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Mark Brader
Dec 22, 2017, 12:57:07 AM12/22/17
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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-11-13,
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 5 days this time.
All questions were written by members of Smith & Guessin' 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 2017-09-25 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
* Game 8, Round 4 - Literature - Characters by Description
We give the year a book was published and a passage describing
one or more of the characters. In each case, *either* name that
character (or give the collective name of those characters, as
applicable) or else give the title.
1. (1954) "The face of <answer 1> was ageless, neither old nor
young, though in it was written the memory of many things
both glad and sorrowful. His hair was dark as the shadows of
twilight, and upon it was set a circlet of silver; his eyes
were grey as a clear evening, and in them was a light like the
light of stars."
2. (1897) "Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for
a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot,
without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He moved
impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with
a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened
by the fact that it seemed as cold as ice -- more like the hand
of a dead than a living man."
3. (1998) "If the motorbike was huge, it was nothing to the man
sitting astride it. He was almost twice as tall as a normal
man and at least five times as wide. He looked simply too big
to be allowed, and so wild -- long tangles of bushy black hair
and beard hid most of his face, he had hands the size of dustbin
lids and his feet in their leather boots were like baby dolphins.
In his vast, muscular arms he was holding a bundle of blankets."
4. (1996) "Fifteen years past, when they had ridden forth to
win a throne, the Lord of Storm's End had been clean-shaven,
clear-eyed, and muscled like a maiden's fantasy. Six and a half
feet tall, he towered over lesser men, and when he donned his
armor and the great antlered helmet of his House, he became a
veritable giant. He'd had a giant's strength too, his weapon
of choice a spiked iron warhammer that Ned could scarcely lift.
In those days, the smell of leather and blood had clung to him
like perfume."
5. (1962) "These sharps were dressed in the heighth of fashion
too, with purple and green and orange wigs on their gullivers.
Each one not costing less than three or four weeks of those
sharps' wages, I should reckon, and make-up to match (rainbows
round the glazzies, that is, and the rot painted very wide).
Then they had long black very straight dresses, and on the
groody part of them they had little badges of like silver with
different malchicks' names on them -- Joe and Mike and suchlike."
6. (1949) "She was a bold-looking girl of about twenty-seven, with
thick dark hair, a freckled face, and swift, athletic movements.
A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League,
was wound several times around the waist of her overalls,
just tighly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips."
7. (1818) "His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his
features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin
scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath;
his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of
a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more
horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed 'almost of
the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set,
his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips."
8. (1861) "I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had
withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no
brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes. I saw
that the dress had been put upon the rounded figure of a young
woman, and that the figure upon which it now hung loose, had
shrunk to skin and bone."
9. (1980) "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy
balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears
and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears
themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating
two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the
bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little
folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."
10. (1955) "It was the same child -- the same frail, honey-hued
shoulders, the same silky supple bare back, the same chestnut
head of hair. A polka-dotted black kerchief tied around her
chest hid from my aging ape eyes, but not from the gaze of young
memory, the juvenile breasts I had fondled one immortal day."
* Game 8, Round 6 - Canadiana Sports - Toronto Maple Leafs 100
In recognition that this season is the 100th for the Toronto Maple
Leafs, a round on our hometown team. (Okay, it's been 100 years,
so you might say it's the 101st, but the entire NHL missed the
2004-05 season due to a labor dispute, so really it isn't.)
1. From 1927 to the present the team has played as the Toronto
Maple Leafs in the NHL. From 1919 to 1926 they were the Toronto
St. Patricks. What were they called before that?
2. The Tragically Hip have memorialized that Bill Barilko scored
the last goal of a playoff championship game in overtime in 1951.
Who were they playing against?
3. Who coached the Leafs to 4 Stanley Cup wins, including the last
time they won, in 1967?
4. The trophy awarded each year to the Most Valuable Player in
the Stanley Cup Playoffs is named after a former Leafs owner.
Who?
5. The Captain of the Maple Leafs from 1957 to 1969 was nicknamed
"the Chief". What was his name?
6. Which goalie was nicknamed "the China Wall"?
7. What former Leafs player had the nickname Superman?
8. Darryl Sittler holds an NHL record that has been unbroken
since 1976. What record? Say what it's for doing and include
the numerical value.
9. For much of its existence from NHL has either been a single
division or has consisted of divisions with geographical names.
But from 1974 to 1993 the league consisted of divisions and
conferences named in a different style. And in 1981 there was a
realignment within that system. Choose the time period before
or after the realignment and name either the division or the
conference that the Leafs then played in. That is, you must
either say 1974-81 or 1981-93 *and* give either a division or
a conference name.
10. Considered to be one of the best-ever Maple Leaf players,
and the team captain from 1969 to 1975, this man refused to
attend the commemorative ceremony for the last game at the
Gardens in 1999 because of personal conflicts with past and
present team ownership. He publicly stated that the new
ownership was no different than Harold Ballard. Give his name.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "If we gave people a choice, there would be chaos."
m...@vex.net | -- Dick McDonald
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 5 days this time.
All questions were written by members of Smith & Guessin' 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 2017-09-25 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
* Game 8, Round 4 - Literature - Characters by Description
We give the year a book was published and a passage describing
one or more of the characters. In each case, *either* name that
character (or give the collective name of those characters, as
applicable) or else give the title.
1. (1954) "The face of <answer 1> was ageless, neither old nor
young, though in it was written the memory of many things
both glad and sorrowful. His hair was dark as the shadows of
twilight, and upon it was set a circlet of silver; his eyes
were grey as a clear evening, and in them was a light like the
light of stars."
2. (1897) "Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for
a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot,
without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He moved
impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with
a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened
by the fact that it seemed as cold as ice -- more like the hand
of a dead than a living man."
3. (1998) "If the motorbike was huge, it was nothing to the man
sitting astride it. He was almost twice as tall as a normal
man and at least five times as wide. He looked simply too big
to be allowed, and so wild -- long tangles of bushy black hair
and beard hid most of his face, he had hands the size of dustbin
lids and his feet in their leather boots were like baby dolphins.
In his vast, muscular arms he was holding a bundle of blankets."
4. (1996) "Fifteen years past, when they had ridden forth to
win a throne, the Lord of Storm's End had been clean-shaven,
clear-eyed, and muscled like a maiden's fantasy. Six and a half
feet tall, he towered over lesser men, and when he donned his
armor and the great antlered helmet of his House, he became a
veritable giant. He'd had a giant's strength too, his weapon
of choice a spiked iron warhammer that Ned could scarcely lift.
In those days, the smell of leather and blood had clung to him
like perfume."
5. (1962) "These sharps were dressed in the heighth of fashion
too, with purple and green and orange wigs on their gullivers.
Each one not costing less than three or four weeks of those
sharps' wages, I should reckon, and make-up to match (rainbows
round the glazzies, that is, and the rot painted very wide).
Then they had long black very straight dresses, and on the
groody part of them they had little badges of like silver with
different malchicks' names on them -- Joe and Mike and suchlike."
6. (1949) "She was a bold-looking girl of about twenty-seven, with
thick dark hair, a freckled face, and swift, athletic movements.
