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Mark Brader
Jan 1, 2018, 10:59:06 PM1/1/18
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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-11-20,
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 9, Round 2 - History - Israel
1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following
the end of the British mandate for Palestine?
2. Who was Israel's founding prime minister?
3. Name the only woman to serve as Israel's prime minister.
4. Britain captured Palestine from the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)
100 years ago, in 1917, during World War I. That same year,
Britain's foreign minister said his government favored creating a
Jewish national home in the region. Name that foreign minister.
5. Moving to sports, how many times has Israel played in the World
Cup soccer finals (tournament)?
6. Israel has won 9 Olympic medals, but only one gold, in
windsurfing in 2004. Name the host city where those games
were played.
7. In what year did Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visit Israel in
what was the first recognition of Israel by an Arab head
of state?
8. One of the most dramatic events in Israeli history occurred
in 1976. Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages from
a hijacked Air France plane. In what country did the rescue
take place?
9. That hostage rescue was ordered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
In what year was he assassinated by a right-wing Jew who opposed
Rabin's peace accords with the PLO and Jordan?
10. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann remains the only person
executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country
was Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel?
* Game 9, Round 3 - Geography - Bays and Gulfs
I've rearranged the round in order by image number on the handout:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/g9r3/bays.pdf
Unless stated otherwise, name the bay or gulf on each question.
There were two decoys, which appear in their sequence interspersed
with the others, and I've supplied questions for those. Answer them
if you like for fun, but for no points.
1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain.
2. Name the two European *countries* that border the Gulf of
Bothnia.
3. (Decoy.) This cove is on the Greek island of Zakynthos, off
the west coast of the Peloponnese. It's named after a man-made
artifact. What is it, in English?
4. Name this bay in northeastern Vietnam, known for its emerald
wters and towering limestone islands.
5. This body of water is the largest bay in the world.
6. This bay is an estuary; Delaware, the District of Columbia,
Maryland, and Virginia each either have shoreline on the bay
or are nearby.
7. This bay or gulf, named after the adjacent city, can be found
in southwestern Italy. That's a volcano in the background.
8. This gulf is located in the northeastern part of the tropical
Atlantic Ocean, between Cape Lopez in Gabon and Cape Palmas
in Liberia.
9. (Decoy.) This bay lies near the northernmost point of New
Zealand's South Island, about 110 miles WNW of Wellington on
the North Island.
10. This bay is a large body of water on the southern end of
Hudson Bay.
11. This gulf, near the center of the picture, connects the Strait
of Hormuz (at left) with the Arabian Sea.
12. This bay, near the southern tip of Africa, is named after the
more famous mountain in the right background.
--
Mark Brader "You can't [compare] computer memory and recall
Toronto with human memory and recall. It's comparing
m...@vex.net apples and bicycles." -- Ed Knowles
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 9, Round 2 - History - Israel
1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following
the end of the British mandate for Palestine?
2. Who was Israel's founding prime minister?
3. Name the only woman to serve as Israel's prime minister.
4. Britain captured Palestine from the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)
100 years ago, in 1917, during World War I. That same year,
Britain's foreign minister said his government favored creating a
Jewish national home in the region. Name that foreign minister.
5. Moving to sports, how many times has Israel played in the World
Cup soccer finals (tournament)?
6. Israel has won 9 Olympic medals, but only one gold, in
windsurfing in 2004. Name the host city where those games
were played.
7. In what year did Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visit Israel in
what was the first recognition of Israel by an Arab head
of state?
8. One of the most dramatic events in Israeli history occurred
in 1976. Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages from
a hijacked Air France plane. In what country did the rescue
take place?
9. That hostage rescue was ordered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
In what year was he assassinated by a right-wing Jew who opposed
Rabin's peace accords with the PLO and Jordan?
10. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann remains the only person
executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country
was Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel?
* Game 9, Round 3 - Geography - Bays and Gulfs
I've rearranged the round in order by image number on the handout:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/g9r3/bays.pdf
Unless stated otherwise, name the bay or gulf on each question.
There were two decoys, which appear in their sequence interspersed
with the others, and I've supplied questions for those. Answer them
if you like for fun, but for no points.
1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain.
2. Name the two European *countries* that border the Gulf of
Bothnia.
3. (Decoy.) This cove is on the Greek island of Zakynthos, off
the west coast of the Peloponnese. It's named after a man-made
artifact. What is it, in English?
4. Name this bay in northeastern Vietnam, known for its emerald
wters and towering limestone islands.
5. This body of water is the largest bay in the world.
6. This bay is an estuary; Delaware, the District of Columbia,
Maryland, and Virginia each either have shoreline on the bay
or are nearby.
7. This bay or gulf, named after the adjacent city, can be found
in southwestern Italy. That's a volcano in the background.
8. This gulf is located in the northeastern part of the tropical
Atlantic Ocean, between Cape Lopez in Gabon and Cape Palmas
in Liberia.
9. (Decoy.) This bay lies near the northernmost point of New
Zealand's South Island, about 110 miles WNW of Wellington on
the North Island.
10. This bay is a large body of water on the southern end of
Hudson Bay.
11. This gulf, near the center of the picture, connects the Strait
of Hormuz (at left) with the Arabian Sea.
12. This bay, near the southern tip of Africa, is named after the
more famous mountain in the right background.
--
Mark Brader "You can't [compare] computer memory and recall
Toronto with human memory and recall. It's comparing
m...@vex.net apples and bicycles." -- Ed Knowles
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Dan Blum
Jan 1, 2018, 11:28:56 PM1/1/18
to
Mark Brader <m...@vex.net> wrote:
> * Game 9, Round 2 - History - Israel
> 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following
> the end of the British mandate for Palestine?
1948
> * Game 9, Round 2 - History - Israel
> 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following
> the end of the British mandate for Palestine?
> 2. Who was Israel's founding prime minister?
> 3. Name the only woman to serve as Israel's prime minister.
> 4. Britain captured Palestine from the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)
> 100 years ago, in 1917, during World War I. That same year,
> Britain's foreign minister said his government favored creating a
> Jewish national home in the region. Name that foreign minister.
> 5. Moving to sports, how many times has Israel played in the World
> Cup soccer finals (tournament)?
