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QFTCICR19 Final, Rounds 7-8: sports, arts/lit
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Mark Brader
May 23, 2019, 12:36:08 AM5/23/19
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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-04-09,
and should be interpreted accordingly.
On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
the correct answers in about 3 days.
All questions were written by members of the Cellar Rats and are
used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have
been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see
my 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
** Final, Round 7 - Sports
* Olympians Turned Politicians
1. Bob Mathias served as a Republican representing California
for four terms from 1967 to 1975. And back in 1948 and 1952,
he also won two Olympic gold medals -- in what event?
2. Bill Bradley served as a Democrat representing New Jersey in
the Senate for three terms, from 1979 to 1997. He was also a
member of the 1964 gold-medal-winning team in what sport?
3. Before serving in the British Parliament as a Conservative for
5 years in the 1990s and leading the successful bid to gain
London the 2012 Olympics, Sebastian Coe won Olympic gold at the
Moscow and Los Angeles Olympics in which track-and-field event?
* Pump-Up Speeches
We will give you the actor's name, the year, and the dialogue.
In each case you name the movie.
4. 1986, Gene Hackman: "Forget about the crowds, the size of the
school, their fancy uniforms, and remember what got you here...
If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your
potential, to be the best that you can be, I don't care what
the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book we're
going to be winners."
5. 2006, Matthew McConaughey: "When you take that field today,
you've got to lay that heart on the line, men. From the soles
of your feet, with every ounce of blood you've got in your body,
lay it on the line until the final whistle blows. And if you
do that -- if you do that -- we cannot lose. We may be behind
on the scoreboard at the end of the game, but if you play like
that we cannot be defeated."
6. 2004, Kurt Russell: "Great moments are born from great
opportunity. And that's what you have here, tonight, boys.
That's what you've earned here tonight. One game. If we
played 'em 10 times, they might win 9. But not this game.
Not tonight. Tonight, we skate with them. Tonight, we stay
with them. And we shut them down, because we can. Tonight,
*we* are the greatest hockey team in the world."
#
* The Ancient Olympics
7. Within 1, in what *century* does tradition state that the first
Olympic games were played at Olympia on the Peleponnesian
peninsula?
8. In the 300s BC, Cynisca of Sparta was banned from even watching
the games, despite having won two events as owner of the winning
4-horse chariot team. Why?
9. Leonidas of Rhodes won 12 first-place awards in foot racing in
the ancient games -- a lifetime record not beaten in any sport
in the modern games until 2016. Who did it then?
* Wheaties
Name these athletes who appeared on the Wheaties box.
10. In 1977 and 2012, a male track-and-field star.
11. The male professional athlete who holds the record for most
appearances on the box, starting in 1988.
12. The NFL player who was on the box in 2004, but was disgraced
by scandal in 2007.
* Celebrity Team-Owners
In each case either the team name or the city will suffice unless
it would be ambiguous.
13. In 2009, Gloria Estefan became a minority owner of what
NFL team?
14. In 1989, George W. Bush bought a percentage of what major-league
baseball team?
15. In 2011, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith bought a percentage
of what NBA team?
** Final, Round 8 - Arts & Literature
* Autobiographies
1. Which actor wrote the autobiography "The Moon's a Balloon"?
2. Which athlete wrote the autobiography "Open"?
3. Which singer/songwriter wrote the autobiography "Chronicles"?
* Novels by Last Lines
4. The author of this novel came up with two endings. These are
the last lines of one of them. Name the novel.
"I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place;
and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left
the forge, so the evening mists were rising now, and in all
the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw
no shadow of another parting from her."
5. Which novel ends as follows? "Now what the hell do you suppose
is eatin' them two guys?"
6. Which novel ends as follows? "The creatures outside looked
from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again;
but already it was impossible to say which was which."
* Russian Literature
In each case name the author.
7. "The Brothers Karamazov", a murder mystery where one of four
brothers is responsible for their father's death.
8. "Mother", written in 1906, describes provincial life in Czarist
Russia. It influenced the Bolshevik revolution.
9. Also in Czarist Russia, "Anna Karenina" is a novel about adultery
among the aristocracy.
* Spies in Non-Fiction
In each case name the book.
10. This 1964 book by James Donovan, relating to the spies
Rudolf Abel and Gary Powers, served as source material for a
movie dramatization starring Tom Hanks. The book's title was
partly similar to that movie and partly similar to an earlier,
completely unrelated novel and movie.
11. This book by Ben Macintyre describes the true story of British
agents rescuing their asset Oleg Gordievsky from the USSR.
12. This book by FBI agent Eric O'Neill describes the author's
role in the arrest, conviction, and imprisonment of fellow FBI
agent Robert Hanssen for spying for Russia.
* Lost Paintings
13. "Man at the Crossroads" was a mural painted in 1933 on a
lobby wall of 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. When the
artist refused Nelson Rockefeller's demand to remove the image
of Lenin from the painting, Rockefeller had the mural destroyed.
Name the artist.
14. In 1954, artist Graham Sutherland painted a world leader's
portrait for his 80th birthday, but the man's wife ordered
it destroyed. Which leader?
15. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot, known as the French Hitchcock,
had a painter create 20 original works for a documentary on
his technique. They were painted on glass before a camera and
then destroyed. Who was the painter?
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | The real trouble with this world of ours is... that
m...@vex.net | it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. --Chesterton
My text in this article is in the public domain.
and should be interpreted accordingly.
On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
the correct answers in about 3 days.
All questions were written by members of the Cellar Rats and are
used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have
been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see
my 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
** Final, Round 7 - Sports
* Olympians Turned Politicians
1. Bob Mathias served as a Republican representing California
for four terms from 1967 to 1975. And back in 1948 and 1952,
he also won two Olympic gold medals -- in what event?
2. Bill Bradley served as a Democrat representing New Jersey in
the Senate for three terms, from 1979 to 1997. He was also a
member of the 1964 gold-medal-winning team in what sport?
3. Before serving in the British Parliament as a Conservative for
5 years in the 1990s and leading the successful bid to gain
London the 2012 Olympics, Sebastian Coe won Olympic gold at the
Moscow and Los Angeles Olympics in which track-and-field event?
* Pump-Up Speeches
We will give you the actor's name, the year, and the dialogue.
In each case you name the movie.
4. 1986, Gene Hackman: "Forget about the crowds, the size of the
school, their fancy uniforms, and remember what got you here...
If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your
potential, to be the best that you can be, I don't care what
the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book we're
going to be winners."
5. 2006, Matthew McConaughey: "When you take that field today,
you've got to lay that heart on the line, men. From the soles
of your feet, with every ounce of blood you've got in your body,
lay it on the line until the final whistle blows. And if you
do that -- if you do that -- we cannot lose. We may be behind
on the scoreboard at the end of the game, but if you play like
that we cannot be defeated."
6. 2004, Kurt Russell: "Great moments are born from great
opportunity. And that's what you have here, tonight, boys.
That's what you've earned here tonight. One game. If we
played 'em 10 times, they might win 9. But not this game.
Not tonight. Tonight, we skate with them. Tonight, we stay
with them. And we shut them down, because we can. Tonight,
*we* are the greatest hockey team in the world."
#
* The Ancient Olympics
7. Within 1, in what *century* does tradition state that the first
Olympic games were played at Olympia on the Peleponnesian
peninsula?
8. In the 300s BC, Cynisca of Sparta was banned from even watching
the games, despite having won two events as owner of the winning
4-horse chariot team. Why?
9. Leonidas of Rhodes won 12 first-place awards in foot racing in
the ancient games -- a lifetime record not beaten in any sport
in the modern games until 2016. Who did it then?
