QFTCI11 Game 8 Rounds 4-5: formerly, dead poets
Mark Brader
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 in a single followup to the newsgroup,
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. For further information see
my 2011-09-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI11, QFTCIMM)".
Usually I would post Rounds 4 and 6 of the game together, since
Round 5 is audio and I'm not doing audio. But, as you will recall,
Game 8, Round 6, was a second Current Events round (for Canadiana)
and therefore has already been posted. And on the other hand,
in this game the audio round, instead of music as usual, was the
literature round. Well, if you know the words, you won't need the
audio -- so for this set, instead of Rounds 4 and 6, I'm posting
Rounds *4 and 5*.
I wrote one of these rounds.
* Game 8, Round 4 - Formerly Known As
In each case, we give you an obsolete name; you give us the
current name corresponding to it.
1. Upper Volta.
2. Dephlogisticated air ("DEE-flow-JIST-ik-eight'd").
3. The Nashville Network.
4. Marky Mark.
5. Sextilis.
6. New York Highlanders.
7. Revenue Canada.
8. Andersen Consulting.
9. Larboard.
10. Stalingrad.
* Game 8, Round 5 - Dead Poets Society
This is the literature round. In its original form as an audio
round, each piece of poetry was read by its own author. For each
poet we will give you their date of birth, and the US state or UK
country where they were born, although that may not be where they
did the work they are known for.
In each case, of course, name the poet. As the round's title
indicates, all of them are now dead.
*Note*: Since this was an audio round, you're supposed to be
identifying the poets from the words you would have heard spoken,
and not from the way the words are presented visually. So for
newsgroup purposes I've edited the excerpts into a single common
style as regards indentation, capitalization, and punctuation,
and in some cases also tampered with the line breaks.
1. Born 1893, New Jersey.
Love long has taken for his amulet
One perfect rose.
Why is it no one ever sent me yet
One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
Ah no, it's always just my luck to get
One perfect rose.
2. Born 1914, Wales.
When the morning was waking over the war
He put on his clothes and stepped out and he died,
The locks yawned loose and a blast blew them wide,
He dropped where he loved on the burst pavement stone
And the funeral grains of the slaughtered floor.
3. Born 1865, Ireland.
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
4. Born 1902, Missouri.
So boy, don't you turn back.
Don't you set down on the steps
'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
Don't you fall now --
For I'se still goin', honey,
I'se still climbin',
And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
5. Born 1892, Maine.
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age
And at a certain age the child is grown,
And puts away childish things.
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
Nobody that matters, that is.
6. Born 1888, Missouri.
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening...
7. Born 1932, Massachusetts.
I have done it again.
One year in every ten I manage it--
A sort of walking miracle, my skin
Bright as a Nazi lampshade, my right foot
A paperweight, my face a featureless, fine Jew linen.
Peel off the napkin, O my enemy. Do I terrify?--
Yes, yes, Herr Professor, It is I. Can you deny
The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
8. Born 1902, New York (state).
That is why marriage is so much more interesting than divorce,
Because it's the only known example of the happy meeting of
The immovable object and the irresistible force.
So I hope that husbands and wives will continue to debate and
Combat over everything debatable and combatable,
Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life,
Particularly if he has income and she is pattable.
9. Born 1878, Illinois.
When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs,
He forgot the copperheads and the assassin...
In the dust, in the cool tombs.
And Ulysses Grant lost all thought of con men and Wall Street,
Cash and collateral turned ashes...
In the dust, in the cool tombs.
10. Born 1926, New Jersey.
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman,
For I walked down the sidestreets under the trees
With a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went
Into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
What peaches and what penumbras!
Whole families shopping at night!
Aisles full of husbands!
Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!
--And you, Garcia Lorca,
What were you doing down by the watermelons?
After finishing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh jebgr
"Uhturf" sbe nal nafjre, jr arrq gur shyy anzr. Cyrnfr tb onpx
naq chg va gur tvira anzr.
--
Mark Brader | "The inability to distinguish between epistemic and deontic
Toronto | interpretations of 'why', which is common among children,
m...@vex.net | is the source of a great deal of religion." --John Lawler
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Marc Dashevsky
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Formerly Known As
>
> In each case, we give you an obsolete name; you give us the
> current name corresponding to it.
