| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 31 01:32AM -0600 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 5 is over and JOSHUA KREITZER has won by 6 points! Hearty congratulations, eh? > I wrote Round 9 and two pairs in the challenge round. Those were pairs D and F. > 1. Provincial highways in Ontario are classified into King's, > secondary, and tertiary highways. What """is""" the highest > King's highway number? 427. No points, but Dan Tilque came closest. This was an easy one for Torontonians, since it's a major highway (Ontario uses 400-series numbers for expressways, and numbers above those are only for secondary and tertiary highways) and much of it is located in Toronto. Note incidentally that, thanks to the longevity of both Queens Victoria and Elizabeth II, we have actually had a *king* for only 51 years of the 153 years that Ontario has existed. > 2. On the TTC (okay, that's Toronto Transit Commission), what is > the highest route number operating today, within 3? 2003 answer: 512 (accepting 509-515). 2020 answer: 996 (accepting 993-999). 4 for Dan Tilque (for the wrong reason). The TTC uses 500-series numbers for its few streetcar routes, and #512 is the St. Clair streetcar. But since 2018 they have been using 900-series numbers for express bus routes, and #996 is the express service resembling the regular #96 Wilson bus. > 3. A movie in 2000 told a fictional World War II story of Americans > stealing a German U-boat. What was its U-number, within 10? 571 (accepting 561-581). You didn't need to have seen the movie to know this, just the ads; "U-571" was the title. > 4. According to Boeing, this model of airliner is the most > successful in history. On average there """are""" 1,000 of > them in the air at any time. 737. Still true, except that the number 1,000 is now too low (or it was before COVID-19, at least). 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. > 5. The hostage crisis at the American embassy in Tehran began in > 1979 and lasted to the end of Jimmy Carter's presidency. > How many days was it, within 10? 444 (accepting 434-454). 4 for Joshua, Pete, and Dan Tilque. > 6. In computers, how many distinct values can a standard 8-bit > byte represent? 256. 4 for everyone -- Joshua, Dan Blum, Erland, Pete, and Dan Tilque. > 7. How many pounds are there in a long hundredweight (that is, > the British hundredweight)? 112. (Which equals 8 stone -- how convenient!) 4 for Dan Tilque. > 8. According to the novel by Ray Bradbury, what is the ignition > temperature of book paper in degrees Fahrenheit? 451. 4 for everyone. Again, you only had to know the title, which incidentally seems to have been retained unchanged in most translated editions of the book despite the Fahrenheit scale being unfamiliar today to almost everyone outside of the English-speaking world. > 9. Name the """newest""" telephone area code to be partly or > wholly within our local calling region. It was overlaid on > area code 905 in 2001. 2003 answer: 289. 2020 answer: 437 (overlaid on 416 in 2013). > 10. In most of the US and Canada we have 911, but what is the common > emergency phone number now adopted by most European countries? > Hint: this answer has already come up once in this round. 112. 4 for Erland. > A1. This hero is aided by Princess Narda and the gigantic Lothar. > His comic strip, created in 1934 by Lee Falk, """still > appears""" in daily newspapers. Mandrake (the Magician). It ended in 2013. (Not the Phantom, from a different strip by the same author.) 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. > Northern Lights. Who was this Canadian Golden Age comic > book heroine, whose name was given to a TV and multimedia > production company? Nelvana (of the Northern Lights). 4 for Joshua. > B1. Give any one of the names applied to the green-skinned demon > hipster lounge lizard who """is""" a recurring character on > "Angel", and """is""" played by Andy Hallett. Lorne; the Host; Krevlornswath (of the Deathwok Clan). The series ended in 2004 and Hallett died in 2009 at age 33. > now""" a human again, but in between, what kind of creature > was Anya (also known as Anyanka), a character from "Buffy" > portrayed by Emma Caulfield? Be sufficiently specific. A demon who wreaks vengeance upon men on behalf of women. Any reference to "demon" along with "vengeance" or "revenge" was sufficient. > * C. Reproductive Terminology > C1. What is a nullipara? A woman who has never given birth. 4 for Joshua. > C2. The linea nigra is a darkening that may appear during > pregnancy in the form of a line between what two body > locations? Give both. Navel, pubic area. > D1. What is your job if, during a certain activity in your > typical working day, you are careful to inform the co-worker > sitting next to you when your speed has reached V-1? Airplane pilot (or copilot; job titles like "captain" and "first officer" were also okay). 4 for Dan Blum, Erland, Pete, and Dan Tilque. The activity is a takeoff and V-1 is the speed when, if the takeoff is canceled, there is no longer room on the runway to brake to a stop. > called the V-1. What specific category of modern weapon, > albeit with a better engine and a much more sophisticated > control system, is most similar to the V-1? Cruise missile (not a drone, which is under continuous human control). 