| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 01 11:30PM -0600 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2020-01-13, 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 MI5 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 1, Round 2 - Literature - 21st-Century Prizewinners We'll name the year, the prize, the author's home country, and the title of the winning novel (or novels), and you name the writer in each case. 1. 2015 Booker Prize, Jamaica: "A Brief History of Seven Killings". 2. 2007 Pulitzer Prize, US: "The Road". 3. 2002 Booker Prize, Canada: "The Life of Pi". 4. 2014 Pulitzer Prize, US: "The Goldfinch". 5. 2008 Giller Prize, Canada: "Through Black Spruce". 6. 2004 Giller Prize, Canada: "Runaway". 7. 2009 Pulitzer Prize, US: "Olive Kitteridge". 8. 2009 and 2011 Booker Prizes, UK: "Wolf Hall", "Bring up the Bodies". 9. 2000 and 2019 Booker Prizes, Canada: "The Blind Assassin", "The Testaments". 10. 2011 and 2018 Giller Prizes, Canada: "Half-Blood Blues", "Washington Black". * Game 1, Round 3 - Entertainment: Angels in the Movies 1. 1994. Christopher Lloyd plays Al the Boss Angel, who helps a boy in foster care bring his family back together and helps a California baseball team win the pennant by enabling players to make out-of-this-world catches and run with supersonic speed. Name the movie. 2. 1996. John Travolta plays this angel, out for a last hurrah on Earth before being stuck behind the Pearly Gates. Despite a pack-a-day smoking habit, he always smells like cookies. His name is also the title of the movie. What is it? 3. 1996. Denzel Washington plays Dudley, never without his "Angel's Handbook", whose mission is to save Reverend Henry Biggs' church and his faith without destroying his marriage. Name the movie. 4. 1998. Nicolas Cage plays Seth, with puppy-dog eyes and a black trench coat, who appears to those who are about to die and falls for the doctor who tries to save those people from death. In the end, he gives up his heavenly existence for human love. Name the movie. 5. 2006. Virginia Madsen plays the Angel Asphodel (also known as "Dangerous Woman") with a white trench coat and a monotone voice. She serves as a metaphor for the death of a radio show. Name the movie. 6. 1946. What is the last name of Clarence, the "angel 2nd class" who reminds George Bailey that "No man is a failure who has friends" in "It's a Wonderful Life"? 7. 1978. Warren Beatty plays Joe Pendleton, an L.A. Rams quarterback mistakenly taken to heaven by his guardian angel. By the time the mistake is discovered, Joe's body has been cremated, so a new body must be found for him. Name the movie. 8. 1987. Bruno Ganz plays Damiel, an angel in monochrome Berlin, who longs to be human. He falls in love with a lonely trapeze artist named Marion who lives alone in a caravan. Damiel is persuaded to shed his immortality, whereupon he bleeds, sees colors, tastes food, and drinks coffee. Name the movie. 9. 1999. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon play angels exiled to Wisconsin by a female God. In New Jersey they discover a portal back to Heaven. They sport slacker attire, powerful wings, and metal breastplates and hold their own with WWF superstars. Name the movie. 10. 1998. Brad Pitt plays the Angel of Death, who promises billionaire Bill Parrish that he won't have to die as long as he acts as Death's guide to life on earth. Name the movie. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "[This book] is written in what I believed msb@vex.net | to be my native language." --Susan Stepney My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Mar 02 06:13AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:2N2dneukIIeWB8HDnZ2dnUU7- > title of the winning novel (or novels), and you name the writer > in each case. > 2. 2007 Pulitzer Prize, US: "The Road". McCarthy > 9. 2000 and 2019 Booker Prizes, Canada: "The Blind Assassin", > "The Testaments". Atwood > California baseball team win the pennant by enabling players to > make out-of-this-world catches and run with supersonic speed. > Name the movie. "Angels in the Outfield" > on Earth before being stuck behind the Pearly Gates. Despite a > pack-a-day smoking habit, he always smells like cookies. > His name is also the title of the movie. What is it? "Michael" > 3. 