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Mark Brader
Dec 14, 2018, 1:56:16 AM12/14/18
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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2018-08-07,
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 4 days.
All questions were written by members of What She Said 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 2018-07-16 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
** Final, Round 2 - History
(No psychohistory allowed.)
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/r.jpg
Throughout the Final game, in all cases name the person or thing
*emphasized*, whether it is asked for in the form of a question
or not. Also, throughout the game, any illustrations not connected
with a particular question are just for fun. By the way, this was
the illustration for fun for the current-events round:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-1/r.jpg
* 1927
("23 skidoo" and so forth.)
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t1.jpg
1927 was an especially tumultuous year in historical terms --
so much so that the author Bill Bryson has written a critically
acclaimed book only about events which happened in one country in
one season of that year. Here are three questions about things
that happened in 1927.
1. *This movie*, starring Clara Bow and Charles Rodgers, won the
Best Picture award (as we now call it) in 1929 at the Academy
Awards, even though it was released in 1927. It was the first
American film to feature a male/male kiss and the first widely
released American film to feature any nudity, and it grossed
over $3,000,000 US in domestic box office.
2. *These Italian anarchists*, famous for being convicted of
first-degree murder based on testimony that was mostly either
faulty or recanted, were executed on 1927-08-22 after exhausting
all of their appeals.
3. The Nanchang Uprising took place on 1927-08-01, in response
to the Kuomintang's crackdown on the Chinese Communist Party
in Shanghai on April 12, which resulted in an estimated 5,000
deaths. The Nanchang Uprising is now considered the beginning
of the Chinese Civil War, as well as the birth of *this
organization*, which considers August 1 to be its anniversary.
* Pirates!
(Not the hacker kind.)
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t2.jpg
Although we seem to all enjoy movies about pirates, the truth is
that the "Golden Age of Piracy" only lasted from 1650 to 1726,
and that this era encompasses three specific and mostly unrelated
historical eras: the buccaneer age, the Indian Ocean Pirate Round,
and the final age of piracy following the War of Spanish Succession.
Here is one question about each of these eras.
*Hint*: None of the answers is "Blackbeard".
4. The buccaneer age of 1650 to 1680 was characterized by buccaneers
working as mercenaries under the flags of the English, French,
and Dutch, preying on Spanish fleets and ports. The most famous
of these buccaneers was *this captain*, a Welshman who raided
Puerto Principe, Porto Bello, Maracaibo, and Panama City.
He was later knighted by Charles II and eventually made
Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica.
5. The Pirate Round was so named because pirates preyed on the
route from Europe to the East Indies, where Portuguese and
British ships went "round" the Cape of Good Hope and the southern
tip of Africa to trade in India and the East Indies. The most
famous of the Pirate Round pirates was *this captain*, who
is famous for his legendary buried treasure (which spawned the
common idea of buried pirate treasure), and for his protestations
that he was a legal privateer at his trial in 1701 that led to
his execution.
6. The final and most famous age of piracy was in the Caribbean
following the War of the Spanish Succession, as thousands of
suddenly unemployed British navy men turned to piracy.
An exception was *this captain*, known as the "Gentleman
Pirate" because he was a wealthy landowner who, for reasons
nobody has ever been able to explain, simply decided to become
a pirate in 1717 -- commissioning his own pirate ship to do
so. He sailed with Blackbeard on two occasions, but failed to
become a successful pirate captain and was hanged in 1718.
* The Cost of Living
(It's a lot.)
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t3.jpg
For each question in this round, we'll give you prices of several
common goods. Within 4 years, you tell us the year of those prices.
*Note:* Unfortunately, these are all US prices; they are shown in
US dollars, and the gallons are US gallons.
7. Average cost of a new house: $14,975.
A dozen eggs: 38¢.
A movie ticket: $1.50.
A loaf of bread: 22¢.
*When?*
8. Average cost of a new car: $4,785.
A gallon of gasoline: 65¢.
A pound of coffee: $2.25.
A first-class postage stamp: 13¢.
*When?*
9. Tuition at Harvard University for one year: $600.
A pound of ground beef: 53¢.
Average cost of a rental apartment for one month: $80.
A gallon of milk: 97¢.
*When?*
* Shipwrecks
(Honestly, people will just leave a ship lying about any old place.)
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t4.jpg
Most of the time when a boat sinks we never see it again, but
sometimes we're lucky enough to discover shipwrecks decades or
even centuries later, and are able to scavenge historical artifacts
for the public to view. Here are some questions about these wrecks.
10. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/wrex/10.jpg
*This battleship* was the flagship of the Japanese navy during
World War II, and is the heaviest and most heavily-armed ship
ever built. It was sunk in 1945 while traveling to Okinawa
with orders to beach itself and defend the island. The wreck's
discovery was confirmed in 1984.
11. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/wrex/11.jpg
We didn't have a Blackbeard question in the Pirates triple, so
here's one now. *This ship* was Blackbeard's flagship during
his reign of piracy; he ran it aground in 1718 while fleeing
British pursuers. The wreck was discovered in 1996 off the
coast of North Carolina; since then, many artifacts have been
recovered from the ship, including 31 cannons, and the wreck
has been designated a national heritage site.
12. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/wrex/12.jpg
The Mary Rose was a carrack in Henry VIII's navy, which sank
in 1545, north of the Isle of Wight, after 33 years of service.
The wreck was discovered in 1971, and in a mammoth project, the
entire wreck was transported from the sea floor to *this city*,
where a museum was built to house the wreck and the innumerable
Tudor-era artifacts found with it.
* Old-Timey Retailers
(No Amazon for us! Take that, Jeff Bezos!)
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t5.jpg
Some retailers have been in business a very, very long time.
Here are questions about some of the oldest retailers still
operating today. Sorry, no coupons.
13. In business since 1818-04-07, *this men's clothier* is one of
the oldest continuously operating companies in the United
States. The merchant is famous for introducing ready-to-wear
men's suits to American customers. It launched its first
full-scale women's department in 1976.
14. *This department store chain*, the oldest mid- to high-range
chain of its type in the United States, was founded in 1826.
It was the first store to present dramatic Christmas windows
filled with holiday displays rather than merchandise. It has
been a subsidiary of the Hudson's Bay Co. since 2008.
15. *This luxury skin and hair care retailer* first opened in the
East Village of New York City in 1851, when it was called
Brunswick Apotheke. Its signature musk oil was developed
in 1921. Some of its other long-successful products are the
Blue Astringent Herbal Lotion and the Creme de Corps. And that
original East Village location is still open!
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "Damn! Damn! Damn! Er, I mean thanks, Mark."
m...@vex.net | --Steve Ball
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 4 days.
