Monday, November 28, 2016

The Frontstretch Newsletter: Ty Dillon Replaces Casey Mears at Germain Racing

THE FRONTSTRETCH NEWSLETTER
Presented by Frontstretch.com
The Best Seat at the Track, The Best View on the Net!
Nov. 28, 2016
Volume X, Edition CCXII
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Editor's Note:  With the season now complete, we will be dropping the Newsletter down to one edition a week from here until Speedweeks in Daytona.  We'll still have news when it breaks and articles here and there.  We will keep you updated on off-season schedules.

Thank you for subscribing to the Frontstretch Newsletter this season.  Our Newsletter will likely undergo some changes in 2017, but we're not currently in position to announce anything.  However, you will still get news, opinion pieces, trivia and more.

                                                                          Phil Allaway
                                                                    Newsletter Manager


What to Watch: November 28-December 4

- Champions' Week will be held this week in Las Vegas.  You have the Victory Lap on the Las Vegas Strip, the Myers Brothers Luncheon, the After the Lap show (always good for a laugh) and finally, the 2016 Sprint Cup Series Banquet.  The action starts on Wednesday.  The banquet coverage starts with the Red Carpet Show at 8 p.m. Friday night on NBCSN, followed by the banquet itself at 9 p.m.

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Top News
by the Frontstretch Staff

Ty Dillon Moves to Germain Racing for 2017

On Monday morning, Germain Racing announced that Ty Dillon will drive the No. 13 GEICO Chevrolet full-time in 2017, replacing Casey Mears.  Read more

Go FAS Racing Unsure of Driver Lineup for 2017

At Go FAS Racing, it is currently unclear who will be driving the No. 32 Ford full-time in 2017.  One thing is assured, though.  Jeffrey Earnhardt will not be part of that driving team.  Read more

Landon Cassill Returning to Front Row Motorsports in 2017

Frontstretch has learned that Landon Cassill will return to Front Row Motorsports for a second year in the No. 38 Ford in 2017.  Read more

JD Motorsports Finalizing Plans for 2017

In the XFINITY Series, we know that two of JD Motorsports' drivers, Ross Chastain and Ryan Preece, will return to the team full-time in 2017.  Garrett Smithley is the big unknown at the moment.  Read more

Have news for The Frontstretch? Don't hesitate to let us know; email us at phil.allaway@frontstretch.com with a promising lead or tip.

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Today's Featured Commentary
And Then, There Were None
Professor of Speed
by Mark Howell


As the smoke clears from a busy weekend of wrecks, celebratory burnouts, and the departure of Tony Stewart, it's hard to imagine that we're facing two months without NASCAR competition. While we mere mortals prepare for the holiday season, those in-and-around NASCAR will be wrapping up the business of 2016 and getting ready for the onslaught of the 2017 schedule.

Let's just hope the Sponsor-to-be-named-at-a-later-time Cup Series gets its proverbial ducks in a tight draft before we head south to Daytona….

For all the excitement surrounding Ford Championship Weekend at Homestead, it's still curious that Brian France has yet to confirm a title sponsor for the top touring division. His Sunday morning press conference simply added to the tenor of the 2016 season. Regarding the new-and-future Cup sponsor? No comment yet. Regarding his endorsement of President-elect Donald Trump during the campaign last February? No comment. Regarding France's endorsement and the fact that the 2016 XFINITY champion is a NASCAR "Drive for Diversity" program graduate who's also a citizen of Mexico? No comment.

What was the title of that classic Keith Whitley song? "You say it best when you say nothing at all"?

I guess, even when you're the Chief Executive Officer of the largest motorsports sanctioning body in the United States….

And yet, there's unsettled business to address before we close the books on the 2016 season. The issue was mentioned during Sunday's presser, but it seems to be of even greater concern than which level Brian pulled on Election Day.

Who's picking up the cost of next year's top touring series in NASCAR?

The news out of Daytona Beach since summer has been "We'll be announcing the outcome soon", but here it is post-postseason and we're amidst radio silence. I know that race teams will continue to build and prep cars for Speedweeks in February, but there appears to be one component that'll be missing from their stables of machinery.

That's the decal applied to the top of the fender right in front of the A-pillars….

One piece of information we've been hearing since summer is the notion that the cash pile from which teams get paid will likely be smaller than usual. Less pay for the same amount of effort isn't good for business, especially when the writing on the wall heralding the departure of Sprint has been both bright AND flashing all year.

It was interesting to me that Brian France spoke of how NASCAR's overall health was good, all while Sunday's broadcast of the Cup finale at Homestead experienced a decline of 25 percent in viewership. All this as Jimmie Johnson sat poised on the brink of racing history. And the problem this season wasn't limited to Homestead; despite two photo finishes at the beginning of the year, an exciting crop of rookies with bags of talent, and Chase races that went down to overtime laps and stunning outcomes, the then-Sprint Cup Series suffered TV ratings that dipped anywhere from five to twenty-seven percent.

If this is considered "healthy", I'm pretty sure I don't want an appointment with Brian France's physician. 

For all the positives to come from the 2016 NASCAR season, from new winners to new champions, there's still the fear of what may (or may not) be to come, and that's the new "sugar daddy" who fills the spot left by Sprint's departure as a title sponsor. Maybe all those rumors of decreased event attendance and sagging television ratings are finally getting through to Corporate America?

Sadly, they don't seem to be getting through to NASCAR administration. If the idea is to wait until next season, here's an update…. It's already here.

Dr. Mark Howell is a Senior Writer for Frontstretch.  He can be reached via e-mail at mhowell@nmc.edu.
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compiled by Aaron Bearden

by Joseph Wolkin

by Beth Lunkenheimer

by Huston Ladner

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FRONTSTRETCH TRIVIA:

Q: In 1989, the World Championship infamously came down to contact in Japan at the Casio Triangle between McLaren teammates Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost.  Had Senna's win been upheld (it wasn't), would he had been able to win the World Championship in Adelaide at the final race?

Check back next Monday for the answer, here in the Frontstretch Newsletter!

Tuesday's Answer:

Q:  In Formula One, you can technically finish a race, but not be classified as a finisher.  What is the minimum requirement in order to be considered a finisher?

A: Generally, you must complete 90 percent of the race distance in order to be classified as a finisher.  The number of laps necessary for classification vary by the track.  Also, it does not actually matter whether or not you're running at the finish in regards to classification.  An example of this is the 1996 Grand Prix of Monaco, where Mika Salo and Mika Hakkinen were classified fifth and sixth (and scored points) while having crashed out of the race five laps short of the finish.

