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RQFTCI07 Game 3 Rounds 4,6: zoonoses and and in real life
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Mark Brader
Jul 20, 2020, 10:56:56 PM7/20/20
to
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2007-02-05,
and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written
by members of the Usual Suspects, but have been reformatted and
may have been retyped and/or edited by me. I will reveal the
correct answers in about 3 days.
For further information see my 2020-06-23 companion posting on
"Reposted Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
In some cases either the answers or the facts stated as current
in the question have changed since the question was written.
I've tried to call attention to such possibilities by inserting
*tripled quotation marks* around words that were correct at the time
of the original game -- for example, """now""" or """is""" (pretty
much any present-tense verb may be marked). I will always accept
the answer that was correct when the question was originally asked.
If the facts have changed in such a way that a different answer is
now correct (rather than some other sort of change), I will also
accept the new correct answer -- unless there is an explicit note
requiring otherwise. See the companion posting for further details.
I originally wrote one of these rounds, and if you read carefully,
you might be able to figure out which one.
* Game 3, Round 4 - Science - Zoonoses ["ZOH-uh-NO-seas"]
A zoonosis ["ZOH-uh-NO-sis" or "zoh-ON-uh-sis"] is a disease of
animals transmissible to humans. In each case, name the disease.
1. A red-hot poker was at one time commonly used in attempts to
prevent what disease?
2. This zoonosis is named for the way you can catch it, but it's
also known as Debré's syndrome, Debré-Mollaret syndrome,
Foshay-Mollaret syndrome, Petzetakis' disease, Parinaud
oculoglandular disease, and as if those names weren't long enough,
benign inoculation lymphoreticulosis. Give the easy name.
3. What disease is most commonly transferred to humans from living
birds? (No, not bird flu.)
4. When this round's writer was a child, her pediatrician warned her
that pet turtles could be dangerous. What common infection are
you most likely to catch from one?
5. This disease is best known for deadly epidemics elsewhere, but
in the southwest US, the ground squirrel provides a reservoir
for it.
6. People usually catch this disease from mosquitoes, but it is
also known to occur in horses, cats, bats, chipmunks,
skunks, squirrels, domestic rabbits, and (significantly)
birds. What is it?
7. In the movie "Hud", the memorable scene of the cattle slaughter
portrays the ranchers' response to an outbreak of what disease?
8. What disease, now rare in North America, can be caught from
eating undercooked pork? Be sufficiently specific.
9. What tick-borne disease identified in the 20th century takes
its name from a town in New England?
10. Another tick-borne disease is named after a region of North
America, but is actually found throughout the continent.
What is it?
* Game 3, Round 6 - Entertainment - Meanwhile in Real Life
These questions are about actors and actresses and other occupations or
positions they have held in real life. Except as noted, name the person
being described.
1. This economist and law professor """has also been""" a comedian and,
from 1997 to 2002, a game show host.
2. This obstetrician won an Oscar for his first professional acting
job, in a 1984 drama of oppression.
3. Baroness Haden-Guest """is""" better known as who?
4. He was still serving as a US senator when he joined the cast
of a long-running weekly TV drama in 2002 -- playing an elected
official on the show. Name him.
5. Many athletes try switching to acting, but this actress went
the other way. In her chosen sport she finished 29th of 300
in the US national championships, but she did not make the cut
in the Olympic trials.
6. All too many actors become involved with drugs, but this man
went the other way. Convicted of dealing cocaine in 1978, he
then became an actor. He """has""" starred in a long-running
1990s TV sitcom as well as a number of successful movies.
7. Omar Sharif was a world-class player of what?
8. Hedy Lamarr and her co-worker George Antheil received a patent
in 1942 in what field?
9. During World War II he turned from acting to flying bombers,
eventually rising to brigadier general in the US Air Force.
10. Another actor-pilot was a cabinetmaker before becoming a movie
star, and """has been""" known to fly search and rescue missions in
his helicopter.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "When you're up to your ass in alligators, maybe
m...@vex.net | you're in the wrong swamp." -- Bill Stewart
My text in this article is in the public domain.
and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written
by members of the Usual Suspects, but have been reformatted and
may have been retyped and/or edited by me. I will reveal the
correct answers in about 3 days.
For further information see my 2020-06-23 companion posting on
"Reposted Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
In some cases either the answers or the facts stated as current
in the question have changed since the question was written.
