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RQFTCI03 Game 10 Rounds 7-8: CanCities, verse forms

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Mark Brader

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Feb 23, 2021, 10:51:23 PM2/23/21

Mark Brader:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2003-03-24,
> and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written
> by members of the Usual Suspects, but have been reformatted and
> may have been retyped and/or edited by me. I will reveal the
> correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> For further information, including an explanation of the """
> notation that may appear in these rounds, see my 2020-06-23
> companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".

I did not write these rounds.

* Game 10, Round 7 - Canadiana Geography - Canadian Cityscapes

Identify the city from the panoramic or aerial view shown in
the handout:

http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/o10/7/citypix.pdf

Clues are provided with some pictures.

I've rearranged the round in order of the handout, interspersing
the 4 decoys with the others. Answer for the decoys if you like
for fun, but for no points.

1. Name it.

2. Name it. If the photographer had turned around, they would
have seen this city's most recognizable landmark.

3. Name this western Canadian city that's known locally, for
obvious reasons, as the City of Bridges.

4. (decoy)
5. (decoy)
6. Name it.
7. Name it. This city is also in western Canada.
8. Name it.
9. Name it.
10. (decoy)
11. Name it.
12. Name it.
13. (decoy)
14. Name this city in Ontario. The building on the left is one
of its newer landmarks.

* Game 10, Round 8 - Literature (yes, again) - Verse Forms

Identify the verse forms from the descriptions given. All answers
can be found on the following list:

| Alliterative verse | Haiku | Rondeau
| Aubade | Heroic couplet | Rondel
| Ballade | Kyrielle | Senryu
| Blank verse | Limerick | Sestina
| Clerihew | Naga-uta | Shakespearean sonnet
| Corona | Ode | Spenserian sonnet
| Dithyramb | Ottava rima | Tanka
| Dizain | Pantoum | Tercet
| Double dactyl | Petrarchan or Italian sonnet | Terza rima
| Envoi or envoy | Quatrain | Triolet
| Free verse | Renga | Vers libre
| Ghazal | Rhyme royal | Villanelle

1. The verse form used in the oldest English poetry, including
"Beowulf". Chaucer's work was influenced by it, although his
verse was rhymed and had fixed meter.

2. A verse form consisting of unrhymed iambic pentameter, this is
the meter of "Paradise" Lost as well as Shakespeare's plays.

3. 14 lines, divided into an "octave" of 8 lines that rhyme
A-B-B-A A-B-B-A and a "sestet" of 6 lines whose rhyme pattern
varies, but is most often C-D-E-C-D-E or C-D-C-D-C-D. A turn --
a shift in pattern or mood -- occurs after the octet.

4. A form of light verse, named after one of its practitioners,
consisting of two rhyming couplets and having the name of the
person in the first line. For example, the following verse by
Ian Lancashire:

Celine Dion
Sang a paean
To love and pain
And ladies layin'.

5. A stately lyric form, often on a serious theme, it incorporates
various types of versification. Different variants of this
form are known as Pindaric, Sapphic, and Horatian.

6. An Italian verse form, used by Dante and also by Shelley in
"Ode to the West Wind": any number of three-line stanzas, or
"tercets", concluding with a couplet. The tercets have an
interlocking rhyme: A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C, and so on.

7. A short stanza of 4 or 5 lines that ends a ballade and some
other medieval verse forms. Originally, it stated the poem's
dedication.

8. A rhyming couplet, usually end-stopped (meaning that each line
ends with punctuation and the couplet often forms a sentence),
written in iambic pentameter. Alexander Pope used these.

9. Its name derives from the Italian word for "country house"; Dylan
Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" is an example.
Five stanzas of 3 lines each, and one stanza of 4. Only uses
two rhymes, and also repeats two lines throughout the poem:
the first line of the poem is also the last line of the second
and fourth stanzas; the third line of the poem is also the last
line of the third and fifth stanzas. These two repeated lines
also end the poem.

10. Six 6-line stanzas and a <answer 7> of 3 lines; doesn't rhyme
traditionally; instead, it repeats the end words of the first
stanza in a different order as the end words of each subsequent
stanza. All six words are used in the final 3 lines (but three
are "buried" within it, and the other three are used as the
end words).

