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Mark Brader
Aug 21, 2016, 7:46:41 PM8/21/16
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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-06-27,
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 2 or 3 weeks.
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 6, Round 4 - Literature - Love Laments
As the song says, "When love goes wrong, nothing goes right."
Here are some sad examples of just how often that happens.
For the first few questions we'll give you a few poetic lines --
though we won't necessarily recite them soulfully -- and then,
in each case, we'll bring you back to earth.
1. O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms
Alone and palely loitering?
What does ail him, or rather *who*, according to John Keats?
The title of the poem gives your answer.
2. I could not love thee, Dear, so much,
Loved I not Honour more.
Despite those fine words, Richard Lovelace is still leaving
Lucasta. *Why*? Again the answer is in the title of the poem,
but this time we'll accept a paraphrase.
3. When lovely woman stoops to folly
And finds too late that men betray, --
What charm can soothe her melancholy,
What art can wash her guilt away?
What's the solution to this quandary, in the opinion of the
poet, Oliver Goldsmith? This time the answer is in the poem's
last line, and we wouldn't actually recommend it as a course
of action.
4. In the merry month of May,
The green buds were a-swelling.
Sweet William on his deathbed lay
For love of...
But when the hardhearted heroine of this ballad came to his
bedside, all she said to the man who loved her was: "Young man,
I think you're dying". Name her.
Okay, that's enough poetic readings.
5. "And all men kill the thing they love" is a dire warning from
which writer, best known as a playwright?
6. Married to a doctor who doesn't fulfill her dreams of romance
and luxury, abandoned by her lover, our heroine takes arsenic.
Which protagonist of an 1856 novel are we talking about?
7. Our hero thinks he's got it made when he attracts the attention
of a girl who's both beautiful and wealthy. Life would be great
if only the other girl, who he's seduced and impregnated, wasn't
poor and didn't insist on marrying him. Do you seriously think
this is going to end well, especially when they go out in a canoe
on a secluded part of the lake? No, that's not your question.
On film it became "A Place in the Sun", but your question is,
what was the title of the original 1925 novel?
8. She married the local football star, but he ignores her and
drinks far too much. And he seems way too upset by Skipper's
death. After all, a mere friend isn't as important as a wife,
is he? Name this play from 1955, in which love goes wrong for
pretty much everybody.
9. Heartbreak is painful but it does make good material for actors.
Christopher Plummer won a Tony, and José Ferrer won an Oscar,
each for portraying which hero, originally of an 1897 play of
the same name, who reveals his love only as he is dying?
10. Lily Bart is a penniless orphan who needs to marry someone
with money. Unfortunately, she can't bring herself to do it,
maybe because she's in love with a poor man. An overdose
of laudanum ensues. Agent Scully played the doomed heroine
on the big screen in 2000, and a fine performance it was.
Name the novel, written in 1905.
* Game 6, Round 6 - Sports - Mountaineering
This round is about technical terms in mountaineering, as well as
the history of the sport.
1. What English synonym for mountaineering has cognates in French
and Spanish and reflects the sport's long history on the
European continent?
2. A prusik ["PRUSS-ik"; spell it] is a type of what? Supposedly
it was invented around 1931 by an Austrian mountaineer of the
same name.
3. What is the name for a metal loop with a spring-loaded "gate",
used for connecting and disconnecting mountaineering equipment?
It is also widely used in other situations, with larger-sized
types used even to connect hot-air balloons to the basket.
4. What is the term in mountaineering (and also in related
activities such as caving and canyoning) for descending a
vertical drop by using a rope, often with other equipment such
as a harness and a device to play out the rope?
5. What technique or action is involved in a glissade ["gliss-AD"
or "gliss-AID"]?
6. What is the metal spike driven into a crack or seam in rocks
so that it can act as an anchor?
7. Give either of the two terms for loose, broken rock at the
bottoms of cliffs, volcanoes, and valleys. Which term applies
in a given situation depends on the size of the rock.
8. Name *either one* of the two British climbers who died on an
ascent of Mt. Everest in June 1924. They are known to have come
within 800 feet of the summit, leading to ongoing speculation
about whether they got there. One of their bodies was found
in 1999.
9. Within one year, in what year did Tenzing Norgay and Edmund
Hillary make the first recorded ascent to the summit of Everest?
10. Who was the Civil War general, unsuccessful presidential
candidate, and explorer who in 1842 climbed a Wyoming peak
that was later named after him? It is not, as was thought
at the time, the tallest mountain in the Rockies, but it is
13,745 feet or almost 4,200 m high.
--
Mark Brader | "...she was quite surprised to find that she remained
Toronto | the same size: to be sure, this generally happens
m...@vex.net | when one eats cake, but..." --Lewis Carroll
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 2 or 3 weeks.
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 6, Round 4 - Literature - Love Laments
As the song says, "When love goes wrong, nothing goes right."
Here are some sad examples of just how often that happens.
For the first few questions we'll give you a few poetic lines --
though we won't necessarily recite them soulfully -- and then,
in each case, we'll bring you back to earth.
1. O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms
Alone and palely loitering?
What does ail him, or rather *who*, according to John Keats?
The title of the poem gives your answer.
2. I could not love thee, Dear, so much,
Loved I not Honour more.
Despite those fine words, Richard Lovelace is still leaving
Lucasta. *Why*? Again the answer is in the title of the poem,
but this time we'll accept a paraphrase.
3. When lovely woman stoops to folly
And finds too late that men betray, --
What charm can soothe her melancholy,
What art can wash her guilt away?
What's the solution to this quandary, in the opinion of the
poet, Oliver Goldsmith? This time the answer is in the poem's
last line, and we wouldn't actually recommend it as a course
of action.
4. In the merry month of May,
The green buds were a-swelling.
Sweet William on his deathbed lay
For love of...
But when the hardhearted heroine of this ballad came to his
bedside, all she said to the man who loved her was: "Young man,
I think you're dying". Name her.
Okay, that's enough poetic readings.
5. "And all men kill the thing they love" is a dire warning from
which writer, best known as a playwright?
6. Married to a doctor who doesn't fulfill her dreams of romance
and luxury, abandoned by her lover, our heroine takes arsenic.
Which protagonist of an 1856 novel are we talking about?
7. Our hero thinks he's got it made when he attracts the attention
of a girl who's both beautiful and wealthy. Life would be great
if only the other girl, who he's seduced and impregnated, wasn't
poor and didn't insist on marrying him. Do you seriously think
this is going to end well, especially when they go out in a canoe
on a secluded part of the lake? No, that's not your question.
