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Mark Brader
Jan 25, 2021, 5:34:03 PM1/25/21
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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2003-03-10,
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 8, Round 2 - Literature - Geographical Literature
All of the works we'll ask you about in this round have a real or
imaginary place name in their title. We'll name the book or series,
and tell you a little more about it; you name the *author*.
1. "The Cairo Trilogy" (novels).
2. "The Pisan Cantos" (poems).
3. "Goodbye to Berlin" (novel).
4. "Swimming to Cambodia" (memoir).
5. "Cabbagetown" (novel).
6. "The Alexandria Quartet" (novels).
7. "Utopia" (novel).
8. "Europe on $5 a Day" (guidebook).
9. "Democracy in America" (book-length essay).
10. "The Old Patagonian Express" (travel memoir).
* Game 8, Round 3 - Science - Science and Punishment
This round is about scientists who were prosecuted, persecuted,
or killed -- sometimes, but not always, over their scientific work.
1. Convicted of heresy in 1633 for his astronomical theories,
this scientist spent the rest of his life under house arrest.
Who was he?
2. Antoine Lavoisier was one of the founders of modern chemistry;
among other things he advanced the theory that fire is a reaction
combining other substances with "oxygen", a name that he invented
along with "hydrogen". Then he was executed. Why?
3. This German-born British physicist served 9 years in prison,
just for telling the Soviets how to make an atom bomb! After his
release for good behavior, he moved to East Germany. Who was he?
4. The Soviets went on to develop a hydrogen bomb, for which
this physicist was chiefly responsible. He was greatly honored,
until he started expressing the wrong political views. Then he
was sentenced to internal exile, and from 1979 to 1986 lived
in Gorky with severe limits on his communications. Name him.
5. Alan Turing, one of the founders of computer science, was
convicted of "gross indecency", which is to say homosexuality,
in 1952, and apparently committed suicide 2 years later.
What alternative sentence to incarceration had he undergone in
the meantime?
6. The first female mathematician of any importance was also a
philosopher, the head of a neo-Platonist school in Alexandria.
She was murdered in 415, some say by a mob, or it might have
been a fanatical sect of monks, but by Christians in any case.
Name her.
7. Name the Canadian ballistic expert who was working on a
so-called "supergun" for Iraq when he was assassinated,
allegedly by the Israelis.
8. This biologist was murdered in 1985, presumably because she
spoke out against the poaching of gorillas. Name her.
9. This Greek scientist and engineer was killed by a Roman soldier
in 212 BC. Allegedly he was working on a diagram drawn on the
ground, and told the soldier to stop messing it up. Name the
scientist.
10. Although the story is disputed in some quarters, two Chinese
astronomers named Hsi and Ho were allegedly executed in or
around 2,134 BC. Why?
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "What Europe needs is a fresh, unused mind."
m...@vex.net | -- Foreign Correspondent
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 8, Round 2 - Literature - Geographical Literature
All of the works we'll ask you about in this round have a real or
imaginary place name in their title. We'll name the book or series,
and tell you a little more about it; you name the *author*.
1. "The Cairo Trilogy" (novels).
2. "The Pisan Cantos" (poems).
3. "Goodbye to Berlin" (novel).
4. "Swimming to Cambodia" (memoir).
5. "Cabbagetown" (novel).
6. "The Alexandria Quartet" (novels).
7. "Utopia" (novel).
8. "Europe on $5 a Day" (guidebook).
9. "Democracy in America" (book-length essay).
10. "The Old Patagonian Express" (travel memoir).
* Game 8, Round 3 - Science - Science and Punishment
This round is about scientists who were prosecuted, persecuted,
or killed -- sometimes, but not always, over their scientific work.
1. Convicted of heresy in 1633 for his astronomical theories,
this scientist spent the rest of his life under house arrest.
Who was he?
2. Antoine Lavoisier was one of the founders of modern chemistry;
among other things he advanced the theory that fire is a reaction
combining other substances with "oxygen", a name that he invented
along with "hydrogen". Then he was executed. Why?
