| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Feb 12 02:35PM > * Game 9, Round 7 - Geography - Cultural Monuments > 2. In what *country* can you find the Tomb of Hussein, one of the > holiest shrines for Shiite Muslims? Iran; Iraq > Maryinsky Ballet, more famously, though now unofficially, > known as the Kirov Ballet, especially for foreign engagements. > In what *city* is the theatre? Saint Petersburg, Russia > 6. In which *city* can you find the Ashmolean Library (now incorporated > into the Sackler Library)? Oxford > 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. Palatine; Capitoline > 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. Ostia > 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 > * Game 9, Round 8 - Canadiana Sports - University Athletic Logos > 4. Name it. McGill; University of Waterloo > 8. Logo #8 (men's) and #15 (women's) -- name it. McGill > 11. Name it. Simon Fraser; Brock > 28. Name it. Brock -- _______________________________________________________________________ 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 12 07:21PM -0600 Mark Brader wrote: > * 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? Teheran > 2. In what *country* can you find the Tomb of Hussein, one of the > holiest shrines for Shiite Muslims? Iran; Iraq > 3. In what *city* is La Fenice ("Fe-NEE-che") Opera House found? Venice > Maryinsky Ballet, more famously, though now unofficially, > known as the Kirov Ballet, especially for foreign engagements. > In what *city* is the theatre? St Petersburg > 5. In what *Ontario town* can you find the historic Norman Bethune > House? London; Kitchener > 6. In which *city* can you find the Ashmolean Library (now incorporated > into the Sackler Library)? Philadelphia; Boston > 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. Campidoglio > 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? Rochester, Minnesota > 10. In what *city and state* would you find the US National Naval > Medical Center? Bethesda, Maryland; Annapolis, Maryland > 1. (decoy) > 2. Name it. > 3. (decoy) logo #3 (men's) and #12 (women's). University of Alberta > 6. (decoy) > 7. (decoy) > 8. Logo #8 (men's) and #15 (women's) -- name it. Laval University > 21. Name it. > 22. (decoy) > 23. Name it. University of Saskatchewan; University of Manitoba > 26. (decoy) > 27. (decoy) > 28. Name it. University of Northern Wisconsin Pete Gayde |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 15 02:20PM -0600 Mark Brader: > > Carleton. Joshua got this. Joshua Kreitzer: > It doesn't make a difference in points because this was a decoy, but I > didn't get this one. Oops, sorry. -- Mark Brader, Toronto "I'd opt for Oz, myself." msb@vex.net --Buck Henry |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 15 02:32PM -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*)". Although Dan Blum's answers were posted in good time, for some reason they took 3 days to propagate to the Giganews server. I am treating this as a technical problem and rescoring the set to accept them. The easiest thing seems to be to repeat the entire answers posting with the corrections, so here it is. > I did not write these rounds. And I'm glad I wasn't responsible for them! > * 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 (Israel). 4 for Joshua. > 2. In what *country* can you find the Tomb of Hussein, one of the > holiest shrines for Shiite Muslims? Iraq. 4 for Joshua. 2 for Pete and Dan Blum. > 3. In what *city* is La Fenice ("Fe-NEE-che") Opera House found? Venice. 4 for Pete. The two words are unrelated: "Fenice" means "Phoenix", and while the etymology of "Venice" ("Venezia" in Italian) is uncertain, that's not considered a possibility. > Maryinsky Ballet, more famously, though now unofficially, > known as the Kirov Ballet, especially for foreign engagements. > In what *city* is the theatre? St. Petersburg (we accepted Leningrad). 4 for Pete. 3 for Joshua and Dan Blum. > 5. In what *Ontario town* can you find the historic Norman Bethune > House? Gravenhurst. > 6. In which *city* can you find the Ashmolean Library (now incorporated > into the Sackler Library)? Oxford (England). 4 for Dan Blum. 3 for Joshua. > 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. Campidoglio Square, Capitoline Hill. 4 for Pete. 2 for Dan Blum. > 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. Ostia (Antiqua). 4 for Dan Blum. > 9. In what *US city and state* would you find the Mayo Clinic? Rochester, Minnesota. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Pete, and Dan Blum. > 10. In what *city and state* would you find the US National Naval > Medical Center? Bethesda, Maryland. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. 