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Mark Brader
Oct 13, 2019, 12:14:01 AM10/13/19
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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-08-06,
and should be interpreted accordingly.
On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
the correct answers in about 3 days.
All questions were written by members of Unnatural Axxxe 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 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
** Final, Round 9 - History
* Native Acknowledgements
Hardly a public event takes place these days without a formal
acknowledgement of indigenous history and ownership of the land.
We'll give you a localized acknowledgement and you name the *city*
-- in each case, a provincial capital.
1. "We would like to respectfully acknowledge the territory in
which we gather, as the ancestral unceded homelands of the
Beothuk and as the ancestral unceded homelands of the Mi'kmaq."
2. "We wish to acknowledge this land which, for thousands of years,
has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca,
and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River."
3. "We wish to acknowledge that the land on which we gather is
Treaty 6 territory and a traditional meeting ground and home for
many indigenous peoples, including Cree, Saulteaux, Niisitapi
(Blackfoot), Métis, and Nakota Sioux."
* Prime Ministers Born Elsewhere
4. Born in New Brunswick in 1858, this man served as prime minister
of the UK from 1922 to 1923. Name him.
5. Conversely, four Canadian prime ministers were born in the UK.
The first three were John A. Macdonald, Alexander Mackenzie,
and Mackenzie Bowelll -- who was the fourth?
6. Janet Rosenberg Jagan, born in Chicago in 1920, was the first
female prime minister -- and then the first female president --
of which Western Hemisphere nation?
* US Civil War Battle Names
Many battles in the Civil War were given different names by
Northerners and Southerners. We'll give you the dates and what
one side called it, you give the other name for it.
7. July 21, 1861; August 29-30, 1862. The North called them the
First and Second Battle of Bull Run. What did the South call
them the first and second battle of?
8. April 6-7, 1862. The Northerners called it Pittsburg Landing.
What did the South call it?
9. September 17, 1862. The South called it the Battle of
Sharpsburg. What did the Northerners call it?
* Famous Horses
A horse! A horse! No, wait, we already did that bit. But anyway,
one horse isn't enough, King Richard. We need to know about three.
10. Bucephalus lived from 355 to 326 BC and was one of the most
famous war horses that ever lived. Who did this horse belong to?
11. Rocinante was the mount of a fictional Spanish nobleman.
Name this literary character.
12. Traveller lived from 1857 to 1871, and is considered the most
famous horse of the US Civil War. Whose horse was he?
* On the Anniversary of Hiroshima
On this day in 1945, the Enola Gay dropped a 10-kiloton atomic
bomb ironically called Little Boy, marking the first time a nuclear
weapon was used in combat.
13. A Navy cruiser was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese sub after
delivering key parts of Little Boy. Because it was on a secret
mission, no one initially knew it was missing, and many who
survived the sinking died before rescue arrived. Name the ship.
14. The following target -- Nagasaki -- was not on the US military's
initial hit list. Name any of the other four that were.
15. This red flower became the official flower of Hiroshima because
a small patch bloomed in the irradiated rubble mere months after
the blast. Name this poisonous flower of the dogbane family.
** Final, Round 10 - Challenge Round and Tiebreaker
* A. Entertainment Geography: Filmic Places
A1. This Mexican peninsula is famous for gray whales breeding
site offshore. It's also where James Cameron created the
world's largest "water tank studio" for Titanic. Name it.
A2. Due to fatwa fears, Roland Emmerich dropped plans to depict
the destruction of a famous Jerusalem mosque in his disaster
film "2012". Name that mosque, which has the Dome of the
Rock at its centre.
A3. A certain Audrey Hepburn movie opens with her standing by
a shop window at 693 5th Av. in New York City. Name the
establishment at that address.
* B. Science: Electricity
B1. The word "electricity" comes from "elektron", the Greek
word for what?
B2. What did Michael Faraday invent in 1821, using principles
of electromagnetism?
B3. Resistance to an electric current is measured in ohms.
Conversely, what is the unit of conductivity?
* C. Literature: 20th-Century Authors
Name the author of the work.
C1. "Rumblefish".
C2. "Wise Blood".
C3. "Atonement".
* D. Canadiana: Prime Ministers
D1. Name the second prime minister, who was the first Liberal
one.
D2. This prime minister introduced a new flag, the Canada Pension
Plan, universal medicare, a new immigration act, a fund
for rural economic development, and the Royal Commission
on Bilingualism. Who was that?
D3. During the Depression, what was a Bennett Buggy?
* E. Entertainment: What, No Nomination?
An honor to be nominated? I wouldn't know.
E1. Master of motion-capture acting, he played Gollum in the
"Lord of the Rings" and "Hobbit" movies, Caesar in "Planet
of the Apes", and King Kong. He has no Oscar nominations
despite wide support from studios and peers. Name him.
E2. Considered the inventor of the 3-camera sitcom, he co-starred
with his wife in the biggest sitcom of the 1950s. Yet he
never received an Emmy nomination. Who was he?
E3. His leading lady in a 1990 romance was nominated for Best
Actress. A 2002 musical in which he co-starred won Best
Picture. But in a 45-year career, this actor has never
been nominated for an Academy Award. Name him.
* F. Sports: Walking Wounded
F1. This Washington Redskin star quarterback's career ended
when his leg was broken in two places by a tackle, live on
"Monday Night Football". Name him.
F2. Who is the only NHL player who died as a direct result of
an on-ice injury during a game? They named a trophy
after him.
F3. Perhaps this one, at least, will fit the category title.
How did tennis player Monica Seles sustain an injury during
a quarter-final match in Hamburg, Germany in 1993?
* G. Tiebreaker
This triple was not used in the original game, but since Axxxe
included them in the round they forwarded to me, I may as well
post them here. But as in the original game, I will only count
them if the game is otherwise tied -- otherwise you'll be answering
for fun, but for no points.
G1. We all know that the Dutch build dikes, but what is the
term for low-lying reclaimed land that lies within the dikes?
G2. This Australian composer, based in England, died at 65
on July 31, 2019. He composed several television themes:
most notably for "Inspector Morse", its follow-up "Lewis",
and its prequel "Endeavour". Who?
G3. Canadian grocery chain Sobey's announced they are phasing
something out by February 2020. What?
--
Mark Brader | "I have a feeling... we're very close to solving this thing."
Toronto | "What gives you that idea?"
m...@vex.net | "Simple. There's only one chapter after this one."
| --John Blumenthal
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 3 days.
All questions were written by members of Unnatural Axxxe 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 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
** Final, Round 9 - History
* Native Acknowledgements
Hardly a public event takes place these days without a formal
acknowledgement of indigenous history and ownership of the land.
We'll give you a localized acknowledgement and you name the *city*
-- in each case, a provincial capital.
1. "We would like to respectfully acknowledge the territory in
which we gather, as the ancestral unceded homelands of the
Beothuk and as the ancestral unceded homelands of the Mi'kmaq."
2. "We wish to acknowledge this land which, for thousands of years,
has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca,
and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River."
3. "We wish to acknowledge that the land on which we gather is
Treaty 6 territory and a traditional meeting ground and home for
many indigenous peoples, including Cree, Saulteaux, Niisitapi
(Blackfoot), Métis, and Nakota Sioux."
* Prime Ministers Born Elsewhere
4. Born in New Brunswick in 1858, this man served as prime minister
of the UK from 1922 to 1923. Name him.
5. Conversely, four Canadian prime ministers were born in the UK.
The first three were John A. Macdonald, Alexander Mackenzie,
and Mackenzie Bowelll -- who was the fourth?
6. Janet Rosenberg Jagan, born in Chicago in 1920, was the first
female prime minister -- and then the first female president --
of which Western Hemisphere nation?
* US Civil War Battle Names
Many battles in the Civil War were given different names by
Northerners and Southerners. We'll give you the dates and what
one side called it, you give the other name for it.
7. July 21, 1861; August 29-30, 1862. The North called them the
First and Second Battle of Bull Run. What did the South call
them the first and second battle of?
8. April 6-7, 1862. The Northerners called it Pittsburg Landing.
What did the South call it?
9. September 17, 1862. The South called it the Battle of
Sharpsburg. What did the Northerners call it?
* Famous Horses
A horse! A horse! No, wait, we already did that bit. But anyway,
one horse isn't enough, King Richard. We need to know about three.
10. Bucephalus lived from 355 to 326 BC and was one of the most
famous war horses that ever lived. Who did this horse belong to?
11. Rocinante was the mount of a fictional Spanish nobleman.
Name this literary character.
12. Traveller lived from 1857 to 1871, and is considered the most
famous horse of the US Civil War. Whose horse was he?
* On the Anniversary of Hiroshima
On this day in 1945, the Enola Gay dropped a 10-kiloton atomic
bomb ironically called Little Boy, marking the first time a nuclear
weapon was used in combat.
13. A Navy cruiser was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese sub after
delivering key parts of Little Boy. Because it was on a secret
mission, no one initially knew it was missing, and many who
survived the sinking died before rescue arrived. Name the ship.
14. The following target -- Nagasaki -- was not on the US military's
initial hit list. Name any of the other four that were.
15. This red flower became the official flower of Hiroshima because
a small patch bloomed in the irradiated rubble mere months after
the blast. Name this poisonous flower of the dogbane family.
