| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Aug 01 10:15PM These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2012-07-09, and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written by members of What She Said and/or of Smith & Guessin', 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 9, Round 1 - Current Events (excerpt) Answer these 2012 questions if you like for fun, but for no points. 1. We're not going to ask you to explain it; just tell us the generally accepted scientific name for what the popular press has been calling "the God particle", which scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider announced that they seemed to have found. 2. Bad things can happen when you're away on vacation. While former French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni were relaxing at a Laurentian cottage, what happened at their homes? * Game 9, Round 2 - History - Famous Last Words We give you the reported last words (in translation if necessary) of a well-known personage, along with their the date of death and some more information. You name the person. 1. Died 0041-01-24; Roman emperor. "I am still alive!" 2. Died 1945-04-12; American. "I have a terrible headache." 3. Died 1977-08-16; American singer. "I hope I haven't bored you." 4. Died 212 BC; Greek engineer/mathematician. "Do not disturb my circles." 5. Died 1793-10-16; French. "Pardon me, sir. I did not do it on purpose." 6. Died 1882-04-19; British scientist. "I am not the least afraid to die." 7. Died 1977-05-10; American actress. "Damn it? Don't you dare ask God to help me!" 8. Died 1883-03-14; multi-faceted German. "Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough." 9. Died 1967-10-09; Argentinian. "I know you have come to kill me. Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man." 10. Died 1953-11-27; American playwright. "I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room, and God damn it, died in a hotel room." * Game 9, Round 3 - Literature - 19th-Century Poets In this round, we give you the titles of three poems by a poet who lived sometime in the 19th century (although the poems may date from another century). You name the poet. 1. "Hyperion"; "To Autumn"; "The Eve of St Agnes". 2. "Gunga Din"; "The Female of the Species"; "If". 3. "The Prisoner"; "Remembrance"; "No Coward Soul is Mine". 4. "Sohrab and Rustum"; "The Scholar Gypsy"; "Dover Beach". 5. "The Wreck of the Deutschland"; "Pied Beauty"; "God's Grandeur". 6. "The Triumph of Life"; "Prometheus Unbound"; "Ode to the West Wind". 7. "My Last Duchess"; "The Ring and the Book"; "The Pied Piper of Hamlin". 8. "Idylls of the King"; "In Memoriam A.H.H."; "Charge of the Light Brigade". 9. "Goblin Market"; "In the Bleak Midwinter" (Christmas carol); "When I am Dead My Dearest". 10. "The Dynasts"; "The Convergence of the Twain" (on the sinking of the Titanic); "The Darkling Thrush". -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "You don't SIT IN the traffic jam; msb@vex.net | you ARE the traffic jam." -- Werner Icking My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Aug 01 04:12PM -0700 On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 5:16:18 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote: > of a well-known personage, along with their the date of death and > some more information. You name the person. > 1. Died 0041-01-24; Roman emperor. "I am still alive!" Nero > 2. Died 1945-04-12; American. "I have a terrible headache." Franklin Roosevelt > 3. Died 1977-08-16; American singer. "I hope I haven't bored you." Elvis Presley > 4. Died 212 BC; Greek engineer/mathematician. "Do not disturb my circles." Archimedes > 5. Died 1793-10-16; French. "Pardon me, sir. I did not do it > on purpose." Marie Antoinette > 6. Died 1882-04-19; British scientist. "I am not the least afraid > to die." Charles Darwin > 8. Died 1883-03-14; multi-faceted German. "Go on, get out. > Last words are for fools who haven't said enough." Karl Marx > 9. Died 1967-10-09; Argentinian. "I know you have come to kill me. > Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man." Che Guevara > 10. Died 1953-11-27; American playwright. "I knew it. I knew it. > Born in a hotel room, and God damn it, died in a hotel room." Eugene O'Neill > sometime in the 19th century (although the poems may date from another > century). You name the poet. > 1. "Hyperion"; "To Autumn"; "The Eve of St Agnes". Keats > 2. "Gunga Din"; "The Female of the Species"; "If". Kipling > 4. "Sohrab and Rustum"; "The Scholar Gypsy"; "Dover Beach". Arnold > 7. "My Last Duchess"; "The Ring and the Book"; "The Pied Piper > of Hamlin". Browning > 8. "Idylls of the King"; "In Memoriam A.H.H."; "Charge of the > Light Brigade". Tennyson > 9. "Goblin Market"; "In the Bleak Midwinter" (Christmas carol); > "When I am Dead My Dearest". Rossetti > 10. "The Dynasts"; "The Convergence of the Twain" (on the sinking > of the Titanic); "The Darkling Thrush". Hardy -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Aug 02 