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Dan Tilque

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Feb 24, 2021, 2:26:43 AM2/24/21

On 2/23/21 7:51 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Canadiana Geography - Canadian Cityscapes
>
> Identify the city from the panoramic or aerial view shown in
> the handout:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/o10/7/citypix.pdf
>
> Clues are provided with some pictures.
>
> I've rearranged the round in order of the handout, interspersing
> the 4 decoys with the others. Answer for the decoys if you like
> for fun, but for no points.
>
> 1. Name it.

Montreal

>
> 2. Name it. If the photographer had turned around, they would
> have seen this city's most recognizable landmark.

St John's

(That clue sounds familiar. If I'm remembering correctly, I didn't need
it the first time, but it reminded me of the answer I gave then.)

>
> 3. Name this western Canadian city that's known locally, for
> obvious reasons, as the City of Bridges.

Winnipeg

>
> 4. (decoy)
> 5. (decoy)
> 6. Name it.

Quebec City

> 7. Name it. This city is also in western Canada.

Edmonton

> 8. Name it.

Toronto

> 9. Name it.

Halifax

> 10. (decoy)
> 11. Name it.

Calgary

> 12. Name it.

St John

> 13. (decoy)
> 14. Name this city in Ontario. The building on the left is one
> of its newer landmarks.

Hamilton; Windsor

heroic couplet

>
> 2. A verse form consisting of unrhymed iambic pentameter, this is
> the meter of "Paradise" Lost as well as Shakespeare's plays.

blank verse

>
> 3. 14 lines, divided into an "octave" of 8 lines that rhyme
> A-B-B-A A-B-B-A and a "sestet" of 6 lines whose rhyme pattern
> varies, but is most often C-D-E-C-D-E or C-D-C-D-C-D. A turn --
> a shift in pattern or mood -- occurs after the octet.

Shakespearean sonnet

>
> 4. A form of light verse, named after one of its practitioners,
> consisting of two rhyming couplets and having the name of the
> person in the first line. For example, the following verse by
> Ian Lancashire:
>
> Celine Dion
> Sang a paean
> To love and pain
> And ladies layin'.

Clerihew

>
> 5. A stately lyric form, often on a serious theme, it incorporates
> various types of versification. Different variants of this
> form are known as Pindaric, Sapphic, and Horatian.
>
> 6. An Italian verse form, used by Dante and also by Shelley in
> "Ode to the West Wind": any number of three-line stanzas, or
> "tercets", concluding with a couplet. The tercets have an
> interlocking rhyme: A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C, and so on.

Petrarchan or Italian sonnet

>
> 7. A short stanza of 4 or 5 lines that ends a ballade and some
> other medieval verse forms. Originally, it stated the poem's
> dedication.

quatrain

>
> 8. A rhyming couplet, usually end-stopped (meaning that each line
> ends with punctuation and the couplet often forms a sentence),
> written in iambic pentameter. Alexander Pope used these.
>
> 9. Its name derives from the Italian word for "country house"; Dylan
> Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" is an example.
> Five stanzas of 3 lines each, and one stanza of 4. Only uses
> two rhymes, and also repeats two lines throughout the poem:
> the first line of the poem is also the last line of the second
> and fourth stanzas; the third line of the poem is also the last
> line of the third and fifth stanzas. These two repeated lines
> also end the poem.

villanelle

>
> 10. Six 6-line stanzas and a <answer 7> of 3 lines; doesn't rhyme
> traditionally; instead, it repeats the end words of the first
> stanza in a different order as the end words of each subsequent
> stanza. All six words are used in the final 3 lines (but three
> are "buried" within it, and the other three are used as the
> end words).

sestina

--
Dan Tilque

Erland Sommarskog

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Feb 24, 2021, 2:32:28 PM2/24/21

Mark Brader (m...@vex.net) writes:
> * Game 10, Round 8 - Literature (yes, again) - Verse Forms
>

> 1. The verse form used in the oldest English poetry, including
> "Beowulf". Chaucer's work was influenced by it, although his
> verse was rhymed and had fixed meter.

