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RQFTCIWSSSG12 Game 10, Rounds 7-8: earthmaking, CanActors
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Mark Brader
Aug 20, 2022, 11:12:22 PM8/20/22
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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2012-07-16,
and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written
by members of What She Said and/or of Smith & Guessin', but have
been reformatted and may have been retyped and/or edited by me.
I will reveal the correct answers in about 3 days.
For further information, including an explanation of the """
notation that may appear in these rounds, see my 2021-07-20
companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
* Game 10, Round 7 - Science - How the Earth Was Made
This round is based on the BBC documentary series "How The Earth
Was Made".
1. Name the Scottish farmer who is known as the "Father of Modern
Geology". He was the first to challenge church doctrine that
the Earth was only about 6,000 years old. He theorized that
rock was created by very slow processes that took hundreds of
thousands of years, and estimated the age of the Earth to be
over 2,000,000 years.
2. This Victorian scientist proposed that the Earth was once a ball
of liquid rock at 8,000°. He used the laws of thermodynamics
to model the cooling of Earth to propose a new age, between
20,000,000 and 40,000,000 years. Name him.
3. Although his theory was sound, <answer 2>'s figure was a colossal
underestimate because he was unaware of a key source of heat
in the Earth's core. What was this heat source?
4. Please decode the rot13 for this question only after you are
finished with the previous one. Grfgvat fnzcyrf onfrq ba
gur cerqvpgnoyr fgrnql engr bs qrpnl bs henavhz gb yrnq yrq
guvf trbybtvfg va 1911 gb cebcbfr n arj ntr sbe gur Rnegu,
va gur ovyyvbaf bs lrnef, na ntr gung vf fgvyy npprcgrq gbqnl.
Jub vf guvf fpvragvfg jub vairagrq trbpuebabybtl?
5. Within 300,000,000 years, how old did <answer 4> finally
determine the Earth is?
6. Time on this scale is so long and hard to comprehend, scientists
refer to it by what term?
7. For over 1,000,000,000 years, much of the oxygen produced by the
stromatolites went to oxidizing this substance in the
primordial oceans, turning our early seas from green to blue.
The quantities of the resulting compound were so huge that
bands of sediment are found throughout the world, and are the
major source of this substance globally. What is this element?
Please decode the rot13 for the last three questions only after you have
finished with the above ones.
8. 4,000,000,000 lrnef ntb, vapernfrq ibypnavp npgvivgl senpgherq
gur Rnegu'f pehfg nyybjvat ynetr nzbhagf bs jngre gb zvk jvgu gur
pber'f zntzn. Guvf zvkgher bs onfnygvp ebpx naq jngre sbezrq ebpxf
juvpu jrer zhpu yvtugre naq fgebatre guna ibypnavp ebpx, naq jbhyq
riraghnyyl sbez gur pbagvaragny znffrf. Jung ner gurfr ebpxf pnyyrq?
9. Ynin ebpxf gung sbez va qrrc jngre nyjnlf gnxr n irel qvfgvapg
funcr. Svaqvat ebpxf bs guvf glcr gung ner bire 3,800,000,000
lrnef byq cebirq gung gur Rnegu jnf nyernql pbirerq ol bprnaf
ng gung ntr. Gurfr ebpxf ner anzrq sbe gurve qvfgvapg funcr;
jung ner gurl pnyyrq?
10. Bire 3,500,000,000 lrnef ntb gur svefg yvsr nccrnerq ba gur
fuberf bs gur cebgb-pbagvaragf, nf pbybavrf bs cubgbflagurgvp
onpgrevn naq nytnr. Gurve pbybavrf, fbzr bs juvpu pna fgvyy or
frra nyvir gbqnl va Nhfgenyvn, qrirybcrq va havdhr sbezngvbaf,
jubfr sbffvyf pna or frra guebhtubhg gur jbeyq. Anzr gurfr
onpgrevny-nytny pbybavrf.
* Game 10, Round 8 - Canadiana Entertainment - Character Actors
Please see: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/10-8/chara.jpg
This round is about character actors, those indispensible figures
who are sometimes more memorable than the stars they support
but whose names we can't always bring to mind. Canadian actors
seem to be especially versatile when it comes to character parts.
Given the actor's name and a few career highlights, give the number
of the photo that depicts him.
1. Victor Garber achieved such widespread recognition playing
Jennifer Garner's shady father on "Alias" that the "Hey! It's
That Guy" web site """describes""" him as "That Strangely Refined
CIA Black-Ops Agent!" But he made his film debut in "Godspell",
"""has""" appeared in numerous Sondheim musicals on Broadway,
played the title character in "Liberace", and went down with the
"Titanic" as shipbuilder Thomas Andrews.
2. Colm Feore has played Pierre Trudeau and Glenn Gould, and
Marcus Andronicus opposite Anthony Hopkins in "Titus".
His fine Shakespearean training """is""" harder to detect as
the doctor with the innovative technique in facial transplants
in "Face/Off"; Lord Marshal in "The Chronicles of Riddick",
and Laufey, King of the Frost Giants, in "Thor".
3. Saul Rubinek """has played""" various nebbishy characters,
including accountants, unscrupulous doctors, and journalists.
In Canada he played the best friend of a cult victim, in "Ticket
to Heaven", and Howard Engel's popular detective Benny Cooperman.
In Hollywood he played Henry Kissinger in "Dick" and lily-livered
writer W.W. Beauchamp in Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven". You can
"""currently""" see him in the sci-fi series "Warehouse 13".
4. According to the "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site, Michael
Ironside """specializes""" in "Super-Intense, Homicidal Brutes."
His credits """include""" the glowering killer in "Total
Recall", the coldhearted boat owner in "The Perfect Storm",
and the chilling assassin in David Cronenberg's "Scanners".
5. John Kapelos's specialty """is""" "All-Seeing Janitors and
Other Jumpsuited Fellows with Five o'Clock Shadow." He appeared
in three John Hughes movies, most notably as Carl the janitor
in "The Breakfast Club". In Canada he is fondly remembered as
Detective Schanke in the vampire series "Forever Knight".
6. Matt Craven's specialty """is""" "jumpy, possibly treacherous
army officers and morally suspect cops." He """has"""
a recurring role as the Secretary of the Navy in "NCIS".
"""He's been""" in movies since the days of "Meatballs", but
made his biggest impact as twitchy and treacherous Lt. Zimmer
in the submarine classic "Crimson Tide".
7. It seems like you'll see Roger Cross in virtually every TV
series filmed in Canada. He had a leading role in the sci-fi
series "The First Wave" and also appeared as DJ and transvestite
Sunset Boulevard / Sonny Benson in "The L Word". You may
remember him from "24" as Curtis Manning, a CTU colleague of
Jack Bauer's until Jack had to shoot him.
