Mark Brader:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-11-24,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the
> Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 10, Round 4 - Art - Favorite Paintings
> You want Art instead of all that Literature? Well here it is,
> a handout round of extremely famous paintings. Please see the
> 3-page PDF at:
>
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/10-4/art.pdf
> We'll name the artist and you give us the letter that corresponds
> to his painting.
Extremely famous is right. In the original game, this was the
easiest round of the entire season.
> 1. Jackson Pollock.
C ("No. 5, 1948"). I generously scored "3" as almost correct.
4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Dan Tilque, Joshua, Calvin, Bruce, and Rob.
3 for Peter.
> 2. Henri Rousseau.
L ("The Sleeping Gypsy"). 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Joshua, Calvin,
and Bruce. 2 for Rob.
> 3. Paul Cézanne.
J ("The Card Players"). 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Bruce, and Rob.
2 for Joshua.
> 4. Salvador Dalí.
B ("The Persistence of Memory"). 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Björn,
Erland, Dan Tilque, Joshua, Calvin, Bruce, and Rob.
> 5. Diego Velázquez.
A ("Las Meninas"). 4 for Marc, Erland, Joshua, and Calvin.
3 for Rob. 2 for Dan Blum.
> 6. Sandro Botticelli.
K ("Primavera"). 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Björn, Dan Tilque, Joshua,
Calvin, Bruce, and Rob.
> 7. Pablo Picasso.
M ("Guernica"). 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Björn, Erland, Dan Tilque,
Joshua, Calvin, Bruce, and Rob.
> 8. Georges Seurat.
F ("A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte").
4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Joshua, Calvin, Bruce, and Rob.
> 9. Rembrandt van Rijn.
D ("The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp"). 4 for Dan Blum,
Marc, Björn, Erland, Dan Tilque, Joshua, Calvin, Bruce, and Rob.
> 10. Johannes Vermeer.
G ("The Art of Painting"). 4 for Marc, Björn, Erland, Joshua,
and Calvin. 2 for Dan Blum.
> So there were 3 decoys. Decode the rot13 if you want to try them
> for fun, but for no points.
> 11. Katsushika Hokusai.
I ("The Great Wave off Kanagara"). Marc, Joshua, Calvin, and Bruce
got this.
> 12. Vincent van Gogh.
E ("The Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night").
Erland, Calvin, and Bruce got this.
> 13. Claude Monet.
H ("Water Lilies"). Marc, Calvin, and Bruce got this.
> * Game 10, Round 6 - Science - The Amazing Space Race
> Not counting debris, there are approximately 3,000 artificial
> satellites in Earth orbit. But back in the day, a launch was
> a big deal. This round is on rocketry and the history of space
> exploration.
> 1. What was the name of Canada's first artificial satellite,
> launched in 1962? It was the first satellite constructed in
> a country other than the US or USSR, although it was launched
> by a US rocket.
Alouette I. The number was not required.
> 2. What was the designation of the multi-stage rocket that launched
> the Apollo astronauts to the Moon?
Saturn V. 4 for Dan Blum, Peter, Dan Tilque, Joshua, Bruce, and Rob.
"Saturn" was not specific enough. In fact the Saturn V consisted
of a Saturn I-C as the first stage, a Saturn II as the second, and a
Saturn IV-B as the third. (So we see that, at NASA, 1 + 2 + 4 = 5.)
> 3. In September, the Mangalyaan probe entered orbit around Mars --
> making it the fourth space program to reach the red planet
> after the US, Russia, and European Space Agency. Which country
> launched it?
India. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Peter, Erland, Dan Tilque, Calvin,
Bruce, and Rob.
> 4. These rockets were named for characters in Greek myth. Used in
> NASA's early space program and, more ominously, they launched
> intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles for three decades.
> Name the rocket family.
Titan. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Rob.
> 5. Name the family of rockets, also named from Greek myth, that
> for 35 years have been the chief payload-carrier for the European
> Space Agency.
Ariane (French for Ariadne, which I scored as almost correct).
4 for Erland. 3 for Dan Blum, Peter, Dan Tilque, and Bruce.
> 6. Named for the Russian word for union, these rockets are
> currently the only transportation available for astronauts at
> the International Space Station. Name the rocket family.
Soyuz. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Peter, Erland, Joshua, Jason, Bruce,
and Rob.
> 7. Among his highly-publicized enterprises, this South-African-born
> Canadian/American magnate founded SpaceX, the first private
> company to launch and dock a vehicle at the International
> Space Station. Name him.
Elon Musk. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Björn, Dan Tilque, and Bruce.
> 8. In October 2004, SpaceShipOne became the first privately-funded
> vessel to launch a human into suborbital space. Name the
> software-giant co-founder who funded that endeavor.
Paul Allen (Microsoft). 4 for Erland, Dan Tilque, Bruce, and Rob.
2 for Dan Blum.
> 9. Name the only other country, besides the US and Russia/USSR,
> that has launched humans into space.
China. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Björn, Peter, Erland, Dan Tilque,
Joshua, Calvin, Bruce, and Rob.
> 10. Which country is developing the infamous Taepodong ballistic
> missiles?
North Korea. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Björn, Peter, Erland, Dan Tilque,
Joshua, Jason, Bruce, and Rob.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Geo Can Art Sci
Bruce Bowler 26 16 32 31 105
Dan Blum 27 7 36 33 103
Joshua Kreitzer 26 19 38 20 103
Rob Parker 19 9 33 28 89
Marc Dashevsky 24 8 36 20 88
Dan Tilque 20 12 20 27 79
Erland Sommarskog 12 12 20 24 68
"Calvin" -- -- 40 8 48
Björn Lundin 8 4 20 12 44
Peter Smyth -- -- 3 23 26
Jason Kreitzer 8 0 0 8 16
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | ... "reasonable system" is of course defined as
m...@vex.net | "any one *I've* ever used..." -- Steve Summit