| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 30 03:32AM -0600 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2012-02-27, and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written by members of Footloose and Firkin Free, 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 5, Round 7 - Literature - Children's authors. Given the title of the book, you name the author. 1. "Charlotte's Web". 2. "The Tale of Peter Rabbit". 3. "Goodnight Moon". 4. "A Wrinkle in Time". 5. "The Snowy Day". 6. "The Giving Tree". 7. "Madeline". 8. "The Wind in the Willows". 9. "Matilda". 10. "Tuck Everlasting". * Game 5, Round 8 - Entertainment - The US President in Movies and TV We name an actor, and you name the movie or TV show where he portrayed the American president (or at least his voice). 1. Alan Alda. 2. Peter Sellers. 3. Bill Pullman. 4. Kevin Kline. 5. Michael Douglas. 6. Harrison Ford. 7. Martin Sheen. 8. Gregory Itzin. 9. Henry Fonda. 10. Harry Shearer, as President Schwarzenegger. -- Mark Brader | [It was] placed there... by secret moon landings used to Toronto | cover up the conspiracy that they never landed on the Moon. msb@vex.net | --Paul Duggan My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 30 03:30AM -0600 Mark Brader: > We give you the name of a country and you give the number of the > country's outline. Naturally, the outlines are not all to the > same scale, but all of them show north at the top. None of these maps have changed. This was the easiest round in the original game -- and, apparently, also here. > 1. Japan. #4. 4 for everyone -- Erland, Stephen, Joshua, Dan Blum, Pete, and Dan Tilque. > 2. Nepal. #15. 4 for everyone. > 3. Finland. #8. 4 for everyone. > 4. Vietnam. #12. 4 for everyone. > 5. Portugal. #7. 4 for everyone. > 6. Ireland. #5. 4 for everyone. > 7. Hungary. #2. 4 for everyone. > 8. Sri Lanka. #13. 4 for everyone. > 9. Switzerland. #16. 4 for everyone. > 10. Libya. #6. 4 for everyone. > There were 8 decoys. Decode the rot13 if you'd like to try the > remaining countries for fun, but for no points. > 11. Cuba. #14. Erland, Stephen, Joshua, Pete, and Dan Tilque got this. > 12. Egypt. #9. Erland, Stephen, Joshua, Pete, and Dan Tilque got this. > 13. France. #3. Stephen, Joshua, Pete, and Dan Tilque got this. > 14. Israel. #1. Erland, Stephen, Joshua, Pete, and Dan Tilque got this. > 15. Kenya. #17. Erland, Stephen, Joshua, Pete, and Dan Tilque got this. > 16. Pakistan. #10. Erland, Stephen, Joshua, Pete, and Dan Tilque got this. > 17. Philippines. #11. Erland, Stephen, Joshua, Pete, and Dan Tilque got this. > 18. Spain. #18. Erland, Stephen, Joshua, Pete, and Dan Tilque got this. > a series of star catalogues, written in cuneiform script > that contained lists of constellations, individual stars, > and planets. What nation? Babylonia. 4 for Stephen, Joshua, and Dan Blum. 3 for Dan Tilque. > as a branch of geometry used extensively for astronomical > studies. It is also the foundation of the practical art > of surveying. Name it. Trigonometry. 4 for Stephen, Joshua, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque. > However, on the same day in Alexandria, he observed that > the sun was at an angle from the vertical -- thus proving > what fact? That the Earth is round (or, more precisely, not flat). 4 for everyone. > 4. Eratosthenes, using these same observations, the specific > angle of the sun in Alexandria, and an estimate of the > distance between the two cities, calculated what? The size of the Earth. 4 for everyone. > 5. Pythagoras of Samos married music and mathematics by proving > that the pitch of a note played on a stringed instrument is > proportional to what? The length of the string, or its reciprocal, depending on what exactly is meant by "pitch" being proportional. (Accepting either.) 4 for Stephen, Joshua, Dan Blum, Pete, and Dan Tilque. > 6. Apply your Pythagorean theorem. In a right-angled triangle, > if one side is 5 inches long and the hypotenuse is 13 inches > long, how long is the other side? 12 inches. 4 for Stephen, Joshua, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque. 3 for Erland and Pete. I generously scored the meaningless "12" as almost correct. > numbers which could not be precisely expressed in the way > that numbers previously had been. The Pythagoreans called > these "unspeakable numbers". What do we call them? Irrational numbers. 4 for Erland, Stephen, Joshua, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque. > 8. Consider the following sums of successive odd numbers: 1+3, > 1+3+5, 1+3+5+7, 1+3+5+7+9, and so forth. Pythagoras observed > that the answers form the sequence of what kind of number? Square numbers. 4 for everyone. > 9. Archimedes is reputed to have said "Give me a place to stand > on and I will move the Earth!" His work on what fundamental > principle of mechanics prompted the remark? Leverage. 4 for Stephen, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. "Fulcrum" is a part of a lever setup, not a principle. > must be perfectly spherical and move in perfect circles > at uniform speed became the guiding principle of astronomy > until the 17th century. Name him. Plato. His student Aristotle was also accepted on a protest. 4 for Stephen, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. Ptolemy, though, *was* an observational astronomer. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 5 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS TOPICS-> Can Spo Geo Sci Stephen Perry 40 40 40 40 160 Joshua Kreitzer 4 28 40 40 112 Pete Gayde 0 36 40 19 95 Dan Tilque 0 12 40 39 91 Dan Blum 0 8 40 32 80 Erland Sommarskog -- -- 40 19 59 -- Mark Brader "He'll spend at least part of his life Toronto in prison, or parliament, or both." msb@vex.net --Peter Moylan My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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