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Mark Brader
Oct 16, 2014, 10:38:41 PM10/16/14
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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-09-29,
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.
All questions were written by members of Unnatural Axxxe, 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 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
* Game 3, Round 7 - Literature - Character Study
1. Name the Victorian novel that featured the characters
Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Damon Wildeve, and the prodigal
Clym Yeobright.
2. Name the Victorian novel that featured Mr. Micawber, Peggoty,
Dora, and Agnes.
3. Name the author who, in the 1930s, created the character of
John Galt.
4. Name the John Steinbeck book that features a French poodle and
the author seeking America in a truck named after Don Quixote's
horse Rocinante.
5. Ishmael, Queequeg. Name the book *and* the author.
6. Charles Darnay, Sidney Carton, Mme. Defarge. Name the book *and*
the author.
7. Name the author who created the character of George Babbitt in
the 1920s.
8. Name the author who created ex-basketball-champion Harry
Angstrom, a.k.a. Rabbit.
9. Written as a BBC radio drama in the 1954, it included the
characters of Myfanwy Price, Mog Edwards, Polly Garter, and
Captain Cat.
10. On the Day of the Dead in 1938, alcoholic filmmaker Monsieur
Laruelle looks back on the preceding year, spent with the likes
of British ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin, his ex-film-star wife
Yvonne, and the consul's brother, an anti-Fascist journalist
named Hugh. Name the book *or* the author.
* Game 3, Round 8 - Science - Meet the Real Flintstones
As Ralph Kramden used to say when caught red-handed by Alice,
"hominid, hominid, hominid". With apologies to any creationists
in the league, here's a round on our slope-browed forebears.
1. In the 1920s scientists excavated the fossil remains of Peking
Man. We now know this specimen, and the earlier discovery Java
Man, as examples of which human-like species?
2. Discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, "Lucy" was a 25% complete
skeleton. She has the pelvis and leg bones of a fully bipedal
creature. She is considered to be a member of which extinct
hominid species?
3. In what country was the first Neanderthal skull found?
4. What was significant about the 1911 discovery in England of
the Piltdown Man?
5. Discovered in 1994, the famous Grotte Chauvet contains the
world's oldest cave drawings -- of animals, human hands, and
nude women. Within 3,000 years, how old are the cave drawings?
Please decode the rot13 for questions #6-10 only after you have
finished with the above questions.
6. Zhpu zber snzbhf pnir qenjvatf, bayl nobhg unys gur ntr bs
gur Tebggr Punhirg barf, jrer qvfpbirerq va Senapr va 1940 --
va jung snzbhf pnirf?
7. Ubzb sybevrafvf jnf gur fpvragvsvp anzr tvira gb n fznyy-fgngherq
uhzna naprfgbe, gur erznvaf bs frira bs juvpu jrer qvfpbirerq
ba n erzbgr Vaqbarfvna vfynaq va 2004. Jung zber pbyybdhvny
anzr sbe gurfr ubzvavqf jnf cbchynevmrq ol gur arjf zrqvn?
8. Jung qbrf "Ubzb rerpghf" zrna?
9. Jung qbrf "Ubzb unovyvf" zrna?
10. Sbffvy fxhyyf bs Ubzb unovyvf fubj fvtaf bs gur qrirybczrag
bs n ertvba bs gur oenva pnyyrq Oebpn'f nern. Guvf vf rivqrapr
gung Ubzb unovyvf qvq jung?
--
Mark Brader, Toronto, m...@vex.net
... being sysadmin of such a central node involves a lot less
hassle and frustration when I can confidently say, "I don't know
whose software is broken, but it definitely is not ours."
Speaking of which... "I don't know whose software is broken, but
it definitely is not ours!" -- Henry Spencer
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 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.
All questions were written by members of Unnatural Axxxe, 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 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
* Game 3, Round 7 - Literature - Character Study
1. Name the Victorian novel that featured the characters
Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Damon Wildeve, and the prodigal
Clym Yeobright.
2. Name the Victorian novel that featured Mr. Micawber, Peggoty,
Dora, and Agnes.
3. Name the author who, in the 1930s, created the character of
John Galt.
4. Name the John Steinbeck book that features a French poodle and
the author seeking America in a truck named after Don Quixote's
horse Rocinante.
5. Ishmael, Queequeg. Name the book *and* the author.
6. Charles Darnay, Sidney Carton, Mme. Defarge. Name the book *and*
the author.
7. Name the author who created the character of George Babbitt in
the 1920s.
8. Name the author who created ex-basketball-champion Harry
Angstrom, a.k.a. Rabbit.
9. Written as a BBC radio drama in the 1954, it included the
characters of Myfanwy Price, Mog Edwards, Polly Garter, and
Captain Cat.
10. On the Day of the Dead in 1938, alcoholic filmmaker Monsieur
Laruelle looks back on the preceding year, spent with the likes
of British ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin, his ex-film-star wife
Yvonne, and the consul's brother, an anti-Fascist journalist
named Hugh. Name the book *or* the author.
* Game 3, Round 8 - Science - Meet the Real Flintstones
As Ralph Kramden used to say when caught red-handed by Alice,
"hominid, hominid, hominid". With apologies to any creationists
in the league, here's a round on our slope-browed forebears.
1. In the 1920s scientists excavated the fossil remains of Peking
Man. We now know this specimen, and the earlier discovery Java
Man, as examples of which human-like species?
2. Discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, "Lucy" was a 25% complete
skeleton. She has the pelvis and leg bones of a fully bipedal
creature. She is considered to be a member of which extinct
hominid species?
3. In what country was the first Neanderthal skull found?
4. What was significant about the 1911 discovery in England of
the Piltdown Man?
5. Discovered in 1994, the famous Grotte Chauvet contains the
world's oldest cave drawings -- of animals, human hands, and
nude women. Within 3,000 years, how old are the cave drawings?
Please decode the rot13 for questions #6-10 only after you have
finished with the above questions.
6. Zhpu zber snzbhf pnir qenjvatf, bayl nobhg unys gur ntr bs
gur Tebggr Punhirg barf, jrer qvfpbirerq va Senapr va 1940 --
va jung snzbhf pnirf?
7. Ubzb sybevrafvf jnf gur fpvragvsvp anzr tvira gb n fznyy-fgngherq
uhzna naprfgbe, gur erznvaf bs frira bs juvpu jrer qvfpbirerq
ba n erzbgr Vaqbarfvna vfynaq va 2004. Jung zber pbyybdhvny
anzr sbe gurfr ubzvavqf jnf cbchynevmrq ol gur arjf zrqvn?
8. Jung qbrf "Ubzb rerpghf" zrna?
9. Jung qbrf "Ubzb unovyvf" zrna?
10. Sbffvy fxhyyf bs Ubzb unovyvf fubj fvtaf bs gur qrirybczrag
bs n ertvba bs gur oenva pnyyrq Oebpn'f nern. Guvf vf rivqrapr
gung Ubzb unovyvf qvq jung?
--
Mark Brader, Toronto, m...@vex.net
... being sysadmin of such a central node involves a lot less
hassle and frustration when I can confidently say, "I don't know
whose software is broken, but it definitely is not ours."
Speaking of which... "I don't know whose software is broken, but
it definitely is not ours!" -- Henry Spencer
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Dan Blum
Oct 16, 2014, 10:53:02 PM10/16/14
to
Mark Brader <m...@vex.net> wrote:
> * Game 3, Round 7 - Literature - Character Study
> 1. Name the Victorian novel that featured the characters
> Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Damon Wildeve, and the prodigal
> Clym Yeobright.
The Return of the Native
> * Game 3, Round 7 - Literature - Character Study
> 1. Name the Victorian novel that featured the characters
> Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Damon Wildeve, and the prodigal
> Clym Yeobright.
> 2. Name the Victorian novel that featured Mr. Micawber, Peggoty,
> Dora, and Agnes.
> 3. Name the author who, in the 1930s, created the character of
> John Galt.
> 5. Ishmael, Queequeg. Name the book *and* the author.
> 6. Charles Darnay, Sidney Carton, Mme. Defarge. Name the book *and*
> the author.
> 7. Name the author who created the character of George Babbitt in
> the 1920s.
> 8. Name the author who created ex-basketball-champion Harry
> Angstrom, a.k.a. Rabbit.
> 9. Written as a BBC radio drama in the 1954, it included the
> characters of Myfanwy Price, Mog Edwards, Polly Garter, and
> Captain Cat.
> 10. On the Day of the Dead in 1938, alcoholic filmmaker Monsieur
> Laruelle looks back on the preceding year, spent with the likes
> of British ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin, his ex-film-star wife
> Yvonne, and the consul's brother, an anti-Fascist journalist
> named Hugh. Name the book *or* the author.
> * Game 3, Round 8 - Science - Meet the Real Flintstones
> 1. In the 1920s scientists excavated the fossil remains of Peking
> Man. We now know this specimen, and the earlier discovery Java
> Man, as examples of which human-like species?
Homo habilis
> Man. We now know this specimen, and the earlier discovery Java
> Man, as examples of which human-like species?
> 2. Discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, "Lucy" was a 25% complete
> skeleton. She has the pelvis and leg bones of a fully bipedal
> creature. She is considered to be a member of which extinct
> hominid species?
> 3. In what country was the first Neanderthal skull found?
> 4. What was significant about the 1911 discovery in England of
> the Piltdown Man?
> 5. Discovered in 1994, the famous Grotte Chauvet contains the
> world's oldest cave drawings -- of animals, human hands, and
> nude women. Within 3,000 years, how old are the cave drawings?
