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Mark Brader
Nov 3, 2017, 3:01:43 AM11/3/17
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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-10-16,
and should be interpreted accordingly.
On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
the correct answers in about 3 days.
All questions were written by members of Smith & Guessin' 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 2017-09-25 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
* Game 4, Round 4 - Literature - The Top Ten
In the recent book "The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite
Books", edited by J. Peder Zane, 125 authors such as Norman Mailer,
Stephen King, Annie Proulx, and Jonathan Franzen each give their
10 personal favorite books, and an overall consensus ranking is
derived.
We will name or describe one or more characters from a book ranking
high on the list, and sometimes give additional information; you
name that book. In some cases we will omit part of a character's
name as it would be too helpful.
1. Various member of the Rostov, Kuragin and Bezukhov families.
2. Guildenstern.
3. Humbert Humbert.
4. Count Alexei Vronsky, Prince Stepan Oblonsky, Count Alexei
Alexandrovich <omitted>. (Based on the consensus list, this
one is the #1 ranked book of all time.)
5. Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, "Pap", Jim, Buck Grangerford.
6. Marcel, the narrator; Charles Swann; Gilberte Swann; Comtesse
de Marsantes; Basin, Duke De Geurmantes. Published 1913-27.
7. Emma <omitted>, Charles <omitted>, Rodolphe Boulanger, Leon
Dupuis. Published 1856.
8. Nick Carraway, Daisy Fay Buchanan, Jordan Baker.
9. Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate, Mary Garth. Published 1871-72
and subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life".
10. José Arcadio Buendía, Úrsula Iguarán, Jose Arcadio II (Segundo).
Published 1967.
* Game 4, Round 6 - Sports - Olympians, Mostly Actors
This week's sports round deals with Olympic athletes who achieved
a degree of fame in another field. Questions #1-8 concern Olympic
athletes who were also actors or acresses -- some more successful
than others.
1. Basketball star Michael Jordan played in the Olympics in 1984
and 1992. Name the 1996 movie in which he starred with that
Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny.
2. Speaking of 1996 movies starring basketball players, name the
flick which starred Shaquille O'Neal as a 5,000-year-old genie
who appears from a magic boom-box to grant a boy three wishes.
3. Name the NBA star who played himself in "Trainwreck", a 2015
comedy which starred Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson,
and Tilda Swinton.
4. Leaving basketball, the real trivia buffs among you may know
that Hillary Wolf played Macaulay Culkin's sister in the first
two "Home Alone" movies. She then left acting for sports,
competing for the US in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics -- in which
martial-art sport?
5. Now to swimming. Name the 5-time Olympic champion swimmer who
gained even greater fame by playing Tarzan in 12 movies.
6. Still with swimming, name the 1932 Olympic champ who later
starred in more than 100 movies. He is the only actor to have
played all three of Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers.
7. Harold Sakata won an Olympic silver medal for the US in
weightlifting in 1948. But he's best remembered as one of the
tougher villains James Bond has faced. Name Sakata's character
in a 1964 Bond film.
8. Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner, won the 1976 Olympic decathlon.
He also won the 1980 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor --
in which disastrous comedy film starring the Village People?
9. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss competed for the US as rowers in
the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They haven't acted in movies, but
they did appear as *characters* in a movie. They are now venture
capitalists, thanks in part to the millions they were paid in
a lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004.
Name *either* that web site *or* the 2010 film in which they
were portrayed.
10. The last question has no movie connection. A Yale University
team won the 1924 Olympic men's eights rowing title. That team
included a future pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling
books of all time, "Baby and Child Care", first published
in 1946. Name him.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "I seem to have become a signature quote."
m...@vex.net -- David Keldsen
My text in this article is in the public domain.
and should be interpreted accordingly.
On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
the correct answers in about 3 days.
All questions were written by members of Smith & Guessin' 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 2017-09-25 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
* Game 4, Round 4 - Literature - The Top Ten
In the recent book "The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite
Books", edited by J. Peder Zane, 125 authors such as Norman Mailer,
Stephen King, Annie Proulx, and Jonathan Franzen each give their
10 personal favorite books, and an overall consensus ranking is
derived.
We will name or describe one or more characters from a book ranking
high on the list, and sometimes give additional information; you
name that book. In some cases we will omit part of a character's
name as it would be too helpful.
1. Various member of the Rostov, Kuragin and Bezukhov families.
2. Guildenstern.
3. Humbert Humbert.
4. Count Alexei Vronsky, Prince Stepan Oblonsky, Count Alexei
Alexandrovich <omitted>. (Based on the consensus list, this
one is the #1 ranked book of all time.)
5. Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, "Pap", Jim, Buck Grangerford.
6. Marcel, the narrator; Charles Swann; Gilberte Swann; Comtesse
de Marsantes; Basin, Duke De Geurmantes. Published 1913-27.
7. Emma <omitted>, Charles <omitted>, Rodolphe Boulanger, Leon
Dupuis. Published 1856.
8. Nick Carraway, Daisy Fay Buchanan, Jordan Baker.
9. Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate, Mary Garth. Published 1871-72
and subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life".
10. José Arcadio Buendía, Úrsula Iguarán, Jose Arcadio II (Segundo).
Published 1967.
* Game 4, Round 6 - Sports - Olympians, Mostly Actors
This week's sports round deals with Olympic athletes who achieved
a degree of fame in another field. Questions #1-8 concern Olympic
athletes who were also actors or acresses -- some more successful
than others.
1. Basketball star Michael Jordan played in the Olympics in 1984
and 1992. Name the 1996 movie in which he starred with that
Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny.
2. Speaking of 1996 movies starring basketball players, name the
flick which starred Shaquille O'Neal as a 5,000-year-old genie
who appears from a magic boom-box to grant a boy three wishes.
3. Name the NBA star who played himself in "Trainwreck", a 2015
comedy which starred Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson,
and Tilda Swinton.
4. Leaving basketball, the real trivia buffs among you may know
that Hillary Wolf played Macaulay Culkin's sister in the first
two "Home Alone" movies. She then left acting for sports,
competing for the US in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics -- in which
martial-art sport?
5. Now to swimming. Name the 5-time Olympic champion swimmer who
gained even greater fame by playing Tarzan in 12 movies.
6. Still with swimming, name the 1932 Olympic champ who later
starred in more than 100 movies. He is the only actor to have
played all three of Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers.
7. Harold Sakata won an Olympic silver medal for the US in
weightlifting in 1948. But he's best remembered as one of the
tougher villains James Bond has faced. Name Sakata's character
in a 1964 Bond film.
8. Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner, won the 1976 Olympic decathlon.
He also won the 1980 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor --
in which disastrous comedy film starring the Village People?
9. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss competed for the US as rowers in
the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They haven't acted in movies, but
they did appear as *characters* in a movie. They are now venture
capitalists, thanks in part to the millions they were paid in
a lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004.
Name *either* that web site *or* the 2010 film in which they
were portrayed.
10. The last question has no movie connection. A Yale University
team won the 1924 Olympic men's eights rowing title. That team
included a future pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling
books of all time, "Baby and Child Care", first published
in 1946. Name him.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "I seem to have become a signature quote."
m...@vex.net -- David Keldsen
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Peter Smyth
Nov 3, 2017, 5:17:08 AM11/3/17
to
> 2. Guildenstern.
Hamlet
> 3. Humbert Humbert.
>
> 4. Count Alexei Vronsky, Prince Stepan Oblonsky, Count Alexei
> Alexandrovich <omitted>. (Based on the consensus list, this
> one is the #1 ranked book of all time.)
War and Peace
>
> 4. Count Alexei Vronsky, Prince Stepan Oblonsky, Count Alexei
> Alexandrovich <omitted>. (Based on the consensus list, this
> one is the #1 ranked book of all time.)
> 5. Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, "Pap", Jim, Buck Grangerford.