All questions were written by members of What She Said 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 2018-07-16 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
** Final, Round 2 - History
(No psychohistory allowed.)
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/r.jpg
Throughout the Final game, in all cases name the person or thing
*emphasized*, whether it is asked for in the form of a question
or not. Also, throughout the game, any illustrations not connected
with a particular question are just for fun. By the way, this was
the illustration for fun for the current-events round:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-1/r.jpg
* 1927
("23 skidoo" and so forth.)
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t1.jpg
1927 was an especially tumultuous year in historical terms --
so much so that the author Bill Bryson has written a critically
acclaimed book only about events which happened in one country in
one season of that year. Here are three questions about things
that happened in 1927.
1. *This movie*, starring Clara Bow and Charles Rodgers, won the
Best Picture award (as we now call it) in 1929 at the Academy
Awards, even though it was released in 1927. It was the first
American film to feature a male/male kiss and the first widely
released American film to feature any nudity, and it grossed
over $3,000,000 US in domestic box office.
2. *These Italian anarchists*, famous for being convicted of
first-degree murder based on testimony that was mostly either
faulty or recanted, were executed on 1927-08-22 after exhausting
all of their appeals.
3. The Nanchang Uprising took place on 1927-08-01, in response
to the Kuomintang's crackdown on the Chinese Communist Party
in Shanghai on April 12, which resulted in an estimated 5,000
deaths. The Nanchang Uprising is now considered the beginning
of the Chinese Civil War, as well as the birth of *this
organization*, which considers August 1 to be its anniversary.
* Pirates!
(Not the hacker kind.)
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t2.jpg
Although we seem to all enjoy movies about pirates, the truth is
that the "Golden Age of Piracy" only lasted from 1650 to 1726,
and that this era encompasses three specific and mostly unrelated
historical eras: the buccaneer age, the Indian Ocean Pirate Round,
and the final age of piracy following the War of Spanish Succession.
Here is one question about each of these eras.
*Hint*: None of the answers is "Blackbeard".
4. The buccaneer age of 1650 to 1680 was characterized by buccaneers
working as mercenaries under the flags of the English, French,
and Dutch, preying on Spanish fleets and ports. The most famous
of these buccaneers was *this captain*, a Welshman who raided
Puerto Principe, Porto Bello, Maracaibo, and Panama City.
He was later knighted by Charles II and eventually made
Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica.
5. The Pirate Round was so named because pirates preyed on the
route from Europe to the East Indies, where Portuguese and
British ships went "round" the Cape of Good Hope and the southern
tip of Africa to trade in India and the East Indies. The most
famous of the Pirate Round pirates was *this captain*, who
is famous for his legendary buried treasure (which spawned the
common idea of buried pirate treasure), and for his protestations
that he was a legal privateer at his trial in 1701 that led to
his execution.
6. The final and most famous age of piracy was in the Caribbean
following the War of the Spanish Succession, as thousands of
suddenly unemployed British navy men turned to piracy.
An exception was *this captain*, known as the "Gentleman
Pirate" because he was a wealthy landowner who, for reasons
nobody has ever been able to explain, simply decided to become
a pirate in 1717 -- commissioning his own pirate ship to do
so. He sailed with Blackbeard on two occasions, but failed to
become a successful pirate captain and was hanged in 1718.
* The Cost of Living
(It's a lot.)
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t3.jpg
For each question in this round, we'll give you prices of several
common goods. Within 4 years, you tell us the year of those prices.
*Note:* Unfortunately, these are all US prices; they are shown in
US dollars, and the gallons are US gallons.
7. Average cost of a new house: $14,975.
A dozen eggs: 38¢.
A movie ticket: $1.50.
A loaf of bread: 22¢.
*When?*
8. Average cost of a new car: $4,785.
A gallon of gasoline: 65¢.
A pound of coffee: $2.25.
A first-class postage stamp: 13¢.
*When?*
9. Tuition at Harvard University for one year: $600.
A pound of ground beef: 53¢.
Average cost of a rental apartment for one month: $80.
A gallon of milk: 97¢.
*When?*
* Shipwrecks
(Honestly, people will just leave a ship lying about any old place.)
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t4.jpg
Most of the time when a boat sinks we never see it again, but
sometimes we're lucky enough to discover shipwrecks decades or
even centuries later, and are able to scavenge historical artifacts
for the public to view. Here are some questions about these wrecks.
10. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/wrex/10.jpg
*This battleship* was the flagship of the Japanese navy during
World War II, and is the heaviest and most heavily-armed ship
ever built. It was sunk in 1945 while traveling to Okinawa
with orders to beach itself and defend the island. The wreck's
discovery was confirmed in 1984.
11. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/wrex/11.jpg
We didn't have a Blackbeard question in the Pirates triple, so
here's one now. *This ship* was Blackbeard's flagship during
his reign of piracy; he ran it aground in 1718 while fleeing
British pursuers. The wreck was discovered in 1996 off the
coast of North Carolina; since then, many artifacts have been
recovered from the ship, including 31 cannons, and the wreck
has been designated a national heritage site.
12. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/wrex/12.jpg
The Mary Rose was a carrack in Henry VIII's navy, which sank
in 1545, north of the Isle of Wight, after 33 years of service.
The wreck was discovered in 1971, and in a mammoth project, the
entire wreck was transported from the sea floor to *this city*,
where a museum was built to house the wreck and the innumerable
Tudor-era artifacts found with it.
* Old-Timey Retailers
(No Amazon for us! Take that, Jeff Bezos!)
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t5.jpg
Some retailers have been in business a very, very long time.
Here are questions about some of the oldest retailers still
operating today. Sorry, no coupons.
13. In business since 1818-04-07, *this men's clothier* is one of
the oldest continuously operating companies in the United
States. The merchant is famous for introducing ready-to-wear
men's suits to American customers. It launched its first
full-scale women's department in 1976.
14. *This department store chain*, the oldest mid- to high-range
chain of its type in the United States, was founded in 1826.
It was the first store to present dramatic Christmas windows
filled with holiday displays rather than merchandise. It has
been a subsidiary of the Hudson's Bay Co. since 2008.
15. *This luxury skin and hair care retailer* first opened in the
East Village of New York City in 1851, when it was called
Brunswick Apotheke. Its signature musk oil was developed
in 1921. Some of its other long-successful products are the
Blue Astringent Herbal Lotion and the Creme de Corps. And that
original East Village location is still open!
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "Damn! Damn! Damn! Er, I mean thanks, Mark."
m...@vex.net | --Steve Ball
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Erland Sommarskog
Dec 14, 2018, 4:40:39 AM12/14/18
to
Mark Brader (m...@vex.net) writes:
> *Note:* Unfortunately, these are all US prices; they are shown in
> US dollars, and the gallons are US gallons.
