| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 23 08:22PM -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 wrote one round in this set and 4 questions in the other round. ** Game 1, Round 9 - Miscellaneous (yes, again) - Prizes 1. Since scientific work is often collaborative and may also be done simultaneously by independent workers, the Nobel Prizes in the sciences are often awarded jointly. What """is""" the largest number of people who are allowed to share one Nobel Prize for physics, for chemistry, or for physiology or medicine? 2. Within 10 years, when was the first set of Nobel Prizes awarded? The winners were Emil von Behring, Jean Dunant, Jacobus van't Hoff, Frédéric Passy, Sully Prudhomme, and Wilhelm Röntgen. For the next two questions *either* the city or the team name is sufficient, like "New York" or "Yankees". 3. What current NHL team has won the Stanley Cup in the past, but *less* recently than any other """current""" team that has also won it? That is, of all the past Stanley Cup winners """still playing""", which one """is currently""" working on the longest dry streak? *Or* instead of the team, tell us within 2 years what year it was that they """last""" won. (Note that the present Ottawa Senators are not the same team that played under that name in the 1920s.) 4. Same question for the Grey Cup: of all the """current""" CFL teams that have won it, which one """is currently""" working on the longest dry streak; *or* when, within 2 years, did they """last""" win? (Note: despite how the CFL treats them, the present Montreal team is not really the same one that left the league in 1987.) 5. Who """is""" the only person to win 4 Oscars for acting in leading roles? 6. Who """is""" the only person to win more than 15 Oscars, counting only actual statuettes? 7. The Science Fiction Achievement Award takes its nickname from the first name of an author named Gernsback. What is it? 8. The Mystery Writers of America similarly issue an award given a writer's first name. What is this name? 9. Sometimes a one-time prize is offered to the first person to perform a particular feat. The Wolfskehl Prize was offered in 1908 and was not awarded until June 1997, when it was worth about $50,000 US. Andrew Wiles collected the prize for work he had completed in 1994. What did he *prove*, justifying its traditional name by doing so? 10. A number of one-time Kremer Prizes were offered in 1959, and the first one awarded was worth about $95,000 US at the time. It went to Paul MacCready and Peter Lissamen for the design of a vehicle that they had demonstrated in August 1977, operated by cyclist Bryan Allen. Either give the name of this vehicle, or tell what was special about it. After completing this round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh whfg nafjrerq Urcohea ba gur svefg Bfpne dhrfgvba, cyrnfr tb onpx naq or zber fcrpvsvp. ** Game 1, Round 10 - Challenge Round Note: in 1998 the Challenge Round normally had only 5 pairs of questions, not 6 as you've seen in games from later seasons. * A. Acting Families A1. What is the common surname of the four people, representing three generations of one family, who starred in the following four movies? "The Cannonball Run" (1981) "The Electric Horseman" (1979) "It Could Happen to You" (1994) "The Lady Eve" (1941) A2. What is the common surname of the four members of the *same* generation of one family who starred in the following four movies? "Bodily Harm" (1995) "The Marrying Man" (1991) "Sliver" (1993) and of course we couldn't resist using "The Usual Suspects" (1995) * B. Ras Tafari Terms B1. What is "the holy piby"? B2. Please answer the previous question before decoding the rot13 for this one: Jung vf "jvfqbzjrrq"? * C. Apple C1. The two founders of Apple Computer share a first name. Name *either one*. C2. Who *directed* the most famous computer commercial of all time, the spot that introduced the Apple Macintosh during the Super Bowl in 1984? * D. Me-TV D1. On Rogers Cable in Toronto, what """is""" carried on cable channel 44? Or if you have cable from Shaw Communications, """it's""" on 50. D2. On Rogers Cable in Toronto, what """is""" carried on cable channel 47? On Shaw, """it's""" channel 49. * E. Art by Any Other Name E1. What is the more common name of the painting called "La Gioconda"? E2. What is the more common name of the painting called "Arrangement in Grey and Black Number One"? -- Mark Brader, Toronto "As always, breakfast recapitulated msb@vex.net phylogeny." -- Spider Robinson My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Mar 24 03:59AM > in the sciences are often awarded jointly. What """is""" the > largest number of people who are allowed to share one Nobel > Prize for physics, for chemistry, or for physiology or medicine? 