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Mark Brader
Nov 7, 2016, 12:04:11 AM11/7/16
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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-08-09,
and should be interpreted accordingly.
On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
the correct answers in about 3 days.
All questions were written by members of the Usual Suspects 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 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
I wrote one triple in this round.
** Final, Round 4 -- Miscellaneous
* A. Things Called "Go"
A1. "GO" Transit was an acronym. For what?
A2. Go is a game played on a gridded board like chess or
checkers, but is played on the intersections of the lines.
How many intersections wide is a standard Go board?
A3. Something else called Go was invented by Robert Griesemer,
Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It incorporates ideas from Alef,
Oberon, Scheme, C, and others. What is it?
* B. Public Intellectuals who are Not Noam Chomsky
B1. This American art, culture, and sexuality critic is known for
her critiques of contemporary feminism, analyses of classic
and popular culture, and self-aggrandizing style. Her
breakthrough book was 1990's "Sexual Personae". Name her.
B2. This cognitive psychologist was born in Canada but made his
career in the US as a professor at MIT and Harvard. One of
his principal research foci has been psycho-linguistics,
as exemplified by his book "The Language Instinct".
In 2011 he published "The Better Angels of our Nature",
arguing that violence in human societies has been steadily
decreasing over the centuries. Name him.
B3. This Slovenian Marxist (and perhaps we can stop here --
after all, how many Slovenian Marxist public intellectuals
can there be?) has made a name for himself as a celebrity
philosopher through his critiques of left and right, high
culture and low, and at-least-somewhat accessible popular
writings. He's the narrator of the documentary film "The
Pervert's Guide to Ideology".
* C. The Acid Tongue of Gore Vidal
C1. Upon learning of the 1984 death of which rival did Vidal
respond, "A wise career move"?
C2. Finish the following Vidal quote: "The four most beautiful
words in our common language: 'I ...'"
C3. Which opponent did Gore Vidal famously refer to as a
"crypto-Nazi" in a televised 1968 debate, in return being
called a "queer"? Just for context, he had previously called
the same person "the Marie Antoinette of the right wing".
* D. Music Documentaries
D1. A 2013 film gives the history of two recording studios,
influential in several music genres, located in the same
small town in Alabama. The title of the doc is the name
of the town and of one of the studios. Name it.
D2. This film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
in 2013. It's a whatever-happened-to search by two South
Africans for a reclusive -- perhaps dead, perhaps by his own
hand -- American singer who was obscure in his own country
but had been a significant cultural icon in apartheid-era
South Africa. Name the film.
D3. A year later in 2014, another music doc again won the Best
Documentary Oscar. This one was about the lives and careers
of a group of mostly African-American backup singers who
worked for some of the greatest stars of rock music, such
as Sting and the Rolling Stones.
* E. Fictional Afterlives
E1. Which fictional race believes in a heaven, if you can call
it that, called Sto'Vo'Kor?
E2. Which 2002 novel, made into a tepid 2009 movie by a superstar
director, is narrated by a 14-year-old resident of an
afterlife where each person has their own personalized
heaven from which they can look down upon the current
goings-on below on earth?
E3. In which 1945 novel did some of the characters believe in an
afterlife called "Sugarcandy Mountain" where, among other
things, it was Sunday every day and clover was in season
all year round?
* F. Not to be Confused With
In this triple, we'll describe two words, things, or people that
could be confused. You supply the two names or words that match
the descriptions and that are similar. For example, if we said "A
character in the 1970s sitcom Barney Miller; an influential science
fiction author", you'd say "Philip K. Fish and Philip K. Dick".
You have to give *both* answers, but you don't have to say which
is which.
F1. * A word pertaining to excrement.
* In theology, a term pertaining to the end times, the end
of the world, or final destiny.
F2. * A British writer, the author of "Lord of the Flies".
* An American writer, scriptwriter of "The Princess Bride",
"Marathon Man", "All The President's Men", and "Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
F3. * A militaristic species in the "Star Trek" universe.
* A family of reality-TV pseudo-celebrities.
--
Mark Brader "...most mistakes are made the last thing before
Toronto you go to bed. So go to bed before you do
m...@vex.net the last thing." -- David Jacques Way
My text in this article is in the public domain.
and should be interpreted accordingly.
On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
the correct answers in about 3 days.
All questions were written by members of the Usual Suspects 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 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
I wrote one triple in this round.
** Final, Round 4 -- Miscellaneous
* A. Things Called "Go"
A1. "GO" Transit was an acronym. For what?
A2. Go is a game played on a gridded board like chess or
checkers, but is played on the intersections of the lines.
How many intersections wide is a standard Go board?
A3. Something else called Go was invented by Robert Griesemer,
Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It incorporates ideas from Alef,
Oberon, Scheme, C, and others. What is it?
* B. Public Intellectuals who are Not Noam Chomsky
B1. This American art, culture, and sexuality critic is known for
her critiques of contemporary feminism, analyses of classic
and popular culture, and self-aggrandizing style. Her
breakthrough book was 1990's "Sexual Personae". Name her.
B2. This cognitive psychologist was born in Canada but made his
career in the US as a professor at MIT and Harvard. One of
his principal research foci has been psycho-linguistics,
as exemplified by his book "The Language Instinct".
In 2011 he published "The Better Angels of our Nature",
arguing that violence in human societies has been steadily
decreasing over the centuries. Name him.
B3. This Slovenian Marxist (and perhaps we can stop here --
after all, how many Slovenian Marxist public intellectuals
can there be?) has made a name for himself as a celebrity
philosopher through his critiques of left and right, high
culture and low, and at-least-somewhat accessible popular
writings. He's the narrator of the documentary film "The
Pervert's Guide to Ideology".
* C. The Acid Tongue of Gore Vidal
C1. Upon learning of the 1984 death of which rival did Vidal
respond, "A wise career move"?
C2. Finish the following Vidal quote: "The four most beautiful
words in our common language: 'I ...'"
C3. Which opponent did Gore Vidal famously refer to as a
"crypto-Nazi" in a televised 1968 debate, in return being
called a "queer"? Just for context, he had previously called
the same person "the Marie Antoinette of the right wing".
* D. Music Documentaries
D1. A 2013 film gives the history of two recording studios,
influential in several music genres, located in the same
small town in Alabama. The title of the doc is the name
of the town and of one of the studios. Name it.
D2. This film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
in 2013. It's a whatever-happened-to search by two South
Africans for a reclusive -- perhaps dead, perhaps by his own
hand -- American singer who was obscure in his own country
but had been a significant cultural icon in apartheid-era
South Africa. Name the film.
D3. A year later in 2014, another music doc again won the Best
Documentary Oscar. This one was about the lives and careers
of a group of mostly African-American backup singers who
worked for some of the greatest stars of rock music, such
as Sting and the Rolling Stones.
* E. Fictional Afterlives
E1. Which fictional race believes in a heaven, if you can call
it that, called Sto'Vo'Kor?
E2. Which 2002 novel, made into a tepid 2009 movie by a superstar
director, is narrated by a 14-year-old resident of an
afterlife where each person has their own personalized
heaven from which they can look down upon the current
goings-on below on earth?
E3. In which 1945 novel did some of the characters believe in an
afterlife called "Sugarcandy Mountain" where, among other
things, it was Sunday every day and clover was in season
all year round?
* F. Not to be Confused With
In this triple, we'll describe two words, things, or people that
could be confused. You supply the two names or words that match
the descriptions and that are similar. For example, if we said "A
character in the 1970s sitcom Barney Miller; an influential science
fiction author", you'd say "Philip K. Fish and Philip K. Dick".