3. This German-born British physicist served 9 years in prison,
just for telling the Soviets how to make an atom bomb! After his
release for good behavior, he moved to East Germany. Who was he?
4. The Soviets went on to develop a hydrogen bomb, for which
this physicist was chiefly responsible. He was greatly honored,
until he started expressing the wrong political views. Then he
was sentenced to internal exile, and from 1979 to 1986 lived
in Gorky with severe limits on his communications. Name him.
5. Alan Turing, one of the founders of computer science, was
convicted of "gross indecency", which is to say homosexuality,
in 1952, and apparently committed suicide 2 years later.
What alternative sentence to incarceration had he undergone in
the meantime?
6. The first female mathematician of any importance was also a
philosopher, the head of a neo-Platonist school in Alexandria.
She was murdered in 415, some say by a mob, or it might have
been a fanatical sect of monks, but by Christians in any case.
Name her.
7. Name the Canadian ballistic expert who was working on a
so-called "supergun" for Iraq when he was assassinated,
allegedly by the Israelis.
8. This biologist was murdered in 1985, presumably because she
spoke out against the poaching of gorillas. Name her.
9. This Greek scientist and engineer was killed by a Roman soldier
in 212 BC. Allegedly he was working on a diagram drawn on the
ground, and told the soldier to stop messing it up. Name the
scientist.
10. Although the story is disputed in some quarters, two Chinese
astronomers named Hsi and Ho were allegedly executed in or
around 2,134 BC. Why?
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "What Europe needs is a fresh, unused mind."
m...@vex.net | -- Foreign Correspondent
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Dan Blum
Jan 25, 2021, 6:38:58 PM1/25/21
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> 1. "The Cairo Trilogy" (novels).
Whittemore
> 2. "The Pisan Cantos" (poems).
> 4. "Swimming to Cambodia" (memoir).
> 6. "The Alexandria Quartet" (novels).
> 7. "Utopia" (novel).
Thomas More
> 9. "Democracy in America" (book-length essay).
> 10. "The Old Patagonian Express" (travel memoir).
> * Game 8, Round 3 - Science - Science and Punishment
> 1. Convicted of heresy in 1633 for his astronomical theories,
> this scientist spent the rest of his life under house arrest.
> Who was he?
Galileo
> this scientist spent the rest of his life under house arrest.
> Who was he?
> 2. Antoine Lavoisier was one of the founders of modern chemistry;
> among other things he advanced the theory that fire is a reaction
> combining other substances with "oxygen", a name that he invented
> along with "hydrogen". Then he was executed. Why?
> 4. The Soviets went on to develop a hydrogen bomb, for which
> this physicist was chiefly responsible. He was greatly honored,
> until he started expressing the wrong political views. Then he
> was sentenced to internal exile, and from 1979 to 1986 lived
> in Gorky with severe limits on his communications. Name him.
> 5. Alan Turing, one of the founders of computer science, was
> convicted of "gross indecency", which is to say homosexuality,
> in 1952, and apparently committed suicide 2 years later.
> What alternative sentence to incarceration had he undergone in
> the meantime?
> 6. The first female mathematician of any importance was also a
> philosopher, the head of a neo-Platonist school in Alexandria.
> She was murdered in 415, some say by a mob, or it might have
> been a fanatical sect of monks, but by Christians in any case.
> Name her.
> 7. Name the Canadian ballistic expert who was working on a
> so-called "supergun" for Iraq when he was assassinated,
> allegedly by the Israelis.
> 8. This biologist was murdered in 1985, presumably because she
> spoke out against the poaching of gorillas. Name her.
> 9. This Greek scientist and engineer was killed by a Roman soldier
> in 212 BC. Allegedly he was working on a diagram drawn on the
> ground, and told the soldier to stop messing it up. Name the
> scientist.