> Please decode the rot13 for questions #6-10 only after you have
> finished with the above questions.
> 7. Ubzb sybevrafvf jnf gur fpvragvsvp anzr tvira gb n fznyy-fgngherq
> uhzna naprfgbe, gur erznvaf bs frira bs juvpu jrer qvfpbirerq
> ba n erzbgr Vaqbarfvna vfynaq va 2004. Jung zber pbyybdhvny
> anzr sbe gurfr ubzvavqf jnf cbchynevmrq ol gur arjf zrqvn?
hobbits
> uhzna naprfgbe, gur erznvaf bs frira bs juvpu jrer qvfpbirerq
> ba n erzbgr Vaqbarfvna vfynaq va 2004. Jung zber pbyybdhvny
> anzr sbe gurfr ubzvavqf jnf cbchynevmrq ol gur arjf zrqvn?
> 8. Jung qbrf "Ubzb rerpghf" zrna?
> 9. Jung qbrf "Ubzb unovyvf" zrna?
> 10. Sbffvy fxhyyf bs Ubzb unovyvf fubj fvtaf bs gur qrirybczrag
> bs n ertvba bs gur oenva pnyyrq Oebpn'f nern. Guvf vf rivqrapr
> gung Ubzb unovyvf qvq jung?
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Joshua Kreitzer
Oct 17, 2014, 1:18:01 AM10/17/14
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:3dmdnRz-hNqsHN3JnZ2dnUU7-
cOd...@vex.net:
> * Game 3, Round 7 - Literature - Character Study
>
> 1. Name the Victorian novel that featured the characters
> Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Damon Wildeve, and the prodigal
> Clym Yeobright.
> 3. Name the author who, in the 1930s, created the character of
> John Galt.
Ayn Rand
> 4. Name the John Steinbeck book that features a French poodle and
> the author seeking America in a truck named after Don Quixote's
> horse Rocinante.
"Travels with Charley"
> 5. Ishmael, Queequeg. Name the book *and* the author.
"Moby Dick" - Herman Melville
> 6. Charles Darnay, Sidney Carton, Mme. Defarge. Name the book *and*
> the author.
"A Tale of Two Cities" - Charles Dickens
> 7. Name the author who created the character of George Babbitt in
> the 1920s.
Sinclair Lewis
> 8. Name the author who created ex-basketball-champion Harry
> Angstrom, a.k.a. Rabbit.
John Updike
> 10. On the Day of the Dead in 1938, alcoholic filmmaker Monsieur
> Laruelle looks back on the preceding year, spent with the likes
> of British ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin, his ex-film-star wife
> Yvonne, and the consul's brother, an anti-Fascist journalist
> named Hugh. Name the book *or* the author.
Somerset Maugham (?)
> * Game 3, Round 8 - Science - Meet the Real Flintstones
>
> 2. Discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, "Lucy" was a 25% complete
> skeleton. She has the pelvis and leg bones of a fully bipedal
> creature. She is considered to be a member of which extinct
> hominid species?
Australopithecus afarensis
> 3. In what country was the first Neanderthal skull found?
Germany
> 4. What was significant about the 1911 discovery in England of
> the Piltdown Man?
it was a hoax
> 5. Discovered in 1994, the famous Grotte Chauvet contains the
> world's oldest cave drawings -- of animals, human hands, and
> nude women. Within 3,000 years, how old are the cave drawings?
30,000 years; 36,000 years
> Please decode the rot13 for questions #6-10 only after you have
> finished with the above questions.
>
> 6. Zhpu zber snzbhf pnir qenjvatf, bayl nobhg unys gur ntr bs
> gur Tebggr Punhirg barf, jrer qvfpbirerq va Senapr va 1940 --
> va jung snzbhf pnirf?
Lascaux
> 7. Ubzb sybevrafvf jnf gur fpvragvsvp anzr tvira gb n fznyy-fgngherq
> uhzna naprfgbe, gur erznvaf bs frira bs juvpu jrer qvfpbirerq
> ba n erzbgr Vaqbarfvna vfynaq va 2004. Jung zber pbyybdhvny
> anzr sbe gurfr ubzvavqf jnf cbchynevmrq ol gur arjf zrqvn?
hobbits
> 8. Jung qbrf "Ubzb rerpghf" zrna?
upright man
> 9. Jung qbrf "Ubzb unovyvf" zrna?
handy man
> 10. Sbffvy fxhyyf bs Ubzb unovyvf fubj fvtaf bs gur qrirybczrag
> bs n ertvba bs gur oenva pnyyrq Oebpn'f nern. Guvf vf rivqrapr
> gung Ubzb unovyvf qvq jung?
spoke
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
cOd...@vex.net:
> * Game 3, Round 7 - Literature - Character Study
>
> 1. Name the Victorian novel that featured the characters
> Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Damon Wildeve, and the prodigal
> Clym Yeobright.
"The Return of the Native"
> 2. Name the Victorian novel that featured Mr. Micawber, Peggoty,
> Dora, and Agnes.
"David Copperfield"
> Dora, and Agnes.
> 3. Name the author who, in the 1930s, created the character of
> John Galt.
> 4. Name the John Steinbeck book that features a French poodle and
> the author seeking America in a truck named after Don Quixote's
> horse Rocinante.
> 5. Ishmael, Queequeg. Name the book *and* the author.
> 6. Charles Darnay, Sidney Carton, Mme. Defarge. Name the book *and*
> the author.
> 7. Name the author who created the character of George Babbitt in
> the 1920s.
> 8. Name the author who created ex-basketball-champion Harry
> Angstrom, a.k.a. Rabbit.
> 10. On the Day of the Dead in 1938, alcoholic filmmaker Monsieur
> Laruelle looks back on the preceding year, spent with the likes
> of British ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin, his ex-film-star wife
> Yvonne, and the consul's brother, an anti-Fascist journalist
> named Hugh. Name the book *or* the author.
> * Game 3, Round 8 - Science - Meet the Real Flintstones
>
> 1. In the 1920s scientists excavated the fossil remains of Peking
> Man. We now know this specimen, and the earlier discovery Java
> Man, as examples of which human-like species?
Homo erectus; Homo habilis
> Man. We now know this specimen, and the earlier discovery Java
> Man, as examples of which human-like species?
> 2. Discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, "Lucy" was a 25% complete
> skeleton. She has the pelvis and leg bones of a fully bipedal
> creature. She is considered to be a member of which extinct
> hominid species?
> 3. In what country was the first Neanderthal skull found?
> 4. What was significant about the 1911 discovery in England of
> the Piltdown Man?
> 5. Discovered in 1994, the famous Grotte Chauvet contains the
> world's oldest cave drawings -- of animals, human hands, and
> nude women. Within 3,000 years, how old are the cave drawings?
> Please decode the rot13 for questions #6-10 only after you have
> finished with the above questions.
>
> 6. Zhpu zber snzbhf pnir qenjvatf, bayl nobhg unys gur ntr bs
> gur Tebggr Punhirg barf, jrer qvfpbirerq va Senapr va 1940 --
> va jung snzbhf pnirf?
> 7. Ubzb sybevrafvf jnf gur fpvragvsvp anzr tvira gb n fznyy-fgngherq
> uhzna naprfgbe, gur erznvaf bs frira bs juvpu jrer qvfpbirerq
> ba n erzbgr Vaqbarfvna vfynaq va 2004. Jung zber pbyybdhvny
> anzr sbe gurfr ubzvavqf jnf cbchynevmrq ol gur arjf zrqvn?
> 8. Jung qbrf "Ubzb rerpghf" zrna?
> 9. Jung qbrf "Ubzb unovyvf" zrna?
> 10. Sbffvy fxhyyf bs Ubzb unovyvf fubj fvtaf bs gur qrirybczrag
> bs n ertvba bs gur oenva pnyyrq Oebpn'f nern. Guvf vf rivqrapr
> gung Ubzb unovyvf qvq jung?
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Marc Dashevsky
Oct 17, 2014, 3:17:44 AM10/17/14
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In article <3dmdnRz-hNqsHN3J...@vex.net>, m...@vex.net says...
> 3. Name the author who, in the 1930s, created the character of
> John Galt.
Ayn Rand
> 4. Name the John Steinbeck book that features a French poodle and
> the author seeking America in a truck named after Don Quixote's
> horse Rocinante.
>
> 5. Ishmael, Queequeg. Name the book *and* the author.
Moby Dick -- Herman Melville
> 6. Charles Darnay, Sidney Carton, Mme. Defarge. Name the book *and*
> the author.
A Tale of Two Cities -- Charles Dickens
> 7. Name the author who created the character of George Babbitt in
> the 1920s.
Sinclair Lewis
> 8. Name the author who created ex-basketball-champion Harry
> Angstrom, a.k.a. Rabbit.
John Updike
> 9. Written as a BBC radio drama in the 1954, it included the
> characters of Myfanwy Price, Mog Edwards, Polly Garter, and
> Captain Cat.
>
> 10. On the Day of the Dead in 1938, alcoholic filmmaker Monsieur
> Laruelle looks back on the preceding year, spent with the likes
> of British ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin, his ex-film-star wife
> Yvonne, and the consul's brother, an anti-Fascist journalist
> named Hugh. Name the book *or* the author.
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 8 - Science - Meet the Real Flintstones
>
> As Ralph Kramden used to say when caught red-handed by Alice,
> "hominid, hominid, hominid". With apologies to any creationists
> in the league, here's a round on our slope-browed forebears.
>
> 1. In the 1920s scientists excavated the fossil remains of Peking
> Man. We now know this specimen, and the earlier discovery Java
> Man, as examples of which human-like species?