3 for Pete. > 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. (Insert "University (of)" as appropriate.) > 1. (decoy) Saskatchewan. Joshua got this. > 2. Name it. Bishop's. > 3. (decoy) logo #3 (men's) and #12 (women's). Acadia. > 4. Name it. Prince Edward Island. > 5. (decoy) Brandon. > 6. (decoy) McGill. Joshua got this. > 7. (decoy) Carleton. > 8. Logo #8 (men's) and #15 (women's) -- name it. Moncton. > 9. Name it. Ottawa. > 10. Name it. Calgary. > 11. Name it. Memorial. > 13. Name it. Trent. > 14. (decoy) McMaster. > 16. (decoy) Western Ontario. > 17. (decoy) University College of Cape Breton. > 18. (decoy) Laurentian. > 19. (decoy) St. Mary's. > 20. (decoy) St. Francis Xavier. Joshua was close. > 21. Name it. Waterloo (yea!). > 22. (decoy) Simon Fraser. Joshua got it this time! > 23. Name it. Manitoba. 2 for Pete. > 24. (decoy) Wilfrid Laurier. > 25. (decoy) Lakehead. > 26. (decoy) Laval. Joshua got this. > 27. (decoy) Lethbridge. > 28. Name it. Brock. 4 for Dan Blum. Scores, if there are now no errors: GAME 9 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST TOPICS-> Ent Mis Sci Lit Geo Can FOUR Joshua Kreitzer 24 28 24 28 22 0 104 Dan Blum 24 24 21 32 23 4 103 Dan Tilque 8 12 32 12 4 0 64 Pete Gayde 12 20 -- -- 21 2 55 Erland Sommarskog 0 8 24 0 0 0 32 -- Mark Brader | "The good news is that the Internet is dynamic. Toronto | The bad news is that the Internet is dynamic." msb@vex.net | -- Peter Neumann My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Feb 16 01:31AM > St. Petersburg (we accepted Leningrad). 4 for Pete. 3 for Joshua > and Dan Blum. The addition of ", Russia" was intended as a clarification, not another answer (for which I use semicolons), but I daresay that wasn't clear. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 15 11:14PM -0600 Mark Brader: > > St. Petersburg (we accepted Leningrad). 4 for Pete. 3 for Joshua > > and Dan Blum. Dan Blum: > The addition of ", Russia" was intended as a clarification, not > another answer Sorry! Trying to rescore quickly, I simply stopped reading when I got to the comma, or something like that. > (for which I use semicolons)... I'd only pay attention to which punctuation was used if I saw a clear hierarchy within an answer, like "Moscow, Russia; Minsk, Belarus". So, on this one: 4 for Pete and Dan Blum. 3 for Joshua. Scores, if there are *now* no errors: GAME 9 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST TOPICS-> Ent Mis Sci Lit Geo Can FOUR Joshua Kreitzer 24 28 24 28 22 0 104 Dan Blum 24 24 21 32 24 4 104 Dan Tilque 8 12 32 12 4 0 64 Pete Gayde 12 20 -- -- 21 2 55 Erland Sommarskog 0 8 24 0 0 0 32 -- Mark Brader | The situation will continue to deteriorate until we [get] msb@vex.net | an effective governing authority... When that wonderful Toronto | day finally comes, we will once again resent the stupid | laws [they] will inevitably hold over us. --Mark Crispin My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Feb 15 07:34PM +0100 > ** Game 9, Round 9 - History - Alchemy > 1. The word alchemy originated in Greek, but from what language > did it reenter medieval Europe? Arabic > 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. It is winding itself upwards on a stick. > water -- this Greek philosopher's doctrine on the subject became > normative and indisputable for alchemists for over 2,000 years. > Who? Aristotle > 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? Flogiston > 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. Galilei > 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? Grimm > alchemical symbols as describing the development of the human > psyche as it passes through conflict, crisis, and transformation. > Who? Freud > 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. Einstein > 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. Doppler > 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. Wagner |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Feb 15 10:38AM -0800 On 2/14/21 10:55 PM, Mark Brader wrote: > ** Game 9, Round 9 - History - Alchemy > 1. The word alchemy originated in Greek, but from what language > did it reenter medieval Europe? Arabic > 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. biting its own tail (and that discovery was the structure of benzene) > water -- this Greek philosopher's doctrine on the subject became > normative and indisputable for alchemists for over 2,000 years. > Who? Aristotle > 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 > 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. Newton > alchemical symbols as describing the development of the human > psyche as it passes through conflict, crisis, and transformation. > Who? Jung > * A. Baseball's Spring Training > A1. Florida has its Grapefruit League. What is the name of > Arizona's equivalent? Cactus League > 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 > Master of Ceremonies, five times -- with two honorary Oscars, > two special awards, and one <answer C1> Humanitarian Award. > Who? Billy Crystal > 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. 1769 > 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. Einstein > 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. Mach -- Dan Tilque |
| Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com>: Feb 15 02:02PM -0600 Mark Brader wrote: > ** Game 9, Round 9 - History - Alchemy > 1. The word alchemy originated in Greek, but from what language > did it reenter medieval Europe? French; English > 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. Newton > 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? Illuminati > alchemical symbols as describing the development of the human > psyche as it passes through conflict, crisis, and transformation. > Who? Leary; Spock > * A. Baseball's Spring Training > A1. Florida has its Grapefruit League. What is the name of > Arizona's equivalent? Cactus League > 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 > C1. In 1956, the Academy awarded the first Humanitarian Award > named for this actor and founder of the Motion Picture > Relief Fund. Audrey Hepburn; Jimmy Stewart > Master of Ceremonies, five times -- with two honorary Oscars, > two special awards, and one <answer C1> Humanitarian Award. > Who? Bob Hope > 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. 1760; 1771 > 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. Mach > 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 > 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. Wagner Pete Gayde |
| swp <stephen.w.perry@gmail.com>: Feb 15 04:51PM -0800 On Monday, February 15, 2021 at 1:55:57 AM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote: > Mark Brader, Toronto, m...@vex.net | "If the enemy is in range, so are you." > My text in this article is in the public domain. I shall return. swp, who is in range but not your enemy |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Feb 16 01:36AM > ** Game 9, Round 9 - History - Alchemy > 1. The word alchemy originated in Greek, but from what language > did it reenter medieval Europe? Arabic > 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 tail > water -- this Greek philosopher's doctrine on the subject became > normative and indisputable for alchemists for over 2,000 years. > Who? Aristotle > 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. materia prima > 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 > 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 > 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. Isaac Newton > 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? Rosicrucians > alchemical symbols as describing the development of the human > psyche as it passes through conflict, crisis, and transformation. > Who? Jung > * A. Baseball's Spring Training > A1. Florida has its Grapefruit League. What is the name of > Arizona's equivalent? Cactus League > 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 > 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 stake > C1. In 1956, the Academy awarded the first Humanitarian Award > named for this actor and founder of the Motion Picture > Relief Fund. Jean Hersholt > Master of Ceremonies, five times -- with two honorary Oscars, > two special awards, and one <answer C1> Humanitarian Award. > Who? Bob Hope > 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. 1772; 1792 > 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 > 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. Mach > 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 -- _______________________________________________________________________ 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 12 09:11AM -0600 Mark Brader wrote: > calcite, corundum, quartz, talc. > 3. Gestation periods, shortest first: black rhinoceros, lion, > rabbit, zebra. Rabbit, Lion, Zebra, Black Rhinoceros; Rabbit, Zebra, Lion, Black Rhinoceros > 4. Wind speeds, slowest first according to the Beaufort scale: > fresh breeze, light air, storm, strong gale. Light air, Fresh breeze, storm, strong gale > Venus. > 8. Human blood types (Rh positive and negative are combined), > least common first: A, AB, B, O. AB, B, O, A; AB, B, A, O > metatarsal, scapula. > 10. Computer programming languages, earliest created first: BASIC, > C, FORTRAN, Java. BASIC, FORTRAN, C, Java; FORTRAN, BASIC, C, Java > The next line in the poem ends with the one-word answer to > the question. What is this word? > 2. According to John Donne, for whom does the bell toll? It tolls for thee > 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 you nor I. > 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?" Pete Gayde |
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