8. Don Francks """is""" an actor/singer who made his movie debut as
the leading man in Francis Ford Coppola's first movie,
"Finian's Rainbow" -- a musical that Coppola tends to omit
from his resume. Over the years Francks """has graduated""" to
character roles, most notably as Walter in the late 1990s series
"La Femme Nikita". """Just last week""" he was a guest star on
"Saving Hope", a Canadian import showing on NBC.
9. The "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site """describes""" Bruce
Greenwood as an "Untrustworthy, Two-Timing, Boo-Hiss Husband!"
In Hollywood he """tends""" to play skunks, such as Ashley Judd's evil
husband in "Double Jeopardy" and a corporate crook in "I, Robot".
But he """has also played""" John F. Kennedy in "Thirteen Days",
and Capt. Christopher Pike in the """latest""" "Star Trek"
movie, and appeared in several films directed by Atom Egoyan.
10. The "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site """says""" Henry Czerny's
specialty """is""" dicks, but in fact he """has played"""
a wide range of vile characters, including Brother Lavin in
"The Boys of St. Vincent", the Duke of Norfolk in "The Tudors",
and the treacherous CEO Conrad Grayson in the current ABC series
"Revenge".
Decode the rot13 if you would like to see the picture numbers
for the 5 decoys and identify who they are.
11. Ahzore sbhe.
12. Rvtug.
13. Bar qbmra.
14. Svsgrra.
15. Kiv.
--
Mark Brader "One might as well complain about the Sun
Toronto rising in the daytime instead of at night,
m...@vex.net when we need it more." -- John Lawler
My text in this article is in the public domain.
and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written
by members of What She Said and/or of Smith & Guessin', but have
been reformatted and may have been retyped and/or edited by me.
I will reveal the correct answers in about 3 days.
For further information, including an explanation of the """
notation that may appear in these rounds, see my 2021-07-20
companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
* Game 10, Round 7 - Science - How the Earth Was Made
This round is based on the BBC documentary series "How The Earth
Was Made".
1. Name the Scottish farmer who is known as the "Father of Modern
Geology". He was the first to challenge church doctrine that
the Earth was only about 6,000 years old. He theorized that
rock was created by very slow processes that took hundreds of
thousands of years, and estimated the age of the Earth to be
over 2,000,000 years.
2. This Victorian scientist proposed that the Earth was once a ball
of liquid rock at 8,000°. He used the laws of thermodynamics
to model the cooling of Earth to propose a new age, between
20,000,000 and 40,000,000 years. Name him.
3. Although his theory was sound, <answer 2>'s figure was a colossal
underestimate because he was unaware of a key source of heat
in the Earth's core. What was this heat source?
4. Please decode the rot13 for this question only after you are
finished with the previous one. Grfgvat fnzcyrf onfrq ba
gur cerqvpgnoyr fgrnql engr bs qrpnl bs henavhz gb yrnq yrq
guvf trbybtvfg va 1911 gb cebcbfr n arj ntr sbe gur Rnegu,
va gur ovyyvbaf bs lrnef, na ntr gung vf fgvyy npprcgrq gbqnl.
Jub vf guvf fpvragvfg jub vairagrq trbpuebabybtl?
5. Within 300,000,000 years, how old did <answer 4> finally
determine the Earth is?
6. Time on this scale is so long and hard to comprehend, scientists
refer to it by what term?
7. For over 1,000,000,000 years, much of the oxygen produced by the
stromatolites went to oxidizing this substance in the
primordial oceans, turning our early seas from green to blue.
The quantities of the resulting compound were so huge that
bands of sediment are found throughout the world, and are the
major source of this substance globally. What is this element?
Please decode the rot13 for the last three questions only after you have
finished with the above ones.
8. 4,000,000,000 lrnef ntb, vapernfrq ibypnavp npgvivgl senpgherq
gur Rnegu'f pehfg nyybjvat ynetr nzbhagf bs jngre gb zvk jvgu gur
pber'f zntzn. Guvf zvkgher bs onfnygvp ebpx naq jngre sbezrq ebpxf
juvpu jrer zhpu yvtugre naq fgebatre guna ibypnavp ebpx, naq jbhyq
riraghnyyl sbez gur pbagvaragny znffrf. Jung ner gurfr ebpxf pnyyrq?
9. Ynin ebpxf gung sbez va qrrc jngre nyjnlf gnxr n irel qvfgvapg
funcr. Svaqvat ebpxf bs guvf glcr gung ner bire 3,800,000,000
lrnef byq cebirq gung gur Rnegu jnf nyernql pbirerq ol bprnaf
ng gung ntr. Gurfr ebpxf ner anzrq sbe gurve qvfgvapg funcr;
jung ner gurl pnyyrq?
10. Bire 3,500,000,000 lrnef ntb gur svefg yvsr nccrnerq ba gur
fuberf bs gur cebgb-pbagvaragf, nf pbybavrf bs cubgbflagurgvp
onpgrevn naq nytnr. Gurve pbybavrf, fbzr bs juvpu pna fgvyy or
frra nyvir gbqnl va Nhfgenyvn, qrirybcrq va havdhr sbezngvbaf,
jubfr sbffvyf pna or frra guebhtubhg gur jbeyq. Anzr gurfr
onpgrevny-nytny pbybavrf.
* Game 10, Round 8 - Canadiana Entertainment - Character Actors
Please see: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/10-8/chara.jpg
This round is about character actors, those indispensible figures
who are sometimes more memorable than the stars they support
but whose names we can't always bring to mind. Canadian actors
seem to be especially versatile when it comes to character parts.
Given the actor's name and a few career highlights, give the number
of the photo that depicts him.
1. Victor Garber achieved such widespread recognition playing
Jennifer Garner's shady father on "Alias" that the "Hey! It's
That Guy" web site """describes""" him as "That Strangely Refined
CIA Black-Ops Agent!" But he made his film debut in "Godspell",
"""has""" appeared in numerous Sondheim musicals on Broadway,
played the title character in "Liberace", and went down with the
"Titanic" as shipbuilder Thomas Andrews.
2. Colm Feore has played Pierre Trudeau and Glenn Gould, and
Marcus Andronicus opposite Anthony Hopkins in "Titus".
His fine Shakespearean training """is""" harder to detect as
the doctor with the innovative technique in facial transplants
in "Face/Off"; Lord Marshal in "The Chronicles of Riddick",
and Laufey, King of the Frost Giants, in "Thor".
3. Saul Rubinek """has played""" various nebbishy characters,
including accountants, unscrupulous doctors, and journalists.
In Canada he played the best friend of a cult victim, in "Ticket
to Heaven", and Howard Engel's popular detective Benny Cooperman.