* Wheaties
Name these athletes who appeared on the Wheaties box.
10. In 1977 and 2012, a male track-and-field star.
11. The male professional athlete who holds the record for most
appearances on the box, starting in 1988.
12. The NFL player who was on the box in 2004, but was disgraced
by scandal in 2007.
* Celebrity Team-Owners
In each case either the team name or the city will suffice unless
it would be ambiguous.
13. In 2009, Gloria Estefan became a minority owner of what
NFL team?
14. In 1989, George W. Bush bought a percentage of what major-league
baseball team?
15. In 2011, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith bought a percentage
of what NBA team?
** Final, Round 8 - Arts & Literature
* Autobiographies
1. Which actor wrote the autobiography "The Moon's a Balloon"?
2. Which athlete wrote the autobiography "Open"?
3. Which singer/songwriter wrote the autobiography "Chronicles"?
* Novels by Last Lines
4. The author of this novel came up with two endings. These are
the last lines of one of them. Name the novel.
"I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place;
and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left
the forge, so the evening mists were rising now, and in all
the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw
no shadow of another parting from her."
5. Which novel ends as follows? "Now what the hell do you suppose
is eatin' them two guys?"
6. Which novel ends as follows? "The creatures outside looked
from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again;
but already it was impossible to say which was which."
* Russian Literature
In each case name the author.
7. "The Brothers Karamazov", a murder mystery where one of four
brothers is responsible for their father's death.
8. "Mother", written in 1906, describes provincial life in Czarist
Russia. It influenced the Bolshevik revolution.
9. Also in Czarist Russia, "Anna Karenina" is a novel about adultery
among the aristocracy.
* Spies in Non-Fiction
In each case name the book.
10. This 1964 book by James Donovan, relating to the spies
Rudolf Abel and Gary Powers, served as source material for a
movie dramatization starring Tom Hanks. The book's title was
partly similar to that movie and partly similar to an earlier,
completely unrelated novel and movie.
11. This book by Ben Macintyre describes the true story of British
agents rescuing their asset Oleg Gordievsky from the USSR.
12. This book by FBI agent Eric O'Neill describes the author's
role in the arrest, conviction, and imprisonment of fellow FBI
agent Robert Hanssen for spying for Russia.
* Lost Paintings
13. "Man at the Crossroads" was a mural painted in 1933 on a
lobby wall of 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. When the
artist refused Nelson Rockefeller's demand to remove the image
of Lenin from the painting, Rockefeller had the mural destroyed.
Name the artist.
14. In 1954, artist Graham Sutherland painted a world leader's
portrait for his 80th birthday, but the man's wife ordered
it destroyed. Which leader?
15. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot, known as the French Hitchcock,
had a painter create 20 original works for a documentary on
his technique. They were painted on glass before a camera and
then destroyed. Who was the painter?
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | The real trouble with this world of ours is... that
m...@vex.net | it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. --Chesterton
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Joshua Kreitzer
May 23, 2019, 1:03:46 AM5/23/19
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:XN-dneRXobOvvnvBnZ2dnUU7-
RPN...@giganews.com:
> ** Final, Round 7 - Sports
>
> * Olympians Turned Politicians
>
> 1. Bob Mathias served as a Republican representing California
> for four terms from 1967 to 1975. And back in 1948 and 1952,
> he also won two Olympic gold medals -- in what event?
decathlon
> 2. Bill Bradley served as a Democrat representing New Jersey in
> the Senate for three terms, from 1979 to 1997. He was also a
> member of the 1964 gold-medal-winning team in what sport?
basketball
> 3. Before serving in the British Parliament as a Conservative for
> 5 years in the 1990s and leading the successful bid to gain
> London the 2012 Olympics, Sebastian Coe won Olympic gold at the
> Moscow and Los Angeles Olympics in which track-and-field event?
1500 meters
> * Pump-Up Speeches
>
> We will give you the actor's name, the year, and the dialogue.
> In each case you name the movie.
>
> 4. 1986, Gene Hackman: "Forget about the crowds, the size of the
> school, their fancy uniforms, and remember what got you here...
> If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your
> potential, to be the best that you can be, I don't care what
> the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book we're
> going to be winners."
"Hoosiers"
> 6. 2004, Kurt Russell: "Great moments are born from great
> opportunity. And that's what you have here, tonight, boys.
> That's what you've earned here tonight. One game. If we
> played 'em 10 times, they might win 9. But not this game.
> Not tonight. Tonight, we skate with them. Tonight, we stay
> with them. And we shut them down, because we can. Tonight,
> *we* are the greatest hockey team in the world."
"Miracle"
> * The Ancient Olympics
>
> 7. Within 1, in what *century* does tradition state that the first
> Olympic games were played at Olympia on the Peleponnesian
> peninsula?
8th century BCE
> 8. In the 300s BC, Cynisca of Sparta was banned from even watching
> the games, despite having won two events as owner of the winning
> 4-horse chariot team. Why?
she was a woman
> 9. Leonidas of Rhodes won 12 first-place awards in foot racing in
> the ancient games -- a lifetime record not beaten in any sport
> in the modern games until 2016. Who did it then?
Michael Phelps
> * Wheaties
>
> Name these athletes who appeared on the Wheaties box.
>
> 10. In 1977 and 2012, a male track-and-field star.
Bruce Jenner (?)
> 11. The male professional athlete who holds the record for most
> appearances on the box, starting in 1988.
Michael Jordan
> * Celebrity Team-Owners
>
> In each case either the team name or the city will suffice unless
> it would be ambiguous.
>
> 13. In 2009, Gloria Estefan became a minority owner of what
> NFL team?
Miami Dolphins
> 14. In 1989, George W. Bush bought a percentage of what major-league
> baseball team?
Texas Rangers
> 15. In 2011, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith bought a percentage
> of what NBA team?
Philadelphia 76ers
> ** Final, Round 8 - Arts & Literature
>
> * Autobiographies
>
> 1. Which actor wrote the autobiography "The Moon's a Balloon"?
David Niven
> 2. Which athlete wrote the autobiography "Open"?
Andre Agassi
> 3. Which singer/songwriter wrote the autobiography "Chronicles"?
Bob Dylan
> * Novels by Last Lines
>
> 4. The author of this novel came up with two endings. These are
> the last lines of one of them. Name the novel.
>
> "I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place;
> and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left
> the forge, so the evening mists were rising now, and in all
> the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw
> no shadow of another parting from her."
"Great Expectations"
> 6. Which novel ends as follows? "The creatures outside looked
> from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again;
> but already it was impossible to say which was which."
"Animal Farm"
> * Russian Literature
>
> In each case name the author.
>
> 7. "The Brothers Karamazov", a murder mystery where one of four
> brothers is responsible for their father's death.
Dostoyevsky
> 9. Also in Czarist Russia, "Anna Karenina" is a novel about adultery
> among the aristocracy.
Tolstoy
> * Spies in Non-Fiction
>
> In each case name the book.
>
> 10. This 1964 book by James Donovan, relating to the spies
> Rudolf Abel and Gary Powers, served as source material for a
> movie dramatization starring Tom Hanks. The book's title was
> partly similar to that movie and partly similar to an earlier,
> completely unrelated novel and movie.
"Bridge of Spies" (?)
> * Lost Paintings
>
> 13. "Man at the Crossroads" was a mural painted in 1933 on a
> lobby wall of 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. When the
> artist refused Nelson Rockefeller's demand to remove the image
> of Lenin from the painting, Rockefeller had the mural destroyed.
