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QFTCI16 Final, Round 10: Challenge Round
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Mark Brader
Nov 22, 2016, 10:52:34 PM11/22/16
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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-08-09,
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 Usual Suspects 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 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
I conceived this round and wrote 6 of the triples in it.
** Final, Round 10 -- Challenge
This is the challenge round, and we're giving you even more choice
than usual so that the categories can be:
Canadiana Sports
Sports Geography
Geography History
History Entertainment
Entertainment Science
Science Literature
Literature Canadiana
* A. Canadiana Sports
A1. Which Toronto Argonaut and Chicago Black Hawk -- and later
the MP for Trinity -- was known as the Big Train?
A2. Which Edmonton Eskimo -- and later Lieutenant Governor of
Alberta -- was known as the China Clipper?
A3. Which Toronto Argonaut did not have a famous nickname,
but later joined the Supreme Court of Canada?
* B. Sports Geography
For each question in this triple, we'll show you a map with some
dots on it, and ask you a question (shown on the image) about
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
B2. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b2.jpg
B3. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b3.jpg
* C. Geography History
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?
C2. In the mid 20th century, the fourth-largest lake in the
world was a salt-water lake in the Soviet Union -- until
they had the idea of diverting most of the river water
entering it for agricultural use. Most of the lake has
now evaporated. Before all this happened, what was this
lake called in English?
C3. In 1931 a dam 19 miles long was completed in the Netherlands,
separating a large shallow bay from the ocean so that it
became a fresh-water lake. Much of its area has since
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.
* D. History Entertainment
D1. The movie "The Lion in Winter" features an English king
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.
D2. The movie "300" is about an ancient battle between which
*two* armies?
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.
After completing this triple, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh whfg
zragvbarq "Urael" be whfg "Ryrnabe" va na nafjre, cyrnfr tb onpx naq
or zber fcrpvsvp sbe rnpu bs gurz. Naq vs lbh zragvbarq gur "Terrx"
nezl va na nafjre, yvxrjvfr cyrnfr tb onpx naq or zber fcrpvsvp.
* E. Entertainment Science
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.
E2. Among movies using conventional film, the IMAX system
produces the highest-definition images. Yet it uses the
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.
E3. Although people continued to speak of celluloid, that
particular plastic stopped being used for movie film in
the 1950s. Why?
* F. Science Literature
In each case, name the science writer.
F1. In 1976 he wrote "The Selfish Gene", and in 1986 "The
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".
F2. In 1979 this author wrote "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal
Golden Braid", a large and complex book about subjects such
as symbols and meaning and self-reference, with plenty of
wordplay and humorous dialogues. He later wrote a column
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.
F3. In 1960 this author's book "The Intelligent Man's Guide
to Science" was published. He worried about the title
(which the publisher chose) sounding too elitist, but
didn't even think about sexism until it was pointed out.
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.
* G. Literature Canadiana
Each of these questions is about a series of books set in a
particular, sometimes fictionalized, Canadian location.
G1. David Adams Richards wrote an acclaimed trilogy set in the
area surrounding which Canadian river? The second of
those books, "Evening Snow will Bring Such Peace" won
him the Governor-General's award, and with "Lines on the
Water", about fishing the same river, Richards also won a
non-fiction GG.
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?
G3. Which Canadian mystery writer has set a series of books in
the fictional town of Three Pines, located in Quebec's
Eastern Townships?
--
Mark Brader | "Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember
Toronto | the exact instant when I realized that a large part
m...@vex.net | of my life... was going to be spent in finding
| mistakes in my own programs." -- Maurice Wilkes
My text in this article is in the public domain.
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 Usual Suspects 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 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
I conceived this round and wrote 6 of the triples in it.
** Final, Round 10 -- Challenge
This is the challenge round, and we're giving you even more choice
than usual so that the categories can be:
Canadiana Sports
Sports Geography
Geography History
History Entertainment
Entertainment Science
Science Literature
Literature Canadiana
* A. Canadiana Sports
A1. Which Toronto Argonaut and Chicago Black Hawk -- and later
the MP for Trinity -- was known as the Big Train?
A2. Which Edmonton Eskimo -- and later Lieutenant Governor of
Alberta -- was known as the China Clipper?
A3. Which Toronto Argonaut did not have a famous nickname,
but later joined the Supreme Court of Canada?
* B. Sports Geography
For each question in this triple, we'll show you a map with some
dots on it, and ask you a question (shown on the image) about
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
B2. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b2.jpg
B3. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b3.jpg
* C. Geography History
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?
C2. In the mid 20th century, the fourth-largest lake in the
world was a salt-water lake in the Soviet Union -- until
they had the idea of diverting most of the river water
entering it for agricultural use. Most of the lake has
now evaporated. Before all this happened, what was this
lake called in English?
C3. In 1931 a dam 19 miles long was completed in the Netherlands,
separating a large shallow bay from the ocean so that it
became a fresh-water lake. Much of its area has since
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.
* D. History Entertainment
D1. The movie "The Lion in Winter" features an English king
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.
D2. The movie "300" is about an ancient battle between which
*two* armies?
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.
After completing this triple, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh whfg
zragvbarq "Urael" be whfg "Ryrnabe" va na nafjre, cyrnfr tb onpx naq
or zber fcrpvsvp sbe rnpu bs gurz. Naq vs lbh zragvbarq gur "Terrx"
nezl va na nafjre, yvxrjvfr cyrnfr tb onpx naq or zber fcrpvsvp.
* E. Entertainment Science
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.
E2. Among movies using conventional film, the IMAX system
produces the highest-definition images. Yet it uses the
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.
E3. Although people continued to speak of celluloid, that
particular plastic stopped being used for movie film in
the 1950s. Why?
* F. Science Literature
In each case, name the science writer.
F1. In 1976 he wrote "The Selfish Gene", and in 1986 "The
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".
F2. In 1979 this author wrote "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal
Golden Braid", a large and complex book about subjects such
as symbols and meaning and self-reference, with plenty of
wordplay and humorous dialogues. He later wrote a column
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.
F3. In 1960 this author's book "The Intelligent Man's Guide
to Science" was published. He worried about the title
(which the publisher chose) sounding too elitist, but
didn't even think about sexism until it was pointed out.
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.
* G. Literature Canadiana
Each of these questions is about a series of books set in a
particular, sometimes fictionalized, Canadian location.
