Tuesday, May 29, 2018

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msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 28 11:26PM -0500

These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2018-03-19,
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 to the newsgroup in a single followup,
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 Bill Psychs and are
used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have
been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see
my 2017-09-25 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
 
 
I've decided to resequence this game. Round 3 will appear in the
next set, when you will see why.
 
 
* Game 9, Round 2 - Art - Impressionists and Post-Impressionists
 
Please see the 2-page handout at
 
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/9-2/impress.pdf
 
For questions #1-4, we name the artist and you give the letter of
the image.
 
1. Alfred Sisley.
2. Gustave Caillebotte.
3. Mary Cassatt.
4. Berthe Morisot.
 
For #5-12, please decode the rot13 to see the remaining letters and
name the artist in each case. I have rearranged these questions
in order by letter, and interspersed the 2 decoys with the others;
answer for the decoys if you like for fun, but for no points.
 
5. O.
6. P.
7. Q (qrpbl)
8. S.
9. T.
10. U.
11. X.
12. Y (qrpbl)
 
 
* Game 9, Round 4 - Geography - Capital Cities of Former Countries
 
We'll give you the name of a country that no longer exists, and you
name the main capital city. We'll also give you the years in which
the city was the capital. If the name of the city has changed,
you can use either its name at the time or its present name.
 
1. Corsican Republic (1755-68).
2. Yugoslavia (1918-92).
3. West Germany (1949-90).
4. Prussia (1525-1701).
5. Zanzibar (1963-64).
6. Rhodesia (1965-79).
7. South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) (1954-76).
8. Tibet (1912-51).
9. United Arab Republic (1958-61).
10. Federation of South Arabia (1962-67).
 
 
* Game 9, Round 5 - Audio - Classical Piano
 
Surprise! You get the audio round for this game. In the original
version of it, you were played a clip of classical piano music and
given the year it was composed or published (nothing posthumous).
Here, instead of the clip I'll give you the title or description.
 
You name the composer. (Surnames are sufficient in all cases.)
 
1. 1722, "Prelude #1 in C#, BWV 846, from "The Well-Tempered
Clavier".
 
2. 1783, "Rondo alla turca", sonata in A, #11, K331:III.
 
3. 1801, piano Sonata #14 in C# minor, op.27 #2 "Moonlight":
3rd movement, Presto agitato.
 
4. 1828, piano sonata in Bb major, D960, #1: Molto moderato.
 
5. 1838, "Träumerei", from "Kinderszenen".
 
6. 1847, waltz #7 in C# minor, op. 64 #2.
 
7. Between 1842 and 1844, "Spring Song" from "Lieder Ohne Wörter",
op. 62 #6.
 
8. 1852, "Études d'exécution transcendante", #12: "Chasse-neige",
S139.
 
9. Published 1905, "Claire de Lune".
 
10. 1924, "Rhapsody in Blue".
 
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msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 28 11:19PM -0500

Since the Canadian Inquisition is into its summer season, it's now
time to start posting current-events rounds while they are still
reasonably current.
 
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on the dates
indicated below, and should be interpreted accordingly. If any
answers have changed due to newer news, you are still expected to
give the answers that were correct on that date.
 
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 What She Said 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 see my 2017-09-25 companion
posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
 
 
* Game 1 (2018-05-14), Round 1 - Current Events
 
1. The first provincial-election leaders' debate took place between
last Monday between Kathleen Wynne, Doug Ford, and Andrea
Horwath. Which TV network or station hosted it?
 
2. A Toronto-area Conservative candidate is accused of hiring
actors to rally as supporters outside of the debate. Name the
condidate.
 
3. The Attorney-General of New York State, who was prosecuting
Harvey Weinstein for sexual abuse, resigned last week when a
"New Yorker" story detailed accusations by four women of his
own sexual abuses. Name him.
 
4. A Quebec MP was suspended from the NDP caucus last Tuesday after
a story was published alleging she plied an Afghanistan veteran
with alcohol after his parliamentary testimony, followed him
back to his Ottawa hotel room, and later turned up at his
residence in Brandon, MB. Name her.
 