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Dan Tilque
Jan 26, 2021, 7:15:14 AM1/26/21
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On 1/25/21 2:33 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
>
> * Game 8, Round 2 - Literature - Geographical Literature
>
> All of the works we'll ask you about in this round have a real or
> imaginary place name in their title. We'll name the book or series,
> and tell you a little more about it; you name the *author*.
>
> 1. "The Cairo Trilogy" (novels).
> 2. "The Pisan Cantos" (poems).
> 3. "Goodbye to Berlin" (novel).
> 4. "Swimming to Cambodia" (memoir).
> 5. "Cabbagetown" (novel).
> 6. "The Alexandria Quartet" (novels).
> 7. "Utopia" (novel).
Thomas More
>
> * Game 8, Round 2 - Literature - Geographical Literature
>
> All of the works we'll ask you about in this round have a real or
> imaginary place name in their title. We'll name the book or series,
> and tell you a little more about it; you name the *author*.
>
> 1. "The Cairo Trilogy" (novels).
> 2. "The Pisan Cantos" (poems).
> 3. "Goodbye to Berlin" (novel).
> 4. "Swimming to Cambodia" (memoir).
> 5. "Cabbagetown" (novel).
> 6. "The Alexandria Quartet" (novels).
> 7. "Utopia" (novel).
> 8. "Europe on $5 a Day" (guidebook).
> 9. "Democracy in America" (book-length essay).
> 10. "The Old Patagonian Express" (travel memoir).
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 3 - Science - Science and Punishment
>
> This round is about scientists who were prosecuted, persecuted,
> or killed -- sometimes, but not always, over their scientific work.
>
> 1. Convicted of heresy in 1633 for his astronomical theories,
> this scientist spent the rest of his life under house arrest.
> Who was he?
>
> 2. Antoine Lavoisier was one of the founders of modern chemistry;
> among other things he advanced the theory that fire is a reaction
> combining other substances with "oxygen", a name that he invented
> along with "hydrogen". Then he was executed. Why?
>
> 3. This German-born British physicist served 9 years in prison,
> just for telling the Soviets how to make an atom bomb! After his
> release for good behavior, he moved to East Germany. Who was he?
>
> 4. The Soviets went on to develop a hydrogen bomb, for which
> this physicist was chiefly responsible. He was greatly honored,
> until he started expressing the wrong political views. Then he
> was sentenced to internal exile, and from 1979 to 1986 lived
> in Gorky with severe limits on his communications. Name him.
>
> 5. Alan Turing, one of the founders of computer science, was
> convicted of "gross indecency", which is to say homosexuality,
> in 1952, and apparently committed suicide 2 years later.
> What alternative sentence to incarceration had he undergone in
> the meantime?
>
> 6. The first female mathematician of any importance was also a
> philosopher, the head of a neo-Platonist school in Alexandria.
> She was murdered in 415, some say by a mob, or it might have
> been a fanatical sect of monks, but by Christians in any case.
> Name her.
>
> 7. Name the Canadian ballistic expert who was working on a
> so-called "supergun" for Iraq when he was assassinated,
> allegedly by the Israelis.
>
> 8. This biologist was murdered in 1985, presumably because she
> spoke out against the poaching of gorillas. Name her.
>
> 9. This Greek scientist and engineer was killed by a Roman soldier
> in 212 BC. Allegedly he was working on a diagram drawn on the
> ground, and told the soldier to stop messing it up. Name the
> scientist.
>
> 10. Although the story is disputed in some quarters, two Chinese
> astronomers named Hsi and Ho were allegedly executed in or
> around 2,134 BC. Why?
--
Dan Tilque
Erland Sommarskog
Jan 26, 2021, 2:37:37 PM1/26/21
to
> * Game 8, Round 3 - Science - Science and Punishment
>
> This round is about scientists who were prosecuted, persecuted,
> or killed -- sometimes, but not always, over their scientific work.
>
> 1. Convicted of heresy in 1633 for his astronomical theories,
> this scientist spent the rest of his life under house arrest.
