| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 08 01:09AM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 1998-02-23, 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*)". * Game 5, Round 7 - Canadiana History - Quebec City 1. What famous French explorer was the first European to stay over a winter on the site of Quebec City, during his second voyage to America? 2. Which explorer founded the city of Quebec? 3. Name *both* generals who died on the Plains of Abraham. 4. In 1775, American forces under the command of what famous American soldier laid siege to Quebec City? 5. Early in 1776, the American forces were repulsed by what English commander? 6. He was born in France in 1623, ordained in 1647, and became the first Bishop of Quebec in 1674. A monument to him stands outside the old post office near Parc Montmorency in Quebec. Name him. 7. What hotel, with a commanding view of most of Quebec City, was built in 1892 on the former site of the Château St-Louis? 8. This church was built in 1688 in the Lower Town of Quebec. It was known as Enfant-Jésus, but was renamed after the French defeated the British armies twice. It has been known by what name since 1711? 9. This building, on Cap Diamant near the Plains of Abraham, was built by the British as part of their fortifications against a possible American invasion of Quebec. It was started in 1820 and completed in 1831 at a cost of $35,000,000. Name it. 10. He too has a monument in Parc Montmorency. He was born in 1814, was admitted to the bar in 1835, and became leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec and John A. Macdonald's right-hand man. He died in London (England) in 1873. Name him. * Game 5, Round 8 - Literature - Bestsellers This round simply asks you to identify the 10 books that were on the Globe & Mail's """latest""" Saturday list of fiction paperback bestsellers in Canada -- or, in other words, those books that the stores would like you to help them get rid of because they ordered so many of them. For each book we will simply give you the copyright date plus part or all of the blurb and/or reviewers' quotes given on or near its front and back covers. To give you every opportunity, the excerpts are long: feel free to interrupt if you know the answer. (As it turned out, hardly anybody knew any of them, so this round -- one of four that were tied for being the hardest of the season -- was tedious at the time and will only be worse in 2021. No, I'm not accepting answers based on the current bestseller list in 2021. Apologies in advance. Oh yeah, and of the two rounds in this set, this awful thing is the one I wrote.) But first listen, because there are a number of notes and some special scoring. First note: the books are *not* in the same order as on the bestseller list. Also, sometimes the title actually occurs within the blurb or review that we'll provide. If it does, we *may or may not* replace it with <title>. Thus some of the answers, or part of them, may occur within the questions. If the author's name occurs, we will always substitute the words "the author". Now the scoring. Each answer has two parts -- the book's title and author. You can give just one of these and take up to two guesses in the usual manner for 4, 3, or 2 points. But if you give one guess at the title and one guess at the author and *both are correct*, you get a 2-point bonus for 6 points. (If only one is correct, I'll score as usual for a two-guess response.) 1. © 1997. 18 years ago, young Tess McPhail left her tiny hometown of Wintergreen, Missouri... She headed for Nashville... Now one of country music's brightest lights, "Mac" McPhail is a millionaire... Her career is her life. At 35, Mac has no time for marriage, children, or kinfolk -- until her sisters insist she come home to help care for their widowed mother. Mac isn't thrilled about spending a month in Wintergreen. But her visit home turns out to be far from dull. 2. © 1996. Kirkus Reviews says the author "brings an edgy authority, a gimlet eye for her city, and a taste for nonstop conflict to her new novel." The Hartford Courant says "...the crimes are intriguing." And the blurb reads in full: "Meet the police department of Charlotte, North Carolina. And find out why they call it 'the <title> of America'." 3. © 1997. Charlotte Arkendale knew all there was to know about men. After all, she'd made a career of steering marriage-minded women away from untrustworthy members of the opposite sex. Yet nothing could have prepared her for Baxter St. Ives -- an arresting stranger too daring, too determined, too *dangerous* to be her new man-of-affairs. Still, perhaps he was the perfect person to help her investigate the recent murder of one of her clients. So she gave him the chance, never realizing that Baxter, a gifted scientist, would soon conduct a risky exploration into the alchemy of desire... 4. © 1996. Winner of the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Novel, the CAA Literary Award for fiction, and the Dartmouth Award for fiction; the Globe & Mail's Editor's Choice and Notable Book of the Year. No further blurb. The Vancouver Sun says, "Brilliant... profoundly and refreshingly different. <title> is about family secrets, the deeply buried events, memories, and motivations that make human relations an almost impenetrable mystery. The author has constructed a plot worthy of Victor Hugo, a novel that is like peeling an onion (not without tears)." 5. © 1998. They are the galaxy's most elite fighting force. And as the battle against the Empire rages, the X-Wing pilots risk life and machines against the Rebel Alliance. Now they must go on a daring undercover mission -- as the crew of an Imperial warship. It is Wedge Antilles' boldest creation: a covert-action unit of X-Wing fighters, castoffs and rejects given one last chance... (Note: This book's full title has four parts! There's a series title, sub-series title, book number within the sub-series, and finally an individual book title. The last part, the individual book title, will be a sufficient answer.) 6. © 1997. They had been inseparable as roommates in college: Mary Stuart, Tanya, and Zoe. But in the more than 20 years that followed, the three had moved on with their lives. By chance, each would find herself alone for a few weeks one summer, wrestling with both the present and the past. At a sprawling ranch in the foothills of Wyoming's Grand Tetons, the three women come together and find courage, healing, and truth... 