5. Name the company that is paying $7,150,000,000 US for the right
to sell Starbucks products worldwide.
 
6. Canadian Tire announced this week its intention to purchase
*which outdoor-wear company* from the Ontario Teachers Pension
Plan?
 
7. It was down to the wire for the Eurovision Song Contest in
Lisbon, but Israel squeaked out a victory. Name either the
winning song or the singer.
 
8. Following a trend, it was announced last week that ownership
of Montreal's "La Presse" will be transferred to a charitable
foundation. Give the surname of the prominent family that is
ceding control.
 
9. This man, who was CEO of the Calgary Olympics, died at age 81
while training for the Huntsman World Senior Games. Name him.
 
10. Toronto Raptors head coach Dwane Casey won an award, only
to be fired by the Raptors the next day. What was the award?
(Give its full name or describe it in enough detail to
distinguish it from other awards.)
 
 
* Game 2 (2018-05-28), Round 1 - Current Events
 
1. NBA player Sterling Brown announced last week that he plans to
sue the city where his team plays. He says police used a
stun-gun on him and beat him without provocation during an
arrest in January. Which city is he suing?
 
2. On Tuesday, Toronto City Council appointed Jonathan Tsao as
the interim councillor for Ward 33. Whose seat is he filling?
 
3. The city of Vancouver announced that their plan to have this
actor record voice announcements for the city's transit system
was on hold, after he was accused of sexual harrassment by
eight women. Which actor?
 
4. This Pulitzer-prizewinning novelist, author of "American
Pastoral", died on Tuesday at age 85. Name him.
 
5. Three Manitoba First Nations had to be evacuated from their
tribal grounds last week due to raging wildfires. Name *any
one*.
 
6. The "Arizona Republic" reported last week that the Arizona
branch of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency had
"lost" a staggeringly large number of immigrant children placed
in homes of sponsors. Within 100, how many children?
 
7. The CBC released audio last week of PC leader Doug Ford and the
PC candidate for Etobicoke Centre encouraging people to sign up
for PC party mambers, telling them "it won't cost you anything".
Name that Etobicoke Centre candidate.
 
8. Last week the federal government quashed a $1,500,000,000 Chinese
takeover bid for a Canadian construction company, citing national-
security concerns. What Canadian company?
 
9. There was a big vote on Friday, May 25: Ireland had a referendum
on whether or not to repeal (technically, to replace the wording
that was added by) a previous constitutional amendment that had
recognized the "equal right to life" of the mother and the unborn.
*What number* was that previous amendment?
 
10. An explosion at a Mississauga restaurant sent multiple people
to hospital Thursday night. What restaurant?
 
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "But put in one lousy dragon and they call you
msb@vex.net | a fantasy writer." --Terry Pratchett
 
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msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 28 11:15PM -0500

Mark Brader:
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2017-09-25 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
 
Game 8 is over and the winner is JOSHUA KREITZER. Hearty
congratulations!
 
 
 
> 1. What product, used for short- and long-range telecommunications,
> consists of glass components bundled together in a flexible
> sheath?
 
Fiber-optic cable. 4 for everyone -- Joshua, Erland, Peter, Dan Blum,
Dan Tilque, Pete, Jason, and Calvin.
 
> 2. What type of glass is usually made from a combination of two
> or more types of glass, one hard and one soft? The softer layer
> makes the glass more elastic, so it can flex instead of shatter.
 
Bulletproof (or -resistant) glass (or ballistic glass, or transparent
armor).
 
> 3. In medical X-ray facilities, technicians view the patient
> through a glass screen that has been embedded with what
> substance?
 
Lead oxide. ("Lead" was sufficient.) 4 for Joshua, Erland, Peter,
Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Calvin.
 
> 4. What type of narrow-necked laboratory glassware, typically
> conical or spherical, and used to hold reagents or samples,
> has variations known as Florence, Schlenk, and Erlenmeyer?
 
Flask. 4 for Joshua, Peter, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Pete.
 
> 5. What type of laboratory glassware is used to culture living
> cells?
 