>
> 6. Marcel, the narrator; Charles Swann; Gilberte Swann; Comtesse
> de Marsantes; Basin, Duke De Geurmantes. Published 1913-27.
In Search of Lost Time
>
> 6. Marcel, the narrator; Charles Swann; Gilberte Swann; Comtesse
> de Marsantes; Basin, Duke De Geurmantes. Published 1913-27.
> 7. Emma <omitted>, Charles <omitted>, Rodolphe Boulanger, Leon
> Dupuis. Published 1856.
>
> 8. Nick Carraway, Daisy Fay Buchanan, Jordan Baker.
>
> 9. Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate, Mary Garth. Published 1871-72
> and subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life".
>
> 10. José Arcadio Buendía, Úrsula Iguarán, Jose Arcadio II (Segundo).
> Published 1967.
>
>
> * Game 4, Round 6 - Sports - Olympians, Mostly Actors
>
> This week's sports round deals with Olympic athletes who achieved
> a degree of fame in another field. Questions #1-8 concern Olympic
> athletes who were also actors or acresses -- some more successful
> than others.
>
> 1. Basketball star Michael Jordan played in the Olympics in 1984
> and 1992. Name the 1996 movie in which he starred with that
> Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny.
Space Jam
> Dupuis. Published 1856.
>
> 8. Nick Carraway, Daisy Fay Buchanan, Jordan Baker.
>
> 9. Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate, Mary Garth. Published 1871-72
> and subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life".
>
> 10. José Arcadio Buendía, Úrsula Iguarán, Jose Arcadio II (Segundo).
> Published 1967.
>
>
> * Game 4, Round 6 - Sports - Olympians, Mostly Actors
>
> This week's sports round deals with Olympic athletes who achieved
> a degree of fame in another field. Questions #1-8 concern Olympic
> athletes who were also actors or acresses -- some more successful
> than others.
>
> 1. Basketball star Michael Jordan played in the Olympics in 1984
> and 1992. Name the 1996 movie in which he starred with that
> Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny.
> 2. Speaking of 1996 movies starring basketball players, name the
> flick which starred Shaquille O'Neal as a 5,000-year-old genie
> who appears from a magic boom-box to grant a boy three wishes.
>
> 3. Name the NBA star who played himself in "Trainwreck", a 2015
> comedy which starred Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson,
> and Tilda Swinton.
>
> 4. Leaving basketball, the real trivia buffs among you may know
> that Hillary Wolf played Macaulay Culkin's sister in the first
> two "Home Alone" movies. She then left acting for sports,
> competing for the US in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics -- in which
> martial-art sport?
Judo, Taekwondo
> flick which starred Shaquille O'Neal as a 5,000-year-old genie
> who appears from a magic boom-box to grant a boy three wishes.
>
> 3. Name the NBA star who played himself in "Trainwreck", a 2015
> comedy which starred Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson,
> and Tilda Swinton.
>
> 4. Leaving basketball, the real trivia buffs among you may know
> that Hillary Wolf played Macaulay Culkin's sister in the first
> two "Home Alone" movies. She then left acting for sports,
> competing for the US in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics -- in which
> martial-art sport?
> 5. Now to swimming. Name the 5-time Olympic champion swimmer who
> gained even greater fame by playing Tarzan in 12 movies.
Weismuller
> gained even greater fame by playing Tarzan in 12 movies.
> 6. Still with swimming, name the 1932 Olympic champ who later
> starred in more than 100 movies. He is the only actor to have
> played all three of Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers.
Weismuller
> starred in more than 100 movies. He is the only actor to have
> played all three of Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers.
> 7. Harold Sakata won an Olympic silver medal for the US in
> weightlifting in 1948. But he's best remembered as one of the
> tougher villains James Bond has faced. Name Sakata's character
> in a 1964 Bond film.
Oddjob
> weightlifting in 1948. But he's best remembered as one of the
> tougher villains James Bond has faced. Name Sakata's character
> in a 1964 Bond film.
> 8. Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner, won the 1976 Olympic decathlon.
> He also won the 1980 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor --
> in which disastrous comedy film starring the Village People?
>
> 9. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss competed for the US as rowers in
> the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They haven't acted in movies, but
> they did appear as characters in a movie. They are now venture
> He also won the 1980 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor --
> in which disastrous comedy film starring the Village People?
>
> 9. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss competed for the US as rowers in
> the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They haven't acted in movies, but
> capitalists, thanks in part to the millions they were paid in
> a lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004.
> Name either that web site or the 2010 film in which they
> a lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004.
> were portrayed.
The Social Network
> 10. The last question has no movie connection. A Yale University
> team won the 1924 Olympic men's eights rowing title. That team
> included a future pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling
> books of all time, "Baby and Child Care", first published
> in 1946. Name him.
Spock
> team won the 1924 Olympic men's eights rowing title. That team
> included a future pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling
> books of all time, "Baby and Child Care", first published
> in 1946. Name him.
Peter Smyth
Dan Blum
Nov 3, 2017, 8:47:28 AM11/3/17
to
> 1. Various member of the Rostov, Kuragin and Bezukhov families.
War and Peace
> 2. Guildenstern.
Hamlet
> 3. Humbert Humbert.
Lolita
> 2. Guildenstern.
Hamlet
> 3. Humbert Humbert.
> 4. Count Alexei Vronsky, Prince Stepan Oblonsky, Count Alexei
> Alexandrovich <omitted>. (Based on the consensus list, this
> one is the #1 ranked book of all time.)
> 5. Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, "Pap", Jim, Buck Grangerford.
> 6. Marcel, the narrator; Charles Swann; Gilberte Swann; Comtesse
> de Marsantes; Basin, Duke De Geurmantes. Published 1913-27.
> 7. Emma <omitted>, Charles <omitted>, Rodolphe Boulanger, Leon
> Dupuis. Published 1856.
> 8. Nick Carraway, Daisy Fay Buchanan, Jordan Baker.
> 9. Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate, Mary Garth. Published 1871-72
> and subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life".
> 10. Jos? Arcadio Buend?a, ?rsula Iguar?n, Jose Arcadio II (Segundo).
> Published 1967.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
> * Game 4, Round 6 - Sports - Olympians, Mostly Actors
> 1. Basketball star Michael Jordan played in the Olympics in 1984
> and 1992. Name the 1996 movie in which he starred with that
> Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny.
Space Jam
> and 1992. Name the 1996 movie in which he starred with that
> Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny.
> 3. Name the NBA star who played himself in "Trainwreck", a 2015
> comedy which starred Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson,
> and Tilda Swinton.
> 4. Leaving basketball, the real trivia buffs among you may know
> that Hillary Wolf played Macaulay Culkin's sister in the first
> two "Home Alone" movies. She then left acting for sports,
> competing for the US in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics -- in which
> martial-art sport?
> 5. Now to swimming. Name the 5-time Olympic champion swimmer who
> gained even greater fame by playing Tarzan in 12 movies.
> 6. Still with swimming, name the 1932 Olympic champ who later
> starred in more than 100 movies. He is the only actor to have
> played all three of Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers.
> 7. Harold Sakata won an Olympic silver medal for the US in
> weightlifting in 1948. But he's best remembered as one of the
> tougher villains James Bond has faced. Name Sakata's character
> in a 1964 Bond film.
> 8. Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner, won the 1976 Olympic decathlon.
> He also won the 1980 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor --
> in which disastrous comedy film starring the Village People?
> 9. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss competed for the US as rowers in
> the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They haven't acted in movies, but
> they did appear as *characters* in a movie. They are now venture
> capitalists, thanks in part to the millions they were paid in
> a lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004.
> Name *either* that web site *or* the 2010 film in which they
> were portrayed.
> 10. The last question has no movie connection. A Yale University
> team won the 1924 Olympic men's eights rowing title. That team
> included a future pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling
> books of all time, "Baby and Child Care", first published
> in 1946. Name him.