Alliterative verse

> 3. 14 lines, divided into an "octave" of 8 lines that rhyme
> A-B-B-A A-B-B-A and a "sestet" of 6 lines whose rhyme pattern
> varies, but is most often C-D-E-C-D-E or C-D-C-D-C-D. A turn --
> a shift in pattern or mood -- occurs after the octet.

Ottava rima

> 4. A form of light verse, named after one of its practitioners,
> consisting of two rhyming couplets and having the name of the
> person in the first line. For example, the following verse by
> Ian Lancashire:
>
> Celine Dion
> Sang a paean
> To love and pain
> And ladies layin'.

Haiku

> 9. Its name derives from the Italian word for "country house"; Dylan
> Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" is an example.
> Five stanzas of 3 lines each, and one stanza of 4. Only uses
> two rhymes, and also repeats two lines throughout the poem:
> the first line of the poem is also the last line of the second
> and fourth stanzas; the third line of the poem is also the last
> line of the third and fifth stanzas. These two repeated lines
> also end the poem.

Sestina

> 10. Six 6-line stanzas and a <answer 7> of 3 lines; doesn't rhyme
> traditionally; instead, it repeats the end words of the first
> stanza in a different order as the end words of each subsequent
> stanza. All six words are used in the final 3 lines (but three
> are "buried" within it, and the other three are used as the
> end words).
>

Rondel

Dan Blum

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Feb 24, 2021, 6:29:36 PM2/24/21

Mark Brader <m...@vex.net> wrote:
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Canadiana Geography - Canadian Cityscapes

> 2. Name it. If the photographer had turned around, they would
> have seen this city's most recognizable landmark.

Rio de Janeiro

> 3. Name this western Canadian city that's known locally, for
> obvious reasons, as the City of Bridges.

Vancouver

> 8. Name it.

Boston

> 9. Name it.

Halifax

> 11. Name it.

Seattle

> * Game 10, Round 8 - Literature (yes, again) - Verse Forms

> 1. The verse form used in the oldest English poetry, including
> "Beowulf". Chaucer's work was influenced by it, although his
> verse was rhymed and had fixed meter.

alliterative verse

> 2. A verse form consisting of unrhymed iambic pentameter, this is
> the meter of "Paradise" Lost as well as Shakespeare's plays.

blank verse

Shakespearean sonnet; Petrarchan sonnet

> 4. A form of light verse, named after one of its practitioners,
> consisting of two rhyming couplets and having the name of the
> person in the first line. For example, the following verse by
> Ian Lancashire:

> Celine Dion
> Sang a paean
> To love and pain
> And ladies layin'.

clerihew

> 5. A stately lyric form, often on a serious theme, it incorporates
> various types of versification. Different variants of this
> form are known as Pindaric, Sapphic, and Horatian.

ode

> 6. An Italian verse form, used by Dante and also by Shelley in
> "Ode to the West Wind": any number of three-line stanzas, or
> "tercets", concluding with a couplet. The tercets have an
> interlocking rhyme: A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C, and so on.

terza rima

> 7. A short stanza of 4 or 5 lines that ends a ballade and some
> other medieval verse forms. Originally, it stated the poem's
> dedication.

envoi

> 8. A rhyming couplet, usually end-stopped (meaning that each line
> ends with punctuation and the couplet often forms a sentence),
> written in iambic pentameter. Alexander Pope used these.

heroic couplet

villanelle

sestina

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Joshua Kreitzer

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Feb 24, 2021, 11:38:27 PM2/24/21

m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:h-WdnUOFN92pUKj9nZ2dnUU7-
U3N...@giganews.com:

> * Game 10, Round 7 - Canadiana Geography - Canadian Cityscapes
>
> Identify the city from the panoramic or aerial view shown in
> the handout:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/o10/7/citypix.pdf
>

> 9. Name it.

Victoria

> * Game 10, Round 8 - Literature (yes, again) - Verse Forms
>
> Identify the verse forms from the descriptions given. All answers
> can be found on the following list: |
>

> 1. The verse form used in the oldest English poetry, including
> "Beowulf". Chaucer's work was influenced by it, although his
> verse was rhymed and had fixed meter.

Alliterative verse

> 2. A verse form consisting of unrhymed iambic pentameter, this is
> the meter of "Paradise" Lost as well as Shakespeare's plays.

