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RQFTCI07 Game 7 Rounds 4,6: Jay records, around the world
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Mark Brader
Sep 5, 2020, 12:09:17 AM9/5/20
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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2007-03-05,
and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written
by members of the Usual Suspects, but have been reformatted and
may have been retyped and/or edited by me. I will reveal the
correct answers in about 3 days.
For further information, including an explanation of the """
notation that may appear in these rounds, see my 2020-06-23
companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
I wrote one of these rounds.
* Game 7, Round 4 - Sports - Blue Jay Records
1. *As of 2020*, of all players who have pitched for the Blue Jays,
who has the lowest career ERA (3.12)?
*Note*: I substituted the above question for one in the original
game where I not only could not find the correct answer today,
I had reason to believe that the original expected answer was wrong.
The remaining 9 questions are from the round as originally written
and as usual you can give the 2007 answer or the current answer.
Name the """current""" holders of the following Toronto Blue
Jay records. All questions refer to records among Jays players
during the time they were Jays; that is, these are Blue Jay team
records only.
2. Highest batting average (.307). """This player""" was a Blue Jay
1991-95.
3. Number of games played (1,450). This player was a Blue Jay
from 1983 to 1990, then in 1993, 1998, 1999, and 2001.
4. Number of wins by a pitcher (175). This player was a Blue Jay
from 1979 to 1992, and again briefly in 1998.
5. Highest on-base percentage (.395). This player was a Blue Jay
from 1989 to 1996.
6. Highest slugging percentage (.556). This player was a Blue
Jay from 1993 to 2004.
The last four records are single-season records. They are still
team records only, for Toronto Blue Jays players during the time
they were Jays, and you name the player.
7. Greatest number of hits in a season (215). Accomplished in 2003.
8. Most wins as a starting pitcher (22). Accomplished in 2003.
9. Most saves by a pitcher (45). Accomplished in 1993.
10. Greatest number of home runs (47). Accomplished in 1987.
* Game 7, Round 6 - History - Around the World
Traveling "around the world" is a rather loose expression that rarely
involves an exact great circle or even going from one point to its
antipodal point and back; some trips so called have been as short as
15,000 miles, or have not returned exactly to their starting point.
In this, uh, *round*, we'll consider all such variant definitions
as legitimate; what we're concerned with is the different ways it
has been done, or in one case, depicted in fiction.
1. In Jules Verne's novel, Phileas Fogg attempts to demonstrate
that modern public transportation will allow a trip "Around the
World in 80 Days". What is the appropriate French name of his
valet who travels with him?
2. Who was the first man to travel around the world in under
2 hours?
3. In 1931 this pilot and his navigator Harold Gatty set a speed
record for flying around the world; their book about the flight
was titled "Around the World in *Eight* Days". Two years later
he became the first to fly *solo* around the world. He died
in a 1935 crash that also killed his passenger, Will Rogers.
Name him.
4. The *first* trip around the world by air was made by a team of
US Army pilots flying Douglas World Cruisers, fitted with floats
for part of the journey and wheels for the rest. Due to many
repairs and other problems, it took 175 days. Within 5, what
was the *year*?
5. This man and his crew once held the speed record for *sailing
a boat* around the world, and he has many records for other
journeys. In 2002 he became the first person to fly around the
world *solo and nonstop* in a balloon, the charmingly named
"Bud Light Spirit of Freedom". In 2005, he became the first
to do the same in an airplane, which was sponsored by Richard
Branson and therefore named the "Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer".
Who are we talking about?
6. This man wrote the book "Sailing Alone Around the World", after
doing just that between 1895 and 1898; he was the first to do so.
Name him.
7. By one interpretation, the first man to ever travel around the
world, this starting in 1511, was a slave. How was this
possible?
8. In 1947, this airline became the first to offer a regularly
scheduled flight that made a series of stops around the world
and returned to its starting point. You may remember that in a
famous movie about 20 years later, it was depicted as operating
commercial flights to the Moon. Name the airline.
9. Speaking of the Moon, let's switch worlds for a moment.
Three men together were the first to travel around the Moon.
Either name the mission (be sufficiently specific) or name
any one of the three astronauts, one of whom was played by Tom
Hanks in a movie about a later real-life spaceflight.
10. To bring this *round* *around* *full circle*, we finish with a
real-life round-the-world trip by ordinary public transportation,
inspired by the fictional Phileas Fogg. It began in 1889
and was, appropriately, sponsored by the "New York *World*".
Name the reporter, also the author of the exposé "Ten Days in
a Madhouse", who completed her trip on the 73rd day.
--
Mark Brader | "If you're incompetent, you can't know you're incompetent...
Toronto | the skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly
m...@vex.net | the skills you need to recognize what a right answer is."
--David Dunning
My text in this article is in the public domain.
and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written
by members of the Usual Suspects, but have been reformatted and
may have been retyped and/or edited by me. I will reveal the
correct answers in about 3 days.
For further information, including an explanation of the """
notation that may appear in these rounds, see my 2020-06-23
companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
I wrote one of these rounds.
* Game 7, Round 4 - Sports - Blue Jay Records
1. *As of 2020*, of all players who have pitched for the Blue Jays,
who has the lowest career ERA (3.12)?
*Note*: I substituted the above question for one in the original
game where I not only could not find the correct answer today,
I had reason to believe that the original expected answer was wrong.
The remaining 9 questions are from the round as originally written
and as usual you can give the 2007 answer or the current answer.
Name the """current""" holders of the following Toronto Blue
Jay records. All questions refer to records among Jays players
during the time they were Jays; that is, these are Blue Jay team
records only.