> 7. In what year did Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visit Israel in
> what was the first recognition of Israel by an Arab head
> of state?
> 8. One of the most dramatic events in Israeli history occurred
> in 1976. Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages from
> a hijacked Air France plane. In what country did the rescue
> take place?
> 9. That hostage rescue was ordered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
> In what year was he assassinated by a right-wing Jew who opposed
> Rabin's peace accords with the PLO and Jordan?
> 10. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann remains the only person
> executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country
> was Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel?
> * Game 9, Round 3 - Geography - Bays and Gulfs
> 1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain.
Bay of Biscay
> 2. Name the two European *countries* that border the Gulf of
> Bothnia.
> 5. This body of water is the largest bay in the world.
> 6. This bay is an estuary; Delaware, the District of Columbia,
> Maryland, and Virginia each either have shoreline on the bay
> or are nearby.
> 7. This bay or gulf, named after the adjacent city, can be found
> in southwestern Italy. That's a volcano in the background.
> 8. This gulf is located in the northeastern part of the tropical
> Atlantic Ocean, between Cape Lopez in Gabon and Cape Palmas
> in Liberia.
> 11. This gulf, near the center of the picture, connects the Strait
> of Hormuz (at left) with the Arabian Sea.
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Joshua Kreitzer
Jan 2, 2018, 1:47:09 AM1/2/18
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:Mq2dne1_DpkZntbHnZ2dnUU7-
c_N...@giganews.com:
> * Game 9, Round 2 - History - Israel
>
> 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following
> the end of the British mandate for Palestine?
1948
> 2. Who was Israel's founding prime minister?
David Ben-Gurion
> 3. Name the only woman to serve as Israel's prime minister.
Golda Meir
> 4. Britain captured Palestine from the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)
> 100 years ago, in 1917, during World War I. That same year,
> Britain's foreign minister said his government favored creating a
> Jewish national home in the region. Name that foreign minister.
Balfour
> 5. Moving to sports, how many times has Israel played in the World
> Cup soccer finals (tournament)?
1
> 6. Israel has won 9 Olympic medals, but only one gold, in
> windsurfing in 2004. Name the host city where those games
> were played.
Athens
> 7. In what year did Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visit Israel in
> what was the first recognition of Israel by an Arab head
> of state?
1977; 1978
> 8. One of the most dramatic events in Israeli history occurred
> in 1976. Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages from
> a hijacked Air France plane. In what country did the rescue
> take place?
Uganda
> 9. That hostage rescue was ordered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
> In what year was he assassinated by a right-wing Jew who opposed
> Rabin's peace accords with the PLO and Jordan?
1995; 1996
> 10. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann remains the only person
> executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country
> was Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel?
Argentina
> * Game 9, Round 3 - Geography - Bays and Gulfs
>
> I've rearranged the round in order by image number on the handout:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/g9r3/bays.pdf
>
> Unless stated otherwise, name the bay or gulf on each question.
> There were two decoys, which appear in their sequence interspersed
> with the others, and I've supplied questions for those. Answer them
> if you like for fun, but for no points.
>
> 1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain.
Bay of Biscay
> 2. Name the two European *countries* that border the Gulf of
> Bothnia.
Sweden and Finland
> 4. Name this bay in northeastern Vietnam, known for its emerald
> wters and towering limestone islands.
Gulf of Tonkin
> 5. This body of water is the largest bay in the world.
Bay of Bengal
> 6. This bay is an estuary; Delaware, the District of Columbia,
> Maryland, and Virginia each either have shoreline on the bay
> or are nearby.
Chesapeake Bay
> 7. This bay or gulf, named after the adjacent city, can be found
> in southwestern Italy. That's a volcano in the background.
Gulf of Naples
> 10. This bay is a large body of water on the southern end of
> Hudson Bay.
James Bay
> 11. This gulf, near the center of the picture, connects the Strait
> of Hormuz (at left) with the Arabian Sea.
Persian Gulf
> 12. This bay, near the southern tip of Africa, is named after the
> more famous mountain in the right background.
Table Bay
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
c_N...@giganews.com:
> * Game 9, Round 2 - History - Israel
>
> 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following
> the end of the British mandate for Palestine?
> 2. Who was Israel's founding prime minister?
> 3. Name the only woman to serve as Israel's prime minister.
> 4. Britain captured Palestine from the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)
> 100 years ago, in 1917, during World War I. That same year,
> Britain's foreign minister said his government favored creating a
> Jewish national home in the region. Name that foreign minister.
> 5. Moving to sports, how many times has Israel played in the World
> Cup soccer finals (tournament)?
> 6. Israel has won 9 Olympic medals, but only one gold, in
> windsurfing in 2004. Name the host city where those games
> were played.
> 7. In what year did Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visit Israel in
> what was the first recognition of Israel by an Arab head
> of state?
> 8. One of the most dramatic events in Israeli history occurred
> in 1976. Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages from
> a hijacked Air France plane. In what country did the rescue
> take place?
> 9. That hostage rescue was ordered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
> In what year was he assassinated by a right-wing Jew who opposed
> Rabin's peace accords with the PLO and Jordan?
> 10. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann remains the only person
> executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country
> was Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel?
> * Game 9, Round 3 - Geography - Bays and Gulfs
>
> I've rearranged the round in order by image number on the handout:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/g9r3/bays.pdf
>
> Unless stated otherwise, name the bay or gulf on each question.
> There were two decoys, which appear in their sequence interspersed
> with the others, and I've supplied questions for those. Answer them
> if you like for fun, but for no points.
>
> 1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain.
> 2. Name the two European *countries* that border the Gulf of
> Bothnia.
> 4. Name this bay in northeastern Vietnam, known for its emerald
> wters and towering limestone islands.
> 5. This body of water is the largest bay in the world.
> 6. This bay is an estuary; Delaware, the District of Columbia,
> Maryland, and Virginia each either have shoreline on the bay
> or are nearby.
> 7. This bay or gulf, named after the adjacent city, can be found
> in southwestern Italy. That's a volcano in the background.
> 10. This bay is a large body of water on the southern end of
> Hudson Bay.
> 11. This gulf, near the center of the picture, connects the Strait
> of Hormuz (at left) with the Arabian Sea.
