These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-07-04,
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 Usual Suspects 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 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
I did not write either of these rounds.
* Game 7, Round 2 - Canadiana Geography - Regional, Cultural,
Sub-Provincial, Organizational, and Just Plain Unofficial Flags
Please see the handout at:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/7-2/flags.pdf
I have decided to post this round in essentially its original form
despite the mixture of questions that give the flag number and
those that ask for the flag number. This means that by reading
ahead you'll have a bit of extra information on some questions,
but I think this won't be too damaging. The alternatives would
have been to regroup the questions according to which way they go
(making some of them harder) or to require a lot of separate rot13's
(making it inconvenient).
1. Which flag on the handout is the ensign of the Royal Canadian
Air Force?
2. Flag #5 represents a Canadian cultural group. Which one?
3. Flag #7 belongs to which southern Ontario city?
4. Which flag is for the Métis Nation of Canada?
5. Which flag is for the City of Vancouver?
6. Which fraternal organization does flag #21 represent?
7. Flag #16 belongs to which Canadian Crown Corporation?
8. The unofficial flag in picture #9 represents a geographically
distinct region of a Canadian province. Name the region *or*
the province.
9. Flag #13 represents the francophone community in which province?
10. Which flag belongs to a Canadian religious organization?
After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Ba gur frpbaq
dhrfgvba, vs lbh tnir n qrfpevcgvba bs gur phygheny tebhc, cyrnfr
tb onpx naq fhofgvghgr gurve anzr.
So there were 12 decoys. Decode the rot13 if you'd like to see
what they represent, and in each case identify the flag number
for fun, but for no points.
11. Pnytnel.
12. Pnanqn.
13. Pnanqvna Nezl.
14. Pnanqvna Sbeprf.
15. Senapbcubarf va OP (Senapb-Pbyhzovraf).
16. Senapbcubarf va Bagnevb (Senapb-Bagnevraf).
17. Senapbcubarf va Fnfxngpurjna (Senafnfxbvf).
18. Ybjre Pnanqn "cngevbgf", orsber gur 1837 eroryyvba.
19. Zrgebcbyvgna Gbebagb, orsber 1998.
20. Zv'xznd crbcyr bs Anghndnarx, bgurejvfr xabja nf Rry Tebhaq, AO.
21. Arjsbhaqynaq (habssvpvny synt sbe gur vfynaq be fbzrgvzrf
gur cebivapr).
22. Gur EPZC.
* Game 7, Round 3 - Literature - "Popular" Religious Writers
This round is about authors whose writings on religion (both fiction
and non-fiction) have been aimed at, or crossed over to, the general
public -- or who have otherwise gotten widespread notice. We've tried to
avoid crackpots, inspirational writing, New Age, and, for the most
part, Dan Brown. In all cases, name the writer.
1. This author's reputation, at least within the field of theology,
would have been made if he'd stopped with his influential
1906 book "The Quest of the Historical Jesus". However, he
was also an accomplished organist and music scholar -- and
then he gained wider renown when he became a medical doctor,
and a missionary in Gabon. In 1952 he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
2. This American Trappist monk, who lived 1915-68, wrote over 70
books, the best-known of which is the spiritual autobiography
"The Seven Storey Mountain". A school near Dundas West subway
station is partly named after him.
3. Name the former Catholic nun who left the convent and became a
writer on spiritual subjects, authoring at least two dozen
books on diverse topics, such as biographies of Muhammad and
the Buddha, and a history of the idea of God.
4. This Swiss theologian, academic, and priest has butted heads
with the Vatican throughout his career, eventually losing his
licence to teach Catholic theology but not his priestly vocation.
He is the author of "Does God Exist?" and "On Being a Christian".
5. Though he rejected the label of "Catholic novelist", religious
themes are present throughout many of this writer's works,
such as "The End of the Affair" and "The Power and the Glory".
The latter novel, incidentally, resulted in his being "read
the Riot Act" by the Church for his portrayal of an alcoholic
Mexican priest. Name this British author, who died in 1991.
6. This British writer, who lived 1874-1936, was first an Anglican
and later a Roman Catholic, and was an explicit Christian
apologist. In addition to his theological works, he produced
an impressive body of fiction, including many stories of a
clergyman who was a sometime detective.
7. This Lutheran pastor's writings on the encounter of Christian
faith with secularism have been theologically influential, but
he is perhaps just as well known for his involvement with the
resistance to Nazism and his (at least peripheral) connection
to the 1944 plot on Hitler's life. This led to him being hanged
in 1945, just three weeks before the downfall of the Third Reich.
8. This American psychologist, philosopher, and seeker of mystical
experiences through drug use was the author of the 1902 work
"The Varieties of Religious Experience".
9. This Iranian-American scholar became known for his 2013 book
"Zealot", which argued that what Jesus was working for
was to incite an uprising against Roman authority and the
Jewish priesthood. When the author appeared on Fox News, the
interviewer evinced incredulity that a Muslim could validly
write about Jesus.
10. This American, who died in 1987, followed his bliss and wrote
numerous books on myth, including "The Hero with a Thousand
Faces", which George Lucas credited with influencing his
screenplay for "Star Wars". Dan Brown claims that the character
of Robert Langdon (in "The Da Vinci Code" and other books)
was based on him.
--
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Toronto | and therefore can have no influence on the Earth
m...@vex.net | and therefore would be useless
| and therefore do not exist." -- Francesco Sizi
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