> Name the artist.
Rivera
> 14. In 1954, artist Graham Sutherland painted a world leader's
> portrait for his 80th birthday, but the man's wife ordered
> it destroyed. Which leader?
Winston Churchill
> 15. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot, known as the French Hitchcock,
> had a painter create 20 original works for a documentary on
> his technique. They were painted on glass before a camera and
> then destroyed. Who was the painter?
Picasso
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
RPN...@giganews.com:
> ** Final, Round 7 - Sports
>
> * Olympians Turned Politicians
>
> 1. Bob Mathias served as a Republican representing California
> for four terms from 1967 to 1975. And back in 1948 and 1952,
> he also won two Olympic gold medals -- in what event?
> 2. Bill Bradley served as a Democrat representing New Jersey in
> the Senate for three terms, from 1979 to 1997. He was also a
> member of the 1964 gold-medal-winning team in what sport?
> 3. Before serving in the British Parliament as a Conservative for
> 5 years in the 1990s and leading the successful bid to gain
> London the 2012 Olympics, Sebastian Coe won Olympic gold at the
> Moscow and Los Angeles Olympics in which track-and-field event?
> * Pump-Up Speeches
>
> We will give you the actor's name, the year, and the dialogue.
> In each case you name the movie.
>
> 4. 1986, Gene Hackman: "Forget about the crowds, the size of the
> school, their fancy uniforms, and remember what got you here...
> If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your
> potential, to be the best that you can be, I don't care what
> the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book we're
> going to be winners."
> 6. 2004, Kurt Russell: "Great moments are born from great
> opportunity. And that's what you have here, tonight, boys.
> That's what you've earned here tonight. One game. If we
> played 'em 10 times, they might win 9. But not this game.
> Not tonight. Tonight, we skate with them. Tonight, we stay
> with them. And we shut them down, because we can. Tonight,
> *we* are the greatest hockey team in the world."
> * The Ancient Olympics
>
> 7. Within 1, in what *century* does tradition state that the first
> Olympic games were played at Olympia on the Peleponnesian
> peninsula?
> 8. In the 300s BC, Cynisca of Sparta was banned from even watching
> the games, despite having won two events as owner of the winning
> 4-horse chariot team. Why?
> 9. Leonidas of Rhodes won 12 first-place awards in foot racing in
> the ancient games -- a lifetime record not beaten in any sport
> in the modern games until 2016. Who did it then?
> * Wheaties
>
> Name these athletes who appeared on the Wheaties box.
>
> 10. In 1977 and 2012, a male track-and-field star.
> 11. The male professional athlete who holds the record for most
> appearances on the box, starting in 1988.
> * Celebrity Team-Owners
>
> In each case either the team name or the city will suffice unless
> it would be ambiguous.
>
> 13. In 2009, Gloria Estefan became a minority owner of what
> NFL team?
> 14. In 1989, George W. Bush bought a percentage of what major-league
> baseball team?
> 15. In 2011, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith bought a percentage
> of what NBA team?
> ** Final, Round 8 - Arts & Literature
>
> * Autobiographies
>
> 1. Which actor wrote the autobiography "The Moon's a Balloon"?
> 2. Which athlete wrote the autobiography "Open"?
> 3. Which singer/songwriter wrote the autobiography "Chronicles"?
> * Novels by Last Lines
>
> 4. The author of this novel came up with two endings. These are
> the last lines of one of them. Name the novel.
>
> "I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place;
> and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left
> the forge, so the evening mists were rising now, and in all
> the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw
> no shadow of another parting from her."
> 6. Which novel ends as follows? "The creatures outside looked
> from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again;
> but already it was impossible to say which was which."
> * Russian Literature
>
> In each case name the author.
>
> 7. "The Brothers Karamazov", a murder mystery where one of four
> brothers is responsible for their father's death.
> 9. Also in Czarist Russia, "Anna Karenina" is a novel about adultery
> among the aristocracy.
> * Spies in Non-Fiction
>
> In each case name the book.
>
> 10. This 1964 book by James Donovan, relating to the spies
> Rudolf Abel and Gary Powers, served as source material for a
> movie dramatization starring Tom Hanks. The book's title was
> partly similar to that movie and partly similar to an earlier,
> completely unrelated novel and movie.
> * Lost Paintings
>
> 13. "Man at the Crossroads" was a mural painted in 1933 on a
> lobby wall of 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. When the
> artist refused Nelson Rockefeller's demand to remove the image
> of Lenin from the painting, Rockefeller had the mural destroyed.
> Name the artist.
> 14. In 1954, artist Graham Sutherland painted a world leader's
> portrait for his 80th birthday, but the man's wife ordered
> it destroyed. Which leader?
> 15. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot, known as the French Hitchcock,
> had a painter create 20 original works for a documentary on
> his technique. They were painted on glass before a camera and
> then destroyed. Who was the painter?
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Dan Blum
May 23, 2019, 10:00:07 AM5/23/19
to
Mark Brader <m...@vex.net> wrote:
> ** Final, Round 7 - Sports
> * Olympians Turned Politicians
> 1. Bob Mathias served as a Republican representing California
> for four terms from 1967 to 1975. And back in 1948 and 1952,
> he also won two Olympic gold medals -- in what event?
decathlon; 100-meter dash
> ** Final, Round 7 - Sports
> * Olympians Turned Politicians
> 1. Bob Mathias served as a Republican representing California
> for four terms from 1967 to 1975. And back in 1948 and 1952,
> he also won two Olympic gold medals -- in what event?
> 2. Bill Bradley served as a Democrat representing New Jersey in
> the Senate for three terms, from 1979 to 1997. He was also a
> member of the 1964 gold-medal-winning team in what sport?
> * Pump-Up Speeches
> 4. 1986, Gene Hackman: "Forget about the crowds, the size of the
> school, their fancy uniforms, and remember what got you here...
> If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your
> potential, to be the best that you can be, I don't care what
> the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book we're
> going to be winners."
> * The Ancient Olympics
> 7. Within 1, in what *century* does tradition state that the first
> Olympic games were played at Olympia on the Peleponnesian
> peninsula?
> 8. In the 300s BC, Cynisca of Sparta was banned from even watching
> the games, despite having won two events as owner of the winning
> 4-horse chariot team. Why?
> 9. Leonidas of Rhodes won 12 first-place awards in foot racing in
> the ancient games -- a lifetime record not beaten in any sport
> in the modern games until 2016. Who did it then?
> * Wheaties
> 10. In 1977 and 2012, a male track-and-field star.
> * Celebrity Team-Owners
> 13. In 2009, Gloria Estefan became a minority owner of what
> NFL team?
> 14. In 1989, George W. Bush bought a percentage of what major-league
> baseball team?
> 15. In 2011, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith bought a percentage
> of what NBA team?
> ** Final, Round 8 - Arts & Literature
> * Autobiographies
> 1. Which actor wrote the autobiography "The Moon's a Balloon"?
> * Novels by Last Lines
> 6. Which novel ends as follows? "The creatures outside looked
> from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again;
> but already it was impossible to say which was which."
> from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again;
> but already it was impossible to say which was which."
Animal Farm
> * Russian Literature
> * Russian Literature
> 7. "The Brothers Karamazov", a murder mystery where one of four
> brothers is responsible for their father's death.
Dostoevsky
> brothers is responsible for their father's death.
> 8. "Mother", written in 1906, describes provincial life in Czarist
> Russia. It influenced the Bolshevik revolution.
> 9. Also in Czarist Russia, "Anna Karenina" is a novel about adultery
> among the aristocracy.
