| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Sep 09 04:26PM These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2013-01-28, and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written by members of the Night Owls, 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 recent companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)". * Game 1, Round 1 - Current Events (excerpt) Answer these 2013 questions if you like for fun, but for no points. 1. What iconic vehicle from the '60s was sold for $4,300,000 in an auction in Arizona last week? 2. As a result of games played on January 20, the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers earned berths in the Super Bowl game on February 3; and, for the first time, the two opposing head coaches are brothers. Their first names are John and Jim, but what is their family name? * Game 1, Round 2 - Science - Vitamins This is a round about vitamins. Some answers may repeat. In each case give the *letter of the vitamin*, except for the B vitamins, where we need the *letter and number*. 1. Niacin is better known as what vitamin? 2. Retinol is better known as what vitamin? 3. Thiamine is better known as what vitamin? 4. Calciferol is better known as what vitamin? 5. Tocopherol is better known as what vitamin? 6. Riboflavin is better known as what vitamin? 7. Rickets is caused by a deficiency of what vitamin? 8. Beriberi is caused by a deficiency of what vitamin? 9. In 1913, what become the first vitamin to be isolated? 10. Besides the B vitamin complex, what other vitamin is water-soluble? * Game 1, Round 3 - Geography - Country Links We'll name two countries, and you give us the name of the only country which """touches""" both of them. (Land borders only.) 1. Syria, Egypt. 2. Gabon, Nigeria. 3. Laos, Malaysia. 4. Norway, Estonia. 5. Turkey, Pakistan. 6. Slovakia, Serbia. 7. Bolivia, Ecuador. 8. Namibia, Tanzania. 9. Guatemala, Nicaragua. 10. Switzerland, Hungary. -- Mark Brader ...the scariest words of the afternoon: Toronto "Hey, don't worry, I've read all about msb@vex.net doing this sort of thing!" -- Vernor Vinge My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Sep 10 12:22AM > * Game 1, Round 1 - Current Events (excerpt) > 1. What iconic vehicle from the '60s was sold for $4,300,000 > in an auction in Arizona last week? Batmobile > * Game 1, Round 2 - Science - Vitamins > 1. Niacin is better known as what vitamin? B1 > 2. Retinol is better known as what vitamin? A > 3. Thiamine is better known as what vitamin? B6 > 4. Calciferol is better known as what vitamin? D > 5. Tocopherol is better known as what vitamin? E > 6. Riboflavin is better known as what vitamin? B2; B3 > 7. Rickets is caused by a deficiency of what vitamin? D > 8. Beriberi is caused by a deficiency of what vitamin? B1; B3 > 9. In 1913, what become the first vitamin to be isolated? C; A > 10. Besides the B vitamin complex, what other vitamin is > water-soluble? C > * Game 1, Round 3 - Geography - Country Links > 1. Syria, Egypt. Israel > 2. Gabon, Nigeria. Democratic Republic of the Congo > 3. Laos, Malaysia. Thailand > 4. Norway, Estonia. Finland > 5. Turkey, Pakistan. Afghanistan > 6. Slovakia, Serbia. Croatia > 7. Bolivia, Ecuador. Chile > 8. Namibia, Tanzania. Botswana > 9. Guatemala, Nicaragua. Honduras > 10. Switzerland, Hungary. Austria -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Sep 09 07:30PM -0700 On Friday, September 9, 2022 at 11:26:12 AM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote: > Answer these 2013 questions if you like for fun, but for no points. > 1. What iconic vehicle from the '60s was sold for $4,300,000 > in an auction in Arizona last week? Batmobile > game on February 3; and, for the first time, the two opposing > head coaches are brothers. Their first names are John and Jim, > but what is their family name? Harbaugh > case give the *letter of the vitamin*, except for the B vitamins, > where we need the *letter and number*. > 1. Niacin is better known as what vitamin? B1 > 2. Retinol is better known as what vitamin? A > 3. Thiamine is better known as what vitamin? B2 > 4. Calciferol is better known as what vitamin? B3 > 5. Tocopherol is better known as what vitamin? D > 6. Riboflavin is better known as what vitamin? B6 > 7. Rickets is caused by a deficiency of what vitamin? D > 8. Beriberi is caused by a deficiency of what vitamin? E > 9. In 1913, what become the first vitamin to be isolated? A > 10. Besides the B vitamin