A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League,
was wound several times around the waist of her overalls,
just tighly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips."
7. (1818) "His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his
features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin
scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath;
his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of
a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more
horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed 'almost of
the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set,
his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips."
8. (1861) "I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had
withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no
brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes. I saw
that the dress had been put upon the rounded figure of a young
woman, and that the figure upon which it now hung loose, had
shrunk to skin and bone."
9. (1980) "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy
balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears
and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears
themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating
two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the
bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little
folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."
10. (1955) "It was the same child -- the same frail, honey-hued
shoulders, the same silky supple bare back, the same chestnut
head of hair. A polka-dotted black kerchief tied around her
chest hid from my aging ape eyes, but not from the gaze of young
memory, the juvenile breasts I had fondled one immortal day."
* Game 8, Round 6 - Canadiana Sports - Toronto Maple Leafs 100
In recognition that this season is the 100th for the Toronto Maple
Leafs, a round on our hometown team. (Okay, it's been 100 years,
so you might say it's the 101st, but the entire NHL missed the
2004-05 season due to a labor dispute, so really it isn't.)
1. From 1927 to the present the team has played as the Toronto
Maple Leafs in the NHL. From 1919 to 1926 they were the Toronto
St. Patricks. What were they called before that?
2. The Tragically Hip have memorialized that Bill Barilko scored
the last goal of a playoff championship game in overtime in 1951.
Who were they playing against?
3. Who coached the Leafs to 4 Stanley Cup wins, including the last
time they won, in 1967?
4. The trophy awarded each year to the Most Valuable Player in
the Stanley Cup Playoffs is named after a former Leafs owner.
Who?
5. The Captain of the Maple Leafs from 1957 to 1969 was nicknamed
"the Chief". What was his name?
6. Which goalie was nicknamed "the China Wall"?
7. What former Leafs player had the nickname Superman?
8. Darryl Sittler holds an NHL record that has been unbroken
since 1976. What record? Say what it's for doing and include
the numerical value.
9. For much of its existence from NHL has either been a single
division or has consisted of divisions with geographical names.
But from 1974 to 1993 the league consisted of divisions and
conferences named in a different style. And in 1981 there was a
realignment within that system. Choose the time period before
or after the realignment and name either the division or the
conference that the Leafs then played in. That is, you must
either say 1974-81 or 1981-93 *and* give either a division or
a conference name.
10. Considered to be one of the best-ever Maple Leaf players,
and the team captain from 1969 to 1975, this man refused to
attend the commemorative ceremony for the last game at the
Gardens in 1999 because of personal conflicts with past and
present team ownership. He publicly stated that the new
ownership was no different than Harold Ballard. Give his name.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "If we gave people a choice, there would be chaos."
m...@vex.net | -- Dick McDonald
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Joshua Kreitzer
Dec 22, 2017, 1:16:50 AM12/22/17
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:d_WdnTOtw-4zA6HHnZ2dnUU7-
evN...@giganews.com:
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Literature - Characters by Description
>
> We give the year a book was published and a passage describing
> one or more of the characters. In each case, *either* name that
> character (or give the collective name of those characters, as
> applicable) or else give the title.
>
> 6. (1949) "She was a bold-looking girl of about twenty-seven, with
> thick dark hair, a freckled face, and swift, athletic movements.
> A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League,
> was wound several times around the waist of her overalls,
> just tighly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips."
"1984"
> 7. (1818) "His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his
> features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin
> scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath;
> his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of
> a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more
> horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed 'almost of
> the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set,
> his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips."
"Frankenstein"
> 8. (1861) "I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had
> withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no
> brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes. I saw
> that the dress had been put upon the rounded figure of a young
> woman, and that the figure upon which it now hung loose, had
> shrunk to skin and bone."
"Great Expectations"
> 9. (1980) "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy
> balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears
> and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears
> themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating
> two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the
> bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little
> folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."
"A Confederacy of Dunces"
> 10. (1955) "It was the same child -- the same frail, honey-hued
> shoulders, the same silky supple bare back, the same chestnut
> head of hair. A polka-dotted black kerchief tied around her
> chest hid from my aging ape eyes, but not from the gaze of young
> memory, the juvenile breasts I had fondled one immortal day."
"Lolita"
> * Game 8, Round 6 - Canadiana Sports - Toronto Maple Leafs 100
>
> In recognition that this season is the 100th for the Toronto Maple
> Leafs, a round on our hometown team. (Okay, it's been 100 years,
> so you might say it's the 101st, but the entire NHL missed the
> 2004-05 season due to a labor dispute, so really it isn't.)
>
> 9. For much of its existence from NHL has either been a single
> division or has consisted of divisions with geographical names.
> But from 1974 to 1993 the league consisted of divisions and
> conferences named in a different style. And in 1981 there was a
> realignment within that system. Choose the time period before
> or after the realignment and name either the division or the
> conference that the Leafs then played in. That is, you must
> either say 1974-81 or 1981-93 *and* give either a division or
> a conference name.
1981-93: Campbell Conference;
1981-93: Prince of Wales Conference
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
evN...@giganews.com:
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Literature - Characters by Description
>
> We give the year a book was published and a passage describing
> one or more of the characters. In each case, *either* name that
> character (or give the collective name of those characters, as
> applicable) or else give the title.
>
> 5. (1962) "These sharps were dressed in the heighth of fashion
> too, with purple and green and orange wigs on their gullivers.
> Each one not costing less than three or four weeks of those
> sharps' wages, I should reckon, and make-up to match (rainbows
> round the glazzies, that is, and the rot painted very wide).
> Then they had long black very straight dresses, and on the
> groody part of them they had little badges of like silver with
> different malchicks' names on them -- Joe and Mike and suchlike."
"A Clockwork Orange"
> too, with purple and green and orange wigs on their gullivers.
> Each one not costing less than three or four weeks of those
> sharps' wages, I should reckon, and make-up to match (rainbows
> round the glazzies, that is, and the rot painted very wide).
> Then they had long black very straight dresses, and on the
> groody part of them they had little badges of like silver with
> different malchicks' names on them -- Joe and Mike and suchlike."
> 6. (1949) "She was a bold-looking girl of about twenty-seven, with
> thick dark hair, a freckled face, and swift, athletic movements.
> A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League,
> was wound several times around the waist of her overalls,
> just tighly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips."
> 7. (1818) "His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his
> features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin
> scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath;
> his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of
> a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more
> horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed 'almost of
> the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set,
> his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips."
> 8. (1861) "I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had
> withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no
> brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes. I saw
> that the dress had been put upon the rounded figure of a young
> woman, and that the figure upon which it now hung loose, had
> shrunk to skin and bone."
> 9. (1980) "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy
> balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears
> and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears
> themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating
> two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the
> bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little
> folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."
> 10. (1955) "It was the same child -- the same frail, honey-hued
> shoulders, the same silky supple bare back, the same chestnut
> head of hair. A polka-dotted black kerchief tied around her
> chest hid from my aging ape eyes, but not from the gaze of young
> memory, the juvenile breasts I had fondled one immortal day."