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Digest for rec.games.trivia@googlegroups.com - 11 updates in 4 topics

Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Nov 27 06:21PM -0800

1 In which city is the Kentucky Derby run?
2 In 2008 which American financier (and one-time friend of Prince Andrew) began an 18 month prison sentence for soliciting under-age sex?
3 Which country's national symbol is a lotus flower?
4 Originally a Latin term, what two-word name was commonly given to the study of nature and the physical universe before the development of modern science?
5 How many chromosomes do most humans have?
6 With which musical instrument does one associate Sir Yehudi Menuhin?
7 What nationality was tennis player Michael Chang?
8 A manufacturer of kitchen and laundry appliances, Asko is based in which European country?
9 In basketball, which eight-letter term is used to describe someone who regularly plays in both the guard and forward positions?
10 Who was the Greek god of wealth?
 
cheers,
calvin
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 27 08:49PM -0600

"Calvin":
> 1 In which city is the Kentucky Derby run?
 
Louisville.
 
> 2 In 2008 which American financier (and one-time friend of Prince
> Andrew) began an 18 month prison sentence for soliciting
> under-age sex?
 
Johnson.
 
> 3 Which country's national symbol is a lotus flower?
 
Thailand?
 
> 4 Originally a Latin term, what two-word name was commonly given
> to the study of nature and the physical universe before the
> development of modern science?
 
Natural philosophy.
 
> 5 How many chromosomes do most humans have?
 
46.
 
> 6 With which musical instrument does one associate Sir Yehudi Menuhin?
 
Violin.
 
> 7 What nationality was tennis player Michael Chang?
 
American?
 
> 8 A manufacturer of kitchen and laundry appliances, Asko is based
> in which European country?
 
Sweden?
 
> 9 In basketball, which eight-letter term is used to describe
> someone who regularly plays in both the guard and forward
> positions?
 
Confused. :-)
 
> 10 Who was the Greek god of wealth?
 
Donaldios Trumpios.
--
Mark Brader ...the scariest words of the afternoon:
Toronto "Hey, don't worry, I've read all about
msb@vex.net doing this sort of thing!" -- Vernor Vinge
 
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Nov 28 08:19AM

> 1 In which city is the Kentucky Derby run?
 
UK
 
> 3 Which country's national symbol is a lotus flower?
 
India
 
> 5 How many chromosomes do most humans have?
 
48
 
> 7 What nationality was tennis player Michael Chang?
 
US
 
> 8 A manufacturer of kitchen and laundry appliances, Asko is based in
> which European country?
 
Finland
 
 
 
 
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Nov 27 05:56PM -0800

On Thursday, November 24, 2016 at 9:11:28 AM UTC+10, swp wrote:

> I've been reduced to "another entrant" by Mark. oh, the horror...
 
You should hear what he calls me :-)
 
cheers,
calvin
Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Nov 27 06:04PM -0800

On Wednesday, November 23, 2016 at 8:43:00 AM UTC+10, Calvin wrote:
 
> 1 Which Asian country is home to the most Christians, around 85 million?
 
Philippines
I'm certainly prepared to consider appropriately referenced appeals, but most estimates for China are < 85m and fairly speculative.
 
> 2 Pride, Avarice, Envy, Gluttony, Sloth, Lust - which deadly sin is missing?
 
Wrath / Anger
Some folks answered greed which is an alternative for avarice

> 3 In which country was actress Greta Garbo born?
 
Sverige :-)
 
> 4 Which Pacific island is known as Rapa Nui in its native language?
 
Easter Island
 
> 5 In 79 AD, Pompeii and which other city were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius?
 
Herculaneum
 
> 6 What is the SI base unit of electrical current?
 
Ampere
 
> 7 What is the only US State that has the name of an English county in it?
 
New Hampshire
York is a city, not a county
 
> 8 Which segment of an insect is located between its head and abdomen?
 
Thorax
 
> 9 Which European country's internet domain is .ch?
 
Switzerland
 
> 10 Which city, the third largest in Egypt, lies at the northern end of the Suez Canal?
 
Port Said
 
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 464
1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 72 Dan Tilque
0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 76 Mark Brader
1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 8 70 Marc Dashevsky
1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 8 70 Stephen Perry
0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 8 72 Gareth Owen
0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 7 58 Erland S
1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 7 62 Pete Gayde
0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 7 62 Chris Johnson
0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 6 53 Bjorn Lundin
0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 6 58 Bruce Bowler
0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 5 47 Peter Smyth
- - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
4 6 8 8 9 11 10 9 11 4 80 73%
 
Congratulations Dan.
 
 
cheers,
calvin
Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Nov 27 10:10PM -0800

Calvin wrote:
> 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 8 72 Gareth Owen
> 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 7 58 Erland S
> 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 7 62 Pete Gayde
 
Alas, I said India for Q1, so I only got 8 right. I believe only Stephen
and Pete got Q1 right, so Marc's score is wrong too. (I'm sure Marc will
thank me for pointing this out. Right Marc?)
 
So congrats to Mark.
 
--
Dan Tilque
Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Nov 28 08:17AM


> Philippines
> I'm certainly prepared to consider appropriately referenced appeals, but
> most estimates for China are < 85m and fairly speculative.
 
So far I have no objection. I repeat however, that Russia trumphs the
Phillipines, at least when it comes to nomimal Christians. (But counting
anything else definitely goes into the realm of "speculative".) And Russia
is definitely an Asian country.
 
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Nov 27 09:35PM

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in
> "movie" includes TV-movies.) We describe it -- you name it.
 
> 1. A 1988 dramatization of the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919,
> starring John Cusack, John Mahoney, and Charlie Sheen.
 
8 Men Out
 
 
> 2. A player seemingly comes out of nowhere and displays almost
> divine talent with the aid of his bat "Wonderboy". 1984,
> starring Wilfred Brimley and Robert Redford.
 
The Natural
 
 
> 6. A losing baseball team gets some supernatural help to become
> winners. Original made in 1951 starring Paul Douglas and Janet
> Leigh; remade in 1984 with Danny Glover and Brenda Fricker.
 
Damn Yankees
 
 
> 7. A 1992 depiction of the All American Girls Baseball League.
> Starring Geena Davis, Lori Petty, and Madonna.
 
A League of Their Own
 
> of misfits in an ultra-competitive California Little League.
> Starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, and Jackie Earle Haley.
> Billy Bob Thornton starred in an ill-considered 2005 remake.
 
Bad News Bears
 
 
> 9. A 2001 movie starring Barry Pepper and Thomas Jane, about the
> race between Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle to break Babe Ruth's
> single-season home run record.
 
61
 
 
> 10. 2013 story of Jackie Robinson's historic breaking of the
> major-league color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
> Starring Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford.
 
42
 
> 2. Name it.
> 3. (decoy)
> 4. Name it.
 
CBC
 
> 5. (decoy)
 
Terre des Hommes
 
> 16. (decoy)
> 17. (decoy)
> 18. (decoy)
 
Toronto Metro
 
> 19. (decoy)
> 20. (That's the unnumbered one, of course.) Name it.
> 21. (decoy)
 
CN railroad
 
> 28. (decoy)
> 29. Name it.
> 30. Name it.
 