Homo Erectus
> 2. Discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, "Lucy" was a 25% complete
> skeleton. She has the pelvis and leg bones of a fully bipedal
> creature. She is considered to be a member of which extinct
> hominid species?
Australopithicus
> 3. In what country was the first Neanderthal skull found?
Germany
> 4. What was significant about the 1911 discovery in England of
> the Piltdown Man?
it was a hoax
> 5. Discovered in 1994, the famous contains the
> 6. Much more famous cave drawings, only about half the age of
> the Grotte Chauvet ones, were discovered in France in 1940 --
> in what famous caves?
>
> 7. Homo floriensis was the scientific name given to a small-statured
> human ancestor, the remains of seven of which were discovered
> on a remote Indonesian island in 2004. What more colloquial
> name for these hominids was popularized by the news media?
mini men
> 8. What does "Homo erectus" mean?
upright human
> 9. What does "Homo habilis" mean?
adept human
> 10. Fossil skulls of Homo habilis show signs of the development
> of a region of the brain called Broca's area. This is evidence
> that Homo habilis did what?
talk
> * Game 3, Round 7 - Literature - Character Study
>
> 1. Name the Victorian novel that featured the characters
> Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Damon Wildeve, and the prodigal
> Clym Yeobright.
>
> 2. Name the Victorian novel that featured Mr. Micawber, Peggoty,
> Dora, and Agnes.
David Copperfield
>
> 1. Name the Victorian novel that featured the characters
> Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Damon Wildeve, and the prodigal
> Clym Yeobright.
>
> 2. Name the Victorian novel that featured Mr. Micawber, Peggoty,
> Dora, and Agnes.
> 3. Name the author who, in the 1930s, created the character of
> John Galt.
> 4. Name the John Steinbeck book that features a French poodle and
> the author seeking America in a truck named after Don Quixote's
> horse Rocinante.
>
> 5. Ishmael, Queequeg. Name the book *and* the author.
> 6. Charles Darnay, Sidney Carton, Mme. Defarge. Name the book *and*
> the author.
> 7. Name the author who created the character of George Babbitt in
> the 1920s.
> 8. Name the author who created ex-basketball-champion Harry
> Angstrom, a.k.a. Rabbit.
> 9. Written as a BBC radio drama in the 1954, it included the
> characters of Myfanwy Price, Mog Edwards, Polly Garter, and
> Captain Cat.
>
> 10. On the Day of the Dead in 1938, alcoholic filmmaker Monsieur
> Laruelle looks back on the preceding year, spent with the likes
> of British ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin, his ex-film-star wife
> Yvonne, and the consul's brother, an anti-Fascist journalist
> named Hugh. Name the book *or* the author.
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 8 - Science - Meet the Real Flintstones
>
> As Ralph Kramden used to say when caught red-handed by Alice,
> "hominid, hominid, hominid". With apologies to any creationists
> in the league, here's a round on our slope-browed forebears.
>
> 1. In the 1920s scientists excavated the fossil remains of Peking
> Man. We now know this specimen, and the earlier discovery Java
> Man, as examples of which human-like species?
> 2. Discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, "Lucy" was a 25% complete
> skeleton. She has the pelvis and leg bones of a fully bipedal
> creature. She is considered to be a member of which extinct
> hominid species?
> 3. In what country was the first Neanderthal skull found?
> 4. What was significant about the 1911 discovery in England of
> the Piltdown Man?
> 5. Discovered in 1994, the famous contains the
> world's oldest cave drawings -- of animals, human hands, and
> nude women. Within 3,000 years, how old are the cave drawings?
40,000
> nude women. Within 3,000 years, how old are the cave drawings?
> 6. Much more famous cave drawings, only about half the age of
> the Grotte Chauvet ones, were discovered in France in 1940 --
> in what famous caves?
>
> 7. Homo floriensis was the scientific name given to a small-statured
> human ancestor, the remains of seven of which were discovered
> on a remote Indonesian island in 2004. What more colloquial
> name for these hominids was popularized by the news media?
mini men
> 8. What does "Homo erectus" mean?
upright human
> 9. What does "Homo habilis" mean?
adept human
> 10. Fossil skulls of Homo habilis show signs of the development
> of a region of the brain called Broca's area. This is evidence
> that Homo habilis did what?
talk
Björn Lundin
Oct 17, 2014, 4:31:39 AM10/17/14
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On 2014-10-17 04:38, Mark Brader wrote:
>
> 5. Ishmael, Queequeg. Name the book *and* the author.
Moby Dick?
>
> 5. Ishmael, Queequeg. Name the book *and* the author.
>
> 1. In the 1920s scientists excavated the fossil remains of Peking
> Man. We now know this specimen, and the earlier discovery Java
> Man, as examples of which human-like species?
>
> 2. Discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, "Lucy" was a 25% complete
> skeleton. She has the pelvis and leg bones of a fully bipedal
> creature. She is considered to be a member of which extinct
> hominid species?
> 3. In what country was the first Neanderthal skull found?
> 4. What was significant about the 1911 discovery in England of
> the Piltdown Man?
>
> 5. Discovered in 1994, the famous Grotte Chauvet contains the
> world's oldest cave drawings -- of animals, human hands, and
> nude women. Within 3,000 years, how old are the cave drawings?
>
> 8. Jung qbrf "Ubzb rerpghf" zrna?
>
> 9. Jung qbrf "Ubzb unovyvf" zrna?
>
> 10. Sbffvy fxhyyf bs Ubzb unovyvf fubj fvtaf bs gur qrirybczrag
> bs n ertvba bs gur oenva pnyyrq Oebpn'f nern. Guvf vf rivqrapr
> gung Ubzb unovyvf qvq jung?
>
--
Björn
Pete
Oct 17, 2014, 12:37:01 PM10/17/14
to
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-09-29,
> 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.
>
> All questions were written by members of Unnatural Axxxe, 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 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 7 - Literature - Character Study
>
> 1. Name the Victorian novel that featured the characters
> Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Damon Wildeve, and the prodigal
> Clym Yeobright.
>
> 2. Name the Victorian novel that featured Mr. Micawber, Peggoty,
> Dora, and Agnes.
Great Expectations; Nicholas Nickleby
> 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.
>
> All questions were written by members of Unnatural Axxxe, 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 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 7 - Literature - Character Study
>
> 1. Name the Victorian novel that featured the characters
> Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Damon Wildeve, and the prodigal
> Clym Yeobright.
>
> 2. Name the Victorian novel that featured Mr. Micawber, Peggoty,
> Dora, and Agnes.
>
> 3. Name the author who, in the 1930s, created the character of
> John Galt.
>
> 4. Name the John Steinbeck book that features a French poodle and
> the author seeking America in a truck named after Don Quixote's
> horse Rocinante.
>
> 5. Ishmael, Queequeg. Name the book *and* the author.
>
> 6. Charles Darnay, Sidney Carton, Mme. Defarge. Name the book *and*
> the author.
>
> 7. Name the author who created the character of George Babbitt in
> the 1920s.
>
> 8. Name the author who created ex-basketball-champion Harry
> Angstrom, a.k.a. Rabbit.
>
> 9. Written as a BBC radio drama in the 1954, it included the
> characters of Myfanwy Price, Mog Edwards, Polly Garter, and
> Captain Cat.
>
> 10. On the Day of the Dead in 1938, alcoholic filmmaker Monsieur
> Laruelle looks back on the preceding year, spent with the likes
> of British ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin, his ex-film-star wife
> Yvonne, and the consul's brother, an anti-Fascist journalist
> named Hugh. Name the book *or* the author.
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 8 - Science - Meet the Real Flintstones
>
> As Ralph Kramden used to say when caught red-handed by Alice,
> "hominid, hominid, hominid". With apologies to any creationists
> in the league, here's a round on our slope-browed forebears.
>
> 1. In the 1920s scientists excavated the fossil remains of Peking
> Man. We now know this specimen, and the earlier discovery Java
> Man, as examples of which human-like species?
>
> 2. Discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, "Lucy" was a 25% complete
> skeleton. She has the pelvis and leg bones of a fully bipedal
> creature. She is considered to be a member of which extinct
> hominid species?
>
> 3. In what country was the first Neanderthal skull found?
>
> 4. What was significant about the 1911 discovery in England of
> the Piltdown Man?
>
> 5. Discovered in 1994, the famous Grotte Chauvet contains the
> world's oldest cave drawings -- of animals, human hands, and
> nude women. Within 3,000 years, how old are the cave drawings?
>
> Please decode the rot13 for questions #6-10 only after you have
> finished with the above questions.
>
> 6. Zhpu zber snzbhf pnir qenjvatf, bayl nobhg unys gur ntr bs
> gur Tebggr Punhirg barf, jrer qvfpbirerq va Senapr va 1940 --
> va jung snzbhf pnirf?
>
> 7. Ubzb sybevrafvf jnf gur fpvragvsvp anzr tvira gb n fznyy-fgngherq
> uhzna naprfgbe, gur erznvaf bs frira bs juvpu jrer qvfpbirerq
> ba n erzbgr Vaqbarfvna vfynaq va 2004. Jung zber pbyybdhvny
> anzr sbe gurfr ubzvavqf jnf cbchynevmrq ol gur arjf zrqvn?
>
> 8. Jung qbrf "Ubzb rerpghf" zrna?
>
> 9. Jung qbrf "Ubzb unovyvf" zrna?
