Mark Brader
2023-06-15 03:21:36 UTC
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2023-05-15,
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 Bloor St. Irregulars and
are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may
have been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information
please see my 2023-05-24 companion posting on "Questions from the
Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
** Game 2, Round 9 - Arts - Modern Architects
We name one or more significant architectural works; you name
their architect.
1. Sydney Opera House.
2. Toronto City Hall (1965).
3. Apple Park (Cupertino), the "Gherkin" (London).
4. TWA Terminal (New York), Gateway Arch (St. Louis).
5. Seagram Building (New York), T-D Centre (Toronto).
6. Bauhaus School (Dessau), Pan Am Building (New York).
7. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Cleveland), Louvre pyramid (Paris).
8. National Holocaust Monument (Ottawa), Michael Lee-Chin Crystal
(Toronto).
9. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Imperial Hotel (Tokyo), Johnson
Wax Building (Racine, Wisconsin).
10. Notre Dame du Haut (Ronchamp), High Court, Palace of Assembly,
and Secretariat (all Chandigarh).
** Game 2, Round 10 - Challenge Round - Tom Waits for No One
Simply a dozen Tom-Waits-adjacent questions.
* A. References
A1. One of Tom's songs includes the name of a saint. This saint
is best known as the patron saint of travellers, though
there is no certainty that he existed historically.
Name the saint.
A2. This Tom Waits song shares its name with a term for a common
grave for unknown, unclaimed, or indigent people.
The earliest known use of this term is from the Gospel of
Matthew, not "It's a Wonderful Life".
* B. Geography - Song Titles
B1. Tom once received a telephone call from what current city,
arguably the most populous in Europe? It's possible the
call was from a date informing him of where she's waiting.
B2. Tom's first experiment with the "sha-la-la" refrain was
about a girl from where? The girl, his future wife Kathleen
Brennan, was living in this US state, not an island in the
English Channel.
* C. Tom on the Big Screen
We'll name three movie credits Tom has with the same director;
you name the director.
C1. "The Dead Don't Die", "Mystery Train", "Down by Law".
C2. "One from the Heart", "Rumble Fish", "Bram Stoker's Dracula".
* D. Inspiration and Collaboration
D1. The title of Tom's 1975 album, "Nighthawks at the Diner" was
inspired by the 1942 work "Nighthawks", by what American
painter?
D2. In 1990, the "musical fable" "The Black Rider" premiered
in Hamburg. This was a collaboration between Waits, theater
director Robert Wilson, and what Beat Generation writer,
best known for "Naked Lunch"?
* E. The Songs
E1. What Tom Waits song was used as the theme song for the
HBO series "The Wire"? Each of the show's five seasons
used a different performer's version, with Tom's used for
Season 2.
E2. Rod Stewart had a huge hit in 1990 -- #1 in Canada, #3 on the
US "Billboard" Hot 100 -- with his cover of what Tom Waits
song?
* F. Lawsuits!
F1. In 2007, Tom won a "soundalike" lawsuit against what German
auto manufacturer? General Motors owned them from 1929 to
2017, then PSA Group, and now Stellantis.
F2. In 1990, Tom won $2,500,000 in a "soundalike" lawsuit over
an ad for a new Doritos flavor, SalsaRio. What snack-food
company was named in the suit, a wholly-owned subsidiary
of PepsiCo since 1965?
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 Bloor St. Irregulars and
are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may
have been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information
please see my 2023-05-24 companion posting on "Questions from the
Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
** Game 2, Round 9 - Arts - Modern Architects
We name one or more significant architectural works; you name
their architect.
1. Sydney Opera House.
2. Toronto City Hall (1965).
3. Apple Park (Cupertino), the "Gherkin" (London).
4. TWA Terminal (New York), Gateway Arch (St. Louis).
5. Seagram Building (New York), T-D Centre (Toronto).
6. Bauhaus School (Dessau), Pan Am Building (New York).
7. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Cleveland), Louvre pyramid (Paris).
8. National Holocaust Monument (Ottawa), Michael Lee-Chin Crystal
(Toronto).
9. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Imperial Hotel (Tokyo), Johnson
Wax Building (Racine, Wisconsin).
10. Notre Dame du Haut (Ronchamp), High Court, Palace of Assembly,
and Secretariat (all Chandigarh).
** Game 2, Round 10 - Challenge Round - Tom Waits for No One
Simply a dozen Tom-Waits-adjacent questions.
* A. References
A1. One of Tom's songs includes the name of a saint. This saint
is best known as the patron saint of travellers, though
there is no certainty that he existed historically.
Name the saint.
A2. This Tom Waits song shares its name with a term for a common
grave for unknown, unclaimed, or indigent people.
The earliest known use of this term is from the Gospel of
Matthew, not "It's a Wonderful Life".
* B. Geography - Song Titles
B1. Tom once received a telephone call from what current city,
arguably the most populous in Europe? It's possible the
call was from a date informing him of where she's waiting.
B2. Tom's first experiment with the "sha-la-la" refrain was
about a girl from where? The girl, his future wife Kathleen
Brennan, was living in this US state, not an island in the
English Channel.
* C. Tom on the Big Screen
We'll name three movie credits Tom has with the same director;
you name the director.
C1. "The Dead Don't Die", "Mystery Train", "Down by Law".
C2. "One from the Heart", "Rumble Fish", "Bram Stoker's Dracula".
* D. Inspiration and Collaboration
D1. The title of Tom's 1975 album, "Nighthawks at the Diner" was
inspired by the 1942 work "Nighthawks", by what American
painter?
D2. In 1990, the "musical fable" "The Black Rider" premiered
in Hamburg. This was a collaboration between Waits, theater
director Robert Wilson, and what Beat Generation writer,
best known for "Naked Lunch"?
* E. The Songs
E1. What Tom Waits song was used as the theme song for the
HBO series "The Wire"? Each of the show's five seasons
used a different performer's version, with Tom's used for
Season 2.
E2. Rod Stewart had a huge hit in 1990 -- #1 in Canada, #3 on the
US "Billboard" Hot 100 -- with his cover of what Tom Waits
song?
* F. Lawsuits!
F1. In 2007, Tom won a "soundalike" lawsuit against what German
auto manufacturer? General Motors owned them from 1929 to
2017, then PSA Group, and now Stellantis.
F2. In 1990, Tom won $2,500,000 in a "soundalike" lawsuit over
an ad for a new Doritos flavor, SalsaRio. What snack-food
company was named in the suit, a wholly-owned subsidiary
of PepsiCo since 1965?
--
Mark Brader | "The inability to distinguish between epistemic and deontic
Toronto | interpretations of 'why', which is common among children,
***@vex.net | is the source of a great deal of religion." --John Lawler
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Mark Brader | "The inability to distinguish between epistemic and deontic
Toronto | interpretations of 'why', which is common among children,
***@vex.net | is the source of a great deal of religion." --John Lawler
My text in this article is in the public domain.