1996. Denzel Washington plays Dudley, never without his "Angel's > Handbook", whose mission is to save Reverend Henry Biggs' church > and his faith without destroying his marriage. Name the movie. "The Preacher's Wife" > falls for the doctor who tries to save those people from death. > In the end, he gives up his heavenly existence for human love. > Name the movie. "City of Angels" > "Dangerous Woman") with a white trench coat and a monotone > voice. She serves as a metaphor for the death of a radio show. > Name the movie. "A Prairie Home Companion" > 6. 1946. What is the last name of Clarence, the "angel 2nd class" > who reminds George Bailey that "No man is a failure who has > friends" in "It's a Wonderful Life"? Oddbody > quarterback mistakenly taken to heaven by his guardian angel. > By the time the mistake is discovered, Joe's body has been > cremated, so a new body must be found for him. Name the movie. "Heaven Can Wait" > artist named Marion who lives alone in a caravan. Damiel is > persuaded to shed his immortality, whereupon he bleeds, sees > colors, tastes food, and drinks coffee. Name the movie. "Wings of Desire" > back to Heaven. They sport slacker attire, powerful wings, > and metal breastplates and hold their own with WWF superstars. > Name the movie. "Dogma" > 10. 1998. Brad Pitt plays the Angel of Death, who promises > billionaire Bill Parrish that he won't have to die as long as > he acts as Death's guide to life on earth. Name the movie. "Meet Joe Black" -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Mar 01 03:29PM -0800 On Friday, February 28, 2020 at 4:16:40 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > about the British Agricultural Revolution. He perfected the > horse-drawn seed drill and later the horse-drawn hoe. Name him > -- first and last name. Jethro Tull > what is the latest iteration of its name on its tractors? > 5. In August 1978, who bought <answer 4> by obtaining control of > its parent Argus Corp.? Conrad Black? > genre. The cover, designed like a newspaper, claims to be > a musical adaptation of an epic poem by fictional 8-year-old > genius, Gerald Bostock. Name that album. Thick as a Brick I hope whoever wrote that round is getting the help they so clearly need. > A1. American, lived 1821-1912. She got involved with tending > the needy after treating injured Union soldiers during the > US Civil War, and later founded the American Red Cross. Mary Seacole > A2. American, lived 1879-1966. She founded the birth-control > movement in the US, and also started the organization that > later became Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Marie Stopes > discrimination, and with helping over 200 Allied soldiers > escape from German-occupied Belgium -- for which she was > arrested and subsequently executed by a German firing squad. Edith Cavell > B2. Born 1972. She is the only athlete in history to win > multiple medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympics, > in cycling and speed skating respectively. Hughes > In each case name them. > C1. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/roof/C1.jpg > C2. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/roof/C2.jpg A frame > D1. The world's largest landlocked country by area, this country > is bordered by Russia, China, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, > and Kyrgyzstan, as well as the Caspian and Aral Seas. Kazakhstan > D2. The world's largest landlocked country by population, this > country is bordered by Eritrea, Somalia, Djibouti, Kenya, > Sudan, and South Sudan. Ethiopia > D3. The largest landlocked country in South America, this country > is bordered by Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Peru, and Chile. Bolivia > E2. Edgar Barrier, Brian Aherne, Vincent Price, Tim Conway, > and Barry Sullivan all played Simon Templar on the radio, > while Roger Moore and Ian Ogilvy played him in the TV series. The Saint > * F. Fun Christmas Trivia > F1. What did my true love give me as a new gift on the 8th day > of Christmas? 8 maids a milking > F2. In the poem "'Twas the Night before Christmas", visions of > what food danced in children's heads as they slept nestled > in their beds? Sugarplums > 20th century, this Mexican started painting as an escape > from her lifelong pain brought on by childhood polio and > a later bus accident. Frida Kahlo cheers, calvin |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 01 11:25PM -0600 Mark Brader: > and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information > see my 2019-10-16 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian > Inquisition (QFTCI*)". The Final game of the Red Smarties' season is over, and the winner by a healthy margin is JOSHUA KREITZER. Hearty congratulations! Well done, sir! Next we will move on to