- RQFTCI07 Final Rounds 7-8: history, sports - 5 Updates
- RQFTCI07 Final Rounds 4,6 answers: science, Canadiana - 1 Update
- Exit Calvin - 1 Update
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 24 03:35PM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2007-04-02, 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 two triples in Round 7 and one triple in Round 8. ** Final, Round 7 - History * Abolitionists """Last month""" marked the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. These questions deal with prominent abolitionists. 1. Who was the British MP who led the parliamentary opposition to slavery? 2. Born Araminta Ross, this escaped slave helped hundreds of people attain freedom via the "Underground Railway", earning the nickname "Moses of her people". She also served as a spy for the Union forces during the US Civil War. 3. This slave from Virginia led an 1831 rebellion in which over 50 whites were killed. He was the subject of a 1968 Pulitzer-prizewinning novel by William Styron. * Renamings 4. There is still a Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, but Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean changed the form of its name when the Gilbert Islands became an independent country. Give the present name of *either* the island or the country. Both names are simply the old names as rendered in the local language. 5. In Russia today is a city on the Volga, called Volgograd. Give either of its two previous names. 6. In 2000, the political party then led by Stockwell Day finished second in the federal election. It was usually called by a shorter name, but its full name at the time was four words, alluding both to its previous incarnation and to its ambitions to absorb the Progressive Conservatives. Give that full name. * """Recent""" Iranian History 7. In what year did Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini return to Iran from exile? Later the same year the Islamic regime was set up and the hostage crisis started. 8. What was the name -- acronym, actually -- of the domestic security and intelligence service of Iran under the Shah, from 1957 until <answer 7>? 9. Who preceded Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president of Iran? * English Civil War 10. What was the name of the parliamentary army, established in 1645, composed of professional soldiers and initially led by Sir Thomas Fairfax? 11. In what year was King Charles I beheaded? 12. What name was given to the English Parliament that sat from 1640-11-03 until 1660-03-16? * 19th-Century Firsts 13. It only lasted for a matter of weeks, but on 1858-08-05, the company started by Cyrus Field completed the first transatlantic what? 14. It was based on existing sports, but on 1846-06-19, at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, NJ, the Knickerbockers and New York played the first game on record of what newly organized sport? By the way, New York had a big win. 15. On 1840-05-06, the UK became the first country to issue what? As nobody else was doing it, there was no need for the things to show the name of the country, and British ones still don't. ** Final, Round 8 - Sports * NBA Nicknames We will give you a retired NBA star's nickname. You give us his real name. 1. "The Dream". 2. "The Mailman". 3. "The Worm". * Sports Scoring Please refer to the handout at <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f/scoring.png>. 4. The pictures in A represent Olympic archery targets; the right-hand one is for reference only. What is the total score for the two arrows shown in the left picture? 5. Picture B represents a 10-pin bowling score sheet. What score should be written in place of the question mark? 6. Picture C represents a curling club scoreboard. What is the current score? (Use "Red" and "Yellow" to represent the team names.) * Tennis Terms 7. What is said to occur if the non-serving player ends up winning the game? 8. What term refers to the situation where the score is tied at 40-40 and neither player has the advantage? 9. What name is given to a legal serve that is not touched by the receiving player? * City by Star Athletes Given the names of three athletes in different pro sports, tell us the city in which each trio """is""" based. For example if we ask "Mats Sundin, Vernon Wells, Chris Bosh", the answer """is""" Toronto. However, the answers in this triple are all American cities. *Note*: You must give the answer that were correct in 2007 unless all three players in a question were subsequently again based in the same sity. 10. Paul Pierce, Marc Savard, David Ortiz. 