> * Lost Paintings
> 13. "Man at the Crossroads" was a mural painted in 1933 on a
> lobby wall of 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. When the
> artist refused Nelson Rockefeller's demand to remove the image
> of Lenin from the painting, Rockefeller had the mural destroyed.
> Name the artist.
> 14. In 1954, artist Graham Sutherland painted a world leader's
> portrait for his 80th birthday, but the man's wife ordered
> it destroyed. Which leader?
> 15. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot, known as the French Hitchcock,
> had a painter create 20 original works for a documentary on
> his technique. They were painted on glass before a camera and
> then destroyed. Who was the painter?
--
_______________________________________________________________________
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"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Erland Sommarskog
May 23, 2019, 2:35:39 PM5/23/19
to
Mark Brader (m...@vex.net) writes:
> 1. Bob Mathias served as a Republican representing California
> for four terms from 1967 to 1975. And back in 1948 and 1952,
> he also won two Olympic gold medals -- in what event?
Rowing
> 1. Bob Mathias served as a Republican representing California
> for four terms from 1967 to 1975. And back in 1948 and 1952,
> he also won two Olympic gold medals -- in what event?
> 2. Bill Bradley served as a Democrat representing New Jersey in
> the Senate for three terms, from 1979 to 1997. He was also a
> member of the 1964 gold-medal-winning team in what sport?
>
> 3. Before serving in the British Parliament as a Conservative for
> 5 years in the 1990s and leading the successful bid to gain
> London the 2012 Olympics, Sebastian Coe won Olympic gold at the
> Moscow and Los Angeles Olympics in which track-and-field event?
> * The Ancient Olympics
>
> 7. Within 1, in what *century* does tradition state that the first
> Olympic games were played at Olympia on the Peleponnesian
> peninsula?
> 9. Leonidas of Rhodes won 12 first-place awards in foot racing in
> the ancient games -- a lifetime record not beaten in any sport
> in the modern games until 2016. Who did it then?
> ** Final, Round 8 - Arts & Literature
>
>
>
> 9. Also in Czarist Russia, "Anna Karenina" is a novel about adultery
> among the aristocracy.
Tolstoy
> 9. Also in Czarist Russia, "Anna Karenina" is a novel about adultery
> among the aristocracy.
Pete Gayde
May 23, 2019, 5:46:54 PM5/23/19
to
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-04-09,
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
> both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
> Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
> the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
> the correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of the Cellar Rats and are
> used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have
> been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see
> my 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> ** Final, Round 7 - Sports
>
> * Olympians Turned Politicians
>
> 1. Bob Mathias served as a Republican representing California
> for four terms from 1967 to 1975. And back in 1948 and 1952,
> he also won two Olympic gold medals -- in what event?
Decathlon; Discus
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
> both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
> Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
> the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
> the correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of the Cellar Rats and are
> used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have
> been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see
> my 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> ** Final, Round 7 - Sports
>
> * Olympians Turned Politicians
>
> 1. Bob Mathias served as a Republican representing California
> for four terms from 1967 to 1975. And back in 1948 and 1952,
> he also won two Olympic gold medals -- in what event?
>
> 2. Bill Bradley served as a Democrat representing New Jersey in
> the Senate for three terms, from 1979 to 1997. He was also a
> member of the 1964 gold-medal-winning team in what sport?
>
> 3. Before serving in the British Parliament as a Conservative for
> 5 years in the 1990s and leading the successful bid to gain
> London the 2012 Olympics, Sebastian Coe won Olympic gold at the
> Moscow and Los Angeles Olympics in which track-and-field event?
>
>
> * Pump-Up Speeches
>
> We will give you the actor's name, the year, and the dialogue.
> In each case you name the movie.
>
> 4. 1986, Gene Hackman: "Forget about the crowds, the size of the
> school, their fancy uniforms, and remember what got you here...
> If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your
> potential, to be the best that you can be, I don't care what
> the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book we're
> going to be winners."
>
> 5. 2006, Matthew McConaughey: "When you take that field today,
> you've got to lay that heart on the line, men. From the soles
> of your feet, with every ounce of blood you've got in your body,
> lay it on the line until the final whistle blows. And if you
> do that -- if you do that -- we cannot lose. We may be behind
> on the scoreboard at the end of the game, but if you play like
> that we cannot be defeated."
>
> 6. 2004, Kurt Russell: "Great moments are born from great
> opportunity. And that's what you have here, tonight, boys.
> That's what you've earned here tonight. One game. If we
> played 'em 10 times, they might win 9. But not this game.
> Not tonight. Tonight, we skate with them. Tonight, we stay
> with them. And we shut them down, because we can. Tonight,
> *we* are the greatest hockey team in the world."
>
> #
>
> * The Ancient Olympics
>
> 7. Within 1, in what *century* does tradition state that the first
> Olympic games were played at Olympia on the Peleponnesian
> peninsula?
>
> 8. In the 300s BC, Cynisca of Sparta was banned from even watching
> the games, despite having won two events as owner of the winning
> 4-horse chariot team. Why?
>
> 9. Leonidas of Rhodes won 12 first-place awards in foot racing in
> the ancient games -- a lifetime record not beaten in any sport
> in the modern games until 2016. Who did it then?
>
>
> * Wheaties
>
> Name these athletes who appeared on the Wheaties box.
>
> 10. In 1977 and 2012, a male track-and-field star.
>
> 11. The male professional athlete who holds the record for most
> appearances on the box, starting in 1988.
>
> 12. The NFL player who was on the box in 2004, but was disgraced
> by scandal in 2007.
>
>
> * Celebrity Team-Owners
>
> In each case either the team name or the city will suffice unless
> it would be ambiguous.
>
> 13. In 2009, Gloria Estefan became a minority owner of what
> NFL team?
>
> 14. In 1989, George W. Bush bought a percentage of what major-league
> baseball team?
>
> 15. In 2011, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith bought a percentage
> of what NBA team?
>
>
> ** Final, Round 8 - Arts & Literature
>
> * Autobiographies
>
> 1. Which actor wrote the autobiography "The Moon's a Balloon"?
> 2. Which athlete wrote the autobiography "Open"?
> 3. Which singer/songwriter wrote the autobiography "Chronicles"?
>
>
> * Novels by Last Lines
>
> 4. The author of this novel came up with two endings. These are
> the last lines of one of them. Name the novel.
>
> "I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place;
> and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left
> the forge, so the evening mists were rising now, and in all
> the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw
> no shadow of another parting from her."
>
> 5. Which novel ends as follows? "Now what the hell do you suppose
> is eatin' them two guys?"
>
> 6. Which novel ends as follows? "The creatures outside looked
> from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again;
> but already it was impossible to say which was which."
>
>
> * Russian Literature
>
> In each case name the author.
>
> 7. "The Brothers Karamazov", a murder mystery where one of four
> brothers is responsible for their father's death.
>
> 8. "Mother", written in 1906, describes provincial life in Czarist
> Russia. It influenced the Bolshevik revolution.
>
> 9. Also in Czarist Russia, "Anna Karenina" is a novel about adultery
> among the aristocracy.
>
>
> * Spies in Non-Fiction
>
> In each case name the book.
>
> 10. This 1964 book by James Donovan, relating to the spies
> Rudolf Abel and Gary Powers, served as source material for a
> movie dramatization starring Tom Hanks. The book's title was
> partly similar to that movie and partly similar to an earlier,
> completely unrelated novel and movie.
>
> 11. This book by Ben Macintyre describes the true story of British
> agents rescuing their asset Oleg Gordievsky from the USSR.