2. Highest batting average (.307). """This player""" was a Blue Jay
1991-95.
3. Number of games played (1,450). This player was a Blue Jay
from 1983 to 1990, then in 1993, 1998, 1999, and 2001.
4. Number of wins by a pitcher (175). This player was a Blue Jay
from 1979 to 1992, and again briefly in 1998.
5. Highest on-base percentage (.395). This player was a Blue Jay
from 1989 to 1996.
6. Highest slugging percentage (.556). This player was a Blue
Jay from 1993 to 2004.
The last four records are single-season records. They are still
team records only, for Toronto Blue Jays players during the time
they were Jays, and you name the player.
7. Greatest number of hits in a season (215). Accomplished in 2003.
8. Most wins as a starting pitcher (22). Accomplished in 2003.
9. Most saves by a pitcher (45). Accomplished in 1993.
10. Greatest number of home runs (47). Accomplished in 1987.
* Game 7, Round 6 - History - Around the World
Traveling "around the world" is a rather loose expression that rarely
involves an exact great circle or even going from one point to its
antipodal point and back; some trips so called have been as short as
15,000 miles, or have not returned exactly to their starting point.
In this, uh, *round*, we'll consider all such variant definitions
as legitimate; what we're concerned with is the different ways it
has been done, or in one case, depicted in fiction.
1. In Jules Verne's novel, Phileas Fogg attempts to demonstrate
that modern public transportation will allow a trip "Around the
World in 80 Days". What is the appropriate French name of his
valet who travels with him?
2. Who was the first man to travel around the world in under
2 hours?
3. In 1931 this pilot and his navigator Harold Gatty set a speed
record for flying around the world; their book about the flight
was titled "Around the World in *Eight* Days". Two years later
he became the first to fly *solo* around the world. He died
in a 1935 crash that also killed his passenger, Will Rogers.
Name him.
4. The *first* trip around the world by air was made by a team of
US Army pilots flying Douglas World Cruisers, fitted with floats
for part of the journey and wheels for the rest. Due to many
repairs and other problems, it took 175 days. Within 5, what
was the *year*?
5. This man and his crew once held the speed record for *sailing
a boat* around the world, and he has many records for other
journeys. In 2002 he became the first person to fly around the
world *solo and nonstop* in a balloon, the charmingly named
"Bud Light Spirit of Freedom". In 2005, he became the first
to do the same in an airplane, which was sponsored by Richard
Branson and therefore named the "Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer".
Who are we talking about?
6. This man wrote the book "Sailing Alone Around the World", after
doing just that between 1895 and 1898; he was the first to do so.
Name him.
7. By one interpretation, the first man to ever travel around the
world, this starting in 1511, was a slave. How was this
possible?
8. In 1947, this airline became the first to offer a regularly
scheduled flight that made a series of stops around the world
and returned to its starting point. You may remember that in a
famous movie about 20 years later, it was depicted as operating
commercial flights to the Moon. Name the airline.
9. Speaking of the Moon, let's switch worlds for a moment.
Three men together were the first to travel around the Moon.
Either name the mission (be sufficiently specific) or name
any one of the three astronauts, one of whom was played by Tom
Hanks in a movie about a later real-life spaceflight.
10. To bring this *round* *around* *full circle*, we finish with a
real-life round-the-world trip by ordinary public transportation,
inspired by the fictional Phileas Fogg. It began in 1889
and was, appropriately, sponsored by the "New York *World*".
Name the reporter, also the author of the exposé "Ten Days in
a Madhouse", who completed her trip on the 73rd day.
--
Mark Brader | "If you're incompetent, you can't know you're incompetent...
Toronto | the skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly
m...@vex.net | the skills you need to recognize what a right answer is."
--David Dunning
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Dan Blum
Sep 5, 2020, 10:40:10 AM9/5/20
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> 1. In Jules Verne's novel, Phileas Fogg attempts to demonstrate
> that modern public transportation will allow a trip "Around the
> World in 80 Days". What is the appropriate French name of his
> valet who travels with him?
Passepartout
> that modern public transportation will allow a trip "Around the
> World in 80 Days". What is the appropriate French name of his
> valet who travels with him?
> 2. Who was the first man to travel around the world in under
> 2 hours?
> 3. In 1931 this pilot and his navigator Harold Gatty set a speed
> record for flying around the world; their book about the flight
> was titled "Around the World in *Eight* Days". Two years later
> he became the first to fly *solo* around the world. He died
> in a 1935 crash that also killed his passenger, Will Rogers.
> Name him.
> 4. The *first* trip around the world by air was made by a team of
> US Army pilots flying Douglas World Cruisers, fitted with floats
> for part of the journey and wheels for the rest. Due to many
> repairs and other problems, it took 175 days. Within 5, what
> was the *year*?
> 7. By one interpretation, the first man to ever travel around the
> world, this starting in 1511, was a slave. How was this
> possible?
Europe. He was on Magellan's expedition which reached the Phillippines
from the other direction.
> 8. In 1947, this airline became the first to offer a regularly
> scheduled flight that made a series of stops around the world
> and returned to its starting point. You may remember that in a
> famous movie about 20 years later, it was depicted as operating
> commercial flights to the Moon. Name the airline.
> 9. Speaking of the Moon, let's switch worlds for a moment.
> Three men together were the first to travel around the Moon.
> Either name the mission (be sufficiently specific) or name
> any one of the three astronauts, one of whom was played by Tom
> Hanks in a movie about a later real-life spaceflight.
