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Mark Brader
Dec 8, 2014, 5:12:05 PM12/8/14
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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-11-03,
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 in a single followup to the newsgroup,
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 Unnatural Axxxe, 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 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
Game 7, Round 2 - History - Cartoon Canon
Here's a round of cartoon panels by the eclectic science/history
cartoonist Larry Gonick. Answer these questions about the
following:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/7-2/gonick.pdf
(All the cartoons are single panels. For newsgroup purposes I have
rearranged the questions in picture order. Again, there were no
decoys in this game.)
1. Picture A depicts the denouement of which war?
2. Picture B. Name the Roman Emperor who ruled for 41 years
starting in 27 BC.
3. Picture C. The man pictured circa 570 is a cousin of which
major historical figure?
4. Picture D. Circa 164 BC, who were the historically influential
Jewish purists who took control of Jerusalem? Today an Israeli
athletic competition and many sporting teams are named after
them.
5. Picture E is about an illustrious king of France who sold
Montreal to the Catholic Church in the 1660s, in one of his
first acts as monarch. Which king?
6. Picture F. Circa 206 BC, name the dynasty whose beginnings
are depicted. It would last for 400 years.
7. Circa 540 BC, name the historical figure depicted in picture G.
8. Depicted in Picture H, King Felipe II, battled Protestants in
two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that
he was king of.
9. In Picture I, Pope Alexander VI negotiated a New World agreement,
basically giving the West Indies to one country and the East
Indies to another. Name either.
10. Picture J. In case you thought WW2 was a fluke, the French
surrender-monkeys let the Germans walk into Paris in the
19th century too. Within two years, when did the nascent
German/Prussian nation begin occupying the City of Lights?
Game 7, Round 3 - Entertainment - Network TV? What's That?
Unless you're a fan of loud laugh tracks and acronyms like CSI
and NCIS, there's not much on network TV for you these days.
The action's all on HBO and Showtime and FX and AMC. And if you
come up empty on cable, there's always Netflix and Internet series.
Here's a round on alternative TV. In each case, name the series.
1. The show that ignited the first-run cable renaissance, its
characters included Big Pussy, Uncle Junior, and Pauly Walnuts.
2. Our favorite chemistry teacher turned anti-hero preferred to
do his dirty work under the pseudonym Heisenberg.
3. Mandy Patinkin played Death -- or rather the manager in charge
of a group of Death recruits -- in this series about the
afterlife of a girl killed by a toilet seat from the space
station Mir. Name the single-season Showtime series.
4. Nick Stahl was a Depression-era vagrant with visions of mushroom
clouds, who signed on as a carny. Name that single-season,
singularly weird HBO series.
5. Kevin Spacey plays murderously ambitious Vice President Frank
Underwood in this groundbreaking made-for-Netflix series.
6. Jessica Lange played different characters in each of the first
3 seasons of this macabre anthology series that kick-started
independent production on the FX network.
7. President Obama's favorite TV series is this Showtime production
(airing on Superchannel in Canada), starring Claire Danes as
a bipolar FBI agent engaged in the war on terror.
8. The next most acclaimed series produced specifically for Netflix
is about life in a women's prison.
9. This ostensibly educational web-series -- which originated on
the web site funnyordie.com -- sees comedians drink prodigious
amounts of liquor and then give garbled accounts of historical
events. Famous actors do their best to act out the stories
as described.
10. Jerry Seinfeld became pop culturally relevant again with this
hit web-based series that combined his love of cars with his
love of comedy.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pedantic and
m...@vex.net that's just as good." -- D Gary Grady
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 in a single followup to the newsgroup,
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 Unnatural Axxxe, 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 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
Game 7, Round 2 - History - Cartoon Canon
Here's a round of cartoon panels by the eclectic science/history
cartoonist Larry Gonick. Answer these questions about the
following:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/7-2/gonick.pdf
(All the cartoons are single panels. For newsgroup purposes I have
rearranged the questions in picture order. Again, there were no
decoys in this game.)
1. Picture A depicts the denouement of which war?
2. Picture B. Name the Roman Emperor who ruled for 41 years
starting in 27 BC.
3. Picture C. The man pictured circa 570 is a cousin of which
major historical figure?
4. Picture D. Circa 164 BC, who were the historically influential
Jewish purists who took control of Jerusalem? Today an Israeli
athletic competition and many sporting teams are named after
them.
5. Picture E is about an illustrious king of France who sold
Montreal to the Catholic Church in the 1660s, in one of his
first acts as monarch. Which king?
6. Picture F. Circa 206 BC, name the dynasty whose beginnings
are depicted. It would last for 400 years.
7. Circa 540 BC, name the historical figure depicted in picture G.
8. Depicted in Picture H, King Felipe II, battled Protestants in
two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that
he was king of.
9. In Picture I, Pope Alexander VI negotiated a New World agreement,
basically giving the West Indies to one country and the East
Indies to another. Name either.
10. Picture J. In case you thought WW2 was a fluke, the French
surrender-monkeys let the Germans walk into Paris in the
19th century too. Within two years, when did the nascent
German/Prussian nation begin occupying the City of Lights?
Game 7, Round 3 - Entertainment - Network TV? What's That?
Unless you're a fan of loud laugh tracks and acronyms like CSI
and NCIS, there's not much on network TV for you these days.
The action's all on HBO and Showtime and FX and AMC. And if you
come up empty on cable, there's always Netflix and Internet series.
Here's a round on alternative TV. In each case, name the series.
1. The show that ignited the first-run cable renaissance, its
characters included Big Pussy, Uncle Junior, and Pauly Walnuts.
2. Our favorite chemistry teacher turned anti-hero preferred to
do his dirty work under the pseudonym Heisenberg.
3. Mandy Patinkin played Death -- or rather the manager in charge
of a group of Death recruits -- in this series about the
afterlife of a girl killed by a toilet seat from the space
station Mir. Name the single-season Showtime series.
4. Nick Stahl was a Depression-era vagrant with visions of mushroom
clouds, who signed on as a carny. Name that single-season,
singularly weird HBO series.
5. Kevin Spacey plays murderously ambitious Vice President Frank
Underwood in this groundbreaking made-for-Netflix series.
6. Jessica Lange played different characters in each of the first
3 seasons of this macabre anthology series that kick-started
independent production on the FX network.
7. President Obama's favorite TV series is this Showtime production
(airing on Superchannel in Canada), starring Claire Danes as
a bipolar FBI agent engaged in the war on terror.
8. The next most acclaimed series produced specifically for Netflix
is about life in a women's prison.
9. This ostensibly educational web-series -- which originated on
the web site funnyordie.com -- sees comedians drink prodigious
amounts of liquor and then give garbled accounts of historical
events. Famous actors do their best to act out the stories
as described.
10. Jerry Seinfeld became pop culturally relevant again with this
hit web-based series that combined his love of cars with his
love of comedy.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pedantic and
m...@vex.net that's just as good." -- D Gary Grady
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Peter Smyth
Dec 8, 2014, 6:41:05 PM12/8/14
to
Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-11-03,
> 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 in a single followup to the newsgroup,
> 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 Unnatural Axxxe, 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 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> Game 7, Round 2 - History - Cartoon Canon
>
> Here's a round of cartoon panels by the eclectic science/history
> cartoonist Larry Gonick. Answer these questions about the
> following:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/7-2/gonick.pdf
>
> (All the cartoons are single panels. For newsgroup purposes I have
> rearranged the questions in picture order. Again, there were no
> decoys in this game.)
>
> 1. Picture A depicts the denouement of which war?
Hundred Years War
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-11-03,
> 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 in a single followup to the newsgroup,
> 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 Unnatural Axxxe, 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 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> Game 7, Round 2 - History - Cartoon Canon
>
> Here's a round of cartoon panels by the eclectic science/history
> cartoonist Larry Gonick. Answer these questions about the
> following:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/7-2/gonick.pdf
>
> (All the cartoons are single panels. For newsgroup purposes I have
> rearranged the questions in picture order. Again, there were no
> decoys in this game.)
>
> 1. Picture A depicts the denouement of which war?
> 2. Picture B. Name the Roman Emperor who ruled for 41 years
> starting in 27 BC.
Augustus
> starting in 27 BC.
> 3. Picture C. The man pictured circa 570 is a cousin of which
> major historical figure?
Mohammed
> major historical figure?
> 4. Picture D. Circa 164 BC, who were the historically influential
> Jewish purists who took control of Jerusalem? Today an Israeli
> athletic competition and many sporting teams are named after
> them.
Maccabees
> Jewish purists who took control of Jerusalem? Today an Israeli
> athletic competition and many sporting teams are named after
> them.
> 5. Picture E is about an illustrious king of France who sold
> Montreal to the Catholic Church in the 1660s, in one of his
> first acts as monarch. Which king?