** Final, Round 10 - Challenge Round and Tiebreaker
* A. Entertainment Geography: Filmic Places
A1. This Mexican peninsula is famous for gray whales breeding
site offshore. It's also where James Cameron created the
world's largest "water tank studio" for Titanic. Name it.
A2. Due to fatwa fears, Roland Emmerich dropped plans to depict
the destruction of a famous Jerusalem mosque in his disaster
film "2012". Name that mosque, which has the Dome of the
Rock at its centre.
A3. A certain Audrey Hepburn movie opens with her standing by
a shop window at 693 5th Av. in New York City. Name the
establishment at that address.
* B. Science: Electricity
B1. The word "electricity" comes from "elektron", the Greek
word for what?
B2. What did Michael Faraday invent in 1821, using principles
of electromagnetism?
B3. Resistance to an electric current is measured in ohms.
Conversely, what is the unit of conductivity?
* C. Literature: 20th-Century Authors
Name the author of the work.
C1. "Rumblefish".
C2. "Wise Blood".
C3. "Atonement".
* D. Canadiana: Prime Ministers
D1. Name the second prime minister, who was the first Liberal
one.
D2. This prime minister introduced a new flag, the Canada Pension
Plan, universal medicare, a new immigration act, a fund
for rural economic development, and the Royal Commission
on Bilingualism. Who was that?
D3. During the Depression, what was a Bennett Buggy?
* E. Entertainment: What, No Nomination?
An honor to be nominated? I wouldn't know.
E1. Master of motion-capture acting, he played Gollum in the
"Lord of the Rings" and "Hobbit" movies, Caesar in "Planet
of the Apes", and King Kong. He has no Oscar nominations
despite wide support from studios and peers. Name him.
E2. Considered the inventor of the 3-camera sitcom, he co-starred
with his wife in the biggest sitcom of the 1950s. Yet he
never received an Emmy nomination. Who was he?
E3. His leading lady in a 1990 romance was nominated for Best
Actress. A 2002 musical in which he co-starred won Best
Picture. But in a 45-year career, this actor has never
been nominated for an Academy Award. Name him.
* F. Sports: Walking Wounded
F1. This Washington Redskin star quarterback's career ended
when his leg was broken in two places by a tackle, live on
"Monday Night Football". Name him.
F2. Who is the only NHL player who died as a direct result of
an on-ice injury during a game? They named a trophy
after him.
F3. Perhaps this one, at least, will fit the category title.
How did tennis player Monica Seles sustain an injury during
a quarter-final match in Hamburg, Germany in 1993?
* G. Tiebreaker
This triple was not used in the original game, but since Axxxe
included them in the round they forwarded to me, I may as well
post them here. But as in the original game, I will only count
them if the game is otherwise tied -- otherwise you'll be answering
for fun, but for no points.
G1. We all know that the Dutch build dikes, but what is the
term for low-lying reclaimed land that lies within the dikes?
G2. This Australian composer, based in England, died at 65
on July 31, 2019. He composed several television themes:
most notably for "Inspector Morse", its follow-up "Lewis",
and its prequel "Endeavour". Who?
G3. Canadian grocery chain Sobey's announced they are phasing
something out by February 2020. What?
--
Mark Brader | "I have a feeling... we're very close to solving this thing."
Toronto | "What gives you that idea?"
m...@vex.net | "Simple. There's only one chapter after this one."
| --John Blumenthal
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Erland Sommarskog
Oct 13, 2019, 5:19:55 AM10/13/19
to
> 1. "We would like to respectfully acknowledge the territory in
> which we gather, as the ancestral unceded homelands of the
> Beothuk and as the ancestral unceded homelands of the Mi'kmaq."
Victoria
> which we gather, as the ancestral unceded homelands of the
> Beothuk and as the ancestral unceded homelands of the Mi'kmaq."
> 2. "We wish to acknowledge this land which, for thousands of years,
> has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca,
> and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River."
> 3. "We wish to acknowledge that the land on which we gather is
> Treaty 6 territory and a traditional meeting ground and home for
> many indigenous peoples, including Cree, Saulteaux, Niisitapi
> (Blackfoot), Métis, and Nakota Sioux."
> 6. Janet Rosenberg Jagan, born in Chicago in 1920, was the first
> female prime minister -- and then the first female president --
> of which Western Hemisphere nation?
> 10. Bucephalus lived from 355 to 326 BC and was one of the most
> famous war horses that ever lived. Who did this horse belong to?
> 14. The following target -- Nagasaki -- was not on the US military's
> initial hit list. Name any of the other four that were.
I was quite shocked when learnt this, just having spent a few days in
that city. That they even had the idea!
> * A. Entertainment Geography: Filmic Places
>
> A2. Due to fatwa fears, Roland Emmerich dropped plans to depict
> the destruction of a famous Jerusalem mosque in his disaster
> film "2012". Name that mosque, which has the Dome of the
> Rock at its centre.
Al-Asqa
> the destruction of a famous Jerusalem mosque in his disaster
> film "2012". Name that mosque, which has the Dome of the
> Rock at its centre.
> * B. Science: Electricity
>
> B1. The word "electricity" comes from "elektron", the Greek
> word for what?
> B2. What did Michael Faraday invent in 1821, using principles
> of electromagnetism?
Dan Blum
Oct 13, 2019, 10:07:04 AM10/13/19
to
> 1. "We would like to respectfully acknowledge the territory in
> which we gather, as the ancestral unceded homelands of the
> Beothuk and as the ancestral unceded homelands of the Mi'kmaq."
Victoria
> which we gather, as the ancestral unceded homelands of the
> Beothuk and as the ancestral unceded homelands of the Mi'kmaq."
> 2. "We wish to acknowledge this land which, for thousands of years,
> has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca,
> and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River."
> 3. "We wish to acknowledge that the land on which we gather is
> Treaty 6 territory and a traditional meeting ground and home for
> many indigenous peoples, including Cree, Saulteaux, Niisitapi
Calgary; Saskatoon
> * Prime Ministers Born Elsewhere
> 4. Born in New Brunswick in 1858, this man served as prime minister
> of the UK from 1922 to 1923. Name him.
> 5. Conversely, four Canadian prime ministers were born in the UK.
> The first three were John A. Macdonald, Alexander Mackenzie,
> and Mackenzie Bowelll -- who was the fourth?
> 6. Janet Rosenberg Jagan, born in Chicago in 1920, was the first
> female prime minister -- and then the first female president --
> of which Western Hemisphere nation?
> * US Civil War Battle Names
> 7. July 21, 1861; August 29-30, 1862. The North called them the
> First and Second Battle of Bull Run. What did the South call
> them the first and second battle of?
Manassas
> First and Second Battle of Bull Run. What did the South call
> them the first and second battle of?
> 8. April 6-7, 1862. The Northerners called it Pittsburg Landing.
> What did the South call it?
> 9. September 17, 1862. The South called it the Battle of
> Sharpsburg. What did the Northerners call it?
> * Famous Horses
> 10. Bucephalus lived from 355 to 326 BC and was one of the most
> famous war horses that ever lived. Who did this horse belong to?
> 11. Rocinante was the mount of a fictional Spanish nobleman.
> Name this literary character.
> 12. Traveller lived from 1857 to 1871, and is considered the most
> famous horse of the US Civil War. Whose horse was he?
> * On the Anniversary of Hiroshima
> 14. The following target -- Nagasaki -- was not on the US military's
> initial hit list. Name any of the other four that were.
Kyoto
> initial hit list. Name any of the other four that were.
> ** Final, Round 10 - Challenge Round and Tiebreaker
> * A. Entertainment Geography: Filmic Places
> A1. This Mexican peninsula is famous for gray whales breeding
> site offshore. It's also where James Cameron created the
> world's largest "water tank studio" for Titanic. Name it.
> A3. A certain Audrey Hepburn movie opens with her standing by
> a shop window at 693 5th Av. in New York City. Name the
> establishment at that address.
> * B. Science: Electricity
> B1. The word "electricity" comes from "elektron", the Greek
> word for what?
> B2. What did Michael Faraday invent in 1821, using principles
> of electromagnetism?
> B3. Resistance to an electric current is measured in ohms.
> Conversely, what is the unit of conductivity?
> * C. Literature: 20th-Century Authors
Ian McEwan
> * D. Canadiana: Prime Ministers
> D1. Name the second prime minister, who was the first Liberal
> one.
> D2. This prime minister introduced a new flag, the Canada Pension
> Plan, universal medicare, a new immigration act, a fund
> for rural economic development, and the Royal Commission
> on Bilingualism. Who was that?
> * E. Entertainment: What, No Nomination?
> E1. Master of motion-capture acting, he played Gollum in the
> "Lord of the Rings" and "Hobbit" movies, Caesar in "Planet
> of the Apes", and King Kong. He has no Oscar nominations
> despite wide support from studios and peers. Name him.
Andy Serkis
> "Lord of the Rings" and "Hobbit" movies, Caesar in "Planet
> of the Apes", and King Kong. He has no Oscar nominations
> despite wide support from studios and peers. Name him.
> E2. Considered the inventor of the 3-camera sitcom, he co-starred
> with his wife in the biggest sitcom of the 1950s. Yet he
> never received an Emmy nomination. Who was he?
