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Mark Brader
Feb 14, 2024, 5:02:19 AMFeb 14
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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2024-01-29,
and should be interpreted accordingly.
On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,
based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
the correct answers in about 3 days.
All questions were written by members of the Misplaced Modifiers
and are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may
have been retyped and/or edited by me. The posting and tabulation
of current-events questions is independent of the concurrent posting
of other rounds. For further information please see my 2023-05-24
companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition
(QFTCI*)".
* Game 1, Round 4 - Entertainment - Detectives from Page to Screen
Each of the detectives we'll ask you to name exists both in print
fiction and as a character in movies and/or on TV.
1. Who did Humphrey Bogart play in "The Maltese Falcon"?
2. Name another Dashiell Hammett detective, played by William
Powell on the big screen and by Peter Lawford on TV.
3. Novelist Maureen Jennings created this detective, first played
on television by Peter Outerbridge.
4. Lynda LaPlante wrote both the novel "Prime Suspect" and the
screenplay for the British TV mini-series. Name her female
police-detective protagonist.
5. Agatha Christie introduced this sleuth in the 1922 novel
"The Secret Adversary". Her next appearance was in 1929's
"Partners in Crime". She was portrayed on TV in the 1980s
by Francesca Annis. (For this one either the first name or
surname is sufficient.)
6. Name the Grantham, Ontario, private detective played in TV-movies
by Saul Rubinek.
7. This police detective starred in 75 novels. He has been played
in movies by Charles Laughton and Jean Gabin -- among others --
and on television by Michael Gambon, Bruno Cremer, and Rowan
Atkinson.
8. Many actors have played this fictional sleuth on big screen and
small, but Albert Finney is the only one to have earned a Best
Actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal. The year of the
movie is 1974. Name the detective.
9. Two detectives figure prominently in P.D. James's fiction -- one
a poetry-writing policeman, one a London-based private detective.
Both have appeared in TV series. Name either detective (no
need to say which).
10. Novelist Ross Macdonald created this private detective and
gave him one name; Paul Newman played the character twice under
a different name. Give either name of this sleuth, but please
specify books or movies.
* Game 1, Round 5 - Audio - Hit Cover Songs
Yes, it's an audio round without the audio, so you get three rounds
in this set.
All of the songs in this round are covers. In every case, the
cover version achieved greater popular success than the original
recording. For each song, we'll play the popular cover [okay,
here I'll tell you the title], and you tell us the name of the
original *songwriter* (or writers).
1. The composer of "Woodstock", the definitive song about that
festival, declined an invitation to perform there, opting instead
for an appearance on the "Dick Cavett Show". Crosby, Stills,
Nash, and Young cranked up the volume and the tempo for their
hit recording of the song. Who was the writer of the original,
dreamier version?
2. It's 1963. The Rolling Stones are about to undertake their
first tour. Only problem is, they still don't have a hit song.
Some buddies loaned them "I Wanna Be Your Man", which went to
#12 on the charts. Who were the Stones' songwriting friends?
3. This funk artist was fond of writing songs for his protegees.
But in this case, Chaka Khan just helped herself to the song
"I Feel For You", which won her a Grammy and went to #1 on the
Cashbox charts. Who was the songwriter?
4. David Bowie was another artist who liked to give away songs,
but this time he flipped the script, borrowing the song "China
Girl" from a buddy who was down on his luck and turning it into
a #1 hit -- and perennial source of royalties. Who was Bowie's
lucky songwriting pal?
5. The song "I Will Always Love You" actually went to #1 on the
country charts twice for the original songwriter -- in 1974 and
again in 1982 -- before Whitney Houston swooped down and turned
it into the best-selling single of all time by a female artist.
Name the songwriter.
6. "Me and Bobby McGee" was recorded 5 days before Janis Joplin's
death, making it a rare example of a posthumous #1 hit, and
an even rarer example of a #1 written by a Rhodes scholar.
Name the songwriter.
7. The writer of "Fire" originally intended it as a gift for Elvis,
but the King didn't live long enough to receive the tribute.
Instead, it became one of the writer's concert standards.
Apparently, he was nonplussed when the Pointer Sisters scored
a worldwide #1 with this song, which he had yet to commit to
vinyl himself. Name the songwriter.
8. This teenage wunderkind's first two albums yielded 6 top-10
cover hits for artists including the Fifth Dimension, Three
Dog Night, Barbra Streisand, and Blood, Sweat, and Tears.
Ironically, the highest any of her own recordings ever reached
on the charts was #43 -- and that was for her cover of a Carole
King song. The song is "And When I Die". Name the songwriter.
9. The 1967 original is a lugubrious lament to drinking-to-forget
that stalled at #62 on the charts. The cover artists livened it
up into a celebration of Bacchus that shot to #1. The writer
of the song has since joined the party, now using UB40's ska
arrangement when he performs his song live. The song is "Red,
Red Wine". Name the songwriter/balladeer.
10. Talk about casual. "Until You Come Back to Me" was first
recorded in 1967, but the songwriter didn't get around to putting
it on an album till 1977. In the meantime, Aretha Franklin had
scored a #1 hit with it. Four other performers have reached
the top 100 with the song since then. Name the songwriter.
* Game 1, Round 6 - Science - What a Year it's Been!
The following are among the top science stories of 2023.
1. Canadian Jeremy Hansen was tapped by NASA to be a part of its
mission to the moon. What mission? Include the sequence number
if applicable.
