- QFTCIMI520 No Events - 1 Update
- RQFTCICR14 Game 6, Rounds 2-3: astronomy, bee things - 1 Update
- RQFTCICR14 Game 5, Rounds 9-10: kissy movies, Olympics - 2 Updates
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 05 05:52AM On 2020-03-14 I wrote: > Stephen Perry -- -- -- -- 40 36 -- -- 76 > Joe Masters -- -- -- -- 12 8 -- -- 20 > "Calvin" -- -- -- -- -- -- 0 0 0 The Inquisition has now decided to cancel the rest of the Spring 2020 season, so the QFTCIMI520 Current Events game is over and, finally, the winner is JOSHUA KREITZER. Hearty congratulations! We hope to resume play next month with Bloor St. Irregulars as the question-setters, so stay tuned for new questions tagged QFTCIBSI23. Meanwhile I will continue reposting Winter 2014 questions from the Cellar Rats, with the tag RQFTCICR14. For this occasion I have a non-randomly-selected signature: -- Mark Brader | "There is a pervasive illusion in certain quarters Toronto | that Mother Nature is our friend. Wrong; dead wrong. msb@vex.net | She doesn't care whether we live or die, | and she loves surprises." -- Henry Spencer My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 05 05:38AM > notation that may appear in these rounds, see my 2022-09-09 > companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian > Inquisition (RQFTCI*)". * Game 6, Round 1 - Current Events (excerpt) Answer these 2014 questions if you like for fun, but for no points. 1. Rob Ford voted against allowing restaurants to serve alcohol during yesterday's gold-medal hockey game because, he said, it wouldn't be fair to what businesses? 2. British researchers found that a saliva test measuring levels of the hormone cortisol in teenage boys could identify those at high risk of suffering from what condition? * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Astronomy 1. What is the brightest star in the night sky? 2. This American astronomer was a strong proponent of the idea of the existence of canals on Mars and built an observatory to pursue this. He also initiated the search that led in 1930, 14 years after his death, to the discovery of Pluto. Who was he? 3. A professor of astronomy at Cornell University, he wrote a science-fiction novel called "Contact" that was made into a movie starring Jodie Foster. Who? 4. SNOLAB is an observatory located in Sudbury, Ontario. What type of particles are observed at SNOLAB? 5. Who was the first man to complete an orbit of the Earth in space, in 1961? 6. What was the name of the first mammal to orbit the Earth in space? 7. What point on the celestial sphere is directly opposite the nadir? 8. What phenomenon would you be observing if you saw Baily's Beads and the Diamond Ring Effect? Be fully specific. 9. Our Milky Way Galaxy has a number of satellite galaxies, such as the Magellanic Clouds. What, however, is the closest independent galaxy to the Milky Way, at a distance of 2,500,000 light years? 10. What famous British pop star completed his Ph.D. thesis in astrophysics -- "A survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud" -- in October 2007, 30 years after he commenced it? * Game 6, Round 3 - Entertainment - Bee All That You Can Bee Here are pictures of bees and bee products in popular culture, real or fictional. Please remember that there are different uses of the word "bee". See the 2-page handout at: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/6-3/bee.pdf As usual, for this medium I'll rearrange the questions in order by picture number. There were 6 decoys; identify their subjects as well if you like for fun, but for no points. 1. (decoy) Name the movie. 2. Name the band. Hint: look at the man in the center of the photo. 3. Name the character from "The Simpsons". 4. (decoy) Name the song. 5. Name the TV show, which was followed by two movies. 6. (decoy) Name the movie. 7. Name the movie, partly based on the book "Queen Bees and Wannabes". 8. Name the movie. 9. Name the movie, adapted from a book of the same title. 10. (decoy) Name the mammal. 11. (decoy) Name the man in the center. 12. Name the cereal. 13. Name the movie. 14. Name the TV show. 15. (decoy) Name the movie. 16. Name the movie. -- Mark Brader, Toronto "Dr. Slipher, I have found your Planet X." msb@vex.net -- Clyde Tombaugh (1906-97), 1930-02-18 My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com>: Apr 04 10:41PM -0500 Mark Brader wrote: > kinfolk to allow the Army to build a missile site on their land. > Once he gets there, he discovers he has a lookalike family > member. Kissing Cousins > 8. 1953, Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Anne Miller: a musical > loosely based on "The Taming of the Shrew". Kiss Me, Kate > A1. The region that includes Sochi came under Russian control > after the 1829 Treaty of Adrianople ended a war between > Russia and who? Ottoman Empire > * B. Geographic Extreme Games > B1. """Which was""" the southernmost Winter Olympics? Give the > city or the year. Sarajevo; Squaw Valley > B2. """Which was""" the northernmost summer Olympics? Give the > city or the year. Helsinki; Stockholm > short-track speed skate, long-track speed skate, figure > skate, hockey skate. If you give two guesses, please give > a complete list of four both times. short-track speed skate, long-track speed skate, figure skate, hockey skate; long-track speed skate, short-track speed skate, figure skate, hockey skate > C2. The introduction of skates with the blade hinged at the > front, in the 1990s, led to a flurry of new speed-skating > records. What are these skates called? Clap skates > * D. Winter Olympic Movies > D1. Kurt Russell plays 1980 US hockey coach Herb Brooks in what > 2004 movie? Miracle > time in two different Olympic timed sports. Times for > both male and female competitors """will be""" combined to > determine the winners. Name either sport. Luge > E2. For the first time, freestyle skiers """will""" compete in > what structure that Olympic snowboarders have used since > 1998? Half pipe > bronze medalists as national heroes. It was two figure > skaters that earned Canada's only silver medals in 1988; > name either. Elvis Stojko > the only Canadian to win any medals in a non-judged sport > at the Calgary Olympics. Name either of the two events > she earned bronze in. Slalom; Giant slalom Pete Gayde |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 05 05:34AM Mark Brader: > and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information... > see my 2022-09-09 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from > the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)". Game 5 is over and the winner is JOSHUA KREITZER. Hearty congratulations! > all cases includes a form of the word "Kiss". > 1. 