Mark Brader
2023-12-10 22:58:39 UTC
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2023-10-30,
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 did not write either of these rounds.
* Game 6, Round 7 - Geography History - What's My Country's Name Again?
Several countries have changed their names during their history.
Often this is done to mark a significant change, such as a regime
change, secession, or a colony becoming independent. In each
case we give you the previous name, and you provide the current
internationally recognized name for the country. Today's boundaries
are not necessarily exactly the same as when the old name was used.
1. British Honduras.
2. Gold Coast.
3. Ceylon.
4. Siam.
5. Swaziland.
6. Burma.
7. Abyssinia.
8. Mesopotamia.
9. Upper Volta.
10. East Pakistan.
* Game 6, Round 8 - Canadiana Geography - Nova Scotia
Please see the handout: http://www.vex.net/~msb/tmp/g6r8/nova.pdf
1. Letter G indicates a bay about 5 × 8 km, which is enclosed
completely by the Halifax Regional Municipality. The bay
gives its name to the oceanographic institute on its shores.
Name the bay.
2. Name the geographical feature at L. It's a trough approximately
125 km long, between the North Mountain and South Mountain
ranges.
3. Name the lake at B.
4. Which letter designates Peggy's Cove, a tourist magnet because
of its picturesque rocks and lighthouse, near which Swissair
Flight 111 crashed in 1998?
5. What is the strait at O, separating Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
from PEI?
6. Where is the Fortress of Louisbourg, founded in 1713 and now
a National Historic Site?
7. Which letter shows the location of the Springhill Mine disaster?
(Actually there were three distinct disasters there, the most
recent of them in 1958.)
8. There is a university in the community at letter C -- which
university?
9. Identify the town of Yarmouth.
10. Name the 27 km strait at A, separating Cape Breton Island from
the rest of Nova Scotia.
So there were 5 decoys. If you like, for fun but for no points.
decode the rot13, identify the five places named, and answer one
more question about one of them.
11. Zvanf ["zvahf"] Onfva.
12. Qvtol.
13. Abegu Flqarl.
14. Yharaoret.
15. Juvgr Uvyy.
16. Jung'f abgnoyr nobhg Juvgr Uvyy?
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 did not write either of these rounds.
* Game 6, Round 7 - Geography History - What's My Country's Name Again?
Several countries have changed their names during their history.
Often this is done to mark a significant change, such as a regime
change, secession, or a colony becoming independent. In each
case we give you the previous name, and you provide the current
internationally recognized name for the country. Today's boundaries
are not necessarily exactly the same as when the old name was used.
1. British Honduras.
2. Gold Coast.
3. Ceylon.
4. Siam.
5. Swaziland.
6. Burma.
7. Abyssinia.
8. Mesopotamia.
9. Upper Volta.
10. East Pakistan.
* Game 6, Round 8 - Canadiana Geography - Nova Scotia
Please see the handout: http://www.vex.net/~msb/tmp/g6r8/nova.pdf
1. Letter G indicates a bay about 5 × 8 km, which is enclosed
completely by the Halifax Regional Municipality. The bay
gives its name to the oceanographic institute on its shores.
Name the bay.
2. Name the geographical feature at L. It's a trough approximately
125 km long, between the North Mountain and South Mountain
ranges.
3. Name the lake at B.
4. Which letter designates Peggy's Cove, a tourist magnet because
of its picturesque rocks and lighthouse, near which Swissair
Flight 111 crashed in 1998?
5. What is the strait at O, separating Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
from PEI?
6. Where is the Fortress of Louisbourg, founded in 1713 and now
a National Historic Site?
7. Which letter shows the location of the Springhill Mine disaster?
(Actually there were three distinct disasters there, the most
recent of them in 1958.)
8. There is a university in the community at letter C -- which
university?
9. Identify the town of Yarmouth.
10. Name the 27 km strait at A, separating Cape Breton Island from
the rest of Nova Scotia.
So there were 5 decoys. If you like, for fun but for no points.
decode the rot13, identify the five places named, and answer one
more question about one of them.
11. Zvanf ["zvahf"] Onfva.
12. Qvtol.
13. Abegu Flqarl.
14. Yharaoret.
15. Juvgr Uvyy.
16. Jung'f abgnoyr nobhg Juvgr Uvyy?
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***@vex.net | this message." -- Ray Depew
My text in this article is in the public domain.