| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 22 12:52AM -0600 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-12-10, 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*)". ** Final, Round 4 - Entertainment * Award-Winning Latino Directors 1. When Guillermo del Toro won the Best Director Oscar for "The Shape of Water" (2017), it was the fourth time in 5 years that the prize had been claimed by a Mexican director. Name *any one* of the others. 2. Name the Mexican director responsible for movies such as "The Holy Mountain", "El Topo", and "Fando y Lis". 3. Name the Latino director who shared some award nominations with Quentin Tarantino for the 2007 "double-feature" horror movie "Grindhouse". * Movies with Nameless Protagonists Name the movies. 4. This David Fincher movie from 1999 features a main character who is never named. 5. Two men forge a tense alliance against a third, as they all search for buried gold in a remote cemetery. The main character has a nickname, but is never named. 6. Harvey Keitel is never named in this 1992 crime-drama cult movie, but his character was given a name in the bizarre 2009 Werner Herzog followup. * Weird Movie Cameos 7. One of the few human characters in "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie", this actor is first seen running along the beach. 8. Glenn Close had a bearded, seconds-long cameo in this 1991 Spielberg movie before her character was placed in the "Boo Box". What movie? 9. "Pirates of the Caribbean" star Johnny Depp credited this musician as a major influence on his character, and the musician was brought in to play Jack Sparrow's father in the third installment of the movie series. Name the musician. * TV Spinoffs In each case, name the series that these were spun off from. 10. "Joey". 11. "Better Call Saul". 12. "Mork & Mindy". * Televangelists 13. This televangelist and his wife Rexella have been broadcasting their series "<answer 13> Presents" since 1986, featuring recurring topics of New World Order, World Government, and the second coming of Christ. He is also vehemently anti-Islamic, and as of 2017 has referred to himself as God's final prophet. Give his name as it appears in the title. 14. This Houston-based televangelist is watched by over 7,000,000 weekly viewers. He is the senior pastor of Lakewood Church, a 16,000-seat stadium. He was heavily criticized for not opening his church to those seeking refuge from Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Name him. 15. This Southern Baptist minister became well-known internationally in the late 1940s. One of his biographers has placed him "among the most influential Christian leaders" of the 20th century. Who? ** Final, Round 6 - Science * Household Chemicals In each case name the household product based on the indicated chemical (perhaps diluted with water or otherwise). Give the generic terms, not brand names. 1. NH3, http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-6/chem/1.png 2. CH3COOH, http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-6/chem/2.jpg 3. NaClO, http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-6/chem/3.png * Famous Thought-Experiments 4. What is the linguistic name of John Searle's 1980 thought- experiment that argues against strong artificial intelligence? 5. What general concept does David Hilbert's Grand Hotel paradox seek to address? 6. Who is the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise attributed to? This thought-experiment argues against the possibility of motion. * Computer Viruses 7. What name was given to the virus believed to have been written for the US Government to attack Iranian nuclear facilities in 2010? 8. The first known case of a "worm" that spread in the wild was in 1988. Name its author, the first person charged under the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Hint: The author's father was the chief scientist at the National Computer Security Center, a division of the NSA. 9. John McAfee panicked the the world with his estimates that this virus would infect 5,000,000 computers in 1992. It was designed to only activate on March 6, and damage any computer on that day every year, so many users did not boot their computers on that date just to "be safe". The virus was given the name of a painter and sculptor who was born on March 6. Give that name. * Name the Vitamin In each case give the usual single-letter (or for any B vitamins, letter-and-number) name. 10. Ascorbic acid. 11. Tocopherol. 12. Calciferol. * Language Families Here's an easy triple -- it's multiple-choice. In each list, which language is *not* in the same family as the others? 13. English, Faroese, Hindi, Hungarian, Spanish. 14. Burmese, Cantonese, Japanese, Mandarin, Tibetan. 