| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 08 02:12AM -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 think I wrote 6 questions in one of these rounds. ** Game 10, Round 9 - History [with 50% Canadian content] - Lawyers and Clients 1. The first half of this round involves Canadian people and Canadian cases. At Guy Paul Morin's original trial for murder in 1986, his lawyer put forward the defense that he was innocent but that, if the jury disagreed, they should take into account that Morin was also insane. Who was this lawyer? 2. Name the lawyer who co-wrote and narrated "The Scales of Justice", and is """now""" defending former Nova Scotia premier Gerald Regan on various sex-related charges. 3. Name either of the lawyers who defended Paul Bernardo at his trial. 4. He was a violinist in a symphony orchestra, a football player in the CFL, a lawyer, and finally a judge on the Supreme Court of Canada. Name him. 5. During the 1980s this Canadian lawyer argued several cases involving constitutional and energy issues *against* the government of his native province; then in April 1989 he became premier of the province. Name him. 6. The remaining questions involve cases and people in the US. In the original trial of O.J. Simpson, which member of the defense team refused to cooperate with Johnny Cochrane's racially based strategy? 7. In 1978 in San Francisco, George Moscone (the mayor) and Harvey Milk (a politician and gay rights advocate) were killed by conservative politician Dan White. In the end White was convicted of manslaughter, but not murder. What bizarre version of the insanity defense was used at his trial? 8. What lawyer defended Jack Ruby on the charge of murdering Lee Oswald? He """has""" also made personal injury cases a specialty, winning the sobriquet "King of Torts", through his extensive use of films and other demonstrative physical evidence. 9. What lawyer successfully prosecuted Charles Manson for murder, then wrote the book "Helter Skelter" about the case? 10. The 1925 case that inspired the play and movie "Inherit the Wind" involved a famous lawyer on each side (one of them a past candidate for president). The defendant was accused of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. Name any *two* of the three men in the real-life case. ** Game 10, Round 10 - Challenge Round I'm going to present and score the complete round even though one of the pairs is current events. One of the events might be memorable enough anyway... * A. """Current""" Events in Crime A1. Henry Waszczuk and Italo Labignan are hosts of a show on cable TV's The Sports Network, while Karen Monaghan was host of a show on the same subject on the Women's Television Network. The three hosts were each fined $800 on Friday for committing the same offense during production of their shows. (One of them was fined $200 more for a related offense.) What did they all do? A2. """Last year""" in London, England, Anthony-Noel Kelly produced sculptures that were exhibited in an art gallery. """On Friday""" he was sentenced to 9 months in prison as a result of the way he made them, and his accomplice was fined £400. What did they do? * B. Vitamin Deficiencies B1. What disease is caused by a deficiency of Vitamin D? B2. What disease is caused by a deficiency of Vitamin B1? * C. Movies about TV C1. The story of the movie "Quiz Show" was based on deceptions committed by the producers of what real-life TV show depicted in the film? C2. In the movie "Network", who played the "Mad Prophet of the Airwaves", Howard Beale? * D. L.s.d. D1. Until the early 1970s, the pound sterling was divided into 240 pence, not 100. The abbreviation for the new penny is "p", but for the old penny, it was "d." This letter was taken from the initial of what ancient Roman coin? D2. 12d. was equal to one shilling, abbreviated s. It is only a coincidence that "shilling" starts with S: this abbreviation, too, was really the initial of an ancient Roman coin. What coin? * E. -Icles in Religion We give you a definition; you name the word. Each answer ends with the sounds "ick'l", but *not* necessarily spelled -icle. E1. (Noun.) A clandestine religious meeting, especially of Nonconformists or Dissenters; a building used for this. E2. (Adjective.) Pertaining to an ancient Jewish sect distinguished by strict observance of traditional and written law; self-righteous, formalistic, hypocritical. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "Now that is good enough to save and msb@vex.net | plagiarise elsewhere." --Paul Wolff My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 08 02:09AM -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 one question in the other. The sports round and literature question 10 were mine. > 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." Mordecai Richler. ("Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!") 