>
> 7. Average cost of a new house: $14,975.
> A dozen eggs: 38¢.
> A movie ticket: $1.50.
> A loaf of bread: 22¢.
> *When?*
1930
> *Note:* Unfortunately, these are all US prices; they are shown in
> US dollars, and the gallons are US gallons.
>
> 7. Average cost of a new house: $14,975.
> A dozen eggs: 38¢.
> A movie ticket: $1.50.
> A loaf of bread: 22¢.
> *When?*
> 8. Average cost of a new car: $4,785.
> A gallon of gasoline: 65¢.
> A pound of coffee: $2.25.
> A first-class postage stamp: 13¢.
> *When?*
> 9. Tuition at Harvard University for one year: $600.
> A pound of ground beef: 53¢.
> Average cost of a rental apartment for one month: $80.
> A gallon of milk: 97¢.
> *When?*
> 14. *This department store chain*, the oldest mid- to high-range
> chain of its type in the United States, was founded in 1826.
> It was the first store to present dramatic Christmas windows
> filled with holiday displays rather than merchandise. It has
> been a subsidiary of the Hudson's Bay Co. since 2008.
Bruce Bowler
Dec 14, 2018, 9:53:59 AM12/14/18
to
> 2. *These Italian anarchists*, famous for being convicted of
> first-degree murder based on testimony that was mostly either faulty
> or recanted, were executed on 1927-08-22 after exhausting all of
> their appeals.
> 3. The Nanchang Uprising took place on 1927-08-01, in response
> to the Kuomintang's crackdown on the Chinese Communist Party in
> Shanghai on April 12, which resulted in an estimated 5,000 deaths.
> The Nanchang Uprising is now considered the beginning of the Chinese
> Civil War, as well as the birth of *this organization*, which
> considers August 1 to be its anniversary.
>
>
> * Pirates!
>
>
> * The Cost of Living
> (It's a lot.)
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t3.jpg
>
> For each question in this round, we'll give you prices of several common
> goods. Within 4 years, you tell us the year of those prices.
>
> *Note:* Unfortunately, these are all US prices; they are shown in US
> dollars, and the gallons are US gallons.
>
> 7. Average cost of a new house: $14,975.
> A dozen eggs: 38¢.
> A movie ticket: $1.50.
> A loaf of bread: 22¢.
> *When?*
1962
> (It's a lot.)
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t3.jpg
>
> For each question in this round, we'll give you prices of several common
> goods. Within 4 years, you tell us the year of those prices.
>
> *Note:* Unfortunately, these are all US prices; they are shown in US
> dollars, and the gallons are US gallons.
>
> 7. Average cost of a new house: $14,975.
> A dozen eggs: 38¢.
> A movie ticket: $1.50.
> A loaf of bread: 22¢.
> *When?*
> 8. Average cost of a new car: $4,785.
> A gallon of gasoline: 65¢.
> A pound of coffee: $2.25.
> A first-class postage stamp: 13¢.
> *When?*
> 9. Tuition at Harvard University for one year: $600.
> A pound of ground beef: 53¢.
> Average cost of a rental apartment for one month: $80.
> A gallon of milk: 97¢.
> *When?*
> * Shipwrecks
> (Honestly, people will just leave a ship lying about any old place.)
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t4.jpg
>
> Most of the time when a boat sinks we never see it again, but sometimes
> we're lucky enough to discover shipwrecks decades or even centuries
> later, and are able to scavenge historical artifacts for the public to
> view. Here are some questions about these wrecks.
>
> 10. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/wrex/10.jpg
>
> *This battleship* was the flagship of the Japanese navy during World
> War II, and is the heaviest and most heavily-armed ship ever built.
> It was sunk in 1945 while traveling to Okinawa with orders to beach
> itself and defend the island. The wreck's discovery was confirmed in
> 1984.
>
> 11. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/wrex/11.jpg
>
> We didn't have a Blackbeard question in the Pirates triple, so here's
> one now. *This ship* was Blackbeard's flagship during his reign of
> piracy; he ran it aground in 1718 while fleeing British pursuers.
> The wreck was discovered in 1996 off the coast of North Carolina;
> since then, many artifacts have been recovered from the ship,
> including 31 cannons, and the wreck has been designated a national
> heritage site.
Dan Blum
Dec 14, 2018, 12:15:11 PM12/14/18
to
> * 1927
> 1. *This movie*, starring Clara Bow and Charles Rodgers, won the
> Best Picture award (as we now call it) in 1929 at the Academy
> Awards, even though it was released in 1927. It was the first
> American film to feature a male/male kiss and the first widely
> released American film to feature any nudity, and it grossed
> over $3,000,000 US in domestic box office.
Wings
> 2. *These Italian anarchists*, famous for being convicted of
> first-degree murder based on testimony that was mostly either
> faulty or recanted, were executed on 1927-08-22 after exhausting
> all of their appeals.
Sacco and Vanzetti
> 3. The Nanchang Uprising took place on 1927-08-01, in response
> to the Kuomintang's crackdown on the Chinese Communist Party
> in Shanghai on April 12, which resulted in an estimated 5,000
> deaths. The Nanchang Uprising is now considered the beginning
> of the Chinese Civil War, as well as the birth of *this
> organization*, which considers August 1 to be its anniversary.
People's Liberation Army
> * Pirates!
> 4. The buccaneer age of 1650 to 1680 was characterized by buccaneers
> working as mercenaries under the flags of the English, French,
> and Dutch, preying on Spanish fleets and ports. The most famous
> of these buccaneers was *this captain*, a Welshman who raided
> Puerto Principe, Porto Bello, Maracaibo, and Panama City.
> He was later knighted by Charles II and eventually made
> Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica.
Morgan
> 5. The Pirate Round was so named because pirates preyed on the
> route from Europe to the East Indies, where Portuguese and
> British ships went "round" the Cape of Good Hope and the southern
> tip of Africa to trade in India and the East Indies. The most
> famous of the Pirate Round pirates was *this captain*, who
> is famous for his legendary buried treasure (which spawned the
> common idea of buried pirate treasure), and for his protestations
> that he was a legal privateer at his trial in 1701 that led to
> his execution.
Kidd
> 6. The final and most famous age of piracy was in the Caribbean
> following the War of the Spanish Succession, as thousands of
> suddenly unemployed British navy men turned to piracy.
> An exception was *this captain*, known as the "Gentleman
> Pirate" because he was a wealthy landowner who, for reasons
> nobody has ever been able to explain, simply decided to become
> a pirate in 1717 -- commissioning his own pirate ship to do
> so. He sailed with Blackbeard on two occasions, but failed to
> become a successful pirate captain and was hanged in 1718.
