QFTCIBSI Game 5, Rounds 9-10: Best Picture plots, Nobelists

Mark Brader

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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-10-26,
and should be interpreted accordingly.

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Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
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the correct answers in about 3 days.

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and are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may
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* Game 5, Round 9 - Entertainment - Best Picture Winners by Plot Summary

The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) provides plot summaries of
all films. Some of those films have won Best Picture at the
Academy Awards. We give you a plot summary of a film that won the
Best Picture Oscar, and the decade when the movie was released;
you name the movie.

1. 1950s: An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an
established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater
friends.

2. 1930s: A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with
his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.

3. 1930s: A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a
woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.

4. 1980s: Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her
daughter's family problems.

5. 1950s: A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have
given up on the idea of love, meet at a dance and fall in love.

6. 2010s: A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival
of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.

7. 1980s: The accidental death of the older son of an affluent
family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother,
the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.

8. 1950s: Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich
playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic
friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.

9. 1990s: A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life
crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.

10. 1940s: Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to
discover that they and their families have been irreparably
changed.

* Game 5, Round 10 - A Nobel-Prizewinning Challenge Round

A. Science - The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

A1. If you visit the city of Ryazan in Russia, you can visit
a museum where you will find a stuffed dog that once belonged
to the 1904 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine.
Name the man.

A2. In 2007, one of the 1962 Nobel Prize winners in Physiology
or Medicine became the first person to receive his own
personal genome map. Name the man.

B. Entertainment - The Nobel Prize in Physics

B1. The only Nobel laureate to have ever been born in Florida,
George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006.
In 2009, he made a cameo appearance -- as himself -- in
episode 17 of season 2 of which sitcom?

B2. The winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics was German
physicist Max Born. Max Born is also famous for being
the maternal grandfather of which British-born Australian
woman who spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in the
early 1980s?

C. Miscellaneous - The Nobel Prize in Chemistry

C1. The only man to have won two individual Nobel Prizes was
a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954
and the Peace Prize in 1962. Name the man.

C2. The 1911 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry died in 1934.
In 1935, that laureate's daughter also won a Nobel Prize
in Chemistry. What last name did they share?

D. The Nobel Prize in Literature

D1. The only man to have won both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize
in Literature was a man who won the Nobel in 1925. Name him.

D2. Due to injuries suffered in two plane crashes in Africa,
which man was unable to personally accept his 1954 Nobel
Prize in Literature?

E. Geographical History - The Nobel Peace Prize

E1. In December 1990, a man accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for
"his leading role in the peace process which today
characterizes important parts of the international
community". In December 1991, his country ceased to exist.
Name the man.

E2. The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner won for "her non-violent
struggle for democracy and human rights" in a country
that changed its name in 1989. Give either the old or the
current name of the country.

F. Sports - The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in
Memory of Alfred Nobel

F1. The American university with the greatest number of
Nobel-prizewinning economists was a founding member of
the Big Ten Conference, but left the conference in 1946.
Name the university. Hint: its intercollegiate sports
teams are known as the Maroons.

F2. This year, Angus Deaton won the economics prize. He is
a professor at a university that was part of the very
first intercollegiate football game in 1869, and whose
intercollegiate sporting teams are known as the Tigers.
Name the university.

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> * Game 5, Round 9 - Entertainment - Best Picture Winners by Plot
> Summary
>

> We give you a plot summary of a film that won the
> Best Picture Oscar, and the decade when the movie was released;
> you name the movie.
>
> 1. 1950s: An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an
> established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater
> friends.

"All About Eve"

> 2. 1930s: A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with
> his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.

"Cimarron"

> 3. 1930s: A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a
> woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.

"You Can't Take It With You"

> 4. 1980s: Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her
> daughter's family problems.

"Terms of Endearment"

> 5. 1950s: A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have
> given up on the idea of love, meet at a dance and fall in love.

"Marty"

> 6. 2010s: A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival
> of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.

"The Artist"

> 7. 1980s: The accidental death of the older son of an affluent
> family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother,
> the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.

"Ordinary People"

> 8. 1950s: Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich
> playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic
> friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.

"Gigi"

> 9. 1990s: A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life
> crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.

"American Beauty"

> 10. 1940s: Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to
> discover that they and their families have been irreparably
> changed.

"The Best Years of Our Lives"

> * Game 5, Round 10 - A Nobel-Prizewinning Challenge Round
>
> A. Science - The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
>
> A1. If you visit the city of Ryazan in Russia, you can visit
> a museum where you will find a stuffed dog that once belonged
> to the 1904 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine.
> Name the man.

Pavlov

> B. Entertainment - The Nobel Prize in Physics
>
> B1. The only Nobel laureate to have ever been born in Florida,
> George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006.
> In 2009, he made a cameo appearance -- as himself -- in
> episode 17 of season 2 of which sitcom?

"The Big Bang Theory"

> B2. The winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics was German
> physicist Max Born. Max Born is also famous for being
> the maternal grandfather of which British-born Australian
> woman who spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in the
> early 1980s?

Olivia Newton-John

> C. Miscellaneous - The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
>
> C1. The only man to have won two individual Nobel Prizes was
> a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954
> and the Peace Prize in 1962. Name the man.

Linus Pauling

> C2. The 1911 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry died in 1934.
> In 1935, that laureate's daughter also won a Nobel Prize
> in Chemistry. What last name did they share?

Curie

> D. The Nobel Prize in Literature
>
> D1. The only man to have won both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize
> in Literature was a man who won the Nobel in 1925. Name him.

George Bernard Shaw

> D2. Due to injuries suffered in two plane crashes in Africa,
> which man was unable to personally accept his 1954 Nobel
> Prize in Literature?

Ernest Hemingway

> E. Geographical History - The Nobel Peace Prize
>
> E1. In December 1990, a man accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for
> "his leading role in the peace process which today
> characterizes important parts of the international
> community". In December 1991, his country ceased to exist.
> Name the man.

Mikhail Gorbachev

> E2. The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner won for "her non-violent
> struggle for democracy and human rights" in a country
> that changed its name in 1989. Give either the old or the
> current name of the country.