>
> 1. Upper Volta.
> 2. Dephlogisticated air ("DEE-flow-JIST-ik-eight'd").
oxygen
> 3. The Nashville Network.
Spike TV
> 4. Marky Mark.
Mark Wahlberg
> 5. Sextilis.
August
> 6. New York Highlanders.
New York Yankees
> 7. Revenue Canada.
> 8. Andersen Consulting.
Arthur Andersen (more obsolete for bonus points)
> 9. Larboard.
port
> 10. Stalingrad.
Volgograd
T.S. Eliot
> 7. Born 1932, Massachusetts.
>
> I have done it again.
> One year in every ten I manage it--
>
> A sort of walking miracle, my skin
> Bright as a Nazi lampshade, my right foot
> A paperweight, my face a featureless, fine Jew linen.
> Peel off the napkin, O my enemy. Do I terrify?--
>
> Yes, yes, Herr Professor, It is I. Can you deny
> The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
Sylvia Plath
> 8. Born 1902, New York (state).
>
> That is why marriage is so much more interesting than divorce,
> Because it's the only known example of the happy meeting of
> The immovable object and the irresistible force.
> So I hope that husbands and wives will continue to debate and
> Combat over everything debatable and combatable,
> Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life,
> Particularly if he has income and she is pattable.
>
> 9. Born 1878, Illinois.
>
> When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs,
> He forgot the copperheads and the assassin...
> In the dust, in the cool tombs.
>
> And Ulysses Grant lost all thought of con men and Wall Street,
> Cash and collateral turned ashes...
> In the dust, in the cool tombs.
Carl Sandburg
> 10. Born 1926, New Jersey.
>
> What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman,
> For I walked down the sidestreets under the trees
> With a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
>
> In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went
> Into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
>
> What peaches and what penumbras!
> Whole families shopping at night!
> Aisles full of husbands!
> Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!
>
> --And you, Garcia Lorca,
> What were you doing down by the watermelons?
>
> After finishing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh jebgr
> "Uhturf" sbe nal nafjre, jr arrq gur shyy anzr. Cyrnfr tb onpx
> naq chg va gur tvira anzr.
--
Go to http://MarcDashevsky.com to send me e-mail.
Joshua Kreitzer
>
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Formerly Known As
>
> In each case, we give you an obsolete name; you give us the
> current name corresponding to it.
>
> 1. Upper Volta.
> 2. Dephlogisticated air ("DEE-flow-JIST-ik-eight'd").
> 3. The Nashville Network.
Spike TV
> 4. Marky Mark.
Mark Wahlberg
> 5. Sextilis.
August
> 6. New York Highlanders.
New York Yankees
Accenture
> 9. Larboard.
Port
> 10. Stalingrad.
Volgograd
> * Game 8, Round 5 - Dead Poets Society
>
>
>
> Love long has taken for his amulet
> One perfect rose.
>
> Why is it no one ever sent me yet
> One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
> Ah no, it's always just my luck to get
> One perfect rose.
> 2. Born 1914, Wales.
>
> When the morning was waking over the war
> He put on his clothes and stepped out and he died,
> The locks yawned loose and a blast blew them wide,
> He dropped where he loved on the burst pavement stone
> And the funeral grains of the slaughtered floor.
> 3. Born 1865, Ireland.
>
> I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
> And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
> Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
> And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
> 6. Born 1888, Missouri.
>
> In the room the women come and go
> Talking of Michelangelo.
>
> The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
> The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
> Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening...
> 7. Born 1932, Massachusetts.
>
> I have done it again.
> One year in every ten I manage it--
>
> A sort of walking miracle, my skin
> Bright as a Nazi lampshade, my right foot
> A paperweight, my face a featureless, fine Jew linen.
> Peel off the napkin, O my enemy. Do I terrify?--
>
> Yes, yes, Herr Professor, It is I. Can you deny
> The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
> 9. Born 1878, Illinois.
>
> When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs,
> He forgot the copperheads and the assassin...
> In the dust, in the cool tombs.
>
> And Ulysses Grant lost all thought of con men and Wall Street,
> Cash and collateral turned ashes...
> In the dust, in the cool tombs.
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Dan Blum
Burkina Faso
> 3. The Nashville Network.