11. Ilya Kovalchuk, Chipper Jones, Michael Vick. 12. Tony Romo, Marty Turco, Dirk Nowitzki. * A Year in the Life 13. Name any year when the Toronto Toros played under that name in the WHA. 14. Name any year when the Montreal Concordes played under that name in the CFL. 15. Name any year when the New York Highlanders played baseball under that name in the American League. -- Mark Brader | "This was the ancient Greek equivalent Toronto | of 'citation needed'." msb@vex.net | --Matt Parker My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Oct 25 12:01AM +0200 > Give the present name of *either* the island or the country. > Both names are simply the old names as rendered in the local > language. Kiribati > 5. In Russia today is a city on the Volga, called Volgograd. > Give either of its two previous names. Tsaritsyn > 7. In what year did Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini return to Iran > from exile? Later the same year the Islamic regime was set > up and the hostage crisis started. 1979 > 9. Who preceded Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president of Iran? Khatami > Elysian Fields in Hoboken, NJ, the Knickerbockers and New York > played the first game on record of what newly organized sport? > By the way, New York had a big win. American Football > 15. On 1840-05-06, the UK became the first country to issue what? > As nobody else was doing it, there was no need for the things > to show the name of the country, and British ones still don't. Passport > ** Final, Round 8 - Sports > * Sports Scoring > Please refer to the handout at <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f/scoring.png>. > 4. The pictures in A represent Olympic archery targets; the > right-hand one is for reference only. What is the total score > for the two arrows shown in the left picture? 18 > 5. Picture B represents a 10-pin bowling score sheet. What score > should be written in place of the question mark? 37 > 6. Picture C represents a curling club scoreboard. What is the > current score? (Use "Red" and "Yellow" to represent the > team names.) 2-4 > * Tennis Terms > 7. What is said to occur if the non-serving player ends up winning > the game? break > 8. What term refers to the situation where the score is tied at > 40-40 and neither player has the advantage? love > 9. What name is given to a legal serve that is not touched by the > receiving player? ace > * City by Star Athletes > 11. Ilya Kovalchuk, Chipper Jones, Michael Vick. New York |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Oct 24 07:10PM -0700 On 10/24/20 1:35 PM, Mark Brader wrote: > people attain freedom via the "Underground Railway", earning > the nickname "Moses of her people". She also served as a spy > for the Union forces during the US Civil War. Tubman > Give the present name of *either* the island or the country. > Both names are simply the old names as rendered in the local > language. Kiritimati > 5. In Russia today is a city on the Volga, called Volgograd. > Give either of its two previous names. Stalingrad > 7. In what year did Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini return to Iran > from exile? Later the same year the Islamic regime was set > up and the hostage crisis started. 1979 > security and intelligence service of Iran under the Shah, > from 1957 until <answer 7>? > 9. Who preceded Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president of Iran? Khamenei > 10. What was the name of the parliamentary army, established in > 1645, composed of professional soldiers and initially led by > Sir Thomas Fairfax? New Model Army > 11. In what year was King Charles I beheaded? 1649 > 12. What name was given to the English Parliament that sat from > 1640-11-03 until 1660-03-16? Long Parliament > 13. It only lasted for a matter of weeks, but on 1858-08-05, the > company started by Cyrus Field completed the first transatlantic > what? cable > Elysian Fields in Hoboken, NJ, the Knickerbockers and New York > played the first game on record of what newly organized sport? > By the way, New York had a big win. baseball > 15. On 1840-05-06, the UK became the first country to issue what? > As nobody else was doing it, there was no need for the things > to show the name of the country, and British ones still don't. postage stamp > We will give you a retired NBA star's nickname. You give us his > real name. > 1. "The Dream". Hakeem Olajuwon > 2. "The Mailman". Karl Malone > 3. "The Worm". Dennis Rodman > 4. The pictures in A represent Olympic archery targets; the > right-hand one is for reference only. What is the total score > for the two arrows shown in the left picture? 75 > 5. Picture B represents a 10-pin bowling score sheet. What score > should be written in place of the question mark? 40 > * Tennis Terms > 7. What is said to occur if the non-serving player ends up winning > the game? service break > 8. What term refers to the situation where the score is tied at > 40-40 and neither player has the advantage? deuce > 9. What name is given to a legal serve that is not touched by the > receiving player? ace > all three players in a question were subsequently again based in > the same sity. > 10. Paul Pierce, Marc Savard, David Ortiz. Boston > 11. Ilya Kovalchuk, Chipper Jones, Michael Vick. Philadelphia > 12. Tony Romo, Marty Turco, Dirk Nowitzki. Dallas > * A Year in the Life > 13. Name any year when the Toronto Toros played under that name > in the WHA. 1977 > name in the CFL. > 15. Name any year when the New York Highlanders played baseball > under that name in the American League. 