> Who was he?
Gallileo
>
> This round is about scientists who were prosecuted, persecuted,
> or killed -- sometimes, but not always, over their scientific work.
>
> 1. Convicted of heresy in 1633 for his astronomical theories,
> this scientist spent the rest of his life under house arrest.
> Who was he?
> 2. Antoine Lavoisier was one of the founders of modern chemistry;
> among other things he advanced the theory that fire is a reaction
> combining other substances with "oxygen", a name that he invented
> along with "hydrogen". Then he was executed. Why?
place.
> 4. The Soviets went on to develop a hydrogen bomb, for which
> this physicist was chiefly responsible. He was greatly honored,
> until he started expressing the wrong political views. Then he
> was sentenced to internal exile, and from 1979 to 1986 lived
> in Gorky with severe limits on his communications. Name him.
> 5. Alan Turing, one of the founders of computer science, was
> convicted of "gross indecency", which is to say homosexuality,
> in 1952, and apparently committed suicide 2 years later.
> What alternative sentence to incarceration had he undergone in
> the meantime?
> 9. This Greek scientist and engineer was killed by a Roman soldier
> in 212 BC. Allegedly he was working on a diagram drawn on the
> ground, and told the soldier to stop messing it up. Name the
> scientist.
Joshua Kreitzer
Jan 26, 2021, 8:20:00 PM1/26/21
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:Xu-dnZidQO3I2pL9nZ2dnUU7-
THN...@giganews.com:
> * Game 8, Round 2 - Literature - Geographical Literature
>
> All of the works we'll ask you about in this round have a real or
> imaginary place name in their title. We'll name the book or series,
> and tell you a little more about it; you name the *author*.
>
> 1. "The Cairo Trilogy" (novels).
Mahfouz
> 2. "The Pisan Cantos" (poems).
Pound
> 3. "Goodbye to Berlin" (novel).
Isherwood
> 4. "Swimming to Cambodia" (memoir).
Spalding Gray
> 7. "Utopia" (novel).
More
> 8. "Europe on $5 a Day" (guidebook).
Fodor
> 9. "Democracy in America" (book-length essay).
Alexis de Tocqueville
> * Game 8, Round 3 - Science - Science and Punishment
>
> This round is about scientists who were prosecuted, persecuted,
> or killed -- sometimes, but not always, over their scientific work.
>
> 1. Convicted of heresy in 1633 for his astronomical theories,
> this scientist spent the rest of his life under house arrest.
> Who was he?
Galileo
> 2. Antoine Lavoisier was one of the founders of modern chemistry;
> among other things he advanced the theory that fire is a reaction
> combining other substances with "oxygen", a name that he invented
> along with "hydrogen". Then he was executed. Why?
the French Revolution
> 3. This German-born British physicist served 9 years in prison,
> just for telling the Soviets how to make an atom bomb! After his
> release for good behavior, he moved to East Germany. Who was he?
Fuchs
> 4. The Soviets went on to develop a hydrogen bomb, for which
> this physicist was chiefly responsible. He was greatly honored,
> until he started expressing the wrong political views. Then he
> was sentenced to internal exile, and from 1979 to 1986 lived
> in Gorky with severe limits on his communications. Name him.
Sakharov
> 5. Alan Turing, one of the founders of computer science, was
> convicted of "gross indecency", which is to say homosexuality,
> in 1952, and apparently committed suicide 2 years later.
> What alternative sentence to incarceration had he undergone in
> the meantime?
chemical castration
> 6. The first female mathematician of any importance was also a
> philosopher, the head of a neo-Platonist school in Alexandria.
> She was murdered in 415, some say by a mob, or it might have
> been a fanatical sect of monks, but by Christians in any case.
> Name her.
Hypatia
> 8. This biologist was murdered in 1985, presumably because she
> spoke out against the poaching of gorillas. Name her.