Louis XIV, Louis XV
> Montreal to the Catholic Church in the 1660s, in one of his
> first acts as monarch. Which king?
> 6. Picture F. Circa 206 BC, name the dynasty whose beginnings
> are depicted. It would last for 400 years.
Ming
> are depicted. It would last for 400 years.
> 7. Circa 540 BC, name the historical figure depicted in picture G.
Buddha
> 8. Depicted in Picture H, King Felipe II, battled Protestants in
> two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that
> he was king of.
Portugal
> two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that
> he was king of.
> 9. In Picture I, Pope Alexander VI negotiated a New World agreement,
> basically giving the West Indies to one country and the East
> Indies to another. Name either.
Netherlands
> basically giving the West Indies to one country and the East
> Indies to another. Name either.
> 10. Picture J. In case you thought WW2 was a fluke, the French
> surrender-monkeys let the Germans walk into Paris in the
> 19th century too. Within two years, when did the nascent
> German/Prussian nation begin occupying the City of Lights?
1815
> surrender-monkeys let the Germans walk into Paris in the
> 19th century too. Within two years, when did the nascent
> German/Prussian nation begin occupying the City of Lights?
>
> Game 7, Round 3 - Entertainment - Network TV? What's That?
>
> Unless you're a fan of loud laugh tracks and acronyms like CSI
> and NCIS, there's not much on network TV for you these days.
> The action's all on HBO and Showtime and FX and AMC. And if you
> come up empty on cable, there's always Netflix and Internet series.
> Here's a round on alternative TV. In each case, name the series.
>
> 1. The show that ignited the first-run cable renaissance, its
> characters included Big Pussy, Uncle Junior, and Pauly Walnuts.
The Sopranos
> Game 7, Round 3 - Entertainment - Network TV? What's That?
>
> Unless you're a fan of loud laugh tracks and acronyms like CSI
> and NCIS, there's not much on network TV for you these days.
> The action's all on HBO and Showtime and FX and AMC. And if you
> come up empty on cable, there's always Netflix and Internet series.
> Here's a round on alternative TV. In each case, name the series.
>
> 1. The show that ignited the first-run cable renaissance, its
> characters included Big Pussy, Uncle Junior, and Pauly Walnuts.
> 2. Our favorite chemistry teacher turned anti-hero preferred to
> do his dirty work under the pseudonym Heisenberg.
Breaking Bad
> do his dirty work under the pseudonym Heisenberg.
> 3. Mandy Patinkin played Death -- or rather the manager in charge
> of a group of Death recruits -- in this series about the
> afterlife of a girl killed by a toilet seat from the space
> station Mir. Name the single-season Showtime series.
>
> 4. Nick Stahl was a Depression-era vagrant with visions of mushroom
> clouds, who signed on as a carny. Name that single-season,
> singularly weird HBO series.
Carnivale (I think it had more than one season though)
> of a group of Death recruits -- in this series about the
> afterlife of a girl killed by a toilet seat from the space
> station Mir. Name the single-season Showtime series.
>
> 4. Nick Stahl was a Depression-era vagrant with visions of mushroom
> clouds, who signed on as a carny. Name that single-season,
> singularly weird HBO series.
> 5. Kevin Spacey plays murderously ambitious Vice President Frank
> Underwood in this groundbreaking made-for-Netflix series.
House of Cards
> Underwood in this groundbreaking made-for-Netflix series.
> 6. Jessica Lange played different characters in each of the first
> 3 seasons of this macabre anthology series that kick-started
> independent production on the FX network.
American Horror Story
> 3 seasons of this macabre anthology series that kick-started
> independent production on the FX network.
> 7. President Obama's favorite TV series is this Showtime production
> (airing on Superchannel in Canada), starring Claire Danes as
> a bipolar FBI agent engaged in the war on terror.
Homeland
> (airing on Superchannel in Canada), starring Claire Danes as
> a bipolar FBI agent engaged in the war on terror.
> 8. The next most acclaimed series produced specifically for Netflix
> is about life in a women's prison.
Orange is the New Black
> is about life in a women's prison.
> 9. This ostensibly educational web-series -- which originated on
> the web site funnyordie.com -- sees comedians drink prodigious
> amounts of liquor and then give garbled accounts of historical
> events. Famous actors do their best to act out the stories
> as described.
>
> 10. Jerry Seinfeld became pop culturally relevant again with this
> hit web-based series that combined his love of cars with his
> love of comedy.
Peter Smyth
> the web site funnyordie.com -- sees comedians drink prodigious
> amounts of liquor and then give garbled accounts of historical
> events. Famous actors do their best to act out the stories
> as described.
>
> 10. Jerry Seinfeld became pop culturally relevant again with this
> hit web-based series that combined his love of cars with his
> love of comedy.
Calvin
Dec 8, 2014, 7:49:21 PM12/8/14
to
On Tuesday, December 9, 2014 8:12:05 AM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
> Game 7, Round 2 - History - Cartoon Canon
>
> Here's a round of cartoon panels by the eclectic science/history
> cartoonist Larry Gonick. Answer these questions about the
> following:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/7-2/gonick.pdf
>
> (All the cartoons are single panels. For newsgroup purposes I have
> rearranged the questions in picture order. Again, there were no
> decoys in this game.)
>
> 1. Picture A depicts the denouement of which war?
Hundred Years War
> Game 7, Round 2 - History - Cartoon Canon
>
> Here's a round of cartoon panels by the eclectic science/history
> cartoonist Larry Gonick. Answer these questions about the
> following:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/7-2/gonick.pdf
>
> (All the cartoons are single panels. For newsgroup purposes I have
> rearranged the questions in picture order. Again, there were no
> decoys in this game.)
>
> 1. Picture A depicts the denouement of which war?
> 2. Picture B. Name the Roman Emperor who ruled for 41 years
> starting in 27 BC.
> 3. Picture C. The man pictured circa 570 is a cousin of which
> major historical figure?
> 4. Picture D. Circa 164 BC, who were the historically influential
> Jewish purists who took control of Jerusalem? Today an Israeli
> athletic competition and many sporting teams are named after
> them.
> 5. Picture E is about an illustrious king of France who sold
> Montreal to the Catholic Church in the 1660s, in one of his
> first acts as monarch. Which king?
> 6. Picture F. Circa 206 BC, name the dynasty whose beginnings
> are depicted. It would last for 400 years.
> 7. Circa 540 BC, name the historical figure depicted in picture G.
> 8. Depicted in Picture H, King Felipe II, battled Protestants in
> two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that
> he was king of.
> 9. In Picture I, Pope Alexander VI negotiated a New World agreement,
> basically giving the West Indies to one country and the East
> Indies to another. Name either.
> 10. Picture J. In case you thought WW2 was a fluke, the French
> surrender-monkeys let the Germans walk into Paris in the
> 19th century too. Within two years, when did the nascent
> German/Prussian nation begin occupying the City of Lights?
> Game 7, Round 3 - Entertainment - Network TV? What's That?
>
> 1. The show that ignited the first-run cable renaissance, its
> characters included Big Pussy, Uncle Junior, and Pauly Walnuts.
The Sopranos
> characters included Big Pussy, Uncle Junior, and Pauly Walnuts.
> 2. Our favorite chemistry teacher turned anti-hero preferred to
> do his dirty work under the pseudonym Heisenberg.
> 3. Mandy Patinkin played Death -- or rather the manager in charge
> of a group of Death recruits -- in this series about the
> afterlife of a girl killed by a toilet seat from the space
> station Mir. Name the single-season Showtime series.
>
> 4. Nick Stahl was a Depression-era vagrant with visions of mushroom
> clouds, who signed on as a carny. Name that single-season,
> singularly weird HBO series.
>
> 5. Kevin Spacey plays murderously ambitious Vice President Frank
> Underwood in this groundbreaking made-for-Netflix series.
> 6. Jessica Lange played different characters in each of the first
> 3 seasons of this macabre anthology series that kick-started
> independent production on the FX network.
>
> 7. President Obama's favorite TV series is this Showtime production
> (airing on Superchannel in Canada), starring Claire Danes as
> a bipolar FBI agent engaged in the war on terror.
> 8. The next most acclaimed series produced specifically for Netflix
> is about life in a women's prison.
> 9. This ostensibly educational web-series -- which originated on
> the web site funnyordie.com -- sees comedians drink prodigious
> amounts of liquor and then give garbled accounts of historical
> events. Famous actors do their best to act out the stories
> as described.
>
> 10. Jerry Seinfeld became pop culturally relevant again with this
> hit web-based series that combined his love of cars with his
> love of comedy.
calvin
Rob Parker
Dec 8, 2014, 8:49:43 PM12/8/14
to
> Game 7, Round 2 - History - Cartoon Canon
>
>
> 1. Picture A depicts the denouement of which war?
