Mark Brader
2024-03-06 08:28:30 UTC
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2024-02-05,
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 Misplaced Modifiers
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*)".
** Game 2, Round 9 - Entertainment - Name the Franchise
A film franchise is a collection of related movies based on the
same fictional universe, or of movies that are marketed as a series.
Each of the franchises in this round consists of at least 5 movies.
For each question, you'll be told which movie in a given franchise
had the highest global box-office revenues, then you name the
movie franchise. Please note that the revenue figures have *not*
been adjusted for the substantial inflation in the price of movie
tickets over the years.
1. There have been 13 movies in this franchise. The top-grossing
movie, with global box-office revenues of $1,900,000,000 US,
is "No Way Home".
2. I'll word it more tersely from here on. 5 movies, including
"Dead Man's Chest" ($1,100,000,000 US).
3. 7 movies, including "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the
King" ($1,100,000,000 US).
4. 13 movies, including "Deadpool 2" ($786,000,000 US).
5. 27 movies, including "Skyfall" ($1,100,000,000 US).
6. 17 movies, including "The Dark Knight Rises" ($1,100,000,000 US).
7. 5 movies, including "Breaking Dawn Part 2" ($830,000,000 US).
8. 5 movies, including "Minions" ($1,200,000,000 US).
9. 5 movies, including "Catching Fire" ($865,000,000 US).
10. 7 movies, including "Fallout" ($791,000,000 US).
** Game 2, Round 10 - Challenge Round
* A. Entertainment: Which Anderson?
A1. Which Anderson directed the movies "If...", "Britannia
Hospital", and "O Lucky Man"?
A2. Which Anderson directed the movies "Moonrise Kingdom",
"The French Dispatch", and "Asteroid City"?
* B. Art: Italian Arias
We name an aria in Italian and English; you identify *either* the
opera or the composer.
B1. "La donna è mobile" ("(The) Woman is Fickle").
B2. "Nessun dorma" ("None Shall Sleep").
* C. Science: Mathematical Indices
C1. What natural number equals 8 to the power of 0?
C2. What rational number equals 2 to the power of -1?
* D. Sports: All-Season Olympians
D1. Who competed for Canada in softball at the 2000 Summer Games,
but is better known as a five-time Winter Olympian and the
GOAT of women's hockey?
D2. Clara Hughes has won 6 Olympic medals, most of them in
speed skating. In which sport did she win two bronzes at
the 1996 Summer Games?
* E. Geography: The Equator
E1. What is the largest Asian country, in area and population,
through which the Equator passes?
E2. In which country does the Equator intersect with the east
coast of Africa?
* F. History: Bloodless Revolutions
F1. King James II was bloodlessly deposed in 1688. What's the
name of this revolution?
F2. On 1989-11-24, in response to street protests, the entire
top leadership of the Czechoslovak communist party resigned.
Democratic elections were held the following June. What was
this revolution called?
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 Misplaced Modifiers
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*)".
** Game 2, Round 9 - Entertainment - Name the Franchise
A film franchise is a collection of related movies based on the
same fictional universe, or of movies that are marketed as a series.
Each of the franchises in this round consists of at least 5 movies.
For each question, you'll be told which movie in a given franchise
had the highest global box-office revenues, then you name the
movie franchise. Please note that the revenue figures have *not*
been adjusted for the substantial inflation in the price of movie
tickets over the years.
1. There have been 13 movies in this franchise. The top-grossing
movie, with global box-office revenues of $1,900,000,000 US,
is "No Way Home".
2. I'll word it more tersely from here on. 5 movies, including
"Dead Man's Chest" ($1,100,000,000 US).
3. 7 movies, including "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the
King" ($1,100,000,000 US).
4. 13 movies, including "Deadpool 2" ($786,000,000 US).
5. 27 movies, including "Skyfall" ($1,100,000,000 US).
6. 17 movies, including "The Dark Knight Rises" ($1,100,000,000 US).
7. 5 movies, including "Breaking Dawn Part 2" ($830,000,000 US).
8. 5 movies, including "Minions" ($1,200,000,000 US).
9. 5 movies, including "Catching Fire" ($865,000,000 US).
10. 7 movies, including "Fallout" ($791,000,000 US).
** Game 2, Round 10 - Challenge Round
* A. Entertainment: Which Anderson?
A1. Which Anderson directed the movies "If...", "Britannia
Hospital", and "O Lucky Man"?
A2. Which Anderson directed the movies "Moonrise Kingdom",
"The French Dispatch", and "Asteroid City"?
* B. Art: Italian Arias
We name an aria in Italian and English; you identify *either* the
opera or the composer.
B1. "La donna è mobile" ("(The) Woman is Fickle").
B2. "Nessun dorma" ("None Shall Sleep").
* C. Science: Mathematical Indices
C1. What natural number equals 8 to the power of 0?
C2. What rational number equals 2 to the power of -1?
* D. Sports: All-Season Olympians
D1. Who competed for Canada in softball at the 2000 Summer Games,
but is better known as a five-time Winter Olympian and the
GOAT of women's hockey?
D2. Clara Hughes has won 6 Olympic medals, most of them in
speed skating. In which sport did she win two bronzes at
the 1996 Summer Games?
* E. Geography: The Equator
E1. What is the largest Asian country, in area and population,
through which the Equator passes?
E2. In which country does the Equator intersect with the east
coast of Africa?
* F. History: Bloodless Revolutions
F1. King James II was bloodlessly deposed in 1688. What's the
name of this revolution?
F2. On 1989-11-24, in response to street protests, the entire
top leadership of the Czechoslovak communist party resigned.
Democratic elections were held the following June. What was
this revolution called?
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "People say I'm a skeptic --
***@vex.net but I find that hard to believe."
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Mark Brader, Toronto "People say I'm a skeptic --
***@vex.net but I find that hard to believe."
My text in this article is in the public domain.