Calgary Olympics
 
> 31. (decoy)
> 32. Name it.
 
Terre des Hommes
 
> nyfb. Yvxrjvfr, vs sbe nal nafjre nyy lbh fnvq jnf "Pnanqvna",
> be nyy lbh fnvq jnf "fhojnl" be n fvzvyne jbeq, ntnva jr arrq zber.
> Cyrnfr tb onpx naq rqvg nf nccyvpnoyr.
 
Pete Gayde
Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Nov 27 05:43PM -0800

On Saturday, November 26, 2016 at 3:49:10 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
 
 
> "movie" includes TV-movies.) We describe it -- you name it.
 
> 1. A 1988 dramatization of the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919,
> starring John Cusack, John Mahoney, and Charlie Sheen.
 
Last Man Out, Last Man Standing
 
> 2. A player seemingly comes out of nowhere and displays almost
> divine talent with the aid of his bat "Wonderboy". 1984,
> starring Wilfred Brimley and Robert Redford.
 
The Natural
 
> Leigh; remade in 1984 with Danny Glover and Brenda Fricker.
 
> 7. A 1992 depiction of the All American Girls Baseball League.
> Starring Geena Davis, Lori Petty, and Madonna.
 
A League of Their Own
 
> of misfits in an ultra-competitive California Little League.
> Starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, and Jackie Earle Haley.
> Billy Bob Thornton starred in an ill-considered 2005 remake.
 
The Bad News Bears
 
> major-league color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
> Starring Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford.
 
> * Game 1, Round 3 - Canadiana - Canadian Logos Past and Present
 
Pass
 
cheers,
calvin
tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Nov 28 03:39AM


> * Game 1, Round 2 - Entertainment - The Boys (and Girls and Dogs) of Summer
 
> 1. A 1988 dramatization of the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919,
> starring John Cusack, John Mahoney, and Charlie Sheen.
 
Eight Men Out
 
> 2. A player seemingly comes out of nowhere and displays almost
> divine talent with the aid of his bat "Wonderboy". 1984,
> starring Wilfred Brimley and Robert Redford.
 
The Natural
 
> 3. 1973. Examines the friendship between a star pitcher and his
> half-wit tobacco-chewing catcher as they deal with the catcher's
> mortal illness. Starring Michael Moriarty and Robert De Niro.
 
Bang the Drum Slowly
 
> repelled by wood. He becomes a major-league pitcher and wins
> the World Series. 1949, starring Ray Milland, Jean Peters,
> and Paul Douglas.
 
Flubber
 
> 6. A losing baseball team gets some supernatural help to become
> winners. Original made in 1951 starring Paul Douglas and Janet
> Leigh; remade in 1984 with Danny Glover and Brenda Fricker.
 
Angels in the Outfield
 
> 7. A 1992 depiction of the All American Girls Baseball League.
> Starring Geena Davis, Lori Petty, and Madonna.
 
A League of Their Own
 
> of misfits in an ultra-competitive California Little League.
> Starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, and Jackie Earle Haley.
> Billy Bob Thornton starred in an ill-considered 2005 remake.
 
The Bad News Bears
 
> 9. A 2001 movie starring Barry Pepper and Thomas Jane, about the
> race between Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle to break Babe Ruth's
> single-season home run record.
 
61*
 
> 10. 2013 story of Jackie Robinson's historic breaking of the
> major-league color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
> Starring Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford.
 
42
 
> * Game 1, Round 3 - Canadiana - Canadian Logos Past and Present
 
> 8. Name it.
 
CBC
 
> 30. Name it.
 
Canadian Olympic team; Vancouver Olympics
 
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum tool@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Nov 27 05:45PM -0800

On Saturday, November 26, 2016 at 3:37:05 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
 
> And we're done! This completes the season written by the Usual
> Suspects and played from May to August of this year. I hope you
> enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed participating in creating it.
 
Thanks- the questions were mostly very good indeed, and a clear improvement on earlier seasons (which themselves were in general quite good). Well done to all concerned!
 
cheers,
calvin
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Sunday, November 27, 2016

Digest for rec.games.trivia@googlegroups.com - 7 updates in 3 topics

Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Nov 26 08:24PM -0800

Mark Brader wrote:
> "movie" includes TV-movies.) We describe it -- you name it.
 
> 1. A 1988 dramatization of the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919,
> starring John Cusack, John Mahoney, and Charlie Sheen.
 
Eight Men Out
 
 
> 6. A losing baseball team gets some supernatural help to become
> winners. Original made in 1951 starring Paul Douglas and Janet
> Leigh; remade in 1984 with Danny Glover and Brenda Fricker.
 
Angels in the Outfield
 
 
> 7. A 1992 depiction of the All American Girls Baseball League.
> Starring Geena Davis, Lori Petty, and Madonna.
 
A League of Their Own
 
 
--
Dan Tilque
"Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Nov 27 10:05AM +0100

On 2016-11-26 06:49, Mark Brader wrote:
 
 
> * Game 1, Round 2 - Entertainment - The Boys (and Girls and Dogs) of Summer
 
> This round is about baseball movies. (In this case the term
> "movie" includes TV-movies.) We describe it -- you name it.
 
Not my game
 
 
> * Game 1, Round 3 - Canadiana - Canadian Logos Past and Present
 
No luck here either
 
--
Björn
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 25 11:36PM -0600

Mark Brader:
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
 
And we're done! This completes the season written by the Usual
Suspects and played from May to August of this year. I hope you
enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed participating in creating it.
 
And the winner of the Final game is JOSHUA KREITZER. Congratulations,
eh?
 
 
> I conceived this round and wrote 6 of the triples in it.
 
I asked someone else to write triple G, and they produced three
Canadiana Literature questions, when I'd intended "Literature
Canadiana" to mean references to Canada in *non-Canadian* books.
Oh well, at least it was a good idea, I thought.
 
 
 
> * A. Canadiana Sports
 
> A1. Which Toronto Argonaut and Chicago Black Hawk -- and later
> the MP for Trinity -- was known as the Big Train?
 
Lionel Conacher. (Lived 1900-54. As well as football and hockey,
in the 1920s and 1930s he was also a star in lacrosse, baseball,
and boxing.)
 
> A2. Which Edmonton Eskimo -- and later Lieutenant Governor of
> Alberta -- was known as the China Clipper?
 
Normie Kwong. (Lived 1929-2016, played pro football 1948-60.)
 
> A3. Which Toronto Argonaut did not have a famous nickname,
> but later joined the Supreme Court of Canada?
 
John Sopinka. (Lived 1933-97, played pro football 1955-57, and also
the violin.)
 
 
> what they represent. If there are multiple dots within the same
> metropolitan area, their exact positions may not be meaningful.
 
