| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 29 06:06PM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-05-13, 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 Unnatural Axxxe 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 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". * Game 1, Round 2 - Entertainment - One Last "Game of Thrones" Winter is coming, this Sunday. Yeah, I know, that's the last thing you want to hear in May, but it's the series finale of "Game of Thrones". Please see the 3-page handout: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/1-2/got.pdf and name each of these major characters. (First names will suffice!) I have resequenced the round according to the handout. There are two decoys, which are now interspersed with the others; identify these characters if you like for fun, but for no points. 1. Picture A. 2. Picture B. 3. Picture C. 4. Decoy -- picture D. 5. Picture E. 6. Decoy -- picture F. 7. Picture G. 8. Picture H. 9. Picture I. 10. Picture J. 11. Picture K. 12. Picture L. * Game 1, Round 3 - Geography - First, There is a Mountain We're talking mountain ranges, and not your basic Alps, Himalayas, and Andes. 1. Name the longest mountain range that is considered to form part of the boundary between Europe and Asia. For each of the remaining questions, we name the range and you name *any* country that it runs through or borders on. 2. Atlas Mtns. 3. Carpathian Mtns. 4. Pamir Mtns. 5. Altai Mtns. 6. Zagros Mtns. 7. Rwenzori Mtns. 8. Taurus Mtns. 9. Alborz Range. 10. Western Ghats, also known as Sahyadri. After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs nal bs lbhe nafjref jnf whfg gur Pbatb, cyrnfr tb onpx naq gryy hf juvpu bar. -- Mark Brader "Now, let's assume the correct answer will Toronto eventually be written on this board at the msb@vex.net coordinates (x,y)..." --Randall Munroe My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): May 30 12:33AM > two decoys, which are now interspersed with the others; identify > these characters if you like for fun, but for no points. > 1. Picture A. Sansa Stark; Arya Stark > 2. Picture B. Bran Stark > 3. Picture C. Brienne of Tarth > 5. Picture E. Daenerys Targaryen > 7. Picture G. Joffrey Lannister > 10. Picture J. Eddard Stark > 11. Picture K. The Night King > 12. Picture L. Tyrion Lannister > * Game 1, Round 3 - Geography - First, There is a Mountain > 1. Name the longest mountain range that is considered to form part > of the boundary between Europe and Asia. Urals > 2. Atlas Mtns. Morocco > 3. Carpathian Mtns. Romania > 4. Pamir Mtns. Afghanistan > 5. Altai Mtns. Kazakhstan > 6. Zagros Mtns. Iran > 7. Rwenzori Mtns. Democratic Republic of the Congo; Botswana > 8. Taurus Mtns. Algeria > 9. Alborz Range. Portugal > 10. Western Ghats, also known as Sahyadri. Pakistan; India -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: May 30 05:37AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in > two decoys, which are now interspersed with the others; identify > these characters if you like for fun, but for no points. > 2. Picture B. Jon > 3. Picture C. Jon > 5. Picture E. Daenerys > 7. Picture G. Jon > 9. Picture I. Jon > 10. Picture J. Jon > 12. Picture L. Tyrion > and Andes. > 1. Name the longest mountain range that is considered to form part > of the boundary between Europe and Asia. Ural Mountains > For each of the remaining questions, we name the range and you > name *any* country that it runs through or borders on. > 2. Atlas Mtns. Morocco > 3. Carpathian Mtns. Romania -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: May 30 09:46AM +0200 > and Andes. > 1. Name the longest mountain range that is considered to form part > of the boundary between Europe and Asia. Ural Mountains > 2. Atlas Mtns. Morrocco > 3. Carpathian Mtns. Romania > 4. Pamir Mtns. China > 5. Altai Mtns. Russia > 6. Zagros Mtns. Greece > 7. Rwenzori Mtns. South Africa > 8. Taurus Mtns. Turkey > 9. Alborz Range. Algeria > 10. Western Ghats, also known as Sahyadri. Pakistan |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 29 06:01PM -0500 Mark Brader: > and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information > see my 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian > Inquisition (QFTCI*)". And the Final game is over and the winner is... JOSHUA KREITZER! Hearty congratulations! > 1. In 1956 Switzerland was the first country to host the Eurovision > Song Contest, and also the first to win. Switzerland won again > in 1988 with the song "Ne Partez pas sans moi". Who sang that? Céline Dion! The *composer* was Swiss. 