> * Game 8, Round 6 - Canadiana Sports - Toronto Maple Leafs 100
>
> In recognition that this season is the 100th for the Toronto Maple
> Leafs, a round on our hometown team. (Okay, it's been 100 years,
> so you might say it's the 101st, but the entire NHL missed the
> 2004-05 season due to a labor dispute, so really it isn't.)
>
> 7. What former Leafs player had the nickname Superman?
Clark Kent
> 9. For much of its existence from NHL has either been a single
> division or has consisted of divisions with geographical names.
> But from 1974 to 1993 the league consisted of divisions and
> conferences named in a different style. And in 1981 there was a
> realignment within that system. Choose the time period before
> or after the realignment and name either the division or the
> conference that the Leafs then played in. That is, you must
> either say 1974-81 or 1981-93 *and* give either a division or
> a conference name.
1981-93: Prince of Wales Conference
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Gareth Owen
Dec 22, 2017, 1:55:35 AM12/22/17
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) writes:
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Literature - Characters by Description
>
> We give the year a book was published and a passage describing
> one or more of the characters. In each case, *either* name that
> character (or give the collective name of those characters, as
> applicable) or else give the title.
>
> 1. (1954) "The face of <answer 1> was ageless, neither old nor
> young, though in it was written the memory of many things
> both glad and sorrowful. His hair was dark as the shadows of
> twilight, and upon it was set a circlet of silver; his eyes
> were grey as a clear evening, and in them was a light like the
> light of stars."
Elrond
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Literature - Characters by Description
>
> We give the year a book was published and a passage describing
> one or more of the characters. In each case, *either* name that
> character (or give the collective name of those characters, as
> applicable) or else give the title.
>
> 1. (1954) "The face of <answer 1> was ageless, neither old nor
> young, though in it was written the memory of many things
> both glad and sorrowful. His hair was dark as the shadows of
> twilight, and upon it was set a circlet of silver; his eyes
> were grey as a clear evening, and in them was a light like the
> light of stars."
> 2. (1897) "Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for
> a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot,
> without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He moved
> impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with
> a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened
> by the fact that it seemed as cold as ice -- more like the hand
> of a dead than a living man."
> 3. (1998) "If the motorbike was huge, it was nothing to the man
> sitting astride it. He was almost twice as tall as a normal
> man and at least five times as wide. He looked simply too big
> to be allowed, and so wild -- long tangles of bushy black hair
> and beard hid most of his face, he had hands the size of dustbin
> lids and his feet in their leather boots were like baby dolphins.
> In his vast, muscular arms he was holding a bundle of blankets."
> 4. (1996) "Fifteen years past, when they had ridden forth to
> win a throne, the Lord of Storm's End had been clean-shaven,
> clear-eyed, and muscled like a maiden's fantasy. Six and a half
> feet tall, he towered over lesser men, and when he donned his
> armor and the great antlered helmet of his House, he became a
> veritable giant. He'd had a giant's strength too, his weapon
> of choice a spiked iron warhammer that Ned could scarcely lift.
> In those days, the smell of leather and blood had clung to him
> like perfume."
> 5. (1962) "These sharps were dressed in the heighth of fashion
> too, with purple and green and orange wigs on their gullivers.
> Each one not costing less than three or four weeks of those
> sharps' wages, I should reckon, and make-up to match (rainbows
> round the glazzies, that is, and the rot painted very wide).
> Then they had long black very straight dresses, and on the
> groody part of them they had little badges of like silver with
> different malchicks' names on them -- Joe and Mike and suchlike."
> 6. (1949) "She was a bold-looking girl of about twenty-seven, with
> thick dark hair, a freckled face, and swift, athletic movements.
> A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League,
> was wound several times around the waist of her overalls,
> just tighly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips."
> 7. (1818) "His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his
> features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin
> scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath;
> his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of
> a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more
> horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed 'almost of
> the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set,
> his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips."
> 8. (1861) "I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had
> withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no
> brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes. I saw
> that the dress had been put upon the rounded figure of a young
> woman, and that the figure upon which it now hung loose, had
> shrunk to skin and bone."
> 9. (1980) "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy
> balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears
> and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears
> themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating
> two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the
> bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little
> folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."
> 10. (1955) "It was the same child -- the same frail, honey-hued
> shoulders, the same silky supple bare back, the same chestnut
> head of hair. A polka-dotted black kerchief tied around her
> chest hid from my aging ape eyes, but not from the gaze of young
> memory, the juvenile breasts I had fondled one immortal day."
> 3. Who coached the Leafs to 4 Stanley Cup wins, including the last
> time they won, in 1967?
Marc Dashevsky
Dec 22, 2017, 3:37:01 AM12/22/17
to
In article <d_WdnTOtw-4zA6HH...@giganews.com>, m...@vex.net says...
> 2. (1897) "Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for
> a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot,
> without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He moved
> impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with
> a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened
> by the fact that it seemed as cold as ice -- more like the hand
> of a dead than a living man."
Count Dracula
> 3. (1998) "If the motorbike was huge, it was nothing to the man
> sitting astride it. He was almost twice as tall as a normal
> man and at least five times as wide. He looked simply too big
> to be allowed, and so wild -- long tangles of bushy black hair
> and beard hid most of his face, he had hands the size of dustbin
> lids and his feet in their leather boots were like baby dolphins.
> In his vast, muscular arms he was holding a bundle of blankets."
>
>
> 4. (1996) "Fifteen years past, when they had ridden forth to
> win a throne, the Lord of Storm's End had been clean-shaven,
> clear-eyed, and muscled like a maiden's fantasy. Six and a half
> feet tall, he towered over lesser men, and when he donned his
> armor and the great antlered helmet of his House, he became a
> veritable giant. He'd had a giant's strength too, his weapon
> of choice a spiked iron warhammer that Ned could scarcely lift.
> In those days, the smell of leather and blood had clung to him
> like perfume."
>
> 5. (1962) "These sharps were dressed in the heighth of fashion
> too, with purple and green and orange wigs on their gullivers.
> Each one not costing less than three or four weeks of those
> sharps' wages, I should reckon, and make-up to match (rainbows
> round the glazzies, that is, and the rot painted very wide).
> Then they had long black very straight dresses, and on the
> groody part of them they had little badges of like silver with
> different malchicks' names on them -- Joe and Mike and suchlike."
A Clockork Orange
> 6. (1949) "She was a bold-looking girl of about twenty-seven, with
> thick dark hair, a freckled face, and swift, athletic movements.
> A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League,
> was wound several times around the waist of her overalls,
> just tighly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips."
>
> 7. (1818) "His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his
> features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin
> scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath;
> his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of
> a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more
> horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed 'almost of
> the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set,
> his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips."
Frankenstein's monster
> 8. (1861) "I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had
> withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no
> brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes. I saw
> that the dress had been put upon the rounded figure of a young
> woman, and that the figure upon which it now hung loose, had
> shrunk to skin and bone."