complex, what other vitamin is > water-soluble? C > We'll name two countries, and you give us the name of the only > country which """touches""" both of them. (Land borders only.) > 1. Syria, Egypt. Israel > 2. Gabon, Nigeria. Cameroon > 3. Laos, Malaysia. Thailand > 4. Norway, Estonia. Russia > 5. Turkey, Pakistan. Iran > 6. Slovakia, Serbia. Hungary > 7. Bolivia, Ecuador. Peru > 8. Namibia, Tanzania. Zimbabwe > 9. Guatemala, Nicaragua. El Salvador; Honduras > 10. Switzerland, Hungary. Austria -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Sep 09 04:11PM 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*)". STEPHEN PERRY has won the Final game despite missing half of the rounds. Hearty congratulations, sir! > Where in the human body (if applicable, give the specific organ) > would you find... > 1. The islets of Langerhans? In the pancreas. 4 for Stephen, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. > 2. The sacrum? It's one of the bones comprising the pelvis, connecting the ilium with the base of the spine. Any reference to hip, pelvis, or similar was sufficient. 4 for Stephen, Joshua, and Dan Blum. > 3. The proximal phalanges? They're the bones at the base of each digit, extending in the fingers from the major knuckle to the next one, and analogously placed in the thumbs and toes. Any reference to the hand or foot was sufficient. 4 for Stephen (the hard way), Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. > system. > 4. What is the SI unit for illuminance, which measures luminous > flux per unit area? It is equal to one lumen per square meter. Lux. 4 for Stephen and Dan Tilque. The candela is a base unit, not a derived unit, and it measures luminous intensity in a given direction. 1 cd = 1 lx m²/sr. > that, linking a circuit of one turn, would produce in it an > electromotive force of 1 volt if reduced to zero at a uniform > rate in 1 second. Weber. 4 for Stephen. The tesla is the unit for magnetic flux density: 1 T = 1 Wb/m². The gauss is a non-SI unit equal to .0001 T. > 6. What is the SI unit for radioactivity, or more precisely > "activity referred to a radionuclide", corresponding to the > decay on average of one nucleus per second? Becquerel. 4 for Erland, Stephen, and Dan Tilque. 3 for Joshua and Dan Blum. The curie is a non-SI unit equal to 37,000,000,000 Bq. > In each case, give the common chemical name for the molecules shown. > We will *not* accept systematic names such as ethyne. > 7. No hint. <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-9/chem/7.png> Acetylene. 4 for Stephen and Dan Tilque. > 8. This one <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-9/chem/8.png> is very > similar to the heme molecule found in blood, but has a magnesium > atom instead of iron at the center. Chlorophyll. 4 for Stephen and Dan Tilque. > 9. No hint. <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-9/chem/9.png> Benzene. 4 for Erland, Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. > he discovered a patch which would become one of the world's > most important and celebrated fossil fields. What is this > area called? The Burgess shale. 4 for Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. > 11. This <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-9/fossil/11.jpg> species > of tree is considered a living fossil: it has not changed > outwardly in 270,000,000 years. What species? Gingko (biloba). 4 for Stephen. 3 for Dan Blum. In 2013 I accepted "ginko balboa" with some amusement; that's actually Rocky's less well known brother. :-) > showing inches and centimeters) is arguably the most > famous fossil in the world. What was this species named? > <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-9/fossil/12.jpg> Archeopteryx. 4 for Stephen, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. > We show their photos and the element's Periodic Table entry. > You name the *elements*. > 13. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-9/elem/13.jpg Curium. (Marie Curie.) 4 for everyone -- Erland, Stephen, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. > 14. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-9/elem/14.jpg Nobelium. (Alfred Nobel.) 4 for everyone. > 15. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-9/elem/15.jpg Copernicium. (Nicolaus Copernicus.) 