G1. David Adams Richards wrote an acclaimed trilogy set in the
area surrounding which Canadian river? The second of
those books, "Evening Snow will Bring Such Peace" won
him the Governor-General's award, and with "Lines on the
Water", about fishing the same river, Richards also won a
non-fiction GG.
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?
G3. Which Canadian mystery writer has set a series of books in
the fictional town of Three Pines, located in Quebec's
Eastern Townships?
--
Mark Brader | "Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember
Toronto | the exact instant when I realized that a large part
m...@vex.net | of my life... was going to be spent in finding
| mistakes in my own programs." -- Maurice Wilkes
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Dan Blum
Nov 23, 2016, 12:20:03 AM11/23/16
to
> * B. Sports Geography
> B1. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b1.jpg
cities with NHL teams
> B2. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b2.jpg
cities with NFL teams
> B3. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b3.jpg
cities with National League baseball teams; cities with American League baseball teams
> * C. Geography History
> C2. In the mid 20th century, the fourth-largest lake in the
> world was a salt-water lake in the Soviet Union -- until
> they had the idea of diverting most of the river water
> 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
> C3. In 1931 a dam 19 miles long was completed in the Netherlands,
> separating a large shallow bay from the ocean so that it
> became a fresh-water lake. Much of its area has since
> 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
> * D. History Entertainment
> D1. The movie "The Lion in Winter" features an English king
> 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 and Eleanor of Aquitaine
> D2. The movie "300" is about an ancient battle between which
> *two* armies?
Persian and Spartan
(Not really correct since the real-life army also had about 700
Thespians.)
> D3. A large part of the movie "The Life of Emile Zola" is about
> ?mile Zola's long effort to save an unjustly convicted man.
> * E. Entertainment Science
> 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.
width of 2000
> E3. Although people continued to speak of celluloid, that
> particular plastic stopped being used for movie film in
> the 1950s. Why?
it catches fire easily
> * F. Science Literature
> F1. In 1976 he wrote "The Selfish Gene", and in 1986 "The
> 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
> F2. In 1979 this author wrote "G?del, Escher, Bach: an Eternal
> F3. In 1960 this author's book "The Intelligent Man's Guide
> to Science" was published. He worried about the title
> (which the publisher chose) sounding too elitist, but
> didn't even think about sexism until it was pointed out.
> 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
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
> B1. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b1.jpg
cities with NHL teams
> B2. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b2.jpg
cities with NFL teams
> B3. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b3.jpg
cities with National League baseball teams; cities with American League baseball teams
> * C. Geography History
> C2. In the mid 20th century, the fourth-largest lake in the
> world was a salt-water lake in the Soviet Union -- until
> they had the idea of diverting most of the river water
> entering it for agricultural use. Most of the lake has
> now evaporated. Before all this happened, what was this
> lake called in English?
> C3. In 1931 a dam 19 miles long was completed in the Netherlands,
> separating a large shallow bay from the ocean so that it
> became a fresh-water lake. Much of its area has since
> 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.
> * D. History Entertainment
> D1. The movie "The Lion in Winter" features an English king
> 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.
> D2. The movie "300" is about an ancient battle between which
> *two* armies?
(Not really correct since the real-life army also had about 700
Thespians.)
> D3. A large part of the movie "The Life of Emile Zola" is about
> Name that man *and* tell what he was convicted of.
Dreyfus, selling classified information to a foreign government
> * E. Entertainment Science
> 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.
> E3. Although people continued to speak of celluloid, that
> particular plastic stopped being used for movie film in
> the 1950s. Why?
> * F. Science Literature
> F1. In 1976 he wrote "The Selfish Gene", and in 1986 "The
> 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".
> F2. In 1979 this author wrote "G?del, Escher, Bach: an Eternal
> Golden Braid", a large and complex book about subjects such
> as symbols and meaning and self-reference, with plenty of
> wordplay and humorous dialogues. He later wrote a column
> 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
> as symbols and meaning and self-reference, with plenty of
> wordplay and humorous dialogues. He later wrote a column
> 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.
> F3. In 1960 this author's book "The Intelligent Man's Guide
> to Science" was published. He worried about the title
> (which the publisher chose) sounding too elitist, but
> didn't even think about sexism until it was pointed out.
> 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.
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Calvin
Nov 23, 2016, 12:46:52 AM11/23/16
to
On Wednesday, November 23, 2016 at 1:52:34 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
> ** Final, Round 10 -- Challenge
> ** Final, Round 10 -- Challenge
> * A. Canadiana Sports
>
> A1. Which Toronto Argonaut and Chicago Black Hawk -- and later
> the MP for Trinity -- was known as the Big Train?
>
> A2. Which Edmonton Eskimo -- and later Lieutenant Governor of
> Alberta -- was known as the China Clipper?
>
> A3. Which Toronto Argonaut did not have a famous nickname,
> but later joined the Supreme Court of Canada?
>
>
> * B. Sports Geography
>
> For each question in this triple, we'll show you a map with some
> dots on it, and ask you a question (shown on the image) about
> 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
NHL Teams
>
> A1. Which Toronto Argonaut and Chicago Black Hawk -- and later
> the MP for Trinity -- was known as the Big Train?
>
> A2. Which Edmonton Eskimo -- and later Lieutenant Governor of
> Alberta -- was known as the China Clipper?
>
> A3. Which Toronto Argonaut did not have a famous nickname,
> but later joined the Supreme Court of Canada?
>
>
> * B. Sports Geography
>
> For each question in this triple, we'll show you a map with some
> dots on it, and ask you a question (shown on the image) about
> 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
> B2. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b2.jpg
MLB teams
> B3. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b3.jpg
NFC teams
> * C. Geography History
>
> 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?
>
> C2. In the mid 20th century, the fourth-largest lake in the
> world was a salt-water lake in the Soviet Union -- until
> they had the idea of diverting most of the river water
> entering it for agricultural use. Most of the lake has
> now evaporated. Before all this happened, what was this
> lake called in English?
> C3. In 1931 a dam 19 miles long was completed in the Netherlands,
> separating a large shallow bay from the ocean so that it
> became a fresh-water lake. Much of its area has since
> 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.
>
>
> * D. History Entertainment
>
> D1. The movie "The Lion in Winter" features an English king
> 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 and Eleanor of Aquitaine
> D2. The movie "300" is about an ancient battle between which
> *two* armies?
Persians and Spartans
> *two* armies?
> 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.
> * E. Entertainment Science
>
> 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.
> E2. Among movies using conventional film, the IMAX system
> produces the highest-definition images. Yet it uses the
> 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.