> B1. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b1.jpg
 
National Hockey League (NHL) teams. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin,
Dan Tilque, Peter, Marc, Bruce, Erland, Gareth, and Joshua.
 
Of course, "National" in this case refers to a different nation
than with the other two below.
 
> B2. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b2.jpg
 
National Football League (NFL) teams. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque,
Peter, Marc, Bruce, Erland, Gareth, and Joshua.
 
All the teams are in fact shown.
 
> B3. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b3.jpg
 
National League (NL) baseball teams. 4 for Dan Tilque, Peter, Marc,
Gareth, and Joshua. 3 for Dan Blum.
 
All of the NL teams are shown; the gold dots, of course, are the
American League (AL), with Toronto omitted.
 
 
 
> C1. Today the main island of the Toronto Islands is variously
> called Toronto Island or Centre Island. But in the 19th
> century, it was called the Peninsula. What changed it?
 
The low-lying isthmus at its eastern end was destroyed by a storm
(in 1858). I did not actcept "it got cut off from the mainland"
as sufficient.
 
[in 1834] http://www.biographi.ca/bioimages/original.3559.jpg
[in 1889] http://static.torontopubliclibrary.ca/da/images/MC/maps-r-152.jpg
[in 2001] http://i810.photobucket.com/albums/zz28/tangledline_bucket/map2001.jpg
 
> entering it for agricultural use. Most of the lake has
> now evaporated. Before all this happened, what was this
> lake called in English?
 
Aral Sea. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Dan Tilque, Peter, Marc, Erland,
and Joshua. 3 for Björn.
 
[in 1960, 1990, 2000, and 2010]
http://mapsofworld.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/aral-map.jpg
 
> been reclaimed as land. The lake is called the IJsselmeer;
> what was its name when it was part of the ocean? The name
> in Dutch is also used in English.
 
Zuider Zee. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Marc, Bruce, Gareth,
and Joshua.
 
[before] http://img0.etsystatic.com/000/0/5229213/il_570xN.263838770.jpg
[modern] http://rabbel.nl/images/ijsselmeer.gif
 
 
 
> and his wife, who he keeps imprisoned most of the time.
> "It's 1183 and we're barbarians", she tells him at one point.
> Name *both* characters.
 
Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, and Gareth.
 
> D2. The movie "300" is about an ancient battle between which
> *two* armies?
 
Spartan and Persian. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Dan Tilque, Marc,
Bruce, and Björn. 3 for Joshua.
 
> D3. A large part of the movie "The Life of Emile Zola" is about
> Émile Zola's long effort to save an unjustly convicted man.
> Name that man *and* tell what he was convicted of.
 
Albert Dreyfus, treason (accepting espionage; what he supposedly
did was to pass military secrets to German spies). 4 for Dan Blum,
Calvin, Marc, Joshua, and Björn.
 
You will remember from QFTCIMI515 Game 10, Round 2, posted here on
2016-06-25, that MI5 asked a question about the Dreyfus affair in
their game originally played 2015-03-23. At that time I recommended,
and I still recommend, Robert Harris's 2013 novelization of the whole
sorry story, "An Officer and a Spy".
 
> mentioned "Henry" or just "Eleanor" in an answer, please go back and
> be more specific for each of them. And if you mentioned the "Greek"
> army in an answer, likewise please go back and be more specific.
 
This did not constitute permission to go back and *delete* content.
 
 
> E1. Give either the width or the height of an HD television
> screen in pixels, within 10% of the true number. You must
> say which answer you are giving.
 
1,920 pixels wide by 1,080 high (accepting 1,728 to 2,112 wide
or 972 to 1,188 high). 4 for Dan Blum, Peter, Bruce, and Gareth.
3 for Calvin.
 
> same 70 mm film that was also used for major releases that
> weren't in IMAX. The difference is in how it uses it.
> Explain that difference.
 
The film is used sideways. 4 for Joshua.
 
So if the image is 1.4 times as wide as it it's high, it's the
height and not the width that's limited by the 70 mm width of the
strip of film. Therefore each frame can be 1.4 times as wide as
in a standard 70 mm release, or about twice the area. Compared to
35 mm film, IMAX would be about 8 times the area.
 
Incidentally, standard still photography in 35 mm also uses the
film sideways, so each image is similarly larger in area than a
frame on standard movie film.
 
> E3. Although people continued to speak of celluloid, that
> particular plastic stopped being used for movie film in
> the 1950s. Why?
 
Fire safety -- it was extremely flammable. Or as Gareth but it,
"It burns like a bastard". 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Dan Tilque,
Peter, Marc, Bruce, Erland, Gareth, and Joshua.
 
 
> Blind Watchmaker". He invented the word "meme", and (in
> case you thought he wasn't notable) he's married to a woman
> who used to appear on "Doctor Who".
 
Richard Dawkins. (Lalla Ward played Princess Astra in a 6-part
episode, then Romana for most of the following two seasons, when Tom
Baker was the Doctor.) 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Dan Tilque, Peter,
Marc, Gareth, and Joshua.
 
> in "Scientific American". In the book he set out his law,
> which says that things always take longer than you expect,
> even when you take his law into account.
 
Douglas Hofstadter. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Marc, Gareth,
and Joshua.
 
> By the third edition, in 1972, it had his own name in the
> title instead. Even though he mostly wrote non-fiction,
> he is better remembered for fiction.
 
Isaac Asimov. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Dan Tilque, Marc, Gareth,
and Joshua.
 
 
> him the Governor-General's award, and with "Lines on the
> Water", about fishing the same river, Richards also won a
> non-fiction GG.
 
Miramichi.
 
> G2. Which Canadian author set several novels and stories in
> the fictional town of Manawaka, a stand-in for the author's
> hometown of Neepawa, Manitoba?
 
Margaret Laurence.
 
> G3. Which Canadian mystery writer has set a series of books in
> the fictional town of Three Pines, located in Quebec's
> Eastern Townships?
 
Louise Penny.
 
 
Scores, if there are no errors:
 
FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST
TOPICS-> Ent Geo Mis Spo His Sci Lit Cha SIX
Joshua Kreitzer 44 48 48 12 40 27 39 47 266
Dan Blum 36 30 36 28 24 56 40 51 249
Gareth Owen 44 -- 46 36 24 44 31 40 241
Dan Tilque 16 56 20 28 36 40 27 40 227
Marc Dashevsky 48 24 32 16 16 55 20 44 223
Pete Gayde 43 34 16 23 23 28 16 -- 167
Peter Smyth -- 30 12 24 20 32 -- 28 146
Erland Sommarskog -- 40 -- 8 19 16 -- 16 99
"Calvin" -- -- -- -- 27 13 20 35 95
Bruce Bowler -- -- -- -- -- 68 -- 24 92
Björn Lundin 4 20 4 4 4 16 8 11 63
Jason Kreitzer 28 -- 12 -- -- -- -- -- 40
 
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "If we gave people a choice, there would be chaos."
msb@vex.net | -- Dick McDonald
 
My text in this article is in the public domain.
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 26 12:54AM -0600

Mark Brader:
>>> be more specific for each of them. And if you mentioned the "Greek"
>>> army in an answer, likewise please go back and be more specific.
 