>
> 10. Sbffvy fxhyyf bs Ubzb unovyvf fubj fvtaf bs gur qrirybczrag
> bs n ertvba bs gur oenva pnyyrq Oebpn'f nern. Guvf vf rivqrapr
> gung Ubzb unovyvf qvq jung?
>
Peter Smyth
Oct 17, 2014, 1:16:08 PM10/17/14
to
Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-09-29,
> 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.
>
> All questions were written by members of Unnatural Axxxe, 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 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 7 - Literature - Character Study
>
> 1. Name the Victorian novel that featured the characters
> Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Damon Wildeve, and the prodigal
> Clym Yeobright.
Pickwick Papers
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-09-29,
> 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.
>
> All questions were written by members of Unnatural Axxxe, 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 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 7 - Literature - Character Study
>
> 1. Name the Victorian novel that featured the characters
> Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Damon Wildeve, and the prodigal
> Clym Yeobright.
> 2. Name the Victorian novel that featured Mr. Micawber, Peggoty,
> Dora, and Agnes.
Pickwick Papers
> Dora, and Agnes.
> 3. Name the author who, in the 1930s, created the character of
> John Galt.
>
> 4. Name the John Steinbeck book that features a French poodle and
> the author seeking America in a truck named after Don Quixote's
> horse Rocinante.
>
> 5. Ishmael, Queequeg. Name the book and the author.
> John Galt.
>
> 4. Name the John Steinbeck book that features a French poodle and
> the author seeking America in a truck named after Don Quixote's
> horse Rocinante.
>
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
> 6. Charles Darnay, Sidney Carton, Mme. Defarge. Name the book and
> the author.
>
> 7. Name the author who created the character of George Babbitt in
> the 1920s.
>
> 8. Name the author who created ex-basketball-champion Harry
> Angstrom, a.k.a. Rabbit.
>
> 9. Written as a BBC radio drama in the 1954, it included the
> characters of Myfanwy Price, Mog Edwards, Polly Garter, and
> Captain Cat.
Under Milk Wood
>
> 7. Name the author who created the character of George Babbitt in
> the 1920s.
>
> 8. Name the author who created ex-basketball-champion Harry
> Angstrom, a.k.a. Rabbit.
>
> 9. Written as a BBC radio drama in the 1954, it included the
> characters of Myfanwy Price, Mog Edwards, Polly Garter, and
> Captain Cat.
> 10. On the Day of the Dead in 1938, alcoholic filmmaker Monsieur
> Laruelle looks back on the preceding year, spent with the likes
> of British ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin, his ex-film-star wife
> Yvonne, and the consul's brother, an anti-Fascist journalist
> named Hugh. Name the book or the author.
> Laruelle looks back on the preceding year, spent with the likes
> of British ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin, his ex-film-star wife
> Yvonne, and the consul's brother, an anti-Fascist journalist
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 8 - Science - Meet the Real Flintstones
>
> As Ralph Kramden used to say when caught red-handed by Alice,
> "hominid, hominid, hominid". With apologies to any creationists
> in the league, here's a round on our slope-browed forebears.
>
> 1. In the 1920s scientists excavated the fossil remains of Peking
> Man. We now know this specimen, and the earlier discovery Java
> Man, as examples of which human-like species?
Neanderthal
>
> * Game 3, Round 8 - Science - Meet the Real Flintstones
>
> As Ralph Kramden used to say when caught red-handed by Alice,
> "hominid, hominid, hominid". With apologies to any creationists
> in the league, here's a round on our slope-browed forebears.
>
> 1. In the 1920s scientists excavated the fossil remains of Peking
> Man. We now know this specimen, and the earlier discovery Java
> Man, as examples of which human-like species?
> 2. Discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, "Lucy" was a 25% complete
> skeleton. She has the pelvis and leg bones of a fully bipedal
> creature. She is considered to be a member of which extinct
> hominid species?
Neanderthal
> skeleton. She has the pelvis and leg bones of a fully bipedal
> creature. She is considered to be a member of which extinct
> hominid species?
> 3. In what country was the first Neanderthal skull found?
>
> 4. What was significant about the 1911 discovery in England of
> the Piltdown Man?
It was a fake
>
> 4. What was significant about the 1911 discovery in England of
> the Piltdown Man?
> 5. Discovered in 1994, the famous Grotte Chauvet contains the
> world's oldest cave drawings -- of animals, human hands, and
> nude women. Within 3,000 years, how old are the cave drawings?
30000
> world's oldest cave drawings -- of animals, human hands, and
> nude women. Within 3,000 years, how old are the cave drawings?
> Please decode the rot13 for questions #6-10 only after you have
> finished with the above questions.
>
> finished with the above questions.
>
> 6. Much more famous cave drawings, only about half the age of
> the Grotte Chauvet ones, were discovered in France in 1940 --
> in what famous caves?
>
> 7. Homo floriensis was the scientific name given to a small-statured
> human ancestor, the remains of seven of which were discovered
> on a remote Indonesian island in 2004. What more colloquial
> name for these hominids was popularized by the news media?
>
> the Grotte Chauvet ones, were discovered in France in 1940 --
> in what famous caves?
>
> 7. Homo floriensis was the scientific name given to a small-statured
> human ancestor, the remains of seven of which were discovered
> on a remote Indonesian island in 2004. What more colloquial
> name for these hominids was popularized by the news media?
>
> 8. What does "Homo erectus" mean?
Upright man
> 9. What does "Homo habilis" mean?
>
>
> 10. Fossil skulls of Homo habilis show signs of the development
> of a region of the brain called Broca's area. This is evidence
> that Homo habilis did what?
Had language skills
> of a region of the brain called Broca's area. This is evidence
> that Homo habilis did what?
Peter Smyth
Erland Sommarskog
Oct 17, 2014, 3:15:54 PM10/17/14
to
> 1. In the 1920s scientists excavated the fossil remains of Peking
> Man. We now know this specimen, and the earlier discovery Java
> Man, as examples of which human-like species?
Homo erectus
> Man. We now know this specimen, and the earlier discovery Java
> Man, as examples of which human-like species?
> 2. Discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, "Lucy" was a 25% complete
> skeleton. She has the pelvis and leg bones of a fully bipedal
> creature. She is considered to be a member of which extinct
> hominid species?
> 3. In what country was the first Neanderthal skull found?
> 5. Discovered in 1994, the famous Grotte Chauvet contains the
> world's oldest cave drawings -- of animals, human hands, and
> nude women. Within 3,000 years, how old are the cave drawings?
(But hadn't they discovered even older paintings in Indonesia just
before the quiz was? Or was that announced later?)
> 7. Ubzb sybevrafvf jnf gur fpvragvsvp anzr tvira gb n fznyy-fgngherq
> uhzna naprfgbe, gur erznvaf bs frira bs juvpu jrer qvfpbirerq
> ba n erzbgr Vaqbarfvna vfynaq va 2004. Jung zber pbyybdhvny
> anzr sbe gurfr ubzvavqf jnf cbchynevmrq ol gur arjf zrqvn?
> 8. Jung qbrf "Ubzb rerpghf" zrna?
> 9. Jung qbrf "Ubzb unovyvf" zrna?
> 10. Sbffvy fxhyyf bs Ubzb unovyvf fubj fvtaf bs gur qrirybczrag
> bs n ertvba bs gur oenva pnyyrq Oebpn'f nern. Guvf vf rivqrapr
> gung Ubzb unovyvf qvq jung?
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se
swp
Oct 17, 2014, 8:22:27 PM10/17/14
to
On Thursday, October 16, 2014 10:38:41 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 3, Round 7 - Literature - Character Study
>
> 1. Name the Victorian novel that featured the characters
> Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Damon Wildeve, and the prodigal
> Clym Yeobright.
the return of the native
> * Game 3, Round 7 - Literature - Character Study
>
> 1. Name the Victorian novel that featured the characters
> Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Damon Wildeve, and the prodigal
> Clym Yeobright.
> 2. Name the Victorian novel that featured Mr. Micawber, Peggoty,
> Dora, and Agnes.
> 3. Name the author who, in the 1930s, created the character of
> John Galt.
> 4. Name the John Steinbeck book that features a French poodle and
> the author seeking America in a truck named after Don Quixote's
> horse Rocinante.
> 5. Ishmael, Queequeg. Name the book *and* the author.
> 6. Charles Darnay, Sidney Carton, Mme. Defarge. Name the book *and*
> the author.
> 7. Name the author who created the character of George Babbitt in
> the 1920s.
> 8. Name the author who created ex-basketball-champion Harry
> Angstrom, a.k.a. Rabbit.
> 9. Written as a BBC radio drama in the 1954, it included the
> characters of Myfanwy Price, Mog Edwards, Polly Garter, and
> Captain Cat.
> 10. On the Day of the Dead in 1938, alcoholic filmmaker Monsieur
> Laruelle looks back on the preceding year, spent with the likes
> of British ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin, his ex-film-star wife
> Yvonne, and the consul's brother, an anti-Fascist journalist
> named Hugh. Name the book *or* the author.
> * Game 3, Round 8 - Science - Meet the Real Flintstones
>
> As Ralph Kramden used to say when caught red-handed by Alice,
> "hominid, hominid, hominid". With apologies to any creationists
> in the league, here's a round on our slope-browed forebears.
>
> 1. In the 1920s scientists excavated the fossil remains of Peking
> Man. We now know this specimen, and the earlier discovery Java
> Man, as examples of which human-like species?
> 2. Discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, "Lucy" was a 25% complete
> skeleton. She has the pelvis and leg bones of a fully bipedal
> creature. She is considered to be a member of which extinct
> hominid species?
> 3. In what country was the first Neanderthal skull found?