>
> E3. Although people continued to speak of celluloid, that
> particular plastic stopped being used for movie film in
> the 1950s. Why?
> * F. Science Literature
>
> In each case, name the science writer.
>
> F1. In 1976 he wrote "The Selfish Gene", and in 1986 "The
> 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".
> F2. In 1979 this author wrote "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal
> Golden Braid", a large and complex book about subjects such
> as symbols and meaning and self-reference, with plenty of
> wordplay and humorous dialogues. He later wrote a column
> 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.
> F3. In 1960 this author's book "The Intelligent Man's Guide
> to Science" was published. He worried about the title
> (which the publisher chose) sounding too elitist, but
> didn't even think about sexism until it was pointed out.
> 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.
> * G. Literature Canadiana
>
> Each of these questions is about a series of books set in a
> particular, sometimes fictionalized, Canadian location.
>
> G1. David Adams Richards wrote an acclaimed trilogy set in the
> area surrounding which Canadian river? The second of
> those books, "Evening Snow will Bring Such Peace" won
> him the Governor-General's award, and with "Lines on the
> Water", about fishing the same river, Richards also won a
> non-fiction GG.
>
> 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?
He's got to come up eventually
> G3. Which Canadian mystery writer has set a series of books in
> the fictional town of Three Pines, located in Quebec's
> Eastern Townships?
calvin
Dan Tilque
Nov 23, 2016, 3:32:12 AM11/23/16
to
Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> ** Final, Round 10 -- Challenge
>
> This is the challenge round, and we're giving you even more choice
> than usual so that the categories can be:
>
> Canadiana Sports
> Sports Geography
> Geography History
> History Entertainment
> Entertainment Science
> Science Literature
> Literature Canadiana
>
>
> * A. Canadiana Sports
>
> A1. Which Toronto Argonaut and Chicago Black Hawk -- and later
> the MP for Trinity -- was known as the Big Train?
>
> A2. Which Edmonton Eskimo -- and later Lieutenant Governor of
> Alberta -- was known as the China Clipper?
>
> A3. Which Toronto Argonaut did not have a famous nickname,
> but later joined the Supreme Court of Canada?
>
>
> * B. Sports Geography
>
> For each question in this triple, we'll show you a map with some
> dots on it, and ask you a question (shown on the image) about
> 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
locations of NHL franchises
>
>
> ** Final, Round 10 -- Challenge
>
> This is the challenge round, and we're giving you even more choice
> than usual so that the categories can be:
>
> Canadiana Sports
> Sports Geography
> Geography History
> History Entertainment
> Entertainment Science
> Science Literature
> Literature Canadiana
>
>
> * A. Canadiana Sports
>
> A1. Which Toronto Argonaut and Chicago Black Hawk -- and later
> the MP for Trinity -- was known as the Big Train?
>
> A2. Which Edmonton Eskimo -- and later Lieutenant Governor of
> Alberta -- was known as the China Clipper?
>
> A3. Which Toronto Argonaut did not have a famous nickname,
> but later joined the Supreme Court of Canada?
>
>
> * B. Sports Geography
>
> For each question in this triple, we'll show you a map with some
> dots on it, and ask you a question (shown on the image) about
> 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
> B2. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b2.jpg
locations of NFL franchises
> B3. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b3.jpg
locations of National League (baseball) franchises
>
>
> * C. Geography History
>
> 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?
(I was tempted to say global warming :)
>
> C2. In the mid 20th century, the fourth-largest lake in the
> world was a salt-water lake in the Soviet Union -- until
> they had the idea of diverting most of the river water
> entering it for agricultural use. Most of the lake has
> now evaporated. Before all this happened, what was this
> lake called in English?
>
> C3. In 1931 a dam 19 miles long was completed in the Netherlands,
> separating a large shallow bay from the ocean so that it
> became a fresh-water lake. Much of its area has since
> 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.
>
>
> * D. History Entertainment
>
> D1. The movie "The Lion in Winter" features an English king
> 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.
>
> D2. The movie "300" is about an ancient battle between which
> *two* armies?
that battle, but the movie was just about the first group)
>
> 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.
>
> After completing this triple, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh whfg
> zragvbarq "Urael" be whfg "Ryrnabe" va na nafjre, cyrnfr tb onpx naq
> or zber fcrpvsvp sbe rnpu bs gurz. Naq vs lbh zragvbarq gur "Terrx"
> nezl va na nafjre, yvxrjvfr cyrnfr tb onpx naq or zber fcrpvsvp.
>
>
> * E. Entertainment Science
>
> 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.
>
> E2. Among movies using conventional film, the IMAX system
> produces the highest-definition images. Yet it uses the
> 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.
>
> E3. Although people continued to speak of celluloid, that
> particular plastic stopped being used for movie film in
> the 1950s. Why?
>
>
> * F. Science Literature
>
> In each case, name the science writer.
>
> F1. In 1976 he wrote "The Selfish Gene", and in 1986 "The
> 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".
>
> F2. In 1979 this author wrote "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal
> Golden Braid", a large and complex book about subjects such
> as symbols and meaning and self-reference, with plenty of
> wordplay and humorous dialogues. He later wrote a column
> 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.
>
> F3. In 1960 this author's book "The Intelligent Man's Guide
> to Science" was published. He worried about the title
> (which the publisher chose) sounding too elitist, but
> didn't even think about sexism until it was pointed out.
> 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.
>
>
> * G. Literature Canadiana
>
> Each of these questions is about a series of books set in a
> particular, sometimes fictionalized, Canadian location.
>
> G1. David Adams Richards wrote an acclaimed trilogy set in the
> area surrounding which Canadian river? The second of
> those books, "Evening Snow will Bring Such Peace" won
> him the Governor-General's award, and with "Lines on the
> Water", about fishing the same river, Richards also won a
> non-fiction GG.
>
> 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?
>
> G3. Which Canadian mystery writer has set a series of books in
> the fictional town of Three Pines, located in Quebec's
> Eastern Townships?
>
--
Peter Smyth
Nov 23, 2016, 12:37:12 PM11/23/16
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> B3. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b3.jpg
National League MLB teams
American League MLB teams
> * C. Geography History
>
> 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?
>
> C2. In the mid 20th century, the fourth-largest lake in the
> world was a salt-water lake in the Soviet Union -- until
> they had the idea of diverting most of the river water
> 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
>
> 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?