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to
> 2. Speaking of 1996 movies starring basketball players, name the
> flick which starred Shaquille O'Neal as a 5,000-year-old genie who
> appears from a magic boom-box to grant a boy three wishes.
>
> 3. Name the NBA star who played himself in "Trainwreck", a 2015
> comedy which starred Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson,
> and Tilda Swinton.
>
> 4. Leaving basketball, the real trivia buffs among you may know
> that Hillary Wolf played Macaulay Culkin's sister in the first two
> "Home Alone" movies. She then left acting for sports, competing for
> the US in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics -- in which martial-art sport?
> 5. Now to swimming. Name the 5-time Olympic champion swimmer who
> gained even greater fame by playing Tarzan in 12 movies.
> 6. Still with swimming, name the 1932 Olympic champ who later
> starred in more than 100 movies. He is the only actor to have played
> all three of Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers.
> 7. Harold Sakata won an Olympic silver medal for the US in
> weightlifting in 1948. But he's best remembered as one of the
> tougher villains James Bond has faced. Name Sakata's character in a
> 1964 Bond film.
> 8. Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner, won the 1976 Olympic decathlon.
> He also won the 1980 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor -- in
> which disastrous comedy film starring the Village People?
>
> 9. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss competed for the US as rowers in
> the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They haven't acted in movies, but they
> did appear as *characters* in a movie. They are now venture
> capitalists, thanks in part to the millions they were paid in a
> lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004. Name
> *either* that web site *or* the 2010 film in which they were
> portrayed.
> 10. The last question has no movie connection. A Yale University
> team won the 1924 Olympic men's eights rowing title. That team
> included a future pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling
> books of all time, "Baby and Child Care", first published in 1946.
> Name him.
Marc Dashevsky
Nov 3, 2017, 11:06:54 AM11/3/17
to
In article <6LmdnbqrH5DMiWHE...@giganews.com>, m...@vex.net says...
> 2. Guildenstern.
Hamlet
> 3. Humbert Humbert.
Lolita
> 5. Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, "Pap", Jim, Buck Grangerford.
>
> 6. Marcel, the narrator; Charles Swann; Gilberte Swann; Comtesse
> de Marsantes; Basin, Duke De Geurmantes. Published 1913-27.
>
> 7. Emma <omitted>, Charles <omitted>, Rodolphe Boulanger, Leon
> Dupuis. Published 1856.
Madame Bovary
> 8. Nick Carraway, Daisy Fay Buchanan, Jordan Baker.
The Great Gatsby
> 9. Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate, Mary Garth. Published 1871-72
> and subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life".
>
> 10. José Arcadio Buendía, Úrsula Iguarán, Jose Arcadio II (Segundo).
> Published 1967.
100 Years of Solitude
> * Game 4, Round 6 - Sports - Olympians, Mostly Actors
>
> This week's sports round deals with Olympic athletes who achieved
> a degree of fame in another field. Questions #1-8 concern Olympic
> athletes who were also actors or acresses -- some more successful
> than others.
>
> 1. Basketball star Michael Jordan played in the Olympics in 1984
> and 1992. Name the 1996 movie in which he starred with that
> Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny.
>
> 2. Speaking of 1996 movies starring basketball players, name the
> flick which starred Shaquille O'Neal as a 5,000-year-old genie
> who appears from a magic boom-box to grant a boy three wishes.
Kazaam
> 3. Name the NBA star who played himself in "Trainwreck", a 2015
> comedy which starred Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson,
> and Tilda Swinton.
>
> 4. Leaving basketball, the real trivia buffs among you may know
> that Hillary Wolf played Macaulay Culkin's sister in the first
> two "Home Alone" movies. She then left acting for sports,
> competing for the US in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics -- in which
> martial-art sport?
judo
> 5. Now to swimming. Name the 5-time Olympic champion swimmer who
> gained even greater fame by playing Tarzan in 12 movies.
Johnny Weismuller
> 6. Still with swimming, name the 1932 Olympic champ who later
> starred in more than 100 movies. He is the only actor to have
> played all three of Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers.
>
> 7. Harold Sakata won an Olympic silver medal for the US in
> weightlifting in 1948. But he's best remembered as one of the
> tougher villains James Bond has faced. Name Sakata's character
> in a 1964 Bond film.
Oddjob
> 8. Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner, won the 1976 Olympic decathlon.
> He also won the 1980 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor --
> in which disastrous comedy film starring the Village People?
>
> 9. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss competed for the US as rowers in
> the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They haven't acted in movies, but
> they did appear as *characters* in a movie. They are now venture
> capitalists, thanks in part to the millions they were paid in
> a lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004.
> Name *either* that web site *or* the 2010 film in which they
> were portrayed.
Facebook
> 10. The last question has no movie connection. A Yale University
> team won the 1924 Olympic men's eights rowing title. That team
> included a future pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling
> books of all time, "Baby and Child Care", first published
> in 1946. Name him.
Benjamin Spock
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> * Game 4, Round 4 - Literature - The Top Ten
>
> In the recent book "The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite
> Books", edited by J. Peder Zane, 125 authors such as Norman Mailer,
> Stephen King, Annie Proulx, and Jonathan Franzen each give their
> 10 personal favorite books, and an overall consensus ranking is
> derived.
>
> We will name or describe one or more characters from a book ranking
> high on the list, and sometimes give additional information; you
> name that book. In some cases we will omit part of a character's
> name as it would be too helpful.
>
> 1. Various member of the Rostov, Kuragin and Bezukhov families.
War & Peace
>
> In the recent book "The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite
> Books", edited by J. Peder Zane, 125 authors such as Norman Mailer,
> Stephen King, Annie Proulx, and Jonathan Franzen each give their
> 10 personal favorite books, and an overall consensus ranking is
> derived.
>
> We will name or describe one or more characters from a book ranking
> high on the list, and sometimes give additional information; you
> name that book. In some cases we will omit part of a character's
> name as it would be too helpful.
>
> 1. Various member of the Rostov, Kuragin and Bezukhov families.
> 2. Guildenstern.
Hamlet
> 3. Humbert Humbert.
Lolita
> 4. Count Alexei Vronsky, Prince Stepan Oblonsky, Count Alexei
> Alexandrovich <omitted>. (Based on the consensus list, this
> one is the #1 ranked book of all time.)
Anna Karenina
> Alexandrovich <omitted>. (Based on the consensus list, this
> one is the #1 ranked book of all time.)
> 5. Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, "Pap", Jim, Buck Grangerford.
>
> 6. Marcel, the narrator; Charles Swann; Gilberte Swann; Comtesse
> de Marsantes; Basin, Duke De Geurmantes. Published 1913-27.
>
> 7. Emma <omitted>, Charles <omitted>, Rodolphe Boulanger, Leon
> Dupuis. Published 1856.
> 8. Nick Carraway, Daisy Fay Buchanan, Jordan Baker.
> 9. Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate, Mary Garth. Published 1871-72
> and subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life".
>
> 10. José Arcadio Buendía, Úrsula Iguarán, Jose Arcadio II (Segundo).
> Published 1967.
> * Game 4, Round 6 - Sports - Olympians, Mostly Actors
>
> This week's sports round deals with Olympic athletes who achieved
> a degree of fame in another field. Questions #1-8 concern Olympic
> athletes who were also actors or acresses -- some more successful
> than others.
>
> 1. Basketball star Michael Jordan played in the Olympics in 1984
> and 1992. Name the 1996 movie in which he starred with that
> Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny.
>
> 2. Speaking of 1996 movies starring basketball players, name the
> flick which starred Shaquille O'Neal as a 5,000-year-old genie
> who appears from a magic boom-box to grant a boy three wishes.
> 3. Name the NBA star who played himself in "Trainwreck", a 2015
> comedy which starred Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson,
> and Tilda Swinton.