You have to give *both* answers, but you don't have to say which
is which.
F1. * A word pertaining to excrement.
* In theology, a term pertaining to the end times, the end
of the world, or final destiny.
F2. * A British writer, the author of "Lord of the Flies".
* An American writer, scriptwriter of "The Princess Bride",
"Marathon Man", "All The President's Men", and "Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
F3. * A militaristic species in the "Star Trek" universe.
* A family of reality-TV pseudo-celebrities.
--
Mark Brader "...most mistakes are made the last thing before
Toronto you go to bed. So go to bed before you do
m...@vex.net the last thing." -- David Jacques Way
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Marc Dashevsky
Nov 7, 2016, 2:56:31 AM11/7/16
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In article <--ednVpxlr_blr3Fn...@giganews.com>, m...@vex.net says...
> * B. Public Intellectuals who are Not Noam Chomsky
>
> B1. This American art, culture, and sexuality critic is known for
> her critiques of contemporary feminism, analyses of classic
> and popular culture, and self-aggrandizing style. Her
> breakthrough book was 1990's "Sexual Personae". Name her.
Camille Paglia
> B2. This cognitive psychologist was born in Canada but made his
> career in the US as a professor at MIT and Harvard. One of
> his principal research foci has been psycho-linguistics,
> as exemplified by his book "The Language Instinct".
> In 2011 he published "The Better Angels of our Nature",
> arguing that violence in human societies has been steadily
> decreasing over the centuries. Name him.
>
> B3. This Slovenian Marxist (and perhaps we can stop here --
> after all, how many Slovenian Marxist public intellectuals
> can there be?) has made a name for himself as a celebrity
> philosopher through his critiques of left and right, high
> culture and low, and at-least-somewhat accessible popular
> writings. He's the narrator of the documentary film "The
> Pervert's Guide to Ideology".
>
>
> * C. The Acid Tongue of Gore Vidal
>
> C1. Upon learning of the 1984 death of which rival did Vidal
> respond, "A wise career move"?
Truman Capote
> C2. Finish the following Vidal quote: "The four most beautiful
> words in our common language: 'I ...'"
>
> C3. Which opponent did Gore Vidal famously refer to as a
> "crypto-Nazi" in a televised 1968 debate, in return being
> called a "queer"? Just for context, he had previously called
> the same person "the Marie Antoinette of the right wing".
William F. Buckley
> * D. Music Documentaries
>
> D1. A 2013 film gives the history of two recording studios,
> influential in several music genres, located in the same
> small town in Alabama. The title of the doc is the name
> of the town and of one of the studios. Name it.
Muscle Shoals
> D2. This film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
> in 2013. It's a whatever-happened-to search by two South
> Africans for a reclusive -- perhaps dead, perhaps by his own
> hand -- American singer who was obscure in his own country
> but had been a significant cultural icon in apartheid-era
> South Africa. Name the film.
Searching for Sugar Man
> D3. A year later in 2014, another music doc again won the Best
> Documentary Oscar. This one was about the lives and careers
> of a group of mostly African-American backup singers who
> worked for some of the greatest stars of rock music, such
> as Sting and the Rolling Stones.
>
>
> * E. Fictional Afterlives
>
> E1. Which fictional race believes in a heaven, if you can call
> it that, called Sto'Vo'Kor?
>
> E2. Which 2002 novel, made into a tepid 2009 movie by a superstar
> director, is narrated by a 14-year-old resident of an
> afterlife where each person has their own personalized
> heaven from which they can look down upon the current
> goings-on below on earth?
>
> E3. In which 1945 novel did some of the characters believe in an
> afterlife called "Sugarcandy Mountain" where, among other
> things, it was Sunday every day and clover was in season
> all year round?
Animal Farm
> * F. Not to be Confused With
>
> In this triple, we'll describe two words, things, or people that
> could be confused. You supply the two names or words that match
> the descriptions and that are similar. For example, if we said "A
> character in the 1970s sitcom Barney Miller; an influential science
> fiction author", you'd say "Philip K. Fish and Philip K. Dick".
>
> You have to give *both* answers, but you don't have to say which
> is which.
>
> F1. * A word pertaining to excrement.
> * In theology, a term pertaining to the end times, the end
> of the world, or final destiny.
>
> F2. * A British writer, the author of "Lord of the Flies".
> * An American writer, scriptwriter of "The Princess Bride",
> "Marathon Man", "All The President's Men", and "Butch
> Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
Golding
> F3. * A militaristic species in the "Star Trek" universe.
> * A family of reality-TV pseudo-celebrities.
Kardashian, Cardassian
--
Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address.
> ** Final, Round 4 -- Miscellaneous
>
> * A. Things Called "Go"
>
> A1. "GO" Transit was an acronym. For what?
>
> A2. Go is a game played on a gridded board like chess or
> checkers, but is played on the intersections of the lines.
> How many intersections wide is a standard Go board?
>
> A3. Something else called Go was invented by Robert Griesemer,
> Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It incorporates ideas from Alef,
> Oberon, Scheme, C, and others. What is it?
programming language
>
> * A. Things Called "Go"
>
> A1. "GO" Transit was an acronym. For what?
>
> A2. Go is a game played on a gridded board like chess or
> checkers, but is played on the intersections of the lines.
> How many intersections wide is a standard Go board?
>
> A3. Something else called Go was invented by Robert Griesemer,
> Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It incorporates ideas from Alef,
> Oberon, Scheme, C, and others. What is it?
> * B. Public Intellectuals who are Not Noam Chomsky
>
> B1. This American art, culture, and sexuality critic is known for
> her critiques of contemporary feminism, analyses of classic
> and popular culture, and self-aggrandizing style. Her
> breakthrough book was 1990's "Sexual Personae". Name her.
> B2. This cognitive psychologist was born in Canada but made his
> career in the US as a professor at MIT and Harvard. One of
> his principal research foci has been psycho-linguistics,
> as exemplified by his book "The Language Instinct".
> In 2011 he published "The Better Angels of our Nature",
> arguing that violence in human societies has been steadily
> decreasing over the centuries. Name him.
>
> B3. This Slovenian Marxist (and perhaps we can stop here --
> after all, how many Slovenian Marxist public intellectuals
> can there be?) has made a name for himself as a celebrity
> philosopher through his critiques of left and right, high
> culture and low, and at-least-somewhat accessible popular
> writings. He's the narrator of the documentary film "The
> Pervert's Guide to Ideology".
>
>
> * C. The Acid Tongue of Gore Vidal
>
> C1. Upon learning of the 1984 death of which rival did Vidal
> respond, "A wise career move"?
> C2. Finish the following Vidal quote: "The four most beautiful
> words in our common language: 'I ...'"
>
> C3. Which opponent did Gore Vidal famously refer to as a
> "crypto-Nazi" in a televised 1968 debate, in return being
> called a "queer"? Just for context, he had previously called
> the same person "the Marie Antoinette of the right wing".
> * D. Music Documentaries
>
> D1. A 2013 film gives the history of two recording studios,
> influential in several music genres, located in the same
> small town in Alabama. The title of the doc is the name
> of the town and of one of the studios. Name it.
> D2. This film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
> in 2013. It's a whatever-happened-to search by two South
> Africans for a reclusive -- perhaps dead, perhaps by his own
> hand -- American singer who was obscure in his own country
> but had been a significant cultural icon in apartheid-era
> South Africa. Name the film.
> D3. A year later in 2014, another music doc again won the Best
> Documentary Oscar. This one was about the lives and careers
> of a group of mostly African-American backup singers who
> worked for some of the greatest stars of rock music, such
> as Sting and the Rolling Stones.