>
> C2. In the mid 20th century, the fourth-largest lake in the
> world was a salt-water lake in the Soviet Union -- until
> they had the idea of diverting most of the river water
> entering it for agricultural use. Most of the lake has
> now evaporated. Before all this happened, what was this
> lake called in English?
> C3. In 1931 a dam 19 miles long was completed in the Netherlands,
> separating a large shallow bay from the ocean so that it
> became a fresh-water lake. Much of its area has since
> 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.
>
>
> * D. History Entertainment
>
> D1. The movie "The Lion in Winter" features an English king
> 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.
> separating a large shallow bay from the ocean so that it
> became a fresh-water lake. Much of its area has since
> 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.
>
>
> * D. History Entertainment
>
> D1. The movie "The Lion in Winter" features an English king
> and his wife, who he keeps imprisoned most of the time.
> "It's 1183 and we're barbarians", she tells him at one point.
Richard the Lionheart / Eleanor of Acquitaine
> D2. The movie "300" is about an ancient battle between which
> two armies?
>
> 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.
> 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.
>
> After completing this triple, please decode the rot13: If you just
> 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.
>
>
> * E. Entertainment Science
>
> 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.
1900 (width)
>
> * E. Entertainment Science
>
> 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.
> E2. Among movies using conventional film, the IMAX system
> produces the highest-definition images. Yet it uses the
> 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.
Takes more frames per second
> produces the highest-definition images. Yet it uses the
> 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.
> E3. Although people continued to speak of celluloid, that
> particular plastic stopped being used for movie film in
> the 1950s. Why?
It is flammable
> particular plastic stopped being used for movie film in
> the 1950s. Why?
>
> * F. Science Literature
>
> In each case, name the science writer.
>
> F1. In 1976 he wrote "The Selfish Gene", and in 1986 "The
> 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
> * F. Science Literature
>
> In each case, name the science writer.
>
> F1. In 1976 he wrote "The Selfish Gene", and in 1986 "The
> 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".
> F2. In 1979 this author wrote "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal
> Golden Braid", a large and complex book about subjects such
> as symbols and meaning and self-reference, with plenty of
> wordplay and humorous dialogues. He later wrote a column
> 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.
Martin Gardner
> Golden Braid", a large and complex book about subjects such
> as symbols and meaning and self-reference, with plenty of
> wordplay and humorous dialogues. He later wrote a column
> 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.
> F3. In 1960 this author's book "The Intelligent Man's Guide
> to Science" was published. He worried about the title
> (which the publisher chose) sounding too elitist, but
> didn't even think about sexism until it was pointed out.
> 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.
>
>
> * G. Literature Canadiana
>
> Each of these questions is about a series of books set in a
> particular, sometimes fictionalized, Canadian location.
>
> G1. David Adams Richards wrote an acclaimed trilogy set in the
> area surrounding which Canadian river? The second of
> those books, "Evening Snow will Bring Such Peace" won
> him the Governor-General's award, and with "Lines on the
> Water", about fishing the same river, Richards also won a
> non-fiction GG.
>
> 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?
>
> G3. Which Canadian mystery writer has set a series of books in
> the fictional town of Three Pines, located in Quebec's
> Eastern Townships?
Peter Smyth
> to Science" was published. He worried about the title
> (which the publisher chose) sounding too elitist, but
> didn't even think about sexism until it was pointed out.
> 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.
>
>
> * G. Literature Canadiana
>
> Each of these questions is about a series of books set in a
> particular, sometimes fictionalized, Canadian location.
>
> G1. David Adams Richards wrote an acclaimed trilogy set in the
> area surrounding which Canadian river? The second of
> those books, "Evening Snow will Bring Such Peace" won
> him the Governor-General's award, and with "Lines on the
> Water", about fishing the same river, Richards also won a
> non-fiction GG.
>
> 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?
>
> G3. Which Canadian mystery writer has set a series of books in
> the fictional town of Three Pines, located in Quebec's
> Eastern Townships?
Marc Dashevsky
Nov 23, 2016, 1:53:14 PM11/23/16
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In article <8d2dnWSZtNbgj6jF...@giganews.com>, m...@vex.net says...
> B2. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b2.jpg
MLB National League franchises
> * C. Geography History
>
> 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?
>
> C2. In the mid 20th century, the fourth-largest lake in the
> world was a salt-water lake in the Soviet Union -- until
> they had the idea of diverting most of the river water
> 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
> C3. In 1931 a dam 19 miles long was completed in the Netherlands,
> separating a large shallow bay from the ocean so that it
> became a fresh-water lake. Much of its area has since
> 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.
Zeider Zee
> * D. History Entertainment
>
> D1. The movie "The Lion in Winter" features an English king
> 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.
>
> D2. The movie "300" is about an ancient battle between which
> *two* armies?
Sparta and Persia
> 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.
Dreyfus, treason
> After completing this triple, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh whfg
> zragvbarq "Urael" be whfg "Ryrnabe" va na nafjre, cyrnfr tb onpx naq
> or zber fcrpvsvp sbe rnpu bs gurz. Naq vs lbh zragvbarq gur "Terrx"
> nezl va na nafjre, yvxrjvfr cyrnfr tb onpx naq or zber fcrpvsvp.
>
>
> * E. Entertainment Science
>
> 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.
1280 pixels wide
> E2. Among movies using conventional film, the IMAX system
> produces the highest-definition images. Yet it uses the
> 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.
>
> E3. Although people continued to speak of celluloid, that
> particular plastic stopped being used for movie film in
> the 1950s. Why?
extremely flammable
> * F. Science Literature
>
> In each case, name the science writer.
>
> F1. In 1976 he wrote "The Selfish Gene", and in 1986 "The
> 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
> F2. In 1979 this author wrote "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal
> Golden Braid", a large and complex book about subjects such
> as symbols and meaning and self-reference, with plenty of
> wordplay and humorous dialogues. He later wrote a column
> 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 Hofstedter
> F3. In 1960 this author's book "The Intelligent Man's Guide
> to Science" was published. He worried about the title
> (which the publisher chose) sounding too elitist, but
> didn't even think about sexism until it was pointed out.
> 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
> * G. Literature Canadiana
>
> Each of these questions is about a series of books set in a
> particular, sometimes fictionalized, Canadian location.
>
> G1. David Adams Richards wrote an acclaimed trilogy set in the
> area surrounding which Canadian river? The second of
> those books, "Evening Snow will Bring Such Peace" won
> him the Governor-General's award, and with "Lines on the
> Water", about fishing the same river, Richards also won a
> non-fiction GG.