> 4. Marky Mark.
Mark Wahlberg
New York Rangers; San Francisco Giants
> 8. Andersen Consulting.
Accenture
> 9. Larboard.
Port
> 10. Stalingrad.
> * Game 8, Round 5 - Dead Poets Society
> 2. Born 1914, Wales.
> 4. Born 1902, Missouri.
Langston Hughes
> 5. Born 1892, Maine.
Robert Frost
> 6. Born 1888, Missouri.
T. S. Eliot
> 9. Born 1878, Illinois.
Carl Sandburg
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Jeffrey Turner
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Formerly Known As
>
> In each case, we give you an obsolete name; you give us the
> current name corresponding to it.
>
> 1. Upper Volta.
> 2. Dephlogisticated air ("DEE-flow-JIST-ik-eight'd").
> 3. The Nashville Network.
CM
> 4. Marky Mark.
> 5. Sextilis.
> 6. New York Highlanders.
> 7. Revenue Canada.
> 8. Andersen Consulting.
> 9. Larboard.
> 10. Stalingrad.
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 5 - Dead Poets Society
>
>
> Love long has taken for his amulet
> One perfect rose.
>
> Why is it no one ever sent me yet
> One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
> Ah no, it's always just my luck to get
> One perfect rose.
>
> 2. Born 1914, Wales.
>
> When the morning was waking over the war
> He put on his clothes and stepped out and he died,
> The locks yawned loose and a blast blew them wide,
> He dropped where he loved on the burst pavement stone
> And the funeral grains of the slaughtered floor.
> 3. Born 1865, Ireland.
>
> I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
> And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
> Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
> And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
> 4. Born 1902, Missouri.
>
> So boy, don't you turn back.
> Don't you set down on the steps
> 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
> Don't you fall now --
> For I'se still goin', honey,
> I'se still climbin',
> And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
>
> 5. Born 1892, Maine.
>
> Childhood is not from birth to a certain age
> And at a certain age the child is grown,
> And puts away childish things.
> Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
>
> Nobody that matters, that is.
> 6. Born 1888, Missouri.
>
> In the room the women come and go
> Talking of Michelangelo.
>
> The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
> The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
> Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening...
> 7. Born 1932, Massachusetts.
>
> I have done it again.
> One year in every ten I manage it--
>
> A sort of walking miracle, my skin
> Bright as a Nazi lampshade, my right foot
> A paperweight, my face a featureless, fine Jew linen.
> Peel off the napkin, O my enemy. Do I terrify?--
>
> Yes, yes, Herr Professor, It is I. Can you deny
> The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
> 8. Born 1902, New York (state).
>
> That is why marriage is so much more interesting than divorce,
> Because it's the only known example of the happy meeting of
> The immovable object and the irresistible force.
> So I hope that husbands and wives will continue to debate and
> Combat over everything debatable and combatable,
> Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life,
> Particularly if he has income and she is pattable.
> 9. Born 1878, Illinois.
>
> When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs,
> He forgot the copperheads and the assassin...
> In the dust, in the cool tombs.
>
> And Ulysses Grant lost all thought of con men and Wall Street,
> Cash and collateral turned ashes...
> In the dust, in the cool tombs.
> 10. Born 1926, New Jersey.
>
> What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman,
> For I walked down the sidestreets under the trees
> With a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
>
> In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went
> Into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
>
> What peaches and what penumbras!
> Whole families shopping at night!
> Aisles full of husbands!
> Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!
>
> --And you, Garcia Lorca,
> What were you doing down by the watermelons?
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> After finishing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh jebgr
Peter Smyth
news:wPWdncc4vpt4buLT...@vex.net...
>* Game 8, Round 4 - Formerly Known As
>
>In each case, we give you an obsolete name; you give us the
>current name corresponding to it.
>
>1. Upper Volta.
>3. The Nashville Network.
Mark Wahlberg
August
>6. New York Highlanders.
New York Rangers
>7. Revenue Canada.
Canada Revenue
>8. Andersen Consulting.
Accenture
Port
>10. Stalingrad.
Erland Sommarskog
> 4. Marky Mark.
Mark Brader (did you expect any other answer? :-)
> 5. Sextilis.
August
> 6. New York Highlanders.
> 7. Revenue Canada.