1898 -- Dan Tilque |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Oct 24 11:40PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in > people attain freedom via the "Underground Railway", earning > the nickname "Moses of her people". She also served as a spy > for the Union forces during the US Civil War. Harriet Tubman > 3. This slave from Virginia led an 1831 rebellion in which > over 50 whites were killed. He was the subject of a 1968 > Pulitzer-prizewinning novel by William Styron. Nat Turner > Give the present name of *either* the island or the country. > Both names are simply the old names as rendered in the local > language. Kiritimati; Kiribati > 5. In Russia today is a city on the Volga, called Volgograd. > Give either of its two previous names. Stalingrad > shorter name, but its full name at the time was four words, > alluding both to its previous incarnation and to its ambitions > to absorb the Progressive Conservatives. Give that full name. Canadian Conservative Alliance Party > 7. In what year did Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini return to Iran > from exile? Later the same year the Islamic regime was set > up and the hostage crisis started. 1979 > 8. What was the name -- acronym, actually -- of the domestic > security and intelligence service of Iran under the Shah, > from 1957 until <answer 7>? SAVAK > 9. Who preceded Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president of Iran? Rouhani > 10. What was the name of the parliamentary army, established in > 1645, composed of professional soldiers and initially led by > Sir Thomas Fairfax? New Model Army > 11. In what year was King Charles I beheaded? 1648 > 12. What name was given to the English Parliament that sat from > 1640-11-03 until 1660-03-16? Long Parliament > Elysian Fields in Hoboken, NJ, the Knickerbockers and New York > played the first game on record of what newly organized sport? > By the way, New York had a big win. baseball > 15. On 1840-05-06, the UK became the first country to issue what? > As nobody else was doing it, there was no need for the things > to show the name of the country, and British ones still don't. postage stamps > We will give you a retired NBA star's nickname. You give us his > real name. > 1. "The Dream". Hakeem Olajuwon > 2. "The Mailman". Karl Malone > 3. "The Worm". Dennis Rodman > <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f/scoring.png>. > 5. Picture B represents a 10-pin bowling score sheet. What score > should be written in place of the question mark? 40 > * Tennis Terms > 7. What is said to occur if the non-serving player ends up winning > the game? service break > 8. What term refers to the situation where the score is tied at > 40-40 and neither player has the advantage? deuce > 9. What name is given to a legal serve that is not touched by the > receiving player? ace > all three players in a question were subsequently again based in > the same sity. > 10. Paul Pierce, Marc Savard, David Ortiz. Boston > 11. Ilya Kovalchuk, Chipper Jones, Michael Vick. Atlanta > 12. Tony Romo, Marty Turco, Dirk Nowitzki. Dallas > * A Year in the Life > 13. Name any year when the Toronto Toros played under that name > in the WHA. 1975; 1976 > 14. Name any year when the Montreal Concordes played under that > name in the CFL. 1950; 1951 > 15. Name any year when the New York Highlanders played baseball > under that name in the American League. 1904 -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Oct 25 04:24AM > people attain freedom via the "Underground Railway", earning > the nickname "Moses of her people". She also served as a spy > for the Union forces during the US Civil War. Harriet Tubman > 3. This slave from Virginia led an 1831 rebellion in which > over 50 whites were killed. He was the subject of a 1968 > Pulitzer-prizewinning novel by William Styron. Tyler > Give the present name of *either* the island or the country. > Both names are simply the old names as rendered in the local > language. Kiribati > 5. In Russia today is a city on the Volga, called Volgograd. > Give either of its two previous names. Stalingrad > 7. In what year did Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini return to Iran > from exile? Later the same year the Islamic regime was set > up and the hostage crisis started. 1979 > 8. What was the name -- acronym, actually -- of the domestic > security and intelligence service of Iran under the Shah, > from 1957 until <answer 7>? STAVAK > 10. What was the name of the parliamentary army, established in > 1645, composed of professional soldiers and initially led by > Sir Thomas Fairfax? New Model Army > 11. In what year was King Charles I beheaded? 