Wednesday, January 08, 2020

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msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 08 02:58AM -0600

These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-11-04,
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 the Red Smarties 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 2019-10-16 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
 
 
* Game 7, Round 7 - Science - Food
 
1. This chemical reaction involving amino acids and sugars occurs
when food is browned, and gives browned food its distinctive
flavor. The flavor of a seared steak and a bread crust are in
part caused by this reaction. What reaction?
 
2. The five basic tastes are sweetness, sourness, bitterness,
saltiness and what fifth taste? The name we want is a loanword
from Japanese.
 
3. This food is normally poisonous due to its tetrodotoxin content,
and thus preparation is strictly controlled by law. Only chefs
who have qualified after three or more years of training are
allowed to prepare this food. Name it.
 
4. This food, technically a type of berry, is a member of the
deadly nightshade family. They were once thought to be
poisonous, but this was due to their acidic quality which leeched
lead out of the pewter plates they were sometimes served on.
What food?
 
5. Raw cookie dough sickens dozens of people each year, and many
think it is due to raw eggs. While eggs are occasionally the
culprit, which other cookie ingredient is often a carrier of
E. coli bacteria and should never be eaten raw?
 
6. If you are taking statins, some blood-pressure medication,
or any of a number of other medications, this fruit and its
juice should be avoided. It can increase concentrations of
certain drugs, and block the uptake of others. Name the fruit.
 
7. This baking ingredient is a by-product of winemaking. When grape
juice is fermented, the ingredient precipitates out of the grape
juice and forms "wine crystals". These crystals in their crude
form are called "beeswing", and are collected and purified into
a white powder sometimes used in meringues. Name the ingredient.
 
8. This type of bean contains a relatively high amount of toxins,
and need to be pre-soaked and cooked to the boiling point for
at least 10 minutes before eating. The FDA recommends boiling
for at least 30 minutes. Thankfully, beans from a can are safe
to eat immediately.
 
9. Storing this flavorful ingredient in oil, while delicious,
is often a source of deadly botulism poisoning. Commercial
preparations are flash-heated to kill botulism, but many people
are sickened when this flavor ingredient is added fresh to oil
for storage in home kitchens.
 
10. The term "Chinese restaurant syndrome" was coined in the 1960s
and vilified a common food additive. The term came from
a letter written to the "New England Journal of Medicine"
expressing the author's discomfort after eating repeatedly at
Chinese restaurants. This is believed to have been a hoax.
What additive was thus maligned?
 
 
* Game 7, Round 8 - Canadiana - Other Flags of Canada
 
Please see the handout at:
 
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/7-8/other.pdf
 
and identify each of the following flags.
 
1. Mi'kmaq nation.
2. Naval ensign.
3. Acadian flag.
4. Iroquois Confederacy.
5. Newfoundland tricolor.
6. Yukon.
7. Governor-General of Canada.
8. Scarborough.
9. RCAF Ensign.
10. Labrador.
 
So there were 3 decoys. Decode the rot13 if you like and identify
them for fun, but for no points.
 
11. Pnanqvna pragraavny synt.
12. Senapb-Nyoregna synt.
13. Arjsbhaqynaq synt orsber 1965.
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Toronto | a punishment that he regards as unjust, though in fact
msb@vex.net | it reflects well on the status of French baking."
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Bruce Bowler <bruce.bowler@gmail.com>: Jan 07 02:52PM

On Sun, 05 Jan 2020 05:47:51 -0600, Mark Brader wrote:
 
> and you give us the stage name they're known by.
 
> 1. Joan Alexandra Molinsky: "A man can sleep around, no problem.
> A girl makes 19-20 mistakes, she's a tramp."
 
Joan Rivers
 
> 2. Allan Stewart Konigsberg: "I don't believe in the afterlife,
> although I am bringing a change of underwear."
 
Woody Allen
 
> 3. Melvin Kaminsky: "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is
> when you fall in an open sewer and drown."
 
Mel Brooks
 
> comedians."
 
> 6. Jacob Rodney Cohen: "I'm so ugly my father carries around a
> picture of the guy who came with the wallet -- as a kid."
 
Rodney Dangerfield
 
> Trouble is I can't remember if it's the 13th or the 14th."
 
> 9. Jerome Lester Horwitz: "I used to work in a bakery as a pilot...
> I used to take the bread from one corner and 'pile it' in the other."
 
Curly Howard; Moe Howard
 
> Poems".
 
> 3. "People of the Deer", "Owls in the Family", "Curse of the
> Viking Grave".
 
Farley Mowat
 
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 08 02:55AM -0600

Mark Brader:
> jokes, and you give us the stage name they're known by.
 
> 1. Joan Alexandra Molinsky: "A man can sleep around, no problem.
> A girl makes 19-20 mistakes, she's a tramp."
 
Joan Rivers. 4 for everyone -- Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Pete,
and Bruce.
 
> 2. Allan Stewart Konigsberg: "I don't believe in the afterlife,
> although I am bringing a change of underwear."
 
Woody Allen. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Bruce.
 
> 3. Melvin Kaminsky: "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is
> when you fall in an open sewer and drown."
 