On film it became "A Place in the Sun", but your question is,
what was the title of the original 1925 novel?
8. She married the local football star, but he ignores her and
drinks far too much. And he seems way too upset by Skipper's
death. After all, a mere friend isn't as important as a wife,
is he? Name this play from 1955, in which love goes wrong for
pretty much everybody.
9. Heartbreak is painful but it does make good material for actors.
Christopher Plummer won a Tony, and José Ferrer won an Oscar,
each for portraying which hero, originally of an 1897 play of
the same name, who reveals his love only as he is dying?
10. Lily Bart is a penniless orphan who needs to marry someone
with money. Unfortunately, she can't bring herself to do it,
maybe because she's in love with a poor man. An overdose
of laudanum ensues. Agent Scully played the doomed heroine
on the big screen in 2000, and a fine performance it was.
Name the novel, written in 1905.
* Game 6, Round 6 - Sports - Mountaineering
This round is about technical terms in mountaineering, as well as
the history of the sport.
1. What English synonym for mountaineering has cognates in French
and Spanish and reflects the sport's long history on the
European continent?
2. A prusik ["PRUSS-ik"; spell it] is a type of what? Supposedly
it was invented around 1931 by an Austrian mountaineer of the
same name.
3. What is the name for a metal loop with a spring-loaded "gate",
used for connecting and disconnecting mountaineering equipment?
It is also widely used in other situations, with larger-sized
types used even to connect hot-air balloons to the basket.
4. What is the term in mountaineering (and also in related
activities such as caving and canyoning) for descending a
vertical drop by using a rope, often with other equipment such
as a harness and a device to play out the rope?
5. What technique or action is involved in a glissade ["gliss-AD"
or "gliss-AID"]?
6. What is the metal spike driven into a crack or seam in rocks
so that it can act as an anchor?
7. Give either of the two terms for loose, broken rock at the
bottoms of cliffs, volcanoes, and valleys. Which term applies
in a given situation depends on the size of the rock.
8. Name *either one* of the two British climbers who died on an
ascent of Mt. Everest in June 1924. They are known to have come
within 800 feet of the summit, leading to ongoing speculation
about whether they got there. One of their bodies was found
in 1999.
9. Within one year, in what year did Tenzing Norgay and Edmund
Hillary make the first recorded ascent to the summit of Everest?
10. Who was the Civil War general, unsuccessful presidential
candidate, and explorer who in 1842 climbed a Wyoming peak
that was later named after him? It is not, as was thought
at the time, the tallest mountain in the Rockies, but it is
13,745 feet or almost 4,200 m high.
--
Mark Brader | "...she was quite surprised to find that she remained
Toronto | the same size: to be sure, this generally happens
m...@vex.net | when one eats cake, but..." --Lewis Carroll
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Dan Blum
Aug 21, 2016, 8:17:48 PM8/21/16
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> 1. O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms
> Alone and palely loitering?
> What does ail him, or rather *who*, according to John Keats?
> The title of the poem gives your answer.
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
> Alone and palely loitering?
> What does ail him, or rather *who*, according to John Keats?
> The title of the poem gives your answer.
> 4. In the merry month of May,
> The green buds were a-swelling.
> Sweet William on his deathbed lay
> For love of...
> But when the hardhearted heroine of this ballad came to his
> bedside, all she said to the man who loved her was: "Young man,
> I think you're dying". Name her.
> 5. "And all men kill the thing they love" is a dire warning from
> which writer, best known as a playwright?
> 6. Married to a doctor who doesn't fulfill her dreams of romance
> and luxury, abandoned by her lover, our heroine takes arsenic.
> Which protagonist of an 1856 novel are we talking about?
> 8. She married the local football star, but he ignores her and
> drinks far too much. And he seems way too upset by Skipper's
> death. After all, a mere friend isn't as important as a wife,
> is he? Name this play from 1955, in which love goes wrong for
> pretty much everybody.
> 9. Heartbreak is painful but it does make good material for actors.
> each for portraying which hero, originally of an 1897 play of
> the same name, who reveals his love only as he is dying?
Cyrano de Bergerac
> the same name, who reveals his love only as he is dying?
> * Game 6, Round 6 - Sports - Mountaineering
> 2. A prusik ["PRUSS-ik"; spell it] is a type of what? Supposedly
> it was invented around 1931 by an Austrian mountaineer of the
> same name.
boot; hammer
> it was invented around 1931 by an Austrian mountaineer of the
> same name.
> 3. What is the name for a metal loop with a spring-loaded "gate",
> used for connecting and disconnecting mountaineering equipment?
> It is also widely used in other situations, with larger-sized
> types used even to connect hot-air balloons to the basket.
> 4. What is the term in mountaineering (and also in related
> activities such as caving and canyoning) for descending a
> vertical drop by using a rope, often with other equipment such
> as a harness and a device to play out the rope?
> 6. What is the metal spike driven into a crack or seam in rocks
> so that it can act as an anchor?
> 7. Give either of the two terms for loose, broken rock at the
> bottoms of cliffs, volcanoes, and valleys. Which term applies
> in a given situation depends on the size of the rock.
> 9. Within one year, in what year did Tenzing Norgay and Edmund
> Hillary make the first recorded ascent to the summit of Everest?
> 10. Who was the Civil War general, unsuccessful presidential
> candidate, and explorer who in 1842 climbed a Wyoming peak
> that was later named after him? It is not, as was thought
> at the time, the tallest mountain in the Rockies, but it is
> 13,745 feet or almost 4,200 m high.
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Joshua Kreitzer
Aug 21, 2016, 8:30:06 PM8/21/16
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:cP2dnTMoB_nGoCfKnZ2dnUU7-
IfN...@giganews.com:
> * Game 6, Round 4 - Literature - Love Laments
>
> 8. She married the local football star, but he ignores her and
> drinks far too much. And he seems way too upset by Skipper's
> death. After all, a mere friend isn't as important as a wife,
> is he? Name this play from 1955, in which love goes wrong for
> pretty much everybody.
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
> 9. Heartbreak is painful but it does make good material for actors.
> Christopher Plummer won a Tony, and José Ferrer won an Oscar,
> each for portraying which hero, originally of an 1897 play of
> the same name, who reveals his love only as he is dying?
Cyrano de Bergerac
> * Game 6, Round 6 - Sports - Mountaineering
>
> This round is about technical terms in mountaineering, as well as
> the history of the sport.