I've tried to call attention to such possibilities by inserting
*tripled quotation marks* around words that were correct at the time
of the original game -- for example, """now""" or """is""" (pretty
much any present-tense verb may be marked). I will always accept
the answer that was correct when the question was originally asked.
If the facts have changed in such a way that a different answer is
now correct (rather than some other sort of change), I will also
accept the new correct answer -- unless there is an explicit note
requiring otherwise. See the companion posting for further details.
I originally wrote one of these rounds, and if you read carefully,
you might be able to figure out which one.
* Game 3, Round 4 - Science - Zoonoses ["ZOH-uh-NO-seas"]
A zoonosis ["ZOH-uh-NO-sis" or "zoh-ON-uh-sis"] is a disease of
animals transmissible to humans. In each case, name the disease.
1. A red-hot poker was at one time commonly used in attempts to
prevent what disease?
2. This zoonosis is named for the way you can catch it, but it's
also known as Debré's syndrome, Debré-Mollaret syndrome,
Foshay-Mollaret syndrome, Petzetakis' disease, Parinaud
oculoglandular disease, and as if those names weren't long enough,
benign inoculation lymphoreticulosis. Give the easy name.
3. What disease is most commonly transferred to humans from living
birds? (No, not bird flu.)
4. When this round's writer was a child, her pediatrician warned her
that pet turtles could be dangerous. What common infection are
you most likely to catch from one?
5. This disease is best known for deadly epidemics elsewhere, but
in the southwest US, the ground squirrel provides a reservoir
for it.
6. People usually catch this disease from mosquitoes, but it is
also known to occur in horses, cats, bats, chipmunks,
skunks, squirrels, domestic rabbits, and (significantly)
birds. What is it?
7. In the movie "Hud", the memorable scene of the cattle slaughter
portrays the ranchers' response to an outbreak of what disease?
8. What disease, now rare in North America, can be caught from
eating undercooked pork? Be sufficiently specific.
9. What tick-borne disease identified in the 20th century takes
its name from a town in New England?
10. Another tick-borne disease is named after a region of North
America, but is actually found throughout the continent.
What is it?
* Game 3, Round 6 - Entertainment - Meanwhile in Real Life
These questions are about actors and actresses and other occupations or
positions they have held in real life. Except as noted, name the person
being described.
1. This economist and law professor """has also been""" a comedian and,
from 1997 to 2002, a game show host.
2. This obstetrician won an Oscar for his first professional acting
job, in a 1984 drama of oppression.
3. Baroness Haden-Guest """is""" better known as who?
4. He was still serving as a US senator when he joined the cast
of a long-running weekly TV drama in 2002 -- playing an elected
official on the show. Name him.
5. Many athletes try switching to acting, but this actress went
the other way. In her chosen sport she finished 29th of 300
in the US national championships, but she did not make the cut
in the Olympic trials.
6. All too many actors become involved with drugs, but this man
went the other way. Convicted of dealing cocaine in 1978, he
then became an actor. He """has""" starred in a long-running
1990s TV sitcom as well as a number of successful movies.
7. Omar Sharif was a world-class player of what?
8. Hedy Lamarr and her co-worker George Antheil received a patent
in 1942 in what field?
9. During World War II he turned from acting to flying bombers,
eventually rising to brigadier general in the US Air Force.
10. Another actor-pilot was a cabinetmaker before becoming a movie
star, and """has been""" known to fly search and rescue missions in
his helicopter.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "When you're up to your ass in alligators, maybe
m...@vex.net | you're in the wrong swamp." -- Bill Stewart
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Joshua Kreitzer
Jul 21, 2020, 12:19:19 AM7/21/20
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in
news:EKadnQ3Z3cbuxIvC...@giganews.com:
> I originally wrote one of these rounds, and if you read carefully,
> you might be able to figure out which one.
>
> * Game 3, Round 4 - Science - Zoonoses ["ZOH-uh-NO-seas"]
>
> 8. What disease, now rare in North America, can be caught from
> eating undercooked pork? Be sufficiently specific.
trichinosis
> 9. What tick-borne disease identified in the 20th century takes
> its name from a town in New England?
Lyme disease
> 10. Another tick-borne disease is named after a region of North
> America, but is actually found throughout the continent.
> What is it?
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
> * Game 3, Round 6 - Entertainment - Meanwhile in Real Life
>
> These questions are about actors and actresses and other occupations
> or positions they have held in real life. Except as noted, name the
> person being described.
>
> 1. This economist and law professor """has also been""" a comedian
> and,
> from 1997 to 2002, a game show host.
