- QFTCIMI520 Game 3, Rounds 4,6: important characters, nuclear - 2 Updates
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| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 30 02:42AM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2020-01-27, 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 3, Round 4 - Entertainment - Most Important Characters of 25 Years In August 2019, the online magazine "Slate" polled critics and culture-obsessives to come up with a list of the most influential characters from movies, books, TV, video games, podcasts, tweets, comics, songs, and musicals. The only rule was that the characters must have originated in a work of culture sometime in the past quarter-century. Here's a round about some of Slate's choices. 1. #15 on the list is a character from Barack Obama's favorite political movie, "Election". Played by Reese Witherspoon, she is a tightly-wound and ruthlessly dedicated candidate for student body president. Name her. 2. #11 is the teen vampire heartthrob of Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" novels. Played by Robert Pattinson in the movies, he is the archetypal (and glittery) romance novel hero: handsome, brooding, utterly devoted, protective, a bit mysterious, and rich. Name him. 3. #16 is the character played by Michael K. Williams on the TV show "The Wire". He is an openly gay black man described as the "Robin Hood of Baltimore". Name him. 4. #1 is the wife of a complex TV anti-hero, shaped by her relation to a man's misdeeds. With lacquered hair and acrylic nails, she is equally at home presenting a ricotta pie with pineapple or scrabbling through a bag of birdseed in pursuit of $40,000 in cash. Name her -- first and last names, please. 5. #12 is the hyper-competent Washington DC fixer played by Kerry Washington on the TV series "Scandal". She was the first female black character to lead a prime-time network drama in nearly 40 years. Name her. 6. #6 is not generally a beloved character, although George Lucas has defiantly named him *his* favorite. The actor who played him received death threats and contemplated suicide. He remains the standard by which other irritating characters are assessed. Name him. 7. #25 is an expert fixer and shadowy manipulator from Hilary Mantel's novels "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies". Mark Rylance played him in the 2015 BBC adaptation, as an archetype of the exercise of power and an often unseen puppet-master. Name him. 8. #23 is a romantic heroine from TV, an Indian-American woman, bigger than a size 0, with a penchant for bright colors and a thriving career as an Ob/Gyn. Name this character. 9. Character #13 is Sadness, a little blue blob with glasses, voiced by Phyllis Smith, who helped kids (and their parents) understand the value of mourning and the cleansing power of a good cry. Name the *Pixar movie* that featured the character Sadness. 10. #21 is Sarah Koenig, the amateur PI of a podcast which scrutinized the murder of high-schooler Hae Min Lee, allegedly by her boyfriend Adnan Syed. Name the *podcast*. * Game 3, Round 6 - Science - Nuclear Reactions and Reactors 1. It is well known that Canada has developed a type of reactor called the CANDU. What does the letter D stand for in CANDU? 2. Please complete the previous question before decoding the rot13 for the next two. Jung vf gur anzr pbzzbayl tvira gb jngre gung pbagnvaf qrhgrevhz ngbzf vafgrnq bs nyy bs gur beqvanel ulqebtra ngbzf? 3. Gb gur arnerfg jubyr creprag naq jvguva 2 crepragntr cbvagf, ubj znal creprag urnivre vf <nafjre 3> guna abezny jngre? Now please decode the rot13 for question #4 only after you are finished with questions #1-3. 4. Gheavat sebz urnil gb yvtug jngre, gurer ner 3 glcrf bs yvtug-jngre ernpgbef. Gjb bs gurz ner obvyvat-jngre ernpgbef naq fhcrepevgvpny-jngre ernpgbef. Anzr gur *bgure* glcr bs yvtug-jngre ernpgbe, juvpu vf sbhaq va gur ynetr znwbevgl bs gur jbeyq'f ahpyrne cbjre cynagf. 