| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 04 11:57PM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 1998-04-06, 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 and one question in the other. * Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Name the Author Who wrote the following passages? All writers are known as novelists and/or short-story writers, but some selections may be from their non-fiction work. We give you the year of composition or publication for each passage, and sometimes the country. 1. (1992.) "On a perfect summer day in Montreal, local raspberries in season, two tickets to that night's ball game riding in my breast pocket, I went to meet some friends at a downtown bar I favored at the time: Woody's Pub, on Bishop Street." 2. (1914.) "His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead." 3. (1989.) "After the show, the Hsus, the Jongs, and the St. Clairs from the Joy Luck Club came up to my mother and father." 4. (1921, England.) "Birkin looked at the pale fingers, the inert mass. He remembered a dead stallion he had seen: a dead mass of maleness, repugnant. He remembered also the beautiful face of one whom he had loved, and who had died still having the faith to yield to the mystery." 5. (1977, Canada.) "Sarah was speculating about how she would be doing this whole trip if Edward had conveniently died. It wasn't that she wished him dead, but she couldn't imagine any other way for him to disappear. He was omnipresent; he pervaded her life like a kind of smell..." 6. (1984.) "Summer without baseball: a disruption to the psyche. An unexplainable aimlessness engulfs me. I stay later and later each evening in the small office at the rear of my shop." 7. (1843.) "For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad I am not..." 8. (1982, Canada.) "The range of guests who come to our fortnightly High Table dinners is wide, and provides us with extraordinarily good company. Sometimes we get a surprise -- an economist who turns out to be a poet, for instance. (I mean a poet in the formal sense: all economists are rapt, fanciful creatures...)" 9. (1987, Canada.) "I always believed in ghosts. When I was little I saw them in my father's small field in Goa. That was very long ago, before I came to Bombay to work as an ayah." 10. (1948.) "It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen." * Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - NHL Records, Past and Present Where we ask for a team, you can give either the city name or the team name. Where we ask for a duration, it always refers to playing time. 1. The """shortest-ever""" overtime in the history of the NHL playoffs took place in 1986. Either name the player who scored the winning goal, or tell within 10 seconds how long that overtime was. 2. The two """longest-ever""" overtime games in NHL history were played in 1933 and 1936, both in the Stanley Cup semifinals. Both games required the same number of overtime periods. Either tell us how many overtime periods that was, or name either of the players who scored the winning goals. 3. For 3 seasons when the NHL had 12 teams, the playoffs were structured so that the Stanley Cup Final would have to match one of the so-called "original six" teams with one of the six new expansion teams. Name the team that lost all 12 games of those three final series. 4. And name the """only team that has""" won 14 consecutive playoff games. These consisted of the last 11 playoff games of one year and the first 3 of the next. 5. We now turn to the regular season for the remaining questions. In the NHL's earliest years, scores were high and a star player could dominate the game in a way never seen today. The league's first season, 1917-18, was 22 games long. One man missed 2 games and still scored 44 goals. This goals-per-game record """still stands today""", as does his record, 2 years later, of scoring 7 goals in the same game. Name him. 6. In the late 1920s the amount of scoring fell drastically, until the relaxation of forward-passing rules allowed it to rise again. Over a period of 4 years the record for best goaltending average went to 1.12 goals per game, then 1.05, and finally 0.92! Name either of the two goalies who achieved these three successive records. 7. """Two""" goalies share the record of having allowed the fewest goals per game in the league in 5 consecutive seasons. Name either one. 8. A second era of high scoring was World War II. "Rocket" Richard's 50 goals in 50 games in 1944-45 set a modern-era record of 1 goal per game that stood for over 30 years. But as the season has grown still longer, many players have now scored at least 50 goals in a season. Who was the first man to do that *twice*? 