Ben Stein
> 2. This obstetrician won an Oscar for his first professional acting
> job, in a 1984 drama of oppression.
Haing S. Ngor
> 3. Baroness Haden-Guest """is""" better known as who?
Jamie Lee Curtis
> 4. He was still serving as a US senator when he joined the cast
> of a long-running weekly TV drama in 2002 -- playing an elected
> official on the show. Name him.
Fred Dalton Thompson
> 5. Many athletes try switching to acting, but this actress went
> the other way. In her chosen sport she finished 29th of 300
> in the US national championships, but she did not make the cut
> in the Olympic trials.
Geena Davis
> 6. All too many actors become involved with drugs, but this man
> went the other way. Convicted of dealing cocaine in 1978, he
> then became an actor. He """has""" starred in a long-running
> 1990s TV sitcom as well as a number of successful movies.
Tim Allen
> 7. Omar Sharif was a world-class player of what?
bridge
> 8. Hedy Lamarr and her co-worker George Antheil received a patent
> in 1942 in what field?
radio; electronics
> 9. During World War II he turned from acting to flying bombers,
> eventually rising to brigadier general in the US Air Force.
James Stewart
> 10. Another actor-pilot was a cabinetmaker before becoming a movie
> star, and """has been""" known to fly search and rescue missions in
> his helicopter.
Harrison Ford
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
news:EKadnQ3Z3cbuxIvC...@giganews.com:
> I originally wrote one of these rounds, and if you read carefully,
> you might be able to figure out which one.
>
> * Game 3, Round 4 - Science - Zoonoses ["ZOH-uh-NO-seas"]
>
> 4. When this round's writer was a child, her pediatrician warned her
> that pet turtles could be dangerous. What common infection are
> you most likely to catch from one?
I don't know, but Mark must have written the *other* round.
> that pet turtles could be dangerous. What common infection are
> you most likely to catch from one?
> 8. What disease, now rare in North America, can be caught from
> eating undercooked pork? Be sufficiently specific.
> 9. What tick-borne disease identified in the 20th century takes
> its name from a town in New England?
> 10. Another tick-borne disease is named after a region of North
> America, but is actually found throughout the continent.
> What is it?
> * Game 3, Round 6 - Entertainment - Meanwhile in Real Life
>
> These questions are about actors and actresses and other occupations
> or positions they have held in real life. Except as noted, name the
> person being described.
>
> 1. This economist and law professor """has also been""" a comedian
> and,
> from 1997 to 2002, a game show host.
> 2. This obstetrician won an Oscar for his first professional acting
> job, in a 1984 drama of oppression.
> 3. Baroness Haden-Guest """is""" better known as who?
> 4. He was still serving as a US senator when he joined the cast
> of a long-running weekly TV drama in 2002 -- playing an elected
> official on the show. Name him.
> 5. Many athletes try switching to acting, but this actress went
> the other way. In her chosen sport she finished 29th of 300
> in the US national championships, but she did not make the cut
> in the Olympic trials.
> 6. All too many actors become involved with drugs, but this man
> went the other way. Convicted of dealing cocaine in 1978, he
> then became an actor. He """has""" starred in a long-running
> 1990s TV sitcom as well as a number of successful movies.
> 7. Omar Sharif was a world-class player of what?
> 8. Hedy Lamarr and her co-worker George Antheil received a patent
> in 1942 in what field?
> 9. During World War II he turned from acting to flying bombers,
> eventually rising to brigadier general in the US Air Force.
> 10. Another actor-pilot was a cabinetmaker before becoming a movie
> star, and """has been""" known to fly search and rescue missions in
> his helicopter.
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Erland Sommarskog
Jul 21, 2020, 3:39:32 AM7/21/20
to
> 7. Omar Sharif was a world-class player of what?
>
Bridge
>
Dan Blum
Jul 21, 2020, 11:22:27 AM7/21/20
to
> 1. A red-hot poker was at one time commonly used in attempts to
> prevent what disease?
rabies
> prevent what disease?
> 2. This zoonosis is named for the way you can catch it, but it's
> Foshay-Mollaret syndrome, Petzetakis' disease, Parinaud
> oculoglandular disease, and as if those names weren't long enough,
> benign inoculation lymphoreticulosis. Give the easy name.
foot and mouth disease
> oculoglandular disease, and as if those names weren't long enough,
> benign inoculation lymphoreticulosis. Give the easy name.
