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QFTCI16 Game 10, Rounds 7-8: poetry and grand slams
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Mark Brader
Oct 25, 2016, 6:57:08 PM10/25/16
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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-07-25,
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 did not write either of these rounds.
* Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Poetic First Lines
"Well begun is half done", or so they say. For each of the following
openings, *either* name the poet *or* just give the title of the poem.
1. Come live with me and be my love
And we will all the pleasures prove...
2. When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide...
3. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea...
4. I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert..."
5. I wander'd lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills...
6. The sea is calm tonight.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits...
7. Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
"Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy..."
8. "What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade.
"To turn you out, to turn you out", the Colour-Sergeant said.
"What makes you look so white, so white?" said Files-on-Parade.
"I'm dreadin' what I've got to watch", the Colour-Sergeant said...
9. Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green...
10. The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
And...
* Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - Grand Slam Tournaments
1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of
the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals.
Name all four.
2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all
three.
For the remaining questions, please decode the rot13 for *each
question individually*, only after you have finished with all the
ones before it. (Sorry, but it's that sort of round.) In each
case name the player.
3. Fvapr 2000 bayl 18 qvssrerag zra unir jba n zra'f graavf Tenaq
Fynz gbheanzrag. Bar bs gur znva ernfbaf vf orpnhfr guvf Fjvff
cynlre unf jba 17 bs gur 67 gbgny Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf qhevat
gung crevbq. Uvf 17 jvaf vf gur pheerag erpbeq.
4. Evtug oruvaq Srqrere vf guvf Fcnavneq jub unf jba 14
Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf fvapr 2000. Guvf cynlre vf n pynl pbheg
fcrpvnyvfg, naq 9 bs gubfr 14 jvaf jrer ng gur Serapu Bcra,
gur bayl Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag gung hfrf pynl pbhegf.
5. Guvf Freovna cynlre vf ba genpx gb fhecnff Ensnry Anqny va
Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf. Ur pheeragyl unf 12, vapyhqvat
obgu gur Nhfgenyvna naq Serapu Bcraf guvf lrne.
6. Guvf Oevgvfu cynlre zvtug unir jba znal zber guna uvf pheerag
gbgny bs 3 Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf vs ur jnfa'g fb
hayhpxl nf gb or cynlvat qhevat gur ervta bs obgu Srqrere
naq Qwbxbivp. Ur unf ybfg gb bar be gur bgure va 7 Tenaq
Fynz gbheanzrag svanyf. Ur zbfg erpragyl orng Zvybf Enbavp
[eulzrf jvgu "pbj avgpu"] ng guvf lrne'f Jvzoyrqba.
7. Gur zbfg zvenphybhf Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jva fvapr 2000
(naq cbffvoyl rire) jnf va gur 2001 Jvzoyrqba gbheanzrag,
ol guvf Pebngvna cynlre jub jnf enaxrq 125gu ng gur gvzr naq
bayl ragrerq gur gbheanzrag orpnhfr gur betnavmref tnir uvz n
jvyq-pneq fcbg. Va gur svanyf ur znantrq gb orng Cngevpx Ensgre.
Uvf jva vafcverq gur 2004 zbivr "Jvzoyrqba", fgneevat Cnhy
Orggnal naq Xvefgra Qhafg.
8. Guvf sbezre #1-enaxrq cynlre, n freir fcrpvnyvfg, vf gur ynfg
Nzrevpna gb jva n Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag, anzryl gur HF Bcra
va 2003. Ur qvq znxr gur svanyf bs Jvzoyrqba guerr gvzrf,
ohg ybfg nyy guerr gvzrf gb, lrf, Srqrere.
9. Fjvgmreynaq pheeragyl bayl unf gjb graavf cynlref va gur gbc
300 naq obgu unir jba Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf guvf praghel.
Gur bar abg anzrq Srqrere vf guvf cynlre jub jba gur 2014
Nhfgenyvna Bcra naq gur 2015 Serapu Bcra.
10. Gur bayl Nhfgenyvna gb jva n Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag fvapr 2000
vf guvf cynlre jub vf xabja sbe uvf genqrznex "onpxjneqf onfronyy
pnc" ybbx. Ur jba gur HF Bcra va 2001 naq Jvzoyrqba va 2002.
--
Mark Brader | "And remember, my friends, future events such as
Toronto | these will affect you, in the future."
m...@vex.net | -- Ed Wood, Plan 9 from Outer Space
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 did not write either of these rounds.
* Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Poetic First Lines
"Well begun is half done", or so they say. For each of the following
openings, *either* name the poet *or* just give the title of the poem.
1. Come live with me and be my love
And we will all the pleasures prove...
2. When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide...
3. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea...
4. I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert..."
5. I wander'd lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills...
6. The sea is calm tonight.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits...
7. Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
"Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy..."
8. "What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade.
"To turn you out, to turn you out", the Colour-Sergeant said.
"What makes you look so white, so white?" said Files-on-Parade.
"I'm dreadin' what I've got to watch", the Colour-Sergeant said...
9. Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green...
10. The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
And...
* Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - Grand Slam Tournaments
1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of
the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals.
Name all four.
2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all
three.
For the remaining questions, please decode the rot13 for *each
question individually*, only after you have finished with all the
ones before it. (Sorry, but it's that sort of round.) In each
case name the player.
3. Fvapr 2000 bayl 18 qvssrerag zra unir jba n zra'f graavf Tenaq
Fynz gbheanzrag. Bar bs gur znva ernfbaf vf orpnhfr guvf Fjvff
cynlre unf jba 17 bs gur 67 gbgny Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf qhevat
gung crevbq. Uvf 17 jvaf vf gur pheerag erpbeq.
4. Evtug oruvaq Srqrere vf guvf Fcnavneq jub unf jba 14
Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf fvapr 2000. Guvf cynlre vf n pynl pbheg
fcrpvnyvfg, naq 9 bs gubfr 14 jvaf jrer ng gur Serapu Bcra,
gur bayl Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag gung hfrf pynl pbhegf.
5. Guvf Freovna cynlre vf ba genpx gb fhecnff Ensnry Anqny va
Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf. Ur pheeragyl unf 12, vapyhqvat
obgu gur Nhfgenyvna naq Serapu Bcraf guvf lrne.
6. Guvf Oevgvfu cynlre zvtug unir jba znal zber guna uvf pheerag
gbgny bs 3 Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf vs ur jnfa'g fb
hayhpxl nf gb or cynlvat qhevat gur ervta bs obgu Srqrere
naq Qwbxbivp. Ur unf ybfg gb bar be gur bgure va 7 Tenaq
Fynz gbheanzrag svanyf. Ur zbfg erpragyl orng Zvybf Enbavp
[eulzrf jvgu "pbj avgpu"] ng guvf lrne'f Jvzoyrqba.
7. Gur zbfg zvenphybhf Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jva fvapr 2000
(naq cbffvoyl rire) jnf va gur 2001 Jvzoyrqba gbheanzrag,
ol guvf Pebngvna cynlre jub jnf enaxrq 125gu ng gur gvzr naq
bayl ragrerq gur gbheanzrag orpnhfr gur betnavmref tnir uvz n
jvyq-pneq fcbg. Va gur svanyf ur znantrq gb orng Cngevpx Ensgre.
Uvf jva vafcverq gur 2004 zbivr "Jvzoyrqba", fgneevat Cnhy
Orggnal naq Xvefgra Qhafg.
8. Guvf sbezre #1-enaxrq cynlre, n freir fcrpvnyvfg, vf gur ynfg
Nzrevpna gb jva n Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag, anzryl gur HF Bcra
va 2003. Ur qvq znxr gur svanyf bs Jvzoyrqba guerr gvzrf,
ohg ybfg nyy guerr gvzrf gb, lrf, Srqrere.
9. Fjvgmreynaq pheeragyl bayl unf gjb graavf cynlref va gur gbc
300 naq obgu unir jba Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf guvf praghel.
Gur bar abg anzrq Srqrere vf guvf cynlre jub jba gur 2014
Nhfgenyvna Bcra naq gur 2015 Serapu Bcra.
10. Gur bayl Nhfgenyvna gb jva n Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag fvapr 2000
vf guvf cynlre jub vf xabja sbe uvf genqrznex "onpxjneqf onfronyy
pnc" ybbx. Ur jba gur HF Bcra va 2001 naq Jvzoyrqba va 2002.
--
Mark Brader | "And remember, my friends, future events such as
Toronto | these will affect you, in the future."
m...@vex.net | -- Ed Wood, Plan 9 from Outer Space
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Dan Blum
Oct 25, 2016, 7:11:54 PM10/25/16
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> 1. Come live with me and be my love
> And we will all the pleasures prove...
