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Mark Brader
Jul 19, 2015, 11:09:18 PM7/19/15
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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-03-30,
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 (from the first posting).
All questions were written by members of MI5, 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 2015-02-23
companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition
(QFTCI*)".
** Final, Round 7 - Science
* Books about Climate Change and Inaction
World inaction in the face of growing problems with climate
change has led several writers to pen calls to action -- which
we should all be reading! Given some information taken from
the Toronto Public Library website's blurb on the book, name the
climate-change-themed book.
1. Author: Gwynne Dyer. From one of the world's great geopolitical
analysts, a terrifying glimpse of the none-too-distant future,
when climate change will force the world's powers into a
desperate struggle for advantage and even survival.
2. Publication date: 2006. This groundbreaking battle cry of
a follow-up to the bestselling "Earth in the Balance" is being
published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name.
Both the book and film were inspired by a series of multimedia
presentations on global warming that were created and delivered
to groups around the world.
3. Author: Naomi Klein. Forget everything you think you know
about global warming. Klein exposes the myths that are clouding
the climate debate. We have been told that humanity is too
greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. In fact, all
around the world, the fight back is already succeeding in ways
both surprising and inspiring. Climate change, Klein argues,
is a civilizational wake-up call.
* Saturn
4. Name either of Saturn's two largest moons.
5. What is the principal component substance of Saturn's rings?
6. What kind of a planet is Saturn?
* Human Parasites
7. What are nits?
8. To what class of animals do ticks belong?
9. These bloodsucking insects feed on human blood, but will also
bite mammals and birds. They feed at night and their saliva is
irritating to humans. They can survive up to 6 months without
feeding on blood. What are they?
* Canadian Nocturnal Wildlife
10. This relatively new addition to Toronto's nocturnal wildlife
looks like a rodent, but no actual North American rodent has a
prehensile tail as it does. What is this animal?
11. This rodent is native to Canada, and was once a keystone species
responsible for keeping Canada a land of swamp and other wetland.
Once a diurnal species, overhunting has rendered it primarily
nocturnal. What is it?
12. Before the introduction of glass beads, it provided the raw
material for traditional Native Canadian beadwork. What is it?
* Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
What action is performed on Windows by these key combinations?
Be sufficiently specific.
13. Control-Z.
14. Control-V.
15. Control-+. (That is, hold Control down and press the plus sign.)
--
Mark Brader | "If I were creating the world...
Toronto | I would have started with lasers, 8:00, Day 1!"
m...@vex.net | --Evil ("Time Bandits", Palin & Gilliam)
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 (from the first posting).
All questions were written by members of MI5, 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 2015-02-23
companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition
(QFTCI*)".
** Final, Round 7 - Science
* Books about Climate Change and Inaction
World inaction in the face of growing problems with climate
change has led several writers to pen calls to action -- which
we should all be reading! Given some information taken from
the Toronto Public Library website's blurb on the book, name the
climate-change-themed book.
1. Author: Gwynne Dyer. From one of the world's great geopolitical
analysts, a terrifying glimpse of the none-too-distant future,
when climate change will force the world's powers into a
desperate struggle for advantage and even survival.
2. Publication date: 2006. This groundbreaking battle cry of
a follow-up to the bestselling "Earth in the Balance" is being
published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name.
Both the book and film were inspired by a series of multimedia
presentations on global warming that were created and delivered
to groups around the world.
3. Author: Naomi Klein. Forget everything you think you know
about global warming. Klein exposes the myths that are clouding
the climate debate. We have been told that humanity is too
greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. In fact, all
around the world, the fight back is already succeeding in ways
both surprising and inspiring. Climate change, Klein argues,
is a civilizational wake-up call.
* Saturn
4. Name either of Saturn's two largest moons.
5. What is the principal component substance of Saturn's rings?
6. What kind of a planet is Saturn?
* Human Parasites
7. What are nits?
8. To what class of animals do ticks belong?
9. These bloodsucking insects feed on human blood, but will also
bite mammals and birds. They feed at night and their saliva is
irritating to humans. They can survive up to 6 months without
feeding on blood. What are they?
* Canadian Nocturnal Wildlife
10. This relatively new addition to Toronto's nocturnal wildlife
looks like a rodent, but no actual North American rodent has a
prehensile tail as it does. What is this animal?
11. This rodent is native to Canada, and was once a keystone species
responsible for keeping Canada a land of swamp and other wetland.
Once a diurnal species, overhunting has rendered it primarily
nocturnal. What is it?
12. Before the introduction of glass beads, it provided the raw
material for traditional Native Canadian beadwork. What is it?
* Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
What action is performed on Windows by these key combinations?
Be sufficiently specific.
