| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Feb 22 02:57PM > Name the movies. > 4. This David Fincher movie from 1999 features a main character > who is never named. Memento > 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 Treasure of the Sierra Madre > 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. Reservoir Dogs > 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 Richards > * TV Spinoffs > In each case, name the series that these were spun off from. > 10. "Joey". Friends > 11. "Better Call Saul". Breaking Bad > 12. "Mork & Mindy". Joanie Loves Chachi > 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. Peter Popoff > 16,000-seat stadium. He was heavily criticized for not opening > his church to those seeking refuge from Hurricane Harvey in 2017. > Name him. Joel Osteen > in the late 1940s. One of his biographers has placed him "among > the most influential Christian leaders" of the 20th century. > Who? Billy Graham > ** Final, Round 6 - Science > * Household Chemicals > 1. NH3, http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-6/chem/1.png ammonia > * Famous Thought-Experiments > 4. What is the linguistic name of John Searle's 1980 thought- > experiment that argues against strong artificial intelligence? Chinese Room > 5. What general concept does David Hilbert's Grand Hotel paradox > seek to address? infinity > 6. Who is the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise attributed to? > This thought-experiment argues against the possibility of motion. Zeno of Elea > 7. What name was given to the virus believed to have been written > for the US Government to attack Iranian nuclear facilities > in 2010? Stuxnet > 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 > * Name the Vitamin > 10. Ascorbic acid. C > 11. Tocopherol. B2; B6 > 12. Calciferol. D > * Language Families > 13. English, Faroese, Hindi, Hungarian, Spanish. Hungarian > 14. Burmese, Cantonese, Japanese, Mandarin, Tibetan. Japanese > 15. Amharic, Arabic, Hebrew, Maltese, Persian (or Farsi). Persian -- _______________________________________________________________________ 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>: Feb 22 03:22PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:8u-dnT5gm7syUs3DnZ2dnUU7- > 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. Cuaron > 2. Name the Mexican director responsible for movies such as "The > Holy Mountain", "El Topo", and "Fando y Lis". Jodorowsky > 3. Name the Latino director who shared some award nominations > with Quentin Tarantino for the 2007 "double-feature" horror movie > "Grindhouse". Rodriguez > Name the movies. > 4. This David Fincher movie from 1999 features a main character > who is never named. "Fight Club" > 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" > 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. "Bad Lieutenant" > * Weird Movie Cameos > 7. One of the few human characters in "The SpongeBob SquarePants > Movie", this actor is first seen running along the beach. David Hasselhoff > 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? "Hook" > 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 Richards > * TV Spinoffs > In each case, name the series that these were spun off from. > 10. "Joey". "Friends" > 11. "Better Call Saul". "Breaking Bad" > 12. "Mork & Mindy". "Happy Days" > 16,000-seat stadium. He was heavily criticized for not opening > his church to those seeking refuge from Hurricane Harvey in 2017. > Name him. Joel Osteen > in the late 1940s. One of his biographers has placed him "among > the most influential Christian leaders" of the 20th century. > Who? Billy Graham > 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 ammonia > 3. NaClO, http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-6/chem/3.png lye > * Famous Thought-Experiments > 4. What is the linguistic name of John Searle's 1980 thought- > experiment that argues against strong artificial intelligence? Chinese box > 5. What general concept does David Hilbert's Grand Hotel paradox > seek to address? infinity > 6. Who is the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise attributed to? > This thought-experiment argues against the possibility of motion. Zeno > In each case give the usual single-letter (or for any B vitamins, > letter-and-number) name. > 10. Ascorbic acid. C > 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. Hungarian > 14. Burmese, Cantonese, Japanese, Mandarin, Tibetan. Japanese; Burmese > 15. Amharic, Arabic, Hebrew, Maltese, Persian (or Farsi). Persian -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Feb 22 12:56PM -0800 On 2/21/20 10:52 PM, Mark Brader wrote: > 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 > 10. "Joey". > 11. "Better Call Saul". > 12. "Mork & Mindy". Happy Days ?? > in the late 1940s. One of his biographers has placed him "among > the most influential Christian leaders" of the 20th century. > Who? Billy Graham > 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 ammonia > 2. CH3COOH, http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-6/chem/2.jpg methanol > 3. NaClO, http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-6/chem/3.png bleach > seek to address? > 6. Who is the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise attributed to? > This thought-experiment argues against the possibility of motion. Xeno > 7. What name was given to the virus believed to have been written > for the US Government to attack Iranian nuclear facilities > in 2010? Stuxnet > 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 > 11. Tocopherol. E > 12. Calciferol. D > 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. Hungarian > 14. Burmese, Cantonese, Japanese, Mandarin, Tibetan. Japanese > 15. Amharic, Arabic, Hebrew, Maltese, Persian (or Farsi). Persian -- Dan Tilque |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Feb 22 02:49PM > 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. It was also on Jeopardy recently. That's where I remembered it from. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Feb 22 04:47PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:1-ydnZbqHdvkVNHDnZ2dnUU7- > 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? Brughels; Rembrandt > "Flower Portrait"? > 3. A fake sculpture by Cellini was depicted in which 1966 > art-forgery film starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole? The Thomas Crown Affair > * Flemish Painters > In each case name the artist. > 4. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/art/4.jpg Breughel > 5. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/art/5.jpg Breughel > 6. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/art/6.jpg Breughel > * Marvel Supervillains > In each case name the supervillain. > 7. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/marv/7.jpg Dr. Doom > 8. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/marv/8.jpg > 9. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/marv/9.jpg Dr. Doom > * Literary Ghosts > 13. In "Macbeth", whose ghost walks right into a banquet hall > covered in blood and sits down in Macbeth's seat? MacDuff > (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. Victoria; Vancouver > 5. Roméo LeBlanc, 25th governor-general of Canada. Quebec City; Montreal > 6. John Diefenbaker, 13th prime minister of Canada. Winnipeg; Regina > * Canadian Neighbors > 10. Cities on the Canadian and American sides of the St. Mary's > River share the same name: what is it? Sault St Marie > 11. Name the French dependency, a former overseas department, > that lies west of Point May, Newfoundland. St Pierre et Miquelon > 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. McKenzie > 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? Diefenbaker > 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? Pete Gayde |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 22 01:15PM -0600 Mark Brader: >> 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. Dan Blum: > It was also on Jeopardy recently. That's where I remembered it from. Oh, right, on 2020-01-14 in the special "Greatest of All Time" tournament. They named Canada and asked for the other country, giving a hint that referred to aquavit. Ken Jennings knew it. -- Mark Brader | "...not one accident in a hundred deserves the name. Toronto | [This occurrence] was simply the legitimate result msb@vex.net | of carelessness." -- Washington Roebling |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 22 01:33PM -0600 If Pete Gayde had posted his answers on time, he would have scored 8 points in Round 2 and 8 in Round 3. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "When you're up to your ass in alligators, maybe msb@vex.net | you're in the wrong swamp." -- Bill Stewart |
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