msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 30 01:58AM
Mark Brader:
> 1. At the 2014 Olympics, what skiing discipline """will have"""
> both men's and women's competitions instead of only men's
> as before?
Ski jumping. 4 for Joshua, Erland, and Dan Blum.
> 2. The """last remaining""" Winter Olympic discipline to be
> contested only by men combines ski jumping and cross-country
> skiing. What's it called?
Nordic combined. (Still true.) I accepted "Nordic combination".
4 for Joshua and Erland.
> 3. At Sochi, because of the suspension of their nation's Olympic
> committee, the three Winter Olympians from *what country* """must
> compete""" as independent participants, under the Olympic flag?
India.
> records) in speed skating were set at just two facilities,
> each originally constructed for the Olympics. Where are they?
> Name either city.
Calgary (1988), Salt Lake City (2002). (Still true.) 4 for Erland.
All other Olympic speed skating venues in the past 50 (now 60) years
have been at elevations below 600 m (2,000 feet); but the Calgary
track is at 1,048 m (3,440 feet) and the SLC one at 1,320 m (4,330
feet). See: http://ep.physoc.org/content/95/3/411/T1.expansion.html
> than any other Canadian""". She won a bronze in 2002, then gold,
> 2 silver, and 2 more bronze in 2006. She """still holds"""
> the women's world records at 1500 and 3000 m. Who?
Cindy Klassen. (Still true, except for the world records, which
were both beaten in recent years.)
> 6. Who won """Canada's only medals""" in biathlon -- a bronze in
> 1992 and 2 golds in 1994?
Myriam Bédard. (Still true.)
> 7. Name any of the """three current""" Winter Olympic disciplines
> in which *no* Canadian team or individual has ever won a medal.
2014 answer: Luge, Nordic combined, ski jumping. 2023 answer:
Nordic combined is now the only one.
> 8. Canada's 1920 gold medal for hockey (or "ice hockey" as the
> Olympics people call it) is usually excluded from Winter Olympic
> lists and totals. Why?
The Winter Olympics had not been invented in 1920. Although played
a few months before the other events, the hockey tournament
was considered part of the regular Olympic games. 4 for Joshua
and Erland.
The tournament had an interesting format. First all the teams played
a standard knockout for the gold medal; then all the teams that
*had lost to the gold-medal winners* played a *second* knockout for
silver; then all the other teams that had lost to *either* the gold-
or the silver-medal winners played a *third* knockout for bronze.
This arrangement was called the Bergvall system and it dropped out
of favor soon afterwards.
There were only 7 teams entered altogether, so the first knockout
was 3 rounds, and the other ones 2 rounds each, with one team in
each of the three knockouts getting a first-round bye. Canada took
the gold by beating Czechoslovakia 15-0, the US 2-0, and Sweden
12-1: a combined score of 29-1 in three games. The US took silver
by beating Switzerland 29-0, losing to Canada, then beating Sweden
7-0 and Czechoslovakia 16-0: a combined score of 52-2 in four games.
And by the way, all the games were only two 20-minute periods long,
not three!
As to the bronze, Czechoslovakia only played 3 games altogether
because they got the bye in both the silver and the bronze knockouts;
having lost their first two games by a combined score of 31-0, they
then beat Sweden 1-0 to take the medal.
> in the 2022 Olympics there were also mixed or women's events
> on the last day, but if only men's events are considered,
> the description is still true.
Bobsled (or "bobsleigh"; the 4-man event).
> 10. """The only individual event on the last day""" is the longest
> ski race of the Olympics. How long is this cross-country event?
> *Note*: In 2022 it was on the second-last day.
(Men's) 50 km. 4 for Joshua and Erland.
> you to identify were born in Russia. However, some of them later
> lived and made their careers elsewhere. In each case, name the
> person described.
This was the easiest round in the original game, and the
second-easiest in the entire season.
> 1. This Russian chess champion was famously defeated by Bobby
> Fischer in a match in 1972.