5. An alternative to uranium can be used as a source of nuclear fuel in a reactor. There is about 4 times more of this alternative in the Earth's crust than uranium, and its half-life is longer than uranium's. It does not undergo fission itself in the reactor, but is first transmuted into uranium-233. What is it? 6. On 1938-12-17, two scientists working together obtained a result that they did not understand. One of them wrote to a former colleague, who did understand -- they had discovered nuclear fission. In what country was experiment done? 7. In Einstein's equation now written "E = mc²", the C may be understood as the initial of a Latin-derived word in English. What word is that? 8. The US built three nuclear bombs in 1945. Two were used in Japan and one was exploded as a test near Alamagordo, New Mexico, as part of the Manhattan Project. What was the code name for this detonation? 9. What is the name given to the combining of atomic nuclei, usually in pairs, to create a heavier nucleus of a different element? 10. What is the familial name given to the large fragments left after fission that can form the nuclei of new atoms? -- Mark Brader "...living through a coup involves a lot of Toronto sitting around refreshing web pages." msb@vex.net --Harriet Boulding My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Mar 30 03:26AM -0700 On Monday, March 30, 2020 at 5:43:03 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > she is equally at home presenting a ricotta pie with pineapple > or scrabbling through a bag of birdseed in pursuit of $40,000 > in cash. Name her -- first and last names, please. Mrs Soprano I guess but can't recall her given name > him received death threats and contemplated suicide. He remains > the standard by which other irritating characters are assessed. > Name him. Jar Jar Binks > Rylance played him in the 2015 BBC adaptation, as an archetype > of the exercise of power and an often unseen puppet-master. > Name him. Cromwell > by Phyllis Smith, who helped kids (and their parents) understand > the value of mourning and the cleansing power of a good cry. > Name the *Pixar movie* that featured the character Sadness. Inside Out > for the next two. Jung vf gur anzr pbzzbayl tvira gb jngre > gung pbagnvaf qrhgrevhz ngbzf vafgrnq bs nyy bs gur beqvanel > ulqebtra ngbzf? Heavy water > 3. Gb gur arnerfg jubyr creprag naq jvguva 2 crepragntr cbvagf, > ubj znal creprag urnivre vf <nafjre 3> guna abezny jngre? 20% > in the Earth's crust than uranium, and its half-life is longer > than uranium's. It does not undergo fission itself in the > reactor, but is first transmuted into uranium-233. What is it? Polonium, Radium > that they did not understand. One of them wrote to a former > colleague, who did understand -- they had discovered nuclear > fission. In what country was experiment done? Germany, France > this detonation? > 9. What is the name given to the combining of atomic nuclei, usually > in pairs, to create a heavier nucleus of a different element? Nuclear fusion > 10. What is the familial name given to the large fragments left > after fission that can form the nuclei of new atoms? Alpha particles cheers, calvin |
| swp <stephen.w.perry@gmail.com>: Mar 29 08:00PM -0700 On Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 1:34:12 AM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote: > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2020-01-27, > and should be interpreted accordingly. noted > holder, but the one before that. Where applicable, be unambiguous > -- give name and number, middle initials, etc. as needed. > 1. President of the United States. george w bush > 2. Prime Minister of Canada. martin > 3. Mayor of Toronto. miller > 4. President of France. fillon > 5. Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of Canada. brader ; summit > 6. Premier of Alberta. johnson ; africa > 7. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. david cameron > 8. Pope. Saint John Paul II > 9. Chancellor of Germany. helmut kohl > 10. Crowned monarch of the United Kingdom. (Where "crowned" means > that they had a coronation.) edward viii > For example, if we said Deutschland, you would answer Germany. > For countries with multiple languages we will give only one name. > 1. Österreich. austria > 2. Suomi. finland > 3. Magyarország. hungary > 4. Al-Yaman. yemen > 5. Nippon. japan > 6. Sverige. sweden > 7. Norge. norway > 8. Hellas. greece > 9. Éire. ireland > 10. Schweiz. switzerland swp |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 30 02:41AM -0500 Mark Brader: > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2020-01-27, > and should be interpreted accordingly... I will reveal the correct > answers in about 3 days. Apparently I missed a day there. At least we got one more entry that way. > holder, but the one before that. Where applicable, be unambiguous > -- give name and number, middle initials, etc. as needed. > 1. President of the United States. George W. Bush (2001-09, followed by Barack Obama to 2017, Donald Trump). 