Petri dish. 4 for Joshua, Peter, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Pete,
and Jason.
 
> is known for being lightweight, corrosion-resistant and a good
> insulator, making it popular in the construction industry?
> Its form also becomes stronger as the glass ages.
 
Fiberglass. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque.
 
> 26 mm wide and about 1 mm thick, used to hold samples for
> close and precisely movable examination in optical microscopes,
> the kind you may have used in a high-school biology class?
 
Slide. 4 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque.
 
> glass? Given their large surveillance area, they are commonly
> used as a safety feature on cars, at intersections of building
> hallways and on automated banking machines.
 
Convex (or diverging, or fisheye). 4 for Peter, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque,
Pete, and Calvin.
 
> cause the glass, when broken, to crumble into small granular
> chunks instead of splintering into jagged shards. The granular
> chunks are less likely to cause injury.
 
Toughened or tempered glass. I accepted Duralex, which is a brand
name, and "car window glass". 4 for Joshua, Erland, and Dan Blum.
 
> glass with a mercury-tin amalgam, obtaining near-perfect and
> undistorted reflection. Name the city which became the center
> of this manufacturing process.
 
Venice (also accepting Murano). 4 for Dan Tilque. 3 for Pete.
 
> After completing the round, please decode the rot13: If you said
> "safety glass" for any answer, please go back and be more specific.
 
Besides bullet-resistant and tempered glass, a third type of safety
glass is laminated glass, which includes a layer of plastic. This is
the one used in car windshields, so it was not a correct answer to
any question.
 
 
 
> A1. Which city is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal?
> The city is widely regarded as the "cultural capital"
> of India, and is also nicknamed the "City of Joy".
 
Kolkata (accepting the old spelling, Calcutta). 4 for Joshua,
Erland, Peter, Dan Tilque, and Calvin.
 
> A2. Which city is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra?
> It is also the most populous city in India with an estimated
> population of 12,400,000 in the city proper as of 2011.
 
Mumbai (accepting the old name, Bombay). 4 for Joshua, Erland,
Peter, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Calvin.
 
 
> * B. Gandhi
 
> B1. In what year was Mohandas, or Mahatma, Gandhi assassinated
> by a Hindu nationalist?
 
1948. 4 for Dan Blum and Jason. 3 for Joshua. 2 for Pete.
 
> B2. In what year did Gandhi famously lead Indians in challenging
> the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km Salt March to
> Dandi?
 
1930.
 
 
> British India? It is considered an example of postcolonial,
> postmodern, and magical-realist literature, and it won the
> Booker Prize in 1981.
 
"Midnight's Children". 4 for Joshua, Peter, and Calvin.
 
> be an irreverent depiction of Muhammad? In 1989 a fatwa
> ordering Rushdie's execution was proclaimed by Ayatollah
> Khomeini because of this novel.
 
"The Satanic Verses", duh. 4 for Joshua, Peter, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque,
Pete, Jason, and Calvin. 3 for Erland.
 
 
> series "Quantico"? She also played the villain Victoria
> Leeds in the recent "Baywatch" movie, opposite Dwayne
> Johnson and Zac Efron.
 
Priyanka Chopra. 4 for Joshua.
 
> 1994 pageant? You might recognize her from her starring role
> opposite Martin Henderson in 2004's "Bride and Prejudice",
> or you might recognize her trademark blue eyes.
 
Aishwarya Rai (Bachchan).
 
 
> one of the best doubles and mixed doubles players of all
> time? He has won 8 doubles and 10 mixed doubles Grand Slam
> titles, and is the oldest man to have won a Grand Slam title.
 
Leander Adrian Paes. 4 for Peter and Calvin.
 
> captain is regarded as one of the greatest batsmen to ever
> play the game? He is the highest run-scorer of all time
> in International cricket.
 
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. 4 for Peter, Pete, and Calvin.
 
 
> contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory,
> infinite series, and continued fractions? The 2015 film
> "The Man Who Knew Infinity" was based on his life.
 
Srinivasa Ramanujan. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque.
"Ramathamaran", as one entrant guessed, was not close enough for
points.
 
