Mark Brader:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-08-09,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> I wrote two triples in this round.
A and C.
This was the easiest round in the original game.
> ** Final, Round 6 -- Sports & Leisure
> * A. Early Rule Books
> The three passages in this triple are taken from early rule books
> and may refer to games rather than sports. In each case, name
> the game or sport.
> A1. "In either case of the dealer or his partner declaring,
> the one declaring may, instead of declaring trumps, say
> 'biritch', which means that the hands shall be played
> without trumps."
"Biritch, or Russian whist" is what it's called in that rule book.
Today we spell it "bridge". I'm accepting any of those, but not
plain "whist", which did not have any declaring. ("Biritch" means
notrump.) 4 for Pete, Gareth (presumably), Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum.
> A2. "The game to consist of twenty-one counts, or aces; but at
> the conclusion an equal number of hands must be played";
> also, "Three hands out, all out." Hint: it's not a card
> game.
Base ball. Today we spell it "baseball". ("Aces" means runs,
and "hands" appears to mean half-innings in the first quoted rule
but players in the second one.) 4 for Joshua, Peter, Gareth,
and Dan Tilque.
> A3. "A player having touched the ball straight for a tree, and
> touched the tree with it, may drop from either side if he
> can, but the opposite side may oblige him to go to his own
> side of the tree."
Football as played as Rugby school. Today we call it "rugby".
("Tree" means tree. There were trees on the playing field!)
4 for Dan Tilque.
> * B. Card Games
> B1. Which one of the following is not a form of solitaire?
> Black Widow, Captive Queens, Flower Garden, Idiot's Delight,
> Osmosis, Otis Elevator, Penguin.
Otis Elevator (a form of poker) was the expected answer, but one
entrant called attention to a non-solitaire card game called Osmosis,
so I accepted that answer also. 4 for Joshua, Peter, and Dan Blum.
3 for Pete.
> B2. If a side has won a game in a current rubber of bridge,
> it is then said to be what (aside from happy, presumably)?
Vulnerable. 4 for Marc, Peter, Pete, Erland, Gareth, Dan Tilque,
and Dan Blum.
> B3. When a player wins at cribbage by a margin of 31 or more
> points, what has he or she achieved?
Skunk (among other terms). 4 for Marc, Pete, Dan Tilque,
and Dan Blum. 3 for Gareth.
I found multiple sources confirming that the cribbage scoreboard may
be considered as divided into a succession of 30-point"streets",
but no references to winning "by a street", which logically would
mean winning by 30 or more. I decided to score that answer as
"almost correct".
(Team) handball. 4 for Joshua, Marc, Björn, Peter, Pete, Erland,
Gareth, and Dan Tilque.
Australian ("Aussie rules") football. 4 for Peter, Pete, and Gareth.
Hurling. (Played principally in Ireland, on the same field used
for Gaelic football.) 4 for Peter, Gareth, and Dan Tilque.
> * D. Canadian Sportscasters
> D1. Back in the 1970, when your humble question-setter did
> battle on it, *this guy* was the quizmaster of the then-CBC
> show "Reach for the Top" in Newfoundland. But then he was
> somehow lured away from that plum gig by a long-lasting
> stint with "Hockey Night in Canada". Name him.
Bob Cole.
> D2. Okay, this broadcaster is actually an American; but since
> he was the voice of the Montreal Expos for 32 years, he's
> practically one of us. He currently works for the Miami
> Marlins.
Dave Van Horne.
> D3. This former hurdler went into broadcasting after retirement
> and worked the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto. She is part
> of CBC's coverage of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Perdita Felicien.
> * E. Defunct Pro Sports Teams
> Full names are required, e.g. "Toronto Maple Leafs".
> E1. When Research in Motion chairman Jim Balsillie was rumored
> in 2007 to be purchasing the Nashville Predators and moving
> them to a particular Canadian city, many fans were hoping
> the team would be renamed after which former NHL club that
> had previously been there in the 1920s?
Hamilton Tigers (as you will remember from Game 7, Round 7).
> E2. Which was the first, and so far the only, US-based team to
> win the Grey Cup?
Baltimore Stallions. (In 1995. The CFL only had teams in the US for
2 years, 1994-95. When the NHL tried it, it lasted somewhat longer.)
> E3. Lasting only one season, which Canadian team in 1946
> hosted the first-ever game of the Basketball Association
> of America (forerunner to the NBA), losing 68-66 to the
> New York Knickerbockers?
Toronto Huskies.
> * F. Modern Board Games
> F1. In this game, whose first version was released in 2011, up
> to 6 players can each adopt the avatar of a monster, who,
> as the game progresses, can be either inside or outside a
> certain city. Players roll dice and pick cards in order
> to be able to attack other players, while at the same time
> maintaining their own state of health.
King of Tokyo (or King of New York). 4 for Dan Blum.
> F2. This 2-player strategy game takes its name from a quote by
> John F. Kennedy. Players represent the US and USSR and
> play out scenarios based on the post-WW2 era.
Twilight Struggle. 4 for Dan Blum.
> F3. This cooperative board "game" was released in 2007 and
> models a scenario where four diseases have broken out and
> the players take the roles of medical specialists who have
> to work together to find cures.
Pandemic. 4 for Gareth and Dan Blum.
Scores, if there are no errors:
FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Ent Geo Mis Spo
Joshua Kreitzer 44 48 48 12 152
Dan Blum 36 30 36 28 130
Gareth Owen 44 -- 46 31 121
Dan Tilque 16 56 20 28 120
Marc Dashevsky 48 24 32 12 116
Pete Gayde 43 34 16 23 116
Peter Smyth -- 30 12 24 66
Erland Sommarskog -- 40 -- 8 48
Jason Kreitzer 28 -- 12 -- 40
Björn Lundin 4 20 4 4 32
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Mark Brader "...living through a coup involves a lot of
Toronto sitting around refreshing web pages."
m...@vex.net --Harriet Boulding