> 12. This bay, near the southern tip of Africa, is named after the
> more famous mountain in the right background.
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Dan Tilque
Jan 2, 2018, 2:40:23 AM1/2/18
to
Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> * Game 9, Round 2 - History - Israel
>
> 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following
> the end of the British mandate for Palestine?
1948
>
>
> * Game 9, Round 2 - History - Israel
>
> 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following
> the end of the British mandate for Palestine?
>
> 2. Who was Israel's founding prime minister?
>
> 3. Name the only woman to serve as Israel's prime minister.
>
> 4. Britain captured Palestine from the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)
> 100 years ago, in 1917, during World War I. That same year,
> Britain's foreign minister said his government favored creating a
> Jewish national home in the region. Name that foreign minister.
>
> 5. Moving to sports, how many times has Israel played in the World
> Cup soccer finals (tournament)?
>
> 6. Israel has won 9 Olympic medals, but only one gold, in
> windsurfing in 2004. Name the host city where those games
> were played.
>
> 7. In what year did Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visit Israel in
> what was the first recognition of Israel by an Arab head
> of state?
>
> 8. One of the most dramatic events in Israeli history occurred
> in 1976. Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages from
> a hijacked Air France plane. In what country did the rescue
> take place?
>
> 9. That hostage rescue was ordered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
> In what year was he assassinated by a right-wing Jew who opposed
> Rabin's peace accords with the PLO and Jordan?
>
> 10. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann remains the only person
> executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country
> was Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel?
>
>
> * Game 9, Round 3 - Geography - Bays and Gulfs
>
> I've rearranged the round in order by image number on the handout:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/g9r3/bays.pdf
>
> Unless stated otherwise, name the bay or gulf on each question.
> There were two decoys, which appear in their sequence interspersed
> with the others, and I've supplied questions for those. Answer them
> if you like for fun, but for no points.
>
> 1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain.
>
> 2. Name the two European *countries* that border the Gulf of
> Bothnia.
>
> 3. (Decoy.) This cove is on the Greek island of Zakynthos, off
> the west coast of the Peloponnese. It's named after a man-made
> artifact. What is it, in English?
>
> 4. Name this bay in northeastern Vietnam, known for its emerald
> wters and towering limestone islands.
>
> 5. This body of water is the largest bay in the world.
>
> 6. This bay is an estuary; Delaware, the District of Columbia,
> Maryland, and Virginia each either have shoreline on the bay
> or are nearby.
>
> 7. This bay or gulf, named after the adjacent city, can be found
> in southwestern Italy. That's a volcano in the background.
>
> 8. This gulf is located in the northeastern part of the tropical
> Atlantic Ocean, between Cape Lopez in Gabon and Cape Palmas
> in Liberia.
>
> 9. (Decoy.) This bay lies near the northernmost point of New
> Zealand's South Island, about 110 miles WNW of Wellington on
> the North Island.
>
> 10. This bay is a large body of water on the southern end of
> Hudson Bay.
>
> 11. This gulf, near the center of the picture, connects the Strait
> of Hormuz (at left) with the Arabian Sea.
>
> 12. This bay, near the southern tip of Africa, is named after the
> more famous mountain in the right background.
--
Dan Tilque
Peter Smyth
Jan 2, 2018, 6:35:53 AM1/2/18
to
Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-11-20,
> 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 9, Round 2 - History - Israel
>
> 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following
> the end of the British mandate for Palestine?
1949
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-11-20,
> 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 9, Round 2 - History - Israel
>
> 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following
> the end of the British mandate for Palestine?
> 2. Who was Israel's founding prime minister?
David Ben-Gurion
> 3. Name the only woman to serve as Israel's prime minister.
Golda Meir
> 4. Britain captured Palestine from the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)
> 100 years ago, in 1917, during World War I. That same year,
> Britain's foreign minister said his government favored creating a
> Jewish national home in the region. Name that foreign minister.
Salisbury, Balfour
> 100 years ago, in 1917, during World War I. That same year,
> Britain's foreign minister said his government favored creating a
> Jewish national home in the region. Name that foreign minister.
> 5. Moving to sports, how many times has Israel played in the World
> Cup soccer finals (tournament)?
0, 1
> Cup soccer finals (tournament)?
> 6. Israel has won 9 Olympic medals, but only one gold, in
> windsurfing in 2004. Name the host city where those games
> were played.
Athens
> windsurfing in 2004. Name the host city where those games
> were played.
> 7. In what year did Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visit Israel in
> what was the first recognition of Israel by an Arab head
> of state?
>
> 8. One of the most dramatic events in Israeli history occurred
> in 1976. Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages from
> a hijacked Air France plane. In what country did the rescue
> take place?
>
> 9. That hostage rescue was ordered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
> In what year was he assassinated by a right-wing Jew who opposed
> Rabin's peace accords with the PLO and Jordan?
1996, 1997
> what was the first recognition of Israel by an Arab head
> of state?
>
> 8. One of the most dramatic events in Israeli history occurred
> in 1976. Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages from
> a hijacked Air France plane. In what country did the rescue
> take place?
>
> 9. That hostage rescue was ordered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
> In what year was he assassinated by a right-wing Jew who opposed
> Rabin's peace accords with the PLO and Jordan?
> 10. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann remains the only person
> executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country
> was Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel?
Argentina
> executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country
> was Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel?
>
> * Game 9, Round 3 - Geography - Bays and Gulfs
>
> I've rearranged the round in order by image number on the handout:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/g9r3/bays.pdf
>
> Unless stated otherwise, name the bay or gulf on each question.
> There were two decoys, which appear in their sequence interspersed
> with the others, and I've supplied questions for those. Answer them
> if you like for fun, but for no points.
>
> 1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain.
Biscay
> * Game 9, Round 3 - Geography - Bays and Gulfs
>
> I've rearranged the round in order by image number on the handout:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/g9r3/bays.pdf
>
> Unless stated otherwise, name the bay or gulf on each question.
> There were two decoys, which appear in their sequence interspersed
> with the others, and I've supplied questions for those. Answer them
> if you like for fun, but for no points.
>
> 1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain.
> 2. Name the two European countries that border the Gulf of
> Bothnia.
