- QFTCI23 Final, Round 4,6: sports, science - 2 Updates
- QFTCI23 Final, Round 2-3: geography, miscellaneous - 3 Updates
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 01 05:08AM These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2023-11-27, and should be interpreted accordingly. On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty. Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup, based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal the correct answers in about 3 days. All questions were written by members of the Usual Suspects and are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have been retyped and/or edited by me. The posting and tabulation of current-events questions is independent of the concurrent posting of other rounds. For further information please see my 2023-05-24 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". I wrote 6 of the 12 pairs in this set. ** Final, Round 4 - Sports * A. Lady Byng A1. The NHL instituted the annual Lady Byng trophy for sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct in 1925; it was replaced by the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy when she died in 1949. This was actually the second time it was replaced: when the same man had won it 7 times from 1928 to 1935, he was given the original trophy to keep. *Either* name that man, *or else* name the player who has won it the most times since then -- 5 wins from 1980 to 1999. A2. One of the players who won the Lady Byng 4 times spent part of his career with the Leafs, which overlapped with the time he was in Parliament. Name him. * B. Canadiana: The Nickname of the Line As everyone knows, in hockey a set of three forwards who often play together is called a "line" -- and if they play well enough together, they may acquire a collective nickname. B1. In the 1940s the Montreal Canadiens were led by the "Punch Line". We'd like to ask you to name any two of the three, but Mel would be annoyed, so just name *any one*. B2. In the 1970s the Buffalo Sabres were led by the "French Connection". All three players were French-Canadian. Again, name *any one* of them. * C. The Tour de France C1. The modern Tour de France consists of 21 legs and covers around 3,500 km, though the route changes from year to year. What aspect of the circuit *alternates* from one year to the next? C2. The Tour often starts outside France and traditionally terminates in Paris. But next year, because of preparations for the Olympics, the race will end in a different French city. Tell us *either* the French endpoint or the non-French starting point for 2024. * D. Board Games on Grids In each case, name the relevant game. D1. The board for this game is logically a square grid, but all the squares are slightly elongated in one direction, making them rectangles. There are 15 rows and columns, making 225 of these rectangular spaces where you can play. D2. This game is played on the intersections of a square grid of lines. In the standard game, there are 19 lines each way, making 361 points where you can play. * E. Baseball Awards Well, the season's over, and all the postseason hardware has been handed out. Here are some questions regarding all-time award winners. E1. The Rawlings Gold Glove award is given annually to the best defensive player in each major league in each position on the field. The record number of wins by a position player (as opposed to a pitcher) is 16, all earned in consecutive years. Name the player. E2. The Manager of the Year award was instituted in 1983 and is given annually in each major league. Name *any one* of the three managers who have each received the award four times. After completing this pair, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh whfg fnvq "Ebovafba" sbe nal nafjre, tb onpx naq cebivqr n svefg anzr. * F. Curling Terms F1. When you're taking a shot in curling, or "delivering a stone" as they say, you brace your foot against a doo-hickey that sticks out of the ice and is called what? F2. When you're delivering a stone and intending it to reach the house and stop there in the position you want, *without* hitting any other stones, what is that type of shot called? ** Final, Round 6 - Science * A. Old-Timey Photography A1. Cameras today are typically digital, recording the image electronically. Before that, they used film, meaning a rolled strip of plastic covered with photosensitive chemicals: substances that change chemically when exposed to light. With film, you had to turn the roll to the next section after each photo, either by hand or there would