4 for Dan Tilque. The V-2, which went into use 3 months later, was a ballistic missile. > E1. These questions ask about Toronto weathercasters. Name any > one of the three people who """are""" regular hosts of The > Weather Network's "Good Morning Toronto". Linda Freeman, Tom Reynolds, Robin Ward. > Environment Canada. So they went out and got one: name her. > She used to work at the aforementioned Weather Network, > by the way. Natasha Ramsahai. > * F. The Northernmost Extent > F1. In the days before the megacity, which member municipality > of Metropolitan Toronto extended the farthest north? Scarborough. Both before and after the amalgamations within Metro in 1967, Etobicoke, North York, and Scarborough were all bounded on the north by Steeles Av.; but when you go "east" along Steeles, that's grid east and you're angling about 17° to the north. > equally far, then we're going to need all of them. And the > question, of course, is: which province, or provinces, > """extends""" the farthest north? Québec. (Still true. About 62½°N latitude on the Ungava Peninsula.) 4 for Dan Blum. 3 for Joshua and Pete. Newfoundland & Labrador extends only to about 60½°N, while the common boundary line where the four western provinces meet the three territories is only at 60°N. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 5 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST TOPICS-> Ent His Spo Can Geo Lit Mis Cha SIX Joshua Kreitzer 32 31 12 8 40 12 16 15 146 Dan Blum 16 28 16 5 36 32 12 12 140 Dan Tilque 12 32 -- -- 40 28 20 8 140 Pete Gayde 8 24 20 0 36 0 12 7 107 Erland Sommarskog 0 12 -- -- 8 8 12 4 44 -- Mark Brader | "The net exists to be used. It is a powerful tool msb@vex.net | and as long as people treat it as a tool and not a toy Toronto | it will prosper." --Jerry Schwarz on Usenet, 1982 My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Dec 31 10:38AM +0100 >> 3. A movie in 2000 told a fictional World War II story of Americans >> stealing a German U-boat. What was its U-number, within 10? > 137 - no that was a different submarine, and it was Soviet. Just in case anyone wonder what I was talking about: U-137 was a Soviet submarine ran aground in the archipelago outside Karlskrona in the south of Sweden in 1981. The area has quite a few Swedish military installations, and foreigners are not really allowed there. Nevertheless, the Soviets claimed the submarine was mislocated to erroneous navigation. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 31 01:37AM -0600 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2003-02-24, 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 did not write these rounds. * Game 6, Round 2 - Sports - Sporting Lives Identify each athlete from the biographical sketch. 1. This tennis player won a total of 20 Wimbledon titles, """still the record""", including 6 ladies' singles titles. In 1972 she was the first woman to be named "Sportsperson of the Year" by "Sports Illustrated". 2. This left-handed batsman from Trinidad set world records for highest individual score in tests and first-class matches. In their opening match at the 2003 Cricket World Cup, he led the West Indies team with a game-winning century against host nation South Africa. 3. This runner won the gold medal in the women's 800 m races at the 1963 and 1971 Pan American Games. She was Canada's flag-bearer at the opening ceremonies of the 1976 Montreal Olympics. 4. This left-winger won four Stanley Cups with the Maple Leafs and two with the Canadiens. He was appointed to the Senate in 1998 and """is""" one of six NHL All-Stars """being""" honored in 2003 on stamps by Canada Post. 5. The first Chinese-Canadian CFL player, this fullback was nicknamed the "China Clipper", and was voted Canada's Athlete of the Year in 1955. 6. This right-handed pitcher's birth date is listed as 1906-07-07. He joined the Cleveland Indians in 1948, making him the oldest rookie ever in Major League Baseball. 7. He and John Wooden """are the only two men""" enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach. """This year""" marks his record 30th season as an NBA head coach. Name him. 8. This jockey became the first woman to win a Triple Crown race when she captured the 1993 Belmont Stakes aboard Colonial Affair. She was the first woman elected to thoroughbred racing's Hall of Fame in 2000. 9. Known by the nickname "Cha-Cha", in 1965 she became the first woman Top Fuel drag racer in the National Hot Rod Association. 10. This 4'9" (145 cm) Japanese figure skater was the first woman to land a triple axel at a major international competition, the 1989 World Championships in Paris, where she captured the gold medal. * Game 6, Round 3 - Entertainment - TV in TV This round is about TV shows that themselves refer (or referred) to other TV shows, real or fictional. 1. Which Bonnie Hunt sitcom """features""" a fictional talk show called "Morning Chicago"? 2. "American Dreams", a period drama set in 1960's Philadelphia, """recreates""" music performed on *which real-life program*? 3. Name the fictional TV news magazine in which Murphy Brown appeared weekly. 4. What are the *call letters* of the TV station where Mary Richards worked on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"? Exact answer required (ignoring any suffix like "-TV"). 5. Which CBC comedy was set at Pyramid Productions, home of fake series "Beaver Creek" and "Sword of Damocles"? 6. *Who wrote and directed* the CBC series "The Newsroom"? He also played fictional news director George Findlay in that show and several others. 7. This cable series starred Brian Kerwin as Rob Malone, head of programming for the low-rated LGT Network. Name it. 8. Which comedy-drama created by Aaron Sorkin looked behind the scenes at the Continental Sports Channel? 9. This absurdly violent cat and mouse duo appear on the "Krusty the Clown Show", which itself is a show within a show, namely "The Simpsons". Name that cat and mouse. 10. Which sci-fi parody on "The Muppet Show" starred the crew of the spaceship Swinetrek: Captain Hogthrob, First Mate Miss Piggy, and Dr. Strangepork? -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "X-ray of girl shows bureaucratic mentality" msb@vex.net | --Globe & Mail, Toronto, January 18, 1988 My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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