02:08AM > generally accepted scientific name for what the popular press > has been calling "the God particle", which scientists at CERN's > Large Hadron Collider announced that they seemed to have found. Higgs boson > 2. Bad things can happen when you're away on vacation. While former > French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni were > relaxing at a Laurentian cottage, what happened at their homes? they were broken into? > * Game 9, Round 2 - History - Famous Last Words > 1. Died 0041-01-24; Roman emperor. "I am still alive!" Nero > 2. Died 1945-04-12; American. "I have a terrible headache." Franklin Roosevelt > 3. Died 1977-08-16; American singer. "I hope I haven't bored you." Elvis Presley > 4. Died 212 BC; Greek engineer/mathematician. "Do not disturb my circles." Archimedes > 5. Died 1793-10-16; French. "Pardon me, sir. I did not do it > on purpose." Louis XVI > 6. Died 1882-04-19; British scientist. "I am not the least afraid > to die." Charles Darwin > 7. Died 1977-05-10; American actress. "Damn it? Don't you dare > ask God to help me!" Katherine Hepburn > 8. Died 1883-03-14; multi-faceted German. "Go on, get out. > Last words are for fools who haven't said enough." Friedrich Nietzche > 9. Died 1967-10-09; Argentinian. "I know you have come to kill me. > Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man." Che Guevara > 10. Died 1953-11-27; American playwright. "I knew it. I knew it. > Born in a hotel room, and God damn it, died in a hotel room." Eugene O'Neill; Odets > * Game 9, Round 3 - Literature - 19th-Century Poets > 1. "Hyperion"; "To Autumn"; "The Eve of St Agnes". John Keats > 2. "Gunga Din"; "The Female of the Species"; "If". Rudyard Kipling > 4. "Sohrab and Rustum"; "The Scholar Gypsy"; "Dover Beach". Matthew Arnold > 6. "The Triumph of Life"; "Prometheus Unbound"; "Ode to the > West Wind". Percy Shelley > 7. "My Last Duchess"; "The Ring and the Book"; "The Pied Piper > of Hamlin". Robert Browning > 8. "Idylls of the King"; "In Memoriam A.H.H."; "Charge of the > Light Brigade". Tennyson > 9. "Goblin Market"; "In the Bleak Midwinter" (Christmas carol); > "When I am Dead My Dearest". Christina Rosetti -- _______________________________________________________________________ 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>: Aug 02 09:43AM +0200 > * Game 9, Round 2 - History - Famous Last Words > 1. Died 0041-01-24; Roman emperor. "I am still alive!" Tiberius > 3. Died 1977-08-16; American singer. "I hope I haven't bored you." Elvis Presley > 4. Died 212 BC; Greek engineer/mathematician. "Do not disturb my > circles." Pythagoras > 5. Died 1793-10-16; French. "Pardon me, sir. I did not do it > on purpose." Louis XVI > 9. Died 1967-10-09; Argentinian. "I know you have come to kill me. > Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man." Che Guevara |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Aug 01 10:10PM Mark Brader: > and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information... > see my 2021-07-20 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the > Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)". JOSHUA KREITZER wins Game 8. Hearty congratulations! > confirmed as discovered or synthesized, there """are""" two > letters of the alphabet that don't appear in any element symbols > in the periodic table. Name *both*. J, Q. (Still true.) 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Erland, and Pete. W is the symbol for tungsten. Z, by the way, occurs in the symbols for both zinc and zirconium, Zn and Zr. > 2. What is unique in the human body about the hyoid bone? It's not connected to any other bone in the body. (It's at the base of the tongue and connects the tongue muscles to parts of the throat.) 4 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque. > 3. If you are exploring an ocean reef at 33 feet (10 m) below the > surface of the water, how many atmospheres of total pressure > are you experiencing? 2. (The water pressure is equal to the air pressure above.) 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Erland. 3 for Pete. > 4. What Canadian is known as the "father of modern medicine" > and the "father of pathology"? Sir William Osler. > 5. John Macleod of Canada won the Nobel prize for the discovery > of what? Insulin. 4 for Dan Tilque and Joshua. Although it's Banting and Best who are known today for the discovery, Macleod ran the lab and the prize went to him and Banting jointly. Banting considered this unjust and shared his half with Best; Macleod responded by sharing his half with James Collip, who was brought in on the project later. Banting's Nobel Prize speech tells who really did what: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1923/banting-lecture.html > 6. Name *either one* of the two scientists who announced the > discovery of "cold fusion" in 1989. Martin Fleischmann, Stanley Pons. 4 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque. > 7. In what city """is""" Canada's Science and Technology Museum? Ottawa. (Still true.) 4 for Dan Tilque and Erland. 