| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 17 12:37AM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 1998-03-30, 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 9, Round 1 - Current Events (excerpt) Answer these 1998 questions if you like for fun, but for no points. 1. Why was student Mike Cameron suspended for a day from his high school in Evans, Georgia? 2. Yeah, yeah, "Titanic" won enough Oscars to build a bonfire, and Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt got theirs. Now tell us which humorous film won the award for makeup. I wrote one of these rounds and part of the other. * Game 9, Round 2 - Science (sort of) - Coded Abbreviations Be as specific and detailed as necessary. 1. In an airline timetable, what does "X67" mean? 2. On a fertilizer package, what does "21-6-12" mean? 3. In knitting, what does "K2 tog, PSSO" mean? 4. In describing steam locomotives, what does "4-6-2" mean? 5. In describing binoculars, what does "7×35" mean? 6. In bridge (especially duplicate bridge), what does "6SX" mean? 7. On the copyright page of a book, what does "10 9 8 7 6 5 4" mean? 8. In Internet national domains, what does ".es" mean? 9. On a *red* Ontario license plate, what does "CD" at the start of the number mean? 10. In relation to chess, what type of move do O-O and O-O-O refer to? Please decode the rot13 after you are finished with all 10 questions: Vs nal bs lbhe nafjref zragvba n zrnfherzrag, tb onpx naq svk gurz vs arprffnel fb gung lbh unir rkcyvpvgyl fgngrq rknpgyl jung dhnagvgl vf orvat zrnfherq, naq va jung havgf. * Game 9, Round 3 - Sports - Inventors and Innovators 1. What's the main claim to fame of Manon Rhéaume? 2. What's the main claim to fame of James Naismith? 3. This question concerns an activity that people have probably engaged in for as long as there have been people, but we won't ask you to name it. In 1743, Jack Broughton drew up a set of rules in an attempt to make it a reputable sport. These rules were replaced by the "London rules", and then in 1865 what are essentially the present-day rules were produced under the auspices of John Sholto Douglas. And the question is, *by what title* is Douglas better known? 4. In what year did Dick Fosbury's revolutionary Fosbury Flop win him the Olympic gold medal for high-jumping? 5. We told you a few weeks ago about the Scottish decree of 1457 that "golff be utterly cryit doune and not usit." What we didn't mention was that it also applied, with equal success, to "fute-ball". The evolution from the game that most of the world calls football to the game of the same name on this continent was a complicated one, but it began, or is said to have begun, when a player with "a fine disregard for the rules" picked up the ball and ran with it. Some sources give his name as Ellis and the date as 1823; others say it was Mackie in 1838 or 1839. But in what *city or town* did this event allegedly take place? 6. The subsequent transition to American football is primarily credited to one rulemaker. In the period 1880-83 he replaced the scrum with the scrimmage, he invented the down, he reduced the team from 15 players to 11, and he also adopted the first changes that led to the modern scoring system. Name this "father of American football". 7. Canadian football developed in parallel. A major influence on it was this man, a former Notre Dame ["NOTE-er DAIM"] player and coach who came to McGill University in 1912 as the first professional football coach in Canada. Innovations he instituted in play or recommended in rules included the secondary defense, double-teaming, backfield motion, the forward pass, and a reduction of teams from 14 to 12 players. Name him. 8. To the extent that baseball has a single inventor, it was the man who founded the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York. Many similar games, such as town ball, were played at the time; but in this man's rules of 1845, the batter stood at home plate, the arrangement of bases was fixed as a 90-foot square, and runners had to be put out by tagging them rather than throwing the ball at them. His name was *not* Abner Doubleday: what was it? 9. Although Harry Gem had previously organized a club where this sport was played, Walter Clopton Wingfield was the first to produce a set of rules for it. That was in 1873, and he called the game Sphairistiké. What do we call it? 10. Name the figure skater who was the first to spin on one leg while holding her other leg straight up with both hands. -- Mark Brader | "Rleadse negiifu uoug assount 'u somrletiing the fogm... Toronto | We arologiize fog anu iinsonneniiense." msb@vex.net | --Seen in spam My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com>: Jun 17 12:21AM -0500 Mark Brader wrote: > * B. Games > B1. What do the French words "carreaux", "coeurs", "piques", > and "trèfles" refer to? Suits in a deck of cards > B2. Please decode the rot13 after you are finished with B1. > Va tnzrf fhpu nf oevqtr naq juvfg, rnpu cynlre cynlf n pneq > va ghea gb znxr hc n tebhc bs sbhe pneqf pnyyrq n jung? Trick > Speaking of Oscars, by the way, please remember that """there is no > game next week. We'll see you as usual two weeks from tonight.""" > C1. Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Jonathan Demme. Silence of the Lambs > C2. Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Frank Capra. It Happened One Night > C3. Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Milos Forman. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest > D3. The four horsemen of the Apocalypse are listed in the Book > of Revelation, chapter 6, although that phrase is not > used there. Who was the fourth horseman? Pestilence > * E. Elements > E1. There are four elements that are *metals* with 4-letter > names. Name any *two*. Iron and > E2. There is one other element whose name has 4 letters. > This one is a noble gas. What is it? Neon Pete Gayde |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 17 12:30AM -0500 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 8 is over and JOSHUA KREITZER has stood off a late charge by Stephen Perry to win. Hearty congratulations! > I wrote most of one of these rounds. In the challenge round, I wrote categories B, C, and E, and I think part of A and maybe part of D. > 1. What bad-boy director, who died """a few months ago""", made > the autobiographical movie "Léolo" and the gritty underworld > flick "Un zoo la nuit"? Jean-Claude Lauzon. 4 for Stephen. > 2. Who wrote, directed, and starred in both English and French > versions of "The Dragon Trilogy", "Needles and Opium", and > "The Seven Streams of the River Opa"? Robert Lepage. 4 for Stephen. > 3. A Haitian-born satirist had a bestseller with his semi- > autobiographical first novel. Name either the French or the > English title of the book, or else name the writer. "Comment faire l'amour avec un Nègre", "How to Make Love to a Negro" (for the 1989 movie version, "without Getting Tired" was appended), Dany Laferrière. 4 for Stephen. > restaurant owner and a diabolical foreign moneylender. Again, > name either the French or the English title of the book, or > else name the writer. "Le Matou", "The Alley Cat", Yves Beauchemin. 4 for Stephen. > important job. What is it? We need her employer as well as > her position. *Note*: We will accept the job she retired from > in 2009. 1998 answer: editor-in-chief (editor or publisher was good enough) of "Le Devoir". 2009 answer: president and director-general of the Quebec National (i.e. provincial) Library & Archives. 4 for Stephen. > 6. Louise Beaudoin has worked in theater and the arts, but """now > has""" another important job. What """is""" it? 1998 answer: Quebec Minister of Culture and Communications ("minister in charge of language laws" was sufficient). 2021 answer: President of the board of "Regroupement des Événements Majeurs Internationaux", which deals with festivals. > 7. Who """is""" Mitsou? A sexy pop singer. (Still alive. Subsequently also an actress and radio host.) 4 for Stephen. > 8. Who """is""" René Angélil? Céline Dion's manager (since 1981 when she was 13 and he was 39) and husband (since 1994, you do the math). (Either part was sufficient. They were still happily married when he died in 2016.) 4 for Joshua and Stephen. > 9. Who """is""" René Lecavalier? Retired sportscaster (he died in 1999) who used to call the plays on the French broadcasts of "Hockey Night in Canada". > 10. André Gagnon """is""" a musician, but what """does""" his > namesake André-Philippe Gagnon do? Comedy (impressions). (Both still alive.) 4 for Stephen. > This challenge round was brought to you by the number 4. > * A. Mystery and Suspense > A1. Who wrote the novel "The Fourth K"? Mario Puzo. 4 for Stephen. > A2. Who wrote the novel "The Fourth Protocol"? Frederick Forsyth. 4 for Stephen. > * B. Games > B1. What do the French words "carreaux", "coeurs", "piques", > and "trèfles" refer to? Suits of cards. (Diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs respectively.) 4 for everyone -- Joshua, Bruce, Erland, Dan Blum, Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Pete. > B2. Please decode the rot13 after you are finished with B1. > In games such as bridge and whist, each player plays a card > in turn to make up a group of four cards called a what? Trick. 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Pete. > and actress and the director, in that order, and you name the title. > Speaking of Oscars, by the way, please remember that """there is no > game next week. We'll see you as usual two weeks from tonight.""" These are still the only three such occurrences. > C1. Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Jonathan Demme. "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991). 4 for Joshua, Bruce, Dan Blum, Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Pete. > C2. Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Frank Capra. "It Happened One Night" (1934). 4 for Joshua, Bruce, Dan Blum, Stephen, and Pete. > C3. Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Milos Forman. "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975). 