> 4. What was significant about the 1911 discovery in England of
> the Piltdown Man?
> 5. Discovered in 1994, the famous Grotte Chauvet contains the
> world's oldest cave drawings -- of animals, human hands, and
> nude women. Within 3,000 years, how old are the cave drawings?
> Please decode the rot13 for questions #6-10 only after you have
> finished with the above questions.
>
> 6. Much more famous cave drawings, only about half the age of
> the Grotte Chauvet ones, were discovered in France in 1940 --
> in what famous caves?
lascaux caves
> the Grotte Chauvet ones, were discovered in France in 1940 --
> in what famous caves?
> 7. Homo floriensis was the scientific name given to a small-statured
> human ancestor, the remains of seven of which were discovered
> on a remote Indonesian island in 2004. What more colloquial
> name for these hominids was popularized by the news media?
> 8. What does "Homo erectus" mean?
> 9. What does "Homo habilis" mean?
> 10. Fossil skulls of Homo habilis show signs of the development
> of a region of the brain called Broca's area. This is evidence
> that Homo habilis did what?
swp
Jason Kreitzer
Oct 17, 2014, 8:43:31 PM10/17/14
to
On Thursday, October 16, 2014 10:38:41 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-09-29,
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> All questions were written by members of Unnatural Axxxe, 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 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
>
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
>
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 7 - Literature - Character Study
>
>
>
> 1. Name the Victorian novel that featured the characters
>
> Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Damon Wildeve, and the prodigal
>
> Clym Yeobright.
>
>
>
> 2. Name the Victorian novel that featured Mr. Micawber, Peggoty,
>
> Dora, and Agnes.
>
>
>
> 3. Name the author who, in the 1930s, created the character of
>
> John Galt.
Ayn Rand
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> All questions were written by members of Unnatural Axxxe, 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 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
>
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
>
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 7 - Literature - Character Study
>
>
>
> 1. Name the Victorian novel that featured the characters
>
> Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Damon Wildeve, and the prodigal
>
> Clym Yeobright.
>
>
>
> 2. Name the Victorian novel that featured Mr. Micawber, Peggoty,
>
> Dora, and Agnes.
>
>
>
> 3. Name the author who, in the 1930s, created the character of
>
> John Galt.
>
>
> 4. Name the John Steinbeck book that features a French poodle and
>
> the author seeking America in a truck named after Don Quixote's
>
> horse Rocinante.
"Travels With Charley"
>
> 4. Name the John Steinbeck book that features a French poodle and
>
> the author seeking America in a truck named after Don Quixote's
>
> horse Rocinante.
>
>
> 5. Ishmael, Queequeg. Name the book *and* the author.
Herman Melville, "Moby Dick"
>
> 5. Ishmael, Queequeg. Name the book *and* the author.
>
>
> 6. Charles Darnay, Sidney Carton, Mme. Defarge. Name the book *and*
>
> the author.
>
>
>
> 7. Name the author who created the character of George Babbitt in
>
> the 1920s.
>
>
>
> 8. Name the author who created ex-basketball-champion Harry
>
> Angstrom, a.k.a. Rabbit.
John Updike
>
> 6. Charles Darnay, Sidney Carton, Mme. Defarge. Name the book *and*
>
> the author.
>
>
>
> 7. Name the author who created the character of George Babbitt in
>
> the 1920s.
>
>
>
> 8. Name the author who created ex-basketball-champion Harry
>
> Angstrom, a.k.a. Rabbit.
>
>
> 9. Written as a BBC radio drama in the 1954, it included the
>
> characters of Myfanwy Price, Mog Edwards, Polly Garter, and
>
> Captain Cat.
>
>
>
> 10. On the Day of the Dead in 1938, alcoholic filmmaker Monsieur
>
> Laruelle looks back on the preceding year, spent with the likes
>
> of British ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin, his ex-film-star wife
>
> Yvonne, and the consul's brother, an anti-Fascist journalist
>
> named Hugh. Name the book *or* the author.
>
>
>
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 8 - Science - Meet the Real Flintstones
>
>
>
> As Ralph Kramden used to say when caught red-handed by Alice,
>
> "hominid, hominid, hominid". With apologies to any creationists
>
> in the league, here's a round on our slope-browed forebears.
>
>
>
> 1. In the 1920s scientists excavated the fossil remains of Peking
>
> Man. We now know this specimen, and the earlier discovery Java
>
> Man, as examples of which human-like species?
>
>
>
> 2. Discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, "Lucy" was a 25% complete
>
> skeleton. She has the pelvis and leg bones of a fully bipedal
>
> creature. She is considered to be a member of which extinct
>
> hominid species?
>
>
>
> 3. In what country was the first Neanderthal skull found?
>
>
>
> 4. What was significant about the 1911 discovery in England of
>
> the Piltdown Man?
It was a fraud.
>
> 9. Written as a BBC radio drama in the 1954, it included the
>
> characters of Myfanwy Price, Mog Edwards, Polly Garter, and
>
> Captain Cat.
>
>
>
> 10. On the Day of the Dead in 1938, alcoholic filmmaker Monsieur
>
> Laruelle looks back on the preceding year, spent with the likes
>
> of British ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin, his ex-film-star wife
>
> Yvonne, and the consul's brother, an anti-Fascist journalist
>
> named Hugh. Name the book *or* the author.
>
>
>
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 8 - Science - Meet the Real Flintstones
>
>
>
> As Ralph Kramden used to say when caught red-handed by Alice,
>
> "hominid, hominid, hominid". With apologies to any creationists
>
> in the league, here's a round on our slope-browed forebears.
>
>
>
> 1. In the 1920s scientists excavated the fossil remains of Peking
>
> Man. We now know this specimen, and the earlier discovery Java
>
> Man, as examples of which human-like species?
>
>
>
> 2. Discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, "Lucy" was a 25% complete
>
> skeleton. She has the pelvis and leg bones of a fully bipedal
>
> creature. She is considered to be a member of which extinct
>
> hominid species?
>
>
>
> 3. In what country was the first Neanderthal skull found?
>
>
>
> 4. What was significant about the 1911 discovery in England of
>
> the Piltdown Man?
Dan Tilque
Oct 18, 2014, 6:40:26 AM10/18/14
to
Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 7 - Literature - Character Study
>
> 1. Name the Victorian novel that featured the characters
> Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Damon Wildeve, and the prodigal
> Clym Yeobright.
>
> 2. Name the Victorian novel that featured Mr. Micawber, Peggoty,
> Dora, and Agnes.
>
> 3. Name the author who, in the 1930s, created the character of
> John Galt.
Ayn Rand
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 7 - Literature - Character Study
>
> 1. Name the Victorian novel that featured the characters
> Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Damon Wildeve, and the prodigal
> Clym Yeobright.
>
> 2. Name the Victorian novel that featured Mr. Micawber, Peggoty,
> Dora, and Agnes.
>
> 3. Name the author who, in the 1930s, created the character of
> John Galt.
>
> 4. Name the John Steinbeck book that features a French poodle and
> the author seeking America in a truck named after Don Quixote's
> horse Rocinante.
>
> 5. Ishmael, Queequeg. Name the book *and* the author.
>
> 6. Charles Darnay, Sidney Carton, Mme. Defarge. Name the book *and*
> the author.
>
> 7. Name the author who created the character of George Babbitt in
> the 1920s.
>
> 8. Name the author who created ex-basketball-champion Harry
> Angstrom, a.k.a. Rabbit.
>
> 9. Written as a BBC radio drama in the 1954, it included the
> characters of Myfanwy Price, Mog Edwards, Polly Garter, and
> Captain Cat.
>
> 10. On the Day of the Dead in 1938, alcoholic filmmaker Monsieur
> Laruelle looks back on the preceding year, spent with the likes
> of British ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin, his ex-film-star wife
> Yvonne, and the consul's brother, an anti-Fascist journalist
> named Hugh. Name the book *or* the author.
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 8 - Science - Meet the Real Flintstones
>
> As Ralph Kramden used to say when caught red-handed by Alice,
> "hominid, hominid, hominid". With apologies to any creationists
> in the league, here's a round on our slope-browed forebears.
>
> 1. In the 1920s scientists excavated the fossil remains of Peking
> Man. We now know this specimen, and the earlier discovery Java
> Man, as examples of which human-like species?
>
> 2. Discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, "Lucy" was a 25% complete
> skeleton. She has the pelvis and leg bones of a fully bipedal
> creature. She is considered to be a member of which extinct
> hominid species?
>
> 3. In what country was the first Neanderthal skull found?
>
> 4. What was significant about the 1911 discovery in England of
> the Piltdown Man?
>
> 5. Discovered in 1994, the famous Grotte Chauvet contains the
> world's oldest cave drawings -- of animals, human hands, and
> nude women. Within 3,000 years, how old are the cave drawings?
>
> Please decode the rot13 for questions #6-10 only after you have
> finished with the above questions.
>
> 6. Zhpu zber snzbhf pnir qenjvatf, bayl nobhg unys gur ntr bs
> gur Tebggr Punhirg barf, jrer qvfpbirerq va Senapr va 1940 --
> va jung snzbhf pnirf?
>
> 7. Ubzb sybevrafvf jnf gur fpvragvsvp anzr tvira gb n fznyy-fgngherq
> uhzna naprfgbe, gur erznvaf bs frira bs juvpu jrer qvfpbirerq
> ba n erzbgr Vaqbarfvna vfynaq va 2004. Jung zber pbyybdhvny
> anzr sbe gurfr ubzvavqf jnf cbchynevmrq ol gur arjf zrqvn?