1997, Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd: police hunt a serial killer, > helped by a victim who manages to escape. "Kiss the Girls". 4 for Joshua. > 2. 1955, Ralph Meeker: a doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike > Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around > a mysterious "great whatsit". Written by Mickey Spillane. "Kiss Me Deadly". 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. > 3. 1956, Robert Wagner: a college student resorts to murder in an > attempt to marry an heiress. "A Kiss Before Dying". > 4. 1999, Drew Barrymore, Luke Wilson: a reporter goes undercover > at a high school. "Never Been Kissed". 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. > 5. 1992, Meg Ryan, Alec Baldwin: an old man and a young woman > magically switch bodies and learn about love and life. "Prelude to a Kiss". 4 for Joshua. > 6. 1995, Meg Ryan plays a Canadian, Kevin Kline plays a Frenchman: > a woman flies to France to confront her straying fiancé, but > gets involved with a charming crook. "French Kiss". 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. > kinfolk to allow the Army to build a missile site on their land. > Once he gets there, he discovers he has a lookalike family > member. "Kissin' Cousins". 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Pete. > 8. 1953, Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Anne Miller: a musical > loosely based on "The Taming of the Shrew". "Kiss Me Kate". 4 for Joshua, Erland, Dan Blum, and Pete. > 9. 1996, Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson: an amnesiac woman recovers > her memories in this thriller directed by Renny Harlin. "The Long Kiss Goodnight". 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. > 10. 1985, Raul Julia, William Hurt: they play South American > cellmates. "Kiss of the Spider Woman". 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. > ** Game 5, Round 10 - Challenge Round - The Sochi Olympics > Yes, this is largely a second sports round. Not my idea! This was also the hardest round in the original game. > A1. The region that includes Sochi came under Russian control > after the 1829 Treaty of Adrianople ended a war between > Russia and who? The Ottoman Empire (Turkey). 4 for everyone -- Joshua, Dan Tilque, Erland, Dan Blum, and Pete. > A2. Who were the people expelled from the Sochi area in the > 1860s and 1870s, in what some historians consider Europe's > first modern example of "ethnic cleansing" and genocide? Circassians (also accepting Adyghe). 4 for Erland. > * B. Geographic Extreme Games > B1. """Which was""" the southernmost Winter Olympics? Give the > city or the year. Nagano (latitude 36°35'N), 1998. (Still true.) 4 for Erland. As to the wrong answers, their latitudes are approximately: Squaw Valley 39°12'N, Salt Lake City 40°47'N, Sochi 43°35'N, Sarajevo 43°52'N. > B2. """Which was""" the northernmost summer Olympics? Give the > city or the year. Helsinki (60°11'N), 1952. (Still true.) 4 for Erland. 3 for Pete. As to the wrong answers, Lillehammer was the northernmost *Winter* Olympic site at 61°13'N, Stockholm is a near miss at about 59°19'N, but Munich is only at about 48°8'N. > short-track speed skate, long-track speed skate, figure > skate, hockey skate. If you give two guesses, please give > a complete list of four both times. Long-track, short-track, hockey, figure. > C2. The introduction of skates with the blade hinged at the > front, in the 1990s, led to a flurry of new speed-skating > records. What are these skates called? Slap or clap or clack skates, or similar forms. 4 for Dan Tilque and Pete. > * D. Winter Olympic Movies > D1. Kurt Russell plays 1980 US hockey coach Herb Brooks in what > 2004 movie? "Miracle". Sorry, no ice in the title. 4 for Joshua and Pete. > D2. Will Farrell plays a figure skater banned from competition > in what 2007 comedy movie? "Blades of Glory". 4 for Joshua. > time in two different Olympic timed sports. Times for > both male and female competitors """will be""" combined to > determine the winners. Name either sport. Biathlon, luge. 4 for Pete. > E2. For the first time, freestyle skiers """will""" compete in > what structure that Olympic snowboarders have used since > 1998? Halfpipe. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Pete. > bronze medalists as national heroes. It was two figure > skaters that earned Canada's only silver medals in 1988; > name either. Elizabeth Manley, Brian Orser. I remember that, following the competitions, some news commentators vilified Orser but fawned over Manley, because they'd predicted that he'd win a gold but she wouldn't win any medal. Apparently the success of their predictions was more important to them than the actual results of the competition. > the only Canadian to win any medals in a non-judged sport > at the Calgary Olympics. Name either of the two events > she earned bronze in. Downhill, Super G. (Still true.) Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 5 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST TOPICS-> Lit Can Spo His Geo Sci Ent Spo SIX Joshua Kreitzer 40 0 16 36 39 20 36 16 187 Dan Blum 24 4 4 40 30 24 24 4 146 Pete Gayde 19 12 20 36 30 0 8 23 140 Dan Tilque 32 4 0 28 36 12 8 12 128 Erland Sommarskog 16 0 20 32 32 0 4 16 120 -- Mark Brader, Toronto | Subway Emergency Instructions... msb@vex.net | * Do not pull the emergency cord. -- MTA, NYC My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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