4 for everyone. > * D. Fourth in a Series > D1. What does the term "the fourth estate" generally refer to? The press (anything close was okay). 4 for Joshua, Bruce, Dan Blum, Stephen, and Dan Tilque. The first three estates were the church, nobility, and commoners. By the way, a Canadian TV newsmagazine show is titled "The Fifth Estate", referring to their sort of investigative journalism -- it's been running since 1975. > D2. Who was the "fourth man", following Burgess, Philby, > and MacLean? Anthony Blunt. (Soviet agents in British Intelligence. As it turned out, there were more.) 4 for Stephen. > D3. The four horsemen of the Apocalypse are listed in the Book > of Revelation, chapter 6, although that phrase is not > used there. Who was the fourth horseman? Death. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Stephen, and Dan Tilque. "...I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him." > * E. Elements > E1. There are four elements that are *metals* with 4-letter > names. Name any *two*. Gold, iron, lead, zinc. 4 for Joshua, Bruce (the hard way), Erland, Dan Blum, Stephen (the hard way), and Dan Tilque. > E2. There is one other element whose name has 4 letters. > This one is a noble gas. What is it? Neon. 4 for everyone. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 8 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST TOPICS-> His Geo Sci Lit Ent S+L Can Cha SIX Joshua Kreitzer 8 35 28 24 39 20 4 32 178 Stephen Perry -- -- -- -- 40 40 32 48 160 Dan Blum 4 28 32 8 18 4 0 36 126 Erland Sommarskog 28 28 28 8 0 0 0 20 112 Pete Gayde 16 20 14 0 14 12 0 24 100 Dan Tilque 0 16 24 0 8 0 0 32 80 Bruce Bowler 0 28 -- -- -- -- 0 28 56 -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "UNIX ... the essential partner for msb@vex.net | eyespot or rynchosporium control in barley." My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jun 16 09:53PM +0200 This quiz is over, and the winner is DAN BLUM. Yours is the glory for the next 24 hours! Here is the scoreboard. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Total Dan B 1 1 1 - - 1 1 - 1 1 1 - 8 Mark B 1 1 1 - 1 - 1 - - 1 - - 6 Stephen P - 1 1 - - - 1 - 1 - 1 1 6 Pete G - - - 1 - - 1 - 1 1 1 1 6 Bruce B - - - 1 - - 1 - - 1 1 1 5 Joshua K 1 1 - - - - - - 1 - - 1 4 Before I go the answers, I need to say that this quiz had a wee bit too many flaws to be really satisfactory. Beside the correction I had to post, at least two more questions had issues I should have resolved before posting. I hope you enjoyed it nevertheless. > 1: Rivers: Amazon, Congo, Danube, Hudson, Tagus. Danube - all others run out directly to the Atlantic. Hudson was a popular answer, and the two entrants who highlighted that it is the only river be in a single country were awarded. For those who did not - I'm sorry, but that is the explicit rule of the game. For this question, I don't feel ashamed for not spotting the alternative answer when composing the question. Rather, this is one of these things that makes this format charming. Here is an interesting titbit: If Wikipedia is to be beleived, Hudson is not a correct answer with Brazilian pub rules. In Brazil, the name Amazonas is only used from downstream Manaus. One entrant suggested that Hudson is the only one to not be the longest on its continent. That answer cannot be not correct, given that two rivers are on the same continent. And is turns out - none of them are. The longest river in Europe is the Volga. Nor is the Congo is not the longest in Africa. So left is only Amazon. > 2. Names: Giovanni, Hans, Ivan, James, João. James. Not a cognate to John. > 3: Astronomy: Ceres, Io, Ganymede, Phobos, Titan, Ceres. That's an asteriod. All others are moons. (Io and Ganymede of Jupiter, Phobos of Mars and Titan of Saturn.) > 4: Sports: Sue Bird, Tonya Harding, Mikaela Shiffrin, Hope Solo, > Serena Williams. Tonya Harding - all others are Olympic champions. One suggestion was "not a team sport" - but I had that one covered! Exactly to rule out that option, I looked up the US Olympic basketball team, and found Sue Byrd, being four times a champion. One entrant gave an answer and motivation related to the matrimonial status of these women. Apparently that entrant had failed to observe the theme for the question. >5: Coastal city climate: Agadir (Morocco), Dubai (UAE), Lima (Perù), > Singapore (Singapore), Walvis Bay (Namibia). Singapore. That's a quite a wet place, all others are dry. But alas not equally dry. Here is the annual precipitation in mm as taken from Wikipedia: Agadir: 291.9 Dubai: 94.3 Lima: 6.4 Singapore: 2165.9 Walvis Bay: 13.2 My recollection from my initial research was that Agadir was a lot drier. May I confused the row with the precipitation with the row for the number of precipitation days. It still stands out from Singapore, but it's not a true desert climate. And if Agadir is good, I could just as well have kept San Diego (271 mm) which I had there instead of Walvis Bay for a long time. Several entrants gave motivations for their