>
> 8. Jung qbrf "Ubzb rerpghf" zrna?
>
> 9. Jung qbrf "Ubzb unovyvf" zrna?
>
> 10. Sbffvy fxhyyf bs Ubzb unovyvf fubj fvtaf bs gur qrirybczrag
> bs n ertvba bs gur oenva pnyyrq Oebpn'f nern. Guvf vf rivqrapr
> gung Ubzb unovyvf qvq jung?
--
Dan Tilque
Rob Parker
Oct 18, 2014, 5:53:24 PM10/18/14
to
> * Game 3, Round 7 - Literature - Character Study
>
>
> 2. Name the Victorian novel that featured Mr. Micawber, Peggoty,
> Dora, and Agnes.
David Copperfield
> Dora, and Agnes.
> 5. Ishmael, Queequeg. Name the book *and* the author.
> 6. Charles Darnay, Sidney Carton, Mme. Defarge. Name the book *and*
> the author.
> * Game 3, Round 8 - Science - Meet the Real Flintstones
>
> 1. In the 1920s scientists excavated the fossil remains of Peking
> Man. We now know this specimen, and the earlier discovery Java
> Man, as examples of which human-like species?
Homo erectus
> Man. We now know this specimen, and the earlier discovery Java
> Man, as examples of which human-like species?
> 2. Discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, "Lucy" was a 25% complete
> skeleton. She has the pelvis and leg bones of a fully bipedal
> creature. She is considered to be a member of which extinct
> hominid species?
> 3. In what country was the first Neanderthal skull found?
> 4. What was significant about the 1911 discovery in England of
> the Piltdown Man?
> 5. Discovered in 1994, the famous Grotte Chauvet contains the
> world's oldest cave drawings -- of animals, human hands, and
> nude women. Within 3,000 years, how old are the cave drawings?
> 8. Jung qbrf "Ubzb rerpghf" zrna?
> 9. Jung qbrf "Ubzb unovyvf" zrna?
Rob
Jeffrey Turner
Oct 20, 2014, 12:16:32 AM10/20/14
to
On 10/16/2014 10:38 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 7 - Literature - Character Study
>
> 1. Name the Victorian novel that featured the characters
> Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Damon Wildeve, and the prodigal
> Clym Yeobright.
>
> 2. Name the Victorian novel that featured Mr. Micawber, Peggoty,
> Dora, and Agnes.
>
> 3. Name the author who, in the 1930s, created the character of
> John Galt.
Ayn Rand
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 7 - Literature - Character Study
>
> 1. Name the Victorian novel that featured the characters
> Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Damon Wildeve, and the prodigal
> Clym Yeobright.
>
> 2. Name the Victorian novel that featured Mr. Micawber, Peggoty,
> Dora, and Agnes.
>
> 3. Name the author who, in the 1930s, created the character of
> John Galt.
> 4. Name the John Steinbeck book that features a French poodle and
> the author seeking America in a truck named after Don Quixote's
> horse Rocinante.
>
> 5. Ishmael, Queequeg. Name the book *and* the author.
> 6. Charles Darnay, Sidney Carton, Mme. Defarge. Name the book *and*
> the author.
>
> 7. Name the author who created the character of George Babbitt in
> the 1920s.
> 8. Name the author who created ex-basketball-champion Harry
> Angstrom, a.k.a. Rabbit.
>
> 9. Written as a BBC radio drama in the 1954, it included the
> characters of Myfanwy Price, Mog Edwards, Polly Garter, and
> Captain Cat.
>
> 10. On the Day of the Dead in 1938, alcoholic filmmaker Monsieur
> Laruelle looks back on the preceding year, spent with the likes
> of British ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin, his ex-film-star wife
> Yvonne, and the consul's brother, an anti-Fascist journalist
> named Hugh. Name the book *or* the author.
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 8 - Science - Meet the Real Flintstones
>
> As Ralph Kramden used to say when caught red-handed by Alice,
> "hominid, hominid, hominid". With apologies to any creationists
> in the league, here's a round on our slope-browed forebears.
>
> 1. In the 1920s scientists excavated the fossil remains of Peking
> Man. We now know this specimen, and the earlier discovery Java
> Man, as examples of which human-like species?
> 2. Discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, "Lucy" was a 25% complete
> skeleton. She has the pelvis and leg bones of a fully bipedal
> creature. She is considered to be a member of which extinct
> hominid species?
> 3. In what country was the first Neanderthal skull found?
> 4. What was significant about the 1911 discovery in England of
> the Piltdown Man?
> 5. Discovered in 1994, the famous Grotte Chauvet contains the
> world's oldest cave drawings -- of animals, human hands, and
> nude women. Within 3,000 years, how old are the cave drawings?
> Please decode the rot13 for questions #6-10 only after you have
> finished with the above questions.
>
> THE GROTTE CHAUVET ONES, WERE DISCOVERED IN FRANCE IN 1940 --
> IN WHAT FAMOUS CAVES?
Lascaux
> 7. HOMO FLORIENSIS WAS THE SCIENTIFIC NAME GIVEN TO A SMALL-STATURED
> HUMAN ANCESTOR, THE REMAINS OF SEVEN OF WHICH WERE DISCOVERED
> ON A REMOTE INDONESIAN ISLAND IN 2004. WHAT MORE COLLOQUIAL
> NAME FOR THESE HOMINIDS WAS POPULARIZED BY THE NEWS MEDIA?
Hobbit
> 8. WHAT DOES "HOMO ERECTUS" MEAN?
Erect man (posture)
> 9. WHAT DOES "HOMO HABILIS" MEAN?
Man who makes tools
> 10. FOSSIL SKULLS OF HOMO HABILIS SHOW SIGNS OF THE DEVELOPMENT
> OF A REGION OF THE BRAIN CALLED BROCA'S AREA. THIS IS EVIDENCE
> THAT HOMO HABILIS DID WHAT?
Abstract thought
--Jeff
Mark Brader
Oct 20, 2014, 2:28:22 AM10/20/14
to
Mark Brader:
and Stephen.
> 2. Name the Victorian novel that featured Mr. Micawber, Peggoty,
> Dora, and Agnes.
"The Personal History, Adventures, Experience & Observation of David
Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He never
meant to be Published on any Account)" (1849, Charles Dickens).
4 for Marc, Stephen, and Rob.
> 3. Name the author who, in the 1930s, created the character of
> John Galt.
Ayn Rand. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Pete, Stephen, Jason, Dan Tilque,
and Jeff.
> 4. Name the John Steinbeck book that features a French poodle and
> the author seeking America in a truck named after Don Quixote's
> horse Rocinante.
"Travels with Charley". 4 for Stephen and Jason.
> 5. Ishmael, Queequeg. Name the book *and* the author.
"Moby-Dick" (1851), Herman Melville. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Pete,
Peter, Stephen, Jason, Dan Tilque, Rob, and Jeff.
> 6. Charles Darnay, Sidney Carton, Mme. Defarge. Name the book *and*
> the author.
"A Tale of Two Cities" (1859), Charles Dickens. 4 for Dan Blum,
Marc, Pete, Stephen, and Rob.
> 7. Name the author who created the character of George Babbitt in
> the 1920s.
Sinclair Lewis. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Stephen, and Jeff.
> 8. Name the author who created ex-basketball-champion Harry
> Angstrom, a.k.a. Rabbit.
John Updike. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Jason, and Dan Tilque.
> 9. Written as a BBC radio drama in the 1954, it included the
> characters of Myfanwy Price, Mog Edwards, Polly Garter, and
> Captain Cat.
"Under Milk Wood" (Dylan Thomas). 4 for Dan Blum, Peter, and Stephen.
> 10. On the Day of the Dead in 1938, alcoholic filmmaker Monsieur
> Laruelle looks back on the preceding year, spent with the likes
> of British ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin, his ex-film-star wife
> Yvonne, and the consul's brother, an anti-Fascist journalist
> named Hugh. Name the book *or* the author.
"Under the Volcano", Malcolm Lowry. 4 for Stephen.
> * Game 3, Round 8 - Science - Meet the Real Flintstones
> As Ralph Kramden used to say when caught red-handed by Alice,
> "hominid, hominid, hominid". With apologies to any creationists
> in the league, here's a round on our slope-browed forebears.
> 1. In the 1920s scientists excavated the fossil remains of Peking
> Man. We now know this specimen, and the earlier discovery Java
> Man, as examples of which human-like species?
Homo erectus. 4 for Marc, Björn, Pete, Erland, Stephen, Dan Tilque,
and Rob.
> 2. Discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, "Lucy" was a 25% complete
> skeleton. She has the pelvis and leg bones of a fully bipedal
> creature. She is considered to be a member of which extinct
> hominid species?
Australopithecus afarensis. 4 for Dan Tilque and Jeff.
> 3. In what country was the first Neanderthal skull found?
Germany. The name refers to a river valley there. 4 for Dan Blum,
Marc, Björn, Erland, Dan Tilque, Rob, and Jeff.
> 4. What was significant about the 1911 discovery in England of
> the Piltdown Man?
It was a hoax (human and orangutan bones planted together), a fact
not proved until 1953. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Björn, Peter, Stephen,
Jason, Dan Tilque, Rob, and Jeff.
> 5. Discovered in 1994, the famous Grotte Chauvet contains the
> world's oldest cave drawings -- of animals, human hands, and
> nude women. Within 3,000 years, how old are the cave drawings?
35,000 years (accepting 32,000-42,900; see below). 4 for Marc,
Björn, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Jeff.
As Erland noted, this question is now out of date: the discovery
of older cave art was announced 10 days after the original game.