>
> 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?
>
> G3. Which Canadian mystery writer has set a series of books in
> the fictional town of Three Pines, located in Quebec's
> Eastern Townships?
--
Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address.
> ** Final, Round 10 -- Challenge
>
> This is the challenge round, and we're giving you even more choice
> than usual so that the categories can be:
>
> Canadiana Sports
> Sports Geography
> Geography History
> History Entertainment
> Entertainment Science
> Science Literature
> Literature Canadiana
>
>
> * A. Canadiana Sports
>
> A1. Which Toronto Argonaut and Chicago Black Hawk -- and later
> the MP for Trinity -- was known as the Big Train?
>
> A2. Which Edmonton Eskimo -- and later Lieutenant Governor of
> Alberta -- was known as the China Clipper?
>
> A3. Which Toronto Argonaut did not have a famous nickname,
> but later joined the Supreme Court of Canada?
>
>
> * B. Sports Geography
>
> For each question in this triple, we'll show you a map with some
> dots on it, and ask you a question (shown on the image) about
> 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
NHL franchises
>
> This is the challenge round, and we're giving you even more choice
> than usual so that the categories can be:
>
> Canadiana Sports
> Sports Geography
> Geography History
> History Entertainment
> Entertainment Science
> Science Literature
> Literature Canadiana
>
>
> * A. Canadiana Sports
>
> A1. Which Toronto Argonaut and Chicago Black Hawk -- and later
> the MP for Trinity -- was known as the Big Train?
>
> A2. Which Edmonton Eskimo -- and later Lieutenant Governor of
> Alberta -- was known as the China Clipper?
>
> A3. Which Toronto Argonaut did not have a famous nickname,
> but later joined the Supreme Court of Canada?
>
>
> * B. Sports Geography
>
> For each question in this triple, we'll show you a map with some
> dots on it, and ask you a question (shown on the image) about
> 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
> B2. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b2.jpg
MLB National League franchises
> * C. Geography History
>
> 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?
>
> C2. In the mid 20th century, the fourth-largest lake in the
> world was a salt-water lake in the Soviet Union -- until
> they had the idea of diverting most of the river water
> entering it for agricultural use. Most of the lake has
> now evaporated. Before all this happened, what was this
> lake called in English?
> C3. In 1931 a dam 19 miles long was completed in the Netherlands,
> separating a large shallow bay from the ocean so that it
> became a fresh-water lake. Much of its area has since
> 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.
> * D. History Entertainment
>
> D1. The movie "The Lion in Winter" features an English king
> 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.
>
> D2. The movie "300" is about an ancient battle between which
> *two* armies?
> 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.
> After completing this triple, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh whfg
> zragvbarq "Urael" be whfg "Ryrnabe" va na nafjre, cyrnfr tb onpx naq
> or zber fcrpvsvp sbe rnpu bs gurz. Naq vs lbh zragvbarq gur "Terrx"
> nezl va na nafjre, yvxrjvfr cyrnfr tb onpx naq or zber fcrpvsvp.
>
>
> * E. Entertainment Science
>
> 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.
> E2. Among movies using conventional film, the IMAX system
> produces the highest-definition images. Yet it uses the
> 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.
>
> E3. Although people continued to speak of celluloid, that
> particular plastic stopped being used for movie film in
> the 1950s. Why?
> * F. Science Literature
>
> In each case, name the science writer.
>
> F1. In 1976 he wrote "The Selfish Gene", and in 1986 "The
> 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".
> F2. In 1979 this author wrote "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal
> Golden Braid", a large and complex book about subjects such
> as symbols and meaning and self-reference, with plenty of
> wordplay and humorous dialogues. He later wrote a column
> 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.
> F3. In 1960 this author's book "The Intelligent Man's Guide
> to Science" was published. He worried about the title
> (which the publisher chose) sounding too elitist, but
> didn't even think about sexism until it was pointed out.
> 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.
> * G. Literature Canadiana
>
> Each of these questions is about a series of books set in a
> particular, sometimes fictionalized, Canadian location.
>
> G1. David Adams Richards wrote an acclaimed trilogy set in the
> area surrounding which Canadian river? The second of
> those books, "Evening Snow will Bring Such Peace" won
> him the Governor-General's award, and with "Lines on the
> Water", about fishing the same river, Richards also won a
> non-fiction GG.
>
> 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?
>
> G3. Which Canadian mystery writer has set a series of books in
> the fictional town of Three Pines, located in Quebec's
> Eastern Townships?
--
bbowler
Nov 23, 2016, 2:32:37 PM11/23/16
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> B2. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b2.jpg
NFL team cities
> B3. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b3.jpg
NBA team cities
> * C. Geography History
>
> 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?
>
> C2. In the mid 20th century, the fourth-largest lake in the
> world was a salt-water lake in the Soviet Union -- until they had
> the idea of diverting most of the river water entering it for
> agricultural use. Most of the lake has now evaporated. Before
> all this happened, what was this lake called in English?
> C3. In 1931 a dam 19 miles long was completed in the Netherlands,
> separating a large shallow bay from the ocean so that it became a
> fresh-water lake. Much of its area has since 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.
>
> * D. History Entertainment
>
> D1. The movie "The Lion in Winter" features an English king
> 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.
>
> D2. The movie "300" is about an ancient battle between which
> *two* armies?
> 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.
>
> After completing this triple, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh whfg
> zragvbarq "Urael" be whfg "Ryrnabe" va na nafjre, cyrnfr tb onpx naq or
> zber fcrpvsvp sbe rnpu bs gurz. Naq vs lbh zragvbarq gur "Terrx"
> nezl va na nafjre, yvxrjvfr cyrnfr tb onpx naq or zber fcrpvsvp.
>
>
> * E. Entertainment Science
>
> 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.
> E2. Among movies using conventional film, the IMAX system
> produces the highest-definition images. Yet it uses the 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.
>
> E3. Although people continued to speak of celluloid, that
> particular plastic stopped being used for movie film in the
> 1950s. Why?
Erland Sommarskog
Nov 23, 2016, 3:49:54 PM11/23/16
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> B3. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b3.jpg
Baseball
> * C. Geography History
>
> 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?
They dug up a channel making it an islant.
> C2. In the mid 20th century, the fourth-largest lake in the
> world was a salt-water lake in the Soviet Union -- until
> they had the idea of diverting most of the river water
> 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
> C3. In 1931 a dam 19 miles long was completed in the Netherlands,
> separating a large shallow bay from the ocean so that it
> became a fresh-water lake. Much of its area has since
> 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.