In Hollywood he played Henry Kissinger in "Dick" and lily-livered
writer W.W. Beauchamp in Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven". You can
"""currently""" see him in the sci-fi series "Warehouse 13".
4. According to the "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site, Michael
Ironside """specializes""" in "Super-Intense, Homicidal Brutes."
His credits """include""" the glowering killer in "Total
Recall", the coldhearted boat owner in "The Perfect Storm",
and the chilling assassin in David Cronenberg's "Scanners".
5. John Kapelos's specialty """is""" "All-Seeing Janitors and
Other Jumpsuited Fellows with Five o'Clock Shadow." He appeared
in three John Hughes movies, most notably as Carl the janitor
in "The Breakfast Club". In Canada he is fondly remembered as
Detective Schanke in the vampire series "Forever Knight".
6. Matt Craven's specialty """is""" "jumpy, possibly treacherous
army officers and morally suspect cops." He """has"""
a recurring role as the Secretary of the Navy in "NCIS".
"""He's been""" in movies since the days of "Meatballs", but
made his biggest impact as twitchy and treacherous Lt. Zimmer
in the submarine classic "Crimson Tide".
7. It seems like you'll see Roger Cross in virtually every TV
series filmed in Canada. He had a leading role in the sci-fi
series "The First Wave" and also appeared as DJ and transvestite
Sunset Boulevard / Sonny Benson in "The L Word". You may
remember him from "24" as Curtis Manning, a CTU colleague of
Jack Bauer's until Jack had to shoot him.
8. Don Francks """is""" an actor/singer who made his movie debut as
the leading man in Francis Ford Coppola's first movie,
"Finian's Rainbow" -- a musical that Coppola tends to omit
from his resume. Over the years Francks """has graduated""" to
character roles, most notably as Walter in the late 1990s series
"La Femme Nikita". """Just last week""" he was a guest star on
"Saving Hope", a Canadian import showing on NBC.
9. The "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site """describes""" Bruce
Greenwood as an "Untrustworthy, Two-Timing, Boo-Hiss Husband!"
In Hollywood he """tends""" to play skunks, such as Ashley Judd's evil
husband in "Double Jeopardy" and a corporate crook in "I, Robot".
But he """has also played""" John F. Kennedy in "Thirteen Days",
and Capt. Christopher Pike in the """latest""" "Star Trek"
movie, and appeared in several films directed by Atom Egoyan.
10. The "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site """says""" Henry Czerny's
specialty """is""" dicks, but in fact he """has played"""
a wide range of vile characters, including Brother Lavin in
"The Boys of St. Vincent", the Duke of Norfolk in "The Tudors",
and the treacherous CEO Conrad Grayson in the current ABC series
"Revenge".
Decode the rot13 if you would like to see the picture numbers
for the 5 decoys and identify who they are.
11. Ahzore sbhe.
12. Rvtug.
13. Bar qbmra.
14. Svsgrra.
15. Kiv.
--
Mark Brader "One might as well complain about the Sun
Toronto rising in the daytime instead of at night,
m...@vex.net when we need it more." -- John Lawler
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Joshua Kreitzer
Aug 21, 2022, 12:16:34 AM8/21/22
to
On Saturday, August 20, 2022 at 10:12:22 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:
>
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Science - How the Earth Was Made
>
> This round is based on the BBC documentary series "How The Earth
> Was Made".
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Science - How the Earth Was Made
>
> This round is based on the BBC documentary series "How The Earth
> Was Made".
>
> 5. Within 300,000,000 years, how old did <answer 4> finally
> determine the Earth is?
4,300,000,000 years
> determine the Earth is?
> 6. Time on this scale is so long and hard to comprehend, scientists
> refer to it by what term?
> * Game 10, Round 8 - Canadiana Entertainment - Character Actors
>
> Please see: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/10-8/chara.jpg
>
> This round is about character actors, those indispensible figures
> who are sometimes more memorable than the stars they support
> but whose names we can't always bring to mind. Canadian actors
> seem to be especially versatile when it comes to character parts.
> Given the actor's name and a few career highlights, give the number
> of the photo that depicts him.
>
> 1. Victor Garber achieved such widespread recognition playing
> Jennifer Garner's shady father on "Alias" that the "Hey! It's
> That Guy" web site """describes""" him as "That Strangely Refined
> CIA Black-Ops Agent!" But he made his film debut in "Godspell",
> """has""" appeared in numerous Sondheim musicals on Broadway,
> played the title character in "Liberace", and went down with the
> "Titanic" as shipbuilder Thomas Andrews.
> 2. Colm Feore has played Pierre Trudeau and Glenn Gould, and
> Marcus Andronicus opposite Anthony Hopkins in "Titus".
> His fine Shakespearean training """is""" harder to detect as
> the doctor with the innovative technique in facial transplants
> in "Face/Off"; Lord Marshal in "The Chronicles of Riddick",
> and Laufey, King of the Frost Giants, in "Thor".
> 3. Saul Rubinek """has played""" various nebbishy characters,
> including accountants, unscrupulous doctors, and journalists.
> In Canada he played the best friend of a cult victim, in "Ticket
> to Heaven", and Howard Engel's popular detective Benny Cooperman.
> In Hollywood he played Henry Kissinger in "Dick" and lily-livered
> writer W.W. Beauchamp in Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven". You can
> """currently""" see him in the sci-fi series "Warehouse 13".
> 4. According to the "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site, Michael
> Ironside """specializes""" in "Super-Intense, Homicidal Brutes."
> His credits """include""" the glowering killer in "Total
> Recall", the coldhearted boat owner in "The Perfect Storm",
> and the chilling assassin in David Cronenberg's "Scanners".
> 5. John Kapelos's specialty """is""" "All-Seeing Janitors and
> Other Jumpsuited Fellows with Five o'Clock Shadow." He appeared
> in three John Hughes movies, most notably as Carl the janitor
> in "The Breakfast Club". In Canada he is fondly remembered as
> Detective Schanke in the vampire series "Forever Knight".
> 6. Matt Craven's specialty """is""" "jumpy, possibly treacherous
> army officers and morally suspect cops." He """has"""
> a recurring role as the Secretary of the Navy in "NCIS".
> """He's been""" in movies since the days of "Meatballs", but
> made his biggest impact as twitchy and treacherous Lt. Zimmer
> in the submarine classic "Crimson Tide".
> 7. It seems like you'll see Roger Cross in virtually every TV
> series filmed in Canada. He had a leading role in the sci-fi
> series "The First Wave" and also appeared as DJ and transvestite
> Sunset Boulevard / Sonny Benson in "The L Word". You may
> remember him from "24" as Curtis Manning, a CTU colleague of
> Jack Bauer's until Jack had to shoot him.