Hundred Years War
> 2. Picture B. Name the Roman Emperor who ruled for 41 years
> starting in 27 BC.
> 3. Picture C. The man pictured circa 570 is a cousin of which
> major historical figure?
> 4. Picture D. Circa 164 BC, who were the historically influential
> Jewish purists who took control of Jerusalem? Today an Israeli
> athletic competition and many sporting teams are named after
> them.
> 5. Picture E is about an illustrious king of France who sold
> Montreal to the Catholic Church in the 1660s, in one of his
> first acts as monarch. Which king?
>
> 6. Picture F. Circa 206 BC, name the dynasty whose beginnings
> are depicted. It would last for 400 years.
>
> 7. Circa 540 BC, name the historical figure depicted in picture G.
> 8. Depicted in Picture H, King Felipe II, battled Protestants in
> two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that
> he was king of.
> 9. In Picture I, Pope Alexander VI negotiated a New World agreement,
> basically giving the West Indies to one country and the East
> Indies to another. Name either.
> 10. Picture J. In case you thought WW2 was a fluke, the French
> surrender-monkeys let the Germans walk into Paris in the
> 19th century too. Within two years, when did the nascent
> German/Prussian nation begin occupying the City of Lights?
> Game 7, Round 3 - Entertainment - Network TV? What's That?
Rob
Joshua Kreitzer
Dec 8, 2014, 9:12:55 PM12/8/14
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:_ZSdnfSDpYqovxvJnZ2dnUU7-
Xmd...@vex.net:
> Game 7, Round 2 - History - Cartoon Canon
>
> Here's a round of cartoon panels by the eclectic science/history
> cartoonist Larry Gonick. Answer these questions about the
> following:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/7-2/gonick.pdf
>
> 2. Picture B. Name the Roman Emperor who ruled for 41 years
> starting in 27 BC.
Augustus
> 3. Picture C. The man pictured circa 570 is a cousin of which
> major historical figure?
Muhammad
> 4. Picture D. Circa 164 BC, who were the historically influential
> Jewish purists who took control of Jerusalem? Today an Israeli
> athletic competition and many sporting teams are named after
> them.
Maccabees
> 5. Picture E is about an illustrious king of France who sold
> Montreal to the Catholic Church in the 1660s, in one of his
> first acts as monarch. Which king?
Louis XIV
> 6. Picture F. Circa 206 BC, name the dynasty whose beginnings
> are depicted. It would last for 400 years.
Xin
> 7. Circa 540 BC, name the historical figure depicted in picture G.
Buddha
> 8. Depicted in Picture H, King Felipe II, battled Protestants in
> two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that
> he was king of.
Spain
> 9. In Picture I, Pope Alexander VI negotiated a New World agreement,
> basically giving the West Indies to one country and the East
> Indies to another. Name either.
Spain
> 10. Picture J. In case you thought WW2 was a fluke, the French
> surrender-monkeys let the Germans walk into Paris in the
> 19th century too. Within two years, when did the nascent
> German/Prussian nation begin occupying the City of Lights?
1870
> Game 7, Round 3 - Entertainment - Network TV? What's That?
>
> 2. Our favorite chemistry teacher turned anti-hero preferred to
> do his dirty work under the pseudonym Heisenberg.
"Breaking Bad"
> 4. Nick Stahl was a Depression-era vagrant with visions of mushroom
> clouds, who signed on as a carny. Name that single-season,
> singularly weird HBO series.
"Carnivale"
> 5. Kevin Spacey plays murderously ambitious Vice President Frank
> Underwood in this groundbreaking made-for-Netflix series.
"House of Cards"
> 6. Jessica Lange played different characters in each of the first
> 3 seasons of this macabre anthology series that kick-started
> independent production on the FX network.
"American Horror Story"
> 7. President Obama's favorite TV series is this Showtime production
> (airing on Superchannel in Canada), starring Claire Danes as
> a bipolar FBI agent engaged in the war on terror.
"Homeland"
> 8. The next most acclaimed series produced specifically for Netflix
> is about life in a women's prison.
"Orange Is the New Black"
> 9. This ostensibly educational web-series -- which originated on
> the web site funnyordie.com -- sees comedians drink prodigious
> amounts of liquor and then give garbled accounts of historical
> events. Famous actors do their best to act out the stories
> as described.
"Drunk History"
> 10. Jerry Seinfeld became pop culturally relevant again with this
> hit web-based series that combined his love of cars with his
> love of comedy.
"Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee"
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Xmd...@vex.net:
> Game 7, Round 2 - History - Cartoon Canon
>
> Here's a round of cartoon panels by the eclectic science/history
> cartoonist Larry Gonick. Answer these questions about the
> following:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/7-2/gonick.pdf
>
> 1. Picture A depicts the denouement of which war?
Hundred Years' War
> 2. Picture B. Name the Roman Emperor who ruled for 41 years
> starting in 27 BC.
> 3. Picture C. The man pictured circa 570 is a cousin of which
> major historical figure?
> 4. Picture D. Circa 164 BC, who were the historically influential
> Jewish purists who took control of Jerusalem? Today an Israeli
> athletic competition and many sporting teams are named after
> them.
> 5. Picture E is about an illustrious king of France who sold
> Montreal to the Catholic Church in the 1660s, in one of his
> first acts as monarch. Which king?
> 6. Picture F. Circa 206 BC, name the dynasty whose beginnings
> are depicted. It would last for 400 years.
> 7. Circa 540 BC, name the historical figure depicted in picture G.
> 8. Depicted in Picture H, King Felipe II, battled Protestants in
> two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that
> he was king of.
> 9. In Picture I, Pope Alexander VI negotiated a New World agreement,
> basically giving the West Indies to one country and the East
> Indies to another. Name either.
> 10. Picture J. In case you thought WW2 was a fluke, the French
> surrender-monkeys let the Germans walk into Paris in the
> 19th century too. Within two years, when did the nascent
> German/Prussian nation begin occupying the City of Lights?
> Game 7, Round 3 - Entertainment - Network TV? What's That?
>
> Here's a round on alternative TV. In each case, name the series.
>
> 1. The show that ignited the first-run cable renaissance, its
> characters included Big Pussy, Uncle Junior, and Pauly Walnuts.
"The Sopranos"
>
> 1. The show that ignited the first-run cable renaissance, its
> characters included Big Pussy, Uncle Junior, and Pauly Walnuts.
> 2. Our favorite chemistry teacher turned anti-hero preferred to
> do his dirty work under the pseudonym Heisenberg.
> 4. Nick Stahl was a Depression-era vagrant with visions of mushroom
> clouds, who signed on as a carny. Name that single-season,
> singularly weird HBO series.
> 5. Kevin Spacey plays murderously ambitious Vice President Frank
> Underwood in this groundbreaking made-for-Netflix series.
> 6. Jessica Lange played different characters in each of the first
> 3 seasons of this macabre anthology series that kick-started
> independent production on the FX network.
> 7. President Obama's favorite TV series is this Showtime production
> (airing on Superchannel in Canada), starring Claire Danes as
> a bipolar FBI agent engaged in the war on terror.
> 8. The next most acclaimed series produced specifically for Netflix
> is about life in a women's prison.
> 9. This ostensibly educational web-series -- which originated on
> the web site funnyordie.com -- sees comedians drink prodigious
> amounts of liquor and then give garbled accounts of historical
> events. Famous actors do their best to act out the stories
> as described.
> 10. Jerry Seinfeld became pop culturally relevant again with this
> hit web-based series that combined his love of cars with his
> love of comedy.
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Jason Kreitzer
Dec 8, 2014, 9:17:32 PM12/8/14
to
On Monday, December 8, 2014 5:12:05 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-11-03,
> 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 in a single followup to the newsgroup,
> 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 Unnatural Axxxe, 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 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> Game 7, Round 2 - History - Cartoon Canon
>
> Here's a round of cartoon panels by the eclectic science/history
> cartoonist Larry Gonick. Answer these questions about the
> following:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/7-2/gonick.pdf
>
> (All the cartoons are single panels. For newsgroup purposes I have
> rearranged the questions in picture order. Again, there were no
> decoys in this game.)
>
> 1. Picture A depicts the denouement of which war?
Hundred Years War
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-11-03,
> 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 in a single followup to the newsgroup,
> 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 Unnatural Axxxe, 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 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> Game 7, Round 2 - History - Cartoon Canon
>
> Here's a round of cartoon panels by the eclectic science/history
> cartoonist Larry Gonick. Answer these questions about the
> following:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/7-2/gonick.pdf
>
> (All the cartoons are single panels. For newsgroup purposes I have
> rearranged the questions in picture order. Again, there were no
> decoys in this game.)
>
> 1. Picture A depicts the denouement of which war?
> 2. Picture B. Name the Roman Emperor who ruled for 41 years
> starting in 27 BC.