2. For the first time, the FDA has approved a gene-editing technique
to treat what blood disorder?
3. Rocks and dust collected from an asteroid 2,000,000,000 km
away were brought back to earth in September. Name *either*
the asteroid or the probe.
4. Name the submersible that imploded en route to a tour of the
Titanic.
5. In July, a moon lander surveyed the previously unexplored
south pole of the moon, where frozen water reservoirs are
believed to exist. *Which country* launched this moon lander?
6. 2023 saw a new record in Canada of land lost to wildfires --
more than double the previous record set in what year, within
four?
7. In March, two teenage girls from New Orleans presented a new,
trigonometric proof of what theorem?
8. Two South Korean scientists claim to have developed a new
superconductor i.e. a material that carries electric current
with no resistance. Superconductivity is not new, but what do
they say makes this one -- LK-99 -- special?
9. Scientist Yoshua Bengio has won awards for his work on it,
but now he is one of many speaking out about its potential
misuse and need for regulation. What is "it"? (Give the
general answer, but a specific project or product.)
10. Sales of a certain GLP-1 receptor agonist went through the roof.
What is this drug popularly known as?
--
Mark Brader "The world little knows or cares the storm
Toronto through which you have had to pass. It asks only
m...@vex.net if you brought the ship safely to port."
My text in this article is in the public domain.
and should be interpreted accordingly.
On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,
based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
the correct answers in about 3 days.
All questions were written by members of the Misplaced Modifiers
and are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may
have been retyped and/or edited by me. The posting and tabulation
of current-events questions is independent of the concurrent posting
of other rounds. For further information please see my 2023-05-24
companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition
(QFTCI*)".
* Game 1, Round 4 - Entertainment - Detectives from Page to Screen
Each of the detectives we'll ask you to name exists both in print
fiction and as a character in movies and/or on TV.
1. Who did Humphrey Bogart play in "The Maltese Falcon"?
2. Name another Dashiell Hammett detective, played by William
Powell on the big screen and by Peter Lawford on TV.
3. Novelist Maureen Jennings created this detective, first played
on television by Peter Outerbridge.
4. Lynda LaPlante wrote both the novel "Prime Suspect" and the
screenplay for the British TV mini-series. Name her female
police-detective protagonist.
5. Agatha Christie introduced this sleuth in the 1922 novel
"The Secret Adversary". Her next appearance was in 1929's
"Partners in Crime". She was portrayed on TV in the 1980s
by Francesca Annis. (For this one either the first name or
surname is sufficient.)
6. Name the Grantham, Ontario, private detective played in TV-movies
by Saul Rubinek.
7. This police detective starred in 75 novels. He has been played
in movies by Charles Laughton and Jean Gabin -- among others --
and on television by Michael Gambon, Bruno Cremer, and Rowan
Atkinson.
8. Many actors have played this fictional sleuth on big screen and
small, but Albert Finney is the only one to have earned a Best
Actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal. The year of the
movie is 1974. Name the detective.
9. Two detectives figure prominently in P.D. James's fiction -- one
a poetry-writing policeman, one a London-based private detective.
Both have appeared in TV series. Name either detective (no
need to say which).
10. Novelist Ross Macdonald created this private detective and
gave him one name; Paul Newman played the character twice under
a different name. Give either name of this sleuth, but please
specify books or movies.
* Game 1, Round 5 - Audio - Hit Cover Songs
Yes, it's an audio round without the audio, so you get three rounds
in this set.
All of the songs in this round are covers. In every case, the
cover version achieved greater popular success than the original
recording. For each song, we'll play the popular cover [okay,
here I'll tell you the title], and you tell us the name of the
original *songwriter* (or writers).
1. The composer of "Woodstock", the definitive song about that
festival, declined an invitation to perform there, opting instead
for an appearance on the "Dick Cavett Show". Crosby, Stills,
Nash, and Young cranked up the volume and the tempo for their
hit recording of the song. Who was the writer of the original,
dreamier version?
2. It's 1963. The Rolling Stones are about to undertake their
first tour. Only problem is, they still don't have a hit song.
Some buddies loaned them "I Wanna Be Your Man", which went to
#12 on the charts. Who were the Stones' songwriting friends?
3. This funk artist was fond of writing songs for his protegees.
But in this case, Chaka Khan just helped herself to the song
"I Feel For You", which won her a Grammy and went to #1 on the
Cashbox charts. Who was the songwriter?
4. David Bowie was another artist who liked to give away songs,
but this time he flipped the script, borrowing the song "China
Girl" from a buddy who was down on his luck and turning it into
a #1 hit -- and perennial source of royalties. Who was Bowie's
lucky songwriting pal?
5. The song "I Will Always Love You" actually went to #1 on the
country charts twice for the original songwriter -- in 1974 and
again in 1982 -- before Whitney Houston swooped down and turned
it into the best-selling single of all time by a female artist.
Name the songwriter.
6. "Me and Bobby McGee" was recorded 5 days before Janis Joplin's
death, making it a rare example of a posthumous #1 hit, and
an even rarer example of a #1 written by a Rhodes scholar.
Name the songwriter.
7. The writer of "Fire" originally intended it as a gift for Elvis,
but the King didn't live long enough to receive the tribute.
Instead, it became one of the writer's concert standards.
Apparently, he was nonplussed when the Pointer Sisters scored
a worldwide #1 with this song, which he had yet to commit to
vinyl himself. Name the songwriter.