>
> 12. This book by FBI agent Eric O'Neill describes the author's
> role in the arrest, conviction, and imprisonment of fellow FBI
> agent Robert Hanssen for spying for Russia.
>
>
> * Lost Paintings
>
> 13. "Man at the Crossroads" was a mural painted in 1933 on a
> lobby wall of 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. When the
> artist refused Nelson Rockefeller's demand to remove the image
> of Lenin from the painting, Rockefeller had the mural destroyed.
> Name the artist.
>
> 14. In 1954, artist Graham Sutherland painted a world leader's
> portrait for his 80th birthday, but the man's wife ordered
> it destroyed. Which leader?
>
> 15. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot, known as the French Hitchcock,
> had a painter create 20 original works for a documentary on
> his technique. They were painted on glass before a camera and
> then destroyed. Who was the painter?
>
>
Pete Gayde
Calvin
May 23, 2019, 7:55:29 PM5/23/19
to
On Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 2:36:08 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
> ** Final, Round 7 - Sports
>
> * Olympians Turned Politicians
>
> 1. Bob Mathias served as a Republican representing California
> for four terms from 1967 to 1975. And back in 1948 and 1952,
> he also won two Olympic gold medals -- in what event?
>
> 2. Bill Bradley served as a Democrat representing New Jersey in
> the Senate for three terms, from 1979 to 1997. He was also a
> member of the 1964 gold-medal-winning team in what sport?
>
> 3. Before serving in the British Parliament as a Conservative for
> 5 years in the 1990s and leading the successful bid to gain
> London the 2012 Olympics, Sebastian Coe won Olympic gold at the
> Moscow and Los Angeles Olympics in which track-and-field event?
1500 metres
> ** Final, Round 7 - Sports
>
> * Olympians Turned Politicians
>
> 1. Bob Mathias served as a Republican representing California
> for four terms from 1967 to 1975. And back in 1948 and 1952,
> he also won two Olympic gold medals -- in what event?
>
> 2. Bill Bradley served as a Democrat representing New Jersey in
> the Senate for three terms, from 1979 to 1997. He was also a
> member of the 1964 gold-medal-winning team in what sport?
>
> 3. Before serving in the British Parliament as a Conservative for
> 5 years in the 1990s and leading the successful bid to gain
> London the 2012 Olympics, Sebastian Coe won Olympic gold at the
> Moscow and Los Angeles Olympics in which track-and-field event?
> * Pump-Up Speeches
>
> We will give you the actor's name, the year, and the dialogue.
> In each case you name the movie.
>
> 4. 1986, Gene Hackman: "Forget about the crowds, the size of the
> school, their fancy uniforms, and remember what got you here...
> If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your
> potential, to be the best that you can be, I don't care what
> the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book we're
> going to be winners."
> 5. 2006, Matthew McConaughey: "When you take that field today,
> you've got to lay that heart on the line, men. From the soles
> of your feet, with every ounce of blood you've got in your body,
> lay it on the line until the final whistle blows. And if you
> do that -- if you do that -- we cannot lose. We may be behind
> on the scoreboard at the end of the game, but if you play like
> that we cannot be defeated."
> 6. 2004, Kurt Russell: "Great moments are born from great
> opportunity. And that's what you have here, tonight, boys.
> That's what you've earned here tonight. One game. If we
> played 'em 10 times, they might win 9. But not this game.
> Not tonight. Tonight, we skate with them. Tonight, we stay
> with them. And we shut them down, because we can. Tonight,
> *we* are the greatest hockey team in the world."
> #
>
> * The Ancient Olympics
>
> 7. Within 1, in what *century* does tradition state that the first
> Olympic games were played at Olympia on the Peleponnesian
> peninsula?
>
> 8. In the 300s BC, Cynisca of Sparta was banned from even watching
> the games, despite having won two events as owner of the winning
> 4-horse chariot team. Why?
> 9. Leonidas of Rhodes won 12 first-place awards in foot racing in
> the ancient games -- a lifetime record not beaten in any sport
> in the modern games until 2016. Who did it then?
>
>
> * Wheaties
>
> Name these athletes who appeared on the Wheaties box.
>
> 10. In 1977 and 2012, a male track-and-field star.
> 11. The male professional athlete who holds the record for most
> appearances on the box, starting in 1988.
> 12. The NFL player who was on the box in 2004, but was disgraced
> by scandal in 2007.
> * Celebrity Team-Owners
>
> In each case either the team name or the city will suffice unless
> it would be ambiguous.
>
> 13. In 2009, Gloria Estefan became a minority owner of what
> NFL team?
> 14. In 1989, George W. Bush bought a percentage of what major-league
> baseball team?
> 15. In 2011, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith bought a percentage
> of what NBA team?
> ** Final, Round 8 - Arts & Literature
>
> * Autobiographies
>
> 1. Which actor wrote the autobiography "The Moon's a Balloon"?
> 2. Which athlete wrote the autobiography "Open"?
> 3. Which singer/songwriter wrote the autobiography "Chronicles"?
> * Novels by Last Lines
>
> 4. The author of this novel came up with two endings. These are
> the last lines of one of them. Name the novel.
>
> "I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place;
> and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left
> the forge, so the evening mists were rising now, and in all
> the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw
> no shadow of another parting from her."
>
> 5. Which novel ends as follows? "Now what the hell do you suppose
> is eatin' them two guys?"
>
> 6. Which novel ends as follows? "The creatures outside looked
> from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again;
> but already it was impossible to say which was which."
> * Russian Literature
>
> In each case name the author.
>
> 7. "The Brothers Karamazov", a murder mystery where one of four
> brothers is responsible for their father's death.
> 8. "Mother", written in 1906, describes provincial life in Czarist
> Russia. It influenced the Bolshevik revolution.
> 9. Also in Czarist Russia, "Anna Karenina" is a novel about adultery
> among the aristocracy.
calvin
Dan Tilque
May 24, 2019, 5:31:41 AM5/24/19
to
On 5/22/19 9:36 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> ** Final, Round 7 - Sports
>
> * Olympians Turned Politicians
>
> 1. Bob Mathias served as a Republican representing California
> for four terms from 1967 to 1975. And back in 1948 and 1952,
> he also won two Olympic gold medals -- in what event?
>
> 2. Bill Bradley served as a Democrat representing New Jersey in
> the Senate for three terms, from 1979 to 1997. He was also a
> member of the 1964 gold-medal-winning team in what sport?
basketball
>
>
> ** Final, Round 7 - Sports
>
> * Olympians Turned Politicians
>
> 1. Bob Mathias served as a Republican representing California
> for four terms from 1967 to 1975. And back in 1948 and 1952,
> he also won two Olympic gold medals -- in what event?
>
> 2. Bill Bradley served as a Democrat representing New Jersey in
> the Senate for three terms, from 1979 to 1997. He was also a
> member of the 1964 gold-medal-winning team in what sport?
>
> 3. Before serving in the British Parliament as a Conservative for
> 5 years in the 1990s and leading the successful bid to gain
> London the 2012 Olympics, Sebastian Coe won Olympic gold at the
> Moscow and Los Angeles Olympics in which track-and-field event?
>
>
> * Pump-Up Speeches
>
> We will give you the actor's name, the year, and the dialogue.
> In each case you name the movie.
>
> 4. 1986, Gene Hackman: "Forget about the crowds, the size of the
> school, their fancy uniforms, and remember what got you here...
> If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your
> potential, to be the best that you can be, I don't care what
> the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book we're
> going to be winners."