be a motor. But before *that*, i.e. before there was film, what technology was used to put those photosensitive chemicals where they needed to be for each photo? A2. Today if it's too dark to take a photo normally, you would use an electronic flash, generally built into the camera. Before that, you would use a flashbulb, a disposable bulb containing a length of fast-burning magnesium wire. But before *that*, i.e. before there were flashbulbs, what technology would you use to take a flash photo? * B. Linguistics B1. What is the notation used by linguists, lexicographers, and other speech and language professionals as a standard way of representing sounds? We need the full name. B2. What do linguists call a consonant sound if at some point in its articulation the flow of air is completely blocked? * C. Cardiology Slang C1. What is the gloomy nickname for a heart attack that involves a complete blockage of the left main coronary artery and/or the left anterior descending artery, so-named because of its propensity to cause sudden death? C2. What vegetable-sounding term is sometimes applied to a coronary bypass procedure? * D. Watch Those Element Symbols D1. Pa is not the symbol for palladium. What element is it the symbol for? D2. Ca is not the symbol for cadmium. What element is it the symbol for? * E. Clever People Give the field of intellectual inquiry principally associated with the following clever people. E1. See: http://www.vex.net/~msb/tmp/gfr6/clev-E1.jpg Kurt Gödel ["Gerd'll" without the R sound], Andrew Wiles, Paul Erdós ["AIR-dosh"; should be written with a double acute accent]. E2. See: http://www.vex.net/~msb/tmp/gfr6/clev-E2.jpg Donald Knuth ["kuh-NOOTH", rhymes with "tooth"], Brian Kernighan ["kern-i-HAN"], Grace Hopper. * F. Canadiana: Ontario Research Institutes F1. Which Toronto hospital is the principal host of the Krembil Research Institute, founded to study neurological disease but also doing work in areas such as ophthalmology and orthopedics? F2. Name the center for the study of theoretical physics in Waterloo, whose initial funding was largely contributed by Mike Lazaridis ["LAZ-a-REE-deez"] and other Research in Motion founders. -- Mark Brader "Those who do not study history Toronto are condemned to repeat the course" msb@vex.net (after George Santayana) My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Jan 31 10:21PM -0800 On Wednesday, January 31, 2024 at 11:08:56 PM UTC-6, Mark Brader wrote: > he was given the original trophy to keep. *Either* name > that man, *or else* name the player who has won it the most > times since then -- 5 wins from 1980 to 1999. Gretzky > around 3,500 km, though the route changes from year to year. > What aspect of the circuit *alternates* from one year to > the next? whether it runs clockwise or counterclockwise > D2. This game is played on the intersections of a square grid > of lines. In the standard game, there are 19 lines each way, > making 361 points where you can play. Go > on the field. The record number of wins by a position > player (as opposed to a pitcher) is 16, all earned in > consecutive years. Name the player. Brooks Robinson > is given annually in each major league. Name *any one* > of the three managers who have each received the award > four times. Joe Torre > B1. What is the notation used by linguists, lexicographers, > and other speech and language professionals as a standard > way of representing sounds? We need the full name. International Phonetic Alphabet > B2. What do linguists call a consonant sound if at some point > in its articulation the flow of air is completely blocked? stop > a complete blockage of the left main coronary artery and/or > the left anterior descending artery, so-named because of > its propensity to cause sudden death? widowmaker > * D. Watch Those Element Symbols > D1. Pa is not the symbol for palladium. What element is it > the symbol for? protoactinium > D2. Ca is not the symbol for cadmium. What element is it the > symbol for? calcium > Kurt Gödel ["Gerd'll" without the R sound], Andrew Wiles, > Paul Erdós ["AIR-dosh"; should be written with a double > acute accent]. mathematics > E2. See: http://www.vex.net/~msb/tmp/gfr6/clev-E2.jpg > Donald Knuth ["kuh-NOOTH", rhymes with "tooth"], Brian > Kernighan ["kern-i-HAN"], Grace Hopper. computer programming -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jan 31 08:46PM +0100 > Bahamas > (Looks like you left out a line like "One of them is xxxx." I suspect > xxxx was Canada.) In a Toronto pub? Get real, Dan! (I'm glad that Panama was the first that fell to my mind, so I did not goof on this one. It's bad enough with missing Brazil. I could try to blame it on that there is no Z in the Swedish spelling. But it's kind of lame, since the same is true for the answer I gave to that question.) |
| Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com>: Jan 31 09:49PM -0600 Mark Brader wrote: > A1. Name the city of about half a million in Peru's part of the > Amazon basin that is the largest city in the world that > *is not* on an island, but has *no access* by road. Cuzco > larger than the capital of which it was once a part, and > has the distinction of being the largest mostly-indigenous > city in all of Latin America. Bolivia > islands, there are three countries where the only vowels > in the name are instances of A. Name *either one* of the > *other two*. Bahamas > B2. In Africa, including its associated islands, there are four > countries where the only vowels in the name are instances > of A. Name *any one*. Chad > short name in English. > C1. What is the world's most populous country with a Z in > its name? Zaire > C2. What is the world's most populous country with an X in > its name? Mexico > E2. The other candidate for the largest lake in South America > is so far above sea level that it's the world's highest > lake navigable by large ships. What's its name? Titicaca > * F. Artificial Lakes > F1. Lake Mead was created by damming what river? Colorado > F2. Lake Nasser was created by damming what river? Nile > * A. Culinary Terms > A1. What word means to lightly coat uncooked food with a dry > mixture, typically flour, cornmeal, or bread crumbs? Dredge > Roman numerals in sequence, for example "Super Bowl XIV". > But again, in 2015 an exception to the pattern was made. > What did they call the game that year? Super Bowl 50 > say LEAVEN. > C1. "Ancient port near Carthage or a town in New York State." > 5 letters, 2nd letter is T. Utica > C2. "Put in chains." 7 letters, 3rd letter is S. Ensnare > D1. The Gaza Strip has been much in the news in recent weeks. > What is its area, within 5% of the true number in either > direction? 40 square miles > including the removal of settlers. Which Israeli prime > minister proposed, and was eventually able to implement, > the withdrawal? Sharon; Barak > * E. Prizes Established > E1. What year, within 5, were the first Pulitzer ["PULL-it-zer"] > Prizes given out? 1910; 1921 > E2. What year, within 5, were the first Nobel Prizes given out? 1890; 1901 > many lakhs? > F2. In India, one crore [rhymes with "bore"] equals how many > lakhs? Pete Gayde |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 01 05:04AM Mark Brader: > order the pairs were used in. There was no Canadiana category, > but Canadiana pairs were distributed through the different rounds. > In this set I wrote 8 of the 12 pairs. In Round 2, I wrote pairs B through F; in Round 3, pairs B, E, and F. > A1. Name the city of about half a million in Peru's part of the > Amazon basin that is the largest city in the world that > *is not* on an island, but has *no access* by road. Iquitos. Iguacu is a waterfall and related features about 2,000 miles from there. > larger than the capital of which it was once a part, and > has the distinction of being the largest mostly-indigenous > city in all of Latin America. Bolivia. (Next to La Paz.) 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Erland, Stephen, and Pete. > islands, there are three countries where the only vowels > in the name are instances of A. Name *either one* of the > *other two*. Bahamas, Panama. 4 for everyone -- Joshua, Dan Blum, Erland, Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Pete. > B2. In Africa, including its associated islands, there are four > countries where the only vowels in the name are instances > of A. Name *any one*. Chad, Ghana, Madagascar, Rwanda. 4 for Joshua (the hard way), Dan Blum, Erland, Stephen (the hard way), Dan Tilque, and Pete. > short name in English. > C1. What is the world's most populous country with a Z in > its name? Brazil. 4 for Dan Blum and Stephen. According to the CIA World Factbook: Brazil 218,689,757 Tanzania 65,642,682 Mozambique 32,513,805 Uzbekistan 31,360,836 Venezuela 30,518,260 Zambia 20,216,029 Kazakhstan 19,543,464 Zimbabwe 15,418,674 Czechia 10,706,242 Azerbaijan 10,420,515 Switzerland 8,563,760 Kyrgyzstan 6,122,781 New Zealand 5,109,702 Bosnia and Herzegovina 3,807,764 Gaza Strip 2,098,389 Belize 419,137 Zaire hasn't been the name of a country since 1997. The former Zaire -- the Democratic Republic of the Congo -- only has 111,859,928 people anyway. > C2. What is the world's most populous country with an X in > its name? Mexico. 