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QFTCIWSS Final, Round 4: Sports
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Mark Brader
Dec 22, 2018, 8:11:51 AM12/22/18
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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2018-08-07,
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 6½ days.
All questions were written by members of What She Said 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 2018-07-16 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
** Final, Round 4 - Sports
(We humans invented statistics, and then we found a way to make
them unimportant.)
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/r.jpg
Throughout the Final game, in all cases name the person or thing
*emphasized*, whether it is asked for in the form of a question
or not.
* Basketball Babies
(Not actual babies.)
(It's a metaphor.)
(We shouldn't have to explain that.)
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t1.jpg
Many prominent basketball players got their start in professional
play before they were old enough to drink. Here are questions
about three of them.
1. The Milwaukee Bucks drafted *this player* in 2013; when he
played his first game with them he was 18 years and 303 days
old. Known as "the Greek Freak", he is the first player in
NBA history to end a season in the top 20 players for points,
rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks.
2. The Toronto Raptors drafted *this player*, eventually a 7-time
All-Star and a Hall of Famer, in 1997. When he played his
first game with them he was 18 years and 160 days old, the
7th-youngest player in NBA history. He left the Raptors in
2000 to sign with the Orlando Magic, but achieved his greatest
stardom with the Houston Rockets.
3. The Charlotte Hornets drafted *this player* in 1996 -- but he
informed them he would not play for any team except the Los
Angeles Lakers, and essentially blackmailed the Hornets into
trading him to Los Angeles, where he would play his entire
career, starting on 1996-11-03, when he became the third-youngest
NBA player in history.
* Baseball Geezers
(Because 90% of the sport is "standing around waiting for something
to happen".)
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t2.jpg
Some baseball players stay in the game until they're old enough
to be grandparents. These questions are about the three oldest
current major-league players -- where "current" means that they've
played at some time in 2018.
4. The *oldest current player* in baseball is this pitcher,
currently with Texas. He started with Cleveland and pitched
for 8 years with the Anaheim Angels, but is better remembered
for more recent stints with the Mets and the Yankees.
5. The *second-oldest player* in baseball this season played
15 games for the Seattle Mariners early in the season.
On Opening Day, he became the 20th player of all time to
record 5,000 putouts from his position.
6. The *third-oldest player* is a Dominican-born relief pitcher
for the Minnesota Twins. He is known for celebrating a save
by pretending to shoot a bow and arrow toward the sky. He was
a long-time closer for the Tigers, his first MLB team. You may
decode the rot13 for an additional hint, but only after you have
finished with the previous two questions: Ng sbegl lrnef bs ntr,
ur'f sbhe lrnef lbhatre guna gur bgure gjb trrmref.
* Unusual Sports
(They make caber-tossing seem as commonplace as bowling.)
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t3.jpg
Forget football, baseball, and hockey. Here are a few questions
on some popular but less well-known sports.
7. In *this unusual sport*, teams of two race through a special
obstacle track, with one team member carrying the other.
Several types of carry may be practiced, including piggyback,
fireman's carry, and Estonian-style. The world championships
have been held annually in Sonkajärvi, Finland, since 1992.
8. *This unusual sport* was invented by Dutch performance artist
Lepe Rubingh. It quickly turned into a fully developed
competitive sport that is particularly popular in Germany,
the UK, India, and Russia. This hybrid sport combines two
traditional one-on-one contests, so that competitors compete
in alternating rounds of a board game and a physical activity.
9. *This unusual sport*, which is known as Octopush in the UK,
is a globally played limited-contact sport in which two
teams of six compete at the bottom of a swimming pool.
It originated in England in 1954 and is now played worldwide,
with the Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques
as the world governing body. The first world championship was
held in Canada in 1980.
* When did They Play?
(We decided it was time for a simpler, straightforward category.)
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t4.jpg
This round is simple. When was this athlete active? All of them
had long careers, so this should be easy! For each question, just
name any year that the player was active at the international level.
Oh, and we probably should mention that they all played cricket.
10. Widely considered to be the greatest cricketer of all time,
Sir Garfield St. Aubrun Sobers (better known as Gary or Garfield
Sobers) played for the West Indies. He has the odd distinction
of holding Barbadian-Australian dual citizenship. He excelled as
both a bowler and a batsman. *When did he play internationally?*
Name any year.
11. English all-rounder W.G. Grace so dominated cricket that his
era has been called "The Age of Grace". Wikipedia has separate
pages for every single season of his career. *When did he
play internationally?* Name any year.
12. Sir Donald Bradman was an Australian international cricketer,
widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time.
Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 has been cited
as the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport.
*When did he play internationally?* Name any year.
* Retired Leafs Jerseys
(Harold Ballard's ghost does not like this round.)
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t5.jpg
To celebrate their 100th season in 2016, the Toronto Maple Leafs
retired a large number of players' jersey numbers; previously,
with two exceptions, they had only "honored" their former greats.
Here are three questions about players whose numbers have been
retired by the Leafs.
13. His number, #6, was the first ever to be retired in professional
sports, in 1934. In 1968 while working as a timekeeper for the
Maple Leafs, *this player* asked the team to give his retired
number to Ron Ellis, whose playing he admired. Ellis wore it for
the rest of his career, after which the number was "re-retired".
14. *This defenseman* played 16 seasons with the blue and white,
and was the first player from his birth country to be inducted
into the Hockey Hall of Fame. His #21 was "honored" in 2006,
and officially retired in 2016.
15. *This defenseman and center* played on 8 Stanley-Cup-winning
teams and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1969. He also
served two terms in the House of Commons, from 1962 to 1965 --
while playing for the Leafs. His #4 was officially retired
in 2016.