>
> 5. 2006, Matthew McConaughey: "When you take that field today,
> you've got to lay that heart on the line, men. From the soles
> of your feet, with every ounce of blood you've got in your body,
> lay it on the line until the final whistle blows. And if you
> do that -- if you do that -- we cannot lose. We may be behind
> on the scoreboard at the end of the game, but if you play like
> that we cannot be defeated."
>
> 6. 2004, Kurt Russell: "Great moments are born from great
> opportunity. And that's what you have here, tonight, boys.
> That's what you've earned here tonight. One game. If we
> played 'em 10 times, they might win 9. But not this game.
> Not tonight. Tonight, we skate with them. Tonight, we stay
> with them. And we shut them down, because we can. Tonight,
> *we* are the greatest hockey team in the world."
>
> #
>
> * The Ancient Olympics
>
> 7. Within 1, in what *century* does tradition state that the first
> Olympic games were played at Olympia on the Peleponnesian
> peninsula?
>
> 8. In the 300s BC, Cynisca of Sparta was banned from even watching
> the games, despite having won two events as owner of the winning
> 4-horse chariot team. Why?
>
> 9. Leonidas of Rhodes won 12 first-place awards in foot racing in
> the ancient games -- a lifetime record not beaten in any sport
> in the modern games until 2016. Who did it then?
>
>
> * Wheaties
>
> Name these athletes who appeared on the Wheaties box.
>
> 10. In 1977 and 2012, a male track-and-field star.
>
> 11. The male professional athlete who holds the record for most
> appearances on the box, starting in 1988.
>
> 12. The NFL player who was on the box in 2004, but was disgraced
> by scandal in 2007.
>
>
> * Celebrity Team-Owners
>
> In each case either the team name or the city will suffice unless
> it would be ambiguous.
>
> 13. In 2009, Gloria Estefan became a minority owner of what
> NFL team?
>
> 14. In 1989, George W. Bush bought a percentage of what major-league
> baseball team?
>
> 15. In 2011, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith bought a percentage
> of what NBA team?
>
>
> ** Final, Round 8 - Arts & Literature
>
> * Autobiographies
>
> 1. Which actor wrote the autobiography "The Moon's a Balloon"?
> 2. Which athlete wrote the autobiography "Open"?
> 3. Which singer/songwriter wrote the autobiography "Chronicles"?
>
>
> * Novels by Last Lines
>
> 4. The author of this novel came up with two endings. These are
> the last lines of one of them. Name the novel.
>
> "I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place;
> and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left
> the forge, so the evening mists were rising now, and in all
> the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw
> no shadow of another parting from her."
>
> 5. Which novel ends as follows? "Now what the hell do you suppose
> is eatin' them two guys?"
>
> 6. Which novel ends as follows? "The creatures outside looked
> from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again;
> but already it was impossible to say which was which."
>
>
> * Russian Literature
>
> In each case name the author.
>
> 7. "The Brothers Karamazov", a murder mystery where one of four
> brothers is responsible for their father's death.
Mark Brader
May 26, 2019, 4:53:41 PM5/26/19
to
Mark Brader:
> 2. Bill Bradley served as a Democrat representing New Jersey in
> the Senate for three terms, from 1979 to 1997. He was also a
> member of the 1964 gold-medal-winning team in what sport?
Basketball. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Pete, and Dan Tilque.
> 3. Before serving in the British Parliament as a Conservative for
> 5 years in the 1990s and leading the successful bid to gain
> London the 2012 Olympics, Sebastian Coe won Olympic gold at the
> Moscow and Los Angeles Olympics in which track-and-field event?
1500 m. 4 for Joshua, Erland, and Calvin. 3 for Pete.
> * Pump-Up Speeches
Yes, it's an entertainment triple in the sports round.
> We will give you the actor's name, the year, and the dialogue.
> In each case you name the movie.
> 4. 1986, Gene Hackman: "Forget about the crowds, the size of the
> school, their fancy uniforms, and remember what got you here...
> If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your
> potential, to be the best that you can be, I don't care what
> the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book we're
> going to be winners."
"Hoosiers". (Hackman as Norman Dale.) 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum,
Pete, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
> 5. 2006, Matthew McConaughey: "When you take that field today,
> you've got to lay that heart on the line, men. From the soles
> of your feet, with every ounce of blood you've got in your body,
> lay it on the line until the final whistle blows. And if you
> do that -- if you do that -- we cannot lose. We may be behind
> on the scoreboard at the end of the game, but if you play like
> that we cannot be defeated."
"We are Marshall". (McConaughey as Jack Lengyel.)
> 6. 2004, Kurt Russell: "Great moments are born from great
> opportunity. And that's what you have here, tonight, boys.
> That's what you've earned here tonight. One game. If we
> played 'em 10 times, they might win 9. But not this game.
> Not tonight. Tonight, we skate with them. Tonight, we stay
> with them. And we shut them down, because we can. Tonight,
> *we* are the greatest hockey team in the world."
"Miracle". (Russell as Herb Brooks.) 4 for Joshua.
> * The Ancient Olympics
> 7. Within 1, in what *century* does tradition state that the first
> Olympic games were played at Olympia on the Peleponnesian
> peninsula?
8th BC. (It was 776 BC. Accepting 9th-7th BC or 800s, 700s, or
600s BC.) 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque.
If you didn't know, it would at least have been a good idea not
to guess any later century than the one mentioned in question 8.
If you did know the century, it would have been a good idea to name
it rather than giving the year, which is not what was asked for.
> 8. In the 300s BC, Cynisca of Sparta was banned from even watching
> the games, despite having won two events as owner of the winning
> 4-horse chariot team. Why?
She was a woman. 4 for Joshua and Calvin.
> 9. Leonidas of Rhodes won 12 first-place awards in foot racing in
> the ancient games -- a lifetime record not beaten in any sport
> in the modern games until 2016. Who did it then?
Michael Phelps (swimming). 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Pete.
> * Wheaties
> Name these athletes who appeared on the Wheaties box.
> 10. In 1977 and 2012, a male track-and-field star.
Bruce Jenner -- not female until 2015. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum,
and Pete.
> 11. The male professional athlete who holds the record for most
> appearances on the box, starting in 1988.
Michael Jordan (basketball). 4 for Joshua, Pete, Calvin,
and Dan Tilque.
> 12. The NFL player who was on the box in 2004, but was disgraced
> by scandal in 2007.
Michael Vick. 3 for Calvin.
> * Celebrity Team-Owners
> In each case either the team name or the city will suffice unless
> it would be ambiguous.
> 13. In 2009, Gloria Estefan became a minority owner of what
> NFL team?
Miami Dolphins. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Pete.
> 14. In 1989, George W. Bush bought a percentage of what major-league
> baseball team?
Texas Rangers. 4 for Joshua, Pete, and Dan Tilque. 3 for Dan Blum.
> 15. In 2011, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith bought a percentage
> of what NBA team?
Philadelphia 76ers. 4 for Joshua.
> ** Final, Round 8 - Arts & Literature
This round was the hardest in the original game.
> * Autobiographies
> 1. Which actor wrote the autobiography "The Moon's a Balloon"?
David Niven. 4 for Joshua and Calvin. 2 for Dan Blum.
> 2. Which athlete wrote the autobiography "Open"?
Andre Agassi. 4 for Joshua. 3 for Calvin.
> 3. Which singer/songwriter wrote the autobiography "Chronicles"?
Bob Dylan. 4 for Joshua.
> * Novels by Last Lines
> 4. The author of this novel came up with two endings. These are
> the last lines of one of them. Name the novel.