> 3. What disease is most commonly transferred to humans from living
> birds? (No, not bird flu.)
> 4. When this round's writer was a child, her pediatrician warned her
> that pet turtles could be dangerous. What common infection are
> you most likely to catch from one?
> 5. This disease is best known for deadly epidemics elsewhere, but
> in the southwest US, the ground squirrel provides a reservoir
> for it.
> 6. People usually catch this disease from mosquitoes, but it is
> also known to occur in horses, cats, bats, chipmunks,
> skunks, squirrels, domestic rabbits, and (significantly)
> birds. What is it?
> 7. In the movie "Hud", the memorable scene of the cattle slaughter
> portrays the ranchers' response to an outbreak of what disease?
> 8. What disease, now rare in North America, can be caught from
> eating undercooked pork? Be sufficiently specific.
> 9. What tick-borne disease identified in the 20th century takes
> its name from a town in New England?
> 10. Another tick-borne disease is named after a region of North
> America, but is actually found throughout the continent.
> What is it?
> * Game 3, Round 6 - Entertainment - Meanwhile in Real Life
> 1. This economist and law professor """has also been""" a comedian and,
> from 1997 to 2002, a game show host.
Ben Stein
> from 1997 to 2002, a game show host.
> 2. This obstetrician won an Oscar for his first professional acting
> job, in a 1984 drama of oppression.
> 4. He was still serving as a US senator when he joined the cast
> of a long-running weekly TV drama in 2002 -- playing an elected
> official on the show. Name him.
> 5. Many athletes try switching to acting, but this actress went
> the other way. In her chosen sport she finished 29th of 300
> in the US national championships, but she did not make the cut
> in the Olympic trials.
> 7. Omar Sharif was a world-class player of what?
> 8. Hedy Lamarr and her co-worker George Antheil received a patent
> in 1942 in what field?
> 9. During World War II he turned from acting to flying bombers,
> eventually rising to brigadier general in the US Air Force.
> 10. Another actor-pilot was a cabinetmaker before becoming a movie
> star, and """has been""" known to fly search and rescue missions in
> his helicopter.
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Dan Tilque
Jul 22, 2020, 12:39:28 PM7/22/20
to
On 7/20/20 7:56 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 4 - Science - Zoonoses ["ZOH-uh-NO-seas"]
>
> A zoonosis ["ZOH-uh-NO-sis" or "zoh-ON-uh-sis"] is a disease of
> animals transmissible to humans. In each case, name the disease.
>
> 1. A red-hot poker was at one time commonly used in attempts to
> prevent what disease?
>
> 2. This zoonosis is named for the way you can catch it, but it's
> also known as Debré's syndrome, Debré-Mollaret syndrome,
> Foshay-Mollaret syndrome, Petzetakis' disease, Parinaud
> oculoglandular disease, and as if those names weren't long enough,
> benign inoculation lymphoreticulosis. Give the easy name.
>
> 3. What disease is most commonly transferred to humans from living
> birds? (No, not bird flu.)
influenza
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 4 - Science - Zoonoses ["ZOH-uh-NO-seas"]
>
> A zoonosis ["ZOH-uh-NO-sis" or "zoh-ON-uh-sis"] is a disease of
> animals transmissible to humans. In each case, name the disease.
>
> 1. A red-hot poker was at one time commonly used in attempts to
> prevent what disease?
>
> 2. This zoonosis is named for the way you can catch it, but it's
> also known as Debré's syndrome, Debré-Mollaret syndrome,
> Foshay-Mollaret syndrome, Petzetakis' disease, Parinaud
> oculoglandular disease, and as if those names weren't long enough,
> benign inoculation lymphoreticulosis. Give the easy name.
>
> 3. What disease is most commonly transferred to humans from living
> birds? (No, not bird flu.)
>
> 4. When this round's writer was a child, her pediatrician warned her
> that pet turtles could be dangerous. What common infection are
> you most likely to catch from one?
>
> 5. This disease is best known for deadly epidemics elsewhere, but
> in the southwest US, the ground squirrel provides a reservoir
> for it.
>
> 6. People usually catch this disease from mosquitoes, but it is
> also known to occur in horses, cats, bats, chipmunks,
> skunks, squirrels, domestic rabbits, and (significantly)
> birds. What is it?
>
> 7. In the movie "Hud", the memorable scene of the cattle slaughter
> portrays the ranchers' response to an outbreak of what disease?
