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QFTCIWSS Game 6, Rounds 7-8: common names and dinosaurs
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Mark Brader
Sep 30, 2018, 5:01:50 PM9/30/18
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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2018-06-25,
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 4 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*)".
* Game 6, Round 7 - Canadiana - Commonly Named
We all fall back on "Johnson" when we don't know the answer, but,
surprisingly, Johnson isn't even in the top 10 of common Canadian
surnames. The answers in this round -- at least according to one
source -- are. In each case, name the person described.
1. The Inn at Fortune Bay on PEI is owned by this well-known
Canadian chef, famous for hosting various cooking shows and for
being a judge on "Chopped Canada" -- and also for being very
tall. Name him -- first and last name required for this one.
2. This Canadian is a former CBC radio host, now writing for the
"National Post". In 2014 he was investigated for taking paid
speaking engagements on behalf of oil-sands companies while
criticizing the companies' political opponents in his "Point
of View" segments on the CBC.
3. This doctor was working at Toronto East General Hospital
and also doing international air-evacuation work and expedition
medicine on Arctic and Antarctic ships when he met Margaret
Atwood. She mentored his writing, and he went on to win the
2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
4. He was the 21st prime minister of Canada, serving from December
2003 to February 2006.
5. This journalist and politician was born in Scotland in 1818.
He played an instrumental role in Confederation, participating
in the Charlottetown and Quebec Conferences in 1864. He also
founded one of the two newspapers which would later merge to
become the "Globe and Mail".
6. This Quebecois author was a member of the Royal Society of
Canada, a 3-time Governor-General's Award winner and a Companion
of the Order of Canada. She is best known for her novel "The
Tin Flute".
7. He was a lawyer and businessman before becoming mayor of Montreal
in 2001. He held that position until 2012, when, surprisingly,
he stepped down amid corruption allegations.
8. This renowned chef and restauranteur is a pioneer of modern
Chinese cuisine and fusion cooking. He received the prestigious
CAA Five Diamond Award in France and was named one of the ten
"chefs of the millennium".
9. He was an Olympic athlete, winning 5 gold medals for short-track
speed skating between 1994 and 2002. Until 2006, he had the
distinction of being the most decorated Canadian Winter Olympian
of all time. In 2008, he was inducted into Canada's Sports
Hall of Fame.
10. This lawyer and judge was the first woman appointed to the
Supreme Court of Canada. She participated in several key
Supreme Court decisions. In 1988 she was appointed to the
Erasmus-Dussault Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.
She was named Companion of the Order of Canada in 1992.
* Game 6, Round 8 - Science - Dinosaurs
If you were 8, you would know the answer to literally every
question in this round, but since you're not 8, let's give it a try.
We'll name the creature, and you tell us which image it is on the
3-page handout:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/6-8/saur.pdf
1. Dilophosaurus.
2. Parasaurolophus.
3. Styracosaurus.
4. Brachiosaurus.
5. Albertosaurus.
6. Edmontosaurus.
7. Dimetrodon.
8. Ankylosaurus.
9. Pachycephalosaurus.
10. Compsognathus.
If you want to identify the 8 decoys for fun, but for no points,
please decode the rot13 below.
11. Bivencgbe.
12. Nepurbcgrelk.
13. Fgrtbfnhehf.
14. Cgrebqnpgly.
15. Glenaabfnhehf Erk.
16. Fcvabfnhehf.
17. Gevprengbcf.
18. Vthnanqba.
(Gung'f evtug, gur qrpblf vapyhqrq zbfg bs gur rnfvre barf. V qvqa'g
jevgr vg!)
--
Mark Brader, Toronto, m...@vex.net
"But even though they probably certainly know that you probably
wouldn't, they don't certainly know that although you probably
wouldn't there's no probability that you certainly would."
-- Sir Humphrey Appleby ("Yes, Prime Minister") on nuclear deterrence
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 4 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*)".
* Game 6, Round 7 - Canadiana - Commonly Named
We all fall back on "Johnson" when we don't know the answer, but,
surprisingly, Johnson isn't even in the top 10 of common Canadian
surnames. The answers in this round -- at least according to one
source -- are. In each case, name the person described.
1. The Inn at Fortune Bay on PEI is owned by this well-known
Canadian chef, famous for hosting various cooking shows and for
being a judge on "Chopped Canada" -- and also for being very
tall. Name him -- first and last name required for this one.