Burma; Myanmar

> F. Sports - The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in
> Memory of Alfred Nobel
>
> F1. The American university with the greatest number of
> Nobel-prizewinning economists was a founding member of
> the Big Ten Conference, but left the conference in 1946.
> Name the university. Hint: its intercollegiate sports
> teams are known as the Maroons.

University of Chicago

> F2. This year, Angus Deaton won the economics prize. He is
> a professor at a university that was part of the very
> first intercollegiate football game in 1869, and whose
> intercollegiate sporting teams are known as the Tigers.
> Name the university.

Princeton University

--
Joshua Kreitzer
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Dan Blum

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Mark Brader <m...@vex.net> wrote:

> * Game 5, Round 9 - Entertainment - Best Picture Winners by Plot Summary

> 1. 1950s: An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an
> established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater
> friends.

All About Eve

> 2. 1930s: A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with
> his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

> 3. 1930s: A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a
> woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.

The Philadelphia Story

> 4. 1980s: Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her
> daughter's family problems.

Terms of Endearment

> 6. 2010s: A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival
> of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.

The Artist

> 7. 1980s: The accidental death of the older son of an affluent
> family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother,
> the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.

Ordinary People

> 8. 1950s: Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich
> playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic
> friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.

Gigi

> 9. 1990s: A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life
> crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.

American Beauty

> * Game 5, Round 10 - A Nobel-Prizewinning Challenge Round

> A. Science - The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

> A1. If you visit the city of Ryazan in Russia, you can visit
> a museum where you will find a stuffed dog that once belonged
> to the 1904 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine.
> Name the man.

Pavlov

> A2. In 2007, one of the 1962 Nobel Prize winners in Physiology
> or Medicine became the first person to receive his own
> personal genome map. Name the man.

Crick; Watson

> B. Entertainment - The Nobel Prize in Physics

> B1. The only Nobel laureate to have ever been born in Florida,
> George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006.
> In 2009, he made a cameo appearance -- as himself -- in
> episode 17 of season 2 of which sitcom?

The Big Bang Theory

> C. Miscellaneous - The Nobel Prize in Chemistry

> C1. The only man to have won two individual Nobel Prizes was
> a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954
> and the Peace Prize in 1962. Name the man.

Linus Pauling

> C2. The 1911 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry died in 1934.
> In 1935, that laureate's daughter also won a Nobel Prize
> in Chemistry. What last name did they share?

Curie

> E. Geographical History - The Nobel Peace Prize

> E1. In December 1990, a man accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for
> "his leading role in the peace process which today
> characterizes important parts of the international
> community". In December 1991, his country ceased to exist.
> Name the man.

Havel; Gorbachev

> E2. The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner won for "her non-violent
> struggle for democracy and human rights" in a country
> that changed its name in 1989. Give either the old or the
> current name of the country.

Burma

> F. Sports - The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in
> Memory of Alfred Nobel

> F1. The American university with the greatest number of
> Nobel-prizewinning economists was a founding member of
> the Big Ten Conference, but left the conference in 1946.
> Name the university. Hint: its intercollegiate sports
> teams are known as the Maroons.

University of Chicago

> F2. This year, Angus Deaton won the economics prize. He is
> a professor at a university that was part of the very
> first intercollegiate football game in 1869, and whose
> intercollegiate sporting teams are known as the Tigers.
> Name the university.

Princeton

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Bringing Up Baby

>
> 4. 1980s: Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her
> daughter's family problems.

Terms of Endearment

>
> 5. 1950s: A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have
> given up on the idea of love, meet at a dance and fall in love.

Marty

>
> 6. 2010s: A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival
> of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.
>
> 7. 1980s: The accidental death of the older son of an affluent
> family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother,
> the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.

Ordinary People

>
> 8. 1950s: Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich
> playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic
> friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.

Gigi

>
> 9. 1990s: A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life
> crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
>
> 10. 1940s: Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to
> discover that they and their families have been irreparably
> changed.

The Best Years of Our Lives

>
>

> * Game 5, Round 10 - A Nobel-Prizewinning Challenge Round
>
> A. Science - The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
>
> A1. If you visit the city of Ryazan in Russia, you can visit
> a museum where you will find a stuffed dog that once belonged
> to the 1904 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine.
> Name the man.

Mendeleyev

>
> A2. In 2007, one of the 1962 Nobel Prize winners in Physiology
> or Medicine became the first person to receive his own
> personal genome map. Name the man.
>
> B. Entertainment - The Nobel Prize in Physics
>
> B1. The only Nobel laureate to have ever been born in Florida,
> George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006.
> In 2009, he made a cameo appearance -- as himself -- in
> episode 17 of season 2 of which sitcom?
>
> B2. The winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics was German
> physicist Max Born. Max Born is also famous for being
> the maternal grandfather of which British-born Australian
> woman who spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in the
> early 1980s?
>
> C. Miscellaneous - The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
>
> C1. The only man to have won two individual Nobel Prizes was
> a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954
> and the Peace Prize in 1962. Name the man.
>
> C2. The 1911 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry died in 1934.
> In 1935, that laureate's daughter also won a Nobel Prize
> in Chemistry. What last name did they share?

Curie

>
> D. The Nobel Prize in Literature
>
> D1. The only man to have won both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize
> in Literature was a man who won the Nobel in 1925. Name him.
>
> D2. Due to injuries suffered in two plane crashes in Africa,
> which man was unable to personally accept his 1954 Nobel
> Prize in Literature?
>
> E. Geographical History - The Nobel Peace Prize
>
> E1. In December 1990, a man accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for
> "his leading role in the peace process which today
> characterizes important parts of the international
> community". In December 1991, his country ceased to exist.
> Name the man.

Gorbachev

>
> E2. The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner won for "her non-violent
> struggle for democracy and human rights" in a country
> that changed its name in 1989. Give either the old or the
> current name of the country.

Burma

>
> F. Sports - The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in
> Memory of Alfred Nobel
>
> F1. The American university with the greatest number of
> Nobel-prizewinning economists was a founding member of
> the Big Ten Conference, but left the conference in 1946.
> Name the university. Hint: its intercollegiate sports
> teams are known as the Maroons.

University of Chicago

>
> F2. This year, Angus Deaton won the economics prize. He is
> a professor at a university that was part of the very
> first intercollegiate football game in 1869, and whose
> intercollegiate sporting teams are known as the Tigers.
> Name the university.