> E3. His leading lady in a 1990 romance was nominated for Best
> Actress. A 2002 musical in which he co-starred won Best
> Picture. But in a 45-year career, this actor has never
> been nominated for an Academy Award. Name him.
> * F. Sports: Walking Wounded
> F1. This Washington Redskin star quarterback's career ended
> when his leg was broken in two places by a tackle, live on
> "Monday Night Football". Name him.
> F3. Perhaps this one, at least, will fit the category title.
> How did tennis player Monica Seles sustain an injury during
> a quarter-final match in Hamburg, Germany in 1993?
> * G. Tiebreaker
> G1. We all know that the Dutch build dikes, but what is the
> term for low-lying reclaimed land that lies within the dikes?
> G3. Canadian grocery chain Sobey's announced they are phasing
> something out by February 2020. What?
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Joshua Kreitzer
Oct 13, 2019, 11:03:44 AM10/13/19
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:xsCdnXja1dMZOT_AnZ2dnUU7-
d3N...@giganews.com:
> ** Final, Round 9 - History
>
> * Prime Ministers Born Elsewhere
> * US Civil War Battle Names
>
> * Famous Horses
>
> A horse! A horse! No, wait, we already did that bit. But anyway,
> one horse isn't enough, King Richard. We need to know about three.
>
> 10. Bucephalus lived from 355 to 326 BC and was one of the most
> famous war horses that ever lived. Who did this horse belong to?
Alexander the Great
> 11. Rocinante was the mount of a fictional Spanish nobleman.
> Name this literary character.
Don Quixote
> 12. Traveller lived from 1857 to 1871, and is considered the most
> famous horse of the US Civil War. Whose horse was he?
Robert E. Lee
> ** Final, Round 10 - Challenge Round and Tiebreaker
>
> * A. Entertainment Geography: Filmic Places
>
> A1. This Mexican peninsula is famous for gray whales breeding
> site offshore. It's also where James Cameron created the
> world's largest "water tank studio" for Titanic. Name it.
Baja California
> A2. Due to fatwa fears, Roland Emmerich dropped plans to depict
> the destruction of a famous Jerusalem mosque in his disaster
> film "2012". Name that mosque, which has the Dome of the
> Rock at its centre.
Al-Aqsa
> A3. A certain Audrey Hepburn movie opens with her standing by
> a shop window at 693 5th Av. in New York City. Name the
> establishment at that address.
Tiffany's
> * B. Science: Electricity
>
> B1. The word "electricity" comes from "elektron", the Greek
> word for what?
amber
> B3. Resistance to an electric current is measured in ohms.
> Conversely, what is the unit of conductivity?
mho
> * C. Literature: 20th-Century Authors
>
> Name the author of the work.
>
> C1. "Rumblefish".
S. E. Hinton
(but she spelled it as two words)
> * D. Canadiana: Prime Ministers
>
> * E. Entertainment: What, No Nomination?
>
> An honor to be nominated? I wouldn't know.
>
> E1. Master of motion-capture acting, he played Gollum in the
> "Lord of the Rings" and "Hobbit" movies, Caesar in "Planet
> of the Apes", and King Kong. He has no Oscar nominations
> despite wide support from studios and peers. Name him.
Andy Serkis
> E2. Considered the inventor of the 3-camera sitcom, he co-starred
> with his wife in the biggest sitcom of the 1950s. Yet he
> never received an Emmy nomination. Who was he?
Desi Arnaz
> E3. His leading lady in a 1990 romance was nominated for Best
> Actress. A 2002 musical in which he co-starred won Best
> Picture. But in a 45-year career, this actor has never
> been nominated for an Academy Award. Name him.
Richard Gere
> * F. Sports: Walking Wounded
>
> F1. This Washington Redskin star quarterback's career ended
> when his leg was broken in two places by a tackle, live on
> "Monday Night Football". Name him.
Theismann
> F3. Perhaps this one, at least, will fit the category title.
> How did tennis player Monica Seles sustain an injury during
> a quarter-final match in Hamburg, Germany in 1993?
she was stabbed by a spectator
> * G. Tiebreaker
>
> This triple was not used in the original game, but since Axxxe
> included them in the round they forwarded to me, I may as well
> post them here. But as in the original game, I will only count
> them if the game is otherwise tied -- otherwise you'll be answering
> for fun, but for no points.
>
> G1. We all know that the Dutch build dikes, but what is the
> term for low-lying reclaimed land that lies within the dikes?
polders
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
d3N...@giganews.com:
> ** Final, Round 9 - History
>
>
> 6. Janet Rosenberg Jagan, born in Chicago in 1920, was the first
> female prime minister -- and then the first female president --
> of which Western Hemisphere nation?
Guyana
> 6. Janet Rosenberg Jagan, born in Chicago in 1920, was the first
> female prime minister -- and then the first female president --
> of which Western Hemisphere nation?
> * US Civil War Battle Names
>
> 7. July 21, 1861; August 29-30, 1862. The North called them the
> First and Second Battle of Bull Run. What did the South call
> them the first and second battle of?
Manassas
> First and Second Battle of Bull Run. What did the South call
> them the first and second battle of?
> * Famous Horses
>
> A horse! A horse! No, wait, we already did that bit. But anyway,
> one horse isn't enough, King Richard. We need to know about three.
>
> 10. Bucephalus lived from 355 to 326 BC and was one of the most
> famous war horses that ever lived. Who did this horse belong to?
> 11. Rocinante was the mount of a fictional Spanish nobleman.
> Name this literary character.
> 12. Traveller lived from 1857 to 1871, and is considered the most
> famous horse of the US Civil War. Whose horse was he?
> ** Final, Round 10 - Challenge Round and Tiebreaker
>
> * A. Entertainment Geography: Filmic Places
>
> A1. This Mexican peninsula is famous for gray whales breeding
> site offshore. It's also where James Cameron created the
> world's largest "water tank studio" for Titanic. Name it.
> A2. Due to fatwa fears, Roland Emmerich dropped plans to depict
> the destruction of a famous Jerusalem mosque in his disaster
> film "2012". Name that mosque, which has the Dome of the
> Rock at its centre.
> A3. A certain Audrey Hepburn movie opens with her standing by
> a shop window at 693 5th Av. in New York City. Name the
> establishment at that address.
> * B. Science: Electricity
>
> B1. The word "electricity" comes from "elektron", the Greek
> word for what?
> B3. Resistance to an electric current is measured in ohms.
> Conversely, what is the unit of conductivity?
> * C. Literature: 20th-Century Authors
>
> Name the author of the work.
>
> C1. "Rumblefish".
(but she spelled it as two words)
> * D. Canadiana: Prime Ministers
>
> D2. This prime minister introduced a new flag, the Canada Pension
> Plan, universal medicare, a new immigration act, a fund
> for rural economic development, and the Royal Commission
> on Bilingualism. Who was that?
Pearson
> Plan, universal medicare, a new immigration act, a fund
> for rural economic development, and the Royal Commission
> on Bilingualism. Who was that?
> * E. Entertainment: What, No Nomination?
>
> An honor to be nominated? I wouldn't know.
>
> E1. Master of motion-capture acting, he played Gollum in the
> "Lord of the Rings" and "Hobbit" movies, Caesar in "Planet
> of the Apes", and King Kong. He has no Oscar nominations
> despite wide support from studios and peers. Name him.
> E2. Considered the inventor of the 3-camera sitcom, he co-starred
> with his wife in the biggest sitcom of the 1950s. Yet he
> never received an Emmy nomination. Who was he?
> E3. His leading lady in a 1990 romance was nominated for Best
> Actress. A 2002 musical in which he co-starred won Best
> Picture. But in a 45-year career, this actor has never
> been nominated for an Academy Award. Name him.
> * F. Sports: Walking Wounded
>
> F1. This Washington Redskin star quarterback's career ended
> when his leg was broken in two places by a tackle, live on
> "Monday Night Football". Name him.
> F3. Perhaps this one, at least, will fit the category title.
> How did tennis player Monica Seles sustain an injury during
> a quarter-final match in Hamburg, Germany in 1993?
> * G. Tiebreaker
>
> This triple was not used in the original game, but since Axxxe
> included them in the round they forwarded to me, I may as well
> post them here. But as in the original game, I will only count
> them if the game is otherwise tied -- otherwise you'll be answering
> for fun, but for no points.
>
> G1. We all know that the Dutch build dikes, but what is the
> term for low-lying reclaimed land that lies within the dikes?
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Dan Tilque
Oct 13, 2019, 12:27:25 PM10/13/19
to
On 10/12/19 9:13 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> ** Final, Round 9 - History
>
> * Native Acknowledgements
>
> Hardly a public event takes place these days without a formal
> acknowledgement of indigenous history and ownership of the land.
> We'll give you a localized acknowledgement and you name the *city*
> -- in each case, a provincial capital.
>
> 1. "We would like to respectfully acknowledge the territory in
> which we gather, as the ancestral unceded homelands of the
> Beothuk and as the ancestral unceded homelands of the Mi'kmaq."
St John's
>
>
> ** Final, Round 9 - History
>
> * Native Acknowledgements
>
> Hardly a public event takes place these days without a formal
> acknowledgement of indigenous history and ownership of the land.
> We'll give you a localized acknowledgement and you name the *city*
> -- in each case, a provincial capital.