Donne
> And we will all the pleasures prove...
> 2. When I consider how my light is spent
> Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide...
> 3. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
> The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea...
> 4. I met a traveller from an antique land
> Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
> Stand in the desert..."
> 5. I wander'd lonely as a cloud
> That floats on high o'er vales and hills...
> 6. The sea is calm tonight.
> The tide is full, the moon lies fair
> Upon the straits...
> 7. Morning and evening
> Maids heard the goblins cry:
> "Come buy our orchard fruits,
> Come buy, come buy..."
> 8. "What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade.
> "To turn you out, to turn you out", the Colour-Sergeant said.
> "What makes you look so white, so white?" said Files-on-Parade.
> "I'm dreadin' what I've got to watch", the Colour-Sergeant said...
> * Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - Grand Slam Tournaments
> 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of
> the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals.
> Name all four.
> 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all
> three.
> 3. Fvapr 2000 bayl 18 qvssrerag zra unir jba n zra'f graavf Tenaq
> Fynz gbheanzrag. Bar bs gur znva ernfbaf vf orpnhfr guvf Fjvff
> cynlre unf jba 17 bs gur 67 gbgny Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf qhevat
> gung crevbq. Uvf 17 jvaf vf gur pheerag erpbeq.
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Joshua Kreitzer
Oct 25, 2016, 8:30:15 PM10/25/16
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m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:qc-dnfEqnNKifpLFnZ2dnUU7-
R3N...@giganews.com:
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Poetic First Lines
>
> "Well begun is half done", or so they say. For each of the following
> openings, *either* name the poet *or* just give the title of the poem.
>
> 7. Morning and evening
> Maids heard the goblins cry:
> "Come buy our orchard fruits,
> Come buy, come buy..."
"Goblin Market"
> 10. The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
> The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
> The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
> And...
"The Highwayman"
> * Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - Grand Slam Tournaments
>
> 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of
> the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals.
> Name all four.
Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, U.S. Open
> 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all
> three.
hard court, clay, grass
> For the remaining questions, please decode the rot13 for *each
> question individually*, only after you have finished with all the
> ones before it. (Sorry, but it's that sort of round.) In each
> case name the player.
>
> 3. Fvapr 2000 bayl 18 qvssrerag zra unir jba n zra'f graavf Tenaq
> Fynz gbheanzrag. Bar bs gur znva ernfbaf vf orpnhfr guvf Fjvff
> cynlre unf jba 17 bs gur 67 gbgny Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf qhevat
> gung crevbq. Uvf 17 jvaf vf gur pheerag erpbeq.
Federer
> 4. Evtug oruvaq Srqrere vf guvf Fcnavneq jub unf jba 14
> Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf fvapr 2000. Guvf cynlre vf n pynl pbheg
> fcrpvnyvfg, naq 9 bs gubfr 14 jvaf jrer ng gur Serapu Bcra,
> gur bayl Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag gung hfrf pynl pbhegf.
Nadal
> 5. Guvf Freovna cynlre vf ba genpx gb fhecnff Ensnry Anqny va
> Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf. Ur pheeragyl unf 12, vapyhqvat
> obgu gur Nhfgenyvna naq Serapu Bcraf guvf lrne.
Novak Djokovic
> 6. Guvf Oevgvfu cynlre zvtug unir jba znal zber guna uvf pheerag
> gbgny bs 3 Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf vs ur jnfa'g fb
> hayhpxl nf gb or cynlvat qhevat gur ervta bs obgu Srqrere
> naq Qwbxbivp. Ur unf ybfg gb bar be gur bgure va 7 Tenaq
> Fynz gbheanzrag svanyf. Ur zbfg erpragyl orng Zvybf Enbavp
> [eulzrf jvgu "pbj avgpu"] ng guvf lrne'f Jvzoyrqba.
Andy Murray
> 7. Gur zbfg zvenphybhf Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jva fvapr 2000
> (naq cbffvoyl rire) jnf va gur 2001 Jvzoyrqba gbheanzrag,
> ol guvf Pebngvna cynlre jub jnf enaxrq 125gu ng gur gvzr naq
> bayl ragrerq gur gbheanzrag orpnhfr gur betnavmref tnir uvz n
> jvyq-pneq fcbg. Va gur svanyf ur znantrq gb orng Cngevpx Ensgre.
> Uvf jva vafcverq gur 2004 zbivr "Jvzoyrqba", fgneevat Cnhy
> Orggnal naq Xvefgra Qhafg.
Ivanesevic (?)
> 8. Guvf sbezre #1-enaxrq cynlre, n freir fcrpvnyvfg, vf gur ynfg
> Nzrevpna gb jva n Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag, anzryl gur HF Bcra
> va 2003. Ur qvq znxr gur svanyf bs Jvzoyrqba guerr gvzrf,
> ohg ybfg nyy guerr gvzrf gb, lrf, Srqrere.
Roddick
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
R3N...@giganews.com:
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Poetic First Lines
>
> "Well begun is half done", or so they say. For each of the following
> openings, *either* name the poet *or* just give the title of the poem.
>
> 4. I met a traveller from an antique land
> Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
> Stand in the desert..."
"Ozymandias"
> Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
> Stand in the desert..."
> 7. Morning and evening
> Maids heard the goblins cry:
> "Come buy our orchard fruits,
> Come buy, come buy..."
> 10. The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
> The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
> The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
> And...
> * Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - Grand Slam Tournaments
>
> 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of
> the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals.
> Name all four.
> 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all
> three.
> For the remaining questions, please decode the rot13 for *each
> question individually*, only after you have finished with all the
> ones before it. (Sorry, but it's that sort of round.) In each
> case name the player.
>
> 3. Fvapr 2000 bayl 18 qvssrerag zra unir jba n zra'f graavf Tenaq
> Fynz gbheanzrag. Bar bs gur znva ernfbaf vf orpnhfr guvf Fjvff
> cynlre unf jba 17 bs gur 67 gbgny Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf qhevat
> gung crevbq. Uvf 17 jvaf vf gur pheerag erpbeq.
> 4. Evtug oruvaq Srqrere vf guvf Fcnavneq jub unf jba 14
> Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf fvapr 2000. Guvf cynlre vf n pynl pbheg
> fcrpvnyvfg, naq 9 bs gubfr 14 jvaf jrer ng gur Serapu Bcra,
> gur bayl Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag gung hfrf pynl pbhegf.
> 5. Guvf Freovna cynlre vf ba genpx gb fhecnff Ensnry Anqny va
> Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf. Ur pheeragyl unf 12, vapyhqvat
> obgu gur Nhfgenyvna naq Serapu Bcraf guvf lrne.
> 6. Guvf Oevgvfu cynlre zvtug unir jba znal zber guna uvf pheerag
> gbgny bs 3 Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf vs ur jnfa'g fb
> hayhpxl nf gb or cynlvat qhevat gur ervta bs obgu Srqrere
> naq Qwbxbivp. Ur unf ybfg gb bar be gur bgure va 7 Tenaq
> Fynz gbheanzrag svanyf. Ur zbfg erpragyl orng Zvybf Enbavp
> [eulzrf jvgu "pbj avgpu"] ng guvf lrne'f Jvzoyrqba.
> 7. Gur zbfg zvenphybhf Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jva fvapr 2000
> (naq cbffvoyl rire) jnf va gur 2001 Jvzoyrqba gbheanzrag,
> ol guvf Pebngvna cynlre jub jnf enaxrq 125gu ng gur gvzr naq
> bayl ragrerq gur gbheanzrag orpnhfr gur betnavmref tnir uvz n
> jvyq-pneq fcbg. Va gur svanyf ur znantrq gb orng Cngevpx Ensgre.
> Uvf jva vafcverq gur 2004 zbivr "Jvzoyrqba", fgneevat Cnhy
> Orggnal naq Xvefgra Qhafg.
> 8. Guvf sbezre #1-enaxrq cynlre, n freir fcrpvnyvfg, vf gur ynfg
> Nzrevpna gb jva n Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag, anzryl gur HF Bcra
> va 2003. Ur qvq znxr gur svanyf bs Jvzoyrqba guerr gvzrf,
> ohg ybfg nyy guerr gvzrf gb, lrf, Srqrere.
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Calvin
Oct 26, 2016, 12:25:55 AM10/26/16
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On Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 8:57:08 AM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Poetic First Lines
>
> "Well begun is half done", or so they say. For each of the following
> openings, *either* name the poet *or* just give the title of the poem.
