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 4 - Sports Current Events - The 2014 Olympics (excerpt)
> Answer these 2014 questions if you like for fun, but for no points.
> 1. This nation won 24 medals including 8 golds, despite sending only
> 41 athletes to Sochi. 23 of the medals were in speed skating
> and the other one was in short-track speed skating. Name the
> country.
Netherlands. Erland got this.
> 2. Name the skipper of either of Canada's gold-medal-winning
> curling teams.
Jennifer Jones, Brad Jacobs.
> * Game 6, Round 5 - Audio - Composers Performing their Own Works
> We will provide a brief biography of a composer performing music
> he wrote. (Yes, again they're all men.) We then play the clip of
> the music. (Sorry, you'll have to imagine that part.) You tell
> us the name of the composer/performer. Note: some of these were
> recorded on piano rolls!
> 1. This American bandleader, composer, and bassist died in 1979 at
> age 56. He was known as the "Angry Man of Jazz". His music was
> rooted in gospel and blues and he greatly admired of the music
> of Duke Ellington. He was one of the great bassists of his time.
Charles Mingus. 4 for Erland and Pete.
> 2. Another American bandleader, composer, and trumpet player,
> he was born in 1925 and died in 1991. He associated with almost
> all of the greats of the modern jazz era and changed his musical
> style many times. One of his many albums is the best-selling
> jazz recording of all time.
Miles Davis. 4 for Erland, Pete, and Joshua.
> 3. This African-American composer and pianist, known as the "King
> of Ragtime", died in 1917. As well as numerous "rags",
> he composed music for ballet and opera, and was awarded a
> posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1976.
Scott Joplin. 4 for everyone -- Dan Blum, Erland, Pete, Joshua,
and Dan Tilque.
> 4. This French composer, who lived 1875-1937, was one of the great
> figures associated with "Impressionistic Music". He was the son
> of a Swiss inventor and a Basque musical mother. His works for
> piano, chamber groups, and orchestra became standard concert
> repertoire and are known for their strong melodies, musical
> textures, and effects.
Maurice Ravel. 4 for Pete.
He came up on "Jeopardy!" on Friday. The category was about dead
composers and was titled "De-Composing", and the $800 question was:
THIS FRENCHMAN DIED ON DEC. 28, 1937, NEVER KNOWING
HE'D PLAY A CRUCIAL MUSICAL PART IN A BO DEREK FILM
It was answered correctly on the first try. The movie, of course,
is "10" (1979).
> 5. This jazz pianist and composer who lived 1917-82 is considered
> one of the greats of American music and is the next most
> frequently recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington.
> Unorthodox even in dress and behavior, he wrote music that
> combines a highly percussive attack with dramatic hesitations
> and silences. He was featured on the cover of "Time" magazine
> and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize posthumously.
Thelonious Monk. 4 for Dan Blum, Pete, and Joshua.
> 6. This Canadian composer and pianist lived 1925-2007. Called the
> "Maharaja of the Keyboard" by Duke Ellington, he was classically
> trained and also played with many of the jazz greats of his
> era. He wrote and performed for piano, jazz trio, quartets,
> and big bands; he composed several songs, jazz piano etudes,
> and a suite of music called "The Canadiana Suite".
Oscar Peterson. 4 for Pete.
> 7. Born 1907, died 1994, an American jazz singer and bandleader,
> he composed and performed music over a long career. As a
> bandleader, he employed many of the day's jazz greats and was
> strongly associated with Harlem's Cotton Club. Notable for his
> scat-singing and dancing, he appeared in films and his music
> was used in animated cartoons.
Cab Calloway. 4 for Dan Blum, Pete, and Joshua.
> 8. Born 1910, died 2004, the only child of Jewish immigrants
> from Russia. This swing-era bandleader was known as the "King
> of the Clarinet" and led one of the first racially integrated
> bands. He was also an author of both fiction and non-fiction
> and performed classical music with the New York Philharmonic
> under Leonard Bernstein. He was an early proponent of the
> "Third Stream", which blended classical and jazz styles.
Artie Shaw.
> 9. Born 1904, died 1943, he was an influential jazz pianist,
> singer, and composer. He wrote or co-wrote over 400 songs,
> many of which he sold to other performers. He was regarded as a
> great performer and was known for his quips during performances.
> Around 1925 he recorded a series of solo pipe-organ albums.
Fats Waller. 4 for Pete.
> 10. Born in 1910 to a Belgian Romani family, he died in 1953.
