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Mark Brader
Jun 4, 2020, 7:59:17 PM6/4/20
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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2020-03-02,
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 MI5 and are used here by
permission, but have been reformatted and may have been retyped
and/or edited by me. For further information see my 2019-10-16
companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition
(QFTCI*)".
** Game 8, Round 9 - Entertainment - Worst Vacations in the Movies
We'll give you the year of release and a brief plot description;
you name the movie.
1. 2008. 17-year-old Kim is off to Paris where she is abducted
by Albanian sex traffickers as soon as she steps out of Charles
de Gaulle Airport. Luckily her dad's particular set of skills
helps get her back.
2. 2003. A scuba-diving husband and wife bob to the ocean's
surface, only to find that their boat has left them stranded,
miles from the Australian coast, surrounded by sharks and
jellyfish.
3. 2014. Remade as "Downhill" in 2020. An avalanche races toward
an Alpine ski resort's restaurant terrace, where a picture-
perfect family is having lunch. The husband sprints away,
taking his phone and his gloves, but leaving behind his wife
and children.
4. 2005. Two American backpackers are lured to Slovakia by the
prospect of no-strings sex with the eager locals, so it's hard
to be all that upset when instead they are maimed with power
drills, chainsaws, and blowtorches.
5. 1990. A construction worker pays to have the memories of a
trip-of-a-lifetime implanted into his brain. Unfortunately,
the process reveals that he is really a secret agent with a
history of Martian missions.
6. 1987. When two friends are stuck in a dreary cottage with no
heating, no food and no access to the finest wines available to
humanity, one of them says, "We've gone on holiday by mistake!"
Then they strangle, half-pluck, and cook a chicken.
7. 1977. Cave-dwelling cannibals attack, the Carter family fights
back, and as the trailer's peerless tag line puts it: "The
lucky ones died first."
8. 1972. (Remade in 2005 for TV and in 2006 for the big screen.)
A New Year's Eve party is in full swing on board when an aging
ship is capsized by a tsunami and the passengers experience
"hell upside down".
9. 1972. Remade in 2007. New bride Lila is sunburned to a crisp
and confined to her hotel room on her Miami Beach honeymoon.
Her husband Lenny then meets a blonde goddess who he imagines
is his soulmate.
10. 2019. With their relationship in trouble, a young American
couple travel to a fabled Swedish festival where a seemingly
pastoral paradise transforms into a sinister, dread-soaked
nightmare as the locals reveal their terrifying agenda.
** Game 8, Round 10 - Challenge Round of the TTC Subway Stations
* A. Geography, or "Museum"
A1. In what city is the Van Gogh Museum located?
A2. In what city is the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum located?
* B. Entertainment, or "Wilson"
B1. In what popular 1990s TV show was the next-door neighbor
Wilson's face never shown in full? Instead it was always
obscured by a tall fence between yards, or some other object.
B2. In what popular 2004-12 TV show was the title character's
best friend an oncologist named James Wilson?
* C. Literature, or "Jane"
We will give you three characters from the same Jane Austen
novel. You give the title.
C1. Jane Fairfax, Frank Churchill, George Knightley.
C2. Col. Brandon, Elinor Dashwood, John Willoughby.
* D. Sports, or "University"
Name the men's basketball teams of these universities.
D1. Villanova U.
D2. Gonzaga U.
* E. History, or "Kennedy"
E1. On August 1943-08-02, a Japanese destroyer smashed into
John F. Kennedy's PT Boat 109, slicing it in two and
igniting its fuel tanks. In what *Pacific island group*
did this incident occur?
E2. Name the book of short biographies for which Kennedy won
the Pulitzer Prize.
* F. Canadiana, or "High Park"
F1. In May 2016, a pair of capybaras kept at the High Park
Zoo escaped and evaded capture for weeks. Due to their
outlaw exploits, they were given nicknames. Give *either*
nickname.
F2. In 2015, the High Park Zoo received international media
coverage when a certain creature escaped and remained at
large in the surrounding neighborhood for several weeks
before returning to the zoo on its own. What kind of
creature escaped?
* G. For Fun, but for No Points (or Switches)
G1. Which one of category titles A-F in this round is not in
fact the name of a TTC subway station?
G2. Which two of the five actual stations in the category titles
are closest together geographically, and opened on the
same day?
--
Mark Brader, Toronto / "A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour,
m...@vex.net / tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before."
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 MI5 and are used here by
permission, but have been reformatted and may have been retyped
and/or edited by me. For further information see my 2019-10-16
companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition
(QFTCI*)".
** Game 8, Round 9 - Entertainment - Worst Vacations in the Movies
We'll give you the year of release and a brief plot description;
you name the movie.
1. 2008. 17-year-old Kim is off to Paris where she is abducted
by Albanian sex traffickers as soon as she steps out of Charles
de Gaulle Airport. Luckily her dad's particular set of skills
helps get her back.
2. 2003. A scuba-diving husband and wife bob to the ocean's
surface, only to find that their boat has left them stranded,
miles from the Australian coast, surrounded by sharks and
jellyfish.
3. 2014. Remade as "Downhill" in 2020. An avalanche races toward
an Alpine ski resort's restaurant terrace, where a picture-
perfect family is having lunch. The husband sprints away,
taking his phone and his gloves, but leaving behind his wife
and children.
4. 2005. Two American backpackers are lured to Slovakia by the
prospect of no-strings sex with the eager locals, so it's hard
to be all that upset when instead they are maimed with power
drills, chainsaws, and blowtorches.
