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Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Feb 27 04:25AM -0800 On 2/26/21 11:38 PM, Mark Brader wrote: > for the first time with a small fleet of steam warships, and > begin the negotiations that ended some 250 years of Japanese > isolationism?   1853     > 2. Alexander the Great died at age 33, ending the largest empire > the world had yet known. In what year?   323 BC   > was held, in the original Crystal Palace, which had been erected > in its original Hyde Park location specifically for that purpose. > In what year?   1869   > with "orm" as in "form"] and found himself outlawed as well > as excommunicated. When did this punishment happen? > > 5. What year did the Panama Canal open?   1913   > open completely? We want the year that the railway was opened > to the general public for travel over its full length, not the > Last Spike ceremony, which was the year before.   1884     > 7. When did King John of England sign the Magna Carta, thus > conceding that his royal power was not unlimited?   1215     > 8. When did the US hold its first elections under the new Constitution > rather than the original Articles of Confederation?   1788     > 9. Name the year when the Edict of Milan legalized Christianity > in the Roman Empire. It was sponsored by Constantine, who was > not yet the sole Emperor.   300     > 10. And finally, to fit the title of the round... name the year > when the British Empire skipped 11 days in September, abandoning > the Julian calendar in favor of the Gregorian.   1752   > "The Rite of Spring"?   > C2. The music opens with a famous solo for what woodwind > instrument, playing in its extreme upper range?   clarinet     > * E. Names of Canadian Capitals   > E1. Iqaluit is Inuktitut for "place of..." what type of living > thing?   fish     > E2. Charlottetown was named for the wife of what monarch?   George III   > connecting points of equal pressure.   > F2. What is the Fujita scale, also called the Fujita-Pearson > scale, used to classify?   intensity of tornados   -- Dan Tilque

tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Feb 27 03:47PM > for the first time with a small fleet of steam warships, and > begin the negotiations that ended some 250 years of Japanese > isolationism?   1858   > 2. Alexander the Great died at age 33, ending the largest empire > the world had yet known. In what year?   323 BCE   > was held, in the original Crystal Palace, which had been erected > in its original Hyde Park location specifically for that purpose. > In what year?   1870; 1880   > Luther was called before the Diet ["DEE-et"] of Worms ["VORMSS", > with "orm" as in "form"] and found himself outlawed as well > as excommunicated. When did this punishment happen?   1521   > 5. What year did the Panama Canal open?   1914   > open completely? We want the year that the railway was opened > to the general public for travel over its full length, not the > Last Spike ceremony, which was the year before.   1883   > 7. When did King John of England sign the Magna Carta, thus > conceding that his royal power was not unlimited?   1215   > 8. When did the US hold its first elections under the new Constitution > rather than the original Articles of Confederation?   1788   > 9. Name the year when the Edict of Milan legalized Christianity > in the Roman Empire. It was sponsored by Constantine, who was > not yet the sole Emperor.   301   > 10. And finally, to fit the title of the round... name the year > when the British Empire skipped 11 days in September, abandoning > the Julian calendar in favor of the Gregorian.   1752     > * C. Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring"   > C1. Who choreographed the original 1913 Paris production of > "The Rite of Spring"?   Balanchine   > C2. The music opens with a famous solo for what woodwind > instrument, playing in its extreme upper range?   oboe; clarinet   > * E. Names of Canadian Capitals   > E2. Charlottetown was named for the wife of what monarch?   George IV   > * F. Weather Terminology   > F1. State the name given to a line on a weather map or chart > connecting points of equal pressure.   isobar   > F2. What is the Fujita scale, also called the Fujita-Pearson > scale, used to classify?   tornadoes   -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."

Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Feb 27 03:53PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:m4WdnR4bNNpBa6T9nZ2dnUU7- > for the first time with a small fleet of steam warships, and > begin the negotiations that ended some 250 years of Japanese > isolationism?   1844; 1853   > 2. Alexander the Great died at age 33, ending the largest empire > the world had yet known. In what year?   360 BCE > was held, in the original Crystal Palace, which had been erected > in its original Hyde Park location specifically for that purpose. > In what year?   1855   > Luther was called before the Diet ["DEE-et"] of Worms ["VORMSS", > with "orm" as in "form"] and found himself outlawed as well > as excommunicated. When did this punishment happen?   1521 > 5. What year did the Panama Canal open?   1906; 1911   > open completely? We want the year that the railway was opened > to the general public for travel over its full length, not the > Last Spike ceremony, which was the year before.   1870; 1879 > 7. When did King John of England sign the Magna Carta, thus > conceding that his royal power was not unlimited?   1215   > 8. When did the US hold its first elections under the new Constitution > rather than the original Articles of Confederation?   1789 > 9. Name the year when the Edict of Milan legalized Christianity > in the Roman Empire. It was sponsored by Constantine, who was > not yet the sole Emperor.   305   > 10. And finally, to fit the title of the round... name the year > when the British Empire skipped 11 days in September, abandoning > the Julian calendar in favor of the Gregorian.   1752   > * C. Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring"   > C1. Who choreographed the original 1913 Paris production of > "The Rite of Spring"?   Diaghilev   > C2. The music opens with a famous solo for what woodwind > instrument, playing in its extreme upper range?   flute; oboe > * E. Names of Canadian Capitals   > E1. Iqaluit is Inuktitut for "place of..." what type of living > thing?   polar bears; seals   > E2. Charlottetown was named for the wife of what monarch?   King George III > * F. Weather Terminology   > F1. State the name given to a line on a weather map or chart > connecting points of equal pressure.   isobar > F2. What is the Fujita scale, also called the Fujita-Pearson > scale, used to classify?   tornadoes   -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com