13. Control-Z.
14. Control-V.
15. Control-+. (That is, hold Control down and press the plus sign.)
--
Mark Brader | "If I were creating the world...
Toronto | I would have started with lasers, 8:00, Day 1!"
m...@vex.net | --Evil ("Time Bandits", Palin & Gilliam)
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Joshua Kreitzer
Jul 19, 2015, 11:48:37 PM7/19/15
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:NeqdnUe5n47D-zHInZ2dnUU7-N-
dn...@vex.net:
> ** Final, Round 7 - Science
>
> * Books about Climate Change and Inaction
>
> * Saturn
>
> 4. Name either of Saturn's two largest moons.
Titan
> 5. What is the principal component substance of Saturn's rings?
ice
> 6. What kind of a planet is Saturn?
gas giant
> * Human Parasites
>
> 7. What are nits?
louse eggs
> 9. These bloodsucking insects feed on human blood, but will also
> bite mammals and birds. They feed at night and their saliva is
> irritating to humans. They can survive up to 6 months without
> feeding on blood. What are they?
mosquito
> * Canadian Nocturnal Wildlife
> * Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
>
> What action is performed on Windows by these key combinations?
> Be sufficiently specific.
>
> 13. Control-Z.
undo
> 14. Control-V.
paste
> 15. Control-+. (That is, hold Control down and press the plus sign.)
increase text size
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
dn...@vex.net:
> ** Final, Round 7 - Science
>
> * Books about Climate Change and Inaction
>
> Given some information taken from
> the Toronto Public Library website's blurb on the book, name the
> climate-change-themed book.
>
> the Toronto Public Library website's blurb on the book, name the
> climate-change-themed book.
>
> 2. Publication date: 2006. This groundbreaking battle cry of
> a follow-up to the bestselling "Earth in the Balance" is being
> published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name.
> Both the book and film were inspired by a series of multimedia
> presentations on global warming that were created and delivered
> to groups around the world.
"An Inconvenient Truth"
> a follow-up to the bestselling "Earth in the Balance" is being
> published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name.
> Both the book and film were inspired by a series of multimedia
> presentations on global warming that were created and delivered
> to groups around the world.
> * Saturn
>
> 4. Name either of Saturn's two largest moons.
> 5. What is the principal component substance of Saturn's rings?
> 6. What kind of a planet is Saturn?
> * Human Parasites
>
> 7. What are nits?
> 9. These bloodsucking insects feed on human blood, but will also
> bite mammals and birds. They feed at night and their saliva is
> irritating to humans. They can survive up to 6 months without
> feeding on blood. What are they?
> * Canadian Nocturnal Wildlife
>
> 11. This rodent is native to Canada, and was once a keystone species
> responsible for keeping Canada a land of swamp and other wetland.
> Once a diurnal species, overhunting has rendered it primarily
> nocturnal. What is it?
beaver
> 11. This rodent is native to Canada, and was once a keystone species
> responsible for keeping Canada a land of swamp and other wetland.
> Once a diurnal species, overhunting has rendered it primarily
> nocturnal. What is it?
> * Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
>
> What action is performed on Windows by these key combinations?
> Be sufficiently specific.
>
> 13. Control-Z.
> 14. Control-V.
paste
> 15. Control-+. (That is, hold Control down and press the plus sign.)
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Marc Dashevsky
Jul 19, 2015, 11:59:07 PM7/19/15
to
In article <NeqdnUe5n47D-zHI...@vex.net>, m...@vex.net says...
> 5. What is the principal component substance of Saturn's rings?
ice
> 6. What kind of a planet is Saturn?
gas giant
> * Human Parasites
>
> 7. What are nits?
louse eggs
> 8. To what class of animals do ticks belong?
arachnid
> 9. These bloodsucking insects feed on human blood, but will also
> bite mammals and birds. They feed at night and their saliva is
> irritating to humans. They can survive up to 6 months without
> feeding on blood. What are they?
mosquitos
> * Canadian Nocturnal Wildlife
>
> 10. This relatively new addition to Toronto's nocturnal wildlife
> looks like a rodent, but no actual North American rodent has a
> prehensile tail as it does. What is this animal?
opossum
> 11. This rodent is native to Canada, and was once a keystone species
> responsible for keeping Canada a land of swamp and other wetland.
> Once a diurnal species, overhunting has rendered it primarily
> nocturnal. What is it?
marmot
> 12. Before the introduction of glass beads, it provided the raw
> material for traditional Native Canadian beadwork. What is it?
bone ("Bone" is my answer, but "shell" should be acceptable as well.)
> * Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
>
> What action is performed on Windows by these key combinations?
> Be sufficiently specific.
>
> 13. Control-Z.
UNDO previous action
> 14. Control-V.
insert copy buffer into text
> 15. Control-+. (That is, hold Control down and press the plus sign.)
zoom screen image
--
Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address.