8. This teenage wunderkind's first two albums yielded 6 top-10
cover hits for artists including the Fifth Dimension, Three
Dog Night, Barbra Streisand, and Blood, Sweat, and Tears.
Ironically, the highest any of her own recordings ever reached
on the charts was #43 -- and that was for her cover of a Carole
King song. The song is "And When I Die". Name the songwriter.
9. The 1967 original is a lugubrious lament to drinking-to-forget
that stalled at #62 on the charts. The cover artists livened it
up into a celebration of Bacchus that shot to #1. The writer
of the song has since joined the party, now using UB40's ska
arrangement when he performs his song live. The song is "Red,
Red Wine". Name the songwriter/balladeer.
10. Talk about casual. "Until You Come Back to Me" was first
recorded in 1967, but the songwriter didn't get around to putting
it on an album till 1977. In the meantime, Aretha Franklin had
scored a #1 hit with it. Four other performers have reached
the top 100 with the song since then. Name the songwriter.
* Game 1, Round 6 - Science - What a Year it's Been!
The following are among the top science stories of 2023.
1. Canadian Jeremy Hansen was tapped by NASA to be a part of its
mission to the moon. What mission? Include the sequence number
if applicable.
2. For the first time, the FDA has approved a gene-editing technique
to treat what blood disorder?
3. Rocks and dust collected from an asteroid 2,000,000,000 km
away were brought back to earth in September. Name *either*
the asteroid or the probe.
4. Name the submersible that imploded en route to a tour of the
Titanic.
5. In July, a moon lander surveyed the previously unexplored
south pole of the moon, where frozen water reservoirs are
believed to exist. *Which country* launched this moon lander?
6. 2023 saw a new record in Canada of land lost to wildfires --
more than double the previous record set in what year, within
four?
7. In March, two teenage girls from New Orleans presented a new,
trigonometric proof of what theorem?
8. Two South Korean scientists claim to have developed a new
superconductor i.e. a material that carries electric current
with no resistance. Superconductivity is not new, but what do
they say makes this one -- LK-99 -- special?
9. Scientist Yoshua Bengio has won awards for his work on it,
but now he is one of many speaking out about its potential
misuse and need for regulation. What is "it"? (Give the
general answer, but a specific project or product.)
10. Sales of a certain GLP-1 receptor agonist went through the roof.
What is this drug popularly known as?
--
Mark Brader "The world little knows or cares the storm
Toronto through which you have had to pass. It asks only
m...@vex.net if you brought the ship safely to port."
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Erland Sommarskog
Feb 14, 2024, 1:51:48 PMFeb 14
to
Mark Brader (m...@vex.net) writes:
> * Game 1, Round 4 - Entertainment - Detectives from Page to Screen
>
> * Game 1, Round 4 - Entertainment - Detectives from Page to Screen
>
> 5. Agatha Christie introduced this sleuth in the 1922 novel
> "The Secret Adversary". Her next appearance was in 1929's
> "Partners in Crime". She was portrayed on TV in the 1980s
> by Francesca Annis. (For this one either the first name or
> surname is sufficient.)
Miss Marple
> "The Secret Adversary". Her next appearance was in 1929's
> "Partners in Crime". She was portrayed on TV in the 1980s
> by Francesca Annis. (For this one either the first name or
> surname is sufficient.)
> * Game 1, Round 5 - Audio - Hit Cover Songs
>
> Yes, it's an audio round without the audio, so you get three rounds
> in this set.
>
> 1. The composer of "Woodstock", the definitive song about that
> festival, declined an invitation to perform there, opting instead
> for an appearance on the "Dick Cavett Show". Crosby, Stills,
> Nash, and Young cranked up the volume and the tempo for their
> hit recording of the song. Who was the writer of the original,
> dreamier version?
Joni Mitchell
> festival, declined an invitation to perform there, opting instead
> for an appearance on the "Dick Cavett Show". Crosby, Stills,
> Nash, and Young cranked up the volume and the tempo for their
> hit recording of the song. Who was the writer of the original,
> dreamier version?
> 4. David Bowie was another artist who liked to give away songs,
> but this time he flipped the script, borrowing the song "China
> Girl" from a buddy who was down on his luck and turning it into
> a #1 hit -- and perennial source of royalties. Who was Bowie's
> lucky songwriting pal?
> * Game 1, Round 6 - Science - What a Year it's Been!
>
> The following are among the top science stories of 2023.
>
> 4. Name the submersible that imploded en route to a tour of the
> Titanic.
Ocean Blue
> Titanic.
> 5. In July, a moon lander surveyed the previously unexplored
> south pole of the moon, where frozen water reservoirs are
> believed to exist. *Which country* launched this moon lander?
> 9. Scientist Yoshua Bengio has won awards for his work on it,
> but now he is one of many speaking out about its potential
> misuse and need for regulation. What is "it"? (Give the
> general answer, but a specific project or product.)
Joshua Kreitzer
Feb 14, 2024, 8:46:37 PMFeb 14
to
On Wednesday, February 14, 2024 at 4:02:19 AM UTC-6, Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 1, Round 4 - Entertainment - Detectives from Page to Screen
>
> Each of the detectives we'll ask you to name exists both in print
> fiction and as a character in movies and/or on TV.
>
> 1. Who did Humphrey Bogart play in "The Maltese Falcon"?
Sam Spade
> * Game 1, Round 4 - Entertainment - Detectives from Page to Screen
>
> Each of the detectives we'll ask you to name exists both in print
> fiction and as a character in movies and/or on TV.