Princeton

>

Pete Gayde

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On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 11:32:26 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-10-26,
> 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 the Bloor St. Irregulars,
> 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 2015-08-18 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 5, Round 9 - Entertainment - Best Picture Winners by Plot Summary
>
> The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) provides plot summaries of
> all films. Some of those films have won Best Picture at the
> Academy Awards. We give you a plot summary of a film that won the
> Best Picture Oscar, and the decade when the movie was released;
> you name the movie.
>
> 1. 1950s: An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an
> established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater
> friends.

"All About Eve"

> 2. 1930s: A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with
> his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.
>
> 3. 1930s: A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a
> woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.
>
> 4. 1980s: Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her
> daughter's family problems.
>
> 5. 1950s: A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have
> given up on the idea of love, meet at a dance and fall in love.

"Marty"

> 6. 2010s: A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival
> of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.

"The Artist"

> 7. 1980s: The accidental death of the older son of an affluent
> family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother,
> the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.

"Ordinary People"

> 8. 1950s: Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich
> playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic
> friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.
>
> 9. 1990s: A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life
> crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.

"American Beauty"

> 10. 1940s: Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to
> discover that they and their families have been irreparably
> changed.

"The Best Years of Our Lives"
>

> * Game 5, Round 10 - A Nobel-Prizewinning Challenge Round
>
> A. Science - The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
>
> A1. If you visit the city of Ryazan in Russia, you can visit
> a museum where you will find a stuffed dog that once belonged
> to the 1904 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine.
> Name the man.

Pavlov?

> A2. In 2007, one of the 1962 Nobel Prize winners in Physiology
> or Medicine became the first person to receive his own
> personal genome map. Name the man.
>
> B. Entertainment - The Nobel Prize in Physics
>
> B1. The only Nobel laureate to have ever been born in Florida,
> George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006.
> In 2009, he made a cameo appearance -- as himself -- in
> episode 17 of season 2 of which sitcom?

"The Big Bang Theory"

> B2. The winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics was German
> physicist Max Born. Max Born is also famous for being
> the maternal grandfather of which British-born Australian
> woman who spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in the
> early 1980s?

Olivia Newton-John

> C. Miscellaneous - The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
>
> C1. The only man to have won two individual Nobel Prizes was
> a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954
> and the Peace Prize in 1962. Name the man.
>
> C2. The 1911 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry died in 1934.
> In 1935, that laureate's daughter also won a Nobel Prize
> in Chemistry. What last name did they share?

Curie

> D. The Nobel Prize in Literature
>
> D1. The only man to have won both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize
> in Literature was a man who won the Nobel in 1925. Name him.
>
> D2. Due to injuries suffered in two plane crashes in Africa,
> which man was unable to personally accept his 1954 Nobel
> Prize in Literature?
>
> E. Geographical History - The Nobel Peace Prize
>
> E1. In December 1990, a man accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for
> "his leading role in the peace process which today
> characterizes important parts of the international
> community". In December 1991, his country ceased to exist.
> Name the man.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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Ordinary People

> 8. 1950s: Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich
> playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic
> friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.
>
> 9. 1990s: A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life
> crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
>
> 10. 1940s: Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to
> discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.

The Best Years Of Their Lives

> * Game 5, Round 10 - A Nobel-Prizewinning Challenge Round
>
> A. Science - The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
>
> A1. If you visit the city of Ryazan in Russia, you can visit
> a museum where you will find a stuffed dog that once belonged to
> the 1904 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine. Name the
> man.

Pavlov

> A2. In 2007, one of the 1962 Nobel Prize winners in Physiology
> or Medicine became the first person to receive his own personal
> genome map. Name the man.
>
> B. Entertainment - The Nobel Prize in Physics
>
> B1. The only Nobel laureate to have ever been born in Florida,
> George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006.
> In 2009, he made a cameo appearance -- as himself -- in episode
> 17 of season 2 of which sitcom?

The Big Bang Theory

> B2. The winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics was German
> physicist Max Born. Max Born is also famous for being the
> maternal grandfather of which British-born Australian woman who
> spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in the early 1980s?

Olivia Newton John

> C. Miscellaneous - The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
>
> C1. The only man to have won two individual Nobel Prizes was
> a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 and the
> Peace Prize in 1962. Name the man.

Linus Pauling

> C2. The 1911 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry died in 1934.
> In 1935, that laureate's daughter also won a Nobel Prize in
> Chemistry. What last name did they share?

Marie Curie

> D. The Nobel Prize in Literature
>
> D1. The only man to have won both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize
> in Literature was a man who won the Nobel in 1925. Name him.

Shaw?

> D2. Due to injuries suffered in two plane crashes in Africa,
> which man was unable to personally accept his 1954 Nobel Prize in
> Literature?
>
> E. Geographical History - The Nobel Peace Prize
>
> E1. In December 1990, a man accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for
> "his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes
> important parts of the international community". In December
> 1991, his country ceased to exist. Name the man.
>
> E2. The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner won for "her non-violent
> struggle for democracy and human rights" in a country that
> changed its name in 1989. Give either the old or the current
> name of the country.

Burma & Myanmar

> F. Sports - The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in
> Memory of Alfred Nobel
>
> F1. The American university with the greatest number of
> Nobel-prizewinning economists was a founding member of the Big
> Ten Conference, but left the conference in 1946. Name the
> university. Hint: its intercollegiate sports teams are known as
> the Maroons.

Chicago?

> F2. This year, Angus Deaton won the economics prize. He is
> a professor at a university that was part of the very first
> intercollegiate football game in 1869, and whose intercollegiate
> sporting teams are known as the Tigers.
> Name the university.

Princeton

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Mark Brader wrote:

> * Game 5, Round 9 - Entertainment - Best Picture Winners by Plot
> Summary
>
> The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) provides plot summaries of
> all films. Some of those films have won Best Picture at the
> Academy Awards. We give you a plot summary of a film that won the
> Best Picture Oscar, and the decade when the movie was released;
> you name the movie.
>
> 1. 1950s: An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an
> established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater
> friends.

Sunset Boulevard

> 2. 1930s: A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with
> his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.