>
> 9. (1980) "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy
> balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears
> and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears
> themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating
> two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the
> bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little
> folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."
Ignatius J. Reilly
> 10. (1955) "It was the same child -- the same frail, honey-hued
> shoulders, the same silky supple bare back, the same chestnut
> head of hair. A polka-dotted black kerchief tied around her
> chest hid from my aging ape eyes, but not from the gaze of young
> memory, the juvenile breasts I had fondled one immortal day."
Lolita
--
Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address.
>
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-11-13,
> 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 5 days this time.
>
> All questions were written by members of Smith & Guessin' 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 2017-09-25 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Literature - Characters by Description
>
> We give the year a book was published and a passage describing
> one or more of the characters. In each case, *either* name that
> character (or give the collective name of those characters, as
> applicable) or else give the title.
>
> 1. (1954) "The face of <answer 1> was ageless, neither old nor
> young, though in it was written the memory of many things
> both glad and sorrowful. His hair was dark as the shadows of
> twilight, and upon it was set a circlet of silver; his eyes
> were grey as a clear evening, and in them was a light like the
> light of stars."
Elrond
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-11-13,
> 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 5 days this time.
>
> All questions were written by members of Smith & Guessin' 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 2017-09-25 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Literature - Characters by Description
>
> We give the year a book was published and a passage describing
> one or more of the characters. In each case, *either* name that
> character (or give the collective name of those characters, as
> applicable) or else give the title.
>
> 1. (1954) "The face of <answer 1> was ageless, neither old nor
> young, though in it was written the memory of many things
> both glad and sorrowful. His hair was dark as the shadows of
> twilight, and upon it was set a circlet of silver; his eyes
> were grey as a clear evening, and in them was a light like the
> light of stars."
> 2. (1897) "Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for
> a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot,
> without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He moved
> impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with
> a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened
> by the fact that it seemed as cold as ice -- more like the hand
> of a dead than a living man."
> 3. (1998) "If the motorbike was huge, it was nothing to the man
> sitting astride it. He was almost twice as tall as a normal
> man and at least five times as wide. He looked simply too big
> to be allowed, and so wild -- long tangles of bushy black hair
> and beard hid most of his face, he had hands the size of dustbin
> lids and his feet in their leather boots were like baby dolphins.
> In his vast, muscular arms he was holding a bundle of blankets."
>
>
> 4. (1996) "Fifteen years past, when they had ridden forth to
> win a throne, the Lord of Storm's End had been clean-shaven,
> clear-eyed, and muscled like a maiden's fantasy. Six and a half
> feet tall, he towered over lesser men, and when he donned his
> armor and the great antlered helmet of his House, he became a
> veritable giant. He'd had a giant's strength too, his weapon
> of choice a spiked iron warhammer that Ned could scarcely lift.
> In those days, the smell of leather and blood had clung to him
> like perfume."
>
> 5. (1962) "These sharps were dressed in the heighth of fashion
> too, with purple and green and orange wigs on their gullivers.
> Each one not costing less than three or four weeks of those
> sharps' wages, I should reckon, and make-up to match (rainbows
> round the glazzies, that is, and the rot painted very wide).
> Then they had long black very straight dresses, and on the
> groody part of them they had little badges of like silver with
> different malchicks' names on them -- Joe and Mike and suchlike."
> 6. (1949) "She was a bold-looking girl of about twenty-seven, with
> thick dark hair, a freckled face, and swift, athletic movements.
> A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League,
> was wound several times around the waist of her overalls,
> just tighly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips."
>
> 7. (1818) "His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his
> features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin
> scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath;
> his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of
> a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more
> horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed 'almost of
> the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set,
> his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips."
> 8. (1861) "I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had
> withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no
> brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes. I saw
> that the dress had been put upon the rounded figure of a young
> woman, and that the figure upon which it now hung loose, had
> shrunk to skin and bone."
>
> 9. (1980) "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy
> balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears
> and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears
> themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating
> two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the
> bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little
> folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."
> 10. (1955) "It was the same child -- the same frail, honey-hued
> shoulders, the same silky supple bare back, the same chestnut
> head of hair. A polka-dotted black kerchief tied around her
> chest hid from my aging ape eyes, but not from the gaze of young
> memory, the juvenile breasts I had fondled one immortal day."
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Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address.
Dan Blum
Dec 22, 2017, 9:47:13 AM12/22/17
to
> 1. (1954) "The face of <answer 1> was ageless, neither old nor
> young, though in it was written the memory of many things
> both glad and sorrowful. His hair was dark as the shadows of
> twilight, and upon it was set a circlet of silver; his eyes
> were grey as a clear evening, and in them was a light like the
> light of stars."
The Lord of the Rings
> young, though in it was written the memory of many things
> both glad and sorrowful. His hair was dark as the shadows of
> twilight, and upon it was set a circlet of silver; his eyes
> were grey as a clear evening, and in them was a light like the
> light of stars."
> 2. (1897) "Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for
> a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot,
> without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He moved
> impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with
> a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened
> by the fact that it seemed as cold as ice -- more like the hand
> of a dead than a living man."
> 3. (1998) "If the motorbike was huge, it was nothing to the man
> sitting astride it. He was almost twice as tall as a normal
> man and at least five times as wide. He looked simply too big
> to be allowed, and so wild -- long tangles of bushy black hair
> and beard hid most of his face, he had hands the size of dustbin
> lids and his feet in their leather boots were like baby dolphins.
> In his vast, muscular arms he was holding a bundle of blankets."
> 4. (1996) "Fifteen years past, when they had ridden forth to
> win a throne, the Lord of Storm's End had been clean-shaven,
> clear-eyed, and muscled like a maiden's fantasy. Six and a half
> feet tall, he towered over lesser men, and when he donned his
> armor and the great antlered helmet of his House, he became a
> veritable giant. He'd had a giant's strength too, his weapon
> of choice a spiked iron warhammer that Ned could scarcely lift.
> In those days, the smell of leather and blood had clung to him
> like perfume."
> 5. (1962) "These sharps were dressed in the heighth of fashion
> too, with purple and green and orange wigs on their gullivers.
> Each one not costing less than three or four weeks of those
> sharps' wages, I should reckon, and make-up to match (rainbows
> round the glazzies, that is, and the rot painted very wide).
> Then they had long black very straight dresses, and on the
> groody part of them they had little badges of like silver with
> different malchicks' names on them -- Joe and Mike and suchlike."
> 6. (1949) "She was a bold-looking girl of about twenty-seven, with
> thick dark hair, a freckled face, and swift, athletic movements.
> A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League,
> was wound several times around the waist of her overalls,
> just tighly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips."
> 7. (1818) "His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his
> features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin
> scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath;
> his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of
> a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more
> horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed 'almost of
> the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set,
> his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips."
> 8. (1861) "I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had
> withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no
> brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes. I saw
> that the dress had been put upon the rounded figure of a young
> woman, and that the figure upon which it now hung loose, had
> shrunk to skin and bone."
> 9. (1980) "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy
> balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears
> and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears
> themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating
> two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the
> bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little
> folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."
