| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Oct 13 09:46PM +0200 > 1. This writer and historian wrote about the horrors of the > Soviet gulag. He was expelled and lived in exile from 1974 > to 1994. Solzhenitsyn > 2. This Romantic composer and pianist was in Vienna in 1831 when > the Polish uprising against Russia was crushed. Unable to > return, he remained in exile until his death in 1849. Chopin > 3. He was an author, playwright, poet, and human-rights campaigner, > one of France's great literary figures. He was exiled in 1851 > for 19 years for declaring Napoleon III a traitor to France. Zola > control of Florence and sentenced him in absentia to death > for various unpaid fines. This sentence was rescinded by city > council 700 years later. Who was the guilty poet? Dante Aleghri > and the screenplay for the Hollywood movie "Hangmen Also Die!" > He returned to Germany the day after appearing before the House > Un-American Activities Committee. Beckett |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 14 01:00AM -0500 Mark Brader: > * Game 7, Round 7 - Canadiana Literature - Anne of Green Gables > A Canadian icon if there ever was one. > 1. Name the Canadian author of "Anne of Green Gables". Lucy Maud Montgomery. 4 for Joshua. > 2. She's "Anne" of Green Gables, but what is her last name? Shirley. 4 for Joshua. > 3. In the Canadian TV-movie and miniseries first seen in 1985, > who played Anne? Megan Follows. 4 for Joshua. > 4. Name the long-running (1990-1996), very popular spin-off TV > series created by Kevin Sullivan. It featured many characters > from the books, but not Anne. "Road to Avonlea" (or the US title, "Avonlea"). 4 for Joshua. > 5. Anne is adopted by a PEI family who were actually expecting a boy > to help with the farm work. Who is the female head of that > family? (First *or* last name.) Marilla Cuthbert. > 6. Who is Anne's nemesis, then her boyfriend, and eventually > her husband? (First *or* last name.) Gilbert Blythe. > 7. <answer 6> was played in the 1985 miniseries by the actor son > of a former Toronto politician. Who was this actor? Jonathan Crombie. Jonathan's father, David Crombie, was mayor of Toronto 1972-78, and later a federal cabinet member. > 8. <answer 1> wrote several Anne sequels; what was the last Anne > book to be published (although not the last in order of internal > chronology)? "Anne of Ingleside". > 9. A musical version of Anne has been presented at the Charlottetown > Festival every year since 1965. Which Canadian comic actor > wrote the book and lyrics? Don Harron. > 10. The Japanese have a mania for Anne. In 1979 they produced > "Akage no An", an animated TV series about her. Translate the > title into English. "Red-Haired Anne". > For each artist, writer, or performer, we will tell you when and > for how long he lived in exile, and maybe some other information > as well. In each case, you name the person involved. This was the third-easiest round in the original game, after the audio and current events rounds. > 1. This writer and historian wrote about the horrors of the > Soviet gulag. He was expelled and lived in exile from 1974 > to 1994. Alexander Solzhenitsyn. 4 for everyone -- Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Erland. > 2. This Romantic composer and pianist was in Vienna in 1831 when > the Polish uprising against Russia was crushed. Unable to > return, he remained in exile until his death in 1849. Frédéric Chopin. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Erland. > 3. He was an author, playwright, poet, and human-rights campaigner, > one of France's great literary figures. He was exiled in 1851 > for 19 years for declaring Napoleon III a traitor to France. Victor Hugo. 4 for Joshua. > the US in 1952 due to suspicion of Communist leanings. He lived > in exile until 1972, when he returned to the US to receive a > special Academy Award. Charlie Chaplin. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. > later, this poet wrote collections of poetry such as "Tristia" > and "Epistulae ex Ponto". However, he is best known for > "Metamorphoses". Ovid. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. > control of Florence and sentenced him in absentia to death > for various unpaid fines. This sentence was rescinded by city > council 700 years later. Who was the guilty poet? Dante Alighieri. (Either name was sufficient.) 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. 3 for Erland. > and the screenplay for the Hollywood movie "Hangmen Also Die!" > He returned to Germany the day after appearing before the House > Un-American Activities Committee. Bertolt Brecht. 4 for Joshua. > not required to. From 1950 to 1958, his passport was revoked > because of his Soviet sympathies and for speaking out against > mistreatment of black Americans. Paul Robeson. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. > around the world until his death in 1930; during this time, > he wrote "The Plumed Serpent" and "Mornings in Mexico", among > many others. D.H. Lawrence. 4 for Dan Blum. > Saxophone" as well as "The Engineer of Human Souls", which won > the Governor-General's Award. He received the Order of Canada > in 1992. Josef Skvorecky. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 7 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST TOPICS-> Ent Geo His Sci Can A+L FOUR Joshua Kreitzer 32 22 28 6 16 32 114 Dan Blum 12 21 32 12 0 28 93 Pete Gayde 11 34 28 16 -- -- 89 Erland Sommarskog 0 36 16 0 0 11 63 Dan Tilque 12 16 20 12 0 4 60 -- Mark Brader | "Mechanics, musicians, and programmers all know Toronto | how to arrange numerous small units into logical msb@vex.net | patterns such that the arrangement has the power | to move something in a profound way." -- Barry Kort My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com>: Oct 14 02:00AM -0500 Mark Brader wrote: > 1. This writer and historian wrote about the horrors of the > Soviet gulag. He was expelled and lived in exile from 1974 > to 1994. Solzhenitsyn > 2. This Romantic composer and pianist was in Vienna in 1831 when > the Polish uprising against Russia was crushed. Unable to > return, he remained in exile until his death in 1849. Chopin > 3. He was an author, playwright, poet, and human-rights campaigner, > one of France's great literary figures. He was exiled in 1851 > for 19 years for declaring Napoleon III a traitor to France. Hugo > the US in 1952 due to suspicion of Communist leanings. He