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msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 27 01:38AM -0600 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2003-03-24, 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 wrote one of these rounds.     ** Game 10, Round 9 - History - Synchronize Your Calendars   The bad news is that this round is going to have a long preamble. The good news, at least for those players who desperately need to catch up at this point, is that it's a precision round, so you can score up to 60 points. Each question asks for the year of a certain event. Give it within the required margin and you get the normal score... but there is a 2-point bonus available for giving the exact year.   The bonus is available only on your first answer. So if you answer only once, you can score 6 (exact), 4 (close), or 0 (wrong); and if you give two guesses, you can score:   6 - first guess exact, second guess close 5 - first guess exact, second guess wrong 4 - first guess close, second guess exact or close 3 - first guess close, second guess wrong 2 - first guess wrong, second guess exact or close 0 - both guesses wrong.   One more thing: we said that there was a specific margin for "close" answers on each question, but we *aren't going to tell you in advance* what it is. The rule is that you need to come within a margin of 2 years *plus one additional year for each century before the 21st* when the event took place. Thus for 19th-century events you have to be within 4 years; but for 11th-century events, if there are any, you can be 12 years off. And similarly for other centuries.   If there are any questions where *nobody* comes within the allowed margin, then on those questions only, I will accept an answer within double the margin (e.g. within 8 years for 19th-century events) as "almost correct", scoring 1 point less than indicated above.   Got all that? Then here we go.   1. What year did American Commodore Matthew Perry arrive in Japan for the first time with a small fleet of steam warships, and begin the negotiations that ended some 250 years of Japanese isolationism?   2. Alexander the Great died at age 33, ending the largest empire the world had yet known. In what year?   3. In London, the Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations was held, in the original Crystal Palace, which had been erected in its original Hyde Park location specifically for that purpose. In what year?   4. Four years after posting his 95 Theses at Wittenberg, Martin Luther was called before the Diet ["DEE-et"] of Worms ["VORMSS", with "orm" as in "form"] and found himself outlawed as well as excommunicated. When did this punishment happen?   5. What year did the Panama Canal open?   6. What year did the original Canadian Pacific Railway main line open completely? We want the year that the railway was opened to the general public for travel over its full length, not the Last Spike ceremony, which was the year before.   7. When did King John of England sign the Magna Carta, thus conceding that his royal power was not unlimited?   8. When did the US hold its first elections under the new Constitution rather than the original Articles of Confederation?   9. Name the year when the Edict of Milan legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire. It was sponsored by Constantine, who was not yet the sole Emperor.   10. And finally, to fit the title of the round... name the year when the British Empire skipped 11 days in September, abandoning the Julian calendar in favor of the Gregorian.     ** Game 10, Round 10 - Challenge Round   * A. Expo 67   A1. Composer Delores Claman, of "Hockey Night in Canada" fame, co-wrote the score and famous theme song of what film shown at the Ontario Pavilion?   A2. What was the name of the inverted pyramid structure at the Canada Pavilion? The name is an Inuktitut word for "meeting place".     * B. Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix   B1. Name the track which hosted the inaugural Canadian Grand Prix in 1967.   B2. Who won the 1978 race, the first one held at what was then Circuit Île Notre-Dame in Montreal? Give the *first and last name*.     * C. Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring"   C1. Who choreographed the original 1913 Paris production of "The Rite of Spring"?   C2. The music opens with a famous solo for what woodwind instrument, playing in its extreme upper range?     * D. Radio Hosts   D1. Name the former MuchMusic VJ who """hosts""" CBC Radio's "Definitely Not the Opera".   D2. For 37 years, he was host of "The Jazz Scene" on CJRT, """now""" known as JAZZ FM 91.     * E. Names of Canadian Capitals   E1. Iqaluit is Inuktitut for "place of..." what type of living thing?   E2. Charlottetown was named for the wife of what monarch?     * F. Weather Terminology   F1. State the name given to a line on a weather map or chart connecting points of equal pressure.   F2. What is the Fujita scale, also called the Fujita-Pearson scale, used to classify?   -- Mark Brader | "Which baby is that? Oh, of course -- it must be Toronto | the one that comes complete with bathwater." msb@vex.net | --Maria Conlon   My text in this article is in the public domain.

Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Feb 27 11:06AM +0100 > for the first time with a small fleet of steam warships, and > begin the negotiations that ended some 250 years of Japanese > isolationism?   1853 > 2. Alexander the Great died at age 33, ending the largest empire > the world had yet known. In what year?   332 BC > was held, in the original Crystal Palace, which had been erected > in its original Hyde Park location specifically for that purpose. > In what year?   1881 > Luther was called before the Diet ["DEE-et"] of Worms ["VORMSS", > with "orm" as in "form"] and found himself outlawed as well > as excommunicated. When did this punishment happen?   1519 > 5. What year did the Panama Canal open?   1901 > open completely? We want the year that the railway was opened > to the general public for travel over its full length, not the > Last Spike ceremony, which was the year before.   1886 > 7. When did King John of England sign the Magna Carta, thus > conceding that his royal power was not unlimited?   1216 > 8. When did the US hold its first elections under the new Constitution > rather than the original Articles of Confederation?   1789 > 9. Name the year when the Edict of Milan legalized Christianity > in the Roman Empire. It was sponsored by Constantine, who was > not yet the sole Emperor.   AD 321 > 10. And finally, to fit the title of the round... name the year > when the British Empire skipped 11 days in September, abandoning > the Julian calendar in favor of the Gregorian.   1752   > B2. Who won the 1978 race, the first one held at what was > then Circuit Île Notre-Dame in Montreal? Give the *first > and last name*.   James Hunt > C2. The music opens with a famous solo for what woodwind > instrument, playing in its extreme upper range?   Oboe > F1. State the name given to a line on a weather map or chart > connecting points of equal pressure.   Isobar

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RQFTCI03 Game 10 Rounds 7-8 answers: CanCities, verse forms

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 27 01:35AM -0600 Mark Brader:   > I've rearranged the round in order of the handout, interspersing > the 4 decoys with the others. Answer for the decoys if you like > for fun, but for no points.     In 2008 I wrote: I was surprised how many people tried Toronto when they were guessing at answers. Isn't it obvious that that's the city we'd've been least likely to use, considering that everyone in the league lives here?   There were several guesses of Toronto again this time.   > 1. Name it.   Winnipeg. 2 for Pete.   > 2. Name it. If the photographer had turned around, they would > have seen this city's most recognizable landmark.   St. John's (Newfoundland & Labrador). The unseen landmark is Signal Hill. 4 for Dan Tilque.   According to the CGNDB, there is no place in Canada named Rio de Janeiro.   > 3. Name this western Canadian city that's known locally, for > obvious reasons, as the City of Bridges.   Saskatoon.   > 4. (decoy)   Whitehorse.   > 5. (decoy)   Hamilton.   > 6. Name it.   Quebec (City). 4 for Dan Tilque and Pete.   > 7. Name it. This city is also in western Canada.   Edmonton. 4 for Dan Tilque. 2 for Pete.   > 8. Name it.   Montreal. 3 for Pete.   > 9. Name it.   Halifax. 4 for Dan Tilque and Dan Blum.   > 10. (decoy)   Regina.   > 11. Name it.   Calgary. 4 for Dan Tilque. 2 for Pete.   > 12. Name it.   Vancouver. 4 for Pete.   > 13. (decoy)   London (Ontario).   > 14. Name this city in Ontario. The building on the left is one > of its newer landmarks.   Windsor. The building is the casino (which is cleverly located right on the Detroit River, so it's highly visible from Detroit). 4 for Pete. 2 for Dan Tilque.       > 1. The verse form used in the oldest English poetry, including > "Beowulf". Chaucer's work was influenced by it, although his > verse was rhymed and had fixed meter.   Alliterative verse. 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, and Joshua.   > 2. A verse form consisting of unrhymed iambic pentameter, this is > the meter of "Paradise" Lost as well as Shakespeare's plays.   Blank verse. (Not free verse, which has no specific meter.) 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, and Joshua. 2 for Pete.   > A-B-B-A A-B-B-A and a "sestet" of 6 lines whose rhyme pattern > varies, but is most often C-D-E-C-D-E or C-D-C-D-C-D. A turn -- > a shift in pattern or mood -- occurs after the octet.   Petrarchan or Italian sonnet. 4 for Joshua. 2 for Dan Blum.   > Sang a paean > To love and pain > And ladies layin'.   Clerihew. By the way, "Dion" does not really rhyme with "paean". 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, and Joshua. 3 for Pete.   > 5. A stately lyric form, often on a serious theme, it incorporates > various types of versification. Different variants of this > form are known as Pindaric, Sapphic, and Horatian.   Ode. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Pete.   > "Ode to the West Wind": any number of three-line stanzas, or > "tercets", concluding with a couplet. The tercets have an > interlocking rhyme: A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C, and so on.   Terza rima. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.   > 7. A short stanza of 4 or 5 lines that ends a ballade and some > other medieval verse forms. Originally, it stated the poem's > dedication.   Envoi or envoy. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.   > 8. A rhyming couplet, usually end-stopped (meaning that each line > ends with punctuation and the couplet often forms a sentence), > written in iambic pentameter. Alexander Pope used these.   Heroic couplets. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.   > and fourth stanzas; the third line of the poem is also the last > line of the third and fifth stanzas. These two repeated lines > also end the poem.   Villanelle. 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Joshua, and Pete.   Incidentally, that Dylan Thomas poem came up on "Jeopardy!" last week, specifically on Tuesday, 2010-02-16 -- and all three contestants got it wrong. In the category Literature, this was the $1,600 question:   DYLAN THOMAS' BEST-KNOWN POEM URGES HIS FATHER, "DO NOT" DO THIS. "RAGE, RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT"   The answers given were:   "Do not go gentle into that dark night" "Do not go gently into the -- dark night -- into the night" "Do not go gently into that dark night"   For the right answer see above.   > stanza. All six words are used in the final 3 lines (but three > are "buried" within it, and the other three are used as the > end words).   Sestina. 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Joshua, and Pete.     Scores, if there are no errors:   GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST TOPICS-> Lit Ent Sci Lei Can Lit FOUR Joshua Kreitzer 8 32 3 28 0 40 108 Pete Gayde 4 40 20 20 21 17 101 Dan Blum 16 20 15 27 4 38 101 Dan Tilque 8 12 4 20 22 16 70 Erland Sommarskog 4 23 8 16 0 4 51   -- Mark Brader | "...i will have hideous nightmares involving huge Toronto | monsters in academic robes carrying long bloody msb@vex.net | butcher knives labelled Excerpt, Selection, | Passage and Abridged." -- Helene Hanff   My text in this article is in the public domain.