> 8. Don Francks """is""" an actor/singer who made his movie debut as
> the leading man in Francis Ford Coppola's first movie,
> "Finian's Rainbow" -- a musical that Coppola tends to omit
> from his resume. Over the years Francks """has graduated""" to
> character roles, most notably as Walter in the late 1990s series
> "La Femme Nikita". """Just last week""" he was a guest star on
> "Saving Hope", a Canadian import showing on NBC.
> 9. The "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site """describes""" Bruce
> Greenwood as an "Untrustworthy, Two-Timing, Boo-Hiss Husband!"
> In Hollywood he """tends""" to play skunks, such as Ashley Judd's evil
> husband in "Double Jeopardy" and a corporate crook in "I, Robot".
> But he """has also played""" John F. Kennedy in "Thirteen Days",
> and Capt. Christopher Pike in the """latest""" "Star Trek"
> movie, and appeared in several films directed by Atom Egoyan.
> 10. The "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site """says""" Henry Czerny's
> specialty """is""" dicks, but in fact he """has played"""
> a wide range of vile characters, including Brother Lavin in
> "The Boys of St. Vincent", the Duke of Norfolk in "The Tudors",
> and the treacherous CEO Conrad Grayson in the current ABC series
> "Revenge".
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Erland Sommarskog
Aug 21, 2022, 4:52:58 AM8/21/22
to
Mark Brader (m...@vex.net) writes:
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Science - How the Earth Was Made
>
> This round is based on the BBC documentary series "How The Earth
> Was Made".
>
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Science - How the Earth Was Made
>
> This round is based on the BBC documentary series "How The Earth
> Was Made".
>
> 5. Within 300,000,000 years, how old did <answer 4> finally
> determine the Earth is?
4.5E9 years
> determine the Earth is?
> 6. Time on this scale is so long and hard to comprehend, scientists
> refer to it by what term?
> 7. For over 1,000,000,000 years, much of the oxygen produced by the
> stromatolites went to oxidizing this substance in the
> primordial oceans, turning our early seas from green to blue.
> The quantities of the resulting compound were so huge that
> bands of sediment are found throughout the world, and are the
> major source of this substance globally. What is this element?
Mark Brader
Aug 21, 2022, 5:49:06 AM8/21/22
to
Erland Sommarskog:
> 4.5E9 years
First he gives answers in Swedish, now in FORTRAN! (Grin.)
--
Mark Brader | "Writing that used both upper-case and lower-case
Toronto | characters became fashionable many centuries ago.
m...@vex.net | It continued... until FORTRAN was invented." --Peter Moylan
> 4.5E9 years
First he gives answers in Swedish, now in FORTRAN! (Grin.)
--
Mark Brader | "Writing that used both upper-case and lower-case
Toronto | characters became fashionable many centuries ago.
m...@vex.net | It continued... until FORTRAN was invented." --Peter Moylan
Dan Tilque
Aug 21, 2022, 7:12:51 AM8/21/22
to
On 8/20/22 20:09, Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Science - How the Earth Was Made
>
> This round is based on the BBC documentary series "How The Earth
> Was Made".
>
> 1. Name the Scottish farmer who is known as the "Father of Modern
> Geology". He was the first to challenge church doctrine that
> the Earth was only about 6,000 years old. He theorized that
> rock was created by very slow processes that took hundreds of
> thousands of years, and estimated the age of the Earth to be
> over 2,000,000 years.
>
> 2. This Victorian scientist proposed that the Earth was once a ball
> of liquid rock at 8,000°. He used the laws of thermodynamics
> to model the cooling of Earth to propose a new age, between
> 20,000,000 and 40,000,000 years. Name him.
Kelvin
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Science - How the Earth Was Made
>
> This round is based on the BBC documentary series "How The Earth
> Was Made".
>
> 1. Name the Scottish farmer who is known as the "Father of Modern
> Geology". He was the first to challenge church doctrine that
> the Earth was only about 6,000 years old. He theorized that
> rock was created by very slow processes that took hundreds of
> thousands of years, and estimated the age of the Earth to be
> over 2,000,000 years.
>
> 2. This Victorian scientist proposed that the Earth was once a ball
> of liquid rock at 8,000°. He used the laws of thermodynamics
> to model the cooling of Earth to propose a new age, between
> 20,000,000 and 40,000,000 years. Name him.
>
> 3. Although his theory was sound, <answer 2>'s figure was a colossal
> underestimate because he was unaware of a key source of heat
> in the Earth's core. What was this heat source?
>
> 4. Please decode the rot13 for this question only after you are
> finished with the previous one. Grfgvat fnzcyrf onfrq ba
> gur cerqvpgnoyr fgrnql engr bs qrpnl bs henavhz gb yrnq yrq
> guvf trbybtvfg va 1911 gb cebcbfr n arj ntr sbe gur Rnegu,
> va gur ovyyvbaf bs lrnef, na ntr gung vf fgvyy npprcgrq gbqnl.
> Jub vf guvf fpvragvfg jub vairagrq trbpuebabybtl?
>
> 5. Within 300,000,000 years, how old did <answer 4> finally
> determine the Earth is?
>
> 6. Time on this scale is so long and hard to comprehend, scientists
> refer to it by what term?
>
> 7. For over 1,000,000,000 years, much of the oxygen produced by the
> stromatolites went to oxidizing this substance in the
> primordial oceans, turning our early seas from green to blue.
> The quantities of the resulting compound were so huge that
> bands of sediment are found throughout the world, and are the
> major source of this substance globally. What is this element?
>
> Please decode the rot13 for the last three questions only after you have
> finished with the above ones.
>
> 8. 4,000,000,000 lrnef ntb, vapernfrq ibypnavp npgvivgl senpgherq
> gur Rnegu'f pehfg nyybjvat ynetr nzbhagf bs jngre gb zvk jvgu gur
> pber'f zntzn. Guvf zvkgher bs onfnygvp ebpx naq jngre sbezrq ebpxf
> juvpu jrer zhpu yvtugre naq fgebatre guna ibypnavp ebpx, naq jbhyq
> riraghnyyl sbez gur pbagvaragny znffrf. Jung ner gurfr ebpxf pnyyrq?
>
> 9. Ynin ebpxf gung sbez va qrrc jngre nyjnlf gnxr n irel qvfgvapg
> funcr. Svaqvat ebpxf bs guvf glcr gung ner bire 3,800,000,000
> lrnef byq cebirq gung gur Rnegu jnf nyernql pbirerq ol bprnaf
> ng gung ntr. Gurfr ebpxf ner anzrq sbe gurve qvfgvapg funcr;
> jung ner gurl pnyyrq?
