| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 27 09:02PM -0600 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2003-02-03, and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written by members of the Usual Suspects, but have been reformatted and may have been retyped and/or edited by me. I will reveal the correct answers in about 3 days. For further information, including an explanation of the """ notation that may appear in these rounds, see my 2020-06-23 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)". I wrote both of these rounds. * Game 3, Round 4 - Geography - Urban Landmarks Read these carefully: where compass directions are used, sometimes they """are""" the direction *from* the landmark *to* adjacent places, and sometimes the other way, whichever was more convenient. 1. In New York, name the road that """connects""" the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Empire State Building. """It's""" one-way southbound, so you have to visit them in that order. 2. In Montreal, this one-way westbound road """parallels""" the eastbound Rue Ste-Catherine; from the Université de Québec campus it """takes""" you to the Place des Arts, Eaton Centre (or Centre Eaton), and Westmount Square. Name the road. 3. In Rome, this plaza, or piazza, """sits""" north of the Victor Emmanuel II monument and has the Via Del Corso leading north from it. On the west side of the plaza """are""" a palace of the same name and the church of San Marco. Name the plaza. 4. In Washington, grouped together on the south side of the Mall from west to east """are""" the Freer Gallery, the Austin M. Sackler Gallery, the African Art museum, and the Arts & Industries museum. Identify the building that sits just north of the middle of this group; north of it, in turn, """is""" the National Museum of Natural History on the other side of the Mall. Please identify the building we want by either its specific function or its nickname. 5. In London, this park """is""" bounded on its north by The Mall, and on its south by Birdcage Walk. It """extends""" west almost to Buckingham Palace, and east almost to Whitehall. Name the park. 6. In Buenos Aires, name the plaza that """is""" bordered by the Casa Rosada (the Presidential Palace) on the east, and the Cathedral on the north. A street with the same name as the plaza """starts""" at its west side and """extends""" to the Plaza del Congreso. 7. In Sydney, give the name of the main ferry dock (and its local train station) on the city side of the harbor. """It's""" a short walk southwest from the Opera House, or southeast from the Rocks and the south end of the Harbour Bridge. 8. In Vienna, from this complex of buildings, if you go southwest across the Ring you """will""" find the Museum of Fine Art (Kunsthistorisches Museum) and the Museum of Natural History (Naturhistorisches Museum). To the west """is""" the Volksgarten, and on its northeast side, the complex itself """includes""" the Spanish Riding School (Spanische Hofreitschule). Name the complex. 9. In Vancouver, if you go south from BC Place or GM Place, or if you go northeast from the Macmillan Space Centre and Museum of Vancouver, or if you go in almost any direction from Granville Island, you """will""" reach different parts of the same body of water. Name that body of water. 10. In Paris, if you go southeast from the Trocadéro Gardens across the Seine, you """will""" pass the Eiffel Tower and then enter this park, which extends almost to the École Militaire. Name the park. * Game 3, Round 6 - History - Polar Explorers This round is about Arctic and Antarctic explorations in the 19th and 20th centuries. In the interest of fair credit, we point out that every one of the journeys in this round involved a team or crew of men, often sizable numbers of them; but in the interest of convenience, we will mostly speak as if the expedition leaders had traveled alone. 1. After sailing from Norway to Siberia in 1893, this explorer got his specially designed ship trapped deliberately in the oceanic pack ice, whose drift he hoped would take him near the North Pole. Instead it went mainly westward, over 1,000 miles in three years until the ice released the ship. Name *either* the explorer or the ship, which was later used on the first expedition to reach the South Pole. 2. In 1909 two explorers each claimed to have been the first to reach the North Pole. The second of these claims was generally accepted at the time, although it's been disputed in later years. But what you have to tell us is who made the *first* claim, which enjoyed only brief acceptance before it was dismissed as fraudulent. 