>
> 1. Who did Humphrey Bogart play in "The Maltese Falcon"?
> 2. Name another Dashiell Hammett detective, played by William
> Powell on the big screen and by Peter Lawford on TV.
> 5. Agatha Christie introduced this sleuth in the 1922 novel
> "The Secret Adversary". Her next appearance was in 1929's
> "Partners in Crime". She was portrayed on TV in the 1980s
> by Francesca Annis. (For this one either the first name or
> surname is sufficient.)
> 7. This police detective starred in 75 novels. He has been played
> in movies by Charles Laughton and Jean Gabin -- among others --
> and on television by Michael Gambon, Bruno Cremer, and Rowan
> Atkinson.
> 8. Many actors have played this fictional sleuth on big screen and
> small, but Albert Finney is the only one to have earned a Best
> Actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal. The year of the
> movie is 1974. Name the detective.
> 10. Novelist Ross Macdonald created this private detective and
> gave him one name; Paul Newman played the character twice under
> a different name. Give either name of this sleuth, but please
> specify books or movies.
> * Game 1, Round 5 - Audio - Hit Cover Songs
>
> Yes, it's an audio round without the audio, so you get three rounds
> in this set.
>
> All of the songs in this round are covers. In every case, the
> cover version achieved greater popular success than the original
> recording. For each song, we'll play the popular cover [okay,
> here I'll tell you the title], and you tell us the name of the
> original *songwriter* (or writers).
>
> 1. The composer of "Woodstock", the definitive song about that
> festival, declined an invitation to perform there, opting instead
> for an appearance on the "Dick Cavett Show". Crosby, Stills,
> Nash, and Young cranked up the volume and the tempo for their
> hit recording of the song. Who was the writer of the original,
> dreamier version?
> 2. It's 1963. The Rolling Stones are about to undertake their
> first tour. Only problem is, they still don't have a hit song.
> Some buddies loaned them "I Wanna Be Your Man", which went to
> #12 on the charts. Who were the Stones' songwriting friends?
> 3. This funk artist was fond of writing songs for his protegees.
> But in this case, Chaka Khan just helped herself to the song
> "I Feel For You", which won her a Grammy and went to #1 on the
> Cashbox charts. Who was the songwriter?
> 4. David Bowie was another artist who liked to give away songs,
> but this time he flipped the script, borrowing the song "China
> Girl" from a buddy who was down on his luck and turning it into
> a #1 hit -- and perennial source of royalties. Who was Bowie's
> lucky songwriting pal?
> 5. The song "I Will Always Love You" actually went to #1 on the
> country charts twice for the original songwriter -- in 1974 and
> again in 1982 -- before Whitney Houston swooped down and turned
> it into the best-selling single of all time by a female artist.
> Name the songwriter.
> 6. "Me and Bobby McGee" was recorded 5 days before Janis Joplin's
> death, making it a rare example of a posthumous #1 hit, and
> an even rarer example of a #1 written by a Rhodes scholar.
> Name the songwriter.
> 7. The writer of "Fire" originally intended it as a gift for Elvis,
> but the King didn't live long enough to receive the tribute.
> Instead, it became one of the writer's concert standards.
> Apparently, he was nonplussed when the Pointer Sisters scored
> a worldwide #1 with this song, which he had yet to commit to
> vinyl himself. Name the songwriter.
> 8. This teenage wunderkind's first two albums yielded 6 top-10
> cover hits for artists including the Fifth Dimension, Three
> Dog Night, Barbra Streisand, and Blood, Sweat, and Tears.
> Ironically, the highest any of her own recordings ever reached
> on the charts was #43 -- and that was for her cover of a Carole
> King song. The song is "And When I Die". Name the songwriter.
(the above implies that Carole King wrote "And When I Die," but I'm pretty sure Nyro herself wrote that song)
> 9. The 1967 original is a lugubrious lament to drinking-to-forget
> that stalled at #62 on the charts. The cover artists livened it
> up into a celebration of Bacchus that shot to #1. The writer
> of the song has since joined the party, now using UB40's ska
> arrangement when he performs his song live. The song is "Red,
> Red Wine". Name the songwriter/balladeer.
> 10. Talk about casual. "Until You Come Back to Me" was first
> recorded in 1967, but the songwriter didn't get around to putting
> it on an album till 1977. In the meantime, Aretha Franklin had
> scored a #1 hit with it. Four other performers have reached
> the top 100 with the song since then. Name the songwriter.
> * Game 1, Round 6 - Science - What a Year it's Been!
>
> The following are among the top science stories of 2023.
>
> 5. In July, a moon lander surveyed the previously unexplored
> south pole of the moon, where frozen water reservoirs are
> believed to exist. *Which country* launched this moon lander?
China; India
> south pole of the moon, where frozen water reservoirs are
> believed to exist. *Which country* launched this moon lander?
> 6. 2023 saw a new record in Canada of land lost to wildfires --
> more than double the previous record set in what year, within
> four?
> 7. In March, two teenage girls from New Orleans presented a new,
> trigonometric proof of what theorem?
> 9. Scientist Yoshua Bengio has won awards for his work on it,
> but now he is one of many speaking out about its potential
> misuse and need for regulation. What is "it"? (Give the
> general answer, but a specific project or product.)