Kidd
> * The Cost of Living
> A movie ticket: $1.50.
> A loaf of bread: 22?.
> *When?*
1966
> 8. Average cost of a new car: $4,785.
> A gallon of gasoline: 65?.
> *When?*
1972
> 9. Tuition at Harvard University for one year: $600.
> A pound of ground beef: 53?.
> *When?*
1956
> * Shipwrecks
> 10. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/wrex/10.jpg
> *This battleship* was the flagship of the Japanese navy during
> World War II, and is the heaviest and most heavily-armed ship
> ever built. It was sunk in 1945 while traveling to Okinawa
> with orders to beach itself and defend the island. The wreck's
> discovery was confirmed in 1984.
Yamato
> 12. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/wrex/12.jpg
> The Mary Rose was a carrack in Henry VIII's navy, which sank
> in 1545, north of the Isle of Wight, after 33 years of service.
> The wreck was discovered in 1971, and in a mammoth project, the
> entire wreck was transported from the sea floor to *this city*,
> where a museum was built to house the wreck and the innumerable
> Tudor-era artifacts found with it.
Brighton; Portsmouth
> * Old-Timey Retailers
> 13. In business since 1818-04-07, *this men's clothier* is one of
> the oldest continuously operating companies in the United
> States. The merchant is famous for introducing ready-to-wear
> men's suits to American customers. It launched its first
> full-scale women's department in 1976.
Brooks Brothers
> 14. *This department store chain*, the oldest mid- to high-range
> chain of its type in the United States, was founded in 1826.
> It was the first store to present dramatic Christmas windows
> filled with holiday displays rather than merchandise. It has
> been a subsidiary of the Hudson's Bay Co. since 2008.
Macy's
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
> 1. *This movie*, starring Clara Bow and Charles Rodgers, won the
> Best Picture award (as we now call it) in 1929 at the Academy
> Awards, even though it was released in 1927. It was the first
> American film to feature a male/male kiss and the first widely
> released American film to feature any nudity, and it grossed
> over $3,000,000 US in domestic box office.
> 2. *These Italian anarchists*, famous for being convicted of
> first-degree murder based on testimony that was mostly either
> faulty or recanted, were executed on 1927-08-22 after exhausting
> all of their appeals.
> 3. The Nanchang Uprising took place on 1927-08-01, in response
> to the Kuomintang's crackdown on the Chinese Communist Party
> in Shanghai on April 12, which resulted in an estimated 5,000
> deaths. The Nanchang Uprising is now considered the beginning
> of the Chinese Civil War, as well as the birth of *this
> organization*, which considers August 1 to be its anniversary.
> * Pirates!
> 4. The buccaneer age of 1650 to 1680 was characterized by buccaneers
> working as mercenaries under the flags of the English, French,
> and Dutch, preying on Spanish fleets and ports. The most famous
> of these buccaneers was *this captain*, a Welshman who raided
> Puerto Principe, Porto Bello, Maracaibo, and Panama City.
> He was later knighted by Charles II and eventually made
> Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica.
> 5. The Pirate Round was so named because pirates preyed on the
> route from Europe to the East Indies, where Portuguese and
> British ships went "round" the Cape of Good Hope and the southern
> tip of Africa to trade in India and the East Indies. The most
> famous of the Pirate Round pirates was *this captain*, who
> is famous for his legendary buried treasure (which spawned the
> common idea of buried pirate treasure), and for his protestations
> that he was a legal privateer at his trial in 1701 that led to
> his execution.
> 6. The final and most famous age of piracy was in the Caribbean
> following the War of the Spanish Succession, as thousands of
> suddenly unemployed British navy men turned to piracy.
> An exception was *this captain*, known as the "Gentleman
> Pirate" because he was a wealthy landowner who, for reasons
> nobody has ever been able to explain, simply decided to become
> a pirate in 1717 -- commissioning his own pirate ship to do
> so. He sailed with Blackbeard on two occasions, but failed to
> become a successful pirate captain and was hanged in 1718.
> * The Cost of Living
> 7. Average cost of a new house: $14,975.
> A dozen eggs: 38?.
> A movie ticket: $1.50.
> A loaf of bread: 22?.
> *When?*
1966
> 8. Average cost of a new car: $4,785.
> A pound of coffee: $2.25.
> A first-class postage stamp: 13?.
> *When?*
1972
> 9. Tuition at Harvard University for one year: $600.
> Average cost of a rental apartment for one month: $80.
> A gallon of milk: 97?.
> *When?*
1956
> * Shipwrecks
> 10. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/wrex/10.jpg
> *This battleship* was the flagship of the Japanese navy during
> World War II, and is the heaviest and most heavily-armed ship
> ever built. It was sunk in 1945 while traveling to Okinawa
> with orders to beach itself and defend the island. The wreck's
> discovery was confirmed in 1984.
> 12. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/wrex/12.jpg
> The Mary Rose was a carrack in Henry VIII's navy, which sank
> in 1545, north of the Isle of Wight, after 33 years of service.
> The wreck was discovered in 1971, and in a mammoth project, the
> entire wreck was transported from the sea floor to *this city*,
> where a museum was built to house the wreck and the innumerable
> Tudor-era artifacts found with it.
> * Old-Timey Retailers
> 13. In business since 1818-04-07, *this men's clothier* is one of
> the oldest continuously operating companies in the United
> States. The merchant is famous for introducing ready-to-wear
> men's suits to American customers. It launched its first
> full-scale women's department in 1976.
> 14. *This department store chain*, the oldest mid- to high-range
> chain of its type in the United States, was founded in 1826.
> It was the first store to present dramatic Christmas windows
> filled with holiday displays rather than merchandise. It has
> been a subsidiary of the Hudson's Bay Co. since 2008.
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Joshua Kreitzer
Dec 15, 2018, 12:03:34 PM12/15/18
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:H6GdnSTvJO2XyY7BnZ2dnUU7-
K_N...@giganews.com:
> ** Final, Round 2 - History
>
> * 1927
> 2. *These Italian anarchists*, famous for being convicted of
> first-degree murder based on testimony that was mostly either
> faulty or recanted, were executed on 1927-08-22 after exhausting
> all of their appeals.
Sacco and Vanzetti
> 3. The Nanchang Uprising took place on 1927-08-01, in response
> to the Kuomintang's crackdown on the Chinese Communist Party
> in Shanghai on April 12, which resulted in an estimated 5,000
> deaths. The Nanchang Uprising is now considered the beginning
> of the Chinese Civil War, as well as the birth of *this
> organization*, which considers August 1 to be its anniversary.