--
Mark Brader | "The speed of sound is considerably less than the
Toronto | speed of light -- that is why some people appear bright
m...@vex.net | until you hear them talk."
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 6½ days.
All questions were written by members of What She Said 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 2018-07-16 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
** Final, Round 4 - Sports
(We humans invented statistics, and then we found a way to make
them unimportant.)
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/r.jpg
Throughout the Final game, in all cases name the person or thing
*emphasized*, whether it is asked for in the form of a question
or not.
* Basketball Babies
(Not actual babies.)
(It's a metaphor.)
(We shouldn't have to explain that.)
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t1.jpg
Many prominent basketball players got their start in professional
play before they were old enough to drink. Here are questions
about three of them.
1. The Milwaukee Bucks drafted *this player* in 2013; when he
played his first game with them he was 18 years and 303 days
old. Known as "the Greek Freak", he is the first player in
NBA history to end a season in the top 20 players for points,
rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks.
2. The Toronto Raptors drafted *this player*, eventually a 7-time
All-Star and a Hall of Famer, in 1997. When he played his
first game with them he was 18 years and 160 days old, the
7th-youngest player in NBA history. He left the Raptors in
2000 to sign with the Orlando Magic, but achieved his greatest
stardom with the Houston Rockets.
3. The Charlotte Hornets drafted *this player* in 1996 -- but he
informed them he would not play for any team except the Los
Angeles Lakers, and essentially blackmailed the Hornets into
trading him to Los Angeles, where he would play his entire
career, starting on 1996-11-03, when he became the third-youngest
NBA player in history.
* Baseball Geezers
(Because 90% of the sport is "standing around waiting for something
to happen".)
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t2.jpg
Some baseball players stay in the game until they're old enough
to be grandparents. These questions are about the three oldest
current major-league players -- where "current" means that they've
played at some time in 2018.
4. The *oldest current player* in baseball is this pitcher,
currently with Texas. He started with Cleveland and pitched
for 8 years with the Anaheim Angels, but is better remembered
for more recent stints with the Mets and the Yankees.
5. The *second-oldest player* in baseball this season played
15 games for the Seattle Mariners early in the season.
On Opening Day, he became the 20th player of all time to
record 5,000 putouts from his position.
6. The *third-oldest player* is a Dominican-born relief pitcher
for the Minnesota Twins. He is known for celebrating a save
by pretending to shoot a bow and arrow toward the sky. He was
a long-time closer for the Tigers, his first MLB team. You may
decode the rot13 for an additional hint, but only after you have
finished with the previous two questions: Ng sbegl lrnef bs ntr,
ur'f sbhe lrnef lbhatre guna gur bgure gjb trrmref.
* Unusual Sports
(They make caber-tossing seem as commonplace as bowling.)
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t3.jpg
Forget football, baseball, and hockey. Here are a few questions
on some popular but less well-known sports.
7. In *this unusual sport*, teams of two race through a special
obstacle track, with one team member carrying the other.
Several types of carry may be practiced, including piggyback,
fireman's carry, and Estonian-style. The world championships
have been held annually in Sonkajärvi, Finland, since 1992.
8. *This unusual sport* was invented by Dutch performance artist
Lepe Rubingh. It quickly turned into a fully developed
competitive sport that is particularly popular in Germany,
the UK, India, and Russia. This hybrid sport combines two
traditional one-on-one contests, so that competitors compete
in alternating rounds of a board game and a physical activity.
9. *This unusual sport*, which is known as Octopush in the UK,
is a globally played limited-contact sport in which two
teams of six compete at the bottom of a swimming pool.
It originated in England in 1954 and is now played worldwide,
with the Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques
as the world governing body. The first world championship was
held in Canada in 1980.
* When did They Play?
(We decided it was time for a simpler, straightforward category.)
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t4.jpg
This round is simple. When was this athlete active? All of them
had long careers, so this should be easy! For each question, just
name any year that the player was active at the international level.
Oh, and we probably should mention that they all played cricket.
10. Widely considered to be the greatest cricketer of all time,
Sir Garfield St. Aubrun Sobers (better known as Gary or Garfield
Sobers) played for the West Indies. He has the odd distinction
of holding Barbadian-Australian dual citizenship. He excelled as
both a bowler and a batsman. *When did he play internationally?*
Name any year.
11. English all-rounder W.G. Grace so dominated cricket that his
era has been called "The Age of Grace". Wikipedia has separate
pages for every single season of his career. *When did he
play internationally?* Name any year.
12. Sir Donald Bradman was an Australian international cricketer,
widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time.
Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 has been cited
as the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport.
*When did he play internationally?* Name any year.
* Retired Leafs Jerseys
(Harold Ballard's ghost does not like this round.)
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t5.jpg
To celebrate their 100th season in 2016, the Toronto Maple Leafs
retired a large number of players' jersey numbers; previously,
with two exceptions, they had only "honored" their former greats.
Here are three questions about players whose numbers have been
retired by the Leafs.
13. His number, #6, was the first ever to be retired in professional
sports, in 1934. In 1968 while working as a timekeeper for the
Maple Leafs, *this player* asked the team to give his retired
number to Ron Ellis, whose playing he admired. Ellis wore it for
the rest of his career, after which the number was "re-retired".
14. *This defenseman* played 16 seasons with the blue and white,
and was the first player from his birth country to be inducted
into the Hockey Hall of Fame. His #21 was "honored" in 2006,
and officially retired in 2016.
15. *This defenseman and center* played on 8 Stanley-Cup-winning
teams and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1969. He also
served two terms in the House of Commons, from 1962 to 1965 --
while playing for the Leafs. His #4 was officially retired
in 2016.