5. 1990. A construction worker pays to have the memories of a
trip-of-a-lifetime implanted into his brain. Unfortunately,
the process reveals that he is really a secret agent with a
history of Martian missions.
6. 1987. When two friends are stuck in a dreary cottage with no
heating, no food and no access to the finest wines available to
humanity, one of them says, "We've gone on holiday by mistake!"
Then they strangle, half-pluck, and cook a chicken.
7. 1977. Cave-dwelling cannibals attack, the Carter family fights
back, and as the trailer's peerless tag line puts it: "The
lucky ones died first."
8. 1972. (Remade in 2005 for TV and in 2006 for the big screen.)
A New Year's Eve party is in full swing on board when an aging
ship is capsized by a tsunami and the passengers experience
"hell upside down".
9. 1972. Remade in 2007. New bride Lila is sunburned to a crisp
and confined to her hotel room on her Miami Beach honeymoon.
Her husband Lenny then meets a blonde goddess who he imagines
is his soulmate.
10. 2019. With their relationship in trouble, a young American
couple travel to a fabled Swedish festival where a seemingly
pastoral paradise transforms into a sinister, dread-soaked
nightmare as the locals reveal their terrifying agenda.
** Game 8, Round 10 - Challenge Round of the TTC Subway Stations
* A. Geography, or "Museum"
A1. In what city is the Van Gogh Museum located?
A2. In what city is the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum located?
* B. Entertainment, or "Wilson"
B1. In what popular 1990s TV show was the next-door neighbor
Wilson's face never shown in full? Instead it was always
obscured by a tall fence between yards, or some other object.
B2. In what popular 2004-12 TV show was the title character's
best friend an oncologist named James Wilson?
* C. Literature, or "Jane"
We will give you three characters from the same Jane Austen
novel. You give the title.
C1. Jane Fairfax, Frank Churchill, George Knightley.
C2. Col. Brandon, Elinor Dashwood, John Willoughby.
* D. Sports, or "University"
Name the men's basketball teams of these universities.
D1. Villanova U.
D2. Gonzaga U.
* E. History, or "Kennedy"
E1. On August 1943-08-02, a Japanese destroyer smashed into
John F. Kennedy's PT Boat 109, slicing it in two and
igniting its fuel tanks. In what *Pacific island group*
did this incident occur?
E2. Name the book of short biographies for which Kennedy won
the Pulitzer Prize.
* F. Canadiana, or "High Park"
F1. In May 2016, a pair of capybaras kept at the High Park
Zoo escaped and evaded capture for weeks. Due to their
outlaw exploits, they were given nicknames. Give *either*
nickname.
F2. In 2015, the High Park Zoo received international media
coverage when a certain creature escaped and remained at
large in the surrounding neighborhood for several weeks
before returning to the zoo on its own. What kind of
creature escaped?
* G. For Fun, but for No Points (or Switches)
G1. Which one of category titles A-F in this round is not in
fact the name of a TTC subway station?
G2. Which two of the five actual stations in the category titles
are closest together geographically, and opened on the
same day?
--
Mark Brader, Toronto / "A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour,
m...@vex.net / tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before."
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Joshua Kreitzer
Jun 4, 2020, 9:25:18 PM6/4/20
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:_pidnT3ONvBNF0TDnZ2dnUU7-
aHN...@giganews.com:
> ** Game 8, Round 9 - Entertainment - Worst Vacations in the Movies
>
> We'll give you the year of release and a brief plot description;
> you name the movie.
>
> 1. 2008. 17-year-old Kim is off to Paris where she is abducted
> by Albanian sex traffickers as soon as she steps out of Charles
> de Gaulle Airport. Luckily her dad's particular set of skills
> helps get her back.
"Taken"
> 4. 2005. Two American backpackers are lured to Slovakia by the
> prospect of no-strings sex with the eager locals, so it's hard
> to be all that upset when instead they are maimed with power
> drills, chainsaws, and blowtorches.
"Hostel"
> 5. 1990. A construction worker pays to have the memories of a
> trip-of-a-lifetime implanted into his brain. Unfortunately,
> the process reveals that he is really a secret agent with a
> history of Martian missions.
"Total Recall"
> 7. 1977. Cave-dwelling cannibals attack, the Carter family fights
> back, and as the trailer's peerless tag line puts it: "The
> lucky ones died first."
"The Hills Have Eyes"
> 8. 1972. (Remade in 2005 for TV and in 2006 for the big screen.)
> A New Year's Eve party is in full swing on board when an aging
> ship is capsized by a tsunami and the passengers experience
> "hell upside down".
"The Poseidon Adventure"
> 9. 1972. Remade in 2007. New bride Lila is sunburned to a crisp
> and confined to her hotel room on her Miami Beach honeymoon.
> Her husband Lenny then meets a blonde goddess who he imagines
> is his soulmate.
"The Heartbreak Kid"
> 10. 2019. With their relationship in trouble, a young American
> couple travel to a fabled Swedish festival where a seemingly
> pastoral paradise transforms into a sinister, dread-soaked
> nightmare as the locals reveal their terrifying agenda.
"Midsommar"
> ** Game 8, Round 10 - Challenge Round of the TTC Subway Stations
>
> * A. Geography, or "Museum"
>
> A1. In what city is the Van Gogh Museum located?
Amsterdam
> A2. In what city is the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum located?