7. © 1997. Once he was a well-liked, well-paid young partner in a thriving Mississippi law firm. Then Patrick Lanigan stole $90 million from his own firm -- and ran for his life. For 4 years, he evaded men who were rich, powerful, and would stop at nothing to find him... On the edge of the Brazilian jungles, they finally tracked him down... And in the Mississippi city where it all began, an extraordinary trial is about to begin. 8. © 1997. One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But now Poole has returned to life, awakening in a world far different from the one he left behind... (For this one if you give the title we need all of it, including the subtitle.) 9. © *1987*. In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least 300 years old. 10. © 1997. Detective Harry Bosch is back on the job and working on the hottest murder investigation in Hollywood. The body of a movie producer has been found stuffed into the trunk of his Rolls... The money trail leads from L.A. to Las Vegas, and Harry's determined to get to the bottom of things... And, as if he wasn't knee-deep in trouble already, he's about to make the biggest gamble of all -- on love. -- Mark Brader | "I do not want to give the impression I spend all Toronto | my time on the Internet, but in the right hands msb@vex.net | it is a wondrous tool, and in the wrong hands | it is an even better one." -- Cecil Adams My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 08 01:07AM -0500 Mark Brader: > see my 2020-06-23 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from... > the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)". > I wrote one of these rounds and may have contributed to the other. I wrote the science round. > * Game 5, Round 4 - Science - Nuclear Physics > Hey, it isn't rocket science. (We already had that in Game 3, > remember?) This was the 7th-easiest round of the season. > If you know the subject and want to show off, feel free to try > it and tell us that you did. You will not be given extra points, > though. Dan Tilque did this on question #2. > atoms of normal matter and carry equal and opposite electric > charges, but one of the two is much more massive. Name *both* > particles. Electron, proton (not positron; see #9). 4 for everyone -- Joshua, Erland, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque. > 2. In 1932, James Chadwick discovered a third particle that is > present in most but not all kinds of atoms and has about the > same mass as a proton. Name it. Neutron (not neutrino; see #8). 4 for everyone. > atoms can have 6, 7, or 8 neutrons, forming carbon 12, 13, > and 14 respectively. What are these different versions of the > same element called? Isotopes (or nuclides, a slightly less specific word). 4 for everyone. > particles such as individual neutrons? Nuclei of some isotopes > are unstable and will do it spontaneously, while others may do > it if struck by a suitable particle. Fission (not fusion, which is the opposite). 4 for everyone. > good particle accelerator was invented by Ernest Lawrence and > named -- initially in jest -- after the nearly circular motion > of electrons within it. What was it called? Cyclotron. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque. > and possibly never can be. Their name is a word that Murray > Gell-Mann found in the James Joyce novel "Finnegan's Wake". > What is it? Quark. 4 for everyone. > Its meaning has shifted today to refer to any of certain > particles that each consist of one quark and one anti-quark. > What is the word? Meson. (The obsolete form "mesotron" was acceptable.) 4 for everyone. > small to measure. It is so unreactive that it could easily > pass through a whole planet, and hence its existence was not > confirmed until 1956. Name it. Neutrino. 4 for everyone. In 2021 it is now clear that neutrinos do have nonzero mass, and in fact several different masses, but after that it gets complicated. See: http://neutrinos.fnal.gov/types/masses/ > fashion: quark and anti-quark, positive pion and negative pion. > But the first one to be discovered, the anti-electron, is also > known by a special name of its own. What is this name? Positron. 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque. There was attempt to rename the electron as the negatron, restoring a prosaic pattern to the naming, but it failed. > 10. The reaction of any particle and its anti-particle creates > what product? Energy. (Specific forms, such as photons, light, or gamma radiation, were acceptable answers.) 4 for everyone. > These questions all concern people who are/were known by one-word > names. > 1. What """is""" Donovan's surname? Leitch. (Still alive.) 4 for Joshua. > 2. By what name is François Marie Arouet better known? Voltaire. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque. > 3. By what one-word name """is""" British 1960s singer/actress > Marie Lawrie known? Lulu. (Still alive. Not "Little Lulu", the two-word name of a 1930s/40s comic strip character.) 4 for Joshua, Erland, and Dan Tilque. > 4. Michel de Notre Dame lived in France from 1503 to 1566. By what > name do we know him? Nostradamus. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque. > 5. By what name """is""" Edson Arantes do Nascimento famous? Pelé. (Still alive.) 4 for Joshua and Erland. > 6. Charles Dickens's illustrator, Hablot Knight Browne, was better > known by what name? Phiz. (Not "Boz", a pseudonym used at one time by Dickens himself.) > 7. By what name do we call Tiziano Vecelli, who died in Venice > in 1576? Titian. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque. > 8. What was Cher's surname at birth? We originally expected the answer Sarkisian, but sources disagree and we allowed La Pierre on a protest. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. > 9. The former Yugoslav leader Tito sometimes used Tito as an > additional surname, but what was his original name? Josip Broz. 4 for Joshua, Erland, and Dan Blum. > 10. By what name """do""" we know Leslie Hornby? Twiggy. (Still alive.) 4 for Joshua. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 5 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS TOPICS-> Ent Lit Sci Mis Joshua Kreitzer 20 32 36 36 124 Dan Blum 12 31 40 20 103 Dan Tilque 8 4 40 16 68 Erland Sommarskog -- -- 36 12 48 Pete Gayde 20 4 -- -- 24 -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "The E-Mail of the species is more deadly msb@vex.net | than the Mail." -- Peter Neumann My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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