Citizen Kane

Watson, Crick

> B. Entertainment - The Nobel Prize in Physics
>
> B1. The only Nobel laureate to have ever been born in Florida,
> George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006.
> In 2009, he made a cameo appearance -- as himself -- in
> episode 17 of season 2 of which sitcom?

Big Bang Theory

> B2. The winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics was German
> physicist Max Born. Max Born is also famous for being
> the maternal grandfather of which British-born Australian
> woman who spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in the
> early 1980s?

Olivia Newton-John

> C. Miscellaneous - The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
>
> C1. The only man to have won two individual Nobel Prizes was
> a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954
> and the Peace Prize in 1962. Name the man.
>
> C2. The 1911 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry died in 1934.
> In 1935, that laureate's daughter also won a Nobel Prize
> in Chemistry. What last name did they share?
>
> D. The Nobel Prize in Literature
>
> D1. The only man to have won both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize
> in Literature was a man who won the Nobel in 1925. Name him.

George Bernard Shaw

> D2. Due to injuries suffered in two plane crashes in Africa,
> which man was unable to personally accept his 1954 Nobel
> Prize in Literature?

Hemingway

> E. Geographical History - The Nobel Peace Prize
>
> E1. In December 1990, a man accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for
> "his leading role in the peace process which today
> characterizes important parts of the international
> community". In December 1991, his country ceased to exist.
> Name the man.

Mikhail Gorbachev

> E2. The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner won for "her non-violent
> struggle for democracy and human rights" in a country
> that changed its name in 1989. Give either the old or the
> current name of the country.

Burma

> F. Sports - The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in
> Memory of Alfred Nobel
>
> F1. The American university with the greatest number of
> Nobel-prizewinning economists was a founding member of
> the Big Ten Conference, but left the conference in 1946.
> Name the university. Hint: its intercollegiate sports
> teams are known as the Maroons.

Harvard, Yale

> F2. This year, Angus Deaton won the economics prize. He is
> a professor at a university that was part of the very
> first intercollegiate football game in 1869, and whose
> intercollegiate sporting teams are known as the Tigers.
> Name the university.

Harvard, Yale

Peter Smyth

Erland Sommarskog

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Mark Brader (m...@vex.net) writes:
> * Game 5, Round 10 - A Nobel-Prizewinning Challenge Round
>
> A. Science - The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
>
> A1. If you visit the city of Ryazan in Russia, you can visit
> a museum where you will find a stuffed dog that once belonged
> to the 1904 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine.
> Name the man.

Pavlov

> C1. The only man to have won two individual Nobel Prizes was
> a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954
> and the Peace Prize in 1962. Name the man.

Andrei Sacharov

> C2. The 1911 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry died in 1934.
> In 1935, that laureate's daughter also won a Nobel Prize
> in Chemistry. What last name did they share?

Curie

> E. Geographical History - The Nobel Peace Prize
>
> E1. In December 1990, a man accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for
> "his leading role in the peace process which today
> characterizes important parts of the international
> community". In December 1991, his country ceased to exist.
> Name the man.

Michail Gorbachev

> E2. The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner won for "her non-violent
> struggle for democracy and human rights" in a country
> that changed its name in 1989. Give either the old or the
> current name of the country.

Burma

> F. Sports - The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in
> Memory of Alfred Nobel
>
> F1. The American university with the greatest number of
> Nobel-prizewinning economists was a founding member of
> the Big Ten Conference, but left the conference in 1946.
> Name the university. Hint: its intercollegiate sports
> teams are known as the Maroons.

MIT

> F2. This year, Angus Deaton won the economics prize. He is
> a professor at a university that was part of the very
> first intercollegiate football game in 1869, and whose
> intercollegiate sporting teams are known as the Tigers.
> Name the university.

Harvard

--
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swp

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On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 11:32:26 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:

> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-10-26,
> and should be interpreted accordingly.

noted

> * Game 5, Round 9 - Entertainment - Best Picture Winners by Plot Summary
>
> The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) provides plot summaries of
> all films. Some of those films have won Best Picture at the
> Academy Awards. We give you a plot summary of a film that won the
> Best Picture Oscar, and the decade when the movie was released;
> you name the movie.
>
> 1. 1950s: An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an
> established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater
> friends.

all about eve

> 2. 1930s: A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with
> his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.

cimarron

> 3. 1930s: A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a
> woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.

you can't take it with you

> 4. 1980s: Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her
> daughter's family problems.

terms of endearment

> 5. 1950s: A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have
> given up on the idea of love, meet at a dance and fall in love.

marty

> 6. 2010s: A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival
> of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.

the artist

> 7. 1980s: The accidental death of the older son of an affluent
> family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother,
> the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.

ordinary people

> 8. 1950s: Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich
> playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic
> friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.

gigi

> 9. 1990s: A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life
> crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.

american beauty

> 10. 1940s: Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to
> discover that they and their families have been irreparably
> changed.

the best years of our lives

> * Game 5, Round 10 - A Nobel-Prizewinning Challenge Round
>
> A. Science - The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
>
> A1. If you visit the city of Ryazan in Russia, you can visit
> a museum where you will find a stuffed dog that once belonged
> to the 1904 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine.
> Name the man.

pavlov

> A2. In 2007, one of the 1962 Nobel Prize winners in Physiology
> or Medicine became the first person to receive his own
> personal genome map. Name the man.

watson?

> B. Entertainment - The Nobel Prize in Physics
>
> B1. The only Nobel laureate to have ever been born in Florida,
> George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006.
> In 2009, he made a cameo appearance -- as himself -- in
> episode 17 of season 2 of which sitcom?

the big bang theory

> B2. The winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics was German
> physicist Max Born. Max Born is also famous for being
> the maternal grandfather of which British-born Australian
> woman who spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in the
> early 1980s?

olivia newton-john

> C. Miscellaneous - The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
>
> C1. The only man to have won two individual Nobel Prizes was
> a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954
> and the Peace Prize in 1962. Name the man.

linus pauling

> C2. The 1911 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry died in 1934.
> In 1935, that laureate's daughter also won a Nobel Prize
> in Chemistry. What last name did they share?

curie

> D. The Nobel Prize in Literature
>
> D1. The only man to have won both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize
> in Literature was a man who won the Nobel in 1925. Name him.

george b. shaw

> D2. Due to injuries suffered in two plane crashes in Africa,
> which man was unable to personally accept his 1954 Nobel
> Prize in Literature?

ernest "papa" hemingway

> E. Geographical History - The Nobel Peace Prize
>
> E1. In December 1990, a man accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for
> "his leading role in the peace process which today
> characterizes important parts of the international
> community". In December 1991, his country ceased to exist.
> Name the man.

gorbachev?