>
> 3. Picture C. The man pictured circa 570 is a cousin of which
> major historical figure?
>
> 4. Picture D. Circa 164 BC, who were the historically influential
> Jewish purists who took control of Jerusalem? Today an Israeli
> athletic competition and many sporting teams are named after
> them.
Maccabees
> starting in 27 BC.
>
> 3. Picture C. The man pictured circa 570 is a cousin of which
> major historical figure?
>
> 4. Picture D. Circa 164 BC, who were the historically influential
> Jewish purists who took control of Jerusalem? Today an Israeli
> athletic competition and many sporting teams are named after
> them.
> 5. Picture E is about an illustrious king of France who sold
> Montreal to the Catholic Church in the 1660s, in one of his
> first acts as monarch. Which king?
>
> 6. Picture F. Circa 206 BC, name the dynasty whose beginnings
> are depicted. It would last for 400 years.
Ming?
> Montreal to the Catholic Church in the 1660s, in one of his
> first acts as monarch. Which king?
>
> 6. Picture F. Circa 206 BC, name the dynasty whose beginnings
> are depicted. It would last for 400 years.
> 7. Circa 540 BC, name the historical figure depicted in picture G.
Buddha
> 8. Depicted in Picture H, King Felipe II, battled Protestants in
> two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that
> he was king of.
>
> 9. In Picture I, Pope Alexander VI negotiated a New World agreement,
> basically giving the West Indies to one country and the East
> Indies to another. Name either.
Netherlands
> two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that
> he was king of.
>
> 9. In Picture I, Pope Alexander VI negotiated a New World agreement,
> basically giving the West Indies to one country and the East
> Indies to another. Name either.
> 10. Picture J. In case you thought WW2 was a fluke, the French
> surrender-monkeys let the Germans walk into Paris in the
> 19th century too. Within two years, when did the nascent
> German/Prussian nation begin occupying the City of Lights?
>
>
> Game 7, Round 3 - Entertainment - Network TV? What's That?
>
> Unless you're a fan of loud laugh tracks and acronyms like CSI
> and NCIS, there's not much on network TV for you these days.
> The action's all on HBO and Showtime and FX and AMC. And if you
> come up empty on cable, there's always Netflix and Internet series.
> Here's a round on alternative TV. In each case, name the series.
>
> 1. The show that ignited the first-run cable renaissance, its
> characters included Big Pussy, Uncle Junior, and Pauly Walnuts.
"The Sopranos"
> surrender-monkeys let the Germans walk into Paris in the
> 19th century too. Within two years, when did the nascent
> German/Prussian nation begin occupying the City of Lights?
>
>
> Game 7, Round 3 - Entertainment - Network TV? What's That?
>
> Unless you're a fan of loud laugh tracks and acronyms like CSI
> and NCIS, there's not much on network TV for you these days.
> The action's all on HBO and Showtime and FX and AMC. And if you
> come up empty on cable, there's always Netflix and Internet series.
> Here's a round on alternative TV. In each case, name the series.
>
> 1. The show that ignited the first-run cable renaissance, its
> characters included Big Pussy, Uncle Junior, and Pauly Walnuts.
> 2. Our favorite chemistry teacher turned anti-hero preferred to
> do his dirty work under the pseudonym Heisenberg.
Walter White
> do his dirty work under the pseudonym Heisenberg.
> 3. Mandy Patinkin played Death -- or rather the manager in charge
> of a group of Death recruits -- in this series about the
> afterlife of a girl killed by a toilet seat from the space
> station Mir. Name the single-season Showtime series.
>
> 4. Nick Stahl was a Depression-era vagrant with visions of mushroom
> clouds, who signed on as a carny. Name that single-season,
> singularly weird HBO series.
"Big Love"
> of a group of Death recruits -- in this series about the
> afterlife of a girl killed by a toilet seat from the space
> station Mir. Name the single-season Showtime series.
>
> 4. Nick Stahl was a Depression-era vagrant with visions of mushroom
> clouds, who signed on as a carny. Name that single-season,
> singularly weird HBO series.
> 5. Kevin Spacey plays murderously ambitious Vice President Frank
> Underwood in this groundbreaking made-for-Netflix series.
"House of Cards"
> Underwood in this groundbreaking made-for-Netflix series.
> 6. Jessica Lange played different characters in each of the first
> 3 seasons of this macabre anthology series that kick-started
> independent production on the FX network.
"An American Horror Story"
> 3 seasons of this macabre anthology series that kick-started
> independent production on the FX network.
> 7. President Obama's favorite TV series is this Showtime production
> (airing on Superchannel in Canada), starring Claire Danes as
> a bipolar FBI agent engaged in the war on terror.
>
> 8. The next most acclaimed series produced specifically for Netflix
> is about life in a women's prison.
> (airing on Superchannel in Canada), starring Claire Danes as
> a bipolar FBI agent engaged in the war on terror.
>
> 8. The next most acclaimed series produced specifically for Netflix
> is about life in a women's prison.
"Orange is the New Black"
Dan Blum
Dec 8, 2014, 10:16:07 PM12/8/14
to
> 1. Picture A depicts the denouement of which war?
The Hundred Years' War
> 2. Picture B. Name the Roman Emperor who ruled for 41 years
> starting in 27 BC.
> 3. Picture C. The man pictured circa 570 is a cousin of which
> major historical figure?
> 4. Picture D. Circa 164 BC, who were the historically influential
> Jewish purists who took control of Jerusalem? Today an Israeli
> athletic competition and many sporting teams are named after
> them.
> 5. Picture E is about an illustrious king of France who sold
> Montreal to the Catholic Church in the 1660s, in one of his
> first acts as monarch. Which king?
> 6. Picture F. Circa 206 BC, name the dynasty whose beginnings
> are depicted. It would last for 400 years.
> 7. Circa 540 BC, name the historical figure depicted in picture G.
> 8. Depicted in Picture H, King Felipe II, battled Protestants in
> two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that
> he was king of.
> 9. In Picture I, Pope Alexander VI negotiated a New World agreement,
> basically giving the West Indies to one country and the East
> Indies to another. Name either.
> 10. Picture J. In case you thought WW2 was a fluke, the French
> surrender-monkeys let the Germans walk into Paris in the
> 19th century too. Within two years, when did the nascent
> German/Prussian nation begin occupying the City of Lights?
> Game 7, Round 3 - Entertainment - Network TV? What's That?
> 1. The show that ignited the first-run cable renaissance, its
> characters included Big Pussy, Uncle Junior, and Pauly Walnuts.
The Sopranos
> characters included Big Pussy, Uncle Junior, and Pauly Walnuts.
> 2. Our favorite chemistry teacher turned anti-hero preferred to
> do his dirty work under the pseudonym Heisenberg.
> 5. Kevin Spacey plays murderously ambitious Vice President Frank
> Underwood in this groundbreaking made-for-Netflix series.
> 6. Jessica Lange played different characters in each of the first
> 3 seasons of this macabre anthology series that kick-started
> independent production on the FX network.
> 7. President Obama's favorite TV series is this Showtime production
> (airing on Superchannel in Canada), starring Claire Danes as
> a bipolar FBI agent engaged in the war on terror.
> 8. The next most acclaimed series produced specifically for Netflix
> is about life in a women's prison.
Orange is the New Black
> 9. This ostensibly educational web-series -- which originated on
> the web site funnyordie.com -- sees comedians drink prodigious
> amounts of liquor and then give garbled accounts of historical
> events. Famous actors do their best to act out the stories
> as described.
Drinking History
> the web site funnyordie.com -- sees comedians drink prodigious
> amounts of liquor and then give garbled accounts of historical
> events. Famous actors do their best to act out the stories
> as described.
> 10. Jerry Seinfeld became pop culturally relevant again with this
> hit web-based series that combined his love of cars with his
> love of comedy.
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
--
_______________________________________________________________________
--
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Dan Tilque
Dec 9, 2014, 1:17:50 AM12/9/14
to
Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> Game 7, Round 2 - History - Cartoon Canon
>
> Here's a round of cartoon panels by the eclectic science/history
> cartoonist Larry Gonick. Answer these questions about the
> following:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/7-2/gonick.pdf
>
> (All the cartoons are single panels. For newsgroup purposes I have
> rearranged the questions in picture order. Again, there were no
> decoys in this game.)
>
> 1. Picture A depicts the denouement of which war?
Hundred Years' War
>
>
> Game 7, Round 2 - History - Cartoon Canon
>
> Here's a round of cartoon panels by the eclectic science/history
> cartoonist Larry Gonick. Answer these questions about the
> following:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/7-2/gonick.pdf
>
> (All the cartoons are single panels. For newsgroup purposes I have
> rearranged the questions in picture order. Again, there were no
> decoys in this game.)
>
> 1. Picture A depicts the denouement of which war?