Jerusalem
> * B. Entertainment, or "Wilson"
>
> B1. In what popular 1990s TV show was the next-door neighbor
> Wilson's face never shown in full? Instead it was always
> obscured by a tall fence between yards, or some other object.
"Home Improvement"
> B2. In what popular 2004-12 TV show was the title character's
> best friend an oncologist named James Wilson?
"House"
> * C. Literature, or "Jane"
>
> We will give you three characters from the same Jane Austen
> novel. You give the title.
>
> C1. Jane Fairfax, Frank Churchill, George Knightley.
"Emma"; "Pride and Prejudice"
> C2. Col. Brandon, Elinor Dashwood, John Willoughby.
"Sense and Sensibility"
> * D. Sports, or "University"
>
> Name the men's basketball teams of these universities.
>
> D1. Villanova U.
Wildcats
> D2. Gonzaga U.
Zags
> * E. History, or "Kennedy"
>
> E1. On August 1943-08-02, a Japanese destroyer smashed into
> John F. Kennedy's PT Boat 109, slicing it in two and
> igniting its fuel tanks. In what *Pacific island group*
> did this incident occur?
Solomon Islands
> E2. Name the book of short biographies for which Kennedy won
> the Pulitzer Prize.
"Profiles in Courage"
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
aHN...@giganews.com:
> ** Game 8, Round 9 - Entertainment - Worst Vacations in the Movies
>
> We'll give you the year of release and a brief plot description;
> you name the movie.
>
> 1. 2008. 17-year-old Kim is off to Paris where she is abducted
> by Albanian sex traffickers as soon as she steps out of Charles
> de Gaulle Airport. Luckily her dad's particular set of skills
> helps get her back.
> 4. 2005. Two American backpackers are lured to Slovakia by the
> prospect of no-strings sex with the eager locals, so it's hard
> to be all that upset when instead they are maimed with power
> drills, chainsaws, and blowtorches.
> 5. 1990. A construction worker pays to have the memories of a
> trip-of-a-lifetime implanted into his brain. Unfortunately,
> the process reveals that he is really a secret agent with a
> history of Martian missions.
> 7. 1977. Cave-dwelling cannibals attack, the Carter family fights
> back, and as the trailer's peerless tag line puts it: "The
> lucky ones died first."
> 8. 1972. (Remade in 2005 for TV and in 2006 for the big screen.)
> A New Year's Eve party is in full swing on board when an aging
> ship is capsized by a tsunami and the passengers experience
> "hell upside down".
> 9. 1972. Remade in 2007. New bride Lila is sunburned to a crisp
> and confined to her hotel room on her Miami Beach honeymoon.
> Her husband Lenny then meets a blonde goddess who he imagines
> is his soulmate.
> 10. 2019. With their relationship in trouble, a young American
> couple travel to a fabled Swedish festival where a seemingly
> pastoral paradise transforms into a sinister, dread-soaked
> nightmare as the locals reveal their terrifying agenda.
> ** Game 8, Round 10 - Challenge Round of the TTC Subway Stations
>
> * A. Geography, or "Museum"
>
> A1. In what city is the Van Gogh Museum located?
> A2. In what city is the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum located?
> * B. Entertainment, or "Wilson"
>
> B1. In what popular 1990s TV show was the next-door neighbor
> Wilson's face never shown in full? Instead it was always
> obscured by a tall fence between yards, or some other object.
> B2. In what popular 2004-12 TV show was the title character's
> best friend an oncologist named James Wilson?
> * C. Literature, or "Jane"
>
> We will give you three characters from the same Jane Austen
> novel. You give the title.
>
> C1. Jane Fairfax, Frank Churchill, George Knightley.
> C2. Col. Brandon, Elinor Dashwood, John Willoughby.
> * D. Sports, or "University"
>
> Name the men's basketball teams of these universities.
>
> D1. Villanova U.
> D2. Gonzaga U.
Zags
> * E. History, or "Kennedy"
>
> E1. On August 1943-08-02, a Japanese destroyer smashed into
> John F. Kennedy's PT Boat 109, slicing it in two and
> igniting its fuel tanks. In what *Pacific island group*
> did this incident occur?
> E2. Name the book of short biographies for which Kennedy won
> the Pulitzer Prize.
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Pete Gayde
Jun 4, 2020, 10:22:28 PM6/4/20
to
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2020-03-02,
> 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 MI5 and are used here by
> permission, but have been reformatted and may have been retyped
> and/or edited by me. For further information see my 2019-10-16
> companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition
> (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> ** Game 8, Round 9 - Entertainment - Worst Vacations in the Movies
>
> We'll give you the year of release and a brief plot description;
> you name the movie.
>
> 1. 2008. 17-year-old Kim is off to Paris where she is abducted
> by Albanian sex traffickers as soon as she steps out of Charles
> de Gaulle Airport. Luckily her dad's particular set of skills
> helps get her back.
Taken
> 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 MI5 and are used here by
> permission, but have been reformatted and may have been retyped
> and/or edited by me. For further information see my 2019-10-16
> companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition
> (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> ** Game 8, Round 9 - Entertainment - Worst Vacations in the Movies
>
> We'll give you the year of release and a brief plot description;
> you name the movie.
>
> 1. 2008. 17-year-old Kim is off to Paris where she is abducted
> by Albanian sex traffickers as soon as she steps out of Charles
> de Gaulle Airport. Luckily her dad's particular set of skills
> helps get her back.