>
> 10. Bire 3,500,000,000 lrnef ntb gur svefg yvsr nccrnerq ba gur
> fuberf bs gur cebgb-pbagvaragf, nf pbybavrf bs cubgbflagurgvp
> onpgrevn naq nytnr. Gurve pbybavrf, fbzr bs juvpu pna fgvyy or
> frra nyvir gbqnl va Nhfgenyvn, qrirybcrq va havdhr sbezngvbaf,
> jubfr sbffvyf pna or frra guebhtubhg gur jbeyq. Anzr gurfr
> onpgrevny-nytny pbybavrf.
Dan Blum
Aug 23, 2022, 9:47:36 PM8/23/22
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> 2. This Victorian scientist proposed that the Earth was once a ball
> of liquid rock at 8,000?. He used the laws of thermodynamics
> to model the cooling of Earth to propose a new age, between
> 20,000,000 and 40,000,000 years. Name him.
Kelvin
> 20,000,000 and 40,000,000 years. Name him.
> 3. Although his theory was sound, <answer 2>'s figure was a colossal
> underestimate because he was unaware of a key source of heat
> in the Earth's core. What was this heat source?
> 5. Within 300,000,000 years, how old did <answer 4> finally
> determine the Earth is?
> 7. For over 1,000,000,000 years, much of the oxygen produced by the
> stromatolites went to oxidizing this substance in the
> primordial oceans, turning our early seas from green to blue.
> The quantities of the resulting compound were so huge that
> bands of sediment are found throughout the world, and are the
> major source of this substance globally. What is this element?
> 8. 4,000,000,000 lrnef ntb, vapernfrq ibypnavp npgvivgl senpgherq
> gur Rnegu'f pehfg nyybjvat ynetr nzbhagf bs jngre gb zvk jvgu gur
> pber'f zntzn. Guvf zvkgher bs onfnygvp ebpx naq jngre sbezrq ebpxf
> juvpu jrer zhpu yvtugre naq fgebatre guna ibypnavp ebpx, naq jbhyq
> riraghnyyl sbez gur pbagvaragny znffrf. Jung ner gurfr ebpxf pnyyrq?
> * Game 10, Round 8 - Canadiana Entertainment - Character Actors
> 1. Victor Garber achieved such widespread recognition playing
> Jennifer Garner's shady father on "Alias" that the "Hey! It's
> That Guy" web site """describes""" him as "That Strangely Refined
> CIA Black-Ops Agent!" But he made his film debut in "Godspell",
> """has""" appeared in numerous Sondheim musicals on Broadway,
> played the title character in "Liberace", and went down with the
> "Titanic" as shipbuilder Thomas Andrews.
3
> Jennifer Garner's shady father on "Alias" that the "Hey! It's
> That Guy" web site """describes""" him as "That Strangely Refined
> CIA Black-Ops Agent!" But he made his film debut in "Godspell",
> """has""" appeared in numerous Sondheim musicals on Broadway,
> played the title character in "Liberace", and went down with the
> "Titanic" as shipbuilder Thomas Andrews.
> 2. Colm Feore has played Pierre Trudeau and Glenn Gould, and
> Marcus Andronicus opposite Anthony Hopkins in "Titus".
> His fine Shakespearean training """is""" harder to detect as
> the doctor with the innovative technique in facial transplants
> in "Face/Off"; Lord Marshal in "The Chronicles of Riddick",
> and Laufey, King of the Frost Giants, in "Thor".
> 3. Saul Rubinek """has played""" various nebbishy characters,
> including accountants, unscrupulous doctors, and journalists.
> In Canada he played the best friend of a cult victim, in "Ticket
> to Heaven", and Howard Engel's popular detective Benny Cooperman.
> In Hollywood he played Henry Kissinger in "Dick" and lily-livered
> writer W.W. Beauchamp in Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven". You can
> """currently""" see him in the sci-fi series "Warehouse 13".
> 4. According to the "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site, Michael
> Ironside """specializes""" in "Super-Intense, Homicidal Brutes."
> His credits """include""" the glowering killer in "Total
> Recall", the coldhearted boat owner in "The Perfect Storm",
> and the chilling assassin in David Cronenberg's "Scanners".
> 5. John Kapelos's specialty """is""" "All-Seeing Janitors and
> Other Jumpsuited Fellows with Five o'Clock Shadow." He appeared
> in three John Hughes movies, most notably as Carl the janitor
> in "The Breakfast Club". In Canada he is fondly remembered as
> Detective Schanke in the vampire series "Forever Knight".
> 6. Matt Craven's specialty """is""" "jumpy, possibly treacherous
> army officers and morally suspect cops." He """has"""
> a recurring role as the Secretary of the Navy in "NCIS".
> """He's been""" in movies since the days of "Meatballs", but
> made his biggest impact as twitchy and treacherous Lt. Zimmer
> in the submarine classic "Crimson Tide".
> 7. It seems like you'll see Roger Cross in virtually every TV
> series filmed in Canada. He had a leading role in the sci-fi
> series "The First Wave" and also appeared as DJ and transvestite
> Sunset Boulevard / Sonny Benson in "The L Word". You may
> remember him from "24" as Curtis Manning, a CTU colleague of
> Jack Bauer's until Jack had to shoot him.
> 8. Don Francks """is""" an actor/singer who made his movie debut as
> the leading man in Francis Ford Coppola's first movie,
> "Finian's Rainbow" -- a musical that Coppola tends to omit
> from his resume. Over the years Francks """has graduated""" to
> character roles, most notably as Walter in the late 1990s series
> "La Femme Nikita". """Just last week""" he was a guest star on
> "Saving Hope", a Canadian import showing on NBC.
> 9. The "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site """describes""" Bruce
> Greenwood as an "Untrustworthy, Two-Timing, Boo-Hiss Husband!"
> In Hollywood he """tends""" to play skunks, such as Ashley Judd's evil
> husband in "Double Jeopardy" and a corporate crook in "I, Robot".
> But he """has also played""" John F. Kennedy in "Thirteen Days",
> and Capt. Christopher Pike in the """latest""" "Star Trek"
> movie, and appeared in several films directed by Atom Egoyan.
> 10. The "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site """says""" Henry Czerny's
> specialty """is""" dicks, but in fact he """has played"""
> a wide range of vile characters, including Brother Lavin in
> "The Boys of St. Vincent", the Duke of Norfolk in "The Tudors",
> and the treacherous CEO Conrad Grayson in the current ABC series
> "Revenge".
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Mark Brader
Aug 24, 2022, 6:31:25 AM8/24/22
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Mark Brader:
> 1. Name the Scottish farmer who is known as the "Father of Modern
> Geology". He was the first to challenge church doctrine that
> the Earth was only about 6,000 years old. He theorized that
> rock was created by very slow processes that took hundreds of
> thousands of years, and estimated the age of the Earth to be
> over 2,000,000 years.