> 8. Andersen Consulting.
> 10. Stalingrad.
Tsaritsyn. No, that was the name before it was Stalingrad. These
days it's Volgograd. (Seems that this city has been in many quizzes
lately.)
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se
swp
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Formerly Known As
>
> In each case, we give you an obsolete name; you give us the
> current name corresponding to it.
>
> 1. Upper Volta.
> 2. Dephlogisticated air ("DEE-flow-JIST-ik-eight'd").
> 3. The Nashville Network.
> 4. Marky Mark.
mark wahlberg
> 5. Sextilis.
august
> 6. New York Highlanders.
new york yankees
> 7. Revenue Canada.
london
> 8. Andersen Consulting.
accenture
> 9. Larboard.
port ; starboard
> 10. Stalingrad.
saint petersburg
> * Game 8, Round 5 - Dead Poets Society
>
>
> Love long has taken for his amulet
> One perfect rose.
>
> Why is it no one ever sent me yet
> One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
> Ah no, it's always just my luck to get
> One perfect rose.
> 2. Born 1914, Wales.
>
> When the morning was waking over the war
> He put on his clothes and stepped out and he died,
> The locks yawned loose and a blast blew them wide,
> He dropped where he loved on the burst pavement stone
> And the funeral grains of the slaughtered floor.
> 3. Born 1865, Ireland.
>
> I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
> And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
> Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
> And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
> 4. Born 1902, Missouri.
>
> So boy, don't you turn back.
> Don't you set down on the steps
> 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
> Don't you fall now --
> For I'se still goin', honey,
> I'se still climbin',
> And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
> 5. Born 1892, Maine.
>
> Childhood is not from birth to a certain age
> And at a certain age the child is grown,
> And puts away childish things.
> Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
>
> Nobody that matters, that is.
> 6. Born 1888, Missouri.
>
> In the room the women come and go
> Talking of Michelangelo.
>
> The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
> The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
> Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening...
> 7. Born 1932, Massachusetts.
>
> I have done it again.
> One year in every ten I manage it--
>
> A sort of walking miracle, my skin
> Bright as a Nazi lampshade, my right foot
> A paperweight, my face a featureless, fine Jew linen.
> Peel off the napkin, O my enemy. Do I terrify?--
>
> Yes, yes, Herr Professor, It is I. Can you deny
> The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
> 8. Born 1902, New York (state).
>
> That is why marriage is so much more interesting than divorce,
> Because it's the only known example of the happy meeting of
> The immovable object and the irresistible force.
> So I hope that husbands and wives will continue to debate and
> Combat over everything debatable and combatable,
> Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life,
> Particularly if he has income and she is pattable.
> 9. Born 1878, Illinois.
>
> When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs,
> He forgot the copperheads and the assassin...
> In the dust, in the cool tombs.
>
> And Ulysses Grant lost all thought of con men and Wall Street,
> Cash and collateral turned ashes...
> In the dust, in the cool tombs.
> 10. Born 1926, New Jersey.
>
> What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman,
> For I walked down the sidestreets under the trees
> With a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
>
> In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went
> Into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
>
> What peaches and what penumbras!
> Whole families shopping at night!
> Aisles full of husbands!
> Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!
>
> --And you, Garcia Lorca,
> What were you doing down by the watermelons?
swp
Pete
news:wPWdncc4vpt4buLT...@vex.net:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2011-03-14,
> 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 in a single followup to the newsgroup,
> 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. For further information see
> my 2011-09-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI11, QFTCIMM)".
>
>
> Usually I would post Rounds 4 and 6 of the game together, since
> Round 5 is audio and I'm not doing audio. But, as you will recall,
> Game 8, Round 6, was a second Current Events round (for Canadiana)
> and therefore has already been posted. And on the other hand,
> in this game the audio round, instead of music as usual, was the
> literature round. Well, if you know the words, you won't need the
> audio -- so for this set, instead of Rounds 4 and 6, I'm posting
> Rounds *4 and 5*.
>
> I wrote one of these rounds.
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Formerly Known As
>
> In each case, we give you an obsolete name; you give us the
> current name corresponding to it.
>
> 1. Upper Volta.
> 2. Dephlogisticated air ("DEE-flow-JIST-ik-eight'd").
> 3. The Nashville Network.
