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Rotating Quiz #308 ANSWERS
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Don Piven
Oct 9, 2018, 9:47:04 PM10/9/18
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And now, the answers to Rotating Quiz #308:
1) The Art Institute of Chicago has carved into its exterior the names
of the members of what famous cartoon quartet?
Among the names of famous artists incised on the exterior of the Art
Institute are Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo,
collectively known as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
2) Golfer Tiger Woods recently won the PGA's "The Tour Championship" by
two strokes over Billy Horschel. Woods last won a PGA Tour event in
what year?
Tiger's next-most-recent PGA Tour victory was the Bridgestone
Invitational in 2013. (2010 was a popular answer, but Tiger had no wins
that year.)
3) In the 2018 Emmy Awards, which network received the most awards?
Netflix took home seven Emmys, followed by HBO (6), Amazon (5) and FX (5).
4) Marty Balin, one of the founders of famed rock group Jefferson
Airplane, recently passed away. Of the seven people performing on the
Airplane's first release, "Jefferson Airplane Takes Off", how many are
still living?
Two; bassist Jack Casady and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen. (Grace Slick
joined the Airplane after "Takes Off" was released.)
5) Hurricane Florence caused extensive damage on the east coast of the
US earlier this month. An earlier storm named Florence caused damage to
Bermuda and Newfoundland in what year?
2006. In the North Atlantic, storm names are used on a six-year cycle;
in 2012, a tropical storm named Florence spun up near the Cape Verde
Islands but soon dissipated.
6) Christian Yelich of the Milwaukee Brewers recently achieved a rare
and notable feat in baseball -- twice in the space of three weeks! --
and did this both times against the Cincinnati Reds. What did he do?
Yelich hit for the cycle (hitting a single, double, triple, and home run
in the same game) against the Reds on August 29, and again on September
17. He was the fifth player to hit for the cycle twice in one season,
and the only one to do it twice against the same team.
7) Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is not particularly
renowned for keeping fast company, but his current girlfriend would
certainly qualify in that category. Who is she?
Former NASCAR and Indy Car racer Danica Patrick.
8) 8 October 1871 is a date that lives in infamy in Chicago history,
that being the date of a fire that destroyed about three square miles of
the city and killed up to 300 people. On the same day, another fire
started in the midwestern US that eventually killed over 1500 people and
consumed an area 50% larger than the state of Rhode Island. What town
is most closely associated with this fire? (Answer must include the
town name and state.)
Peshtigo, Wisconsin.
9) 2+2=3, for sufficiently large values of 3. How many college football
teams comprise the Big Ten Conference?
Most people guessed 12, for some reason. The Big Ten became the Bigger
Ten in 1990 when Penn State joined, followed by Nebraska in 2011, and
both Maryland and Rutgers in 2014, bringing the current team count to 14.
10) 5-1=5, for sufficiently small values of 1. How many college
football teams are in the Big 12 Conference?
Ten. (Go figure.) Current Big Ten member Nebraska was a former member
of the Big 12.
11) The United States Senate consists of 100 members who serve six-year
terms and are elected in three "classes", one class every two years. How
many Senate seats are up for election in 2018?
35. This was a tricky one. There are indeed 33 regular elections
coming up, but also two special elections in Minnesota and Mississippi
to fill unexpired terms of senators who resigned during the past two
years, so the correct answer was 35. (Curiously, both of those states
are electing both of their senators this year.)
12) Elon Musk is not having a good 2018. He and his company Tesla have
just shelled out US$40 million to avoid being sued for securities fraud
(and was invited to not run Tesla for the next three years); he is being
sued by one of the swimmers who rescued a group of Thai children caught
in a flooded cave; and he racked up more notoriety when he was seen
doing what on a live webcast with Joe Rogan?
Smoking marijuana.
13) Apple recently released the latest version of its operating system
for Macintosh computers, variously named OS X, Mac OS X, or macOS. Since
the first release of OS X, each release has had a one- or two-word
nickname. Which is the only nickname which does NOT identify a large
cat or a California landform?
OS X 10.9 was named Mavericks, after a surfing area a mile or so
offshore from Half Moon Bay in northern California. All previous
releases were named for big cats, and all subsequent releases to date
are named for inland geologic formations. (Mavericks itself was named
for a dog belonging to a surfer who frequented that area.)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 : TOTAL
-------------------------------------------------+------
Dan B. 1 0 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 0 0 1 - : 4
Mark B. 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 - 0 : 4
Dan T. 1 0 - 0 - 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 - : 6
Erland S. 0 1 0 0 0 - - - 0 0 0 - - : 1
Calvin - 0 0 0 - 0 - - - - 0 1 - : 1
Congratulations to Dan Tilque for winning RQ #308 -- #309 is yours!