> E2. The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner won for "her non-violent
> struggle for democracy and human rights" in a country
> that changed its name in 1989. Give either the old or the
> current name of the country.

burma

> F. Sports - The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in
> Memory of Alfred Nobel
>
> F1. The American university with the greatest number of
> Nobel-prizewinning economists was a founding member of
> the Big Ten Conference, but left the conference in 1946.
> Name the university. Hint: its intercollegiate sports
> teams are known as the Maroons.

university of chicago?

> F2. This year, Angus Deaton won the economics prize. He is
> a professor at a university that was part of the very
> first intercollegiate football game in 1869, and whose
> intercollegiate sporting teams are known as the Tigers.
> Name the university.

princeton (formerly the college of nj) (the other one is rutgers, aka the scarlet knights)

swp, who is picking villanova in the ncaa division i men's basketball tournament to win it all, besting kentucky in the all-wildcat finals.

Calvin

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On Monday, March 14, 2016 at 1:32:26 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:

> * Game 5, Round 9 - Entertainment - Best Picture Winners by Plot Summary
>
> The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) provides plot summaries of
> all films. Some of those films have won Best Picture at the
> Academy Awards. We give you a plot summary of a film that won the
> Best Picture Oscar, and the decade when the movie was released;
> you name the movie.
>
> 1. 1950s: An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an
> established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater
> friends.
>
> 2. 1930s: A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with
> his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.

Citizen Kane?

> 3. 1930s: A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a
> woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.

Gone With the Wind

> 4. 1980s: Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her
> daughter's family problems.

Ordinary People

> 5. 1950s: A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have
> given up on the idea of love, meet at a dance and fall in love.
>
> 6. 2010s: A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival
> of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.
>
> 7. 1980s: The accidental death of the older son of an affluent
> family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother,
> the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.

Ordinary People

> 8. 1950s: Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich
> playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic
> friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.

An American in Paris

> 9. 1990s: A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life
> crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.

American Beauty

> 10. 1940s: Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to
> discover that they and their families have been irreparably
> changed.
>
>
> * Game 5, Round 10 - A Nobel-Prizewinning Challenge Round
>
> A. Science - The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
>
> A1. If you visit the city of Ryazan in Russia, you can visit
> a museum where you will find a stuffed dog that once belonged
> to the 1904 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine.
> Name the man.

Pavlov

> A2. In 2007, one of the 1962 Nobel Prize winners in Physiology
> or Medicine became the first person to receive his own
> personal genome map. Name the man.

Crick, Watson

> B. Entertainment - The Nobel Prize in Physics
>
> B1. The only Nobel laureate to have ever been born in Florida,
> George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006.
> In 2009, he made a cameo appearance -- as himself -- in
> episode 17 of season 2 of which sitcom?

Big Bang Theory

> B2. The winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics was German
> physicist Max Born. Max Born is also famous for being
> the maternal grandfather of which British-born Australian
> woman who spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in the
> early 1980s?

Olivia Newton John I presume
Famous is pushing it.

> C. Miscellaneous - The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
>
> C1. The only man to have won two individual Nobel Prizes was
> a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954
> and the Peace Prize in 1962. Name the man.
>
> C2. The 1911 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry died in 1934.
> In 1935, that laureate's daughter also won a Nobel Prize
> in Chemistry. What last name did they share?

Curie

> D. The Nobel Prize in Literature
>
> D1. The only man to have won both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize
> in Literature was a man who won the Nobel in 1925. Name him.

Shaw

> D2. Due to injuries suffered in two plane crashes in Africa,
> which man was unable to personally accept his 1954 Nobel
> Prize in Literature?

Schweitzer

> E. Geographical History - The Nobel Peace Prize
>
> E1. In December 1990, a man accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for
> "his leading role in the peace process which today
> characterizes important parts of the international
> community". In December 1991, his country ceased to exist.
> Name the man.

Gorbachev

> E2. The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner won for "her non-violent
> struggle for democracy and human rights" in a country
> that changed its name in 1989. Give either the old or the
> current name of the country.

Burma

> F. Sports - The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in
> Memory of Alfred Nobel
>
> F1. The American university with the greatest number of
> Nobel-prizewinning economists was a founding member of
> the Big Ten Conference, but left the conference in 1946.
> Name the university. Hint: its intercollegiate sports
> teams are known as the Maroons.

Harvard, Princeton

> F2. This year, Angus Deaton won the economics prize. He is
> a professor at a university that was part of the very
> first intercollegiate football game in 1869, and whose
> intercollegiate sporting teams are known as the Tigers.
> Name the university.

Columbia, Princeton

cheers,
calvin

Mark Brader

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Stephen Perry:

> princeton (formerly the college of nj) (the other one is rutgers, aka
> the scarlet knights)

No! Not the knights who say nj!
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Toronto "Well, you were wrong."
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Marc Dashevsky

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In article <T6KdneoXJYVXrXvL...@giganews.com>, m...@vex.net says...

>
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-10-26,
> 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 the Bloor St. Irregulars,
> 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 2015-08-18 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 5, Round 9 - Entertainment - Best Picture Winners by Plot Summary
>
> The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) provides plot summaries of
> all films. Some of those films have won Best Picture at the
> Academy Awards. We give you a plot summary of a film that won the
> Best Picture Oscar, and the decade when the movie was released;
> you name the movie.
>
> 1. 1950s: An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an
> established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater
> friends.

All About Eve

> 2. 1930s: A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with
> his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.
>
> 3. 1930s: A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a
> woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.
>
> 4. 1980s: Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her
> daughter's family problems.

Terms Of Endearment

> 5. 1950s: A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have
> given up on the idea of love, meet at a dance and fall in love.

Marty

> 6. 2010s: A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival
> of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.

