| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 19 11:56PM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 1998-01-26, 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 did not write either of these rounds. * Game 1, Round 7 - Literature - Arthuriana This round is about the story of King Arthur. Questions #1-4 are on modern retellings of it. 1. What extremely popular book, published in 1982, tells the entire Arthurian saga from the women's point of view? 2. Give the overall title of the quartet of novels, published as a single book in 1958, that tells the whole Arthurian saga, setting it in medieval times (1066-1399). The first novel (1939) emphasizes Arthur's youth and is the basis for Disney's animated movie "The Sword in the Stone". 3. She wrote a four-book series about the Arthurian saga, with the titles "The Crystal Cave" (1970), "The Hollow Hills" (1973), "The Last Enchantment" (1979), and "The Wicked Day" (1983). Name her. 4. In what 1988 Canadian novel do the characters complete and produce an unfinished opera by E.T.A. Hoffman called "King Arthur; or, the Magnanimous Cuckold" (later titled "Arthur of Britain")? Questions #5-6 are on characters. 5. Who is the illegitimate son of Arthur by his half-sister Morgause (sometimes Morgan Le Fay, in later retellings)? 6. She is best known as the woman who seals Merlin in a cave or a tree. Despite foreseeing his fate, Merlin is unable to prevent being captivated and captured by her. She has had several names in the various Arthurian legends; give *any one*. Questions #7-8 are on 19th century poetry. 7. Name this poem *and* its author. It is one of the most famous Arthurian poems. The 1842 version of it begins: On either side the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye, That clothe the wold and meet the sky; And thro' the field the road runs by To many-tower'd Camelot; 8. What English poet (who lived 1837-1909) wrote many poems about the Arthurian sagas, including "Joyeuse Gard" and "Lancelot"? And questions #9-10 are on source material. 9. J.R.R. Tolkien, among several others, edited a version of *what story* about a Knight of the Round Table who was the pearl of courtesy and chivalry? 10. Malory's "Le Mort d'Arthur" was one of the first books printed in English. Who *printed* it, around 1485? * Game 1, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Languages and Language Families 1. Though modern English has been enormously influenced by Norman French, it is still considered a member of what branch of the Indo-European language family? 2. Arabic, Aramaic, and Hebrew belong to what branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family? 3. Latin is the common ancestor of the Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian, etc.). Similarly, what language is the common ancestor of the Prakrits languages, which evolved into Hindi, Bengali, and other languages of the northern Indian subcontinent? 4. What language spoken """today""" by some 500,000 people in Western Europe is unrelated to any other known language? 5. These types of very basic languages with simplified grammar and vocabulary tend to form when there is a temporary need for a lingua franca -- that is, for a means of communication among people who lack a common tongue. Usually words from one widely-used language become the basis of an improvised code. What is such a language called? 6. When people learn a <answer 5> as their native language, it becomes richer and more complex. What is the word used to describe this type of language, whose members include Gullah (the US South), Sranan (Suriname), and Tok Pisin (New Guinea)? 7. The majority of languages that belong to the large Athapaskan language family are found in Northern British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Alaska. However, two important Native American tribes and languages of the southwest USA are also Athapaskan, from a migration that happened less than 1,000 years ago. Name *either* language. 8. There are several pairs of languages where a case can be made that they better described as slightly different dialects of the same language, and not different languages at all. The reasons why they are called different languages can be nationalistic or religious. These pairs include Czech and Slovak, Serbian and Croatian, and what *two* prominent languages of India? 9. What is the distinguishing sound characteristic of the Khoisan family of languages of southern Africa, as well as some of the Niger-Congo languages used around the same geographical area? 10. Many Austronesian languages are spoken in the Philippines, including Cebuano, Ilocano, and *what official language* (also called Pilipino sometimes)? -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "Computers may be very, very fast, msb@vex.net | but they aren't very, very smart." -- after Steve Summit My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Mar 20 05:33AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:D-2dnfheGrfhHcj9nZ2dnUU7- > setting it in medieval times (1066-1399). The first novel (1939) > emphasizes Arthur's youth and is the basis for Disney's animated > movie "The Sword in the Stone". "The Once and Future King" > 5. Who is the illegitimate son of Arthur by his half-sister Morgause > (sometimes Morgan Le Fay, in later retellings)? Mordred > a tree. Despite foreseeing his fate, Merlin is unable to prevent > being captivated and