>
> 2. Picture B. Name the Roman Emperor who ruled for 41 years
> starting in 27 BC.
>
> 3. Picture C. The man pictured circa 570 is a cousin of which
> major historical figure?
>
> 4. Picture D. Circa 164 BC, who were the historically influential
> Jewish purists who took control of Jerusalem? Today an Israeli
> athletic competition and many sporting teams are named after
> them.
>
> 5. Picture E is about an illustrious king of France who sold
> Montreal to the Catholic Church in the 1660s, in one of his
> first acts as monarch. Which king?
>
> 6. Picture F. Circa 206 BC, name the dynasty whose beginnings
> are depicted. It would last for 400 years.
>
> 7. Circa 540 BC, name the historical figure depicted in picture G.
>
> 8. Depicted in Picture H, King Felipe II, battled Protestants in
> two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that
> he was king of.
>
> 9. In Picture I, Pope Alexander VI negotiated a New World agreement,
> basically giving the West Indies to one country and the East
> Indies to another. Name either.
>
> 10. Picture J. In case you thought WW2 was a fluke, the French
> surrender-monkeys let the Germans walk into Paris in the
> 19th century too. Within two years, when did the nascent
> German/Prussian nation begin occupying the City of Lights?
>
>
> Game 7, Round 3 - Entertainment - Network TV? What's That?
>
> Unless you're a fan of loud laugh tracks and acronyms like CSI
> and NCIS, there's not much on network TV for you these days.
> The action's all on HBO and Showtime and FX and AMC. And if you
> come up empty on cable, there's always Netflix and Internet series.
> Here's a round on alternative TV. In each case, name the series.
>
> 1. The show that ignited the first-run cable renaissance, its
> characters included Big Pussy, Uncle Junior, and Pauly Walnuts.
>
> 2. Our favorite chemistry teacher turned anti-hero preferred to
> do his dirty work under the pseudonym Heisenberg.
Marc Dashevsky
Dec 9, 2014, 12:05:56 PM12/9/14
to
In article <_ZSdnfSDpYqovxvJ...@vex.net>, m...@vex.net says...
> 2. Picture B. Name the Roman Emperor who ruled for 41 years
> starting in 27 BC.
Augustus
> 3. Picture C. The man pictured circa 570 is a cousin of which
> major historical figure?
>
> 4. Picture D. Circa 164 BC, who were the historically influential
> Jewish purists who took control of Jerusalem? Today an Israeli
> athletic competition and many sporting teams are named after
> them.
Maccabees
> 5. Picture E is about an illustrious king of France who sold
> Montreal to the Catholic Church in the 1660s, in one of his
> first acts as monarch. Which king?
>
> 6. Picture F. Circa 206 BC, name the dynasty whose beginnings
> are depicted. It would last for 400 years.
>
> 7. Circa 540 BC, name the historical figure depicted in picture G.
Buddah
> 8. Depicted in Picture H, King Felipe II, battled Protestants in
> two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that
> he was king of.
Spain
> 9. In Picture I, Pope Alexander VI negotiated a New World agreement,
> basically giving the West Indies to one country and the East
> Indies to another. Name either.
Spain
> 10. Picture J. In case you thought WW2 was a fluke, the French
> surrender-monkeys let the Germans walk into Paris in the
> 19th century too. Within two years, when did the nascent
> German/Prussian nation begin occupying the City of Lights?
1872
> Game 7, Round 3 - Entertainment - Network TV? What's That?
>
> Unless you're a fan of loud laugh tracks and acronyms like CSI
> and NCIS, there's not much on network TV for you these days.
> The action's all on HBO and Showtime and FX and AMC. And if you
> come up empty on cable, there's always Netflix and Internet series.
> Here's a round on alternative TV. In each case, name the series.
>
> 1. The show that ignited the first-run cable renaissance, its
> characters included Big Pussy, Uncle Junior, and Pauly Walnuts.
Sopranos
> 2. Our favorite chemistry teacher turned anti-hero preferred to
> do his dirty work under the pseudonym Heisenberg.
Breaking Bad
> 3. Mandy Patinkin played Death -- or rather the manager in charge
> of a group of Death recruits -- in this series about the
> afterlife of a girl killed by a toilet seat from the space
> station Mir. Name the single-season Showtime series.
>
> 4. Nick Stahl was a Depression-era vagrant with visions of mushroom
> clouds, who signed on as a carny. Name that single-season,
> singularly weird HBO series.
>
> 5. Kevin Spacey plays murderously ambitious Vice President Frank
> Underwood in this groundbreaking made-for-Netflix series.
House of Cards
> 6. Jessica Lange played different characters in each of the first
> 3 seasons of this macabre anthology series that kick-started
> independent production on the FX network.
>
> 7. President Obama's favorite TV series is this Showtime production
> (airing on Superchannel in Canada), starring Claire Danes as
> a bipolar FBI agent engaged in the war on terror.
Homeland
> 8. The next most acclaimed series produced specifically for Netflix
> is about life in a women's prison.
Orange Is The New Black
>
> Game 7, Round 2 - History - Cartoon Canon
>
> Here's a round of cartoon panels by the eclectic science/history
> cartoonist Larry Gonick. Answer these questions about the
> following:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/7-2/gonick.pdf
>
> (All the cartoons are single panels. For newsgroup purposes I have
> rearranged the questions in picture order. Again, there were no
> decoys in this game.)
>
> 1. Picture A depicts the denouement of which war?
100 Years War
> Game 7, Round 2 - History - Cartoon Canon
>
> Here's a round of cartoon panels by the eclectic science/history
> cartoonist Larry Gonick. Answer these questions about the
> following:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/7-2/gonick.pdf
>
> (All the cartoons are single panels. For newsgroup purposes I have
> rearranged the questions in picture order. Again, there were no
> decoys in this game.)
>
> 1. Picture A depicts the denouement of which war?
> 2. Picture B. Name the Roman Emperor who ruled for 41 years
> starting in 27 BC.
> 3. Picture C. The man pictured circa 570 is a cousin of which
> major historical figure?
>
> 4. Picture D. Circa 164 BC, who were the historically influential
> Jewish purists who took control of Jerusalem? Today an Israeli
> athletic competition and many sporting teams are named after
> them.
> 5. Picture E is about an illustrious king of France who sold
> Montreal to the Catholic Church in the 1660s, in one of his
> first acts as monarch. Which king?
>
> 6. Picture F. Circa 206 BC, name the dynasty whose beginnings
> are depicted. It would last for 400 years.
>
> 7. Circa 540 BC, name the historical figure depicted in picture G.
> 8. Depicted in Picture H, King Felipe II, battled Protestants in
> two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that
> he was king of.
> 9. In Picture I, Pope Alexander VI negotiated a New World agreement,
> basically giving the West Indies to one country and the East
> Indies to another. Name either.
> 10. Picture J. In case you thought WW2 was a fluke, the French
> surrender-monkeys let the Germans walk into Paris in the
> 19th century too. Within two years, when did the nascent
> German/Prussian nation begin occupying the City of Lights?
> Game 7, Round 3 - Entertainment - Network TV? What's That?
>
> Unless you're a fan of loud laugh tracks and acronyms like CSI
> and NCIS, there's not much on network TV for you these days.
> The action's all on HBO and Showtime and FX and AMC. And if you
> come up empty on cable, there's always Netflix and Internet series.
> Here's a round on alternative TV. In each case, name the series.
>
> 1. The show that ignited the first-run cable renaissance, its
> characters included Big Pussy, Uncle Junior, and Pauly Walnuts.
> 2. Our favorite chemistry teacher turned anti-hero preferred to
> do his dirty work under the pseudonym Heisenberg.
> 3. Mandy Patinkin played Death -- or rather the manager in charge
> of a group of Death recruits -- in this series about the
> afterlife of a girl killed by a toilet seat from the space
> station Mir. Name the single-season Showtime series.
>
> 4. Nick Stahl was a Depression-era vagrant with visions of mushroom
> clouds, who signed on as a carny. Name that single-season,
> singularly weird HBO series.
>
> 5. Kevin Spacey plays murderously ambitious Vice President Frank
> Underwood in this groundbreaking made-for-Netflix series.
> 6. Jessica Lange played different characters in each of the first
> 3 seasons of this macabre anthology series that kick-started
> independent production on the FX network.
>
> 7. President Obama's favorite TV series is this Showtime production
> (airing on Superchannel in Canada), starring Claire Danes as
> a bipolar FBI agent engaged in the war on terror.
> 8. The next most acclaimed series produced specifically for Netflix
> is about life in a women's prison.
Björn Lundin
Dec 9, 2014, 3:02:39 PM12/9/14
to
On 2014-12-08 23:12, Mark Brader wrote:
>
> 1. Picture A depicts the denouement of which war?
World War II
>
> 1. Picture A depicts the denouement of which war?