3 for Dan Blum. > which became known as the marijuana-growing capital of Canada. > Then the operation was moved to an undisclosed location when > more space was needed. Anyway, name the city where the mine was. Flin Flon, Manitoba. > conflicting information. But which British theoretical physicist > and cosmologist actually was born on the 300th anniversary of > Galileo's death? Stephen Hawking. See <http://www.numericana.com/answer/record.htm>. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua, and Pete. > 10. Zoologists honored Hugh Hefner by naming Sylvilagus palustris > hefneri for him. What kind of animal is this? Marsh rabbit. Yes, "rabbit" was sufficient. Or even "bunny". 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua, and Pete. > a mold for liquid bronze, gold, glass, etc., producing > a 3-dimensional object that looks like the original wax > sculpture. What is this technique called? Lost wax. 4 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque. > at the area not covered by wax. After cleaning the wax off, > I now have a pattern on my original object. What is this > process called? Gunsmiths have used it for 400 years. (Acid) etching. 4 for Dan Tilque and Joshua. > Give the term for this asexual reproduction, where > growth, development, and eventually birth happens without > fertilization. Parthenogenesis, gynogenesis, or pseudogamy. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Joshua. > sublimation (the same as the reverse transformation directly > from solid to gas), but we want the other term that refers > specifically to a transformation *from* gas *to* solid. Deposition. 4 for Joshua. > may or may not be rising in value, but it is likely to be > rising in elevation, by 4-8 mm a year, due to "isostatic > rebound". Explain this. During the last Ice Age, the weight of the ice pushed down and compressed the Earth's crust. Since the glaciers retreated, the land has been rebounding to its original height and thus the elevation is increasing. 4 for Dan Tilque and Erland. > C2. Throughout the Pacific Ring of Fire are found tectonic > subduction zones. Describe what is happening at a subduction > zone. Two tectonic plates are moving towards each other, and rather than crumpling together and pushing up a mountain range, one plate slides underneath the other and heads down into the earth's mantle. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua, and Pete. > middle-class families. The victims of this practice were > the subject of numerous news reports, case studies, and > class-action lawsuits in later years. What is the term? "The Sixties Scoop". > MP to use it, questioning the $75,000 cost per evacuee > for people who almost all returned back within a month. > What is the term? "Canadians of Convenience". 4 for Dan Blum. > while you are face-planted, and uploads it onto the Internet. > What is this fad called? It was featured in an episode of > NBC's "The Office". Planking, or the lying-down game. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua. > It actually sends you to a web site such as youtube, for > the Rick Astley video "Never Gonna Give You Up". Give the > Internet meme term for what has just happened to you. You were rickrolled. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua, and Pete. > * F. Tough Descriptions of Sports Rules In keeping with the category title and the requirements to be specific, I was strict on scoring these. > a Bronco receiver lands on it. The ref says no touchdown. > Explain the specific rule he is thinking of when making > his decision. In the last 2 minutes of a half (or on 4th down), only the player who fumbled a ball (or an opponent) can recover it if this would advance the ball. Incidentally, a somewhat similar situation came up in a CFL game I watched recently. A player batted a fumbled ball forward into the end zone with his hand, then followed it and fell on it. This was ruled an illegal forward pass to himself. > steal first from second.) But for what other *specific > tactical reason* did other players sometimes steal first > base from second? With men on second and third, and less than 2 outs, if the runner on second started moving first, the pitcher might throw to first base to try to put him out. If so, the runner on third would then start moving and have a better chance of stealing home, scoring a run. 4 for Dan Tilque and Pete. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 8 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST TOPICS-> Can Art Geo Spo Ent Can Sci Cha SIX Joshua Kreitzer 25 42 37 32 32 16 12 24 192 Dan Blum 28 38 23 12 10 20 27 24 160 Dan Tilque 20 22 24 28 4 20 32 28 154 Erland Sommarskog 32 8 23 34 -- -- 12 4 113 Pete Gayde 21 32 -- -- 4 14 15 12 98 -- Mark Brader | "I realised... at the traditional time -- Toronto | just after clicking on Send." msb@vex.net | --Peter Duncanson My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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