>
> 4. Leaving basketball, the real trivia buffs among you may know
> that Hillary Wolf played Macaulay Culkin's sister in the first
> two "Home Alone" movies. She then left acting for sports,
> competing for the US in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics -- in which
> martial-art sport?
> 5. Now to swimming. Name the 5-time Olympic champion swimmer who
> gained even greater fame by playing Tarzan in 12 movies.
> 6. Still with swimming, name the 1932 Olympic champ who later
> starred in more than 100 movies. He is the only actor to have
> played all three of Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers.
>
> 7. Harold Sakata won an Olympic silver medal for the US in
> weightlifting in 1948. But he's best remembered as one of the
> tougher villains James Bond has faced. Name Sakata's character
> in a 1964 Bond film.
> 8. Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner, won the 1976 Olympic decathlon.
> He also won the 1980 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor --
> in which disastrous comedy film starring the Village People?
>
> 9. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss competed for the US as rowers in
> the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They haven't acted in movies, but
> they did appear as *characters* in a movie. They are now venture
> capitalists, thanks in part to the millions they were paid in
> a lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004.
> Name *either* that web site *or* the 2010 film in which they
> were portrayed.
> 10. The last question has no movie connection. A Yale University
> team won the 1924 Olympic men's eights rowing title. That team
> included a future pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling
> books of all time, "Baby and Child Care", first published
> in 1946. Name him.
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> * Game 4, Round 4 - Literature - The Top Ten
>
> 5. Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, "Pap", Jim, Buck Grangerford.
"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
> 6. Marcel, the narrator; Charles Swann; Gilberte Swann; Comtesse
> de Marsantes; Basin, Duke De Geurmantes. Published 1913-27.
> 8. Nick Carraway, Daisy Fay Buchanan, Jordan Baker.
"The Great Gatsby"
> * Game 4, Round 6 - Sports - Olympians, Mostly Actors
>
> This week's sports round deals with Olympic athletes who achieved
> a degree of fame in another field. Questions #1-8 concern Olympic
> athletes who were also actors or acresses -- some more successful
> than others.
>
> 1. Basketball star Michael Jordan played in the Olympics in 1984
> and 1992. Name the 1996 movie in which he starred with that
> Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny.
"Space Jam"
> 2. Speaking of 1996 movies starring basketball players, name the
> flick which starred Shaquille O'Neal as a 5,000-year-old genie
> who appears from a magic boom-box to grant a boy three wishes.
"Kazaam"
> 3. Name the NBA star who played himself in "Trainwreck", a 2015
> comedy which starred Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson,
> and Tilda Swinton.
LeBron James
> 4. Leaving basketball, the real trivia buffs among you may know
> that Hillary Wolf played Macaulay Culkin's sister in the first
> two "Home Alone" movies. She then left acting for sports,
> competing for the US in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics -- in which
> martial-art sport?
judo
> 5. Now to swimming. Name the 5-time Olympic champion swimmer who
> gained even greater fame by playing Tarzan in 12 movies.
Johnny Weismuller
> 6. Still with swimming, name the 1932 Olympic champ who later
> starred in more than 100 movies. He is the only actor to have
> played all three of Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers.
Buster Crabbe
> 7. Harold Sakata won an Olympic silver medal for the US in
> weightlifting in 1948. But he's best remembered as one of the
> tougher villains James Bond has faced. Name Sakata's character
> in a 1964 Bond film.
Oddjob
> 8. Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner, won the 1976 Olympic decathlon.
> He also won the 1980 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor --
> in which disastrous comedy film starring the Village People?
> 10. The last question has no movie connection. A Yale University
> team won the 1924 Olympic men's eights rowing title. That team
> included a future pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling
> books of all time, "Baby and Child Care", first published
> in 1946. Name him.
Benjamin Spock
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L_N...@giganews.com:
> * Game 4, Round 4 - Literature - The Top Ten
>
> We will name or describe one or more characters from a book ranking
> high on the list, and sometimes give additional information; you
> name that book. In some cases we will omit part of a character's
> name as it would be too helpful.
>
> high on the list, and sometimes give additional information; you
> name that book. In some cases we will omit part of a character's
> name as it would be too helpful.
>
> 2. Guildenstern.
"Hamlet"
> 3. Humbert Humbert.
"Lolita"
"Hamlet"
> 3. Humbert Humbert.
"Lolita"
> 4. Count Alexei Vronsky, Prince Stepan Oblonsky, Count Alexei
> Alexandrovich <omitted>. (Based on the consensus list, this
> one is the #1 ranked book of all time.)
"War and Peace"
> Alexandrovich <omitted>. (Based on the consensus list, this
> one is the #1 ranked book of all time.)
> 5. Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, "Pap", Jim, Buck Grangerford.
> 6. Marcel, the narrator; Charles Swann; Gilberte Swann; Comtesse
> de Marsantes; Basin, Duke De Geurmantes. Published 1913-27.
"In Search of Lost Time"
> 7. Emma <omitted>, Charles <omitted>, Rodolphe Boulanger, Leon
> Dupuis. Published 1856.
"Madame Bovary"
> Dupuis. Published 1856.
> 8. Nick Carraway, Daisy Fay Buchanan, Jordan Baker.
> * Game 4, Round 6 - Sports - Olympians, Mostly Actors
>
> This week's sports round deals with Olympic athletes who achieved
> a degree of fame in another field. Questions #1-8 concern Olympic
> athletes who were also actors or acresses -- some more successful
> than others.
>
> 1. Basketball star Michael Jordan played in the Olympics in 1984
> and 1992. Name the 1996 movie in which he starred with that
> Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny.
> 2. Speaking of 1996 movies starring basketball players, name the
> flick which starred Shaquille O'Neal as a 5,000-year-old genie
> who appears from a magic boom-box to grant a boy three wishes.
> 3. Name the NBA star who played himself in "Trainwreck", a 2015
> comedy which starred Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson,
> and Tilda Swinton.
> 4. Leaving basketball, the real trivia buffs among you may know
> that Hillary Wolf played Macaulay Culkin's sister in the first
> two "Home Alone" movies. She then left acting for sports,
> competing for the US in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics -- in which
> martial-art sport?
> 5. Now to swimming. Name the 5-time Olympic champion swimmer who
> gained even greater fame by playing Tarzan in 12 movies.
> 6. Still with swimming, name the 1932 Olympic champ who later
> starred in more than 100 movies. He is the only actor to have
> played all three of Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers.
> 7. Harold Sakata won an Olympic silver medal for the US in
> weightlifting in 1948. But he's best remembered as one of the
> tougher villains James Bond has faced. Name Sakata's character
> in a 1964 Bond film.
> 8. Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner, won the 1976 Olympic decathlon.
> He also won the 1980 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor --
> in which disastrous comedy film starring the Village People?
"Can't Stop the Music"
> 9. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss competed for the US as rowers in
> the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They haven't acted in movies, but
> they did appear as *characters* in a movie. They are now venture
> capitalists, thanks in part to the millions they were paid in
> a lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004.
> Name *either* that web site *or* the 2010 film in which they
> were portrayed.
Facebook
> the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They haven't acted in movies, but
> they did appear as *characters* in a movie. They are now venture
> capitalists, thanks in part to the millions they were paid in
> a lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004.
> Name *either* that web site *or* the 2010 film in which they
> were portrayed.
> 10. The last question has no movie connection. A Yale University
> team won the 1924 Olympic men's eights rowing title. That team
> included a future pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling
> books of all time, "Baby and Child Care", first published
> in 1946. Name him.
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Jason Kreitzer
Nov 4, 2017, 12:25:25 AM11/4/17
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> 2. Guildenstern.
>
> 3. Humbert Humbert.
Lolita
>
> 3. Humbert Humbert.