James Hutton.
> 2. This Victorian scientist proposed that the Earth was once a ball
> of liquid rock at 8,000°. He used the laws of thermodynamics
> to model the cooling of Earth to propose a new age, between
> 20,000,000 and 40,000,000 years. Name him.
Lord Kelvin (William Thomson). 4 for Dan Tilque and Dan Blum.
> 3. Although his theory was sound, <answer 2>'s figure was a colossal
> underestimate because he was unaware of a key source of heat
> in the Earth's core. What was this heat source?
Radioactive decay. 4 for Dan Tilque and Dan Blum.
> 4. Please decode the rot13 for this question only after you are
> finished with the previous one. Testing samples based on
> the predictable steady rate of decay of uranium to lead led
> this geologist in 1911 to propose a new age for the Earth,
> in the billions of years, an age that is still accepted today.
> Who is this scientist who invented geochronology?
Arthur Holmes.
> 5. Within 300,000,000 years, how old did <answer 4> finally
> determine the Earth is?
4,540,000,000 years (accepting 4,240,000,000-4,840,000,000).
4 for everyone -- Joshua, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum.
> 6. Time on this scale is so long and hard to comprehend, scientists
> refer to it by what term?
The expected answer was "deep time". "Geological time" was also
accepted on a protest. 4 for Joshua.
> 7. For over 1,000,000,000 years, much of the oxygen produced by the
> stromatolites went to oxidizing this substance in the
> primordial oceans, turning our early seas from green to blue.
> The quantities of the resulting compound were so huge that
> bands of sediment are found throughout the world, and are the
> major source of this substance globally. What is this element?
Iron. 4 for Dan Tilque.
> Please decode the rot13 for the last three questions only after you have
> finished with the above ones.
> 8. 4,000,000,000 years ago, increased volcanic activity fractured
> the Earth's crust allowing large amounts of water to mix with the
> core's magma. This mixture of basaltic rock and water formed rocks
> which were much lighter and stronger than volcanic rock, and would
> eventually form the continental masses. What are these rocks called?
Granite.
> 9. Lava rocks that form in deep water always take a very distinct
> shape. Finding rocks of this type that are over 3,800,000,000
> years old proved that the Earth was already covered by oceans
> at that age. These rocks are named for their distinct shape;
> what are they called?
Pillow lavas. 4 for Dan Tilque.
> 10. Over 3,500,000,000 years ago the first life appeared on the
> shores of the proto-continents, as colonies of photosynthetic
> bacteria and algae. Their colonies, some of which can still be
> seen alive today in Australia, developed in unique formations,
> whose fossils can be seen throughout the world. Name these
> bacterial-algal colonies.
Stromatolites. (Not coral, which is a polyp.) 4 for Dan Tilque.
> * Game 10, Round 8 - Canadiana Entertainment - Character Actors
> Please see: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/10-8/chara.jpg
> This round is about character actors, those indispensible figures
> who are sometimes more memorable than the stars they support
> but whose names we can't always bring to mind. Canadian actors
> seem to be especially versatile when it comes to character parts.
> Given the actor's name and a few career highlights, give the number
> of the photo that depicts him.
All are still alive except as noted below.
In the original game, this was tied for the easiest round in the
game and, if current-events rounds are ignored, it was one of four
rounds tied for third-easiest in the entire season.
> 1. Victor Garber achieved such widespread recognition playing
> Jennifer Garner's shady father on "Alias" that the "Hey! It's
> That Guy" web site """describes""" him as "That Strangely Refined
> CIA Black-Ops Agent!" But he made his film debut in "Godspell",
> """has""" appeared in numerous Sondheim musicals on Broadway,
> played the title character in "Liberace", and went down with the
> "Titanic" as shipbuilder Thomas Andrews.
#3.
> 2. Colm Feore has played Pierre Trudeau and Glenn Gould, and
> Marcus Andronicus opposite Anthony Hopkins in "Titus".
> His fine Shakespearean training """is""" harder to detect as
> the doctor with the innovative technique in facial transplants
> in "Face/Off"; Lord Marshal in "The Chronicles of Riddick",
> and Laufey, King of the Frost Giants, in "Thor".
#5 and #14. (By mistake he was put on the handout twice; that's
why there were only 5 decoys.) 4 for Joshua.
> 3. Saul Rubinek """has played""" various nebbishy characters,
> including accountants, unscrupulous doctors, and journalists.
> In Canada he played the best friend of a cult victim, in "Ticket
> to Heaven", and Howard Engel's popular detective Benny Cooperman.
> In Hollywood he played Henry Kissinger in "Dick" and lily-livered
> writer W.W. Beauchamp in Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven". You can
> """currently""" see him in the sci-fi series "Warehouse 13".
#11. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.
He was also on "Frasier" for most of one season, playing Niles
Crane's divorce attorney and romantic rival. And, of course,
in the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "The Most Toys",
he kidnapped Cmdr. Data, leading to a character-defining moment
involving a disruptor and a transporter.
> 4. According to the "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site, Michael
> Ironside """specializes""" in "Super-Intense, Homicidal Brutes."
> His credits """include""" the glowering killer in "Total
> Recall", the coldhearted boat owner in "The Perfect Storm",
> and the chilling assassin in David Cronenberg's "Scanners".
#1. 3 for Dan Blum.
> 5. John Kapelos's specialty """is""" "All-Seeing Janitors and
> Other Jumpsuited Fellows with Five o'Clock Shadow." He appeared
> in three John Hughes movies, most notably as Carl the janitor
> in "The Breakfast Club". In Canada he is fondly remembered as
> Detective Schanke in the vampire series "Forever Knight".
#6.
> 6. Matt Craven's specialty """is""" "jumpy, possibly treacherous
> army officers and morally suspect cops." He """has"""
> a recurring role as the Secretary of the Navy in "NCIS".
> """He's been""" in movies since the days of "Meatballs", but
> made his biggest impact as twitchy and treacherous Lt. Zimmer
> in the submarine classic "Crimson Tide".
#13. (His character on "NCIS" was killed off in 2013.) 2 for Joshua.
> 7. It seems like you'll see Roger Cross in virtually every TV
> series filmed in Canada. He had a leading role in the sci-fi
> series "The First Wave" and also appeared as DJ and transvestite
> Sunset Boulevard / Sonny Benson in "The L Word". You may
> remember him from "24" as Curtis Manning, a CTU colleague of
> Jack Bauer's until Jack had to shoot him.
#10. 3 for Dan Blum.