>
> 2. Picture B. Name the Roman Emperor who ruled for 41 years
> starting in 27 BC.
>
> 3. Picture C. The man pictured circa 570 is a cousin of which
> major historical figure?
>
> 5. Picture E is about an illustrious king of France who sold
> Montreal to the Catholic Church in the 1660s, in one of his
> first acts as monarch. Which king?
>
> 6. Picture F. Circa 206 BC, name the dynasty whose beginnings
> are depicted. It would last for 400 years.
>
> 7. Circa 540 BC, name the historical figure depicted in picture G.
> 8. Depicted in Picture H, King Felipe II, battled Protestants in
> two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that
> he was king of.
>
> 9. In Picture I, Pope Alexander VI negotiated a New World agreement,
> basically giving the West Indies to one country and the East
> Indies to another. Name either.
>
> 10. Picture J. In case you thought WW2 was a fluke, the French
> surrender-monkeys let the Germans walk into Paris in the
> 19th century too. Within two years, when did the nascent
> German/Prussian nation begin occupying the City of Lights?
>
> Game 7, Round 3 - Entertainment - Network TV? What's That?
>
> 2. Our favorite chemistry teacher turned anti-hero preferred to
> do his dirty work under the pseudonym Heisenberg.
Breaking Bad
> do his dirty work under the pseudonym Heisenberg.
>
> 5. Kevin Spacey plays murderously ambitious Vice President Frank
> Underwood in this groundbreaking made-for-Netflix series.
>
> 7. President Obama's favorite TV series is this Showtime production
> (airing on Superchannel in Canada), starring Claire Danes as
> a bipolar FBI agent engaged in the war on terror.
>
> 8. The next most acclaimed series produced specifically for Netflix
> is about life in a women's prison.
--
--
Björn
Erland Sommarskog
Dec 9, 2014, 3:35:50 PM12/9/14
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100-Year War
> 2. Picture B. Name the Roman Emperor who ruled for 41 years
> starting in 27 BC.
Augustus
> 3. Picture C. The man pictured circa 570 is a cousin of which
> major historical figure?
Mohammed
> 4. Picture D. Circa 164 BC, who were the historically influential
> Jewish purists who took control of Jerusalem? Today an Israeli
> athletic competition and many sporting teams are named after
> them.
Farisees
> 5. Picture E is about an illustrious king of France who sold
> Montreal to the Catholic Church in the 1660s, in one of his
> first acts as monarch. Which king?
Louis XIV
> 6. Picture F. Circa 206 BC, name the dynasty whose beginnings
> are depicted. It would last for 400 years.
Han
> 7. Circa 540 BC, name the historical figure depicted in picture G.
Buddha
> 8. Depicted in Picture H, King Felipe II, battled Protestants in
> two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that
> he was king of.
Spain
> 9. In Picture I, Pope Alexander VI negotiated a New World agreement,
> basically giving the West Indies to one country and the East
> Indies to another. Name either.
Spain and Portugal
> 10. Picture J. In case you thought WW2 was a fluke, the French
> surrender-monkeys let the Germans walk into Paris in the
> 19th century too. Within two years, when did the nascent
> German/Prussian nation begin occupying the City of Lights?
1871
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se
> 2. Picture B. Name the Roman Emperor who ruled for 41 years
> starting in 27 BC.
> 3. Picture C. The man pictured circa 570 is a cousin of which
> major historical figure?
> 4. Picture D. Circa 164 BC, who were the historically influential
> Jewish purists who took control of Jerusalem? Today an Israeli
> athletic competition and many sporting teams are named after
> them.
> 5. Picture E is about an illustrious king of France who sold
> Montreal to the Catholic Church in the 1660s, in one of his
> first acts as monarch. Which king?
> 6. Picture F. Circa 206 BC, name the dynasty whose beginnings
> are depicted. It would last for 400 years.
> 7. Circa 540 BC, name the historical figure depicted in picture G.
> 8. Depicted in Picture H, King Felipe II, battled Protestants in
> two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that
> he was king of.
> 9. In Picture I, Pope Alexander VI negotiated a New World agreement,
> basically giving the West Indies to one country and the East
> Indies to another. Name either.
> 10. Picture J. In case you thought WW2 was a fluke, the French
> surrender-monkeys let the Germans walk into Paris in the
> 19th century too. Within two years, when did the nascent
> German/Prussian nation begin occupying the City of Lights?
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se
Pete
Dec 11, 2014, 7:38:52 PM12/11/14
to
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-11-03,
> 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 in a single followup to the newsgroup,
> 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 Unnatural Axxxe, 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 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> Game 7, Round 2 - History - Cartoon Canon
>
> Here's a round of cartoon panels by the eclectic science/history
> cartoonist Larry Gonick. Answer these questions about the
> following:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/7-2/gonick.pdf
>
> (All the cartoons are single panels. For newsgroup purposes I have
> rearranged the questions in picture order. Again, there were no
> decoys in this game.)
>
> 1. Picture A depicts the denouement of which war?
World War I
> 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 in a single followup to the newsgroup,
> 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 Unnatural Axxxe, 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 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> Game 7, Round 2 - History - Cartoon Canon
>
> Here's a round of cartoon panels by the eclectic science/history
> cartoonist Larry Gonick. Answer these questions about the
> following:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/7-2/gonick.pdf
>
> (All the cartoons are single panels. For newsgroup purposes I have
> rearranged the questions in picture order. Again, there were no
> decoys in this game.)
>
> 1. Picture A depicts the denouement of which war?
>
> 2. Picture B. Name the Roman Emperor who ruled for 41 years
> starting in 27 BC.
>
> 3. Picture C. The man pictured circa 570 is a cousin of which
> major historical figure?
>
> 4. Picture D. Circa 164 BC, who were the historically influential
> Jewish purists who took control of Jerusalem? Today an Israeli
> athletic competition and many sporting teams are named after
> them.
>
> 5. Picture E is about an illustrious king of France who sold
> Montreal to the Catholic Church in the 1660s, in one of his
> first acts as monarch. Which king?
>
> 6. Picture F. Circa 206 BC, name the dynasty whose beginnings
> are depicted. It would last for 400 years.
>
> 7. Circa 540 BC, name the historical figure depicted in picture G.
>
> 8. Depicted in Picture H, King Felipe II, battled Protestants in
> two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that
> he was king of.
>
> 9. In Picture I, Pope Alexander VI negotiated a New World agreement,
> basically giving the West Indies to one country and the East
> Indies to another. Name either.
>
> 10. Picture J. In case you thought WW2 was a fluke, the French
> surrender-monkeys let the Germans walk into Paris in the
> 19th century too. Within two years, when did the nascent
> German/Prussian nation begin occupying the City of Lights?
>
>
> Game 7, Round 3 - Entertainment - Network TV? What's That?
>
> Unless you're a fan of loud laugh tracks and acronyms like CSI
> and NCIS, there's not much on network TV for you these days.
> The action's all on HBO and Showtime and FX and AMC. And if you
> come up empty on cable, there's always Netflix and Internet series.
> Here's a round on alternative TV. In each case, name the series.
>
> 1. The show that ignited the first-run cable renaissance, its
> characters included Big Pussy, Uncle Junior, and Pauly Walnuts.
>
> 2. Our favorite chemistry teacher turned anti-hero preferred to
> do his dirty work under the pseudonym Heisenberg.
>
> 3. Mandy Patinkin played Death -- or rather the manager in charge
> of a group of Death recruits -- in this series about the
> afterlife of a girl killed by a toilet seat from the space
> station Mir. Name the single-season Showtime series.
>
> 4. Nick Stahl was a Depression-era vagrant with visions of mushroom
> clouds, who signed on as a carny. Name that single-season,
> singularly weird HBO series.
>
> 5. Kevin Spacey plays murderously ambitious Vice President Frank
> Underwood in this groundbreaking made-for-Netflix series.
>
> 6. Jessica Lange played different characters in each of the first
> 3 seasons of this macabre anthology series that kick-started
> independent production on the FX network.
>
> 7. President Obama's favorite TV series is this Showtime production
> (airing on Superchannel in Canada), starring Claire Danes as
> a bipolar FBI agent engaged in the war on terror.
>
> 8. The next most acclaimed series produced specifically for Netflix
> is about life in a women's prison.
Orange is the New Black
>
>
> 9. This ostensibly educational web-series -- which originated on
> the web site funnyordie.com -- sees comedians drink prodigious
> amounts of liquor and then give garbled accounts of historical
> events. Famous actors do their best to act out the stories
> as described.
>
> 10. Jerry Seinfeld became pop culturally relevant again with this
> hit web-based series that combined his love of cars with his
> love of comedy.
Two Comedians Getting Coffee
> the web site funnyordie.com -- sees comedians drink prodigious
> amounts of liquor and then give garbled accounts of historical
> events. Famous actors do their best to act out the stories
> as described.