>
> 9. 1972. Remade in 2007. New bride Lila is sunburned to a crisp
> and confined to her hotel room on her Miami Beach honeymoon.
> Her husband Lenny then meets a blonde goddess who he imagines
> is his soulmate.
>
> 10. 2019. With their relationship in trouble, a young American
> couple travel to a fabled Swedish festival where a seemingly
> pastoral paradise transforms into a sinister, dread-soaked
> nightmare as the locals reveal their terrifying agenda.
>
>
> ** Game 8, Round 10 - Challenge Round of the TTC Subway Stations
>
> * A. Geography, or "Museum"
>
> A1. In what city is the Van Gogh Museum located?
> A2. In what city is the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum located?
>
>
> * B. Entertainment, or "Wilson"
>
> B1. In what popular 1990s TV show was the next-door neighbor
> Wilson's face never shown in full? Instead it was always
> obscured by a tall fence between yards, or some other object.
>
> B2. In what popular 2004-12 TV show was the title character's
> best friend an oncologist named James Wilson?
>
>
> * C. Literature, or "Jane"
>
> We will give you three characters from the same Jane Austen
> novel. You give the title.
>
> C1. Jane Fairfax, Frank Churchill, George Knightley.
> C2. Col. Brandon, Elinor Dashwood, John Willoughby.
>
>
> * D. Sports, or "University"
>
> Name the men's basketball teams of these universities.
>
> D1. Villanova U.
Wildcats
> D2. Gonzaga U.
Zags
>
>
> D2. Gonzaga U.
Zags
>
>
> * E. History, or "Kennedy"
>
> E1. On August 1943-08-02, a Japanese destroyer smashed into
> John F. Kennedy's PT Boat 109, slicing it in two and
> igniting its fuel tanks. In what *Pacific island group*
> did this incident occur?
>
> E2. Name the book of short biographies for which Kennedy won
> the Pulitzer Prize.
Profiles in Courage
>
> E1. On August 1943-08-02, a Japanese destroyer smashed into
> John F. Kennedy's PT Boat 109, slicing it in two and
> igniting its fuel tanks. In what *Pacific island group*
> did this incident occur?
>
> E2. Name the book of short biographies for which Kennedy won
> the Pulitzer Prize.
>
>
> * F. Canadiana, or "High Park"
>
> F1. In May 2016, a pair of capybaras kept at the High Park
> Zoo escaped and evaded capture for weeks. Due to their
> outlaw exploits, they were given nicknames. Give *either*
> nickname.
>
> F2. In 2015, the High Park Zoo received international media
> coverage when a certain creature escaped and remained at
> large in the surrounding neighborhood for several weeks
> before returning to the zoo on its own. What kind of
> creature escaped?
>
>
> * G. For Fun, but for No Points (or Switches)
>
> G1. Which one of category titles A-F in this round is not in
> fact the name of a TTC subway station?
>
> G2. Which two of the five actual stations in the category titles
> are closest together geographically, and opened on the
> same day?
>
Dan Blum
Jun 4, 2020, 10:28:17 PM6/4/20
to
Mark Brader <m...@vex.net> wrote:
> ** Game 8, Round 9 - Entertainment - Worst Vacations in the Movies
> ** Game 8, Round 9 - Entertainment - Worst Vacations in the Movies
> 1. 2008. 17-year-old Kim is off to Paris where she is abducted
> by Albanian sex traffickers as soon as she steps out of Charles
> de Gaulle Airport. Luckily her dad's particular set of skills
> helps get her back.
Taken
> by Albanian sex traffickers as soon as she steps out of Charles
> de Gaulle Airport. Luckily her dad's particular set of skills
> helps get her back.
> 5. 1990. A construction worker pays to have the memories of a
> trip-of-a-lifetime implanted into his brain. Unfortunately,
> the process reveals that he is really a secret agent with a
> history of Martian missions.
> 6. 1987. When two friends are stuck in a dreary cottage with no
> heating, no food and no access to the finest wines available to
> humanity, one of them says, "We've gone on holiday by mistake!"
> Then they strangle, half-pluck, and cook a chicken.
> 8. 1972. (Remade in 2005 for TV and in 2006 for the big screen.)
> A New Year's Eve party is in full swing on board when an aging
> ship is capsized by a tsunami and the passengers experience
> "hell upside down".
> 9. 1972. Remade in 2007. New bride Lila is sunburned to a crisp
> and confined to her hotel room on her Miami Beach honeymoon.
> Her husband Lenny then meets a blonde goddess who he imagines
> is his soulmate.
10
> ** Game 8, Round 10 - Challenge Round of the TTC Subway Stations
> * A. Geography, or "Museum"
> A1. In what city is the Van Gogh Museum located?
Amsterdam
> * A. Geography, or "Museum"
> A1. In what city is the Van Gogh Museum located?
> A2. In what city is the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum located?
> * B. Entertainment, or "Wilson"
> B1. In what popular 1990s TV show was the next-door neighbor
> Wilson's face never shown in full? Instead it was always
> obscured by a tall fence between yards, or some other object.
> * C. Literature, or "Jane"
> C1. Jane Fairfax, Frank Churchill, George Knightley.
Emma; Mansfield Park
> C2. Col. Brandon, Elinor Dashwood, John Willoughby.
> * E. History, or "Kennedy"
> E2. Name the book of short biographies for which Kennedy won
> the Pulitzer Prize.
Profiles in Courage
> the Pulitzer Prize.