> 10. To bring this *round* *around* *full circle*, we finish with a
> real-life round-the-world trip by ordinary public transportation,
> inspired by the fictional Phileas Fogg. It began in 1889
> and was, appropriately, sponsored by the "New York *World*".
> a Madhouse", who completed her trip on the 73rd day.
Nellie Bly
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Joshua Kreitzer
Sep 5, 2020, 1:16:33 PM9/5/20
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:5ZmdnetT8Zj6ks7CnZ2dnUU7-
InN...@giganews.com:
> * Game 7, Round 4 - Sports - Blue Jay Records
Sorry, I can't help you on this one.
> * Game 7, Round 6 - History - Around the World
>
> Traveling "around the world" is a rather loose expression that rarely
> involves an exact great circle or even going from one point to its
> antipodal point and back; some trips so called have been as short as
> 15,000 miles, or have not returned exactly to their starting point.
>
> In this, uh, *round*, we'll consider all such variant definitions
> as legitimate; what we're concerned with is the different ways it
> has been done, or in one case, depicted in fiction.
>
> 1. In Jules Verne's novel, Phileas Fogg attempts to demonstrate
> that modern public transportation will allow a trip "Around the
> World in 80 Days". What is the appropriate French name of his
> valet who travels with him?
Passepartout
> 2. Who was the first man to travel around the world in under
> 2 hours?
Yuri Gagarin
> 3. In 1931 this pilot and his navigator Harold Gatty set a speed
> record for flying around the world; their book about the flight
> was titled "Around the World in *Eight* Days". Two years later
> he became the first to fly *solo* around the world. He died
> in a 1935 crash that also killed his passenger, Will Rogers.
> Name him.
Wiley Post
> 4. The *first* trip around the world by air was made by a team of
> US Army pilots flying Douglas World Cruisers, fitted with floats
> for part of the journey and wheels for the rest. Due to many
> repairs and other problems, it took 175 days. Within 5, what
> was the *year*?
1925
> 5. This man and his crew once held the speed record for *sailing
> a boat* around the world, and he has many records for other
> journeys. In 2002 he became the first person to fly around the
> world *solo and nonstop* in a balloon, the charmingly named
> "Bud Light Spirit of Freedom". In 2005, he became the first
> to do the same in an airplane, which was sponsored by Richard
> Branson and therefore named the "Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer".
> Who are we talking about?
Fossett
> 7. By one interpretation, the first man to ever travel around the
> world, this starting in 1511, was a slave. How was this
> possible?
he was transported westward to Europe, then joined Magellan's westward
round-the-world expedition which stopped in his homeland
> 8. In 1947, this airline became the first to offer a regularly
> scheduled flight that made a series of stops around the world
> and returned to its starting point. You may remember that in a
> famous movie about 20 years later, it was depicted as operating
> commercial flights to the Moon. Name the airline.
Pan Am
> 9. Speaking of the Moon, let's switch worlds for a moment.
> Three men together were the first to travel around the Moon.
> Either name the mission (be sufficiently specific) or name
> any one of the three astronauts, one of whom was played by Tom
> Hanks in a movie about a later real-life spaceflight.
Jim Lovell; Apollo 8
> 10. To bring this *round* *around* *full circle*, we finish with a
> real-life round-the-world trip by ordinary public transportation,
> inspired by the fictional Phileas Fogg. It began in 1889
> and was, appropriately, sponsored by the "New York *World*".
> Name the reporter, also the author of the exposé "Ten Days in
> a Madhouse", who completed her trip on the 73rd day.
Nellie Bly
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
InN...@giganews.com:
> * Game 7, Round 4 - Sports - Blue Jay Records
> * Game 7, Round 6 - History - Around the World
>
> Traveling "around the world" is a rather loose expression that rarely
> involves an exact great circle or even going from one point to its
> antipodal point and back; some trips so called have been as short as
> 15,000 miles, or have not returned exactly to their starting point.
>
> In this, uh, *round*, we'll consider all such variant definitions
> as legitimate; what we're concerned with is the different ways it
> has been done, or in one case, depicted in fiction.
>
> 1. In Jules Verne's novel, Phileas Fogg attempts to demonstrate
> that modern public transportation will allow a trip "Around the
> World in 80 Days". What is the appropriate French name of his
> valet who travels with him?
> 2. Who was the first man to travel around the world in under
> 2 hours?
> 3. In 1931 this pilot and his navigator Harold Gatty set a speed
> record for flying around the world; their book about the flight
> was titled "Around the World in *Eight* Days". Two years later
> he became the first to fly *solo* around the world. He died
> in a 1935 crash that also killed his passenger, Will Rogers.
> Name him.
> 4. The *first* trip around the world by air was made by a team of
> US Army pilots flying Douglas World Cruisers, fitted with floats
> for part of the journey and wheels for the rest. Due to many
> repairs and other problems, it took 175 days. Within 5, what
> was the *year*?
> 5. This man and his crew once held the speed record for *sailing
> a boat* around the world, and he has many records for other
> journeys. In 2002 he became the first person to fly around the
> world *solo and nonstop* in a balloon, the charmingly named
> "Bud Light Spirit of Freedom". In 2005, he became the first
> to do the same in an airplane, which was sponsored by Richard
> Branson and therefore named the "Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer".
> Who are we talking about?
> 7. By one interpretation, the first man to ever travel around the
> world, this starting in 1511, was a slave. How was this
> possible?
round-the-world expedition which stopped in his homeland
> 8. In 1947, this airline became the first to offer a regularly
> scheduled flight that made a series of stops around the world
> and returned to its starting point. You may remember that in a
> famous movie about 20 years later, it was depicted as operating
> commercial flights to the Moon. Name the airline.