>
> 1. "We would like to respectfully acknowledge the territory in
> which we gather, as the ancestral unceded homelands of the
> Beothuk and as the ancestral unceded homelands of the Mi'kmaq."
>
> 2. "We wish to acknowledge this land which, for thousands of years,
> has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca,
> and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River."
>
> 3. "We wish to acknowledge that the land on which we gather is
> Treaty 6 territory and a traditional meeting ground and home for
> many indigenous peoples, including Cree, Saulteaux, Niisitapi
> (Blackfoot), Métis, and Nakota Sioux."
>
>
> * Prime Ministers Born Elsewhere
>
> 4. Born in New Brunswick in 1858, this man served as prime minister
> of the UK from 1922 to 1923. Name him.
>
> 5. Conversely, four Canadian prime ministers were born in the UK.
> The first three were John A. Macdonald, Alexander Mackenzie,
> and Mackenzie Bowelll -- who was the fourth?
>
> 6. Janet Rosenberg Jagan, born in Chicago in 1920, was the first
> female prime minister -- and then the first female president --
> of which Western Hemisphere nation?
>
>
> * US Civil War Battle Names
>
> Many battles in the Civil War were given different names by
> Northerners and Southerners. We'll give you the dates and what
> one side called it, you give the other name for it.
>
> 7. July 21, 1861; August 29-30, 1862. The North called them the
> First and Second Battle of Bull Run. What did the South call
> them the first and second battle of?
>
> 8. April 6-7, 1862. The Northerners called it Pittsburg Landing.
> What did the South call it?
>
> 9. September 17, 1862. The South called it the Battle of
> Sharpsburg. What did the Northerners call it?
>
>
> * Famous Horses
>
> A horse! A horse! No, wait, we already did that bit. But anyway,
> one horse isn't enough, King Richard. We need to know about three.
>
> 10. Bucephalus lived from 355 to 326 BC and was one of the most
> famous war horses that ever lived. Who did this horse belong to?
>
> 11. Rocinante was the mount of a fictional Spanish nobleman.
> Name this literary character.
>
> 12. Traveller lived from 1857 to 1871, and is considered the most
> famous horse of the US Civil War. Whose horse was he?
>
>
> * On the Anniversary of Hiroshima
>
> On this day in 1945, the Enola Gay dropped a 10-kiloton atomic
> bomb ironically called Little Boy, marking the first time a nuclear
> weapon was used in combat.
>
> 13. A Navy cruiser was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese sub after
> delivering key parts of Little Boy. Because it was on a secret
> mission, no one initially knew it was missing, and many who
> survived the sinking died before rescue arrived. Name the ship.
>
> 14. The following target -- Nagasaki -- was not on the US military's
> initial hit list. Name any of the other four that were.
>
> 15. This red flower became the official flower of Hiroshima because
> a small patch bloomed in the irradiated rubble mere months after
> the blast. Name this poisonous flower of the dogbane family.
>
>
> ** Final, Round 10 - Challenge Round and Tiebreaker
>
> * A. Entertainment Geography: Filmic Places
>
> A1. This Mexican peninsula is famous for gray whales breeding
> site offshore. It's also where James Cameron created the
> world's largest "water tank studio" for Titanic. Name it.
>
> A2. Due to fatwa fears, Roland Emmerich dropped plans to depict
> the destruction of a famous Jerusalem mosque in his disaster
> film "2012". Name that mosque, which has the Dome of the
> Rock at its centre.
>
> A3. A certain Audrey Hepburn movie opens with her standing by
> a shop window at 693 5th Av. in New York City. Name the
> establishment at that address.
>
>
> * B. Science: Electricity
>
> B1. The word "electricity" comes from "elektron", the Greek
> word for what?
>
> B2. What did Michael Faraday invent in 1821, using principles
> of electromagnetism?
>
> B3. Resistance to an electric current is measured in ohms.
> Conversely, what is the unit of conductivity?
>
>
> * C. Literature: 20th-Century Authors
>
> Name the author of the work.
>
> C1. "Rumblefish".
>
> C2. "Wise Blood".
>
> C3. "Atonement".
>
>
> * D. Canadiana: Prime Ministers
>
> D1. Name the second prime minister, who was the first Liberal
> one.
>
> D2. This prime minister introduced a new flag, the Canada Pension
> Plan, universal medicare, a new immigration act, a fund
> for rural economic development, and the Royal Commission
> on Bilingualism. Who was that?
>
> D3. During the Depression, what was a Bennett Buggy?
>
>
> * E. Entertainment: What, No Nomination?
>
> An honor to be nominated? I wouldn't know.
>
> E1. Master of motion-capture acting, he played Gollum in the
> "Lord of the Rings" and "Hobbit" movies, Caesar in "Planet
> of the Apes", and King Kong. He has no Oscar nominations
> despite wide support from studios and peers. Name him.
>
> E2. Considered the inventor of the 3-camera sitcom, he co-starred
> with his wife in the biggest sitcom of the 1950s. Yet he
> never received an Emmy nomination. Who was he?
>
> E3. His leading lady in a 1990 romance was nominated for Best
> Actress. A 2002 musical in which he co-starred won Best
> Picture. But in a 45-year career, this actor has never
> been nominated for an Academy Award. Name him.
>
>
> * F. Sports: Walking Wounded
>
> F1. This Washington Redskin star quarterback's career ended
> when his leg was broken in two places by a tackle, live on
> "Monday Night Football". Name him.
>
> F2. Who is the only NHL player who died as a direct result of
> an on-ice injury during a game? They named a trophy
> after him.
>
> F3. Perhaps this one, at least, will fit the category title.
> How did tennis player Monica Seles sustain an injury during
> a quarter-final match in Hamburg, Germany in 1993?
>
>
> * G. Tiebreaker
>
> This triple was not used in the original game, but since Axxxe
> included them in the round they forwarded to me, I may as well
> post them here. But as in the original game, I will only count
> them if the game is otherwise tied -- otherwise you'll be answering
> for fun, but for no points.
>
> G1. We all know that the Dutch build dikes, but what is the
> term for low-lying reclaimed land that lies within the dikes?
>
> G2. This Australian composer, based in England, died at 65
> on July 31, 2019. He composed several television themes:
> most notably for "Inspector Morse", its follow-up "Lewis",
> and its prequel "Endeavour". Who?
>
> G3. Canadian grocery chain Sobey's announced they are phasing
> something out by February 2020. What?
>
--
Calvin
Oct 13, 2019, 7:20:50 PM10/13/19
to
On Sunday, October 13, 2019 at 2:14:01 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
> ** Final, Round 9 - History
>
> * Native Acknowledgements
>
> Hardly a public event takes place these days without a formal
> acknowledgement of indigenous history and ownership of the land.
> We'll give you a localized acknowledgement and you name the *city*
> -- in each case, a provincial capital.
>
> 1. "We would like to respectfully acknowledge the territory in
> which we gather, as the ancestral unceded homelands of the
> Beothuk and as the ancestral unceded homelands of the Mi'kmaq."
>
> 2. "We wish to acknowledge this land which, for thousands of years,
> has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca,
> and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River."
>
> 3. "We wish to acknowledge that the land on which we gather is
> Treaty 6 territory and a traditional meeting ground and home for
> many indigenous peoples, including Cree, Saulteaux, Niisitapi
> (Blackfoot), Métis, and Nakota Sioux."
>
>
> * Prime Ministers Born Elsewhere
>
> 4. Born in New Brunswick in 1858, this man served as prime minister
> of the UK from 1922 to 1923. Name him.
Bonar Law
> ** Final, Round 9 - History
>
> * Native Acknowledgements
>
> Hardly a public event takes place these days without a formal
> acknowledgement of indigenous history and ownership of the land.
> We'll give you a localized acknowledgement and you name the *city*
> -- in each case, a provincial capital.
>
> 1. "We would like to respectfully acknowledge the territory in
> which we gather, as the ancestral unceded homelands of the
> Beothuk and as the ancestral unceded homelands of the Mi'kmaq."
>
> 2. "We wish to acknowledge this land which, for thousands of years,
> has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca,
> and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River."
>
> 3. "We wish to acknowledge that the land on which we gather is
> Treaty 6 territory and a traditional meeting ground and home for
> many indigenous peoples, including Cree, Saulteaux, Niisitapi
> (Blackfoot), Métis, and Nakota Sioux."
>
>
> * Prime Ministers Born Elsewhere
>
> 4. Born in New Brunswick in 1858, this man served as prime minister
> of the UK from 1922 to 1923. Name him.
> 5. Conversely, four Canadian prime ministers were born in the UK.
> The first three were John A. Macdonald, Alexander Mackenzie,
> and Mackenzie Bowelll -- who was the fourth?
>
> 6. Janet Rosenberg Jagan, born in Chicago in 1920, was the first
> female prime minister -- and then the first female president --
> of which Western Hemisphere nation?
> * US Civil War Battle Names
>
> Many battles in the Civil War were given different names by
> Northerners and Southerners. We'll give you the dates and what
> one side called it, you give the other name for it.
>
> 7. July 21, 1861; August 29-30, 1862. The North called them the
> First and Second Battle of Bull Run. What did the South call
> them the first and second battle of?
> 8. April 6-7, 1862. The Northerners called it Pittsburg Landing.
> What did the South call it?
> 9. September 17, 1862. The South called it the Battle of
> Sharpsburg. What did the Northerners call it?