Afsluitsdijk
> 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.
Richard Dreyfus, murder.
> 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.
1920 height
> E3. Although people continued to speak of celluloid, that
> particular plastic stopped being used for movie film in
> the 1950s. Why?
Fire risk
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se
Baseball
> * C. Geography History
>
> 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?
> C2. In the mid 20th century, the fourth-largest lake in the
> world was a salt-water lake in the Soviet Union -- until
> they had the idea of diverting most of the river water
> entering it for agricultural use. Most of the lake has
> now evaporated. Before all this happened, what was this
> lake called in English?
> C3. In 1931 a dam 19 miles long was completed in the Netherlands,
> separating a large shallow bay from the ocean so that it
> became a fresh-water lake. Much of its area has since
> 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.
> 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.
> 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.
> E3. Although people continued to speak of celluloid, that
> particular plastic stopped being used for movie film in
> the 1950s. Why?
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se
Erland Sommarskog
Nov 23, 2016, 3:50:48 PM11/23/16
to
Erland Sommarskog (esq...@sommarskog.se) writes:
>> C3. In 1931 a dam 19 miles long was completed in the Netherlands,
>> separating a large shallow bay from the ocean so that it
>> became a fresh-water lake. Much of its area has since
>> 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.
>
> Afsluitsdijk
>
I guess that I should read the question better. But that is at least the
>> C3. In 1931 a dam 19 miles long was completed in the Netherlands,
>> separating a large shallow bay from the ocean so that it
>> became a fresh-water lake. Much of its area has since
>> 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.
>
> Afsluitsdijk
>
name of the dam itself.
Gareth Owen
Nov 23, 2016, 4:42:53 PM11/23/16
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m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) writes:
> * A. Canadiana Sports
>
> A1. Which Toronto Argonaut and Chicago Black Hawk -- and later
> the MP for Trinity -- was known as the Big Train?
Walter Johnson
> * A. Canadiana Sports
>
> A1. Which Toronto Argonaut and Chicago Black Hawk -- and later
> the MP for Trinity -- was known as the Big Train?
> A2. Which Edmonton Eskimo -- and later Lieutenant Governor of
> Alberta -- was known as the China Clipper?
> A3. Which Toronto Argonaut did not have a famous nickname,
> but later joined the Supreme Court of Canada?
> * B. Sports Geography
>
> For each question in this triple, we'll show you a map with some
> dots on it, and ask you a question (shown on the image) about
> 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
> B2. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b2.jpg
NFL Teams
> B3. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b3.jpg
National League Teams of MLB
> * C. Geography History
>
> 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?
> C2. In the mid 20th century, the fourth-largest lake in the
> world was a salt-water lake in the Soviet Union -- until
> they had the idea of diverting most of the river water
> entering it for agricultural use. Most of the lake has
> now evaporated. Before all this happened, what was this
> lake called in English?
> C3. In 1931 a dam 19 miles long was completed in the Netherlands,
> separating a large shallow bay from the ocean so that it
> became a fresh-water lake. Much of its area has since
> 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.
> * D. History Entertainment
>
> D1. The movie "The Lion in Winter" features an English king
> 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.
> D2. The movie "300" is about an ancient battle between which
> *two* armies?
> 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.
> * E. Entertainment Science
>
> 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.
> E2. Among movies using conventional film, the IMAX system
> produces the highest-definition images. Yet it uses the
> 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.
> E3. Although people continued to speak of celluloid, that
> particular plastic stopped being used for movie film in
> the 1950s. Why?
> * F. Science Literature
>
> In each case, name the science writer.
>
> F1. In 1976 he wrote "The Selfish Gene", and in 1986 "The
> 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".
> F2. In 1979 this author wrote "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal
> Golden Braid", a large and complex book about subjects such
> as symbols and meaning and self-reference, with plenty of
> wordplay and humorous dialogues. He later wrote a column
> 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.
> F3. In 1960 this author's book "The Intelligent Man's Guide
> to Science" was published. He worried about the title
> (which the publisher chose) sounding too elitist, but
> didn't even think about sexism until it was pointed out.
> 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.
Joshua Kreitzer
Nov 23, 2016, 7:37:40 PM11/23/16
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m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:8d2dnWSZtNbgj6jFnZ2dnUU7-
bvN...@giganews.com:
> ** Final, Round 10 -- Challenge
>
> B2. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b2.jpg
locations of NFL teams
> B3. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b3.jpg
locations of National League baseball teams
> * C. Geography History
>
> C3. In 1931 a dam 19 miles long was completed in the Netherlands,
> separating a large shallow bay from the ocean so that it
> became a fresh-water lake. Much of its area has since
> 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
> * D. History Entertainment
>
> D1. The movie "The Lion in Winter" features an English king
> 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.
Richard II and Eleanor of Aquitaine
> D2. The movie "300" is about an ancient battle between which
> *two* armies?
Persia and Sparta
> 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.
Alfred Dreyfus and espionage
> After completing this triple, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh whfg
> zragvbarq "Urael" be whfg "Ryrnabe" va na nafjre, cyrnfr tb onpx naq
> or zber fcrpvsvp sbe rnpu bs gurz. Naq vs lbh zragvbarq gur "Terrx"
> nezl va na nafjre, yvxrjvfr cyrnfr tb onpx naq or zber fcrpvsvp.
My second choice for D2 *had been* "Persia and Greece," but based on the
rot13 I've removed that second choice as being insufficiently specific.
> * E. Entertainment Science
>
> E3. Although people continued to speak of celluloid, that
> particular plastic stopped being used for movie film in
> the 1950s. Why?
celluloid was too flammable
> * F. Science Literature
>
> In each case, name the science writer.
>
> F1. In 1976 he wrote "The Selfish Gene", and in 1986 "The
> 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
> F2. In 1979 this author wrote "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal
> Golden Braid", a large and complex book about subjects such
> as symbols and meaning and self-reference, with plenty of
> wordplay and humorous dialogues. He later wrote a column
> 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
> F3. In 1960 this author's book "The Intelligent Man's Guide
> to Science" was published. He worried about the title
> (which the publisher chose) sounding too elitist, but
> didn't even think about sexism until it was pointed out.