>
> 10. Jerry Seinfeld became pop culturally relevant again with this
> hit web-based series that combined his love of cars with his
> love of comedy.
>
Pete
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Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Marc, and Erland.
> 2. Picture B. Name the Roman Emperor who ruled for 41 years
> starting in 27 BC.
Augustus (or Octavian). 4 for Peter, Rob, Joshua, Marc, Björn,
Erland, and Pete.
> 3. Picture C. The man pictured circa 570 is a cousin of which
> major historical figure?
Mohammed. 4 for Peter, Calvin, Rob, Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque,
Björn, Erland, and Pete.
> 4. Picture D. Circa 164 BC, who were the historically influential
> Jewish purists who took control of Jerusalem? Today an Israeli
> athletic competition and many sporting teams are named after
> them.
Maccabees. 4 for Peter, Calvin, Rob, Joshua, Jason, Dan Blum,
Dan Tilque, Marc, and Pete.
> 5. Picture E is about an illustrious king of France who sold
> Montreal to the Catholic Church in the 1660s, in one of his
> first acts as monarch. Which king?
Louis XIV. 4 for Calvin, Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Björn,
Erland, and Pete. 3 for Peter.
(Giggles for the misspelling as "Louise", which is strictly feminine
in English as well as French.)
> 6. Picture F. Circa 206 BC, name the dynasty whose beginnings
> are depicted. It would last for 400 years.
Han. 4 for Dan Blum and Erland. 3 for Calvin.
> 7. Circa 540 BC, name the historical figure depicted in picture G.
Buddha. 4 for Peter, Rob, Joshua, Jason, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque,
Marc, Björn, Erland, and Pete.
> 8. Depicted in Picture H, King Felipe II, battled Protestants in
> two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that
> he was king of.
The expected answers were Spain and the Netherlands, but he was
also king of Portugal. Castile lost its separate existence in the
previous century, though. 4 for Peter, Calvin (the hard way), Rob
(also the hard way), Joshua, Dan Blum, Marc, Erland, and Pete.
> 9. In Picture I, Pope Alexander VI negotiated a New World agreement,
> basically giving the West Indies to one country and the East
> Indies to another. Name either.
Spain (West Indies), Portugal (East Indies). 4 for Rob, Joshua,
Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Marc, Björn, and Erland (the hard way).
2 for Calvin.
> 10. Picture J. In case you thought WW2 was a fluke, the French
> surrender-monkeys let the Germans walk into Paris in the
> 19th century too. Within two years, when did the nascent
> German/Prussian nation begin occupying the City of Lights?
1871 (accepting 1869-73). 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Marc,
Björn, Erland, and Pete. 2 for Calvin.
I'm sure everyone understood that the wording here was jocular, but
since I happen to have been reading about this recently, I'll point
out that the French surrendered only after Paris had been encircled
and besieged for over 4 months, causing great hardship due to shortage
of food. The Germans eventually forced a surrender by resorting to
attacks against civilians -- i.e. shooting artillery into the city.
One other notable point: since radio had not yet been invented,
conventional communications between the city and the rest of the
country (including the government, which had fled to Toulouse) were
completely impossible. But the Parisians overcame this by building
balloons to carry letters out of the city; railway stations, being
temporarily out of business, provided suitable premises for the work.
The city had adequate reserves of coal gas and (as was common in
19th-century ballooning), this was used as the lifting gas; it's
flammable, toxic, and not as light as hydrogen or helium, but it
was also cheap.
Balloon flights inward were more dangerous because of the uncertainty
of the wind direction, and were only tried once or twice. Instead,
a balloon was used to send a microfilm camera out of the city, and
thereafter, inward messages were microfilmed and delivered to the
city by carrier pigeon. Each message was sent in several copies to
improve the chance that at least one would arrive; this mostly worked.
> Game 7, Round 3 - Entertainment - Network TV? What's That?
> Unless you're a fan of loud laugh tracks and acronyms like CSI
> and NCIS, there's not much on network TV for you these days.
> The action's all on HBO and Showtime and FX and AMC. And if you
> come up empty on cable, there's always Netflix and Internet series.
> Here's a round on alternative TV. In each case, name the series.
Who wrote this round? We don't even get Showtime here.
> 1. The show that ignited the first-run cable renaissance, its
> characters included Big Pussy, Uncle Junior, and Pauly Walnuts.
"The Sopranos". 4 for Peter, Calvin, Joshua, Jason, Dan Blum,
Marc, and Pete.
> 2. Our favorite chemistry teacher turned anti-hero preferred to
> do his dirty work under the pseudonym Heisenberg.
"Breaking Bad". 4 for Peter, Calvin, Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque,
Marc, Björn, and Pete.
> 3. Mandy Patinkin played Death -- or rather the manager in charge
> of a group of Death recruits -- in this series about the
> afterlife of a girl killed by a toilet seat from the space
> station Mir. Name the single-season Showtime series.
"Dead like Me".
> 4. Nick Stahl was a Depression-era vagrant with visions of mushroom
> clouds, who signed on as a carny. Name that single-season,
> singularly weird HBO series.
"Carnivàle". As Peter noted, it actually ran for 2 seasons.
4 for Peter and Joshua.
> 5. Kevin Spacey plays murderously ambitious Vice President Frank
> Underwood in this groundbreaking made-for-Netflix series.
"House of Cards". 4 for Peter, Calvin, Joshua, Jason, Dan Blum,
Marc, Björn, and Pete.
No, "groundbreaking" is not a word usually associated with remakes.
Perhaps the question-setter was referring to the mode of distribution
rather than, y'know, the actual series. (I haven't seen it -- so
while he might say that, I couldn't possibly comment.)
> 6. Jessica Lange played different characters in each of the first
> 3 seasons of this macabre anthology series that kick-started
> independent production on the FX network.
"American Horror Story". 4 for Peter, Joshua, Jason, and Dan Blum.
> 7. President Obama's favorite TV series is this Showtime production
> (airing on Superchannel in Canada), starring Claire Danes as
> a bipolar FBI agent engaged in the war on terror.
"Homeland". 4 for Peter, Calvin, Joshua, Dan Blum, Marc, and Pete.
> 8. The next most acclaimed series produced specifically for Netflix
> is about life in a women's prison.
"Orange is the New Black". 4 for Peter, Joshua, Jason, Dan Blum,
Marc, Björn, and Pete.
> 9. This ostensibly educational web-series -- which originated on
> the web site funnyordie.com -- sees comedians drink prodigious
> amounts of liquor and then give garbled accounts of historical
> events. Famous actors do their best to act out the stories
> as described.
"Drunk History". 4 for Joshua. 3 for Dan Blum.
> 10. Jerry Seinfeld became pop culturally relevant again with this
> hit web-based series that combined his love of cars with his
> love of comedy.
"Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee". 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.
3 for Pete.
Scores, if there are no errors:
ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS
TOPICS-> His Ent
Joshua Kreitzer 36 36 72
Dan Blum 36 31 67
Peter Smyth 27 28 55
Pete Gayde 28 23 51
Marc Dashevsky 28 20 48
"Calvin" 27 16 43
Björn Lundin 24 12 36
Erland Sommarskog 36 0 36
Dan Tilque 28 4 32
Jason Kreitzer 12 16 28
Rob Parker 28 0 28
--
Mark Brader | It's practically impossible to keep two separate databases
Toronto | in step for any length of time. That's true even when one
m...@vex.net | of the "databases" is reality itself. -- Andrew Koenig
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-11-03,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the
> Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> Game 7, Round 2 - History - Cartoon Canon
> Here's a round of cartoon panels by the eclectic science/history
> cartoonist Larry Gonick. Answer these questions about the
> following:
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/7-2/gonick.pdf
> (All the cartoons are single panels. For newsgroup purposes I have
> rearranged the questions in picture order. Again, there were no
> decoys in this game.)
> 1. Picture A depicts the denouement of which war?
The Hundred Years' War. 4 for Peter, Calvin, Rob, Joshua, Jason,
> Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> Game 7, Round 2 - History - Cartoon Canon
> Here's a round of cartoon panels by the eclectic science/history
> cartoonist Larry Gonick. Answer these questions about the
> following:
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/7-2/gonick.pdf
> (All the cartoons are single panels. For newsgroup purposes I have
> rearranged the questions in picture order. Again, there were no
> decoys in this game.)
> 1. Picture A depicts the denouement of which war?
Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Marc, and Erland.
> 2. Picture B. Name the Roman Emperor who ruled for 41 years
> starting in 27 BC.
Erland, and Pete.
> 3. Picture C. The man pictured circa 570 is a cousin of which
> major historical figure?
Björn, Erland, and Pete.
> 4. Picture D. Circa 164 BC, who were the historically influential
> Jewish purists who took control of Jerusalem? Today an Israeli
> athletic competition and many sporting teams are named after
> them.