> 4. Count Alexei Vronsky, Prince Stepan Oblonsky, Count Alexei
> Alexandrovich <omitted>. (Based on the consensus list, this
> one is the #1 ranked book of all time.)
War and Peace
> Alexandrovich <omitted>. (Based on the consensus list, this
> one is the #1 ranked book of all time.)
> 5. Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, "Pap", Jim, Buck Grangerford.
>
> 6. Marcel, the narrator; Charles Swann; Gilberte Swann; Comtesse
> de Marsantes; Basin, Duke De Geurmantes. Published 1913-27.
>
> 7. Emma <omitted>, Charles <omitted>, Rodolphe Boulanger, Leon
> Dupuis. Published 1856.
>
> 8. Nick Carraway, Daisy Fay Buchanan, Jordan Baker.
The Great Gatsby
>
> 6. Marcel, the narrator; Charles Swann; Gilberte Swann; Comtesse
> de Marsantes; Basin, Duke De Geurmantes. Published 1913-27.
>
> 7. Emma <omitted>, Charles <omitted>, Rodolphe Boulanger, Leon
> Dupuis. Published 1856.
>
> 8. Nick Carraway, Daisy Fay Buchanan, Jordan Baker.
> 9. Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate, Mary Garth. Published 1871-72
> and subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life".
>
> 10. José Arcadio Buendía, Úrsula Iguarán, Jose Arcadio II (Segundo).
> Published 1967.
>
>
> * Game 4, Round 6 - Sports - Olympians, Mostly Actors
>
> This week's sports round deals with Olympic athletes who achieved
> a degree of fame in another field. Questions #1-8 concern Olympic
> athletes who were also actors or acresses -- some more successful
> than others.
>
> 1. Basketball star Michael Jordan played in the Olympics in 1984
> and 1992. Name the 1996 movie in which he starred with that
> Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny.
Space Jam
> and subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life".
>
> 10. José Arcadio Buendía, Úrsula Iguarán, Jose Arcadio II (Segundo).
> Published 1967.
>
>
> * Game 4, Round 6 - Sports - Olympians, Mostly Actors
>
> This week's sports round deals with Olympic athletes who achieved
> a degree of fame in another field. Questions #1-8 concern Olympic
> athletes who were also actors or acresses -- some more successful
> than others.
>
> 1. Basketball star Michael Jordan played in the Olympics in 1984
> and 1992. Name the 1996 movie in which he starred with that
> Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny.
> 2. Speaking of 1996 movies starring basketball players, name the
> flick which starred Shaquille O'Neal as a 5,000-year-old genie
> who appears from a magic boom-box to grant a boy three wishes.
Kazaam
> flick which starred Shaquille O'Neal as a 5,000-year-old genie
> who appears from a magic boom-box to grant a boy three wishes.
> 3. Name the NBA star who played himself in "Trainwreck", a 2015
> comedy which starred Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson,
> and Tilda Swinton.
>
> 4. Leaving basketball, the real trivia buffs among you may know
> that Hillary Wolf played Macaulay Culkin's sister in the first
> two "Home Alone" movies. She then left acting for sports,
> competing for the US in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics -- in which
> martial-art sport?
>
> 5. Now to swimming. Name the 5-time Olympic champion swimmer who
> gained even greater fame by playing Tarzan in 12 movies.
Johnny Weismuller
> comedy which starred Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson,
> and Tilda Swinton.
>
> 4. Leaving basketball, the real trivia buffs among you may know
> that Hillary Wolf played Macaulay Culkin's sister in the first
> two "Home Alone" movies. She then left acting for sports,
> competing for the US in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics -- in which
> martial-art sport?
>
> 5. Now to swimming. Name the 5-time Olympic champion swimmer who
> gained even greater fame by playing Tarzan in 12 movies.
> 6. Still with swimming, name the 1932 Olympic champ who later
> starred in more than 100 movies. He is the only actor to have
> played all three of Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers.
Buster Crabbe
> starred in more than 100 movies. He is the only actor to have
> played all three of Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers.
> 7. Harold Sakata won an Olympic silver medal for the US in
> weightlifting in 1948. But he's best remembered as one of the
> tougher villains James Bond has faced. Name Sakata's character
> in a 1964 Bond film.
Oddjob
> weightlifting in 1948. But he's best remembered as one of the
> tougher villains James Bond has faced. Name Sakata's character
> in a 1964 Bond film.
> 8. Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner, won the 1976 Olympic decathlon.
> He also won the 1980 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor --
> in which disastrous comedy film starring the Village People?
> He also won the 1980 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor --
> in which disastrous comedy film starring the Village People?
Can't Stop the Music
> 9. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss competed for the US as rowers in
> the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They haven't acted in movies, but
> they did appear as *characters* in a movie. They are now venture
> capitalists, thanks in part to the millions they were paid in
> a lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004.
> Name *either* that web site *or* the 2010 film in which they
> were portrayed.
Facebook
> the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They haven't acted in movies, but
> they did appear as *characters* in a movie. They are now venture
> capitalists, thanks in part to the millions they were paid in
> a lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004.
> Name *either* that web site *or* the 2010 film in which they
> were portrayed.
> 10. The last question has no movie connection. A Yale University
> team won the 1924 Olympic men's eights rowing title. That team
> included a future pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling
> books of all time, "Baby and Child Care", first published
> in 1946. Name him.
Dr. Benjamin Spock
> team won the 1924 Olympic men's eights rowing title. That team
> included a future pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling
> books of all time, "Baby and Child Care", first published
> in 1946. Name him.
Gareth Owen
Nov 5, 2017, 6:32:11 AM11/5/17
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m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) writes:
> 1. Various member of the Rostov, Kuragin and Bezukhov families.
> 1. Various member of the Rostov, Kuragin and Bezukhov families.
War and Peace
> 2. Guildenstern.
The Princess Bride
> 2. Guildenstern.
> 3. Humbert Humbert.
Humbert Humbert
> 4. Count Alexei Vronsky, Prince Stepan Oblonsky, Count Alexei
> Alexandrovich <omitted>. (Based on the consensus list, this
> one is the #1 ranked book of all time.)
> 5. Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, "Pap", Jim, Buck Grangerford.
> 6. Marcel, the narrator; Charles Swann; Gilberte Swann; Comtesse
> de Marsantes; Basin, Duke De Geurmantes. Published 1913-27.
> 7. Emma <omitted>, Charles <omitted>, Rodolphe Boulanger, Leon
> Dupuis. Published 1856.
> 8. Nick Carraway, Daisy Fay Buchanan, Jordan Baker.
> 9. Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate, Mary Garth. Published 1871-72
> and subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life".
> 10. José Arcadio Buendía, Úrsula Iguarán, Jose Arcadio II (Segundo).
> Published 1967.
> * Game 4, Round 6 - Sports - Olympians, Mostly Actors
>
> This week's sports round deals with Olympic athletes who achieved
> a degree of fame in another field. Questions #1-8 concern Olympic
> athletes who were also actors or acresses -- some more successful
> than others.
>
> 1. Basketball star Michael Jordan played in the Olympics in 1984
> and 1992. Name the 1996 movie in which he starred with that
> Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny.
> 2. Speaking of 1996 movies starring basketball players, name the
> flick which starred Shaquille O'Neal as a 5,000-year-old genie
> who appears from a magic boom-box to grant a boy three wishes.
> 3. Name the NBA star who played himself in "Trainwreck", a 2015
> comedy which starred Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson,
> and Tilda Swinton.
> 4. Leaving basketball, the real trivia buffs among you may know
> that Hillary Wolf played Macaulay Culkin's sister in the first
> two "Home Alone" movies. She then left acting for sports,
> competing for the US in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics -- in which
> martial-art sport?
> 5. Now to swimming. Name the 5-time Olympic champion swimmer who
> gained even greater fame by playing Tarzan in 12 movies.
> 6. Still with swimming, name the 1932 Olympic champ who later
> starred in more than 100 movies. He is the only actor to have
> played all three of Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers.