4 for everyone -- Bruce, Dan Blum, Joshua, Erland, Pete, Calvin, Dan Tilque, and Stephen. > 2. Prime Minister of Canada. Paul Martin (2003-06, Stephen Harper to 2015, Justin Trudeau). 4 for Stephen. > 3. Mayor of Toronto. David Miller (2003-10, Rob Ford to 2014, John Tory; Norm Kelly, in 2014, was only acting mayor). 4 for Stephen. > 4. President of France. Nicolas Sarkozy (2007-12, François Hollande to 2017, Emmanuel Macron). 4 for Erland. > 5. Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of Canada. Peter MacKay (2013-15, Jody Wilson-Raybauld to 2019, David Lametti). > 6. Premier of Alberta. Jim Prentice (2014-15, Rachel Notley to 2019, Jason Kenney). > 7. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. David Cameron (2010-16, Theresa May to 2019, Boris Johnson). 4 for everyone. > 8. Pope. John Paul II (1978-2005, Benedict XVI to 2013, Francis I). 4 for everyone. > 9. Chancellor of Germany. Helmut Kohl (1982-98, Gerhard Schröder to 2005, Angela Merkel). 4 for Dan Blum, Erland, Pete, and Stephen. 2 for Calvin. > 10. Crowned monarch of the United Kingdom. (Where "crowned" means > that they had a coronation.) George V (1910-36, George VI 1936-52, Elizabeth II; Edward VIII, in 1936, was not crowned). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Erland, Pete, Calvin, and Dan Tilque. > the name of that country in English, that is, its English exonym. > For example, if we said Deutschland, you would answer Germany. > For countries with multiple languages we will give only one name. This was the easiest round in the original game -- and it seems even more so here! I was disppointed not to see Hrvatska or Shqipëria in it, myself. But I suppose you all know those two too. > 1. Österreich. Austria. 4 for everyone. > 2. Suomi. Finland. 4 for everyone. That's Finnish; it's also "Finland", in Swedish. > 3. Magyarország. Hungary. 4 for everyone. > 4. Al-Yaman. Yemen. 4 for everyone. > 5. Nippon. Japan. 4 for everyone. > 6. Sverige. Sweden. 4 for everyone. > 7. Norge. Norway. 4 for everyone. > 8. Hellas. Greece. 4 for everyone. > 9. Éire. Ireland. 4 for everyone. That's Irish, aka Gaelic; it's also "Ireland", in English. > 10. Schweiz. Switzerland. 4 for everyone. That's German; it's also "Suisse", in French; "Svizzera", in Italian; and "Svizra", in Romansch.) Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 3 ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS TOPICS-> His Geo Erland Sommarskog 24 40 64 Stephen Perry 24 40 64 Pete Gayde 20 40 60 Dan Blum 20 40 60 "Calvin" 18 40 58 Dan Tilque 16 40 56 Joshua Kreitzer 16 40 56 Bruce Bowler 12 40 52 -- Mark Brader "I'm not Richard, either. Toronto Oh, wait: I am! Lucky me!" msb@vex.net --Richard R. Hershberger My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| swp <stephen.w.perry@gmail.com>: Mar 29 07:45PM -0700 On Wednesday, March 25, 2020 at 8:29:18 PM UTC-4, Calvin wrote: > 1 In 2017 the Vegas Golden Knights became the 31st team to join which North American sports league? nhl > 2 Which American composer and songwriter was the subject of the bio-pics Night and Day (1946) and De-Lovely (2004)? cole porter > 3 Hepatitis mainly affects which human organ? liver > 4 How many letters are there in the Greek alphabet? 24 > 5 What surname links father Andy who played 34 rugby league Tests for Great Britain, and son Owen who has represented England in rugby union since 2012? rooney > 6 In which 1988 Oscar winning film do the characters Charlie and Raymond Babbitt appear? rainman > 7 What is the world's most expensive spice? saffron > 8 Which Japanese artist is best known for the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji? hokusai > 9 In October 1960, which statesman pounded his shoe on his desk in a protest during the United Nations General Assembly in New York? khrushchev > 10 The post boxes of both Germany's Deutsche Post and France's La Poste are predominantly what colour? yellow swp |
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