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RQFTCI03 Game 10 Rounds 7-8: CanCities, verse forms

Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com>: Feb 25 11:15AM -0600 Mark Brader wrote: > the 4 decoys with the others. Answer for the decoys if you like > for fun, but for no points.   > 1. Name it.   Ottawa; Winnipeg     > 2. Name it. If the photographer had turned around, they would > have seen this city's most recognizable landmark.   Ottawa     > 3. Name this western Canadian city that's known locally, for > obvious reasons, as the City of Bridges.   Fraser; Kelowna     > 4. (decoy) > 5. (decoy) > 6. Name it.   Quebec   > 7. Name it. This city is also in western Canada.   Calgary; Edmonton   > 8. Name it.   Montreal; Toronto   > 9. Name it.   Montreal   > 10. (decoy) > 11. Name it.   Winnipeg; Calgary   > 12. Name it.   Vancouver   > 13. (decoy) > 14. Name this city in Ontario. The building on the left is one > of its newer landmarks.   Windsor     > 1. The verse form used in the oldest English poetry, including > "Beowulf". Chaucer's work was influenced by it, although his > verse was rhymed and had fixed meter.   Blank verse; Free verse     > 2. A verse form consisting of unrhymed iambic pentameter, this is > the meter of "Paradise" Lost as well as Shakespeare's plays.   Free verse; Blank verse   > A-B-B-A A-B-B-A and a "sestet" of 6 lines whose rhyme pattern > varies, but is most often C-D-E-C-D-E or C-D-C-D-C-D. A turn -- > a shift in pattern or mood -- occurs after the octet.   Ottava rima; Sestina   > Sang a paean > To love and pain > And ladies layin'.   Clerihew; Ghazal     > 5. A stately lyric form, often on a serious theme, it incorporates > various types of versification. Different variants of this > form are known as Pindaric, Sapphic, and Horatian.   Ode   > "Ode to the West Wind": any number of three-line stanzas, or > "tercets", concluding with a couplet. The tercets have an > interlocking rhyme: A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C, and so on.   Ottava rima; Sestina     > 7. A short stanza of 4 or 5 lines that ends a ballade and some > other medieval verse forms. Originally, it stated the poem's > dedication.   Dithyramb; Tercet     > 8. A rhyming couplet, usually end-stopped (meaning that each line > ends with punctuation and the couplet often forms a sentence), > written in iambic pentameter. Alexander Pope used these.   Dithyramb   > and fourth stanzas; the third line of the poem is also the last > line of the third and fifth stanzas. These two repeated lines > also end the poem.   Villanelle   > stanza. All six words are used in the final 3 lines (but three > are "buried" within it, and the other three are used as the > end words).   Sestina     Pete Gayde

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Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Feb 24 08:32PM +0100 > 1. The verse form used in the oldest English poetry, including > "Beowulf". Chaucer's work was influenced by it, although his > verse was rhymed and had fixed meter.   Alliterative verse   > A-B-B-A A-B-B-A and a "sestet" of 6 lines whose rhyme pattern > varies, but is most often C-D-E-C-D-E or C-D-C-D-C-D. A turn -- > a shift in pattern or mood -- occurs after the octet.   Ottava rima > Sang a paean > To love and pain > And ladies layin'.   Haiku   > and fourth stanzas; the third line of the poem is also the last > line of the third and fifth stanzas. These two repeated lines > also end the poem.   Sestina > stanza. All six words are used in the final 3 lines (but three > are "buried" within it, and the other three are used as the > end words).   Rondel

tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Feb 24 11:29PM > * Game 10, Round 7 - Canadiana Geography - Canadian Cityscapes   > 2. Name it. If the photographer had turned around, they would > have seen this city's most recognizable landmark.   Rio de Janeiro   > 3. Name this western Canadian city that's known locally, for > obvious reasons, as the City of Bridges.   Vancouver   > 8. Name it.   Boston   > 9. Name it.   Halifax   > 11. Name it.   Seattle     > 1. The verse form used in the oldest English poetry, including > "Beowulf". Chaucer's work was influenced by it, although his > verse was rhymed and had fixed meter.   alliterative verse   > 2. A verse form consisting of unrhymed iambic pentameter, this is > the meter of "Paradise" Lost as well as Shakespeare's plays.   blank verse   > A-B-B-A A-B-B-A and a "sestet" of 6 lines whose rhyme pattern > varies, but is most often C-D-E-C-D-E or C-D-C-D-C-D. A turn -- > a shift in pattern or mood -- occurs after the octet.   Shakespearean sonnet; Petrarchan sonnet   > Sang a paean > To love and pain > And ladies layin'.   clerihew   > 5. A stately lyric form, often on a serious theme, it incorporates > various types of versification. Different variants of this > form are known as Pindaric, Sapphic, and Horatian.   ode   > "Ode to the West Wind": any number of three-line stanzas, or > "tercets", concluding with a couplet. The tercets have an > interlocking rhyme: A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C, and so on.   terza rima   > 7. A short stanza of 4 or 5 lines that ends a ballade and some > other medieval verse forms. Originally, it stated the poem's > dedication.   envoi   > 8. A rhyming couplet, usually end-stopped (meaning that each line > ends with punctuation and the couplet often forms a sentence), > written in iambic pentameter. Alexander Pope used these.   heroic couplet   > and fourth stanzas; the third line of the poem is also the last > line of the third and fifth stanzas. These two repeated lines > also end the poem.   villanelle   > stanza. All six words are used in the final 3 lines (but three > are "buried" within it, and the other three are used as the > end words).   sestina   -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."

Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Feb 25 04:38AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:h-WdnUOFN92pUKj9nZ2dnUU7- > the handout:   > http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/o10/7/citypix.pdf   > 9. Name it.   Victoria     > 1. The verse form used in the oldest English poetry, including > "Beowulf". Chaucer's work was influenced by it, although his > verse was rhymed and had fixed meter.   Alliterative verse   > 2. A verse form consisting of unrhymed iambic pentameter, this is > the meter of "Paradise" Lost as well as Shakespeare's plays.   Blank verse   > A-B-B-A A-B-B-A and a "sestet" of 6 lines whose rhyme pattern > varies, but is most often C-D-E-C-D-E or C-D-C-D-C-D. A turn -- > a shift in pattern or mood -- occurs after the octet.   Petrarchan or Italian sonnet   > Sang a paean > To love and pain > And ladies layin'.   Clerihew   > 5. A stately lyric form, often on a serious theme, it incorporates > various types of versification. Different variants of this > form are known as Pindaric, Sapphic, and Horatian.   Ode   > "Ode to the West Wind": any number of three-line stanzas, or > "tercets", concluding with a couplet. The tercets have an > interlocking rhyme: A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C, and so on.   Terza rima   > 7. A short stanza of 4 or 5 lines that ends a ballade and some > other medieval verse forms. Originally, it stated the poem's > dedication.   Envoi or envoy   > 8. A rhyming couplet, usually end-stopped (meaning that each line > ends with punctuation and the couplet often forms a sentence), > written in iambic pentameter. Alexander Pope used these.   Heroic couplet   > and fourth stanzas; the third line of the poem is also the last > line of the third and fifth stanzas. These two repeated lines > also end the poem.   Villanelle   > stanza. All six words are used in the final 3 lines (but three > are "buried" within it, and the other three are used as the > end words).   Sestina   -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com

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RQFTCI03 Game 10 Rounds 7-8: CanCities, verse forms

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 23 09:51PM -0600 Mark Brader: > 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 10, Round 7 - Canadiana Geography - Canadian Cityscapes   Identify the city from the panoramic or aerial view shown in the handout:   http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/o10/7/citypix.pdf   Clues are provided with some pictures.   I've rearranged the round in order of the handout, interspersing the 4 decoys with the others. Answer for the decoys if you like for fun, but for no points.   1. Name it.   2. Name it. If the photographer had turned around, they would have seen this city's most recognizable landmark.   3. Name this western Canadian city that's known locally, for obvious reasons, as the City of Bridges.   4. (decoy) 5. (decoy) 6. Name it. 7. Name it. This city is also in western Canada. 8. Name it. 9. Name it. 10. (decoy) 11. Name it. 12. Name it. 13. (decoy) 14. Name this city in Ontario. The building on the left is one of its newer landmarks.     * Game 10, Round 8 - Literature (yes, again) - Verse Forms   Identify the verse forms from the descriptions given. All answers can be found on the following list:   | Alliterative verse | Haiku | Rondeau | Aubade | Heroic couplet | Rondel | Ballade | Kyrielle | Senryu | Blank verse | Limerick | Sestina | Clerihew | Naga-uta | Shakespearean sonnet | Corona | Ode | Spenserian sonnet | Dithyramb | Ottava rima | Tanka | Dizain | Pantoum | Tercet | Double dactyl | Petrarchan or Italian sonnet | Terza rima | Envoi or envoy | Quatrain | Triolet | Free verse | Renga | Vers libre | Ghazal | Rhyme royal | Villanelle   1. The verse form used in the oldest English poetry, including "Beowulf". Chaucer's work was influenced by it, although his verse was rhymed and had fixed meter.   2. A verse form consisting of unrhymed iambic pentameter, this is the meter of "Paradise" Lost as well as Shakespeare's plays.   3. 14 lines, divided into an "octave" of 8 lines that rhyme A-B-B-A A-B-B-A and a "sestet" of 6 lines whose rhyme pattern varies, but is most often C-D-E-C-D-E or C-D-C-D-C-D. A turn -- a shift in pattern or mood -- occurs after the octet.   4. A form of light verse, named after one of its practitioners, consisting of two rhyming couplets and having the name of the person in the first line. For example, the following verse by Ian Lancashire:   Celine Dion Sang a paean To love and pain And ladies layin'.   5. A stately lyric form, often on a serious theme, it incorporates various types of versification. Different variants of this form are known as Pindaric, Sapphic, and Horatian.   6. An Italian verse form, used by Dante and also by Shelley in "Ode to the West Wind": any number of three-line stanzas, or "tercets", concluding with a couplet. The tercets have an interlocking rhyme: A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C, and so on.   7. A short stanza of 4 or 5 lines that ends a ballade and some other medieval verse forms. Originally, it stated the poem's dedication.   8. A rhyming couplet, usually end-stopped (meaning that each line ends with punctuation and the couplet often forms a sentence), written in iambic pentameter. Alexander Pope used these.   9. Its name derives from the Italian word for "country house"; Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" is an example. Five stanzas of 3 lines each, and one stanza of 4. Only uses two rhymes, and also repeats two lines throughout the poem: the first line of the poem is also the last line of the second and fourth stanzas; the third line of the poem is also the last line of the third and fifth stanzas. These two repeated lines also end the poem.   10. Six 6-line stanzas and a <answer 7> of 3 lines; doesn't rhyme traditionally; instead, it repeats the end words of the first stanza in a different order as the end words of each subsequent stanza. All six words are used in the final 3 lines (but three are "buried" within it, and the other three are used as the end words).   -- Mark Brader | "Modern security actually worked most of the time. Toronto | There hadn't been a city lost in more than five years." msb@vex.net | --Vernor Vinge, "Rainbows End"   My text in this article is in the public domain.

Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Feb 23 11:26PM -0800 On 2/23/21 7:51 PM, Mark Brader wrote: > the 4 decoys with the others. Answer for the decoys if you like > for fun, but for no points.   > 1. Name it.   Montreal     > 2. Name it. If the photographer had turned around, they would > have seen this city's most recognizable landmark.   St John's   (That clue sounds familiar. If I'm remembering correctly, I didn't need it the first time, but it reminded me of the answer I gave then.)     > 3. Name this western Canadian city that's known locally, for > obvious reasons, as the City of Bridges.   Winnipeg     > 4. (decoy) > 5. (decoy) > 6. Name it.   Quebec City   > 7. Name it. This city is also in western Canada.   Edmonton   > 8. Name it.   Toronto   > 9. Name it.   Halifax   > 10. (decoy) > 11. Name it.   Calgary   > 12. Name it.   St John   > 13. (decoy) > 14. Name this city in Ontario. The building on the left is one > of its newer landmarks.   Hamilton; Windsor     > 1. The verse form used in the oldest English poetry, including > "Beowulf". Chaucer's work was influenced by it, although his > verse was rhymed and had fixed meter.   heroic couplet     > 2. A verse form consisting of unrhymed iambic pentameter, this is > the meter of "Paradise" Lost as well as Shakespeare's plays.   blank verse   > A-B-B-A A-B-B-A and a "sestet" of 6 lines whose rhyme pattern > varies, but is most often C-D-E-C-D-E or C-D-C-D-C-D. A turn -- > a shift in pattern or mood -- occurs after the octet.   Shakespearean sonnet   > Sang a paean > To love and pain > And ladies layin'.   Clerihew   > "Ode to the West Wind": any number of three-line stanzas, or > "tercets", concluding with a couplet. The tercets have an > interlocking rhyme: A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C, and so on.   Petrarchan or Italian sonnet     > 7. A short stanza of 4 or 5 lines that ends a ballade and some > other medieval verse forms. Originally, it stated the poem's > dedication.   quatrain   > and fourth stanzas; the third line of the poem is also the last > line of the third and fifth stanzas. These two repeated lines > also end the poem.   villanelle   > stanza. All six words are used in the final 3 lines (but three > are "buried" within it, and the other three are used as the > end words).   sestina   -- Dan Tilque