> 7. Harold Sakata won an Olympic silver medal for the US in
> weightlifting in 1948. But he's best remembered as one of the
> tougher villains James Bond has faced. Name Sakata's character
> in a 1964 Bond film.
> 8. Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner, won the 1976 Olympic decathlon.
> He also won the 1980 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor --
> in which disastrous comedy film starring the Village People?
> 9. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss competed for the US as rowers in
> the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They haven't acted in movies, but
> they did appear as *characters* in a movie. They are now venture
> capitalists, thanks in part to the millions they were paid in
> a lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004.
> Name *either* that web site *or* the 2010 film in which they
> were portrayed.
called "Harvard Connection")
> 10. The last question has no movie connection. A Yale University
> team won the 1924 Olympic men's eights rowing title. That team
> included a future pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling
> books of all time, "Baby and Child Care", first published
> in 1946. Name him.
Calvin
Nov 5, 2017, 8:16:02 PM11/5/17
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On Friday, November 3, 2017 at 5:01:43 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 4, Round 4 - Literature - The Top Ten
>
> In the recent book "The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite
> Books", edited by J. Peder Zane, 125 authors such as Norman Mailer,
> Stephen King, Annie Proulx, and Jonathan Franzen each give their
> 10 personal favorite books, and an overall consensus ranking is
> derived.
>
> We will name or describe one or more characters from a book ranking
> high on the list, and sometimes give additional information; you
> name that book. In some cases we will omit part of a character's
> name as it would be too helpful.
>
> 1. Various member of the Rostov, Kuragin and Bezukhov families.
War and Peace
> * Game 4, Round 4 - Literature - The Top Ten
>
> In the recent book "The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite
> Books", edited by J. Peder Zane, 125 authors such as Norman Mailer,
> Stephen King, Annie Proulx, and Jonathan Franzen each give their
> 10 personal favorite books, and an overall consensus ranking is
> derived.
>
> We will name or describe one or more characters from a book ranking
> high on the list, and sometimes give additional information; you
> name that book. In some cases we will omit part of a character's
> name as it would be too helpful.
>
> 1. Various member of the Rostov, Kuragin and Bezukhov families.
> 2. Guildenstern.
>
> 3. Humbert Humbert.
> 4. Count Alexei Vronsky, Prince Stepan Oblonsky, Count Alexei
> Alexandrovich <omitted>. (Based on the consensus list, this
> one is the #1 ranked book of all time.)
> 5. Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, "Pap", Jim, Buck Grangerford.
> 6. Marcel, the narrator; Charles Swann; Gilberte Swann; Comtesse
> de Marsantes; Basin, Duke De Geurmantes. Published 1913-27.
> 7. Emma <omitted>, Charles <omitted>, Rodolphe Boulanger, Leon
> Dupuis. Published 1856.
> 8. Nick Carraway, Daisy Fay Buchanan, Jordan Baker.
> 9. Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate, Mary Garth. Published 1871-72
> and subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life".
> 10. José Arcadio Buendía, Úrsula Iguarán, Jose Arcadio II (Segundo).
> Published 1967.
> * Game 4, Round 6 - Sports - Olympians, Mostly Actors
>
> This week's sports round deals with Olympic athletes who achieved
> a degree of fame in another field. Questions #1-8 concern Olympic
> athletes who were also actors or acresses -- some more successful
> than others.
>
> 1. Basketball star Michael Jordan played in the Olympics in 1984
> and 1992. Name the 1996 movie in which he starred with that
> Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny.
> 2. Speaking of 1996 movies starring basketball players, name the
> flick which starred Shaquille O'Neal as a 5,000-year-old genie
> who appears from a magic boom-box to grant a boy three wishes.
> 3. Name the NBA star who played himself in "Trainwreck", a 2015
> comedy which starred Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson,
> and Tilda Swinton.
> 4. Leaving basketball, the real trivia buffs among you may know
> that Hillary Wolf played Macaulay Culkin's sister in the first
> two "Home Alone" movies. She then left acting for sports,
> competing for the US in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics -- in which
> martial-art sport?
> 5. Now to swimming. Name the 5-time Olympic champion swimmer who
> gained even greater fame by playing Tarzan in 12 movies.
> 6. Still with swimming, name the 1932 Olympic champ who later
> starred in more than 100 movies. He is the only actor to have
> played all three of Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers.
>
> 7. Harold Sakata won an Olympic silver medal for the US in
> weightlifting in 1948. But he's best remembered as one of the
> tougher villains James Bond has faced. Name Sakata's character
> in a 1964 Bond film.
> 8. Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner, won the 1976 Olympic decathlon.
> He also won the 1980 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor --
> in which disastrous comedy film starring the Village People?
> 9. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss competed for the US as rowers in
> the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They haven't acted in movies, but
> they did appear as *characters* in a movie. They are now venture
> capitalists, thanks in part to the millions they were paid in
> a lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004.
> Name *either* that web site *or* the 2010 film in which they
> were portrayed.
> 10. The last question has no movie connection. A Yale University
> team won the 1924 Olympic men's eights rowing title. That team
> included a future pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling
> books of all time, "Baby and Child Care", first published
> in 1946. Name him.
cheers,
calvin
Mark Brader
Nov 6, 2017, 12:46:35 AM11/6/17
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Mark Brader:
4 for Peter, Dan, Marc, Gareth, and Calvin.
> 2. Guildenstern.
"Hamlet" (by William Shakespeare). (We didn't say the books would
all be novels.) 4 for Peter, Dan, Marc, and Joshua.
> 3. Humbert Humbert.
"Lolita" (by Vladimir Nabokov). No, not "Humbert Humbert".
4 for Dan, Marc, Joshua, Jason, and Calvin.
> 4. Count Alexei Vronsky, Prince Stepan Oblonsky, Count Alexei
> Alexandrovich <omitted>. (Based on the consensus list, this
> one is the #1 ranked book of all time.)
"Anna Karenina" (again, by Leo Tolstoy), or in English, "Anna
Karenina". 4 for Dan, Marc, Gareth, and Calvin.
> 5. Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, "Pap", Jim, Buck Grangerford.
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (by Mark Twain). "Huckleberry
Finn" was sufficient, so I scored "Huck Finn" as almost correct.
4 for Dan and Joshua. 3 for Gareth. 1 for Calvin.
> 6. Marcel, the narrator; Charles Swann; Gilberte Swann; Comtesse
> de Marsantes; Basin, Duke De Geurmantes. Published 1913-27.
"À la recherche du temps perdu" (by Marcel Proust), or in English,
"Remembrance of Times Past", "Remembrance of Things Past", or "In
Search of Lost Time". 4 for Peter, Dan, Joshua, Gareth, and Calvin.
> 7. Emma <omitted>, Charles <omitted>, Rodolphe Boulanger, Leon
> Dupuis. Published 1856.
"Madame Bovary" (by Gustave Flaubert), which was #2 on the list.
4 for Dan, Marc, Joshua, and Gareth.
> 8. Nick Carraway, Daisy Fay Buchanan, Jordan Baker.
"The Great Gatsby" (by F. Scott Fitzgerald). 4 for Dan, Marc,
Joshua, Jason, Gareth, and Calvin.
> 9. Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate, Mary Garth. Published 1871-72
> and subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life".
"Middlemarch" (by George Eliot). 4 for Calvin.
> 10. José Arcadio Buendía, Úrsula Iguarán, Jose Arcadio II (Segundo).
> Published 1967.
"Cien Años de Soledad" (by Gabriel García Márquez), or in English,
"One Hundred Years of Solitude". 4 for Dan, Marc, Gareth, and Calvin.
> * Game 4, Round 6 - Sports - Olympians, Mostly Actors
> This week's sports round deals with Olympic athletes who achieved
> a degree of fame in another field. Questions #1-8 concern Olympic
> athletes who were also actors or acresses -- some more successful
> than others.