1) The Art Institute of Chicago has carved into its exterior the names
of the members of what famous cartoon quartet?
Among the names of famous artists incised on the exterior of the Art
Institute are Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo,
collectively known as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
2) Golfer Tiger Woods recently won the PGA's "The Tour Championship" by
two strokes over Billy Horschel. Woods last won a PGA Tour event in
what year?
Tiger's next-most-recent PGA Tour victory was the Bridgestone
Invitational in 2013. (2010 was a popular answer, but Tiger had no wins
that year.)
3) In the 2018 Emmy Awards, which network received the most awards?
Netflix took home seven Emmys, followed by HBO (6), Amazon (5) and FX (5).
4) Marty Balin, one of the founders of famed rock group Jefferson
Airplane, recently passed away. Of the seven people performing on the
Airplane's first release, "Jefferson Airplane Takes Off", how many are
still living?
Two; bassist Jack Casady and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen. (Grace Slick
joined the Airplane after "Takes Off" was released.)
5) Hurricane Florence caused extensive damage on the east coast of the
US earlier this month. An earlier storm named Florence caused damage to
Bermuda and Newfoundland in what year?
2006. In the North Atlantic, storm names are used on a six-year cycle;
in 2012, a tropical storm named Florence spun up near the Cape Verde
Islands but soon dissipated.
6) Christian Yelich of the Milwaukee Brewers recently achieved a rare
and notable feat in baseball -- twice in the space of three weeks! --
and did this both times against the Cincinnati Reds. What did he do?
Yelich hit for the cycle (hitting a single, double, triple, and home run
in the same game) against the Reds on August 29, and again on September
17. He was the fifth player to hit for the cycle twice in one season,
and the only one to do it twice against the same team.
7) Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is not particularly
renowned for keeping fast company, but his current girlfriend would
certainly qualify in that category. Who is she?
Former NASCAR and Indy Car racer Danica Patrick.
8) 8 October 1871 is a date that lives in infamy in Chicago history,
that being the date of a fire that destroyed about three square miles of
the city and killed up to 300 people. On the same day, another fire
started in the midwestern US that eventually killed over 1500 people and
consumed an area 50% larger than the state of Rhode Island. What town
is most closely associated with this fire? (Answer must include the
town name and state.)
Peshtigo, Wisconsin.
9) 2+2=3, for sufficiently large values of 3. How many college football
teams comprise the Big Ten Conference?
Most people guessed 12, for some reason. The Big Ten became the Bigger
Ten in 1990 when Penn State joined, followed by Nebraska in 2011, and
both Maryland and Rutgers in 2014, bringing the current team count to 14.
10) 5-1=5, for sufficiently small values of 1. How many college
football teams are in the Big 12 Conference?
Ten. (Go figure.) Current Big Ten member Nebraska was a former member
of the Big 12.
11) The United States Senate consists of 100 members who serve six-year
terms and are elected in three "classes", one class every two years. How
many Senate seats are up for election in 2018?
35. This was a tricky one. There are indeed 33 regular elections
coming up, but also two special elections in Minnesota and Mississippi
to fill unexpired terms of senators who resigned during the past two
years, so the correct answer was 35. (Curiously, both of those states
are electing both of their senators this year.)
12) Elon Musk is not having a good 2018. He and his company Tesla have
just shelled out US$40 million to avoid being sued for securities fraud
(and was invited to not run Tesla for the next three years); he is being
sued by one of the swimmers who rescued a group of Thai children caught
in a flooded cave; and he racked up more notoriety when he was seen
doing what on a live webcast with Joe Rogan?
Smoking marijuana.
13) Apple recently released the latest version of its operating system
for Macintosh computers, variously named OS X, Mac OS X, or macOS. Since
the first release of OS X, each release has had a one- or two-word
nickname. Which is the only nickname which does NOT identify a large
cat or a California landform?
OS X 10.9 was named Mavericks, after a surfing area a mile or so
offshore from Half Moon Bay in northern California. All previous
releases were named for big cats, and all subsequent releases to date
are named for inland geologic formations. (Mavericks itself was named
for a dog belonging to a surfer who frequented that area.)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 : TOTAL
-------------------------------------------------+------
Dan B. 1 0 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 0 0 1 - : 4
Mark B. 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 - 0 : 4
Dan T. 1 0 - 0 - 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 - : 6
Erland S. 0 1 0 0 0 - - - 0 0 0 - - : 1
Calvin - 0 0 0 - 0 - - - - 0 1 - : 1
Congratulations to Dan Tilque for winning RQ #308 -- #309 is yours!
