- QFTCIBSI23 Current Events Game 9 and Final answers - 2 Updates
- QFTCIBSI23 Game 6, Rounds 2-3: borders, -ologies - 2 Updates
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 30 05:34AM Mark Brader: > answers that were correct on that date... For further information > please see my 2023-05-24 companion posting on "Questions from the > Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". The Summer 2023 season is over, so this completes the Current Events game for it. And the winner is STEPHEN PERRY in a walk -- he only responded to 4 of the 10 rounds, but beat everyone else's totals based on their 8 best scores. *Hearty* congratulations, sir! Well done indeed! > and she disqualified 15 pancakes. However, they made more > than enough to beat the previous record of 14,208. Within 250, > what is the new world record? 17,182 (accepting 16,932-17,432). > representing 160,000 actors and performers, would officially be > on strike at midnight PST. What fine actress is the SAG-AFTRA > president? Fran Drescher (from "The Nanny", and "Fran Fine"). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Pete. > U of T professor, and air contaminants researcher, Matthew > Adams also said that in Dundas or on the West Mountain it's "not > quite as bad -- maybe 1/3 of a cigarette or 1/2 a cigarette". Hamilton. 4 for Pete. > the remains of two missing First Nations women. An injunction > went into effect Friday at 6 pm authorizing the Winnipeg Police > Service to remove the blockade. Name *either* landfill. Brady Road Landfill, Prairie Green Landfill (respectively). The blockade was forcibly removed the day after the original game. > 5. On Saturday, Markéta Vondrousová won the Ladies' Singles > Wimbledon championship, and set a first in doing so. What makes > her victory unique in the Open Era? Be sufficiently specific. First *unseeded woman* to become champion (both key words needed). 4 for Dan Tilque, Erland, and Pete. Boris Becker was the first unseeded player to become Wimbledon champion. in 1985. > It's a key ingredient in many dishes, including butter chicken > and paneer makhni, and McDonald's has temporarily stopped > serving it as a burger topping. What is it? Tomatoes. > 7. Nothing sad about the news that Hillary Simms, from Torbay, NL, > has been appointed as a professor at Juilliard, and its first > female professor of her chosen brass instrument -- which is what? Trombone. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Erland, and Pete. > AI chatbot to 230 countries and territories, but not to such > places as Russia, China, North Korea, Afghanistan, and, oh, > Canada. What is Google's chatbot called? Bard (AI). 4 for Dan Blum. > start in the 1950s. What was considered our current epoch > is the Holocene, which started at the end of the last ice age > 11,700 years ago. What is the name of new epoch? Anthropocene. 4 for Dan Tilque and Erland. > 10. Last week, Lithuania was the host country for the 2023 NATO > Summit, held in its capital -- which is what city? Vilnius. 4 for everyone -- Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Erland, and Pete. > to people planning to watch them back-to-back... and of course > there are memes and a portmanteau word for this double-feature > extravaganza. What is the portmanteau? Barbenheimer or Barbieheimer. 4 for everyone. And, of course, there's a Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbenheimer > Atlantic Canada. What two-word name, in English, is used by > some Indigenous peoples -- such as many Algonquian and Iroquoian > speakers -- to refer to the continent of North America? Turtle Island. 4 for Joshua. > had received *which official document* -- with a two-word name -- > indicating that he would soon be subject to new indictments from > Special Counsel Jack Smith relating to the events of 2021-01-06? Target letter. 4 for Pete. > Germanotta and a recently-deceased man born with the name > Anthony Benedetto. By what better-known names are these two > people credited on these albums? Two answers required. Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Pete. > BRICS summit in place of President Vladimir Putin. Why was > Putin's attendance at the summit a problem for the South > African government? As signatories to the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court, South Africa would be required to arrest Putin. 4 for Dan Tilque, Erland, and Pete. > 6. On Friday, four men were arrested after a video surfaced of a > mob assaulting two naked women in which troubled Indian state? Manipur. 4 for Erland. > team started the group stage with a 0-0 draw against Nigeria's > Super Falcons. Name *either* of the other two teams who share > Group B. Australia, Ireland. 4 for Erland (the hard way) and Pete. > 8. Following a 17-month investigation into workplace harassment, > the NFL levied a record $60,000,000 (US) fine against which > former owner of the Washington Redskins -- er, Commanders? Daniel Snyder. 4 for Joshua and Pete. > accusations that it called for racist violence. It didn't help > that the video was filmed on the site of a 1927 lynching and > a 1946 race riot. Name the artist, who denies any racist intent. Jason Aldean. 4 for Joshua and Pete. > 200 Albums chart. While she is the first woman to dominate > that many spots at once, two other acts have achieved this > feat before. Name *either* of them. The Beatles, Prince. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Pete. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 6 ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS TOPICS-> Geo Sci Joshua Kreitzer 40 40 80 Dan Blum 36 40 76 Dan Tilque 40 24 64 Erland Sommarskog 40 4 44 Pete Gayde 28 8 36 -- Mark Brader | No programming language is Perfect. Perl comes very close. msb@vex.net | P! e! r! *l?