>
> 8. What disease, now rare in North America, can be caught from
> eating undercooked pork? Be sufficiently specific.
>
> 9. What tick-borne disease identified in the 20th century takes
> its name from a town in New England?
>
> 10. Another tick-borne disease is named after a region of North
> America, but is actually found throughout the continent.
> What is it?
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 6 - Entertainment - Meanwhile in Real Life
>
> These questions are about actors and actresses and other occupations or
> positions they have held in real life. Except as noted, name the person
> being described.
>
> 1. This economist and law professor """has also been""" a comedian and,
> from 1997 to 2002, a game show host.
>
> 2. This obstetrician won an Oscar for his first professional acting
> job, in a 1984 drama of oppression.
>
> 3. Baroness Haden-Guest """is""" better known as who?
(married to Christopher Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest)
>
> 4. He was still serving as a US senator when he joined the cast
> of a long-running weekly TV drama in 2002 -- playing an elected
> official on the show. Name him.
>
> 5. Many athletes try switching to acting, but this actress went
> the other way. In her chosen sport she finished 29th of 300
> in the US national championships, but she did not make the cut
> in the Olympic trials.
>
> 6. All too many actors become involved with drugs, but this man
> went the other way. Convicted of dealing cocaine in 1978, he
> then became an actor. He """has""" starred in a long-running
> 1990s TV sitcom as well as a number of successful movies.
>
> 7. Omar Sharif was a world-class player of what?
>
> 8. Hedy Lamarr and her co-worker George Antheil received a patent
> in 1942 in what field?
>
> 9. During World War II he turned from acting to flying bombers,
> eventually rising to brigadier general in the US Air Force.
>
> 10. Another actor-pilot was a cabinetmaker before becoming a movie
> star, and """has been""" known to fly search and rescue missions in
> his helicopter.
>
--
Mark Brader
Jul 23, 2020, 11:51:33 PM7/23/20
to
Mark Brader:
> * Game 3, Round 4 - Science - Zoonoses ["ZOH-uh-NO-seas"]
> A zoonosis ["ZOH-uh-NO-sis" or "zoh-ON-uh-sis"] is a disease of
> animals transmissible to humans. In each case, name the disease.
> 1. A red-hot poker was at one time commonly used in attempts to
> prevent what disease?
Rabies. 4 for Dan Blum.
> 2. This zoonosis is named for the way you can catch it, but it's
> also known as Debré's syndrome, Debré-Mollaret syndrome,
> Foshay-Mollaret syndrome, Petzetakis' disease, Parinaud
> oculoglandular disease, and as if those names weren't long enough,
> benign inoculation lymphoreticulosis. Give the easy name.
Cat-scratch fever.
> 3. What disease is most commonly transferred to humans from living
> birds? (No, not bird flu.)
Psittacosis (or ornithosis). 4 for Dan Blum.
> 4. When this round's writer was a child, *her* pediatrician warned her
Emphasis added in the question, indicating that the other round was
the one I wrote. Joshua was the first to notice.
> 5. This disease is best known for deadly epidemics elsewhere, but
> in the southwest US, the ground squirrel provides a reservoir
> for it.
Bubonic plague. 4 for Dan Blum.
> 6. People usually catch this disease from mosquitoes, but it is
> also known to occur in horses, cats, bats, chipmunks,
> skunks, squirrels, domestic rabbits, and (significantly)
> birds. What is it?
West Nile virus. 4 for Dan Tilque.
> 7. In the movie "Hud", the memorable scene of the cattle slaughter
> portrays the ranchers' response to an outbreak of what disease?
Foot (or hoof) and mouth. 4 for Dan Tilque.
> 8. What disease, now rare in North America, can be caught from
> eating undercooked pork? Be sufficiently specific.
Trichinosis (or trichiniasis or trichinellosis). 4 for Joshua,
Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque.
> 9. What tick-borne disease identified in the 20th century takes
> its name from a town in New England?
Lyme disease. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque.
> 10. Another tick-borne disease is named after a region of North
> America, but is actually found throughout the continent.
> What is it?
Rocky Mountain spotted fever. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque.
> * Game 3, Round 6 - Entertainment - Meanwhile in Real Life
In the original game the current-events round and the audio round,
neither of which I'm posting here, were tied for being the easiest,
and this one was the next-easiest.
> These questions are about actors and actresses and other occupations or
> positions they have held in real life. Except as noted, name the person
> being described.
> 1. This economist and law professor """has also been""" a comedian and,
> from 1997 to 2002, a game show host.