9. And who was the first to score 50 goals in his *first* season in the NHL? 10. The record for most goals in a season, of course, """belongs""" to Wayne Gretzky. That was the 1980-81 season, which was 80 games long. Within 1, how many goals did he score? Please decode the rot13 after you have finished with all questions on the round: Vs bar bs lbhe nafjref jnf "Uhyy", lbh arrq gb tb onpx naq fhccyl gur zna'f svefg anzr. -- Mark Brader, Toronto "Beware the Calends of April also." msb@vex.net -- Peter Neumann My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jul 05 09:31AM +0200 > * Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Name the Author > 10. (1948.) "It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks > were striking thirteen." George Orwell. > playoffs took place in 1986. Either name the player who > scored the winning goal, or tell within 10 seconds how long > that overtime was. 30 seconds > Both games required the same number of overtime periods. > Either tell us how many overtime periods that was, or name > either of the players who scored the winning goals. Seven > one of the so-called "original six" teams with one of the six > new expansion teams. Name the team that lost all 12 games of > those three final series. St Louis Blues > 4. And name the """only team that has""" won 14 consecutive > playoff games. These consisted of the last 11 playoff games > of one year and the first 3 of the next. Oilers; Red Wings > 9. And who was the first to score 50 goals in his *first* season > in the NHL? Peter Forsberg (Hey, I need to be patriotic. :-) > 10. The record for most goals in a season, of course, """belongs""" > to Wayne Gretzky. That was the 1980-81 season, which was 80 > games long. Within 1, how many goals did he score? 134 |
| Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com>: Jul 04 02:27PM -0500 Mark Brader wrote: > the 2-page handout: > http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo10/4/ins.pdf > 1. Sousaphone. C > 2. Balalaika. E > 3. Krummhorn, a medieval member of the oboe family. N; O > 4. Serpent. M > 5. Fife. G > 6. Clarinette d'amour. N > 7. Racket, an old, oddly shaped member of the oboe family. P > 8. Theorbo, a Renaissance-era member of the lute family. B > 9. Heckelphone, a member of the oboe family. A > 10. Hurdy-gurdy, a member of the violin family with a keyboard > and a crank. I > banked to the left or right), a control surface is raised on one > wing and lowered on the other. What are these paired control > surfaces called? Ailerons > (that is, the nose is to be raised), a control surface is > raised on the tail, or perhaps one on each half of the tail. > What is this control surface called? Aileron > *either* the company or the American city that the X-1 came > from. In later years the company has been best known for > their helicopters. Sikorsky > the same division of the same company. The division took its > informal name from a phrase in a comic strip. Either give this > name, or name the company. Northrup Grumman; McDonnel Douglas Pete Gayde |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 04 11:56PM -0500 Mark Brader: > see my 2020-06-23 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from > the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)". > I wrote one of these rounds. That was the science round. > In each case, tell us the letter of the relevant illustration on > the 2-page handout: > http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo10/4/ins.pdf This was the 6th-easiest round of the season, probably because it included too many hints. > 1. Sousaphone. C. 4 for Bruce, Dan Tilque, Stephen, Dan Blum, and Pete. > 2. Balalaika. E. 4 for Bruce, Stephen, Dan Blum, and Pete. > 3. Krummhorn, a medieval member of the oboe family. P. 4 for Erland. > 4. Serpent. M. 4 for Bruce, Dan Tilque, Erland, Dan Blum, and Pete. > 5. Fife. G. 4 for Bruce, Dan Tilque, Stephen, Dan Blum, and Pete. > 6. Clarinette d'amour. N. 4 for Stephen, Erland, and Pete. 3 for Dan Tilque. > 7. Racket, an old, oddly shaped member of the oboe family. K. Yes, *that* oddly shaped! > 8. Theorbo, a Renaissance-era member of the lute family. B. 4 for Bruce, Stephen, and Pete. 3 for Dan Blum. > 9. Heckelphone, a member of the oboe family. A. 4 for Stephen, Erland, and Pete. 3 for Dan Blum. > 10. Hurdy-gurdy, a member of the violin family with a keyboard > and a crank. I. 4 for Bruce, Dan Tilque, Erland, Dan Blum, and Pete. Was Stephen's answer "j" a typo? The natural horn doesn't come close to meeting the description. > So there were 6 decoys. Decode the rot13 if you would like to > see the other