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Erland Sommarskog
Jun 5, 2020, 2:52:03 PM6/5/20
to
Mark Brader (m...@vex.net) writes:
> ** Game 8, Round 9 - Entertainment - Worst Vacations in the Movies
> ** Game 8, Round 9 - Entertainment - Worst Vacations in the Movies
> 10. 2019. With their relationship in trouble, a young American
> couple travel to a fabled Swedish festival where a seemingly
> pastoral paradise transforms into a sinister, dread-soaked
> nightmare as the locals reveal their terrifying agenda.
I've heard about that one. :-)
> couple travel to a fabled Swedish festival where a seemingly
> pastoral paradise transforms into a sinister, dread-soaked
> nightmare as the locals reveal their terrifying agenda.
Midsummer
> ** Game 8, Round 10 - Challenge Round of the TTC Subway Stations
>
> * A. Geography, or "Museum"
>
> A1. In what city is the Van Gogh Museum located?
> A2. In what city is the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum located?
Dan Tilque
Jun 6, 2020, 9:54:40 AM6/6/20
to
>
> 6. 1987. When two friends are stuck in a dreary cottage with no
> heating, no food and no access to the finest wines available to
> humanity, one of them says, "We've gone on holiday by mistake!"
> Then they strangle, half-pluck, and cook a chicken.
>
> 7. 1977. Cave-dwelling cannibals attack, the Carter family fights
> back, and as the trailer's peerless tag line puts it: "The
> lucky ones died first."
>
> 8. 1972. (Remade in 2005 for TV and in 2006 for the big screen.)
> A New Year's Eve party is in full swing on board when an aging
> ship is capsized by a tsunami and the passengers experience
> "hell upside down".
>
> 9. 1972. Remade in 2007. New bride Lila is sunburned to a crisp
> and confined to her hotel room on her Miami Beach honeymoon.
> Her husband Lenny then meets a blonde goddess who he imagines
> is his soulmate.
>
> 10. 2019. With their relationship in trouble, a young American
> couple travel to a fabled Swedish festival where a seemingly
> pastoral paradise transforms into a sinister, dread-soaked
> nightmare as the locals reveal their terrifying agenda.
>
>
> ** Game 8, Round 10 - Challenge Round of the TTC Subway Stations
>
> * A. Geography, or "Museum"
>
> A1. In what city is the Van Gogh Museum located?
> A2. In what city is the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum located?
>
>
> * B. Entertainment, or "Wilson"
>
> B1. In what popular 1990s TV show was the next-door neighbor
> Wilson's face never shown in full? Instead it was always
> obscured by a tall fence between yards, or some other object.
>
> B2. In what popular 2004-12 TV show was the title character's
> best friend an oncologist named James Wilson?
>
>
> * C. Literature, or "Jane"
>
> We will give you three characters from the same Jane Austen
> novel. You give the title.
>
> C1. Jane Fairfax, Frank Churchill, George Knightley.
> C2. Col. Brandon, Elinor Dashwood, John Willoughby.
>
>
> * D. Sports, or "University"
>
> Name the men's basketball teams of these universities.
>
> D1. Villanova U.
> D2. Gonzaga U.
(spent 9th grade at Gonzaga Preparatory School, whose team name is the
Bullpups)
>
>
> * E. History, or "Kennedy"
>
> E1. On August 1943-08-02, a Japanese destroyer smashed into
> John F. Kennedy's PT Boat 109, slicing it in two and
> igniting its fuel tanks. In what *Pacific island group*
> did this incident occur?
>
> E2. Name the book of short biographies for which Kennedy won
> the Pulitzer Prize.
>
>
> * F. Canadiana, or "High Park"
>
> F1. In May 2016, a pair of capybaras kept at the High Park
> Zoo escaped and evaded capture for weeks. Due to their
> outlaw exploits, they were given nicknames. Give *either*
> nickname.
>
> F2. In 2015, the High Park Zoo received international media
> coverage when a certain creature escaped and remained at
> large in the surrounding neighborhood for several weeks
> before returning to the zoo on its own. What kind of
> creature escaped?
>
>
> * G. For Fun, but for No Points (or Switches)
>
> G1. Which one of category titles A-F in this round is not in
> fact the name of a TTC subway station?
>
> G2. Which two of the five actual stations in the category titles
> are closest together geographically, and opened on the
> same day?
>
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Calvin
Jun 7, 2020, 6:20:32 AM6/7/20
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On Friday, June 5, 2020 at 9:59:17 AM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
> ** Game 8, Round 9 - Entertainment - Worst Vacations in the Movies
>
> We'll give you the year of release and a brief plot description;
> you name the movie.
>
> 1. 2008. 17-year-old Kim is off to Paris where she is abducted
> by Albanian sex traffickers as soon as she steps out of Charles
> de Gaulle Airport. Luckily her dad's particular set of skills
> helps get her back.
Taken
> ** Game 8, Round 9 - Entertainment - Worst Vacations in the Movies
>
> We'll give you the year of release and a brief plot description;
> you name the movie.
>
> 1. 2008. 17-year-old Kim is off to Paris where she is abducted
> by Albanian sex traffickers as soon as she steps out of Charles
> de Gaulle Airport. Luckily her dad's particular set of skills
> helps get her back.
> 2. 2003. A scuba-diving husband and wife bob to the ocean's
> surface, only to find that their boat has left them stranded,
> miles from the Australian coast, surrounded by sharks and
> jellyfish.
The boat captain was clearly negligent but it was likely murder / suicide - we shall never know for sure.