> 10. (1955) "It was the same child -- the same frail, honey-hued
> shoulders, the same silky supple bare back, the same chestnut
> head of hair. A polka-dotted black kerchief tied around her
> chest hid from my aging ape eyes, but not from the gaze of young
> memory, the juvenile breasts I had fondled one immortal day."
> * Game 8, Round 6 - Canadiana Sports - Toronto Maple Leafs 100
> 2. The Tragically Hip have memorialized that Bill Barilko scored
> the last goal of a playoff championship game in overtime in 1951.
> Who were they playing against?
Boston Bruins; New York Rangers
> the last goal of a playoff championship game in overtime in 1951.
> Who were they playing against?
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Peter Smyth
Dec 22, 2017, 12:09:50 PM12/22/17
to
Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Literature - Characters by Description
>
> We give the year a book was published and a passage describing
> one or more of the characters. In each case, either name that
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Literature - Characters by Description
>
> We give the year a book was published and a passage describing
> character (or give the collective name of those characters, as
> applicable) or else give the title.
>
> 1. (1954) "The face of <answer 1> was ageless, neither old nor
> young, though in it was written the memory of many things
> both glad and sorrowful. His hair was dark as the shadows of
> twilight, and upon it was set a circlet of silver; his eyes
> were grey as a clear evening, and in them was a light like the
> light of stars."
Lord of the Rings
> applicable) or else give the title.
>
> 1. (1954) "The face of <answer 1> was ageless, neither old nor
> young, though in it was written the memory of many things
> both glad and sorrowful. His hair was dark as the shadows of
> twilight, and upon it was set a circlet of silver; his eyes
> were grey as a clear evening, and in them was a light like the
> light of stars."
> 2. (1897) "Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for
> a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot,
> without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He moved
> impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with
> a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened
> by the fact that it seemed as cold as ice -- more like the hand
> of a dead than a living man."
>
> 3. (1998) "If the motorbike was huge, it was nothing to the man
> sitting astride it. He was almost twice as tall as a normal
> man and at least five times as wide. He looked simply too big
> to be allowed, and so wild -- long tangles of bushy black hair
> and beard hid most of his face, he had hands the size of dustbin
> lids and his feet in their leather boots were like baby dolphins.
> In his vast, muscular arms he was holding a bundle of blankets."
Rubeus Hagrid
> a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot,
> without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He moved
> impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with
> a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened
> by the fact that it seemed as cold as ice -- more like the hand
> of a dead than a living man."
>
> 3. (1998) "If the motorbike was huge, it was nothing to the man
> sitting astride it. He was almost twice as tall as a normal
> man and at least five times as wide. He looked simply too big
> to be allowed, and so wild -- long tangles of bushy black hair
> and beard hid most of his face, he had hands the size of dustbin
> lids and his feet in their leather boots were like baby dolphins.
> In his vast, muscular arms he was holding a bundle of blankets."
> 4. (1996) "Fifteen years past, when they had ridden forth to
> win a throne, the Lord of Storm's End had been clean-shaven,
> clear-eyed, and muscled like a maiden's fantasy. Six and a half
> feet tall, he towered over lesser men, and when he donned his
> armor and the great antlered helmet of his House, he became a
> veritable giant. He'd had a giant's strength too, his weapon
> of choice a spiked iron warhammer that Ned could scarcely lift.
> In those days, the smell of leather and blood had clung to him
> like perfume."
Robert Baratheon
> win a throne, the Lord of Storm's End had been clean-shaven,
> clear-eyed, and muscled like a maiden's fantasy. Six and a half
> feet tall, he towered over lesser men, and when he donned his
> armor and the great antlered helmet of his House, he became a
> veritable giant. He'd had a giant's strength too, his weapon
> of choice a spiked iron warhammer that Ned could scarcely lift.
> In those days, the smell of leather and blood had clung to him
> like perfume."
Peter Smyth
Dan Tilque
Dec 22, 2017, 1:49:29 PM12/22/17
to
Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Literature - Characters by Description
>
> We give the year a book was published and a passage describing
> one or more of the characters. In each case, *either* name that
> character (or give the collective name of those characters, as
> applicable) or else give the title.
>
> 1. (1954) "The face of <answer 1> was ageless, neither old nor
> young, though in it was written the memory of many things
> both glad and sorrowful. His hair was dark as the shadows of
> twilight, and upon it was set a circlet of silver; his eyes
> were grey as a clear evening, and in them was a light like the
> light of stars."
Elrond
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Literature - Characters by Description
>
> We give the year a book was published and a passage describing
> one or more of the characters. In each case, *either* name that
> character (or give the collective name of those characters, as
> applicable) or else give the title.
>
> 1. (1954) "The face of <answer 1> was ageless, neither old nor
> young, though in it was written the memory of many things
> both glad and sorrowful. His hair was dark as the shadows of
> twilight, and upon it was set a circlet of silver; his eyes
> were grey as a clear evening, and in them was a light like the
> light of stars."
>
> 6. (1949) "She was a bold-looking girl of about twenty-seven, with
> thick dark hair, a freckled face, and swift, athletic movements.
> A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League,
> was wound several times around the waist of her overalls,
> just tighly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips."
>
> 7. (1818) "His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his
> features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin
> scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath;
> his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of
> a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more
> horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed 'almost of
> the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set,
> his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips."
>
> 8. (1861) "I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had
> withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no
> brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes. I saw
> that the dress had been put upon the rounded figure of a young
> woman, and that the figure upon which it now hung loose, had
> shrunk to skin and bone."
>
> 9. (1980) "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy
> balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears
> and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears
> themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating
> two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the
> bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little
> folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."
>
> 10. (1955) "It was the same child -- the same frail, honey-hued
> shoulders, the same silky supple bare back, the same chestnut
> head of hair. A polka-dotted black kerchief tied around her
> chest hid from my aging ape eyes, but not from the gaze of young
> memory, the juvenile breasts I had fondled one immortal day."
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 6 - Canadiana Sports - Toronto Maple Leafs 100
>
> In recognition that this season is the 100th for the Toronto Maple
> Leafs, a round on our hometown team. (Okay, it's been 100 years,
> so you might say it's the 101st, but the entire NHL missed the
> 2004-05 season due to a labor dispute, so really it isn't.)
>
> 1. From 1927 to the present the team has played as the Toronto
> Maple Leafs in the NHL. From 1919 to 1926 they were the Toronto
> St. Patricks. What were they called before that?
>
> 2. The Tragically Hip have memorialized that Bill Barilko scored
> the last goal of a playoff championship game in overtime in 1951.
> Who were they playing against?
Jason Kreitzer
Dec 22, 2017, 10:46:21 PM12/22/17
to
> 7. (1818) "His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his
> features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin
> scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath;
> his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of
> a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more
> horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed 'almost of
> the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set,
> his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips."
"Frankenstein"
> features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin
> scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath;
> his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of
> a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more
> horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed 'almost of
> the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set,
> his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips."
Pete Gayde
Dec 23, 2017, 3:15:49 PM12/23/17
to
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-11-13,
> 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 5 days this time.