>
> 1. Come live with me and be my love
> And we will all the pleasures prove...
>
> 2. When I consider how my light is spent
> Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide...
>
> 3. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
> The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea...
>
> 4. I met a traveller from an antique land
> Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
> Stand in the desert..."
>
> 5. I wander'd lonely as a cloud
> That floats on high o'er vales and hills...
Wordsworth
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Poetic First Lines
>
> "Well begun is half done", or so they say. For each of the following
> openings, *either* name the poet *or* just give the title of the poem.
>
> 1. Come live with me and be my love
> And we will all the pleasures prove...
>
> 2. When I consider how my light is spent
> Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide...
>
> 3. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
> The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea...
>
> 4. I met a traveller from an antique land
> Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
> Stand in the desert..."
>
> 5. I wander'd lonely as a cloud
> That floats on high o'er vales and hills...
> 6. The sea is calm tonight.
> The tide is full, the moon lies fair
> Upon the straits...
>
> 7. Morning and evening
> Maids heard the goblins cry:
> "Come buy our orchard fruits,
> Come buy, come buy..."
>
> 8. "What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade.
> "To turn you out, to turn you out", the Colour-Sergeant said.
> "What makes you look so white, so white?" said Files-on-Parade.
> "I'm dreadin' what I've got to watch", the Colour-Sergeant said...
>
> 9. Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
> About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green...
>
> 10. The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
> The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
> The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
> And...
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - Grand Slam Tournaments
>
> 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of
> the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals.
> Name all four.
> 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all
> three.
> For the remaining questions, please decode the rot13 for *each
> question individually*, only after you have finished with all the
> ones before it. (Sorry, but it's that sort of round.) In each
> case name the player.
>
> 3. Fvapr 2000 bayl 18 qvssrerag zra unir jba n zra'f graavf Tenaq
> Fynz gbheanzrag. Bar bs gur znva ernfbaf vf orpnhfr guvf Fjvff
> cynlre unf jba 17 bs gur 67 gbgny Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf qhevat
> gung crevbq. Uvf 17 jvaf vf gur pheerag erpbeq.
> 4. Evtug oruvaq Srqrere vf guvf Fcnavneq jub unf jba 14
> Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf fvapr 2000. Guvf cynlre vf n pynl pbheg
> fcrpvnyvfg, naq 9 bs gubfr 14 jvaf jrer ng gur Serapu Bcra,
> gur bayl Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag gung hfrf pynl pbhegf.
> 5. Guvf Freovna cynlre vf ba genpx gb fhecnff Ensnry Anqny va
> Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf. Ur pheeragyl unf 12, vapyhqvat
> obgu gur Nhfgenyvna naq Serapu Bcraf guvf lrne.
> 6. Guvf Oevgvfu cynlre zvtug unir jba znal zber guna uvf pheerag
> gbgny bs 3 Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf vs ur jnfa'g fb
> hayhpxl nf gb or cynlvat qhevat gur ervta bs obgu Srqrere
> naq Qwbxbivp. Ur unf ybfg gb bar be gur bgure va 7 Tenaq
> Fynz gbheanzrag svanyf. Ur zbfg erpragyl orng Zvybf Enbavp
> [eulzrf jvgu "pbj avgpu"] ng guvf lrne'f Jvzoyrqba.
But what I wanna know is what's a cow nitch?
>
> 7. Gur zbfg zvenphybhf Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jva fvapr 2000
> (naq cbffvoyl rire) jnf va gur 2001 Jvzoyrqba gbheanzrag,
> ol guvf Pebngvna cynlre jub jnf enaxrq 125gu ng gur gvzr naq
> bayl ragrerq gur gbheanzrag orpnhfr gur betnavmref tnir uvz n
> jvyq-pneq fcbg. Va gur svanyf ur znantrq gb orng Cngevpx Ensgre.
> Uvf jva vafcverq gur 2004 zbivr "Jvzoyrqba", fgneevat Cnhy
> Orggnal naq Xvefgra Qhafg.
Ivanisevic
> 7. Gur zbfg zvenphybhf Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jva fvapr 2000
> (naq cbffvoyl rire) jnf va gur 2001 Jvzoyrqba gbheanzrag,
> ol guvf Pebngvna cynlre jub jnf enaxrq 125gu ng gur gvzr naq
> bayl ragrerq gur gbheanzrag orpnhfr gur betnavmref tnir uvz n
> jvyq-pneq fcbg. Va gur svanyf ur znantrq gb orng Cngevpx Ensgre.
> Uvf jva vafcverq gur 2004 zbivr "Jvzoyrqba", fgneevat Cnhy
> Orggnal naq Xvefgra Qhafg.
> 8. Guvf sbezre #1-enaxrq cynlre, n freir fcrpvnyvfg, vf gur ynfg
> Nzrevpna gb jva n Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag, anzryl gur HF Bcra
> va 2003. Ur qvq znxr gur svanyf bs Jvzoyrqba guerr gvzrf,
> ohg ybfg nyy guerr gvzrf gb, lrf, Srqrere.
> 9. Fjvgmreynaq pheeragyl bayl unf gjb graavf cynlref va gur gbc
> 300 naq obgu unir jba Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf guvf praghel.
> Gur bar abg anzrq Srqrere vf guvf cynlre jub jba gur 2014
> Nhfgenyvna Bcra naq gur 2015 Serapu Bcra.
> 10. Gur bayl Nhfgenyvna gb jva n Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag fvapr 2000
> vf guvf cynlre jub vf xabja sbe uvf genqrznex "onpxjneqf onfronyy
> pnc" ybbx. Ur jba gur HF Bcra va 2001 naq Jvzoyrqba va 2002.
cheers,
calvin
Mark Brader
Oct 26, 2016, 12:39:47 AM10/26/16
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"Calvin":
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Toronto find this out; but thought is irksome and
m...@vex.net three minutes is a long time." --A.E. Housman
> But what I wanna know is what's a cow nitch?
The female equivalent of a bull nitch, of course.
--
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Toronto find this out; but thought is irksome and
m...@vex.net three minutes is a long time." --A.E. Housman
Gareth Owen
Oct 26, 2016, 3:31:58 AM10/26/16
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m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) writes:
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Poetic First Lines
>
> "Well begun is half done", or so they say. For each of the following
> openings, *either* name the poet *or* just give the title of the poem.
>
> 1. Come live with me and be my love
> And we will all the pleasures prove...
Shakespeare?
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Poetic First Lines
>
> "Well begun is half done", or so they say. For each of the following
> openings, *either* name the poet *or* just give the title of the poem.
>
> 1. Come live with me and be my love
> And we will all the pleasures prove...
> 2. When I consider how my light is spent
> Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide...
> 3. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
> The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea...
> 4. I met a traveller from an antique land
> Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
> Stand in the desert..."
> 5. I wander'd lonely as a cloud
> That floats on high o'er vales and hills...
> 6. The sea is calm tonight.
> The tide is full, the moon lies fair
> Upon the straits...
>
> 7. Morning and evening
> Maids heard the goblins cry:
> "Come buy our orchard fruits,
> Come buy, come buy..."
> 8. "What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade.
> "To turn you out, to turn you out", the Colour-Sergeant said.
> "What makes you look so white, so white?" said Files-on-Parade.
> "I'm dreadin' what I've got to watch", the Colour-Sergeant said...
> 9. Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
> About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green...
> 10. The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
> The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
> The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
> And...
> * Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - Grand Slam Tournaments
>
> 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of
> the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals.
> Name all four.
> 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all
> three.
> For the remaining questions, please decode the rot13 for *each
> question individually*, only after you have finished with all the
> ones before it. (Sorry, but it's that sort of round.) In each
> case name the player.
>
> 3. Fvapr 2000 bayl 18 qvssrerag zra unir jba n zra'f graavf Tenaq
> Fynz gbheanzrag. Bar bs gur znva ernfbaf vf orpnhfr guvf Fjvff
> cynlre unf jba 17 bs gur 67 gbgny Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf qhevat
> gung crevbq. Uvf 17 jvaf vf gur pheerag erpbeq.
> 4. Evtug oruvaq Srqrere vf guvf Fcnavneq jub unf jba 14
> Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf fvapr 2000. Guvf cynlre vf n pynl pbheg
> fcrpvnyvfg, naq 9 bs gubfr 14 jvaf jrer ng gur Serapu Bcra,
> gur bayl Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag gung hfrf pynl pbhegf.
