| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 02 01:51AM -0500 You may recall this round that I posted less than a week ago: > Ireland. 4 for everyone... > > 10. Schweiz. > Switzerland. 4 for everyone. Well, yesterday (2020-04-01), "Jeopardy!" had a category on exactly the same topic. In order of value from $200 to $1,000, the countries they used were: Éire, Zhongguo, Magyarország, Österreich, Eesti Vabariik. The players went to this category first and in each case the first one to try a question got it right. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "...This is due to the Coincidence effect, msb@vex.net | more so than the Coriolis." -- Cindy Kandolf My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 02 01:43AM -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 4, Round 7 - Entertainment - Sweaty Movies It's the dead of winter and we're all freezing. Here's a round to warm you up, all about movies set during hot weather. We'll give you the year of the movie's release, where it is set, and three members of the cast, and you name the movie. 1. 1989, Brooklyn: Danny Aiello, Ruby Dee, Rosie Perez. 2. 1957, New York County: Henry Fonda, Martin Balsam, Lee J, Cobb. 3. 1981, Jakarta: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Murphy, Bembol Roco. 4. 1996, Canton, Mississippi: Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Spacey. 5. 1954, Greenwich Village, New York City: Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr, Grace Kelly. 6. 1958, Mississippi: Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Dame Judith Anderson. 7. 1990, Texas: Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly. 8. 1999, New York City: John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino. 9. 1981, Florida: William Hurt, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson. 10. 1991, Los Angeles: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis. * Game 4, Round 8 - Science - The Human Body 1. There are three sets of these organs in the body: lingual, pharyngeal, and palatine. But when most people speak their name, they're referring to the palatine ones. What organs? 2. What is the largest vein in the human body? 3. Ammon's horn is a part of which major component of the human brain? 4. What is the body's second-largest organ by weight, after the skin? 5. Borborygmus is the medical term for what sometimes embarrassing bodily function? 6. Which part of the digestive system acts as a switch between the larynx and the esophagus, routing air into the lungs and food away from them? 7. Name the smallest bone in a human's spinal column. 8. What is the name of the glands that produce tears? 9. Where in the human body do you find the alveoli? 10. The smallest bone in the human body is in the ear. What is it called? After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh whfg fnvq "iran pnin" sbe nal nafjre, cyrnfr tb onpx naq pbzcyrgr vg. -- Mark Brader "The people have spoken... Toronto And they must be punished!" msb@vex.net --Ed Koch, after not being reelected, 1989 My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Bruce Bowler <bruce.bowler@gmail.com>: Apr 01 01:04PM On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 02:42:58 -0500, Mark Brader wrote: > posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". > * Game 3, Round 4 - Entertainment - Most Important Characters of 25 > Years nope > * 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? deuterium > 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? 10% > 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. Pressurized water reactor > 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? Plutonium > 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? swift > 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? Trinity > 9. What is the name given to the combining of atomic nuclei, usually > in pairs, to create a heavier nucleus of a different element? Fusion |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 01 03:44PM -0500 Erland Sommarskog: > (Really 4 times more than uranium?...) Yes, really. More or less, anyway; different sources give somewhat different numbers. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "I will take your word for it: this is very amusing." msb@vex.net | --"Suddenly Human", ST:TNG, Phillips/Whelpley/Taylor |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 02 01:41AM -0500 Mark Brader: > 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. This was the hardest round in the original game. > political movie, "Election". Played by Reese Witherspoon, > she is a tightly-wound and ruthlessly dedicated candidate for > student body president. Name her. Tracy Flick. (1999 movie.) 4 for Joshua and Dan. > is the archetypal (and glittery) romance novel hero: handsome, > brooding, utterly devoted, protective, a bit mysterious, > and rich. Name him. Edward Cullen. (First novel "Twilight", 2005. As usual the surname was required.) 4 for Dan. > 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. Omar Little. (2002-08 series.) > 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. Carmela Soprano. ("The Sopranos", 1999-2007 series. I scored "Carlotta Soprano" as almost correct.) 3 for Dan. > 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. Olivia Pope. (2012-18 series.) > him received death threats and contemplated suicide. He remains > the standard by which other irritating characters are assessed. > Name him. Jar Jar Binks. (Introduced in the fourth "Star Wars" movie, "Episode I: The Phantom Menace", 1999.) 4 for Calvin, Joshua, Dan, and Pete. > Rylance played him in the 2015 BBC adaptation, as an archetype > of the exercise of power and an often unseen puppet-master. > Name him. Thomas Cromwell. (First novel 2009, and yeah, we're talking about a real person from 16th-century politics.) 4 for Calvin and Dan. > 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. Mindy Lahiri. ("The Mindy Project", 2012-17 series.) 4 for Joshua and Dan. > 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". (2015.) 4 for Calvin, Joshua, and Dan. > 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*. "Serial". (Began 1999.) 4 for Dan and Pete. > * 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? Deuterium. ("Canada Deuterium-Uranium" reactor.) 4 for Joshua, Dan, Erland, Stephen, and Bruce. > for the next two. What is the name commonly given to water > that contains deuterium atoms instead of all of the ordinary > hydrogen atoms? Heavy water. 4 for everyone -- Calvin, Joshua, Dan, Erland, Stephen, Pete, and Bruce. > 3. To the nearest whole percent and within 2 percentage points, > how many percent heavier is <answer 3> than normal water? 11% (accepting 9-13%). 4 for Erland, Stephen, and Bruce. 3 for Pete. > and supercritical-water reactors. Name the *other* type of > light-water reactor, which is found in the large majority of > the world's nuclear power plants. Pressurized-water reactor. 4 for Erland, Stephen, and Bruce. > 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? Thorium. 4 for Joshua, Dan, Erland, and Stephen. > 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. (Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Berlin.) 4 for Stephen. 3 for Calvin and Dan. 2 for Pete. Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann did the experiment; Lise Meitner, who had moved to Sweden to escape the Nazis, received the letter. > 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? Celerity. 4 for Joshua and Stephen. > 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? Trinity. 4 for Joshua, Dan, Stephen, and Bruce. > 9. What is the name given to the combining of atomic nuclei, usually > in pairs, to create a heavier nucleus of a different element? Fusion. 4 for Calvin, Joshua, Dan, Erland, Stephen, and Bruce. > 10. What is the familial name given to the large fragments left > after fission that can form the nuclei of new atoms? Daughter nuclei (or particles, etc.). 4 for Joshua. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 3 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS TOPICS-> His Geo Ent Sci Dan Blum 20 40 31 23 114 Stephen Perry 24 40 0 36 100 Joshua Kreitzer 16 40 16 28 100 Erland Sommarskog 24 40 0 24 88 "Calvin" 18 40 12 11 81 Pete Gayde 20 40 8 9 77 Bruce Bowler 12 40 0 24 76 Dan Tilque 16 40 -- -- 56 -- 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. |
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