>
> All questions were written by members of Smith & Guessin' 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 2017-09-25 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Literature - Characters by Description
>
> We give the year a book was published and a passage describing
> one or more of the characters. In each case, *either* name that
> character (or give the collective name of those characters, as
> applicable) or else give the title.
>
> 1. (1954) "The face of <answer 1> was ageless, neither old nor
> young, though in it was written the memory of many things
> both glad and sorrowful. His hair was dark as the shadows of
> twilight, and upon it was set a circlet of silver; his eyes
> were grey as a clear evening, and in them was a light like the
> light of stars."
Holden Caulfield
> 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 5 days this time.
>
> All questions were written by members of Smith & Guessin' 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 2017-09-25 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Literature - Characters by Description
>
> We give the year a book was published and a passage describing
> one or more of the characters. In each case, *either* name that
> character (or give the collective name of those characters, as
> applicable) or else give the title.
>
> 1. (1954) "The face of <answer 1> was ageless, neither old nor
> young, though in it was written the memory of many things
> both glad and sorrowful. His hair was dark as the shadows of
> twilight, and upon it was set a circlet of silver; his eyes
> were grey as a clear evening, and in them was a light like the
> light of stars."
>
> 2. (1897) "Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for
> a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot,
> without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He moved
> impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with
> a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened
> by the fact that it seemed as cold as ice -- more like the hand
> of a dead than a living man."
>
> 3. (1998) "If the motorbike was huge, it was nothing to the man
> sitting astride it. He was almost twice as tall as a normal
> man and at least five times as wide. He looked simply too big
> to be allowed, and so wild -- long tangles of bushy black hair
> and beard hid most of his face, he had hands the size of dustbin
> lids and his feet in their leather boots were like baby dolphins.
> In his vast, muscular arms he was holding a bundle of blankets."
>
>
> 4. (1996) "Fifteen years past, when they had ridden forth to
> win a throne, the Lord of Storm's End had been clean-shaven,
> clear-eyed, and muscled like a maiden's fantasy. Six and a half
> feet tall, he towered over lesser men, and when he donned his
> armor and the great antlered helmet of his House, he became a
> veritable giant. He'd had a giant's strength too, his weapon
> of choice a spiked iron warhammer that Ned could scarcely lift.
> In those days, the smell of leather and blood had clung to him
> like perfume."
>
> 5. (1962) "These sharps were dressed in the heighth of fashion
> too, with purple and green and orange wigs on their gullivers.
> Each one not costing less than three or four weeks of those
> sharps' wages, I should reckon, and make-up to match (rainbows
> round the glazzies, that is, and the rot painted very wide).
> Then they had long black very straight dresses, and on the
> groody part of them they had little badges of like silver with
> different malchicks' names on them -- Joe and Mike and suchlike."
>
> 6. (1949) "She was a bold-looking girl of about twenty-seven, with
> thick dark hair, a freckled face, and swift, athletic movements.
> A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League,
> was wound several times around the waist of her overalls,
> just tighly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips."
>
> 7. (1818) "His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his
> features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin
> scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath;
> his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of
> a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more
> horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed 'almost of
> the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set,
> his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips."
>
> 3. Who coached the Leafs to 4 Stanley Cup wins, including the last
> time they won, in 1967?
>
> 4. The trophy awarded each year to the Most Valuable Player in
> the Stanley Cup Playoffs is named after a former Leafs owner.
> Who?
>
> 5. The Captain of the Maple Leafs from 1957 to 1969 was nicknamed
> "the Chief". What was his name?
>
> 6. Which goalie was nicknamed "the China Wall"?
>
> 7. What former Leafs player had the nickname Superman?
>
> 8. Darryl Sittler holds an NHL record that has been unbroken
> since 1976. What record? Say what it's for doing and include
> the numerical value.
>
> 9. For much of its existence from NHL has either been a single
> division or has consisted of divisions with geographical names.
> But from 1974 to 1993 the league consisted of divisions and
> conferences named in a different style. And in 1981 there was a
> realignment within that system. Choose the time period before
> or after the realignment and name either the division or the
> conference that the Leafs then played in. That is, you must
> either say 1974-81 or 1981-93 *and* give either a division or
> a conference name.
>
> 10. Considered to be one of the best-ever Maple Leaf players,
> and the team captain from 1969 to 1975, this man refused to
> attend the commemorative ceremony for the last game at the
> Gardens in 1999 because of personal conflicts with past and
> present team ownership. He publicly stated that the new
> ownership was no different than Harold Ballard. Give his name.
>
Pete Gayde
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"The Lord of the Rings", though it wasn't published as a single book
until later). 4 for Gareth, Marc, Dan Blum, Peter, and Dan Tilque.
> 2. (1897) "Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for
> a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot,
> without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He moved
> impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with
> a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened
> by the fact that it seemed as cold as ice -- more like the hand
> of a dead than a living man."
Dracula. (By Bram Stoker.) 4 for Gareth, Marc, and Dan Blum.
> 3. (1998) "If the motorbike was huge, it was nothing to the man
> sitting astride it. He was almost twice as tall as a normal
> man and at least five times as wide. He looked simply too big
> to be allowed, and so wild -- long tangles of bushy black hair
> and beard hid most of his face, he had hands the size of dustbin
> lids and his feet in their leather boots were like baby dolphins.
> In his vast, muscular arms he was holding a bundle of blankets."
Rubeus Hagrid, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's [accepting
Sorcerer's] Stone" (by J.K. Rowling). 4 for Gareth, Dan Blum,
and Peter.
In "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", the word "motorbike" is
actually translated into "motorcycle" and "dustbin" into "trash can".
> 4. (1996) "Fifteen years past, when they had ridden forth to
> win a throne, the Lord of Storm's End had been clean-shaven,
> clear-eyed, and muscled like a maiden's fantasy. Six and a half
> feet tall, he towered over lesser men, and when he donned his
> armor and the great antlered helmet of his House, he became a
> veritable giant. He'd had a giant's strength too, his weapon
> of choice a spiked iron warhammer that Ned could scarcely lift.
> In those days, the smell of leather and blood had clung to him
> like perfume."
Robert Baratheon, "A Game of Thrones" (by George R.R. Martin; not
"A Song of Ice and Fire", which is the series title). 4 for Gareth,
Dan Blum, and Peter.
> 5. (1962) "These sharps were dressed in the heighth of fashion
> too, with purple and green and orange wigs on their gullivers.
> Each one not costing less than three or four weeks of those
> sharps' wages, I should reckon, and make-up to match (rainbows
> round the glazzies, that is, and the rot painted very wide).
> Then they had long black very straight dresses, and on the
> groody part of them they had little badges of like silver with
> different malchicks' names on them -- Joe and Mike and suchlike."
The Devotchkas, "A Clockwork Orange" (by Anthony Burgess).
4 for Joshua, Gareth, Marc, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Pete.
> 6. (1949) "She was a bold-looking girl of about twenty-seven, with
> thick dark hair, a freckled face, and swift, athletic movements.
> A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League,
> was wound several times around the waist of her overalls,
> just tighly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips."