> 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
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
bvN...@giganews.com:
> ** Final, Round 10 -- Challenge
>
> * B. Sports Geography
>
> For each question in this triple, we'll show you a map with some
> dots on it, and ask you a question (shown on the image) about
> 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
locations of NHL teams
>
> For each question in this triple, we'll show you a map with some
> dots on it, and ask you a question (shown on the image) about
> 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
> B2. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b2.jpg
locations of NFL teams
> B3. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-10/dots/b3.jpg
locations of National League baseball teams
> * C. Geography History
>
> C2. In the mid 20th century, the fourth-largest lake in the
> world was a salt-water lake in the Soviet Union -- until
> they had the idea of diverting most of the river water
> 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
> world was a salt-water lake in the Soviet Union -- until
> they had the idea of diverting most of the river water
> entering it for agricultural use. Most of the lake has
> now evaporated. Before all this happened, what was this
> lake called in English?
> C3. In 1931 a dam 19 miles long was completed in the Netherlands,
> separating a large shallow bay from the ocean so that it
> became a fresh-water lake. Much of its area has since
> 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.
> * D. History Entertainment
>
> D1. The movie "The Lion in Winter" features an English king
> 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.
> D2. The movie "300" is about an ancient battle between which
> *two* armies?
> 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.
> After completing this triple, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh whfg
> zragvbarq "Urael" be whfg "Ryrnabe" va na nafjre, cyrnfr tb onpx naq
> or zber fcrpvsvp sbe rnpu bs gurz. Naq vs lbh zragvbarq gur "Terrx"
> nezl va na nafjre, yvxrjvfr cyrnfr tb onpx naq or zber fcrpvsvp.
rot13 I've removed that second choice as being insufficiently specific.
> * E. Entertainment Science
>
> E2. Among movies using conventional film, the IMAX system
> produces the highest-definition images. Yet it uses the
> 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.
IMAX uses the film vertically instead of horizontally
> produces the highest-definition images. Yet it uses the
> 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.
> E3. Although people continued to speak of celluloid, that
> particular plastic stopped being used for movie film in
> the 1950s. Why?
> * F. Science Literature
>
> In each case, name the science writer.
>
> F1. In 1976 he wrote "The Selfish Gene", and in 1986 "The
> 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".
> F2. In 1979 this author wrote "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal
> Golden Braid", a large and complex book about subjects such
> as symbols and meaning and self-reference, with plenty of
> wordplay and humorous dialogues. He later wrote a column
> 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.
> F3. In 1960 this author's book "The Intelligent Man's Guide
> to Science" was published. He worried about the title
> (which the publisher chose) sounding too elitist, but
> didn't even think about sexism until it was pointed out.
> 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.
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Mark Brader
Nov 23, 2016, 10:17:25 PM11/23/16
to
Joshua Kreitzer:
answer is correct it'll score 3 points.
--
Mark Brader "The matryoshka limit: It is impossible
Toronto to nest more than six HO layouts."
m...@vex.net --Randall Munroe
> My second choice for D2 *had been* "Persia and Greece," but based on the
> rot13 I've removed that second choice as being insufficiently specific.
You're not allowed to go back and *remove* a guess. If your first
> rot13 I've removed that second choice as being insufficiently specific.
answer is correct it'll score 3 points.
--
Mark Brader "The matryoshka limit: It is impossible
Toronto to nest more than six HO layouts."
m...@vex.net --Randall Munroe
Björn Lundin
Nov 24, 2016, 10:29:38 AM11/24/16
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> * C. Geography History
>
> 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 digging of a a canal - making it an island ?
>
> 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?
> C2. In the mid 20th century, the fourth-largest lake in the
> world was a salt-water lake in the Soviet Union -- until
> they had the idea of diverting most of the river water
> entering it for agricultural use. Most of the lake has
> now evaporated. Before all this happened, what was this
> lake called in English?
>
> C3. In 1931 a dam 19 miles long was completed in the Netherlands,
> separating a large shallow bay from the ocean so that it
> became a fresh-water lake. Much of its area has since
> 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.
The road is an interesting ride - especially in a November storm
>
>
> * D. History Entertainment
>
>
> D2. The movie "300" is about an ancient battle between which
> *two* armies?
Greek army (represented by the Spartians) and the Persian army
>
> D2. The movie "300" is about an ancient battle between which
> *two* armies?
>
> 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.
>
> After completing this triple, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh whfg
> zragvbarq "Urael" be whfg "Ryrnabe" va na nafjre, cyrnfr tb onpx naq
> or zber fcrpvsvp sbe rnpu bs gurz. Naq vs lbh zragvbarq gur "Terrx"
> nezl va na nafjre, yvxrjvfr cyrnfr tb onpx naq or zber fcrpvsvp.
>
>
> * E. Entertainment Science
>
> 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.
>
--
--
Björn
Mark Brader
Nov 24, 2016, 3:10:03 PM11/24/16
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Mark Brader:
--
Mark Brader "Great things are not done by those
Toronto who sit down and count the cost
m...@vex.net of every thought and act." --Daniel Gooch
>> 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.
Björn Lundin:
>> screen in pixels, within 10% of the true number. You must
>> say which answer you are giving.
> 1080 x 720 - that is width x height
I will score this as two answers: width 1080 and height 720.
--
Mark Brader "Great things are not done by those
Toronto who sit down and count the cost
m...@vex.net of every thought and act." --Daniel Gooch
Mark Brader
Nov 26, 2016, 12:37:05 AM11/26/16
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Mark Brader:
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.
> ** Final, Round 10 -- Challenge
> This is the challenge round, and we're giving you even more choice
> than usual so that the categories can be:
> Canadiana Sports
> Sports Geography
> Geography History
> History Entertainment
> Entertainment Science
> Science Literature
> Literature Canadiana
> * 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.)
> * B. Sports Geography
> For each question in this triple, we'll show you a map with some
> dots on it, and ask you a question (shown on the image) about
> 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.
> * C. Geography History
> 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
> C2. In the mid 20th century, the fourth-largest lake in the
> world was a salt-water lake in the Soviet Union -- until
> they had the idea of diverting most of the river water
> 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
> C3. In 1931 a dam 19 miles long was completed in the Netherlands,
> separating a large shallow bay from the ocean so that it
> became a fresh-water lake. Much of its area has since
> 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
> * D. History Entertainment
> D1. The movie "The Lion in Winter" features an English king
> 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".
> After completing this triple, please decode the rot13: If you just
> 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.
> * E. Entertainment Science
> 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.
> E2. Among movies using conventional film, the IMAX system
> produces the highest-definition images. Yet it uses the
> 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.