Chinese Army
> * Pirates!
> 5. The Pirate Round was so named because pirates preyed on the
> route from Europe to the East Indies, where Portuguese and
> British ships went "round" the Cape of Good Hope and the southern
> tip of Africa to trade in India and the East Indies. The most
> famous of the Pirate Round pirates was *this captain*, who
> is famous for his legendary buried treasure (which spawned the
> common idea of buried pirate treasure), and for his protestations
> that he was a legal privateer at his trial in 1701 that led to
> his execution.
Kidd
> * Old-Timey Retailers
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
K_N...@giganews.com:
> ** Final, Round 2 - History
>
>
> 1. *This movie*, starring Clara Bow and Charles Rodgers, won the
> Best Picture award (as we now call it) in 1929 at the Academy
> Awards, even though it was released in 1927. It was the first
> American film to feature a male/male kiss and the first widely
> released American film to feature any nudity, and it grossed
> over $3,000,000 US in domestic box office.
"Wings"
> 1. *This movie*, starring Clara Bow and Charles Rodgers, won the
> Best Picture award (as we now call it) in 1929 at the Academy
> Awards, even though it was released in 1927. It was the first
> American film to feature a male/male kiss and the first widely
> released American film to feature any nudity, and it grossed
> over $3,000,000 US in domestic box office.
> 2. *These Italian anarchists*, famous for being convicted of
> first-degree murder based on testimony that was mostly either
> faulty or recanted, were executed on 1927-08-22 after exhausting
> all of their appeals.
> 3. The Nanchang Uprising took place on 1927-08-01, in response
> to the Kuomintang's crackdown on the Chinese Communist Party
> in Shanghai on April 12, which resulted in an estimated 5,000
> deaths. The Nanchang Uprising is now considered the beginning
> of the Chinese Civil War, as well as the birth of *this
> organization*, which considers August 1 to be its anniversary.
> * Pirates!
>
> 4. The buccaneer age of 1650 to 1680 was characterized by buccaneers
> working as mercenaries under the flags of the English, French,
> and Dutch, preying on Spanish fleets and ports. The most famous
> of these buccaneers was *this captain*, a Welshman who raided
> Puerto Principe, Porto Bello, Maracaibo, and Panama City.
> He was later knighted by Charles II and eventually made
> Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica.
Henry Morgan
> 4. The buccaneer age of 1650 to 1680 was characterized by buccaneers
> working as mercenaries under the flags of the English, French,
> and Dutch, preying on Spanish fleets and ports. The most famous
> of these buccaneers was *this captain*, a Welshman who raided
> Puerto Principe, Porto Bello, Maracaibo, and Panama City.
> He was later knighted by Charles II and eventually made
> Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica.
> 5. The Pirate Round was so named because pirates preyed on the
> route from Europe to the East Indies, where Portuguese and
> British ships went "round" the Cape of Good Hope and the southern
> tip of Africa to trade in India and the East Indies. The most
> famous of the Pirate Round pirates was *this captain*, who
> is famous for his legendary buried treasure (which spawned the
> common idea of buried pirate treasure), and for his protestations
> that he was a legal privateer at his trial in 1701 that led to
> his execution.
> * Old-Timey Retailers
>
> 13. In business since 1818-04-07, *this men's clothier* is one of
> the oldest continuously operating companies in the United
> States. The merchant is famous for introducing ready-to-wear
> men's suits to American customers. It launched its first
> full-scale women's department in 1976.
Brooks Brothers
> 13. In business since 1818-04-07, *this men's clothier* is one of
> the oldest continuously operating companies in the United
> States. The merchant is famous for introducing ready-to-wear
> men's suits to American customers. It launched its first
> full-scale women's department in 1976.
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Calvin
Dec 16, 2018, 6:20:15 PM12/16/18
to
On Friday, December 14, 2018 at 4:56:16 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
> 1. *This movie*, starring Clara Bow and Charles Rodgers, won the
> Best Picture award (as we now call it) in 1929 at the Academy
> Awards, even though it was released in 1927. It was the first
> American film to feature a male/male kiss and the first widely
> released American film to feature any nudity, and it grossed
> over $3,000,000 US in domestic box office.
Wings
> 1. *This movie*, starring Clara Bow and Charles Rodgers, won the
> Best Picture award (as we now call it) in 1929 at the Academy
> Awards, even though it was released in 1927. It was the first
> American film to feature a male/male kiss and the first widely
> released American film to feature any nudity, and it grossed
> over $3,000,000 US in domestic box office.
> * Old-Timey Retailers
> (No Amazon for us! Take that, Jeff Bezos!)
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t5.jpg
>
> Some retailers have been in business a very, very long time.
> Here are questions about some of the oldest retailers still
> operating today. Sorry, no coupons.
>
> 13. In business since 1818-04-07, *this men's clothier* is one of
> the oldest continuously operating companies in the United
> States. The merchant is famous for introducing ready-to-wear
> men's suits to American customers. It launched its first
> full-scale women's department in 1976.
>
> 14. *This department store chain*, the oldest mid- to high-range
> chain of its type in the United States, was founded in 1826.
> It was the first store to present dramatic Christmas windows
> filled with holiday displays rather than merchandise. It has
> been a subsidiary of the Hudson's Bay Co. since 2008.
>
> 15. *This luxury skin and hair care retailer* first opened in the
> East Village of New York City in 1851, when it was called
> Brunswick Apotheke. Its signature musk oil was developed
> in 1921. Some of its other long-successful products are the
> Blue Astringent Herbal Lotion and the Creme de Corps. And that
> original East Village location is still open!
calvin
Pete Gayde
Dec 17, 2018, 12:21:47 AM12/17/18
to
>
> 2. *These Italian anarchists*, famous for being convicted of
> first-degree murder based on testimony that was mostly either
> faulty or recanted, were executed on 1927-08-22 after exhausting
> all of their appeals.
>
> 3. The Nanchang Uprising took place on 1927-08-01, in response
> to the Kuomintang's crackdown on the Chinese Communist Party
> in Shanghai on April 12, which resulted in an estimated 5,000
> deaths. The Nanchang Uprising is now considered the beginning
> of the Chinese Civil War, as well as the birth of *this
> organization*, which considers August 1 to be its anniversary.
>
>
> * Pirates!
> (Not the hacker kind.)
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t2.jpg
>
> Although we seem to all enjoy movies about pirates, the truth is
> that the "Golden Age of Piracy" only lasted from 1650 to 1726,
> and that this era encompasses three specific and mostly unrelated
> historical eras: the buccaneer age, the Indian Ocean Pirate Round,
> and the final age of piracy following the War of Spanish Succession.
> Here is one question about each of these eras.