> 1. Basketball star Michael Jordan played in the Olympics in 1984
> and 1992. Name the 1996 movie in which he starred with that
> Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny.
"Space Jam". 4 for Peter, Dan, Bruce, Joshua, Jason, and Gareth.
3 for Calvin.
> 2. Speaking of 1996 movies starring basketball players, name the
> flick which starred Shaquille O'Neal as a 5,000-year-old genie
> who appears from a magic boom-box to grant a boy three wishes.
"Kazaam". 4 for Marc, Joshua, Jason, and Gareth.
> 3. Name the NBA star who played himself in "Trainwreck", a 2015
> comedy which starred Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson,
> and Tilda Swinton.
LeBron James. 4 for Dan, Joshua, and Gareth. 3 for Calvin.
> 4. Leaving basketball, the real trivia buffs among you may know
> that Hillary Wolf played Macaulay Culkin's sister in the first
> two "Home Alone" movies. She then left acting for sports,
> competing for the US in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics -- in which
> martial-art sport?
Judo. 4 for Bruce, Marc, and Joshua. 3 for Peter, Dan, and Calvin.
> 5. Now to swimming. Name the 5-time Olympic champion swimmer who
> gained even greater fame by playing Tarzan in 12 movies.
Johnny Weissmuller. 4 for Peter, Dan, Marc, Joshua, Jason, Gareth,
and Calvin.
> 6. Still with swimming, name the 1932 Olympic champ who later
> starred in more than 100 movies. He is the only actor to have
> played all three of Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers.
Buster Crabbe. 4 for Dan, Joshua, Jason, and Gareth.
> 7. Harold Sakata won an Olympic silver medal for the US in
> weightlifting in 1948. But he's best remembered as one of the
> tougher villains James Bond has faced. Name Sakata's character
> in a 1964 Bond film.
Oddjob (in "Goldfinger"). 4 for everyone -- Peter, Dan, Bruce,
Marc, Joshua, Jason, Gareth, and Calvin.
> 8. Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner, won the 1976 Olympic decathlon.
> He also won the 1980 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor --
> in which disastrous comedy film starring the Village People?
"Can't Stop the Music". 4 for Dan, Joshua, and Jason. 3 for Calvin.
> 9. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss competed for the US as rowers in
> the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They haven't acted in movies, but
> they did appear as *characters* in a movie. They are now venture
> capitalists, thanks in part to the millions they were paid in
> a lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004.
> Name *either* that web site *or* the 2010 film in which they
> were portrayed.
Facebook, "The Social Network". (Both twins were played by Armie
Hammer.) 4 for everyone.
> 10. The last question has no movie connection. A Yale University
> team won the 1924 Olympic men's eights rowing title. That team
> included a future pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling
> books of all time, "Baby and Child Care", first published
> in 1946. Name him.
Benjamin Spock. 4 for everyone.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 4 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Can Geo Lit Spo
Joshua Kreitzer 5 24 24 40 93
Dan Blum 3 16 36 35 90
Peter Smyth 0 29 12 23 64
Gareth Owen -- -- 27 32 59
"Calvin" -- -- 29 28 57
Marc Dashevsky 0 4 28 24 56
Jason Kreitzer 8 0 8 32 48
Dan Tilque 0 28 -- -- 28
Pete Gayde 3 24 -- -- 27
Erland Sommarskog 0 24 -- -- 24
Bruce Bowler -- -- 0 20 20
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | And perhaps another sigquote for Mark, who
m...@vex.net | seems to be running low... --Steve Summit
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-10-16,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2017-09-25 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 4, Round 4 - Literature - The Top Ten
> In the recent book "The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite
> Books", edited by J. Peder Zane, 125 authors such as Norman Mailer,
> Stephen King, Annie Proulx, and Jonathan Franzen each give their
> 10 personal favorite books, and an overall consensus ranking is
> derived.
> We will name or describe one or more characters from a book ranking
> high on the list, and sometimes give additional information; you
> name that book. In some cases we will omit part of a character's
> name as it would be too helpful.
> 1. Various member of the Rostov, Kuragin and Bezukhov families.
"Voyna i Mir" (by Leo Tolstoy), or in English, "War and Peace".
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 4, Round 4 - Literature - The Top Ten
> In the recent book "The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite
> Books", edited by J. Peder Zane, 125 authors such as Norman Mailer,
> Stephen King, Annie Proulx, and Jonathan Franzen each give their
> 10 personal favorite books, and an overall consensus ranking is
> derived.
> We will name or describe one or more characters from a book ranking
> high on the list, and sometimes give additional information; you
> name that book. In some cases we will omit part of a character's
> name as it would be too helpful.
> 1. Various member of the Rostov, Kuragin and Bezukhov families.
4 for Peter, Dan, Marc, Gareth, and Calvin.
> 2. Guildenstern.
"Hamlet" (by William Shakespeare). (We didn't say the books would
all be novels.) 4 for Peter, Dan, Marc, and Joshua.
> 3. Humbert Humbert.
"Lolita" (by Vladimir Nabokov). No, not "Humbert Humbert".
4 for Dan, Marc, Joshua, Jason, and Calvin.
> 4. Count Alexei Vronsky, Prince Stepan Oblonsky, Count Alexei
> Alexandrovich <omitted>. (Based on the consensus list, this
> one is the #1 ranked book of all time.)
Karenina". 4 for Dan, Marc, Gareth, and Calvin.
> 5. Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, "Pap", Jim, Buck Grangerford.
Finn" was sufficient, so I scored "Huck Finn" as almost correct.
4 for Dan and Joshua. 3 for Gareth. 1 for Calvin.
> 6. Marcel, the narrator; Charles Swann; Gilberte Swann; Comtesse
> de Marsantes; Basin, Duke De Geurmantes. Published 1913-27.
"Remembrance of Times Past", "Remembrance of Things Past", or "In
Search of Lost Time". 4 for Peter, Dan, Joshua, Gareth, and Calvin.
> 7. Emma <omitted>, Charles <omitted>, Rodolphe Boulanger, Leon
> Dupuis. Published 1856.
4 for Dan, Marc, Joshua, and Gareth.
> 8. Nick Carraway, Daisy Fay Buchanan, Jordan Baker.
Joshua, Jason, Gareth, and Calvin.
> 9. Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate, Mary Garth. Published 1871-72
> and subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life".
> 10. José Arcadio Buendía, Úrsula Iguarán, Jose Arcadio II (Segundo).
> Published 1967.
"One Hundred Years of Solitude". 4 for Dan, Marc, Gareth, and Calvin.
> * Game 4, Round 6 - Sports - Olympians, Mostly Actors
> This week's sports round deals with Olympic athletes who achieved
> a degree of fame in another field. Questions #1-8 concern Olympic
> athletes who were also actors or acresses -- some more successful
> than others.
> 1. Basketball star Michael Jordan played in the Olympics in 1984
> and 1992. Name the 1996 movie in which he starred with that
> Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny.
3 for Calvin.
> 2. Speaking of 1996 movies starring basketball players, name the
> flick which starred Shaquille O'Neal as a 5,000-year-old genie
> who appears from a magic boom-box to grant a boy three wishes.
> 3. Name the NBA star who played himself in "Trainwreck", a 2015
> comedy which starred Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson,
> and Tilda Swinton.
> 4. Leaving basketball, the real trivia buffs among you may know
> that Hillary Wolf played Macaulay Culkin's sister in the first
> two "Home Alone" movies. She then left acting for sports,
> competing for the US in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics -- in which
> martial-art sport?
> 5. Now to swimming. Name the 5-time Olympic champion swimmer who
> gained even greater fame by playing Tarzan in 12 movies.
and Calvin.
> 6. Still with swimming, name the 1932 Olympic champ who later
> starred in more than 100 movies. He is the only actor to have
> played all three of Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers.