4 for Erland, Joshua, and Calvin. > 2. The 1974 contest took place at the seaside resort of Brighton. > Name the pop group that sang the winning entry. ABBA. 4 for Erland, Joshua, Calvin, and Dan Tilque. > 3. The winning entry in 1970 was sung by a performer named Dana; > in 1998, by a performer named Dana International. Name the > country that *either one* of them was representing. Ireland, Israel. 4 for Erland, Joshua, and Calvin. > 4. British SF writer Sir Arthur C. Clarke made a cameo appearance > sitting on a Washington park bench, in what *sequel* to a > well-known movie? "2010" (1984 sequel to "2001: A Space Odyssey"). 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. I accepted anything with a main title of "2010". Clarke's original novel was "2010: Odyssey Two", but various subtitles -- or none -- were tried on different releases of the movie. > 5. Julia Roberts plays the title role in this movie, in which > the real-life person she plays has a cameo role as a waitress. > Name the movie. "Erin Brockovich". The waitress's name tag reads "Julia". 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Calvin. > 6. Mike Tyson has a small role in which film, demanding the return > of his pet tiger? "The Hangover". 4 for Joshua and Calvin. > 7. One of the first films financed by the Canadian Film > Development Corp. was a 1970 release directed by Donald Shebib, > about two men from Cape Breton who move to Toronto. Name it. "Goin' Down the Road". > 8. "Mon Oncle Antoine" (1971) was directed by what noted Quebec > filmmaker who lived 1930-86? In 2016 it was alleged that he > had sexually abused children. Claude Jutra. > 9. This 1979 David Cronenberg film starred Oliver Reed as an > unconventional psychotherapist and Samantha Eggar as a patient > with an... unusual method of childbirth. Name the movie. "The Brood". > 10. What Canadian literary adaptation, starring Richard Dreyfus > and Randy Quaid, became the first Canadian film to get a major > Oscar nomination? "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" (1974). 4 for Joshua. It was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, but lost to "The Godfather Part II". > Foreign-Language Film Oscar had a 2003 sequel that became > the first Canadian movie to win it. Both were directed by > Denys Arcand. Name *either* title. "Le Déclin de l'empire américain" (1986), "Les Invasions barbares". ("The Decline of the American Empire", "The Barbarian Invasions".) 4 for Joshua. He also wrote or co-wrote both movies, as well as a third one in 2018 called "La chute de l'empire américain" or "The Fall of the American Empire"; while connected to the earlier movies, this one was not another actual sequel, and it was not Oscar-nominated. > 12. The first Canadian to win a Best Director Oscar won it for a > 1997 movie. Name him. James Cameron. ("Titanic".) 4 for Joshua and Calvin. > In each case, name the movie. > 13. This 1995 pirate adventure starred Geena Davis and was directed > by her husband. It is estimated to have lost $147,000,000 US. "Cutthroat Island". 4 for Joshua. > the most Golden Raspberry or "Razzie" awards. The financial > losses are difficult to determine due to fraud regarding the > movie's budget. "Battlefield Earth". 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Calvin, and Dan Tilque. > 15. Even Oprah couldn't save this movie from losing approximately > $150,000,000 US. Name this adaptation from the novel of the > same name by Madeleine L'Engle. "A Wrinkle in Time" (2018). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. > * A. Nationalities > What is the nationality of... > A1. ...actress Liv Ullmann? Norwegian. 4 for Erland and Joshua. > A2. ...composer Carl Nielsen? Danish. 4 for Erland and Joshua. > A3. ...actor Sam Neill? New Zealander, British, and Irish -- accepting any one. 4 for Joshua. 