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Dan Blum
Feb 15, 2024, 12:07:27 AMFeb 15
to
Mark Brader <m...@vex.net> wrote:
> * Game 1, Round 4 - Entertainment - Detectives from Page to Screen
> * Game 1, Round 4 - Entertainment - Detectives from Page to Screen
> 1. Who did Humphrey Bogart play in "The Maltese Falcon"?
Sam Spade
> 2. Name another Dashiell Hammett detective, played by William
> Powell on the big screen and by Peter Lawford on TV.
> 5. Agatha Christie introduced this sleuth in the 1922 novel
> "The Secret Adversary". Her next appearance was in 1929's
> "Partners in Crime". She was portrayed on TV in the 1980s
> by Francesca Annis. (For this one either the first name or
> surname is sufficient.)
> 7. This police detective starred in 75 novels. He has been played
> in movies by Charles Laughton and Jean Gabin -- among others --
> and on television by Michael Gambon, Bruno Cremer, and Rowan
> Atkinson.
> 8. Many actors have played this fictional sleuth on big screen and
> small, but Albert Finney is the only one to have earned a Best
> Actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal. The year of the
> movie is 1974. Name the detective.
> * Game 1, Round 6 - Science - What a Year it's Been!
> 1. Canadian Jeremy Hansen was tapped by NASA to be a part of its
> mission to the moon. What mission? Include the sequence number
> if applicable.
Artemis
> mission to the moon. What mission? Include the sequence number
> if applicable.
> 2. For the first time, the FDA has approved a gene-editing technique
> to treat what blood disorder?
> 5. In July, a moon lander surveyed the previously unexplored
> south pole of the moon, where frozen water reservoirs are
> believed to exist. *Which country* launched this moon lander?
> 8. Two South Korean scientists claim to have developed a new
> superconductor i.e. a material that carries electric current
> with no resistance. Superconductivity is not new, but what do
> they say makes this one -- LK-99 -- special?
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Dan Tilque
Feb 15, 2024, 2:44:54 AMFeb 15
to
On 2/14/24 02:02, Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> * Game 1, Round 4 - Entertainment - Detectives from Page to Screen
>
> Each of the detectives we'll ask you to name exists both in print
> fiction and as a character in movies and/or on TV.
>
> 1. Who did Humphrey Bogart play in "The Maltese Falcon"?
Sam Spade
>
>
> * Game 1, Round 4 - Entertainment - Detectives from Page to Screen
>
> Each of the detectives we'll ask you to name exists both in print
> fiction and as a character in movies and/or on TV.
>
> 1. Who did Humphrey Bogart play in "The Maltese Falcon"?
>
> 2. Name another Dashiell Hammett detective, played by William
> Powell on the big screen and by Peter Lawford on TV.
>
> 3. Novelist Maureen Jennings created this detective, first played
> on television by Peter Outerbridge.
>
> 4. Lynda LaPlante wrote both the novel "Prime Suspect" and the
> screenplay for the British TV mini-series. Name her female
> police-detective protagonist.
>
> 5. Agatha Christie introduced this sleuth in the 1922 novel
> "The Secret Adversary". Her next appearance was in 1929's
> "Partners in Crime". She was portrayed on TV in the 1980s
> by Francesca Annis. (For this one either the first name or
> surname is sufficient.)
>
> 6. Name the Grantham, Ontario, private detective played in TV-movies
> by Saul Rubinek.
>
> 7. This police detective starred in 75 novels. He has been played
> in movies by Charles Laughton and Jean Gabin -- among others --
> and on television by Michael Gambon, Bruno Cremer, and Rowan
> Atkinson.
>
> 8. Many actors have played this fictional sleuth on big screen and
> small, but Albert Finney is the only one to have earned a Best
> Actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal. The year of the
> movie is 1974. Name the detective.
>
> 2. For the first time, the FDA has approved a gene-editing technique
> to treat what blood disorder?
>
> 3. Rocks and dust collected from an asteroid 2,000,000,000 km
> away were brought back to earth in September. Name *either*
> the asteroid or the probe.
>
> 4. Name the submersible that imploded en route to a tour of the
> Titanic.
>
> 5. In July, a moon lander surveyed the previously unexplored
> south pole of the moon, where frozen water reservoirs are
> believed to exist. *Which country* launched this moon lander?
>
> 6. 2023 saw a new record in Canada of land lost to wildfires --
> more than double the previous record set in what year, within
> four?
>
> 7. In March, two teenage girls from New Orleans presented a new,
> trigonometric proof of what theorem?
>
> 8. Two South Korean scientists claim to have developed a new
> superconductor i.e. a material that carries electric current
> with no resistance. Superconductivity is not new, but what do
> they say makes this one -- LK-99 -- special?
>
> 9. Scientist Yoshua Bengio has won awards for his work on it,
> but now he is one of many speaking out about its potential
> misuse and need for regulation. What is "it"? (Give the
> general answer, but a specific project or product.)
>
> 10. Sales of a certain GLP-1 receptor agonist went through the roof.
> What is this drug popularly known as?
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> 2. Name another Dashiell Hammett detective, played by William
> Powell on the big screen and by Peter Lawford on TV.
Nick Charles. 4 for Joshua.
> 3. Novelist Maureen Jennings created this detective, first played
> on television by Peter Outerbridge.
William Murdoch.
> 4. Lynda LaPlante wrote both the novel "Prime Suspect" and the
> screenplay for the British TV mini-series. Name her female
> police-detective protagonist.
Jane Tennison. (Also accepting Jane Timoney, from the American
version.)