> traverses a transparent material, some of the deflected
> light changes wavelength. This effect and the resulting
> type of scattering are both named for him.
 
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman.
 
 
Scores, if there are no errors:
 
GAME 8 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 9 10 BEST
TOPICS-> Can Ent Lit Ent Spo Sci Cha FIVE
Joshua Kreitzer 20 32 14 36 24 24 27 143
Dan Blum 8 16 8 32 16 32 16 112
Dan Tilque 12 16 4 12 12 32 16 88
"Calvin" 0 12 7 0 24 12 24 79
Jason Kreitzer 0 36 -- -- 16 8 8 68
Peter Smyth -- -- 8 12 -- 20 24 64
Pete Gayde -- -- -- -- 32 19 10 61
Erland Sommarskog 8 4 4 0 -- 12 11 39
Bruce Bowler 12 16 -- -- -- -- -- 28
 
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "I don't have a life; I have a program." --the Doctor
msb@vex.net | (Michael Piller, Star Trek: Voyager, "Tattoo")
 
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Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: May 28 07:53PM +0200

> 2 Alec Bedser represented which country in international cricket?
 
Absolutely not Sweden.
 
> 4 What three word term does the video game abbreviation FPS stand for?
 
Floating Point Security :-)
 
> 5 According to the title of a 1974 Martin Scorsese comedy, who
> doesn?t live here anymore?
 
Alice?
 
> 7 How many sisters are members of Irish band The Corrs?
 
Three
 
> 8 What links Romano Prodi, Mario Monti and Enrico Letta?
 
They're all Italians. :-)
 
If you want something more specific, I make my guess that they are all
professors in national economy. (Which I know Prodi is, and I would
assume that Monti is, given that he is head of ECB. I'm uncertain about
Letta though.)
 
> 9 Name either the year or the host nation of the inaugural UEFA
> European Football Championship. The Soviet Union beat Yugoslavia 2-1 in
> the final
 
1960
Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: May 28 08:05PM

Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote in
 
> 1 Named from the Greek for "glue", it is used to provide structure
> to connective tissue. What is the most abundant protein in the human
> body?
 
Cartilage
 
> 2 Alec Bedser represented which country in international
> cricket?
 
New Zealand
 
> 3 Which South Korean rapper made Gangnam Style famous in 2012?
 
Psy
 
> 4 What three word term does the video game abbreviation FPS
> stand for?
 
Frames per second
 
> 5 According to the title of a 1974 Martin Scorsese
> comedy, who doesn't live here anymore?
 
Alice
 
> 6 In the country song
> 'Folsom Prison Blues', why does the narrator shoot a man in Reno?
> 7 How many sisters are members of Irish band The Corrs?
 
5
 
> 8 What links Romano Prodi, Mario Monti and Enrico Letta?
 
Italian politicians
 
> 9 Name either
> the year or the host nation of the inaugural UEFA European Football
> Championship. The Soviet Union beat Yugoslavia 2-1 in the final
 
France
 
> Chicago Police Department?
 
> cheers,
> calvin
 
Pete Gayde
Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: May 28 03:10PM -0700

Calvin wrote:
> 1 Named from the Greek for "glue", it is used to provide structure to connective tissue. What is the most abundant protein in the human body?
 
cartilage
 
> 4 What three word term does the video game abbreviation FPS stand for?
> 5 According to the title of a 1974 Martin Scorsese comedy, who doesn't live here anymore?
> 6 In the country song 'Folsom Prison Blues', why does the narrator shoot a man in Reno?
 
to get imprisoned in another state
 
> 7 How many sisters are members of Irish band The Corrs?
> 8 What links Romano Prodi, Mario Monti and Enrico Letta?
 
Italian PMs
 
> 9 Name either the year or the host nation of the inaugural UEFA European Football Championship. The Soviet Union beat Yugoslavia 2-1 in the final
 
1952
 
> 10 Which 1990s TV series followed a Canadian Mountie assigned to the Chicago Police Department?
 
McCloud, the remake
 
 
 
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Dan Tilque
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