4 for Stephen, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. In 2013 no less than 8 out of 13 entrants misspelled it "copernicum", which I accepted; this time 1 out of 5 entrants did the same, and another admitted to not doing so only because he accepted a spelling-checker's correction. I would have thought it was obvious that accepting such a correction is not legitimate in this contest, but when the original form is one that I would have accepted as close enough anyway, I'll let it go. Please don't do it again, though. Anyway, the last element to be given a name ending in -um NOT preceded by -i- was lanthanum in 1839, while the name copernicium was not assigned until 2010! (The others were platinum in 1751, molybdenum in 1782, tantalum in 1802, and the most complicated case, aluminum. Humphrey Davy ran through three proposed names for that one in the 5 years 1807-12: alumium, aluminum, and aluminium, in that order. The first one never actually came into use, but the other two continued to compete until they drifted to opposite sides of the Atlantic.) > ** Final, Round 10 - Challenge Round This was the easiest round in the original game. > Uruk in Mesopotamia, and his travels with his sidekick > Enkidu. Fragments of the story exist from 2150 BC. What > is this story? "(The Epic of) Gilgamesh". 4 for everyone. > A2. For the period of the 8th to 6th century BC, four different > works ascribed to Hesiod survive. Name any one of them. "Works and Days", "Theogony", "Catalog of Women", "The Shield of Heracles". 4 for Stephen and Joshua. > A3. Apollonius of Rhodes, of the 3rd century BC, is credited > with a popular epic of Greek mythology involving a journey > to Colchis. What story is this? "Argonautica" ("Jason and the Argonauts" was acceptable and I decided to accept "The Golden Fleece" as meaning the same story also). 4 for Stephen and Dan Blum. > * B. Volcanic Activity > B1. Experts estimate that 85% of Earth's volcanic activity > occurs in a hard-to-observe area. What area? The sea floor, of course. I accepted "deep sea". 4 for everyone. > active body in our solar system, showing magma temperatures > of up to 1,700°C, with so many eruptions that they are > constantly resurfacing it. Name the moon. Io. 4 for Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. > trenches instead of a single point or cone, and is found > where divergent plate tectonics occurs. Name this type > of eruption. Rift or fissure eruption. 4 for Stephen. > *country* where it's located. > C1. <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/impact/1.jpg> Barringer > Crater, 1.2 km wide, 175 m deep, 50,000 years old. United States. (Arizona.) 4 for Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. It's just off I-40, and there's a nice little museum by the crater, visible by the road at the right side of the photo; go have a look. > C2. <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/impact/2.jpg> Wolfe > Creek Crater, 880 m wide, 60 m deep, 300,000 years old. Australia. (Western Australia.) 4 for Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. > C3. <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/impact/3.jpg> Deep > Bay Crater, 13 km wide, 220 m deep, 99,000,000 years old. Canada. (Saskatchewan.) 4 for Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. It's a bay on the south end of Reindeer Lake. > as specified. > D1. 3 squads form this type of unit, of which 3 or more together > form a company. Platoon or troop. 4 for Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. > D2. 3 or more companies form this type of unit, of which 2 or > more together form a regiment. Battalion. 4 for Stephen and Dan Tilque. > D3. 3 or more regiments form this type of unit, of which 2 or > more together form a division. Brigade. 4 for Dan Tilque and Dan Blum. > * E. Dave Broadfoot Characters > E1. Dave often played a slow-witted hockey goon. What was that > character's name? (First and last name needed.) Big Bobby Clobber. 4 for Stephen. > E2. Another of his famous characters was a member of the RCMP. > Who was this character? We need his rank and surname. Sgt. Renfrew. 