Finland and Sweden
> 3. (Decoy.) This cove is on the Greek island of Zakynthos, off
> the west coast of the Peloponnese. It's named after a man-made
> artifact. What is it, in English?
>
> 4. Name this bay in northeastern Vietnam, known for its emerald
> wters and towering limestone islands.
>
> 5. This body of water is the largest bay in the world.
Hudson Bay
> the west coast of the Peloponnese. It's named after a man-made
> artifact. What is it, in English?
>
> 4. Name this bay in northeastern Vietnam, known for its emerald
> wters and towering limestone islands.
>
> 5. This body of water is the largest bay in the world.
> 6. This bay is an estuary; Delaware, the District of Columbia,
> Maryland, and Virginia each either have shoreline on the bay
> or are nearby.
>
> 7. This bay or gulf, named after the adjacent city, can be found
> in southwestern Italy. That's a volcano in the background.
>
> 8. This gulf is located in the northeastern part of the tropical
> Atlantic Ocean, between Cape Lopez in Gabon and Cape Palmas
> in Liberia.
>
> 9. (Decoy.) This bay lies near the northernmost point of New
> Zealand's South Island, about 110 miles WNW of Wellington on
> the North Island.
>
> 10. This bay is a large body of water on the southern end of
> Hudson Bay.
>
> 11. This gulf, near the center of the picture, connects the Strait
> of Hormuz (at left) with the Arabian Sea.
>
> 12. This bay, near the southern tip of Africa, is named after the
> more famous mountain in the right background.
Table Bay
> Maryland, and Virginia each either have shoreline on the bay
> or are nearby.
>
> 7. This bay or gulf, named after the adjacent city, can be found
> in southwestern Italy. That's a volcano in the background.
>
> 8. This gulf is located in the northeastern part of the tropical
> Atlantic Ocean, between Cape Lopez in Gabon and Cape Palmas
> in Liberia.
>
> 9. (Decoy.) This bay lies near the northernmost point of New
> Zealand's South Island, about 110 miles WNW of Wellington on
> the North Island.
>
> 10. This bay is a large body of water on the southern end of
> Hudson Bay.
>
> 11. This gulf, near the center of the picture, connects the Strait
> of Hormuz (at left) with the Arabian Sea.
>
> 12. This bay, near the southern tip of Africa, is named after the
> more famous mountain in the right background.
Peter Smyth
Bruce Bowler
Jan 2, 2018, 9:34:00 AM1/2/18
to
On Mon, 01 Jan 2018 21:59:00 -0600, Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-11-20, 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 9, Round 2 - History - Israel
>
> 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following
> the end of the British mandate for Palestine?
1947, 1948
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-11-20, 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 9, Round 2 - History - Israel
>
> 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following
> the end of the British mandate for Palestine?
> 2. Who was Israel's founding prime minister?
> 3. Name the only woman to serve as Israel's prime minister.
> 4. Britain captured Palestine from the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)
> 100 years ago, in 1917, during World War I. That same year,
> Britain's foreign minister said his government favored creating a
> Jewish national home in the region. Name that foreign minister.
>
> 5. Moving to sports, how many times has Israel played in the World
> Cup soccer finals (tournament)?
>
> 6. Israel has won 9 Olympic medals, but only one gold, in
> windsurfing in 2004. Name the host city where those games were
> played.
>
> 7. In what year did Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visit Israel in
> what was the first recognition of Israel by an Arab head of state?
>
> 8. One of the most dramatic events in Israeli history occurred
> in 1976. Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages from a
> hijacked Air France plane. In what country did the rescue take
> place?
> 9. That hostage rescue was ordered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
> In what year was he assassinated by a right-wing Jew who opposed
> Rabin's peace accords with the PLO and Jordan?
>
> 10. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann remains the only person
> executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country was
> Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel?
>
> * Game 9, Round 3 - Geography - Bays and Gulfs
>
> I've rearranged the round in order by image number on the handout:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/g9r3/bays.pdf
>
> Unless stated otherwise, name the bay or gulf on each question. There
> were two decoys, which appear in their sequence interspersed with the
> others, and I've supplied questions for those. Answer them if you like
> for fun, but for no points.
>
> 1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain.
> 2. Name the two European *countries* that border the Gulf of
> Bothnia.
> 3. (Decoy.) This cove is on the Greek island of Zakynthos, off
> the west coast of the Peloponnese. It's named after a man-made
> artifact. What is it, in English?
>
> 4. Name this bay in northeastern Vietnam, known for its emerald
> wters and towering limestone islands.
> 5. This body of water is the largest bay in the world.
> 6. This bay is an estuary; Delaware, the District of Columbia,
> Maryland, and Virginia each either have shoreline on the bay or are
> nearby.
> 7. This bay or gulf, named after the adjacent city, can be found
> in southwestern Italy. That's a volcano in the background.
>
> 8. This gulf is located in the northeastern part of the tropical
> Atlantic Ocean, between Cape Lopez in Gabon and Cape Palmas in
> Liberia.
>
> 9. (Decoy.) This bay lies near the northernmost point of New
> Zealand's South Island, about 110 miles WNW of Wellington on the
> North Island.
>
> 10. This bay is a large body of water on the southern end of
> Hudson Bay.
>
> 11. This gulf, near the center of the picture, connects the Strait
> of Hormuz (at left) with the Arabian Sea.
>
> 12. This bay, near the southern tip of Africa, is named after the
> more famous mountain in the right background.
Marc Dashevsky
Jan 2, 2018, 11:49:38 AM1/2/18
to
In article <Mq2dne1_DpkZntbH...@giganews.com>, m...@vex.net says...
> 2. Who was Israel's founding prime minister?
Ben-Gurion
> 3. Name the only woman to serve as Israel's prime minister.
Golda Meir
> 4. Britain captured Palestine from the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)
> 100 years ago, in 1917, during World War I. That same year,
> Britain's foreign minister said his government favored creating a
> Jewish national home in the region. Name that foreign minister.
Balfour
> 5. Moving to sports, how many times has Israel played in the World
> Cup soccer finals (tournament)?
>
> 6. Israel has won 9 Olympic medals, but only one gold, in
> windsurfing in 2004. Name the host city where those games
> were played.