The caves are in the Maros karsts of Sulawesi, Indonesia, and the
oldest dated item is a stencil of a human hand, dated to 39,900
years old. Apologies; I had not heard about this. I'm therefore
accepting a range of 3,000 years from either the age of the Grotte
Chauvet drawings or the actual oldest ones.
There is also a still older cave painting, 41,000 years, at a place
called El Castillo, but it is a simple red disk and not a drawing,
so I don't think it makes sense to take that into account.
> Please decode the rot13 for questions #6-10 only after you have
> finished with the above questions.
> 7. Homo floriensis was the scientific name given to a small-statured
> human ancestor, the remains of seven of which were discovered
> on a remote Indonesian island in 2004. What more colloquial
> name for these hominids was popularized by the news media?
Hobbits. 4 for Dan Blum, Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Jeff.
> 8. What does "Homo erectus" mean?
Upright man. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Björn, Pete, Peter, Erland,
Stephen, Dan Tilque, Rob, and Jeff.
> 9. What does "Homo habilis" mean?
Handy (tool-making) man. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Erland, Stephen,
Dan Tilque, Rob, and Jeff.
> 10. Fossil skulls of Homo habilis show signs of the development
> of a region of the brain called Broca's area. This is evidence
> that Homo habilis did what?
Used language. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Björn, Peter, Erland, Stephen,
and Dan Tilque.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 3 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> Can Geo Ent Ent Lit Sci FOUR
Stephen Perry -- -- 39 40 36 28 143
Dan Blum 7 30 32 32 28 24 122
Dan Tilque 0 24 20 36 12 40 120
Jeff Turner 0 19 28 32 12 32 111
Marc Dashevsky 0 18 20 36 24 28 108
Pete Gayde 3 22 31 32 12 8 97
Joshua Kreitzer 7 22 40 28 -- -- 97
Bruce Bowler 0 39 24 32 -- -- 95
Rob Parker 4 31 8 28 12 20 91
Jason Kreitzer 0 4 24 28 16 4 72
Peter Smyth 0 26 8 4 8 12 54
Björn Lundin 0 11 4 4 0 24 43
Erland Sommarskog 0 7 4 0 0 24 35
--
Mark Brader | "'Settlor', (i) in relation to a testamentary trust,
Toronto | means the individual referred to in paragraph (i)."
m...@vex.net | -- Income Tax Act of Canada (1972-94), 108(1)(h)
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-09-29,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the
> Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 3, Round 7 - Literature - Character Study
> 1. Name the Victorian novel that featured the characters
> Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Damon Wildeve, and the prodigal
> Clym Yeobright.
"The Return of the Native" (1878, Thomas Hardy). 4 for Dan Blum
> Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 3, Round 7 - Literature - Character Study
> 1. Name the Victorian novel that featured the characters
> Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Damon Wildeve, and the prodigal
> Clym Yeobright.
and Stephen.
> 2. Name the Victorian novel that featured Mr. Micawber, Peggoty,
> Dora, and Agnes.
Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He never
meant to be Published on any Account)" (1849, Charles Dickens).
4 for Marc, Stephen, and Rob.
> 3. Name the author who, in the 1930s, created the character of
> John Galt.
and Jeff.
> 4. Name the John Steinbeck book that features a French poodle and
> the author seeking America in a truck named after Don Quixote's
> horse Rocinante.
> 5. Ishmael, Queequeg. Name the book *and* the author.
Peter, Stephen, Jason, Dan Tilque, Rob, and Jeff.
> 6. Charles Darnay, Sidney Carton, Mme. Defarge. Name the book *and*
> the author.
Marc, Pete, Stephen, and Rob.
> 7. Name the author who created the character of George Babbitt in
> the 1920s.
> 8. Name the author who created ex-basketball-champion Harry
> Angstrom, a.k.a. Rabbit.
> 9. Written as a BBC radio drama in the 1954, it included the
> characters of Myfanwy Price, Mog Edwards, Polly Garter, and
> Captain Cat.
> 10. On the Day of the Dead in 1938, alcoholic filmmaker Monsieur
> Laruelle looks back on the preceding year, spent with the likes
> of British ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin, his ex-film-star wife
> Yvonne, and the consul's brother, an anti-Fascist journalist
> named Hugh. Name the book *or* the author.
> * Game 3, Round 8 - Science - Meet the Real Flintstones
> As Ralph Kramden used to say when caught red-handed by Alice,
> "hominid, hominid, hominid". With apologies to any creationists
> in the league, here's a round on our slope-browed forebears.
> 1. In the 1920s scientists excavated the fossil remains of Peking
> Man. We now know this specimen, and the earlier discovery Java
> Man, as examples of which human-like species?
and Rob.
> 2. Discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, "Lucy" was a 25% complete
> skeleton. She has the pelvis and leg bones of a fully bipedal
> creature. She is considered to be a member of which extinct
> hominid species?
> 3. In what country was the first Neanderthal skull found?
Marc, Björn, Erland, Dan Tilque, Rob, and Jeff.
> 4. What was significant about the 1911 discovery in England of
> the Piltdown Man?
not proved until 1953. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Björn, Peter, Stephen,
Jason, Dan Tilque, Rob, and Jeff.
> 5. Discovered in 1994, the famous Grotte Chauvet contains the
> world's oldest cave drawings -- of animals, human hands, and
> nude women. Within 3,000 years, how old are the cave drawings?
Björn, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Jeff.
As Erland noted, this question is now out of date: the discovery
of older cave art was announced 10 days after the original game.
The caves are in the Maros karsts of Sulawesi, Indonesia, and the
oldest dated item is a stencil of a human hand, dated to 39,900
years old. Apologies; I had not heard about this. I'm therefore
accepting a range of 3,000 years from either the age of the Grotte
Chauvet drawings or the actual oldest ones.
There is also a still older cave painting, 41,000 years, at a place
called El Castillo, but it is a simple red disk and not a drawing,
so I don't think it makes sense to take that into account.
> Please decode the rot13 for questions #6-10 only after you have
> finished with the above questions.
> 6. Much more famous cave drawings, only about half the age of
> the Grotte Chauvet ones, were discovered in France in 1940 --
> in what famous caves?
Lascaux. 4 for Stephen, Dan Tilque, and Jeff.
> the Grotte Chauvet ones, were discovered in France in 1940 --
> in what famous caves?
> 7. Homo floriensis was the scientific name given to a small-statured
> human ancestor, the remains of seven of which were discovered
> on a remote Indonesian island in 2004. What more colloquial
> name for these hominids was popularized by the news media?
> 8. What does "Homo erectus" mean?
Stephen, Dan Tilque, Rob, and Jeff.
> 9. What does "Homo habilis" mean?
Dan Tilque, Rob, and Jeff.
> 10. Fossil skulls of Homo habilis show signs of the development
> of a region of the brain called Broca's area. This is evidence
> that Homo habilis did what?
and Dan Tilque.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 3 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> Can Geo Ent Ent Lit Sci FOUR
Stephen Perry -- -- 39 40 36 28 143
Dan Blum 7 30 32 32 28 24 122
Dan Tilque 0 24 20 36 12 40 120
Jeff Turner 0 19 28 32 12 32 111
Marc Dashevsky 0 18 20 36 24 28 108
Pete Gayde 3 22 31 32 12 8 97
Joshua Kreitzer 7 22 40 28 -- -- 97
Bruce Bowler 0 39 24 32 -- -- 95
Rob Parker 4 31 8 28 12 20 91
Jason Kreitzer 0 4 24 28 16 4 72
Peter Smyth 0 26 8 4 8 12 54
Björn Lundin 0 11 4 4 0 24 43
Erland Sommarskog 0 7 4 0 0 24 35
--
Mark Brader | "'Settlor', (i) in relation to a testamentary trust,
Toronto | means the individual referred to in paragraph (i)."
m...@vex.net | -- Income Tax Act of Canada (1972-94), 108(1)(h)
Joshua Kreitzer
Oct 20, 2014, 3:43:44 AM10/20/14
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:U5idndoV68IbNtnJnZ2dnUU7-
Ved...@vex.net:
> Scores, if there are no errors:
>
> GAME 3 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
> TOPICS-> Can Geo Ent Ent Lit Sci FOUR
> Stephen Perry -- -- 39 40 36 28 143
> Dan Blum 7 30 32 32 28 24 122
> Dan Tilque 0 24 20 36 12 40 120
> Jeff Turner 0 19 28 32 12 32 111
> Marc Dashevsky 0 18 20 36 24 28 108
> Pete Gayde 3 22 31 32 12 8 97
> Joshua Kreitzer 7 22 40 28 -- -- 97
> Bruce Bowler 0 39 24 32 -- -- 95
> Rob Parker 4 31 8 28 12 20 91
> Jason Kreitzer 0 4 24 28 16 4 72
> Peter Smyth 0 26 8 4 8 12 54
> Björn Lundin 0 11 4 4 0 24 43
> Erland Sommarskog 0 7 4 0 0 24 35
>
My answers apparently got overlooked. They can be found at
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/rec.games.trivia/yS8BYpSBzVk/GP-
G1LpgJsUJ
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Ved...@vex.net:
> Scores, if there are no errors:
>
> GAME 3 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
> TOPICS-> Can Geo Ent Ent Lit Sci FOUR
> Stephen Perry -- -- 39 40 36 28 143
> Dan Blum 7 30 32 32 28 24 122
> Dan Tilque 0 24 20 36 12 40 120
> Jeff Turner 0 19 28 32 12 32 111
> Marc Dashevsky 0 18 20 36 24 28 108
> Pete Gayde 3 22 31 32 12 8 97
> Joshua Kreitzer 7 22 40 28 -- -- 97
> Bruce Bowler 0 39 24 32 -- -- 95
> Rob Parker 4 31 8 28 12 20 91
> Jason Kreitzer 0 4 24 28 16 4 72
> Peter Smyth 0 26 8 4 8 12 54
> Björn Lundin 0 11 4 4 0 24 43
> Erland Sommarskog 0 7 4 0 0 24 35
>
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/rec.games.trivia/yS8BYpSBzVk/GP-
G1LpgJsUJ
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Mark Brader
Oct 20, 2014, 2:02:35 PM10/20/14
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Mark Brader:
>> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-09-29,
>> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
>> see my 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the
>> Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
Joshua Kreitzer:
>> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-09-29,
>> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
>> see my 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the
>> Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> My answers apparently got overlooked...