> 5. Guvf Freovna cynlre vf ba genpx gb fhecnff Ensnry Anqny va
> Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf. Ur pheeragyl unf 12, vapyhqvat
> obgu gur Nhfgenyvna naq Serapu Bcraf guvf lrne.
> 6. Guvf Oevgvfu cynlre zvtug unir jba znal zber guna uvf pheerag
> gbgny bs 3 Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf vs ur jnfa'g fb
> hayhpxl nf gb or cynlvat qhevat gur ervta bs obgu Srqrere
> naq Qwbxbivp. Ur unf ybfg gb bar be gur bgure va 7 Tenaq
> Fynz gbheanzrag svanyf. Ur zbfg erpragyl orng Zvybf Enbavp
> [eulzrf jvgu "pbj avgpu"] ng guvf lrne'f Jvzoyrqba.
> 7. Gur zbfg zvenphybhf Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jva fvapr 2000
> (naq cbffvoyl rire) jnf va gur 2001 Jvzoyrqba gbheanzrag,
> ol guvf Pebngvna cynlre jub jnf enaxrq 125gu ng gur gvzr naq
> bayl ragrerq gur gbheanzrag orpnhfr gur betnavmref tnir uvz n
> jvyq-pneq fcbg. Va gur svanyf ur znantrq gb orng Cngevpx Ensgre.
> Uvf jva vafcverq gur 2004 zbivr "Jvzoyrqba", fgneevat Cnhy
> Orggnal naq Xvefgra Qhafg.
> 8. Guvf sbezre #1-enaxrq cynlre, n freir fcrpvnyvfg, vf gur ynfg
> Nzrevpna gb jva n Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag, anzryl gur HF Bcra
> va 2003. Ur qvq znxr gur svanyf bs Jvzoyrqba guerr gvzrf,
> ohg ybfg nyy guerr gvzrf gb, lrf, Srqrere.
> 9. Fjvgmreynaq pheeragyl bayl unf gjb graavf cynlref va gur gbc
> 300 naq obgu unir jba Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf guvf praghel.
> Gur bar abg anzrq Srqrere vf guvf cynlre jub jba gur 2014
> Nhfgenyvna Bcra naq gur 2015 Serapu Bcra.
> 10. Gur bayl Nhfgenyvna gb jva n Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag fvapr 2000
> vf guvf cynlre jub vf xabja sbe uvf genqrznex "onpxjneqf onfronyy
> pnc" ybbx. Ur jba gur HF Bcra va 2001 naq Jvzoyrqba va 2002.
Marc Dashevsky
Oct 26, 2016, 3:39:47 AM10/26/16
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In article <qc-dnfEqnNKifpLF...@giganews.com>, m...@vex.net says...
> 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all
> three.
clay, grass, hardcourt
> For the remaining questions, please decode the rot13 for *each
> question individually*, only after you have finished with all the
> ones before it. (Sorry, but it's that sort of round.) In each
> case name the player.
>
> 3. Fvapr 2000 bayl 18 qvssrerag zra unir jba n zra'f graavf Tenaq
> Fynz gbheanzrag. Bar bs gur znva ernfbaf vf orpnhfr guvf Fjvff
> cynlre unf jba 17 bs gur 67 gbgny Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf qhevat
> gung crevbq. Uvf 17 jvaf vf gur pheerag erpbeq.
Federer
> 4. Evtug oruvaq Srqrere vf guvf Fcnavneq jub unf jba 14
> Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf fvapr 2000. Guvf cynlre vf n pynl pbheg
> fcrpvnyvfg, naq 9 bs gubfr 14 jvaf jrer ng gur Serapu Bcra,
> gur bayl Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag gung hfrf pynl pbhegf.
Nadal
> 5. Guvf Freovna cynlre vf ba genpx gb fhecnff Ensnry Anqny va
> Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf. Ur pheeragyl unf 12, vapyhqvat
> obgu gur Nhfgenyvna naq Serapu Bcraf guvf lrne.
>
> 6. Guvf Oevgvfu cynlre zvtug unir jba znal zber guna uvf pheerag
> gbgny bs 3 Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf vs ur jnfa'g fb
> hayhpxl nf gb or cynlvat qhevat gur ervta bs obgu Srqrere
> naq Qwbxbivp. Ur unf ybfg gb bar be gur bgure va 7 Tenaq
> Fynz gbheanzrag svanyf. Ur zbfg erpragyl orng Zvybf Enbavp
> [eulzrf jvgu "pbj avgpu"] ng guvf lrne'f Jvzoyrqba.
Andy Roddick
--
Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address.
> * Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - Grand Slam Tournaments
>
> 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of
> the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals.
> Name all four.
French Open, Australian Open, U.S. Open, Wimbledon
>
> 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of
> the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals.
> Name all four.
> 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all
> three.
> For the remaining questions, please decode the rot13 for *each
> question individually*, only after you have finished with all the
> ones before it. (Sorry, but it's that sort of round.) In each
> case name the player.
>
> 3. Fvapr 2000 bayl 18 qvssrerag zra unir jba n zra'f graavf Tenaq
> Fynz gbheanzrag. Bar bs gur znva ernfbaf vf orpnhfr guvf Fjvff
> cynlre unf jba 17 bs gur 67 gbgny Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf qhevat
> gung crevbq. Uvf 17 jvaf vf gur pheerag erpbeq.
> 4. Evtug oruvaq Srqrere vf guvf Fcnavneq jub unf jba 14
> Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf fvapr 2000. Guvf cynlre vf n pynl pbheg
> fcrpvnyvfg, naq 9 bs gubfr 14 jvaf jrer ng gur Serapu Bcra,
> gur bayl Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag gung hfrf pynl pbhegf.
> 5. Guvf Freovna cynlre vf ba genpx gb fhecnff Ensnry Anqny va
> Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf. Ur pheeragyl unf 12, vapyhqvat
> obgu gur Nhfgenyvna naq Serapu Bcraf guvf lrne.
>
> 6. Guvf Oevgvfu cynlre zvtug unir jba znal zber guna uvf pheerag
> gbgny bs 3 Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf vs ur jnfa'g fb
> hayhpxl nf gb or cynlvat qhevat gur ervta bs obgu Srqrere
> naq Qwbxbivp. Ur unf ybfg gb bar be gur bgure va 7 Tenaq
> Fynz gbheanzrag svanyf. Ur zbfg erpragyl orng Zvybf Enbavp
> [eulzrf jvgu "pbj avgpu"] ng guvf lrne'f Jvzoyrqba.
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Peter Smyth
Oct 26, 2016, 11:39:59 AM10/26/16
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Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Poetic First Lines
>
> "Well begun is half done", or so they say. For each of the following
> openings, either name the poet or just give the title of the poem.
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Poetic First Lines
>
> "Well begun is half done", or so they say. For each of the following
>
> 1. Come live with me and be my love
> And we will all the pleasures prove...
>
> 2. When I consider how my light is spent
> Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide...
>
> 3. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
> The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea...
>
> 4. I met a traveller from an antique land
> Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
> Stand in the desert..."
>
> 5. I wander'd lonely as a cloud
> That floats on high o'er vales and hills...
William Wordsworth
> 1. Come live with me and be my love
> And we will all the pleasures prove...
>
> 2. When I consider how my light is spent
> Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide...
>
> 3. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
> The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea...
>
> 4. I met a traveller from an antique land
> Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
> Stand in the desert..."
>
> 5. I wander'd lonely as a cloud
> That floats on high o'er vales and hills...
> 6. The sea is calm tonight.
> The tide is full, the moon lies fair
> Upon the straits...
>
> 7. Morning and evening
> Maids heard the goblins cry:
> "Come buy our orchard fruits,
> Come buy, come buy..."
>
> 8. "What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade.
> "To turn you out, to turn you out", the Colour-Sergeant said.
> "What makes you look so white, so white?" said Files-on-Parade.
> "I'm dreadin' what I've got to watch", the Colour-Sergeant said...
>
> 9. Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
> About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green...
>
> 10. The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
> The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
> The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
> And...
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - Grand Slam Tournaments
>
> 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of
> the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals.
> Name all four.
Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, US Open
> The tide is full, the moon lies fair
> Upon the straits...
>
> 7. Morning and evening
> Maids heard the goblins cry:
> "Come buy our orchard fruits,
> Come buy, come buy..."
>
> 8. "What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade.
> "To turn you out, to turn you out", the Colour-Sergeant said.
> "What makes you look so white, so white?" said Files-on-Parade.
> "I'm dreadin' what I've got to watch", the Colour-Sergeant said...
>
> 9. Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
> About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green...
