Mark Brader
2024-01-25 21:48:50 UTC
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2023-11-20,
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 9, Round 9 - History - New Party in Power
This is the second bonus round. Again, each question will ask for
two facts. If you give one of them, you get the regular score, but
if you give both, you get a 2-point bonus. But if you try for the
bonus and fail to get both facts right, then your answer is wrong.
If making two guesses, you may try for the bonus on either or both.
Please make it explicit how you are answering.
One fact you're asked for on each question is the name of a
president, prime minister, or other leader. The other fact is a
date: either we'll want the year when that man (they are all men)
took the office, or else we'll want the year he left the office.
We will allow leeway on the dates, as detailed on each question.
Again, for the bonus give both the date (near enough) and the name.
1. Who was the *first Liberal* prime minister of Canada? What year
did he take that office, within 4 years? To repeat, for normal
score just answer one of the two questions; for the bonus,
answer both, but if you get one wrong, it's a wrong answer.
2. This question refers to the Republican Party that now exists,
not any use of "Republican" as *part* of the name of an older
party. Who, then, was the *first Republican* president of
the US? What year did he take that office, within 4 years?
Again, answer one or both questions.
3. Who was the *last Whig* president of the US? What year did he
*leave* that office, within 8 years?
4. Who was the *last Federalist* president of the US? What year
did he *leave* that office, within 10 years?
5. Who was the *last Liberal* prime minister of the UK? What year
did he *leave* that office, within 6 years?
6. Who was the *first Labour* prime minister of the UK? What year
did he take that office, within 3 years?
7. Who was the *first Social Credit* premier of Alberta? What year
did he take that office, within 3 years?
8. Who was the *first Parti Québécois* premier of Quebec? What year
did he take that office, within 2 years?
9. Who was the *first New Democratic* premier of Ontario? What year
did he take that office, within 2 years?
10. Who was the *last United Farmers* premier of Ontario? What year
did he *leave* that office, within 6 years?
** Game 9, Round 10 - Challenge Round
* A. Literature: Humor by Adams
A1. This writer and cartoonist was very popular for his
long-running comic strip "Dilbert"; but accusations this
year that he is a racist changed all that. Who is he?
First name required.
A2. This writer was very popular for his radio show
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and its sequels and
adaptations in print, film, video games, and TV; but in
2001 he went and died. Who was he? First name required.
* B. Science History: Dialing the Phone
B1. The first telephone exchanges went into use in 1877 and 1878,
but every call had to be connected manually by the
switchboard operator. Almon Strowger came to resent that
system and invented the automatic telephone exchange,
which soon made dial telephones possible. What year were
dial phones first used, within 10?
B2. Phones where the dial was replaced by push-buttons, then
under the trademark Touch-Tone, were first displayed to
the public in what year, within 10?
* C. Sports: International Organizations
C1. Everyone knows that FIFA is the international regulatory
body for soccer. What sport, game, or other competition
is regulated internationally by FIDE?
C2. What sport, game, or other competition is regulated
internationally by FINA?
* D. Canadiana Geography: Spelling Place Names
We'll give you a Canadian place name and tell you the province it's
in, and you must spell it correctly -- including any punctuation
marks. You aren't responsible for capitalization or spaces, though.
D1. "BAY-dess-PAIR", Newfoundland and Labrador.
D2. "SUH-ree", Prince Edward Island.
* E. Miscellaneous: Unusual Words
E1. In ordinary English writing, where would you find a tittle?
E2. In an LCBO store, where would you find an agraffe?
* F. Miscellaneous: Married Fictional Detectives
F1. In most of the novels by J.D. Robb, police detective
Lt. Eve Dallas is very happily married to the love of
her life. Name him.
F2. In the TV series "Monk", when Adrian Monk was a police
detective, he was very happily married to the love of
his life. But, very sadly, she died. Name her.
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 9, Round 9 - History - New Party in Power
This is the second bonus round. Again, each question will ask for
two facts. If you give one of them, you get the regular score, but
if you give both, you get a 2-point bonus. But if you try for the
bonus and fail to get both facts right, then your answer is wrong.
If making two guesses, you may try for the bonus on either or both.
Please make it explicit how you are answering.
One fact you're asked for on each question is the name of a
president, prime minister, or other leader. The other fact is a
date: either we'll want the year when that man (they are all men)
took the office, or else we'll want the year he left the office.
We will allow leeway on the dates, as detailed on each question.
Again, for the bonus give both the date (near enough) and the name.
1. Who was the *first Liberal* prime minister of Canada? What year
did he take that office, within 4 years? To repeat, for normal
score just answer one of the two questions; for the bonus,
answer both, but if you get one wrong, it's a wrong answer.
2. This question refers to the Republican Party that now exists,
not any use of "Republican" as *part* of the name of an older
party. Who, then, was the *first Republican* president of
the US? What year did he take that office, within 4 years?
Again, answer one or both questions.
3. Who was the *last Whig* president of the US? What year did he
*leave* that office, within 8 years?
4. Who was the *last Federalist* president of the US? What year
did he *leave* that office, within 10 years?
5. Who was the *last Liberal* prime minister of the UK? What year
did he *leave* that office, within 6 years?
6. Who was the *first Labour* prime minister of the UK? What year
did he take that office, within 3 years?
7. Who was the *first Social Credit* premier of Alberta? What year
did he take that office, within 3 years?
8. Who was the *first Parti Québécois* premier of Quebec? What year
did he take that office, within 2 years?
9. Who was the *first New Democratic* premier of Ontario? What year
did he take that office, within 2 years?
10. Who was the *last United Farmers* premier of Ontario? What year
did he *leave* that office, within 6 years?
** Game 9, Round 10 - Challenge Round
* A. Literature: Humor by Adams
A1. This writer and cartoonist was very popular for his
long-running comic strip "Dilbert"; but accusations this
year that he is a racist changed all that. Who is he?
First name required.
A2. This writer was very popular for his radio show
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and its sequels and
adaptations in print, film, video games, and TV; but in
2001 he went and died. Who was he? First name required.
* B. Science History: Dialing the Phone
B1. The first telephone exchanges went into use in 1877 and 1878,
but every call had to be connected manually by the
switchboard operator. Almon Strowger came to resent that
system and invented the automatic telephone exchange,
which soon made dial telephones possible. What year were
dial phones first used, within 10?
B2. Phones where the dial was replaced by push-buttons, then
under the trademark Touch-Tone, were first displayed to
the public in what year, within 10?
* C. Sports: International Organizations
C1. Everyone knows that FIFA is the international regulatory
body for soccer. What sport, game, or other competition
is regulated internationally by FIDE?
C2. What sport, game, or other competition is regulated
internationally by FINA?
* D. Canadiana Geography: Spelling Place Names
We'll give you a Canadian place name and tell you the province it's
in, and you must spell it correctly -- including any punctuation
marks. You aren't responsible for capitalization or spaces, though.
D1. "BAY-dess-PAIR", Newfoundland and Labrador.
D2. "SUH-ree", Prince Edward Island.
* E. Miscellaneous: Unusual Words
E1. In ordinary English writing, where would you find a tittle?
E2. In an LCBO store, where would you find an agraffe?
* F. Miscellaneous: Married Fictional Detectives
F1. In most of the novels by J.D. Robb, police detective
Lt. Eve Dallas is very happily married to the love of
her life. Name him.
F2. In the TV series "Monk", when Adrian Monk was a police
detective, he was very happily married to the love of
his life. But, very sadly, she died. Name her.
--
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.