> 7. Harold Sakata won an Olympic silver medal for the US in
> weightlifting in 1948. But he's best remembered as one of the
> tougher villains James Bond has faced. Name Sakata's character
> in a 1964 Bond film.
Marc, Joshua, Jason, Gareth, and Calvin.
> 8. Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner, won the 1976 Olympic decathlon.
> He also won the 1980 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor --
> in which disastrous comedy film starring the Village People?
> 9. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss competed for the US as rowers in
> the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They haven't acted in movies, but
> they did appear as *characters* in a movie. They are now venture
> capitalists, thanks in part to the millions they were paid in
> a lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004.
> Name *either* that web site *or* the 2010 film in which they
> were portrayed.
Hammer.) 4 for everyone.
> 10. The last question has no movie connection. A Yale University
> team won the 1924 Olympic men's eights rowing title. That team
> included a future pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling
> books of all time, "Baby and Child Care", first published
> in 1946. Name him.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 4 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Can Geo Lit Spo
Joshua Kreitzer 5 24 24 40 93
Dan Blum 3 16 36 35 90
Peter Smyth 0 29 12 23 64
Gareth Owen -- -- 27 32 59
"Calvin" -- -- 29 28 57
Marc Dashevsky 0 4 28 24 56
Jason Kreitzer 8 0 8 32 48
Dan Tilque 0 28 -- -- 28
Pete Gayde 3 24 -- -- 27
Erland Sommarskog 0 24 -- -- 24
Bruce Bowler -- -- 0 20 20
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | And perhaps another sigquote for Mark, who
m...@vex.net | seems to be running low... --Steve Summit
Gareth Owen
Nov 6, 2017, 1:23:59 PM11/6/17
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m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) writes:
>> 9. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss competed for the US as rowers in
>> the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They haven't acted in movies, but
>> they did appear as *characters* in a movie. They are now venture
>> capitalists, thanks in part to the millions they were paid in
>> a lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004.
>> Name *either* that web site *or* the 2010 film in which they
>> were portrayed.
>
> Facebook, "The Social Network". (Both twins were played by Armie
> Hammer.) 4 for everyone.
That's an interesting desciption of the Winklevii's relationship to the
>> 9. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss competed for the US as rowers in
>> the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They haven't acted in movies, but
>> they did appear as *characters* in a movie. They are now venture
>> capitalists, thanks in part to the millions they were paid in
>> a lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004.
>> Name *either* that web site *or* the 2010 film in which they
>> were portrayed.
>
> Facebook, "The Social Network". (Both twins were played by Armie
> Hammer.) 4 for everyone.
founding of Facebook.
Pete Gayde
Nov 8, 2017, 8:50:34 AM11/8/17
to
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-10-16,
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
> both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
> Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
> the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
> the correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of Smith & Guessin' 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 2017-09-25 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 4, Round 4 - Literature - The Top Ten
>
> In the recent book "The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite
> Books", edited by J. Peder Zane, 125 authors such as Norman Mailer,
> Stephen King, Annie Proulx, and Jonathan Franzen each give their
> 10 personal favorite books, and an overall consensus ranking is
> derived.
>
> We will name or describe one or more characters from a book ranking
> high on the list, and sometimes give additional information; you
> name that book. In some cases we will omit part of a character's
> name as it would be too helpful.
>
> 1. Various member of the Rostov, Kuragin and Bezukhov families.
War and Peace; Anna Karenina
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
> both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
> Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
> the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
> the correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of Smith & Guessin' 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 2017-09-25 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 4, Round 4 - Literature - The Top Ten
>
> In the recent book "The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite
> Books", edited by J. Peder Zane, 125 authors such as Norman Mailer,
> Stephen King, Annie Proulx, and Jonathan Franzen each give their
> 10 personal favorite books, and an overall consensus ranking is
> derived.
>
> We will name or describe one or more characters from a book ranking
> high on the list, and sometimes give additional information; you
> name that book. In some cases we will omit part of a character's
> name as it would be too helpful.
>
> 1. Various member of the Rostov, Kuragin and Bezukhov families.
>
> 2. Guildenstern.
Hamlet
>
> 3. Humbert Humbert.
>
> 4. Count Alexei Vronsky, Prince Stepan Oblonsky, Count Alexei
> Alexandrovich <omitted>. (Based on the consensus list, this
> one is the #1 ranked book of all time.)
>
> 5. Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, "Pap", Jim, Buck Grangerford.
>
> 6. Marcel, the narrator; Charles Swann; Gilberte Swann; Comtesse
> de Marsantes; Basin, Duke De Geurmantes. Published 1913-27.
>
> 7. Emma <omitted>, Charles <omitted>, Rodolphe Boulanger, Leon
> Dupuis. Published 1856.
>
> 8. Nick Carraway, Daisy Fay Buchanan, Jordan Baker.
>
> 9. Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate, Mary Garth. Published 1871-72
> and subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life".
>
> 10. José Arcadio Buendía, Úrsula Iguarán, Jose Arcadio II (Segundo).
> Published 1967.
>
>
> * Game 4, Round 6 - Sports - Olympians, Mostly Actors
>
> This week's sports round deals with Olympic athletes who achieved
> a degree of fame in another field. Questions #1-8 concern Olympic
> athletes who were also actors or acresses -- some more successful
> than others.
>
> 1. Basketball star Michael Jordan played in the Olympics in 1984
> and 1992. Name the 1996 movie in which he starred with that
> Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny.
>
> 2. Speaking of 1996 movies starring basketball players, name the
> flick which starred Shaquille O'Neal as a 5,000-year-old genie
> who appears from a magic boom-box to grant a boy three wishes.
>
> 3. Name the NBA star who played himself in "Trainwreck", a 2015
> comedy which starred Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson,
> and Tilda Swinton.
>
> 4. Leaving basketball, the real trivia buffs among you may know
> that Hillary Wolf played Macaulay Culkin's sister in the first
> two "Home Alone" movies. She then left acting for sports,
> competing for the US in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics -- in which
> martial-art sport?
>
> 5. Now to swimming. Name the 5-time Olympic champion swimmer who
> gained even greater fame by playing Tarzan in 12 movies.
>
> 6. Still with swimming, name the 1932 Olympic champ who later
> starred in more than 100 movies. He is the only actor to have
> played all three of Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers.
>
> 7. Harold Sakata won an Olympic silver medal for the US in
> weightlifting in 1948. But he's best remembered as one of the
> tougher villains James Bond has faced. Name Sakata's character
> in a 1964 Bond film.
>
> 8. Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner, won the 1976 Olympic decathlon.
> He also won the 1980 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor --
> in which disastrous comedy film starring the Village People?
>
> 9. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss competed for the US as rowers in
> the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They haven't acted in movies, but
> they did appear as *characters* in a movie. They are now venture
> capitalists, thanks in part to the millions they were paid in
> a lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004.
> Name *either* that web site *or* the 2010 film in which they
> were portrayed.
>
> 10. The last question has no movie connection. A Yale University
> team won the 1924 Olympic men's eights rowing title. That team
> included a future pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling
> books of all time, "Baby and Child Care", first published
> in 1946. Name him.
>
Pete Gayde
Mark Brader
Nov 8, 2017, 7:19:24 PM11/8/17
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If Pete Gayde's answers had been posted on time, he would have received
15 points on Round 4 and 24 on Round 6.
--
Mark Brader | And the customary practice seems to be "FIRST,
Toronto | let the cat out of the bag; THEN inform you
m...@vex.net | that there's a cat and a bag." --Daniel P.B. Smith
15 points on Round 4 and 24 on Round 6.
--
Mark Brader | And the customary practice seems to be "FIRST,
Toronto | let the cat out of the bag; THEN inform you
m...@vex.net | that there's a cat and a bag." --Daniel P.B. Smith
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