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RQFTCI03 Game 10 Rounds 4,6 answers: animal, fruit, mineral, or cafes

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 23 09:49PM -0600 Mark Brader:   > http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/o10/4/animalfruitmineral.pdf   > 1. Arrange fossils A, B, and C into chronological order, earliest > first.   The intended answer was C, B, A: C = Trilobite: 400-500 million years old B = Ammonite: 130-135 million years A = Fly: 48 million years This was correct for the specific species indicated, but there are other kinds of trilobites and ammonites that look similar, and the two types of creatures coexisted for a long time. We therefore accepted on a protest the answer B, C, A.   So, 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, and Pete (the hard way).   > 2. Arrange fossils D, E, and F into chronological order, earliest > first.   E, F, D. 4 for Erland and Dan Blum. 3 for Pete.   E = Sahelanthropus tchadensis: 6-7 million years old F = Australopithecus robustus: 1½-2 million years D = Homo sapiens neanderthalensis: 50,000 years   > For the next 4 questions, we give you a letter, and you must name > the corresponding fruit.   > 3. G.   Persimmon (or kaki, Sharon fruit, or Fuji fruit). 4 for Pete.   > 4. J.   Guava (or kuawa).   > 5. K.   Papaya (or paw-paw). 4 for Pete.   > 6. M.   Passion fruit (or granadilla).   > And for the last 4 questions, we name a gemstone, and you must give > the corresponding letter.   > 7. Turquoise.   T. 4 for Dan Tilque and Dan Blum. 3 for Joshua.   > 8. Opal.   R. I thought that was an easy one.   > 9. Peridot.   Q. 3 for Dan Blum and Pete.   > 10. Malachite.   V. 2 for Pete.   > So there were 8 decoys, 4 fruits and 4 gems. If you like, decode > the rot13 and identify them for fun, but for no points.   > 11. Star fruit.   N. Erland got this.   > 12. Fig.   I. Erland got this.   > 13. Mango.   L. Erland got this.   > 14. Kumquat.   H. Erland got this.   > 15. Lapis lazuli.   P.   > 16. Amethyst.   S.   > 17. Fluorite.   O.   > 18. Topaz.   U.       > existentialist loafers in the 1950s, where you could have > seen Jean-Paul Sartre sitting and thinking at the Café des > Deux Magots.   Boul. (I would have accepted "Rue") St-Germain.   > founded in 1720, where conspirators used to hatch plots against > the Austrians who frequented Caffè Quadri across the square. > Name the city.   Venice. (Still true.) 4 for Dan Tilque, Erland, and Dan Blum. 3 for Pete.   > some monks. In real life, before the Arabs discovered how to > brew hot coffee, the people of this goatherd's country drank > cold fermented coffee. What country is it?   Ethiopia. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. 3 for Pete.   > Arabian Peninsula through the 15th to 17th centuries? A kind > of coffee, and a blend of coffee with another beverage, both > take their name from this port.   Mocha. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, and Pete.   > 5. What country """has been""" the world's biggest coffee producer > since the 19th century?   Brazil. (Still true.) 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Erland. 3 for Dan Blum. 2 for Pete.   > the Turks in 1683, and as a reward, they were allowed to bake > a pastry based on an image that appears on the Turkish flag. > What is this pastry?   Croissant ("crescent"). 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, and Pete.   > character who haunts society drawing rooms. The character > complains: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." > Name *either* the poet or the title character.   T.S. Eliot, J. Alfred Prufrock. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.   > 8. Who composed the Coffee Cantata in 1734: a tale of a naughty > German girl who refuses to give up coffee drinking? It is one > of this composer's few secular cantatas.   J.S. Bach. 4 for Joshua, Erland, Dan Blum, and Pete.   > Among the sizes you """can""" choose are (in alphabetical order) > grande, tall, and venti. Arrange these three Starbucks sizes > in order from smallest to largest.   Tall, grande, venti. (Still true.) 4 for Joshua and Erland.   > 10. Name the coffeehouse that used to exist at 134 Yorkville, > owned by Bernie Fiedler, where countless musicians got their > start in the 1960s and '70s.   The Riverboat.     Scores, if there are no errors:   GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS TOPICS-> Lit Ent Sci Lei Pete Gayde 4 40 20 20 84 Dan Blum 16 20 15 27 78 Joshua Kreitzer 8 32 3 28 71 Erland Sommarskog 4 23 8 16 51 Dan Tilque 8 12 4 20 44   -- Mark Brader, Toronto "You are not the customer, msb@vex.net you are the product."   My text in this article is in the public domain.

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RQFTCI03 Game 10 Rounds 4,6: animal, fruit, mineral, or cafes

Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Feb 21 03:07AM -0800 On 2/20/21 9:25 PM, Mark Brader wrote:   > http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/o10/4/animalfruitmineral.pdf   > 1. Arrange fossils A, B, and C into chronological order, earliest > first.   C A B     > 2. Arrange fossils D, E, and F into chronological order, earliest > first.   F E D   > the corresponding fruit.   > 3. G. > 4. J.   kiwifruit   > 5. K.   avocado     > And for the last 4 questions, we name a gemstone, and you must give > the corresponding letter.   > 7. Turquoise.   T   > 8. Opal.   S   > founded in 1720, where conspirators used to hatch plots against > the Austrians who frequented Caffè Quadri across the square. > Name the city.   Venice   > some monks. In real life, before the Arabs discovered how to > brew hot coffee, the people of this goatherd's country drank > cold fermented coffee. What country is it?   Ethiopia   > Arabian Peninsula through the 15th to 17th centuries? A kind > of coffee, and a blend of coffee with another beverage, both > take their name from this port.   Mocha     > 5. What country """has been""" the world's biggest coffee producer > since the 19th century?   Brazil   > the Turks in 1683, and as a reward, they were allowed to bake > a pastry based on an image that appears on the Turkish flag. > What is this pastry?   croisant     > 8. Who composed the Coffee Cantata in 1734: a tale of a naughty > German girl who refuses to give up coffee drinking? It is one > of this composer's few secular cantatas.   Mozart   > Among the sizes you """can""" choose are (in alphabetical order) > grande, tall, and venti. Arrange these three Starbucks sizes > in order from smallest to largest.   tall, venti, grande venti, tall, grande     -- Dan Tilque

Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Feb 21 12:15PM +0100 > * Game 10, Round 4 - Science - Animal, Fruit, or Mineral?   > 1. Arrange fossils A, B, and C into chronological order, earliest > first.   B C A > 2. Arrange fossils D, E, and F into chronological order, earliest > first.   E F D > 3. G.   Pomegranate   > 4. J.   Passion fruit   > 5. K.   Yellow mango   > 6. M.   Stuffed bell pepper. :-)   > 7. Turquoise.   V   > 8. Opal.   Q   > 9. Peridot.   O   > 10. Malachite.   P     > So there were 8 decoys, 4 fruits and 4 gems. If you like, decode > the rot13 and identify them for fun, but for no points.   > 11. Fgne sehvg.   N   > 12. Svt.   I   > 13. Znatb.   L   > 14. Xhzdhng.   H   > existentialist loafers in the 1950s, where you could have > seen Jean-Paul Sartre sitting and thinking at the Café des > Deux Magots.   Boulevard de Montparnasse > founded in 1720, where conspirators used to hatch plots against > the Austrians who frequented Caffè Quadri across the square. > Name the city.   Venice > some monks. In real life, before the Arabs discovered how to > brew hot coffee, the people of this goatherd's country drank > cold fermented coffee. What country is it?   Yemen > Arabian Peninsula through the 15th to 17th centuries? A kind > of coffee, and a blend of coffee with another beverage, both > take their name from this port.   Aden   > 5. What country """has been""" the world's biggest coffee producer > since the 19th century?   Brazil > the Turks in 1683, and as a reward, they were allowed to bake > a pastry based on an image that appears on the Turkish flag. > What is this pastry?   Apfelstrudel > 8. Who composed the Coffee Cantata in 1734: a tale of a naughty > German girl who refuses to give up coffee drinking? It is one > of this composer's few secular cantatas.   J.S. Bach > Among the sizes you """can""" choose are (in alphabetical order) > grande, tall, and venti. Arrange these three Starbucks sizes > in order from smallest to largest.   tall, grande, venti > 10. Name the coffeehouse that used to exist at 134 Yorkville, > owned by Bernie Fiedler, where countless musicians got their > start in the 1960s and '70s.   Bernie's coffee

tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Feb 21 03:06PM > * Game 10, Round 4 - Science - Animal, Fruit, or Mineral?   > 1. Arrange fossils A, B, and C into chronological order, earliest > first.   C B A   > 2. Arrange fossils D, E, and F into chronological order, earliest > first.   E F D   > 3. G.   mango; kumquat   > 4. J.   durian   > 5. K.   durian   > 7. Turquoise.   T   > 8. Opal.   V   > 9. Peridot.   Q; R   > 10. Malachite.   P   > existentialist loafers in the 1950s, where you could have > seen Jean-Paul Sartre sitting and thinking at the Caf? des > Deux Magots.   Rue des Ecoles   > founded in 1720, where conspirators used to hatch plots against > the Austrians who frequented Caff? Quadri across the square. > Name the city.   Venice   > some monks. In real life, before the Arabs discovered how to > brew hot coffee, the people of this goatherd's country drank > cold fermented coffee. What country is it?   Ethiopia   > Arabian Peninsula through the 15th to 17th centuries? A kind > of coffee, and a blend of coffee with another beverage, both > take their name from this port.   Mocha   > 5. What country """has been""" the world's biggest coffee producer > since the 19th century?   Brazil; Colombia   > the Turks in 1683, and as a reward, they were allowed to bake > a pastry based on an image that appears on the Turkish flag. > What is this pastry?   croissant   > character who haunts society drawing rooms. The character > complains: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." > Name *either* the poet or the title character.   J. Alfred Prufrock   > 8. Who composed the Coffee Cantata in 1734: a tale of a naughty > German girl who refuses to give up coffee drinking? It is one > of this composer's few secular cantatas.   J. S. Bach   > Among the sizes you """can""" choose are (in alphabetical order) > grande, tall, and venti. Arrange these three Starbucks sizes > in order from smallest to largest.   tall venti grande   -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."

Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com>: Feb 21 11:42AM -0600 Mark Brader wrote:   > http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/o10/4/animalfruitmineral.pdf   > 1. Arrange fossils A, B, and C into chronological order, earliest > first.   C, B, A; B, C, A     > 2. Arrange fossils D, E, and F into chronological order, earliest > first.   E, F, D; F, E, D     > For the next 4 questions, we give you a letter, and you must name > the corresponding fruit.   > 3. G.   Persimmon   > 4. J.   Pomegranate   > 5. K.   Papaya   > 6. M.   Pomegranate     > And for the last 4 questions, we name a gemstone, and you must give > the corresponding letter.   > 7. Turquoise.   S   > 8. Opal.   P   > 9. Peridot.   Q; T   > 10. Malachite.   T; V   > founded in 1720, where conspirators used to hatch plots against > the Austrians who frequented Caffè Quadri across the square. > Name the city.   Venice; Milan   > some monks. In real life, before the Arabs discovered how to > brew hot coffee, the people of this goatherd's country drank > cold fermented coffee. What country is it?   Ethiopia; Somalia   > Arabian Peninsula through the 15th to 17th centuries? A kind > of coffee, and a blend of coffee with another beverage, both > take their name from this port.   Mocha     > 5. What country """has been""" the world's biggest coffee producer > since the 19th century?   Colombia; Brazil   > the Turks in 1683, and as a reward, they were allowed to bake > a pastry based on an image that appears on the Turkish flag. > What is this pastry?   Crescent roll     > 8. Who composed the Coffee Cantata in 1734: a tale of a naughty > German girl who refuses to give up coffee drinking? It is one > of this composer's few secular cantatas.   J. S. Bach   > Among the sizes you """can""" choose are (in alphabetical order) > grande, tall, and venti. Arrange these three Starbucks sizes > in order from smallest to largest.   Venti, Tall, Grande; Tall, Venti, Grande     > 10. Name the coffeehouse that used to exist at 134 Yorkville, > owned by Bernie Fiedler, where countless musicians got their > start in the 1960s and '70s.   Pete Gayde

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RQFTCI03 Game 10 Rounds 4,6: animal, fruit, mineral, or cafes

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 20 11:25PM -0600 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2003-03-24, 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 10, Round 4 - Science - Animal, Fruit, or Mineral?   These questions refer to the handout at:   http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/o10/4/animalfruitmineral.pdf   1. Arrange fossils A, B, and C into chronological order, earliest first.   2. Arrange fossils D, E, and F into chronological order, earliest first.   For the next 4 questions, we give you a letter, and you must name the corresponding fruit.   3. G. 4. J. 5. K. 6. M.   And for the last 4 questions, we name a gemstone, and you must give the corresponding letter.   7. Turquoise. 8. Opal. 9. Peridot. 10. Malachite.   So there were 8 decoys, 4 fruits and 4 gems. If you like, decode the rot13 and identify them for fun, but for no points.   11. Fgne sehvg. 12. Svt. 13. Znatb. 14. Xhzdhng. 15. Yncvf ynmhyv. 16. Nzrgulfg. 17. Syhbevgr. 18. Gbcnm.     * Game 10, Round 6 - Leisure (or Idleness) - Cafe Culture   1. Name the left-bank Parisian boulevard frequented by existentialist loafers in the 1950s, where you could have seen Jean-Paul Sartre sitting and thinking at the Café des Deux Magots.   2. This Italian city was the first European city to import coffee. On one side of its famous square """is""" Caffè Florian, founded in 1720, where conspirators used to hatch plots against the Austrians who frequented Caffè Quadri across the square. Name the city.   3. Legend has it that in this African country a goatherd first discovered coffee berries and then passed on the secret to some monks. In real life, before the Arabs discovered how to brew hot coffee, the people of this goatherd's country drank cold fermented coffee. What country is it?   4. Which Yemeni port held the monopoly on coffee exports from the Arabian Peninsula through the 15th to 17th centuries? A kind of coffee, and a blend of coffee with another beverage, both take their name from this port.   5. What country """has been""" the world's biggest coffee producer since the 19th century?   6. According to legend, the bakers of Vienna saved the city from the Turks in 1683, and as a reward, they were allowed to bake a pastry based on an image that appears on the Turkish flag. What is this pastry?   7. A poet named a poem he published in 1917 after an effete character who haunts society drawing rooms. The character complains: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." Name *either* the poet or the title character.   8. Who composed the Coffee Cantata in 1734: a tale of a naughty German girl who refuses to give up coffee drinking? It is one of this composer's few secular cantatas.   9. Suppose you're in a Starbucks. Let's say you want a coffee. Among the sizes you """can""" choose are (in alphabetical order) grande, tall, and venti. Arrange these three Starbucks sizes in order from smallest to largest.   10. Name the coffeehouse that used to exist at 134 Yorkville, owned by Bernie Fiedler, where countless musicians got their start in the 1960s and '70s.   -- Mark Brader "A clarification is not to make oneself clear. Toronto It is to PUT oneself IN the clear." msb@vex.net -- Lynn & Jay, "Yes, Prime Minister"   My text in this article is in the public domain.

Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Feb 21 06:33AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:kLKdncRfq5J-c6z9nZ2dnUU7-   > http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/o10/4/animalfruitmineral.pdf   > 1. Arrange fossils A, B, and C into chronological order, earliest > first.   A, C, B   > 2. Arrange fossils D, E, and F into chronological order, earliest > first.   F, E, D > For the next 4 questions, we give you a letter, and you must name > the corresponding fruit.   > 6. M.   pomegranate   > And for the last 4 questions, we name a gemstone, and you must give > the corresponding letter.   > 7. Turquoise.   T; V   > 8. Opal.   U   > 9. Peridot.   S   > 10. Malachite.   O; Q > existentialist loafers in the 1950s, where you could have > seen Jean-Paul Sartre sitting and thinking at the Café des > Deux Magots.   Montparnasse   > some monks. In real life, before the Arabs discovered how to > brew hot coffee, the people of this goatherd's country drank > cold fermented coffee. What country is it?   Ethiopia > Arabian Peninsula through the 15th to 17th centuries? A kind > of coffee, and a blend of coffee with another beverage, both > take their name from this port.   Mocha   > 5. What country """has been""" the world's biggest coffee producer > since the 19th century?   Brazil > the Turks in 1683, and as a reward, they were allowed to bake > a pastry based on an image that appears on the Turkish flag. > What is this pastry?   croissant   > character who haunts society drawing rooms. The character > complains: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." > Name *either* the poet or the title character.   Eliot > 8. Who composed the Coffee Cantata in 1734: a tale of a naughty > German girl who refuses to give up coffee drinking? It is one > of this composer's few secular cantatas.   Bach   > Among the sizes you """can""" choose are (in alphabetical order) > grande, tall, and venti. Arrange these three Starbucks sizes > in order from smallest to largest.   tall, grande, venti   > 10. Name the coffeehouse that used to exist at 134 Yorkville, > owned by Bernie Fiedler, where countless musicians got their > start in the 1960s and '70s.   The Hungry I   -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com

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RQFTCI03 Game 10 Rounds 2-3: sleuthing pairs, jazz nicknames

Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Feb 18 06:08AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:ZbydnS6KOcfEZLD9nZ2dnUU7-   > * Game 10, Round 2 - Literature - Sleuthing Pairs   > Name the authors who created the following duos:   > 3. Tommy and Tuppence Beresford.   Christie   > 4. Nick and Nora Charles.   Hammett     > We provide the nickname of a jazz musician and their instrument; > you give us their name or stage name.   > 1. "The Velvet Fog"; voice.   Torme   > 2. "Bird" or "Yardbird"; alto saxophone.   Parker   > 3. "Trane"; tenor saxophone.   Coltrane   > 4. "The First Lady of Song"; voice.   Fitzgerald   > 5. "Fatha" [pronounced similarly to "father"]; piano.   Hines   > 7. "Cannon" or "Cannonball"; alto saxophone.   Adderley   > 9. "King of Swing"; clarinet.   Goodman   > 10. "Lady Day"; voice.   Holiday   -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com

tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Feb 19 02:27AM > * Game 10, Round 2 - Literature - Sleuthing Pairs   > 3. Tommy and Tuppence Beresford.   Agatha Christie   > 6. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Detective Jim Chee.   Tony Hillerman   > 9. Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin.   Rex Stout   > 10. Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane.   Dorothy Sayers   > * Game 10, Round 3 - Entertainment - Jazz Musicians' Nicknames   > 1. "The Velvet Fog"; voice.   Mel Torme   > 2. "Bird" or "Yardbird"; alto saxophone.   Charlie Parker   > 3. "Trane"; tenor saxophone.   John Coltrane   > 9. "King of Swing"; clarinet.   Benny Goodman   > 10. "Lady Day"; voice.   Billie Holliday   -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."

Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com>: Feb 18 08:12PM -0600 Mark Brader wrote: > 2. Inspector Thomas Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers. > 3. Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. > 4. Nick and Nora Charles.   Hammett   > 7. Pam and Jerry North. > 8. Inspector Thomas Pitt and Charlotte Pitt. > 9. Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin.   Christie     > We provide the nickname of a jazz musician and their instrument; > you give us their name or stage name.   > 1. "The Velvet Fog"; voice.   Mel Torme   > 2. "Bird" or "Yardbird"; alto saxophone.   Charlie Parker   > 3. "Trane"; tenor saxophone.   John Coltrane   > 4. "The First Lady of Song"; voice.   Ella Fitzgerald   > 5. "Fatha" [pronounced similarly to "father"]; piano.   Earl Hines   > 6. "Prez" or "the President"; tenor saxophone.   Lester Young   > 7. "Cannon" or "Cannonball"; alto saxophone.   Cannonball Adderley   > 8. "Zoot"; tenor saxophone.   Zoot Sims   > 9. "King of Swing"; clarinet.   Benny Goodman   > 10. "Lady Day"; voice.   Billie Holiday     Pete Gayde

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 17 11:21PM -0600 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2003-03-24, 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 wrote in 2008: I may have written one of these rounds.     * Game 10, Round 2 - Literature - Sleuthing Pairs   Name the authors who created the following duos:   1. Inspector Roderick Alleyn and Agatha Troy. 2. Inspector Thomas Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers. 3. Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. 4. Nick and Nora Charles. 5. Andrew Dalziel ["dee-ELL"] and Peter Pascoe. 6. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Detective Jim Chee. 7. Pam and Jerry North. 8. Inspector Thomas Pitt and Charlotte Pitt. 9. Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin. 10. Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane.     * Game 10, Round 3 - Entertainment - Jazz Musicians' Nicknames   We provide the nickname of a jazz musician and their instrument; you give us their name or stage name.   1. "The Velvet Fog"; voice. 2. "Bird" or "Yardbird"; alto saxophone. 3. "Trane"; tenor saxophone. 4. "The First Lady of Song"; voice. 5. "Fatha" [pronounced similarly to "father"]; piano. 6. "Prez" or "the President"; tenor saxophone. 7. "Cannon" or "Cannonball"; alto saxophone. 8. "Zoot"; tenor saxophone. 9. "King of Swing"; clarinet. 10. "Lady Day"; voice.   -- Mark Brader | "Every year this part of our job gets easier. Toronto | Between Facebook, Instagram, and Flickr, people are msb@vex.net | surveilling *themselves*." --Phil Coulson (Jeffrey Bell)   My text in this article is in the public domain.

