- RQFTCI03 Game 9 Rounds 7-8: cultural monuments, CanUSports - 2 Updates
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- RQFTCI03 Game 9 Rounds 4,6: sci mixups, lit questions - 2 Updates
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 11 11:05PM -0600 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2003-03-17, 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 9, Round 7 - Geography - Cultural Monuments 1. In what *city* will you find the Universal House of Justice, the temple that houses the governing body of the Baha'i faith? 2. In what *country* can you find the Tomb of Hussein, one of the holiest shrines for Shiite Muslims? 3. In what *city* is La Fenice ("Fe-NEE-che") Opera House found? 4. The Maryinsky Theatre ["Mary-YIN-ski"] is the home of the Maryinsky Ballet, more famously, though now unofficially, known as the Kirov Ballet, especially for foreign engagements. In what *city* is the theatre? 5. In what *Ontario town* can you find the historic Norman Bethune House? 6. In which *city* can you find the Ashmolean Library (now incorporated into the Sackler Library)? 7. An equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius stands in this square, which is located on one of Rome's seven hills. Michelangelo redesigned the square. Name *either* the square or the hill. 8. Less famous than Pompeii but nearly as impressive is the restored ancient city at the mouth of the Tiber. Name this *ancient city*, which was the port that served Rome. 9. In what *US city and state* would you find the Mayo Clinic? 10. In what *city and state* would you find the US National Naval Medical Center? * Game 9, Round 8 - Canadiana Sports - University Athletic Logos Please see the handout at: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/o9/8/logos.pdf It displays pictures of Canadian university athletic logos. We have removed the name of the school if it's present, because in each case, that's what you have to give. Some logos are gender-specific, but you don't have to specify that in your answer. (*Note*: I have no idea how many of these logos are still current in 2021. You must give the answers that were correct in 2003.) I've sorted the round in order of the handout, interspersing the decoys with the others to give 26 total questions from #1 to #28; answer for the decoys if you like for fun, but for no points. 1. (decoy) 2. Name it. 3. (decoy) logo #3 (men's) and #12 (women's). 4. Name it. 5. (decoy) 6. (decoy) 7. (decoy) 8. Logo #8 (men's) and #15 (women's) -- name it. 9. Name it. 10. Name it. 11. Name it. 13. Name it. 14. (decoy) 16. (decoy) 17. (decoy) 18. (decoy) 19. (decoy) 20. (decoy) 21. Name it. 22. (decoy) 23. Name it. 24. (decoy) 25. (decoy) 26. (decoy) 27. (decoy) 28. Name it. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "E-mail is idiot-proof. (I know this because I have msb@vex.net | received E-mail from idiots.)" -- Beppi Crosariol My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Feb 12 07:03AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in > * Game 9, Round 7 - Geography - Cultural Monuments > 1. In what *city* will you find the Universal House of Justice, > the temple that houses the governing body of the Baha'i faith? Haifa > 2. In what *country* can you find the Tomb of Hussein, one of the > holiest shrines for Shiite Muslims? Iraq > 3. In what *city* is La Fenice ("Fe-NEE-che") Opera House found? Phoenix > Maryinsky Ballet, more famously, though now unofficially, > known as the Kirov Ballet, especially for foreign engagements. > In what *city* is the theatre? St. Petersburg; Moscow > 6. In which *city* can you find the Ashmolean Library (now > incorporated > into the Sackler Library)? Oxford; Cambridge > 8. Less famous than Pompeii but nearly as impressive is the restored > ancient city at the mouth of the Tiber. Name this *ancient city*, > which was the port that served Rome. Civitavecchia > 9. In what *US city and state* would you find the Mayo Clinic? Rochester, Minnesota > 10. In what *city and state* would you find the US National Naval > Medical Center? Bethesda, Maryland > in each case, that's what you have to give. Some logos are > gender-specific, but you don't have to specify that in your answer. > 1. (decoy) University of Saskatchewan > 2. Name it. Simon Fraser University > 3. (decoy) logo #3 (men's) and #12 (women's). University of Alberta > 4. Name it. Simon Fraser University > 6. (decoy) McGill University > 7. (decoy) Simon Fraser University > 8. Logo #8 (men's) and #15 (women's) -- name it. Universite de Montreal > 10. Name it. Simon Fraser University > 11. Name it. McGill University > 14. (decoy) McGill University > 17. (decoy) University of Halifax > 19. (decoy) McGill University > 20. (decoy) Xavier University > 21. Name it. Simon Fraser University > 22. (decoy) Simon Fraser University > 23. Name it. Simon Fraser University > 24. (decoy) Simon Fraser University > 25. (decoy) Simon Fraser University > 26. (decoy) Universite de Laval > 27. (decoy) Simon Fraser University > 28. Name it. Simon Fraser University -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 11 11:03PM -0600 <LbudnQ0OTvF8lrv9nZ2dnUU7-ffNnZ2d@giganews.com> was cancelled from within trn. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 11 11:02PM -0600 Mark Brader: > We give you a list of four items in alphabetical order; you place > them correctly in the order specified in the question. > 1. Metric prefixes, smallest first: deca-, kilo-, micro-, nano-. Nano-, micro-, deca-, kilo-. 4 for everyone -- Dan Tilque, Joshua, Erland, and Dan Blum. > 2. Minerals, softest first according to the Mohs hardness scale: > calcite, corundum, quartz, talc. Talc, calcite, quartz, corundum. 4 for Joshua, Erland, and Dan Blum. > 3. Gestation periods, shortest first: black rhinoceros, lion, > rabbit, zebra. Rabbit, lion, zebra, black rhinoceros. 4 for Dan Tilque. > 4. Wind speeds, slowest first according to the Beaufort scale: > fresh breeze, light air, storm, strong gale. Light air, fresh breeze, strong gale, storm. 4 for Dan Tilque, Joshua, and Erland. > 5. Electromagnetic spectrum, lowest frequency first: AM radio, > microwaves, visible light, X-rays. AM radio, microwaves, visible light, X-rays. 4 for Dan Tilque and Erland. > 6. Geologic time periods, earliest first: Cambrian, Cretaceous, > Devonian, Jurassic. Cambrian, Devonian, Jurassic, Cretaceous. 4 for Dan Tilque and Dan Blum. > 7. Planets, smallest in diameter first: Jupiter, Mars, Uranus, > Venus. Mars, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter. 4 for everyone. > 8. Human blood types (Rh positive and negative are combined), > least common first: A, AB, B, O. AB, B, A, O. 4 for Joshua. 3 for Dan Blum. There is regional variation; in particular, B is more common than A in parts of eastern Asia. But the worldwide answer is the same as the local answer for Toronto, so it's the only acceptable one. > 9. Bones in the human body, upward from ground level, when standing > up straight with feet flat on the ground: femur, fibula, > metatarsal, scapula. Metatarsal (in the foot), fibula (lower leg), femur (upper leg), scapula (shoulder area). 4 for Dan Tilque. In 2008 one entrant listed the bones in reverse order and later commented: || Y'know, there are days when I'm just too stupid to be allowed to || tie my own shoes... To which I responded: | Well, I can see how it would be difficult to tie them if you had | the femur placed below the fibula... > 10. Computer programming languages, earliest created first: BASIC, > C, FORTRAN, Java. FORTRAN, BASIC, C, Java. 4 for Dan Tilque, Joshua, and Erland. 2 for Dan Blum. 1954, 1964, 1972, 1991 respectively. > I implore!" > The next line in the poem ends with the one-word answer to > the question. What is this word? (Quoth the Raven) "Nevermore". (Edgar Allan Poe.) 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. > 2. According to John Donne, for whom does the bell toll? (It tolls) for thee. ("You" was acceptable, as a paraphrase.) 4 for Dan Tilque, Joshua, and Dan Blum. > 3. Who killed Cock Robin? The sparrow. 4 for Dan Blum. In 2008 one entrant tried "I did", but that entrant was not the sparrow, so it was not acceptable. > 4. Other than the narrator of the nursery rhyme, how many were > going to St. Ives? 0. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. Yes, there are also interpretations that give answers around 2,800, but there's no reason to believe whose were what was intended. > 5. According to Christina Rosetti, "who has seen the wind?" > There are two forms of the answer in the poem in question: > give either one, exactly as she wrote it. "Neither I nor you", "Neither you nor I". > thee thus! Why look'st thou so?" > (You may provide the exact line explaining the subject's > distress, or just paraphrase, but be sufficiently specific.) "With my crossbow, I shot the albatross." Any reference to (responsibility for) killing an albatross was sufficient. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge.) 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. > 7. John Keats asked: "Oh what can ail thee, knight at arms, alone > and palely loitering?" Well, the real answer is that he's in > love, but the title of the poem says who with. Name it. "La Belle Dame Sans Merci". 4 for Dan Blum. > which happens to form most of the preceding line in the play. > Exact answer required for full points. > "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." "(But soft!) What light through yonder window breaks?" (William Shakespeare. But you probably knew that.) 4 for Dan Tilque, Joshua, and Dan Blum. On 2021-01-28, "Jeopardy!" had a category titled "Responses in the form of a question", and the $2,000 question asked for this line. The first contestant who answered tried "What light *from* yonder window breaks?"; the second one got it right. > "...purely, as they turn from praise"; > "...with the breath, > Smiles, tears, of all my life!" "How do I love thee?" (Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning.) 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. > but *where it can be found*, according to the author. And the > question is: > "How many times must a man look up, before he can see the sky?" (The answer is) blowin' in the wind. (Bob Dylan.) 4 for Dan Tilque and Joshua. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 9 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS TOPICS-> Ent Mis Sci Lit Joshua Kreitzer 24 28 24 28 104 Dan Blum 24 24 21 32 101 Dan Tilque 8 12 32 12 64 Pete Gayde 12 20 -- -- 32 Erland Sommarskog 0 8 24 0 32 -- Mark Brader | "I'm a little worried about the bug-eater", she said. Toronto | "We're embedded in bugs, have you noticed?" msb@vex.net | -- Niven, "The Integral Trees" My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 11 11:03PM -0600 Mark Brader: > We give you a list of four items in alphabetical order; you place > them correctly in the order specified in the question. > 1. Metric prefixes, smallest first: deca-, kilo-, micro-, nano-. Nano-, micro-, deca-, kilo-. 4 for everyone -- Dan Tilque, Joshua, Erland, and Dan Blum. > 2. Minerals, softest first according to the Mohs hardness scale: > calcite, corundum, quartz, talc. Talc, calcite, quartz, corundum. 4 for Joshua, Erland, and Dan Blum. > 3. Gestation periods, shortest first: black rhinoceros, lion, > rabbit, zebra. Rabbit, lion, zebra, black rhinoceros. 4 for Dan Tilque. > 4. Wind speeds, slowest first according to the Beaufort scale: > fresh breeze, light air, storm, strong gale. Light air, fresh breeze, strong gale, storm. 4 for Dan Tilque, Joshua, and Erland. > 5. Electromagnetic spectrum, lowest frequency first: AM radio, > microwaves, visible light, X-rays. AM radio, microwaves, visible light, X-rays. 4 for Dan Tilque and Erland. > 6. Geologic time periods, earliest first: Cambrian, Cretaceous, > Devonian, Jurassic. Cambrian, Devonian, Jurassic, Cretaceous. 4 for Dan Tilque and Dan Blum. > 7. Planets, smallest in diameter first: Jupiter, Mars, Uranus, > Venus. Mars, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter. 4 for everyone. > 8. Human blood types (Rh positive and negative are combined), > least common first: A, AB, B, O. AB, B, A, O. 4 for Joshua. 