>
> 1. What English synonym for mountaineering has cognates in French
> and Spanish and reflects the sport's long history on the
> European continent?
alpinism
> 6. What is the metal spike driven into a crack or seam in rocks
> so that it can act as an anchor?
piton
> 8. Name *either one* of the two British climbers who died on an
> ascent of Mt. Everest in June 1924. They are known to have come
> within 800 feet of the summit, leading to ongoing speculation
> about whether they got there. One of their bodies was found
> in 1999.
Mallory
> 9. Within one year, in what year did Tenzing Norgay and Edmund
> Hillary make the first recorded ascent to the summit of Everest?
1952
> 10. Who was the Civil War general, unsuccessful presidential
> candidate, and explorer who in 1842 climbed a Wyoming peak
> that was later named after him? It is not, as was thought
> at the time, the tallest mountain in the Rockies, but it is
> 13,745 feet or almost 4,200 m high.
Fremont
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
IfN...@giganews.com:
> * Game 6, Round 4 - Literature - Love Laments
>
> For the first few questions we'll give you a few poetic lines --
> though we won't necessarily recite them soulfully -- and then,
> in each case, we'll bring you back to earth.
>
> 1. O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms
> Alone and palely loitering?
>
> What does ail him, or rather *who*, according to John Keats?
> The title of the poem gives your answer.
> though we won't necessarily recite them soulfully -- and then,
> in each case, we'll bring you back to earth.
>
> 1. O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms
> Alone and palely loitering?
>
> What does ail him, or rather *who*, according to John Keats?
> The title of the poem gives your answer.
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
> 7. Our hero thinks he's got it made when he attracts the attention
> of a girl who's both beautiful and wealthy. Life would be great
> if only the other girl, who he's seduced and impregnated, wasn't
> poor and didn't insist on marrying him. Do you seriously think
> this is going to end well, especially when they go out in a canoe
> on a secluded part of the lake? No, that's not your question.
> On film it became "A Place in the Sun", but your question is,
> what was the title of the original 1925 novel?
"An American Tragedy"
> of a girl who's both beautiful and wealthy. Life would be great
> if only the other girl, who he's seduced and impregnated, wasn't
> poor and didn't insist on marrying him. Do you seriously think
> this is going to end well, especially when they go out in a canoe
> on a secluded part of the lake? No, that's not your question.
> On film it became "A Place in the Sun", but your question is,
> what was the title of the original 1925 novel?
> 8. She married the local football star, but he ignores her and
> drinks far too much. And he seems way too upset by Skipper's
> death. After all, a mere friend isn't as important as a wife,
> is he? Name this play from 1955, in which love goes wrong for
> pretty much everybody.
> 9. Heartbreak is painful but it does make good material for actors.
> Christopher Plummer won a Tony, and José Ferrer won an Oscar,
> each for portraying which hero, originally of an 1897 play of
> the same name, who reveals his love only as he is dying?
> * Game 6, Round 6 - Sports - Mountaineering
>
> This round is about technical terms in mountaineering, as well as
> the history of the sport.
>
> 1. What English synonym for mountaineering has cognates in French
> and Spanish and reflects the sport's long history on the
> European continent?
> 6. What is the metal spike driven into a crack or seam in rocks
> so that it can act as an anchor?
> 8. Name *either one* of the two British climbers who died on an
> ascent of Mt. Everest in June 1924. They are known to have come
> within 800 feet of the summit, leading to ongoing speculation
> about whether they got there. One of their bodies was found
> in 1999.
> 9. Within one year, in what year did Tenzing Norgay and Edmund
> Hillary make the first recorded ascent to the summit of Everest?
> 10. Who was the Civil War general, unsuccessful presidential
> candidate, and explorer who in 1842 climbed a Wyoming peak
> that was later named after him? It is not, as was thought
> at the time, the tallest mountain in the Rockies, but it is
> 13,745 feet or almost 4,200 m high.
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Marc Dashevsky
Aug 22, 2016, 2:43:59 AM8/22/16
to
In article <cP2dnTMoB_nGoCfK...@giganews.com>, m...@vex.net says...
> 7. Our hero thinks he's got it made when he attracts the attention
> of a girl who's both beautiful and wealthy. Life would be great
> if only the other girl, who he's seduced and impregnated, wasn't
> poor and didn't insist on marrying him. Do you seriously think
> this is going to end well, especially when they go out in a canoe
> on a secluded part of the lake? No, that's not your question.
> On film it became "A Place in the Sun", but your question is,
> what was the title of the original 1925 novel?
>
> 8. She married the local football star, but he ignores her and
> drinks far too much. And he seems way too upset by Skipper's
> death. After all, a mere friend isn't as important as a wife,
> is he? Name this play from 1955, in which love goes wrong for
> pretty much everybody.
>
> 9. Heartbreak is painful but it does make good material for actors.
> Christopher Plummer won a Tony, and José Ferrer won an Oscar,
> each for portraying which hero, originally of an 1897 play of
> the same name, who reveals his love only as he is dying?
Cyrano de Bergerac
> 10. Lily Bart is a penniless orphan who needs to marry someone
> with money. Unfortunately, she can't bring herself to do it,
> maybe because she's in love with a poor man. An overdose
> of laudanum ensues. Agent Scully played the doomed heroine
> on the big screen in 2000, and a fine performance it was.
> Name the novel, written in 1905.
>
>
> * Game 6, Round 6 - Sports - Mountaineering
>
> This round is about technical terms in mountaineering, as well as
> the history of the sport.
>
> 1. What English synonym for mountaineering has cognates in French
> and Spanish and reflects the sport's long history on the
> European continent?
Alpinism
> 2. A prusik ["PRUSS-ik"; spell it] is a type of what? Supposedly
> it was invented around 1931 by an Austrian mountaineer of the
> same name.
>
> 3. What is the name for a metal loop with a spring-loaded "gate",
> used for connecting and disconnecting mountaineering equipment?
> It is also widely used in other situations, with larger-sized
> types used even to connect hot-air balloons to the basket.
>
> 4. What is the term in mountaineering (and also in related
> activities such as caving and canyoning) for descending a
> vertical drop by using a rope, often with other equipment such
> as a harness and a device to play out the rope?
rappel
> 5. What technique or action is involved in a glissade ["gliss-AD"
> or "gliss-AID"]?
>
> 6. What is the metal spike driven into a crack or seam in rocks
> so that it can act as an anchor?
piton
> 7. Give either of the two terms for loose, broken rock at the
> bottoms of cliffs, volcanoes, and valleys. Which term applies
> in a given situation depends on the size of the rock.
scree
> 8. Name *either one* of the two British climbers who died on an
> ascent of Mt. Everest in June 1924. They are known to have come
> within 800 feet of the summit, leading to ongoing speculation
> about whether they got there. One of their bodies was found
> in 1999.