Mel Brooks. 4 for everyone.
 
> I had a dual personality. Then he presented me with an $82
> bill. I gave him $41 and told him to get the other $41 from
> the other guy."
 
Jerry Lewis. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Pete.
 
> 5. Jerome Silberman: "I know a lot of sad people who aren't
> comedians."
 
Gene Wilder.
 
> 6. Jacob Rodney Cohen: "I'm so ugly my father carries around a
> picture of the guy who came with the wallet -- as a kid."
 
Rodney Dangerfield. 4 for everyone.
 
> 7. Leonard Alfred Schneider: "Communism is like one big phone
> company."
 
Lenny Bruce. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
 
> 8. Nathan Birnbaum: "It only takes one drink to get drunk.
> Trouble is I can't remember if it's the 13th or the 14th."
 
George Burns. 4 for Joshua.
 
> 9. Jerome Lester Horwitz: "I used to work in a bakery as a pilot...
> I used to take the bread from one corner and 'pile it' in
> the other."
 
Curly Howard. 4 for Joshua. 3 for Bruce.
 
> 10. Jacov Moshe Maza: "My grandfather always said, 'don't watch
> your money, watch your health'. One day I was watching my
> health and somebody stole my money. It was my grandfather."
 
Jackie Mason. 4 for Joshua.
 
 
> * Game 7, Round 6 - Canadiana Literature - Authors
 
> We give you three works by a Canadian author; you name the author.
 
> 1. "Treason at York", "Rebels Ride at Night", "A Land Divided".
 
John F. Hayes.
 
> 2. "Alligator Pie", "Alligator Stew", "Civil Elegies and Other
> Poems".
 
Dennis Lee.
 
> 3. "People of the Deer", "Owls in the Family", "Curse of the
> Viking Grave".
 
Farley Mowat. 4 for Bruce.
 
> 4. "Pat of the Silver Bush", "Jane of Lantern Hill", "Emily of
> New Moon".
 
Lucy Maud Montgomery.
 
> 5. "Sea of Shadows", "Exit Strategy", "Omen".
 
Kelley Armstrong.
 
> 6. "Monkey Beach", "Blood Sport", "Son of a Trickster".
 
Eden Robinson.
 
> 7. "The Daring Game", "The Sky is Falling", "Awake and Dreaming".
 
Kit Pearson.
 
> 8. "Three Day Road", "Through the Black Spruce", "The Orenda".
 
Joseph Boyden.
 
> 9. "Barometer Rising", "The Watch That Ends The Night", "Two
> Solitudes".
 
Hugh MacLennan.
 
> 10. "Joshua Then and Now", "St. Urbain's Horseman", "Barney's
> Version".
 
Mordecai Richler. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
 
 
Scores, if there are no errors:
 
GAME 7 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Geo His Ent Can
Joshua Kreitzer 28 20 36 4 88
Dan Blum 28 28 24 4 84
Dan Tilque 32 32 16 0 80
Bruce Bowler 23 16 19 4 62
Erland Sommarskog 28 20 -- -- 48
Pete Gayde -- -- 16 0 16
 
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "Perhaps I should have done the posting and sleeping
msb@vex.net | in the other order." --Peter Duncanson
 
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msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 07 10:20PM -0600

Mark Brader:
>>> relations with the US deteriorated. Which US president formally
>>> broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba?
 
>> Dwight Eisenhower.
 
Erland Sommarskog:
> I was debating with with myself if this could be a trap question.
> JFK seemed like the obvious [answer], but maybe it was really
> Johnson. Well, it was a trap question, and I feel stupid...
 
I don't see it as one. Castro took power in January 1959, when
Eisenhower still had 2 full years remaining in office, and it was
clear from the start that he was a friend of the Communist world
and not of the US. If you don't know the answer, but you do know
the date 1959, what you mainly have to guess is whether or not you
think Eisenhower would have been likely to react in this way.
 
Of course, if you don't remember the date, that makes it harder!
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "Canada resembles Chile a lot more than Chile does"
msb@vex.net | --Athel Cornish-Bowden
 
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Bruce Bowler <bruce.bowler@gmail.com>: Jan 07 02:39PM

On Sun, 05 Jan 2020 17:33:24 -0800, Calvin wrote:
 
> Happy New Year rgt'ers
 
> 1 Prior to the Euro, what was Poland's currency?
 
Zloti
 
> 2 Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans
> Banninck Cocq by Rembrandt van Rijn is better known by what title?
 
Night Watch
 
> 3 Which netball position is often shortened to "C"?
 
Center
 
> 4 According to the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, what is the
motto
> on the Bond family's coat of arms? (Latin or English)
> 5 Although the first day of Advent varies from year to year, how
many
> gifts does a commercial Advent calendar normally contain?
 
24
 
> 6 At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the USA won the gold medal in which
debut
> sport when they beat Canada 19 points to 8 in the final?
> 7 Which sport is played in an area 18 metres long but only one metre
> wide?
 
cornhole?
 
> Imagination, followed by Brazil (1985) and The Adventures of Baron
> Munchausen (1988).
> 10 What 10-letter word refers to a payment sent overseas, typically
to
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