3 > 2. Within 10 years, when was the first set of Nobel Prizes awarded? > The winners were Emil von Behring, Jean Dunant, Jacobus van't > Hoff, Fr?d?ric Passy, Sully Prudhomme, and Wilhelm R?ntgen. 1904 > us within 2 years what year it was that they """last""" won. > (Note that the present Ottawa Senators are not the same team > that played under that name in the 1920s.) Red Wings > 5. Who """is""" the only person to win 4 Oscars for acting in > leading roles? Meryl Streep > 6. Who """is""" the only person to win more than 15 Oscars, > counting only actual statuettes? Walt Disney > 7. The Science Fiction Achievement Award takes its nickname from > the first name of an author named Gernsback. What is it? Hugo > 8. The Mystery Writers of America similarly issue an award given > a writer's first name. What is this name? Edgar > about $50,000 US. Andrew Wiles collected the prize for work > he had completed in 1994. What did he *prove*, justifying its > traditional name by doing so? Fermat's Last Theorem > a vehicle that they had demonstrated in August 1977, operated > by cyclist Bryan Allen. Either give the name of this vehicle, > or tell what was special about it. human-powered aircraft > "Sliver" (1993) > and of course we couldn't resist using > "The Usual Suspects" (1995) Baldwin > * B. Ras Tafari Terms > B1. What is "the holy piby"? marijuana > B2. Please answer the previous question before decoding the > rot13 for this one: Jung vf "jvfqbzjrrq"? marijuana > * C. Apple > C1. The two founders of Apple Computer share a first name. > Name *either one*. Steve Jobs > * E. Art by Any Other Name > E1. What is the more common name of the painting called > "La Gioconda"? Mona Lisa > E2. What is the more common name of the painting called > "Arrangement in Grey and Black Number One"? Whistler's Mother -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Mar 24 04:44AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:JImdnXYZEsnWCcf9nZ2dnUU7- > in the sciences are often awarded jointly. What """is""" the > largest number of people who are allowed to share one Nobel > Prize for physics, for chemistry, or for physiology or medicine? 3 > 2. Within 10 years, when was the first set of Nobel Prizes awarded? > The winners were Emil von Behring, Jean Dunant, Jacobus van't > Hoff, Frédéric Passy, Sully Prudhomme, and Wilhelm Röntgen. 1901 > us within 2 years what year it was that they """last""" won. > (Note that the present Ottawa Senators are not the same team > that played under that name in the 1920s.) Toronto; Vancouver > """last""" win? (Note: despite how the CFL treats them, the > present Montreal team is not really the same one that left the > league in 1987.) Calgary; B.C. > 5. Who """is""" the only person to win 4 Oscars for acting in > leading roles? Katharine Hepburn > 6. Who """is""" the only person to win more than 15 Oscars, > counting only actual statuettes? Walt Disney > 7. The Science Fiction Achievement Award takes its nickname from > the first name of an author named Gernsback. What is it? Hugo > 8. The Mystery Writers of America similarly issue an award given > a writer's first name. What is this name? Edgar > about $50,000 US. Andrew Wiles collected the prize for work > he had completed in 1994. What did he *prove*, justifying its > traditional name by doing so? Fermat's Last Theorem > a vehicle that they had demonstrated in August 1977, operated > by cyclist Bryan Allen. Either give the name of this vehicle, > or tell what was special about it. it was a human-powered aircraft > "The Electric Horseman" (1979) > "It Could Happen to You" (1994) > "The Lady Eve" (1941) Fonda > "Sliver" (1993) > and of course we couldn't resist using > "The Usual Suspects" (1995) Baldwin > * B. Ras Tafari Terms > B1. What is "the holy piby"? cannabis > B2. Please answer the previous question before decoding the > rot13 for this one: Jung vf "jvfqbzjrrq"? cannabis > * C. Apple > C1. The two founders of Apple Computer share a first name. > Name *either one*. Steve Jobs > C2. Who *directed* the most famous computer commercial of all > time, the spot that introduced the Apple Macintosh during > the Super Bowl in 1984? Ridley Scott > """it's""" on 50. > D2. On Rogers Cable in Toronto, what """is""" carried on cable > channel 47? On Shaw, """it's""" channel 49. (I hope these were not questions that you wrote; I wouldn't be able to answer these questions for my *own* cable system.) > * E. Art by Any Other Name > E1. What is the more common name of the painting called > "La Gioconda"? Mona Lisa > E2. What is the more common name of the painting called > "Arrangement in Grey and Black Number One"? Whistler's Mother -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 24 12:32AM -0500 Mark Brader: >> * D. Me-TV Joshua Kreitzer: > (I hope these were not questions that you wrote; They were. Why? > I