3 for Dan Blum. There is regional variation; in particular, B is more common than A in parts of eastern Asia. But the worldwide answer is the same as the local answer for Toronto, so it's the only acceptable one. > 9. Bones in the human body, upward from ground level, when standing > up straight with feet flat on the ground: femur, fibula, > metatarsal, scapula. Metatarsal (in the foot), fibula (lower leg), femur (upper leg), scapula (shoulder area). 4 for Dan Tilque. In 2008 one entrant listed the bones in reverse order and later commented: || Y'know, there are days when I'm just too stupid to be allowed to || tie my own shoes... To which I responded: | Well, I can see how it would be difficult to tie them if you had | the femur placed below the fibula... > 10. Computer programming languages, earliest created first: BASIC, > C, FORTRAN, Java. FORTRAN, BASIC, C, Java. 4 for Dan Tilque, Joshua, and Erland. 2 for Dan Blum. 1954, 1964, 1972, 1991 respectively. > I implore!" > The next line in the poem ends with the one-word answer to > the question. What is this word? (Quoth the Raven) "Nevermore". (Edgar Allan Poe.) 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. > 2. According to John Donne, for whom does the bell toll? (It tolls) for thee. ("You" was acceptable, as a paraphrase.) 4 for Dan Tilque, Joshua, and Dan Blum. > 3. Who killed Cock Robin? The sparrow. 4 for Dan Blum. In 2008 one entrant tried "I did", but that entrant was not the sparrow, so it was not acceptable. > 4. Other than the narrator of the nursery rhyme, how many were > going to St. Ives? 0. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. Yes, there are also interpretations that give answers around 2,800, but there's no reason to believe whose were what was intended. > 5. According to Christina Rosetti, "who has seen the wind?" > There are two forms of the answer in the poem in question: > give either one, exactly as she wrote it. "Neither I nor you", "Neither you nor I". > thee thus! Why look'st thou so?" > (You may provide the exact line explaining the subject's > distress, or just paraphrase, but be sufficiently specific.) "With my crossbow, I shot the albatross." Any reference to (responsibility for) killing an albatross was sufficient. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge.) 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. > 7. John Keats asked: "Oh what can ail thee, knight at arms, alone > and palely loitering?" Well, the real answer is that he's in > love, but the title of the poem says who with. Name it. "La Belle Dame Sans Merci". 4 for Dan Blum. > which happens to form most of the preceding line in the play. > Exact answer required for full points. > "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." "(But soft!) What light through yonder window breaks?" (William Shakespeare. But you probably knew that.) 4 for Dan Tilque, Joshua, and Dan Blum. On 2021-01-28, "Jeopardy!" had a category titled "Responses in the form of a question", and the $2,000 question asked for this line. The first contestant who answered tried "What light *from* yonder window breaks?"; the second one got it right. > "...purely, as they turn from praise"; > "...with the breath, > Smiles, tears, of all my life!" "How do I love thee?" (Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning.) 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. > but *where it can be found*, according to the author. And the > question is: > "How many times must a man look up, before he can see the sky?" (The answer is) blowin' in the wind. (Bob Dylan.) 4 for Dan Tilque and Joshua. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 9 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS TOPICS-> Ent Mis Sci Lit Joshua Kreitzer 24 28 24 28 104 Dan Blum 24 24 21 32 101 Dan Tilque 8 12 32 12 64 Pete Gayde 12 20 -- -- 32 Erland Sommarskog 0 8 24 0 32 -- Mark Brader | "I'm a little worried about the bug-eater", she said. Toronto | "We're embedded in bugs, have you noticed?" msb@vex.net | -- Niven, "The Integral Trees" My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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