| 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 |
| 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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