>
>
> * E. Fictional Afterlives
>
> E1. Which fictional race believes in a heaven, if you can call
> it that, called Sto'Vo'Kor?
>
> E2. Which 2002 novel, made into a tepid 2009 movie by a superstar
> director, is narrated by a 14-year-old resident of an
> afterlife where each person has their own personalized
> heaven from which they can look down upon the current
> goings-on below on earth?
>
> E3. In which 1945 novel did some of the characters believe in an
> afterlife called "Sugarcandy Mountain" where, among other
> things, it was Sunday every day and clover was in season
> all year round?
> * F. Not to be Confused With
>
> In this triple, we'll describe two words, things, or people that
> could be confused. You supply the two names or words that match
> the descriptions and that are similar. For example, if we said "A
> character in the 1970s sitcom Barney Miller; an influential science
> fiction author", you'd say "Philip K. Fish and Philip K. Dick".
>
> You have to give *both* answers, but you don't have to say which
> is which.
>
> F1. * A word pertaining to excrement.
> * In theology, a term pertaining to the end times, the end
> of the world, or final destiny.
>
> F2. * A British writer, the author of "Lord of the Flies".
> * An American writer, scriptwriter of "The Princess Bride",
> "Marathon Man", "All The President's Men", and "Butch
> Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
> F3. * A militaristic species in the "Star Trek" universe.
> * A family of reality-TV pseudo-celebrities.
--
Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address.
Joshua Kreitzer
Nov 7, 2016, 8:09:52 AM11/7/16
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:--ednVpxlr_blr3FnZ2dnUU7-
QHN...@giganews.com:
> ** Final, Round 4 -- Miscellaneous
>
> * A. Things Called "Go"
>
> * B. Public Intellectuals who are Not Noam Chomsky
>
> B1. This American art, culture, and sexuality critic is known for
> her critiques of contemporary feminism, analyses of classic
> and popular culture, and self-aggrandizing style. Her
> breakthrough book was 1990's "Sexual Personae". Name her.
Camille Paglia
> B2. This cognitive psychologist was born in Canada but made his
> career in the US as a professor at MIT and Harvard. One of
> his principal research foci has been psycho-linguistics,
> as exemplified by his book "The Language Instinct".
> In 2011 he published "The Better Angels of our Nature",
> arguing that violence in human societies has been steadily
> decreasing over the centuries. Name him.
Pinker
> B3. This Slovenian Marxist (and perhaps we can stop here --
> after all, how many Slovenian Marxist public intellectuals
> can there be?) has made a name for himself as a celebrity
> philosopher through his critiques of left and right, high
> culture and low, and at-least-somewhat accessible popular
> writings. He's the narrator of the documentary film "The
> Pervert's Guide to Ideology".
Zizek
> * C. The Acid Tongue of Gore Vidal
>
> * D. Music Documentaries
>
> D1. A 2013 film gives the history of two recording studios,
> influential in several music genres, located in the same
> small town in Alabama. The title of the doc is the name
> of the town and of one of the studios. Name it.
Muscle Shoals
> D2. This film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
> in 2013. It's a whatever-happened-to search by two South
> Africans for a reclusive -- perhaps dead, perhaps by his own
> hand -- American singer who was obscure in his own country
> but had been a significant cultural icon in apartheid-era
> South Africa. Name the film.
"Searching for Sugar Man"
> D3. A year later in 2014, another music doc again won the Best
> Documentary Oscar. This one was about the lives and careers
> of a group of mostly African-American backup singers who
> worked for some of the greatest stars of rock music, such
> as Sting and the Rolling Stones.
"20 Feet from Stardom"
> * E. Fictional Afterlives
> E3. In which 1945 novel did some of the characters believe in an
> afterlife called "Sugarcandy Mountain" where, among other
> things, it was Sunday every day and clover was in season
> all year round?
"Animal Farm"
> * F. Not to be Confused With
>
> In this triple, we'll describe two words, things, or people that
> could be confused. You supply the two names or words that match
> the descriptions and that are similar. For example, if we said "A
> character in the 1970s sitcom Barney Miller; an influential science
> fiction author", you'd say "Philip K. Fish and Philip K. Dick".
>
> F2. * A British writer, the author of "Lord of the Flies".
> * An American writer, scriptwriter of "The Princess Bride",
> "Marathon Man", "All The President's Men", and "Butch
> Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
William Golding and William Goldman
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
QHN...@giganews.com:
> ** Final, Round 4 -- Miscellaneous
>
> * A. Things Called "Go"
>
> A3. Something else called Go was invented by Robert Griesemer,
> Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It incorporates ideas from Alef,
> Oberon, Scheme, C, and others. What is it?
programming language
> Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It incorporates ideas from Alef,
> Oberon, Scheme, C, and others. What is it?
> * B. Public Intellectuals who are Not Noam Chomsky
>
> B1. This American art, culture, and sexuality critic is known for
> her critiques of contemporary feminism, analyses of classic
> and popular culture, and self-aggrandizing style. Her
> breakthrough book was 1990's "Sexual Personae". Name her.
> B2. This cognitive psychologist was born in Canada but made his
> career in the US as a professor at MIT and Harvard. One of
> his principal research foci has been psycho-linguistics,
> as exemplified by his book "The Language Instinct".
> In 2011 he published "The Better Angels of our Nature",
> arguing that violence in human societies has been steadily
> decreasing over the centuries. Name him.
> B3. This Slovenian Marxist (and perhaps we can stop here --
> after all, how many Slovenian Marxist public intellectuals
> can there be?) has made a name for himself as a celebrity
> philosopher through his critiques of left and right, high
> culture and low, and at-least-somewhat accessible popular
> writings. He's the narrator of the documentary film "The
> Pervert's Guide to Ideology".
> * C. The Acid Tongue of Gore Vidal
>
> C3. Which opponent did Gore Vidal famously refer to as a
> "crypto-Nazi" in a televised 1968 debate, in return being
> called a "queer"? Just for context, he had previously called
> the same person "the Marie Antoinette of the right wing".
William F. Buckley Jr.
> "crypto-Nazi" in a televised 1968 debate, in return being
> called a "queer"? Just for context, he had previously called
> the same person "the Marie Antoinette of the right wing".
> * D. Music Documentaries
>
> D1. A 2013 film gives the history of two recording studios,
> influential in several music genres, located in the same
> small town in Alabama. The title of the doc is the name
> of the town and of one of the studios. Name it.
> D2. This film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
> in 2013. It's a whatever-happened-to search by two South
> Africans for a reclusive -- perhaps dead, perhaps by his own
> hand -- American singer who was obscure in his own country
> but had been a significant cultural icon in apartheid-era
> South Africa. Name the film.
> D3. A year later in 2014, another music doc again won the Best
> Documentary Oscar. This one was about the lives and careers
> of a group of mostly African-American backup singers who
> worked for some of the greatest stars of rock music, such
> as Sting and the Rolling Stones.
> * E. Fictional Afterlives
>
> E2. Which 2002 novel, made into a tepid 2009 movie by a superstar
> director, is narrated by a 14-year-old resident of an
> afterlife where each person has their own personalized
> heaven from which they can look down upon the current
> goings-on below on earth?
"The Lovely Bones"
> E2. Which 2002 novel, made into a tepid 2009 movie by a superstar
> director, is narrated by a 14-year-old resident of an
> afterlife where each person has their own personalized
> heaven from which they can look down upon the current
> goings-on below on earth?