Julia, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (by George Orwell). 4 for Joshua,
Gareth, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque (the hard way).
> 7. (1818) "His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his
> features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin
> scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath;
> his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of
> a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more
> horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed 'almost of
> the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set,
> his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips."
The monster, "Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus" (by Mary
Shelley). "Frankenstein" was sufficient. 4 for Joshua, Gareth,
Marc, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Jason, and Pete.
> 8. (1861) "I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had
> withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no
> brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes. I saw
> that the dress had been put upon the rounded figure of a young
> woman, and that the figure upon which it now hung loose, had
> shrunk to skin and bone."
Miss Havisham, "Great Expectations" (by Charles Dickens).
4 for Joshua, Gareth, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque.
> 9. (1980) "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy
> balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears
> and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears
> themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating
> two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the
> bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little
> folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."
Ignatius J. Reilly, "A Confederacy of Dunces" (by John Kennedy Toole).
4 for Joshua, Marc, and Dan Blum.
> 10. (1955) "It was the same child -- the same frail, honey-hued
> shoulders, the same silky supple bare back, the same chestnut
> head of hair. A polka-dotted black kerchief tied around her
> chest hid from my aging ape eyes, but not from the gaze of young
> memory, the juvenile breasts I had fondled one immortal day."
Dolores Haze, "Lolita" (by Vladimir Nabokov). (Accepting Lolita
Haze.) 4 for Joshua, Gareth, Marc, Dan Blum, Peter, and Dan Tilque.
> * Game 8, Round 6 - Canadiana Sports - Toronto Maple Leafs 100
> In recognition that this season is the 100th for the Toronto Maple
> Leafs, a round on our hometown team. (Okay, it's been 100 years,
> so you might say it's the 101st, but the entire NHL missed the
> 2004-05 season due to a labor dispute, so really it isn't.)
This round was tied with Round 3, the geography round, as being the
hardest in the original game.
> 1. From 1927 to the present the team has played as the Toronto
> Maple Leafs in the NHL. From 1919 to 1926 they were the Toronto
> St. Patricks. What were they called before that?
Toronto Arenas, although some other names were also used at first.
> 2. The Tragically Hip have memorialized that Bill Barilko scored
> the last goal of a playoff championship game in overtime in 1951.
> Who were they playing against?
Montreal Canadiens. 2 for Pete.
> 3. Who coached the Leafs to 4 Stanley Cup wins, including the last
> time they won, in 1967?
George "Punch" Imlach. 4 for Pete.
> 4. The trophy awarded each year to the Most Valuable Player in
> the Stanley Cup Playoffs is named after a former Leafs owner.
> Who?
Conn Smythe. 4 for Pete.
> 5. The Captain of the Maple Leafs from 1957 to 1969 was nicknamed
> "the Chief". What was his name?
George Armstrong.
> 6. Which goalie was nicknamed "the China Wall"?
Johnny Bower.
> 7. What former Leafs player had the nickname Superman?
Tim Horton.
Those last two questions surprised me. I was a big fan of hockey
generally and the Leafs in particular in the late 1960s when Bower
and Horton were both active, and I didn't remember either of them
having a nickname. Armstrong, yes, but not the other two. However,
Bower's obituary tonight on the CTV National News did mention it.
One of the current players on the Usual Suspects is a recent immigrant
from Australia. On hearing the answer "Tim Horton", he said in some
surprise: "You mean he's a *real person*?"
> 8. Darryl Sittler holds an NHL record that has been unbroken
> since 1976. What record? Say what it's for doing and include
> the numerical value.
Most points in one game: 10. (It was 6 goals and 4 assists.)
Looking at goals alone, the record for a player in one game is
7, set by Joe Malone of the Quebec Bulldogs, who later that year
became the Hamilton Tigers, in 1920. Curiously, the NHL web page
at http://www.nhl.com/ice/m_records.htm lists this record but gives
the season as 1981-82!
> 9. For much of its existence from NHL has either been a single
> division or has consisted of divisions with geographical names.
> But from 1974 to 1993 the league consisted of divisions and
> conferences named in a different style. And in 1981 there was a
> realignment within that system. Choose the time period before
> or after the realignment and name either the division or the
> conference that the Leafs then played in. That is, you must
> either say 1974-81 or 1981-93 *and* give either a division or
> a conference name.
1974-81: Adams Division, (Prince of) Wales Conference. 1981-93:
Norris Division, (Clarence) Campbell Conference. 3 for Joshua.
2 for Pete.
The Norris Division was part of the Prince of Wales Conference
originally, but was moved to the other conference as part of the
realignment. Many Internet sources do not manage to include all
the details of the changes. No doubt due to this complexity, the
original version of the question and its list of expected answers
were inadequate. I decided to explicitly allow either time period
but require you to say which one you meant.
> 10. Considered to be one of the best-ever Maple Leaf players,
> and the team captain from 1969 to 1975, this man refused to
> attend the commemorative ceremony for the last game at the
> Gardens in 1999 because of personal conflicts with past and
> present team ownership. He publicly stated that the new
> ownership was no different than Harold Ballard. Give his name.
Dave Keon.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 8 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS
TOPICS-> His Geo Lit Can
Dan Blum 32 16 40 0 88
Joshua Kreitzer 40 19 24 3 86
Dan Tilque 24 28 24 0 76
Gareth Owen 24 12 36 0 72
Marc Dashevsky 12 24 24 0 60
Peter Smyth 24 19 16 0 59
Erland Sommarskog 36 20 -- -- 56
"Calvin" 27 16 -- -- 43
Jason Kreitzer 27 0 4 0 31
Pete Gayde -- -- 8 12 20
--
Mark Brader "'... Fifty science-fiction magazines don't give
Toronto you half the naked women that a good issue of
m...@vex.net the Sunday Times does.'" --SPACE, James Michener
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-11-13,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2017-09-25 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Literature - Characters by Description
> We give the year a book was published and a passage describing
> one or more of the characters. In each case, *either* name that
> character (or give the collective name of those characters, as
> applicable) or else give the title.
> 1. (1954) "The face of <answer 1> was ageless, neither old nor
> young, though in it was written the memory of many things
> both glad and sorrowful. His hair was dark as the shadows of
> twilight, and upon it was set a circlet of silver; his eyes
> were grey as a clear evening, and in them was a light like the
> light of stars."
Elrond, "The Fellowship of the Ring" (by J.R.R. Tolkien; accepting
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Literature - Characters by Description
> We give the year a book was published and a passage describing
> one or more of the characters. In each case, *either* name that
> character (or give the collective name of those characters, as
> applicable) or else give the title.
> 1. (1954) "The face of <answer 1> was ageless, neither old nor
> young, though in it was written the memory of many things
> both glad and sorrowful. His hair was dark as the shadows of
> twilight, and upon it was set a circlet of silver; his eyes
> were grey as a clear evening, and in them was a light like the
> light of stars."
"The Lord of the Rings", though it wasn't published as a single book
until later). 4 for Gareth, Marc, Dan Blum, Peter, and Dan Tilque.