1648 > 12. What name was given to the English Parliament that sat from > 1640-11-03 until 1660-03-16? Long Parliament > 13. It only lasted for a matter of weeks, but on 1858-08-05, the > company started by Cyrus Field completed the first transatlantic > what? telegraph cable > Elysian Fields in Hoboken, NJ, the Knickerbockers and New York > played the first game on record of what newly organized sport? > By the way, New York had a big win. baseball > 15. On 1840-05-06, the UK became the first country to issue what? > As nobody else was doing it, there was no need for the things > to show the name of the country, and British ones still don't. postage stamps > ** Final, Round 8 - Sports > * NBA Nicknames > 3. "The Worm". Dennis Rodman > 4. The pictures in A represent Olympic archery targets; the > right-hand one is for reference only. What is the total score > for the two arrows shown in the left picture? 25 > 5. Picture B represents a 10-pin bowling score sheet. What score > should be written in place of the question mark? 40 > 6. Picture C represents a curling club scoreboard. What is the > current score? (Use "Red" and "Yellow" to represent the > team names.) Yellow 8 to Red 2 > * City by Star Athletes > 10. Paul Pierce, Marc Savard, David Ortiz. Boston > 12. Tony Romo, Marty Turco, Dirk Nowitzki. Chicago; Los Angeles > * A Year in the Life > 15. Name any year when the New York Highlanders played baseball > under that name in the American League. 1895 -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 24 03:32PM -0500 Mark Brader: > see my 2020-06-23 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from > the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)". > I wrote 4 triples in Round 4 and 3 triples in round 6. In Round 4 I wrote all except #10-12; in Round 6, I wrote questions #4-12. > exact length of his unit of measure, only that it was something > like five or six hundred feet. He calculated that the Earth's > circumference was 250,000 *what*? Stadia (or stadiums, stadions, or stades). 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque. > word that meant 1/12 of anything. The two corresponding units > of British measure both have names derived from this Latin word; > give the Latin word. Uncia. (Hence "ounce", still 1/12 of a pound in troy measure, and "inch". I decided to accept "uncis".) 4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque. > 3. This largish unit of weight, which is mentioned in the Bible, > was used by the Greeks and the Hebrews and was equivalent to > about 25 or 30 kilograms. Talent. 4 for Dan Tilque. > * Electronics Components > No, we're not asking about the ruler. By the way, at the original game the actual components you see in the images were handed around. The image backgrounds are blotchy because I didn't have a digital camera when I adapted the round for the newsgroup in 2008, and used a scanner instead. > 4. What are these <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f/electro1.jpg>? Capacitors (or condensers, for the old-fashioned). 4 for Bruce, Pete, and Dan Tilque. 3 for Erland. > 5. What are these <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f/electro2.jpg>? Resistors. 4 for Dan Blum, Bruce, Erland, Pete, and Dan Tilque. > 6. What are these <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f/electro3.jpg>? Diodes. I thought these would be the hardest to identify, except that some of them have the diode symbol on them. 4 for Bruce, Erland, and Pete. > 7. He was born in 1845 in Prussia and lived until 1923, and is > most famous for discovering X-rays, which he gave that name > because their nature was unknown. Who was he? Wilhelm Röntgen. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Bruce, Erland, and Dan Tilque. > alpha and beta radiation. By studying the deflection of alpha > rays, he then discovered that the atom contains a nucleus. > Name him. Ernest Rutherford. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Bruce, and Dan Tilque. > chemistry. He also suggested that fission and similar events > could be modeled by considering the nucleus as a drop of liquid. > Name him. Niels Bohr. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Bruce, Erland, and Dan Tilque. The other scientists with transuranic elements named after them up to 2004 are: Pierre and Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Ernest Lawrence, Lise Meitner, Dmitri Mendeleyev, Alfred Nobel, and Glenn Seaborg. And there've been three more since then: Nicolaus Copernicus, Georgy Flerov, and Yuri Oganessian. > 10. The spine or vertebral column terminates with the coccyx > ["KOK-six"] or tailbone; what is the large triangular bone > directly above it, inserted like a wedge between the hip bones? Sacrum. 4 for Bruce. > 11. In which part of the body are the parietal and occipital bones? > Be sufficiently specific. They form the top and back of the skull. "Skull" was sufficient, so I decided to score other parts of the skull as almost correct. 4 for Dan Blum, Bruce, and Dan Tilque. 3 for Joshua and Pete. > 12. Where are the atlas and axis bones? The neck. (They are the first and second cervical vertebrae.) 4 for Bruce. > 13. Mercury is one of two elements that are liquid at room > temperature. Name the other, a halogen element with a melting > point of -7°C and a boiling point of 59°C. Bromine. 4 for Joshua, Bruce, Erland, and Dan Tilque. > 14. This element has the lowest boiling point of all and is the > only one that remains liquid, except under high pressure, > as the temperature approaches absolute zero. Helium. 