> 9. Speaking of the Moon, let's switch worlds for a moment.
> Three men together were the first to travel around the Moon.
> Either name the mission (be sufficiently specific) or name
> any one of the three astronauts, one of whom was played by Tom
> Hanks in a movie about a later real-life spaceflight.
> 10. To bring this *round* *around* *full circle*, we finish with a
> real-life round-the-world trip by ordinary public transportation,
> inspired by the fictional Phileas Fogg. It began in 1889
> and was, appropriately, sponsored by the "New York *World*".
> Name the reporter, also the author of the exposé "Ten Days in
> a Madhouse", who completed her trip on the 73rd day.
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Erland Sommarskog
Sep 5, 2020, 5:24:26 PM9/5/20
to
Mark Brader (m...@vex.net) writes:
> * Game 7, Round 4 - Sports - Blue Jay Records
>
> 1. *As of 2020*, of all players who have pitched for the Blue Jays,
> who has the lowest career ERA (3.12)?
>
Picthers? I thought you were talking about a record company. OK, I can
> * Game 7, Round 4 - Sports - Blue Jay Records
>
> 1. *As of 2020*, of all players who have pitched for the Blue Jays,
> who has the lowest career ERA (3.12)?
>
just skip this round.
> * Game 7, Round 6 - History - Around the World
>
> 1. In Jules Verne's novel, Phileas Fogg attempts to demonstrate
> that modern public transportation will allow a trip "Around the
> World in 80 Days". What is the appropriate French name of his
> valet who travels with him?
Passpartout
> that modern public transportation will allow a trip "Around the
> World in 80 Days". What is the appropriate French name of his
> valet who travels with him?
> 2. Who was the first man to travel around the world in under
> 2 hours?
> 4. The *first* trip around the world by air was made by a team of
> US Army pilots flying Douglas World Cruisers, fitted with floats
> for part of the journey and wheels for the rest. Due to many
> repairs and other problems, it took 175 days. Within 5, what
> was the *year*?
> 7. By one interpretation, the first man to ever travel around the
> world, this starting in 1511, was a slave. How was this
> possible?
few survived the whole route.
> 9. Speaking of the Moon, let's switch worlds for a moment.
> Three men together were the first to travel around the Moon.
> Either name the mission (be sufficiently specific) or name
> any one of the three astronauts, one of whom was played by Tom
> Hanks in a movie about a later real-life spaceflight.
Dan Tilque
Sep 5, 2020, 10:40:07 PM9/5/20
to
On 9/4/20 9:09 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> * Game 7, Round 4 - Sports - Blue Jay Records
>
> 1. *As of 2020*, of all players who have pitched for the Blue Jays,
> who has the lowest career ERA (3.12)?
>
> *Note*: I substituted the above question for one in the original
> game where I not only could not find the correct answer today,
> I had reason to believe that the original expected answer was wrong.
> The remaining 9 questions are from the round as originally written
> and as usual you can give the 2007 answer or the current answer.
>
> Name the """current""" holders of the following Toronto Blue
> Jay records. All questions refer to records among Jays players
> during the time they were Jays; that is, these are Blue Jay team
> records only.
>
> 2. Highest batting average (.307). """This player""" was a Blue Jay
> 1991-95.
>
> 3. Number of games played (1,450). This player was a Blue Jay
> from 1983 to 1990, then in 1993, 1998, 1999, and 2001.
>
> 4. Number of wins by a pitcher (175). This player was a Blue Jay
> from 1979 to 1992, and again briefly in 1998.
>
> 5. Highest on-base percentage (.395). This player was a Blue Jay
> from 1989 to 1996.
Olerud
>
>
> * Game 7, Round 4 - Sports - Blue Jay Records
>
> 1. *As of 2020*, of all players who have pitched for the Blue Jays,
> who has the lowest career ERA (3.12)?
>
> *Note*: I substituted the above question for one in the original
> game where I not only could not find the correct answer today,
> I had reason to believe that the original expected answer was wrong.
> The remaining 9 questions are from the round as originally written
> and as usual you can give the 2007 answer or the current answer.
>
> Name the """current""" holders of the following Toronto Blue
> Jay records. All questions refer to records among Jays players
> during the time they were Jays; that is, these are Blue Jay team
> records only.
>
> 2. Highest batting average (.307). """This player""" was a Blue Jay
> 1991-95.
>
> 3. Number of games played (1,450). This player was a Blue Jay
> from 1983 to 1990, then in 1993, 1998, 1999, and 2001.
>
> 4. Number of wins by a pitcher (175). This player was a Blue Jay
> from 1979 to 1992, and again briefly in 1998.
>
> 5. Highest on-base percentage (.395). This player was a Blue Jay
> from 1989 to 1996.
>
> 6. Highest slugging percentage (.556). This player was a Blue
> Jay from 1993 to 2004.
>
> The last four records are single-season records. They are still
> team records only, for Toronto Blue Jays players during the time
> they were Jays, and you name the player.
>
> 7. Greatest number of hits in a season (215). Accomplished in 2003.
>
> 8. Most wins as a starting pitcher (22). Accomplished in 2003.
>
> 9. Most saves by a pitcher (45). Accomplished in 1993.
>
> 10. Greatest number of home runs (47). Accomplished in 1987.
>
>
> * Game 7, Round 6 - History - Around the World
>
> Traveling "around the world" is a rather loose expression that rarely
> involves an exact great circle or even going from one point to its
> antipodal point and back; some trips so called have been as short as
> 15,000 miles, or have not returned exactly to their starting point.