> ** Final, Round 7 - Science
>
>
> * Saturn
>
> 4. Name either of Saturn's two largest moons.
Titan
>
> 4. Name either of Saturn's two largest moons.
> 5. What is the principal component substance of Saturn's rings?
> 6. What kind of a planet is Saturn?
> * Human Parasites
>
> 7. What are nits?
> 8. To what class of animals do ticks belong?
> 9. These bloodsucking insects feed on human blood, but will also
> bite mammals and birds. They feed at night and their saliva is
> irritating to humans. They can survive up to 6 months without
> feeding on blood. What are they?
> * Canadian Nocturnal Wildlife
>
> 10. This relatively new addition to Toronto's nocturnal wildlife
> looks like a rodent, but no actual North American rodent has a
> prehensile tail as it does. What is this animal?
> 11. This rodent is native to Canada, and was once a keystone species
> responsible for keeping Canada a land of swamp and other wetland.
> Once a diurnal species, overhunting has rendered it primarily
> nocturnal. What is it?
> 12. Before the introduction of glass beads, it provided the raw
> material for traditional Native Canadian beadwork. What is it?
> * Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
>
> What action is performed on Windows by these key combinations?
> Be sufficiently specific.
>
> 13. Control-Z.
> 14. Control-V.
insert copy buffer into text
> 15. Control-+. (That is, hold Control down and press the plus sign.)
--
Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address.
Dan Blum
Jul 20, 2015, 12:05:25 AM7/20/15
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> * Saturn
> 4. Name either of Saturn's two largest moons.
Titan
> 4. Name either of Saturn's two largest moons.
> 5. What is the principal component substance of Saturn's rings?
> 6. What kind of a planet is Saturn?
> * Human Parasites
> 7. What are nits?
> 8. To what class of animals do ticks belong?
> 9. These bloodsucking insects feed on human blood, but will also
> bite mammals and birds. They feed at night and their saliva is
> irritating to humans. They can survive up to 6 months without
> feeding on blood. What are they?
> * Canadian Nocturnal Wildlife
> 10. This relatively new addition to Toronto's nocturnal wildlife
> looks like a rodent, but no actual North American rodent has a
> prehensile tail as it does. What is this animal?
> 11. This rodent is native to Canada, and was once a keystone species
> responsible for keeping Canada a land of swamp and other wetland.
> Once a diurnal species, overhunting has rendered it primarily
> nocturnal. What is it?
> * Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
> What action is performed on Windows by these key combinations?
> Be sufficiently specific.
> 13. Control-Z.
> 14. Control-V.
paste clipboard contents
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Jason Kreitzer
Jul 20, 2015, 12:25:32 AM7/20/15
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Dan Tilque
Jul 20, 2015, 1:59:29 AM7/20/15
to
Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> ** Final, Round 7 - Science
>
> * Books about Climate Change and Inaction
>
> World inaction in the face of growing problems with climate
> change has led several writers to pen calls to action -- which
> we should all be reading! Given some information taken from
> the Toronto Public Library website's blurb on the book, name the
> climate-change-themed book.
>
> 1. Author: Gwynne Dyer. From one of the world's great geopolitical
> analysts, a terrifying glimpse of the none-too-distant future,
> when climate change will force the world's powers into a
> desperate struggle for advantage and even survival.
>
> 2. Publication date: 2006. This groundbreaking battle cry of
> a follow-up to the bestselling "Earth in the Balance" is being
> published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name.
> Both the book and film were inspired by a series of multimedia
> presentations on global warming that were created and delivered
> to groups around the world.
An Inconvenient Truth
>
>
> ** Final, Round 7 - Science
>
> * Books about Climate Change and Inaction
>
> World inaction in the face of growing problems with climate
> change has led several writers to pen calls to action -- which
> we should all be reading! Given some information taken from
> the Toronto Public Library website's blurb on the book, name the
> climate-change-themed book.
>
> 1. Author: Gwynne Dyer. From one of the world's great geopolitical
> analysts, a terrifying glimpse of the none-too-distant future,
> when climate change will force the world's powers into a
> desperate struggle for advantage and even survival.
>
> 2. Publication date: 2006. This groundbreaking battle cry of
> a follow-up to the bestselling "Earth in the Balance" is being
> published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name.
> Both the book and film were inspired by a series of multimedia
> presentations on global warming that were created and delivered
> to groups around the world.
>
> 3. Author: Naomi Klein. Forget everything you think you know
> about global warming. Klein exposes the myths that are clouding
> the climate debate. We have been told that humanity is too
> greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. In fact, all
> around the world, the fight back is already succeeding in ways
> both surprising and inspiring. Climate change, Klein argues,
> is a civilizational wake-up call.
>
>
> * Saturn
>
> 4. Name either of Saturn's two largest moons.
