Mark Brader:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-07-04,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> I wrote one of these rounds.
That was the challenge round.
> * Game 7, Round 9 - Science - App Logos
> This round is about app logos, and any connection to any sort
> of "franchise" is accidental. All of the apps in question are
> available on smartphones, and many of them exist as web sites
> as well. If you're not a digital native, then hopefully you're
> at least an immigrant. Or if you're still using a flip-phone or
> maybe two tin cans and a piece of string... well, at least you
> can wax the string.
>
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/7-9/apps.jpg
> Originally the first 4 questions on the round give you an app and
> you had to give the number. Those apps were Facebook Messenger,
> Instagram, Reddit, and Snapchat. Instead I'm going to rearrange
> the round in order by picture number and ask you to give the app
> for each one, and you'll simply know that those are four of the
> answers among the 10 actual questions.
> There were 14 decoys, which are shown in their sequence below;
> name them if you like for fun, but for no points.
> 1. Name it.
Airbnb. 4 for Bruce and Stephen.
> 2. Name it.
Spotify. 4 for Peter, Bruce, Pete, and Stephen.
> 3. (decoy)
Shazam. Peter and Stephen got this.
> 4. (decoy)
Skype. Erland, Bruce, Pete, Joshua, and Stephen got this.
> 5. Name it.
LinkedIn. 4 for Peter, Bruce, Pete, Joshua, Marc, Stephen, and Björn.
> 6. Name it.
Instagram. 4 for Peter, Bruce, Pete, Joshua, and Stephen.
> 7. Name it.
Snapchat. 4 for Peter, Erland, Bruce, Pete, Joshua, Stephen,
and Björn.
> 8. (decoy)
Youtube. Peter, Bruce, Pete, Joshua, and Stephen got this.
> 9. (decoy)
Hangouts. Pete and Stephen got this.
> 10. (decoy)
Tinder. Stephen got this.
> 11. Name it.
Pinterest. 4 for Peter, Dan Blum, Bruce, Pete, Joshua, Marc,
and Stephen.
> 12. (decoy)
Whatsapp. Joshua and Stephen got this.
> 13. (decoy)
Alibaba.
> 14. (decoy)
Wechat. Stephen got this.
> 15. Name it.
Reddit. 4 for Dan Blum, Bruce, Pete, Joshua, and Stephen.
> 16. Name it.
Gmail. 4 for Peter, Erland, Bruce, Pete, Marc, Stephen, and Björn.
> 17. Name it.
Facebook Messenger. Considering that you were told "Facebook
Messenger" would be an answer, I was reluctant to accept "Messenger",
but I did. 4 for Erland, Bruce, Pete, Stephen, and Björn.
> 18. (decoy)
Facebook. Peter, Pete, Joshua, and Stephen got this.
> 19. Name it.
Plenty of Fish.
> 20. (decoy)
Podcast Addict. Bruce got this.
> 21. (decoy)
Google Maps. Peter, Erland, Bruce, Pete, Joshua, and Stephen
got this.
> 22. (decoy)
Vine. Joshua and Stephen got this.
> 23. (decoy)
Grindr.
> 24. (decoy)
Twitter. Peter, Erland, Bruce, Pete, Joshua, and Stephen got this.
> ** Game 7, Round 10 - Challenge Round from Eh to F
This was the second-easiest round in the original game, after the
current-events round.
> * Eh?
> A1. In the 1970s, Peter Gzowski ["ZOFF-skee"] challenged his
> audiences to produce the best possible completion for the
> phrase "as Canadian as". For what phrase was 17-year-old
> Heather Scott of Sarnia declared the winner, eh?
"As Canadian as possible under the circumstances". 4 for Stephen.
> A2. Referring to trivia categories, William Lyon Mackenzie
> King said that Canada had "not enough" *what*, and "too much"
> *what*, eh?
"Not enough history and too much geography".
> * Bee in Science
> B1. Name the three types of bees found in a beehive.
Queen, drone, worker. 4 for Peter, Dan Blum, Erland, Bruce, Pete,
Marc, Dan Tilque, Stephen, and Björn.
> B2. Which of the three types are male and which are female?
Male: drone. Female: queen, worker. 4 for Dan Blum, Erland, Bruce,
Marc, Dan Tilque, and Björn. 2 for Peter.
> * Sea in Geography
> C1. If you follow the Mediterranean Sea coastline clockwise
> starting at Gibraltar, you will first be going east along
> the north shore of the sea. What are the *first 3* countries
> you'll enter, *in order*?
Spain, France, Monaco. 4 for Peter, Dan Blum, Erland, Bruce, Pete,
Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Björn.
