Mark Brader:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2012-04-02,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information...
> see my 2021-07-20 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from
> the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
> * Game 10, Round 4 - Canadiana Geography - Prairie Towns
> Here <
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/10-04/prairie.png> is a map
> of the three prairie provinces. On each question we will provide
> you with the name of a city or town, and you give us the number
> of the corresponding circle on the map.
> 1. Edmonton.
#5. 4 for Dan Tilque and Pete.
> 2. Winnipeg.
#22. 4 for Dan Tilque. 2 for Joshua.
> 3. Prince Albert.
#14.
> 4. Medicine Hat.
#4. 4 for Dan Tilque and Erland.
> 5. Flin Flon.
#17. The urban area is mainly in Manitoba with a small part
(whose incorporation status is unclear to me) in Saskatchewan.
4 for Dan Tilque.
> 6. Swift Current.
#12.
> 7. Fort McMurray.
#6. 2 for Joshua.
> 8. Red Deer.
#9. 4 for Dan Tilque.
> 9. Brandon.
#20.
> 10. Lloydminster.
#15. This is a single incorporated municipality extending into both
Alberta and Saskatchewan. 4 for Dan Tilque.
Lloydminster existed in what was then part of the Northwest
Territories before the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary was routed
through it. At first it was partitioned into separate municipalities
in each province, but eventually they asked for and received
permission to merge, forming the present arrangement.
> There were, obviously, 14 decoys. Decode the rot13 [sic -- oops!]
> and give the numbers for these if you like for fun, but for
> no points.
> 11. Calgary.
#1. Dan Tilque got this.
> 12. Canmore.
#3.
> 13. Churchill.
#19. Dan Tilque and Erland got this.
> 14. Dauphin.
#24.
> 15. Fort Chipewyan.
#7.
> 16. Gimli.
#23. Dan Tilque got this.
> 17. Grande Prairie.
#8. Dan Tilque got this.
> 18. Jasper.
#10. Dan Tilque got this.
> 19. La Ronge.
#16.
> 20. Lethbridge.
#2.
> 21. Portage la Prairie.
#21. Dan Tilque got this.
> 22. Regina.
#11. Dan Tilque got this.
> 23. Saskatoon.
#13. Dan Tilque got this.
> 24. Thompson.
#18.
> * Game 10, Round 6 - Canadiana Science - Canadian Inventions
> 1. This packaging was invented in 1911 by newspaper editor Joseph
> Coyle of Smithers, BC, to solve a dispute between a local farmer
> and hotel owner over the accidental breakage of a product being
> delivered from the farm to the hotel.
Egg carton. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Pete.
> 2. This variant of a popular sport (or, to some, a game) was
> devised in the early 20th century by Thomas F. Ryan in Toronto.
> He developed it in response to customers who complained that
> the more standard version of the sport was too strenuous.
> This variant is still played almost exclusively in Canada.
> Be sufficiently specific.
5-pin bowling.
The scoring is different and the ball is smaller:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/139/387046654_a550661ec8.jpg
The same bowling alley may also provide American-style 10-pin bowling:
http://cdn.familyfuncanada.com/calgary/files/2018/06/Lets-Bowl-600x188.jpg
http://cdn.canada247.info/assets/uploads/77378a1e00c5f8be32ac49749843030e_-british-columbia-greater-vancouver-richmond-lucky-9-laneshtml.jpg
(In the first photo the 10-pin lanes are in the middle; in the second
they're on the left. Nobody seems to be wanting to post an image
that clearly shows both types of lanes.)
> 3. While working for Union Carbide in the 1950s, Canadian engineer
> Lewis Urry developed this invention, which improved significantly
> on the zinc-carbon types (with acid electrolyte) in use at that
> time. Be sufficiently specific.
Alkaline battery. 4 for Dan Tilque.
> 4. This two-player mechanical game was invented in 1932 in Toronto
> by Don Munro Sr. It was built out of scrap wood and metal,
> and included used coat-hanger wire, butcher's twine, and
> clock springs. Don took the game down to the local Eaton's
> department store, where it sold quickly, prompting more orders.
Table hockey. 4 for Pete.
See <
http://lekmer.se/images/193141/external-large.jpg>. Each
"skater" can be moved along its slot by pushing or pulling the
corresponding knob, or rotated in place (to shoot the puck) by
spinning the knob.
> 5. Arthur Sicard of Ste-Thérèse, QC, is generally credited as the
> inventor of the first practical version of this device. By 1927
> his invention was being used to remove snow from the roadways
> of the town of Outremont, now a borough of Montreal.
Snow-blower. 4 for Dan Blum.
> 6. This oil-producing plant is a cultivar of a naturally occurring
> plant. It was developed in Canada by Keith Downey and Baldur
> R. Stefansson in the early 1970s. It contains much less acid
> than its predecessor, which makes it much more palatable to
> both humans and livestock.
Canola, derived from rapeseed (but no points for rapeseed).
The name is an acronym for "Canadian oil, low acid". 4 for Joshua
and Dan Tilque.
> 7. Name the Canadian credited with inventing the goalie mask.
Jacques Plante is the well-known answer and was what was originally
expected, but Clint Benedict also wore a mask, just temporarily, 29
years earlier. I'm accepting either answer. 4 for Joshua and Pete.
Here's Plante's story:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120309065733/http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=383063
Here's Benedict's story:
http://sportsthenandnow.com/2009/10/29/the-hockey-mask-50-years-later-not-required-but-never-without/
Here's a color photo of Plante in his mask, and for further contrast
with both Plante and Benedict, an illustration of what they can look
like these days:
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltscuy48kw1qm9rypo1_1280.jpg
http://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/05/14/sports/14GOALIEMASK1/14GOALIEMASK1-superJumbo.jpg
> 8. Name the Canadian corporation that developed the Canadarm.
Spar Aerospace.
The Canadarm was the remote-manipulator arm on the space shuttles:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/1996_s72_Scott_EVA.jpg
A later version is installed on the international space station.
> 9. This innovation by George Retzlaff of the CBC made its
> debut in 1955 during a broadcast of "Hockey Night in Canada".
The replay. (Accepting "instant replay", but not "slow-motion
replay", which came several years later.) 4 for Joshua. 3 for Pete.
It was not actually an instant replay, as was claimed in the original
game; Retzlaff's process involved a movie camera pointed at a TV,
producing a film called a "kinescope". This was a common method of
recording TV broadcasts, but Retzlaff's innovation was to develop the
film so fast it could be shown a few minutes later. True instant
replay required videotape and -- as mentioned on "Jeopardy!" on
2022-02-02 -- was first used during an American football broadcast
in 1963. See:
http://www.denverpost.com/2013/11/16/a-look-at-tvs-instant-replay-through-the-years/
> 10. This computer language was created by Canada's James Gosling
> in June 1991 while working for Sun Microsystems. Its first
> public implementation was in 1995.
Java. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Erland, and Pete.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS
TOPICS-> His Spo Can Can
Joshua Kreitzer 32 23 4 20 79
Dan Tilque 8 12 24 8 52
Dan Blum 16 4 0 12 32
Pete Gayde -- -- 4 19 23
Erland Sommarskog 8 4 4 4 20
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