> E3. In which 1945 novel did some of the characters believe in an
> afterlife called "Sugarcandy Mountain" where, among other
> things, it was Sunday every day and clover was in season
> all year round?
> * F. Not to be Confused With
>
> In this triple, we'll describe two words, things, or people that
> could be confused. You supply the two names or words that match
> the descriptions and that are similar. For example, if we said "A
> character in the 1970s sitcom Barney Miller; an influential science
> fiction author", you'd say "Philip K. Fish and Philip K. Dick".
>
> F1. * A word pertaining to excrement.
> * In theology, a term pertaining to the end times, the end
> of the world, or final destiny.
scatology and eschatology
> * In theology, a term pertaining to the end times, the end
> of the world, or final destiny.
> F2. * A British writer, the author of "Lord of the Flies".
> * An American writer, scriptwriter of "The Princess Bride",
> "Marathon Man", "All The President's Men", and "Butch
> Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Dan Blum
Nov 7, 2016, 9:54:22 AM11/7/16
to
Mark Brader <m...@vex.net> wrote:
> ** Final, Round 4 -- Miscellaneous
> * A. Things Called "Go"
> A1. "GO" Transit was an acronym. For what?
Get Out
> ** Final, Round 4 -- Miscellaneous
> * A. Things Called "Go"
> A1. "GO" Transit was an acronym. For what?
> A2. Go is a game played on a gridded board like chess or
> checkers, but is played on the intersections of the lines.
> How many intersections wide is a standard Go board?
> A3. Something else called Go was invented by Robert Griesemer,
> Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It incorporates ideas from Alef,
> Oberon, Scheme, C, and others. What is it?
> * B. Public Intellectuals who are Not Noam Chomsky
> B1. This American art, culture, and sexuality critic is known for
> her critiques of contemporary feminism, analyses of classic
> and popular culture, and self-aggrandizing style. Her
> breakthrough book was 1990's "Sexual Personae". Name her.
> B3. This Slovenian Marxist (and perhaps we can stop here --
> after all, how many Slovenian Marxist public intellectuals
> can there be?) has made a name for himself as a celebrity
> philosopher through his critiques of left and right, high
> culture and low, and at-least-somewhat accessible popular
> writings. He's the narrator of the documentary film "The
> Pervert's Guide to Ideology".
> * C. The Acid Tongue of Gore Vidal
> C1. Upon learning of the 1984 death of which rival did Vidal
> respond, "A wise career move"?
> C3. Which opponent did Gore Vidal famously refer to as a
> "crypto-Nazi" in a televised 1968 debate, in return being
> called a "queer"? Just for context, he had previously called
> the same person "the Marie Antoinette of the right wing".
> * D. Music Documentaries
> D1. A 2013 film gives the history of two recording studios,
> influential in several music genres, located in the same
> small town in Alabama. The title of the doc is the name
> of the town and of one of the studios. Name it.
> * E. Fictional Afterlives
> E1. Which fictional race believes in a heaven, if you can call
> it that, called Sto'Vo'Kor?
> E2. Which 2002 novel, made into a tepid 2009 movie by a superstar
> director, is narrated by a 14-year-old resident of an
> afterlife where each person has their own personalized
> heaven from which they can look down upon the current
> goings-on below on earth?
> * F. Not to be Confused With
> F2. * A British writer, the author of "Lord of the Flies".
> * An American writer, scriptwriter of "The Princess Bride",
> "Marathon Man", "All The President's Men", and "Butch
> Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
> * An American writer, scriptwriter of "The Princess Bride",
> "Marathon Man", "All The President's Men", and "Butch
> Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
William Golding and William Goldman
> F3. * A militaristic species in the "Star Trek" universe.
> * A family of reality-TV pseudo-celebrities.
Cardassians and Kardashians
> * A family of reality-TV pseudo-celebrities.
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Peter Smyth
Nov 7, 2016, 11:39:36 AM11/7/16
to
Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-08-09,
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
> both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
> Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
> the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
> the correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of the Usual Suspects 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 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> I wrote one triple in this round.
>
> ** Final, Round 4 -- Miscellaneous
>
> * A. Things Called "Go"
>
> A1. "GO" Transit was an acronym. For what?
Greater Ontario?
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-08-09,
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
> both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
> Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
> the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
> the correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of the Usual Suspects 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 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> I wrote one triple in this round.
>
> ** Final, Round 4 -- Miscellaneous
>
> * A. Things Called "Go"
>
> A1. "GO" Transit was an acronym. For what?
> A2. Go is a game played on a gridded board like chess or
> checkers, but is played on the intersections of the lines.
> How many intersections wide is a standard Go board?
15
> checkers, but is played on the intersections of the lines.
> How many intersections wide is a standard Go board?
> A3. Something else called Go was invented by Robert Griesemer,
> Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It incorporates ideas from Alef,
> Oberon, Scheme, C, and others. What is it?
Programming language
> Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It incorporates ideas from Alef,
> Oberon, Scheme, C, and others. What is it?
> E2. Which 2002 novel, made into a tepid 2009 movie by a superstar
> director, is narrated by a 14-year-old resident of an
> afterlife where each person has their own personalized
> heaven from which they can look down upon the current
> goings-on below on earth?
>
> E3. In which 1945 novel did some of the characters believe in an
> afterlife called "Sugarcandy Mountain" where, among other
> things, it was Sunday every day and clover was in season
> all year round?
>
>
> * F. Not to be Confused With
>
> In this triple, we'll describe two words, things, or people that
> could be confused. You supply the two names or words that match
> the descriptions and that are similar. For example, if we said "A
> character in the 1970s sitcom Barney Miller; an influential science
> fiction author", you'd say "Philip K. Fish and Philip K. Dick".
>
> You have to give both answers, but you don't have to say which
> director, is narrated by a 14-year-old resident of an
> afterlife where each person has their own personalized
> heaven from which they can look down upon the current
> goings-on below on earth?
>
> E3. In which 1945 novel did some of the characters believe in an
> afterlife called "Sugarcandy Mountain" where, among other
> things, it was Sunday every day and clover was in season
> all year round?
>
>
> * F. Not to be Confused With
>
> In this triple, we'll describe two words, things, or people that
> could be confused. You supply the two names or words that match
> the descriptions and that are similar. For example, if we said "A
> character in the 1970s sitcom Barney Miller; an influential science
> fiction author", you'd say "Philip K. Fish and Philip K. Dick".
>
> is which.
>
> F1. * A word pertaining to excrement.
> * In theology, a term pertaining to the end times, the end
> of the world, or final destiny.
>
> F2. * A British writer, the author of "Lord of the Flies".
> * An American writer, scriptwriter of "The Princess Bride",
> "Marathon Man", "All The President's Men", and "Butch
> Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
>
> F1. * A word pertaining to excrement.
> * In theology, a term pertaining to the end times, the end
> of the world, or final destiny.
>
> F2. * A British writer, the author of "Lord of the Flies".
> * An American writer, scriptwriter of "The Princess Bride",
> "Marathon Man", "All The President's Men", and "Butch
> Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
William Golding and William Goldman
> F3. * A militaristic species in the "Star Trek" universe.
> * A family of reality-TV pseudo-celebrities.
Klingon and Kardashian
> * A family of reality-TV pseudo-celebrities.
Peter Smyth
Jason Kreitzer
Nov 7, 2016, 8:19:29 PM11/7/16
to
> * In theology, a term pertaining to the end times, the end
> of the world, or final destiny.
Eschatology
> of the world, or final destiny.
>
> F2. * A British writer, the author of "Lord of the Flies".
William Golding
> F2. * A British writer, the author of "Lord of the Flies".