captured by her. She has had several names > in the various Arthurian legends; give *any one*. Mim > 9. J.R.R. Tolkien, among several others, edited a version of *what > story* about a Knight of the Round Table who was the pearl of > courtesy and chivalry? "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" > 10. Malory's "Le Mort d'Arthur" was one of the first books printed > in English. Who *printed* it, around 1485? Caxton > 1. Though modern English has been enormously influenced by Norman > French, it is still considered a member of what branch of the > Indo-European language family? Germanic > 2. Arabic, Aramaic, and Hebrew belong to what branch of the > Afro-Asiatic language family? Semitic > Spanish, Italian, etc.). Similarly, what language is the common > ancestor of the Prakrits languages, which evolved into Hindi, > Bengali, and other languages of the northern Indian subcontinent? Sanskrit > 4. What language spoken """today""" by some 500,000 people in Western > Europe is unrelated to any other known language? Basque > people who lack a common tongue. Usually words from one > widely-used language become the basis of an improvised code. > What is such a language called? pidgin > becomes richer and more complex. What is the word used to > describe this type of language, whose members include Gullah > (the US South), Sranan (Suriname), and Tok Pisin (New Guinea)? creole > Native American tribes and languages of the southwest USA > are also Athapaskan, from a migration that happened less than > 1,000 years ago. Name *either* language. Navajo > why they are called different languages can be nationalistic > or religious. These pairs include Czech and Slovak, Serbian > and Croatian, and what *two* prominent languages of India? Hindi and Urdu > 9. What is the distinguishing sound characteristic of the Khoisan > family of languages of southern Africa, as well as some of the > Niger-Congo languages used around the same geographical area? click > 10. Many Austronesian languages are spoken in the Philippines, > including Cebuano, Ilocano, and *what official language* > (also called Pilipino sometimes)? Tagalog -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Mar 20 10:35AM +0100 > 1. Though modern English has been enormously influenced by Norman > French, it is still considered a member of what branch of the > Indo-European language family? Germanic > 2. Arabic, Aramaic, and Hebrew belong to what branch of the > Afro-Asiatic language family? Semitic > Spanish, Italian, etc.). Similarly, what language is the common > ancestor of the Prakrits languages, which evolved into Hindi, > Bengali, and other languages of the northern Indian subcontinent? Sanskrit > 4. What language spoken """today""" by some 500,000 people in Western > Europe is unrelated to any other known language? Basque > people who lack a common tongue. Usually words from one > widely-used language become the basis of an improvised code. > What is such a language called? Pidgin > becomes richer and more complex. What is the word used to > describe this type of language, whose members include Gullah > (the US South), Sranan (Suriname), and Tok Pisin (New Guinea)? Creole > Native American tribes and languages of the southwest USA > are also Athapaskan, from a migration that happened less than > 1,000 years ago. Name *either* language. Navajo > why they are called different languages can be nationalistic > or religious. These pairs include Czech and Slovak, Serbian > and Croatian, and what *two* prominent languages of India? Hindi and Urdu I don't think I've ever seen Czech and Slovak mentioned in this context. But other pairs in Europe are Bulgarian/Macedonian and Catalan/Valenciano. > 9. What is the distinguishing sound characteristic of the Khoisan > family of languages of southern Africa, as well as some of the > Niger-Congo languages used around the same geographical area? Click > 10. Many Austronesian languages are spoken in the Philippines, > including Cebuano, Ilocano, and *what official language* > (also called Pilipino sometimes)? Tagalog |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 19 11:55PM -0500 Mark Brader: > see my 2020-06-23 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from > the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)". > I wrote one round in this set. The history round. > 1. World War II began in the city that the Germans call Danzig. > Later, Lech Walesa started the Solidarity movement there. > What """do""" the Poles call this city? Gdansk. (Still true.) 4 for everyone -- Erland, Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. > 2. Irish republicans """call""" this city Derry. What name did the > English give it in 1613? Londonderry. (Still true.) 4 for everyone. > Baltic Sea, and is in an exclave cut off from the rest of Russia > by the three Baltic states. Its German name is Königsberg. > What """is""" its Russian name? Kaliningrad. (Still true.) 4 for everyone. > 4. Jerusalem is the third-holiest city for Muslims. What is its > Arabic name? Al-Quds (or in full, al-Quds es-Sharif). 4 for Erland, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. > 5. The Egyptians today call this large city by the Arabic name > Iskandaria. What did the ancient Greeks name it? Alexandria. 4 for everyone. > 6. The Turks say Istanbul. What do (and did) the Greeks say? Konstantinoupolis (Constantinople was sufficient, and since I was accepting the anglicized version, I also accepted the -- er -- swedicized one). 