>
> 10. The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
> The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
> The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
> And...
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - Grand Slam Tournaments
>
> 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of
> the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals.
> Name all four.
> 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all
> three.
Grass, Clay, Hard (technically there are some differences between the
> three.
Australian hardcourt and the US hardcourt)
> For the remaining questions, please decode the rot13 for *each
> question individually*, only after you have finished with all the
> ones before it. (Sorry, but it's that sort of round.) In each
> case name the player.
>
> Slam tournament. One of the main reasons is because this Swiss
> player has won 17 of the 67 total Grand Slam tournaments during
> that period. His 17 wins is the current record.
Roger Federer
> 4. Right behind Federer is this Spaniard who has won 14
> Grand Slam tournaments since 2000. This player is a clay court
> specialist, and 9 of those 14 wins were at the French Open,
> the only Grand Slam tournament that uses clay courts.
Rafael Nadal
> 5. This Serbian player is on track to surpass Rafael Nadal in
> Grand Slam tournament wins. He currently has 12, including
> both the Australian and French Opens this year.
Novak Djokovic
> 6. This British player might have won many more than his current
> total of 3 Grand Slam tournament wins if he wasn't so
> unlucky as to be playing during the reign of both Federer
> and Djokovic. He has lost to one or the other in 7 Grand
> Slam tournament finals. He most recently beat Milos Raonic
> [rhymes with "cow nitch"] at this year's Wimbledon.
Andy Murray
> 7. The most miraculous Grand Slam tournament win since 2000
> (and possibly ever) was in the 2001 Wimbledon tournament,
> by this Croatian player who was ranked 125th at the time and
> only entered the tournament because the organizers gave him a
> wild-card spot. In the finals he managed to beat Patrick Rafter.
> His win inspired the 2004 movie "Wimbledon", starring Paul
> Bettany and Kirsten Dunst.
Goran Ivanisevic
> 8. This former #1-ranked player, a serve specialist, is the last
> American to win a Grand Slam tournament, namely the US Open
> in 2003. He did make the finals of Wimbledon three times,
> but lost all three times to, yes, Federer.
Andy Roddick
> 9. Switzerland currently only has two tennis players in the top
> 300 and both have won Grand Slam tournaments this century.
> The one not named Federer is this player who won the 2014
> Australian Open and the 2015 French Open.
Stan Wawrinka
> 10. The only Australian to win a Grand Slam tournament since 2000
> is this player who is known for his trademark "backwards baseball
> cap" look. He won the US Open in 2001 and Wimbledon in 2002.
Lleyton Hewitt
Peter Smyth
Pete
Oct 26, 2016, 3:00:43 PM10/26/16
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> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-07-25,
> 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 did not write either of these rounds.
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Poetic First Lines
>
> "Well begun is half done", or so they say. For each of the following
> openings, *either* name the poet *or* just give the title of the poem.
>
> 1. Come live with me and be my love
> And we will all the pleasures prove...
Shelley; Whitman
> 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 did not write either of these rounds.
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Poetic First Lines
>
> "Well begun is half done", or so they say. For each of the following
> openings, *either* name the poet *or* just give the title of the poem.
>
> 1. Come live with me and be my love
> And we will all the pleasures prove...
>
> 2. When I consider how my light is spent
> Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide...
>
> 3. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
> The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea...
>
> 4. I met a traveller from an antique land
> Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
> Stand in the desert..."
>
> 5. I wander'd lonely as a cloud
> That floats on high o'er vales and hills...
>
> 6. The sea is calm tonight.
> The tide is full, the moon lies fair
> Upon the straits...
>
> 7. Morning and evening
> Maids heard the goblins cry:
> "Come buy our orchard fruits,
> Come buy, come buy..."
>
> 8. "What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade.
> "To turn you out, to turn you out", the Colour-Sergeant said.
> "What makes you look so white, so white?" said Files-on-Parade.
> "I'm dreadin' what I've got to watch", the Colour-Sergeant said...
>
> 9. Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
> About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green...
>
> 10. The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
> The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
> The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
> And...
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - Grand Slam Tournaments
>
> 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of
> the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals.
> Name all four.
>
> 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all
> three.
>
> For the remaining questions, please decode the rot13 for *each
> question individually*, only after you have finished with all the
> ones before it. (Sorry, but it's that sort of round.) In each
> case name the player.
>
> 3. Fvapr 2000 bayl 18 qvssrerag zra unir jba n zra'f graavf Tenaq
> Fynz gbheanzrag. Bar bs gur znva ernfbaf vf orpnhfr guvf Fjvff
> cynlre unf jba 17 bs gur 67 gbgny Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf qhevat
> gung crevbq. Uvf 17 jvaf vf gur pheerag erpbeq.
>
> 4. Evtug oruvaq Srqrere vf guvf Fcnavneq jub unf jba 14
> Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf fvapr 2000. Guvf cynlre vf n pynl pbheg
> fcrpvnyvfg, naq 9 bs gubfr 14 jvaf jrer ng gur Serapu Bcra,
> gur bayl Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag gung hfrf pynl pbhegf.
>
> 5. Guvf Freovna cynlre vf ba genpx gb fhecnff Ensnry Anqny va
> Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf. Ur pheeragyl unf 12, vapyhqvat
> obgu gur Nhfgenyvna naq Serapu Bcraf guvf lrne.
>
> 6. Guvf Oevgvfu cynlre zvtug unir jba znal zber guna uvf pheerag
> gbgny bs 3 Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf vs ur jnfa'g fb
> hayhpxl nf gb or cynlvat qhevat gur ervta bs obgu Srqrere
> naq Qwbxbivp. Ur unf ybfg gb bar be gur bgure va 7 Tenaq
> Fynz gbheanzrag svanyf. Ur zbfg erpragyl orng Zvybf Enbavp
> [eulzrf jvgu "pbj avgpu"] ng guvf lrne'f Jvzoyrqba.
>
> 7. Gur zbfg zvenphybhf Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jva fvapr 2000
> (naq cbffvoyl rire) jnf va gur 2001 Jvzoyrqba gbheanzrag,
> ol guvf Pebngvna cynlre jub jnf enaxrq 125gu ng gur gvzr naq
> bayl ragrerq gur gbheanzrag orpnhfr gur betnavmref tnir uvz n
> jvyq-pneq fcbg. Va gur svanyf ur znantrq gb orng Cngevpx Ensgre.
> Uvf jva vafcverq gur 2004 zbivr "Jvzoyrqba", fgneevat Cnhy
> Orggnal naq Xvefgra Qhafg.
>
> 8. Guvf sbezre #1-enaxrq cynlre, n freir fcrpvnyvfg, vf gur ynfg
> Nzrevpna gb jva n Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag, anzryl gur HF Bcra
> va 2003. Ur qvq znxr gur svanyf bs Jvzoyrqba guerr gvzrf,
> ohg ybfg nyy guerr gvzrf gb, lrf, Srqrere.
>
> 9. Fjvgmreynaq pheeragyl bayl unf gjb graavf cynlref va gur gbc
> 300 naq obgu unir jba Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf guvf praghel.
> Gur bar abg anzrq Srqrere vf guvf cynlre jub jba gur 2014
> Nhfgenyvna Bcra naq gur 2015 Serapu Bcra.
>
> 10. Gur bayl Nhfgenyvna gb jva n Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag fvapr 2000
> vf guvf cynlre jub vf xabja sbe uvf genqrznex "onpxjneqf onfronyy
> pnc" ybbx. Ur jba gur HF Bcra va 2001 naq Jvzoyrqba va 2002.
>
Pete Gayde
Dan Tilque
Oct 28, 2016, 4:22:41 AM10/28/16
to
Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Poetic First Lines
>
> "Well begun is half done", or so they say. For each of the following
> openings, *either* name the poet *or* just give the title of the poem.
>
> 1. Come live with me and be my love
> And we will all the pleasures prove...
>
> 2. When I consider how my light is spent
> Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide...
>
> 3. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
> The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea...
Browning
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Poetic First Lines
>
> "Well begun is half done", or so they say. For each of the following
> openings, *either* name the poet *or* just give the title of the poem.
>
> 1. Come live with me and be my love
> And we will all the pleasures prove...
>
> 2. When I consider how my light is spent
> Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide...
>
> 3. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
> The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea...
>
> 4. I met a traveller from an antique land
> Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
> Stand in the desert..."
>
> 5. I wander'd lonely as a cloud
> That floats on high o'er vales and hills...
>
> 6. The sea is calm tonight.
> The tide is full, the moon lies fair
> Upon the straits...
