| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Sep 25 08:06PM These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2013-02-04, 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 2022-09-09 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)". * Game 2, Round 4 - History - The Great Recession This is a round on the 2008 financial crisis, or the Great Recession as it has come to be known. 1. What does MBS stand for? 2. What does TARP stand for? 3. Name the either the US treasury secretary in 2008 or the one who succeeded him in 2009. 4. In US dollars within $50,000,000,000, what was the initial amount of money allocated to TARP? 5. Washington Mutual was the 6th largest bank in the US. It collapsed and was acquired by what bank? 6. Which major US auto company claimed that they did not receive any bailout money during the crisis? 7. After Bear Stearns was taken over in May 2008, which investment bank filed for bankruptcy protection in September 2008? 8. Which insurance company initially received $80,000,000,000 in credit from the US government to deal with its financial problems? 9. The Oscar for Best Documentary Feature of 2010 went to what movie that tried to explain the crisis? 10. Wachovia was the 4th largest bank in the US. Wachovia was bought out by another bank. Wachovia broke the agreement with that bank and merged into yet another bank. Name either one of those other two banks. * Game 2, Round 6 - Sports - Trophies of Champions In this round we will give you the name of a trophy and you have to provide the *league -- or the specific tournament or competition, as the case may be* -- that the trophy is associated with. For example, if we said the Stanley Cup, we would be looking for the NHL. 1. Claret Jug. 2. Vanier Cup. 3. Webb Ellis Cup. 4. Wanamaker Trophy. 5. Larry O'Brien Cup. 6. Borg-Warner Trophy. 7. Vince Lombardi Trophy. 8. Commissioner's Trophy. 9. Nextel Cup, formerly known as the Winston Cup and Grand National. 10. Calder Cup. (Not the Calder Memorial Trophy for NHL rookie of the year.) -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "I wish to God these calculations had been msb@vex.net | executed by steam!" -- Charles Babbage, 1821 My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Sep 25 08:05PM Mark Brader: > Answer these 2013 questions if you like for fun, but for no points. > 1. Which film won the top honor for best overall cast performance > at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards last week? "Argo". > 2. Who replaced Hillary Clinton as the US secretary of state > last week? John Kerry. Joshua and Dan Blum got this. > About 50% of the prescription drugs used """today""" were originally > extracted from plant or animal sources. > 1. Aspirin or ASA was originally extracted from which plant source? Willow (bark). 4 for everyone -- Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. I left the original wording intact here, but I'm pretty sure it should've said "derived from". As I understand it, the willow contains *salicylic* acid; the Bayer company's great innovation was to add an acetyl group to the molecule, producing a much lower level of stomach irritation. > Institute in the US in 1962, it was launched by Bristol Myers > in 1992. For the first 20 years of its development it could > only be obtained from the bark and leaves of which tree? (Pacific) yew. 4 for Dan Tilque. > of the first to treat symptoms of menopause also called hormone > replacement therapy or HRT. When it was first introduced to > the market, it was extracted from what? The urine of pregnant horses. "Mares' urine" was sufficient. 4 for Joshua. > of death. Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by Scottish doctor > Alexander Fleming. He discovered and isolated it from a common > contaminant of his bacterial cultures. What contaminant? Penicillium green bread mold. "Mold" together with any one of the other words was sufficient. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. > 5. In the 1890s scientists at Bayer discovered and marketed > a powerful painkiller that competed with Aspirin. This drug, > extracted from a common red flower, had a trademarked name: what? Heroin. 4 for Joshua. > the bacteria that produce this toxin. This nerve toxin has > been purified and is used routinely today in medical clinics. > What is the trademarked name of this drug? Botox. 4 for everyone. > to a medicinal water to fight malaria, and combined it with a > little gin to moderate the taste -- the origin of gin-and-tonic. > This drug is still an important anti-malarial today. What is it? Quinine. 4 for everyone. > was the first natural health product sold in Canada to back up > its claims with proper clinical trials carried out at university > hospitals. ColdFX is actually an extract of which plant? (American) ginseng. He's still alive, but I have no idea what he swears by now. > of eggs and ovulation in women having difficulty in becoming > pregnant. The FSH in these drugs until relatively recently > was commercialy obtained from what source? Urine of menopausal nuns. "Women's urine" was sufficient. Drug companies paid for the urine by volume and felt that nuns were less likely than other women to cheat by diluting it. > 10. Galantamine is a drug used to treat the early stages of > Alzheimer's disease. It was discovered in the 1950s in Bulgaria > and was produced from the bulbs of which plant family? Daffodil or (spider) lily. 4 for Dan Tilque. > * Game 2, Round 3 - Canadiana Geography - Toronto Streets In 2013 I noted that the rest of you could blame Stephen Perry for this round not being thrown out. This time he didn't post an entry, and nobody else got anything in this round, so it *is* being thrown out. > This round is about Toronto streets that flow directly into > another street. > 1. Where does Bloor St. E. change into Danforth Av.? At the Don Valley. (Any reference indicating that location was acceptable.) > 2. Carlton St. changes into what street at Yonge St.? College St. > 3. Davenport Rd. changes into what street at Yonge? Church St. > 4. York Mills Rd. changes into what avenue at Yonge? Wilson Av. > 5. Traveling east, Eastern Av. ends by curving to become which road? Kingston Rd. > 6. Near which major cross avenue does Danforth Rd. merge into > McCowan Rd.? Lawrence Av. > 7. Traveling east, Lake Shore Blvd. E. ends by curving to become > which avenue? Woodbine Av. > 8. Traveling northbound on Beverly St., it changes to become what > street at College St.? St. George St. > 9. Traveling south on Mt. Pleasant Rd., just after crossing > Bloor St. this road merges into what street continuing south? Jarvis St. > 10. Traveling westbound on Front St. E., the street splits into two > at Church St. Front becomes one-way eastbound, and what street > takes the westbound traffic? Wellington St. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 2 ROUNDS-> 2 TOPICS-> Sci Joshua Kreitzer 24 Dan Tilque 20 Dan Blum 16 -- Mark Brader, Toronto "If it's on TV, it has to be true! msb@vex.net (I read that on the Internet.)" My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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