the current season, being set by MI5, which you have already been seeing current-events rounds from. > memory and made a claim I could not find any information to support, > and improvised a replacement question that'd be too easy to actually > use in our league. That was question #14, of course. > about the British Agricultural Revolution. He perfected the > horse-drawn seed drill and later the horse-drawn hoe. Name him > -- first and last name. Jethro Tull. 4 for everyone -- Dan Blum, Joe, Erland, Joshua, Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Calvin. > Would rather make it with a leching grey, > Or maybe her attention is drawn by Aqualung, > Who watches through the railings as they play. "Cross-Eyed Mary". 4 for Joe, Erland, and Stephen. > I think God he stole the handle, > And the train it won't stop going, > No way to slow down "Locomotive Breath". 4 for Joe, Erland, and Stephen. > Ontario. It has been known by several names through various > expansions. Known for its reapers, threshers, and tractors, > what is the latest iteration of its name on its tractors? Massey Ferguson. 4 for Stephen. > 5. In August 1978, who bought <answer 4> by obtaining control of > its parent Argus Corp.? Conrad Black. 4 for Dan Blum, Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Calvin. > 6. In October 2002 Queen Elizabeth II conferred on <answer 5> > a life peerage with what title? Lord Black of Crossharbour. 4 for Stephen. > British-born journalist, who he described as "beautiful, > brilliant, ideologically a robust spirit, chic, humorous, > and preternaturally sexy". Name her. Barbara Amiel. 4 for Stephen. > of their athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972. It was > later developed into the 2005 Steven Spielberg movie "Munich". > Name that writer. George Jonas. 4 for Stephen. > 9. Speaking of the "Toronto Sun", who was their first Editor-in- > Chief, from 1976 through 1982? Peter Worthington. 4 for Stephen. > 10. What company acquired the "Toronto Sun" in 2015? Postmedia. 4 for Stephen. > 11. The flagship newspaper of <answer 10>, now published 5 days > a week from Tuesday through Saturday, was founded in 1998 by > <answer 5>. Name this newspaper. The "National Post". 4 for Stephen. > Vaughan at another Toronto newspaper's press center, until that > paper closed the place and outsourced its own printing in 2016. > Name that other newspaper. The "Toronto Star". 4 for Stephen. > weekly basis. It's publisher from 1899 until 1949 was Joseph > Atkinson. What famous bow-tie wearer was its publisher from > 1994 to 2004? John Honderich. (One of his predecessors was his father, Beland Honderich, but the surname was still sufficient.) 4 for Stephen. > 14. Give the full current name of the daily newspaper that claims > the title of Toronto's oldest -- the one that isn't <answer 10> > or <answer 11>, and hasn't been mentioned in this round. The "Globe and Mail". 4 for Dan Tilque. 3 for Joshua. I used the word "claims" because it depends on what you count. The "Globe and Mail" per se was actually formed in 1936 when the "Globe" (founded in 1844) and the "Mail and Empire" were bought by the same publisher and merged. Meanwhile the "Toronto Star" goes back to 1892 and has not merged with another paper, although it has had a couple of title changes (it was first the "Evening Star", then the "Toronto Daily Star"). The "Globe and Mail" considers itself the same paper as the "Globe", hence oldest. > genre. The cover, designed like a newspaper, claims to be > a musical adaptation of an epic poem by fictional 8-year-old > genius, Gerald Bostock. Name that album. "Thick as a Brick". 4 for Joe, Erland, Joshua, Stephen, and Calvin. > A1. American, lived 1821-1912. She got involved with tending > the needy after treating injured Union soldiers during the > US Civil War, and later founded the American Red Cross. Clara Barton. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Stephen. > A2. American, lived 1879-1966. She founded the birth-control > movement in the US, and also started the organization that > later became Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Margaret Sanger. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Stephen. > discrimination, and with helping over 200 Allied soldiers > escape from German-occupied Belgium -- for which she was > arrested and subsequently executed by a German firing squad. Edith Cavell. 4 for Joe, Stephen, and Calvin. She was commemorated, among other ways, by the renaming of this mountain in Jasper National Park: http://boundtoexplore.