Ben Stein. (Still alive.) 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.
> 2. This obstetrician won an Oscar for his first professional acting
> job, in a 1984 drama of oppression.
Haing S. Ngor. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.
He played real-life Cambodian photojournalist Dith Pran in
"The Killing Fields". Both men eventually emigrated to the US
and died there. Ngor was murdered in 1996 in what some say was
an assassination; Pran died of natural causes a few days before
I posted this round here in 2008.
> 3. Baroness Haden-Guest """is""" better known as who?
Jamie Lee Curtis (still alive and still married to Christopher Guest,
a hereditary baron). 4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque.
> 4. He was still serving as a US senator when he joined the cast
> of a long-running weekly TV drama in 2002 -- playing an elected
> official on the show. Name him.
Fred Dalton Thompson. (Died in 2015.) 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.
He played District Attorney Arthur Branch on "Law & Order" -- only
to leave the role in 2007 to begin an (unsuccessful) attempt at a
higher elected office. His character's last line on the series was
"Everybody's a politician."
> 5. Many athletes try switching to acting, but this actress went
> the other way. In her chosen sport she finished 29th of 300
> in the US national championships, but she did not make the cut
> in the Olympic trials.
Geena Davis (archery, 2000; still alive). 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.
> 6. All too many actors become involved with drugs, but this man
> went the other way. Convicted of dealing cocaine in 1978, he
> then became an actor. He """has""" starred in a long-running
> 1990s TV sitcom as well as a number of successful movies.
Tim Allen. ("Home Improvement"; still alive.) 4 for Joshua.
> 7. Omar Sharif was a world-class player of what?
Bridge. He didn't die until 2015, but the verb is "was" because he
retired from the game in 2006. 4 for Joshua, Erland, and Dan Tilque.
> 8. Hedy Lamarr and her co-worker George Antheil received a patent
> in 1942 in what field?
Telecommunications security, specifically spread-spectrum
communications. (Accepting "radio" or "electronics" as close enough.
See died in 2000, by the way.) 4 for Joshua (the hard way), Dan Blum,
and Dan Tilque.
> 9. During World War II he turned from acting to flying bombers,
> eventually rising to brigadier general in the US Air Force.
James Stewart. (Died in 1997.) 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum,
and Dan Tilque.
> 10. Another actor-pilot was a cabinetmaker before becoming a movie
> star, and """has been""" known to fly search and rescue missions in
> his helicopter.
Harrison Ford. (Still alive and still flying.) 4 for Joshua
and Dan Blum.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 3 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS
TOPICS-> His Lit Sci Ent
Dan Blum 32 22 24 28 106
Joshua Kreitzer 26 20 12 40 98
Stephen Perry 32 39 -- -- 71
Dan Tilque 24 4 20 16 64
Erland Sommarskog 20 0 0 4 24
Pete Gayde 8 0 -- -- 8
--
Mark Brader "If the right people don't have power...
Toronto the wrong people get it... ordinary voters!"
m...@vex.net -- Lynn & Jay: YES, PRIME MINISTER
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2007-02-05,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2020-06-23 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from
> the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
> the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
> I originally wrote one of these rounds, and if you read carefully,
> you might be able to figure out which one.
See below.
> you might be able to figure out which one.
> * Game 3, Round 4 - Science - Zoonoses ["ZOH-uh-NO-seas"]
> A zoonosis ["ZOH-uh-NO-sis" or "zoh-ON-uh-sis"] is a disease of
> animals transmissible to humans. In each case, name the disease.
> 1. A red-hot poker was at one time commonly used in attempts to
> prevent what disease?
> 2. This zoonosis is named for the way you can catch it, but it's
> also known as Debré's syndrome, Debré-Mollaret syndrome,
> Foshay-Mollaret syndrome, Petzetakis' disease, Parinaud
> oculoglandular disease, and as if those names weren't long enough,
> benign inoculation lymphoreticulosis. Give the easy name.
> 3. What disease is most commonly transferred to humans from living
> birds? (No, not bird flu.)
> 4. When this round's writer was a child, *her* pediatrician warned her
> that pet turtles could be dangerous. What common infection are
> you most likely to catch from one?
Salmonella.
> you most likely to catch from one?
Emphasis added in the question, indicating that the other round was
the one I wrote. Joshua was the first to notice.
> 5. This disease is best known for deadly epidemics elsewhere, but
> in the southwest US, the ground squirrel provides a reservoir
> for it.