4 for Bruce, Erland, and Dan Tilque. > 15. What element has the highest melting point of all metals, > liquefying only at a temperature of just over 3,400°C? Tungsten. 4 for Dan Blum and Erland. > * Towns > We'll give you the names of two cities or towns; you tell us what > province """they're""" both in. Nothing has changed here since the original game. > 1. Mt. Pearl; Grand Falls - Windsor. Newfoundland (and Labrador). > 2. Weyburn; Estevan. Saskatchewan. > 3. Quesnel; Smithers. British Columbia. > * QEW The Queen Elizabeth Way is the main highway from Toronto leading around the west end of Lake Ontario to the St. Catharines - Niagara Falls - Buffalo area, shaped like a mirror-image "?" mark minus the dot. > initials also appeared on decorative lampposts, of which we > believe only a few remain and none on the road's present route. > What were these initials? ER. (For Queen Elizabeth -- in Latin!) See: http://www.thekingshighway.ca/IMAGES/QEW_old.jpg > 5. Who is the QEW named after? Be sufficiently specific, of course. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (wife of King George VI). 4 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque. 3 for Joshua. > 6. Where was the original southern terminus of the QEW? Niagara Falls. (Near the Rainbow Bridge.) Its present terminus is Fort Erie, leading to Buffalo via the Peace Bridge. For about 15 years after the Fort Erie section was completed, the road forked and led to both endpoints; then the Niagara branch was redesignated Highway 420. Last time I looked there were still some ER lampposts on that, as seen here: http://www.alpsroads.net/roads/on/on_420/wlight.jpg > represented settings in the United States. > 7. John Houseman won an Oscar for this 1973 drama about law school > students. It was filmed in part at the University of Toronto. "The Paper Chase". 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Bruce, Pete, and Dan Tilque. > 8. This 1976 satirical drama won four Oscars, one of them a > posthumous award. Scenes set in a TV studio were filmed at CFTO. "Network". 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Bruce. > 9. For this more recent film, a boxing drama, one of Toronto's > Bay stores was disguised as Madison Square Garden and a > shantytown was built on the U of T's Scarborough Campus. "Cinderella Man" (2005). > * Charter of Rights Nothing has changed here since the original game. > Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out > in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law > as can be demonstrably justified in a..." Free and democratic society. (Anything close was okay.) > belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press > and other media of communication; (c) freedom of peaceful ____; > (d) freedom of ____." Fill in *either one* of the blanks. Assembly, association. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Bruce, and Dan Tilque. > "Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable > ____ or ____." Section 9: "Everyone has the right not to be > arbitrarily ____ or ____." Search or seizure, detained or imprisoned. ("Searched", "detention", etc. were okay. "Arrest" was wrong, since we wanted a form of the actual word, but I took it as almost correct if coupled with a correct answer for one of the other words.) 4 for Joshua, Bruce, and Dan Tilque. 3 for Dan Blum. > Mail" wrote "The Friendly Dictatorship", an examination of the > concentration of political power in Canada, particularly under > Jean Chrétien's Liberals. Name him. Jeffery Simpson. > and left-wing perspective, dealing with issues such as social > programs, taxation, globalization, and US oil policy. She is > """currently""" a columnist for the Toronto Star. Linda McQuaig. (Still true.) > 15. This writer on political and military issues """has""" a PhD > in history and """has""" served in the navies of three countries. > He """writes""" a twice-weekly column on international affairs. Gwynne Dyer. (Still true.) Scores, if there are no errors: FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS TOPICS-> Ent Geo Sci Can Joshua Kreitzer 52 56 27 19 154 Dan Blum 26 42 28 19 115 Erland Sommarskog 4 44 31 0 79 Pete Gayde 6 43 15 4 68 Dan Tilque -- -- 44 16 60 Bruce Bowler -- -- 44 16 60 -- Mark Brader, Toronto "Dr. Slipher, I have found your Planet X." msb@vex.net -- Clyde Tombaugh (1906-97), 1930-02-18 My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Joe Masters <joe@joemasters.me.uk>: Oct 24 06:42PM +0100 On 2020-10-22 02:04:28 +0000, Mark Brader said: >> It's been a great 10+ years - thanks everyone for being part of it. > Best wishes, Calvin. Your work over 614 quizzes has been much > appreciated. Although an infrequent entrant I did enjoy the quizes. Thanks for running them. -- "To err, as they say, is human. To forgive is divine. To err by withholding your forgiveness until it's too late is to become divinely fucked up." ― Jonathan Tropper, The Book of Joe |
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