Blank verse

Petrarchan or Italian sonnet

Clerihew

> 5. A stately lyric form, often on a serious theme, it incorporates
> various types of versification. Different variants of this
> form are known as Pindaric, Sapphic, and Horatian.

Ode

Terza rima

> 7. A short stanza of 4 or 5 lines that ends a ballade and some
> other medieval verse forms. Originally, it stated the poem's
> dedication.

Envoi or envoy

> 8. A rhyming couplet, usually end-stopped (meaning that each line
> ends with punctuation and the couplet often forms a sentence),
> written in iambic pentameter. Alexander Pope used these.

Heroic couplet

Villanelle

Sestina

--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com

Pete Gayde

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Feb 25, 2021, 12:15:43 PM2/25/21

Mark Brader wrote:
> Mark Brader:
>> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2003-03-24,
>> and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written
>> by members of the Usual Suspects, but have been reformatted and
>> may have been retyped and/or edited by me. I will reveal the
>> correct answers in about 3 days.
>>
>> For further information, including an explanation of the """
>> notation that may appear in these rounds, see my 2020-06-23
>> companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian
>> Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
>
>
> I did not write these rounds.
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Canadiana Geography - Canadian Cityscapes
>
> Identify the city from the panoramic or aerial view shown in
> the handout:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/o10/7/citypix.pdf
>
> Clues are provided with some pictures.
>
> I've rearranged the round in order of the handout, interspersing
> the 4 decoys with the others. Answer for the decoys if you like
> for fun, but for no points.
>
> 1. Name it.

Ottawa; Winnipeg

>
> 2. Name it. If the photographer had turned around, they would
> have seen this city's most recognizable landmark.

Ottawa

>
> 3. Name this western Canadian city that's known locally, for
> obvious reasons, as the City of Bridges.

Fraser; Kelowna

>
> 4. (decoy)
> 5. (decoy)
> 6. Name it.

Quebec

> 7. Name it. This city is also in western Canada.

Calgary; Edmonton

> 8. Name it.

Montreal; Toronto

> 9. Name it.

Montreal

> 10. (decoy)
> 11. Name it.

Winnipeg; Calgary

> 12. Name it.

Vancouver

> 13. (decoy)
> 14. Name this city in Ontario. The building on the left is one
> of its newer landmarks.

Windsor

Blank verse; Free verse

>
> 2. A verse form consisting of unrhymed iambic pentameter, this is
> the meter of "Paradise" Lost as well as Shakespeare's plays.

Free verse; Blank verse

Ottava rima; Sestina

Clerihew; Ghazal

>
> 5. A stately lyric form, often on a serious theme, it incorporates
> various types of versification. Different variants of this
> form are known as Pindaric, Sapphic, and Horatian.

Ode

>
> 6. An Italian verse form, used by Dante and also by Shelley in
> "Ode to the West Wind": any number of three-line stanzas, or
> "tercets", concluding with a couplet. The tercets have an
> interlocking rhyme: A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C, and so on.

Ottava rima; Sestina

>
> 7. A short stanza of 4 or 5 lines that ends a ballade and some
> other medieval verse forms. Originally, it stated the poem's
> dedication.

Dithyramb; Tercet

>
> 8. A rhyming couplet, usually end-stopped (meaning that each line
> ends with punctuation and the couplet often forms a sentence),
> written in iambic pentameter. Alexander Pope used these.

Dithyramb

>
> 9. Its name derives from the Italian word for "country house"; Dylan
> Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" is an example.
> Five stanzas of 3 lines each, and one stanza of 4. Only uses
> two rhymes, and also repeats two lines throughout the poem:
> the first line of the poem is also the last line of the second
> and fourth stanzas; the third line of the poem is also the last
> line of the third and fifth stanzas. These two repeated lines
> also end the poem.

Villanelle

Sestina

>

Pete Gayde

Mark Brader

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Feb 27, 2021, 2:35:22 AM2/27/21

Mark Brader:
> > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2003-03-24,

> > and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information...

> > see my 2020-06-23 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from
> > the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".

> I did not write these rounds.

> * Game 10, Round 7 - Canadiana Geography - Canadian Cityscapes

> Identify the city from the panoramic or aerial view shown in
> the handout:

> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/o10/7/citypix.pdf

> Clues are provided with some pictures.