So they did -- either my mistake or a news server glitch. Apologies, if
applicable. Here we go again, then:
>> * Game 3, Round 7 - Literature - Character Study
>> 1. Name the Victorian novel that featured the characters
>> Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Damon Wildeve, and the prodigal
>> Clym Yeobright.
Joshua, and Stephen.
>> 2. Name the Victorian novel that featured Mr. Micawber, Peggoty,
>> Dora, and Agnes.
"The Personal History, Adventures, Experience & Observation of David
Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He never
meant to be Published on any Account)" (1849, Charles Dickens).
>> 3. Name the author who, in the 1930s, created the character of
>> John Galt.
Dan Tilque, and Jeff.
>> 4. Name the John Steinbeck book that features a French poodle and
>> the author seeking America in a truck named after Don Quixote's
>> horse Rocinante.
"Travels with Charley". 4 for Joshua, Stephen, and Jason.
>> 4. Name the John Steinbeck book that features a French poodle and
>> the author seeking America in a truck named after Don Quixote's
>> horse Rocinante.
>> 5. Ishmael, Queequeg. Name the book *and* the author.
Pete, Peter, Stephen, Jason, Dan Tilque, Rob, and Jeff.
>> 6. Charles Darnay, Sidney Carton, Mme. Defarge. Name the book *and*
>> the author.
"A Tale of Two Cities" (1859), Charles Dickens. 4 for Dan Blum,
Joshua, Marc, Pete, Stephen, and Rob.
>> 6. Charles Darnay, Sidney Carton, Mme. Defarge. Name the book *and*
>> the author.
"A Tale of Two Cities" (1859), Charles Dickens. 4 for Dan Blum,
>> 7. Name the author who created the character of George Babbitt in
>> the 1920s.
>> 8. Name the author who created ex-basketball-champion Harry
>> Angstrom, a.k.a. Rabbit.
>> 9. Written as a BBC radio drama in the 1954, it included the
>> characters of Myfanwy Price, Mog Edwards, Polly Garter, and
>> Captain Cat.
"Under Milk Wood" (Dylan Thomas). 4 for Dan Blum, Peter, and Stephen.
>> 10. On the Day of the Dead in 1938, alcoholic filmmaker Monsieur
>> Laruelle looks back on the preceding year, spent with the likes
>> of British ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin, his ex-film-star wife
>> Yvonne, and the consul's brother, an anti-Fascist journalist
>> named Hugh. Name the book *or* the author.
"Under the Volcano", Malcolm Lowry. 4 for Stephen.
>> * Game 3, Round 8 - Science - Meet the Real Flintstones
>> As Ralph Kramden used to say when caught red-handed by Alice,
>> "hominid, hominid, hominid". With apologies to any creationists
>> in the league, here's a round on our slope-browed forebears.
>> 1. In the 1920s scientists excavated the fossil remains of Peking
>> Man. We now know this specimen, and the earlier discovery Java
>> Man, as examples of which human-like species?
Homo erectus. 4 for Marc, Björn, Pete, Erland, Stephen, Dan Tilque,
>> 2. Discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, "Lucy" was a 25% complete
>> skeleton. She has the pelvis and leg bones of a fully bipedal
>> creature. She is considered to be a member of which extinct
>> hominid species?
>> 3. In what country was the first Neanderthal skull found?
Germany. The name refers to a river valley there. 4 for Dan Blum,
>> 4. What was significant about the 1911 discovery in England of
>> the Piltdown Man?
It was a hoax (human and orangutan bones planted together), a fact
Stephen, Jason, Dan Tilque, Rob, and Jeff.
>> 5. Discovered in 1994, the famous Grotte Chauvet contains the
>> world's oldest cave drawings -- of animals, human hands, and
>> nude women. Within 3,000 years, how old are the cave drawings?
35,000 years (accepting 32,000-42,900; see the original answers
>> 5. Discovered in 1994, the famous Grotte Chauvet contains the
>> world's oldest cave drawings -- of animals, human hands, and
>> nude women. Within 3,000 years, how old are the cave drawings?
posting). 4 for Marc, Björn, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Jeff.
3 for Joshua.
>> 6. Much more famous cave drawings, only about half the age of
>> the Grotte Chauvet ones, were discovered in France in 1940 --
>> in what famous caves?
>> 7. Homo floriensis was the scientific name given to a small-statured
>> human ancestor, the remains of seven of which were discovered
>> on a remote Indonesian island in 2004. What more colloquial
>> name for these hominids was popularized by the news media?
>> 8. What does "Homo erectus" mean?
Erland, Stephen, Dan Tilque, Rob, and Jeff.
>> 9. What does "Homo habilis" mean?
Handy (tool-making) man. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Erland,
>> 9. What does "Homo habilis" mean?
Stephen, Dan Tilque, Rob, and Jeff.
>> 10. Fossil skulls of Homo habilis show signs of the development
>> of a region of the brain called Broca's area. This is evidence
>> that Homo habilis did what?
Used language. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Björn, Peter, Erland,
>> 10. Fossil skulls of Homo habilis show signs of the development
>> of a region of the brain called Broca's area. This is evidence
>> that Homo habilis did what?
Stephen, and Dan Tilque.
Scores, if there are *now* no errors:
GAME 3 ROUNDS->> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS->> Can Geo Ent Ent Lit Sci FOUR
Stephen Perry -- -- 39 40 36 28 143
Dan Blum 7 30 32 32 28 24 122
Dan Tilque 0 24 20 36 12 40 120
Jeff Turner 0 19 28 32 12 32 111
Marc Dashevsky 0 18 20 36 24 28 108
Pete Gayde 3 22 31 32 12 8 97
Dan Tilque 0 24 20 36 12 40 120
Jeff Turner 0 19 28 32 12 32 111
Marc Dashevsky 0 18 20 36 24 28 108
Pete Gayde 3 22 31 32 12 8 97
Bruce Bowler 0 39 24 32 -- -- 95
Rob Parker 4 31 8 28 12 20 91
Jason Kreitzer 0 4 24 28 16 4 72
Peter Smyth 0 26 8 4 8 12 54
Björn Lundin 0 11 4 4 0 24 43
Erland Sommarskog 0 7 4 0 0 24 35
--
Rob Parker 4 31 8 28 12 20 91
Jason Kreitzer 0 4 24 28 16 4 72
Peter Smyth 0 26 8 4 8 12 54
Björn Lundin 0 11 4 4 0 24 43
Erland Sommarskog 0 7 4 0 0 24 35
Mark Brader, Toronto | "Defendant's speech ends in long sentence"
m...@vex.net | --Minneapolis Tribune, February 25, 1981
Dan Tilque
Oct 21, 2014, 4:45:48 AM10/21/14
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Mark Brader wrote:
>
>> 8. What does "Homo erectus" mean?
>
> Upright man.
>
>
>> 8. What does "Homo erectus" mean?
>
> Upright man.
>
>> 9. What does "Homo habilis" mean?
>
> Handy (tool-making) man.
Just want to note that the Latin word 'homo' is best translated as
>
> Handy (tool-making) man.
"human", which is why I answered that way. I realize that the above
translations are traditional, but that meaning of the word "man" is,
shall we say, rapidly becoming archaic.
Two other notes:
1. Latin has a distinct, unrelated word 'vir' to refer to a male human.
2. This 'homo' is unrelated to the 'homo' in "homosexual". That word is
from Greek and means "same".
--
Dan Tilque
Mark Brader
Oct 21, 2014, 5:04:06 AM10/21/14
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Mark Brader:
good choice. In the context of species, it could reasonably be argued
that "human" should be reserved for Homo sapiens.
> I realize that the above
> translations are traditional, but that meaning of the word "man" is,
> shall we say, rapidly becoming archaic.
No, we shan't; it would be a distinct overstatement. Staff the barricades!
--
Mark Brader | "How, you may ask, did the mind of man ever excogitate
Toronto | anything so false and foolish? The answer is that the
m...@vex.net | mind of man had nothing to do with it..." --A.E. Housman
>>> 8. What does "Homo erectus" mean?
>> Upright man.
Dan Tilque:
>> Upright man.
> Just want to note that the Latin word 'homo' is best translated as
> "human", which is why I answered that way.
Well, "best" is a matter of opinion. In some contexts "person" is a
> "human", which is why I answered that way.
good choice. In the context of species, it could reasonably be argued
that "human" should be reserved for Homo sapiens.
> I realize that the above
> translations are traditional, but that meaning of the word "man" is,
> shall we say, rapidly becoming archaic.
--
Mark Brader | "How, you may ask, did the mind of man ever excogitate
Toronto | anything so false and foolish? The answer is that the
m...@vex.net | mind of man had nothing to do with it..." --A.E. Housman
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