>> This did not constitute permission to go back and *delete* content.
 
 
Joshua Kreitzer:
 
> "Persia and Sparta; Persia and Greece"
 
> and then one read the rot13 comment, but didn't want to guess anywhere in
> Greece other than Sparta, what should one do?
 
Make no change, the same as you'd do if you hadn't mentioned Greece.
--
Mark Brader | "The good news is that the Internet is dynamic.
Toronto | The bad news is that the Internet is dynamic."
msb@vex.net | -- Peter Neumann
 
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Nov 26 07:23PM -0800

Mark Brader wrote:
 
 
> 1,920 pixels wide by 1,080 high (accepting 1,728 to 2,112 wide
> or 972 to 1,188 high). 4 for Dan Blum, Peter, Bruce, and Gareth.
> 3 for Calvin.
 
After I posted my answers, I went and looked up the answer for this.
From everything I've read, there are actually two sets of answers:
 
1920 x 1080
1280 x 720
 
Those are the number of pixels that the signal can be transmitted in,
although perhaps no one actually uses the smaller size anymore. (I have
no idea.)
 
However, the question actually asked about the screen size, not the
transmission size. There's lots and lots more sizes than that in
monitors, although the ones with at least 3840 x 2160 are generally
called UHD (ultra-high def).
 
Now Mark is going to think I'm protesting the question, but I'm not, at
least not for myself. My answer would not fit either of the two sizes
above, and probably not any of the various monitors out there on the
market. None matched my answer exactly and I don't think I was close
enough to be within 10% of any of them. Admittedly, I stopped worrying
about that after seeing so many different sizes.
 
Anyway, what I'm really doing is pointing out is that this was a poorly
worded question. I'm not asking Mark to do anything here, except try to
avoid this kind of thing in the future.
 
--
Dan Tilque
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 26 09:45PM -0600

Dan Tilque:
> Anyway, what I'm really doing is pointing out is that this was a poorly
> worded question.
 
Sorry about that, Chief.
 
> I'm not asking Mark to do anything here, except try to avoid this kind
> of thing in the future.
 
I do.
--
Mark Brader | "In a perfect world, the person of authority responds
Toronto | to needs rather than to demands. That's not the way
msb@vex.net | the system works, though." --Tony Cooper
Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Nov 26 11:28PM

Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote in
 
> 1 Which Asian country is home to the most Christians, around 85
> million?
 
Philippines
 
> 2 Pride, Avarice, Envy, Gluttony, Sloth, Lust - which
> deadly sin is missing?
 
Greed
 
> 3 In which country was actress Greta Garbo born?
 
Sweden
 
> 4 Which Pacific island is known as Rapa Nui in its native
> language?
 
Cook Island
 
> 5 In 79 AD, Pompeii and which other city were buried by
> the eruption of Mount Vesuvius?
 
Herculaneum
 
> 6 What is the SI base unit of electrical current?
 
Ampere
 
> 7 What is the only US State that has the name
> of an English county in it?
 
New Hampshire
 
> 8 Which segment of an insect is
> located between its head and abdomen?
 
Thorax
 
> 9 Which European country's internet domain is .ch?
 
Switzerland
 
> 10 Which city, the third largest in Egypt,
> lies at the northern end of the Suez Canal?
 
Alexandria
 
 
> cheers,
> calvin
 
Pete Gayde
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msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 25 11:36PM -0600

Mark Brader:
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
 
And we're done! This completes the season written by the Usual
Suspects and played from May to August of this year. I hope you
enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed participating in creating it.
 
And the winner of the Final game is JOSHUA KREITZER. Congratulations,
eh?
 
 
> I conceived this round and wrote 6 of the triples in it.
 
I asked someone else to write triple G, and they produced three
Canadiana Literature questions, when I'd intended "Literature
Canadiana" to mean references to Canada in *non-Canadian* books.
Oh well, at least it was a good idea, I thought.
 
 
 
> * A. Canadiana Sports
 
> A1. Which Toronto Argonaut and Chicago Black Hawk -- and later
> the MP for Trinity -- was known as the Big Train?
 
Lionel Conacher. (Lived 1900-54. As well as football and hockey,
in the 1920s and 1930s he was also a star in lacrosse, baseball,
and boxing.)
 
> A2. Which Edmonton Eskimo -- and later Lieutenant Governor of
> Alberta -- was known as the China Clipper?
 
Normie Kwong. (Lived 1929-2016, played pro football 1948-60.)
 
> A3. Which Toronto Argonaut did not have a famous nickname,
> but later joined the Supreme Court of Canada?
 
John Sopinka. (Lived 1933-97, played pro football 1955-57, and also
the violin.)
 
 
> what they represent. If there are multiple dots within the same
> metropolitan area, their exact positions may not be meaningful.
 
> B1. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b1.jpg
 
National Hockey League (NHL) teams. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin,
Dan Tilque, Peter, Marc, Bruce, Erland, Gareth, and Joshua.
 
Of course, "National" in this case refers to a different nation
than with the other two below.
 
> B2. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b2.jpg
 
National Football League (NFL) teams. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque,
Peter, Marc, Bruce, Erland, Gareth, and Joshua.
 
All the teams are in fact shown.
 
> B3. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b3.jpg
 
National League (NL) baseball teams. 4 for Dan Tilque, Peter, Marc,
Gareth, and Joshua. 3 for Dan Blum.
 
All of the NL teams are shown; the gold dots, of course, are the
American League (AL), with Toronto omitted.
 
 
 
> C1. Today the main island of the Toronto Islands is variously
> called Toronto Island or Centre Island. But in the 19th
> century, it was called the Peninsula. What changed it?
 
The low-lying isthmus at its eastern end was destroyed by a storm
(in 1858). I did not actcept "it got cut off from the mainland"
as sufficient.
 
[in 1834] http://www.biographi.ca/bioimages/original.3559.jpg
[in 1889] http://static.torontopubliclibrary.ca/da/images/MC/maps-r-152.jpg
[in 2001] http://i810.photobucket.com/albums/zz28/tangledline_bucket/map2001.jpg
 
> entering it for agricultural use. Most of the lake has
> now evaporated. Before all this happened, what was this
> lake called in English?
 
Aral Sea. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Dan Tilque, Peter, Marc, Erland,
and Joshua. 3 for Björn.
 
[in 1960, 1990, 2000, and 2010]
http://mapsofworld.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/aral-map.jpg
 
> been reclaimed as land. The lake is called the IJsselmeer;
> what was its name when it was part of the ocean? The name
> in Dutch is also used in English.
 