--
Mark Brader | "The speed of sound is considerably less than the
Toronto | speed of light -- that is why some people appear bright
m...@vex.net | until you hear them talk."
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Dan Blum
Dec 22, 2018, 9:25:42 AM12/22/18
to
> * Basketball Babies
> 2. The Toronto Raptors drafted *this player*, eventually a 7-time
> All-Star and a Hall of Famer, in 1997. When he played his
> first game with them he was 18 years and 160 days old, the
> 7th-youngest player in NBA history. He left the Raptors in
> 2000 to sign with the Orlando Magic, but achieved his greatest
> stardom with the Houston Rockets.
Olajuwon
> * Unusual Sports
> 7. In *this unusual sport*, teams of two race through a special
> obstacle track, with one team member carrying the other.
> Several types of carry may be practiced, including piggyback,
> fireman's carry, and Estonian-style. The world championships
> have been held annually in Sonkaj?rvi, Finland, since 1992.
wife-carrying
> 8. *This unusual sport* was invented by Dutch performance artist
> Lepe Rubingh. It quickly turned into a fully developed
> competitive sport that is particularly popular in Germany,
> the UK, India, and Russia. This hybrid sport combines two
> traditional one-on-one contests, so that competitors compete
> in alternating rounds of a board game and a physical activity.
Chess-Boxing
> * When did They Play?
> 11. English all-rounder W.G. Grace so dominated cricket that his
> era has been called "The Age of Grace". Wikipedia has separate
> pages for every single season of his career. *When did he
> play internationally?* Name any year.
1885
> 12. Sir Donald Bradman was an Australian international cricketer,
> widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time.
> Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 has been cited
> as the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport.
> *When did he play internationally?* Name any year.
1940
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
> 2. The Toronto Raptors drafted *this player*, eventually a 7-time
> All-Star and a Hall of Famer, in 1997. When he played his
> first game with them he was 18 years and 160 days old, the
> 7th-youngest player in NBA history. He left the Raptors in
> 2000 to sign with the Orlando Magic, but achieved his greatest
> stardom with the Houston Rockets.
> * Unusual Sports
> 7. In *this unusual sport*, teams of two race through a special
> obstacle track, with one team member carrying the other.
> Several types of carry may be practiced, including piggyback,
> fireman's carry, and Estonian-style. The world championships
wife-carrying
> 8. *This unusual sport* was invented by Dutch performance artist
> Lepe Rubingh. It quickly turned into a fully developed
> competitive sport that is particularly popular in Germany,
> the UK, India, and Russia. This hybrid sport combines two
> traditional one-on-one contests, so that competitors compete
> in alternating rounds of a board game and a physical activity.
> * When did They Play?
> 10. Widely considered to be the greatest cricketer of all time,
> Sir Garfield St. Aubrun Sobers (better known as Gary or Garfield
> Sobers) played for the West Indies. He has the odd distinction
> of holding Barbadian-Australian dual citizenship. He excelled as
> both a bowler and a batsman. *When did he play internationally?*
> Name any year.
1910
> Sir Garfield St. Aubrun Sobers (better known as Gary or Garfield
> Sobers) played for the West Indies. He has the odd distinction
> of holding Barbadian-Australian dual citizenship. He excelled as
> both a bowler and a batsman. *When did he play internationally?*
> Name any year.
> 11. English all-rounder W.G. Grace so dominated cricket that his
> era has been called "The Age of Grace". Wikipedia has separate
> pages for every single season of his career. *When did he
> play internationally?* Name any year.
> 12. Sir Donald Bradman was an Australian international cricketer,
> widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time.
> Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 has been cited
> as the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport.
> *When did he play internationally?* Name any year.
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Erland Sommarskog
Dec 22, 2018, 11:12:08 AM12/22/18
to
Mark Brader (m...@vex.net) writes:
> 7. In *this unusual sport*, teams of two race through a special
> obstacle track, with one team member carrying the other.
> Several types of carry may be practiced, including piggyback,
> fireman's carry, and Estonian-style. The world championships
> have been held annually in Sonkajärvi, Finland, since 1992.
Wife-carrying
> 7. In *this unusual sport*, teams of two race through a special
> obstacle track, with one team member carrying the other.
> Several types of carry may be practiced, including piggyback,
> fireman's carry, and Estonian-style. The world championships
> have been held annually in Sonkajärvi, Finland, since 1992.
> Oh, and we probably should mention that they all played cricket.
>
definitely not cricket.
> 14. *This defenseman* played 16 seasons with the blue and white,
> and was the first player from his birth country to be inducted
> into the Hockey Hall of Fame. His #21 was "honored" in 2006,
> and officially retired in 2016.
Joshua Kreitzer
Dec 22, 2018, 2:17:58 PM12/22/18
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:H-mdnfXFr4qMpYPBnZ2dnUU7-
L_N...@giganews.com:
> ** Final, Round 4 - Sports
>
> * Basketball Babies
> * Baseball Geezers
> * Unusual Sports
> 8. *This unusual sport* was invented by Dutch performance artist
> Lepe Rubingh. It quickly turned into a fully developed
> competitive sport that is particularly popular in Germany,
> the UK, India, and Russia. This hybrid sport combines two
> traditional one-on-one contests, so that competitors compete
> in alternating rounds of a board game and a physical activity.
chess boxing
> * When did They Play?
>
> 11. English all-rounder W.G. Grace so dominated cricket that his
> era has been called "The Age of Grace". Wikipedia has separate
> pages for every single season of his career. *When did he
> play internationally?* Name any year.
1910; 1930
> 12. Sir Donald Bradman was an Australian international cricketer,
> widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time.
> Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 has been cited
> as the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport.