>
> 9. Within one year, in what year did Tenzing Norgay and Edmund
> Hillary make the first recorded ascent to the summit of Everest?
1953
> 10. Who was the Civil War general, unsuccessful presidential
> candidate, and explorer who in 1842 climbed a Wyoming peak
> that was later named after him? It is not, as was thought
> at the time, the tallest mountain in the Rockies, but it is
> 13,745 feet or almost 4,200 m high.
--
Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address.
> * Game 6, Round 4 - Literature - Love Laments
>
>
> Okay, that's enough poetic readings.
>
> 5. "And all men kill the thing they love" is a dire warning from
> which writer, best known as a playwright?
>
> 6. Married to a doctor who doesn't fulfill her dreams of romance
> and luxury, abandoned by her lover, our heroine takes arsenic.
> Which protagonist of an 1856 novel are we talking about?
Madame Bovary
>
> 5. "And all men kill the thing they love" is a dire warning from
> which writer, best known as a playwright?
>
> 6. Married to a doctor who doesn't fulfill her dreams of romance
> and luxury, abandoned by her lover, our heroine takes arsenic.
> Which protagonist of an 1856 novel are we talking about?
> 7. Our hero thinks he's got it made when he attracts the attention
> of a girl who's both beautiful and wealthy. Life would be great
> if only the other girl, who he's seduced and impregnated, wasn't
> poor and didn't insist on marrying him. Do you seriously think
> this is going to end well, especially when they go out in a canoe
> on a secluded part of the lake? No, that's not your question.
> On film it became "A Place in the Sun", but your question is,
> what was the title of the original 1925 novel?
>
> 8. She married the local football star, but he ignores her and
> drinks far too much. And he seems way too upset by Skipper's
> death. After all, a mere friend isn't as important as a wife,
> is he? Name this play from 1955, in which love goes wrong for
> pretty much everybody.
>
> 9. Heartbreak is painful but it does make good material for actors.
> Christopher Plummer won a Tony, and José Ferrer won an Oscar,
> each for portraying which hero, originally of an 1897 play of
> the same name, who reveals his love only as he is dying?
> 10. Lily Bart is a penniless orphan who needs to marry someone
> with money. Unfortunately, she can't bring herself to do it,
> maybe because she's in love with a poor man. An overdose
> of laudanum ensues. Agent Scully played the doomed heroine
> on the big screen in 2000, and a fine performance it was.
> Name the novel, written in 1905.
>
>
> * Game 6, Round 6 - Sports - Mountaineering
>
> This round is about technical terms in mountaineering, as well as
> the history of the sport.
>
> 1. What English synonym for mountaineering has cognates in French
> and Spanish and reflects the sport's long history on the
> European continent?
> 2. A prusik ["PRUSS-ik"; spell it] is a type of what? Supposedly
> it was invented around 1931 by an Austrian mountaineer of the
> same name.
>
> 3. What is the name for a metal loop with a spring-loaded "gate",
> used for connecting and disconnecting mountaineering equipment?
> It is also widely used in other situations, with larger-sized
> types used even to connect hot-air balloons to the basket.
>
> 4. What is the term in mountaineering (and also in related
> activities such as caving and canyoning) for descending a
> vertical drop by using a rope, often with other equipment such
> as a harness and a device to play out the rope?
> 5. What technique or action is involved in a glissade ["gliss-AD"
> or "gliss-AID"]?
>
> 6. What is the metal spike driven into a crack or seam in rocks
> so that it can act as an anchor?
> 7. Give either of the two terms for loose, broken rock at the
> bottoms of cliffs, volcanoes, and valleys. Which term applies
> in a given situation depends on the size of the rock.
> 8. Name *either one* of the two British climbers who died on an
> ascent of Mt. Everest in June 1924. They are known to have come
> within 800 feet of the summit, leading to ongoing speculation
> about whether they got there. One of their bodies was found
> in 1999.
>
> 9. Within one year, in what year did Tenzing Norgay and Edmund
> Hillary make the first recorded ascent to the summit of Everest?
> 10. Who was the Civil War general, unsuccessful presidential
> candidate, and explorer who in 1842 climbed a Wyoming peak
> that was later named after him? It is not, as was thought
> at the time, the tallest mountain in the Rockies, but it is
> 13,745 feet or almost 4,200 m high.
--
bbowler
Aug 22, 2016, 1:20:28 PM8/22/16
to
On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 18:46:35 -0500, Mark Brader wrote:
>
> * Game 6, Round 6 - Sports - Mountaineering
>
> This round is about technical terms in mountaineering, as well as the
> history of the sport.
>
> 1. What English synonym for mountaineering has cognates in French
> and Spanish and reflects the sport's long history on the European
> continent?
>
> 2. A prusik ["PRUSS-ik"; spell it] is a type of what? Supposedly
> it was invented around 1931 by an Austrian mountaineer of the same
> name.
It's a knot
>
> * Game 6, Round 6 - Sports - Mountaineering
>
> This round is about technical terms in mountaineering, as well as the
> history of the sport.
>
> 1. What English synonym for mountaineering has cognates in French
> and Spanish and reflects the sport's long history on the European
> continent?
>
> 2. A prusik ["PRUSS-ik"; spell it] is a type of what? Supposedly
> it was invented around 1931 by an Austrian mountaineer of the same
> name.
> 3. What is the name for a metal loop with a spring-loaded "gate",
> used for connecting and disconnecting mountaineering equipment? It is
> also widely used in other situations, with larger-sized types used
> even to connect hot-air balloons to the basket.
> 4. What is the term in mountaineering (and also in related
> activities such as caving and canyoning) for descending a vertical
> drop by using a rope, often with other equipment such as a harness
> and a device to play out the rope?
> 5. What technique or action is involved in a glissade ["gliss-AD"
> or "gliss-AID"]?
> 6. What is the metal spike driven into a crack or seam in rocks
> so that it can act as an anchor?
> 7. Give either of the two terms for loose, broken rock at the
> bottoms of cliffs, volcanoes, and valleys. Which term applies in a
> given situation depends on the size of the rock.
>
> 8. Name *either one* of the two British climbers who died on an
> ascent of Mt. Everest in June 1924. They are known to have come
> within 800 feet of the summit, leading to ongoing speculation about
> whether they got there. One of their bodies was found in 1999.