>
> In this, uh, *round*, we'll consider all such variant definitions
> as legitimate; what we're concerned with is the different ways it
> has been done, or in one case, depicted in fiction.
>
> 1. In Jules Verne's novel, Phileas Fogg attempts to demonstrate
> that modern public transportation will allow a trip "Around the
> World in 80 Days". What is the appropriate French name of his
> valet who travels with him?
>
> 2. Who was the first man to travel around the world in under
> 2 hours?
>
> 3. In 1931 this pilot and his navigator Harold Gatty set a speed
> record for flying around the world; their book about the flight
> was titled "Around the World in *Eight* Days". Two years later
> he became the first to fly *solo* around the world. He died
> in a 1935 crash that also killed his passenger, Will Rogers.
> Name him.
>
> 4. The *first* trip around the world by air was made by a team of
> US Army pilots flying Douglas World Cruisers, fitted with floats
> for part of the journey and wheels for the rest. Due to many
> repairs and other problems, it took 175 days. Within 5, what
> was the *year*?
>
> 5. This man and his crew once held the speed record for *sailing
> a boat* around the world, and he has many records for other
> journeys. In 2002 he became the first person to fly around the
> world *solo and nonstop* in a balloon, the charmingly named
> "Bud Light Spirit of Freedom". In 2005, he became the first
> to do the same in an airplane, which was sponsored by Richard
> Branson and therefore named the "Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer".
> Who are we talking about?
>
> 6. This man wrote the book "Sailing Alone Around the World", after
> doing just that between 1895 and 1898; he was the first to do so.
> Name him.
>
> 7. By one interpretation, the first man to ever travel around the
> world, this starting in 1511, was a slave. How was this
> possible?
circumnavigation when ship reached African port on way home
>
> 8. In 1947, this airline became the first to offer a regularly
> scheduled flight that made a series of stops around the world
> and returned to its starting point. You may remember that in a
> famous movie about 20 years later, it was depicted as operating
> commercial flights to the Moon. Name the airline.
>
> 9. Speaking of the Moon, let's switch worlds for a moment.
> Three men together were the first to travel around the Moon.
> Either name the mission (be sufficiently specific) or name
> any one of the three astronauts, one of whom was played by Tom
> Hanks in a movie about a later real-life spaceflight.
>
> 10. To bring this *round* *around* *full circle*, we finish with a
> real-life round-the-world trip by ordinary public transportation,
> inspired by the fictional Phileas Fogg. It began in 1889
> and was, appropriately, sponsored by the "New York *World*".
> Name the reporter, also the author of the exposé "Ten Days in
> a Madhouse", who completed her trip on the 73rd day.
--
Dan Tilque
Pete Gayde
Sep 6, 2020, 11:19:48 PM9/6/20
to
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2007-03-05,
> and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written
> by members of the Usual Suspects, but have been reformatted and
> may have been retyped and/or edited by me. I will reveal the
> correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> For further information, including an explanation of the """
> notation that may appear in these rounds, see my 2020-06-23
> companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
>
>
> I wrote one of these rounds.
>
>
> * Game 7, Round 4 - Sports - Blue Jay Records
>
> 1. *As of 2020*, of all players who have pitched for the Blue Jays,
> who has the lowest career ERA (3.12)?
Clemens; Halladay
> and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written
> by members of the Usual Suspects, but have been reformatted and
> may have been retyped and/or edited by me. I will reveal the
> correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> For further information, including an explanation of the """
> notation that may appear in these rounds, see my 2020-06-23
> companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
>
>
> I wrote one of these rounds.
>
>
> * Game 7, Round 4 - Sports - Blue Jay Records
>
> 1. *As of 2020*, of all players who have pitched for the Blue Jays,
> who has the lowest career ERA (3.12)?
>
> *Note*: I substituted the above question for one in the original
> game where I not only could not find the correct answer today,
> I had reason to believe that the original expected answer was wrong.
> The remaining 9 questions are from the round as originally written
> and as usual you can give the 2007 answer or the current answer.
>
> Name the """current""" holders of the following Toronto Blue
> Jay records. All questions refer to records among Jays players
> during the time they were Jays; that is, these are Blue Jay team
> records only.
>
> 2. Highest batting average (.307). """This player""" was a Blue Jay
> 1991-95.
>
> 3. Number of games played (1,450). This player was a Blue Jay
> from 1983 to 1990, then in 1993, 1998, 1999, and 2001.
>
> 4. Number of wins by a pitcher (175). This player was a Blue Jay
> from 1979 to 1992, and again briefly in 1998.
>
> 5. Highest on-base percentage (.395). This player was a Blue Jay
> from 1989 to 1996.
>
> 6. Highest slugging percentage (.556). This player was a Blue
> Jay from 1993 to 2004.
>
> The last four records are single-season records. They are still
> team records only, for Toronto Blue Jays players during the time
> they were Jays, and you name the player.
>
> 7. Greatest number of hits in a season (215). Accomplished in 2003.
>
> 8. Most wins as a starting pitcher (22). Accomplished in 2003.
>
> 9. Most saves by a pitcher (45). Accomplished in 1993.
>
> 10. Greatest number of home runs (47). Accomplished in 1987.
>
>
> * Game 7, Round 6 - History - Around the World
>
> Traveling "around the world" is a rather loose expression that rarely
> involves an exact great circle or even going from one point to its
> antipodal point and back; some trips so called have been as short as
> 15,000 miles, or have not returned exactly to their starting point.