>
> 7. Morning and evening
> Maids heard the goblins cry:
> "Come buy our orchard fruits,
> Come buy, come buy..."
>
> 8. "What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade.
> "To turn you out, to turn you out", the Colour-Sergeant said.
> "What makes you look so white, so white?" said Files-on-Parade.
> "I'm dreadin' what I've got to watch", the Colour-Sergeant said...
>
> 9. Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
> About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green...
>
> 10. The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
> The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
> The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
> And...
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - Grand Slam Tournaments
>
> 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of
> the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals.
> Name all four.
>
> 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all
> three.
Björn Lundin
Oct 28, 2016, 6:53:46 AM10/28/16
to
This is a repost - the first entry went by mail by accident.
The answers are the same though
On 2016-10-26 00:57, Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-07-25,
> 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 did not write either of these rounds.
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Poetic First Lines
>
> "Well begun is half done", or so they say. For each of the following
> openings, *either* name the poet *or* just give the title of the poem.
>
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - Grand Slam Tournaments
>
> 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of
> the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals.
> Name all four.
Wimbledon, French Open, US Open, Australian Open
>
> 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of
> the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals.
> Name all four.
>
> 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all
> three.
>
> For the remaining questions, please decode the rot13 for *each
> question individually*, only after you have finished with all the
> ones before it. (Sorry, but it's that sort of round.) In each
> case name the player.
>
> 3. Fvapr 2000 bayl 18 qvssrerag zra unir jba n zra'f graavf Tenaq
> Fynz gbheanzrag. Bar bs gur znva ernfbaf vf orpnhfr guvf Fjvff
> cynlre unf jba 17 bs gur 67 gbgny Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf qhevat
> gung crevbq. Uvf 17 jvaf vf gur pheerag erpbeq.
>
> 4. Evtug oruvaq Srqrere vf guvf Fcnavneq jub unf jba 14
> Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf fvapr 2000. Guvf cynlre vf n pynl pbheg
> fcrpvnyvfg, naq 9 bs gubfr 14 jvaf jrer ng gur Serapu Bcra,
> gur bayl Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag gung hfrf pynl pbhegf.
>
> 5. Guvf Freovna cynlre vf ba genpx gb fhecnff Ensnry Anqny va
> Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf. Ur pheeragyl unf 12, vapyhqvat
> obgu gur Nhfgenyvna naq Serapu Bcraf guvf lrne.
>
> 6. Guvf Oevgvfu cynlre zvtug unir jba znal zber guna uvf pheerag
> gbgny bs 3 Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf vs ur jnfa'g fb
> hayhpxl nf gb or cynlvat qhevat gur ervta bs obgu Srqrere
> naq Qwbxbivp. Ur unf ybfg gb bar be gur bgure va 7 Tenaq
> Fynz gbheanzrag svanyf. Ur zbfg erpragyl orng Zvybf Enbavp
> [eulzrf jvgu "pbj avgpu"] ng guvf lrne'f Jvzoyrqba.
>
> 7. Gur zbfg zvenphybhf Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jva fvapr 2000
> (naq cbffvoyl rire) jnf va gur 2001 Jvzoyrqba gbheanzrag,
> ol guvf Pebngvna cynlre jub jnf enaxrq 125gu ng gur gvzr naq
> bayl ragrerq gur gbheanzrag orpnhfr gur betnavmref tnir uvz n
> jvyq-pneq fcbg. Va gur svanyf ur znantrq gb orng Cngevpx Ensgre.
> Uvf jva vafcverq gur 2004 zbivr "Jvzoyrqba", fgneevat Cnhy
> Orggnal naq Xvefgra Qhafg.
>
> 8. Guvf sbezre #1-enaxrq cynlre, n freir fcrpvnyvfg, vf gur ynfg
> Nzrevpna gb jva n Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag, anzryl gur HF Bcra
> va 2003. Ur qvq znxr gur svanyf bs Jvzoyrqba guerr gvzrf,
> ohg ybfg nyy guerr gvzrf gb, lrf, Srqrere.
>
> 9. Fjvgmreynaq pheeragyl bayl unf gjb graavf cynlref va gur gbc
> 300 naq obgu unir jba Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf guvf praghel.
> Gur bar abg anzrq Srqrere vf guvf cynlre jub jba gur 2014
> Nhfgenyvna Bcra naq gur 2015 Serapu Bcra.
>
> 10. Gur bayl Nhfgenyvna gb jva n Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag fvapr 2000
> vf guvf cynlre jub vf xabja sbe uvf genqrznex "onpxjneqf onfronyy
> pnc" ybbx. Ur jba gur HF Bcra va 2001 naq Jvzoyrqba va 2002.
>
--
--
Björn
Marc Dashevsky
Oct 28, 2016, 10:35:19 AM10/28/16
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> * Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - Grand Slam Tournaments
>
> 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of
> the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals.
> Name all four.
>
> 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of
> the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals.
> Name all four.
French Open, Australian Open, U.S. Open, Wimbledon
> 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all
> three.
clay, grass, hardcourt
> three.
> For the remaining questions, please decode the rot13 for *each
> question individually*, only after you have finished with all the
> ones before it. (Sorry, but it's that sort of round.) In each
> case name the player.
>
> 3. Fvapr 2000 bayl 18 qvssrerag zra unir jba n zra'f graavf Tenaq
> Fynz gbheanzrag. Bar bs gur znva ernfbaf vf orpnhfr guvf Fjvff
> cynlre unf jba 17 bs gur 67 gbgny Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf qhevat
> gung crevbq. Uvf 17 jvaf vf gur pheerag erpbeq.
> 4. Evtug oruvaq Srqrere vf guvf Fcnavneq jub unf jba 14
> Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf fvapr 2000. Guvf cynlre vf n pynl pbheg
> fcrpvnyvfg, naq 9 bs gubfr 14 jvaf jrer ng gur Serapu Bcra,
> gur bayl Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag gung hfrf pynl pbhegf.
> 5. Guvf Freovna cynlre vf ba genpx gb fhecnff Ensnry Anqny va
> Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf. Ur pheeragyl unf 12, vapyhqvat
> obgu gur Nhfgenyvna naq Serapu Bcraf guvf lrne.
>
> 6. Guvf Oevgvfu cynlre zvtug unir jba znal zber guna uvf pheerag
> gbgny bs 3 Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf vs ur jnfa'g fb
> hayhpxl nf gb or cynlvat qhevat gur ervta bs obgu Srqrere
> naq Qwbxbivp. Ur unf ybfg gb bar be gur bgure va 7 Tenaq
> Fynz gbheanzrag svanyf. Ur zbfg erpragyl orng Zvybf Enbavp
> [eulzrf jvgu "pbj avgpu"] ng guvf lrne'f Jvzoyrqba.
Jason Kreitzer
Oct 28, 2016, 6:25:02 PM10/28/16
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> 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all
> three.
Grass, turf
> three.
Mark Brader
Oct 29, 2016, 2:18:33 AM10/29/16
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Marc Dashevsky:
Yeah, that's exactly what you said the first time, 2 days 7 hours earlier.
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Toronto each article. That way you're sure people will
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> In article <qc-dnfEqnNKifpLF...@giganews.com>, m...@vex.net says...
> > * Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - Grand Slam Tournaments
> >
> > 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of
> > the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals.
> > Name all four.
> French Open, Australian Open, U.S. Open, Wimbledon
>
> > 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all
> > three.
> clay, grass, hardcourt
> ...
> > * Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - Grand Slam Tournaments
> >
> > 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of
> > the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals.
> > Name all four.
> French Open, Australian Open, U.S. Open, Wimbledon
>
> > 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all
> > three.
> clay, grass, hardcourt
Yeah, that's exactly what you said the first time, 2 days 7 hours earlier.
--
Mark Brader "Also, be sure to include your signature TWICE in
Toronto each article. That way you're sure people will
m...@vex.net read it." -- "Emily Postnews" (Brad Templeton)
Mark Brader
Oct 29, 2016, 2:36:40 AM10/29/16
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Mark Brader:
-- or 5th-hardest excluding two audio rounds -- of the entire season.
> 1. Come live with me and be my love
> And we will all the pleasures prove...
Christopher Marlowe, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love".
> 2. When I consider how my light is spent
> Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide...
John Milton, "On His Blindness". 4 for Dan Blum and Gareth.
> 3. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
> The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea...
Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard". 4 for Dan Blum
and Gareth.
> 4. I met a traveller from an antique land
> Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
> Stand in the desert..."
Percy Shelley, "Ozymandias". 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
3 for Gareth. 2 for Pete.