>
> *Hint*: None of the answers is "Blackbeard".
>
> 4. The buccaneer age of 1650 to 1680 was characterized by buccaneers
> working as mercenaries under the flags of the English, French,
> and Dutch, preying on Spanish fleets and ports. The most famous
> of these buccaneers was *this captain*, a Welshman who raided
> Puerto Principe, Porto Bello, Maracaibo, and Panama City.
> He was later knighted by Charles II and eventually made
> Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica.
>
> 5. The Pirate Round was so named because pirates preyed on the
> route from Europe to the East Indies, where Portuguese and
> British ships went "round" the Cape of Good Hope and the southern
> tip of Africa to trade in India and the East Indies. The most
> famous of the Pirate Round pirates was *this captain*, who
> is famous for his legendary buried treasure (which spawned the
> common idea of buried pirate treasure), and for his protestations
> that he was a legal privateer at his trial in 1701 that led to
> his execution.
>
> 6. The final and most famous age of piracy was in the Caribbean
> following the War of the Spanish Succession, as thousands of
> suddenly unemployed British navy men turned to piracy.
> An exception was *this captain*, known as the "Gentleman
> Pirate" because he was a wealthy landowner who, for reasons
> nobody has ever been able to explain, simply decided to become
> a pirate in 1717 -- commissioning his own pirate ship to do
> so. He sailed with Blackbeard on two occasions, but failed to
> become a successful pirate captain and was hanged in 1718.
>
>
> * The Cost of Living
> (It's a lot.)
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t3.jpg
>
> For each question in this round, we'll give you prices of several
> common goods. Within 4 years, you tell us the year of those prices.
>
> *Note:* Unfortunately, these are all US prices; they are shown in
> US dollars, and the gallons are US gallons.
>
> 7. Average cost of a new house: $14,975.
> A dozen eggs: 38¢.
> A movie ticket: $1.50.
> A loaf of bread: 22¢.
> *When?*
>
> 8. Average cost of a new car: $4,785.
> A gallon of gasoline: 65¢.
> A pound of coffee: $2.25.
> A first-class postage stamp: 13¢.
> *When?*
>
> 9. Tuition at Harvard University for one year: $600.
> A pound of ground beef: 53¢.
> Average cost of a rental apartment for one month: $80.
> A gallon of milk: 97¢.
> *When?*
>
>
> * Shipwrecks
> (Honestly, people will just leave a ship lying about any old place.)
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t4.jpg
>
> Most of the time when a boat sinks we never see it again, but
> sometimes we're lucky enough to discover shipwrecks decades or
> even centuries later, and are able to scavenge historical artifacts
> for the public to view. Here are some questions about these wrecks.
>
> 10. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/wrex/10.jpg
>
> *This battleship* was the flagship of the Japanese navy during
> World War II, and is the heaviest and most heavily-armed ship
> ever built. It was sunk in 1945 while traveling to Okinawa
> with orders to beach itself and defend the island. The wreck's
> discovery was confirmed in 1984.
>
> 11. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/wrex/11.jpg
>
> We didn't have a Blackbeard question in the Pirates triple, so
> here's one now. *This ship* was Blackbeard's flagship during
> his reign of piracy; he ran it aground in 1718 while fleeing
> British pursuers. The wreck was discovered in 1996 off the
> coast of North Carolina; since then, many artifacts have been
> recovered from the ship, including 31 cannons, and the wreck
> has been designated a national heritage site.
>
> 12. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/wrex/12.jpg
>
> The Mary Rose was a carrack in Henry VIII's navy, which sank
> in 1545, north of the Isle of Wight, after 33 years of service.
> The wreck was discovered in 1971, and in a mammoth project, the
> entire wreck was transported from the sea floor to *this city*,
> where a museum was built to house the wreck and the innumerable
> Tudor-era artifacts found with it.
>
>
> * Old-Timey Retailers
> (No Amazon for us! Take that, Jeff Bezos!)
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t5.jpg
>
> Some retailers have been in business a very, very long time.
> Here are questions about some of the oldest retailers still
> operating today. Sorry, no coupons.
>
> 13. In business since 1818-04-07, *this men's clothier* is one of
> the oldest continuously operating companies in the United
> States. The merchant is famous for introducing ready-to-wear
> men's suits to American customers. It launched its first
> full-scale women's department in 1976.
>
> 14. *This department store chain*, the oldest mid- to high-range
> chain of its type in the United States, was founded in 1826.
> It was the first store to present dramatic Christmas windows
> filled with holiday displays rather than merchandise. It has
> been a subsidiary of the Hudson's Bay Co. since 2008.
>
> 15. *This luxury skin and hair care retailer* first opened in the
> East Village of New York City in 1851, when it was called
> Brunswick Apotheke. Its signature musk oil was developed
> in 1921. Some of its other long-successful products are the
> Blue Astringent Herbal Lotion and the Creme de Corps. And that
> original East Village location is still open!
>
Mark Brader
Dec 18, 2018, 12:07:43 AM12/18/18
to
Mark Brader:
"Wings". 4 for Bruce, Dan, Joshua, Calvin, and Pete.
The awards were for movies released from August 1927 to July 1928
(they were changed a few years later to go by calendar years),
but the Academy itself was new and the winners weren't chosen until
February 1929, and then the award ceremony that didn't take place
until May 1929. At the time the specific award was actually named
Outstanding Picture; the name changed several times and it took over
30 years to finally settle down to Best Picture.
> 2. *These Italian anarchists*, famous for being convicted of
> first-degree murder based on testimony that was mostly either
> faulty or recanted, were executed on 1927-08-22 after exhausting
> all of their appeals.
Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti. 4 for Bruce, Dan, Joshua,
and Pete.
> 3. The Nanchang Uprising took place on 1927-08-01, in response
> to the Kuomintang's crackdown on the Chinese Communist Party
> in Shanghai on April 12, which resulted in an estimated 5,000
> deaths. The Nanchang Uprising is now considered the beginning
> of the Chinese Civil War, as well as the birth of *this
> organization*, which considers August 1 to be its anniversary.
People's Liberation Army. I accepted other references to the Chinese
army as almost correct. 4 for Dan. 3 for Joshua. 2 for Pete.
> * Pirates!
> (Not the hacker kind.)
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t2.jpg
> Although we seem to all enjoy movies about pirates, the truth is
> that the "Golden Age of Piracy" only lasted from 1650 to 1726,
> and that this era encompasses three specific and mostly unrelated
> historical eras: the buccaneer age, the Indian Ocean Pirate Round,
> and the final age of piracy following the War of Spanish Succession.
> Here is one question about each of these eras.
> *Hint*: None of the answers is "Blackbeard".