(I think the second largest is Dione)
>
> 5. What is the principal component substance of Saturn's rings?
>
> 6. What kind of a planet is Saturn?
>
>
> * Human Parasites
>
> 7. What are nits?
>
> 8. To what class of animals do ticks belong?
>
> 9. These bloodsucking insects feed on human blood, but will also
> bite mammals and birds. They feed at night and their saliva is
> irritating to humans. They can survive up to 6 months without
> feeding on blood. What are they?
>
>
> * Canadian Nocturnal Wildlife
>
> 10. This relatively new addition to Toronto's nocturnal wildlife
> looks like a rodent, but no actual North American rodent has a
> prehensile tail as it does. What is this animal?
>
> 11. This rodent is native to Canada, and was once a keystone species
> responsible for keeping Canada a land of swamp and other wetland.
> Once a diurnal species, overhunting has rendered it primarily
> nocturnal. What is it?
>
> 12. Before the introduction of glass beads, it provided the raw
> material for traditional Native Canadian beadwork. What is it?
>
>
> * Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
>
> What action is performed on Windows by these key combinations?
> Be sufficiently specific.
>
> 13. Control-Z.
> 14. Control-V.
paste contents of clipboard
> 15. Control-+. (That is, hold Control down and press the plus sign.)
--
Dan Tilque
Calvin
Jul 20, 2015, 4:36:42 AM7/20/15
to
> 5. What is the principal component substance of Saturn's rings?
> 6. What kind of a planet is Saturn?
> * Human Parasites
>
> 7. What are nits?
> 8. To what class of animals do ticks belong?
> 9. These bloodsucking insects feed on human blood, but will also
> bite mammals and birds. They feed at night and their saliva is
> irritating to humans. They can survive up to 6 months without
> feeding on blood. What are they?
> * Canadian Nocturnal Wildlife
>
> 10. This relatively new addition to Toronto's nocturnal wildlife
> looks like a rodent, but no actual North American rodent has a
> prehensile tail as it does. What is this animal?
>
> 11. This rodent is native to Canada, and was once a keystone species
> responsible for keeping Canada a land of swamp and other wetland.
> Once a diurnal species, overhunting has rendered it primarily
> nocturnal. What is it?
>
> 12. Before the introduction of glass beads, it provided the raw
> material for traditional Native Canadian beadwork. What is it?
>
>
> * Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
>
> What action is performed on Windows by these key combinations?
> Be sufficiently specific.
>
> 13. Control-Z.
> 14. Control-V.
Paste
> 15. Control-+. (That is, hold Control down and press the plus sign.)
cheers,
calvin
Erland Sommarskog
Jul 20, 2015, 4:56:12 AM7/20/15
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Titan
> 5. What is the principal component substance of Saturn's rings?
Ice
> 6. What kind of a planet is Saturn?
Gaseous giant
> * Human Parasites
>
> 7. What are nits?
A Dutch pop group. Ok, they are spelled with uppercase N. The small
nits are a sort of lice.
> 8. To what class of animals do ticks belong?
Insects
> 13. Control-Z.
Undo
> 14. Control-V.
Paste
I answer: nothing.
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se
> 5. What is the principal component substance of Saturn's rings?
> 6. What kind of a planet is Saturn?
> * Human Parasites
>
> 7. What are nits?
nits are a sort of lice.
> 8. To what class of animals do ticks belong?
> 13. Control-Z.
Undo
> 14. Control-V.
Paste
> 15. Control-+. (That is, hold Control down and press the plus sign.)
>
Ehum, I use Windows every day, but I was not aware of this one. So
>
I answer: nothing.
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se
Björn Lundin
Jul 20, 2015, 5:13:45 AM7/20/15
to
>
> 5. What is the principal component substance of Saturn's rings?
>
> 6. What kind of a planet is Saturn?
>
>
> * Human Parasites
>
> 7. What are nits?
>
> 8. To what class of animals do ticks belong?
>
> 9. These bloodsucking insects feed on human blood, but will also
> bite mammals and birds. They feed at night and their saliva is
> irritating to humans. They can survive up to 6 months without
> feeding on blood. What are they?
>
> * Canadian Nocturnal Wildlife
>
> 10. This relatively new addition to Toronto's nocturnal wildlife
> looks like a rodent, but no actual North American rodent has a
> prehensile tail as it does. What is this animal?
>
> 11. This rodent is native to Canada, and was once a keystone species
> responsible for keeping Canada a land of swamp and other wetland.
> Once a diurnal species, overhunting has rendered it primarily
> nocturnal. What is it?
Beaver
>
> 12. Before the introduction of glass beads, it provided the raw
> material for traditional Native Canadian beadwork. What is it?
>
>
> * Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
>
> What action is performed on Windows by these key combinations?