> * An American writer, scriptwriter of "The Princess Bride",
> "Marathon Man", "All The President's Men", and "Butch
> Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
>
> F3. * A militaristic species in the "Star Trek" universe.
Klingons
> "Marathon Man", "All The President's Men", and "Butch
> Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
>
> F3. * A militaristic species in the "Star Trek" universe.
> * A family of reality-TV pseudo-celebrities.
Kardashians
Dan Tilque
Nov 8, 2016, 2:25:59 AM11/8/16
to
Mark Brader wrote:
>
> ** Final, Round 4 -- Miscellaneous
>
> * A. Things Called "Go"
>
> A1. "GO" Transit was an acronym. For what?
>
> A2. Go is a game played on a gridded board like chess or
> checkers, but is played on the intersections of the lines.
> How many intersections wide is a standard Go board?
23
>
> ** Final, Round 4 -- Miscellaneous
>
> * A. Things Called "Go"
>
> A1. "GO" Transit was an acronym. For what?
>
> A2. Go is a game played on a gridded board like chess or
> checkers, but is played on the intersections of the lines.
> How many intersections wide is a standard Go board?
>
> A3. Something else called Go was invented by Robert Griesemer,
> Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It incorporates ideas from Alef,
> Oberon, Scheme, C, and others. What is it?
>
>
> * B. Public Intellectuals who are Not Noam Chomsky
>
> B1. This American art, culture, and sexuality critic is known for
> her critiques of contemporary feminism, analyses of classic
> and popular culture, and self-aggrandizing style. Her
> breakthrough book was 1990's "Sexual Personae". Name her.
>
> B2. This cognitive psychologist was born in Canada but made his
> career in the US as a professor at MIT and Harvard. One of
> his principal research foci has been psycho-linguistics,
> as exemplified by his book "The Language Instinct".
> In 2011 he published "The Better Angels of our Nature",
> arguing that violence in human societies has been steadily
> decreasing over the centuries. Name him.
>
> B3. This Slovenian Marxist (and perhaps we can stop here --
> after all, how many Slovenian Marxist public intellectuals
> can there be?) has made a name for himself as a celebrity
> philosopher through his critiques of left and right, high
> culture and low, and at-least-somewhat accessible popular
> writings. He's the narrator of the documentary film "The
> Pervert's Guide to Ideology".
>
>
> * C. The Acid Tongue of Gore Vidal
>
> C1. Upon learning of the 1984 death of which rival did Vidal
> respond, "A wise career move"?
>
> C2. Finish the following Vidal quote: "The four most beautiful
> words in our common language: 'I ...'"
>
> C3. Which opponent did Gore Vidal famously refer to as a
> "crypto-Nazi" in a televised 1968 debate, in return being
> called a "queer"? Just for context, he had previously called
> the same person "the Marie Antoinette of the right wing".
>
>
> * D. Music Documentaries
>
> D1. A 2013 film gives the history of two recording studios,
> influential in several music genres, located in the same
> small town in Alabama. The title of the doc is the name
> of the town and of one of the studios. Name it.
>
> D2. This film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
> in 2013. It's a whatever-happened-to search by two South
> Africans for a reclusive -- perhaps dead, perhaps by his own
> hand -- American singer who was obscure in his own country
> but had been a significant cultural icon in apartheid-era
> South Africa. Name the film.
>
> D3. A year later in 2014, another music doc again won the Best
> Documentary Oscar. This one was about the lives and careers
> of a group of mostly African-American backup singers who
> worked for some of the greatest stars of rock music, such
> as Sting and the Rolling Stones.
>
>
> * E. Fictional Afterlives
>
> E1. Which fictional race believes in a heaven, if you can call
> it that, called Sto'Vo'Kor?
>
> E2. Which 2002 novel, made into a tepid 2009 movie by a superstar
> director, is narrated by a 14-year-old resident of an
> afterlife where each person has their own personalized
> heaven from which they can look down upon the current
> goings-on below on earth?
>
> E3. In which 1945 novel did some of the characters believe in an
> afterlife called "Sugarcandy Mountain" where, among other
> things, it was Sunday every day and clover was in season
> all year round?
>
>
> * F. Not to be Confused With
>
> In this triple, we'll describe two words, things, or people that
> could be confused. You supply the two names or words that match
> the descriptions and that are similar. For example, if we said "A
> character in the 1970s sitcom Barney Miller; an influential science
> fiction author", you'd say "Philip K. Fish and Philip K. Dick".
>
> You have to give *both* answers, but you don't have to say which
> is which.
>
> F1. * A word pertaining to excrement.
> * In theology, a term pertaining to the end times, the end
> of the world, or final destiny.
>
> F2. * A British writer, the author of "Lord of the Flies".
> * An American writer, scriptwriter of "The Princess Bride",
> "Marathon Man", "All The President's Men", and "Butch
> Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
>
> F3. * A militaristic species in the "Star Trek" universe.
> * A family of reality-TV pseudo-celebrities.
--
Dan Tilque
Gareth Owen
Nov 8, 2016, 1:03:34 PM11/8/16
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) writes:
> * A. Things Called "Go"
>
> A1. "GO" Transit was an acronym. For what?
Get off
> * A. Things Called "Go"
>
> A1. "GO" Transit was an acronym. For what?
> A2. Go is a game played on a gridded board like chess or
> checkers, but is played on the intersections of the lines.
> How many intersections wide is a standard Go board?
> A3. Something else called Go was invented by Robert Griesemer,
> Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It incorporates ideas from Alef,
> Oberon, Scheme, C, and others. What is it?
> * B. Public Intellectuals who are Not Noam Chomsky
>
> B1. This American art, culture, and sexuality critic is known for
> her critiques of contemporary feminism, analyses of classic
> and popular culture, and self-aggrandizing style. Her
> breakthrough book was 1990's "Sexual Personae". Name her.
> B2. This cognitive psychologist was born in Canada but made his
> career in the US as a professor at MIT and Harvard. One of
> his principal research foci has been psycho-linguistics,
> as exemplified by his book "The Language Instinct".
> In 2011 he published "The Better Angels of our Nature",
> arguing that violence in human societies has been steadily
> decreasing over the centuries. Name him.
> B3. This Slovenian Marxist (and perhaps we can stop here --
> after all, how many Slovenian Marxist public intellectuals
> can there be?) has made a name for himself as a celebrity
> philosopher through his critiques of left and right, high
> culture and low, and at-least-somewhat accessible popular
> writings. He's the narrator of the documentary film "The
> Pervert's Guide to Ideology".
> * C. The Acid Tongue of Gore Vidal
>
> C1. Upon learning of the 1984 death of which rival did Vidal
> respond, "A wise career move"?
> C2. Finish the following Vidal quote: "The four most beautiful
> words in our common language: 'I ...'"
>
> C3. Which opponent did Gore Vidal famously refer to as a
> "crypto-Nazi" in a televised 1968 debate, in return being
> called a "queer"? Just for context, he had previously called
> the same person "the Marie Antoinette of the right wing".
> * D. Music Documentaries
>
> D1. A 2013 film gives the history of two recording studios,
> influential in several music genres, located in the same
> small town in Alabama. The title of the doc is the name
> of the town and of one of the studios. Name it.
> D2. This film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
> in 2013. It's a whatever-happened-to search by two South
> Africans for a reclusive -- perhaps dead, perhaps by his own
> hand -- American singer who was obscure in his own country
> but had been a significant cultural icon in apartheid-era
> South Africa. Name the film.