> I've rearranged the round in order of the handout, interspersing
> the 4 decoys with the others. Answer for the decoys if you like
> for fun, but for no points.

In 2008 I wrote:
I was surprised how many people tried Toronto when they were guessing
at answers. Isn't it obvious that that's the city we'd've been least
likely to use, considering that everyone in the league lives here?

There were several guesses of Toronto again this time.

> 1. Name it.

Winnipeg. 2 for Pete.

> 2. Name it. If the photographer had turned around, they would
> have seen this city's most recognizable landmark.

St. John's (Newfoundland & Labrador). The unseen landmark is
Signal Hill. 4 for Dan Tilque.

According to the CGNDB, there is no place in Canada named Rio
de Janeiro.

> 3. Name this western Canadian city that's known locally, for
> obvious reasons, as the City of Bridges.

Saskatoon.

> 4. (decoy)

Whitehorse.

> 5. (decoy)

Hamilton.

> 6. Name it.

Quebec (City). 4 for Dan Tilque and Pete.

> 7. Name it. This city is also in western Canada.

Edmonton. 4 for Dan Tilque. 2 for Pete.

> 8. Name it.

Montreal. 3 for Pete.

> 9. Name it.

Halifax. 4 for Dan Tilque and Dan Blum.

> 10. (decoy)

Regina.

> 11. Name it.

Calgary. 4 for Dan Tilque. 2 for Pete.

> 12. Name it.

Vancouver. 4 for Pete.

> 13. (decoy)

London (Ontario).

> 14. Name this city in Ontario. The building on the left is one
> of its newer landmarks.

Windsor. The building is the casino (which is cleverly located
right on the Detroit River, so it's highly visible from Detroit).
4 for Pete. 2 for Dan Tilque.

Alliterative verse. 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, and Joshua.

> 2. A verse form consisting of unrhymed iambic pentameter, this is
> the meter of "Paradise" Lost as well as Shakespeare's plays.

Blank verse. (Not free verse, which has no specific meter.)
4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, and Joshua. 2 for Pete.

Petrarchan or Italian sonnet. 4 for Joshua. 2 for Dan Blum.

> 4. A form of light verse, named after one of its practitioners,
> consisting of two rhyming couplets and having the name of the
> person in the first line. For example, the following verse by
> Ian Lancashire:

> Celine Dion
> Sang a paean
> To love and pain
> And ladies layin'.

Clerihew. By the way, "Dion" does not really rhyme with "paean".
4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, and Joshua. 3 for Pete.

> 5. A stately lyric form, often on a serious theme, it incorporates
> various types of versification. Different variants of this
> form are known as Pindaric, Sapphic, and Horatian.

Ode. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Pete.

Terza rima. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.

> 7. A short stanza of 4 or 5 lines that ends a ballade and some
> other medieval verse forms. Originally, it stated the poem's
> dedication.

Envoi or envoy. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.

> 8. A rhyming couplet, usually end-stopped (meaning that each line
> ends with punctuation and the couplet often forms a sentence),
> written in iambic pentameter. Alexander Pope used these.

Heroic couplets. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.

Villanelle. 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Joshua, and Pete.

Incidentally, that Dylan Thomas poem came up on "Jeopardy!" last week,
specifically on Tuesday, 2010-02-16 -- and all three contestants got
it wrong. In the category Literature, this was the $1,600 question:

DYLAN THOMAS' BEST-KNOWN POEM URGES HIS FATHER, "DO NOT"
DO THIS. "RAGE, RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT"

The answers given were:

"Do not go gentle into that dark night"
"Do not go gently into the -- dark night -- into the night"
"Do not go gently into that dark night"

For the right answer see above.

Sestina. 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Joshua, and Pete.

Scores, if there are no errors:

GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> Lit Ent Sci Lei Can Lit FOUR
Joshua Kreitzer 8 32 3 28 0 40 108
Pete Gayde 4 40 20 20 21 17 101
Dan Blum 16 20 15 27 4 38 101
Dan Tilque 8 12 4 20 22 16 70
Erland Sommarskog 4 23 8 16 0 4 51

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