> 9. Within one year, in what year did Tenzing Norgay and Edmund
> Hillary make the first recorded ascent to the summit of Everest?
> 10. Who was the Civil War general, unsuccessful presidential
> candidate, and explorer who in 1842 climbed a Wyoming peak that was
> later named after him? It is not, as was thought at the time, the
> tallest mountain in the Rockies, but it is 13,745 feet or almost
> 4,200 m high.
Calvin
Aug 22, 2016, 6:48:02 PM8/22/16
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On Monday, August 22, 2016 at 9:46:41 AM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
> I did not write either of these rounds.
Nor did I.
> I did not write either of these rounds.
> * Game 6, Round 4 - Literature - Love Laments
>
> As the song says, "When love goes wrong, nothing goes right."
> Here are some sad examples of just how often that happens.
>
> For the first few questions we'll give you a few poetic lines --
> though we won't necessarily recite them soulfully -- and then,
> in each case, we'll bring you back to earth.
>
> 1. O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms
> Alone and palely loitering?
>
> What does ail him, or rather *who*, according to John Keats?
> The title of the poem gives your answer.
> 5. What technique or action is involved in a glissade ["gliss-AD"
> or "gliss-AID"]?
>
> 6. What is the metal spike driven into a crack or seam in rocks
> so that it can act as an anchor?
>
> 7. Give either of the two terms for loose, broken rock at the
> bottoms of cliffs, volcanoes, and valleys. Which term applies
> in a given situation depends on the size of the rock.
> 8. Name *either one* of the two British climbers who died on an
> ascent of Mt. Everest in June 1924. They are known to have come
> within 800 feet of the summit, leading to ongoing speculation
> about whether they got there. One of their bodies was found
> in 1999.
>
> 9. Within one year, in what year did Tenzing Norgay and Edmund
> Hillary make the first recorded ascent to the summit of Everest?
> 10. Who was the Civil War general, unsuccessful presidential
> candidate, and explorer who in 1842 climbed a Wyoming peak
> that was later named after him? It is not, as was thought
> at the time, the tallest mountain in the Rockies, but it is
> 13,745 feet or almost 4,200 m high.
cheers,
calvin
Pete
Aug 23, 2016, 2:53:57 AM8/23/16
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>
> 9. Heartbreak is painful but it does make good material for actors.
> Christopher Plummer won a Tony, and José Ferrer won an Oscar,
> each for portraying which hero, originally of an 1897 play of
> the same name, who reveals his love only as he is dying?
>
> 10. Lily Bart is a penniless orphan who needs to marry someone
> with money. Unfortunately, she can't bring herself to do it,
> maybe because she's in love with a poor man. An overdose
> of laudanum ensues. Agent Scully played the doomed heroine
> on the big screen in 2000, and a fine performance it was.
> Name the novel, written in 1905.
>
>
> * Game 6, Round 6 - Sports - Mountaineering
>
> This round is about technical terms in mountaineering, as well as
> the history of the sport.
>
> 1. What English synonym for mountaineering has cognates in French
> and Spanish and reflects the sport's long history on the
> European continent?
>
> 2. A prusik ["PRUSS-ik"; spell it] is a type of what? Supposedly
> it was invented around 1931 by an Austrian mountaineer of the
> same name.
>
> 3. What is the name for a metal loop with a spring-loaded "gate",
> used for connecting and disconnecting mountaineering equipment?
> It is also widely used in other situations, with larger-sized
> types used even to connect hot-air balloons to the basket.
>
> 4. What is the term in mountaineering (and also in related
> activities such as caving and canyoning) for descending a
> vertical drop by using a rope, often with other equipment such
> as a harness and a device to play out the rope?
>
> 5. What technique or action is involved in a glissade ["gliss-AD"
> or "gliss-AID"]?
>
> 6. What is the metal spike driven into a crack or seam in rocks
> so that it can act as an anchor?
>
> 7. Give either of the two terms for loose, broken rock at the
> bottoms of cliffs, volcanoes, and valleys. Which term applies
> in a given situation depends on the size of the rock.
>
> 8. Name *either one* of the two British climbers who died on an
> ascent of Mt. Everest in June 1924. They are known to have come
> within 800 feet of the summit, leading to ongoing speculation
> about whether they got there. One of their bodies was found
> in 1999.
>
> 9. Within one year, in what year did Tenzing Norgay and Edmund
> Hillary make the first recorded ascent to the summit of Everest?
>
> 10. Who was the Civil War general, unsuccessful presidential
> candidate, and explorer who in 1842 climbed a Wyoming peak
> that was later named after him? It is not, as was thought
> at the time, the tallest mountain in the Rockies, but it is
> 13,745 feet or almost 4,200 m high.
>
Erland Sommarskog
Aug 23, 2016, 2:41:13 PM8/23/16
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> 5. What technique or action is involved in a glissade ["gliss-AD"
> or "gliss-AID"]?
Sliding
> or "gliss-AID"]?
> 9. Within one year, in what year did Tenzing Norgay and Edmund
> Hillary make the first recorded ascent to the summit of Everest?
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se
Björn Lundin
Aug 23, 2016, 5:02:44 PM8/23/16
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On 2016-08-22 01:46, Mark Brader wrote:
>
> 6. Married to a doctor who doesn't fulfill her dreams of romance
> and luxury, abandoned by her lover, our heroine takes arsenic.
> Which protagonist of an 1856 novel are we talking about?
Lady Chatterley
>
> 6. Married to a doctor who doesn't fulfill her dreams of romance
> and luxury, abandoned by her lover, our heroine takes arsenic.
> Which protagonist of an 1856 novel are we talking about?
> * Game 6, Round 6 - Sports - Mountaineering
>
> This round is about technical terms in mountaineering, as well as
> the history of the sport.
>
>
> 9. Within one year, in what year did Tenzing Norgay and Edmund
> Hillary make the first recorded ascent to the summit of Everest?
1951
> Hillary make the first recorded ascent to the summit of Everest?
--
--
Björn
Jason Kreitzer
Aug 23, 2016, 11:08:34 PM8/23/16
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Dan Tilque
Aug 24, 2016, 6:42:42 PM8/24/16
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>
> 4. What is the term in mountaineering (and also in related
> activities such as caving and canyoning) for descending a
> vertical drop by using a rope, often with other equipment such
> as a harness and a device to play out the rope?
>
> 5. What technique or action is involved in a glissade ["gliss-AD"
> or "gliss-AID"]?
>
> 6. What is the metal spike driven into a crack or seam in rocks
> so that it can act as an anchor?