> *When did he play internationally?* Name any year.
1950; 1970
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
L_N...@giganews.com:
> ** Final, Round 4 - Sports
>
>
> 3. The Charlotte Hornets drafted *this player* in 1996 -- but he
> informed them he would not play for any team except the Los
> Angeles Lakers, and essentially blackmailed the Hornets into
> trading him to Los Angeles, where he would play his entire
> career, starting on 1996-11-03, when he became the third-youngest
> NBA player in history.
Kobe Bryant
> 3. The Charlotte Hornets drafted *this player* in 1996 -- but he
> informed them he would not play for any team except the Los
> Angeles Lakers, and essentially blackmailed the Hornets into
> trading him to Los Angeles, where he would play his entire
> career, starting on 1996-11-03, when he became the third-youngest
> NBA player in history.
> * Baseball Geezers
>
> 5. The *second-oldest player* in baseball this season played
> 15 games for the Seattle Mariners early in the season.
> On Opening Day, he became the 20th player of all time to
> record 5,000 putouts from his position.
Ichiro Suzuki
> 5. The *second-oldest player* in baseball this season played
> 15 games for the Seattle Mariners early in the season.
> On Opening Day, he became the 20th player of all time to
> record 5,000 putouts from his position.
> * Unusual Sports
>
> 7. In *this unusual sport*, teams of two race through a special
> obstacle track, with one team member carrying the other.
> Several types of carry may be practiced, including piggyback,
> fireman's carry, and Estonian-style. The world championships
> have been held annually in Sonkajärvi, Finland, since 1992.
wife-carrying
> 7. In *this unusual sport*, teams of two race through a special
> obstacle track, with one team member carrying the other.
> Several types of carry may be practiced, including piggyback,
> fireman's carry, and Estonian-style. The world championships
> have been held annually in Sonkajärvi, Finland, since 1992.
> 8. *This unusual sport* was invented by Dutch performance artist
> Lepe Rubingh. It quickly turned into a fully developed
> competitive sport that is particularly popular in Germany,
> the UK, India, and Russia. This hybrid sport combines two
> traditional one-on-one contests, so that competitors compete
> in alternating rounds of a board game and a physical activity.
> * When did They Play?
>
> 10. Widely considered to be the greatest cricketer of all time,
> Sir Garfield St. Aubrun Sobers (better known as Gary or Garfield
> Sobers) played for the West Indies. He has the odd distinction
> of holding Barbadian-Australian dual citizenship. He excelled as
> both a bowler and a batsman. *When did he play internationally?*
> Name any year.
1950; 1970
> Sir Garfield St. Aubrun Sobers (better known as Gary or Garfield
> Sobers) played for the West Indies. He has the odd distinction
> of holding Barbadian-Australian dual citizenship. He excelled as
> both a bowler and a batsman. *When did he play internationally?*
> Name any year.
> 11. English all-rounder W.G. Grace so dominated cricket that his
> era has been called "The Age of Grace". Wikipedia has separate
> pages for every single season of his career. *When did he
> play internationally?* Name any year.
> 12. Sir Donald Bradman was an Australian international cricketer,
> widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time.
> Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 has been cited
> as the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport.
> *When did he play internationally?* Name any year.
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Mark Brader
Dec 22, 2018, 6:17:33 PM12/22/18
to
Mark Brader:
--
Mark Brader "Never trust anybody who says 'trust me.'
Toronto Except just this once, of course."
m...@vex.net -- John Varley, "Steel Beach"
> > Oh, and we probably should mention that they all played cricket.
Erland Sommarskog:
> And you post this when Calvin is on summer leave? How grim you are! That's
> definitely not cricket.
Heh. Well, he should have chosen a different date to have the summer!
> definitely not cricket.
--
Mark Brader "Never trust anybody who says 'trust me.'
Toronto Except just this once, of course."
m...@vex.net -- John Varley, "Steel Beach"
Dan Tilque
Dec 23, 2018, 9:06:00 PM12/23/18
to
>
>
> * Unusual Sports
> (They make caber-tossing seem as commonplace as bowling.)
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t3.jpg
>
> Forget football, baseball, and hockey. Here are a few questions
> on some popular but less well-known sports.
>
> 7. In *this unusual sport*, teams of two race through a special
> obstacle track, with one team member carrying the other.
> Several types of carry may be practiced, including piggyback,
> fireman's carry, and Estonian-style. The world championships
> have been held annually in Sonkajärvi, Finland, since 1992.
>
> 8. *This unusual sport* was invented by Dutch performance artist
> Lepe Rubingh. It quickly turned into a fully developed
> competitive sport that is particularly popular in Germany,
> the UK, India, and Russia. This hybrid sport combines two
> traditional one-on-one contests, so that competitors compete
> in alternating rounds of a board game and a physical activity.
>
>
> * Retired Leafs Jerseys
> (Harold Ballard's ghost does not like this round.)
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t5.jpg
>
> To celebrate their 100th season in 2016, the Toronto Maple Leafs
> retired a large number of players' jersey numbers; previously,
> with two exceptions, they had only "honored" their former greats.
> Here are three questions about players whose numbers have been
> retired by the Leafs.
>
> 13. His number, #6, was the first ever to be retired in professional
> sports, in 1934. In 1968 while working as a timekeeper for the
> Maple Leafs, *this player* asked the team to give his retired
> number to Ron Ellis, whose playing he admired. Ellis wore it for
> the rest of his career, after which the number was "re-retired".
>
> 14. *This defenseman* played 16 seasons with the blue and white,
> and was the first player from his birth country to be inducted
> into the Hockey Hall of Fame. His #21 was "honored" in 2006,
> and officially retired in 2016.
