Mark Brader:
> > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-02-24,
> > and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information...
> > see my 2022-09-09 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from
> > the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
> * Game 6, Round 1 - Current Events (excerpt)
> Answer these 2014 questions if you like for fun, but for no points.
> 1. Rob Ford voted against allowing restaurants to serve alcohol
> during yesterday's gold-medal hockey game because, he said, it
> wouldn't be fair to what businesses?
Nightclubs.
> 2. British researchers found that a saliva test measuring levels
> of the hormone cortisol in teenage boys could identify those
> at high risk of suffering from what condition?
Depression.
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Astronomy
> 1. What is the brightest star in the night sky?
Sirius or Alpha Canis Majoris (also accepting the Dog Star).
4 for everyone -- Erland, Dan Blum, John, Dan Tilque, and Joshua.
> 2. This American astronomer was a strong proponent of the idea
> of the existence of canals on Mars and built an observatory to
> pursue this. He also initiated the search that led in 1930,
> 14 years after his death, to the discovery of Pluto. Who was he?
Percival Lowell. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Joshua.
> 3. A professor of astronomy at Cornell University, he wrote a
> science-fiction novel called "Contact" that was made into
> a movie starring Jodie Foster. Who?
Carl Sagan. 4 for Dan Blum, John, Dan Tilque, and Joshua.
> 4. SNOLAB is an observatory located in Sudbury, Ontario. What type
> of particles are observed at SNOLAB?
N is for Neutrinos. (And S is for Sudbury; there is no such thing as
a "small neutrino". And a neutron is a different sort of particle.)
4 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque.
> 5. Who was the first man to complete an orbit of the Earth in
> space, in 1961?
Yuri Gagarin. 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Joshua.
As Stephen Perry said in 2014, Gagarin's flight was not actually
a complete orbit -- but that's *if* you count orbits relative to the
Earth's (rotating) surface. As I pointed out in response, this is
not the correct way to count them, but I still would probably have
also accepted Ghermann Titov anyway (on his flight, later in 1961,
he orbited the Earth for over 25 hours) -- if anybody had named him.
> 6. What was the name of the first mammal to orbit the Earth
> in space?
Laika (a Russian dog, in Sputnik II in 1957). 4 for everyone.
> 7. What point on the celestial sphere is directly opposite the
> nadir?
The zenith. 4 for everyone.
> 8. What phenomenon would you be observing if you saw Baily's Beads
> and the Diamond Ring Effect? Be fully specific.
A total solar eclipse. 4 for John.
Still more specifically, these are seen at two moments during
that phenomenon: when totality is about to begin and when it has
just ended. Consequently only a small part of the photosphere
(not the corona!) is visible.
Although you often see it spelled "Bailey's" beads, the man's name
was in fact Baily.
> 9. Our Milky Way Galaxy has a number of satellite galaxies, such as
> the Magellanic Clouds. What, however, is the closest independent
> galaxy to the Milky Way, at a distance of 2,500,000 light years?
M31, NGC 224, the Great Galaxy in Andromeda, or simply the Andromeda
Galaxy. I accepted "Andromeda", even though that word by itself
does not properly name the galaxy, because "galaxy" appeared in
the question. 4 for everyone.
> 10. What famous British pop star completed his Ph.D. thesis in
> astrophysics -- "A survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal
> Dust Cloud" -- in October 2007, 30 years after he commenced it?
Brian May (of Queen). 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, and Joshua.
> * Game 6, Round 3 - Entertainment - Bee All That You Can Bee
> Here are pictures of bees and bee products in popular culture,
> real or fictional. Please remember that there are different uses
> of the word "bee".
> See the 2-page handout at:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/6-3/bee.pdf
> As usual, for this medium I'll rearrange the questions in order by
> picture number. There were 6 decoys; identify their subjects as
> well if you like for fun, but for no points.
> 1. (decoy) Name the movie.
"Akeelah and the Bee" (2006; the title refers to a spelling bee).
Joshua got this.
> 2. Name the band. Hint: look at the man in the center of the photo.
Bee Gees. 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Joshua.
> 3. Name the character from "The Simpsons".
Bumblebee Man. 4 for Joshua.
> 4. (decoy) Name the song.
"No Rain". Joshua got this.
> 5. Name the TV show, which was followed by two movies.
"The X-Files". 4 for Dan Blum.
> 6. (decoy) Name the movie.
"Ulee's Gold" (1997; the title refers to honey). Joshua got this.
> 7. Name the movie, partly based on the book "Queen Bees and
> Wannabes".
"Mean Girls" (2004). 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
> 8. Name the movie.
"Bee Movie" (2007). 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
> 9. Name the movie, adapted from a book of the same title.
"The Secret Life of Bees" (2008). 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
> 10. (decoy) Name the mammal.
Honey badger. On the right it's eating a honeycomb with a dead
cobra alongside. Dan Tilque and Joshua got this.
> 11. (decoy) Name the man in the center.
John Belushi (on "Saturday Night Live"). Joshua got this.
> 12. Name the cereal.
Honey Nut Cheerios. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Joshua.
> 13. Name the movie.
"Invasion of the Bee Girls" (1973). 4 for Joshua.
I edited the image to make this a bit harder; in the original game
only the word "Bee" was masked out of the title!
> 14. Name the TV show.
"Breaking Bad".
> 15. (decoy) Name the movie.
"The Wasp Woman" (1959), also titled "Insect Woman" or "The Bee Girl".
> 16. Name the movie.
"The Wicker Man" (2006, but you did not have to specify).
4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
I'm pleased to say I have never seen this movie -- the original
version from 1973 was unpleasant enough -- but I find mentions
on the Net of an alternate ending having been provided for the
DVD release, and as far as I can tell, this shot is from that,
and not the actual movie. Apologies if that's actually the case.
There's certainly nothing like it in the 1973 version.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 6 ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Sci Ent
Joshua Kreitzer 32 32 64
Dan Blum 36 28 64
Dan Tilque 32 8 40
Erland Sommarskog 24 4 28
John Gerson 24 0 24
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