3. According to those who reject *both* of the claims from 1909, the North Pole was not reached by travel over the ice until 1968. Name *either* the man who did it then, or his mode of travel. 4. Which expedition leader claimed in 1926 to have been the first to fly over the North Pole? (He was the navigator on the flight.) Again, this claim has been generally accepted, but is disputed by some. 5. Name the explorer, then aged 59, who in 1845 set out with two shiploads of men in search of the Northwest Passage, and never returned. Numerous search expeditions were then conducted, most of them returning no information whatever about the fate of this man or his party, but contributing greatly to knowledge of the Arctic islands and passages. 6. During the search for <answer 5>, this explorer traveling from the west came within sight of a location that had previously been reached from the east, thus confirming one relatively direct route of the Northwest Passage: from Baffin Bay via Lancaster Sound, Barrow Strait, Viscount Melville Sound -- and a strait named for him, passing north of Banks Island. Name him. 7. The first expedition to actually traverse the Northwest Passage reached Alaska's north coast in 1905 and the Pacific in 1906. In between, the leader traveled 500 miles inland to reach a telegraph office and send word of his success -- collect. Name *either* this explorer or his ship, which is now in the same museum as the <answer 1 ship>. 8. The first ship to traverse the Northwest Passage *eastward* completed the journey in 1942, and followed this with a return trip westward. Name *either* the captain, or the ship, or the organization that owned it. 9. In 1910 Roald Amundsen committed a significant act of deception that made it possible for him to reach the South Pole first. What was it? 10. One of those who failed to reach the South Pole before Amundsen was Ernest Shackleton. In 1914 he returned to Antarctica only to see his ship, ironically named "Endurance", crushed by ice; his rescue of the entire crew was a truly heroic feat of skill, strength, and leadership. But his original goal in this ambitious expedition was to be the first to do what? -- Mark Brader | "Warning! Drinking beer, wine or spirits during Toronto | pregnancy can harm your baby." (City of Toronto msb@vex.net | notice in restaurant washrooms--men's and women's) My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Nov 28 11:17AM +0100 > Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Empire State > Building. """It's""" one-way southbound, so you have to visit > them in that order. I believe they have a street called "Broadway" in that town, so I try thta. > the National Museum of Natural History on the other side of > the Mall. Please identify the building we want by either its > specific function or its nickname. Don't know much about Washington, but they have something called "White House", haven't they? I try that. > and on its south by Birdcage Walk. It """extends""" west > almost to Buckingham Palace, and east almost to Whitehall. > Name the park. Regent's Park > Cathedral on the north. A street with the same name as the > plaza """starts""" at its west side and """extends""" to the > Plaza del Congreso. I was actually trying to recollect the name of the avenue the other day, but realized that it had fallen out of my mind. But at least is *not* San Martín - that street is four blocks up to the right from the plaza. But using my knowledge of common street/plaza names in Argentina I try Plaza de 25 Mayo. > the Volksgarten, and on its northeast side, the complex > itself """includes""" the Spanish Riding School (Spanische > Hofreitschule). Name the complex. Stefansplatz > Vancouver, or if you go in almost any direction from Granville > Island, you """will""" reach different parts of the same body > of water. Name that body of water. False Creek > the Seine, you """will""" pass the Eiffel Tower and then enter > this park, which extends almost to the École Militaire. > Name the park. Champs de Mars > three years until the ice released the ship. Name *either* > the explorer or the ship, which was later used on the first > expedition to reach the South Pole. Nansen |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 27 08:59PM -0600 Mark Brader: > though there may be more than one in the corresponding picture. > Your job, of course, will be to identify the picture by number. > 1. Clave (two syllables there). #18. (That's not a wiener in the right hand, it's a striker. The clave is in the left hand.) 4 for Pete. > 2. Djembe. #24 (so to speak). 