> "I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place;
> and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left
> the forge, so the evening mists were rising now, and in all
> the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw
> no shadow of another parting from her."
"Great Expectations". 4 for Joshua.
> 5. Which novel ends as follows? "Now what the hell do you suppose
> is eatin' them two guys?"
"Of Mice and Men".
> 6. Which novel ends as follows? "The creatures outside looked
> from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again;
> but already it was impossible to say which was which."
"Animal Farm". 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Pete, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
> * Russian Literature
> In each case name the author.
> 7. "The Brothers Karamazov", a murder mystery where one of four
> brothers is responsible for their father's death.
Fyodor Dostoyevski. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
3 for Pete.
> 8. "Mother", written in 1906, describes provincial life in Czarist
> Russia. It influenced the Bolshevik revolution.
Maxim Gorky. 3 for Dan Blum.
> 9. Also in Czarist Russia, "Anna Karenina" is a novel about adultery
> among the aristocracy.
Leo Tolstoy. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Erland, and Calvin. 2 for Pete.
> * Spies in Non-Fiction
> In each case name the book.
> 10. This 1964 book by James Donovan, relating to the spies
> Rudolf Abel and Gary Powers, served as source material for a
> movie dramatization starring Tom Hanks. The book's title was
> partly similar to that movie and partly similar to an earlier,
> completely unrelated novel and movie.
"Strangers on a Bridge". (Hanks's movie was "Bridge of Spies"
(2015) and the unrelated title was "Strangers on a Train" (1951).)
> 11. This book by Ben Macintyre describes the true story of British
> agents rescuing their asset Oleg Gordievsky from the USSR.
"The Spy and the Traitor".
> 12. This book by FBI agent Eric O'Neill describes the author's
> role in the arrest, conviction, and imprisonment of fellow FBI
> agent Robert Hanssen for spying for Russia.
"Gray Day".
> * Lost Paintings
> 13. "Man at the Crossroads" was a mural painted in 1933 on a
> lobby wall of 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. When the
> artist refused Nelson Rockefeller's demand to remove the image
> of Lenin from the painting, Rockefeller had the mural destroyed.
> Name the artist.
Diego Rivera. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Pete.
The painting was supposed to be about choosing between capitalism and
Communism, but was denounced in a newspaper as Communist propaganda.
Rivera added Lenin to it afterwards, and when Rockefeller objected, he
had black-and-white photos of the mural taken before it was destroyed.
He then recreated it in Mexico City:
http://www.diegorivera.org/images/famous/man-at-the-crossroads.jpg
Lenin appears about 1/3 of the way in from the right-hand side:
> 14. In 1954, artist Graham Sutherland painted a world leader's
> portrait for his 80th birthday, but the man's wife ordered
> it destroyed. Which leader?
Sir Winston Churchill. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. 2 for Pete.
> 15. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot, known as the French Hitchcock,
> had a painter create 20 original works for a documentary on
> his technique. They were painted on glass before a camera and
> then destroyed. Who was the painter?
Pablo Picasso. 4 for Joshua and Pete. 2 for Dan Blum.
Scores, if there are no errors:
FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> Geo Sci His Can Spo A+L FOUR
Joshua Kreitzer 35 28 50 35 52 40 177
Dan Tilque 34 40 36 36 20 8 146
Dan Blum 32 44 39 15 30 27 145
Erland Sommarskog 27 24 44 11 4 4 106
"Calvin" 16 31 34 8 19 19 103
Pete Gayde 13 18 31 7 34 19 102
--
Mark Brader | "Any philosophy that can be put 'in a nutshell'
Toronto | belongs there."
m...@vex.net | --Sydney J. Harris
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-04-09,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> ** Final, Round 7 - Sports
> * Olympians Turned Politicians
> 1. Bob Mathias served as a Republican representing California
> for four terms from 1967 to 1975. And back in 1948 and 1952,
> he also won two Olympic gold medals -- in what event?
Decathlon. 4 for Joshua. 3 for Dan Blum and Pete.
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> ** Final, Round 7 - Sports
> * Olympians Turned Politicians
> 1. Bob Mathias served as a Republican representing California
> for four terms from 1967 to 1975. And back in 1948 and 1952,
> he also won two Olympic gold medals -- in what event?
> 2. Bill Bradley served as a Democrat representing New Jersey in
> the Senate for three terms, from 1979 to 1997. He was also a
> member of the 1964 gold-medal-winning team in what sport?
> 3. Before serving in the British Parliament as a Conservative for
> 5 years in the 1990s and leading the successful bid to gain
> London the 2012 Olympics, Sebastian Coe won Olympic gold at the
> Moscow and Los Angeles Olympics in which track-and-field event?
> * Pump-Up Speeches
Yes, it's an entertainment triple in the sports round.
> We will give you the actor's name, the year, and the dialogue.
> In each case you name the movie.
> 4. 1986, Gene Hackman: "Forget about the crowds, the size of the
> school, their fancy uniforms, and remember what got you here...
> If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your
> potential, to be the best that you can be, I don't care what
> the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book we're
> going to be winners."
Pete, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
> 5. 2006, Matthew McConaughey: "When you take that field today,
> you've got to lay that heart on the line, men. From the soles
> of your feet, with every ounce of blood you've got in your body,
> lay it on the line until the final whistle blows. And if you
> do that -- if you do that -- we cannot lose. We may be behind
> on the scoreboard at the end of the game, but if you play like
> that we cannot be defeated."
> 6. 2004, Kurt Russell: "Great moments are born from great
> opportunity. And that's what you have here, tonight, boys.
> That's what you've earned here tonight. One game. If we
> played 'em 10 times, they might win 9. But not this game.
> Not tonight. Tonight, we skate with them. Tonight, we stay
> with them. And we shut them down, because we can. Tonight,
> *we* are the greatest hockey team in the world."
> * The Ancient Olympics
> 7. Within 1, in what *century* does tradition state that the first
> Olympic games were played at Olympia on the Peleponnesian
> peninsula?
600s BC.) 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque.
If you didn't know, it would at least have been a good idea not
to guess any later century than the one mentioned in question 8.
If you did know the century, it would have been a good idea to name
it rather than giving the year, which is not what was asked for.
> 8. In the 300s BC, Cynisca of Sparta was banned from even watching
> the games, despite having won two events as owner of the winning
> 4-horse chariot team. Why?
> 9. Leonidas of Rhodes won 12 first-place awards in foot racing in
> the ancient games -- a lifetime record not beaten in any sport
> in the modern games until 2016. Who did it then?
> * Wheaties
> Name these athletes who appeared on the Wheaties box.
> 10. In 1977 and 2012, a male track-and-field star.
and Pete.
> 11. The male professional athlete who holds the record for most
> appearances on the box, starting in 1988.
and Dan Tilque.
> 12. The NFL player who was on the box in 2004, but was disgraced
> by scandal in 2007.
> * Celebrity Team-Owners
> In each case either the team name or the city will suffice unless
> it would be ambiguous.
> 13. In 2009, Gloria Estefan became a minority owner of what
> NFL team?
> 14. In 1989, George W. Bush bought a percentage of what major-league
> baseball team?
> 15. In 2011, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith bought a percentage
> of what NBA team?
> ** Final, Round 8 - Arts & Literature
> * Autobiographies
> 1. Which actor wrote the autobiography "The Moon's a Balloon"?
> 2. Which athlete wrote the autobiography "Open"?
> 3. Which singer/songwriter wrote the autobiography "Chronicles"?
> * Novels by Last Lines
> 4. The author of this novel came up with two endings. These are
> the last lines of one of them. Name the novel.