4 for everyone. Mexico 129,875,529 Luxembourg 660,924 > * D. Canadiana: Ontario County Seats > D1. Owen Sound is the county seat of which county? Hint: > The name resembles a well-known sports trophy. Grey. 4 for Stephen. 2 for Joshua. It's named after the grandfather of the Earl Grey who was known for both the tea and the Grey Cup. > D2. Orangeville, Ontario, is the county seat of which county? > Hint: The name resembles a major street in Toronto. Dufferin. 4 for Stephen. > largest lake in South America, but it's practically at sea > level and receives ocean water at high tide, so arguably > it's not a lake at all. In any case, what's its name? Lake Maracaibo. 4 for Dan Blum and Stephen. > E2. The other candidate for the largest lake in South America > is so far above sea level that it's the world's highest > lake navigable by large ships. What's its name? Lake Titicaca. 4 for everyone. It's in Bolivia and Peru, at about 12,500 feet elevation. > * F. Artificial Lakes > F1. Lake Mead was created by damming what river? Colorado. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Pete. > F2. Lake Nasser was created by damming what river? Nile. 4 for everyone. > * A. Culinary Terms > A1. What word means to lightly coat uncooked food with a dry > mixture, typically flour, cornmeal, or bread crumbs? Dredge. 4 for Dan Blum, Stephen, and Pete. > A2. What word means a thick creamy soup, with a base of strained > broth of shellfish or game? Bisque. 4 for Stephen. > Yesterday", and most of the rest followed the same pattern > in alphabetical order. But the 24th book, in 2015, did > not fit the pattern. What was its full title? "X". 4 for Joshua and Stephen. > Roman numerals in sequence, for example "Super Bowl XIV". > But again, in 2015 an exception to the pattern was made. > What did they call the game that year? Super Bowl 50. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Pete. Apparently I meant to say "in the 2015 season" there. Sorry. > say LEAVEN. > C1. "Ancient port near Carthage or a town in New York State." > 5 letters, 2nd letter is T. UTICA. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Pete. Ithaca is an island in Greece, not an ancient port near Carthage, and is 6 letters long. > C2. "Put in chains." 7 letters, 3rd letter is S. ENSLAVE, but I also accepted ENSNARE. So, 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Stephen, and Pete. > D1. The Gaza Strip has been much in the news in recent weeks. > What is its area, within 5% of the true number in either > direction? Different sources give numbers from 360 to 365 km²: Accepting 342-402 km², 125-155 sq. mi., or 80,060-99,213 acres. 4 for Stephen. Nobody else came within a factor of 4 of the true answer -- two people guessed too high, one too low. > including the removal of settlers. Which Israeli prime > minister proposed, and was eventually able to implement, > the withdrawal? Ariel Sharon ["AH-ree-el sha-ROHN"]. 4 for Joshua, Erland, and Stephen. 3 for Pete. > * E. Prizes Established > E1. What year, within 5, were the first Pulitzer ["PULL-it-zer"] > Prizes given out? 1917 (accepting 1912-22). 4 for Joshua and Stephen. 2 for Pete. > E2. What year, within 5, were the first Nobel Prizes given out? 1901 (accepting 1896-1906). 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Erland, Stephen, and Dan Tilque. 2 for Pete. > F1. In India they generally do not express large numbers > in millions. What we call a million, they would call how > many lakhs? 10. 4 for Dan Blum, Erland, Stephen, and Dan Tilque. 2 for Joshua. > F2. In India, one crore [rhymes with "bore"] equals how many > lakhs? 100. 4 for Erland, Stephen, and Dan Tilque. 2 for Joshua. Fun fact: The title of the Indian edition of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" uses the word "Crorepati": a person with 10 million rupees -- which they would write numerically not as "10,000,000" with commas for millions and thousands, but as "1,00,00,000" with commas for crores, lakhs, and thousands. Scores, if there are no errors: FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS TOPICS-> Geo Mis Stephen Perry 44 48 92 Joshua Kreitzer 30 32 62 Dan Blum 36 24 60 Pete Gayde 28 23 51 Dan Tilque 24 20 44 Erland Sommarskog 24 16 40 -- Mark Brader | "If you have to go in, you go in. Toronto | The choice was made the day you took your oath." msb@vex.net | --Dan Duddy, New York Fire Department My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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