Mark Brader
Oct 10, 2018, 1:13:40 AM10/10/18
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Don Piven:
TV networks, not Internet suppliers.
> Congratulations to Dan Tilque for winning RQ #308...
Hear, hear!
--
Mark Brader "Finally no number of additional epicycles can
Toronto hide the fact that We've Got a Problem Here."
m...@vex.net -- from a science book club promotion
> 3) In the 2018 Emmy Awards, which network received the most awards?
>
> Netflix took home seven Emmys, followed by HBO (6), Amazon (5) and FX (5).
Then the correct answer is HBO, as I said. You only asked about
>
> Netflix took home seven Emmys, followed by HBO (6), Amazon (5) and FX (5).
TV networks, not Internet suppliers.
> Congratulations to Dan Tilque for winning RQ #308...
Hear, hear!
--
Mark Brader "Finally no number of additional epicycles can
Toronto hide the fact that We've Got a Problem Here."
m...@vex.net -- from a science book club promotion
Don Piven
Oct 10, 2018, 7:09:49 AM10/10/18
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On 10/10/18 00:13, Mark Brader wrote:
> Then the correct answer is HBO, as I said. You only asked about
> TV networks, not Internet suppliers.
I think I understand the distinction you're making here, but I don't
> Then the correct answer is HBO, as I said. You only asked about
> TV networks, not Internet suppliers.
think it's a significant one. The bodies awarding the Emmys don't think
so, either, since they awarded seven Emmys to shows distributed solely
via Netflix and five to Amazon shows.
And I didn't say "TV networks" -- if I had, I think I could argue
against the inclusion of HBO programming since it's not delivered
over-the-air like traditional television (I know, showing my age here) :-)
I suppose I could have said "original-content-delivery company", but
then nobody would have known what the hell I was talking about.
This is the kind of discussion that beer was made for :-)
Don
Mark Brader
Oct 10, 2018, 6:34:12 PM10/10/18
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Mark Brader:
> The bodies awarding the Emmys don't think so, either, since they
> awarded seven Emmys to shows distributed solely via Netflix and five
> to Amazon shows.
Yes, they consider it's all TV and don't care whether it's network TV
or not. You, however, asked about networks.
> And I didn't say "TV networks"
"TV" was implied by the mention of Emmys.
> -- if I had, I think I could argue against the inclusion of HBO programming...
I would not object if you did.
--
Mark Brader | "One must scythe the thickets of metaphor
Toronto | if one wishes to harvest the grain of reason."
m...@vex.net | --Robert Ludlum
My text in this article is in the public domain.
> > Then the correct answer is HBO, as I said. You only asked about
> > TV networks, not Internet suppliers.
Don Piven:
> > TV networks, not Internet suppliers.
> I think I understand the distinction you're making here, but I don't
> think it's a significant one.
Then you shouldn't've made it in the question.
> think it's a significant one.
> The bodies awarding the Emmys don't think so, either, since they
> awarded seven Emmys to shows distributed solely via Netflix and five
> to Amazon shows.
or not. You, however, asked about networks.
> And I didn't say "TV networks"
> -- if I had, I think I could argue against the inclusion of HBO programming...
I would not object if you did.
--
Mark Brader | "One must scythe the thickets of metaphor
Toronto | if one wishes to harvest the grain of reason."
m...@vex.net | --Robert Ludlum
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Dan Tilque
Oct 10, 2018, 7:57:45 PM10/10/18
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Don Piven wrote:
>
> 9) 2+2=3, for sufficiently large values of 3. How many college football
> teams comprise the Big Ten Conference?
>
> Most people guessed 12, for some reason. The Big Ten became the Bigger
> Ten in 1990 when Penn State joined, followed by Nebraska in 2011, and
> both Maryland and Rutgers in 2014, bringing the current team count to 14.
The last time I paid a lot of attention to the Big 10, they only had 12
>
> 9) 2+2=3, for sufficiently large values of 3. How many college football
> teams comprise the Big Ten Conference?
>
> Most people guessed 12, for some reason. The Big Ten became the Bigger
> Ten in 1990 when Penn State joined, followed by Nebraska in 2011, and
> both Maryland and Rutgers in 2014, bringing the current team count to 14.
schools. I vaguely remember Maryland and Rutgers joining, but forgot
about them when answering the question. Hey, I went to a Pac-12 school,
although when I went there it was still the Pac-8.
>
> Congratulations to Dan Tilque for winning RQ #308 -- #309 is yours!
--
Dan Tilque
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