "Numb3rs" ("Numbers" was okay. It ended in 2010.) 4 for Joshua. > 3. Gabrielle Miller, Lorne Cardinal, Eric Peterson. "Corner Gas". (It ended in 2009.) > 4. Robb Wells, John Paul Tremblay, Mike Smith. "Trailer Park Boys". (It ended in 2018.) > 5. James Woods, Jeri Ryan, Danielle Panabaker. "Shark". (It ended in 2008.) > 6. America Ferrera, Eric Mabius, Vanessa Williams. "Ugly Betty". (It ended in 2010.) 4 for Joshua, Bruce, and Dan Blum. > 7. Katherine Heigl, Kate Walsh, T.R. Knight, Isaiah Washington. "Grey's Anatomy". (Still running. Accepting "Gray's Anatomy", actually the book whose title it plays on, since the pronunciation is the same.) 4 for Joshua. > 8. Naveen Andrews, Jorge Garcia, Matthew Fox, Emilie de Ravin. "Lost". (It ended in 2010.) 4 for Joshua and Bruce. > 9. Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Tricia Helfer, Katee > Sackhoff. "Battlestar Galactica". (It ended in 2009.) 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. > 10. William Roache, Betty Driver, Barbara Knox, Eileen Derbyshire. "Coronation Street". (Still running, now after 60 years.) Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 7 ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS TOPICS-> Art Ent Joshua Kreitzer 18 24 42 Bruce Bowler 14 8 22 Dan Blum 9 8 17 Dan Tilque 8 0 8 -- Mark Brader, Toronto "People say I'm a skeptic -- msb@vex.net but I find that hard to believe." My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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