4 for Stephen. > E3. His self-named political character was "MP the Honourable > David J. Broadfoot". Give *either* the riding he > represented, *or* the party he was leader of. Kicking Horse Pass, New Apathetic Party. The Kicking Horse Pass is of course a real pass, in the BC-Alberta border section of the Rockies; it's the way the Trans-Canada Highway (the original route as opposed to the Yellowhead) and the CPR mainline both go. But neither of the ridings including its two ends is named after it. The BC end of the pass is actually in Kootenay-Columbia riding while the Alberta end is in Banff-Airdrie riding. > their 40th birthday. (Based on the actual game date, not the date > of voting.) Dates given refer to these specific appearances in > the name, not to any earlier ones. Name the respective players. The reason the wording was not "played in the annual All-Star game 3 times after their 40th birthday" is that there was a short period around 1960 when All-Star games were played twice a year. > F1. This popular slugger and center fielder represented the San > Francisco Giants in 1971, and the New York Mets in 1972 and > 1973. He is tied for career all-star game appearances at 24. Willy Mays. 4 for Stephen, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. > in 1981 and 1982, and the Cincinnati Reds in 1984. He e > has been voted to the All-Star Game playing 5 different > positions, more than any other player. Pete Rose. 4 for Stephen and Joshua. > 1962, and 1963. He is tied with <answer F1> for career > All-Star Game appearances at 24. He played both outfield > and first base and is the 4th all-time hit leader with 3,630. Stan Musial. 4 for Stephen and Joshua. Scores, if there are no errors: FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST TOPICS-> His A+L Geo Spo Ent Mis Sci Cha SIX Stephen Perry 32 56 -- -- -- -- 60 64 212 Joshua Kreitzer 27 15 37 4 48 24 31 24 191 Dan Tilque 24 0 40 16 4 16 48 40 184 Dan Blum 19 4 36 4 32 16 42 36 181 Erland Sommarskog 12 0 39 12 0 8 16 8 95 Pete Gayde 12 0 -- -- 32 36 -- -- 80 -- Mark Brader | We don't have "m"s in Florida. If it can't be measured Toronto | in inches and feet, we don't measure it. msb@vex.net | --Tony Cooper My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com>: Sep 09 06:10PM -0500 Mark Brader wrote: > Where in the human body (if applicable, give the specific organ) > would you find... > 1. The islets of Langerhans? Spleen; > 2. The sacrum? > 3. The proximal phalanges? Foot; Hand > 11. This <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-9/fossil/11.jpg> species > of tree is considered a living fossil: it has not changed > outwardly in 270,000,000 years. What species? Gingko > We show their photos and the element's Periodic Table entry. > You name the *elements*. > 13. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-9/elem/13.jpg Curium > 14. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-9/elem/14.jpg Nobelium > 15. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-9/elem/15.jpg Copernicum > active body in our solar system, showing magma temperatures > of up to 1,700°C, with so many eruptions that they are > constantly resurfacing it. Name the moon. Io; Titan > *country* where it's located. > C1. <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/impact/1.jpg> Barringer > Crater, 1.2 km wide, 175 m deep, 50,000 years old. USA; Russia > F1. This popular slugger and center fielder represented the San > Francisco Giants in 1971, and the New York Mets in 1972 and > 1973. He is tied for career all-star game appearances at 24. Willie Mays > in 1981 and 1982, and the Cincinnati Reds in 1984. He e > has been voted to the All-Star Game playing 5 different > positions, more than any other player. Pete Rose > 1962, and 1963. He is tied with <answer F1> for career > All-Star Game appearances at 24. He played both outfield > and first base and is the 4th all-time hit leader with 3,630. Stan Musial Pete Gayde |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Sep 10 12:24AM If Pete Gayde's answers had been posted on time, he would have scored 20 points on Round 9 and 19 on Round 10, and placed 5th with a final score of 119. -- Mark Brader | "Go have a life -- but I'm telling you right now, Toronto | you will be bored sick. Life is overrated." msb@vex.net | --Will Gardner (Robert & Michelle King) |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Sep 09 04:22PM On 2020-06-07, I wrote: > (sometimes with additional edits) that I posted previously. > If you can remember the answers after that amount of time, when > bully for you! The Canadian Inquisition has still not resumed regular play. I wouldn't be surprised if that happens next year, but at this point I also wouldn't be surprised if it never happens. So I'm to continue reposting old seasons. The next one I have available to repost was written by the Night Owls, originally played in January-April 2013, and previously posted here later that year. These reposts will therefore be tagged RQFTCINO13. If