Country Music Television
> 4. Marky Mark.
Ice T
> 5. Sextilis.
> 6. New York Highlanders.
> 7. Revenue Canada.
> 8. Andersen Consulting.
> 9. Larboard.
Port
> 10. Stalingrad.
>
> 3. Born 1865, Ireland.
>
> I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
> And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
> Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
> And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
>
> 9. Born 1878, Illinois.
>
> When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs,
> He forgot the copperheads and the assassin...
> In the dust, in the cool tombs.
>
> And Ulysses Grant lost all thought of con men and Wall Street,
> Cash and collateral turned ashes...
> In the dust, in the cool tombs.
>
> 10. Born 1926, New Jersey.
>
> What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman,
> For I walked down the sidestreets under the trees
> With a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
>
> In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went
> Into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
>
> What peaches and what penumbras!
> Whole families shopping at night!
> Aisles full of husbands!
> Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!
>
> --And you, Garcia Lorca,
> What were you doing down by the watermelons?
>
> After finishing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh jebgr
> "Uhturf" sbe nal nafjre, jr arrq gur shyy anzr. Cyrnfr tb onpx
> naq chg va gur tvira anzr.
>
Calvin
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Formerly Known As
>
> In each case, we give you an obsolete name; you give us the
> current name corresponding to it.
>
> 1. Upper Volta.
> 2. Dephlogisticated air ("DEE-flow-JIST-ik-eight'd").
> 3. The Nashville Network.
> 4. Marky Mark.
> 5. Sextilis.
> 6. New York Highlanders.
> 7. Revenue Canada.
Canadian taxation office, Canadian customs and excise
Was this changed recent?
> 8. Andersen Consulting.
KPMG, Deloittes
Didn't realise they'd been resurrected.
> 9. Larboard.
> 10. Stalingrad.
Volvograd
> 3. Born 1865, Ireland.
>
> I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
> And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
> Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
> And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
> 9. Born 1878, Illinois.
>
> When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs,
> He forgot the copperheads and the assassin...
> In the dust, in the cool tombs.
>
> And Ulysses Grant lost all thought of con men and Wall Street,
> Cash and collateral turned ashes...
> In the dust, in the cool tombs.
>
> 10. Born 1926, New Jersey.
>
> What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman,
> For I walked down the sidestreets under the trees
> With a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
>
> In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went
> Into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
>
> What peaches and what penumbras!
> Whole families shopping at night!
> Aisles full of husbands!
> Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!
>
> --And you, Garcia Lorca,
> What were you doing down by the watermelons?
calvin
Mark Brader
> > 7. Revenue Canada.
"Calvin":
> Was this changed recent?
Revenue was renamed "Revenue Canada" in 1970. In 1999 it became
the "Canada Customs and Revenue Agency", indicating a tighter
union of its tax and customs branches. Then in 2003 the customs
function was split off to a separate agency and the present name
was adopted.
Hmm. I guess I should accept the customs agency's name too, as a
successor to the other part of Revenue Canada.
--
Mark Brader | "I believe we can build a better world!
Toronto | Of course, it'll take a whole lot of rock, water and dirt.
m...@vex.net | Also, not sure where to put it." --Mark MacKenzie
Dan Tilque
>
> I wrote one of these rounds.
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Formerly Known As
>
> In each case, we give you an obsolete name; you give us the
> current name corresponding to it.
>
> 1. Upper Volta.
> 2. Dephlogisticated air ("DEE-flow-JIST-ik-eight'd").
> 3. The Nashville Network.
> 4. Marky Mark.
Mark Brader
July
> 6. New York Highlanders.
New York Yankees
> 8. Andersen Consulting.
> 9. Larboard.
> 10. Stalingrad.
Volgograd
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 5 - Dead Poets Society
>
> This is the literature round. In its original form as an audio
> round, each piece of poetry was read by its own author. For each
> poet we will give you their date of birth, and the US state or UK
> country where they were born, although that may not be where they
> did the work they are known for.
>
> In each case, of course, name the poet. As the round's title
> indicates, all of them are now dead.
>
> *Note*: Since this was an audio round, you're supposed to be
> identifying the poets from the words you would have heard spoken,
> and not from the way the words are presented visually. So for
> newsgroup purposes I've edited the excerpts into a single common
> style as regards indentation, capitalization, and punctuation,
> and in some cases also tampered with the line breaks.