> * Famous Horses
>
> A horse! A horse! No, wait, we already did that bit. But anyway,
> one horse isn't enough, King Richard. We need to know about three.
>
> 10. Bucephalus lived from 355 to 326 BC and was one of the most
> famous war horses that ever lived. Who did this horse belong to?
> 11. Rocinante was the mount of a fictional Spanish nobleman.
> Name this literary character.
> 12. Traveller lived from 1857 to 1871, and is considered the most
> famous horse of the US Civil War. Whose horse was he?
> * On the Anniversary of Hiroshima
>
> On this day in 1945, the Enola Gay dropped a 10-kiloton atomic
> bomb ironically called Little Boy, marking the first time a nuclear
> weapon was used in combat.
>
> 13. A Navy cruiser was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese sub after
> delivering key parts of Little Boy. Because it was on a secret
> mission, no one initially knew it was missing, and many who
> survived the sinking died before rescue arrived. Name the ship.
>
> 14. The following target -- Nagasaki -- was not on the US military's
> initial hit list. Name any of the other four that were.
>
> 15. This red flower became the official flower of Hiroshima because
> a small patch bloomed in the irradiated rubble mere months after
> the blast. Name this poisonous flower of the dogbane family.
>
>
> ** Final, Round 10 - Challenge Round and Tiebreaker
>
> * A. Entertainment Geography: Filmic Places
>
> A1. This Mexican peninsula is famous for gray whales breeding
> site offshore. It's also where James Cameron created the
> world's largest "water tank studio" for Titanic. Name it.
> A2. Due to fatwa fears, Roland Emmerich dropped plans to depict
> the destruction of a famous Jerusalem mosque in his disaster
> film "2012". Name that mosque, which has the Dome of the
> Rock at its centre.
>
> A3. A certain Audrey Hepburn movie opens with her standing by
> a shop window at 693 5th Av. in New York City. Name the
> establishment at that address.
> * B. Science: Electricity
>
> B1. The word "electricity" comes from "elektron", the Greek
> word for what?
>
> B2. What did Michael Faraday invent in 1821, using principles
> of electromagnetism?
> B3. Resistance to an electric current is measured in ohms.
> Conversely, what is the unit of conductivity?
>
>
> * C. Literature: 20th-Century Authors
>
> Name the author of the work.
>
> C1. "Rumblefish".
>
> C2. "Wise Blood".
>
> C3. "Atonement".
>
> * D. Canadiana: Prime Ministers
>
> D1. Name the second prime minister, who was the first Liberal
> one.
>
> D2. This prime minister introduced a new flag, the Canada Pension
> Plan, universal medicare, a new immigration act, a fund
> for rural economic development, and the Royal Commission
> on Bilingualism. Who was that?
>
> D3. During the Depression, what was a Bennett Buggy?
>
>
> * E. Entertainment: What, No Nomination?
>
> An honor to be nominated? I wouldn't know.
>
> E1. Master of motion-capture acting, he played Gollum in the
> "Lord of the Rings" and "Hobbit" movies, Caesar in "Planet
> of the Apes", and King Kong. He has no Oscar nominations
> despite wide support from studios and peers. Name him.
> E2. Considered the inventor of the 3-camera sitcom, he co-starred
> with his wife in the biggest sitcom of the 1950s. Yet he
> never received an Emmy nomination. Who was he?
> E3. His leading lady in a 1990 romance was nominated for Best
> Actress. A 2002 musical in which he co-starred won Best
> Picture. But in a 45-year career, this actor has never
> been nominated for an Academy Award. Name him.
> * F. Sports: Walking Wounded
>
> F1. This Washington Redskin star quarterback's career ended
> when his leg was broken in two places by a tackle, live on
> "Monday Night Football". Name him.
>
> F2. Who is the only NHL player who died as a direct result of
> an on-ice injury during a game? They named a trophy
> after him.
>
> F3. Perhaps this one, at least, will fit the category title.
> How did tennis player Monica Seles sustain an injury during
> a quarter-final match in Hamburg, Germany in 1993?
> * G. Tiebreaker
>
> This triple was not used in the original game, but since Axxxe
> included them in the round they forwarded to me, I may as well
> post them here. But as in the original game, I will only count
> them if the game is otherwise tied -- otherwise you'll be answering
> for fun, but for no points.
>
> G1. We all know that the Dutch build dikes, but what is the
> term for low-lying reclaimed land that lies within the dikes?
>
> G2. This Australian composer, based in England, died at 65
> on July 31, 2019. He composed several television themes:
> most notably for "Inspector Morse", its follow-up "Lewis",
> and its prequel "Endeavour". Who?
> G3. Canadian grocery chain Sobey's announced they are phasing
> something out by February 2020. What?
cheers,
calvin
Pete Gayde
Oct 13, 2019, 7:23:42 PM10/13/19
to
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-08-06,
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
> both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
> Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
> the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
> the correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of Unnatural Axxxe 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 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> ** Final, Round 9 - History
>
> * Native Acknowledgements
>
> Hardly a public event takes place these days without a formal
> acknowledgement of indigenous history and ownership of the land.
> We'll give you a localized acknowledgement and you name the *city*
> -- in each case, a provincial capital.
>
> 1. "We would like to respectfully acknowledge the territory in
> which we gather, as the ancestral unceded homelands of the
> Beothuk and as the ancestral unceded homelands of the Mi'kmaq."
Ilaquit
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
> both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
> Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
> the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
> the correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of Unnatural Axxxe 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 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> ** Final, Round 9 - History
>
> * Native Acknowledgements
>
> Hardly a public event takes place these days without a formal
> acknowledgement of indigenous history and ownership of the land.
> We'll give you a localized acknowledgement and you name the *city*
> -- in each case, a provincial capital.
>
> 1. "We would like to respectfully acknowledge the territory in
> which we gather, as the ancestral unceded homelands of the
> Beothuk and as the ancestral unceded homelands of the Mi'kmaq."
>
> 2. "We wish to acknowledge this land which, for thousands of years,
> has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca,
> and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River."
>
> 3. "We wish to acknowledge that the land on which we gather is
> Treaty 6 territory and a traditional meeting ground and home for
> many indigenous peoples, including Cree, Saulteaux, Niisitapi
> (Blackfoot), Métis, and Nakota Sioux."
>
>
> * Prime Ministers Born Elsewhere
>
> 4. Born in New Brunswick in 1858, this man served as prime minister
> of the UK from 1922 to 1923. Name him.
>
> 5. Conversely, four Canadian prime ministers were born in the UK.
> The first three were John A. Macdonald, Alexander Mackenzie,
> and Mackenzie Bowelll -- who was the fourth?
>
> 6. Janet Rosenberg Jagan, born in Chicago in 1920, was the first
> female prime minister -- and then the first female president --
> of which Western Hemisphere nation?
>
>
> * US Civil War Battle Names
>
> Many battles in the Civil War were given different names by
> Northerners and Southerners. We'll give you the dates and what
> one side called it, you give the other name for it.
>
> 7. July 21, 1861; August 29-30, 1862. The North called them the
> First and Second Battle of Bull Run. What did the South call
> them the first and second battle of?
>
> 8. April 6-7, 1862. The Northerners called it Pittsburg Landing.
> What did the South call it?
>
> 9. September 17, 1862. The South called it the Battle of
> Sharpsburg. What did the Northerners call it?
>
>
> * Famous Horses
>
> A horse! A horse! No, wait, we already did that bit. But anyway,
> one horse isn't enough, King Richard. We need to know about three.
>
> 10. Bucephalus lived from 355 to 326 BC and was one of the most
> famous war horses that ever lived. Who did this horse belong to?
>
> 11. Rocinante was the mount of a fictional Spanish nobleman.
> Name this literary character.
>
> 12. Traveller lived from 1857 to 1871, and is considered the most
> famous horse of the US Civil War. Whose horse was he?
>
>
> * On the Anniversary of Hiroshima
>
> On this day in 1945, the Enola Gay dropped a 10-kiloton atomic
> bomb ironically called Little Boy, marking the first time a nuclear
> weapon was used in combat.
>
> 13. A Navy cruiser was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese sub after
> delivering key parts of Little Boy. Because it was on a secret
> mission, no one initially knew it was missing, and many who
> survived the sinking died before rescue arrived. Name the ship.
>
> 14. The following target -- Nagasaki -- was not on the US military's
> initial hit list. Name any of the other four that were.
>
> 15. This red flower became the official flower of Hiroshima because
> a small patch bloomed in the irradiated rubble mere months after
> the blast. Name this poisonous flower of the dogbane family.
>
>
> ** Final, Round 10 - Challenge Round and Tiebreaker
>
> * A. Entertainment Geography: Filmic Places
>
> A1. This Mexican peninsula is famous for gray whales breeding
> site offshore. It's also where James Cameron created the
> world's largest "water tank studio" for Titanic. Name it.
>
> A2. Due to fatwa fears, Roland Emmerich dropped plans to depict
> the destruction of a famous Jerusalem mosque in his disaster
> film "2012". Name that mosque, which has the Dome of the
> Rock at its centre.
>
> A3. A certain Audrey Hepburn movie opens with her standing by
> a shop window at 693 5th Av. in New York City. Name the
> establishment at that address.