2. This Canadian is a former CBC radio host, now writing for the
"National Post". In 2014 he was investigated for taking paid
speaking engagements on behalf of oil-sands companies while
criticizing the companies' political opponents in his "Point
of View" segments on the CBC.
3. This doctor was working at Toronto East General Hospital
and also doing international air-evacuation work and expedition
medicine on Arctic and Antarctic ships when he met Margaret
Atwood. She mentored his writing, and he went on to win the
2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
4. He was the 21st prime minister of Canada, serving from December
2003 to February 2006.
5. This journalist and politician was born in Scotland in 1818.
He played an instrumental role in Confederation, participating
in the Charlottetown and Quebec Conferences in 1864. He also
founded one of the two newspapers which would later merge to
become the "Globe and Mail".
6. This Quebecois author was a member of the Royal Society of
Canada, a 3-time Governor-General's Award winner and a Companion
of the Order of Canada. She is best known for her novel "The
Tin Flute".
7. He was a lawyer and businessman before becoming mayor of Montreal
in 2001. He held that position until 2012, when, surprisingly,
he stepped down amid corruption allegations.
8. This renowned chef and restauranteur is a pioneer of modern
Chinese cuisine and fusion cooking. He received the prestigious
CAA Five Diamond Award in France and was named one of the ten
"chefs of the millennium".
9. He was an Olympic athlete, winning 5 gold medals for short-track
speed skating between 1994 and 2002. Until 2006, he had the
distinction of being the most decorated Canadian Winter Olympian
of all time. In 2008, he was inducted into Canada's Sports
Hall of Fame.
10. This lawyer and judge was the first woman appointed to the
Supreme Court of Canada. She participated in several key
Supreme Court decisions. In 1988 she was appointed to the
Erasmus-Dussault Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.
She was named Companion of the Order of Canada in 1992.
* Game 6, Round 8 - Science - Dinosaurs
If you were 8, you would know the answer to literally every
question in this round, but since you're not 8, let's give it a try.
We'll name the creature, and you tell us which image it is on the
3-page handout:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/6-8/saur.pdf
1. Dilophosaurus.
2. Parasaurolophus.
3. Styracosaurus.
4. Brachiosaurus.
5. Albertosaurus.
6. Edmontosaurus.
7. Dimetrodon.
8. Ankylosaurus.
9. Pachycephalosaurus.
10. Compsognathus.
If you want to identify the 8 decoys for fun, but for no points,
please decode the rot13 below.
11. Bivencgbe.
12. Nepurbcgrelk.
13. Fgrtbfnhehf.
14. Cgrebqnpgly.
15. Glenaabfnhehf Erk.
16. Fcvabfnhehf.
17. Gevprengbcf.
18. Vthnanqba.
(Gung'f evtug, gur qrpblf vapyhqrq zbfg bs gur rnfvre barf. V qvqa'g
jevgr vg!)
--
Mark Brader, Toronto, m...@vex.net
"But even though they probably certainly know that you probably
wouldn't, they don't certainly know that although you probably
wouldn't there's no probability that you certainly would."
-- Sir Humphrey Appleby ("Yes, Prime Minister") on nuclear deterrence
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Joshua Kreitzer
Sep 30, 2018, 8:33:14 PM9/30/18
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:a8ednfixObYkpCzGnZ2dnUU7-
VPN...@giganews.com:
> * Game 6, Round 7 - Canadiana - Commonly Named
>
> We all fall back on "Johnson" when we don't know the answer, but,
> surprisingly, Johnson isn't even in the top 10 of common Canadian
> surnames. The answers in this round -- at least according to one
> source -- are. In each case, name the person described.
>
> * Game 6, Round 8 - Science - Dinosaurs
>
> If you were 8, you would know the answer to literally every
> question in this round, but since you're not 8, let's give it a try.
> We'll name the creature, and you tell us which image it is on the
> 3-page handout:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/6-8/saur.pdf
>
> 1. Dilophosaurus.
6; 7
> 2. Parasaurolophus.
8; 16
> 3. Styracosaurus.
11; 15
> 4. Brachiosaurus.
10
> 5. Albertosaurus.
6; 7
> 6. Edmontosaurus.