> 3. 2014. Remade as "Downhill" in 2020. An avalanche races toward
> an Alpine ski resort's restaurant terrace, where a picture-
> perfect family is having lunch. The husband sprints away,
> taking his phone and his gloves, but leaving behind his wife
> and children.
> 4. 2005. Two American backpackers are lured to Slovakia by the
> prospect of no-strings sex with the eager locals, so it's hard
> to be all that upset when instead they are maimed with power
> drills, chainsaws, and blowtorches.
>
> 5. 1990. A construction worker pays to have the memories of a
> trip-of-a-lifetime implanted into his brain. Unfortunately,
> the process reveals that he is really a secret agent with a
> history of Martian missions.
> 6. 1987. When two friends are stuck in a dreary cottage with no
> heating, no food and no access to the finest wines available to
> humanity, one of them says, "We've gone on holiday by mistake!"
> Then they strangle, half-pluck, and cook a chicken.
> 7. 1977. Cave-dwelling cannibals attack, the Carter family fights
> back, and as the trailer's peerless tag line puts it: "The
> lucky ones died first."
> 8. 1972. (Remade in 2005 for TV and in 2006 for the big screen.)
> A New Year's Eve party is in full swing on board when an aging
> ship is capsized by a tsunami and the passengers experience
> "hell upside down".
>
> 9. 1972. Remade in 2007. New bride Lila is sunburned to a crisp
> and confined to her hotel room on her Miami Beach honeymoon.
> Her husband Lenny then meets a blonde goddess who he imagines
> is his soulmate.
>
> 10. 2019. With their relationship in trouble, a young American
> couple travel to a fabled Swedish festival where a seemingly
> pastoral paradise transforms into a sinister, dread-soaked
> nightmare as the locals reveal their terrifying agenda.
> ** Game 8, Round 10 - Challenge Round of the TTC Subway Stations
>
> * A. Geography, or "Museum"
>
> A1. In what city is the Van Gogh Museum located?
> A2. In what city is the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum located?
> * B. Entertainment, or "Wilson"
>
> B1. In what popular 1990s TV show was the next-door neighbor
> Wilson's face never shown in full? Instead it was always
> obscured by a tall fence between yards, or some other object.
> B2. In what popular 2004-12 TV show was the title character's
> best friend an oncologist named James Wilson?
> * C. Literature, or "Jane"
>
> We will give you three characters from the same Jane Austen
> novel. You give the title.
>
> C1. Jane Fairfax, Frank Churchill, George Knightley.
> C2. Col. Brandon, Elinor Dashwood, John Willoughby.
> * D. Sports, or "University"
>
> Name the men's basketball teams of these universities.
>
> D1. Villanova U.
> D2. Gonzaga U.
>
>
> * E. History, or "Kennedy"
>
> E1. On August 1943-08-02, a Japanese destroyer smashed into
> John F. Kennedy's PT Boat 109, slicing it in two and
> igniting its fuel tanks. In what *Pacific island group*
> did this incident occur?
> E2. Name the book of short biographies for which Kennedy won
> the Pulitzer Prize.
> * F. Canadiana, or "High Park"
>
> F1. In May 2016, a pair of capybaras kept at the High Park
> Zoo escaped and evaded capture for weeks. Due to their
> outlaw exploits, they were given nicknames. Give *either*
> nickname.
> F2. In 2015, the High Park Zoo received international media
> coverage when a certain creature escaped and remained at
> large in the surrounding neighborhood for several weeks
> before returning to the zoo on its own. What kind of
> creature escaped?
>
>
> * G. For Fun, but for No Points (or Switches)
>
> G1. Which one of category titles A-F in this round is not in
> fact the name of a TTC subway station?
>
> G2. Which two of the five actual stations in the category titles
> are closest together geographically, and opened on the
> same day?
cheers,
calvin
Mark Brader
Jun 7, 2020, 10:15:19 PM6/7/20
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Mark Brader:
and JOSHUA KREITZER is the winner by a goodish margin. Hearty
congratulations, sir!
> ** Game 8, Round 9 - Entertainment - Worst Vacations in the Movies
> We'll give you the year of release and a brief plot description;
> you name the movie.
> 1. 2008. 17-year-old Kim is off to Paris where she is abducted
> by Albanian sex traffickers as soon as she steps out of Charles
> de Gaulle Airport. Luckily her dad's particular set of skills
> helps get her back.
"Taken". 4 for Joshua, Pete, Dan Blum, and Calvin.
> 2. 2003. A scuba-diving husband and wife bob to the ocean's
> surface, only to find that their boat has left them stranded,
> miles from the Australian coast, surrounded by sharks and
> jellyfish.
"Open Water". Sorry, no points for "Blue Waters".
> 3. 2014. Remade as "Downhill" in 2020. An avalanche races toward
> an Alpine ski resort's restaurant terrace, where a picture-
> perfect family is having lunch. The husband sprints away,
> taking his phone and his gloves, but leaving behind his wife
> and children.
"Force Majeure".
> 4. 2005. Two American backpackers are lured to Slovakia by the
> prospect of no-strings sex with the eager locals, so it's hard
> to be all that upset when instead they are maimed with power
> drills, chainsaws, and blowtorches.
"Hostel". 4 for Joshua.
> 5. 1990. A construction worker pays to have the memories of a
> trip-of-a-lifetime implanted into his brain. Unfortunately,
> the process reveals that he is really a secret agent with a
> history of Martian missions.
