Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI11, QFTCIMM)
Mark Brader
updates.
As most of you will remember, the Canadian Inquisition is a team
trivia league that plays in Toronto pubs. It's a cooperative
league, whose teams take turns to write and ask the questions that
the others answer. In the season that ended in April, that was my
own team, the Usual Suspects. And in the following season, which
ran from May to July, it was the Misplaced Modifiers.
I have obtained permission to post to this newsgroup the questions
from each of these seasons. Since it takes longer than 4 months to
post a season's worth of questions, I'll be skipping the ones from
the current season, which runs from September to December.
I am editing some questions for various reasons -- for brevity,
to clarify their intent, to avoid issues raised on protests, for
suitability in this medium, and so on.
As you may remember, the league's season consists of 10 regular
games and a Final. A regular game contains 102 questions. Most of
the game is in rounds of 10 questions on a specific topic within
a different general area. For example, one game in 2008 included
a geography round on former place names, an entertainment round on
Morgan Freeman movies, and a sports round on things that happened
during Toronto Blue Jays games. Round 10 (the "challenge round")
normally contains 12 questions, 2 each on 6 different subjects.
Round 1 is always a current events round, and all of these have
already been posted from both of the above seasons, as explained
below.
Round 5 is always an audio round, which I won't be posting.
For Rounds 2-4 and 6-10, for each of Games 1-10, I will normally
post the questions as four sets of two rounds each. It will be
Rounds 2-3 in one posting, Rounds 4 and 6 in the next, and so on.
In the Final, most rounds have 15 questions, and when we get to that
point, I'll be posting them one round at a time. Finals sometimes
include video questions, and as with audio, I will not post any
of these.
For each game, I'll keep a cumulative score over the group of postings,
counting your best 6 rounds out of 8 (or 5 out of 7, etc.) -- that way
if you miss a set or there's a subject you're weak on, you still have
a chance to finish well.
In a normal game usually one round is Canadiana (this may also fall
under another subject such as history or geography), which those of
you in distant places may have some trouble with, but I am including
them in the posting series anyway. This is your chance to shine by
displaying your knowledge of Canadiana.
As for current events rounds, while the seasons were going on,
what I've been doing was to post them as sets of two rounds,
from consecutive games, soon after the second of the two games.
All the current events rounds for a season were scored as a separate
ongoing game. I'll probably resume doing this in January when the
season after the current season starts.
I still have 3 regular-season games and the Final left to post
from the Usual Suspects' season, which are being posted under the
tag QFTCI11. When those are finished, I'll be posting rounds from
the Misplaced Modifiers' season, under the tag QFTCIMM. And when
*those* are finished, we'll be into the January-April 2012 season,
to be written by Footloose and Firkin Free, and I'll probably be
posting their questions.
The current events rounds for each season were totaled after the
last one is posted and scored. For other rounds, each game will be
totaled after the last round is posted and scored.
The usual rule in our regular league games is that each question
goes to an individual who can answer for 2 points without assistance,
and if he misses, he can consult his team and try again for 1 point.
If the quizmaster judges that an answer is incomplete, she can ask
for more details before ruling the answer right or wrong.
To maintain the spirit of these rules, I will say that you can give
two answers on every question. But I will penalize you if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer. The scoring will be:
4 points if you answer once and are right (or twice, both right)
3 points if you guess twice and are right only the first time
2 points if you guess twice and are right only the second time
If you give only one answer, but with only some sort of additional
comment, please make it clear that that's what you're doing.
If there is any doubt I'll assume that you are giving two answers.
If I see more than two answers, the extra ones will be ignored.
Where it makes sense, I will accept answers that I think are almost
close enough (*more than half right*), with a 1-point penalty.
But I will reject answers that I do not think are sufficiently
specific, since there is no opportunity to ask for clarification
when answers are posted in the newsgroup.
You must, of course, answer based on your own knowledge and nothing
else. You must post all your answers in a single posting. Where a
person's name is asked for, normally you need only give the surname.
My intent is that for each quiz you'll get about 3 days to answer,
plus or minus a few hours, but I'm not going to set exact deadlines;
I'll cut off entries at whatever time (after 2 days and about 21 hours)
that it's convenient for me to do the scoring and post the results.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge,
m...@vex.net | put together!" -- SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
My text in this article is in the public domain.