>
> 15. *This defenseman and center* played on 8 Stanley-Cup-winning
> teams and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1969. He also
> served two terms in the House of Commons, from 1962 to 1965 --
> while playing for the Leafs. His #4 was officially retired
> in 2016.
>
--
Pete Gayde
Dec 24, 2018, 6:13:42 PM12/24/18
to
>
> 2. The Toronto Raptors drafted *this player*, eventually a 7-time
> All-Star and a Hall of Famer, in 1997. When he played his
> first game with them he was 18 years and 160 days old, the
> 7th-youngest player in NBA history. He left the Raptors in
> 2000 to sign with the Orlando Magic, but achieved his greatest
> stardom with the Houston Rockets.
>
> 3. The Charlotte Hornets drafted *this player* in 1996 -- but he
> informed them he would not play for any team except the Los
> Angeles Lakers, and essentially blackmailed the Hornets into
> trading him to Los Angeles, where he would play his entire
> career, starting on 1996-11-03, when he became the third-youngest
> NBA player in history.
>
>
> * Baseball Geezers
> (Because 90% of the sport is "standing around waiting for something
> to happen".)
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t2.jpg
>
> Some baseball players stay in the game until they're old enough
> to be grandparents. These questions are about the three oldest
> current major-league players -- where "current" means that they've
> played at some time in 2018.
>
> 4. The *oldest current player* in baseball is this pitcher,
> currently with Texas. He started with Cleveland and pitched
> for 8 years with the Anaheim Angels, but is better remembered
> for more recent stints with the Mets and the Yankees.
>
> 5. The *second-oldest player* in baseball this season played
> 15 games for the Seattle Mariners early in the season.
> On Opening Day, he became the 20th player of all time to
> record 5,000 putouts from his position.
>
> 6. The *third-oldest player* is a Dominican-born relief pitcher
> for the Minnesota Twins. He is known for celebrating a save
> by pretending to shoot a bow and arrow toward the sky. He was
> a long-time closer for the Tigers, his first MLB team. You may
> decode the rot13 for an additional hint, but only after you have
> finished with the previous two questions: Ng sbegl lrnef bs ntr,
> ur'f sbhe lrnef lbhatre guna gur bgure gjb trrmref.
>
>
> * Unusual Sports
> (They make caber-tossing seem as commonplace as bowling.)
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t3.jpg
>
> Forget football, baseball, and hockey. Here are a few questions
> on some popular but less well-known sports.
>
> 7. In *this unusual sport*, teams of two race through a special
> obstacle track, with one team member carrying the other.
> Several types of carry may be practiced, including piggyback,
> fireman's carry, and Estonian-style. The world championships
> have been held annually in Sonkajärvi, Finland, since 1992.
>
> 8. *This unusual sport* was invented by Dutch performance artist
> Lepe Rubingh. It quickly turned into a fully developed
> competitive sport that is particularly popular in Germany,
> the UK, India, and Russia. This hybrid sport combines two
> traditional one-on-one contests, so that competitors compete
> in alternating rounds of a board game and a physical activity.
>
> 9. *This unusual sport*, which is known as Octopush in the UK,
> is a globally played limited-contact sport in which two
> teams of six compete at the bottom of a swimming pool.
> It originated in England in 1954 and is now played worldwide,
> with the Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques
> as the world governing body. The first world championship was
> held in Canada in 1980.
>
>
> * When did They Play?
> (We decided it was time for a simpler, straightforward category.)
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t4.jpg
>
> This round is simple. When was this athlete active? All of them
> had long careers, so this should be easy! For each question, just
> name any year that the player was active at the international level.
>
> Oh, and we probably should mention that they all played cricket.
>
> 10. Widely considered to be the greatest cricketer of all time,
> Sir Garfield St. Aubrun Sobers (better known as Gary or Garfield
> Sobers) played for the West Indies. He has the odd distinction
> of holding Barbadian-Australian dual citizenship. He excelled as
> both a bowler and a batsman. *When did he play internationally?*
> Name any year.
>
> 11. English all-rounder W.G. Grace so dominated cricket that his
> era has been called "The Age of Grace". Wikipedia has separate
> pages for every single season of his career. *When did he
> play internationally?* Name any year.
>
> 12. Sir Donald Bradman was an Australian international cricketer,
> widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time.
> Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 has been cited
> as the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport.
> *When did he play internationally?* Name any year.
>
>
> * Retired Leafs Jerseys
> (Harold Ballard's ghost does not like this round.)
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t5.jpg
>
> To celebrate their 100th season in 2016, the Toronto Maple Leafs
> retired a large number of players' jersey numbers; previously,
> with two exceptions, they had only "honored" their former greats.
> Here are three questions about players whose numbers have been
> retired by the Leafs.
>
> 13. His number, #6, was the first ever to be retired in professional
> sports, in 1934. In 1968 while working as a timekeeper for the
> Maple Leafs, *this player* asked the team to give his retired
> number to Ron Ellis, whose playing he admired. Ellis wore it for
> the rest of his career, after which the number was "re-retired".
>
> 14. *This defenseman* played 16 seasons with the blue and white,
> and was the first player from his birth country to be inducted
> into the Hockey Hall of Fame. His #21 was "honored" in 2006,
> and officially retired in 2016.
>
> 15. *This defenseman and center* played on 8 Stanley-Cup-winning
> teams and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1969. He also
> served two terms in the House of Commons, from 1962 to 1965 --
> while playing for the Leafs. His #4 was officially retired
> in 2016.
>
Pete Gayde
Bruce Bowler
Dec 27, 2018, 9:09:05 AM12/27/18
to
On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 07:11:45 -0600, Mark Brader wrote:
> * Unusual Sports
> (They make caber-tossing seem as commonplace as bowling.)