"Total Recall". 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Calvin.
> 6. 1987. When two friends are stuck in a dreary cottage with no
> heating, no food and no access to the finest wines available to
> humanity, one of them says, "We've gone on holiday by mistake!"
> Then they strangle, half-pluck, and cook a chicken.
"Withnail and I". 4 for Dan Blum and Calvin.
> 7. 1977. Cave-dwelling cannibals attack, the Carter family fights
> back, and as the trailer's peerless tag line puts it: "The
> lucky ones died first."
"The Hills Have Eyes". 4 for Joshua.
> 8. 1972. (Remade in 2005 for TV and in 2006 for the big screen.)
> A New Year's Eve party is in full swing on board when an aging
> ship is capsized by a tsunami and the passengers experience
> "hell upside down".
"The Poseidon Adventure". 4 for Joshua, Pete, Dan Blum,
and Dan Tilque.
> 9. 1972. Remade in 2007. New bride Lila is sunburned to a crisp
> and confined to her hotel room on her Miami Beach honeymoon.
> Her husband Lenny then meets a blonde goddess who he imagines
> is his soulmate.
"The Heartbreak Kid". 4 for Joshua.
> 10. 2019. With their relationship in trouble, a young American
> couple travel to a fabled Swedish festival where a seemingly
> pastoral paradise transforms into a sinister, dread-soaked
> nightmare as the locals reveal their terrifying agenda.
"Midsommar". 4 for Joshua and Erland.
> ** Game 8, Round 10 - Challenge Round of the TTC Subway Stations
In the original game the audio round was the easiest in the game, the
current-events round was next-easiest, and this one was third-easiest.
> * A. Geography, or "Museum"
> A1. In what city is the Van Gogh Museum located?
Amsterdam. 4 for Joshua, Pete, Dan Blum, and Erland. 3 for Calvin.
> A2. In what city is the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum located?
Jerusalem. 4 for Joshua and Pete. Sorry, no points for "Israel"!
> * B. Entertainment, or "Wilson"
> B1. In what popular 1990s TV show was the next-door neighbor
> Wilson's face never shown in full? Instead it was always
> obscured by a tall fence between yards, or some other object.
"Home Improvement". 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Calvin.
For a long time another thing not fully revealed was Wilson's name.
It turned out to be Wilson Wilson.
> B2. In what popular 2004-12 TV show was the title character's
> best friend an oncologist named James Wilson?
"House, MD". 4 for Joshua and Pete.
> * C. Literature, or "Jane"
> We will give you three characters from the same Jane Austen
> novel. You give the title.
> C1. Jane Fairfax, Frank Churchill, George Knightley.
"Emma". 4 for Calvin. 3 for Joshua and Dan Blum.
> C2. Col. Brandon, Elinor Dashwood, John Willoughby.
"Sense and Sensibility". 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Calvin.
> * D. Sports, or "University"
> Name the men's basketball teams of these universities.
> D1. Villanova U.
Wildcats. 4 for Joshua and Pete.
> D2. Gonzaga U.
Bulldogs. 4 for Dan Tilque.
Sorry, "Zags" is a nickname.
> * E. History, or "Kennedy"
> E1. On August 1943-08-02, a Japanese destroyer smashed into
> John F. Kennedy's PT Boat 109, slicing it in two and
> igniting its fuel tanks. In what *Pacific island group*
> did this incident occur?
Solomon Is. 4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque.
> E2. Name the book of short biographies for which Kennedy won
> the Pulitzer Prize.
"Profiles in Courage". 4 for Joshua, Pete, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque.
3 for Calvin.
> * F. Canadiana, or "High Park"
> F1. In May 2016, a pair of capybaras kept at the High Park
> Zoo escaped and evaded capture for weeks. Due to their
> outlaw exploits, they were given nicknames. Give *either*
> nickname.
Bonnie, Clyde. 4 for Dan Tilque (the hard way) and Calvin.
> F2. In 2015, the High Park Zoo received international media
> coverage when a certain creature escaped and remained at
> large in the surrounding neighborhood for several weeks
> before returning to the zoo on its own. What kind of
> creature escaped?
Peacock.
> * G. For Fun, but for No Points (or Switches)
I was hoping Stephen would pop up and get these.
> G1. Which one of category titles A-F in this round is not in
> fact the name of a TTC subway station?
University. It's the name of part of a line, or part of the name
of the line.
> G2. Which two of the five actual stations in the category titles
> are closest together geographically, and opened on the
> same day?
Jane and High Park (about 1 mile apart, opened 1968-05-11 with the
extension from Keele to Islington). As to the others, Museum station
opened in 1963, Wilson in 1978, and Kennedy in 1980.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 8 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST
TOPICS-> Geo Lit Mis His Sci Can Ent Cha SIX
Joshua Kreitzer 24 28 32 22 28 4 28 35 175
Pete Gayde 31 15 28 28 7 0 8 20 130
Dan Blum 12 20 24 14 22 0 16 19 115
Dan Tilque 24 4 12 20 28 0 8 20 112
"Calvin" 11 32 8 14 -- -- 12 22 99
Erland Sommarskog 22 0 8 8 8 0 4 4 54
Bruce Bowler -- -- -- -- 24 4 -- -- 28
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "C and C++ are two different languages.
m...@vex.net That's UK policy..." -- Clive Feather
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2020-03-02,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2019-10-16 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
Game 8 is over, the last "new" game before we sink into reruns,
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
and JOSHUA KREITZER is the winner by a goodish margin. Hearty
congratulations, sir!