>
> In this, uh, *round*, we'll consider all such variant definitions
> as legitimate; what we're concerned with is the different ways it
> has been done, or in one case, depicted in fiction.
>
> 1. In Jules Verne's novel, Phileas Fogg attempts to demonstrate
> that modern public transportation will allow a trip "Around the
> World in 80 Days". What is the appropriate French name of his
> valet who travels with him?
>
> 2. Who was the first man to travel around the world in under
> 2 hours?
>
> 3. In 1931 this pilot and his navigator Harold Gatty set a speed
> record for flying around the world; their book about the flight
> was titled "Around the World in *Eight* Days". Two years later
> he became the first to fly *solo* around the world. He died
> in a 1935 crash that also killed his passenger, Will Rogers.
> Name him.
>
> 4. The *first* trip around the world by air was made by a team of
> US Army pilots flying Douglas World Cruisers, fitted with floats
> for part of the journey and wheels for the rest. Due to many
> repairs and other problems, it took 175 days. Within 5, what
> was the *year*?
>
> 5. This man and his crew once held the speed record for *sailing
> a boat* around the world, and he has many records for other
> journeys. In 2002 he became the first person to fly around the
> world *solo and nonstop* in a balloon, the charmingly named
> "Bud Light Spirit of Freedom". In 2005, he became the first
> to do the same in an airplane, which was sponsored by Richard
> Branson and therefore named the "Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer".
> Who are we talking about?
>
> 6. This man wrote the book "Sailing Alone Around the World", after
> doing just that between 1895 and 1898; he was the first to do so.
> Name him.
>
> 7. By one interpretation, the first man to ever travel around the
> world, this starting in 1511, was a slave. How was this
> possible?
>
> 8. In 1947, this airline became the first to offer a regularly
> scheduled flight that made a series of stops around the world
> and returned to its starting point. You may remember that in a
> famous movie about 20 years later, it was depicted as operating
> commercial flights to the Moon. Name the airline.
>
> 9. Speaking of the Moon, let's switch worlds for a moment.
> Three men together were the first to travel around the Moon.
> Either name the mission (be sufficiently specific) or name
> any one of the three astronauts, one of whom was played by Tom
> Hanks in a movie about a later real-life spaceflight.
>
> 10. To bring this *round* *around* *full circle*, we finish with a
> real-life round-the-world trip by ordinary public transportation,
> inspired by the fictional Phileas Fogg. It began in 1889
> and was, appropriately, sponsored by the "New York *World*".
> Name the reporter, also the author of the exposé "Ten Days in
> a Madhouse", who completed her trip on the 73rd day.
>
Pete Gayde
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Mark Brader:
> * Game 7, Round 4 - Sports - Blue Jay Records
> 1. *As of 2020*, of all players who have pitched for the Blue Jays,
> who has the lowest career ERA (3.12)?
Roger Clemons. (With the Blue Jays 1997-98.) 3 for Pete.
> *Note*: I substituted the above question for one in the original
> game where I not only could not find the correct answer today,
> I had reason to believe that the original expected answer was wrong.
> The remaining 9 questions are from the round as originally written
> and as usual you can give the 2007 answer or the current answer.
> Name the """current""" holders of the following Toronto Blue
> Jay records. All questions refer to records among Jays players
> during the time they were Jays; that is, these are Blue Jay team
> records only.
> 2. Highest batting average (.307). """This player""" was a Blue Jay
> 1991-95.
Roberto Alomar. (Still true.)
> 3. Number of games played (1,450). This player was a Blue Jay
> from 1983 to 1990, then in 1993, 1998, 1999, and 2001.
Tony Fernández. (Still true.)
> 4. Number of wins by a pitcher (175). This player was a Blue Jay
> from 1979 to 1992, and again briefly in 1998.
Dave Steib. (Still true.) 4 for Pete.
> 5. Highest on-base percentage (.395). This player was a Blue Jay
> from 1989 to 1996.
John Olerud. (Still true.) 4 for Dan Tilque.
> 6. Highest slugging percentage (.556). This player was a Blue
> Jay from 1993 to 2004.
Carlos Delgado. (Still true.)
> The last four records are single-season records. They are still
> team records only, for Toronto Blue Jays players during the time
> they were Jays, and you name the player.
> 7. Greatest number of hits in a season (215). Accomplished in 2003.
Vernon Wells. (Still true.)
> 8. Most wins as a starting pitcher (22). Accomplished in 2003.
Roy Halladay. (Still true.) 4 for Pete.
> 9. Most saves by a pitcher (45). Accomplished in 1993.
Duane Ward. (Still true.)
> 10. Greatest number of home runs (47). Accomplished in 1987.
2007 answer: George Bell. 2020 answer: José Bautista (54 home
runs in 2010).
> * Game 7, Round 6 - History - Around the World
> Traveling "around the world" is a rather loose expression that rarely
> involves an exact great circle or even going from one point to its
> antipodal point and back; some trips so called have been as short as
> 15,000 miles, or have not returned exactly to their starting point.
> In this, uh, *round*, we'll consider all such variant definitions
> as legitimate; what we're concerned with is the different ways it
> has been done, or in one case, depicted in fiction.
This was the hardest round in the original game.
> 1. In Jules Verne's novel, Phileas Fogg attempts to demonstrate
> that modern public transportation will allow a trip "Around the
> World in 80 Days". What is the appropriate French name of his
> valet who travels with him?
Passepartout ("Go everywhere"). Spellings with -port- were taken
as almost correct. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Erland, and Pete.
3 for Dan Tilque.
> 2. Who was the first man to travel around the world in under
> 2 hours?
