- RQFTCI03 Final Rounds 8-9: Canadiana, science - 1 Update
- RQFTCI03 Final Round 10 answers: challenge - 1 Update
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 11 02:21AM -0600 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2003-04-07, 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*)". These will be the last two rounds of this game. Round 8 is have the dreaded Canadiana round, and I did not write any of it. In Round 9, I wrote two or three triples. ** Final, Round 8 - Canadiana * Canadian Forces Bases These questions pertain to Canada's army, navy, and air force bases. 1. Canada """has""" two naval bases, sometimes referred to as MARPAC and MARLANT. Give the name of the community in which either """is""" located. 2. In which province """is""" CFB Gagetown located? 3. There """is""" one base in Saskatchewan, for an air force wing designated 15 Wing. Where is it located? * CFL Records 4. This quarterback, entering his 18th season """this year""", """holds""" lifetime records for most regular season pass attempts, pass completions, yardage, and quarterback rushing. Who? *Note*: If you answer for 2021, you must name the person who holds 3 of those 4 records. 5. Which Toronto Argonaut set the record for the most kickoff return yards (183) in a Grey Cup game, in 1991? 6. During his 25-year career, this B.C. Lion played in a record 408 regular season games. * Classic Kids' TV 7. Which outdoor adventure series co-starred Gordon Pinsent as RCMP Sergeant Brian Scott? 8. "Butternut Square", which aired on CBC 1964-67, was the precursor to what long-running Canadian show? 9. The best-known personality on "Razzle Dazzle" was a turtle puppet that sat on a pedestal. What was the turtle's name? * Saskatchewan and Public Health Care 10. In 1929, Saskatchewan was the first province to universally diagnose and treat *what disease* at no charge to the individual? 11. Emmett Hall was named chair of Canada's Royal Commission on Health Services in 1961. What was Hall's job title at the time of his appointment? Be specific. 12. On the day that Saskatchewan's province-wide medicare plan was launched, about 90% of its doctors walked off the job. The strike lasted 23 days. Give the year of the strike, within 3 years. * People with "Canada" in their Nicknames 13. Who was known as "the Voice of Canada", and also, in darker times, "the Voice of Doom"? 14. This person was called "Mr. Broadcasting" by some; after his death, the CBC publicized the name "Mr. Canada" in its obituaries of him. Who was he? 15. Who acquired the nickname "Captain Canada" after he stared down a usually friendly European country in a well-publicized dispute? ** Final, Round 9 - Science * Kinematics 1. What is the term for a force applied to an object in such a manner that it moves in a circle? (For example, the Sun's gravity as applied to the Earth.) 2. Several objects are sliding toward each other on a frictionless surface; you know all the masses and velocities. They collide and stick together in a single lump. You can calculate the resulting velocity of this lump by using the fact that what quantity is always conserved? 3. (Please decipher the rot13 only after you are finished with #2.) Jung vf gur grez sbe n pbyyvfvba jurer xvargvp raretl vf pbafreirq nf jryy nf zbzraghz? * Calculus Please refer to the handout sheet, and relax, you aren't going to be asked to evaluate any of the expressions: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/of/9/b.pdf 4. Which expression contains an indefinite integral? 5. Which expression contains a second derivative? 6. Which expression contains a partial derivative? * Geology 7. There are three major types of volcanoes: cinder cones, composite, and which other? All the islands of Hawaii are formed from this type of volcano, which is created from large runny lava flows that create a domed mountain. 8. There are two types of crust, oceanic and continental. Continental crust is composed mostly of granite, while oceanic crust is composed mostly of what rock? 9. What is the name of the """largest known""" volcano in the solar system? It's extinct, and it's on Mars. * Recyclable Plastics Recyclable plastics are commonly numbered 1 through 6 for sorting purposes. #7 (called "Other") you might as well plant flowers in. 10. Plastic #3 is commonly used for plastic pipes, outdoor furniture, shrink wrap, water bottles, etc. By what name is it better known? The common abbreviation is acceptable. 11. Plastic #6 is used to manufacture CD jewel cases, plastic cutlery, insulation, and packaging materials, among other things. Name it. This time we want the full name, not an abbreviation, and if you feel impelled to answer with a well-known trademark of Dow Chemical, please resist this because we won't accept it. 12. Plastics #2 and #4 are abbreviated HDPE and LDPE respectively. Give the full name of either. * Legumes Please refer to: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/of/9/c.jpg (At the original game, actual legumes were passed out. I don't have a list of what the decoy ones were, so I've assembled this image by selecting the three desired images and 12 others picked arbitrarily, all from a commercial site, <http://www.purcellmountainfarms.com>.) 13. Identify the adzuki beans. 14. Identify the cow beans. 15. Identify the pigeon peas. If you'd like to try the decoys for fun but for no points, please decode the rot13. If not, you're done with this set. 16. Puvpx crnf. 17. Snin ornaf. 18. Tneonamb ornaf. 19. Fbl ornaf. 20. Crgvgr tbyqra yragvyf. 