Mark Brader
2023-10-05 05:54:19 UTC
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2023-09-18,
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 the Usual Suspects and
are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have
been retyped and/or edited by me. The posting and tabulation of
current-events questions is independent of the concurrent posting
of other rounds. For further information please see my 2023-05-24
companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition
(QFTCI*)".
I wrote both of these rounds.
* Game 1, Round 4 - Sports - And in Last Place
In each case name the team. Either the place name or team name
will be sufficient, like "Saskatchewan" or "Roughriders", unless
we say otherwise.
1. While exact information is not available, in its first 63 years
of operation this professional team won maybe 3 games, and lost
about 16,000 games.
2. Please decode the rot13 for this question only after you have
finished with the previous one. Gur erfg bs guvf ebhaq pbapreaf
grnzf cynlvat va beqvanel cebsrffvbany yrnthrf. Nyy gur grnzf
ner fgvyy cynlvat gbqnl, naq vs gurl unir punatrq anzrf, jr jvyy
npprcg gurve pheerag anzr. Va gur AON, qhr gb n ynobe qvfchgr,
gur 2011-12 frnfba jnf bayl 66 tnzrf ybat. Guvf Fbhgurnfg
Qvivfvba grnz svavfurq gur frnfba jvgu 7 jvaf naq 59 ybffrf.
Gurve yrnqvat fpbere jnf Trenyq Uraqrefba We.
3. The worst record in major-league baseball since World War II
belongs to this National League team in 1962, when they won
40 games and lost 120. Jimmy Breslin's book about that season
was titled "Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?"
4. The worst baseball record in recent years was this American
League Central Division team with 47 wins and 114 losses in 2019.
5. Considering only home games for each team, the all-time record
home losing streak for *all* professional sports in North
America was the 20 consecutive home losses suffered by the
St. Louis Browns in June and July 1953 -- until *this* team
exceeded it by losing 22 consecutive home games from October
2019 to August 2023. Obviously this isn't a baseball team --
what team is it?
6. In the 1976 NFL season, this team lost all 14 games. Despite
their location, they were then playing in the AFC West Division.
Their head coach was John McKay and their primary quarterback
was Steve Spurrier.
7. In 1974-75 this NHL team in the Norris Division won 8 games,
lost 67, and tied 5. Four of their losses were by 10 goals
or more. Their primary goalie, Ron Low, had a goals-against
average of 5.45.
8. In 1992-93 this team in the NHL's Smythe Division won 11 games
and tied 2, but their 71 losses are a record that still stands
today. At one point they lost 17 games in a row; in one game
they scored first and lost 13-1. Their leading scorer was
Kelly Kisio with 26 goals on the whole season.
9. This English soccer team was promoted into the Premier League
in 2007, but had clinched relegation back to their previous
league 6 weeks before the 2007-08 season was over! That season
they won 1 game, drew 8, and lost 29. They scored 20 goals in
the whole season to 89 for their opponents. Billy Davies was
replaced as manager by Paul Jewell, who lasted only a little
over a year.
10. On this continent, the record for losses in Major League Soccer
was set in 1999. Including games decided by shootout,
this Eastern Conference team won just 7 games and lost 25.
They scored 35 goals in the season, 7 of them by Eduardo Hurtado;
Bora Milutinovic was the coach.
After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Ba dhrfgvbaf
1 naq 9, gur shyy anzr vf erdhverq -- cynpr anzr naq grnz anzr.
Gur fnzr nccyvrf ba dhrfgvba 10 vs lbh tvir gur cerfrag-qnl anzr.
Ba dhrfgvba 3, gur grnz anzr vf erdhverq.
* Game 1, Round 6 - Literature - The Title Character
In each case we will name a book whose title refers to a specific
character, and you must name *that character*. For example, we say
"The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien, and you say Sauron.
In some cases the character's first name will do, but we won't
tell you which questions. Note that the title character is not
necessarily the lead character of the book.
1. "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien.
2. "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway.
3. "Rabbit, Run" by John Updike.
4. "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov.
5. "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
6. "The Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare.
7. "Lady Chatterley's Lover" by D.H. Lawrence. We want the second
title character, of course.
8. "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
["Rolling"]. We want the second title character, of course.
9. "The Stranger", also known in English as "The Outsider", by
Albert Camus.
10. "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein.
After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh whfg
dhbgrq gur gvgyr nf lbhe nafjre sbe bar dhrfgvba, tb onpx naq gryy
gur gvgyr punenpgre'f *erny* anzr.