instruments and find them for fun, but for no points: > 11. Natural horn. J. > 12. Ophicleide. L. Stephen got this. > 13. Keyed flageolet. F. Stephen got this. > 14. Lur, an old brass instrument. D. Stephen got this. > 15. Cittern or English guitar. H. Stephen got this. > 16. Pibgorn, an obsolete member of the clarinet family. O. And now you know where Brooke McEldowney got the name for his online comic strip. > * Game 10, Round 6 - Science - Aeronautics This was the 5th-hardest round of the season. > variation on this design, which makes them wider but improves > fuel economy. Tell briefly what is different about this design, > or say what these engines are called. (High-bypass) turbofans. The compressor is enlarged into (or augmented with) a "fan", so that some air from the intake is blown directly into the exhaust, bypassing the combustion chamber. This air provides a majority of the thrust; in effect the fan is doubling as a propeller. (Any short answer along these lines or mentioning "fan" or "bypass" was fine.) 4 for Dan Tilque, Stephen, and Dan Blum. > crankshaft which drove the propeller. A variant of this design > called the rotary engine enjoyed some success during World War I. > How did the rotary differ from the conventional radial? The crankshaft stood still and the cylinders rotated around it as a unit, attached directly to the propeller. (Anything close was okay.) 4 for Stephen. The main advantage of the rotary was that the cylinders moved through the air so fast they needed no other form of cooling. One disadvantage was lubricant dripping continuously off the rim of the engine -- with consequent, ah, biological effects on the pilot, since the usual lubricant was castor oil! Another notable quirk was that the gyroscopic effect of the large rotating mass made it easier to turn the plane to one side than to the other -- which pilots in dogfights had to allow for. > usual seating configuration, entered commercial service in 1936 > and was the most successful and durable of its era, commanding > at one point 80% of the US market. Name it. (Douglas) DC-3. Its military names, the Dakota and the C-47 Skytrain, were also acceptable. 4 for Bruce, Dan Tilque, Stephen, and Dan Blum. > test flights, but never entered commercial service due to lack > of airline interest and diversion of manufacturing capacity to > Korean War fighters. Name *either* of these two planes. (De Havilland) Comet (1), (Avro) (C-102) Jetliner. 4 for Bruce, Dan Tilque, and Stephen. The Comet 1's design flaw was rectangular windows. Metal fatigue in the pressure hull focused on the sharp corners and led to explosive decompression after less than two years of flying. > banked to the left or right), a control surface is raised on one > wing and lowered on the other. What are these paired control > surfaces called? Ailerons. 4 for Bruce, Dan Tilque, Stephen, Dan Blum, and Pete. > (that is, the nose is to be raised), a control surface is > raised on the tail, or perhaps one on each half of the tail. > What is this control surface called? Elevator. 4 for Bruce, Dan Tilque, and Stephen. > pilot's controls; instead they have their own motors that are > actuated through a computer. What phrase of three short words > is used informally to describe this system? Fly by wire. 4 for Bruce, Dan Tilque, Stephen, and Dan Blum. > be seen from time to time in exotic aircraft. The word "tail" > would not be sensible for a forward structure like this; what > French word is applied to it? Canard. 4 for Bruce, Dan Tilque, and Stephen. So named from its resemblance, together with the structure linking it to the main part of the plane, to the head and neck of a duck. > *either* the company or the American city that the X-1 came > from. In later years the company has been best known for > their helicopters. Bell; Buffalo (Niagara Falls was close enough). 4 for Bruce, Stephen (the hard way), and Dan Blum. > the same division of the same company. The division took its > informal name from a phrase in a comic strip. Either give this > name, or name the company. Skunk Works (from "Pogo"); Lockheed. 4 for Bruce, Dan Tilque, Stephen (the hard way), and Dan Blum. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS TOPICS-> Can Geo Ent Sci Bruce Bowler 0 30 24 32 86 Dan Blum 10 20 26 24 80 Dan Tilque 0 28 19 32 79 Pete Gayde 0 29 32 4 65 Stephen Perry -- -- 24 40 64 Erland Sommarskog 0 28 20 0 48 -- Mark Brader "Doing the wrong thing is worse than doing nothing." Toronto "Doing *anything* is worse than doing nothing!" msb@vex.net -- Lynn & Jay: YES, PRIME MINISTER My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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