> Be sufficiently specific.
>
> 13. Control-Z.
undo last action
> 14. Control-V.
paste the content of the clipboard at the cursor position
> 14. Control-V.
> 15. Control-+. (That is, hold Control down and press the plus sign.)
>
--
--
Björn
bbowler
Jul 20, 2015, 8:36:04 AM7/20/15
to
> 5. What is the principal component substance of Saturn's rings?
> 6. What kind of a planet is Saturn?
> * Human Parasites
>
> 7. What are nits?
> 8. To what class of animals do ticks belong?
>
> 9. These bloodsucking insects feed on human blood, but will also
> bite mammals and birds. They feed at night and their saliva is
> irritating to humans. They can survive up to 6 months without
> feeding on blood. What are they?
> * Canadian Nocturnal Wildlife
>
> 10. This relatively new addition to Toronto's nocturnal wildlife
> looks like a rodent, but no actual North American rodent has a
> prehensile tail as it does. What is this animal?
> 11. This rodent is native to Canada, and was once a keystone species
> responsible for keeping Canada a land of swamp and other wetland.
> Once a diurnal species, overhunting has rendered it primarily
> nocturnal. What is it?
> 12. Before the introduction of glass beads, it provided the raw
> material for traditional Native Canadian beadwork. What is it?
> * Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
>
> What action is performed on Windows by these key combinations?
> Be sufficiently specific.
>
> 13. Control-Z.
> 14. Control-V.
paste
> 15. Control-+. (That is, hold Control down and press the plus sign.)
Peter Smyth
Jul 20, 2015, 6:53:06 PM7/20/15
to
> 5. What is the principal component substance of Saturn's rings?
Ice
> 6. What kind of a planet is Saturn?
Gas Giant
>
> * Human Parasites
>
> 7. What are nits?
Head lice
> * Human Parasites
>
> 7. What are nits?
> 8. To what class of animals do ticks belong?
mosquitos
> 9. These bloodsucking insects feed on human blood, but will also
> bite mammals and birds. They feed at night and their saliva is
> irritating to humans. They can survive up to 6 months without
> feeding on blood. What are they?
mosquitos
> bite mammals and birds. They feed at night and their saliva is
> irritating to humans. They can survive up to 6 months without
> feeding on blood. What are they?
>
> * Canadian Nocturnal Wildlife
>
> 10. This relatively new addition to Toronto's nocturnal wildlife
> looks like a rodent, but no actual North American rodent has a
> prehensile tail as it does. What is this animal?
>
> 11. This rodent is native to Canada, and was once a keystone species
> responsible for keeping Canada a land of swamp and other wetland.
> Once a diurnal species, overhunting has rendered it primarily
> nocturnal. What is it?
Beaver
> * Canadian Nocturnal Wildlife
>
> 10. This relatively new addition to Toronto's nocturnal wildlife
> looks like a rodent, but no actual North American rodent has a
> prehensile tail as it does. What is this animal?
>
> 11. This rodent is native to Canada, and was once a keystone species
> responsible for keeping Canada a land of swamp and other wetland.
> Once a diurnal species, overhunting has rendered it primarily
> nocturnal. What is it?
> 12. Before the introduction of glass beads, it provided the raw
> material for traditional Native Canadian beadwork. What is it?
>
>
> * Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
>
> What action is performed on Windows by these key combinations?
> Be sufficiently specific.
>
> 13. Control-Z.
Undo
> material for traditional Native Canadian beadwork. What is it?
>
>
> * Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
>
> What action is performed on Windows by these key combinations?
> Be sufficiently specific.
>
> 13. Control-Z.
> 14. Control-V.
Paste
> 15. Control-+. (That is, hold Control down and press the plus sign.)
Zoom In
Peter Smyth
swp
Jul 21, 2015, 12:49:24 AM7/21/15
to
On Sunday, July 19, 2015 at 11:09:18 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-03-30,
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
noted
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
> ** Final, Round 7 - Science
>
> * Books about Climate Change and Inaction
>
> World inaction in the face of growing problems with climate
> change has led several writers to pen calls to action -- which
> we should all be reading! Given some information taken from
> the Toronto Public Library website's blurb on the book, name the
> climate-change-themed book.
>
> 1. Author: Gwynne Dyer. From one of the world's great geopolitical
> analysts, a terrifying glimpse of the none-too-distant future,
> when climate change will force the world's powers into a
> desperate struggle for advantage and even survival.
> 2. Publication date: 2006. This groundbreaking battle cry of
> a follow-up to the bestselling "Earth in the Balance" is being
> published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name.
> Both the book and film were inspired by a series of multimedia
> presentations on global warming that were created and delivered
> to groups around the world.