> 5. Agatha Christie introduced this sleuth in the 1922 novel
> "The Secret Adversary". Her next appearance was in 1929's
> "Partners in Crime". She was portrayed on TV in the 1980s
> by Francesca Annis. (For this one either the first name or
> surname is sufficient.)
Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley, later Beresford. (Any one of the names
will do.)
Jane Marple first appeared in "The Murder at the Vicarage" (1930)
and was most notably played by Margaret Rutherford and Joan Hickson,
but never by Francesca Annis.
> 6. Name the Grantham, Ontario, private detective played in TV-movies
> by Saul Rubinek.
Benny Cooperman.
> 7. This police detective starred in 75 novels. He has been played
> in movies by Charles Laughton and Jean Gabin -- among others --
> and on television by Michael Gambon, Bruno Cremer, and Rowan
> Atkinson.
Jules Maigret. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.
> 8. Many actors have played this fictional sleuth on big screen and
> small, but Albert Finney is the only one to have earned a Best
> Actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal. The year of the
> movie is 1974. Name the detective.
Hercule Poirot. ("Murder on the Orient Express".) 4 for Joshua.
> 9. Two detectives figure prominently in P.D. James's fiction -- one
> a poetry-writing policeman, one a London-based private detective.
> Both have appeared in TV series. Name either detective (no
> need to say which).
Cordelia Gray, Adam Dalgleish.
> 10. Novelist Ross Macdonald created this private detective and
> gave him one name; Paul Newman played the character twice under
> a different name. Give either name of this sleuth, but please
> specify books or movies.
Lew Archer (books), Lew Harper (movies). 4 for Joshua (the hard way).
> * Game 1, Round 5 - Audio - Hit Cover Songs
> Yes, it's an audio round without the audio, so you get three rounds
> in this set.
> All of the songs in this round are covers. In every case, the
> cover version achieved greater popular success than the original
> recording. For each song, we'll play the popular cover [okay,
> here I'll tell you the title], and you tell us the name of the
> original *songwriter* (or writers).
> 1. The composer of "Woodstock", the definitive song about that
> festival, declined an invitation to perform there, opting instead
> for an appearance on the "Dick Cavett Show". Crosby, Stills,
> Nash, and Young cranked up the volume and the tempo for their
> hit recording of the song. Who was the writer of the original,
> dreamier version?
Joni Mitchell. 4 for Erland and Joshua.
> 2. It's 1963. The Rolling Stones are about to undertake their
> first tour. Only problem is, they still don't have a hit song.
> Some buddies loaned them "I Wanna Be Your Man", which went to
> #12 on the charts. Who were the Stones' songwriting friends?
John Lennon, Paul McCartney. 4 for Joshua.
> 3. This funk artist was fond of writing songs for his protegees.
> But in this case, Chaka Khan just helped herself to the song
> "I Feel For You", which won her a Grammy and went to #1 on the
> Cashbox charts. Who was the songwriter?
Prince. 4 for Joshua.
> 4. David Bowie was another artist who liked to give away songs,
> but this time he flipped the script, borrowing the song "China
> Girl" from a buddy who was down on his luck and turning it into
> a #1 hit -- and perennial source of royalties. Who was Bowie's
> lucky songwriting pal?
Iggy Pop. 4 for Erland and Joshua.
> 5. The song "I Will Always Love You" actually went to #1 on the
> country charts twice for the original songwriter -- in 1974 and
> again in 1982 -- before Whitney Houston swooped down and turned
> it into the best-selling single of all time by a female artist.
> Name the songwriter.
Dolly Parton. 4 for Joshua.
> 6. "Me and Bobby McGee" was recorded 5 days before Janis Joplin's
> death, making it a rare example of a posthumous #1 hit, and
> an even rarer example of a #1 written by a Rhodes scholar.
> Name the songwriter.
Kris Kristofferson. 4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque.
> 7. The writer of "Fire" originally intended it as a gift for Elvis,
> but the King didn't live long enough to receive the tribute.
> Instead, it became one of the writer's concert standards.
> Apparently, he was nonplussed when the Pointer Sisters scored
> a worldwide #1 with this song, which he had yet to commit to
> vinyl himself. Name the songwriter.
Bruce Springsteen. 4 for Joshua.
> 8. This teenage wunderkind's first two albums yielded 6 top-10
> cover hits for artists including the Fifth Dimension, Three
> Dog Night, Barbra Streisand, and Blood, Sweat, and Tears.
> Ironically, the highest any of her own recordings ever reached
> on the charts was #43 -- and that was for her cover of a Carole
> King song. The song is "And When I Die". Name the songwriter.
Laura Nyro ["Nero"]. 4 for Joshua.
> 9. The 1967 original is a lugubrious lament to drinking-to-forget
> that stalled at #62 on the charts. The cover artists livened it
> up into a celebration of Bacchus that shot to #1. The writer
> of the song has since joined the party, now using UB40's ska
> arrangement when he performs his song live. The song is "Red,
> Red Wine". Name the songwriter/balladeer.
Neil Diamond. 4 for Joshua.
> 10. Talk about casual. "Until You Come Back to Me" was first
> recorded in 1967, but the songwriter didn't get around to putting
> it on an album till 1977. In the meantime, Aretha Franklin had
> scored a #1 hit with it. Four other performers have reached
> the top 100 with the song since then. Name the songwriter.
Stevie Wonder. 4 for Joshua.
> * Game 1, Round 6 - Science - What a Year it's Been!
> The following are among the top science stories of 2023.