15. Amharic, Arabic, Hebrew, Maltese, Persian (or Farsi). -- Mark Brader, Toronto, msb@vex.net C unions never strike! My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Joe Masters <joe@joemasters.me.uk>: Feb 22 09:12AM On 2020-02-22 06:52:31 +0000, Mark Brader said: > Name the movies. > 4. This David Fincher movie from 1999 features a main character > who is never named. Mullholland Falls > 5. Two men forge a tense alliance against a third, as they all > search for buried gold in a remote cemetery. The main character > has a nickname, but is never named. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly > musician as a major influence on his character, and the > musician was brought in to play Jack Sparrow's father in the > third installment of the movie series. Name the musician. Keith Richard > * TV Spinoffs > In each case, name the series that these were spun off from. > 10. "Joey". Friends > in the late 1940s. One of his biographers has placed him "among > the most influential Christian leaders" of the 20th century. > Who? Billy Graham > generic terms, not brand names. > 1. NH3, http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-6/chem/1.png > 2. CH3COOH, http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-6/chem/2.jpg Bleach > In each case give the usual single-letter (or for any B vitamins, > letter-and-number) name. > 10. Ascorbic acid. C > 11. Tocopherol. D > 12. Calciferol. E > Here's an easy triple -- it's multiple-choice. In each list, > which language is *not* in the same family as the others? > 13. English, Faroese, Hindi, Hungarian, Spanish. Faroese > 14. Burmese, Cantonese, Japanese, Mandarin, Tibetan. Mandarin > 15. Amharic, Arabic, Hebrew, Maltese, Persian (or Farsi). Maltese -- "To err, as they say, is human. To forgive is divine. To err by withholding your forgiveness until it's too late is to become divinely fucked up." ― Jonathan Tropper, The Book of Joe |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Feb 22 11:06AM +0100 > 5. Two men forge a tense alliance against a third, as they all > search for buried gold in a remote cemetery. The main character > has a nickname, but is never named. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly > 1. NH3, http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-6/chem/1.png Ammonium > 2. CH3COOH, http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-6/chem/2.jpg Acetic Acid > 3. NaClO, http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-6/chem/3.png Sodium hypochlorite > 4. What is the linguistic name of John Searle's 1980 thought- > experiment that argues against strong artificial intelligence? Turing test > 6. Who is the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise attributed to? > This thought-experiment argues against the possibility of motion. Aristotele > day every year, so many users did not boot their computers on > that date just to "be safe". The virus was given the name of > a painter and sculptor who was born on March 6. Give that name. Michelangelo > In each case give the usual single-letter (or for any B vitamins, > letter-and-number) name. > 10. Ascorbic acid. C > 13. English, Faroese, Hindi, Hungarian, Spanish. Hungarian > 14. Burmese, Cantonese, Japanese, Mandarin, Tibetan. Japanese > 15. Amharic, Arabic, Hebrew, Maltese, Persian (or Farsi). Farsi |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 22 12:48AM -0600 Mark Brader: > ended up on the wall of Hermann Göring, and he also sold to > the government of the Netherlands. Which artist's paintings > was he forging? Johannes Vermeer. 2 for Dan Blum. > white collar. The signed date is 1609, but the painting was > revealed in 2005 to be a 19th-century fake. Who is depicted in > "Flower Portrait"? William Shakespeare. 4 for Joe. > 3. A fake sculpture by Cellini was depicted in which 1966 > art-forgery film starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole? "How to Steal a Million". 4 for Joshua. And the rest of you need to see this movie. It's a high-class romantic comedy with an important lesson about security systems. Highly recommended. > * Flemish Painters > In each case name the artist. > 4. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/art/4.jpg Hieronymus Bosch. ("The Temptation of St. Anthony", 1501.) 4 for Dan Blum and Joe. > 5. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/art/5.jpg Pieter Bruegel (the Elder). ("Tower of Babel", 1563.) 4 for Dan Blum, Joe, and Calvin. > 6. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/art/6.jpg Jan van Eyck. ("Arnolfini Wedding Portrait", 1434.) 4 for Joe and Calvin. > * Marvel Supervillains > In each case name the supervillain. > 7. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/marv/7.jpg Galactus. 4 for Dan Blum. > 8. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/marv/8.jpg Juggernaut. 4 for Dan Blum. > 9. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/marv/9.jpg Dr. Doom. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. > * Sue Grafton Novels > In each case complete the title. > 10. "K is for..."? Killer. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Calvin. > 11. "N is for..."? Noose. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Calvin. > 12. "H is for..."? Homicide. 4 for Dan Blum. > * Literary Ghosts > 13. In "Macbeth", whose ghost walks right into a banquet hall > covered in blood and sits down in Macbeth's seat? Banquo. 4 for Dan Blum, Joe, Calvin, and Dan Tilque. 2 for Joshua. > 14. The ghosts of Miss Jessel and Peter Quint haunt a remote estate > in which Henry James novella? "The Turn of the Screw". 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Joe. > finest ghost stories of the 20th century, and has been repeatedly > adapted for other media, most recently as a Netflix series > in 2018. Name it. "The Haunting of Hill House". 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. > 1. This Quebec town was the site of a 78-day conflict between > Mohawk people and the Canadian government over the expansion > of a golf course. Two people were killed. Name the town. Oka. > officer while holding a stick, which the officer claimed was > a gun. The shooting was during a crisis named after which > provincial park where it occurred? Ipperwash. > southwest of Hamilton. The dispute was between the Six Nations > of the Grand River and the Canadian government. What community > did the crisis center on? Caledonia. > (This means the principal city served by the airport -- If we > said Lester Pearson you'd say Toronto, not Mississauga.) > 4. James Armstrong Richardson, founder of Western Canadian Airways. Winnipeg. > 5. Roméo LeBlanc, 25th governor-general of Canada. Moncton. "Nice try" points to Dan Blum for St. John. > 6. John Diefenbaker, 13th prime minister of Canada. Saskatoon. > essential component of York Region's water supply. Concern over > encroaching development on it was an impetus for the creation > of the Greenbelt. That is it called? Oak Ridges Moraine. > 8. Before there was Lake Ontario, there was this postglacial > lake, whose shoreline is traced by Weston Rd., Davenport Rd., > and the Scarborough Bluffs. Lake Iroquois. > inlet of the Atlantic Ocean that formed as ice sheets retreated. > This sea covered what are now Quebec City, Montreal, and Ottawa > in salt water. Champlain Sea. (Not accepting Lake Champlain, which exists in the present day.) > * Canadian Neighbors > 10. Cities on the Canadian and American sides of the St. Mary's > River share the same name: what is it? Sault Ste. Marie. 4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque. > 11. Name the French dependency, a former overseas department, > that lies west of Point May, Newfoundland. St-Pierre et Miquelon. (Full name required in English or French for full points.) 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque. > 12. Name the uninhabited island in the Nares Strait that is the > subject of a territorial dispute between Canada and Denmark. Hans I. -- as you will remember from Game 8, Round 2, where the reverse of this question was asked. 4 for Dan Blum, Erland, and Dan Tilque. > 13. Many Canadian prime ministers were made British knights, but > there is one who was named a British lord, and he's also the > only one to be buried outside of Canada. Name him. Viscount Richard (R.B.) Bennett. (Buried in England.) > 14. This prime minister was the first to get married while in office, > the first to be divorced while in office, and the first to be > a single parent while in office. Who? Pierre Trudeau. (In office 1968-79 and 1980-84, married 1971-84 to Margaret Trudeau née Sinclair, three children together.) 4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque. > 15. Who was the first Canadian prime minister who was born in > Canada -- or more precisely, whose birthplace was within the > *current* borders of Canada? Sir John Abbott. (In office 1878-91; born 1821 in Lower Canada, now Quebec.) > -- or more precisely, who was born at a place that was *then* > within the borders of *any country, territory, or other entity* > officially known as Canada? Sir Wilfrid Laurier. (In office 1896-1911; born 1841 in the province [i.e. colony] of Canada, now Ontario and Quebec.) Dan Blum gave this answer, but to the wrong version of the question. > 17. Who was the first Canadian prime minister who was born in Canada > -- or more precisely, who was born at a place that was *then* > within the borders of the *same* Canada that exists today? Arthur Meighen. (In office 1920-21 and 1926; born 1874 in Ontario, Canada.) Scores, if there are no errors: FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS TOPICS-> A+L Can Dan Blum 46 8 54 Joshua Kreitzer 26 12 38 Joe Masters 24 0 24 Dan Tilque 4 16 20 "Calvin" 20 0 20 Erland Sommarskog 0 4 4 -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "Dystypsia." msb@vex.net | --Michael Wares gives the reason for a typo My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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