> 2. (1897) "Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for
> a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot,
> without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He moved
> impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with
> a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened
> by the fact that it seemed as cold as ice -- more like the hand
> of a dead than a living man."
> 3. (1998) "If the motorbike was huge, it was nothing to the man
> sitting astride it. He was almost twice as tall as a normal
> man and at least five times as wide. He looked simply too big
> to be allowed, and so wild -- long tangles of bushy black hair
> and beard hid most of his face, he had hands the size of dustbin
> lids and his feet in their leather boots were like baby dolphins.
> In his vast, muscular arms he was holding a bundle of blankets."
Sorcerer's] Stone" (by J.K. Rowling). 4 for Gareth, Dan Blum,
and Peter.
In "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", the word "motorbike" is
actually translated into "motorcycle" and "dustbin" into "trash can".
> 4. (1996) "Fifteen years past, when they had ridden forth to
> win a throne, the Lord of Storm's End had been clean-shaven,
> clear-eyed, and muscled like a maiden's fantasy. Six and a half
> feet tall, he towered over lesser men, and when he donned his
> armor and the great antlered helmet of his House, he became a
> veritable giant. He'd had a giant's strength too, his weapon
> of choice a spiked iron warhammer that Ned could scarcely lift.
> In those days, the smell of leather and blood had clung to him
> like perfume."
"A Song of Ice and Fire", which is the series title). 4 for Gareth,
Dan Blum, and Peter.
> 5. (1962) "These sharps were dressed in the heighth of fashion
> too, with purple and green and orange wigs on their gullivers.
> Each one not costing less than three or four weeks of those
> sharps' wages, I should reckon, and make-up to match (rainbows
> round the glazzies, that is, and the rot painted very wide).
> Then they had long black very straight dresses, and on the
> groody part of them they had little badges of like silver with
> different malchicks' names on them -- Joe and Mike and suchlike."
4 for Joshua, Gareth, Marc, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Pete.
> 6. (1949) "She was a bold-looking girl of about twenty-seven, with
> thick dark hair, a freckled face, and swift, athletic movements.
> A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League,
> was wound several times around the waist of her overalls,
> just tighly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips."
Gareth, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque (the hard way).
> 7. (1818) "His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his
> features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin
> scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath;
> his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of
> a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more
> horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed 'almost of
> the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set,
> his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips."
Shelley). "Frankenstein" was sufficient. 4 for Joshua, Gareth,
Marc, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Jason, and Pete.
> 8. (1861) "I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had
> withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no
> brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes. I saw
> that the dress had been put upon the rounded figure of a young
> woman, and that the figure upon which it now hung loose, had
> shrunk to skin and bone."
4 for Joshua, Gareth, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque.
> 9. (1980) "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy
> balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears
> and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears
> themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating
> two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the
> bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little
> folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."
4 for Joshua, Marc, and Dan Blum.
> 10. (1955) "It was the same child -- the same frail, honey-hued
> shoulders, the same silky supple bare back, the same chestnut
> head of hair. A polka-dotted black kerchief tied around her
> chest hid from my aging ape eyes, but not from the gaze of young
> memory, the juvenile breasts I had fondled one immortal day."
Haze.) 4 for Joshua, Gareth, Marc, Dan Blum, Peter, and Dan Tilque.
> * Game 8, Round 6 - Canadiana Sports - Toronto Maple Leafs 100
> In recognition that this season is the 100th for the Toronto Maple
> Leafs, a round on our hometown team. (Okay, it's been 100 years,
> so you might say it's the 101st, but the entire NHL missed the
> 2004-05 season due to a labor dispute, so really it isn't.)
hardest in the original game.
> 1. From 1927 to the present the team has played as the Toronto
> Maple Leafs in the NHL. From 1919 to 1926 they were the Toronto
> St. Patricks. What were they called before that?
> 2. The Tragically Hip have memorialized that Bill Barilko scored
> the last goal of a playoff championship game in overtime in 1951.
> Who were they playing against?
> 3. Who coached the Leafs to 4 Stanley Cup wins, including the last
> time they won, in 1967?
> 4. The trophy awarded each year to the Most Valuable Player in
> the Stanley Cup Playoffs is named after a former Leafs owner.
> Who?
> 5. The Captain of the Maple Leafs from 1957 to 1969 was nicknamed
> "the Chief". What was his name?
> 6. Which goalie was nicknamed "the China Wall"?
> 7. What former Leafs player had the nickname Superman?
Those last two questions surprised me. I was a big fan of hockey
generally and the Leafs in particular in the late 1960s when Bower
and Horton were both active, and I didn't remember either of them
having a nickname. Armstrong, yes, but not the other two. However,
Bower's obituary tonight on the CTV National News did mention it.
One of the current players on the Usual Suspects is a recent immigrant
from Australia. On hearing the answer "Tim Horton", he said in some
surprise: "You mean he's a *real person*?"
> 8. Darryl Sittler holds an NHL record that has been unbroken
> since 1976. What record? Say what it's for doing and include
> the numerical value.
Looking at goals alone, the record for a player in one game is
7, set by Joe Malone of the Quebec Bulldogs, who later that year
became the Hamilton Tigers, in 1920. Curiously, the NHL web page
at http://www.nhl.com/ice/m_records.htm lists this record but gives
the season as 1981-82!
> 9. For much of its existence from NHL has either been a single
> division or has consisted of divisions with geographical names.
> But from 1974 to 1993 the league consisted of divisions and
> conferences named in a different style. And in 1981 there was a
> realignment within that system. Choose the time period before
> or after the realignment and name either the division or the
> conference that the Leafs then played in. That is, you must
> either say 1974-81 or 1981-93 *and* give either a division or
> a conference name.
Norris Division, (Clarence) Campbell Conference. 3 for Joshua.
2 for Pete.
The Norris Division was part of the Prince of Wales Conference
originally, but was moved to the other conference as part of the
realignment. Many Internet sources do not manage to include all
the details of the changes. No doubt due to this complexity, the
original version of the question and its list of expected answers
were inadequate. I decided to explicitly allow either time period
but require you to say which one you meant.
> 10. Considered to be one of the best-ever Maple Leaf players,
> and the team captain from 1969 to 1975, this man refused to
> attend the commemorative ceremony for the last game at the
> Gardens in 1999 because of personal conflicts with past and
> present team ownership. He publicly stated that the new
> ownership was no different than Harold Ballard. Give his name.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 8 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS
TOPICS-> His Geo Lit Can
Dan Blum 32 16 40 0 88
Joshua Kreitzer 40 19 24 3 86
Dan Tilque 24 28 24 0 76
Gareth Owen 24 12 36 0 72
Marc Dashevsky 12 24 24 0 60
Peter Smyth 24 19 16 0 59
Erland Sommarskog 36 20 -- -- 56
"Calvin" 27 16 -- -- 43
Jason Kreitzer 27 0 4 0 31
Pete Gayde -- -- 8 12 20
--
Mark Brader "'... Fifty science-fiction magazines don't give
Toronto you half the naked women that a good issue of
m...@vex.net the Sunday Times does.'" --SPACE, James Michener
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