Fossey
> 10. Although the story is disputed in some quarters, two Chinese
> astronomers named Hsi and Ho were allegedly executed in or
> around 2,134 BC. Why?
failing to predict an eclipse
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
THN...@giganews.com:
> * Game 8, Round 2 - Literature - Geographical Literature
>
> All of the works we'll ask you about in this round have a real or
> imaginary place name in their title. We'll name the book or series,
> and tell you a little more about it; you name the *author*.
>
> 1. "The Cairo Trilogy" (novels).
> 2. "The Pisan Cantos" (poems).
> 3. "Goodbye to Berlin" (novel).
> 4. "Swimming to Cambodia" (memoir).
> 7. "Utopia" (novel).
More
> 8. "Europe on $5 a Day" (guidebook).
> 9. "Democracy in America" (book-length essay).
> * Game 8, Round 3 - Science - Science and Punishment
>
> This round is about scientists who were prosecuted, persecuted,
> or killed -- sometimes, but not always, over their scientific work.
>
> 1. Convicted of heresy in 1633 for his astronomical theories,
> this scientist spent the rest of his life under house arrest.
> Who was he?
> 2. Antoine Lavoisier was one of the founders of modern chemistry;
> among other things he advanced the theory that fire is a reaction
> combining other substances with "oxygen", a name that he invented
> along with "hydrogen". Then he was executed. Why?
> 3. This German-born British physicist served 9 years in prison,
> just for telling the Soviets how to make an atom bomb! After his
> release for good behavior, he moved to East Germany. Who was he?
> 4. The Soviets went on to develop a hydrogen bomb, for which
> this physicist was chiefly responsible. He was greatly honored,
> until he started expressing the wrong political views. Then he
> was sentenced to internal exile, and from 1979 to 1986 lived
> in Gorky with severe limits on his communications. Name him.
> 5. Alan Turing, one of the founders of computer science, was
> convicted of "gross indecency", which is to say homosexuality,
> in 1952, and apparently committed suicide 2 years later.
> What alternative sentence to incarceration had he undergone in
> the meantime?
> 6. The first female mathematician of any importance was also a
> philosopher, the head of a neo-Platonist school in Alexandria.
> She was murdered in 415, some say by a mob, or it might have
> been a fanatical sect of monks, but by Christians in any case.
> Name her.
> 8. This biologist was murdered in 1985, presumably because she
> spoke out against the poaching of gorillas. Name her.
> 10. Although the story is disputed in some quarters, two Chinese
> astronomers named Hsi and Ho were allegedly executed in or
> around 2,134 BC. Why?
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Pete Gayde
Jan 26, 2021, 8:25:02 PM1/26/21
to
Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2003-03-10,
> 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 8, Round 2 - Literature - Geographical Literature
>
> All of the works we'll ask you about in this round have a real or
> imaginary place name in their title. We'll name the book or series,
> and tell you a little more about it; you name the *author*.
>
> 1. "The Cairo Trilogy" (novels).
> 2. "The Pisan Cantos" (poems).
> 3. "Goodbye to Berlin" (novel).
Deighton
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2003-03-10,
> 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 8, Round 2 - Literature - Geographical Literature
>
> All of the works we'll ask you about in this round have a real or
> imaginary place name in their title. We'll name the book or series,
> and tell you a little more about it; you name the *author*.
>
> 1. "The Cairo Trilogy" (novels).
> 2. "The Pisan Cantos" (poems).
> 3. "Goodbye to Berlin" (novel).
> 4. "Swimming to Cambodia" (memoir).
> 5. "Cabbagetown" (novel).
> 6. "The Alexandria Quartet" (novels).
> 7. "Utopia" (novel).
> 8. "Europe on $5 a Day" (guidebook).
> 9. "Democracy in America" (book-length essay).
> 10. "The Old Patagonian Express" (travel memoir).
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 3 - Science - Science and Punishment
>
> This round is about scientists who were prosecuted, persecuted,
> or killed -- sometimes, but not always, over their scientific work.