> 8. Don Francks """is""" an actor/singer who made his movie debut as
> the leading man in Francis Ford Coppola's first movie,
> "Finian's Rainbow" -- a musical that Coppola tends to omit
> from his resume. Over the years Francks """has graduated""" to
> character roles, most notably as Walter in the late 1990s series
> "La Femme Nikita". """Just last week""" he was a guest star on
> "Saving Hope", a Canadian import showing on NBC.
#7. (He died in 2016.) 3 for Dan Blum.
> 9. The "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site """describes""" Bruce
> Greenwood as an "Untrustworthy, Two-Timing, Boo-Hiss Husband!"
> In Hollywood he """tends""" to play skunks, such as Ashley Judd's evil
> husband in "Double Jeopardy" and a corporate crook in "I, Robot".
> But he """has also played""" John F. Kennedy in "Thirteen Days",
> and Capt. Christopher Pike in the """latest""" "Star Trek"
> movie, and appeared in several films directed by Atom Egoyan.
#2.
> 10. The "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site """says""" Henry Czerny's
> specialty """is""" dicks, but in fact he """has played"""
> a wide range of vile characters, including Brother Lavin in
> "The Boys of St. Vincent", the Duke of Norfolk in "The Tudors",
> and the treacherous CEO Conrad Grayson in the current ABC series
> "Revenge".
#9.
> Decode the rot13 if you would like to see the picture numbers
> for the 5 decoys and identify who they are.
No one tried these.
> 11. Number four.
Percy Rodriguez. (Seen here in the original "Star Trek" episode
"Court Martial". He died in 2007.)
> 12. Eight.
Kim Coates. (Seen here at the premiere of "Silent Hill".)
> 13. One dozen.
Christopher Judge. (Seen here in character for "Stargate: SG-1".)
> 14. Fifteen.
Steve Ihnat. (Seen here in the original "Star Trek" episode "Whom
Gods Destroy". He died in 1972.)
> 15. Xvi.
Gary Basaraba. (Seen here at the premiere of "Charlotte's Web".)
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> Can Lit Can Can Sci Can FOUR
Joshua Kreitzer 8 28 18 3 8 10 64
Dan Tilque 3 8 -- -- 24 0 35
Dan Blum -- -- -- -- 12 13 25
Pete Gayde -- -- 0 10 -- -- 10
Erland Sommarskog -- -- -- -- 4 0 4
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "These days UNIX isn't very UNIX-like"
m...@vex.net -- Doug Gwyn
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2012-07-16,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information...
> see my 2021-07-20 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from
> the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Science - How the Earth Was Made
> This round is based on the BBC documentary series "How The Earth
> Was Made".
In the original game, it was the hardest round in the entire season.
> the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Science - How the Earth Was Made
> This round is based on the BBC documentary series "How The Earth
> Was Made".
> 1. Name the Scottish farmer who is known as the "Father of Modern
> Geology". He was the first to challenge church doctrine that
> the Earth was only about 6,000 years old. He theorized that
> rock was created by very slow processes that took hundreds of
> thousands of years, and estimated the age of the Earth to be
> over 2,000,000 years.
> 2. This Victorian scientist proposed that the Earth was once a ball
> of liquid rock at 8,000°. He used the laws of thermodynamics
> to model the cooling of Earth to propose a new age, between
> 20,000,000 and 40,000,000 years. Name him.
> 3. Although his theory was sound, <answer 2>'s figure was a colossal
> underestimate because he was unaware of a key source of heat
> in the Earth's core. What was this heat source?
> 4. Please decode the rot13 for this question only after you are
> the predictable steady rate of decay of uranium to lead led
> this geologist in 1911 to propose a new age for the Earth,
> in the billions of years, an age that is still accepted today.
> Who is this scientist who invented geochronology?
Arthur Holmes.
> 5. Within 300,000,000 years, how old did <answer 4> finally
> determine the Earth is?
4 for everyone -- Joshua, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum.
> 6. Time on this scale is so long and hard to comprehend, scientists
> refer to it by what term?
accepted on a protest. 4 for Joshua.
> 7. For over 1,000,000,000 years, much of the oxygen produced by the
> stromatolites went to oxidizing this substance in the
> primordial oceans, turning our early seas from green to blue.
> The quantities of the resulting compound were so huge that
> bands of sediment are found throughout the world, and are the
> major source of this substance globally. What is this element?
> Please decode the rot13 for the last three questions only after you have
> finished with the above ones.
> the Earth's crust allowing large amounts of water to mix with the
> core's magma. This mixture of basaltic rock and water formed rocks
> which were much lighter and stronger than volcanic rock, and would
> eventually form the continental masses. What are these rocks called?
Granite.
> 9. Lava rocks that form in deep water always take a very distinct
> shape. Finding rocks of this type that are over 3,800,000,000
> years old proved that the Earth was already covered by oceans
> at that age. These rocks are named for their distinct shape;
> what are they called?
Pillow lavas. 4 for Dan Tilque.
> 10. Over 3,500,000,000 years ago the first life appeared on the
> shores of the proto-continents, as colonies of photosynthetic
> bacteria and algae. Their colonies, some of which can still be
> seen alive today in Australia, developed in unique formations,
> whose fossils can be seen throughout the world. Name these
> bacterial-algal colonies.
Stromatolites. (Not coral, which is a polyp.) 4 for Dan Tilque.
> * Game 10, Round 8 - Canadiana Entertainment - Character Actors
> Please see: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/10-8/chara.jpg
> This round is about character actors, those indispensible figures
> who are sometimes more memorable than the stars they support
> but whose names we can't always bring to mind. Canadian actors
> seem to be especially versatile when it comes to character parts.
> Given the actor's name and a few career highlights, give the number
> of the photo that depicts him.
In the original game, this was tied for the easiest round in the
game and, if current-events rounds are ignored, it was one of four
rounds tied for third-easiest in the entire season.
> 1. Victor Garber achieved such widespread recognition playing
> Jennifer Garner's shady father on "Alias" that the "Hey! It's
> That Guy" web site """describes""" him as "That Strangely Refined
> CIA Black-Ops Agent!" But he made his film debut in "Godspell",
> """has""" appeared in numerous Sondheim musicals on Broadway,
> played the title character in "Liberace", and went down with the
> "Titanic" as shipbuilder Thomas Andrews.
> 2. Colm Feore has played Pierre Trudeau and Glenn Gould, and
> Marcus Andronicus opposite Anthony Hopkins in "Titus".
> His fine Shakespearean training """is""" harder to detect as
> the doctor with the innovative technique in facial transplants
> in "Face/Off"; Lord Marshal in "The Chronicles of Riddick",
> and Laufey, King of the Frost Giants, in "Thor".
why there were only 5 decoys.) 4 for Joshua.