>
> 7. In what year did Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visit Israel in
> what was the first recognition of Israel by an Arab head
> of state?
>
> 8. One of the most dramatic events in Israeli history occurred
> in 1976. Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages from
> a hijacked Air France plane. In what country did the rescue
> take place?
Uganda
> 9. That hostage rescue was ordered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
> In what year was he assassinated by a right-wing Jew who opposed
> Rabin's peace accords with the PLO and Jordan?
1995
> 10. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann remains the only person
> executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country
> was Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel?
Argentina
> * Game 9, Round 3 - Geography - Bays and Gulfs
>
> I've rearranged the round in order by image number on the handout:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/g9r3/bays.pdf
>
> Unless stated otherwise, name the bay or gulf on each question.
> There were two decoys, which appear in their sequence interspersed
> with the others, and I've supplied questions for those. Answer them
> if you like for fun, but for no points.
>
> 1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain.
>
> 2. Name the two European *countries* that border the Gulf of
> Bothnia.
Sweden and Finland
> 3. (Decoy.) This cove is on the Greek island of Zakynthos, off
> the west coast of the Peloponnese. It's named after a man-made
> artifact. What is it, in English?
>
> 4. Name this bay in northeastern Vietnam, known for its emerald
> wters and towering limestone islands.
>
> 5. This body of water is the largest bay in the world.
bay of Bengal
> 6. This bay is an estuary; Delaware, the District of Columbia,
> Maryland, and Virginia each either have shoreline on the bay
> or are nearby.
Chesapeake
> 7. This bay or gulf, named after the adjacent city, can be found
> in southwestern Italy. That's a volcano in the background.
bay of Naples
> 8. This gulf is located in the northeastern part of the tropical
> Atlantic Ocean, between Cape Lopez in Gabon and Cape Palmas
> in Liberia.
bay of Guinea
> 9. (Decoy.) This bay lies near the northernmost point of New
> Zealand's South Island, about 110 miles WNW of Wellington on
> the North Island.
>
> 10. This bay is a large body of water on the southern end of
> Hudson Bay.
>
> 11. This gulf, near the center of the picture, connects the Strait
> of Hormuz (at left) with the Arabian Sea.
Persian gulf
> 12. This bay, near the southern tip of Africa, is named after the
> more famous mountain in the right background.
Table Mountain bay
--
Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address.
> * Game 9, Round 2 - History - Israel
>
> 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following
> the end of the British mandate for Palestine?
1948
>
> 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following
> the end of the British mandate for Palestine?
> 2. Who was Israel's founding prime minister?
> 3. Name the only woman to serve as Israel's prime minister.
> 4. Britain captured Palestine from the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)
> 100 years ago, in 1917, during World War I. That same year,
> Britain's foreign minister said his government favored creating a
> Jewish national home in the region. Name that foreign minister.
> 5. Moving to sports, how many times has Israel played in the World
> Cup soccer finals (tournament)?
>
> 6. Israel has won 9 Olympic medals, but only one gold, in
> windsurfing in 2004. Name the host city where those games
> were played.
>
> 7. In what year did Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visit Israel in
> what was the first recognition of Israel by an Arab head
> of state?
>
> 8. One of the most dramatic events in Israeli history occurred
> in 1976. Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages from
> a hijacked Air France plane. In what country did the rescue
> take place?
> 9. That hostage rescue was ordered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
> In what year was he assassinated by a right-wing Jew who opposed
> Rabin's peace accords with the PLO and Jordan?
> 10. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann remains the only person
> executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country
> was Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel?
> * Game 9, Round 3 - Geography - Bays and Gulfs
>
> I've rearranged the round in order by image number on the handout:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/g9r3/bays.pdf
>
> Unless stated otherwise, name the bay or gulf on each question.
> There were two decoys, which appear in their sequence interspersed
> with the others, and I've supplied questions for those. Answer them
> if you like for fun, but for no points.
>
> 1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain.
>
> 2. Name the two European *countries* that border the Gulf of
> Bothnia.
> 3. (Decoy.) This cove is on the Greek island of Zakynthos, off
> the west coast of the Peloponnese. It's named after a man-made
> artifact. What is it, in English?
>
> 4. Name this bay in northeastern Vietnam, known for its emerald
> wters and towering limestone islands.
>
> 5. This body of water is the largest bay in the world.
> 6. This bay is an estuary; Delaware, the District of Columbia,
> Maryland, and Virginia each either have shoreline on the bay
> or are nearby.
> 7. This bay or gulf, named after the adjacent city, can be found
> in southwestern Italy. That's a volcano in the background.
> 8. This gulf is located in the northeastern part of the tropical
> Atlantic Ocean, between Cape Lopez in Gabon and Cape Palmas
> in Liberia.
> 9. (Decoy.) This bay lies near the northernmost point of New
> Zealand's South Island, about 110 miles WNW of Wellington on
> the North Island.
>
> 10. This bay is a large body of water on the southern end of
> Hudson Bay.
>
> 11. This gulf, near the center of the picture, connects the Strait
> of Hormuz (at left) with the Arabian Sea.
> 12. This bay, near the southern tip of Africa, is named after the
> more famous mountain in the right background.
--
Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address.
Erland Sommarskog
Jan 2, 2018, 2:36:00 PM1/2/18
to
Mark Brader (m...@vex.net) writes:
> * Game 9, Round 2 - History - Israel
>
> 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following
> the end of the British mandate for Palestine?
1948
> * Game 9, Round 2 - History - Israel
>
> 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following
> the end of the British mandate for Palestine?
> 2. Who was Israel's founding prime minister?
> 3. Name the only woman to serve as Israel's prime minister.
> 4. Britain captured Palestine from the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)
> 100 years ago, in 1917, during World War I. That same year,
> Britain's foreign minister said his government favored creating a
> Jewish national home in the region. Name that foreign minister.
> 5. Moving to sports, how many times has Israel played in the World
> Cup soccer finals (tournament)?
> 6. Israel has won 9 Olympic medals, but only one gold, in
> windsurfing in 2004. Name the host city where those games
> were played.
> 7. In what year did Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visit Israel in
> what was the first recognition of Israel by an Arab head
> of state?