>
> 1. Convicted of heresy in 1633 for his astronomical theories,
> this scientist spent the rest of his life under house arrest.
> Who was he?
>
> 2. Antoine Lavoisier was one of the founders of modern chemistry;
> among other things he advanced the theory that fire is a reaction
> combining other substances with "oxygen", a name that he invented
> along with "hydrogen". Then he was executed. Why?
>
> 3. This German-born British physicist served 9 years in prison,
> just for telling the Soviets how to make an atom bomb! After his
> release for good behavior, he moved to East Germany. Who was he?
>
> 4. The Soviets went on to develop a hydrogen bomb, for which
> this physicist was chiefly responsible. He was greatly honored,
> until he started expressing the wrong political views. Then he
> was sentenced to internal exile, and from 1979 to 1986 lived
> in Gorky with severe limits on his communications. Name him.
>
> 5. Alan Turing, one of the founders of computer science, was
> convicted of "gross indecency", which is to say homosexuality,
> in 1952, and apparently committed suicide 2 years later.
> What alternative sentence to incarceration had he undergone in
> the meantime?
>
> 6. The first female mathematician of any importance was also a
> philosopher, the head of a neo-Platonist school in Alexandria.
> She was murdered in 415, some say by a mob, or it might have
> been a fanatical sect of monks, but by Christians in any case.
> Name her.
>
> 7. Name the Canadian ballistic expert who was working on a
> so-called "supergun" for Iraq when he was assassinated,
> allegedly by the Israelis.
>
> 8. This biologist was murdered in 1985, presumably because she
> spoke out against the poaching of gorillas. Name her.
>
> 9. This Greek scientist and engineer was killed by a Roman soldier
> in 212 BC. Allegedly he was working on a diagram drawn on the
> ground, and told the soldier to stop messing it up. Name the
> scientist.
>
> 10. Although the story is disputed in some quarters, two Chinese
> astronomers named Hsi and Ho were allegedly executed in or
> around 2,134 BC. Why?
>
Mark Brader
Jan 28, 2021, 5:01:07 PM1/28/21
to
Mark Brader:
> * Game 8, Round 2 - Literature - Geographical Literature
> All of the works we'll ask you about in this round have a real or
> imaginary place name in their title. We'll name the book or series,
> and tell you a little more about it; you name the *author*.
> 1. "The Cairo Trilogy" (novels).
Naguib Mahfouz. (Looks almost like rot13, doesn't it?) 4 for Joshua.
> 2. "The Pisan Cantos" (poems).
Ezra Pound. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
> 3. "Goodbye to Berlin" (novel).
Christopher Isherwood. 4 for Joshua.
> 4. "Swimming to Cambodia" (memoir).
Spalding Gray. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
> 5. "Cabbagetown" (novel).
Hugh Garner.
> 6. "The Alexandria Quartet" (novels).
Lawrence Durrell. 3 for Dan Blum.
> 7. "Utopia" (novel).
Thomas More. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Joshua.
> 8. "Europe on $5 a Day" (guidebook).
Arthur Frommer. 4 for Pete.
> 9. "Democracy in America" (book-length essay).
Alexis de Tocqueville. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
> 10. "The Old Patagonian Express" (travel memoir).
Paul Theroux. 4 for Dan Blum.
> * Game 8, Round 3 - Science - Science and Punishment
> This round is about scientists who were prosecuted, persecuted,
> or killed -- sometimes, but not always, over their scientific work.
> 1. Convicted of heresy in 1633 for his astronomical theories,
> this scientist spent the rest of his life under house arrest.
> Who was he?
Galileo. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Erland, and Joshua.
> 2. Antoine Lavoisier was one of the founders of modern chemistry;
> among other things he advanced the theory that fire is a reaction
> combining other substances with "oxygen", a name that he invented
> along with "hydrogen". Then he was executed. Why?
He was on the wrong side in the French Revolution (anything along
these lines was okay, so I accepted "the French Revolution" as a
complete answer too). 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Erland, and Joshua.