4 for Pete. > 3. Maraca. #6. 4 for Pete, Dan Blum, Joshua, and Erland. > 4. Snare drum. #9. 4 for Pete and Erland. 3 for Joshua. > 5. Sleighbell. #19. 4 for Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Erland. > number, and name the instrument. "Drum" by itself will not be > sufficient for any answer. > 6. Identify number twelve. (Chinese or Oriental) gong. 4 for Pete, Dan Blum, and Erland. > 7. Number one is what? Spoon. 4 for Pete and Dan Blum. > 8. How about fourteen? Conga. 4 for Pete and Erland. > 9. Instrument number eleven; note that it has metal keys. Vibraphone or vibraharp. 4 for Erland. > 10. And number twenty-one, finally. Bodhran (or Irish or Celtic drum -- both words required -- but not accepting Murphy's Irish stout!). 4 for Pete, Dan Blum, and Erland. > rot13 to see the names of those instruments (again, in the singular) > and in each case give the picture number for fun, but for no points. > 11. Chime. #15. Pete got this. > 12. Finger cymbal. #20. Pete, Joshua, and Erland got this. > 13. Cowbell. #5. Pete, Joshua, and Erland got this. > 14. Triangle. #17. Pete and Joshua got this. > 15. Bass drum. #22 (so to speak). Pete and Erland got this. > 16. Bongo. #2. Pete and Erland got this. > 17. Ratchet. #10. Pete got this. In 2008 I didn't give people the opportunity to try the decoys, but I listed them in the answers posting that time around, and in that list I said this was #19. Obviously not, since #19 is the sleighbell. Fixed now. > 18. Timbale. #13. Pete got this. > 19. Timpani or kettle drum. #16. Pete and Erland got this. > 20. Washboard. #3. Pete, Joshua, and Erland got this. > 21. Guiro. #4. Pete got this. > 22. Casaba (or afuche or afoxe). #7. Pete got this. > 23. Electronic drum kit. #23 (so to speak). Pete, Joshua, and Erland got this. > 24. Tambourine. #8. Pete, Joshua, and Erland got this. > 1. Which voluptuous actress was cast as King Zog of Albania in a > segment of the 1987 film "Aria" that was directed by her husband, > Nicholas Roeg? Theresa Russell. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua. > 2. In "Orlando", based on the book by Virginia Woolf, the title > character mysteriously changes sex from male to female. > Who portrays Orlando? Tilda Swinton. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua. > for his flamboyant personality and well-received autobiography, > was in his 80s when he took on the role of Queen Elizabeth I. > Name him. Quentin Crisp. 4 for Joshua. > 4. In which 1959 movie did Peter Sellers play Tully Bascombe, > Prime Minister Count Mountjoy, and Grand Duchess Gloriana XII? "The Mouse That Roared". I accepted "The Mouse Who Roared" as close enough. So, 4 for Joshua (the hard way) and Dan Tilque. > 5. Which actress played an Asian man in "The Year of Living > Dangerously" in 1982, despite being neither male nor Asian? Linda Hunt. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua. > 6. Peter Pan was played by which woman in three TV-movies, in 1955, > 1956, and 1960? Mary Martin. 4 for Pete, Dan Blum, and Joshua. > is played by Australian actor Barry Humphries, who also """has""" > a regular gig playing a more famous female character. Name this > *other* character. Dame Edna Everage. ("Dame Edna" or "Edna Everage" was sufficient. I'm not sure whether he's still playing the character or not.) 4 for Pete, Dan Blum, and Joshua. > 8. Which actor played eight roles in the 1949 movie "Kind Hearts > and Coronets", one of them, Lady Agatha, being female? Sir Alec Guinness. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua. > 9. In a 1989 time-travel flick, the same actor plays a man, his son, > and his daughter Marlene. Name the actor. Michael J. Fox (in "Back to the Future Part II"). 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua. > 10. We may be cheating a little on this question, but in which 1982 > movie did John Lithgow play a male-to-female transsexual? "The World According to Garp". 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 3 ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS TOPICS-> Art Ent Dan Blum 20 32 52 Joshua Kreitzer 7 40 47 Pete Gayde 36 8 44 Erland Sommarskog 28 0 28 Dan Tilque 4 4 8 -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "Domine, defende nos msb@vex.net | Contra hos stupidos DOS!" -- after A. D. Godley My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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