wouldn't be able to answer these questions for my *own* cable system.) Neither of them was a channel that I regularly watched at the time, but I knew the channel numbers all right. This was in analog days and there were only a few dozen of them. Now I pretty much never watch one of them and we don't get the other in our Bell Fibe subscriber package, and I had to look up the channel numbers. They turn out to be 625 and 294, or in HD, 1625 and 1294. -- Mark Brader, Toronto "If it's on TV, it has to be true! msb@vex.net (I read that on the Internet.)" My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 23 08:20PM -0500 Mark Brader: > and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information... > see my 2020-06-23 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from > the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)". Sorry, I'm a bit late here. > 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? "The Mists of Avalon" (by Marion Zimmer Bradley). 4 for Dan Blum. > 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" (by T.H. White). 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. > titles "The Crystal Cave" (1970), "The Hollow Hills" (1973), > "The Last Enchantment" (1979), and "The Wicked Day" (1983). > Name her. Mary Stewart. 4 for Dan Blum. > 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")? "The Lyre of Orpheus" (by Robertson Davies). > 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)? Mordred. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. > 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*. Vivien, Nineve, Nimue, or Niniane. 4 for Dan Blum. > That clothe the wold and meet the sky; > And thro' the field the road runs by > To many-tower'd Camelot; "The Lady of Shalott", Alfred Lord Tennyson. > 8. What English poet (who lived 1837-1909) wrote many poems about > the Arthurian sagas, including "Joyeuse Gard" and "Lancelot"? Algernon Charles Swinburne. 2 for Dan Blum. > 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". 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. > 10. Malory's "Le Mort d'Arthur" was one of the first books printed > in English. Who *printed* it, around 1485? William Caxton. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. > 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. (Accepting "West Germanic", but not "Anglo-Saxon", which is another name for Old English.) 4 for Joshua, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. > 2. Arabic, Aramaic, and Hebrew belong to what branch of the > Afro-Asiatic language family? Semitic. (Not Hamito-Semitic, which is another name for Afro-Asiatic.) 4 for Joshua, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. > 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 for Joshua, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. > 4. What language spoken """today""" by some 500,000 people in Western > Europe is unrelated to any other known language? Basque (or Euskara). 4 for Joshua, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. 2 for Pete. Today the number is more like 750,000. Romansch, as its name suggests, is a Romance language. > 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. 4 for Joshua, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. "Pidgin", by the way, is how the English word "business" is pronounced in one such language. That is, Pidgin English is "business English". > 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. 4 for Joshua, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. Creole is also the name of a dialect in Haiti, but that's a distinct use of the word. > 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. Apache, Navajo. 4 for Joshua, Erland, Dan Tilque (the hard way), Dan Blum, and Pete. > 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. 4 for Joshua, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum. > 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 consonants. 4 for everyone -- Joshua, Erland, Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, and Pete. > 10. Many Austronesian languages are spoken in the Philippines, > including Cebuano, Ilocano, and *what official language* > (also called Pilipino sometimes)? Tagalog. 4 for everyone. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 1 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST TOPICS-> Can Ent Geo His Lit Mis FOUR Joshua Kreitzer 4 40 40 32 16 40 152 Dan Tilque 20 4 36 35 16 40 131 Dan Blum 9 32 27 12 30 40 129 Erland Sommarskog 0 0 32 0 0 40 72 Pete Gayde 24 20 -- -- 0 14 58 -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "If any form of pleasure is exhibited, report msb@vex.net | to me and it will be prohibited." --DUCK SOUP My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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