8; 16
> 7. Dimetrodon.
11; 15
> 8. Ankylosaurus.
3
> 9. Pachycephalosaurus.
14
> 10. Compsognathus.
6; 7
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
VPN...@giganews.com:
> * Game 6, Round 7 - Canadiana - Commonly Named
>
> We all fall back on "Johnson" when we don't know the answer, but,
> surprisingly, Johnson isn't even in the top 10 of common Canadian
> surnames. The answers in this round -- at least according to one
> source -- are. In each case, name the person described.
>
> 4. He was the 21st prime minister of Canada, serving from December
> 2003 to February 2006.
Martin
> 2003 to February 2006.
> * Game 6, Round 8 - Science - Dinosaurs
>
> If you were 8, you would know the answer to literally every
> question in this round, but since you're not 8, let's give it a try.
> We'll name the creature, and you tell us which image it is on the
> 3-page handout:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/6-8/saur.pdf
>
> 1. Dilophosaurus.
> 2. Parasaurolophus.
8; 16
> 3. Styracosaurus.
11; 15
> 4. Brachiosaurus.
10
> 5. Albertosaurus.
6; 7
> 6. Edmontosaurus.
8; 16
> 7. Dimetrodon.
11; 15
> 8. Ankylosaurus.
3
> 9. Pachycephalosaurus.
14
> 10. Compsognathus.
6; 7
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Dan Blum
Sep 30, 2018, 9:38:18 PM9/30/18
to
> 4. He was the 21st prime minister of Canada, serving from December
> 2003 to February 2006.
Mulroney
> 2003 to February 2006.
> 8. This renowned chef and restauranteur is a pioneer of modern
> Chinese cuisine and fusion cooking. He received the prestigious
> CAA Five Diamond Award in France and was named one of the ten
> "chefs of the millennium".
> * Game 6, Round 8 - Science - Dinosaurs
7; 17
> 2. Parasaurolophus.
11; 18
> 3. Styracosaurus.
18; 11
> 4. Brachiosaurus.
10
> 5. Albertosaurus.
> 6. Edmontosaurus.
6; 7
> 7. Dimetrodon.
5
> 8. Ankylosaurus.
3
> 9. Pachycephalosaurus.
14
> 10. Compsognathus.
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Mark Brader
Oct 4, 2018, 9:53:47 PM10/4/18
to
Mark Brader:
source. There isn't much good information on the Internet about
common Canadian surnames, but I didn't find any source that puts
Murphy in the top 10. I've softened the wording above, but left
the questions alone.
> 1. The Inn at Fortune Bay on PEI is owned by this well-known
> Canadian chef, famous for hosting various cooking shows and for
> being a judge on "Chopped Canada" -- and also for being very
> tall. Name him -- first and last name required for this one.
Michael Smith.
> 2. This Canadian is a former CBC radio host, now writing for the
> "National Post". In 2014 he was investigated for taking paid
> speaking engagements on behalf of oil-sands companies while
> criticizing the companies' political opponents in his "Point
> of View" segments on the CBC.
Rex Murphy.
> 3. This doctor was working at Toronto East General Hospital
> and also doing international air-evacuation work and expedition
> medicine on Arctic and Antarctic ships when he met Margaret
> Atwood. She mentored his writing, and he went on to win the
> 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Vincent Lam. (Won for "Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures".)
> 4. He was the 21st prime minister of Canada, serving from December
> 2003 to February 2006.
Paul Martin (Jr.). 4 for Joshua.
On "Jeopardy!" on Tuesday, one of the contestants was Canadian and she
told an anecdote of chatting with a former Canadian prime minister
when seated beside him on a plane, and never recognizing him.
She didn't identify which PM that was, but considering various
factors, I think Martin is definitely the most likely.
> 5. This journalist and politician was born in Scotland in 1818.
> He played an instrumental role in Confederation, participating
> in the Charlottetown and Quebec Conferences in 1864. He also
> founded one of the two newspapers which would later merge to
> become the "Globe and Mail".
George Brown.
> 6. This Quebecois author was a member of the Royal Society of
> Canada, a 3-time Governor-General's Award winner and a Companion
> of the Order of Canada. She is best known for her novel "The
> Tin Flute".
Gabrielle Roy.