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/mt-edith-cavell-angel-glacier.jpg > B1. Born 2000. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, she won 4 medals, > which tied her with Victor Davis as Canada's most decorated > Olympic swimmer of all time. Penny Oleksiak. 4 for Stephen. > B2. Born 1972. She is the only athlete in history to win > multiple medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympics, > in cycling and speed skating respectively. Clara Hughes. 4 for Stephen and Calvin. > of all time, and is the first female skip and only the > second skip in history to go undefeated to win Olympic gold, > this in 2014 at Sochi. Jennifer Jones. 4 for Stephen. > * C. Roof Types > In each case name them. > C1. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/roof/C1.jpg Mansard. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. > C2. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/roof/C2.jpg (Open) gable. 4 for Dan Blum and Stephen. > C3. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/roof/C3.jpg Gambrel. 4 for Stephen. > D1. The world's largest landlocked country by area, this country > is bordered by Russia, China, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, > and Kyrgyzstan, as well as the Caspian and Aral Seas. Kazakhstan. 4 for everyone. > D2. The world's largest landlocked country by population, this > country is bordered by Eritrea, Somalia, Djibouti, Kenya, > Sudan, and South Sudan. Ethiopia. 4 for Dan Blum, Erland, Joshua, Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Calvin. > D3. The largest landlocked country in South America, this country > is bordered by Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Peru, and Chile. Bolivia. 4 for Dan Blum, Erland, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Calvin. > E1. William Conrad played Marshall Matt Dillon on the radio, > but when the show moved to television, his weight was > deemed an issue, and James Arness was cast in his place. "Gunsmoke". 4 for Dan Blum, Joe, Joshua, Stephen, and Dan Tilque. > E2. Edgar Barrier, Brian Aherne, Vincent Price, Tim Conway, > and Barry Sullivan all played Simon Templar on the radio, > while Roger Moore and Ian Ogilvy played him in the TV series. As Joshua noticed, that should've been *Tom*, not Tim, Conway. Sorry. "The Saint". 4 for Dan Blum, Joe, Joshua, Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Calvin. > both a movie and then on the radio, before declining to > play him on TV. A few years later, Richard Chamberlain > was tapped to play the title role. "Dr. Kildare". 4 for Dan Blum, Joe, Joshua, Stephen, and Dan Tilque. > * F. Fun Christmas Trivia > F1. What did my true love give me as a new gift on the 8th day > of Christmas? Eight maids a-milking. 4 for Joshua and Calvin. 3 for Stephen. > F2. In the poem "'Twas the Night before Christmas", visions of > what food danced in children's heads as they slept nestled > in their beds? Sugar plums. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Calvin. > F3. From what book come the lines: "Maybe Christmas, he thought, > doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas... perhaps... > means a little bit more"? "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua. 3 for Stephen. > getting a type of stanza named for her (3 long lines coupled > with 1 short one), she is also credited with inventing the > 21-string lyre. Sappho. Dan Blum, Joe, and Joshua got this. > are said to contain aspects of the magical-realism genre. > US president Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential > Medal of Freedom. Isabel Allende. Dan Blum, Joe, Joshua, and Stephen got this. > 20th century, this Mexican started painting as an escape > from her lifelong pain brought on by childhood polio and > a later bus accident. Frida Kahlo. Dan Blum, Joe, Joshua, Stephen, and Calvin got this. Scores, if there are no errors: FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST TOPICS-> A+L Can Ent Sci Geo Spo Mis Cha SIX Joshua Kreitzer 26 12 56 30 56 40 11 48 256 Dan Blum 46 8 20 44 46 24 8 48 228 Dan Tilque 4 16 12 44 50 16 12 32 170 "Calvin" 20 0 16 15 31 10 12 32 126 Erland Sommarskog 0 4 4 23 56 8 16 12 119 Stephen Perry -- -- -- -- -- -- 56 62 118 Joe Masters 24 0 16 4 4 24 16 20 104 Pete Gayde -- -- 28 4 -- -- -- -- 32 -- Mark Brader "It really was quite easy; it was the Toronto explanations and banter that took msb@vex.net all the time." --Steve Summit My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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