Mark Brader:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-09-21,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2015-08-18 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 1, Round 7 - Canadiana History - Canadian Murders
> 1. Michael Briere pleaded guilty to kidnapping and murdering
> a 10-year-old girl who was walking past his house on
> Bloor St. in 2003. Name the victim; *either* her first
> name or last name will do.
Holly Jones.
> 2. What was the name of the 12-year-old shoeshine boy, the son
> of impoverished Portuguese immigrants, whose sexual assault
> and murder shocked Toronto in August 1977?
Emanuel Jaques.
> 3. Valery Fabrikant was an associate professor of mechanical
> engineering who shot and killed four colleagues in 1992 --
> at which university?
Concordia University, Montreal.
> 4. Denis Lortie is a former Canadian Forces corporal who killed
> three government employees when he attacked which building
> in 1984?
National Assembly (i.e. provincial legislature) of Quebec.
> 5. Marc Lepine murdered 14 women and wounded 18 other people when
> he attacked which school in 1989?
École Polytechnique, associated with the University of Montreal.
I'm accepting either name or a combination in either language.
4 for Joshua -- making the round count for everyone.
> 6. Grace Marks was a Canadian maid who was controversially convicted
> of murdering her employer in 1843. In 1996, Margaret Atwood
> published a novel based on the case. What was the title?
"Alias Grace".
> 7. What is the name of the former colonel in the Canadian Forces
> who was arrested on murder charges while in command of the
> country's largest and busiest military air base, CFB Trenton?
David Russell Williams.
> 8. A Hungarian-born Canadian former real estate developer who
> was convicted in 1974 of arranging the murder of his wife.
> It resulted in the longest trial in Canadian history.
> What is his name?
Peter Demeter.
> 9. Born Eric Clinton Kirk Newman, what is the better-known name
> of the former pornographic actor and model who killed and
> dismembered Lin Jun in 2012, then mailed limbs to elementary
> schools and federal political party offices?
Luka Rocco Magnotta.
> 10. A now-demolished house at 57 Bayview St., Port Dalhousie, was
> the scene of gruesome murders by Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka.
> Port Dalhousie is part of which Canadian city?
St. Catharines.
> * Game 1, Round 8 - Entertainment - Spoiler Alert!
> Movies sometimes end with a plot twist. Here are ten spoilers
> of now-well-known twists for you -- you name the movies. Note:
> if a movie is part of a series, the series title is NOT sufficient.
> (As a courtesy to those who might yet see these movies and would
> rather not hear about them from me, I have rot13'd the entire round.
> You can pick out the dates from the rot13 to decide whether you'd
> rather skip the round. Sorry, no bonus points if you can guess
> the titles *without* decoding the rot13.)
By way of further protection, the questions and answers will appear
-- this time in plain text, *not* rot13'd -- below the table of
scores and 50 lines of space.
Scores, if there are no errors:
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TOPICS-> Lit Sci Geo Spo Can Ent FOUR
Gareth Owen 36 24 40 32 0 35 143
Joshua Kreitzer 36 28 40 22 4 35 139
Marc Dashevsky 32 32 36 8 0 35 135
Dan Blum 32 32 36 11 0 35 135
Peter Smyth 16 24 32 40 0 12 112
Dan Tilque 24 23 40 8 0 23 110
Bruce Bowler 0 36 40 0 0 23 99
Pete Gayde 19 12 32 28 0 19 98
"Calvin" 24 8 0 37 0 27 96
Jason Kreitzer 28 8 24 0 0 32 92
Erland Sommarskog 8 16 32 24 0 4 80
Björn Lundin 16 15 24 8 0 20 75
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> 1. Verbal Kint was just making up the story. He was Kayzer Soze
> (pronounced "Kaiser Soh-zay") all along! Which 1995 movie?
"The Usual Suspects". 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Peter, Dan Tilque,
Gareth, Jason, Calvin, and Marc.
> 2. Ah, Rosebud was the name of his childhood sled! Which 1941
> movie?
"Citizen Kane". 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Erland, Peter, Dan Tilque,
Gareth, Jason, Calvin, Bruce, Pete, and Marc.
> 3. The business owner himself dressed up as his deceased mother
> when he killed Marion Crane and a private detective called
> Arbogast. Which 1960 movie?
"Psycho". 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Björn, Dan Tilque, Gareth, Jason,
Calvin, Bruce, Pete, and Marc.
> 4. The unnamed narrator is suffering from dissociative identity
> disorder. He and soap salesman Tyler Durden are the same person.
> Which 1999 movie?
"Fight Club". 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Gareth, Jason, Calvin,
and Marc.
> 5. Detective Teddy Daniels goes to a hospital for the criminally
> insane to find a missing woman who drowned her children --
> no, actually Daniels is himself the criminally insane man who
> murdered that woman. Which 2010 movie?
"Shutter Island". 4 for Dan Blum, Gareth, and Marc.
> 6. Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father? Get out of here!
> Which 1980 movie?
"Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back". 4 for Björn
and Jason. 3 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Gareth, Calvin,
Bruce, Pete, and Marc.
> 7. Hey, that's the Statue of Liberty. It was Earth all along...
> You maniacs! God damn you all to hell! Which 1968 movie?
"Planet of the Apes". 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Björn, Dan Tilque,
Gareth, Jason, Calvin, Bruce, Pete, and Marc.
> 8. Aaron Stamper is acquitted of murdering an archbishop, but
> his shy, nervous, childlike persona was just an act. Turns
> out there was no Aaron, only Roy. Which 1996 movie?
"Primal Fear". 4 for Joshua.
> 9. Dr. Malcolm Crowe is a child psychiatrist working with Cole
> Sear, a child who can see dead people. Unknown to Dr. Crowe,
> Dr. Crowe himself is dead. Which 1999 movie?
"The Sixth Sense". 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Björn, Peter, Dan Tilque,
Gareth, Jason, Calvin, Bruce, Pete, and Marc.
> 10. Camp Crystal Lake has been closed for 20 years after a young
> boy called Jason drowned there and two counselors were murdered.
> The camp is reopening -- and people are getting killed.
> Jason didn't actually drown! Which 1980 movie?
"Friday the 13th". 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Björn, Gareth, Jason,
Bruce, and Marc.
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