Yuri Gagarin (in low Earth orbit, one orbit takes about 1½ hours).
4 for everyone -- Dan Blum, Joshua, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Pete.
> 3. In 1931 this pilot and his navigator Harold Gatty set a speed
> record for flying around the world; their book about the flight
> was titled "Around the World in *Eight* Days". Two years later
> he became the first to fly *solo* around the world. He died
> in a 1935 crash that also killed his passenger, Will Rogers.
> Name him.
Wiley Post. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Pete.
> 4. The *first* trip around the world by air was made by a team of
> US Army pilots flying Douglas World Cruisers, fitted with floats
> for part of the journey and wheels for the rest. Due to many
> repairs and other problems, it took 175 days. Within 5, what
> was the *year*?
1924 (accepting 1919-29). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque.
3 for Pete.
By the way, there's a book about this trip too... and, yes, it's
titled "Around the World in 175 Days".
> 5. This man and his crew once held the speed record for *sailing
> a boat* around the world, and he has many records for other
> journeys. In 2002 he became the first person to fly around the
> world *solo and nonstop* in a balloon, the charmingly named
> "Bud Light Spirit of Freedom". In 2005, he became the first
> to do the same in an airplane, which was sponsored by Richard
> Branson and therefore named the "Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer".
> Who are we talking about?
Steve Fossett, who got into the news again in September 2007
by disappearing. (It took a year for his remains to be found.)
4 for Joshua.
> 6. This man wrote the book "Sailing Alone Around the World", after
> doing just that between 1895 and 1898; he was the first to do so.
> Name him.
Joshua Slocum.
> 7. By one interpretation, the first man to ever travel around the
> world, this starting in 1511, was a slave. How was this
> possible?
The story is that he was originally captured in the Philippines (or
thereabouts; the exact place is not known, so the whole claim that he
qualifies as the first is disputed) and taken from there to Malaya.
Ferdinand Magellan was visiting from Europe; he bought the slave,
named him Enrique, and took him home with him. Magellan then took
Enrique along as an interpreter on his expedition around the world,
which reached the Philippines from the other direction in 1521.
I required some mention of him being taken on an expedition that
reached his home country. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque.
> 8. In 1947, this airline became the first to offer a regularly
> scheduled flight that made a series of stops around the world
> and returned to its starting point. You may remember that in a
> famous movie about 20 years later, it was depicted as operating
> commercial flights to the Moon. Name the airline.
Pan Am(erican Airways). The movie is "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968).
4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque.
> 9. Speaking of the Moon, let's switch worlds for a moment.
> Three men together were the first to travel around the Moon.
> Either name the mission (be sufficiently specific) or name
> any one of the three astronauts, one of whom was played by Tom
> Hanks in a movie about a later real-life spaceflight.
Apollo 8; Frank Borman, James Lovell (Hanks in "Apollo 13"), William
Anders. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua (the hard way), Dan Tilque, and Pete.
> 10. To bring this *round* *around* *full circle*, we finish with a
> real-life round-the-world trip by ordinary public transportation,
> inspired by the fictional Phileas Fogg. It began in 1889
> and was, appropriately, sponsored by the "New York *World*".
> Name the reporter, also the author of the exposé "Ten Days in
> a Madhouse", who completed her trip on the 73rd day.
Nellie Bly (traveling without a male escort, yet). 4 for Dan Blum,
Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Pete.
She want through France and stopped to visit Jules Verne, who said
he'd be delighted if she beat Fogg's 80 days.
What I did not know when I wrote the round is that "Cosmopolitan"
also sent a female reporter -- their literary editor, Elizabeth
Bisland -- to do the trip, starting on the same day, but going in
the other direction and hopefully doing it faster. Bly learned about
Bisland's trip only when she got to Hong Kong and Bisland had already
passed through there. But Bly was first back to New York, by 4 days.
See: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/anykey-180957910/
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 7 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Art Ent Spo His
Joshua Kreitzer 18 24 0 36 78
Dan Blum 9 8 0 32 49
Dan Tilque 8 0 4 27 39
Pete Gayde -- -- 11 23 34
Bruce Bowler 14 8 -- -- 22
Erland Sommarskog -- -- 0 8 8
--
Mark Brader "'You wanted it to WORK? That costs EXTRA!'
Toronto is probably the second-place security hole
m...@vex.net after simple carelessness." -- John Woods
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2007-03-05,
> and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written
> by members of the Usual Suspects, but have been reformatted and
> may have been retyped and/or edited by me. I will reveal the
> correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> For further information, including an explanation of the """
> notation that may appear in these rounds, see my 2020-06-23
> companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
> I wrote one of these rounds.
That was the history round.
> and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written
> by members of the Usual Suspects, but have been reformatted and
> may have been retyped and/or edited by me. I will reveal the
> correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> For further information, including an explanation of the """
> notation that may appear in these rounds, see my 2020-06-23
> companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
> I wrote one of these rounds.
> * Game 7, Round 4 - Sports - Blue Jay Records
> 1. *As of 2020*, of all players who have pitched for the Blue Jays,
> who has the lowest career ERA (3.12)?
> *Note*: I substituted the above question for one in the original
> game where I not only could not find the correct answer today,
> I had reason to believe that the original expected answer was wrong.
> The remaining 9 questions are from the round as originally written
> and as usual you can give the 2007 answer or the current answer.
> Name the """current""" holders of the following Toronto Blue
> Jay records. All questions refer to records among Jays players
> during the time they were Jays; that is, these are Blue Jay team
> records only.