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t3.jpg
>
> Forget football, baseball, and hockey. Here are a few questions on some
> popular but less well-known sports.
>
> 7. In *this unusual sport*, teams of two race through a special
> obstacle track, with one team member carrying the other.
> Several types of carry may be practiced, including piggyback,
> fireman's carry, and Estonian-style. The world championships have
> been held annually in Sonkajärvi, Finland, since 1992.
The "wife carry". The prize, as I recall, is the wife's weight in beer
> * Unusual Sports
> (They make caber-tossing seem as commonplace as bowling.)
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t3.jpg
>
> Forget football, baseball, and hockey. Here are a few questions on some
> popular but less well-known sports.
>
> 7. In *this unusual sport*, teams of two race through a special
> obstacle track, with one team member carrying the other.
> Several types of carry may be practiced, including piggyback,
> fireman's carry, and Estonian-style. The world championships have
> been held annually in Sonkajärvi, Finland, since 1992.
(at least at the US championships)
> 8. *This unusual sport* was invented by Dutch performance artist
> Lepe Rubingh. It quickly turned into a fully developed competitive
> sport that is particularly popular in Germany,
> the UK, India, and Russia. This hybrid sport combines two
> traditional one-on-one contests, so that competitors compete in
> alternating rounds of a board game and a physical activity.
Mark Brader
Dec 28, 2018, 8:54:06 PM12/28/18
to
Mark Brader:
> 2. The Toronto Raptors drafted *this player*, eventually a 7-time
> All-Star and a Hall of Famer, in 1997. When he played his
> first game with them he was 18 years and 160 days old, the
> 7th-youngest player in NBA history. He left the Raptors in
> 2000 to sign with the Orlando Magic, but achieved his greatest
> stardom with the Houston Rockets.
Tracy McGrady.
> 3. The Charlotte Hornets drafted *this player* in 1996 -- but he
> informed them he would not play for any team except the Los
> Angeles Lakers, and essentially blackmailed the Hornets into
> trading him to Los Angeles, where he would play his entire
> career, starting on 1996-11-03, when he became the third-youngest
> NBA player in history.
Kobe Bryant. 4 for Joshua and Pete.
> * Baseball Geezers
> (Because 90% of the sport is "standing around waiting for something
> to happen".)
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t2.jpg
> Some baseball players stay in the game until they're old enough
> to be grandparents. These questions are about the three oldest
> current major-league players -- where "current" means that they've
> played at some time in 2018.
> 4. The *oldest current player* in baseball is this pitcher,
> currently with Texas. He started with Cleveland and pitched
> for 8 years with the Anaheim Angels, but is better remembered
> for more recent stints with the Mets and the Yankees.
Bartolo Colon.
> 5. The *second-oldest player* in baseball this season played
> 15 games for the Seattle Mariners early in the season.
> On Opening Day, he became the 20th player of all time to
> record 5,000 putouts from his position.
Ichiro Suzuki. 4 for Joshua and Pete.
> 6. The *third-oldest player* is a Dominican-born relief pitcher
> for the Minnesota Twins. He is known for celebrating a save
> by pretending to shoot a bow and arrow toward the sky. He was
> a long-time closer for the Tigers, his first MLB team. You may
> decode the rot13 for an additional hint, but only after you have
> finished with the previous two questions: At forty years of age,
> he's four years younger than the other two geezers.
Fernando Rodney. 4 for Dan Tilque and Pete.
> * Unusual Sports
> (They make caber-tossing seem as commonplace as bowling.)
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t3.jpg
> Forget football, baseball, and hockey. Here are a few questions
> on some popular but less well-known sports.
> 7. In *this unusual sport*, teams of two race through a special
> obstacle track, with one team member carrying the other.
> Several types of carry may be practiced, including piggyback,
> fireman's carry, and Estonian-style. The world championships
> have been held annually in Sonkajärvi, Finland, since 1992.
Wife-carrying. 4 for everyone -- Dan Blum, Erland, Joshua,
Dan Tilque, Pete, and Bruce.
> 8. *This unusual sport* was invented by Dutch performance artist
> Lepe Rubingh. It quickly turned into a fully developed
> competitive sport that is particularly popular in Germany,
> the UK, India, and Russia. This hybrid sport combines two
> traditional one-on-one contests, so that competitors compete
> in alternating rounds of a board game and a physical activity.
Chess-boxing. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Bruce.
> 9. *This unusual sport*, which is known as Octopush in the UK,
> is a globally played limited-contact sport in which two
> teams of six compete at the bottom of a swimming pool.
> It originated in England in 1954 and is now played worldwide,
> with the Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques
> as the world governing body. The first world championship was
> held in Canada in 1980.
Underwater hockey. 4 for Pete.
> * When did They Play?
> (We decided it was time for a simpler, straightforward category.)
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t4.jpg
> This round is simple. When was this athlete active? All of them
> had long careers, so this should be easy! For each question, just
> name any year that the player was active at the international level.
> Oh, and we probably should mention that they all played cricket.
> 10. Widely considered to be the greatest cricketer of all time,
> Sir Garfield St. Aubrun Sobers (better known as Gary or Garfield
> Sobers) played for the West Indies. He has the odd distinction
> of holding Barbadian-Australian dual citizenship. He excelled as
> both a bowler and a batsman. *When did he play internationally?*
> Name any year.
1954-74. 2 for Joshua. Pete just missed.
> 11. English all-rounder W.G. Grace so dominated cricket that his
> era has been called "The Age of Grace". Wikipedia has separate
> pages for every single season of his career. *When did he
> play internationally?* Name any year.