4 for Erland, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. > settlers massacred a large number of Muslims praying at a mosque > in the early 1990s. The Palestinians call the city al-Khalil. > Canadian newspapers use the city's Hebrew name. What is that? Hebron. 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, and Joshua. > Rabbat-Ammon. Much later the Greeks captured it and called > it Philadelphia. It is now the capital city of a rather small > country. What is its modern Arabic name? Amman (capital of Jordan). 4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque. 3 for Dan Blum. > his capital. He also built a church there that still contains > his throne. The city is called Aachen in German. What is its > full name in French? Aix-la-Chapelle. 4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque. > unification, Garibaldi, was born; but the Italians traded > it to France in 1860 for, ah, future considerations. What > is its French name? Nice. 4 for everyone. > movie about the sinking premiered on May 14, 1912. So what > was the date, as kept aboard the ship, when it sank -- within > 10 days? (Include the year.) April 15, 1912 (accepting April 5-25). 4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque. > remained in service into the 1930s; but the third was diverted to > become a hospital ship in the First World War and sunk by a mine > or perhaps a torpedo. Name either one of the other two ships. Olympic; Britannic. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua (the hard way), and Dan Tilque. The name originally planned, before the Titanic disaster, for the third ship was Gigantic. This is not an acceptable answer. > 3. What company owned these ships? (The direct owner, not the > company that owned it in turn.) White Star Line. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. > 4. Name *either* the president of <answer 3> at the time of the > Titanic's sinking, who was on board and survived, or the > American financier who controlled it. Bruce Ismay; J. Pierpont Morgan. (Not John Jacob Astor IV, whose association with the disaster is that he was killed in it.) 4 for Joshua. > this ship; yet its radioman was not awakened and no action was > taken until dawn. This ship had a geographical name relating > to the US. Name *either* it or its captain. Californian (accepting California); Stanley Lord. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque. > all the survivors from the lifeboats. This ship also had a > geographical name, but relating to Europe. Again, name *either* > it or its captain. Carpathia (accepting Carpathian); Arthur Rostron. 4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque. > 7. Passengers intending to cross the Atlantic boarded the Titanic > at three ports and were bound for a single port on this side > of the ocean. Name *any two* of the four ports. Southampton, England; Cherbourg, France; Queenstown (or Cobh, its name since 1922), Ireland; and New York. 4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque. A few passengers *not* intending to cross the Atlantic were also carried. One of them traveled from Southampton to Queenstown, and the photos he took on board during the trip are the only ones to have survived. See: https://coastmonkey.ie/titanic-photos-fr-browne/ > 8. Within 10% of the correct number, how many people were killed? 1,513 is the most commonly cited number, though sources conflict and numbers from 1,490 to 1,523 are given. I'm accepting anything within 10% of either extreme; that is, 1,341 to 1,675. And since, to my surprise, nobody came within that range, I'm accepting answers within 10%, or 1,192 to 1,828, as "almost correct". So, 3 for Dan Tilque. Although sometimes misstated as the number of passengers killed, the total actually includes both passengers (about 830) and crew (about 680). > 9. *Of those killed*, how many percent were adult males? > Please answer by giving the nearest multiple of 10%, i.e. 40%, > 50%, 60%, etc. 90%. Women and children first, and all that. 4 for Dan Tilque. > 10. Within 25% of the correct number, how many *more* people could > the lifeboats have carried according to their rated capacity? > Give the actual number, not a percentage. 473 (accepting 349-593). 4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque. There were 4 collapsible boats rated for 47 people each, 2 cutters rated for 40 each, and 14 other boats rated for 65 people each, for a total of 1,178 people. The number of people rescued is more accurately known than the number of deaths, since they all arrived in New York together on the Carpathia (and by then it was known that people would need an accurate list of them), and is usually given as 705; but despite this, some sources give numbers from 703 to 712, so, again, I accepted anything based on that range. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 1 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS TOPICS-> Can Ent Geo His Joshua Kreitzer 4 40 40 32 116 Dan Tilque 20 4 36 35 95 Dan Blum 9 32 27 12 80 Pete Gayde 24 20 -- -- 44 Erland Sommarskog 0 0 32 0 32 -- Mark Brader | "Rleadse negiifu uoug assount 'u somrletiing the fogm... Toronto | We arologiize fog anu iinsonneniiense." msb@vex.net | --Seen in spam My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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