Or "Bluebeard" either. He was a fictional serial killer, not a
real-life pirate!
> 4. The buccaneer age of 1650 to 1680 was characterized by buccaneers
> working as mercenaries under the flags of the English, French,
> and Dutch, preying on Spanish fleets and ports. The most famous
> of these buccaneers was *this captain*, a Welshman who raided
> Puerto Principe, Porto Bello, Maracaibo, and Panama City.
> He was later knighted by Charles II and eventually made
> Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica.
Henry Morgan. 4 for Dan, Joshua, and Calvin.
> 5. The Pirate Round was so named because pirates preyed on the
> route from Europe to the East Indies, where Portuguese and
> British ships went "round" the Cape of Good Hope and the southern
> tip of Africa to trade in India and the East Indies. The most
> famous of the Pirate Round pirates was *this captain*, who
> is famous for his legendary buried treasure (which spawned the
> common idea of buried pirate treasure), and for his protestations
> that he was a legal privateer at his trial in 1701 that led to
> his execution.
William Kidd. 4 for Dan and Joshua.
> 6. The final and most famous age of piracy was in the Caribbean
> following the War of the Spanish Succession, as thousands of
> suddenly unemployed British navy men turned to piracy.
> An exception was *this captain*, known as the "Gentleman
> Pirate" because he was a wealthy landowner who, for reasons
> nobody has ever been able to explain, simply decided to become
> a pirate in 1717 -- commissioning his own pirate ship to do
> so. He sailed with Blackbeard on two occasions, but failed to
> become a successful pirate captain and was hanged in 1718.
Stede Bonnet.
> * The Cost of Living
> (It's a lot.)
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t3.jpg
> For each question in this round, we'll give you prices of several
> common goods. Within 4 years, you tell us the year of those prices.
> *Note:* Unfortunately, these are all US prices; they are shown in
> US dollars, and the gallons are US gallons.
> 7. Average cost of a new house: $14,975.
> A dozen eggs: 38¢.
> A movie ticket: $1.50.
> A loaf of bread: 22¢.
> *When?*
1968 (accepting 1964-72). 4 for Dan.
> 8. Average cost of a new car: $4,785.
> A gallon of gasoline: 65¢.
> A pound of coffee: $2.25.
> A first-class postage stamp: 13¢.
> *When?*
1977 (accepting 1973-81). 4 for Bruce. 3 for Pete.
> 9. Tuition at Harvard University for one year: $600.
> A pound of ground beef: 53¢.
> Average cost of a rental apartment for one month: $80.
> A gallon of milk: 97¢.
> *When?*
1952 (accepting 1948-56). 4 for Bruce and Dan.
> * Shipwrecks
> (Honestly, people will just leave a ship lying about any old place.)
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t4.jpg
> Most of the time when a boat sinks we never see it again, but
> sometimes we're lucky enough to discover shipwrecks decades or
> even centuries later, and are able to scavenge historical artifacts
> for the public to view. Here are some questions about these wrecks.
> 10. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/wrex/10.jpg
> *This battleship* was the flagship of the Japanese navy during
> World War II, and is the heaviest and most heavily-armed ship
> ever built. It was sunk in 1945 while traveling to Okinawa
> with orders to beach itself and defend the island. The wreck's
> discovery was confirmed in 1984.
Yamato. I am not accepting "Yamamoto", who was a person -- during
the war, an admiral. 4 for Dan.
> 11. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/wrex/11.jpg
> We didn't have a Blackbeard question in the Pirates triple, so
> here's one now. *This ship* was Blackbeard's flagship during
> his reign of piracy; he ran it aground in 1718 while fleeing
> British pursuers. The wreck was discovered in 1996 off the
> coast of North Carolina; since then, many artifacts have been
> recovered from the ship, including 31 cannons, and the wreck
> has been designated a national heritage site.
Queen Anne's Revenge. 4 for Bruce.
Yes, that's right, it's a national heritage site of a nation that
did not exist when the ship was operating.
> 12. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/wrex/12.jpg
> The Mary Rose was a carrack in Henry VIII's navy, which sank
> in 1545, north of the Isle of Wight, after 33 years of service.
> The wreck was discovered in 1971, and in a mammoth project, the
> entire wreck was transported from the sea floor to *this city*,
> where a museum was built to house the wreck and the innumerable
> Tudor-era artifacts found with it.
Portsmouth. 3 for Calvin. 2 for Dan.
> * Old-Timey Retailers
> (No Amazon for us! Take that, Jeff Bezos!)
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t5.jpg
> Some retailers have been in business a very, very long time.
> Here are questions about some of the oldest retailers still
> operating today. Sorry, no coupons.
> 13. In business since 1818-04-07, *this men's clothier* is one of
> the oldest continuously operating companies in the United
> States. The merchant is famous for introducing ready-to-wear
> men's suits to American customers. It launched its first
> full-scale women's department in 1976.
Brooks Brothers. 4 for Dan and Joshua.
A variation of this question was the "Final Jeopardy!" on 2018-12-03.
They gave the first names of the four founding brothers and mentioned
that the firm was 200 years old and "has dressed 40 US presidents".
Two contenstants correctly gave the surname as Brooks, but one player
guessed it was Kevlar! (No harm, though; she would've finished
third even if she'd gotten it right.)
> 14. *This department store chain*, the oldest mid- to high-range
> chain of its type in the United States, was founded in 1826.
> It was the first store to present dramatic Christmas windows
> filled with holiday displays rather than merchandise. It has
> been a subsidiary of the Hudson's Bay Co. since 2008.
Lord and Taylor.
> 15. *This luxury skin and hair care retailer* first opened in the
> East Village of New York City in 1851, when it was called
> Brunswick Apotheke. Its signature musk oil was developed
> in 1921. Some of its other long-successful products are the
> Blue Astringent Herbal Lotion and the Creme de Corps. And that
> original East Village location is still open!
Kiehl's. I hadn't even heard of this one.
Scores, if there are no errors:
FINAL ROUNDS-> 2
TOPICS-> His
Dan Blum 38
Joshua Kreitzer 23
Bruce Bowler 20
Pete Gayde 13
"Calvin" 11
Erland Sommarskog 0
--
Mark Brader | "No [flying machine] will ever fly from New York to
Toronto | Paris ...[because] no known motor can run at the
m...@vex.net | requisite speed for four days without stopping..."
| -- Orville Wright, March 1909
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2018-08-07,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
The awards were for movies released from August 1927 to July 1928
(they were changed a few years later to go by calendar years),
but the Academy itself was new and the winners weren't chosen until
February 1929, and then the award ceremony that didn't take place
until May 1929. At the time the specific award was actually named
Outstanding Picture; the name changed several times and it took over
30 years to finally settle down to Best Picture.