>
> 1. Born 1893, New Jersey.
>
> Love long has taken for his amulet
> One perfect rose.
>
> Why is it no one ever sent me yet
> One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
> Ah no, it's always just my luck to get
> One perfect rose.
>
> 2. Born 1914, Wales.
>
> When the morning was waking over the war
> He put on his clothes and stepped out and he died,
> The locks yawned loose and a blast blew them wide,
> He dropped where he loved on the burst pavement stone
> And the funeral grains of the slaughtered floor.
>
> 3. Born 1865, Ireland.
>
> I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
> And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
> Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
> And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
>
> 4. Born 1902, Missouri.
>
> So boy, don't you turn back.
> Don't you set down on the steps
> 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
> Don't you fall now --
> For I'se still goin', honey,
> I'se still climbin',
> And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
>
> 5. Born 1892, Maine.
>
> Childhood is not from birth to a certain age
> And at a certain age the child is grown,
> And puts away childish things.
> Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
>
> Nobody that matters, that is.
>
> 6. Born 1888, Missouri.
>
> In the room the women come and go
> Talking of Michelangelo.
>
> The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
> The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
> Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening...
>
> 7. Born 1932, Massachusetts.
>
> I have done it again.
> One year in every ten I manage it--
>
> A sort of walking miracle, my skin
> Bright as a Nazi lampshade, my right foot
> A paperweight, my face a featureless, fine Jew linen.
> Peel off the napkin, O my enemy. Do I terrify?--
>
> Yes, yes, Herr Professor, It is I. Can you deny
> The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
>
> After finishing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh jebgr
> "Uhturf" sbe nal nafjre, jr arrq gur shyy anzr. Cyrnfr tb onpx
> naq chg va gur tvira anzr.
>
--
Keeping Pluto dead has taken a lot of work.
-- Mike Brown "How I killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming"
Dan Tilque
> On Sep 26, 1:39 pm, m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote:
>> 10. Stalingrad.
>
> Volvograd
I thought Volvos came from Sweden...
Rob Parker
Burkina Faso
> 3. The Nashville Network.
The Grand Ol' Opry (?)
> 9. Larboard.
Port
> * Game 8, Round 5 - Dead Poets Society
>
Dylan Thomas
> 3. Born 1865, Ireland.
> 4. Born 1902, Missouri.
Longfellow; Whitman
> 5. Born 1892, Maine.
Longfellow; Whitman
> 6. Born 1888, Missouri.
Longfellow; Whitman
> 8. Born 1902, New York (state).
> 9. Born 1878, Illinois.
Longfellow; Whitman
Rob
Erland Sommarskog
are still Swedish.
Mark Brader
> Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI11, QFTCIMM)".
>
> Usually I would post Rounds 4 and 6 of the game together, since
> Round 5 is audio and I'm not doing audio. But, as you will recall,
> Game 8, Round 6, was a second Current Events round (for Canadiana)
> and therefore has already been posted. And on the other hand,
> in this game the audio round, instead of music as usual, was the
> literature round. Well, if you know the words, you won't need the
> audio -- so for this set, instead of Rounds 4 and 6, I'm posting
> Rounds *4 and 5*.
>
> I wrote one of these rounds.
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Formerly Known As
> In each case, we give you an obsolete name; you give us the
> current name corresponding to it.
> 1. Upper Volta.
Calvin, Dan Tilque, and Rob.
> 2. Dephlogisticated air ("DEE-flow-JIST-ik-eight'd").
2 for Joshua and Calvin.
> 3. The Nashville Network.
Spike. 4 for Marc, Joshua, and Stephen.
> 4. Marky Mark.
Mark Wahlberg. 4 for Marc, Joshua, Dan Blum, Peter, and Stephen.
> 5. Sextilis.
August. 4 for Marc, Joshua, Peter, Erland, and Stephen.
> 6. New York Highlanders.
New York Yankees. 4 for Marc, Joshua, Jeff, Stephen, Pete,
and Dan Tilque.
> 7. Revenue Canada.
Canada Revenue Agency (exact wording required). I'm also accepting
the Canada Border Services Agency (exact wording required), which
was split off from the former Revenue Canada at the same time as
the last name change.
