Mark Brader
2023-10-02 03:48:05 UTC
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2023-09-18,
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*)".
#- Or in some cases by arrangement with, but I won't
repeat this clarification on future question sets.
I wrote one of these rounds.
* Game 1, Round 2 - Miscellaneous - Shoes
Please see the handout at: http://www.vex.net/~msb/tmp/g1r2/shoe.pdf
In each case, name the type of shoe (or shoe part) indicated by the
picture and the clue. Please note that the picture numbers are to
the lower left of the images.
1. Let's start with the enormous, thin heel in picture 13.
2. In picture 2, what is the girlish name for this closed, low-cut
shoe with a strap across the instep?
3. In picture 6, what name is given to this relatively low
stiletto-style heel?
4. What is the shoe in 8, characterized by a heel that is completely
(or almost completely) filled in beneath the arch?
5. What is the generic name for the shoe in picture 1, where the
salient feature is an open back and a strap behind the ankle?
6. The shoe in picture 14 might be called a court shoe in Britain,
though the late singer Amy Winehouse sang about a pair of
them using the more familiar North American name in a risqué
combination. They have a low front, relatively low heel,
and may have a buckle or bow.
7. A perforated leather men's shoe is a brogue. But what name is
given to the specific style of perforations in picture 3,
with a W-shaped design over the toe?
8. What is the backless shoe in picture 11, a style which may or
may not be open at the toe?
9. What is the two-tone shoe in picture 5, wearable by any gender,
characterized by the plain toe and distinctive dark panel shape
over the mid-foot?
10. The shoes in 7 are characterized by a very low heel or the
absence of a heel.
After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh pnyyrq
gur fubr jvgu n svyyrq-va urry n "cyngsbez" fubr, cyrnfr tb onpx
naq or zber fcrpvsvp.
* Game 1, Round 3 - Science - Organ Parts
For each question, we have an organ of the human body in mind;
we'll name a part of it; and you'll name the organ. For example,
if we said the cricoid cartilage, you'd name the larynx. We will
always speak in the singular, but some of these occur more than
once in the organ.
1. Nephron.
2. Vitreous or vitreous humor.
3. Corpus cavernosum.
4. Stratum spinosum or squamous-cell layer.
5. Cochlea.
6. Phalanx.
7. Alveolus.
8. Duodenum.
9. Occipital lobe.
10. Islet of Langerhans.
After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh fnvq
"unaq" be "sbbg" sbe nal nafjre, cyrnfr or zber fcrpvsvp.
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*)".
#- Or in some cases by arrangement with, but I won't
repeat this clarification on future question sets.
I wrote one of these rounds.
* Game 1, Round 2 - Miscellaneous - Shoes
Please see the handout at: http://www.vex.net/~msb/tmp/g1r2/shoe.pdf
In each case, name the type of shoe (or shoe part) indicated by the
picture and the clue. Please note that the picture numbers are to
the lower left of the images.
1. Let's start with the enormous, thin heel in picture 13.
2. In picture 2, what is the girlish name for this closed, low-cut
shoe with a strap across the instep?
3. In picture 6, what name is given to this relatively low
stiletto-style heel?
4. What is the shoe in 8, characterized by a heel that is completely
(or almost completely) filled in beneath the arch?
5. What is the generic name for the shoe in picture 1, where the
salient feature is an open back and a strap behind the ankle?
6. The shoe in picture 14 might be called a court shoe in Britain,
though the late singer Amy Winehouse sang about a pair of
them using the more familiar North American name in a risqué
combination. They have a low front, relatively low heel,
and may have a buckle or bow.
7. A perforated leather men's shoe is a brogue. But what name is
given to the specific style of perforations in picture 3,
with a W-shaped design over the toe?
8. What is the backless shoe in picture 11, a style which may or
may not be open at the toe?
9. What is the two-tone shoe in picture 5, wearable by any gender,
characterized by the plain toe and distinctive dark panel shape
over the mid-foot?
10. The shoes in 7 are characterized by a very low heel or the
absence of a heel.
After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh pnyyrq
gur fubr jvgu n svyyrq-va urry n "cyngsbez" fubr, cyrnfr tb onpx
naq or zber fcrpvsvp.
* Game 1, Round 3 - Science - Organ Parts
For each question, we have an organ of the human body in mind;
we'll name a part of it; and you'll name the organ. For example,
if we said the cricoid cartilage, you'd name the larynx. We will
always speak in the singular, but some of these occur more than
once in the organ.
1. Nephron.
2. Vitreous or vitreous humor.
3. Corpus cavernosum.
4. Stratum spinosum or squamous-cell layer.
5. Cochlea.
6. Phalanx.
7. Alveolus.
8. Duodenum.
9. Occipital lobe.
10. Islet of Langerhans.
After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh fnvq
"unaq" be "sbbg" sbe nal nafjre, cyrnfr or zber fcrpvsvp.
--
Mark Brader | "I do have an idea ... based on the quite obvious fact
Toronto | that the number two is ridiculous and can't exist."
***@vex.net | -- Ben Denison (Isaac Asimov, "The Gods Themselves")
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Mark Brader | "I do have an idea ... based on the quite obvious fact
Toronto | that the number two is ridiculous and can't exist."
***@vex.net | -- Ben Denison (Isaac Asimov, "The Gods Themselves")
My text in this article is in the public domain.