- Erland's Occasional Quiz - 5 Updates
- RQFTCI03 Game 2 Rounds 7-8: movie characters, Robert Burns - 2 Updates
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Nov 19 09:48PM +0100 This quiz is over, and Stephen W Perry is the undisputed winner! You are obliged to hold him in awe for the next 24 hours from your reading of this post. Here is the scoreboard: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Total Stephen 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 Mark B - 1 - - - - - 1 - 1 - 1 4 Dan B - 1 - - 1 - - - - - - - 2 Pete G - - - - - 1 - - - - - - 1 Apparently this was quiz a little bit on the difficult side, which may explain that some people preferred to stay out. But I like to give some kudos to Pete Gayde. He only knew one question, but that was the only that Stephen did not know! Here are the correct answers. > 1. Murray Head has recorded a couple of solo albums, but he possibly > most known for playing the role of which biblical person? Judas Iscariot (in Jesus Christ Superstar) I still get shivers when I listen to the shouting match between him and Ian Gillan (Jesus) in "The Last Supper". > 2. The name of what make of car translates to "I roll" in English? Volvo. > 3. What is, or rather was, EncroChat? It was a communication service based modified mobile phones that offered very strong encryption that was very popular among criminals. Earlier this year, the French police was able to crack the encryption and EncroChat went out of business. And some of the criminals are now going to jail, after the decryption of their conversations. > 4. Toronto Titans, LA Current and London Roar are all teams in which > sport? (Hint: this is a sport where having teams is kind of new thing.) Swimming. A Ukranian oligarch felt that the swimmers deserved more prize money, so he started ISL, International Swimming League. To get a new flavour to it, he organised the league of teams. I don't know if idea is that the matches should be in the home towns of the teams. This year's ISL has been running the last few weeks, but due to the pandemic, all games are taking place in Budapest. > 5. The Hundred-Years War came to an end in 1453. What else came to an end > earlier the same year? The (East) Roman Empire. Also often referred to as the Byzantine Empire for the later part of its existence. I approved "Constantineople", although that is technically incorrect, as the city itself did not come to an end but still stands. As for Henry VII... King of England on 1453-01-01 as well as on 1453-12-31 was Henry VI. > composition in that group might be "Teen Town". After leaving the > group, he had his own big bad. Sadly, he died in a bar brawl, only > 35 years old. Who am I talking about? Jaco Pastorious. The group mentioned was Weather Report. "Teen Town" is on "Heavy Weather", and admittedly there is at least one tune on that album that is more known than "Teen Town". > 7. In Sweden, Gerd is a woman's name. But in Africa, Gerd is a bone > of contention between two countries. Name any of them. Ethiopia and Egypt. GERD = "Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam". This is a big dam project on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia for a power plant. Egypt does not like it, because they fear that it will reduce the amount of water in their part of the Nile. Sudan is of course also affected, but Egypt has been a lot more vocal, even threating to bomb the dam. (Which a President on a different continent even seems to have encouraged them to.) > 8. We learnt in a recently reposted quiz from Mark that the first > non-leap year to have Olympic Games was 1900. Which was next > non-leap year when Olympic Games were held? The intended answer was 1994, but I completely overlooked the games in 1906 when I wrote the question, so both answers are fine. When Mark posted his question, I noticed that those who missed 1900, till had the year wrong. And that includes most shamefully me as well. For some reason I thought "1992". But at least I did not post that answer... > 9. Sputnik V has been in the news recently. What is it? It is a Russian vaccine against covid-19 that got official clearance already in September, although it only had been tested on 38 persons. But reportedly, Putin's daughter got a shot. > in the south-eastern direction. You come to a big roundabout. > On the other side of the roundabout, the continuation of the avenue > has a different name, which? Avenue de Champs-Elysées. > 11. What is an affricative (also written affricate)? Explain, or just > give an example. It's a consonant sound which is a stop which is released and immediately followed by a fricative sound in the same position. Examples in English are CH as in CHURCH and G as GINGER. An example from German is PF as in PFERD. But F alone is a fricative. > 12. Within one, how many US states exceed Sweden > a) by area? 1, accepting 0 to 2. Alaska: 1 717 856 km2 Sweden: 450 295 km2 California: 423 970 km2 > b) by population, as of 2020-01-01 according to worldpopulation.de? 9, accepting 8 to 10. California 39 512 223 Texas 28 995 881 Florida 21 477 737 New York 19 453 561 Pennsylvania 12 801 989 Illinois 12 671 821 Ohio 11 689 100 Georgia 10 617 423 North Carolina 10 488 084 Sweden 10 327 589 Michigan 9 986 857 I wrote the question before I actually went to worldpopulation.de. The numbers for US are actually per 2019-07-31. And, no, I did not know the answer to 12b when I wrote the question. Thanks to everyone (well all four of you) for playing! |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 19 04:54PM -0600 Erland Sommarskog: > > 5. The Hundred-Years War came to an end in 1453. What else came to an end > > earlier the same year? > The (East) Roman Empire... And now I feel stupid. Thanks for the quiz, Erland. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "...everything else in [the] list is wrong; msb@vex.net | why should [this] be correct?" -- Rob Novak |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Nov 19 10:58PM > Alaska: 1 717 856 km2 > Sweden: 450 295 km2 > California: 423 970 km2 The correct answer is 2: Texas is the second-largest state (California is third) and has an area of 695,662 km2. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Nov 20 08:45AM +0100 >> California: 423 970 km2 > The correct answer is 2: Texas is the second-largest state (California > is third) and has an area of 695,662 km2. Oops! I know that during my research I read an article in Wikiepdia which listed next few states by area and I thouhgt "Oh, Montana is #4, I did not know that". But I was so preconceived on that California was #2 that I did not notice that Texas was listed before California on that list. I thought it was a fun with a question that I did not know the answer to myself before checking. I certainly did not know the answer to 12b before checking. And nor to 12a it seems... So, I'm accepting 1 to 3 for 12a, but it does not change the scoring. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Nov 20 08:48AM +0100 >> > end earlier the same year? >> The (East) Roman Empire... > And now I feel stupid. Thanks for the quiz, Erland. And I had a little bit of a similar feeling when I failed on the question when Hundred-Years War ended in your quiz. Not that I felt that I should have known it as such, but that particular year makes it very easy to remember, and I felt that I had not been paying attention. (Since then I have learnt a lot more, since I've read a book about this senseless war.) |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Nov 19 11:48PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:v_OdnVjcyKCKWinCnZ2dnUU7- > 1. Name the 1994 movie at #3 on the list, behind only the first > "Godfather" and the second "Lord of the Rings". Two memorable > characters are Andy Dufresne and "Red" Redding. Shawshank Redemption > 2. 13th on the list is a 1975 movie featuring characters Randle > Patrick McMurphy and Mildred Ratched. Name it. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest > 6. Right behind it at #43 is a 1974 movie, and we hope you can > identify it from these two characters: Jake Gittes and Evelyn > Cross Mulwray. What film is this? Chinatown > 8. Movie #88 goes all the way back to 1933, but who could forget > Rufus T. Firefly, Mrs. Gloria Teasdale, and Ambassador Trentino > of Sylvania? In which movie would you find them? Cocoanuts; Monkey Business > 3. This dish is customarily served at a Burns Day dinner. > Burns himself called it "Great chieftain o' the puddin' race." > By which name do we know it? Haggis > 4. <Answer 3> is traditionally accompanied by "neeps and tatties". > Give either food's name in English. Potatos > 5. In which city's George Square was a statue of Robert Burns > dedicated in 1877, on the anniversary of his birth? Glasgow; Edinburgh > 6. The first statue of Robert Burns *outside* of Scotland, by John > Robert Steell, was unveiled in 1880 in which city? Dublin > lends his name to a hat. It is a round woolen cap with a flat > baggy top much wider than the headband, typically with a pom-pom > in the centre. Tam O Shanter > 10. Another famous song by Burns was sung by Sheena Wellington > for the reopening of Scottish Parliament in 1999. Give the > title. Pete Gayde |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Nov 19 04:59PM -0800 On 11/17/20 11:02 PM, Mark Brader wrote: > characters are Andy Dufresne and "Red" Redding. > 2. 13th on the list is a 1975 movie featuring characters Randle > Patrick McMurphy and Mildred Ratched. Name it. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest > L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries, Lisa Carol Fremont, Lars Thorwald, and > a character whose name we never learn, but who is referred to > as Miss Lonelyheart? Rebel Without a Cause ?? > 4. A 1995 movie scores #17. Where would you find Dean Keaton, > Dave Kujan ["KOO-yan"], Fred Fenster, and Mr. Kobayashi? The Usual Suspects > 5. #42 is a 1941 movie with characters Brigid O'Shaughnessy, > Kasper Gutman, and Miles Archer. Name this classic movie. The Maltese Falcon > 6. Right behind it at #43 is a 1974 movie, and we hope you can > identify it from these two characters: Jake Gittes and Evelyn > Cross Mulwray. What film is this? Chinatown > 8. Movie #88 goes all the way back to 1933, but who could forget > Rufus T. Firefly, Mrs. Gloria Teasdale, and Ambassador Trentino > of Sylvania? In which movie would you find them? Duck Soup > 3. This dish is customarily served at a Burns Day dinner. > Burns himself called it "Great chieftain o' the puddin' race." > By which name do we know it? haggis > 4. <Answer 3> is traditionally accompanied by "neeps and tatties". > Give either food's name in English. turnips (by strange coincidence, I happened to see "neep" in my dictionary earlier today) > 5. In which city's George Square was a statue of Robert Burns > dedicated in 1877, on the anniversary of his birth? Aberdeen -- Dan Tilque |
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