Dan Tilque, Marc, and Pete.
> 5. Picture E is about an illustrious king of France who sold
> Montreal to the Catholic Church in the 1660s, in one of his
> first acts as monarch. Which king?
Erland, and Pete. 3 for Peter.
(Giggles for the misspelling as "Louise", which is strictly feminine
in English as well as French.)
> 6. Picture F. Circa 206 BC, name the dynasty whose beginnings
> are depicted. It would last for 400 years.
> 7. Circa 540 BC, name the historical figure depicted in picture G.
Marc, Björn, Erland, and Pete.
> 8. Depicted in Picture H, King Felipe II, battled Protestants in
> two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that
> he was king of.
also king of Portugal. Castile lost its separate existence in the
previous century, though. 4 for Peter, Calvin (the hard way), Rob
(also the hard way), Joshua, Dan Blum, Marc, Erland, and Pete.
> 9. In Picture I, Pope Alexander VI negotiated a New World agreement,
> basically giving the West Indies to one country and the East
> Indies to another. Name either.
Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Marc, Björn, and Erland (the hard way).
2 for Calvin.
> 10. Picture J. In case you thought WW2 was a fluke, the French
> surrender-monkeys let the Germans walk into Paris in the
> 19th century too. Within two years, when did the nascent
> German/Prussian nation begin occupying the City of Lights?
Björn, Erland, and Pete. 2 for Calvin.
I'm sure everyone understood that the wording here was jocular, but
since I happen to have been reading about this recently, I'll point
out that the French surrendered only after Paris had been encircled
and besieged for over 4 months, causing great hardship due to shortage
of food. The Germans eventually forced a surrender by resorting to
attacks against civilians -- i.e. shooting artillery into the city.
One other notable point: since radio had not yet been invented,
conventional communications between the city and the rest of the
country (including the government, which had fled to Toulouse) were
completely impossible. But the Parisians overcame this by building
balloons to carry letters out of the city; railway stations, being
temporarily out of business, provided suitable premises for the work.
The city had adequate reserves of coal gas and (as was common in
19th-century ballooning), this was used as the lifting gas; it's
flammable, toxic, and not as light as hydrogen or helium, but it
was also cheap.
Balloon flights inward were more dangerous because of the uncertainty
of the wind direction, and were only tried once or twice. Instead,
a balloon was used to send a microfilm camera out of the city, and
thereafter, inward messages were microfilmed and delivered to the
city by carrier pigeon. Each message was sent in several copies to
improve the chance that at least one would arrive; this mostly worked.
> Game 7, Round 3 - Entertainment - Network TV? What's That?
> Unless you're a fan of loud laugh tracks and acronyms like CSI
> and NCIS, there's not much on network TV for you these days.
> The action's all on HBO and Showtime and FX and AMC. And if you
> come up empty on cable, there's always Netflix and Internet series.
> Here's a round on alternative TV. In each case, name the series.
> 1. The show that ignited the first-run cable renaissance, its
> characters included Big Pussy, Uncle Junior, and Pauly Walnuts.
Marc, and Pete.
> 2. Our favorite chemistry teacher turned anti-hero preferred to
> do his dirty work under the pseudonym Heisenberg.
Marc, Björn, and Pete.
> 3. Mandy Patinkin played Death -- or rather the manager in charge
> of a group of Death recruits -- in this series about the
> afterlife of a girl killed by a toilet seat from the space
> station Mir. Name the single-season Showtime series.
> 4. Nick Stahl was a Depression-era vagrant with visions of mushroom
> clouds, who signed on as a carny. Name that single-season,
> singularly weird HBO series.
4 for Peter and Joshua.
> 5. Kevin Spacey plays murderously ambitious Vice President Frank
> Underwood in this groundbreaking made-for-Netflix series.
Marc, Björn, and Pete.
No, "groundbreaking" is not a word usually associated with remakes.
Perhaps the question-setter was referring to the mode of distribution
rather than, y'know, the actual series. (I haven't seen it -- so
while he might say that, I couldn't possibly comment.)
> 6. Jessica Lange played different characters in each of the first
> 3 seasons of this macabre anthology series that kick-started
> independent production on the FX network.
> 7. President Obama's favorite TV series is this Showtime production
> (airing on Superchannel in Canada), starring Claire Danes as
> a bipolar FBI agent engaged in the war on terror.
> 8. The next most acclaimed series produced specifically for Netflix
> is about life in a women's prison.
Marc, Björn, and Pete.
> 9. This ostensibly educational web-series -- which originated on
> the web site funnyordie.com -- sees comedians drink prodigious
> amounts of liquor and then give garbled accounts of historical
> events. Famous actors do their best to act out the stories
> as described.
> 10. Jerry Seinfeld became pop culturally relevant again with this
> hit web-based series that combined his love of cars with his
> love of comedy.
3 for Pete.
Scores, if there are no errors:
ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS
TOPICS-> His Ent
Joshua Kreitzer 36 36 72
Dan Blum 36 31 67
Peter Smyth 27 28 55
Pete Gayde 28 23 51
Marc Dashevsky 28 20 48
"Calvin" 27 16 43
Björn Lundin 24 12 36
Erland Sommarskog 36 0 36
Dan Tilque 28 4 32
Jason Kreitzer 12 16 28
Rob Parker 28 0 28
--
Mark Brader | It's practically impossible to keep two separate databases
Toronto | in step for any length of time. That's true even when one
m...@vex.net | of the "databases" is reality itself. -- Andrew Koenig
Dan Tilque
Dec 12, 2014, 1:40:42 AM12/12/14
to
Mark Brader wrote:
>
>> 8. Depicted in Picture H, King Felipe II, battled Protestants in
>> two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that
>> he was king of.
>
> The expected answers were Spain and the Netherlands, but he was
> also king of Portugal.
While effectively he was king of the Netherlands, the title he held
>
>> 8. Depicted in Picture H, King Felipe II, battled Protestants in
>> two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that
>> he was king of.
>
> The expected answers were Spain and the Netherlands, but he was
> also king of Portugal.
there was not actually "King". Instead it was "Lord of the Netherlands".
> Castile lost its separate existence in the
> previous century, though.
separate institutions (Crowns, laws, Cortes, etc.) until the 18th
century. At that time, the first Bourbon, Philip V, dismantled those of
Aragon and made everyone follow the laws of Castile. Up until that
point, Spain was a personal union of kingdoms, much like England and
Scotland during the 17th century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nueva_Planta_Decrees
--
Dan Tilque
Mark Brader
Dec 12, 2014, 2:06:03 AM12/12/14
to
Mark Brader:
Oh, all right. (But you should have known from the word "both" that
that wasn't being counted.) 4 for Dan Tilque.
Scores, if there are now no errors:
ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS
TOPICS-> His Ent
Joshua Kreitzer 36 36 72
Dan Blum 36 31 67
Peter Smyth 27 28 55
Pete Gayde 28 23 51
Marc Dashevsky 28 20 48
"Calvin" 27 16 43
Björn Lundin 24 12 36
Dan Tilque 32 4 36
Toronto | 'strong typing is for weak minds' is for weak minds."
m...@vex.net | -- Guy Harris
> >> 8. Depicted in Picture H, King Felipe II, battled Protestants in
> >> two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that
> >> he was king of.
> >
> > The expected answers were Spain and the Netherlands, but he was
> > also king of Portugal.
Dan Tilque:
> >> two countries in the 16th century. Name either country that
> >> he was king of.
> >
> > The expected answers were Spain and the Netherlands, but he was
> > also king of Portugal.
> While effectively he was king of the Netherlands, the title he held
> there was not actually "King". Instead it was "Lord of the Netherlands".
>
> > Castile lost its separate existence in the
> > previous century, though.
>
> Not technically. The kingdoms of Castile and Aragon maintained their
> separate institutions...
> there was not actually "King". Instead it was "Lord of the Netherlands".
>
> > Castile lost its separate existence in the
> > previous century, though.
>
> Not technically. The kingdoms of Castile and Aragon maintained their
Oh, all right. (But you should have known from the word "both" that
that wasn't being counted.) 4 for Dan Tilque.
Scores, if there are now no errors:
ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS
TOPICS-> His Ent
Joshua Kreitzer 36 36 72
Dan Blum 36 31 67
Peter Smyth 27 28 55
Pete Gayde 28 23 51
Marc Dashevsky 28 20 48
"Calvin" 27 16 43
Björn Lundin 24 12 36
Erland Sommarskog 36 0 36
Jason Kreitzer 12 16 28
Rob Parker 28 0 28
--
Mark Brader | "Strong typing isn't for weak minds; the argument
Rob Parker 28 0 28
--
Toronto | 'strong typing is for weak minds' is for weak minds."
m...@vex.net | -- Guy Harris
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