1872-1908. 4 for Dan Blum. 3 for Pete. Joshua just missed.
> 12. Sir Donald Bradman was an Australian international cricketer,
> widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time.
> Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 has been cited
> as the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport.
> *When did he play internationally?* Name any year.
1928-1948. 4 for Dan Blum. Joshua just missed again.
> * Retired Leafs Jerseys
> (Harold Ballard's ghost does not like this round.)
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t5.jpg
> To celebrate their 100th season in 2016, the Toronto Maple Leafs
> retired a large number of players' jersey numbers; previously,
> with two exceptions, they had only "honored" their former greats.
> Here are three questions about players whose numbers have been
> retired by the Leafs.
> 13. His number, #6, was the first ever to be retired in professional
> sports, in 1934. In 1968 while working as a timekeeper for the
> Maple Leafs, *this player* asked the team to give his retired
> number to Ron Ellis, whose playing he admired. Ellis wore it for
> the rest of his career, after which the number was "re-retired".
Ace Bailey.
Bailey had suffered a career-ending injury -- nobody would have been
surprised if he'd died from it -- and the Leafs' policy from then
until 2016 was to retire numbers only for that reason.
> 14. *This defenseman* played 16 seasons with the blue and white,
> and was the first player from his birth country to be inducted
> into the Hockey Hall of Fame. His #21 was "honored" in 2006,
> and officially retired in 2016.
Borje Salming. 4 for Erland and Pete.
> 15. *This defenseman and center* played on 8 Stanley-Cup-winning
> teams and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1969. He also
> served two terms in the House of Commons, from 1962 to 1965 --
> while playing for the Leafs. His #4 was officially retired
> in 2016.
Red Kelly.
The resason why two terms was only 3 years -- actually a bit
less -- was that this was the time of the successive minority
governments under John Diefenbaker (PC) and Lester Pearson (L).
Kelly (L) was the_MP for York West (more or less what's now called
Humber_River -- Black Creek), but found he did not enjoy political
life, partly because it kept him away from his family too much.
For his reminiscence, see:
http://www.revparl.ca/12/3/12n3_89e_zinterview.pdf
(The Paul Martin mentioned in that article would be Paul Martin Sr.,
father of the similarly named 21st century prime minister.)
Scores, if there are no errors:
FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 TOTALS
TOPICS-> His Ent Spo
Dan Blum 38 22 16 76
Joshua Kreitzer 23 20 18 61
Pete Gayde 13 17 27 57
Bruce Bowler 20 8 8 36
"Calvin" 11 14 -- 25
Dan Tilque -- 4 12 16
Erland Sommarskog 0 0 8 8
--
Mark Brader, Toronto / "A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour,
m...@vex.net / tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before."
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2018-08-07,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2018-07-16 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> ** Final, Round 4 - Sports
> (We humans invented statistics, and then we found a way to make
> them unimportant.)
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/r.jpg
> Throughout the Final game, in all cases name the person or thing
> *emphasized*, whether it is asked for in the form of a question
> or not.
> * Basketball Babies
> (Not actual babies.)
> (It's a metaphor.)
> (We shouldn't have to explain that.)
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t1.jpg
> Many prominent basketball players got their start in professional
> play before they were old enough to drink. Here are questions
> about three of them.
> 1. The Milwaukee Bucks drafted *this player* in 2013; when he
> played his first game with them he was 18 years and 303 days
> old. Known as "the Greek Freak", he is the first player in
> NBA history to end a season in the top 20 players for points,
> rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks.
Giannis Antetokounmpo.
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> ** Final, Round 4 - Sports
> (We humans invented statistics, and then we found a way to make
> them unimportant.)
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/r.jpg
> Throughout the Final game, in all cases name the person or thing
> *emphasized*, whether it is asked for in the form of a question
> or not.
> * Basketball Babies
> (Not actual babies.)
> (It's a metaphor.)
> (We shouldn't have to explain that.)
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t1.jpg
> Many prominent basketball players got their start in professional
> play before they were old enough to drink. Here are questions
> about three of them.
> 1. The Milwaukee Bucks drafted *this player* in 2013; when he
> played his first game with them he was 18 years and 303 days
> old. Known as "the Greek Freak", he is the first player in
> NBA history to end a season in the top 20 players for points,
> rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks.
> 2. The Toronto Raptors drafted *this player*, eventually a 7-time
> All-Star and a Hall of Famer, in 1997. When he played his
> first game with them he was 18 years and 160 days old, the
> 7th-youngest player in NBA history. He left the Raptors in
> 2000 to sign with the Orlando Magic, but achieved his greatest
> stardom with the Houston Rockets.
> 3. The Charlotte Hornets drafted *this player* in 1996 -- but he
> informed them he would not play for any team except the Los
> Angeles Lakers, and essentially blackmailed the Hornets into
> trading him to Los Angeles, where he would play his entire
> career, starting on 1996-11-03, when he became the third-youngest
> NBA player in history.
> * Baseball Geezers
> (Because 90% of the sport is "standing around waiting for something
> to happen".)
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t2.jpg
> Some baseball players stay in the game until they're old enough
> to be grandparents. These questions are about the three oldest
> current major-league players -- where "current" means that they've
> played at some time in 2018.
> 4. The *oldest current player* in baseball is this pitcher,
> currently with Texas. He started with Cleveland and pitched
> for 8 years with the Anaheim Angels, but is better remembered
> for more recent stints with the Mets and the Yankees.
> 5. The *second-oldest player* in baseball this season played
> 15 games for the Seattle Mariners early in the season.
> On Opening Day, he became the 20th player of all time to
> record 5,000 putouts from his position.