> 8. One of the most dramatic events in Israeli history occurred
> in 1976. Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages from
> a hijacked Air France plane. In what country did the rescue
> take place?
> 9. That hostage rescue was ordered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
> In what year was he assassinated by a right-wing Jew who opposed
> Rabin's peace accords with the PLO and Jordan?
> 10. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann remains the only person
> executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country
> was Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel?
> * Game 9, Round 3 - Geography - Bays and Gulfs
>
> 1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain.
Biscaya
> 2. Name the two European *countries* that border the Gulf of
> Bothnia.
> 5. This body of water is the largest bay in the world.
> 7. This bay or gulf, named after the adjacent city, can be found
> in southwestern Italy. That's a volcano in the background.
> 8. This gulf is located in the northeastern part of the tropical
> Atlantic Ocean, between Cape Lopez in Gabon and Cape Palmas
> in Liberia.
> 9. (Decoy.) This bay lies near the northernmost point of New
> Zealand's South Island, about 110 miles WNW of Wellington on
> the North Island.
> 11. This gulf, near the center of the picture, connects the Strait
> of Hormuz (at left) with the Arabian Sea.
Jason Kreitzer
Jan 2, 2018, 9:15:33 PM1/2/18
to
On Monday, January 1, 2018 at 10:59:06 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-11-20,
> 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 9, Round 2 - History - Israel
>
> 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following
> the end of the British mandate for Palestine?
1948
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-11-20,
> 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 9, Round 2 - History - Israel
>
> 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following
> the end of the British mandate for Palestine?
> 2. Who was Israel's founding prime minister?
David Ben-Gurion
> 3. Name the only woman to serve as Israel's prime minister.
Golda Meir
> 4. Britain captured Palestine from the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)
> 100 years ago, in 1917, during World War I. That same year,
> Britain's foreign minister said his government favored creating a
> Jewish national home in the region. Name that foreign minister.
Balfour
> 100 years ago, in 1917, during World War I. That same year,
> Britain's foreign minister said his government favored creating a
> Jewish national home in the region. Name that foreign minister.
> 5. Moving to sports, how many times has Israel played in the World
> Cup soccer finals (tournament)?
>
> 6. Israel has won 9 Olympic medals, but only one gold, in
> windsurfing in 2004. Name the host city where those games
> were played.
>
> 7. In what year did Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visit Israel in
> what was the first recognition of Israel by an Arab head
> of state?
1978?
> Cup soccer finals (tournament)?
>
> 6. Israel has won 9 Olympic medals, but only one gold, in
> windsurfing in 2004. Name the host city where those games
> were played.
>
> 7. In what year did Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visit Israel in
> what was the first recognition of Israel by an Arab head
> of state?
> 8. One of the most dramatic events in Israeli history occurred
> in 1976. Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages from
> a hijacked Air France plane. In what country did the rescue
> take place?
Uganda
> in 1976. Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages from
> a hijacked Air France plane. In what country did the rescue
> take place?
> 9. That hostage rescue was ordered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
> In what year was he assassinated by a right-wing Jew who opposed
> Rabin's peace accords with the PLO and Jordan?
1996?
> In what year was he assassinated by a right-wing Jew who opposed
> Rabin's peace accords with the PLO and Jordan?
> 10. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann remains the only person
> executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country
> was Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel?
Argentina?
> executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country
> was Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel?
>
> * Game 9, Round 3 - Geography - Bays and Gulfs
>
> I've rearranged the round in order by image number on the handout:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/g9r3/bays.pdf
>
> Unless stated otherwise, name the bay or gulf on each question.
> There were two decoys, which appear in their sequence interspersed
> with the others, and I've supplied questions for those. Answer them
> if you like for fun, but for no points.
>
> 1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain.
>
> 2. Name the two European *countries* that border the Gulf of
> Bothnia.
Austria and Czech Republic?
> * Game 9, Round 3 - Geography - Bays and Gulfs
>
> I've rearranged the round in order by image number on the handout:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/g9r3/bays.pdf
>
> Unless stated otherwise, name the bay or gulf on each question.
> There were two decoys, which appear in their sequence interspersed
> with the others, and I've supplied questions for those. Answer them
> if you like for fun, but for no points.
>
> 1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain.
>
> 2. Name the two European *countries* that border the Gulf of
> Bothnia.
> 3. (Decoy.) This cove is on the Greek island of Zakynthos, off
> the west coast of the Peloponnese. It's named after a man-made
> artifact. What is it, in English?
>
> 4. Name this bay in northeastern Vietnam, known for its emerald
> waters and towering limestone islands.
> the west coast of the Peloponnese. It's named after a man-made
> artifact. What is it, in English?
>
> 4. Name this bay in northeastern Vietnam, known for its emerald
Pete Gayde
Jan 3, 2018, 3:36:52 PM1/3/18
to
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-11-20,
> 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 9, Round 2 - History - Israel
>
> 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following
> the end of the British mandate for Palestine?
1947; 1948
> 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 9, Round 2 - History - Israel
>
> 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following
> the end of the British mandate for Palestine?
>
> 2. Who was Israel's founding prime minister?
>
> 3. Name the only woman to serve as Israel's prime minister.
>
> 4. Britain captured Palestine from the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)
> 100 years ago, in 1917, during World War I. That same year,
> Britain's foreign minister said his government favored creating a
> Jewish national home in the region. Name that foreign minister.
>
> 5. Moving to sports, how many times has Israel played in the World
> Cup soccer finals (tournament)?
>
> 6. Israel has won 9 Olympic medals, but only one gold, in
> windsurfing in 2004. Name the host city where those games
> were played.
>
> 7. In what year did Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visit Israel in
> what was the first recognition of Israel by an Arab head
> of state?
>
> 8. One of the most dramatic events in Israeli history occurred
> in 1976. Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages from
> a hijacked Air France plane. In what country did the rescue
> take place?
>
> 9. That hostage rescue was ordered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
> In what year was he assassinated by a right-wing Jew who opposed
> Rabin's peace accords with the PLO and Jordan?
>
> 10. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann remains the only person
> executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country
> was Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel?
>
>
> * Game 9, Round 3 - Geography - Bays and Gulfs
>
> I've rearranged the round in order by image number on the handout:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/g9r3/bays.pdf
>
> Unless stated otherwise, name the bay or gulf on each question.