> 7. He was a lawyer and businessman before becoming mayor of Montreal
> in 2001. He held that position until 2012, when, surprisingly,
> he stepped down amid corruption allegations.
Gérald Tremblay.
> 8. This renowned chef and restauranteur is a pioneer of modern
> Chinese cuisine and fusion cooking. He received the prestigious
> CAA Five Diamond Award in France and was named one of the ten
> "chefs of the millennium".
Susur Lee.
> 9. He was an Olympic athlete, winning 5 gold medals for short-track
> speed skating between 1994 and 2002. Until 2006, he had the
> distinction of being the most decorated Canadian Winter Olympian
> of all time. In 2008, he was inducted into Canada's Sports
> Hall of Fame.
Marc Gagnon.
> 10. This lawyer and judge was the first woman appointed to the
> Supreme Court of Canada. She participated in several key
> Supreme Court decisions. In 1988 she was appointed to the
> Erasmus-Dussault Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.
> She was named Companion of the Order of Canada in 1992.
Bertha Wilson.
> * Game 6, Round 8 - Science - Dinosaurs
> If you were 8, you would know the answer to literally every
> question in this round, but since you're not 8, let's give it a try.
> We'll name the creature, and you tell us which image it is on the
> 3-page handout:
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/6-8/saur.pdf
> 1. Dilophosaurus.
#11.
> 2. Parasaurolophus.
#16. 2 for Joshua.
> 3. Styracosaurus.
#2.
> 4. Brachiosaurus.
#10. 4 for everyone -- Joshua and Dan.
> 5. Albertosaurus.
#7. 2 for everyone. (And I bet this is the first time *that's*
ever happened on a QFTCI!)
> 6. Edmontosaurus.
#15.
> 7. Dimetrodon.
#5. 4 for Dan.
> 8. Ankylosaurus.
#3. 4 for everyone.
> 9. Pachycephalosaurus.
#14. 4 for everyone.
> 10. Compsognathus.
#6. 3 for Joshua.
> If you want to identify the 8 decoys for fun, but for no points,
> please decode the rot13 below.
> 11. Oviraptor.
#17.
> 12. Archeopteryx.
#13.
> 13. Stegosaurus.
#4.
> 14. Pterodactyl.
#9.
> 15. Tyrannosaurus Rex.
#1.
> 16. Spinosaurus.
#18.
> 17. Triceratops.
#12.
> 18. Iguanadon.
#8.
> (That's right, the decoys included most of the easier ones. I didn't
> write it!)
And nobody tried these.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 6 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> Lei Can Geo A& Can Sci FOUR
Joshua Kreitzer 32 13 35 27 4 19 113
Dan Blum 28 14 28 28 0 18 102
Bruce Bowler 24 0 20 20 -- -- 64
Peter Smyth -- -- 28 28 -- -- 56
Dan Tilque 24 0 28 4 -- -- 56
Pete Gayde 16 0 18 19 -- -- 53
"Calvin" -- -- 26 15 -- -- 41
Erland Sommarskog -- -- 22 0 -- -- 22
Jason Kreitzer 12 4 -- -- -- -- 16
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "True excitement lies in doing
m...@vex.net | 'sdb /unix /dev/kmem'" -- Pontus Hedman
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2018-06-25,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2018-07-16 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 6, Round 7 - Canadiana - Commonly Named
> We all fall back on "Johnson" when we don't know the answer, but,
> surprisingly, Johnson isn't even in the top 10 of common Canadian
> surnames. The answers in this round -- at least according to one
> source -- are. In each case, name the person described.
Again, the author of the round seems to have relied on a dubious
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 6, Round 7 - Canadiana - Commonly Named
> We all fall back on "Johnson" when we don't know the answer, but,
> surprisingly, Johnson isn't even in the top 10 of common Canadian
> surnames. The answers in this round -- at least according to one
> source -- are. In each case, name the person described.
source. There isn't much good information on the Internet about
common Canadian surnames, but I didn't find any source that puts
Murphy in the top 10. I've softened the wording above, but left
the questions alone.
> 1. The Inn at Fortune Bay on PEI is owned by this well-known
> Canadian chef, famous for hosting various cooking shows and for
> being a judge on "Chopped Canada" -- and also for being very
> tall. Name him -- first and last name required for this one.