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 20 11:23PM -0600 Mark Brader: > see my 2020-06-23 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from > the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".     > I wrote in 2008: I may have written one of these rounds.   The literature round is something I might have done, but I didn't remember whether I did. At the moment I suspect not.     > * Game 10, Round 2 - Literature - Sleuthing Pairs   > Name the authors who created the following duos:   > 1. Inspector Roderick Alleyn and Agatha Troy.   Ngaio Marsh.   > 2. Inspector Thomas Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers.   Elizabeth George.   > 3. Tommy and Tuppence Beresford.   Agatha Christie. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.   > 4. Nick and Nora Charles.   Dashiell Hammett. 4 for Joshua and Pete.   > 5. Andrew Dalziel ["dee-ELL"] and Peter Pascoe.   Reginald Hill.   > 6. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Detective Jim Chee.   Tony Hillerman. 4 for Dan Blum.   > 7. Pam and Jerry North.   Frances and Richard Lockridge (either or both was okay, or, as usual, the last name alone).   > 8. Inspector Thomas Pitt and Charlotte Pitt.   Anne Perry.   > 9. Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin.   Rex Stout. 4 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque.   > 10. Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane.   Dorothy Sayers. 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque.       > We provide the nickname of a jazz musician and their instrument; > you give us their name or stage name.   > 1. "The Velvet Fog"; voice.   Mel Tormé. 4 for Joshua, Pete, and Dan Blum.   > 2. "Bird" or "Yardbird"; alto saxophone.   Charlie Parker. 4 for Joshua, Erland, Pete, and Dan Blum.   > 3. "Trane"; tenor saxophone.   John Coltrane. 4 for Joshua, Erland, Pete, and Dan Blum.   > 4. "The First Lady of Song"; voice.   Ella Fitzgerald. 4 for Joshua, Erland, Pete, and Dan Tilque.   > 5. "Fatha" [pronounced similarly to "father"]; piano.   Earl Hines. 4 for Joshua and Pete.   > 6. "Prez" or "the President"; tenor saxophone.   Lester Young. 4 for Pete.   > 7. "Cannon" or "Cannonball"; alto saxophone.   Julian Edwin Adderley. 4 for Joshua and Pete. 3 for Erland.   > 8. "Zoot"; tenor saxophone.   Jack Sims. 4 for Erland and Pete.   > 9. "King of Swing"; clarinet.   Benny Goodman. 4 for Joshua, Pete, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque.   > 10. "Lady Day"; voice.   Billie Holiday. 4 for everyone -- Joshua, Erland, Pete, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque.     Scores, if there are no errors:   GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS TOPICS-> Lit Ent Pete Gayde 4 40 44 Joshua Kreitzer 8 32 40 Dan Blum 16 20 36 Erland Sommarskog 4 23 27 Dan Tilque 8 12 20   -- Mark Brader | "Well, that is a really tough question... Toronto | I've narrowed it down to two possibilities: yes and no." msb@vex.net | --Chidi Anagonye (Alan Yang, "The Good Place")   My text in this article is in the public domain.

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RQFTCI03 Game 9 Rounds 9-10 answers: alchemy, challenge round

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 17 11:15PM -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 9 is over and the winner is JOSHUA KREITZER. Hearty congratulations!       > ** Game 9, Round 9 - History - Alchemy   > 1. The word alchemy originated in Greek, but from what language > did it reenter medieval Europe?   Arabic, like so many words starting in al-. 4 for Joshua, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum.   > a snake adopting an unusual pose. What is the snake doing > in this image? Incidentally, the same image was said to be > significant in a 19th-century chemical discovery.   Eating its own tail. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum.   The chemist Kekulé was trying to work out the molecular structure of benzene, and as Dan Tilque remembered, he supposedly was inspired after dreaming of this image to realize that the molecule is ring-shaped. There are multiple versions of the story.   > water -- this Greek philosopher's doctrine on the subject became > normative and indisputable for alchemists for over 2,000 years. > Who?   Aristotle. 4 for Erland, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum.   > 4. Many alchemists believed that all metals were composed of > the same two, or sometimes three, materials, also described > more abstractly as "principles". Name *any one* of them.   Sulfur, mercury, salt.   > alchemists was known as an alembic. This term is sometimes > used to refer to the entire device, sometimes just a part. > What kind of device is it?   A still or retort. I accepted "distiller" as a description. 4 for Joshua.   > and experiment rather than blind adherence to established > authorities. His real name was Theophrastus von Hohenheim, > but by what name is he better known?   Paracelsus. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.   > simply absorbed by air. Antoine Lavoisier, whose sorry demise > you heard about in last week's game, disproved this theory. > What was this so-called principle called?   Phlogiston. 4 for Joshua, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum.   > acquiring and examining the man's papers, said he "was not the > first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians..." > Name the scientist.   Sir Isaac Newton. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Pete, and Dan Blum.   > centuries earlier by a German monk, still exists in various > forms today, some of which prefer to concentrate on spiritual > rather than physical transformations. What are they called?   The Rosicrucians. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.   > alchemical symbols as describing the development of the human > psyche as it passes through conflict, crisis, and transformation. > Who?   Carl Jung. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum.       > * A. Baseball's Spring Training   > A1. Florida has its Grapefruit League. What is the name of > Arizona's equivalent?   Cactus League. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Pete, and Dan Blum.   > spring training in 1946. He played for this team, which > was a AAA affiliate of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Give the city > or the team name.   Montreal Royals. 4 for Joshua and Pete.   ObMovie: "42" (2013).     > Philistines. So he picked up something he saw lying in the > dust and slew a thousand of them. What did Samson use as > a weapon? Be sufficiently specific for full points.   Jawbone of an ass. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum.   > B2. The Israelite widow Jael got the enemy general Sisera > drunk in her tent and pierced his temple. What did she > use as her weapon?   Tent peg. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.       > C1. In 1956, the Academy awarded the first Humanitarian Award > named for this actor and founder of the Motion Picture > Relief Fund.   Jean Hersholt. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.   > Master of Ceremonies, five times -- with two honorary Oscars, > two special awards, and one <answer C1> Humanitarian Award. > Who?   Bob Hope. (Still true. He died a few months after the original game.) 4 for Joshua, Pete, and Dan Blum.     > ownership of North American lands that had not been ceded > to or purchased by the Crown. State the year of this Royal > Proclamation, within 5 years.   1763 (accepting 1758-68). 3 for Joshua and Pete.   > various First Nations that allowed the Canadian government > to settle and develop land in the west and north. What > collective name are these treaties known by?   The Numbered Treaties.       > E1. His 1921 Nobel Prize citation states: "for his services to > Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of > the law of the photoelectric effect". Name him.   Albert Einstein. 4 for Joshua, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum.   Relativity was still a controversial theory at the time, but he could still have been given the prize later in his life. But he never was, although he lived until 1955.   > E2. Name the Austrian-born physicist who published a paper > in 1877, which stated that a shock wave is produced by the > supersonic motion of a projectile.   Ernst Mach (as in Mach numbers). 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Pete, and Dan Blum.     > Although a composer herself, she is better known for her > interpretation of Schumann's music and her influence on > his works. Her first name is sufficient. What was it?   Clara (Wieck). 4 for Joshua and Pete.   > F2. Name the composer who wrote and conducted his "Siegfried > Idyll" as a birthday and Christmas present for his second > wife, Cosima, who was a daughter of Franz Liszt.   Richard Wagner. 4 for Joshua, Erland, Pete, and Dan Blum.     Scores, if there are no errors:   GAME 9 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST TOPICS-> Ent Mis Sci Lit Geo Can His Cha SIX Joshua Kreitzer 24 28 24 28 22 0 32 43 179 Dan Blum 24 24 21 32 24 4 32 32 168 Dan Tilque 8 12 32 12 4 0 24 16 104 Pete Gayde 12 20 -- -- 21 2 4 27 86 Erland Sommarskog 0 8 24 0 0 0 12 8 52 Stephen Perry -- -- -- -- -- -- 0 0 0   -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "Gwyneth Paltrow always says I'm a msb@vex.net | shameless name dropper" -- Roger Ford   My text in this article is in the public domain.

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