> D3. A year later in 2014, another music doc again won the Best
> Documentary Oscar. This one was about the lives and careers
> of a group of mostly African-American backup singers who
> worked for some of the greatest stars of rock music, such
> as Sting and the Rolling Stones.
> * E. Fictional Afterlives
>
> E1. Which fictional race believes in a heaven, if you can call
> it that, called Sto'Vo'Kor?
> E2. Which 2002 novel, made into a tepid 2009 movie by a superstar
> director, is narrated by a 14-year-old resident of an
> afterlife where each person has their own personalized
> heaven from which they can look down upon the current
> goings-on below on earth?
> E3. In which 1945 novel did some of the characters believe in an
> afterlife called "Sugarcandy Mountain" where, among other
> things, it was Sunday every day and clover was in season
> all year round?
> * F. Not to be Confused With
>
> In this triple, we'll describe two words, things, or people that
> could be confused. You supply the two names or words that match
> the descriptions and that are similar. For example, if we said "A
> character in the 1970s sitcom Barney Miller; an influential science
> fiction author", you'd say "Philip K. Fish and Philip K. Dick".
>
> You have to give *both* answers, but you don't have to say which
> is which.
>
> F1. * A word pertaining to excrement.
> * In theology, a term pertaining to the end times, the end
> of the world, or final destiny.
> F2. * A British writer, the author of "Lord of the Flies".
> * An American writer, scriptwriter of "The Princess Bride",
> "Marathon Man", "All The President's Men", and "Butch
> Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
> F3. * A militaristic species in the "Star Trek" universe.
> * A family of reality-TV pseudo-celebrities.
Pete
Nov 8, 2016, 4:40:36 PM11/8/16
to
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-08-09,
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
> both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
> Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
> the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
> the correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of the Usual Suspects 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 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> I wrote one triple in this round.
>
> ** Final, Round 4 -- Miscellaneous
>
> * A. Things Called "Go"
>
> A1. "GO" Transit was an acronym. For what?
>
> A2. Go is a game played on a gridded board like chess or
> checkers, but is played on the intersections of the lines.
> How many intersections wide is a standard Go board?
>
> A3. Something else called Go was invented by Robert Griesemer,
> Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It incorporates ideas from Alef,
> Oberon, Scheme, C, and others. What is it?
Computer language
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
> both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
> Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
> the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
> the correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of the Usual Suspects 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 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> I wrote one triple in this round.
>
> ** Final, Round 4 -- Miscellaneous
>
> * A. Things Called "Go"
>
> A1. "GO" Transit was an acronym. For what?
>
> A2. Go is a game played on a gridded board like chess or
> checkers, but is played on the intersections of the lines.
> How many intersections wide is a standard Go board?
>
> A3. Something else called Go was invented by Robert Griesemer,
> Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It incorporates ideas from Alef,
> Oberon, Scheme, C, and others. What is it?
>
>
> * B. Public Intellectuals who are Not Noam Chomsky
>
> B1. This American art, culture, and sexuality critic is known for
> her critiques of contemporary feminism, analyses of classic
> and popular culture, and self-aggrandizing style. Her
> breakthrough book was 1990's "Sexual Personae". Name her.
>
> B2. This cognitive psychologist was born in Canada but made his
> career in the US as a professor at MIT and Harvard. One of
> his principal research foci has been psycho-linguistics,
> as exemplified by his book "The Language Instinct".
> In 2011 he published "The Better Angels of our Nature",
> arguing that violence in human societies has been steadily
> decreasing over the centuries. Name him.
>
> B3. This Slovenian Marxist (and perhaps we can stop here --
> after all, how many Slovenian Marxist public intellectuals
> can there be?) has made a name for himself as a celebrity
> philosopher through his critiques of left and right, high
> culture and low, and at-least-somewhat accessible popular
> writings. He's the narrator of the documentary film "The
> Pervert's Guide to Ideology".
>
>
> * C. The Acid Tongue of Gore Vidal
>
> C1. Upon learning of the 1984 death of which rival did Vidal
> respond, "A wise career move"?
>
> C2. Finish the following Vidal quote: "The four most beautiful
> words in our common language: 'I ...'"
>
> C3. Which opponent did Gore Vidal famously refer to as a
> "crypto-Nazi" in a televised 1968 debate, in return being
> called a "queer"? Just for context, he had previously called
> the same person "the Marie Antoinette of the right wing".
>
>
> * D. Music Documentaries
>
> D1. A 2013 film gives the history of two recording studios,
> influential in several music genres, located in the same
> small town in Alabama. The title of the doc is the name
> of the town and of one of the studios. Name it.
>
> D2. This film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
> in 2013. It's a whatever-happened-to search by two South
> Africans for a reclusive -- perhaps dead, perhaps by his own
> hand -- American singer who was obscure in his own country
> but had been a significant cultural icon in apartheid-era
> South Africa. Name the film.
>
> D3. A year later in 2014, another music doc again won the Best
> Documentary Oscar. This one was about the lives and careers
> of a group of mostly African-American backup singers who
> worked for some of the greatest stars of rock music, such
> as Sting and the Rolling Stones.
>
>
> * E. Fictional Afterlives
>
> E1. Which fictional race believes in a heaven, if you can call
> it that, called Sto'Vo'Kor?
Björn Lundin
Nov 9, 2016, 8:25:27 AM11/9/16
to
On 2016-11-07 06:04, Mark Brader wrote:
> A2. Go is a game played on a gridded board like chess or
> checkers, but is played on the intersections of the lines.
> How many intersections wide is a standard Go board?
24
> A2. Go is a game played on a gridded board like chess or
> checkers, but is played on the intersections of the lines.
> How many intersections wide is a standard Go board?
>
> A3. Something else called Go was invented by Robert Griesemer,
> Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It incorporates ideas from Alef,
> Oberon, Scheme, C, and others. What is it?
>
> B2. This cognitive psychologist was born in Canada but made his
> career in the US as a professor at MIT and Harvard. One of
> his principal research foci has been psycho-linguistics,
> as exemplified by his book "The Language Instinct".
> In 2011 he published "The Better Angels of our Nature",
> arguing that violence in human societies has been steadily
> decreasing over the centuries. Name him.
>
> B3. This Slovenian Marxist (and perhaps we can stop here --
> after all, how many Slovenian Marxist public intellectuals
> can there be?) has made a name for himself as a celebrity
> philosopher through his critiques of left and right, high
> culture and low, and at-least-somewhat accessible popular
> writings. He's the narrator of the documentary film "The
> Pervert's Guide to Ideology".
>
> * E. Fictional Afterlives
>
> E1. Which fictional race believes in a heaven, if you can call
> it that, called Sto'Vo'Kor?
Vulcans
>
> E1. Which fictional race believes in a heaven, if you can call
> it that, called Sto'Vo'Kor?
>
> F1. * A word pertaining to excrement.
> * In theology, a term pertaining to the end times, the end
> of the world, or final destiny.
--
--
Björn
Mark Brader
Nov 10, 2016, 12:01:23 AM11/10/16
to
Mark Brader:
This was tied with Round 2 and the audio round for being the
hardest in the original game.
> ** Final, Round 4 -- Miscellaneous
> * A. Things Called "Go"
> A1. "GO" Transit was an acronym. For what?
Government of Ontario.
> A2. Go is a game played on a gridded board like chess or
> checkers, but is played on the intersections of the lines.
> How many intersections wide is a standard Go board?
19. 4 for Dan Blum.
400 was an interesting guess. That'd be some playing board.
> A3. Something else called Go was invented by Robert Griesemer,
> Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It incorporates ideas from Alef,
> Oberon, Scheme, C, and others. What is it?