Boris Spassky. 4 for everyone -- Joshua, Dan Tilque, Erland,
and Dan Blum.
> 2. Born in Vladivostok, this Hollywood actor played King Mongkut of
> Siam and the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses during his long screen
> career.
Yul Brynner. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum.
> Blue Rider school of painting, named after an early famous work.
> He also taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture
> from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933.
Wassily Kandinsky. 4 for Erland and Dan Blum.
> 4. He was born in 1973 in Moscow and immigrated to the US at the
> age of 6. Decades later he co-founded Google.
Sergey Brin. 4 for everyone.
> charlatan. His sway over the czar ended when he was killed --
> by being poisoned, shot, beaten, and drowned in the Neva River.
> (Or at least, that's one version of the events.)
Grigori Rasputin. Not to be confused with any other Putin.
4 for everyone.
> work in classical conditioning or conditioned reflexes and won
> the 1904 Nobel Prize for medicine. Bells and dogs figured in
> his experiments.
Ivan Pavlov. 4 for everyone.
> choreographers and a co-founder of the New York City Ballet
> company. He is also known for his neoclassical style -- and
> for his romances with numerous ballerinas.
George Balanchine. (Doesn't sound Russian enough? His original
name was Georgy Balanchivadze. The surname is actually Georgian.)
4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.
> 8. His 28-year tenure as Soviet foreign minister preceded the Cuban
> missile crisis and extended to the ascension of Mikhail Gorbachev
> in 1985, when he was shunted aside.
Andrei Gromyko. 4 for Joshua, Erland, and Dan Blum.
> 9. Several impersonators tried to claim the identity of this
> youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas after the family was murdered
> by the Bolsheviks in July 1918. What was her name?
Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanova. ("Anastasia" was sufficient.)
4 for everyone.
> people, to impress visiting officials. A battleship was also
> named after him and fictionalized in a movie by early filmmaker
> Sergei Eisenstein.
Grigory Potemkin. 4 for everyone.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 5 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Lit Can Spo His
Joshua Kreitzer 40 0 16 36 92
Dan Blum 24 4 4 40 72
Erland Sommarskog 16 0 20 32 68
Dan Tilque 32 4 0 28 64
Pete Gayde 19 12 -- -- 31
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msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 30 02:02AM
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-02-10,
and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written
by members of the Cellar Rats, 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 5, Round 7 - Geography - Indigenous Peoples
Please see the handout:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/5-7/people.jpg
(No, I don't know how the mapmakers decided which national borders
to show.)
We give you the name of an indigenous people or group, and you
tell us which letter on the map coincides with a typical part of
their geographical range.
1. Sami.
2. !Kung.
3. Pygmies.
4. Berbers.
5. Nubians.
6. Marsh Arabs.
7. Kanaka Maoli.
8. Uyghurs ["WEE-gurz"].
9. Rapanui (or Rapa Nui).
10. Amerindians. Note: while this term may have been originally
coined to have a wider meaning, today it is typically used to
refer to the indigenous peoples of a smaller, more specific
range. We're looking for this narrower usage.
* Game 5, Round 8 - Science - Skull and Bones... or Backbones, Anyway
This is a round about the human spine, with a nod to the skull
and related structures.
1. The spine consists of 24 articulating vertebrae. How many of
these are cervical vertebrae, making up the neck?
2. There are 12 vertebrae which have ribs more or less attached.
What are they called?
3. And the remaining vertebrae are called what?
4. Next below the <answer 3> are 5 fused bones known collectively
as what?
5. Between each vertebra and the next is an intervertebral disk.
What is it called when one of these is injured and forced out
of position?
6. What congenital condition results in a sideways curvature of
the spine?
7. What is CSF short for? This is the liquid that surrounds the
spinal cord and the brain, and may be sometimes "tapped into"
(with a spinal tap) to test for disease.
8. The spinal cord and the CSF run through a set of openings in
the vertebrae, collectively called what?
9. What's the name of the semi-rigid, zigzag-shaped structures
that join the bones of the skull?
