- RQFTCI03 Game 4 Rounds 7,10: "black" lit, challenge - 1 Update
- RQFTCI03 Game 4 Rounds 8-9: space and space - 2 Updates
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 16 11:54PM -0600 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2003-02-10, 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 two pairs in the challenge round. ** Game 4, Round 7 - Literature - "Black" Literature All questions in this round in some way involve the word "black" -- either in the question or the answer. 1. Name the Scottish Booker Prize winner who wrote the novel "Black Dogs". 2. Who wrote the children's novel "Black Beauty"? 3. What 19th-century French novelist wrote "The Red and the Black"? His novels cover the period during and just after the Napoleonic Wars. 4. Who wrote the memoir and exposé "Black Like Me"? 5. "Black's" is the name of the standard dictionary in which profession? 6. What book on a then recent military event, since made into a movie, did journalist Mark Bowden publish in 1999? 7. Name the Quebec premier whose biography Conrad Black published in 1977. 8. What novelist and essayist wrote the autobiographical book "Black Boy"? 9. "The Souls of Black Folk", published in 1903, is a major study of black history and culture in the US. Name the academic and activist who wrote it. 10. Name the James Ellroy novel that retells the 1947 murder of a Hollywood actress. The title mentions the flower that was her nickname. ** Game 4, Round 10 - Challenge Round A. Legendary Maple Leafs A1. Who scored the game-5 overtime goal against the Canadiens to win the 1951 Stanley Cup? A2. Irvine "Ace" Bailey's playing career was ended by a hit from which Bruins defenseman? * B. Eurhopean Rhivers Both questions ask about major cities, which we define here to mean a population of at least 500,000 (in 2003, not 2020). B1. Of major cities that are on the Rhine -- including its Dutch distributaries -- name the one nearest its mouth. B2. Name the major city nearest the mouth of the Rhône. * C. Melancholic Literature C1. Who wrote a medical treatise called "The Anatomy of Melancholy"? C2. Who wrote a poem in English called "Il Penseroso", addressed to the goddess of melancholy? * D. Hot Lips D1. Give the last name of the jazz and blues trumpeter and vocalist whose nickname was Hot Lips. D2. Give the first and last names of the "MASH" character nicknamed Hot Lips. * E. Difficult Titles Name these movies with difficult, non-English titles. You need to be pretty close on the spelling, including getting all the consonants right. E1. Name this movie, released in 2001. It is shot entirely in Inuktitut and is also known as "The Fast Runner". E2. Name this movie, released in 1983. It is considered an experimental movie and has no plot. It is subtitled "Life out of Balance". * F. Canadian Victoria Cross Winners F1. Rev. John Foote was awarded the Victoria Cross for rescuing and ministering to the wounded in August 1942... where? (The country is not specific enough.) F2. Three World War I Victoria Cross winners -- Leo Clarke, Fred Hall, and Robert Shankland -- all lived on Pine St., since renamed Valour Rd., in which Canadian city? -- Mark Brader | "A colorful quilt reflecting the dispersed development msb@vex.net | of the nation. A sentence fragment." Toronto | --Eric Walker My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Dec 16 03:29PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:i9-dnRzeNoKzdUvCnZ2dnUU7- > (And for this newsgroup posting, I'm keeping them together; Round 7 > will be in the next set.) Here is the history round. > 1. Who, in April of 1961, became the first person in space? Gagarin > jnf gur svefg Nzrevpna va fcnpr. Wbua Tyraa yngre orpnzr gur > *byqrfg* crefba va fcnpr, ohg jung "svefg" qvq Tyraa npuvrir > ba uvf *svefg* fcnprsyvtug, va Sroehnel 1962? First person to orbit the earth > while the first liquid-fueled rocket was launched in the US by > Robert Goddard. We also told you what year Goddard launched > that rocket. Within 7 years, when was it? 1925 > points, see how many more of the correct answers you can list. > Please keep them clearly separate from your actual answer > or answers.) White > 6. Name any *two* people who """have""" traveled as far as the > Moon without landing on it on that trip. Borman and Lovell > 8. Give the name and number of the American model of rocket that > launched the Apollo flights to the Moon. We are talking about > the entire 3-stage "stack", not the individual stages. Saturn V > in 1973. Last used in 1974, the station fell from orbit 5 years > later when delays in the space shuttle program meant it could > not be reboosted. Name it. Skylab > 10. Within 3, in what year did the Soviets launch the space > station Mir? This means the original core section, not any > later additions. 