Zuider Zee. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Marc, Bruce, Gareth,
and Joshua.
 
[before] http://img0.etsystatic.com/000/0/5229213/il_570xN.263838770.jpg
[modern] http://rabbel.nl/images/ijsselmeer.gif
 
 
 
> and his wife, who he keeps imprisoned most of the time.
> "It's 1183 and we're barbarians", she tells him at one point.
> Name *both* characters.
 
Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, and Gareth.
 
> D2. The movie "300" is about an ancient battle between which
> *two* armies?
 
Spartan and Persian. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Dan Tilque, Marc,
Bruce, and Björn. 3 for Joshua.
 
> D3. A large part of the movie "The Life of Emile Zola" is about
> Émile Zola's long effort to save an unjustly convicted man.
> Name that man *and* tell what he was convicted of.
 
Albert Dreyfus, treason (accepting espionage; what he supposedly
did was to pass military secrets to German spies). 4 for Dan Blum,
Calvin, Marc, Joshua, and Björn.
 
You will remember from QFTCIMI515 Game 10, Round 2, posted here on
2016-06-25, that MI5 asked a question about the Dreyfus affair in
their game originally played 2015-03-23. At that time I recommended,
and I still recommend, Robert Harris's 2013 novelization of the whole
sorry story, "An Officer and a Spy".
 
> mentioned "Henry" or just "Eleanor" in an answer, please go back and
> be more specific for each of them. And if you mentioned the "Greek"
> army in an answer, likewise please go back and be more specific.
 
This did not constitute permission to go back and *delete* content.
 
 
> E1. Give either the width or the height of an HD television
> screen in pixels, within 10% of the true number. You must
> say which answer you are giving.
 
1,920 pixels wide by 1,080 high (accepting 1,728 to 2,112 wide
or 972 to 1,188 high). 4 for Dan Blum, Peter, Bruce, and Gareth.
3 for Calvin.
 
> same 70 mm film that was also used for major releases that
> weren't in IMAX. The difference is in how it uses it.
> Explain that difference.
 
The film is used sideways. 4 for Joshua.
 
So if the image is 1.4 times as wide as it it's high, it's the
height and not the width that's limited by the 70 mm width of the
strip of film. Therefore each frame can be 1.4 times as wide as
in a standard 70 mm release, or about twice the area. Compared to
35 mm film, IMAX would be about 8 times the area.
 
Incidentally, standard still photography in 35 mm also uses the
film sideways, so each image is similarly larger in area than a
frame on standard movie film.
 
> E3. Although people continued to speak of celluloid, that
> particular plastic stopped being used for movie film in
> the 1950s. Why?
 
Fire safety -- it was extremely flammable. Or as Gareth but it,
"It burns like a bastard". 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Dan Tilque,
Peter, Marc, Bruce, Erland, Gareth, and Joshua.
 
 
> Blind Watchmaker". He invented the word "meme", and (in
> case you thought he wasn't notable) he's married to a woman
> who used to appear on "Doctor Who".
 
Richard Dawkins. (Lalla Ward played Princess Astra in a 6-part
episode, then Romana for most of the following two seasons, when Tom
Baker was the Doctor.) 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Dan Tilque, Peter,
Marc, Gareth, and Joshua.
 
> in "Scientific American". In the book he set out his law,
> which says that things always take longer than you expect,
> even when you take his law into account.
 
Douglas Hofstadter. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Marc, Gareth,
and Joshua.
 
> By the third edition, in 1972, it had his own name in the
> title instead. Even though he mostly wrote non-fiction,
> he is better remembered for fiction.
 
Isaac Asimov. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Dan Tilque, Marc, Gareth,
and Joshua.
 
 
> him the Governor-General's award, and with "Lines on the
> Water", about fishing the same river, Richards also won a
> non-fiction GG.
 
Miramichi.
 
> G2. Which Canadian author set several novels and stories in
> the fictional town of Manawaka, a stand-in for the author's
> hometown of Neepawa, Manitoba?
 
Margaret Laurence.
 
> G3. Which Canadian mystery writer has set a series of books in
> the fictional town of Three Pines, located in Quebec's
> Eastern Townships?
 
Louise Penny.
 
 
Scores, if there are no errors:
 
FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST
TOPICS-> Ent Geo Mis Spo His Sci Lit Cha SIX
Joshua Kreitzer 44 48 48 12 40 27 39 47 266
Dan Blum 36 30 36 28 24 56 40 51 249
Gareth Owen 44 -- 46 36 24 44 31 40 241
Dan Tilque 16 56 20 28 36 40 27 40 227
Marc Dashevsky 48 24 32 16 16 55 20 44 223
Pete Gayde 43 34 16 23 23 28 16 -- 167
Peter Smyth -- 30 12 24 20 32 -- 28 146
Erland Sommarskog -- 40 -- 8 19 16 -- 16 99
"Calvin" -- -- -- -- 27 13 20 35 95
Bruce Bowler -- -- -- -- -- 68 -- 24 92
Björn Lundin 4 20 4 4 4 16 8 11 63
Jason Kreitzer 28 -- 12 -- -- -- -- -- 40
 
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "If we gave people a choice, there would be chaos."
msb@vex.net | -- Dick McDonald
 
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Nov 26 06:36AM

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in
>> be more specific for each of them. And if you mentioned the "Greek"
>> army in an answer, likewise please go back and be more specific.
 
> This did not constitute permission to go back and *delete* content.
 
Sincere question:
 
If one's original response to D2 was:
 
"Persia and Sparta; Persia and Greece"
 
and then one read the rot13 comment, but didn't want to guess anywhere in
Greece other than Sparta, what should one do?
 
(This was my actual situation. I've never seen "300", but I knew it
involved Sparta, although I didn't know whether they were fighting Persia
on their own or in collaboration with other Greek city-states.)
 
--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 26 12:54AM -0600

Mark Brader:
>>> be more specific for each of them. And if you mentioned the "Greek"
>>> army in an answer, likewise please go back and be more specific.
 
>> This did not constitute permission to go back and *delete* content.
 
 
Joshua Kreitzer:
 
> "Persia and Sparta; Persia and Greece"
 
> and then one read the rot13 comment, but didn't want to guess anywhere in
> Greece other than Sparta, what should one do?
 
Make no change, the same as you'd do if you hadn't mentioned Greece.
--
Mark Brader | "The good news is that the Internet is dynamic.
Toronto | The bad news is that the Internet is dynamic."
msb@vex.net | -- Peter Neumann
 
My text in this article is in the public domain.
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 25 11:49PM -0600

These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-09-19,
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 the Misplaced Modifiers
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 recent companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
 
 
* Game 1, Round 2 - Entertainment - The Boys (and Girls and Dogs) of Summer
 
This round is about baseball movies. (In this case the term
"movie" includes TV-movies.) We describe it -- you name it.
 