> 3. Author: Naomi Klein. Forget everything you think you know
> about global warming. Klein exposes the myths that are clouding
> the climate debate. We have been told that humanity is too
> greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. In fact, all
> around the world, the fight back is already succeeding in ways
> both surprising and inspiring. Climate change, Klein argues,
> is a civilizational wake-up call.
> * Saturn
>
> 4. Name either of Saturn's two largest moons.
> 5. What is the principal component substance of Saturn's rings?
> 6. What kind of a planet is Saturn?
>
> * Human Parasites
>
> 7. What are nits?
> 8. To what class of animals do ticks belong?
> 9. These bloodsucking insects feed on human blood, but will also
> bite mammals and birds. They feed at night and their saliva is
> irritating to humans. They can survive up to 6 months without
> feeding on blood. What are they?
>
> * Canadian Nocturnal Wildlife
>
> 10. This relatively new addition to Toronto's nocturnal wildlife
> looks like a rodent, but no actual North American rodent has a
> prehensile tail as it does. What is this animal?
> 11. This rodent is native to Canada, and was once a keystone species
> responsible for keeping Canada a land of swamp and other wetland.
> Once a diurnal species, overhunting has rendered it primarily
> nocturnal. What is it?
> 12. Before the introduction of glass beads, it provided the raw
> material for traditional Native Canadian beadwork. What is it?
> * Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
>
> What action is performed on Windows by these key combinations?
> Be sufficiently specific.
>
> 13. Control-Z.
> 14. Control-V.
paste
> 15. Control-+. (That is, hold Control down and press the plus sign.)
swp
Pete
Jul 21, 2015, 6:25:11 PM7/21/15
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>
> 3. Author: Naomi Klein. Forget everything you think you know
> about global warming. Klein exposes the myths that are clouding
> the climate debate. We have been told that humanity is too
> greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. In fact, all
> around the world, the fight back is already succeeding in ways
> both surprising and inspiring. Climate change, Klein argues,
> is a civilizational wake-up call.
>
>
> * Saturn
>
> 4. Name either of Saturn's two largest moons.
>
> 5. What is the principal component substance of Saturn's rings?
>
> 6. What kind of a planet is Saturn?
>
>
> * Human Parasites
>
> 7. What are nits?
>
> 8. To what class of animals do ticks belong?
>
> 9. These bloodsucking insects feed on human blood, but will also
> bite mammals and birds. They feed at night and their saliva is
> irritating to humans. They can survive up to 6 months without
> feeding on blood. What are they?
>
>
> * Canadian Nocturnal Wildlife
>
> 10. This relatively new addition to Toronto's nocturnal wildlife
> looks like a rodent, but no actual North American rodent has a
> prehensile tail as it does. What is this animal?
>
> 11. This rodent is native to Canada, and was once a keystone species
> responsible for keeping Canada a land of swamp and other wetland.
> Once a diurnal species, overhunting has rendered it primarily
> nocturnal. What is it?
>
> 12. Before the introduction of glass beads, it provided the raw
> material for traditional Native Canadian beadwork. What is it?
>
>
> * Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
>
> What action is performed on Windows by these key combinations?
> Be sufficiently specific.
>
> 13. Control-Z.
> 14. Control-V.
Paste
> 15. Control-+. (That is, hold Control down and press the plus sign.)
>
Pete
Mark Brader
Jul 23, 2015, 4:12:42 AM7/23/15
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Okay, here I am.
Mark Brader:
> * Books about Climate Change and Inaction
> World inaction in the face of growing problems with climate
> change has led several writers to pen calls to action -- which
> we should all be reading! Given some information taken from
> the Toronto Public Library website's blurb on the book, name the
> climate-change-themed book.
> 1. Author: Gwynne Dyer. From one of the world's great geopolitical
> analysts, a terrifying glimpse of the none-too-distant future,
> when climate change will force the world's powers into a
> desperate struggle for advantage and even survival.
"Climate Wars" (2010). 4 for Stephen.
> 2. Publication date: 2006. This groundbreaking battle cry of
> a follow-up to the bestselling "Earth in the Balance" is being
> published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name.
> Both the book and film were inspired by a series of multimedia
> presentations on global warming that were created and delivered
> to groups around the world.
"An Inconvenient Truth", by Al Gore. 4 for Joshua, Jason, Dan Tilque,
Stephen, and Pete.
> 3. Author: Naomi Klein. Forget everything you think you know
> about global warming. Klein exposes the myths that are clouding
> the climate debate. We have been told that humanity is too
> greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. In fact, all
> around the world, the fight back is already succeeding in ways
> both surprising and inspiring. Climate change, Klein argues,
> is a civilizational wake-up call.
"This Changes Everything" (2014). 4 for Stephen.
> * Saturn
> 4. Name either of Saturn's two largest moons.