4 for Stephen. > 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." James Joyce. ("The Dead".) 4 for Stephen. 2 for Dan Blum. > 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." Amy Tan. ("The Joy Luck Club", of course.) 4 for Dan Blum, Pete, Dan Tilque, and Stephen. > 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." D.H. Lawrence. ("Women in Love".) 4 for Dan Blum and Stephen. > 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..." Margaret Atwood. ("The Resplendent Quetzal".) 4 for Stephen. > 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." W.P. Kinsella. ("The Thrill of the Grass", referring to the baseball strike of June-July 1981.) 4 for Dan Blum and Stephen. > 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..." Edgar Allan Poe. ("The Black Cat".) 4 for Stephen. 3 for Dan Blum. > 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...)" Robertson Davies. ("The Charlottetown Banquet".) 4 for Dan Blum and Stephen. > 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." Rohinton Mistry. ("Tales from Firozsha Baag".) 4 for Stephen. > 10. (1948.) "It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks > were striking thirteen." George Orwell (Eric Blair). ("Nineteen Eighty-Four".) 4 for everyone -- Erland, Dan Blum, Pete, Dan Tilque, and Stephen. > playoffs took place in 1986. Either name the player who > scored the winning goal, or tell within 10 seconds how long > that overtime was. Brian Skrudland, 9 seconds (accepting 0-19). (Still true.) 4 for Stephen. 3 for Dan Blum. His goal won the Stanley Cup for the Montreal Canadiens. > 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. 6 overtime periods; Ken Doraty (1933, Toronto Maple Leafs beat Boston Bruins 1-0); Modere "Mud" Bruneteau (1936, Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons 1-0). 4 for Stephen. 2 for Dan Blum and Pete. They're still the longest games ever. When the round was written, in fact, there had never been another game with as many as 5 overtime periods, but there were three in 2000, 2003, and 2020. Still no more with 6, though. > 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. (1968-70.) 4 for Erland, Pete, and Stephen. 2 for Dan Blum. They were beaten twice by the Montreal Canadiens, then by the Boston Bruins. > 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. Pittsburgh Penguins. (1992 Cup win, 1993; still true). 4 for Stephen. > 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. Joe Malone (Montreal Canadiens; still true). 4 for Stephen. > 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. Alex Connell (1925-26, the original Ottawa Senators), George Hainsworth (1927-28, 1928-29, Montreal Canadiens). > 7. """Two""" goalies share the record of having allowed the > fewest goals per game in the league in 5 consecutive seasons. > Name either one. Clint Benedict (1918-23, the original Ottawa Senators), Jacques Plante (1955-61, Montreal Canadiens). (Still true.) The same two men were also the first NHL goalies to wear a protective mask while playing. Benedict used a leather mask temporarily in 1930, when he was with the Montreal Maroons, to protect a facial fracture; Plante developed a fiberglass (i.e. fiberglass-reinforced plastic) mask and in 1959 began using it routinely. > 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*? Bobby Hull (Chicago Black Hawks: 1961-62, 70 games; 1965-66, played 65 of 70 games). The first name was required. 4 for Pete and Stephen. > 9. And who was the first to score 50 goals in his *first* season > in the NHL? Mike Bossy (New York Islanders, 1977-78: 53 goals, played 73 of 80 games). 4 for Stephen. > 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? 92 (accepting 91-93; still true). 4 for Stephen. 2 for Pete. He was with the Edmonton Oilers. When I posted this round in 2009, I was somewhat bemused to see that the answers given by various entrants for this question included 62, 72, 82, 92, and 103. I asked why not 102 for the last one, to continue the pattern? This time we had 82, 92, 112, 122 -- and 134 to break the pattern. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST TOPICS-> Can Geo Ent Sci Lit Spo FOUR Stephen Perry -- -- 24 40 40 32 136 Dan Blum 10 20 26 24 25 7 95 Dan Tilque 0 28 19 32 8 0 87 Bruce Bowler 0 30 24 32 -- -- 86 Pete Gayde 0 29 32 4 8 12 81 Erland Sommarskog 0 28 20 0 4 4 56 -- Mark Brader | "You can't go around quoting politicians accurately: Toronto | that's dirty journalism, and you know it!" msb@vex.net | --The Senator was Indiscreet |
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