3 for Calvin. He was born in Northern Ireland, which makes him both a British and an Irish citizen, to a New Zealander father, and was raised in New Zealand. In the original game only New Zealander was accepted. > * B. Islands > B1. Which island was settled in 1790 by mutineers from the > Bounty and women from Tahiti? Pitcairn I. 4 for everyone -- Erland, Dan Blum, Joshua, Calvin, and Dan Tilque. > B2. On which island are the towns of Malia and Sitia? Crete. > B3. Which *two* countries share the island of Hispaniola? Dominican Republic, Haiti. 4 for everyone. This will be the last QFTCI question ever to require a two-part answer, unless the rules get changed again in the future, or someone forgets them. There has always been a minority sentiment in the league to the effect that such questions are ipso facto too hard, but after the Cellar Rats were so gung-ho about asking them during the season ending with this game, at the following Captains' Meeting the sentiment boiled over into a majority vote of 9-4 to prohibit them. > C1. This movie is about a major volcanic eruption in the > 19th century, but its title is geographically incorrect. > Name that title. "Krakatoa: East of Java" (1968). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Calvin, and Dan Tilque. For the location of Krakatoa see: http://www.branchcollective.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/1RoyalSocietyMap.jpg > You may still answer by naming the movie that was being > asked for, but for fun (no extra points), also explain why > the scene *is not* really an error in it. "The Green Berets" (1968). Supposedly the sunset is wrong because it is seen from an unspecified coastal point in Vietnam, and the country is on the east coast of Asia. But in fact southern Vietnam has well over 100 miles of west-facing coast on the Gulf of Thailand. 4 for Joshua (who knew about the west-facing coast) and Calvin. For the coastline of Vietnam see: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/attachments/maps/VM-map.gif > C3. In the movie "Gladiator", in the "Battle of Carthage > reenactment" scene in the Colosseum, when one of the chariots > turns over, what anachronism is plainly visible on it? This gas cylinder and associated hardware: <http://i.imgur.com/GWjOU.jpg>. > * D. On the Wrong Side in World War II > D1. An Irish-American broadcast Nazi propaganda to Britain > during the war -- under what nickname or pseudonym? Lord Haw Haw. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Calvin. > D2. Iva Toguri d'Aquino was convicted of transmitting Japanese > propaganda to the Americans in the same manner -- under > what nickname or pseudonym? Tokyo Rose. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Calvin, and Dan Tilque. > D3. Who was executed by firing squad at the Akershus fortress > in Oslo in October 1945? Vidkun Quisling. 4 for everyone. > * E. Anagrams > In each case, rearrange the letters to form a single word in English. > E1. Despair. Aspired, diapers, praised. At the original game the expected answer was only "praised", but "diapers" was given and accepted. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Calvin, and Dan Tilque. > E2. Infringe. Refining. 4 for Calvin and Dan Tilque. > E3. Nameless. Lameness, maleness, maneless, salesmen. At the original game "salesmen" was expected and the question was not used. 4 for Joshua, Calvin (the hard way), and Dan Tilque. > What subatomic particle... > F1. ...exists in the following forms? Up, down, top, bottom, > strange. Quark. There is also a 6th type, charm. 4 for everyone. > F2. ...is the counterpart to the antimatter particle called > a positron? Electron. 4 for everyone. > F3. ...has a half-life of approximately 13 minutes? Neutron. (It's unstable in isolation, but stable within a stable nucleus.) 4 for Erland. 3 for Dan Tilque. Scores, if there are no errors: FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST TOPICS-> Geo Sci His Can Spo A+L Ent Cha SIX Joshua Kreitzer 35 28 50 35 52 40 48 56 281 Dan Tilque 34 40 36 36 20 8 16 43 209 Dan Blum 32 44 39 15 30 27 16 36 208 "Calvin" 16 31 34 8 21 19 28 51 184 Erland Sommarskog 27 24 44 11 4 4 16 32 154 Pete Gayde 13 18 31 7 34 19 -- -- 122 And now, on to Unnatural Axxxe's season. -- Mark Brader "He added a 3-point lead" is pronounced Toronto differently in Snooker than in Typography... msb@vex.net -- Liam Quin My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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