> 1. Canadian Jeremy Hansen was tapped by NASA to be a part of its
> mission to the moon. What mission? Include the sequence number
> if applicable.
Artemis II.
> 2. For the first time, the FDA has approved a gene-editing technique
> to treat what blood disorder?
Sickle cell anemia/disease. 4 for Dan Tilque.
> 3. Rocks and dust collected from an asteroid 2,000,000,000 km
> away were brought back to earth in September. Name *either*
> the asteroid or the probe.
Osiris Rex probed Bennu. 4 for Dan Tilque.
> 4. Name the submersible that imploded en route to a tour of the
> Titanic.
Titan. 4 for Dan Tilque.
A particularly hubristic choice of name, that. See for example:
http://en.as.com/latest_news/the-book-that-predicted-titanic-disaster-a-fictional-ship-called-titan-n/
> 5. In July, a moon lander surveyed the previously unexplored
> south pole of the moon, where frozen water reservoirs are
> believed to exist. *Which country* launched this moon lander?
India. (It's Chandrayaan 3). 4 for Dan Tilque. 2 for Joshua.
> 6. 2023 saw a new record in Canada of land lost to wildfires --
> more than double the previous record set in what year, within
> four?
1989 (accepting 1985-93).
> 7. In March, two teenage girls from New Orleans presented a new,
> trigonometric proof of what theorem?
Pythagorean theorem. 4 for Joshua.
The theorem has been proved in numerous ways, but because most
of trigonometry depends on the theorem, it's almost impossible to
create a valid proof of it using trigonometry. However, Ne'Kiya
Jackson and Calcea Johnson appear to have done so, using a "waffle
cone" construction. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQD6lDwFmCc
> 8. Two South Korean scientists claim to have developed a new
> superconductor i.e. a material that carries electric current
> with no resistance. Superconductivity is not new, but what do
> they say makes this one -- LK-99 -- special?
It works at room temperature. 4 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque.
> 9. Scientist Yoshua Bengio has won awards for his work on it,
> but now he is one of many speaking out about its potential
> misuse and need for regulation. What is "it"? (Give the
> general answer, but a specific project or product.)
Artificial intelligence. 4 for Erland, Joshua (the hard way),
and Dan Tilque.
In the last sentence, "but" was supposed to be "not". Due to the
typo, I accepted ChatGPT as an answer.
> 10. Sales of a certain GLP-1 receptor agonist went through the roof.
> What is this drug popularly known as?
Ozempic or Wegovy. 4 for Dan Tilque.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 1 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 5 6 BEST
TOPICS-> Can Spo Ent Aud Sci THREE
Joshua Kreitzer 16 9 20 40 10 76
Dan Tilque 12 4 4 4 28 44
Dan Blum 24 4 8 0 4 36
Erland Sommarskog 4 0 0 8 4 16
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "A secret proclamation? How unusual!"
m...@vex.net -- Arsenic and Old Lace
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2024-01-29,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> please see my 2023-05-24 companion posting on "Questions from the
> Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 1, Round 4 - Entertainment - Detectives from Page to Screen
> Each of the detectives we'll ask you to name exists both in print
> fiction and as a character in movies and/or on TV.
> 1. Who did Humphrey Bogart play in "The Maltese Falcon"?
Sam Spade. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque.
> Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 1, Round 4 - Entertainment - Detectives from Page to Screen
> Each of the detectives we'll ask you to name exists both in print
> fiction and as a character in movies and/or on TV.
> 1. Who did Humphrey Bogart play in "The Maltese Falcon"?
> 2. Name another Dashiell Hammett detective, played by William
> Powell on the big screen and by Peter Lawford on TV.
> 3. Novelist Maureen Jennings created this detective, first played
> on television by Peter Outerbridge.
> 4. Lynda LaPlante wrote both the novel "Prime Suspect" and the
> screenplay for the British TV mini-series. Name her female
> police-detective protagonist.
version.)
> 5. Agatha Christie introduced this sleuth in the 1922 novel
> "The Secret Adversary". Her next appearance was in 1929's
> "Partners in Crime". She was portrayed on TV in the 1980s
> by Francesca Annis. (For this one either the first name or
> surname is sufficient.)
will do.)
Jane Marple first appeared in "The Murder at the Vicarage" (1930)
and was most notably played by Margaret Rutherford and Joan Hickson,
but never by Francesca Annis.
> 6. Name the Grantham, Ontario, private detective played in TV-movies
> by Saul Rubinek.
> 7. This police detective starred in 75 novels. He has been played
> in movies by Charles Laughton and Jean Gabin -- among others --
> and on television by Michael Gambon, Bruno Cremer, and Rowan
> Atkinson.
> 8. Many actors have played this fictional sleuth on big screen and
> small, but Albert Finney is the only one to have earned a Best
> Actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal. The year of the
> movie is 1974. Name the detective.
> 9. Two detectives figure prominently in P.D. James's fiction -- one
> a poetry-writing policeman, one a London-based private detective.
> Both have appeared in TV series. Name either detective (no
> need to say which).
> 10. Novelist Ross Macdonald created this private detective and
> gave him one name; Paul Newman played the character twice under
> a different name. Give either name of this sleuth, but please
> specify books or movies.
> * Game 1, Round 5 - Audio - Hit Cover Songs
> Yes, it's an audio round without the audio, so you get three rounds
> in this set.
> All of the songs in this round are covers. In every case, the
> cover version achieved greater popular success than the original
> recording. For each song, we'll play the popular cover [okay,
> here I'll tell you the title], and you tell us the name of the
> original *songwriter* (or writers).