Computer programming language. 4 for Marc, Joshua, Dan Blum, Peter,
Gareth, and Pete.
> * B. Public Intellectuals who are Not Noam Chomsky
> B1. This American art, culture, and sexuality critic is known for
> her critiques of contemporary feminism, analyses of classic
> and popular culture, and self-aggrandizing style. Her
> breakthrough book was 1990's "Sexual Personae". Name her.
Camille Paglia ["PAL-ya"]. 4 for Marc, Joshua, Dan Blum, Jason,
and Gareth.
> B2. This cognitive psychologist was born in Canada but made his
> career in the US as a professor at MIT and Harvard. One of
> his principal research foci has been psycho-linguistics,
> as exemplified by his book "The Language Instinct".
> In 2011 he published "The Better Angels of our Nature",
> arguing that violence in human societies has been steadily
> decreasing over the centuries. Name him.
Steven Pinker. 4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque.
> B3. This Slovenian Marxist (and perhaps we can stop here --
> after all, how many Slovenian Marxist public intellectuals
> can there be?) has made a name for himself as a celebrity
> philosopher through his critiques of left and right, high
> culture and low, and at-least-somewhat accessible popular
> writings. He's the narrator of the documentary film "The
> Pervert's Guide to Ideology".
Slavoj Zizek ["SLAV-oy ZHI-zhek"]. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.
> * C. The Acid Tongue of Gore Vidal
> C1. Upon learning of the 1984 death of which rival did Vidal
> respond, "A wise career move"?
Truman Capote. 4 for Marc.
> C2. Finish the following Vidal quote: "The four most beautiful
> words in our common language: 'I ...'"
"I told you so."
> C3. Which opponent did Gore Vidal famously refer to as a
> "crypto-Nazi" in a televised 1968 debate, in return being
> called a "queer"? Just for context, he had previously called
> the same person "the Marie Antoinette of the right wing".
William F. Buckley. 4 for Marc, Joshua, Dan Blum, and Pete.
3 for Gareth.
> * D. Music Documentaries
> D1. A 2013 film gives the history of two recording studios,
> influential in several music genres, located in the same
> small town in Alabama. The title of the doc is the name
> of the town and of one of the studios. Name it.
"Muscle Shoals". 4 for Marc, Joshua, Jason, Gareth, and Pete.
> D2. This film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
> in 2013. It's a whatever-happened-to search by two South
> Africans for a reclusive -- perhaps dead, perhaps by his own
> hand -- American singer who was obscure in his own country
> but had been a significant cultural icon in apartheid-era
> South Africa. Name the film.
"Searching for Sugar Man". 4 for Marc, Joshua, and Gareth.
> D3. A year later in 2014, another music doc again won the Best
> Documentary Oscar. This one was about the lives and careers
> of a group of mostly African-American backup singers who
> worked for some of the greatest stars of rock music, such
> as Sting and the Rolling Stones.
"20 Feet From Stardom". 4 for Joshua. 3 for Gareth.
> * E. Fictional Afterlives
> E1. Which fictional race believes in a heaven, if you can call
> it that, called Sto'Vo'Kor?
Klingons (in, as we put it in question F3, the "Star Trek" universe
-- specifically, Klingons as developed in "Star Trek: The Next
Generation" and the next two series). 4 for Dan Blum, Peter,
Gareth, and Pete.
> E2. Which 2002 novel, made into a tepid 2009 movie by a superstar
> director, is narrated by a 14-year-old resident of an
> afterlife where each person has their own personalized
> heaven from which they can look down upon the current
> goings-on below on earth?
"The Lovely Bones" (by Alice Sebold; movie directed by Peter Jackson).
4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Gareth.
> E3. In which 1945 novel did some of the characters believe in an
> afterlife called "Sugarcandy Mountain" where, among other
> things, it was Sunday every day and clover was in season
> all year round?
"Animal Farm" (by George Orwell). 4 for Marc, Joshua, Dan Tilque,
and Gareth.
> * F. Not to be Confused With
> In this triple, we'll describe two words, things, or people that
> could be confused. You supply the two names or words that match
> the descriptions and that are similar. For example, if we said "A
> character in the 1970s sitcom Barney Miller; an influential science
> fiction author", you'd say "Philip K. Fish and Philip K. Dick".
> You have to give *both* answers, but you don't have to say which
> is which.
> F1. * A word pertaining to excrement.
> * In theology, a term pertaining to the end times, the end
> of the world, or final destiny.
Scatological, eschatological (respectively). 4 for Joshua, Jason,
Dan Tilque, and Gareth.
> F2. * A British writer, the author of "Lord of the Flies".
> * An American writer, scriptwriter of "The Princess Bride",
> "Marathon Man", "All The President's Men", and "Butch
> Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
William Golding, William Goldman. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Peter,
Dan Tilque, and Gareth.
> F3. * A militaristic species in the "Star Trek" universe.
> * A family of reality-TV pseudo-celebrities.
Cardassians, Kardashians. The Cardassians were first introduced on
"Star Trek: The Next Generation", and primarily seen on its spinoff
"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine". 4 for Marc, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque,
and Gareth.
Scores, if there are no errors:
FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Ent Geo Mis
Joshua Kreitzer 44 48 48 140
Marc Dashevsky 48 24 32 104
Dan Blum 36 30 36 102
Pete Gayde 43 34 16 93
Dan Tilque 16 56 20 92
Gareth Owen 44 -- 46 90
Peter Smyth -- 30 12 42
Jason Kreitzer 28 -- 12 40
Erland Sommarskog -- 40 -- 40
Björn Lundin 4 20 -- 24
--
Mark Brader | "...i will have hideous nightmares involving huge
Toronto | monsters in academic robes carrying long bloody
m...@vex.net | butcher knives labelled Excerpt, Selection,
| Passage and Abridged." -- Helene Hanff
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-08-09,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> I wrote one triple in this round.
Triple A.
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> I wrote one triple in this round.
This was tied with Round 2 and the audio round for being the
hardest in the original game.
> ** Final, Round 4 -- Miscellaneous
> * A. Things Called "Go"
> A1. "GO" Transit was an acronym. For what?
> A2. Go is a game played on a gridded board like chess or
> checkers, but is played on the intersections of the lines.
> How many intersections wide is a standard Go board?
400 was an interesting guess. That'd be some playing board.
> A3. Something else called Go was invented by Robert Griesemer,
> Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It incorporates ideas from Alef,
> Oberon, Scheme, C, and others. What is it?
Gareth, and Pete.
> * B. Public Intellectuals who are Not Noam Chomsky
> B1. This American art, culture, and sexuality critic is known for
> her critiques of contemporary feminism, analyses of classic
> and popular culture, and self-aggrandizing style. Her
> breakthrough book was 1990's "Sexual Personae". Name her.
and Gareth.
> B2. This cognitive psychologist was born in Canada but made his
> career in the US as a professor at MIT and Harvard. One of
> his principal research foci has been psycho-linguistics,
> as exemplified by his book "The Language Instinct".
> In 2011 he published "The Better Angels of our Nature",
> arguing that violence in human societies has been steadily
> decreasing over the centuries. Name him.
> B3. This Slovenian Marxist (and perhaps we can stop here --
> after all, how many Slovenian Marxist public intellectuals
> can there be?) has made a name for himself as a celebrity
> philosopher through his critiques of left and right, high
> culture and low, and at-least-somewhat accessible popular
> writings. He's the narrator of the documentary film "The
> Pervert's Guide to Ideology".
> * C. The Acid Tongue of Gore Vidal
> C1. Upon learning of the 1984 death of which rival did Vidal
> respond, "A wise career move"?