>
>
> * B. Science: Electricity
>
> B1. The word "electricity" comes from "elektron", the Greek
> word for what?
>
> B2. What did Michael Faraday invent in 1821, using principles
> of electromagnetism?
>
> B3. Resistance to an electric current is measured in ohms.
> Conversely, what is the unit of conductivity?
>
>
> * C. Literature: 20th-Century Authors
>
> Name the author of the work.
>
> C1. "Rumblefish".
>
> C2. "Wise Blood".
>
> C3. "Atonement".
>
>
> * D. Canadiana: Prime Ministers
>
> D1. Name the second prime minister, who was the first Liberal
> one.
>
> D2. This prime minister introduced a new flag, the Canada Pension
> Plan, universal medicare, a new immigration act, a fund
> for rural economic development, and the Royal Commission
> on Bilingualism. Who was that?
>
> D3. During the Depression, what was a Bennett Buggy?
>
>
> * E. Entertainment: What, No Nomination?
>
> An honor to be nominated? I wouldn't know.
>
> E1. Master of motion-capture acting, he played Gollum in the
> "Lord of the Rings" and "Hobbit" movies, Caesar in "Planet
> of the Apes", and King Kong. He has no Oscar nominations
> despite wide support from studios and peers. Name him.
>
> E2. Considered the inventor of the 3-camera sitcom, he co-starred
> with his wife in the biggest sitcom of the 1950s. Yet he
> never received an Emmy nomination. Who was he?
>
> E3. His leading lady in a 1990 romance was nominated for Best
> Actress. A 2002 musical in which he co-starred won Best
> Picture. But in a 45-year career, this actor has never
> been nominated for an Academy Award. Name him.
>
>
> * F. Sports: Walking Wounded
>
> F1. This Washington Redskin star quarterback's career ended
> when his leg was broken in two places by a tackle, live on
> "Monday Night Football". Name him.
>
> F2. Who is the only NHL player who died as a direct result of
> an on-ice injury during a game? They named a trophy
> after him.
>
> F3. Perhaps this one, at least, will fit the category title.
> How did tennis player Monica Seles sustain an injury during
> a quarter-final match in Hamburg, Germany in 1993?
>
>
> * G. Tiebreaker
>
> This triple was not used in the original game, but since Axxxe
> included them in the round they forwarded to me, I may as well
> post them here. But as in the original game, I will only count
> them if the game is otherwise tied -- otherwise you'll be answering
> for fun, but for no points.
>
> G1. We all know that the Dutch build dikes, but what is the
> term for low-lying reclaimed land that lies within the dikes?
>
> G2. This Australian composer, based in England, died at 65
> on July 31, 2019. He composed several television themes:
> most notably for "Inspector Morse", its follow-up "Lewis",
> and its prequel "Endeavour". Who?
>
> G3. Canadian grocery chain Sobey's announced they are phasing
> something out by February 2020. What?
>
Pete Gayde
Bruce Bowler
Oct 14, 2019, 1:57:33 PM10/14/19
to
> 8. April 6-7, 1862. The Northerners called it Pittsburg Landing.
> What did the South call it?
> 9. September 17, 1862. The South called it the Battle of
> Sharpsburg. What did the Northerners call it?
>
> * Famous Horses
>
> A horse! A horse! No, wait, we already did that bit. But anyway, one
> horse isn't enough, King Richard. We need to know about three.
>
> 10. Bucephalus lived from 355 to 326 BC and was one of the most
> famous war horses that ever lived. Who did this horse belong to?
> 11. Rocinante was the mount of a fictional Spanish nobleman.
> Name this literary character.
> 12. Traveller lived from 1857 to 1871, and is considered the most
> famous horse of the US Civil War. Whose horse was he?
>
> * On the Anniversary of Hiroshima
>
> On this day in 1945, the Enola Gay dropped a 10-kiloton atomic bomb
> ironically called Little Boy, marking the first time a nuclear weapon
> was used in combat.
>
> 13. A Navy cruiser was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese sub after
> delivering key parts of Little Boy. Because it was on a secret
> mission, no one initially knew it was missing, and many who survived
> the sinking died before rescue arrived. Name the ship.
>
> 14. The following target -- Nagasaki -- was not on the US military's
> initial hit list. Name any of the other four that were.
>
> 15. This red flower became the official flower of Hiroshima because
> a small patch bloomed in the irradiated rubble mere months after the
> blast. Name this poisonous flower of the dogbane family.
>
>
> ** Final, Round 10 - Challenge Round and Tiebreaker
>
> * A. Entertainment Geography: Filmic Places
>
> A1. This Mexican peninsula is famous for gray whales breeding
> site offshore. It's also where James Cameron created the world's
> largest "water tank studio" for Titanic. Name it.
Baja California
> * On the Anniversary of Hiroshima
>
> On this day in 1945, the Enola Gay dropped a 10-kiloton atomic bomb
> ironically called Little Boy, marking the first time a nuclear weapon
> was used in combat.
>
> 13. A Navy cruiser was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese sub after
> delivering key parts of Little Boy. Because it was on a secret
> mission, no one initially knew it was missing, and many who survived
> the sinking died before rescue arrived. Name the ship.
>
> 14. The following target -- Nagasaki -- was not on the US military's
> initial hit list. Name any of the other four that were.
>
> 15. This red flower became the official flower of Hiroshima because
> a small patch bloomed in the irradiated rubble mere months after the
> blast. Name this poisonous flower of the dogbane family.
>
>
> ** Final, Round 10 - Challenge Round and Tiebreaker
>
> * A. Entertainment Geography: Filmic Places
>
> A1. This Mexican peninsula is famous for gray whales breeding
> site offshore. It's also where James Cameron created the world's
> largest "water tank studio" for Titanic. Name it.
> A2. Due to fatwa fears, Roland Emmerich dropped plans to depict
> the destruction of a famous Jerusalem mosque in his disaster film
> "2012". Name that mosque, which has the Dome of the Rock at its
> centre.
>
> A3. A certain Audrey Hepburn movie opens with her standing by
> a shop window at 693 5th Av. in New York City. Name the
> establishment at that address.
>
>
> * B. Science: Electricity
>
> B1. The word "electricity" comes from "elektron", the Greek
> word for what?
>
> B2. What did Michael Faraday invent in 1821, using principles
> of electromagnetism?
>
> B3. Resistance to an electric current is measured in ohms.
> Conversely, what is the unit of conductivity?
> F2. Who is the only NHL player who died as a direct result of
> an on-ice injury during a game? They named a trophy after him.
>
> F3. Perhaps this one, at least, will fit the category title.
> How did tennis player Monica Seles sustain an injury during a
> quarter-final match in Hamburg, Germany in 1993?
> * G. Tiebreaker
>
> This triple was not used in the original game, but since Axxxe included
> them in the round they forwarded to me, I may as well post them here.
> But as in the original game, I will only count them if the game is
> otherwise tied -- otherwise you'll be answering for fun, but for no
> points.
>
> G1. We all know that the Dutch build dikes, but what is the
> term for low-lying reclaimed land that lies within the dikes?
> G2. This Australian composer, based in England, died at 65
> on July 31, 2019. He composed several television themes: most
> notably for "Inspector Morse", its follow-up "Lewis", and its
> prequel "Endeavour". Who?
>
> G3. Canadian grocery chain Sobey's announced they are phasing
> something out by February 2020. What?
Erland Sommarskog
Oct 14, 2019, 5:23:35 PM10/14/19
to
Calvin (334...@gmail.com) writes:
>> 6. Janet Rosenberg Jagan, born in Chicago in 1920, was the first
>> female prime minister -- and then the first female president --
>> of which Western Hemisphere nation?
>
> Norway, Sweden
>
I guess that if you live in Australia, already Europe is so damn far
>> 6. Janet Rosenberg Jagan, born in Chicago in 1920, was the first
>> female prime minister -- and then the first female president --
>> of which Western Hemisphere nation?
>
> Norway, Sweden
>
in the westerly direction, that it counts as the Western Hemisphere.
But in fact, this is the Central Hemisphere. :-)
Calvin
Oct 15, 2019, 7:13:53 PM10/15/19
to
On Tuesday, October 15, 2019 at 7:23:35 AM UTC+10, Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> Calvin (334...@gmail.com) writes:
> >> 6. Janet Rosenberg Jagan, born in Chicago in 1920, was the first
> >> female prime minister -- and then the first female president --
> >> of which Western Hemisphere nation?
> >
> > Norway, Sweden
> >
>
> I guess that if you live in Australia, already Europe is so damn far
> in the westerly direction, that it counts as the Western Hemisphere.
Well the terms Eastern and Western hemisphere are little used here, and I tend to think of them as cultural rather than geographic anyway.
> Calvin (334...@gmail.com) writes:
> >> 6. Janet Rosenberg Jagan, born in Chicago in 1920, was the first
> >> female prime minister -- and then the first female president --
> >> of which Western Hemisphere nation?
> >
> > Norway, Sweden
> >
>
> I guess that if you live in Australia, already Europe is so damn far
> in the westerly direction, that it counts as the Western Hemisphere.
cheers,
calvin
@ 153 east
Mark Brader
Oct 16, 2019, 12:32:39 AM10/16/19
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Mark Brader:
a 50-point margin. Well done, sir! Hearty congratulations!
