Mark Brader:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-09-26,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2016-11-26 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
Game 2 is over and GARETH OWEN is the winner. Well done, sir!
Hearty congratulations!
> ** Game 2, Round 9 - Entertainment - Pumping Jeremy Irons
> 2016-09-19 was the birthday of actor Jeremy Irons, who has had a
> long and diverse career in various performance media. The following
> questions concern his body of work in film and TV.
> 1. The role that brought Irons fame was that of Charles Ryder,
> in a 1981 British television adaptation of an Evelyn Waugh novel.
> Name the novel.
"Brideshead Revisited". 4 for Joshua, Peter, Gareth, and Calvin.
> 2. Also in 1981, he had his first major role in a film, based on
> the John Fowles novel of the same title, opposite Meryl Streep.
> Give that title.
"The French Lieutenant's Woman". 4 for Joshua, Gareth, and Marc.
> 3. In another appearance on the small screen, Irons performed in
> the TV series "The Borgias", playing the role of patriarch
> Rodrigo Borgia. By what title is Rodrigo Borgia better known
> in history?
Pope Alexander VI. The name and number were required. 4 for
Dan Tilque.
> 4. Name the 1988 thriller/horror film, directed by David Cronenberg,
> where Irons plays a dual role as identical-twin gynecologists
> -- one of them with a penchant for using bizarre gynecological
> instruments.
"Dead Ringers". 4 for Joshua and Gareth.
> 5. Irons played the Spanish Jesuit priest Father Gabriel opposite
> Robert De Niro in *which film* set in 18th-century South America?
"The Mission". 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
> 6. In the third film of this franchise, Irons played antagonist
> Simon Gruber (brother of the villainous Hans Gruber, who was
> played by Alan Rickman in the original film). Name the franchise
> or the specific movie.
"Die Hard", "Die Hard with a Vengeance". 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua,
Pete, Gareth, Calvin, and Marc.
> 7. Irons is one of only 22 actors to win the so-called "Triple
> Crown of Acting" -- an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Tony. Name *any*
> of the works he won for. (Just the title will do.)
* Tony (actor in a [non-musical] play): "The Real Thing" (1984).
* Oscar (leading actor): "Reversal of Fortune" (1990).
* Emmy (supporting actor): "Elizabeth I" (2005).
* Emmy (voiceover): "The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth
Century" (1997); "Great War" was sufficient.
* Emmy (narrator): "Game of Lions", part of "Big Cat Week" (2013);
either title was sufficient.
4 for Joshua, Gareth, Calvin, and Marc.
> 8. In 1998, Irons played a musketeer alongside John Malkovich,
> Gérard Depardieu, and Gabriel Byrne in the movie "The Man in
> the Iron Mask". What was his character's name?
Aramis. 3 for Peter. 2 for Dan Blum and Gareth.
> 9. In this 2011 film about the financial crisis of 2007-8, Irons
> plays John Tuld, the Chairman and CEO of a Wall St. investment
> bank -- who, on being informed that the bank holds potentially
> worthless toxic securities, says: "So, what you're telling me
> is that the music is about to stop, and we're going to be left
> holding the biggest bag of odorous excrement ever assembled in
> the history of capitalism." Name the film.
"Margin Call". 4 for Gareth.
> 10. Irons has also done voice work in animated movies. He provided
> the voice of the villainous brother Scar in a 1994 Disney movie.
> Name the film.
"The Lion King". 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Peter, Pete,
Gareth, Calvin, and Marc.
> ** Game 2, Round 10 - Fall Challenge Round
> In honor of the new season, your categories are:
> A. Geography Falls
> B. Literature Falls
> C. History of Falls
> D. Fall TV and Movies
> E. Fall Science
> F. Sports Falls
> * A. Geography Falls
> A1. Really a great big rapids, the greatest waterfall by
> volume is Inga Falls, of which Livingstone Falls is the
> most famous part. On which river can you find them?
Congo. 4 for Dan Blum and Marc. 2 for Pete and Gareth.
> A2. There is no standard way to measure waterfall height, but
> most experts agree that Angel Falls is the tallest in
> the world. In which country can you find it?
Venezuela. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Erland, Peter, Pete,
Gareth, and Marc. 3 for Calvin.
> * B. Literature Falls
> B1. Who was "Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky,
> with hideous ruin and combustion down, to bottomless
> perdition"?
Lucifer. (In "Paradise Lost" by John Milton; accepting Satan, etc.)
4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Peter, Gareth, and Marc.
> B2. Which literary character seemed to have met his doom by
> being cast off a cliff into Reichenbach Falls, but was
> later revived by the author due to public pressure?
Sherlock Holmes. 4 for everyone -- Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque,
Erland, Peter, Pete, Gareth, Calvin, and Marc.
> * C. History of Falls
> C1. Name William Shirer's 1960 best-selling historical work
> about Germany.
"The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich". 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque,
Pete, Gareth, Calvin, and Marc.
> C2. Name Edward Gibbon's historical masterpiece, published in
> the late 18th century.
"The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". (The key
words from "Decline" -- not Rise this time! -- onward were required.)
4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Peter, and Marc.
> * D. Fall TV and Movies
> D1. Fall TV: Who plays DSI Stella Gibson in the BBC Drama
> "The Fall", set in Northern Ireland?
Gillian Anderson. 4 for Gareth.
> D2. Fall Movie: Who plays the patriarch of the Ludlow clan in
> the 1994 epic drama "Legends of the Fall"?
Anthony Hopkins. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Gareth, and Calvin.
> * E. Fall Science
> E1. The longer nights of fall are caused by the fact that the
> Earth's axis is not perpendicular to the plane of its
> orbit around the Sun, but is tilted -- by how much, plus
> or minus 1½°?
23.5° (accepting 22-25°). 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Erland,
Gareth, and Calvin.
> E2. At which point of the compass does the Sun set on the evening
> of the fall equinox, as seen from every point on the globe?
West (270°), duh. 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Erland, Peter, Gareth,
Calvin, and Marc.
> * F. Sports Falls
> F1. At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, barefoot South African
> runner Zola Budd may or may not have caused an American
> runner to fall during the women's 3,000 m event. Name the
> American runner.
Mary Decker (now Mary Decker Slaney). 4 for Joshua, Peter, Gareth,
and Calvin.
> F2. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, TV viewers in North
> America could see Yugoslavian Vinko Bogotaj ["BO-ga-tie"]
> fall horrifically every week. What show were they watching?
ABC's "Wide World of Sports". (In the opening-title sequence,
as the announcer spoke of "the agony of defeat".) 4 for Dan Blum,
Joshua, Dan Tilque, Pete, Gareth, and Marc.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 2 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST
TOPICS-> Geo Spo Lit Can His Sci Ent Cha SIX
Gareth Owen 28 27 32 0 36 23 30 42 195
Joshua Kreitzer 35 28 28 0 36 21 28 32 187
Dan Blum 28 21 34 0 24 11 14 36 157
Marc Dashevsky 19 24 8 0 24 20 16 32 135
Dan Tilque 32 16 20 4 24 8 8 32 132
Pete Gayde 18 28 12 3 24 6 8 18 108
Peter Smyth 24 16 12 0 16 0 11 24 103
Erland Sommarskog 31 8 8 0 12 16 0 16 91
"Calvin" 23 24 -- -- -- -- 16 27 90
Bruce Bowler 12 20 -- -- -- -- -- -- 32
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