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. |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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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