This was during the Reign of Terror. The specific complaint was his
connection with a company that had collected taxes for the crown.
> 3. This German-born British physicist served 9 years in prison,
> just for telling the Soviets how to make an atom bomb! After his
> release for good behavior, he moved to East Germany. Who was he?
Klaus Fuchs. 4 for Dan Tilque and Joshua.
> 4. The Soviets went on to develop a hydrogen bomb, for which
> this physicist was chiefly responsible. He was greatly honored,
> until he started expressing the wrong political views. Then he
> was sentenced to internal exile, and from 1979 to 1986 lived
> in Gorky with severe limits on his communications. Name him.
Andrei Sakharov. 4 for Dan Blum, Erland, Joshua, and Pete.
The analogous figure on the US side was Robert Oppenheimer, who led
the scientific side of the atom bomb project to its success in 1945,
but in 1953 was branded as a security risk, likewise mostly for
political reasons. He wasn't convicted of anything, so he doesn't
qualify for this round himself, but he did suffer a severe loss
of status.
> 5. Alan Turing, one of the founders of computer science, was
> convicted of "gross indecency", which is to say homosexuality,
> in 1952, and apparently committed suicide 2 years later.
> What alternative sentence to incarceration had he undergone in
> the meantime?
So-called "chemical castration": injections of estrogen, supposed
to reduce the libido. Anything along these lines was sufficient.
4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua, and Pete.
ObPlay: "Breaking the Code", also a British TV-movie. The later
movie "The Imitation Game" is okay, but I thought it took far too
many liberties regarding Turing's WW2 decryption work at Bletchley
Park. I previously wrote up a long list of them and will repost it
here on request.
> 6. The first female mathematician of any importance was also a
> philosopher, the head of a neo-Platonist school in Alexandria.
> She was murdered in 415, some say by a mob, or it might have
> been a fanatical sect of monks, but by Christians in any case.
> Name her.
Hypatia. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
> 7. Name the Canadian ballistic expert who was working on a
> so-called "supergun" for Iraq when he was assassinated,
> allegedly by the Israelis.
Gerard Bull. 4 for Dan Blum.
In Game 5 and its answer posting, it was noted that the Nazis' weapons
called the V-1 and V-2 corresponded respectively to today's cruise
and ballistic missiles. The "supergun" was similarly analogous to
the Nazis' similarly unrealized V-3.
> 8. This biologist was murdered in 1985, presumably because she
> spoke out against the poaching of gorillas. Name her.
Dian Fossey. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua, and Pete.
> 9. This Greek scientist and engineer was killed by a Roman soldier
> in 212 BC. Allegedly he was working on a diagram drawn on the
> ground, and told the soldier to stop messing it up. Name the
> scientist.
Archimedes. 4 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque.
> 10. Although the story is disputed in some quarters, two Chinese
> astronomers named Hsi and Ho were allegedly executed in or
> around 2,134 BC. Why?
Failure to predict an eclipse. 4 for Joshua.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 8 ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Lit Sci
Joshua Kreitzer 24 32 56
Dan Blum 23 32 55
Dan Tilque 4 24 28
Pete Gayde 4 12 16
Erland Sommarskog 0 12 12
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Toronto | means the individual referred to in paragraph (i)."
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> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2003-03-10,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information...
> see my 2020-06-23 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from
> the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
> I wrote one of these rounds.
That was the science round.
> the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
> I wrote one of these rounds.
> * Game 8, Round 2 - Literature - Geographical Literature
> All of the works we'll ask you about in this round have a real or
> imaginary place name in their title. We'll name the book or series,
> and tell you a little more about it; you name the *author*.
> 1. "The Cairo Trilogy" (novels).
> 2. "The Pisan Cantos" (poems).
> 3. "Goodbye to Berlin" (novel).
> 4. "Swimming to Cambodia" (memoir).
> 5. "Cabbagetown" (novel).