the Canadian Inquisition does resume before I finish with that season, then I'll return to posting new material from the league's recent games. * Out-of-Date Questions (This section is repeated from the 2020-06-07 posting, with a few trivial fixes.) Of course it's also possible that for some questions the answers have changed. My general rule in that case will be to accept *either* the answer that was correct when the game was originally played, *or* the current correct answer. If the answer has changed, then you'll need to be aware that some subsidiary information provided as hints within the original question may be out of date. For example, if the original game date was 2006 and the question was "What European city was the home of the most recent summer Olympics?", then you could give the 2006 answer of Athens (2004) or the 2022 answer of Tokyo ("2020" games played in 2021), even though Tokyo is not a "European city". In general with questions like this I'll try to call attention to words that might be out of date, by marking them with tripled quotation marks. So the actual form of that question when reposted would be something like: "What European city was the home of the """most recent""" summer Olympics?" And the peculiar punctuation is your hint that the facts might have changed. I said *might* be out of date, and *might* have changed, because if you see that punctuation it doesn't mean that the answer *has* changed. It might be that nothing has changed, or it might be that a person referred to in the present tense has died, but the answer is still the same; or anything like that. For example, if the question was "Who """has had""" the most years in office as US president?", Franklin Roosevelt would be the only possible answer. When I post the answer in a case like that, I'll give the answer and put something like "(still true)" or "(died in 2015)" after it. For some questions I will use a different rule, such as requiring the original answer, or requiring you to say which year you are answering for, and in those cases I will include an explicit note. * Procedures and Scoring (This section is repeated from my regular QFTCI introductory posting.) The usual rule in our regular league games is that each question goes to an individual who can answer for 2 points without assistance, and if he misses, he can consult his team and try again for 1 point. If the quizmaster judges that an answer is incomplete, she can ask for more details before ruling the answer right or wrong. To maintain the spirit of these rules, I will say that you can give two answers on every question. But I will penalize you if you give both a right answer and a wrong answer. My scoring is: 4 points - if you answer once and are right (or twice, both right) 3 points - if you guess twice and are right only the first time 2 points - if you guess twice and are right only the second time Bonus points may occasionally be available and will be explained in the relevant round. If you give only one answer, but with only some sort of additional comment, please make it clear that that's what you're doing. If there is any doubt I'll assume that you are giving two answers. If I see more than two answers, the third and any later ones will be ignored. Although there is no rule like this in the Canadian Inquisition, where it makes sense I will accept answers that I think are almost close enough (*more than half right*), with a 1-point penalty. But I will reject answers that I do not think are sufficiently specific, since there is no opportunity to ask for clarification when answers are posted in the newsgroup. If I anticipate the possibility of insufficiently specific answers I will try to provide guidance in a way that does not spoil the questions, such as a note in rot13 to be read after you have answered. You must, of course, answer based on your own knowledge and nothing else. You must post all your answers in a single posting (Except in case of technical difficulties, when emailed answers or multiple postings will be accepted.) Where a person's name is asked for, *normally you need only give the surname*. If you do give another part of the name and you're wrong, your answer is wrong. -- Mark Brader | "I don't have to stay here to be insulted." Toronto | "I realize that. You're insulted everywhere, I imagine." msb@vex.net | -- Theodore Sturgeon My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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