10. The protective membranes of the brain and spinal column,
containing the CSF, may become the site of life-threatening
inflammation caused by infection by viruses or baceteria.
What are these membranes collectively known as?
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msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 30 02:03AM
Again I forgot to start a new thread. Sorry. Please post your
responses in either thread.
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-02-10,
and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written
by members of the Cellar Rats, 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 5, Round 7 - Geography - Indigenous Peoples
Please see the handout:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/5-7/people.jpg
(No, I don't know how the mapmakers decided which national borders
to show.)
We give you the name of an indigenous people or group, and you
tell us which letter on the map coincides with a typical part of
their geographical range.
1. Sami.
2. !Kung.
3. Pygmies.
4. Berbers.
5. Nubians.
6. Marsh Arabs.
7. Kanaka Maoli.
8. Uyghurs ["WEE-gurz"].
9. Rapanui (or Rapa Nui).
10. Amerindians. Note: while this term may have been originally
coined to have a wider meaning, today it is typically used to
refer to the indigenous peoples of a smaller, more specific
range. We're looking for this narrower usage.
* Game 5, Round 8 - Science - Skull and Bones... or Backbones, Anyway
This is a round about the human spine, with a nod to the skull
and related structures.
1. The spine consists of 24 articulating vertebrae. How many of
these are cervical vertebrae, making up the neck?
2. There are 12 vertebrae which have ribs more or less attached.
What are they called?
3. And the remaining vertebrae are called what?
4. Next below the <answer 3> are 5 fused bones known collectively
as what?
5. Between each vertebra and the next is an intervertebral disk.
What is it called when one of these is injured and forced out
of position?
6. What congenital condition results in a sideways curvature of
the spine?
7. What is CSF short for? This is the liquid that surrounds the
spinal cord and the brain, and may be sometimes "tapped into"
(with a spinal tap) to test for disease.
8. The spinal cord and the CSF run through a set of openings in
the vertebrae, collectively called what?
9. What's the name of the semi-rigid, zigzag-shaped structures
that join the bones of the skull?
10. The protective membranes of the brain and spinal column,
containing the CSF, may become the site of life-threatening
inflammation caused by infection by viruses or baceteria.
What are these membranes collectively known as?
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "Logic is logic. That's all I say."
msb@vex.net -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com>: Mar 29 09:21PM -0500
Mark Brader wrote:
> 1. At the 2014 Olympics, what skiing discipline """will have"""
> both men's and women's competitions instead of only men's
> as before?
Ski jumping
> 2. The """last remaining""" Winter Olympic discipline to be
> contested only by men combines ski jumping and cross-country
> skiing. What's it called?
Nordic combined
> records) in speed skating were set at just two facilities,
> each originally constructed for the Olympics. Where are they?
> Name either city.
Salt Lake City
> than any other Canadian""". She won a bronze in 2002, then gold,
> 2 silver, and 2 more bronze in 2006. She """still holds"""
> the women's world records at 1500 and 3000 m. Who?
Catriona LeMay Doan
> 1992 and 2 golds in 1994?
> 7. Name any of the """three current""" Winter Olympic disciplines
> in which *no* Canadian team or individual has ever won a medal.
Ski jumping
> 10. """The only individual event on the last day""" is the longest
> ski race of the Olympics. How long is this cross-country event?
> *Note*: In 2022 it was on the second-last day.
50km
> person described.
> 1. This Russian chess champion was famously defeated by Bobby
> Fischer in a match in 1972.
Spassky
> 2. Born in Vladivostok, this Hollywood actor played King Mongkut of
> Siam and the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses during his long screen
> career.
Yul Brynner
> Blue Rider school of painting, named after an early famous work.
> He also taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture
> from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933.
Kandinsky
> 4. He was born in 1973 in Moscow and immigrated to the US at the
> age of 6. Decades later he co-founded Google.
Bryn
> charlatan. His sway over the czar ended when he was killed --
> by being poisoned, shot, beaten, and drowned in the Neva River.