> ** Game 8, Round 9 - Entertainment - Worst Vacations in the Movies
> We'll give you the year of release and a brief plot description;
> you name the movie.
> 1. 2008. 17-year-old Kim is off to Paris where she is abducted
> by Albanian sex traffickers as soon as she steps out of Charles
> de Gaulle Airport. Luckily her dad's particular set of skills
> helps get her back.
> 2. 2003. A scuba-diving husband and wife bob to the ocean's
> surface, only to find that their boat has left them stranded,
> miles from the Australian coast, surrounded by sharks and
> jellyfish.
> 3. 2014. Remade as "Downhill" in 2020. An avalanche races toward
> an Alpine ski resort's restaurant terrace, where a picture-
> perfect family is having lunch. The husband sprints away,
> taking his phone and his gloves, but leaving behind his wife
> and children.
> 4. 2005. Two American backpackers are lured to Slovakia by the
> prospect of no-strings sex with the eager locals, so it's hard
> to be all that upset when instead they are maimed with power
> drills, chainsaws, and blowtorches.
> 5. 1990. A construction worker pays to have the memories of a
> trip-of-a-lifetime implanted into his brain. Unfortunately,
> the process reveals that he is really a secret agent with a
> history of Martian missions.
> 6. 1987. When two friends are stuck in a dreary cottage with no
> heating, no food and no access to the finest wines available to
> humanity, one of them says, "We've gone on holiday by mistake!"
> Then they strangle, half-pluck, and cook a chicken.
> 7. 1977. Cave-dwelling cannibals attack, the Carter family fights
> back, and as the trailer's peerless tag line puts it: "The
> lucky ones died first."
> 8. 1972. (Remade in 2005 for TV and in 2006 for the big screen.)
> A New Year's Eve party is in full swing on board when an aging
> ship is capsized by a tsunami and the passengers experience
> "hell upside down".
and Dan Tilque.
> 9. 1972. Remade in 2007. New bride Lila is sunburned to a crisp
> and confined to her hotel room on her Miami Beach honeymoon.
> Her husband Lenny then meets a blonde goddess who he imagines
> is his soulmate.
> 10. 2019. With their relationship in trouble, a young American
> couple travel to a fabled Swedish festival where a seemingly
> pastoral paradise transforms into a sinister, dread-soaked
> nightmare as the locals reveal their terrifying agenda.
> ** Game 8, Round 10 - Challenge Round of the TTC Subway Stations
current-events round was next-easiest, and this one was third-easiest.
> * A. Geography, or "Museum"
> A1. In what city is the Van Gogh Museum located?
> A2. In what city is the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum located?
> * B. Entertainment, or "Wilson"
> B1. In what popular 1990s TV show was the next-door neighbor
> Wilson's face never shown in full? Instead it was always
> obscured by a tall fence between yards, or some other object.
For a long time another thing not fully revealed was Wilson's name.
It turned out to be Wilson Wilson.
> B2. In what popular 2004-12 TV show was the title character's
> best friend an oncologist named James Wilson?
> * C. Literature, or "Jane"
> We will give you three characters from the same Jane Austen
> novel. You give the title.
> C1. Jane Fairfax, Frank Churchill, George Knightley.
> C2. Col. Brandon, Elinor Dashwood, John Willoughby.
> * D. Sports, or "University"
> Name the men's basketball teams of these universities.
> D1. Villanova U.
> D2. Gonzaga U.
Bulldogs. 4 for Dan Tilque.
Sorry, "Zags" is a nickname.
> * E. History, or "Kennedy"
> E1. On August 1943-08-02, a Japanese destroyer smashed into
> John F. Kennedy's PT Boat 109, slicing it in two and
> igniting its fuel tanks. In what *Pacific island group*
> did this incident occur?
> E2. Name the book of short biographies for which Kennedy won
> the Pulitzer Prize.
3 for Calvin.
> * F. Canadiana, or "High Park"
> F1. In May 2016, a pair of capybaras kept at the High Park
> Zoo escaped and evaded capture for weeks. Due to their
> outlaw exploits, they were given nicknames. Give *either*
> nickname.
> F2. In 2015, the High Park Zoo received international media
> coverage when a certain creature escaped and remained at
> large in the surrounding neighborhood for several weeks
> before returning to the zoo on its own. What kind of
> creature escaped?
> * G. For Fun, but for No Points (or Switches)
> G1. Which one of category titles A-F in this round is not in
> fact the name of a TTC subway station?
of the line.
> G2. Which two of the five actual stations in the category titles
> are closest together geographically, and opened on the
> same day?
extension from Keele to Islington). As to the others, Museum station
opened in 1963, Wilson in 1978, and Kennedy in 1980.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 8 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST
TOPICS-> Geo Lit Mis His Sci Can Ent Cha SIX
Joshua Kreitzer 24 28 32 22 28 4 28 35 175
Pete Gayde 31 15 28 28 7 0 8 20 130
Dan Blum 12 20 24 14 22 0 16 19 115
Dan Tilque 24 4 12 20 28 0 8 20 112
"Calvin" 11 32 8 14 -- -- 12 22 99
Erland Sommarskog 22 0 8 8 8 0 4 4 54
Bruce Bowler -- -- -- -- 24 4 -- -- 28
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "C and C++ are two different languages.
m...@vex.net That's UK policy..." -- Clive Feather
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