Gibraltar is not a country or part of a country, so obviously there
was no need for the question to to say "enter after Gibraltar"
as with C2.
> C2. Continuing your clockwise journey around the Mediterranean,
> at some point you will reach the Nile Delta in Egypt and
> then will be going west along the south shore of the sea.
> So what will be the next 3 countries you enter after Egypt?
> Again, you must give them *in order*.
Libya, Tunisia, Algeria. 4 for Peter, Erland, Bruce, Pete, Joshua,
Marc, Dan Tilque, Stephen, and Björn.
> * De in Entertainment
> These questions are about people whose surnames contain the particle "de".
> D1. He's played a comical minor villain in "Romancing the Stone",
> a terrible father in "Matilda", and the publisher of a
> sleazy magazine in "L.A. Confidential". He's also had two
> long-running TV roles. Name him.
Danny DeVito. ("Taxi", "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia".)
4 for Peter, Dan Blum, Bruce, Pete, Joshua, Marc, and Stephen.
> D2. He's played a renegade duct repairman in "Brazil", the
> captain of a flying pirate ship in "Stardust", and a
> mobster who has panic attacks in "Analyze This". And for
> some of his other films he's won 2 Oscars out of a total
> of 7 nominations. Name him.
Robert De Niro. 4 for Dan Blum, Erland, Bruce, Pete, Joshua, Marc,
Stephen, and Björn.
Oscar winner for "The Godfather: Part II" (1974) and "Raging Bull"
(1980); nominated for "Taxi Driver" (1976) -- so this was the second
taxi-related question in this pair! -- "The Deer Hunter" (1978),
"Awakenings" (1990), "Cape Fear" (1991), "Silver Linings Playbook"
(2012).
> * E as in Alphabets
> E1. There are two letters in the Greek alphabet that have names
> that we write as starting with E, and both are commonly
> transliterated into our alphabet as E. Name either of
> these Greek letters.
Epsilon, eta. 4 for Peter, Dan Blum, Erland (the hard way), Bruce
(the hard way), Pete, Joshua, Marc, Dan Tilque, Stephen (the hard
way), and Björn.
> E2. In the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, there are two letters
> with a sound like "ee", but they are commonly transliterated
> into our alphabet as I or Y. Describe what either of these
> Russian letters *looks like*. (Please don't post the actual
> Cyrillic letters in Unicode.)
One looks like a backwards capital N; the other looks like the two
letters bl or bI. 4 for Dan Blum, Erland (the hard way), Bruce,
Joshua, Marc, Dan Tilque, and Stephen.
Björn I guess that the Y looks like a capital Lamda - uppercase. That is an uppercase and up side down V
The "backwards capital R" is also a vowel, but sounds like "ya" and is
usually transliterated that way. There is no "upside-down V" letter.
> * F is for Fairs
> F1. The first fair that we might call a world's fair was the
> Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations,
> held at the Crystal Palace in London, which was built
> especially for it. What year was the fair, within 10?
1851 (accepting 1841-61). 4 for Peter, Dan Blum, Bruce, Joshua,
Marc, Dan Tilque, and Stephen.
The Crystal Palace was the first large building designed to be
assembled relatively quickly from prefabricated parts, and for the
fair it was located in Hyde Park in central London. After the fair
was over, it was dismantled and reerected -- now somewhat differently
shaped -- in south London. It was destroyed by fire in 1936, but
the name Crystal Palace is still used for the district where it
was located.
> F2. A world's fair in Paris featured a temporary tower that, at
> the time, was the tallest structure in the world. Many
> people called the thing a monstrosity, but for some reason
> it's still there. When was this fair held, within 10 years?
1889 (accepting 1879-99). 4 for Erland, Bruce, Pete, Joshua,
Dan Tilque, Stephen, and Björn.
In case you didn't guess, this tower was designed by Gustave Eiffel
and is now known by his name.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 7 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST
TOPICS-> Can Lit Mis Ent Spo His Sci Cha SIX
Stephen Perry -- -- 40 40 32 50 36 36 234
Joshua Kreitzer 16 32 36 40 35 38 20 32 213
Dan Blum 16 20 20 34 21 23 8 32 150
Pete Gayde -- -- 12 23 38 12 32 28 145
Peter Smyth -- -- 8 31 16 10 24 26 115
Dan Tilque 16 8 8 8 16 34 0 32 114
Bruce Bowler -- -- 12 16 -- -- 36 40 104
Marc Dashevsky 0 12 16 12 16 0 12 32 100
Erland Sommarskog 16 0 8 4 8 20 12 32 96
Björn Lundin -- -- -- -- 0 16 16 28 60
"Calvin" 9 8 12 12 -- -- -- -- 41
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