>
> 7. Give either of the two terms for loose, broken rock at the
> bottoms of cliffs, volcanoes, and valleys. Which term applies
> in a given situation depends on the size of the rock.
>
> 8. Name *either one* of the two British climbers who died on an
> ascent of Mt. Everest in June 1924. They are known to have come
> within 800 feet of the summit, leading to ongoing speculation
> about whether they got there. One of their bodies was found
> in 1999.
>
> 9. Within one year, in what year did Tenzing Norgay and Edmund
> Hillary make the first recorded ascent to the summit of Everest?
>
> 10. Who was the Civil War general, unsuccessful presidential
> candidate, and explorer who in 1842 climbed a Wyoming peak
> that was later named after him? It is not, as was thought
> at the time, the tallest mountain in the Rockies, but it is
> 13,745 feet or almost 4,200 m high.
--
Dan Tilque
Mark Brader
Sep 6, 2016, 1:45:45 AM9/6/16
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Mark Brader:
that is.) 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
> 2. I could not love thee, Dear, so much,
> Loved I not Honour more.
> Despite those fine words, Richard Lovelace is still leaving
> Lucasta. *Why*? Again the answer is in the title of the poem,
> but this time we'll accept a paraphrase.
He's going to war. (Anything similar was sufficient. The title is
"To Lucasta, Going to the Wars".)
> 3. When lovely woman stoops to folly
> And finds too late that men betray, --
> What charm can soothe her melancholy,
> What art can wash her guilt away?
> What's the solution to this quandary, in the opinion of the
> poet, Oliver Goldsmith? This time the answer is in the poem's
> last line, and we wouldn't actually recommend it as a course
> of action.
To die.
The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye
To give repentance to her lover
And wring his bosom is -- to die.
> 4. In the merry month of May,
> The green buds were a-swelling.
> Sweet William on his deathbed lay
> For love of...
> But when the hardhearted heroine of this ballad came to his
> bedside, all she said to the man who loved her was: "Young man,
> I think you're dying". Name her.
Barbara Allen. (A traditional song.) 4 for Dan Blum.
> Okay, that's enough poetic readings.
> 5. "And all men kill the thing they love" is a dire warning from
> which writer, best known as a playwright?
Oscar Wilde. ("The Ballad of Reading Gaol" [pronounced, and meaning,
"jail"].)
> 6. Married to a doctor who doesn't fulfill her dreams of romance
> and luxury, abandoned by her lover, our heroine takes arsenic.
> Which protagonist of an 1856 novel are we talking about?
Emma (or Madame) Bovary. (Gustave Flaubert.) 4 for Dan Blum
and Marc.
> 7. Our hero thinks he's got it made when he attracts the attention
> of a girl who's both beautiful and wealthy. Life would be great
> if only the other girl, who he's seduced and impregnated, wasn't
> poor and didn't insist on marrying him. Do you seriously think
> this is going to end well, especially when they go out in a canoe
> on a secluded part of the lake? No, that's not your question.
> On film it became "A Place in the Sun", but your question is,
> what was the title of the original 1925 novel?
"An American Tragedy". (Theodore Dreiser.) 4 for Joshua.
> 8. She married the local football star, but he ignores her and
> drinks far too much. And he seems way too upset by Skipper's
> death. After all, a mere friend isn't as important as a wife,
> is he? Name this play from 1955, in which love goes wrong for
> pretty much everybody.
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". (Tennessee Williams.) 4 for Joshua.
> 9. Heartbreak is painful but it does make good material for actors.
> Christopher Plummer won a Tony, and José Ferrer won an Oscar,
> each for portraying which hero, originally of an 1897 play of
> the same name, who reveals his love only as he is dying?
Cyrano de Bergerac. "Cyrano" was sufficient. (Edmond Rostand.)
4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, and Pete.
> 10. Lily Bart is a penniless orphan who needs to marry someone
> with money. Unfortunately, she can't bring herself to do it,
> maybe because she's in love with a poor man. An overdose
> of laudanum ensues. Agent Scully played the doomed heroine
> on the big screen in 2000, and a fine performance it was.
> Name the novel, written in 1905.
"The House of Mirth". (Edith Wharton.)
> * Game 6, Round 6 - Sports - Mountaineering
> This round is about technical terms in mountaineering, as well as
> the history of the sport.
> 1. What English synonym for mountaineering has cognates in French
> and Spanish and reflects the sport's long history on the
> European continent?
Alpinism. 4 for Joshua and Marc.
> 2. A prusik ["PRUSS-ik"; spell it] is a type of what? Supposedly
> it was invented around 1931 by an Austrian mountaineer of the
> same name.
Knot (or hitch). 4 for Bruce.
> 3. What is the name for a metal loop with a spring-loaded "gate",
> used for connecting and disconnecting mountaineering equipment?
> It is also widely used in other situations, with larger-sized
> types used even to connect hot-air balloons to the basket.
Carabiner ["ka-ra-BEE-ner"]. 4 for Dan Blum, Bruce, and Dan Tilque.
> 4. What is the term in mountaineering (and also in related
> activities such as caving and canyoning) for descending a
> vertical drop by using a rope, often with other equipment such
> as a harness and a device to play out the rope?
Abseiling ["AB-sail-ing"] or rappelling ["ra-PELL-ing"]. 4 for
Dan Blum, Marc, Bruce, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
The answer "belaying", given by another entrant, was the subject
of a protest in the original game. We ruled: Belaying refers to
a set of techniques for controlling the fall of a climber who is
descending via a rope (such as fixing it around a pin), not the act
of descent itself, which is what we asked about. The "belayer"
is not the climber but the other person, who is making sure the
climber doesn't fall too far. ("Belay" similarly refers to stopping
something in the phrase "belay that order".) We agree that this is
close, but it's not close enough. Protest denied.
> 5. What technique or action is involved in a glissade ["gliss-AD"
> or "gliss-AID"]?
Sliding (usually in a controlled fashion). 4 for Erland.
> 6. What is the metal spike driven into a crack or seam in rocks
> so that it can act as an anchor?
Piton ["PEE-ton"] (also accepting "pin" or "peg"). 4 for Dan Blum,
Joshua, Marc, Bruce, Pete, and Dan Tilque.
> 7. Give either of the two terms for loose, broken rock at the
> bottoms of cliffs, volcanoes, and valleys. Which term applies
> in a given situation depends on the size of the rock.
Scree, talus ["TAIL-uss"]. (Scree consists of smaller rocks.)