Now let's see what happens with *this* seaon's questions, written
by the Red Smarties.
> ** Final, Round 9 - History
In the original game the audio and current-events round were the
hardest, but this one was third-hardest.
> * Native Acknowledgements
> Hardly a public event takes place these days without a formal
> acknowledgement of indigenous history and ownership of the land.
> We'll give you a localized acknowledgement and you name the *city*
> -- in each case, a provincial capital.
> 1. "We would like to respectfully acknowledge the territory in
> which we gather, as the ancestral unceded homelands of the
> Beothuk and as the ancestral unceded homelands of the Mi'kmaq."
St. John's. 4 for Dan Tilque.
> 2. "We wish to acknowledge this land which, for thousands of years,
> has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca,
> and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River."
Toronto. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Pete.
> 3. "We wish to acknowledge that the land on which we gather is
> Treaty 6 territory and a traditional meeting ground and home for
> many indigenous peoples, including Cree, Saulteaux, Niisitapi
> (Blackfoot), Métis, and Nakota Sioux."
Edmonton.
> * Prime Ministers Born Elsewhere
> 4. Born in New Brunswick in 1858, this man served as prime minister
> of the UK from 1922 to 1923. Name him.
Andrew Bonar Law. 4 for Calvin.
> 5. Conversely, four Canadian prime ministers were born in the UK.
> The first three were John A. Macdonald, Alexander Mackenzie,
> and Mackenzie Bowelll -- who was the fourth?
John Turner (PM for 3 months in 1984; the others were in the 19th
century).
> 6. Janet Rosenberg Jagan, born in Chicago in 1920, was the first
> female prime minister -- and then the first female president --
> of which Western Hemisphere nation?
Guyana (PM in 1997, president 1997-99). 4 for Joshua.
> * US Civil War Battle Names
> Many battles in the Civil War were given different names by
> Northerners and Southerners. We'll give you the dates and what
> one side called it, you give the other name for it.
> 7. July 21, 1861; August 29-30, 1862. The North called them the
> First and Second Battle of Bull Run. What did the South call
> them the first and second battle of?
Manassas. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Calvin, Pete,
and Bruce.
> 8. April 6-7, 1862. The Northerners called it Pittsburg Landing.
> What did the South call it?
Shiloh. 4 for Dan Blum and Bruce. 2 for Calvin.
> 9. September 17, 1862. The South called it the Battle of
> Sharpsburg. What did the Northerners call it?
Antietam. 4 for Dan Blum and Bruce. 3 for Calvin.
> * Famous Horses
> A horse! A horse! No, wait, we already did that bit. But anyway,
> one horse isn't enough, King Richard. We need to know about three.
> 10. Bucephalus lived from 355 to 326 BC and was one of the most
> famous war horses that ever lived. Who did this horse belong to?
Alexander the Great. 4 for everyone -- Erland, Dan Blum, Joshua,
Dan Tilque, Calvin, Pete, and Bruce.
Since he must surely have been the best-known Alexander during the
given time period, I reluctantly accepted "Alexander" by itself.
(I don't mind if you don't think he was great, but you really should
have identified him more specifically in some other way.)
> 11. Rocinante was the mount of a fictional Spanish nobleman.
> Name this literary character.
Don Quixote. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Calvin, Pete,
and Bruce.
Yeah, a literature question in the history round. Oh well.
> 12. Traveller lived from 1857 to 1871, and is considered the most
> famous horse of the US Civil War. Whose horse was he?
Robert E. Lee. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Calvin, Pete,
and Bruce.
> * On the Anniversary of Hiroshima
> On this day in 1945, the Enola Gay dropped a 10-kiloton atomic
> bomb ironically called Little Boy, marking the first time a nuclear
> weapon was used in combat.
It was "little" in physical size, not explosive yield. The other
atomic bombs made in 1945 had a different, physically larger design
called Fat Man.
> 13. A Navy cruiser was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese sub after
> delivering key parts of Little Boy. Because it was on a secret
> mission, no one initially knew it was missing, and many who
> survived the sinking died before rescue arrived. Name the ship.
USS Indianapolis. 4 for Pete.
> 14. The following target -- Nagasaki -- was not on the US military's
> initial hit list. Name any of the other four that were.
Kyoto, Yokohama, Kokura, Niigata. 4 for Erland and Dan Blum.
Kokura was the primary target on the mission, but it was cloudy there.
> 15. This red flower became the official flower of Hiroshima because
> a small patch bloomed in the irradiated rubble mere months after
> the blast. Name this poisonous flower of the dogbane family.
Oleander.
> ** Final, Round 10 - Challenge Round and Tiebreaker
> * A. Entertainment Geography: Filmic Places
> A1. This Mexican peninsula is famous for gray whales breeding
> site offshore. It's also where James Cameron created the
> world's largest "water tank studio" for Titanic. Name it.
Baja California. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Pete, and Bruce.
3 for Dan Blum and Calvin.
> A2. Due to fatwa fears, Roland Emmerich dropped plans to depict
> the destruction of a famous Jerusalem mosque in his disaster
> film "2012". Name that mosque, which has the Dome of the
> Rock at its centre.
Al Aqsa. 4 for Erland, Joshua, and Pete.
> A3. A certain Audrey Hepburn movie opens with her standing by
> a shop window at 693 5th Av. in New York City. Name the
> establishment at that address.
Tiffany & Co. ("Breakfast At Tiffany's".) 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua,
Dan Tilque, Calvin, and Pete.
> * B. Science: Electricity
> B1. The word "electricity" comes from "elektron", the Greek
> word for what?
Amber. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque.
Other than lightning, which of course was not then understood to
be a form of the same effect, the first electrical phenomenon known
was the static electricity created when *amber* is rubbed with far.
Hence the name.
> B2. What did Michael Faraday invent in 1821, using principles
> of electromagnetism?
Electric motor.
> B3. Resistance to an electric current is measured in ohms.
> Conversely, what is the unit of conductivity?
Siemens or mho. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Pete, and Bruce.
> * C. Literature: 20th-Century Authors
> Name the author of the work.
> C1. "Rumblefish".
S.E. Hinton. 4 for Joshua, who also noted that the correct spelling
is "Rumble Fish". Sorry, I noticed myself, but instead of checking,
just assumed it was me who had it wrong.
> C2. "Wise Blood".
Flannery O'Connor.
> C3. "Atonement".
Ian McEwan. 4 for Dan Blum and Calvin.
> * D. Canadiana: Prime Ministers
> D1. Name the second prime minister, who was the first Liberal
> one.
Alexander Mackenzie.
> D2. This prime minister introduced a new flag, the Canada Pension
> Plan, universal medicare, a new immigration act, a fund
> for rural economic development, and the Royal Commission
> on Bilingualism. Who was that?
Lester Pearson. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
> D3. During the Depression, what was a Bennett Buggy?
A car pulled by a horse because gas was too expensive. (Richard
Bennett was PM 1930-35. In the US they were instead named after
President Hoover.)
> * E. Entertainment: What, No Nomination?
> An honor to be nominated? I wouldn't know.
> E1. Master of motion-capture acting, he played Gollum in the
> "Lord of the Rings" and "Hobbit" movies, Caesar in "Planet
> of the Apes", and King Kong. He has no Oscar nominations
> despite wide support from studios and peers. Name him.
Andy Serkis. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Calvin, and Pete.
> E2. Considered the inventor of the 3-camera sitcom, he co-starred
> with his wife in the biggest sitcom of the 1950s. Yet he
> never received an Emmy nomination. Who was he?
Desi Arnaz. ("I Love Lucy" with Lucille Ball.) 4 for Dan Blum,
Joshua, Dan Tilque, Calvin, and Pete.
> E3. His leading lady in a 1990 romance was nominated for Best
> Actress. A 2002 musical in which he co-starred won Best
> Picture. But in a 45-year career, this actor has never
> been nominated for an Academy Award. Name him.
Richard Gere. (Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman"; "Chicago".)
4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Calvin, and Pete.
> * F. Sports: Walking Wounded
> F1. This Washington Redskin star quarterback's career ended
> when his leg was broken in two places by a tackle, live on
> "Monday Night Football". Name him.
Joe Theismann (1985). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Pete, and Bruce.
> F2. Who is the only NHL player who died as a direct result of
> an on-ice injury during a game? They named a trophy
> after him.
Bill Masterton (Minnesota North Stars, 1968). 4 for Pete.
> F3. Perhaps this one, at least, will fit the category title.
> How did tennis player Monica Seles sustain an injury during
> a quarter-final match in Hamburg, Germany in 1993?
Stabbed by a spectator (a deranged Steffi Graf fan). I accepted
"stabbed" by itself. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Calvin,
Pete, and Bruce.
> * G. Tiebreaker
> This triple was not used in the original game, but since Axxxe
> included them in the round they forwarded to me, I may as well
> post them here. But as in the original game, I will only count
> them if the game is otherwise tied -- otherwise you'll be answering
> for fun, but for no points.
> G1. We all know that the Dutch build dikes, but what is the
> term for low-lying reclaimed land that lies within the dikes?
Polder. Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Bruce got this.
> G2. This Australian composer, based in England, died at 65
> on July 31, 2019. He composed several television themes:
> most notably for "Inspector Morse", its follow-up "Lewis",
> and its prequel "Endeavour". Who?
Barrington Pheloung.