> * F. Science Literature
> In each case, name the science writer.
> F1. In 1976 he wrote "The Selfish Gene", and in 1986 "The
> 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.
> F2. In 1979 this author wrote "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal
> Golden Braid", a large and complex book about subjects such
> as symbols and meaning and self-reference, with plenty of
> wordplay and humorous dialogues. He later wrote a column
> 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.
> F3. In 1960 this author's book "The Intelligent Man's Guide
> to Science" was published. He worried about the title
> (which the publisher chose) sounding too elitist, but
> didn't even think about sexism until it was pointed out.
> 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.
> * G. Literature Canadiana
> Each of these questions is about a series of books set in a
> particular, sometimes fictionalized, Canadian location.
> G1. David Adams Richards wrote an acclaimed trilogy set in the
> area surrounding which Canadian river? The second of
> those books, "Evening Snow will Bring Such Peace" won
> 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."
m...@vex.net | -- Dick McDonald
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-08-09,
> 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
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
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.
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.
> ** Final, Round 10 -- Challenge
> This is the challenge round, and we're giving you even more choice
> than usual so that the categories can be:
> Canadiana Sports
> Sports Geography
> Geography History
> History Entertainment
> Entertainment Science
> Science Literature
> Literature Canadiana
> * A. Canadiana Sports
> A1. Which Toronto Argonaut and Chicago Black Hawk -- and later
> the MP for Trinity -- was known as the Big Train?
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?
> A3. Which Toronto Argonaut did not have a famous nickname,
> but later joined the Supreme Court of Canada?
the violin.)
> * B. Sports Geography
> For each question in this triple, we'll show you a map with some
> dots on it, and ask you a question (shown on the image) about
> 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
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.
> * C. Geography History
> 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?
(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
> C2. In the mid 20th century, the fourth-largest lake in the
> world was a salt-water lake in the Soviet Union -- until
> they had the idea of diverting most of the river water
> entering it for agricultural use. Most of the lake has
> now evaporated. Before all this happened, what was this
> lake called in English?
and Joshua. 3 for Björn.
[in 1960, 1990, 2000, and 2010]
http://mapsofworld.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/aral-map.jpg
> C3. In 1931 a dam 19 miles long was completed in the Netherlands,
> separating a large shallow bay from the ocean so that it
> became a fresh-water lake. Much of its area has since
> 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.
and Joshua.
[before] http://img0.etsystatic.com/000/0/5229213/il_570xN.263838770.jpg
[modern] http://rabbel.nl/images/ijsselmeer.gif
> * D. History Entertainment
> D1. The movie "The Lion in Winter" features an English king
> 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.
> D2. The movie "300" is about an ancient battle between which
> *two* armies?
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.
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".
> After completing this triple, please decode the rot13: If you just
> 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.
> * E. Entertainment Science
> 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.
or 972 to 1,188 high). 4 for Dan Blum, Peter, Bruce, and Gareth.
3 for Calvin.
> E2. Among movies using conventional film, the IMAX system
> produces the highest-definition images. Yet it uses the
> 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.
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?
"It burns like a bastard". 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Dan Tilque,
Peter, Marc, Bruce, Erland, Gareth, and Joshua.
> * F. Science Literature
> In each case, name the science writer.
> F1. In 1976 he wrote "The Selfish Gene", and in 1986 "The
> 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".
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.
> F2. In 1979 this author wrote "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal
> Golden Braid", a large and complex book about subjects such
> as symbols and meaning and self-reference, with plenty of
> wordplay and humorous dialogues. He later wrote a column
> 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.
and Joshua.
> F3. In 1960 this author's book "The Intelligent Man's Guide
> to Science" was published. He worried about the title
> (which the publisher chose) sounding too elitist, but
> didn't even think about sexism until it was pointed out.
> 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.
and Joshua.
> * G. Literature Canadiana
> Each of these questions is about a series of books set in a
> particular, sometimes fictionalized, Canadian location.
> G1. David Adams Richards wrote an acclaimed trilogy set in the
> area surrounding which Canadian river? The second of
> those books, "Evening Snow will Bring Such Peace" won
> him the Governor-General's award, and with "Lines on the
> Water", about fishing the same river, Richards also won a
> non-fiction GG.
> 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?
> G3. Which Canadian mystery writer has set a series of books in
> the fictional town of Three Pines, located in Quebec's
> Eastern Townships?
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."
m...@vex.net | -- Dick McDonald
Joshua Kreitzer
Nov 26, 2016, 1:37:30 AM11/26/16
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in
news:gM6dnTnw9fPmgqTF...@giganews.com:
>> * D. History Entertainment
>
>> 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.
>
>> 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.
>
>> After completing this triple, please decode the rot13: If you just
>> 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.
>
Sincere question:
>> 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.
>
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
grom...@hotmail.com
Mark Brader
Nov 26, 2016, 1:54:19 AM11/26/16
to
Mark Brader:
--
Mark Brader | "The good news is that the Internet is dynamic.
Toronto | The bad news is that the Internet is dynamic."
m...@vex.net | -- Peter Neumann
>>> * D. History Entertainment
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>> After completing this triple, please decode the rot13: If you just
>>> 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.
Joshua Kreitzer:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>> After completing this triple, please decode the rot13: If you just
>>> 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.
> 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?
Make no change, the same as you'd do if you hadn't mentioned Greece.
>
> 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?
--
Mark Brader | "The good news is that the Internet is dynamic.
Toronto | The bad news is that the Internet is dynamic."
m...@vex.net | -- Peter Neumann
Dan Tilque
Nov 26, 2016, 10:23:02 PM11/26/16
to
Mark Brader wrote:
>> * E. Entertainment Science
>
>> 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.
After I posted my answers, I went and looked up the answer for this.
>> * E. Entertainment Science
>
>> 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.
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
Mark Brader
Nov 26, 2016, 10:45:43 PM11/26/16
to
Dan Tilque:
> 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
m...@vex.net | the system works, though." --Tony Cooper
> Anyway, what I'm really doing is pointing out is that this was a poorly
> worded question.
Sorry about that, Chief.
> worded question.
> I'm not asking Mark to do anything here, except try to avoid this kind
> of thing in the future.
--
Mark Brader | "In a perfect world, the person of authority responds
Toronto | to needs rather than to demands. That's not the way
m...@vex.net | the system works, though." --Tony Cooper
Calvin
Nov 27, 2016, 8:45:48 PM11/27/16
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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!
> 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.
cheers,
calvin
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