* :-( Not quite "Perfect". Toronto | -- Brian Ingerson My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jul 29 11:16PM -0700 On 7/29/23 22:34, Mark Brader wrote: > Dan Tilque 40 24 64 > Erland Sommarskog 40 4 44 > Pete Gayde 28 8 36 I believe you have the wrong scoring table here. This is the table for the other game that was going on at the same time. -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 30 05:25AM Mark Brader: > > (bridges do not count!) with a certain country, and you must name > > that certain country. > > 3. Saudi Arabia. Erland Sommarskog: > Qatar (I recall a discussion we had long ago, where we found maps where > Qatar was bordering to only Saudi-Arabia, only UAE and both. The > situation may have stabilised since then.) It's come up in this newsgroup more than once: first in connection with my Rare Entries contest MSB1 in 1996, where I ruled on the basis that Qatar bordered the UAE, and then in connection with Dan Tilque's Rotating Quiz 132 in 2014s, when Joshua Kreitzer kindly located my 1996 posting (which I no longer had a copy of) where I said: || If this had been pointed out to me during the protest period, I || would've allowed Qatar, to the benefit of Aidan Hollinshead and Mark || Huckabone. || || It turns out that the border between Saudi Arabia (hereafter SA) and || the UAE is undemarcated, and different maps show at least three || versions of it. || || The oldest maps I have, in atlases dated 1972 and 1980, show the UAE || as extending inland about 100 km from the coast along pretty much its || entire east-west extent. ,,, The 1980 atlas (Rand McNally New || International), in a map of scale 1:6,000,000, shows the SA-UAE border || reaching the coast at exactly the same point as the west end of the || Qatar border. In other words, in this version the *only* country that || Qatar appears to have a border with is the UAE, but (since the SA-UAE || border is a dashed line, indicating uncertainty) it is possible that || either Qatar at its southwest corner touches SA, or that the UAE again || touches the coast. ... || || The atlas I used for the contest was the 1990 Rand McNally New Inter- || national. It shows the UAE as being wider in the east than the || earlier maps, extending over 150 km inland in places; but it is || narrower in the west, only about 25 km wide, and does not extend as || far west. On this map about 60% of Qatar's land border is with SA, || and 40% with the UAE. ... || || However, [Dean Edmonds'] reference evidently shows a third version of || the border. Presumably it agrees with the one that Erland and I found || in the current online CIA World Factbook. This is almost the same as || the second version, but the western tip of the UAE is cut off at || longitude 51.6, the border extending straight north to the sea. The || CIA World Factbook identifies this line as the de facto boundary. I || take this to be the most current information, and therefore, as I || said, I would have accepted the answer. ... and I then (in 2014) added: | Thanks to Joshua Kreitzer for digging that up. I just have one thing | to add, which is to note that the current CIAWF agrees with Google Maps | as to the shape of the borders, and differs from all three of the | layouts that I found mapped in 1996. Now I find that these sources almost agree, but the CIAWF places the east end of the Saudi-Qatar border a few miles north of what Google Maps shows. In any case they agree that Qatar does not touch the UAE. For what it's worth, Wikipedia's article on the Treaty of Jeddah (1974) discusses the borders in this area and who recognizes what. For trivia purposes I think we must accept that Qatar borders only Saudi Arabia. -- Mark Brader "People with whole brains, however, dispute Toronto this claim, and are generally more articulate msb@vex.net in expressing their views." -- Gary Larson My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 30 05:27AM Mark Brader: > (bridges do not count!) with a certain country, and you must name > that certain country. > 1. Senegal. (The) Gambia. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Erland. > 2. Malaysia. Brunei. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Erland. > 3. Saudi Arabia. Qatar. 4 for everyone -- Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Erland, and Pete. See ny separate posting regarding this border. > 4. Denmark and the USA. Canada. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Erland. > 5. South Africa. Lesotho. 4 for everyone. > 6. Austria and Switzerland. Liechtenstein. 4 for everyone. > 7. Guyana, Brazil, and France. Suriname. 4 for everyone. > 8. France and Spain. Andorra. 4 for everyone. > 9. China and India. There are two possible answers. For greater > clarity, each answer country borders China and India and no > other countries. Nepal, Bhutan. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua (the hard way), Dan Tilque (the hard way), Erland (the hard way), and Pete. > 10. Indonesia. There are two possible answers. Timor-Leste (East Timor), Papua New Guinea. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua (the hard way), Dan Tilque (the hard way), Erland (the hard way), and Pete. > it's the study of, and you give us the -ology. For example, > if we said "animals", you'd answer "zoology". > 1. Fish. Ichthyology. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Pete. > 2. Butterflies and moths. Lepidopterology. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua. > 3. Movement in relation to human anatomy (a branch of medicine). Kinesiology. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua. > 4. Puzzles. Enigmatology. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua. This term was coined by Will Shortz when he was a university student to define his unique field of study. He is still the only known person to hold a degree in it. > 5. Wine and winemaking. (O)enology. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Pete. > 6. Old age. Gerontology. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Erland. > 7. Flags. Vexillology. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. > 8. The moon. Selenology. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. > 9. Reptiles and amphibians. Herpetology. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. > 10. Fungi. Mycology. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 6 ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS TOPICS-> Geo Sci Joshua Kreitzer 40 40 80 Dan Blum 36 40 76 Dan Tilque 40 24 64 Erland Sommarskog 40 4 44 Pete Gayde 28 8 36 -- Mark Brader | "I had never thought of Jesus as being msb@vex.net | a variety of grape plant, but Toronto | if you put it that way..." --Jan Sand My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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