| 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 |
| 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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