> "I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place;
> and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left
> the forge, so the evening mists were rising now, and in all
> the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw
> no shadow of another parting from her."
> 5. Which novel ends as follows? "Now what the hell do you suppose
> is eatin' them two guys?"
> 6. Which novel ends as follows? "The creatures outside looked
> from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again;
> but already it was impossible to say which was which."
> * Russian Literature
> In each case name the author.
> 7. "The Brothers Karamazov", a murder mystery where one of four
> brothers is responsible for their father's death.
3 for Pete.
> 8. "Mother", written in 1906, describes provincial life in Czarist
> Russia. It influenced the Bolshevik revolution.
> 9. Also in Czarist Russia, "Anna Karenina" is a novel about adultery
> among the aristocracy.
> * Spies in Non-Fiction
> In each case name the book.
> 10. This 1964 book by James Donovan, relating to the spies
> Rudolf Abel and Gary Powers, served as source material for a
> movie dramatization starring Tom Hanks. The book's title was
> partly similar to that movie and partly similar to an earlier,
> completely unrelated novel and movie.
(2015) and the unrelated title was "Strangers on a Train" (1951).)
> 11. This book by Ben Macintyre describes the true story of British
> agents rescuing their asset Oleg Gordievsky from the USSR.
> 12. This book by FBI agent Eric O'Neill describes the author's
> role in the arrest, conviction, and imprisonment of fellow FBI
> agent Robert Hanssen for spying for Russia.
> * Lost Paintings
> 13. "Man at the Crossroads" was a mural painted in 1933 on a
> lobby wall of 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. When the
> artist refused Nelson Rockefeller's demand to remove the image
> of Lenin from the painting, Rockefeller had the mural destroyed.
> Name the artist.
The painting was supposed to be about choosing between capitalism and
Communism, but was denounced in a newspaper as Communist propaganda.
Rivera added Lenin to it afterwards, and when Rockefeller objected, he
had black-and-white photos of the mural taken before it was destroyed.
He then recreated it in Mexico City:
http://www.diegorivera.org/images/famous/man-at-the-crossroads.jpg
Lenin appears about 1/3 of the way in from the right-hand side:
> 14. In 1954, artist Graham Sutherland painted a world leader's
> portrait for his 80th birthday, but the man's wife ordered
> it destroyed. Which leader?
> 15. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot, known as the French Hitchcock,
> had a painter create 20 original works for a documentary on
> his technique. They were painted on glass before a camera and
> then destroyed. Who was the painter?
Scores, if there are no errors:
FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> Geo Sci His Can Spo A+L FOUR
Joshua Kreitzer 35 28 50 35 52 40 177
Dan Tilque 34 40 36 36 20 8 146
Dan Blum 32 44 39 15 30 27 145
Erland Sommarskog 27 24 44 11 4 4 106
"Calvin" 16 31 34 8 19 19 103
Pete Gayde 13 18 31 7 34 19 102
--
Mark Brader | "Any philosophy that can be put 'in a nutshell'
Toronto | belongs there."
m...@vex.net | --Sydney J. Harris
Erland Sommarskog
May 26, 2019, 5:53:07 PM5/26/19
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Mark Brader (m...@vex.net) writes:
> If you did know the century, it would have been a good idea to name
> it rather than giving the year, which is not what was asked for.
>
Counting centuries backwards is too difficult. I would only have
> If you did know the century, it would have been a good idea to name
> it rather than giving the year, which is not what was asked for.
>
messed it up anyway.
But I guess I could have answered "Whichever centuty 776 BC was in".
Calvin
May 26, 2019, 10:46:55 PM5/26/19
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On Monday, May 27, 2019 at 6:53:41 AM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
> > 7. Within 1, in what *century* does tradition state that the first
> > Olympic games were played at Olympia on the Peleponnesian
> > peninsula?
>
> 8th BC. (It was 776 BC. Accepting 9th-7th BC or 800s, 700s, or
> 600s BC.)
I believe I should get some points for this question.
> > 7. Within 1, in what *century* does tradition state that the first
> > Olympic games were played at Olympia on the Peleponnesian
> > peninsula?
>
> 8th BC. (It was 776 BC. Accepting 9th-7th BC or 800s, 700s, or
> 600s BC.)
> > 13. In 2009, Gloria Estefan became a minority owner of what
> > NFL team?
tx,
calvin
Mark Brader
May 27, 2019, 5:44:45 AM5/27/19
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Mark Brader:
> > > 13. In 2009, Gloria Estefan became a minority owner of what
> > > NFL team?
>
> And this one.
Sorry about that. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Pete, as before, *and
2 for Calvin*.
Scores, if there are now no errors:
FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> Geo Sci His Can Spo A+L FOUR
Joshua Kreitzer 35 28 50 35 52 40 177
Dan Tilque 34 40 36 36 20 8 146
Dan Blum 32 44 39 15 30 27 145
Erland Sommarskog 27 24 44 11 4 4 106
"Calvin" 16 31 34 8 21 19 105
Toronto | do that in my sleep. In fact, I do."
m...@vex.net | --Bennie Rosato (Lisa Scottoline, "Feared")
> > > 7. Within 1, in what *century* does tradition state that the first
> > > Olympic games were played at Olympia on the Peleponnesian
> > > peninsula?
> >
> > 8th BC. (It was 776 BC. Accepting 9th-7th BC or 800s, 700s, or
> > 600s BC.)
"Calvin":
> > > Olympic games were played at Olympia on the Peleponnesian
> > > peninsula?
> >
> > 8th BC. (It was 776 BC. Accepting 9th-7th BC or 800s, 700s, or
> > 600s BC.)
> I believe I should get some points for this question.
You were over 1,000 years off!
> > > 13. In 2009, Gloria Estefan became a minority owner of what
> > > NFL team?
>
> And this one.
2 for Calvin*.
Scores, if there are now no errors:
FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> Geo Sci His Can Spo A+L FOUR
Joshua Kreitzer 35 28 50 35 52 40 177
Dan Tilque 34 40 36 36 20 8 146
Dan Blum 32 44 39 15 30 27 145
Erland Sommarskog 27 24 44 11 4 4 106
Pete Gayde 13 18 31 7 34 19 102
--
Mark Brader | "All I had to do was act important, and I can
--
Toronto | do that in my sleep. In fact, I do."
m...@vex.net | --Bennie Rosato (Lisa Scottoline, "Feared")
Calvin
May 28, 2019, 8:01:53 PM5/28/19
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On Monday, May 27, 2019 at 7:44:45 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
> Mark Brader:
> > > > 7. Within 1, in what *century* does tradition state that the first
> > > > Olympic games were played at Olympia on the Peleponnesian
> > > > peninsula?
> > >
> > > 8th BC. (It was 776 BC. Accepting 9th-7th BC or 800s, 700s, or
> > > 600s BC.)
>
> "Calvin":
> > I believe I should get some points for this question.
>
> You were over 1,000 years off!
Ah, so I was :-)
> Mark Brader:
> > > > 7. Within 1, in what *century* does tradition state that the first
> > > > Olympic games were played at Olympia on the Peleponnesian
> > > > peninsula?
> > >
> > > 8th BC. (It was 776 BC. Accepting 9th-7th BC or 800s, 700s, or
> > > 600s BC.)
>
> "Calvin":
> > I believe I should get some points for this question.
>
> You were over 1,000 years off!
> > > > 13. In 2009, Gloria Estefan became a minority owner of what
> > > > NFL team?
> >
> > And this one.
>
> Sorry about that. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Pete, as before, *and
> 2 for Calvin*.
calvin
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