- Rotating Quiz #296: best 5 - 4 Updates
- QFTCIBP Final, Round 7: Entertainment - 1 Update
- QFTCIBP Final, Round 6 answers - Sports - 1 Update
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jul 03 03:35PM -0700 Welcome to RQ #296. Sorry for the delay. In each of the questions you will be asked to name the best 5 (largest, longest, nearest) of some type of object. You do not have to give them in any order; if any answer you give is one of the 5 asked for, you get the point. No penalty for wrong answers, so guesses are encouraged. This quiz will run until Monday, 09 July 2018 in the evening my time (time zone -7 UTC). 1. What are the 5 largest countries? (by area, not population) 2. What are the 5 longest rivers in the world? 3. What are the 5 largest islands in the world? (not Australia) 4. What are the 5 largest planets in the solar system? 5. What are the 5 nearest star systems to the sun? (not brown dwarfs) 6. What are the 5 largest first level administrative subdivisions of the various countries? (by area, not population) Note: First level administrative subdivisions is a collective name for subnational units (states, provinces, territories, semi-autonymous regions, etc.) that are not part of a larger subnational unit. -- Dan Tilque |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jul 03 04:31PM -0700 Dan Tilque wrote: > 2. What are the 5 longest rivers in the world? For this question, rivers do not include those where a combined river+tributary is longer than the nominal main river. -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 03 07:57PM -0500 Dan Tilque: > longest, nearest) of some type of object. You do not have to give them > in any order; if any answer you give is one of the 5 asked for, you get > the point. No penalty for wrong answers, so guesses are encouraged. What if people give more than 5 answers on a question? > 4. What are the 5 largest planets in the solar system? By what measure, in case it matters? -- Mark Brader, Toronto "Big programs are a bug." msb@vex.net -- Geoff Collyer |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jul 04 10:31AM +0200 > 1. What are the 5 largest countries? (by area, not population) Russia, Canada, USA, China, Brazil > 2. What are the 5 longest rivers in the world? Nile, Missouri, Amazonas, Yangtze, Mississipi > 3. What are the 5 largest islands in the world? (not Australia) Greenland, Borneo, New Guinea, Madagascar, Sumatra > 4. What are the 5 largest planets in the solar system? Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, Earth > 5. What are the 5 nearest star systems to the sun? (not brown dwarfs) Alpha Centuari & co, Sirius, Vega > 6. What are the 5 largest first level administrative subdivisions of the > various countries? (by area, not population) Sakha, Tibet, Alaska, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia Sakha is one of the 89 constituent entities in the Russian Federation, but I seem to recall that Putin introduced a division of seven administrative units on top of these 89, and in that case five of these are likely to be the answers. But I have no idea what the names of these units are. (And even I am wrong about these ober-units, I would expect that there are more answers in Russia, but I have no idea what the names are, which I why I placing my bets in China.) |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 04 03:08AM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2018-04-03, 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 Bill Psychs 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 2017-09-25 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". ** Final, Round 7 - Entertainment * James Bond Settings James Bond usually tours the world in each of his movies. We give you some locations where a Bond movie was set; you name the movie. 1. Florida and the fictional country Isthmus. 2. Siberia, Hamburg, Vietnam, South China Sea. 3. Miami Beach, Switzerland, Fort Knox. * Last Words of Actors and Actresses Yes, it's last words *again*. (I'm guessing that Psychs wrote a regular-season round on the subject, realized they had enough rounds without it, and broke it up to use this way.) This time it's actors and actresses, all speaking English. Name them. 4. This Rat Pack actor was a nominated for 3 Oscars (and won one of them) for Best Actor. Died 1957: "I should never have switched from scotch to martinis." 5. This American actor developed a routine as a wisecracking hustler with an ever-present cigar. Died 1977: "Die, my dear? Why, that's the last thing I'll do!" 6. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her 10th on its list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema. Her famed rivalry with actor Bette Davis is portrayed in the FX television series "Feud". Died 1977: "Dammit! Don't you dare ask God to help me!" * Anime Adaptations of Manga Series Don't worry, nothing too recent here. You might have seen these series in the 1990s in North America. 7. This popular series was adapted from the manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka. The protagonist is an android with human emotions who is created by Umataro Tenma after the death of his son. The original name of the series translates as "Mighty Atom". 