1. A 1988 dramatization of the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919,
starring John Cusack, John Mahoney, and Charlie Sheen.
 
2. A player seemingly comes out of nowhere and displays almost
divine talent with the aid of his bat "Wonderboy". 1984,
starring Wilfred Brimley and Robert Redford.
 
3. 1973. Examines the friendship between a star pitcher and his
half-wit tobacco-chewing catcher as they deal with the catcher's
mortal illness. Starring Michael Moriarty and Robert De Niro.
 
4. An aimless young petty crook agrees to coach a Chicago
little-league team in order to settle his debts. 2001,
starring Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, and D.B. Sweeney.
 
5. A scientist makes a substance which causes a baseball to be
repelled by wood. He becomes a major-league pitcher and wins
the World Series. 1949, starring Ray Milland, Jean Peters,
and Paul Douglas.
 
6. A losing baseball team gets some supernatural help to become
winners. Original made in 1951 starring Paul Douglas and Janet
Leigh; remade in 1984 with Danny Glover and Brenda Fricker.
 
7. A 1992 depiction of the All American Girls Baseball League.
Starring Geena Davis, Lori Petty, and Madonna.
 
8. An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team
of misfits in an ultra-competitive California Little League.
Starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, and Jackie Earle Haley.
Billy Bob Thornton starred in an ill-considered 2005 remake.
 
9. A 2001 movie starring Barry Pepper and Thomas Jane, about the
race between Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle to break Babe Ruth's
single-season home run record.
 
10. 2013 story of Jackie Robinson's historic breaking of the
major-league color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Starring Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford.
 
 
* Game 1, Round 3 - Canadiana - Canadian Logos Past and Present
 
Ottawa advertising agency Northern Army has created a website
to collect what they consider to be the best logos in Canada --
"preserved in the moment in time we felt they were at their
best. Some of them are no longer in use, or have been updated,
for better or worse."
 
Please see the handout at:
 
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/1-3/logos/logos.pdf
 
In each case, we give you the number of the logo; you tell us
the organization, company, government department, agency, event,
program, or group that is (or was) represented by that logo.
 
In some cases short forms are sufficient. If you aren't sure
of the correct long form, you can try just giving a short form;
but I'll also allow you to give *within a single guess* a short
form and a corresponding long form, in which case I'll look only
at the one that fits the type of answer required. If you do this,
please put one of the forms in parentheses so I can be sure they
aren't two separate guesses.
 
I've rearranged the round in order by logo number. As you see,
there were 22 decoys, which are now interspersed with the others;
identify those logos if you like for fun, but for no points.
 
1. (decoy)
2. Name it.
3. (decoy)
4. Name it.
5. (decoy)
6. (decoy)
7. (decoy)
8. Name it.
9. (decoy)
10. (decoy)
11. (decoy)
12. (decoy)
13. (decoy)
14. (decoy)
15. Name it.
16. (decoy)
17. (decoy)
18. (decoy)
19. (decoy)
20. (That's the unnumbered one, of course.) Name it.
21. (decoy)
22. (decoy)
23. (decoy)
24. Name it.
25. Name it.
26. (decoy)
27. (decoy)
28. (decoy)
29. Name it.
30. Name it.
31. (decoy)
32. Name it.
 
After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh fnvq
"GQ Pnanqn Gehfg" sbe nal ybtb, jr arrq lbh gb or yrff fcrpvsvp,
be zber fcrpvsvp, qrcraqvat ba ubj lbh ybbx ng vg. Naq vs lbh
ersreerq gb gur Bylzcvpf, jr arrq fbzrguvat zber fcrpvsvp gurer
nyfb. Yvxrjvfr, vs sbe nal nafjre nyy lbh fnvq jnf "Pnanqvna",
be nyy lbh fnvq jnf "fhojnl" be n fvzvyne jbeq, ntnva jr arrq zber.
Cyrnfr tb onpx naq rqvg nf nccyvpnoyr.
 
--
Mark Brader | "/dev/null institutionalizes a regrettable loss of bits
Toronto | that could have been transmitted to mailing lists and
msb@vex.net | netnews. Our grandchildren will miss them." --Ritchie
 
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Nov 26 06:32AM

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in
> "movie" includes TV-movies.) We describe it -- you name it.
 
> 1. A 1988 dramatization of the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919,
> starring John Cusack, John Mahoney, and Charlie Sheen.
 
"Eight Men Out"
 
> 2. A player seemingly comes out of nowhere and displays almost
> divine talent with the aid of his bat "Wonderboy". 1984,
> starring Wilfred Brimley and Robert Redford.
 
"The Natural"

> 3. 1973. Examines the friendship between a star pitcher and his
> half-wit tobacco-chewing catcher as they deal with the catcher's
> mortal illness. Starring Michael Moriarty and Robert De Niro.
 
"Bang the Drum Slowly"
 
> 4. An aimless young petty crook agrees to coach a Chicago
> little-league team in order to settle his debts. 2001,
> starring Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, and D.B. Sweeney.
 
"Hardball" (?)

> repelled by wood. He becomes a major-league pitcher and wins
> the World Series. 1949, starring Ray Milland, Jean Peters,
> and Paul Douglas.
 
"It Happens Every Spring"
 
> 6. A losing baseball team gets some supernatural help to become
> winners. Original made in 1951 starring Paul Douglas and Janet
> Leigh; remade in 1984 with Danny Glover and Brenda Fricker.
 
"Angels in the Outfield" (?; if so, the remake date looks wrong)

> 7. A 1992 depiction of the All American Girls Baseball League.
> Starring Geena Davis, Lori Petty, and Madonna.
 
"A League of Their Own"
 
> of misfits in an ultra-competitive California Little League.
> Starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, and Jackie Earle Haley.
> Billy Bob Thornton starred in an ill-considered 2005 remake.
 
"The Bad News Bears"
 
> 9. A 2001 movie starring Barry Pepper and Thomas Jane, about the
> race between Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle to break Babe Ruth's
> single-season home run record.
 
"61*"

> 10. 2013 story of Jackie Robinson's historic breaking of the
> major-league color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
> Starring Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford.
 
"42"
 
> the organization, company, government department, agency, event,
> program, or group that is (or was) represented by that logo.
 
> 17. (decoy)
 
Men Without Hats
 
> 20. (That's the unnumbered one, of course.) Name it.
 
National Film Board of Canada
.
> 30. Name it.
 
1988 Winter Olympics; 2010 Winter Olympics
 
--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com
Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Nov 26 06:39AM


> 1. A 1988 dramatization of the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919,
> starring John Cusack, John Mahoney, and Charlie Sheen.
 
Eight Men Out
 
> 2. A player seemingly comes out of nowhere and displays almost
> divine talent with the aid of his bat "Wonderboy". 1984,
> starring Wilfred Brimley and Robert Redford.
 
