| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Apr 07 12:42PM -0700 On Wednesday, April 5, 2023 at 1:39:06 AM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote: > * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Astronomy > 1. What is the brightest star in the night sky? Sirius > 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? Lowell > 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? Sagan > 5. Who was the first man to complete an orbit of the Earth in > space, in 1961? Gagarin > 6. What was the name of the first mammal to orbit the Earth > in space? Laika > 7. What point on the celestial sphere is directly opposite the > nadir? zenith > 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? Andromeda > 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? Brian May > of the word "bee". > See the 2-page handout at: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/6-3/bee.pdf > 1. (decoy) Name the movie. "Akeelah and the Bee" > 2. Name the band. Hint: look at the man in the center of the photo. The Bee Gees; or an imitation thereof > 3. Name the character from "The Simpsons". Bumblebee Man > 4. (decoy) Name the song. "No Rain" > 6. (decoy) Name the movie. "Ulee's Gold" > 7. Name the movie, partly based on the book "Queen Bees and > Wannabes". "Mean Girls" > 8. Name the movie. "Bee Movie" > 9. Name the movie, adapted from a book of the same title. "The Secret Life of Bees" > 10. (decoy) Name the mammal. honey badger > 11. (decoy) Name the man in the center. John Belushi > 12. Name the cereal. Honey Nut Cheerios > 13. Name the movie. "Invasion of the Bee Girls" > 16. Name the movie. "The Wicker Man" -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 08 05:26AM Mark Brader: > 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? Nightclubs. > 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? Depression. > * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Astronomy > 1. What is the brightest star in the night sky? Sirius or Alpha Canis Majoris (also accepting the Dog Star). 4 for everyone -- Erland, Dan Blum, John, Dan Tilque, and Joshua. > 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? Percival Lowell. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Joshua. > 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? Carl Sagan. 4 for Dan Blum, John, Dan Tilque, and Joshua. > 4. SNOLAB is an observatory located in Sudbury, Ontario. What type > of particles are observed at SNOLAB? N is for Neutrinos. (And S is for Sudbury; there is no such thing as a "small neutrino". And a neutron is a different sort of particle.) 4 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque. > 5. Who was the first man to complete an orbit of the Earth in > space, in 1961? Yuri Gagarin. 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Joshua. As Stephen Perry said in 2014, Gagarin's flight was not actually a complete orbit -- but that's *if* you count orbits relative to the Earth's (rotating) surface. As I pointed out in response, this is not the correct way to count them, but I still would probably have also accepted Ghermann Titov anyway (on his flight, later in 1961, he orbited the Earth for over 25 hours) -- if anybody had named him. > 6. What was the name of the first mammal to orbit the Earth > in space? Laika (a Russian dog, in Sputnik II in 1957). 4 for everyone. > 7. What point on the celestial sphere is directly opposite the > nadir? The zenith. 4 for everyone. > 8. What phenomenon would you be observing if you saw Baily's Beads > and the Diamond Ring Effect? Be fully specific. A total solar eclipse. 4 for John. Still more specifically, these are seen at two moments during that phenomenon: when totality is about to begin and when it has just ended. Consequently only a small part of the photosphere (not the corona!) is visible. Although you often see it spelled "Bailey's" beads, the man's name was in fact Baily. > 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? M31, NGC 224, the Great Galaxy in Andromeda, or simply the Andromeda Galaxy. I accepted "Andromeda", even though that word by itself does not properly name the galaxy, because "galaxy" appeared in the question. 4 for everyone. > 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? Brian May (of Queen). 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, and Joshua. > 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. "Akeelah and the Bee" (2006; the title refers to a spelling bee). Joshua got this. > 2. Name the band. Hint: look at the man in the center of the photo. Bee Gees. 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Joshua. > 3. Name the character from "The Simpsons". Bumblebee Man. 4 for Joshua. > 4. (decoy) Name the song. "No Rain". Joshua got this. > 5. Name the TV show, which was followed by two movies. "The X-Files". 4 for Dan Blum. > 6. (decoy) Name the movie. "Ulee's Gold" (1997; the title refers to honey). Joshua got this. > 7. Name the movie, partly based on the book "Queen Bees and > Wannabes". "Mean Girls" (2004). 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua. > 8. Name the movie. "Bee Movie" (2007). 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua. > 9. Name the movie, adapted from a book of the same title. "The Secret Life of Bees" (2008). 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua. > 10. (decoy) Name the mammal. Honey badger. On the right it's eating a honeycomb with a dead cobra alongside. Dan Tilque and Joshua got this. > 11. (decoy) Name the man in the center. John Belushi (on "Saturday Night Live"). Joshua got this. > 12. Name the cereal. Honey Nut Cheerios. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Joshua. > 13. Name the movie. "Invasion of the Bee Girls" (1973). 4 for Joshua. I edited the image to make this a bit harder; in the original game only the word "Bee" was masked out of the title! > 14. Name the TV show. "Breaking Bad". > 15. (decoy) Name the movie. "The Wasp Woman" (1959), also titled "Insect Woman" or "The Bee Girl". > 16. Name the movie. "The Wicker Man" (2006, but you did not have to specify). 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua. I'm pleased to say I have never seen this movie -- the original version from 1973 was unpleasant enough -- but I find mentions on the Net of an alternate ending having been provided for the DVD release, and as far as I can tell, this shot is from that, and not the actual movie. Apologies if that's actually the case. There's certainly nothing like it in the 1973 version. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 6 ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS TOPICS-> Sci Ent Joshua Kreitzer 32 32 64 Dan Blum 36 28 64 Dan Tilque 32 8 40 Erland Sommarskog 24 4 28 John Gerson 24 0 24 -- Mark Brader | "The occasional accidents had been much overemphasized, Toronto | and later investigations ... revealed that nearly 90% msb@vex.net | ... could have been prevented." --Wiley Post, 1931 My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 08 05:31AM Apologies for the accidental repost there. -- Mark Brader | "If one were to believe the bulk of our mail, one Toronto | would conclude that about every part of our anatomy msb@vex.net | (even those we don't possess) is the wrong size..." --LWN |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 08 05:30AM These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-02-24, 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*)". Round 4 of this game was essentially a second current-events round, about the 2014 Olympics, so I'm reducing it to an excerpt as usual for current-events rounds in RQFTCI. But you're still getting two rounds in this set, because the audio round featured clues sufficiently long and detailed that I thought it would be playable without the audio. * Game 6, Round 4 - Sports Current Events - The 2014 Olympics (excerpt) Answer these 2014 questions if you like for fun, but for no points. 1. This nation won 24 medals including 8 golds, despite sending only 41 athletes to Sochi. 23 of the medals were in speed skating and the other one was in short-track speed skating. Name the country. 2. Name the skipper of either of Canada's gold-medal-winning curling teams. * Game 6, Round 5 - Audio - Composers Performing their Own Works We will provide a brief biography of a composer performing music he wrote. (Yes, again they're all men.) We then play the clip of the music. (Sorry, you'll have to imagine that part.) You tell us the name of the composer/performer. Note: some of these were recorded on piano rolls! 1. This American bandleader, composer, and bassist died in 1979 at age 56. He was known as the "Angry Man of Jazz". His music was rooted in gospel and blues and he greatly admired of the music of Duke Ellington. He was one of the great bassists of his time. 2. Another American bandleader, composer, and trumpet player, he was born in 1925 and died in 1991. He associated with almost all of the greats of the modern jazz era and changed his musical style many times. One of his many albums is the best-selling jazz recording of all time. 3. This African-American composer and pianist, known as the "King of Ragtime", died in 1917. As well as numerous "rags", he composed music for ballet and opera, and was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1976. 4. This French composer, who lived 1875-1937, was one of the great figures associated with "Impressionistic Music". He was the son of a Swiss inventor and a Basque musical mother. His works for piano, chamber groups, and orchestra became standard concert repertoire and are known for their strong melodies, musical textures, and effects. 5. This jazz pianist and composer who lived 1917-82 is considered one of the greats of American music and is the next most frequently recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington. Unorthodox even in dress and behavior, he wrote music that combines a highly percussive attack with dramatic hesitations and silences. He was featured on the cover of "Time" magazine and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize posthumously. 6. This Canadian composer and pianist lived 1925-2007. Called the "Maharaja of the Keyboard" by Duke Ellington, he was classically trained and also played with many of the jazz greats of his era. He wrote and performed for piano, jazz trio, quartets, and big bands; he composed several songs, jazz piano etudes, and a suite of music called "The Canadiana Suite". 7. Born 1907, died 1994, an American jazz singer and bandleader, he composed and performed music over a long career. As a bandleader, he employed many of the day's jazz greats and was strongly associated with Harlem's Cotton Club. Notable for his scat-singing and dancing, he appeared in films and his music was used in animated cartoons. 8. Born 1910, died 2004, the only child of Jewish immigrants from Russia. This swing-era bandleader was known as the "King of the Clarinet" and led one of the first racially integrated bands. He was also an author of both fiction and non-fiction and performed classical music with the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein. He was an early proponent of the "Third Stream", which blended classical and jazz styles. 9. Born 1904, died 1943, he was an influential jazz pianist, singer, and composer. He wrote or co-wrote over 400 songs, many of which he sold to other performers. He was regarded as a great performer and was known for his quips during performances. Around 1925 he recorded a series of solo pipe-organ albums. 10. Born in 1910 to a Belgian Romani family, he died in 1953. He is regarded as one of the great jazz guitarists and was the first European to influence jazz. Many of his compositions have become jazz standards. His virtuosity on the guitar is even more remarkable because he had only two usable fingers on his left hand. * Game 6, Round 6 - Canadiana Geography - Canadian Arctic and Far North As Torontonians continue to suffer through a deep freeze and challenging winter, this round turns our attention toward Canada's Arctic -- where our temperatures would seem balmy! 1. The northernmost permanent settlement in the world is located on the northeastern tip of Ellesmere I. What is it called? 2. Within 3°C, what is the average daily *low* temperature in <answer 1> in February? 3. The word Arctic comes from the Greek word "arktikos", meaning "near the Bear" or "northern", and what it's referring to is one of two constellations. Give the full name *in Latin* of either of those constellations. 4. Besides Canada, how many other countries """extend""" -- or """have""" territories that extend -- into the Arctic as defined by the Arctic Circle? 5. This lake, which extends north of the Arctic Circle, is the largest lake that is entirely in Canada, the 4th-largest in North America, and the 8th-largest in the world. Name it. 6. Baffin I. is the largest land mass among the """36,563""" islands of Canada's Arctic Archipelago. What is the second-largest? 7. Rank the three territories from *highest to lowest population* according to the """2011""" census. If you make two guesses, please give two complete lists of three, all on one line. *Note*: You may instead answer based on the 2021 census, and you need not say whether you are doing so. 8. Only one public road in Canada crosses the Arctic Circle. Give its name (not its highway number). 9. The Franklin Expedition left England in 1845 and never returned. All 128 men were lost after the ships became icebound in the Victoria Strait. Remains of the expedition have been found """on two Canadian Arctic islands.""" Name *either* island. 10. This strait, named after a British 16th-century explorer, is a northern arm of the Labrador Sea and lies between Baffin I. and mid-western Greenland. Name it. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "Show that 17x17 = 289. Generalise this result." msb@vex.net | -- Carl E. Linderholm My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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