> 6. People usually catch this disease from mosquitoes, but it is
> also known to occur in horses, cats, bats, chipmunks,
> skunks, squirrels, domestic rabbits, and (significantly)
> birds. What is it?
> 7. In the movie "Hud", the memorable scene of the cattle slaughter
> portrays the ranchers' response to an outbreak of what disease?
> 8. What disease, now rare in North America, can be caught from
> eating undercooked pork? Be sufficiently specific.
Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque.
> 9. What tick-borne disease identified in the 20th century takes
> its name from a town in New England?
> 10. Another tick-borne disease is named after a region of North
> America, but is actually found throughout the continent.
> What is it?
> * Game 3, Round 6 - Entertainment - Meanwhile in Real Life
neither of which I'm posting here, were tied for being the easiest,
and this one was the next-easiest.
> These questions are about actors and actresses and other occupations or
> positions they have held in real life. Except as noted, name the person
> being described.
> 1. This economist and law professor """has also been""" a comedian and,
> from 1997 to 2002, a game show host.
> 2. This obstetrician won an Oscar for his first professional acting
> job, in a 1984 drama of oppression.
He played real-life Cambodian photojournalist Dith Pran in
"The Killing Fields". Both men eventually emigrated to the US
and died there. Ngor was murdered in 1996 in what some say was
an assassination; Pran died of natural causes a few days before
I posted this round here in 2008.
> 3. Baroness Haden-Guest """is""" better known as who?
a hereditary baron). 4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque.
> 4. He was still serving as a US senator when he joined the cast
> of a long-running weekly TV drama in 2002 -- playing an elected
> official on the show. Name him.
He played District Attorney Arthur Branch on "Law & Order" -- only
to leave the role in 2007 to begin an (unsuccessful) attempt at a
higher elected office. His character's last line on the series was
"Everybody's a politician."
> 5. Many athletes try switching to acting, but this actress went
> the other way. In her chosen sport she finished 29th of 300
> in the US national championships, but she did not make the cut
> in the Olympic trials.
> 6. All too many actors become involved with drugs, but this man
> went the other way. Convicted of dealing cocaine in 1978, he
> then became an actor. He """has""" starred in a long-running
> 1990s TV sitcom as well as a number of successful movies.
> 7. Omar Sharif was a world-class player of what?
retired from the game in 2006. 4 for Joshua, Erland, and Dan Tilque.
> 8. Hedy Lamarr and her co-worker George Antheil received a patent
> in 1942 in what field?
communications. (Accepting "radio" or "electronics" as close enough.
See died in 2000, by the way.) 4 for Joshua (the hard way), Dan Blum,
and Dan Tilque.
> 9. During World War II he turned from acting to flying bombers,
> eventually rising to brigadier general in the US Air Force.
and Dan Tilque.
> 10. Another actor-pilot was a cabinetmaker before becoming a movie
> star, and """has been""" known to fly search and rescue missions in
> his helicopter.
and Dan Blum.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 3 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS
TOPICS-> His Lit Sci Ent
Dan Blum 32 22 24 28 106
Joshua Kreitzer 26 20 12 40 98
Stephen Perry 32 39 -- -- 71
Dan Tilque 24 4 20 16 64
Erland Sommarskog 20 0 0 4 24
Pete Gayde 8 0 -- -- 8
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Pete Gayde
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m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:EKadnQ3Z3cbuxIvCnZ2dnUU7-
N3N...@giganews.com:
SARS
>
> 4. When this round's writer was a child, her pediatrician warned her
> that pet turtles could be dangerous. What common infection are
> you most likely to catch from one?
>
> 5. This disease is best known for deadly epidemics elsewhere, but
> in the southwest US, the ground squirrel provides a reservoir
> for it.
>
> 6. People usually catch this disease from mosquitoes, but it is
> also known to occur in horses, cats, bats, chipmunks,
> skunks, squirrels, domestic rabbits, and (significantly)
> birds. What is it?
>
> 7. In the movie "Hud", the memorable scene of the cattle slaughter
> portrays the ranchers' response to an outbreak of what disease?
Mad cow disease
>
> 8. What disease, now rare in North America, can be caught from
> eating undercooked pork? Be sufficiently specific.
Trichonosis
>
> 9. What tick-borne disease identified in the 20th century takes
> its name from a town in New England?
Lyme disease
>
> 10. Another tick-borne disease is named after a region of North
> America, but is actually found throughout the continent.