> 1. The composer of "Woodstock", the definitive song about that
> festival, declined an invitation to perform there, opting instead
> for an appearance on the "Dick Cavett Show". Crosby, Stills,
> Nash, and Young cranked up the volume and the tempo for their
> hit recording of the song. Who was the writer of the original,
> dreamier version?
> 2. It's 1963. The Rolling Stones are about to undertake their
> first tour. Only problem is, they still don't have a hit song.
> Some buddies loaned them "I Wanna Be Your Man", which went to
> #12 on the charts. Who were the Stones' songwriting friends?
> 3. This funk artist was fond of writing songs for his protegees.
> But in this case, Chaka Khan just helped herself to the song
> "I Feel For You", which won her a Grammy and went to #1 on the
> Cashbox charts. Who was the songwriter?
> 4. David Bowie was another artist who liked to give away songs,
> but this time he flipped the script, borrowing the song "China
> Girl" from a buddy who was down on his luck and turning it into
> a #1 hit -- and perennial source of royalties. Who was Bowie's
> lucky songwriting pal?
> 5. The song "I Will Always Love You" actually went to #1 on the
> country charts twice for the original songwriter -- in 1974 and
> again in 1982 -- before Whitney Houston swooped down and turned
> it into the best-selling single of all time by a female artist.
> Name the songwriter.
> 6. "Me and Bobby McGee" was recorded 5 days before Janis Joplin's
> death, making it a rare example of a posthumous #1 hit, and
> an even rarer example of a #1 written by a Rhodes scholar.
> Name the songwriter.
> 7. The writer of "Fire" originally intended it as a gift for Elvis,
> but the King didn't live long enough to receive the tribute.
> Instead, it became one of the writer's concert standards.
> Apparently, he was nonplussed when the Pointer Sisters scored
> a worldwide #1 with this song, which he had yet to commit to
> vinyl himself. Name the songwriter.
> 8. This teenage wunderkind's first two albums yielded 6 top-10
> cover hits for artists including the Fifth Dimension, Three
> Dog Night, Barbra Streisand, and Blood, Sweat, and Tears.
> Ironically, the highest any of her own recordings ever reached
> on the charts was #43 -- and that was for her cover of a Carole
> King song. The song is "And When I Die". Name the songwriter.
> 9. The 1967 original is a lugubrious lament to drinking-to-forget
> that stalled at #62 on the charts. The cover artists livened it
> up into a celebration of Bacchus that shot to #1. The writer
> of the song has since joined the party, now using UB40's ska
> arrangement when he performs his song live. The song is "Red,
> Red Wine". Name the songwriter/balladeer.
> 10. Talk about casual. "Until You Come Back to Me" was first
> recorded in 1967, but the songwriter didn't get around to putting
> it on an album till 1977. In the meantime, Aretha Franklin had
> scored a #1 hit with it. Four other performers have reached
> the top 100 with the song since then. Name the songwriter.
> * Game 1, Round 6 - Science - What a Year it's Been!
> The following are among the top science stories of 2023.
> 1. Canadian Jeremy Hansen was tapped by NASA to be a part of its
> mission to the moon. What mission? Include the sequence number
> if applicable.
> 2. For the first time, the FDA has approved a gene-editing technique
> to treat what blood disorder?
> 3. Rocks and dust collected from an asteroid 2,000,000,000 km
> away were brought back to earth in September. Name *either*
> the asteroid or the probe.
> 4. Name the submersible that imploded en route to a tour of the
> Titanic.
A particularly hubristic choice of name, that. See for example:
http://en.as.com/latest_news/the-book-that-predicted-titanic-disaster-a-fictional-ship-called-titan-n/
> 5. In July, a moon lander surveyed the previously unexplored
> south pole of the moon, where frozen water reservoirs are
> believed to exist. *Which country* launched this moon lander?
> 6. 2023 saw a new record in Canada of land lost to wildfires --
> more than double the previous record set in what year, within
> four?
> 7. In March, two teenage girls from New Orleans presented a new,
> trigonometric proof of what theorem?
The theorem has been proved in numerous ways, but because most
of trigonometry depends on the theorem, it's almost impossible to
create a valid proof of it using trigonometry. However, Ne'Kiya
Jackson and Calcea Johnson appear to have done so, using a "waffle
cone" construction. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQD6lDwFmCc
> 8. Two South Korean scientists claim to have developed a new
> superconductor i.e. a material that carries electric current
> with no resistance. Superconductivity is not new, but what do
> they say makes this one -- LK-99 -- special?
> 9. Scientist Yoshua Bengio has won awards for his work on it,
> but now he is one of many speaking out about its potential
> misuse and need for regulation. What is "it"? (Give the
> general answer, but a specific project or product.)
and Dan Tilque.
In the last sentence, "but" was supposed to be "not". Due to the
typo, I accepted ChatGPT as an answer.
> 10. Sales of a certain GLP-1 receptor agonist went through the roof.
> What is this drug popularly known as?
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 1 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 5 6 BEST
TOPICS-> Can Spo Ent Aud Sci THREE
Joshua Kreitzer 16 9 20 40 10 76
Dan Tilque 12 4 4 4 28 44
Dan Blum 24 4 8 0 4 36
Erland Sommarskog 4 0 0 8 4 16
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "A secret proclamation? How unusual!"
m...@vex.net -- Arsenic and Old Lace
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