> (Or at least, that's one version of the events.)
Rasputin
> work in classical conditioning or conditioned reflexes and won
> the 1904 Nobel Prize for medicine. Bells and dogs figured in
> his experiments.
Pavlov
> choreographers and a co-founder of the New York City Ballet
> company. He is also known for his neoclassical style -- and
> for his romances with numerous ballerinas.
Balanchine
> 8. His 28-year tenure as Soviet foreign minister preceded the Cuban
> missile crisis and extended to the ascension of Mikhail Gorbachev
> in 1985, when he was shunted aside.
Kosygin
> 9. Several impersonators tried to claim the identity of this
> youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas after the family was murdered
> by the Bolsheviks in July 1918. What was her name?
Anastasia
> people, to impress visiting officials. A battleship was also
> named after him and fictionalized in a movie by early filmmaker
> Sergei Eisenstein.
Potemkin
Pete Gayde
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msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 30 04:00AM
If Pete Gayde had posted his answers on time, he would have scored
20 points on Round 4 and 36 on Round 6 and been 2nd in the standings
for this game with 87.
--
Mark Brader | "Forgive me if I misunderstood myself, but
Toronto | I don't think I was arguing in favour of that..."
msb@vex.net | -- Geoff Butler
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Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Mar 29 09:32PM -0700
On Wednesday, March 29, 2023 at 9:02:17 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:
> tell us which letter on the map coincides with a typical part of
> their geographical range.
> 1. Sami.
R
> 2. !Kung.
D
> 3. Pygmies.
A
> 4. Berbers.
I
> 5. Nubians.
O
> 6. Marsh Arabs.
Q
> 7. Kanaka Maoli.
B
> 8. Uyghurs ["WEE-gurz"].
E
> 9. Rapanui (or Rapa Nui).
F
> coined to have a wider meaning, today it is typically used to
> refer to the indigenous peoples of a smaller, more specific
> range. We're looking for this narrower usage.
H; U
> and related structures.
> 1. The spine consists of 24 articulating vertebrae. How many of
> these are cervical vertebrae, making up the neck?
5
> 2. There are 12 vertebrae which have ribs more or less attached.
> What are they called?
costal
> 3. And the remaining vertebrae are called what?
lumbar
> 5. Between each vertebra and the next is an intervertebral disk.
> What is it called when one of these is injured and forced out
> of position?
slipped disk
> 6. What congenital condition results in a sideways curvature of
> the spine?
scoliosis
> 7. What is CSF short for? This is the liquid that surrounds the
> spinal cord and the brain, and may be sometimes "tapped into"
> (with a spinal tap) to test for disease.
cerebrospinal fluid
> containing the CSF, may become the site of life-threatening
> inflammation caused by infection by viruses or baceteria.
> What are these membranes collectively known as?
meninges
--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com
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Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com>: Mar 30 12:17AM -0500
Mark Brader wrote:
> tell us which letter on the map coincides with a typical part of
> their geographical range.
> 1. Sami.
R
> 2. !Kung.
K
> 3. Pygmies.
A
> 4. Berbers.
I
> 5. Nubians.
O
> 6. Marsh Arabs.
Q
> 7. Kanaka Maoli.
N
> 8. Uyghurs ["WEE-gurz"].
E
> 9. Rapanui (or Rapa Nui).
F
> coined to have a wider meaning, today it is typically used to
> refer to the indigenous peoples of a smaller, more specific
> range. We're looking for this narrower usage.
G; H
> and related structures.
> 1. The spine consists of 24 articulating vertebrae. How many of
> these are cervical vertebrae, making up the neck?
4; 6
> 5. Between each vertebra and the next is an intervertebral disk.
> What is it called when one of these is injured and forced out
> of position?
Bulging disk
> 6. What congenital condition results in a sideways curvature of
> the spine?
Stenosis
> containing the CSF, may become the site of life-threatening
> inflammation caused by infection by viruses or baceteria.
> What are these membranes collectively known as?
Pete Gayde
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