> 5. I wander'd lonely as a cloud
> That floats on high o'er vales and hills...
William Wordsworth, "Daffodils". 4 for Calvin, Gareth, and Peter.
3 for Dan Blum.
> 6. The sea is calm tonight.
> The tide is full, the moon lies fair
> Upon the straits...
Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach". 4 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque.
> 7. Morning and evening
> Maids heard the goblins cry:
> "Come buy our orchard fruits,
> Come buy, come buy..."
Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market". 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua,
and Gareth.
> 8. "What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade.
> "To turn you out, to turn you out", the Colour-Sergeant said.
> "What makes you look so white, so white?" said Files-on-Parade.
> "I'm dreadin' what I've got to watch", the Colour-Sergeant said...
Rudyard Kipling, "Danny Deever". 4 for Dan Blum and Gareth.
> 9. Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
> About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green...
Dylan Thomas, "Fern Hill". 4 for Gareth.
> 10. The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
> The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
> The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
> And...
Alfred Noyes, "The Highwayman" (came riding -- riding -- riding --
the highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door). 4 for Joshua
and areth.
> * Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - Grand Slam Tournaments
> 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of
> the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals.
> Name all four.
Australian Open, French Open, US Open, Wimbledon. 4 for
Joshua, Calvin, Gareth, Marc, Peter, Pete, Dan Tilque, and Björn.
I would probably have scored "American Open" as almost correct,
but the same entrant who gave that put "English Open" for Wimbledon,
so no points.
> 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all
> three.
Clay, grass, hard. 4 for Joshua, Calvin, Gareth, Marc, Peter, Pete,
and Björn.
For "hard" court, I did not accept "artificial" or references to
the specific materials, which may vary.
The answer to this one came up in the Toronto Star 2 days before
the original game was played: http://bizarro.com/comics/july-24-2016/
> For the remaining questions, please decode the rot13 for *each
> question individually*, only after you have finished with all the
> ones before it. (Sorry, but it's that sort of round.) In each
> case name the player.
and Björn.
> 4. Right behind Federer is this Spaniard who has won 14
> Grand Slam tournaments since 2000. This player is a clay court
> specialist, and 9 of those 14 wins were at the French Open,
> the only Grand Slam tournament that uses clay courts.
Rafael Nadal. 4 for Joshua, Calvin, Gareth, Marc, Peter, Pete,
and Björn.
> 5. This Serbian player is on track to surpass Rafael Nadal in
> Grand Slam tournament wins. He currently has 12, including
> both the Australian and French Opens this year.
Novak Djokovic ["JOKE-o-vitch"]. 4 for Joshua, Calvin, Gareth,
Peter, Pete, and Björn.
> 6. This British player might have won many more than his current
> total of 3 Grand Slam tournament wins if he wasn't so
> unlucky as to be playing during the reign of both Federer
> and Djokovic. He has lost to one or the other in 7 Grand
> Slam tournament finals. He most recently beat Milos Raonic
> [rhymes with "cow nitch"] at this year's Wimbledon.
Andy Murray. 4 for Joshua, Calvin, Gareth, Peter, Pete, and Björn.
> 7. The most miraculous Grand Slam tournament win since 2000
> (and possibly ever) was in the 2001 Wimbledon tournament,
> by this Croatian player who was ranked 125th at the time and
> only entered the tournament because the organizers gave him a
> wild-card spot. In the finals he managed to beat Patrick Rafter.
> His win inspired the 2004 movie "Wimbledon", starring Paul
> Bettany and Kirsten Dunst.
Goran Ivanisevic ["ee-vahn-uh-SEV-itch"]. 4 for Joshua, Calvin,
Gareth, Peter, and Björn.
> 8. This former #1-ranked player, a serve specialist, is the last
> American to win a Grand Slam tournament, namely the US Open
> in 2003. He did make the finals of Wimbledon three times,
> but lost all three times to, yes, Federer.
Andy Roddick. 4 for Joshua, Calvin, Gareth, Peter, and Pete.
> 9. Switzerland currently only has two tennis players in the top
> 300 and both have won Grand Slam tournaments this century.
> The one not named Federer is this player who won the 2014
> Australian Open and the 2015 French Open.
Stanislas Wawrinka ["vav-ring-ka"]. 4 for Calvin, Gareth, Peter,
and Pete.
> 10. The only Australian to win a Grand Slam tournament since 2000
> is this player who is known for his trademark "backwards baseball
> cap" look. He won the US Open in 2001 and Wimbledon in 2002.
Lleyton Hewitt. 4 for Calvin, Gareth, and Peter.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> His Mis Ent Can Lit Spo FOUR
Joshua Kreitzer 40 32 40 0 12 32 144
Dan Blum 40 36 28 0 27 0 131
Marc Dashevsky 32 32 40 0 0 16 120
Pete Gayde 32 15 32 0 2 32 111
Gareth Owen -- -- 40 0 27 40 107
Dan Tilque 32 32 23 0 4 4 91
Peter Smyth 31 16 -- -- 4 40 91
"Calvin" 15 0 23 0 4 40 82
Bruce Bowler 24 24 32 0 -- -- 80
Jason Kreitzer 36 0 28 0 0 0 64
Björn Lundin 8 18 4 0 0 28 58
Stephen Perry -- -- 36 12 -- -- 48
Erland Sommarskog 20 28 -- -- -- -- 48
-- -- -- -- 4 0 4
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Toronto -- An American mayor's reaction to the
m...@vex.net news of the invention of the telephone
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-07-25,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> I did not write either of these rounds.
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Poetic First Lines
> "Well begun is half done", or so they say. For each of the following
> openings, *either* name the poet *or* just give the title of the poem.
This was the hardest round in the original game, and the 7th-hardest
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> I did not write either of these rounds.
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Poetic First Lines
> "Well begun is half done", or so they say. For each of the following
> openings, *either* name the poet *or* just give the title of the poem.
-- or 5th-hardest excluding two audio rounds -- of the entire season.
> 1. Come live with me and be my love
> And we will all the pleasures prove...
> 2. When I consider how my light is spent
> Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide...
> 3. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
> The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea...
and Gareth.
> 4. I met a traveller from an antique land
> Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
> Stand in the desert..."
3 for Gareth. 2 for Pete.
> 5. I wander'd lonely as a cloud
> That floats on high o'er vales and hills...
3 for Dan Blum.
> 6. The sea is calm tonight.
> The tide is full, the moon lies fair
> Upon the straits...
> 7. Morning and evening
> Maids heard the goblins cry:
> "Come buy our orchard fruits,
> Come buy, come buy..."
and Gareth.
> 8. "What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade.
> "To turn you out, to turn you out", the Colour-Sergeant said.
> "What makes you look so white, so white?" said Files-on-Parade.
> "I'm dreadin' what I've got to watch", the Colour-Sergeant said...
> 9. Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
> About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green...
> 10. The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
> The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
> The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
> And...
the highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door). 4 for Joshua
and areth.
> * Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - Grand Slam Tournaments
> 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of
> the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals.
> Name all four.
Joshua, Calvin, Gareth, Marc, Peter, Pete, Dan Tilque, and Björn.
I would probably have scored "American Open" as almost correct,
but the same entrant who gave that put "English Open" for Wimbledon,
so no points.
> 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all
> three.
and Björn.
For "hard" court, I did not accept "artificial" or references to
the specific materials, which may vary.
The answer to this one came up in the Toronto Star 2 days before
the original game was played: http://bizarro.com/comics/july-24-2016/
> For the remaining questions, please decode the rot13 for *each
> question individually*, only after you have finished with all the
> ones before it. (Sorry, but it's that sort of round.) In each
> case name the player.
> 3. Since 2000 only 18 different men have won a men's tennis Grand
> Slam tournament. One of the main reasons is because this Swiss
> player has won 17 of the 67 total Grand Slam tournaments during
> that period. His 17 wins is the current record.
Roger Federer. 4 for Joshua, Calvin, Gareth, Marc, Peter, Pete,
> Slam tournament. One of the main reasons is because this Swiss
> player has won 17 of the 67 total Grand Slam tournaments during
> that period. His 17 wins is the current record.
and Björn.
> 4. Right behind Federer is this Spaniard who has won 14
> Grand Slam tournaments since 2000. This player is a clay court
> specialist, and 9 of those 14 wins were at the French Open,
> the only Grand Slam tournament that uses clay courts.
and Björn.
> 5. This Serbian player is on track to surpass Rafael Nadal in
> Grand Slam tournament wins. He currently has 12, including
> both the Australian and French Opens this year.