1976; 1983 > ones pictured, by the way, have also appeared at least once each > in some incarnation of "Star Trek". > 1. Bajoran. 7 > 2. Talaxian. They were seen on "Star Trek: Voyager". 2; 4 > 3. There are two Klingons, both on the same page. Identify *both*. 11 and 15 > 4. There are two Borg, both on the same page. Identify *either*. 20 > 5. Denobulan. First seen on the show "Enterprise". 23 > 6. Cardassian. 24; 7 > 7. Trill. 24; 5 > 8. Ferengi. 1 > 9. Bolian. Mot, the ship's barber on "Star Trek: The Next Generation", > was a Bolian. 17; 20 > 10. Andorian. First seen on the same episode of the original series > where we met Mr. Spock's father. 10; 3 > 20. Gjragl-bar. > 21. Svsgrra. > 22. Gra. Pete Gayde |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 16 11:51PM -0600 Mark Brader: > (And for this newsgroup posting, I'm keeping them together; Round 7 > will be in the next set.) Here is the history round. > 1. Who, in April of 1961, became the first person in space? Yuri Gagarin. 4 for everyone -- Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Erland, Joshua, and Pete. > was the first American in space. John Glenn later became the > *oldest* person in space, but what "first" did Glenn achieve > on his *first* spaceflight, in February 1962? First American in orbit. (Gagarin orbited the Earth once, but Shepard's flight was suborbital.) 4 for Dan Tilque and Joshua. > while the first liquid-fueled rocket was launched in the US by > Robert Goddard. We also told you what year Goddard launched > that rocket. Within 7 years, when was it? 1926 (accepting 1919-33). 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua, and Pete. > investigate "The Exploration of Space with Rocket Devices". > That phrase is the English translation of the title of his > first article, published in 1903. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. 4 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque. > points, see how many more of the correct answers you can list. > Please keep them clearly separate from your actual answer > or answers.) There have been 10 (still true, but only 3 are still alive). Alan Bean (Apollo 12; died 2018) Edgar Mitchell (14; 2016) Gene Cernan (17; 2017) Harrison Schmitt (17; alive) Pete Conrad (12; 1999) Dave Scott (15; alive) Charlie Duke (16; alive) Alan Shepard (14; 1988) Jim Irwin (15; 1991) John Young (16; 2018) 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Joshua. By the way, Aldrin is also still alive; Armstrong died in 2012. > 6. Name any *two* people who """have""" traveled as far as the > Moon without landing on it on that trip. There have been 14 (still true, and 7 still alive): Bill Anders (Apollo 8; alive) Jim Lovell (8 and 13; alive) Frank Borman (8; alive) Ken Mattingly (16; alive) Gene Cernan (10; died 2017) Stuart Roosa (14; 1994) Michael Collins (11; alive) Tom Stafford (10; alive) Ron Evans (17; 1990) Jack Swigert (13; 1982) Richard Gordon (12; 2017) Al Worden (15; 2020) Fred Haise (13; alive) John Young (10; 2018) 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua, and Pete. Cernan and Young are correct answers for both questions #5 and #6. > 7. Briefly describe either one of these Soviet-built spacecraft: > Buran or Salyut. You must say which one you are describing. Buran - a space shuttle (it made only one orbital flight, unmanned). Salyut - a space station (there was a series of them before Mir). 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Joshua. > 8. Give the name and number of the American model of rocket that > launched the Apollo flights to the Moon. We are talking about > the entire 3-stage "stack", not the individual stages. Saturn V. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua, and Pete. By the way, the individual stages were called the Saturn I-C, Saturn II, and Saturn IV-B! > in 1973. Last used in 1974, the station fell from orbit 5 years > later when delays in the space shuttle program meant it could > not be reboosted. Name it. Skylab. 4 for everyone. > 10. Within 3, in what year did the Soviets launch the space > station Mir? This means the original core section, not any > later additions. 1986 (accepting 1983-89). 