lived > in exile until 1972, when he returned to the US to receive a > special Academy Award. Chaplin > later, this poet wrote collections of poetry such as "Tristia" > and "Epistulae ex Ponto". However, he is best known for > "Metamorphoses". Ovid; Cato > control of Florence and sentenced him in absentia to death > for various unpaid fines. This sentence was rescinded by city > council 700 years later. Who was the guilty poet? Plutarch > and the screenplay for the Hollywood movie "Hangmen Also Die!" > He returned to Germany the day after appearing before the House > Un-American Activities Committee. Mann > not required to. From 1950 to 1958, his passport was revoked > because of his Soviet sympathies and for speaking out against > mistreatment of black Americans. Belafonte; Davis > Saxophone" as well as "The Engineer of Human Souls", which won > the Governor-General's Award. He received the Order of Canada > in 1992. Pete Gayde |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 14 03:01AM -0500 If Pete Gayde's answers had been posted on time, he would have scored 0 points on Round 7 and 19 on Round 8, for a "best four rounds" score of 97. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "The only proven use of antimatter is the production msb@vex.net | of Nobel Prizes in physics." -- Henry Spencer My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 14 01:03AM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2011-06-27, and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written by members of the Misplaced Modifiers, 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 2021-07-20 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)". ** Game 7, Round 9 - Sports - Card Games If applicable, these questions refer to the games as usually played in Canada. 1. In which card game might a jack be called a right bower? 2. In which card game might a jack be called his nibs? 3. Please answer questions #1-2 before decoding the rot13 for questions #3-4. Jura bayl gjb crbcyr cynl pevoontr, ubj znal pneqf ner qrnyg gb rnpu? 4. Ubj znal pneqf ner hfrq va n rhpuer qrpx? 5. What is "duplicated" -- or, more accurately, identical -- in duplicate bridge? Be sufficiently specific. 6. How many cards are there in a bridge hand? 7. Spit in the Ocean is a variety of which card game? 8. In poker, what hand beats a full house, but loses to a straight flush or a royal flush? 9. As of the mid 20th century, Section 8 of the US regulation for the discharge of unfit soldiers referred to mental unfitness. Which card game is said to derive its name from this section? 10. Mah-jongg, which until the 19th century was played with cards rather than tiles, resembles which Western card game or family of card games? ** Game 7, Round 10 - Challenge Round * A. Sweet Science These questions concern artificial sweeteners. A1. Sucralose is an artificial sweetener derived from chlorinated sucrose molecules. It is stable when heated, so it can be used in baking. But mostly it is consumed in coffee and tea and """is""" sold in yellow paper packets, under what brand name (in Canada)? A2. Aspartame is a sweetener derived from two amino acids. At high heat it breaks down into its two acids, but it is often used in cold beverages and frozen desserts. It """is""" sold for use in coffee and tea, in blue paper packets, under what brand name (in Canada)? * B. Bitter Leisure These questions concern the bitter herbal alcoholic beverages used as digestives or cocktail flavorings. B1. It shares its name with a tree and a town in Venezuela, but the most famous bitter doesn't contain any of the medicinal bark of the tree of the same name. It's main herbal ingredient is gentian. You need it to make an Old-Fashioned or to make Pink Gin. What is it? B2. Medicinal quantities of this anti-malarial drug, made from the bark of a South American tree, were occasionally used in old cocktail recipes. Today it is still found in much lower concentrations in tonic water, used mostly in drinks with gin. What is it? * C. Monstrous Lit Questions about monsters in literature. C1. In Homer's "Odyssey", Charybdis was a whirlpool that sucked ships to their doom. Opposite the whirlpool lived a 6-headed monster that snatched sailors 6 at a time. Name the monster. C2. In the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf, a monster keeps attacking the leader's hall and eating everybody. Beowulf fatally wounds the monster by ripping its arm off. Name the monster. * D. Cute and Furry Miscellany These questions concern cute and furry animals commonly kept as pets. D1. This cute and docile member of the rodent family, also known as a cavy ["kavvy"], serves as a pet and in medical research, but in its native South America, especially Ecuador, it's called cui ["kwee"], and it's dinner. What is it? D2. Members of this rodent's family live in Africa, India, and Asia, but most of the pets in Canada hail from Mongolia. They need to burrow, and shouldn't be near plastic because they'll eat it. Weighing just 2½ ounces (70 g), """they're banned""" in California, for fear they'll run rampant if let free. * E. Evil Dictatorial History E1. From 1971 until forced to flee in 1979, he led Uganda, banishing Asians from the country, attacking other ethnic groups, torturing dissidents, destroying the economy and eventually killing somewhere between 100,000 and 300,000 people. His invasion of Tanzania backfired and led to his exile. Name him. E2. From 1975 to 1979, he led Democratic Kampuchea into hell, forcing city dwellers into forced labour in the country, resulting in the deaths of between 1,700,000 and 2,500,000 Cambodians, or about one person in five. The invasion by Vietnam sent him into hiding for 18 years. Name him. * F. Sainted Geography These questions concern Caribbean islands whose names begin with "Saint" (in some language). F1. This Caribbean island's north half is controlled by France, and its south half is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Name it. F2. Currently the playground of the rich and famous, this French Caribbean island was once a Swedish Caribbean island, and its capital is still named Gustavia. You may remember it from the movie "Along Came Polly". Name it. -- Mark Brader "I would love to make it, more than Toronto anything else I've not written." msb@vex.net --William Goldman My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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