21. Cvagb ornaf. 22. Erq puvrs yragvyf. 23. Gvtre rlr ornaf. 24. Serapu anil ornaf. 25. Terra crnf. 26. Qnex erq xvqarl ornaf. 27. Rlr-bs-gur-tbng ornaf. -- Mark Brader, Toronto / "A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, msb@vex.net / tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before." My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 11 02:18AM -0600 Mark Brader: > see my 2020-06-23 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from > the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)". > I wrote two triples in this round. Those were C and F. > (If you want to show off, name the actor and character as well. > No points will be awarded or deducted for this.) > A1. "I'm still big. It's the pictures that got small." "Sunset Blvd." (1950; Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond.) 4 for Dan and Joshua. > A2. "I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like > them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on > long winter evenings." "The Big Sleep". (1946; Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe.) > A3. "Some people are better off dead. Like your wife and my > father, for instance." "Strangers on a Train". (1951; Robert Walker as Bruno Anthony.) 4 for Dan and Joshua. > elected public official who held his office for life, and > a moralist, busybody, and tightwad. A modern right-wing > think tank is named after him. Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder. (The Cato Institute. "Cato" was sufficient.) 4 for Dan and Joshua. > whose members was George Bernard Shaw, was named after > him -- but we need the name of the man himself, not the > group's name. Quintus Fabius Maximus. (The Fabian Society. "Fabius" was sufficient.) 4 for Dan and Joshua. > He served in Nero's court as the person responsible for > procuring the emperor's pleasures, and the bawdy novel > "The Satyricon" is ascribed to him. Petronius Arbiter (Elegantiarum). ("Petronius" was sufficient.) 4 for Dan. > Highway, and the CPR main line mostly """runs""" alongside > it. By which pass do they cross the Continental Divide, > at the border between the two provinces? Kicking Horse. (Still true.) The Crow's Nest Pass is nearer the border, carrying Alberta and BC highway 3 and a secondary CPR line. > """follows""" the *CNR* main line, crossing the Continental > Divide at the provincial border west of Jasper -- by > which pass? Yellowhead. The highway is additionally named after the pass. (Still true.) > the border. They had a choice of two passes, one named for > the local tribe, the other now carrying a road and a railway. > Name either pass. Chilkoot (not Chilkat), White. > He collected manuscripts dating from the 15th to the 19th > century and transcribed performances. His catalogue of > ballads is named after him. Francis James Child. ("Child's Ballads".) 4 for Joshua. > American South collecting songs and tales for the Library > of Congress. He produced many recordings and wrote several > books, including "The Land Where the Blues Began". Name him. Alan Lomax. 4 for Joshua. > work in a book called "The Singer of Tales". Name *either* > the collaborator, or the folklorist, or the country he > visited to record the poems -- any one. Milman Parry, Albert Lord, Yugoslavia. > Who wrote these pairs of works? > E1. "The Periodic Table", "The Drowned and the Saved". > This writer is Italian. Primo Levi. 4 for Dan and Joshua. > E2. "Dog Years", "The Flounder". This writer is German. Gunther Grass. > E3. "The Joke", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting". > This writer is Czech. Milan Kundera. 4 for Dan and Joshua. > controversial development of a medical remedy. Either tell > us what condition this remedy was for, or who played the > title character. Syphilis (hence the controversy), Edward G. Robinson. 4 for Joshua. > F2. In a 1994 comedy, Albert Einstein facilitates his niece's > romance. Either tell us the title of the movie, or who > played Einstein. "I.Q.", Walter Matthau. (The romantic leads were Tim Robbins and Meg Ryan.) 4 for Joshua. > features Dwight Schultz as Robert Oppenheimer. Either tell > us the title of the movie, or name the better-known star > who played General Groves. "Fat Man and Little Boy" (or "Shadow Makers", the UK title); Paul Newman. 4 for Dan and Joshua. (As you will remember from the answer posting for Game 8, Round 3, Oppenheimer led the scientific work on the project but was later deemed a security risk. Groves was in charge of the military side of development, including security, facilities, and provisioning.) Last time I posted these questions and their answers, I ended with: | That's it for OQFTCI from January-April 2003. See you in the New Year | with questions from January-April 1998. This time around, Rounds 8-9 of this game are coming text, but I still intend to continue with those questions from 1998 after that. Scores, if there are no errors: FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 7 10 BEST TOPICS-> Geo His A+L S+L Cha THREE Dan Blum 32 41 51 16 32 124 Joshua Kreitzer 23 36 20 12 44 103 Dan Tilque 32 20 28 12 -- 80 Erland Sommarskog 22 28 0 7 -- 57 Pete Gayde -- -- 24 20 0 44 -- Mark Brader "I used to own a mind like a steel trap. Toronto Perhaps if I'd specified a brass one, it msb@vex.net wouldn't have rusted like this." --Greg Goss "I have a mind like a steel trap. It's hard to pry open." --Michael Wares My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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