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 the Usual Suspects and
are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have
been retyped and/or edited by me. The posting and tabulation of
current-events questions is independent of the concurrent posting
of other rounds. For further information please see my 2023-05-24
companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition
(QFTCI*)".
I wrote both of these rounds.
* Game 1, Round 4 - Sports - And in Last Place
In each case name the team. Either the place name or team name
will be sufficient, like "Saskatchewan" or "Roughriders", unless
we say otherwise.
1. While exact information is not available, in its first 63 years
of operation this professional team won maybe 3 games, and lost
about 16,000 games.
2. Please decode the rot13 for this question only after you have
finished with the previous one. Gur erfg bs guvf ebhaq pbapreaf
grnzf cynlvat va beqvanel cebsrffvbany yrnthrf. Nyy gur grnzf
ner fgvyy cynlvat gbqnl, naq vs gurl unir punatrq anzrf, jr jvyy
npprcg gurve pheerag anzr. Va gur AON, qhr gb n ynobe qvfchgr,
gur 2011-12 frnfba jnf bayl 66 tnzrf ybat. Guvf Fbhgurnfg
Qvivfvba grnz svavfurq gur frnfba jvgu 7 jvaf naq 59 ybffrf.
Gurve yrnqvat fpbere jnf Trenyq Uraqrefba We.
3. The worst record in major-league baseball since World War II
belongs to this National League team in 1962, when they won
40 games and lost 120. Jimmy Breslin's book about that season
was titled "Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?"
4. The worst baseball record in recent years was this American
League Central Division team with 47 wins and 114 losses in 2019.
5. Considering only home games for each team, the all-time record
home losing streak for *all* professional sports in North
America was the 20 consecutive home losses suffered by the
St. Louis Browns in June and July 1953 -- until *this* team
exceeded it by losing 22 consecutive home games from October
2019 to August 2023. Obviously this isn't a baseball team --
what team is it?
6. In the 1976 NFL season, this team lost all 14 games. Despite
their location, they were then playing in the AFC West Division.
Their head coach was John McKay and their primary quarterback
was Steve Spurrier.
7. In 1974-75 this NHL team in the Norris Division won 8 games,
lost 67, and tied 5. Four of their losses were by 10 goals
or more. Their primary goalie, Ron Low, had a goals-against
average of 5.45.
8. In 1992-93 this team in the NHL's Smythe Division won 11 games
and tied 2, but their 71 losses are a record that still stands
today. At one point they lost 17 games in a row; in one game
they scored first and lost 13-1. Their leading scorer was
Kelly Kisio with 26 goals on the whole season.
9. This English soccer team was promoted into the Premier League
in 2007, but had clinched relegation back to their previous
league 6 weeks before the 2007-08 season was over! That season
they won 1 game, drew 8, and lost 29. They scored 20 goals in
the whole season to 89 for their opponents. Billy Davies was
replaced as manager by Paul Jewell, who lasted only a little
over a year.
10. On this continent, the record for losses in Major League Soccer
was set in 1999. Including games decided by shootout,
this Eastern Conference team won just 7 games and lost 25.
They scored 35 goals in the season, 7 of them by Eduardo Hurtado;
Bora Milutinovic was the coach.
After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Ba dhrfgvbaf
1 naq 9, gur shyy anzr vf erdhverq -- cynpr anzr naq grnz anzr.
Gur fnzr nccyvrf ba dhrfgvba 10 vs lbh tvir gur cerfrag-qnl anzr.
Ba dhrfgvba 3, gur grnz anzr vf erdhverq.
* Game 1, Round 6 - Literature - The Title Character
In each case we will name a book whose title refers to a specific
character, and you must name *that character*. For example, we say
"The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien, and you say Sauron.
In some cases the character's first name will do, but we won't
tell you which questions. Note that the title character is not
necessarily the lead character of the book.
1. "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien.
2. "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway.
3. "Rabbit, Run" by John Updike.
4. "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov.
5. "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
6. "The Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare.
7. "Lady Chatterley's Lover" by D.H. Lawrence. We want the second
title character, of course.
8. "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
["Rolling"]. We want the second title character, of course.
9. "The Stranger", also known in English as "The Outsider", by
Albert Camus.
10. "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein.
After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh whfg
dhbgrq gur gvgyr nf lbhe nafjre sbe bar dhrfgvba, tb onpx naq gryy
gur gvgyr punenpgre'f *erny* anzr.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "Logic is logic. That's all I say."
***@vex.net -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Mark Brader, Toronto "Logic is logic. That's all I say."
***@vex.net -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
My text in this article is in the public domain.