The Artist

> 7. 1980s: The accidental death of the older son of an affluent
> family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother,
> the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.

Ordinary People

> 8. 1950s: Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich
> playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic
> friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.

Gigi

> 9. 1990s: A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life
> crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.

American Beauty

> 10. 1940s: Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to
> discover that they and their families have been irreparably
> changed.

The Best Years Of Our Lives

> * Game 5, Round 10 - A Nobel-Prizewinning Challenge Round
>
> A. Science - The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
>
> A1. If you visit the city of Ryazan in Russia, you can visit
> a museum where you will find a stuffed dog that once belonged
> to the 1904 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine.
> Name the man.

Pavlov

> A2. In 2007, one of the 1962 Nobel Prize winners in Physiology
> or Medicine became the first person to receive his own
> personal genome map. Name the man.

Watson

> B. Entertainment - The Nobel Prize in Physics
>
> B1. The only Nobel laureate to have ever been born in Florida,
> George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006.
> In 2009, he made a cameo appearance -- as himself -- in
> episode 17 of season 2 of which sitcom?

> B2. The winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics was German
> physicist Max Born. Max Born is also famous for being
> the maternal grandfather of which British-born Australian
> woman who spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in the
> early 1980s?

Olivia Newton John

> C. Miscellaneous - The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
>
> C1. The only man to have won two individual Nobel Prizes was
> a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954
> and the Peace Prize in 1962. Name the man.

Linus Pauling

> C2. The 1911 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry died in 1934.
> In 1935, that laureate's daughter also won a Nobel Prize
> in Chemistry. What last name did they share?

Curie

> D. The Nobel Prize in Literature
>
> D1. The only man to have won both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize
> in Literature was a man who won the Nobel in 1925. Name him.
>
> D2. Due to injuries suffered in two plane crashes in Africa,
> which man was unable to personally accept his 1954 Nobel
> Prize in Literature?
>
> E. Geographical History - The Nobel Peace Prize
>
> E1. In December 1990, a man accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for
> "his leading role in the peace process which today
> characterizes important parts of the international
> community". In December 1991, his country ceased to exist.
> Name the man.

Gorbachev

> E2. The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner won for "her non-violent
> struggle for democracy and human rights" in a country
> that changed its name in 1989. Give either the old or the
> current name of the country.

Ang Sang Su Kyi

> F. Sports - The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in
> Memory of Alfred Nobel
>
> F1. The American university with the greatest number of
> Nobel-prizewinning economists was a founding member of
> the Big Ten Conference, but left the conference in 1946.
> Name the university. Hint: its intercollegiate sports
> teams are known as the Maroons.
>
> F2. This year, Angus Deaton won the economics prize. He is
> a professor at a university that was part of the very
> first intercollegiate football game in 1869, and whose
> intercollegiate sporting teams are known as the Tigers.
> Name the university.

--

Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address.

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On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 22:32:26 -0500, m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote:

>* Game 5, Round 9 - Entertainment - Best Picture Winners by Plot Summary
>
>The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) provides plot summaries of
>all films. Some of those films have won Best Picture at the
>Academy Awards. We give you a plot summary of a film that won the
>Best Picture Oscar, and the decade when the movie was released;
>you name the movie.
>
>1. 1950s: An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an
> established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater
> friends.
>

All ABout Eve?

>2. 1930s: A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with
> his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.
>

Cimarron>

>3. 1930s: A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a
> woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.
>

You Can't Taker It With You?

>4. 1980s: Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her
> daughter's family problems.
>

Terms of Endearment?

>5. 1950s: A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have
> given up on the idea of love, meet at a dance and fall in love.
>

Marty

>6. 2010s: A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival
> of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.
>

The Artist

>7. 1980s: The accidental death of the older son of an affluent
> family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother,
> the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.
>

Ordinary People

>8. 1950s: Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich
> playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic
> friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.
>

Gigi

>9. 1990s: A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life
> crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
>

American Beauty

>10. 1940s: Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to
> discover that they and their families have been irreparably
> changed.
>

The Best Years of Our Lives
>

>* Game 5, Round 10 - A Nobel-Prizewinning Challenge Round
>
>A. Science - The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
>
> A1. If you visit the city of Ryazan in Russia, you can visit
> a museum where you will find a stuffed dog that once belonged
> to the 1904 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine.
> Name the man.
>

Pavlov

> A2. In 2007, one of the 1962 Nobel Prize winners in Physiology
> or Medicine became the first person to receive his own
> personal genome map. Name the man.
>
>B. Entertainment - The Nobel Prize in Physics
>
> B1. The only Nobel laureate to have ever been born in Florida,
> George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006.
> In 2009, he made a cameo appearance -- as himself -- in
> episode 17 of season 2 of which sitcom?
>

Big Bang Theory?

> B2. The winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics was German
> physicist Max Born. Max Born is also famous for being
> the maternal grandfather of which British-born Australian
> woman who spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in the
> early 1980s?
>

Olivia Newton-John?

>C. Miscellaneous - The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
>
> C1. The only man to have won two individual Nobel Prizes was
> a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954
> and the Peace Prize in 1962. Name the man.
>

Linus Pauling

> C2. The 1911 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry died in 1934.
> In 1935, that laureate's daughter also won a Nobel Prize
> in Chemistry. What last name did they share?
>

Curie?

>D. The Nobel Prize in Literature
>
> D1. The only man to have won both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize
> in Literature was a man who won the Nobel in 1925. Name him.
>

George Bernard Shaw?

> D2. Due to injuries suffered in two plane crashes in Africa,
> which man was unable to personally accept his 1954 Nobel
> Prize in Literature?
>

Ernest Hemmingway?

>E. Geographical History - The Nobel Peace Prize
>
> E1. In December 1990, a man accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for
> "his leading role in the peace process which today
> characterizes important parts of the international
> community". In December 1991, his country ceased to exist.
> Name the man.
>

Gorbachev?