The Natural
 
> 3. 1973. Examines the friendship between a star pitcher and his
> half-wit tobacco-chewing catcher as they deal with the catcher's
> mortal illness. Starring Michael Moriarty and Robert De Niro.
 
Bang The Drum Slowly. I've not seen the film, but the book on which its
based, and its predecessor "The Southpaw" are terrific. The last two in
the sequence are less good.
 
> 4. An aimless young petty crook agrees to coach a Chicago
> little-league team in order to settle his debts. 2001,
> starring Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, and D.B. Sweeney.
 
Nope
 
> repelled by wood. He becomes a major-league pitcher and wins
> the World Series. 1949, starring Ray Milland, Jean Peters,
> and Paul Douglas.
 
Nope
 
> 6. A losing baseball team gets some supernatural help to become
> winners. Original made in 1951 starring Paul Douglas and Janet
> Leigh; remade in 1984 with Danny Glover and Brenda Fricker.
 
Angels In The Outfield
 
> 7. A 1992 depiction of the All American Girls Baseball League.
> Starring Geena Davis, Lori Petty, and Madonna.
 
A League Of Their Own
 
> of misfits in an ultra-competitive California Little League.
> Starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, and Jackie Earle Haley.
> Billy Bob Thornton starred in an ill-considered 2005 remake.
 
The Bad News Bears
 
> 9. A 2001 movie starring Barry Pepper and Thomas Jane, about the
> race between Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle to break Babe Ruth's
> single-season home run record.
 
61*
 
> 10. 2013 story of Jackie Robinson's historic breaking of the
> major-league color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
> Starring Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford.
 
42
 
> * Game 1, Round 3 - Canadiana - Canadian Logos Past and Present
 
Pass
 
Right, I'm off for a game of TEGWAR
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 25 11:43PM -0600

This is a repeat of my 2016-05-31 introductory posting with some
minor updates. If you were already familiar with the content and
the way I'm scheduling things, then there's no real need to reread
it now.
 
 
* Introduction
 
As most of you will remember, the Canadian Inquisition is a team
trivia league that plays in Toronto pubs. It's a cooperative
league, whose teams take turns to write and ask the questions that
the others answer. In the current season, September-December 2016,
the questions are being written by the Misplaced Modifiers. Next
season, January-April 2017, they will be written by 5 Easy Pieces.
 
I have obtained both teams' permission to post to this newsgroup
the questions from these seasons, to be respectively tagged
QFTCIMM16 and QFTCI5EP in the subject line. Before posting them
here, I'm editing some of them for various reasons -- for brevity,
to clarify their intent, to avoid issues raised on protests, for
suitability in this medium, and so on.
 
As you may remember, the league's season consists of 10 regular
games and a Final. A regular game contains 102 questions. Most of
the game is in rounds of 10 questions on a specific topic within
a different general area. For example, one game in 2008 included
a geography round on former place names, an entertainment round
on Morgan Freeman movies, and a sports round on things that
happened during Toronto Blue Jays games. Round 1 is always
a current-events round; Round 5 is always an audio round; and
Round 10 (the "challenge round") normally contains 12 questions,
2 each on 6 different subjects.
 
I won't be posting audio questions (except if I think they can be
answered without the audio), nor will I post the video questions
that sometimes occur in the Final.
 
 
* Scheduling - Regular Games
 
My intent is that for each quiz you'll get about 3 days to answer,
plus or minus a few hours, but I'm not going to set exact deadlines;
I'll cut off entries at whatever time (after 2 days and about
21 hours) that it's convenient for me to do the scoring and post
the results.
 
One series of postings will include Rounds 2-4 and 6-10 for each
of Games 1-10. I will normally post the questions as four sets
of two rounds each: Rounds 2-3 in one posting, Rounds 4 and 6 in
the next, and so on. In the Final, most rounds have 15 questions,
and these I'll post one round at a time.
 
For each game, I'll keep a cumulative score over the group of
postings, counting your best 6 rounds out of 8 (or 5 out of 7,
etc.) -- that way if you miss a set, or if there's a subject you're
weak on, you still have a chance to finish well. Each game will
be totaled after the last round is posted and scored.
 
In a normal game usually one round is Canadiana (this may also
fall under another subject such as history or geography), which
those of you in distant places may have some trouble with, but I am
including them in the posting series anyway. This is your chance
to shine by displaying your knowledge of Canadiana. However, if
*nobody* in the newsgroup scores *any* points on a round, which
has happened with Canadiana occasionally, then I will score as if
that round had never existed.
 
 
* Scheduling - Current Events
 
I will also do a separate series of postings consisting of
current-events rounds only, also to be posted two at a time. These
will all appear while they're still reasonably current -- normally
within a couple of days of the second of the two original games.
For this series I'm accumulating scores over all the games from the
Usual Suspects' season, similarly counting the best 9 out of 11.
So there will be an overall current-events winner for the season.
 
I'm posting current-events games independently of the posting
of other games, so there will normally be a regular game running
concurrently with each set of current-events questions. The first
pair of current-events rounds will be posted right after this
introduction.
 
Current-events rounds generally refer to events that took place the
week before the original game, sometimes also the week before that.
If answers have changed due to newer news, you are still expected
to give the answer that was correct as of the game date.
 
 
* Procedures and Scoring
 
The usual rule in our regular league games is that each question
goes to an individual who can answer for 2 points without assistance,
and if he misses, he can consult his team and try again for 1 point.
If the quizmaster judges that an answer is incomplete, she can ask
for more details before ruling the answer right or wrong.
 
To maintain the spirit of these rules, I will say that you can give
two answers on every question. But I will penalize you if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer. My scoring is:
 
4 points - if you answer once and are right (or twice, both right)
3 points - if you guess twice and are right only the first time
2 points - if you guess twice and are right only the second time
 
Bonus points may occasionally be available and will be explained in
the relevant round.
 
If you give only one answer, but with only some sort of additional
comment, please make it clear that that's what you're doing.
If there is any doubt I'll assume that you are giving two answers.
If I see more than two answers, the third and any later ones will
be ignored.
 
Where it makes sense, I will accept answers that I think are almost
close enough (*more than half right*), with a 1-point penalty. But
I will reject answers that I do not think are sufficiently specific,
since there is no opportunity to ask for clarification when answers
are posted in the newsgroup.
 
You must, of course, answer based on your own knowledge and
nothing else. You must post all your answers in a single posting.
Where a person's name is asked for, *normally you need only give
the surname*. If you give another part of the name and you're
wrong, your answer is wrong.
--
Mark Brader | "(I've been told that I suffer from rampant narcissism.
Toronto | Just to confirm the accuracy of this character assessment,
msb@vex.net | I have now shared it with the whole world.)" --Laura Spira
 
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