> There were two decoys, which appear in their sequence interspersed
> with the others, and I've supplied questions for those. Answer them
> if you like for fun, but for no points.
>
> 1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain.
>
> 2. Name the two European *countries* that border the Gulf of
> Bothnia.
>
> 3. (Decoy.) This cove is on the Greek island of Zakynthos, off
> the west coast of the Peloponnese. It's named after a man-made
> artifact. What is it, in English?
>
> 4. Name this bay in northeastern Vietnam, known for its emerald
> wters and towering limestone islands.
>
> 5. This body of water is the largest bay in the world.
>
> 6. This bay is an estuary; Delaware, the District of Columbia,
> Maryland, and Virginia each either have shoreline on the bay
> or are nearby.
>
> 7. This bay or gulf, named after the adjacent city, can be found
> in southwestern Italy. That's a volcano in the background.
>
> 8. This gulf is located in the northeastern part of the tropical
> Atlantic Ocean, between Cape Lopez in Gabon and Cape Palmas
> in Liberia.
>
> 9. (Decoy.) This bay lies near the northernmost point of New
> Zealand's South Island, about 110 miles WNW of Wellington on
> the North Island.
>
> 10. This bay is a large body of water on the southern end of
> Hudson Bay.
>
> 11. This gulf, near the center of the picture, connects the Strait
> of Hormuz (at left) with the Arabian Sea.
>
> 12. This bay, near the southern tip of Africa, is named after the
> more famous mountain in the right background.
>
Mark Brader
Jan 4, 2018, 10:32:40 PM1/4/18
to
Mark Brader:
2 for Bruce and Pete.
> 2. Who was Israel's founding prime minister?
David Ben-Gurion. 4 for everyone -- Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque,
Peter, Bruce, Marc, Erland, Jason, and Pete.
> 3. Name the only woman to serve as Israel's prime minister.
Golda Meir. 4 for everyone.
> 4. Britain captured Palestine from the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)
> 100 years ago, in 1917, during World War I. That same year,
> Britain's foreign minister said his government favored creating a
> Jewish national home in the region. Name that foreign minister.
Arthur Balfour. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Marc, and Jason.
2 for Peter.
> 5. Moving to sports, how many times has Israel played in the World
> Cup soccer finals (tournament)?
1. (1970.) 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Erland, and Pete.
3 for Dan Blum. 2 for Peter.
> 6. Israel has won 9 Olympic medals, but only one gold, in
> windsurfing in 2004. Name the host city where those games
> were played.
Athens. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Peter, and Erland.
> 7. In what year did Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visit Israel in
> what was the first recognition of Israel by an Arab head
> of state?
1977. 4 for Erland. 3 for Joshua and Pete.
> 8. One of the most dramatic events in Israeli history occurred
> in 1976. Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages from
> a hijacked Air France plane. In what country did the rescue
> take place?
Uganda. (At the Entebbe airport.) 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua,
Dan Tilque, Bruce, Marc, Erland, Jason, and Pete.
> 9. That hostage rescue was ordered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
> In what year was he assassinated by a right-wing Jew who opposed
> Rabin's peace accords with the PLO and Jordan?
1995. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Marc. 3 for Joshua and Pete.
> 10. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann remains the only person
> executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country
> was Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel?
Argentina. 4 for everyone.
> * Game 9, Round 3 - Geography - Bays and Gulfs
> I've rearranged the round in order by image number on the handout:
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/g9r3/bays.pdf
All satellite images are shown with north at the top.
> Unless stated otherwise, name the bay or gulf on each question.
> There were two decoys, which appear in their sequence interspersed
> with the others, and I've supplied questions for those. Answer them
> if you like for fun, but for no points.
> 1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain.
Bay of Biscay. (Not Biscayne, which is off the coast of Florida.)
4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Peter, Bruce, Erland, and Pete.
> 2. Name the two European *countries* that border the Gulf of
> Bothnia.
Finland, Sweden. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Peter, Bruce,
Marc, Erland, and Pete.
Finland is on the east, of course.
> 3. (Decoy.) This cove is on the Greek island of Zakynthos, off
> the west coast of the Peloponnese. It's named after a man-made
> artifact. What is it, in English?
Shipwreck Cove. Nobody tried this.
The eponymous wreck -- of the Panagiotis, originally named the
St. Bedan -- is mostly out of the photo, but a bit of it is visible
at the left edge. These images show it clearly:
http://pre00.deviantart.net/d97e/th/pre/f/2009/234/0/6/greece_zante___shipwreck_cove_by_1darthvader.jpg
http://www.virtualzakynthos.gr/wp-content/uploads/shipwreck_cove_zakynthos_03.jpg
> 4. Name this bay in northeastern Vietnam, known for its emerald
> wters and towering limestone islands.
Ha Long Bay.
> 5. This body of water is the largest bay in the world.
Bay of Bengal. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Bruce, Marc,
Erland, and Pete.
The island to the southwest is Sri Lanka, and the mainland includes
parts of India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.
> 6. This bay is an estuary; Delaware, the District of Columbia,
> Maryland, and Virginia each either have shoreline on the bay
> or are nearby.
Chesapeake Bay. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Bruce, Marc,
and Pete.
Most of the shoreline on both sides is in Maryland, the southern part
in Virginia. DC is on the boundary between them a little west of
the bay, and Delaware is a little east of the north part of the bay.
> 7. This bay or gulf, named after the adjacent city, can be found
> in southwestern Italy. That's a volcano in the background.
Bay (or Gulf) of Naples. (Mt. Vesuvius.) 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua,
Dan Tilque, Marc, Erland, and Pete.
> 8. This gulf is located in the northeastern part of the tropical
> Atlantic Ocean, between Cape Lopez in Gabon and Cape Palmas
> in Liberia.
Gulf (accepting Bay) of Guinea. 4 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque.
3 for Marc.
Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Equatorial Guinea are labeled by their flags.
Parts of Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Gabon are also visible.
> 9. (Decoy.) This bay lies near the northernmost point of New
> Zealand's South Island, about 110 miles WNW of Wellington on
> the North Island.
Golden Bay. Nobody got this.
> 10. This bay is a large body of water on the southern end of
> Hudson Bay.