Titan, Rhea. 4 for Joshua, Marc, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Calvin,
Erland, Björn, Bruce, Stephen, and Pete.
> 5. What is the principal component substance of Saturn's rings?
Ice. Water ice. 4 for Joshua, Marc, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Erland,
Peter, and Stephen. 3 for Bruce. 2 for Calvin.
> 6. What kind of a planet is Saturn?
Gas giant or jovian planet. I scored "gaseous" as almost correct.
4 for Joshua, Marc, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Calvin, Erland, Björn,
Bruce, Peter, and Stephen. 3 for Pete.
> * Human Parasites
> 7. What are nits?
Eggs of the head louse (accepting "lice"). 4 for Joshua, Marc,
Dan Blum, Erland, Peter, and Stephen.
> 8. To what class of animals do ticks belong?
Arachnids (Arachnia). 4 for Marc, Dan Tilque, and Stephen.
2 for Calvin.
> 9. These bloodsucking insects feed on human blood, but will also
> bite mammals and birds. They feed at night and their saliva is
> irritating to humans. They can survive up to 6 months without
> feeding on blood. What are they?
Bedbugs. 4 for Dan Tilque, Björn, and Bruce.
> * Canadian Nocturnal Wildlife
> 10. This relatively new addition to Toronto's nocturnal wildlife
> looks like a rodent, but no actual North American rodent has a
> prehensile tail as it does. What is this animal?
Opossum (possum). 4 for Marc, Dan Blum, Bruce, and Stephen.
> 11. This rodent is native to Canada, and was once a keystone species
> responsible for keeping Canada a land of swamp and other wetland.
> Once a diurnal species, overhunting has rendered it primarily
> nocturnal. What is it?
Beaver. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Björn, Bruce, Peter,
and Stephen. 3 for Pete.
Björn actually wrote "magnify beaver", but I magniferanimously
ignored the first word.
> 12. Before the introduction of glass beads, it provided the raw
> material for traditional Native Canadian beadwork. What is it?
Porcupine. (The quills.)
> * Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
> What action is performed on Windows by these key combinations?
> Be sufficiently specific.
> 13. Control-Z.
Undo. 4 for Joshua, Marc, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Calvin, Erland,
Björn, Bruce, Peter, and Stephen.
> 14. Control-V.
Paste. I did not accept "fill in something". 4 for Joshua, Marc,
Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Calvin, Erland, Björn, Bruce, Peter, Stephen,
and Pete.
> 15. Control-+. (That is, hold Control down and press the plus sign.)
Zoom in. "In" or the equivalent was required. 4 for Joshua, Marc,
Dan Tilque, Björn, Bruce, Peter, Stephen, and Pete.
And as we start dropping the two lowest round scores, Stephen takes
the lead. Scores, if there are no errors:
ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 BEST
TOPICS-> His Geo A&L Spo Sci THREE
Stephen Perry 40 -- 43 52 52 147
Dan Blum 36 47 47 12 32 130
Joshua Kreitzer 46 48 31 14 36 130
Marc Dashevsky 38 44 25 23 32 114
Dan Tilque 35 32 8 -- 40 107
Erland Sommarskog 36 46 8 8 24 106
Peter Smyth 27 41 21 36 28 105
"Calvin" 25 42 22 36 20 103
Pete Gayde 20 48 28 26 22 102
Björn Lundin 16 40 28 8 28 96
Bruce Bowler -- 28 -- -- 35 63
Jason Kreitzer 20 20 4 -- 4 44
--
Mark Brader | "What ever happened to the concept of 'less is more'?"
Toronto | "Ah, but if less is more, then just think how much
m...@vex.net | more more would be." -- Frasier (David Lloyd)
Mark Brader:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-03-30,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2015-02-23 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> ** Final, Round 7 - Science
This was the easiest round in the original game.
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> ** Final, Round 7 - Science
> * Books about Climate Change and Inaction
> World inaction in the face of growing problems with climate
> change has led several writers to pen calls to action -- which
> we should all be reading! Given some information taken from
> the Toronto Public Library website's blurb on the book, name the
> climate-change-themed book.
> 1. Author: Gwynne Dyer. From one of the world's great geopolitical
> analysts, a terrifying glimpse of the none-too-distant future,
> when climate change will force the world's powers into a
> desperate struggle for advantage and even survival.
> 2. Publication date: 2006. This groundbreaking battle cry of
> a follow-up to the bestselling "Earth in the Balance" is being
> published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name.
> Both the book and film were inspired by a series of multimedia
> presentations on global warming that were created and delivered
> to groups around the world.
Stephen, and Pete.
> 3. Author: Naomi Klein. Forget everything you think you know
> about global warming. Klein exposes the myths that are clouding
> the climate debate. We have been told that humanity is too
> greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. In fact, all
> around the world, the fight back is already succeeding in ways
> both surprising and inspiring. Climate change, Klein argues,
> is a civilizational wake-up call.