> E2. The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner won for "her non-violent
> struggle for democracy and human rights" in a country
> that changed its name in 1989. Give either the old or the
> current name of the country.
>

Burma

>F. Sports - The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in
> Memory of Alfred Nobel
>
> F1. The American university with the greatest number of
> Nobel-prizewinning economists was a founding member of
> the Big Ten Conference, but left the conference in 1946.
> Name the university. Hint: its intercollegiate sports
> teams are known as the Maroons.
>

University of Chicago

> F2. This year, Angus Deaton won the economics prize. He is
> a professor at a university that was part of the very
> first intercollegiate football game in 1869, and whose
> intercollegiate sporting teams are known as the Tigers.
> Name the university.

ArenEss

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American Beauty

>
> 10. 1940s: Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to
> discover that they and their families have been irreparably
> changed.
>
>
> * Game 5, Round 10 - A Nobel-Prizewinning Challenge Round
>
> A. Science - The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
>
> A1. If you visit the city of Ryazan in Russia, you can visit
> a museum where you will find a stuffed dog that once belonged
> to the 1904 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine.
> Name the man.

Pavlov

>
> A2. In 2007, one of the 1962 Nobel Prize winners in Physiology
> or Medicine became the first person to receive his own
> personal genome map. Name the man.
>
> B. Entertainment - The Nobel Prize in Physics
>
> B1. The only Nobel laureate to have ever been born in Florida,
> George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006.
> In 2009, he made a cameo appearance -- as himself -- in
> episode 17 of season 2 of which sitcom?

Big Bang Theory

>
> B2. The winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics was German
> physicist Max Born. Max Born is also famous for being
> the maternal grandfather of which British-born Australian
> woman who spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in the
> early 1980s?

Olivia Newton John

>
> C. Miscellaneous - The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
>
> C1. The only man to have won two individual Nobel Prizes was
> a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954
> and the Peace Prize in 1962. Name the man.

Pauling

>
> C2. The 1911 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry died in 1934.
> In 1935, that laureate's daughter also won a Nobel Prize
> in Chemistry. What last name did they share?

Curie

>
> D. The Nobel Prize in Literature
>
> D1. The only man to have won both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize
> in Literature was a man who won the Nobel in 1925. Name him.

F Scott Fitzgerald

>
> D2. Due to injuries suffered in two plane crashes in Africa,
> which man was unable to personally accept his 1954 Nobel
> Prize in Literature?
>
> E. Geographical History - The Nobel Peace Prize
>
> E1. In December 1990, a man accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for
> "his leading role in the peace process which today
> characterizes important parts of the international
> community". In December 1991, his country ceased to exist.
> Name the man.

Havel

>
> E2. The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner won for "her non-violent
> struggle for democracy and human rights" in a country
> that changed its name in 1989. Give either the old or the
> current name of the country.

Burma

>
> F. Sports - The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in
> Memory of Alfred Nobel
>
> F1. The American university with the greatest number of
> Nobel-prizewinning economists was a founding member of
> the Big Ten Conference, but left the conference in 1946.
> Name the university. Hint: its intercollegiate sports
> teams are known as the Maroons.

University of Chicago

>
> F2. This year, Angus Deaton won the economics prize. He is
> a professor at a university that was part of the very
> first intercollegiate football game in 1869, and whose
> intercollegiate sporting teams are known as the Tigers.
> Name the university.

Princeton University

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On 2016-03-14 04:32, Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-10-26,
> 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 the Bloor St. Irregulars,
> 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 2015-08-18 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 5, Round 9 - Entertainment - Best Picture Winners by Plot Summary
>
> The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) provides plot summaries of
> all films. Some of those films have won Best Picture at the
> Academy Awards. We give you a plot summary of a film that won the
> Best Picture Oscar, and the decade when the movie was released;
> you name the movie.
>

>

> * Game 5, Round 10 - A Nobel-Prizewinning Challenge Round
>

> B. Entertainment - The Nobel Prize in Physics
>
> B1. The only Nobel laureate to have ever been born in Florida,
> George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006.
> In 2009, he made a cameo appearance -- as himself -- in
> episode 17 of season 2 of which sitcom?

Big Bang Theory?

>
> B2. The winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics was German
> physicist Max Born. Max Born is also famous for being
> the maternal grandfather of which British-born Australian
> woman who spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in the
> early 1980s?

Kylie Minough?

>
>
> E. Geographical History - The Nobel Peace Prize
>
> E1. In December 1990, a man accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for
> "his leading role in the peace process which today
> characterizes important parts of the international
> community". In December 1991, his country ceased to exist.
> Name the man.

Gorbatjov

>
> E2. The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner won for "her non-violent
> struggle for democracy and human rights" in a country
> that changed its name in 1989. Give either the old or the
> current name of the country.

Burma

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Mark Brader:

> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-10-26,

> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information

> see my 2015-08-18 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".

Game 10 is over and STEPHEN PERRY has returned to whomp the field.
Hearty congratulations!

> * Game 5, Round 9 - Entertainment - Best Picture Winners by Plot Summary

> The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) provides plot summaries of
> all films. Some of those films have won Best Picture at the
> Academy Awards. We give you a plot summary of a film that won the
> Best Picture Oscar, and the decade when the movie was released;
> you name the movie.

> 1. 1950s: An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an
> established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater
> friends.

"All About Eve" (1950). 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Jason, Stephen,
Marc, and ArenEss.

> 2. 1930s: A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with
> his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.

"Cimarron" (1931). 4 for Joshua, Stephen, and ArenEss.

> 3. 1930s: A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a
> woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.

"You Can't Take It With You" (1938). 4 for Joshua, Stephen,
and ArenEss.

> 4. 1980s: Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her
> daughter's family problems.

"Terms of Endearment" (1983). 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Pete, Stephen,
Marc, and ArenEss.

> 5. 1950s: A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have
> given up on the idea of love, meet at a dance and fall in love.

"Marty" (1955). 4 for Joshua, Pete, Jason, Stephen, Marc,
and ArenEss.

> 6. 2010s: A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival
> of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.

"The Artist" (2011). 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Jason, Stephen, Marc,
and ArenEss.

> 7. 1980s: The accidental death of the older son of an affluent
> family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother,
> the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.

"Ordinary People" (1980). 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Pete, Jason,
Stephen, Calvin, Marc, and ArenEss.

> 8. 1950s: Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich
> playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic
> friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.

"Gigi" (1958). 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Pete, Stephen, Marc,
and ArenEss.

> 9. 1990s: A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life
> crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.