4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
> 8. Name *either one* of the two British climbers who died on an
> ascent of Mt. Everest in June 1924. They are known to have come
> within 800 feet of the summit, leading to ongoing speculation
> about whether they got there. One of their bodies was found
> in 1999.
George Mallory (who said "because it's there"); Andrew (Sandy) Irvine.
4 for Joshua and Bruce.
> 9. Within one year, in what year did Tenzing Norgay and Edmund
> Hillary make the first recorded ascent to the summit of Everest?
1953 (accepting 1952-54). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Calvin,
Pete, Erland, and Dan Tilque.
> 10. Who was the Civil War general, unsuccessful presidential
> candidate, and explorer who in 1842 climbed a Wyoming peak
> that was later named after him? It is not, as was thought
> at the time, the tallest mountain in the Rockies, but it is
> 13,745 feet or almost 4,200 m high.
John C. Frémont. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
Two entrants tried Zebulon Pike. He was indeed also a general, but
not a presidential candidate, and Pikes Peak (as they spell it now)
is in Colorado, not Wyoming. Also, if you check the photos my wife
took at the summit the week before last, you'll see that its height
is 14,115 feet.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 6 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Sci Mis Lit Spo
Dan Blum 36 16 16 24 92
Joshua Kreitzer 20 28 16 20 84
Marc Dashevsky 36 20 8 20 84
Stephen Perry 40 36 -- -- 76
Dan Tilque 40 8 0 20 68
"Calvin" 35 12 0 12 59
Bruce Bowler 36 0 0 20 56
Pete Gayde 16 16 4 8 44
Peter Smyth 32 8 -- -- 40
Erland Sommarskog 28 0 0 8 36
Björn Lundin 24 0 0 0 24
Jason Kreitzer 0 8 0 0 8
--
Mark Brader "The [promotional] website is more cleverly
Toronto thought out than the movie itself."
m...@vex.net --Stephen Bourne
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-06-27,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 6, Round 4 - Literature - Love Laments
> As the song says, "When love goes wrong, nothing goes right."
> Here are some sad examples of just how often that happens.
> For the first few questions we'll give you a few poetic lines --
> though we won't necessarily recite them soulfully -- and then,
> in each case, we'll bring you back to earth.
> 1. O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms
> Alone and palely loitering?
> What does ail him, or rather *who*, according to John Keats?
> The title of the poem gives your answer.
"La Belle Dame Sans Merci". (She "hath thee in thrall!" Or him,
> As the song says, "When love goes wrong, nothing goes right."
> Here are some sad examples of just how often that happens.
> For the first few questions we'll give you a few poetic lines --
> though we won't necessarily recite them soulfully -- and then,
> in each case, we'll bring you back to earth.
> 1. O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms
> Alone and palely loitering?
> What does ail him, or rather *who*, according to John Keats?
> The title of the poem gives your answer.
that is.) 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
> 2. I could not love thee, Dear, so much,
> Loved I not Honour more.
> Despite those fine words, Richard Lovelace is still leaving
> Lucasta. *Why*? Again the answer is in the title of the poem,
> but this time we'll accept a paraphrase.
"To Lucasta, Going to the Wars".)
> 3. When lovely woman stoops to folly
> And finds too late that men betray, --
> What charm can soothe her melancholy,
> What art can wash her guilt away?
> What's the solution to this quandary, in the opinion of the
> poet, Oliver Goldsmith? This time the answer is in the poem's
> last line, and we wouldn't actually recommend it as a course
> of action.
The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye
To give repentance to her lover
And wring his bosom is -- to die.
> 4. In the merry month of May,
> The green buds were a-swelling.
> Sweet William on his deathbed lay
> For love of...
> But when the hardhearted heroine of this ballad came to his
> bedside, all she said to the man who loved her was: "Young man,
> I think you're dying". Name her.
> Okay, that's enough poetic readings.
> 5. "And all men kill the thing they love" is a dire warning from
> which writer, best known as a playwright?
"jail"].)
> 6. Married to a doctor who doesn't fulfill her dreams of romance
> and luxury, abandoned by her lover, our heroine takes arsenic.
> Which protagonist of an 1856 novel are we talking about?
and Marc.
> 7. Our hero thinks he's got it made when he attracts the attention
> of a girl who's both beautiful and wealthy. Life would be great
> if only the other girl, who he's seduced and impregnated, wasn't
> poor and didn't insist on marrying him. Do you seriously think
> this is going to end well, especially when they go out in a canoe
> on a secluded part of the lake? No, that's not your question.
> On film it became "A Place in the Sun", but your question is,
> what was the title of the original 1925 novel?
> 8. She married the local football star, but he ignores her and
> drinks far too much. And he seems way too upset by Skipper's
> death. After all, a mere friend isn't as important as a wife,
> is he? Name this play from 1955, in which love goes wrong for
> pretty much everybody.
> 9. Heartbreak is painful but it does make good material for actors.
> Christopher Plummer won a Tony, and José Ferrer won an Oscar,
> each for portraying which hero, originally of an 1897 play of
> the same name, who reveals his love only as he is dying?
4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, and Pete.
> 10. Lily Bart is a penniless orphan who needs to marry someone
> with money. Unfortunately, she can't bring herself to do it,
> maybe because she's in love with a poor man. An overdose
> of laudanum ensues. Agent Scully played the doomed heroine
> on the big screen in 2000, and a fine performance it was.
> Name the novel, written in 1905.
> * Game 6, Round 6 - Sports - Mountaineering
> This round is about technical terms in mountaineering, as well as
> the history of the sport.
> 1. What English synonym for mountaineering has cognates in French
> and Spanish and reflects the sport's long history on the
> European continent?
> 2. A prusik ["PRUSS-ik"; spell it] is a type of what? Supposedly
> it was invented around 1931 by an Austrian mountaineer of the
> same name.
> 3. What is the name for a metal loop with a spring-loaded "gate",
> used for connecting and disconnecting mountaineering equipment?
> It is also widely used in other situations, with larger-sized
> types used even to connect hot-air balloons to the basket.
> 4. What is the term in mountaineering (and also in related
> activities such as caving and canyoning) for descending a
> vertical drop by using a rope, often with other equipment such
> as a harness and a device to play out the rope?
Dan Blum, Marc, Bruce, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
The answer "belaying", given by another entrant, was the subject
of a protest in the original game. We ruled: Belaying refers to
a set of techniques for controlling the fall of a climber who is
descending via a rope (such as fixing it around a pin), not the act
of descent itself, which is what we asked about. The "belayer"
is not the climber but the other person, who is making sure the
climber doesn't fall too far. ("Belay" similarly refers to stopping
something in the phrase "belay that order".) We agree that this is
close, but it's not close enough. Protest denied.