> 8. Andersen Consulting.
Accenture. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Peter, Erland, Stephen, and Pete.
> 9. Larboard.
Port. 4 for Marc, Joshua, Dan Blum, Jeff, Peter, Pete, Dan Tilque,
and Rob. 3 for Stephen.
> 10. Stalingrad.
Volgograd. 4 for Marc, Joshua, Erland, Pete, and Dan Tilque.
3 for Calvin.
> * Game 8, Round 5 - Dead Poets Society
> This is the literature round. In its original form as an audio
> style as regards indentation, capitalization, and punctuation,
> and in some cases also tampered with the line breaks.
> 1. Born 1893, New Jersey.
> Love long has taken for his amulet
> One perfect rose.
> Why is it no one ever sent me yet
> One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
> Ah no, it's always just my luck to get
> One perfect rose.
> 2. Born 1914, Wales.
> When the morning was waking over the war
> He put on his clothes and stepped out and he died,
> The locks yawned loose and a blast blew them wide,
> He dropped where he loved on the burst pavement stone
> And the funeral grains of the slaughtered floor.
Dan Blum, Jeff, Stephen, Pete, Calvin, Dan Tilque, and Rob.
> 3. Born 1865, Ireland.
> I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
> And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
> Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
> And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
Stephen, Calvin, and Rob.
> 4. Born 1902, Missouri.
> So boy, don't you turn back.
> Don't you set down on the steps
> 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
> Don't you fall now --
> For I'se still goin', honey,
> I'se still climbin',
> And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
4 for Dan Blum. 3 for Stephen.
> 5. Born 1892, Maine.
> Childhood is not from birth to a certain age
> And at a certain age the child is grown,
> And puts away childish things.
> Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
> Nobody that matters, that is.
Dies"). 4 for Stephen.
> 6. Born 1888, Missouri.
> In the room the women come and go
> Talking of Michelangelo.
> The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
> The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
> Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening...
Dan Blum, Stephen, and Dan Tilque.
> 7. Born 1932, Massachusetts.
> I have done it again.
> One year in every ten I manage it--
> A sort of walking miracle, my skin
> Bright as a Nazi lampshade, my right foot
> A paperweight, my face a featureless, fine Jew linen.
> Peel off the napkin, O my enemy. Do I terrify?--
> Yes, yes, Herr Professor, It is I. Can you deny
> The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
> 8. Born 1902, New York (state).
> That is why marriage is so much more interesting than divorce,
> Because it's the only known example of the happy meeting of
> The immovable object and the irresistible force.
> So I hope that husbands and wives will continue to debate and
> Combat over everything debatable and combatable,
> Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life,
> Particularly if he has income and she is pattable.
3 for Jeff.
> 9. Born 1878, Illinois.
> When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs,
> He forgot the copperheads and the assassin...
> In the dust, in the cool tombs.
> And Ulysses Grant lost all thought of con men and Wall Street,
> Cash and collateral turned ashes...
> In the dust, in the cool tombs.
and Pete.
> 10. Born 1926, New Jersey.
> What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman,
> For I walked down the sidestreets under the trees
> With a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
> In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went
> Into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
> What peaches and what penumbras!
> Whole families shopping at night!
> Aisles full of husbands!
> Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!
> --And you, Garcia Lorca,
> What were you doing down by the watermelons?
Scores, if there are no errors:
ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 5 TOTALS
TOPICS-> His Sci Mis Lit
Dan Blum 40 32 20 20 112
Stephen Perry 36 22 27 27 112
Joshua Kreitzer 28 10 34 24 96
Dan Tilque 28 24 20 8 80
Marc Dashevsky 16 19 32 12 79
Rob Parker 20 28 12 12 72
Peter Smyth 28 16 20 0 64
Jeff Turner 20 24 8 11 63
"Calvin" 28 15 9 8 60
Stan Brown 32 28 -- -- 60
Pete Gayde 28 4 20 8 60
Bruce Bowler 8 32 -- -- 40
Erland Sommarskog 8 8 16 0 32
--
Mark Brader "Hey, I don't want to control people's lives!
Toronto (If they did things right, I wouldn't have to.)"
m...@vex.net -- "Coach"