> He is regarded as one of the great jazz guitarists and was the
> first European to influence jazz. Many of his compositions
> have become jazz standards. His virtuosity on the guitar is
> even more remarkable because he had only two usable fingers on
> his left hand.
Django Reinhardt. 4 for Dan Blum, Erland, Pete, and Joshua.
> * Game 6, Round 6 - Canadiana Geography - Canadian Arctic and Far North
> As Torontonians continue to suffer through a deep freeze and
> challenging winter, this round turns our attention toward Canada's
> Arctic -- where our temperatures would seem balmy!
This was the hardest round in the original game.
> 1. The northernmost permanent settlement in the world is located
> on the northeastern tip of Ellesmere I. What is it called?
Alert. 4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque.
> 2. Within 3°C, what is the average daily *low* temperature in
> <answer 1> in February?
-37°C (accepting -40°C to -34°C or -40°F to -29°F). 4 for Erland
and Dan Tilque.
> 3. The word Arctic comes from the Greek word "arktikos", meaning
> "near the Bear" or "northern", and what it's referring to
> is one of two constellations. Give the full name *in Latin*
> of either of those constellations.
Ursa Major, Ursa Minor. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque.
3 for Erland and Pete.
> 4. Besides Canada, how many other countries """extend""" -- or
> """have""" territories that extend -- into the Arctic as defined
> by the Arctic Circle?
7. (Still true.) 3 for Joshua.
In order eastward from Canada: Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden,
Finland, Russia, US. To my shame, I got this one wrong myself in
the original game, missing Alaska. I was surprised that Erland
explicitly listed the countries to justify his answer of 6, but
missed Iceland, so I checked. It turns out that the main island
of Iceland is entirely south of the Arctic Circle, but Iceland
still makes the list because of a small island named Grímsey.
(However, if Wikipedia is correct, in a few decades the Arctic
Circle will have shifted enough to change this.)
> 5. This lake, which extends north of the Arctic Circle, is the
> largest lake that is entirely in Canada, the 4th-largest in
> North America, and the 8th-largest in the world. Name it.
Great Bear L. 4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque. 3 for Dan Blum.
Great Slave L. is 2nd-largest entirely in Canada, 5th-largest in
North America, and 10th-largest in the world.
> 6. Baffin I. is the largest land mass among the """36,563"""
> islands of Canada's Arctic Archipelago. What is the
> second-largest?
Victoria I.
Ellesmere I. (see question #1) is third-largest in the archipelago.
The three rank 5th, 8th, and 10th in the world respectively. I have
not found an updated count of the minor islands.
Victoria I., of course, is not to be confused with Vancouver I.,
which contains the city of Victoria, but is not in the Arctic.
> 7. Rank the three territories from *highest to lowest population*
> according to the """2011""" census. If you make two guesses,
> please give two complete lists of three, all on one line.
> *Note*: You may instead answer based on the 2021 census, and
> you need not say whether you are doing so.
Northwest Territories, Yukon, Nunavut. (Still true.)
NT: 41,462 in 2011, 41,070 in 2021.
YU: 33,897 in 2011, 40,232 in 2021.
NU: 31,906 in 2011, 36,858 in 2021.
> 8. Only one public road in Canada crosses the Arctic Circle.
> Give its name (not its highway number).
Dempster Highway.
Curiously, the principal road across the Arctic Circle in the US
also has a name starting with D: the Dalton Highway.
> 9. The Franklin Expedition left England in 1845 and never returned.
> All 128 men were lost after the ships became icebound in the
> Victoria Strait. Remains of the expedition have been found
> """on two Canadian Arctic islands.""" Name *either* island.
Beechey I., King William I. (Still true.)
The remains of the two abandoned ships have now been found as well,
one later in 2014 off the west coast of the Adelaide Peninsula
(which is the next piece of land south of King William I.), the
other in 2016 off the south coast of King William I.
> 10. This strait, named after a British 16th-century explorer, is
> a northern arm of the Labrador Sea and lies between Baffin I.
> and mid-western Greenland. Name it.
Davis Strait. 4 for Dan Tilque.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 6 ROUNDS-> 2 3 5 6 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Sci Ent Aud Can
Joshua Kreitzer 32 32 20 15 99
Dan Blum 36 28 16 7 87
Dan Tilque 36 8 4 20 68
Pete Gayde 14 12 36 3 65
Erland Sommarskog 24 4 16 7 51
John Gerson 24 0 -- -- 24
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