Hugh Garner.
> 6. "The Alexandria Quartet" (novels).
> 7. "Utopia" (novel).
Thomas More. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Joshua.
> 8. "Europe on $5 a Day" (guidebook).
> 9. "Democracy in America" (book-length essay).
> 10. "The Old Patagonian Express" (travel memoir).
> * Game 8, Round 3 - Science - Science and Punishment
> This round is about scientists who were prosecuted, persecuted,
> or killed -- sometimes, but not always, over their scientific work.
> 1. Convicted of heresy in 1633 for his astronomical theories,
> this scientist spent the rest of his life under house arrest.
> Who was he?
> 2. Antoine Lavoisier was one of the founders of modern chemistry;
> among other things he advanced the theory that fire is a reaction
> combining other substances with "oxygen", a name that he invented
> along with "hydrogen". Then he was executed. Why?
these lines was okay, so I accepted "the French Revolution" as a
complete answer too). 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Erland, and Joshua.
This was during the Reign of Terror. The specific complaint was his
connection with a company that had collected taxes for the crown.
> 3. This German-born British physicist served 9 years in prison,
> just for telling the Soviets how to make an atom bomb! After his
> release for good behavior, he moved to East Germany. Who was he?
> 4. The Soviets went on to develop a hydrogen bomb, for which
> this physicist was chiefly responsible. He was greatly honored,
> until he started expressing the wrong political views. Then he
> was sentenced to internal exile, and from 1979 to 1986 lived
> in Gorky with severe limits on his communications. Name him.
The analogous figure on the US side was Robert Oppenheimer, who led
the scientific side of the atom bomb project to its success in 1945,
but in 1953 was branded as a security risk, likewise mostly for
political reasons. He wasn't convicted of anything, so he doesn't
qualify for this round himself, but he did suffer a severe loss
of status.
> 5. Alan Turing, one of the founders of computer science, was
> convicted of "gross indecency", which is to say homosexuality,
> in 1952, and apparently committed suicide 2 years later.
> What alternative sentence to incarceration had he undergone in
> the meantime?
to reduce the libido. Anything along these lines was sufficient.
4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua, and Pete.
ObPlay: "Breaking the Code", also a British TV-movie. The later
movie "The Imitation Game" is okay, but I thought it took far too
many liberties regarding Turing's WW2 decryption work at Bletchley
Park. I previously wrote up a long list of them and will repost it
here on request.
> 6. The first female mathematician of any importance was also a
> philosopher, the head of a neo-Platonist school in Alexandria.
> She was murdered in 415, some say by a mob, or it might have
> been a fanatical sect of monks, but by Christians in any case.
> Name her.
> 7. Name the Canadian ballistic expert who was working on a
> so-called "supergun" for Iraq when he was assassinated,
> allegedly by the Israelis.
In Game 5 and its answer posting, it was noted that the Nazis' weapons
called the V-1 and V-2 corresponded respectively to today's cruise
and ballistic missiles. The "supergun" was similarly analogous to
the Nazis' similarly unrealized V-3.
> 8. This biologist was murdered in 1985, presumably because she
> spoke out against the poaching of gorillas. Name her.
> 9. This Greek scientist and engineer was killed by a Roman soldier
> in 212 BC. Allegedly he was working on a diagram drawn on the
> ground, and told the soldier to stop messing it up. Name the
> scientist.
> 10. Although the story is disputed in some quarters, two Chinese
> astronomers named Hsi and Ho were allegedly executed in or
> around 2,134 BC. Why?
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 8 ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Lit Sci
Joshua Kreitzer 24 32 56
Dan Blum 23 32 55
Dan Tilque 4 24 28
Pete Gayde 4 12 16
Erland Sommarskog 0 12 12
--
Mark Brader | "'Settlor', (i) in relation to a testamentary trust,
Toronto | means the individual referred to in paragraph (i)."
m...@vex.net | -- Income Tax Act of Canada (1972-94), 108(1)(h)
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