> C2. Finish the following Vidal quote: "The four most beautiful
> words in our common language: 'I ...'"
> C3. Which opponent did Gore Vidal famously refer to as a
> "crypto-Nazi" in a televised 1968 debate, in return being
> called a "queer"? Just for context, he had previously called
> the same person "the Marie Antoinette of the right wing".
3 for Gareth.
> * D. Music Documentaries
> D1. A 2013 film gives the history of two recording studios,
> influential in several music genres, located in the same
> small town in Alabama. The title of the doc is the name
> of the town and of one of the studios. Name it.
> D2. This film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
> in 2013. It's a whatever-happened-to search by two South
> Africans for a reclusive -- perhaps dead, perhaps by his own
> hand -- American singer who was obscure in his own country
> but had been a significant cultural icon in apartheid-era
> South Africa. Name the film.
> D3. A year later in 2014, another music doc again won the Best
> Documentary Oscar. This one was about the lives and careers
> of a group of mostly African-American backup singers who
> worked for some of the greatest stars of rock music, such
> as Sting and the Rolling Stones.
> * E. Fictional Afterlives
> E1. Which fictional race believes in a heaven, if you can call
> it that, called Sto'Vo'Kor?
-- specifically, Klingons as developed in "Star Trek: The Next
Generation" and the next two series). 4 for Dan Blum, Peter,
Gareth, and Pete.
> E2. Which 2002 novel, made into a tepid 2009 movie by a superstar
> director, is narrated by a 14-year-old resident of an
> afterlife where each person has their own personalized
> heaven from which they can look down upon the current
> goings-on below on earth?
4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Gareth.
> E3. In which 1945 novel did some of the characters believe in an
> afterlife called "Sugarcandy Mountain" where, among other
> things, it was Sunday every day and clover was in season
> all year round?
and Gareth.
> * F. Not to be Confused With
> In this triple, we'll describe two words, things, or people that
> could be confused. You supply the two names or words that match
> the descriptions and that are similar. For example, if we said "A
> character in the 1970s sitcom Barney Miller; an influential science
> fiction author", you'd say "Philip K. Fish and Philip K. Dick".
> You have to give *both* answers, but you don't have to say which
> is which.
> F1. * A word pertaining to excrement.
> * In theology, a term pertaining to the end times, the end
> of the world, or final destiny.
Dan Tilque, and Gareth.
> F2. * A British writer, the author of "Lord of the Flies".
> * An American writer, scriptwriter of "The Princess Bride",
> "Marathon Man", "All The President's Men", and "Butch
> Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
Dan Tilque, and Gareth.
> F3. * A militaristic species in the "Star Trek" universe.
> * A family of reality-TV pseudo-celebrities.
"Star Trek: The Next Generation", and primarily seen on its spinoff
"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine". 4 for Marc, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque,
and Gareth.
Scores, if there are no errors:
FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Ent Geo Mis
Joshua Kreitzer 44 48 48 140
Marc Dashevsky 48 24 32 104
Dan Blum 36 30 36 102
Pete Gayde 43 34 16 93
Dan Tilque 16 56 20 92
Gareth Owen 44 -- 46 90
Peter Smyth -- 30 12 42
Jason Kreitzer 28 -- 12 40
Erland Sommarskog -- 40 -- 40
Björn Lundin 4 20 -- 24
--
Mark Brader | "...i will have hideous nightmares involving huge
Toronto | monsters in academic robes carrying long bloody
m...@vex.net | butcher knives labelled Excerpt, Selection,
| Passage and Abridged." -- Helene Hanff
Gareth Owen
Nov 10, 2016, 1:13:30 AM11/10/16
to
Misread the question - I thought how many intersections to (i.e. 20x20)
Mark Brader
Nov 10, 2016, 2:00:49 AM11/10/16
to
Mark Brader:
didn't try 361.
--
Mark Brader At any rate, C++ != C. Actually, the value of
Toronto the expression "C++ != C" is [undefined].
m...@vex.net -- Peter da Silva
> > 400 was an interesting guess. That'd be some playing board.
Gareth Owen:
> Misread the question - I thought how many intersections to (i.e. 20x20)
Since both your guesses were squares, I suspected as much. But you
didn't try 361.
--
Mark Brader At any rate, C++ != C. Actually, the value of
Toronto the expression "C++ != C" is [undefined].
m...@vex.net -- Peter da Silva
Gareth Owen
Nov 10, 2016, 2:04:20 AM11/10/16
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) writes:
> Mark Brader:
>> > 400 was an interesting guess. That'd be some playing board.
>
> Gareth Owen:
>> Misread the question - I thought how many intersections to (i.e. 20x20)
>
> Since both your guesses were squares, I suspected as much. But you
> didn't try 361.
Thinking back to my feeble knowledge of Go, I'm annoyed I guessed even
> Mark Brader:
>> > 400 was an interesting guess. That'd be some playing board.
>
> Gareth Owen:
>> Misread the question - I thought how many intersections to (i.e. 20x20)
>
> Since both your guesses were squares, I suspected as much. But you
> didn't try 361.
squares rather than odd. It seems obvious in retrospect that there
would be a point exactly in the middle of the board.
Björn Lundin
Nov 10, 2016, 11:18:06 AM11/10/16
to
On 2016-11-10 06:01, Mark Brader wrote:
> Björn Lundin 4 20 -- 24
>
Was my post too late?
> Björn Lundin 4 20 -- 24
>
Otherwise, ther might be 3-4 points in it
--
--
Björn
Mark Brader
Nov 10, 2016, 1:33:09 PM11/10/16
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Mark Brader:
4 for Björn on question A3 (the programming language).
Scores, if there are now no errors:
FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Ent Geo Mis
Joshua Kreitzer 44 48 48 140
Marc Dashevsky 48 24 32 104
Dan Blum 36 30 36 102
Pete Gayde 43 34 16 93
Dan Tilque 16 56 20 92
Gareth Owen 44 -- 46 90
Peter Smyth -- 30 12 42
Jason Kreitzer 28 -- 12 40
Erland Sommarskog -- 40 -- 40
Björn Lundin 4 20 4 28
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "One thing that surprises you about this business
m...@vex.net | is the surprises." -- Tim Baker
> > Björn Lundin 4 20 -- 24
Björn Lundin:
> Was my post too late?
No; I don't know how it was missed. Apologies, if applicable.
4 for Björn on question A3 (the programming language).
Scores, if there are now no errors:
FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Ent Geo Mis
Joshua Kreitzer 44 48 48 140
Marc Dashevsky 48 24 32 104
Dan Blum 36 30 36 102
Pete Gayde 43 34 16 93
Dan Tilque 16 56 20 92
Gareth Owen 44 -- 46 90
Peter Smyth -- 30 12 42
Jason Kreitzer 28 -- 12 40
Erland Sommarskog -- 40 -- 40
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "One thing that surprises you about this business
m...@vex.net | is the surprises." -- Tim Baker
Björn Lundin
Nov 11, 2016, 3:55:13 AM11/11/16
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On 2016-11-10 19:33, Mark Brader wrote:
> Mark Brader:
>>> Björn Lundin 4 20 -- 24
>
> Björn Lundin:
>> Was my post too late?
>
> No; I don't know how it was missed. Apologies, if applicable.
No need. I'm just happy that you provide this competition.
> Mark Brader:
>>> Björn Lundin 4 20 -- 24
>
> Björn Lundin:
>> Was my post too late?
>
> No; I don't know how it was missed. Apologies, if applicable.
It is a great service.
Thanks
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Björn
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