> 5. What technique or action is involved in a glissade ["gliss-AD"
> or "gliss-AID"]?
> 6. What is the metal spike driven into a crack or seam in rocks
> so that it can act as an anchor?
Joshua, Marc, Bruce, Pete, and Dan Tilque.
> 7. Give either of the two terms for loose, broken rock at the
> bottoms of cliffs, volcanoes, and valleys. Which term applies
> in a given situation depends on the size of the rock.
4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
> 8. Name *either one* of the two British climbers who died on an
> ascent of Mt. Everest in June 1924. They are known to have come
> within 800 feet of the summit, leading to ongoing speculation
> about whether they got there. One of their bodies was found
> in 1999.
4 for Joshua and Bruce.
> 9. Within one year, in what year did Tenzing Norgay and Edmund
> Hillary make the first recorded ascent to the summit of Everest?
Pete, Erland, and Dan Tilque.
> 10. Who was the Civil War general, unsuccessful presidential
> candidate, and explorer who in 1842 climbed a Wyoming peak
> that was later named after him? It is not, as was thought
> at the time, the tallest mountain in the Rockies, but it is
> 13,745 feet or almost 4,200 m high.
Two entrants tried Zebulon Pike. He was indeed also a general, but
not a presidential candidate, and Pikes Peak (as they spell it now)
is in Colorado, not Wyoming. Also, if you check the photos my wife
took at the summit the week before last, you'll see that its height
is 14,115 feet.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 6 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Sci Mis Lit Spo
Dan Blum 36 16 16 24 92
Joshua Kreitzer 20 28 16 20 84
Marc Dashevsky 36 20 8 20 84
Stephen Perry 40 36 -- -- 76
Dan Tilque 40 8 0 20 68
"Calvin" 35 12 0 12 59
Bruce Bowler 36 0 0 20 56
Pete Gayde 16 16 4 8 44
Peter Smyth 32 8 -- -- 40
Erland Sommarskog 28 0 0 8 36
Björn Lundin 24 0 0 0 24
Jason Kreitzer 0 8 0 0 8
--
Mark Brader "The [promotional] website is more cleverly
Toronto thought out than the movie itself."
m...@vex.net --Stephen Bourne
Mark Brader
Sep 18, 2016, 6:00:44 AM9/18/16
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Mark Brader:
the building, and I was only remembering one of them. See:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/pike/14110.jpg
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/pike/14115.jpg
I don't know if the discrepancy reflects different measurements,
different rounding, changes in the height of the summit due to
construction of the building, the actual position of the two signs,
or what. Anyway, it's not 13,745 feet!
--
Mark Brader | "Yeah. Writers working under tight restrictions produce
Toronto | novel material -- like, for example, epigrams employing
m...@vex.net | backward alphabetization." --Randall Munroe
>> 10. Who was the Civil War general, unsuccessful presidential
>> candidate, and explorer who in 1842 climbed a Wyoming peak
>> that was later named after him? It is not, as was thought
>> at the time, the tallest mountain in the Rockies, but it is
>> 13,745 feet or almost 4,200 m high.
>
> John C. Frémont. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
>
> Two entrants tried Zebulon Pike. He was indeed also a general, but
> not a presidential candidate, and Pikes Peak (as they spell it now)
> is in Colorado, not Wyoming. Also, if you check the photos my wife
> took at the summit the week before last, you'll see that its height
> is 14,115 feet.
Actually, there are two signs in the summit area, one on each side of
>> candidate, and explorer who in 1842 climbed a Wyoming peak
>> that was later named after him? It is not, as was thought
>> at the time, the tallest mountain in the Rockies, but it is
>> 13,745 feet or almost 4,200 m high.
>
> John C. Frémont. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
>
> Two entrants tried Zebulon Pike. He was indeed also a general, but
> not a presidential candidate, and Pikes Peak (as they spell it now)
> is in Colorado, not Wyoming. Also, if you check the photos my wife
> took at the summit the week before last, you'll see that its height
> is 14,115 feet.
the building, and I was only remembering one of them. See:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/pike/14110.jpg
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/pike/14115.jpg
I don't know if the discrepancy reflects different measurements,
different rounding, changes in the height of the summit due to
construction of the building, the actual position of the two signs,
or what. Anyway, it's not 13,745 feet!
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Mark Brader:
>>> 10. Who was the Civil War general, unsuccessful presidential
>>> candidate, and explorer who in 1842 climbed a Wyoming peak
>>> that was later named after him? It is not, as was thought
>>> at the time, the tallest mountain in the Rockies, but it is
>>> 13,745 feet or almost 4,200 m high.
>>
>> John C. Frémont. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
>>
>> Two entrants tried Zebulon Pike. He was indeed also a general, but
>> not a presidential candidate, and Pikes Peak (as they spell it now)
>> is in Colorado, not Wyoming. Also, if you check the photos my wife
>> took at the summit the week before last, you'll see that its height
>> is 14,115 feet.
>
> Actually, there are two signs in the summit area, one on each side of
> the building, and I was only remembering one of them. See:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/pike/14110.jpg
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/pike/14115.jpg
>
> I don't know if the discrepancy reflects different measurements,
> different rounding, changes in the height of the summit due to
> construction of the building, the actual position of the two signs,
> or what. Anyway, it's not 13,745 feet!
And the actual tallest mountain in the Rockies is Mt. Elbert, also in
>>> 10. Who was the Civil War general, unsuccessful presidential
>>> candidate, and explorer who in 1842 climbed a Wyoming peak
>>> that was later named after him? It is not, as was thought
>>> at the time, the tallest mountain in the Rockies, but it is
>>> 13,745 feet or almost 4,200 m high.
>>
>> John C. Frémont. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
>>
>> Two entrants tried Zebulon Pike. He was indeed also a general, but
>> not a presidential candidate, and Pikes Peak (as they spell it now)
>> is in Colorado, not Wyoming. Also, if you check the photos my wife
>> took at the summit the week before last, you'll see that its height
>> is 14,115 feet.
>
> Actually, there are two signs in the summit area, one on each side of
> the building, and I was only remembering one of them. See:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/pike/14110.jpg
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/pike/14115.jpg
>
> I don't know if the discrepancy reflects different measurements,
> different rounding, changes in the height of the summit due to
> construction of the building, the actual position of the two signs,
> or what. Anyway, it's not 13,745 feet!
Colorado, at 14,433 feet or just about 4,400 m. (Some sources say it's
14,440 feet.)
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