Mark Brader
2024-01-12 05:29:39 UTC
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2023-11-13,
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 one of these rounds and most of the other.
** Game 8, Round 9 - Literature - Shakespeare
1. William Shakespeare was the author or co-author of about
38 plays. 36 of them were published in a single book in 1623,
the first time this had been done. That's twice as many as had
been individually published before, and the book also shows
many variations from those earlier versions, so it's very
important to literary historians. By what description is the
book generally known?
2. In <answer 1>, the plays are classified into three categories:
comedies, tragedies, and what else?
3. In which tragedy would you find the characters Benvolio,
Mercutio, and Friar Laurence?
4. In which tragedy would you find the characters Goneril, Cordelia,
and Regan?
5. In which comedy would you find the characters Rosalind, Orlando,
Celia, and Touchstone?
6. In which comedy would you find the characters Antipholus of
Ephesus, Antipholus of Syracuse, Dromio of Ephesus, and Dromio
of Syracuse?
7. Which character has the most lines in *any one* of Shakespeare's
plays?
8. Which character has the most lines if *all* of Shakespeare's
plays are counted together?
9. In which of Shakespeare's plays are the remains of two of the
characters served to another character in the form of pie?
10. In which of Shakespeare's plays does one of the characters
magically transform another character's head into the head of
an ass, which is to say, a donkey?
** Game 8, Round 10 - Challenge Round
* A. Geography: Passes
A1. The original route of the Trans-Canada Highway and the
first railway across the Canadian Rockies both cross the
Rockies using the same pass. Name it.
A2. Name the pass on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border that
has formed a vital part of trade routes since the days of
the ancient Silk Road.
* B. History: Failures
B1. In 1911, while Roald Amundsen's expedition was forging across
Antarctica to be first to reach the South Pole, a rival
British expedition began the same journey, with determination
that in their case exceeded their competence. They too
reached the pole, about a month after Amundsen, but on the
way back they all died. Who was the, uh, heroic(?) leader
of this ill-fated expedition?
B2. The British do seem to love to commemorate their heroic
failures. Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "The Charge of
the Light Brigade" celebrates a disastrous attack against
Russian troops, initiated accidentally by an unclear order,
during *what battle* of the Crimean War?
* C. Science: Batteries
C1. According to its nominal rating, a standard alkaline battery,
such as size AAA, generates how many volts of eletricity?
C2. In etymologically correct technical language that size AAA
alkaline battery isn't a "battery" at all, as that word
refers to a combination of two or more of them. Before the
word "battery" got established as common usage, what were
we supposed to call just one of the things?
* D. Miscellaneous: Political Terms
D1. What is it called when a party chooses a candidate from
elsewhere to run in what they think is a safe district?
D2. What is it called when one party gets to adjust the
electoral-district boundaries and uses this power to improve
their own future chances?
* E. Leisure: Game Masters
E1. The following people have been known for their mastery
of what game? Alexander Alekhine, Mikhail Botvinnik,
José Capablanca, Magnus Carlsen, Anatoly Karpov, Mikhail Tal.
E2. The following people have been known for their mastery of
what game? Easley Blackwood, Ely Culbertson, Charles Goren,
Oswald Jacoby, Alan Truscott, Zia Mahmood.
* F. Literature: Complete the Title
F1. Complete the title of this 1974 book by Robert Pirsig.
The main title will do; you don't need to give the subtitle.
"Zen and..."
F2. The main title of this 2007 book by Stephen Colbert
["coal-BEAR"] is "I am America". Give the 4-word subtitle --
punctuation marks not required.
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 one of these rounds and most of the other.
** Game 8, Round 9 - Literature - Shakespeare
1. William Shakespeare was the author or co-author of about
38 plays. 36 of them were published in a single book in 1623,
the first time this had been done. That's twice as many as had
been individually published before, and the book also shows
many variations from those earlier versions, so it's very
important to literary historians. By what description is the
book generally known?
2. In <answer 1>, the plays are classified into three categories:
comedies, tragedies, and what else?
3. In which tragedy would you find the characters Benvolio,
Mercutio, and Friar Laurence?
4. In which tragedy would you find the characters Goneril, Cordelia,
and Regan?
5. In which comedy would you find the characters Rosalind, Orlando,
Celia, and Touchstone?
6. In which comedy would you find the characters Antipholus of
Ephesus, Antipholus of Syracuse, Dromio of Ephesus, and Dromio
of Syracuse?
7. Which character has the most lines in *any one* of Shakespeare's
plays?
8. Which character has the most lines if *all* of Shakespeare's
plays are counted together?
9. In which of Shakespeare's plays are the remains of two of the
characters served to another character in the form of pie?
10. In which of Shakespeare's plays does one of the characters
magically transform another character's head into the head of
an ass, which is to say, a donkey?
** Game 8, Round 10 - Challenge Round
* A. Geography: Passes
A1. The original route of the Trans-Canada Highway and the
first railway across the Canadian Rockies both cross the
Rockies using the same pass. Name it.
A2. Name the pass on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border that
has formed a vital part of trade routes since the days of
the ancient Silk Road.
* B. History: Failures
B1. In 1911, while Roald Amundsen's expedition was forging across
Antarctica to be first to reach the South Pole, a rival
British expedition began the same journey, with determination
that in their case exceeded their competence. They too
reached the pole, about a month after Amundsen, but on the
way back they all died. Who was the, uh, heroic(?) leader
of this ill-fated expedition?
B2. The British do seem to love to commemorate their heroic
failures. Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "The Charge of
the Light Brigade" celebrates a disastrous attack against
Russian troops, initiated accidentally by an unclear order,
during *what battle* of the Crimean War?
* C. Science: Batteries
C1. According to its nominal rating, a standard alkaline battery,
such as size AAA, generates how many volts of eletricity?
C2. In etymologically correct technical language that size AAA
alkaline battery isn't a "battery" at all, as that word
refers to a combination of two or more of them. Before the
word "battery" got established as common usage, what were
we supposed to call just one of the things?
* D. Miscellaneous: Political Terms
D1. What is it called when a party chooses a candidate from
elsewhere to run in what they think is a safe district?
D2. What is it called when one party gets to adjust the
electoral-district boundaries and uses this power to improve
their own future chances?
* E. Leisure: Game Masters
E1. The following people have been known for their mastery
of what game? Alexander Alekhine, Mikhail Botvinnik,
José Capablanca, Magnus Carlsen, Anatoly Karpov, Mikhail Tal.
E2. The following people have been known for their mastery of
what game? Easley Blackwood, Ely Culbertson, Charles Goren,
Oswald Jacoby, Alan Truscott, Zia Mahmood.
* F. Literature: Complete the Title
F1. Complete the title of this 1974 book by Robert Pirsig.
The main title will do; you don't need to give the subtitle.
"Zen and..."
F2. The main title of this 2007 book by Stephen Colbert
["coal-BEAR"] is "I am America". Give the 4-word subtitle --
punctuation marks not required.
--
Mark Brader | "Some societies define themselves by being open to new
Toronto | influences, others define their identity by resisting.
***@vex.net | In either case, they take the consequences."
--Donna Richoux
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Mark Brader | "Some societies define themselves by being open to new
Toronto | influences, others define their identity by resisting.
***@vex.net | In either case, they take the consequences."
--Donna Richoux
My text in this article is in the public domain.