> 2. Highest batting average (.307). """This player""" was a Blue Jay
> 1991-95.
> 3. Number of games played (1,450). This player was a Blue Jay
> from 1983 to 1990, then in 1993, 1998, 1999, and 2001.
> 4. Number of wins by a pitcher (175). This player was a Blue Jay
> from 1979 to 1992, and again briefly in 1998.
> 5. Highest on-base percentage (.395). This player was a Blue Jay
> from 1989 to 1996.
> 6. Highest slugging percentage (.556). This player was a Blue
> Jay from 1993 to 2004.
> The last four records are single-season records. They are still
> team records only, for Toronto Blue Jays players during the time
> they were Jays, and you name the player.
> 7. Greatest number of hits in a season (215). Accomplished in 2003.
> 8. Most wins as a starting pitcher (22). Accomplished in 2003.
> 9. Most saves by a pitcher (45). Accomplished in 1993.
> 10. Greatest number of home runs (47). Accomplished in 1987.
runs in 2010).
> * Game 7, Round 6 - History - Around the World
> Traveling "around the world" is a rather loose expression that rarely
> involves an exact great circle or even going from one point to its
> antipodal point and back; some trips so called have been as short as
> 15,000 miles, or have not returned exactly to their starting point.
> In this, uh, *round*, we'll consider all such variant definitions
> as legitimate; what we're concerned with is the different ways it
> has been done, or in one case, depicted in fiction.
> 1. In Jules Verne's novel, Phileas Fogg attempts to demonstrate
> that modern public transportation will allow a trip "Around the
> World in 80 Days". What is the appropriate French name of his
> valet who travels with him?
as almost correct. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Erland, and Pete.
3 for Dan Tilque.
> 2. Who was the first man to travel around the world in under
> 2 hours?
4 for everyone -- Dan Blum, Joshua, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Pete.
> 3. In 1931 this pilot and his navigator Harold Gatty set a speed
> record for flying around the world; their book about the flight
> was titled "Around the World in *Eight* Days". Two years later
> he became the first to fly *solo* around the world. He died
> in a 1935 crash that also killed his passenger, Will Rogers.
> Name him.
> 4. The *first* trip around the world by air was made by a team of
> US Army pilots flying Douglas World Cruisers, fitted with floats
> for part of the journey and wheels for the rest. Due to many
> repairs and other problems, it took 175 days. Within 5, what
> was the *year*?
3 for Pete.
By the way, there's a book about this trip too... and, yes, it's
titled "Around the World in 175 Days".
> 5. This man and his crew once held the speed record for *sailing
> a boat* around the world, and he has many records for other
> journeys. In 2002 he became the first person to fly around the
> world *solo and nonstop* in a balloon, the charmingly named
> "Bud Light Spirit of Freedom". In 2005, he became the first
> to do the same in an airplane, which was sponsored by Richard
> Branson and therefore named the "Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer".
> Who are we talking about?
by disappearing. (It took a year for his remains to be found.)
4 for Joshua.
> 6. This man wrote the book "Sailing Alone Around the World", after
> doing just that between 1895 and 1898; he was the first to do so.
> Name him.
> 7. By one interpretation, the first man to ever travel around the
> world, this starting in 1511, was a slave. How was this
> possible?
thereabouts; the exact place is not known, so the whole claim that he
qualifies as the first is disputed) and taken from there to Malaya.
Ferdinand Magellan was visiting from Europe; he bought the slave,
named him Enrique, and took him home with him. Magellan then took
Enrique along as an interpreter on his expedition around the world,
which reached the Philippines from the other direction in 1521.
I required some mention of him being taken on an expedition that
reached his home country. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque.
> 8. In 1947, this airline became the first to offer a regularly
> scheduled flight that made a series of stops around the world
> and returned to its starting point. You may remember that in a
> famous movie about 20 years later, it was depicted as operating
> commercial flights to the Moon. Name the airline.
4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque.
> 9. Speaking of the Moon, let's switch worlds for a moment.
> Three men together were the first to travel around the Moon.
> Either name the mission (be sufficiently specific) or name
> any one of the three astronauts, one of whom was played by Tom
> Hanks in a movie about a later real-life spaceflight.
Anders. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua (the hard way), Dan Tilque, and Pete.
> 10. To bring this *round* *around* *full circle*, we finish with a
> real-life round-the-world trip by ordinary public transportation,
> inspired by the fictional Phileas Fogg. It began in 1889
> and was, appropriately, sponsored by the "New York *World*".
> Name the reporter, also the author of the exposé "Ten Days in
> a Madhouse", who completed her trip on the 73rd day.
Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Pete.
She want through France and stopped to visit Jules Verne, who said
he'd be delighted if she beat Fogg's 80 days.
What I did not know when I wrote the round is that "Cosmopolitan"
also sent a female reporter -- their literary editor, Elizabeth
Bisland -- to do the trip, starting on the same day, but going in
the other direction and hopefully doing it faster. Bly learned about
Bisland's trip only when she got to Hong Kong and Bisland had already
passed through there. But Bly was first back to New York, by 4 days.
See: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/anykey-180957910/
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 7 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Art Ent Spo His
Joshua Kreitzer 18 24 0 36 78
Dan Blum 9 8 0 32 49
Dan Tilque 8 0 4 27 39
Pete Gayde -- -- 11 23 34
Bruce Bowler 14 8 -- -- 22
Erland Sommarskog -- -- 0 8 8
--
Mark Brader "'You wanted it to WORK? That costs EXTRA!'
Toronto is probably the second-place security hole
m...@vex.net after simple carelessness." -- John Woods
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