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua. 2 for Pete. > in episodes of the various "Star Trek" TV shows. All of the other > ones pictured, by the way, have also appeared at least once each > in some incarnation of "Star Trek". The five abbreviations TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT respectively indicate the original "Star Trek", "Star Trek: The Next Generation", "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", "Star Trek: Voyager", and "Enterprise" (which was retitled "Star Trek: Enterprise"). Fortunately, this round was written before the appearance of "Star Trek: Discovery", "Star Trek: Picard", let alone "Star Trek: Short Treks" and "Star Trek: Lower Decks". > 1. Bajoran. #6. Introduced on TNG, seen primarily on DS9. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua. > 2. Talaxian. They were seen on "Star Trek: Voyager". #17. 4 for Dan Blum. > 3. There are two Klingons, both on the same page. Identify *both*. #9 (as seen on TOS), #11 (as seen primarily on TNG and DS9). 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Joshua. When asked about the difference in appearance, Worf [#11] said, very gruffly, "We do NOT talk about it." And there the issue sat for years. I always thought that was the right way to leave it, but, disappointingly, since this round was written an explanation was given on ENT. > 4. There are two Borg, both on the same page. Identify *either*. #4 (drone), #5 (queen). 4 for Dan Blum. Borg drones were introduced on TNG and later seen primarily on VOY. Borg queens were introduced in the movie "Star Trek: First Contact" and later seen on VOY. > 5. Denobulan. First seen on the show "Enterprise". #20. 3 for Dan Blum. > 6. Cardassian. #19. Introduced on TNG, seen primarily on DS9. 4 for Dan Blum. > 7. Trill. #13. (The line of spots, she once said, goes "all the way down".) 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua. Introduced on TNG, seen primarily on DS9. When I posted this round in 2008, One entrant commented: | (To be accurate, Jadzia was the host -- the actual trill looks | like a slug.) That may have been correct in the TNG episode that first introduced the species, where a host on its own was depicted as sort of zombie-like; but on DS9, where Jadzia Dax (pictured) was a regular character, the slug was called the "symbiont", and it was clear that the host (Jadzia) and symbiont (Dax) were both intelligent beings, and the name Trill did include the host. A host carrying a symbiont was called a "joined Trill". > 8. Ferengi. #1. Introduced on TNG, later seen primarily on DS9. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua, and Pete. > 9. Bolian. Mot, the ship's barber on "Star Trek: The Next Generation", > was a Bolian. #23. 4 for Dan Blum. > 10. Andorian. First seen on the same episode of the original series > where we met Mr. Spock's father. #16. 4 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque. > in one episode. Decode the rot13 if you'd like to see the picture > numbers and identify them for fun, but for no points. > 11. Seven. Talosian. (Seen once on TOS.) > 12. Eight. Jem-Hadar. (Seen on DS9.) > 13. Twelve. (Name both.) Human (first seen on TOS), Gorn (seen once on TOS). > 14. Two. Vulcan. (Introduced on TOS, where in a number of early episodes they were called Vulcanians.) > 15. Three. Pakled. (Seen once on TNG.) > 16. Twenty-two. Founder (a.k.a. changeling or shapeshifter). (Seen on DS9.) > 17. Twenty-four. Cheronian. (Seen once on TOS.) > 18. Fourteen. Android. (Seen primarily on TNG.) > 19. Eighteen. Barkonian. (Seen once on TNG.) > 20. Twenty-one. Bynar. (Seen once on TNG.) > 21. Fifteen. Cat. (Seen primarily on TNG.) Dan Tilque got this. This is one of the actual cats that were seen. As Dan commented, "the only truly superior alien species". For further information google on the "Ode to Spot". > 22. Ten. Botha. (Seen once on VOY.) Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 4 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 8 9 BEST TOPICS-> Can Mis Sci Spo His Ent FOUR Dan Blum 4 28 30 12 36 39 133 Joshua Kreitzer 4 36 12 24 36 16 112 Pete Gayde 6 20 27 32 22 4 101 Dan Tilque 24 20 6 12 36 12 92 Erland Sommarskog -- -- 8 8 8 0 24 -- Mark Brader | "I've just checked my dictionary, though, and it does msb@vex.net | not agree with me, which just goes to show how wrong Toronto | dictionaries can be." --Gary Williams My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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