8. This is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama in 1984. The initial manga was inspired by the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West and follows the adventures of the protagonist, Son Goku, as he trains in martial arts and explores the world in search of seven orbs which will summon a wish-granting creature. You might have also seen a related later and more violent series, under the same name with the additional suffix of "Z". 9. This series was adapted from the manga series written by Buronson and illustrated by Tetsuo Hara, starting in 1983. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, the story centers on a warrior named Kenshiro, who possesses a martial art style which gives him the ability to kill most adversaries through the use of the human body's secret vital points. This often results in an exceptionally violent and gory death. * TV Show Composers We'll name a TV show; you tell us who composed its theme music. 10. "A Charlie Brown Christmas". 11. "The Simpsons". 12. "The Facts of Life". * Movie Sequel Subtitles In each case, complete the title. 13. "Speed 2: ..." 14. "Star Trek III: ..." (1984). 15. "Sister Act 2: ..." After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Ba gur dhrfgvba nobhg "gung's gur ynfg guvat V'yy qb", jr arrq gur svefg naq ynfg anzr. Vs lbh bayl fhccyvrq bar anzr, tb onpx naq pbzcyrgr vg. -- Mark Brader | "Are you finding it frustrating when everything works on minix? msb@vex.net | No more all-nighters to get a nifty program working?" Toronto | -- Linus Torvalds announces Linux, 1991 My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 04 03:06AM -0500 Mark Brader: > his entire professional career with Barcelona. He is Argentina's > all-time leading goal-scorer and has won the Ballon d'Or 5 times, > including 4 years in a row. Lionel Messi. 4 for Joshua, Erland Erland, Dan Tilque, Peter, and Pete. > world. He too has won the Ballon d'Or 5 times, and he was > named the best Portuguese player of all time by the Portuguese > Football Federation in 2015. Cristiano Ronaldo. (Both names required.) 4 for Joshua, Erland Erland, Dan Tilque, Peter, and Pete. > 3. This French player, nicknamed Zizou, won the Ballon d'Or in 1998. > He infamously head-butted Marco Materazzi during the 2006 World > Cup final. Zinedine Zidane. 4 for Joshua, Erland Erland, Dan Tilque, Peter, and Pete. > 4. Which country set the record for worst overall performance by > a host team? They are the only host team to be eliminated in > the first round. South Africa (2010). 4 for Erland Erland, Peter, and Pete. > 5. Which country set the record for most goals scored in one game > by one team, with 10 goals against El Salvador in 1982? Hungary. 4 for Erland Erland and Peter. > 6. The record for attendance at a World Cup final was 114,600, > when Argentina played West Germany in 1986. What was the host > country that time? Mexico. 4 for Joshua, Erland Erland, Peter, and Pete. > 7. Which Canadian won a gold medal in men's 69 kg freestyle > wrestling at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney? He was born in > Nigeria. Baraladei Daniel Igali. > 8. Which Canadian won a gold medal in women's 48 kg freestyle > wrestling at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing? She is also an > 11-time national champion. Carol Huynh. > 9. Which Canadian is the reigning Olympic champion in women's 75 > kg freestyle wrestling? She won gold at the 2016 Olympics in > Rio de Janeiro. Erica Elizabeth Wiebe. > However, what some historians now recognize as the first > documented baseball game in North America took place in what > Ontario town in 1838? Beachville. I never heard of the place either. It's on the upper Thames River about halfway between London and Cambridge, and while there seem to be some small lakes or reservoirs nearby connected to the river, I don't see anything that looks like a beach, so I guess it's named after a person. > 11. In 1991, with a 21-year professional career and more than > 3,000 strikeouts, who was the first Canadian to be inducted > into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown NY? Ferguson Jenkins. 4 for Joshua. > 12. On 1914-09-05, Babe Ruth hit his first professional home run > on the Toronto Islands playing for a team called the Providence > Grays. What *minor league* was the team part of? International League. 4 for Joshua and Pete. > More Canadian baseball! > Who holds the team record for... > 13. Most hits as a Blue Jay, with 1,583? Tony Fernandez. 4 for Pete. > 14. Most home runs as a Blue Jay, with 336? Carlos Delgado. > 15. Most wins as a Blue Jay pitcher, with 175? Dave Stieb. 4 for Pete. Scores, if there are no errors: FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS TOPICS-> His A+L Geo Spo Joshua Kreitzer 40 32 23 24 119 Dan Blum 36 40 18 0 94 Pete Gayde 20 16 14 32 82 "Calvin" 32 27 15 -- 74 Peter Smyth 36 -- 12 24 72 Dan Tilque 32 4 24 12 72 Erland Sommarskog 24 -- 20 24 68 Jason Kreitzer 16 16 -- -- 32 -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "No flames were used in the creation of msb@vex.net | this message." -- Ray Depew My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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