> 2. This Canadian is a former CBC radio host, now writing for the
> "National Post". In 2014 he was investigated for taking paid
> speaking engagements on behalf of oil-sands companies while
> criticizing the companies' political opponents in his "Point
> of View" segments on the CBC.
> 3. This doctor was working at Toronto East General Hospital
> and also doing international air-evacuation work and expedition
> medicine on Arctic and Antarctic ships when he met Margaret
> Atwood. She mentored his writing, and he went on to win the
> 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
> 4. He was the 21st prime minister of Canada, serving from December
> 2003 to February 2006.
On "Jeopardy!" on Tuesday, one of the contestants was Canadian and she
told an anecdote of chatting with a former Canadian prime minister
when seated beside him on a plane, and never recognizing him.
She didn't identify which PM that was, but considering various
factors, I think Martin is definitely the most likely.
> 5. This journalist and politician was born in Scotland in 1818.
> He played an instrumental role in Confederation, participating
> in the Charlottetown and Quebec Conferences in 1864. He also
> founded one of the two newspapers which would later merge to
> become the "Globe and Mail".
> 6. This Quebecois author was a member of the Royal Society of
> Canada, a 3-time Governor-General's Award winner and a Companion
> of the Order of Canada. She is best known for her novel "The
> Tin Flute".
> 7. He was a lawyer and businessman before becoming mayor of Montreal
> in 2001. He held that position until 2012, when, surprisingly,
> he stepped down amid corruption allegations.
> 8. This renowned chef and restauranteur is a pioneer of modern
> Chinese cuisine and fusion cooking. He received the prestigious
> CAA Five Diamond Award in France and was named one of the ten
> "chefs of the millennium".
> 9. He was an Olympic athlete, winning 5 gold medals for short-track
> speed skating between 1994 and 2002. Until 2006, he had the
> distinction of being the most decorated Canadian Winter Olympian
> of all time. In 2008, he was inducted into Canada's Sports
> Hall of Fame.
> 10. This lawyer and judge was the first woman appointed to the
> Supreme Court of Canada. She participated in several key
> Supreme Court decisions. In 1988 she was appointed to the
> Erasmus-Dussault Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.
> She was named Companion of the Order of Canada in 1992.
> * Game 6, Round 8 - Science - Dinosaurs
> If you were 8, you would know the answer to literally every
> question in this round, but since you're not 8, let's give it a try.
> We'll name the creature, and you tell us which image it is on the
> 3-page handout:
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/6-8/saur.pdf
> 1. Dilophosaurus.
> 2. Parasaurolophus.
#16. 2 for Joshua.
> 3. Styracosaurus.
#2.
> 4. Brachiosaurus.
#10. 4 for everyone -- Joshua and Dan.
> 5. Albertosaurus.
#7. 2 for everyone. (And I bet this is the first time *that's*
ever happened on a QFTCI!)
> 6. Edmontosaurus.
#15.
> 7. Dimetrodon.
#5. 4 for Dan.
> 8. Ankylosaurus.
#3. 4 for everyone.
> 9. Pachycephalosaurus.
#14. 4 for everyone.
> 10. Compsognathus.
#6. 3 for Joshua.
> If you want to identify the 8 decoys for fun, but for no points,
> please decode the rot13 below.
#17.
> 12. Archeopteryx.
#13.
> 13. Stegosaurus.
#4.
> 14. Pterodactyl.
#9.
> 15. Tyrannosaurus Rex.
#1.
> 16. Spinosaurus.
#18.
> 17. Triceratops.
#12.
> 18. Iguanadon.
#8.
> (That's right, the decoys included most of the easier ones. I didn't
> write it!)
And nobody tried these.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 6 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> Lei Can Geo A& Can Sci FOUR
Joshua Kreitzer 32 13 35 27 4 19 113
Dan Blum 28 14 28 28 0 18 102
Bruce Bowler 24 0 20 20 -- -- 64
Peter Smyth -- -- 28 28 -- -- 56
Dan Tilque 24 0 28 4 -- -- 56
Pete Gayde 16 0 18 19 -- -- 53
"Calvin" -- -- 26 15 -- -- 41
Erland Sommarskog -- -- 22 0 -- -- 22
Jason Kreitzer 12 4 -- -- -- -- 16
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "True excitement lies in doing
m...@vex.net | 'sdb /unix /dev/kmem'" -- Pontus Hedman
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