"American Beauty" (1999). 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Jason, Stephen,
Calvin, Marc, ArenEss, and Dan Tilque.

> 10. 1940s: Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to
> discover that they and their families have been irreparably
> changed.

"The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946). 4 for Joshua, Pete, Jason,
Stephen, Marc, and ArenEss.

> * Game 5, Round 10 - A Nobel-Prizewinning Challenge Round

(The formal names used here for the six prizes are the official
ones in English as used on http://www.nobelprize.org.)

> A. Science - The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

> A1. If you visit the city of Ryazan in Russia, you can visit
> a museum where you will find a stuffed dog that once belonged
> to the 1904 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine.
> Name the man.

Ivan Pavlov. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Jason, Erland, Stephen, Calvin,
Marc, ArenEss, and Dan Tilque.

> A2. In 2007, one of the 1962 Nobel Prize winners in Physiology
> or Medicine became the first person to receive his own
> personal genome map. Name the man.

James Watson. 4 for Stephen and Marc. 3 for Peter. 2 for Dan Blum
and Calvin.

Watson's research and writing partner, Francis Crick, had died
in 2004.

> B. Entertainment - The Nobel Prize in Physics

> B1. The only Nobel laureate to have ever been born in Florida,
> George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006.
> In 2009, he made a cameo appearance -- as himself -- in
> episode 17 of season 2 of which sitcom?

"The Big Bang Theory". 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Jason, Peter, Stephen,
Calvin, ArenEss, Dan Tilque, and Björn.

Another TV appearance by Smoot was on "Are You Smarter than a 5th
Grader?", where he won the $1,000,000 top prize and was therefore
allowed to answer the title question in the affirmative.

Oliver Smoot, whose use as a unit of measurement in 1958 survives
to this day and who later was had the top job at both ANSI and ISO,
is indeed related to George Smoot, but not closely.

> B2. The winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics was German
> physicist Max Born. Max Born is also famous for being
> the maternal grandfather of which British-born Australian
> woman who spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in the
> early 1980s?

Olivia Newton-John. 4 for Joshua, Jason, Peter, Stephen, Calvin,
Marc, ArenEss, and Dan Tilque.

> C. Miscellaneous - The Nobel Prize in Chemistry

> C1. The only man to have won two individual Nobel Prizes was
> a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954
> and the Peace Prize in 1962. Name the man.

Linus Pauling. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Stephen, Marc, ArenEss,
and Dan Tilque.

> C2. The 1911 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry died in 1934.
> In 1935, that laureate's daughter also won a Nobel Prize
> in Chemistry. What last name did they share?

Curie. (Marie Curie, Irene Joliot-Curie.). 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum,
Pete, Jason, Erland, Stephen, Calvin, Marc, ArenEss, and Dan Tilque.

> D. The Nobel Prize in Literature

> D1. The only man to have won both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize
> in Literature was a man who won the Nobel in 1925. Name him.

George Bernard Shaw. 4 for Joshua, Peter, Stephen, Calvin,
and ArenEss.

The Oscar was as coauthor of "Pygmalion" (1937).

> D2. Due to injuries suffered in two plane crashes in Africa,
> which man was unable to personally accept his 1954 Nobel
> Prize in Literature?

Ernest Hemingway. 4 for Joshua, Peter, Stephen, and ArenEss.

The US ambassador to Sweden accepted it on Hemingway's behalf.

The first plane was chartered by Ernest and Mary Hemingway for a
sightseeing flight over Murchison Falls. 2 days after it crashed,
they boarded a plane to Kampala for medical treatment, only to
crash again on takeoff, incurring significantly greater injuries.
Hemingway was at first reported as dead, and it's possible that this
contributed to the Nobel committee's decision to give him the prize
that year.

> E. Geographical History - The Nobel Peace Prize

> E1. In December 1990, a man accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for
> "his leading role in the peace process which today
> characterizes important parts of the international
> community". In December 1991, his country ceased to exist.
> Name the man.

Mikhail Gorbachev. 4 for Joshua, Pete, Jason, Peter, Erland, Stephen,
Calvin, Marc, ArenEss, and Björn. 2 for Dan Blum.

> E2. The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner won for "her non-violent
> struggle for democracy and human rights" in a country
> that changed its name in 1989. Give either the old or the
> current name of the country.

Burma, Myanmar. (Aung Sun Suu Kyi.) 4 for Joshua (the hard way),
Dan Blum, Pete, Peter, Erland, Stephen, Calvin, ArenEss, Dan Tilque,
and Björn.

> F. Sports - The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in
> Memory of Alfred Nobel

> F1. The American university with the greatest number of
> Nobel-prizewinning economists was a founding member of
> the Big Ten Conference, but left the conference in 1946.
> Name the university. Hint: its intercollegiate sports
> teams are known as the Maroons.

U. of Chicago. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Pete, Stephen, ArenEss,
and Dan Tilque.

> F2. This year, Angus Deaton won the economics prize. He is
> a professor at a university that was part of the very
> first intercollegiate football game in 1869, and whose
> intercollegiate sporting teams are known as the Tigers.
> Name the university.

Princeton U. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Pete, Stephen, and Dan Tilque.
2 for Calvin.

Scores, if there are no errors:

GAME 5 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST
TOPICS-> His Lit Sci Lei Mis Can Ent Cha SIX
Stephen Perry 40 40 36 36 40 27 40 48 244
Joshua Kreitzer 28 26 24 8 32 16 40 44 194
Dan Blum 24 24 26 40 22 12 24 32 170
"ArenEss" -- -- 28 12 36 4 40 40 160
"Calvin" 28 32 20 12 27 0 8 32 151
Pete Gayde 28 0 28 16 24 8 20 20 136
Marc Dashevsky 28 8 20 16 16 12 32 24 136
Peter Smyth 32 0 14 16 28 8 0 27 125
Dan Tilque 32 8 20 16 16 4 4 32 124
Erland Sommarskog 36 0 24 4 16 0 0 16 96
"Joe" 20 40 16 16 -- -- -- -- 92
Björn Lundin 32 0 20 12 8 0 0 12 84
Bruce Bowler -- -- 24 24 24 10 -- -- 82
Jason Kreitzer 0 8 4 12 8 0 24 20 76

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