> * Saturn
> 4. Name either of Saturn's two largest moons.
Erland, Björn, Bruce, Stephen, and Pete.
> 5. What is the principal component substance of Saturn's rings?
Peter, and Stephen. 3 for Bruce. 2 for Calvin.
> 6. What kind of a planet is Saturn?
4 for Joshua, Marc, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Calvin, Erland, Björn,
Bruce, Peter, and Stephen. 3 for Pete.
> * Human Parasites
> 7. What are nits?
Dan Blum, Erland, Peter, and Stephen.
> 8. To what class of animals do ticks belong?
2 for Calvin.
> 9. These bloodsucking insects feed on human blood, but will also
> bite mammals and birds. They feed at night and their saliva is
> irritating to humans. They can survive up to 6 months without
> feeding on blood. What are they?
> * Canadian Nocturnal Wildlife
> 10. This relatively new addition to Toronto's nocturnal wildlife
> looks like a rodent, but no actual North American rodent has a
> prehensile tail as it does. What is this animal?
> 11. This rodent is native to Canada, and was once a keystone species
> responsible for keeping Canada a land of swamp and other wetland.
> Once a diurnal species, overhunting has rendered it primarily
> nocturnal. What is it?
and Stephen. 3 for Pete.
Björn actually wrote "magnify beaver", but I magniferanimously
ignored the first word.
> 12. Before the introduction of glass beads, it provided the raw
> material for traditional Native Canadian beadwork. What is it?
> * Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
> What action is performed on Windows by these key combinations?
> Be sufficiently specific.
> 13. Control-Z.
Björn, Bruce, Peter, and Stephen.
> 14. Control-V.
Paste. I did not accept "fill in something". 4 for Joshua, Marc,
Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Calvin, Erland, Björn, Bruce, Peter, Stephen,
and Pete.
> 15. Control-+. (That is, hold Control down and press the plus sign.)
Dan Tilque, Björn, Bruce, Peter, Stephen, and Pete.
And as we start dropping the two lowest round scores, Stephen takes
the lead. Scores, if there are no errors:
ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 BEST
TOPICS-> His Geo A&L Spo Sci THREE
Stephen Perry 40 -- 43 52 52 147
Dan Blum 36 47 47 12 32 130
Joshua Kreitzer 46 48 31 14 36 130
Marc Dashevsky 38 44 25 23 32 114
Dan Tilque 35 32 8 -- 40 107
Erland Sommarskog 36 46 8 8 24 106
Peter Smyth 27 41 21 36 28 105
"Calvin" 25 42 22 36 20 103
Pete Gayde 20 48 28 26 22 102
Björn Lundin 16 40 28 8 28 96
Bruce Bowler -- 28 -- -- 35 63
Jason Kreitzer 20 20 4 -- 4 44
--
Mark Brader | "What ever happened to the concept of 'less is more'?"
Toronto | "Ah, but if less is more, then just think how much
m...@vex.net | more more would be." -- Frasier (David Lloyd)
Björn Lundin
Jul 23, 2015, 7:07:35 AM7/23/15
to
On 2015-07-23 10:12, Mark Brader wrote:
>> 11. This rodent is native to Canada, and was once a keystone species
>> responsible for keeping Canada a land of swamp and other wetland.
>> Once a diurnal species, overhunting has rendered it primarily
>> nocturnal. What is it?
>
> Beaver. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Björn, Bruce, Peter,
> and Stephen. 3 for Pete.
>
> Björn actually wrote "magnify beaver", but I magniferanimously
> ignored the first word.
Oh, there is were it went.
>> 11. This rodent is native to Canada, and was once a keystone species
>> responsible for keeping Canada a land of swamp and other wetland.
>> Once a diurnal species, overhunting has rendered it primarily
>> nocturnal. What is it?
>
> Beaver. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Björn, Bruce, Peter,
> and Stephen. 3 for Pete.
>
> Björn actually wrote "magnify beaver", but I magniferanimously
> ignored the first word.
Fiddling a bit with Alt-Tab, between
virtual machines made me lose focus,
while still typing.
I thought it was funny I could not find it again.
It was meant to be together with 'zoom in', Q15.
But then I though it be enough with zoom in
so I did not retype it.
>
>> 15. Control-+. (That is, hold Control down and press the plus sign.)
>
> Zoom in. "In" or the equivalent was required. 4 for Joshua, Marc,
> Dan Tilque, Björn, Bruce, Peter, Stephen, and Pete.
>
Zoom in can also be done with ctrl + scroll mouse wheel forward.
Zoom out : ctrl-- (as in minus instead of plus) or scroll mouse wheel
backward.
--
Björn
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