> What is it?
Lyme disease
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 6 - Entertainment - Meanwhile in Real Life
>
> These questions are about actors and actresses and other occupations
or
> positions they have held in real life. Except as noted, name the
person
> being described.
>
> 1. This economist and law professor """has also been""" a comedian
and,
> from 1997 to 2002, a game show host.
Ben Stein
>
> 2. This obstetrician won an Oscar for his first professional acting
> job, in a 1984 drama of oppression.
>
> 3. Baroness Haden-Guest """is""" better known as who?
>
> 4. He was still serving as a US senator when he joined the cast
> of a long-running weekly TV drama in 2002 -- playing an elected
> official on the show. Name him.
Fred
>
> 5. Many athletes try switching to acting, but this actress went
> the other way. In her chosen sport she finished 29th of 300
> in the US national championships, but she did not make the cut
> in the Olympic trials.
>
> 6. All too many actors become involved with drugs, but this man
> went the other way. Convicted of dealing cocaine in 1978, he
> then became an actor. He """has""" starred in a long-running
> 1990s TV sitcom as well as a number of successful movies.
>
> 7. Omar Sharif was a world-class player of what?
Bridge
>
> 8. Hedy Lamarr and her co-worker George Antheil received a patent
> in 1942 in what field?
Telecommunications
>
> 9. During World War II he turned from acting to flying bombers,
> eventually rising to brigadier general in the US Air Force.
Jimmy Stewart
>
> 10. Another actor-pilot was a cabinetmaker before becoming a movie
> star, and """has been""" known to fly search and rescue missions in
> his helicopter.
>
Pete Gayde
N3N...@giganews.com:
>
> 4. When this round's writer was a child, her pediatrician warned her
> that pet turtles could be dangerous. What common infection are
> you most likely to catch from one?
>
> 5. This disease is best known for deadly epidemics elsewhere, but
> in the southwest US, the ground squirrel provides a reservoir
> for it.
>
> 6. People usually catch this disease from mosquitoes, but it is
> also known to occur in horses, cats, bats, chipmunks,
> skunks, squirrels, domestic rabbits, and (significantly)
> birds. What is it?
>
> 7. In the movie "Hud", the memorable scene of the cattle slaughter
> portrays the ranchers' response to an outbreak of what disease?
>
> 8. What disease, now rare in North America, can be caught from
> eating undercooked pork? Be sufficiently specific.
>
> 9. What tick-borne disease identified in the 20th century takes
> its name from a town in New England?
>
> 10. Another tick-borne disease is named after a region of North
> America, but is actually found throughout the continent.
> What is it?
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 6 - Entertainment - Meanwhile in Real Life
>
> These questions are about actors and actresses and other occupations
or
> positions they have held in real life. Except as noted, name the
person
> being described.
>
> 1. This economist and law professor """has also been""" a comedian
and,
> from 1997 to 2002, a game show host.
>
> 2. This obstetrician won an Oscar for his first professional acting
> job, in a 1984 drama of oppression.
>
> 3. Baroness Haden-Guest """is""" better known as who?
>
> 4. He was still serving as a US senator when he joined the cast
> of a long-running weekly TV drama in 2002 -- playing an elected
> official on the show. Name him.
>
> 5. Many athletes try switching to acting, but this actress went
> the other way. In her chosen sport she finished 29th of 300
> in the US national championships, but she did not make the cut
> in the Olympic trials.
>
> 6. All too many actors become involved with drugs, but this man
> went the other way. Convicted of dealing cocaine in 1978, he
> then became an actor. He """has""" starred in a long-running
> 1990s TV sitcom as well as a number of successful movies.
>
> 7. Omar Sharif was a world-class player of what?
>
> 8. Hedy Lamarr and her co-worker George Antheil received a patent
> in 1942 in what field?
>
> 9. During World War II he turned from acting to flying bombers,
> eventually rising to brigadier general in the US Air Force.
>
> 10. Another actor-pilot was a cabinetmaker before becoming a movie
> star, and """has been""" known to fly search and rescue missions in
> his helicopter.
>
Mark Brader
Jul 24, 2020, 11:40:04 AM7/24/20
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If Pete Gayde had posted his answers on time, he would have
scored 8 points on Round 4 and 16 on Round 6.
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scored 8 points on Round 4 and 16 on Round 6.
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Mark Brader "Now, let's assume the correct answer will
Toronto eventually be written on this board at the
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