> 3. Saul Rubinek """has played""" various nebbishy characters,
> including accountants, unscrupulous doctors, and journalists.
> In Canada he played the best friend of a cult victim, in "Ticket
> to Heaven", and Howard Engel's popular detective Benny Cooperman.
> In Hollywood he played Henry Kissinger in "Dick" and lily-livered
> writer W.W. Beauchamp in Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven". You can
> """currently""" see him in the sci-fi series "Warehouse 13".
He was also on "Frasier" for most of one season, playing Niles
Crane's divorce attorney and romantic rival. And, of course,
in the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "The Most Toys",
he kidnapped Cmdr. Data, leading to a character-defining moment
involving a disruptor and a transporter.
> 4. According to the "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site, Michael
> Ironside """specializes""" in "Super-Intense, Homicidal Brutes."
> His credits """include""" the glowering killer in "Total
> Recall", the coldhearted boat owner in "The Perfect Storm",
> and the chilling assassin in David Cronenberg's "Scanners".
> 5. John Kapelos's specialty """is""" "All-Seeing Janitors and
> Other Jumpsuited Fellows with Five o'Clock Shadow." He appeared
> in three John Hughes movies, most notably as Carl the janitor
> in "The Breakfast Club". In Canada he is fondly remembered as
> Detective Schanke in the vampire series "Forever Knight".
> 6. Matt Craven's specialty """is""" "jumpy, possibly treacherous
> army officers and morally suspect cops." He """has"""
> a recurring role as the Secretary of the Navy in "NCIS".
> """He's been""" in movies since the days of "Meatballs", but
> made his biggest impact as twitchy and treacherous Lt. Zimmer
> in the submarine classic "Crimson Tide".
> 7. It seems like you'll see Roger Cross in virtually every TV
> series filmed in Canada. He had a leading role in the sci-fi
> series "The First Wave" and also appeared as DJ and transvestite
> Sunset Boulevard / Sonny Benson in "The L Word". You may
> remember him from "24" as Curtis Manning, a CTU colleague of
> Jack Bauer's until Jack had to shoot him.
> 8. Don Francks """is""" an actor/singer who made his movie debut as
> the leading man in Francis Ford Coppola's first movie,
> "Finian's Rainbow" -- a musical that Coppola tends to omit
> from his resume. Over the years Francks """has graduated""" to
> character roles, most notably as Walter in the late 1990s series
> "La Femme Nikita". """Just last week""" he was a guest star on
> "Saving Hope", a Canadian import showing on NBC.
> 9. The "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site """describes""" Bruce
> Greenwood as an "Untrustworthy, Two-Timing, Boo-Hiss Husband!"
> In Hollywood he """tends""" to play skunks, such as Ashley Judd's evil
> husband in "Double Jeopardy" and a corporate crook in "I, Robot".
> But he """has also played""" John F. Kennedy in "Thirteen Days",
> and Capt. Christopher Pike in the """latest""" "Star Trek"
> movie, and appeared in several films directed by Atom Egoyan.
> 10. The "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site """says""" Henry Czerny's
> specialty """is""" dicks, but in fact he """has played"""
> a wide range of vile characters, including Brother Lavin in
> "The Boys of St. Vincent", the Duke of Norfolk in "The Tudors",
> and the treacherous CEO Conrad Grayson in the current ABC series
> "Revenge".
> Decode the rot13 if you would like to see the picture numbers
> for the 5 decoys and identify who they are.
> 11. Number four.
Percy Rodriguez. (Seen here in the original "Star Trek" episode
"Court Martial". He died in 2007.)
> 12. Eight.
Kim Coates. (Seen here at the premiere of "Silent Hill".)
> 13. One dozen.
Christopher Judge. (Seen here in character for "Stargate: SG-1".)
> 14. Fifteen.
Steve Ihnat. (Seen here in the original "Star Trek" episode "Whom
Gods Destroy". He died in 1972.)
> 15. Xvi.
Gary Basaraba. (Seen here at the premiere of "Charlotte's Web".)
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> Can Lit Can Can Sci Can FOUR
Joshua Kreitzer 8 28 18 3 8 10 64
Dan Tilque 3 8 -- -- 24 0 35
Dan Blum -- -- -- -- 12 13 25
Pete Gayde -- -- 0 10 -- -- 10
Erland Sommarskog -- -- -- -- 4 0 4
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "These days UNIX isn't very UNIX-like"
m...@vex.net -- Doug Gwyn
Dan Blum
Aug 24, 2022, 4:56:59 PM8/24/22
to
Mark Brader <m...@vex.net> wrote:
> > 1. Victor Garber achieved such widespread recognition playing
> > Jennifer Garner's shady father on "Alias" that the "Hey! It's
> > That Guy" web site """describes""" him as "That Strangely Refined
> > CIA Black-Ops Agent!" But he made his film debut in "Godspell",
> > """has""" appeared in numerous Sondheim musicals on Broadway,
> > played the title character in "Liberace", and went down with the
> > "Titanic" as shipbuilder Thomas Andrews.
> #3.
I got this - he was one of just two actors I actually recognized.
> > 1. Victor Garber achieved such widespread recognition playing
> > Jennifer Garner's shady father on "Alias" that the "Hey! It's
> > That Guy" web site """describes""" him as "That Strangely Refined
> > CIA Black-Ops Agent!" But he made his film debut in "Godspell",
> > """has""" appeared in numerous Sondheim musicals on Broadway,
> > played the title character in "Liberace", and went down with the
> > "Titanic" as shipbuilder Thomas Andrews.
> #3.
Mark Brader
Aug 24, 2022, 8:15:08 PM8/24/22
to
Mark Brader:
> > > 1. Victor Garber...
> > #3.
Dan Blum:
Scores, if there are now no errors:
GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> Can Lit Can Can Sci Can FOUR
Joshua Kreitzer 8 28 18 3 8 10 64
Dan Tilque 3 8 -- -- 24 0 35
Dan Blum -- -- -- -- 12 17 29
Toronto, m...@vex.net --Mark Leeper
> > > 1. Victor Garber...
> > #3.
Dan Blum:
> I got this - he was one of just two actors I actually recognized.
Oops. 4 for Dan Blum.
Scores, if there are now no errors:
GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> Can Lit Can Can Sci Can FOUR
Joshua Kreitzer 8 28 18 3 8 10 64
Dan Tilque 3 8 -- -- 24 0 35
Pete Gayde -- -- 0 10 -- -- 10
Erland Sommarskog -- -- -- -- 4 0 4
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Mark Brader "This is... a film... almost without explosions."
Erland Sommarskog -- -- -- -- 4 0 4
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Toronto, m...@vex.net --Mark Leeper
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