answers, but I could deem any of them to be correct, although it is somewhat subjective. What is really "tropical"? > 6. Wars of the Roses: Barnet, Northhampton, Tekwesbury, Towton, Wakefield. Wakefield. This battle was won my Lancaster, all others were Yorkist victories - and quite decisive ones. In the battle of Northampton, the Earl of Warwick captured Henry VI, and the Parliament that followed, declared Richard of York to be the heir of the throne. Something he had little use for, because he lost his life at Wakefield. But apart from that Lancaster were not able to really capitalise on their victories. Towtown was in the year that followed. Richard's son Edward had declare himself King, and Towtown was an immense victory for York. While the war would drag on in the north for a few years, Edward IV's rule was largely undisputed. The Earl of Warwick later changed sides, and Edward IV had to go on in exile for a half-year. When he came back, he met Warwick at Barnet, and Warwick was slain. About a month later he dealt with the army of the real leader of the Lancastrian party, Queen Margarete, at Tewkesbury. Not only did he win the battle, but in the aftermath he made sure that no male descendants from the male lines of John of Gaunt was left alive. (Well, he did spare poor Henry VI, but he died anyway.) ...however, there was still one man left on the female line from John of Gaunt, and... Yes, I've been reading a book on the Wars of the Roses lately. > 7: Medecine: Chickenpox, Covid-19, Ebola, Measels, Winter vomiting bug Winter vomiting bug. There is vaccine in use against this disease. Wikipedia mentions a trial, but only in phase one. One entrant said "not a virus", but all five are caused by viruses. But since the answer was the intended one, the entrant was awarded. >8: Literature: Honoré de Balzac, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, > Henrik Ibsen, Bernard Shaw, Leo Tolstoy Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He is considered to be a romanticist, whereas the others are of the realism school. And speaking of school, I had to learn this in high school, but given that this was a stumper, it seems that others were spared. > 9: Apostles: Andrew, John, Paul, Peter, Thomas. Paul. Not one of the 12 disciples of Jesus. >10: Symbols: Refer to https://www.sommarskog.se/temp/quiz10.pdf and > select a letter a, b, c, d or e. b = "place of interest symbol". All others are used for currencies. a is the Euro, c is the Japanese Yen and e is the Korean Won. And d is the Chinese character yuan, but this character is used not only for the Renminbin in the People's Republic, but also on Taiwan for the New Taiwanese Dollar. > 11: Food: Eggplant, Falafel, Kabanos, Quorn, Tofu The intended answer was Kabanos, a sausage, which is the only meat-based food. All others are vegan. However, Eggplant distinguishes from the rest by not being a product of humans, and this is absolutely just as characteristic as the kabanos. This should absolutely not have slipped through! I did realise the issue before someone actually entered eggplant, though, and I decided that I would accept eggplant without motivation. A case can also be made for Quorn, since it is the only one which is a brand name. This was on my radar already when working with the question, and I would accepted it, had someone given that as a motivation. I did have an alternative to eggplant that would also have addressed the Quorn issue, to wit Oumph. But while it seems to be readily avilable here in Sweden, I don't know well-known it is internationally. It's a warning sign that there is no article Oumph in Wikipedia. > 12: Music: Keith Emerson, Yngwie Malmsteen, Pat Metheny, Jimmy Page, > Django Reinhardt. Keith Emerson was a great keyboard player. The others are or were guitar players. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 16 04:15PM -0500 Erland Sommarskog: > Winter vomiting bug. There is vaccine in use against this > disease. Wikipedia mentions a trial, but only in phase one. I take it that a word was omitted here, > d is the Chinese character yuan, but this character is used not only > for the Renminbin in the People's Republic, but also on Taiwan for > the New Taiwanese Dollar. I was wondering about that one! Thanks for the contest, and well done to Dan Blum. -- Mark Brader "You have a truly warped mind. Toronto I admire that in a person." msb@vex.net -- Bill Davidsen My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jun 16 09:35PM > This quiz is over, and the winner is DAN BLUM. Yours is the glory > for the next 24 hours! Thank you! I will bask in it, which I think is the proper procedure. Thanks for running the quiz. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jun 16 11:44PM +0200 >> Winter vomiting bug. There is vaccine in use against this >> disease. Wikipedia mentions a trial, but only in phase one. > I take it that a word was omitted here, Correct. There is no vaccine for the winter womiting thing. There are for the others. |
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