> G3. Canadian grocery chain Sobey's announced they are phasing
> something out by February 2020. What?
Plastic bags. Calvin, Pete, and Bruce got this.
Scores, if there are no errors:
FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST
TOPICS-> Lit Can Ent Sci Geo Spo His Cha SIX
Joshua Kreitzer 56 0 56 36 55 40 20 48 291
Dan Blum 56 0 32 40 42 12 32 39 241
Dan Tilque 32 12 28 52 44 8 24 24 204
Bruce Bowler -- -- 32 45 40 24 24 16 181
Pete Gayde 24 0 40 16 -- -- 24 40 144
"Calvin" -- -- 14 7 33 12 25 27 118
Erland Sommarskog 14 0 0 11 44 4 8 4 85
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "Could you guys please stop agreeing?
m...@vex.net | It's wearing me out." --Bob Lieblich
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-08-06,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
Well, the Final game is over and JOSHUA KREITZER has won it by
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
a 50-point margin. Well done, sir! Hearty congratulations!
Now let's see what happens with *this* seaon's questions, written
by the Red Smarties.
> ** Final, Round 9 - History
hardest, but this one was third-hardest.
> * Native Acknowledgements
> Hardly a public event takes place these days without a formal
> acknowledgement of indigenous history and ownership of the land.
> We'll give you a localized acknowledgement and you name the *city*
> -- in each case, a provincial capital.
> 1. "We would like to respectfully acknowledge the territory in
> which we gather, as the ancestral unceded homelands of the
> Beothuk and as the ancestral unceded homelands of the Mi'kmaq."
> 2. "We wish to acknowledge this land which, for thousands of years,
> has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca,
> and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River."
> 3. "We wish to acknowledge that the land on which we gather is
> Treaty 6 territory and a traditional meeting ground and home for
> many indigenous peoples, including Cree, Saulteaux, Niisitapi
> (Blackfoot), Métis, and Nakota Sioux."
> * Prime Ministers Born Elsewhere
> 4. Born in New Brunswick in 1858, this man served as prime minister
> of the UK from 1922 to 1923. Name him.
> 5. Conversely, four Canadian prime ministers were born in the UK.
> The first three were John A. Macdonald, Alexander Mackenzie,
> and Mackenzie Bowelll -- who was the fourth?
century).
> 6. Janet Rosenberg Jagan, born in Chicago in 1920, was the first
> female prime minister -- and then the first female president --
> of which Western Hemisphere nation?
> * US Civil War Battle Names
> Many battles in the Civil War were given different names by
> Northerners and Southerners. We'll give you the dates and what
> one side called it, you give the other name for it.
> 7. July 21, 1861; August 29-30, 1862. The North called them the
> First and Second Battle of Bull Run. What did the South call
> them the first and second battle of?
and Bruce.
> 8. April 6-7, 1862. The Northerners called it Pittsburg Landing.
> What did the South call it?
> 9. September 17, 1862. The South called it the Battle of
> Sharpsburg. What did the Northerners call it?
> * Famous Horses
> A horse! A horse! No, wait, we already did that bit. But anyway,
> one horse isn't enough, King Richard. We need to know about three.
> 10. Bucephalus lived from 355 to 326 BC and was one of the most
> famous war horses that ever lived. Who did this horse belong to?
Dan Tilque, Calvin, Pete, and Bruce.
Since he must surely have been the best-known Alexander during the
given time period, I reluctantly accepted "Alexander" by itself.
(I don't mind if you don't think he was great, but you really should
have identified him more specifically in some other way.)
> 11. Rocinante was the mount of a fictional Spanish nobleman.
> Name this literary character.
and Bruce.
Yeah, a literature question in the history round. Oh well.
> 12. Traveller lived from 1857 to 1871, and is considered the most
> famous horse of the US Civil War. Whose horse was he?
and Bruce.
> * On the Anniversary of Hiroshima
> On this day in 1945, the Enola Gay dropped a 10-kiloton atomic
> bomb ironically called Little Boy, marking the first time a nuclear
> weapon was used in combat.
atomic bombs made in 1945 had a different, physically larger design
called Fat Man.
> 13. A Navy cruiser was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese sub after
> delivering key parts of Little Boy. Because it was on a secret
> mission, no one initially knew it was missing, and many who
> survived the sinking died before rescue arrived. Name the ship.
> 14. The following target -- Nagasaki -- was not on the US military's
> initial hit list. Name any of the other four that were.
Kokura was the primary target on the mission, but it was cloudy there.
> 15. This red flower became the official flower of Hiroshima because
> a small patch bloomed in the irradiated rubble mere months after
> the blast. Name this poisonous flower of the dogbane family.
> ** Final, Round 10 - Challenge Round and Tiebreaker
> * A. Entertainment Geography: Filmic Places
> A1. This Mexican peninsula is famous for gray whales breeding
> site offshore. It's also where James Cameron created the
> world's largest "water tank studio" for Titanic. Name it.
3 for Dan Blum and Calvin.
> A2. Due to fatwa fears, Roland Emmerich dropped plans to depict
> the destruction of a famous Jerusalem mosque in his disaster
> film "2012". Name that mosque, which has the Dome of the
> Rock at its centre.
> A3. A certain Audrey Hepburn movie opens with her standing by
> a shop window at 693 5th Av. in New York City. Name the
> establishment at that address.
Dan Tilque, Calvin, and Pete.
> * B. Science: Electricity
> B1. The word "electricity" comes from "elektron", the Greek
> word for what?
Other than lightning, which of course was not then understood to
be a form of the same effect, the first electrical phenomenon known
was the static electricity created when *amber* is rubbed with far.
Hence the name.
> B2. What did Michael Faraday invent in 1821, using principles
> of electromagnetism?
> B3. Resistance to an electric current is measured in ohms.
> Conversely, what is the unit of conductivity?
> * C. Literature: 20th-Century Authors
> Name the author of the work.
> C1. "Rumblefish".
is "Rumble Fish". Sorry, I noticed myself, but instead of checking,
just assumed it was me who had it wrong.
> C2. "Wise Blood".
Flannery O'Connor.
> C3. "Atonement".
Ian McEwan. 4 for Dan Blum and Calvin.
> * D. Canadiana: Prime Ministers
> D1. Name the second prime minister, who was the first Liberal
> one.
> D2. This prime minister introduced a new flag, the Canada Pension
> Plan, universal medicare, a new immigration act, a fund
> for rural economic development, and the Royal Commission
> on Bilingualism. Who was that?
> D3. During the Depression, what was a Bennett Buggy?
Bennett was PM 1930-35. In the US they were instead named after
President Hoover.)
> * E. Entertainment: What, No Nomination?
> An honor to be nominated? I wouldn't know.
> E1. Master of motion-capture acting, he played Gollum in the
> "Lord of the Rings" and "Hobbit" movies, Caesar in "Planet
> of the Apes", and King Kong. He has no Oscar nominations
> despite wide support from studios and peers. Name him.
> E2. Considered the inventor of the 3-camera sitcom, he co-starred
> with his wife in the biggest sitcom of the 1950s. Yet he
> never received an Emmy nomination. Who was he?
Joshua, Dan Tilque, Calvin, and Pete.
> E3. His leading lady in a 1990 romance was nominated for Best
> Actress. A 2002 musical in which he co-starred won Best
> Picture. But in a 45-year career, this actor has never
> been nominated for an Academy Award. Name him.
4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Calvin, and Pete.
> * F. Sports: Walking Wounded
> F1. This Washington Redskin star quarterback's career ended
> when his leg was broken in two places by a tackle, live on
> "Monday Night Football". Name him.
> F2. Who is the only NHL player who died as a direct result of
> an on-ice injury during a game? They named a trophy
> after him.
> F3. Perhaps this one, at least, will fit the category title.
> How did tennis player Monica Seles sustain an injury during
> a quarter-final match in Hamburg, Germany in 1993?
"stabbed" by itself. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Calvin,
Pete, and Bruce.
> * G. Tiebreaker
> This triple was not used in the original game, but since Axxxe
> included them in the round they forwarded to me, I may as well
> post them here. But as in the original game, I will only count
> them if the game is otherwise tied -- otherwise you'll be answering
> for fun, but for no points.
> G1. We all know that the Dutch build dikes, but what is the
> term for low-lying reclaimed land that lies within the dikes?
> G2. This Australian composer, based in England, died at 65
> on July 31, 2019. He composed several television themes:
> most notably for "Inspector Morse", its follow-up "Lewis",
> and its prequel "Endeavour". Who?
> G3. Canadian grocery chain Sobey's announced they are phasing
> something out by February 2020. What?
Scores, if there are no errors:
FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST
TOPICS-> Lit Can Ent Sci Geo Spo His Cha SIX
Joshua Kreitzer 56 0 56 36 55 40 20 48 291
Dan Blum 56 0 32 40 42 12 32 39 241
Dan Tilque 32 12 28 52 44 8 24 24 204
Bruce Bowler -- -- 32 45 40 24 24 16 181
Pete Gayde 24 0 40 16 -- -- 24 40 144
"Calvin" -- -- 14 7 33 12 25 27 118
Erland Sommarskog 14 0 0 11 44 4 8 4 85
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "Could you guys please stop agreeing?
m...@vex.net | It's wearing me out." --Bob Lieblich
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