Peter, Pete, and Björn.
> 6. This British player might have won many more than his current
> total of 3 Grand Slam tournament wins if he wasn't so
> unlucky as to be playing during the reign of both Federer
> and Djokovic. He has lost to one or the other in 7 Grand
> Slam tournament finals. He most recently beat Milos Raonic
> [rhymes with "cow nitch"] at this year's Wimbledon.
> 7. The most miraculous Grand Slam tournament win since 2000
> (and possibly ever) was in the 2001 Wimbledon tournament,
> by this Croatian player who was ranked 125th at the time and
> only entered the tournament because the organizers gave him a
> wild-card spot. In the finals he managed to beat Patrick Rafter.
> His win inspired the 2004 movie "Wimbledon", starring Paul
> Bettany and Kirsten Dunst.
Gareth, Peter, and Björn.
> 8. This former #1-ranked player, a serve specialist, is the last
> American to win a Grand Slam tournament, namely the US Open
> in 2003. He did make the finals of Wimbledon three times,
> but lost all three times to, yes, Federer.
> 9. Switzerland currently only has two tennis players in the top
> 300 and both have won Grand Slam tournaments this century.
> The one not named Federer is this player who won the 2014
> Australian Open and the 2015 French Open.
and Pete.
> 10. The only Australian to win a Grand Slam tournament since 2000
> is this player who is known for his trademark "backwards baseball
> cap" look. He won the US Open in 2001 and Wimbledon in 2002.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> His Mis Ent Can Lit Spo FOUR
Joshua Kreitzer 40 32 40 0 12 32 144
Dan Blum 40 36 28 0 27 0 131
Marc Dashevsky 32 32 40 0 0 16 120
Pete Gayde 32 15 32 0 2 32 111
Gareth Owen -- -- 40 0 27 40 107
Dan Tilque 32 32 23 0 4 4 91
Peter Smyth 31 16 -- -- 4 40 91
"Calvin" 15 0 23 0 4 40 82
Bruce Bowler 24 24 32 0 -- -- 80
Jason Kreitzer 36 0 28 0 0 0 64
Björn Lundin 8 18 4 0 0 28 58
Stephen Perry -- -- 36 12 -- -- 48
Erland Sommarskog 20 28 -- -- -- -- 48
-- -- -- -- 4 0 4
--
Mark Brader "I can see the time when every city will have one."
Toronto -- An American mayor's reaction to the
m...@vex.net news of the invention of the telephone
Gareth Owen
Oct 29, 2016, 11:45:38 AM10/29/16
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Palgrave (from where I learned it at school) gives the "of Egypt" title.
> Scores, if there are no errors:
>
> GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
> TOPICS-> His Mis Ent Can Lit Spo FOUR
> Gareth Owen -- -- 40 0 27 40 107
I make my score 31 for Lit. Missed two completely, and one point off Ozymandias.
Mark Brader
Oct 29, 2016, 7:12:40 PM10/29/16
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Mark Brader:
didn't count. However, as you note, you got the title wrong.
> Because Palgrave (from where I learned it at school) gives the
> "of Egypt" title.
Huh. Checking Google Books, I see that a small minority of
books do use that title. Okay, then it's correct after all.
4 for Gareth also.
This is one of the few pieces of serious (as opposed to humorous)
poetry that I actually like, but my opinion is that it works much
better if you *don't* know that Ozymandias was an actual name of an
Egyptian pharaoh (he's better known in English by another one of his
names). So I say Shelley would have done an even better job if he'd
substituted a fictional name, someone we'd never heard of; and for
much the same reason, I think the longer title weakens the poem.
> > Scores, if there are no errors:
> >
> > GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
> > TOPICS-> His Mis Ent Can Lit Spo FOUR
> > Gareth Owen -- -- 40 0 27 40 107
>
> I make my score 31 for Lit. Missed two completely, and one point off
> Ozymandias.
Typo in scoring. Did you notice where I said "4 for areth" on one
question? And then at the bottom of the standings there was a line
with nobody's name and "-- -- -- -- 4 0 4" in the other
colums? Those were your missing 4 points. The missing name was
because it didn't know who "areth" was. My fault, and I'll amend my
scripts to trap that error.
Scores, if there are *now* no errors:
GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> His Mis Ent Can Lit Spo FOUR
m...@vex.net | --Michael Wares
> >> 4. I met a traveller from an antique land
> >> Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
> >> Stand in the desert..."
> >
> > Percy Shelley, "Ozymandias". 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
> > 3 for Gareth. 2 for Pete.
Gareth Owen:
> >> Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
> >> Stand in the desert..."
> >
> > Percy Shelley, "Ozymandias". 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
> > 3 for Gareth. 2 for Pete.
> Was this for adding "of Egypt" or for muffing the author?
You gave the (wrong) author in parentheses, so it was a comment and
didn't count. However, as you note, you got the title wrong.
> Because Palgrave (from where I learned it at school) gives the
> "of Egypt" title.
books do use that title. Okay, then it's correct after all.
4 for Gareth also.
This is one of the few pieces of serious (as opposed to humorous)
poetry that I actually like, but my opinion is that it works much
better if you *don't* know that Ozymandias was an actual name of an
Egyptian pharaoh (he's better known in English by another one of his
names). So I say Shelley would have done an even better job if he'd
substituted a fictional name, someone we'd never heard of; and for
much the same reason, I think the longer title weakens the poem.
> > Scores, if there are no errors:
> >
> > GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
> > TOPICS-> His Mis Ent Can Lit Spo FOUR
> > Gareth Owen -- -- 40 0 27 40 107
>
> I make my score 31 for Lit. Missed two completely, and one point off
> Ozymandias.
question? And then at the bottom of the standings there was a line
with nobody's name and "-- -- -- -- 4 0 4" in the other
colums? Those were your missing 4 points. The missing name was
because it didn't know who "areth" was. My fault, and I'll amend my
scripts to trap that error.
Scores, if there are *now* no errors:
GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> His Mis Ent Can Lit Spo FOUR
Joshua Kreitzer 40 32 40 0 12 32 144
Dan Blum 40 36 28 0 27 0 131
Marc Dashevsky 32 32 40 0 0 16 120
Gareth Owen -- -- 40 0 32 40 112
Dan Blum 40 36 28 0 27 0 131
Marc Dashevsky 32 32 40 0 0 16 120
Pete Gayde 32 15 32 0 2 32 111
Dan Tilque 32 32 23 0 4 4 91
Peter Smyth 31 16 -- -- 4 40 91
"Calvin" 15 0 23 0 4 40 82
Bruce Bowler 24 24 32 0 -- -- 80
Jason Kreitzer 36 0 28 0 0 0 64
Björn Lundin 8 18 4 0 0 28 58
Stephen Perry -- -- 36 12 -- -- 48
Erland Sommarskog 20 28 -- -- -- -- 48
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "She gave me the look she gives me."
Peter Smyth 31 16 -- -- 4 40 91
"Calvin" 15 0 23 0 4 40 82
Bruce Bowler 24 24 32 0 -- -- 80
Jason Kreitzer 36 0 28 0 0 0 64
Björn Lundin 8 18 4 0 0 28 58
Stephen Perry -- -- 36 12 -- -- 48
Erland Sommarskog 20 28 -- -- -- -- 48
--
m...@vex.net | --Michael Wares
Marc Dashevsky
Oct 29, 2016, 8:41:19 PM10/29/16
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In article <geadncb1MNWpoonF...@giganews.com>, m...@vex.net says...
>
> Marc Dashevsky:
> > In article <qc-dnfEqnNKifpLF...@giganews.com>, m...@vex.net says...
> > > * Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - Grand Slam Tournaments
> > >
> > > 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of
> > > the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals.
> > > Name all four.
> > French Open, Australian Open, U.S. Open, Wimbledon
> >
> > > 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all
> > > three.
> > clay, grass, hardcourt
> > ...
>
> Yeah, that's exactly what you said the first time, 2 days 7 hours earlier.
Never showed up on my server apparently.
> Marc Dashevsky:
> > In article <qc-dnfEqnNKifpLF...@giganews.com>, m...@vex.net says...
> > > * Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - Grand Slam Tournaments
> > >
> > > 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of
> > > the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals.
> > > Name all four.
> > French Open, Australian Open, U.S. Open, Wimbledon
> >
> > > 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all
> > > three.
> > clay, grass, hardcourt
> > ...
>
> Yeah, that's exactly what you said the first time, 2 days 7 hours earlier.
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