> 2. *These Italian anarchists*, famous for being convicted of
> first-degree murder based on testimony that was mostly either
> faulty or recanted, were executed on 1927-08-22 after exhausting
> all of their appeals.
and Pete.
> 3. The Nanchang Uprising took place on 1927-08-01, in response
> to the Kuomintang's crackdown on the Chinese Communist Party
> in Shanghai on April 12, which resulted in an estimated 5,000
> deaths. The Nanchang Uprising is now considered the beginning
> of the Chinese Civil War, as well as the birth of *this
> organization*, which considers August 1 to be its anniversary.
army as almost correct. 4 for Dan. 3 for Joshua. 2 for Pete.
> * Pirates!
> (Not the hacker kind.)
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t2.jpg
> Although we seem to all enjoy movies about pirates, the truth is
> that the "Golden Age of Piracy" only lasted from 1650 to 1726,
> and that this era encompasses three specific and mostly unrelated
> historical eras: the buccaneer age, the Indian Ocean Pirate Round,
> and the final age of piracy following the War of Spanish Succession.
> Here is one question about each of these eras.
> *Hint*: None of the answers is "Blackbeard".
real-life pirate!
> 4. The buccaneer age of 1650 to 1680 was characterized by buccaneers
> working as mercenaries under the flags of the English, French,
> and Dutch, preying on Spanish fleets and ports. The most famous
> of these buccaneers was *this captain*, a Welshman who raided
> Puerto Principe, Porto Bello, Maracaibo, and Panama City.
> He was later knighted by Charles II and eventually made
> Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica.
> 5. The Pirate Round was so named because pirates preyed on the
> route from Europe to the East Indies, where Portuguese and
> British ships went "round" the Cape of Good Hope and the southern
> tip of Africa to trade in India and the East Indies. The most
> famous of the Pirate Round pirates was *this captain*, who
> is famous for his legendary buried treasure (which spawned the
> common idea of buried pirate treasure), and for his protestations
> that he was a legal privateer at his trial in 1701 that led to
> his execution.
> 6. The final and most famous age of piracy was in the Caribbean
> following the War of the Spanish Succession, as thousands of
> suddenly unemployed British navy men turned to piracy.
> An exception was *this captain*, known as the "Gentleman
> Pirate" because he was a wealthy landowner who, for reasons
> nobody has ever been able to explain, simply decided to become
> a pirate in 1717 -- commissioning his own pirate ship to do
> so. He sailed with Blackbeard on two occasions, but failed to
> become a successful pirate captain and was hanged in 1718.
> * The Cost of Living
> (It's a lot.)
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t3.jpg
> For each question in this round, we'll give you prices of several
> common goods. Within 4 years, you tell us the year of those prices.
> *Note:* Unfortunately, these are all US prices; they are shown in
> US dollars, and the gallons are US gallons.
> 7. Average cost of a new house: $14,975.
> A dozen eggs: 38¢.
> A movie ticket: $1.50.
> A loaf of bread: 22¢.
> *When?*
> 8. Average cost of a new car: $4,785.
> A gallon of gasoline: 65¢.
> A pound of coffee: $2.25.
> A first-class postage stamp: 13¢.
> *When?*
> 9. Tuition at Harvard University for one year: $600.
> A pound of ground beef: 53¢.
> Average cost of a rental apartment for one month: $80.
> A gallon of milk: 97¢.
> *When?*
> * Shipwrecks
> (Honestly, people will just leave a ship lying about any old place.)
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t4.jpg
> Most of the time when a boat sinks we never see it again, but
> sometimes we're lucky enough to discover shipwrecks decades or
> even centuries later, and are able to scavenge historical artifacts
> for the public to view. Here are some questions about these wrecks.
> 10. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/wrex/10.jpg
> *This battleship* was the flagship of the Japanese navy during
> World War II, and is the heaviest and most heavily-armed ship
> ever built. It was sunk in 1945 while traveling to Okinawa
> with orders to beach itself and defend the island. The wreck's
> discovery was confirmed in 1984.
the war, an admiral. 4 for Dan.
> 11. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/wrex/11.jpg
> We didn't have a Blackbeard question in the Pirates triple, so
> here's one now. *This ship* was Blackbeard's flagship during
> his reign of piracy; he ran it aground in 1718 while fleeing
> British pursuers. The wreck was discovered in 1996 off the
> coast of North Carolina; since then, many artifacts have been
> recovered from the ship, including 31 cannons, and the wreck
> has been designated a national heritage site.
Yes, that's right, it's a national heritage site of a nation that
did not exist when the ship was operating.
> 12. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/wrex/12.jpg
> The Mary Rose was a carrack in Henry VIII's navy, which sank
> in 1545, north of the Isle of Wight, after 33 years of service.
> The wreck was discovered in 1971, and in a mammoth project, the
> entire wreck was transported from the sea floor to *this city*,
> where a museum was built to house the wreck and the innumerable
> Tudor-era artifacts found with it.
> * Old-Timey Retailers
> (No Amazon for us! Take that, Jeff Bezos!)
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-2/t5.jpg
> Some retailers have been in business a very, very long time.
> Here are questions about some of the oldest retailers still
> operating today. Sorry, no coupons.
> 13. In business since 1818-04-07, *this men's clothier* is one of
> the oldest continuously operating companies in the United
> States. The merchant is famous for introducing ready-to-wear
> men's suits to American customers. It launched its first
> full-scale women's department in 1976.
A variation of this question was the "Final Jeopardy!" on 2018-12-03.
They gave the first names of the four founding brothers and mentioned
that the firm was 200 years old and "has dressed 40 US presidents".
Two contenstants correctly gave the surname as Brooks, but one player
guessed it was Kevlar! (No harm, though; she would've finished
third even if she'd gotten it right.)
> 14. *This department store chain*, the oldest mid- to high-range
> chain of its type in the United States, was founded in 1826.
> It was the first store to present dramatic Christmas windows
> filled with holiday displays rather than merchandise. It has
> been a subsidiary of the Hudson's Bay Co. since 2008.
> 15. *This luxury skin and hair care retailer* first opened in the
> East Village of New York City in 1851, when it was called
> Brunswick Apotheke. Its signature musk oil was developed
> in 1921. Some of its other long-successful products are the
> Blue Astringent Herbal Lotion and the Creme de Corps. And that
> original East Village location is still open!
Scores, if there are no errors:
FINAL ROUNDS-> 2
TOPICS-> His
Dan Blum 38
Joshua Kreitzer 23
Bruce Bowler 20
Pete Gayde 13
"Calvin" 11
Erland Sommarskog 0
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