James Bay. 4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque.
Quebec and Ontario, Canada, are on the east and west sides respectively.
> 11. This gulf, near the center of the picture, connects the Strait
> of Hormuz (at left) with the Arabian Sea.
Gulf of Oman. 4 for Dan Tilque. 2 for Pete.
Oman includes the south coast of the gulf and part of the peninsula
at left; the rest of the peninsula is in the United Arab Emirates.
The north coast is in Iran. The Persian Gulf is at the *other*
end of the strait.
> 12. This bay, near the southern tip of Africa, is named after the
> more famous mountain in the right background.
Table Bay. (Table Mtn., in Cape Town. Not accepting Table Mtn. Bay.)
4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Peter, and Bruce.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 9 ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS
TOPICS-> His Geo
Dan Tilque 36 32 68
Joshua Kreitzer 38 28 66
Dan Blum 31 24 55
Pete Gayde 28 22 50
Erland Sommarskog 32 16 48
Marc Dashevsky 28 19 47
Bruce Bowler 18 20 38
Peter Smyth 20 12 32
Jason Kreitzer 24 0 24
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> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-11-20,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2017-09-25 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 9, Round 2 - History - Israel
> 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following
> the end of the British mandate for Palestine?
1948. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Marc, Erland, and Jason.
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 9, Round 2 - History - Israel
> 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following
> the end of the British mandate for Palestine?
2 for Bruce and Pete.
> 2. Who was Israel's founding prime minister?
Peter, Bruce, Marc, Erland, Jason, and Pete.
> 3. Name the only woman to serve as Israel's prime minister.
> 4. Britain captured Palestine from the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)
> 100 years ago, in 1917, during World War I. That same year,
> Britain's foreign minister said his government favored creating a
> Jewish national home in the region. Name that foreign minister.
2 for Peter.
> 5. Moving to sports, how many times has Israel played in the World
> Cup soccer finals (tournament)?
3 for Dan Blum. 2 for Peter.
> 6. Israel has won 9 Olympic medals, but only one gold, in
> windsurfing in 2004. Name the host city where those games
> were played.
> 7. In what year did Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visit Israel in
> what was the first recognition of Israel by an Arab head
> of state?
> 8. One of the most dramatic events in Israeli history occurred
> in 1976. Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages from
> a hijacked Air France plane. In what country did the rescue
> take place?
Dan Tilque, Bruce, Marc, Erland, Jason, and Pete.
> 9. That hostage rescue was ordered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
> In what year was he assassinated by a right-wing Jew who opposed
> Rabin's peace accords with the PLO and Jordan?
> 10. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann remains the only person
> executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country
> was Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel?
> * Game 9, Round 3 - Geography - Bays and Gulfs
> I've rearranged the round in order by image number on the handout:
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/g9r3/bays.pdf
> Unless stated otherwise, name the bay or gulf on each question.
> There were two decoys, which appear in their sequence interspersed
> with the others, and I've supplied questions for those. Answer them
> if you like for fun, but for no points.
> 1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain.
4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Peter, Bruce, Erland, and Pete.
> 2. Name the two European *countries* that border the Gulf of
> Bothnia.
Marc, Erland, and Pete.
Finland is on the east, of course.
> 3. (Decoy.) This cove is on the Greek island of Zakynthos, off
> the west coast of the Peloponnese. It's named after a man-made
> artifact. What is it, in English?
The eponymous wreck -- of the Panagiotis, originally named the
St. Bedan -- is mostly out of the photo, but a bit of it is visible
at the left edge. These images show it clearly:
http://pre00.deviantart.net/d97e/th/pre/f/2009/234/0/6/greece_zante___shipwreck_cove_by_1darthvader.jpg
http://www.virtualzakynthos.gr/wp-content/uploads/shipwreck_cove_zakynthos_03.jpg
> 4. Name this bay in northeastern Vietnam, known for its emerald
> wters and towering limestone islands.
> 5. This body of water is the largest bay in the world.
Erland, and Pete.
The island to the southwest is Sri Lanka, and the mainland includes
parts of India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.
> 6. This bay is an estuary; Delaware, the District of Columbia,
> Maryland, and Virginia each either have shoreline on the bay
> or are nearby.
and Pete.
Most of the shoreline on both sides is in Maryland, the southern part
in Virginia. DC is on the boundary between them a little west of
the bay, and Delaware is a little east of the north part of the bay.
> 7. This bay or gulf, named after the adjacent city, can be found
> in southwestern Italy. That's a volcano in the background.
Dan Tilque, Marc, Erland, and Pete.
> 8. This gulf is located in the northeastern part of the tropical
> Atlantic Ocean, between Cape Lopez in Gabon and Cape Palmas
> in Liberia.
3 for Marc.
Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Equatorial Guinea are labeled by their flags.
Parts of Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Gabon are also visible.
> 9. (Decoy.) This bay lies near the northernmost point of New
> Zealand's South Island, about 110 miles WNW of Wellington on
> the North Island.
> 10. This bay is a large body of water on the southern end of
> Hudson Bay.
Quebec and Ontario, Canada, are on the east and west sides respectively.
> 11. This gulf, near the center of the picture, connects the Strait
> of Hormuz (at left) with the Arabian Sea.
Oman includes the south coast of the gulf and part of the peninsula
at left; the rest of the peninsula is in the United Arab Emirates.
The north coast is in Iran. The Persian Gulf is at the *other*
end of the strait.
> 12. This bay, near the southern tip of Africa, is named after the
> more famous mountain in the right background.
4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Peter, and Bruce.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 9 ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS
TOPICS-> His Geo
Dan Tilque 36 32 68
Joshua Kreitzer 38 28 66
Dan Blum 31 24 55
Pete Gayde 28 22 50
Erland Sommarskog 32 16 48
Marc Dashevsky 28 19 47
Bruce Bowler 18 20 38
Peter Smyth 20 12 32
Jason Kreitzer 24 0 24
--
Mark Brader | "UNIX are quality sectional bookcases, made of solid oak.
Toronto | Open or glass-fronted, in three sizes and three finishes,
m...@vex.net | UNIX gives unapproached flexibility."
| -- Daily Mail Ideal Home Book, 1951-52
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