> 6. The *third-oldest player* is a Dominican-born relief pitcher
> for the Minnesota Twins. He is known for celebrating a save
> by pretending to shoot a bow and arrow toward the sky. He was
> a long-time closer for the Tigers, his first MLB team. You may
> decode the rot13 for an additional hint, but only after you have
> he's four years younger than the other two geezers.
Fernando Rodney. 4 for Dan Tilque and Pete.
> * Unusual Sports
> (They make caber-tossing seem as commonplace as bowling.)
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t3.jpg
> Forget football, baseball, and hockey. Here are a few questions
> on some popular but less well-known sports.
> 7. In *this unusual sport*, teams of two race through a special
> obstacle track, with one team member carrying the other.
> Several types of carry may be practiced, including piggyback,
> fireman's carry, and Estonian-style. The world championships
> have been held annually in Sonkajärvi, Finland, since 1992.
Dan Tilque, Pete, and Bruce.
> 8. *This unusual sport* was invented by Dutch performance artist
> Lepe Rubingh. It quickly turned into a fully developed
> competitive sport that is particularly popular in Germany,
> the UK, India, and Russia. This hybrid sport combines two
> traditional one-on-one contests, so that competitors compete
> in alternating rounds of a board game and a physical activity.
> 9. *This unusual sport*, which is known as Octopush in the UK,
> is a globally played limited-contact sport in which two
> teams of six compete at the bottom of a swimming pool.
> It originated in England in 1954 and is now played worldwide,
> with the Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques
> as the world governing body. The first world championship was
> held in Canada in 1980.
> * When did They Play?
> (We decided it was time for a simpler, straightforward category.)
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t4.jpg
> This round is simple. When was this athlete active? All of them
> had long careers, so this should be easy! For each question, just
> name any year that the player was active at the international level.
> Oh, and we probably should mention that they all played cricket.
> 10. Widely considered to be the greatest cricketer of all time,
> Sir Garfield St. Aubrun Sobers (better known as Gary or Garfield
> Sobers) played for the West Indies. He has the odd distinction
> of holding Barbadian-Australian dual citizenship. He excelled as
> both a bowler and a batsman. *When did he play internationally?*
> Name any year.
> 11. English all-rounder W.G. Grace so dominated cricket that his
> era has been called "The Age of Grace". Wikipedia has separate
> pages for every single season of his career. *When did he
> play internationally?* Name any year.
> 12. Sir Donald Bradman was an Australian international cricketer,
> widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time.
> Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 has been cited
> as the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport.
> *When did he play internationally?* Name any year.
> * Retired Leafs Jerseys
> (Harold Ballard's ghost does not like this round.)
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/t5.jpg
> To celebrate their 100th season in 2016, the Toronto Maple Leafs
> retired a large number of players' jersey numbers; previously,
> with two exceptions, they had only "honored" their former greats.
> Here are three questions about players whose numbers have been
> retired by the Leafs.
> 13. His number, #6, was the first ever to be retired in professional
> sports, in 1934. In 1968 while working as a timekeeper for the
> Maple Leafs, *this player* asked the team to give his retired
> number to Ron Ellis, whose playing he admired. Ellis wore it for
> the rest of his career, after which the number was "re-retired".
Bailey had suffered a career-ending injury -- nobody would have been
surprised if he'd died from it -- and the Leafs' policy from then
until 2016 was to retire numbers only for that reason.
> 14. *This defenseman* played 16 seasons with the blue and white,
> and was the first player from his birth country to be inducted
> into the Hockey Hall of Fame. His #21 was "honored" in 2006,
> and officially retired in 2016.
> 15. *This defenseman and center* played on 8 Stanley-Cup-winning
> teams and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1969. He also
> served two terms in the House of Commons, from 1962 to 1965 --
> while playing for the Leafs. His #4 was officially retired
> in 2016.
The resason why two terms was only 3 years -- actually a bit
less -- was that this was the time of the successive minority
governments under John Diefenbaker (PC) and Lester Pearson (L).
Kelly (L) was the_MP for York West (more or less what's now called
Humber_River -- Black Creek), but found he did not enjoy political
life, partly because it kept him away from his family too much.
For his reminiscence, see:
http://www.revparl.ca/12/3/12n3_89e_zinterview.pdf
(The Paul Martin mentioned in that article would be Paul Martin Sr.,
father of the similarly named 21st century prime minister.)
Scores, if there are no errors:
FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 TOTALS
TOPICS-> His Ent Spo
Dan Blum 38 22 16 76
Joshua Kreitzer 23 20 18 61
Pete Gayde 13 17 27 57
Bruce Bowler 20 8 8 36
"Calvin" 11 14 -- 25
Dan Tilque -- 4 12 16
Erland Sommarskog 0 0 8 8
--
Mark Brader, Toronto / "A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour,
m...@vex.net / tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before."
Calvin
Jan 6, 2019, 6:36:48 PM1/6/19
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On Sunday, December 23, 2018 at 9:17:33 AM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
> Mark Brader:
> > > Oh, and we probably should mention that they all played cricket.
>
> Erland Sommarskog:
> > And you post this when Calvin is on summer leave? How grim you are! That's
> > definitely not cricket.
>
> Heh. Well, he should have chosen a different date to have the summer!
I often seem to be away for rounds that suit me, and when I return am confronted with a one on "Flora of the Yukon" or something equally esoteric.
> Mark Brader:
> > > Oh, and we probably should mention that they all played cricket.
>
> Erland Sommarskog:
> > And you post this when Calvin is on summer leave? How grim you are! That's
> > definitely not cricket.
>
> Heh. Well, he should have chosen a different date to have the summer!
cheers,
calvin
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