From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 6, Round 4 - Sports Current Events - The 2014 Olympics (excerpt)   
   >   
   > Answer these 2014 questions if you like for fun, but for no points.   
   >   
   > 1. This nation won 24 medals including 8 golds, despite sending only   
   >    41 athletes to Sochi.  23 of the medals were in speed skating   
   >    and the other one was in short-track speed skating.  Name the   
   >    country.   
      
   Netherlands   
      
   > * Game 6, Round 5 - Audio - Composers Performing their Own Works   
   >   
   > 1. This American bandleader, composer, and bassist died in 1979 at   
   >    age 56.  He was known as the "Angry Man of Jazz".  His music was   
   >    rooted in gospel and blues and he greatly admired of the music   
   >    of Duke Ellington.  He was one of the great bassists of his time.   
      
   Charlie Mingus   
      
   > 2. Another American bandleader, composer, and trumpet player,   
   >    he was born in 1925 and died in 1991.  He associated with almost   
   >    all of the greats of the modern jazz era and changed his musical   
   >    style many times.  One of his many albums is the best-selling   
   >    jazz recording of all time.   
      
   Miles Davis   
      
   > 3. This African-American composer and pianist, known as the "King   
   >    of Ragtime", died in 1917.  As well as numerous "rags",   
   >    he composed music for ballet and opera, and was awarded a   
   >    posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1976.   
      
   Scott Joplin   
      
   > 4. This French composer, who lived 1875-1937, was one of the great   
   >    figures associated with "Impressionistic Music".  He was the son   
   >    of a Swiss inventor and a Basque musical mother.  His works for   
   >    piano, chamber groups, and orchestra became standard concert   
   >    repertoire and are known for their strong melodies, musical   
   >    textures, and effects.   
      
   Claude Debussy   
      
   > 5. This jazz pianist and composer who lived 1917-82 is considered   
   >    one of the greats of American music and is the next most   
   >    frequently recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington.   
   >    Unorthodox even in dress and behavior, he wrote music that   
   >    combines a highly percussive attack with dramatic hesitations   
   >    and silences.  He was featured on the cover of "Time" magazine   
   >    and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize posthumously.   
      
   Count Basie   
      
   > 7. Born 1907, died 1994, an American jazz singer and bandleader,   
   >    he composed and performed music over a long career.  As a   
   >    bandleader, he employed many of the day's jazz greats and was   
   >    strongly associated with Harlem's Cotton Club.  Notable for his   
   >    scat-singing and dancing, he appeared in films and his music   
   >    was used in animated cartoons.   
      
   Louis Armstrong   
      
   > 8. Born 1910, died 2004, the only child of Jewish immigrants   
   >    from Russia.  This swing-era bandleader was known as the "King   
   >    of the Clarinet" and led one of the first racially integrated   
   >    bands.  He was also an author of both fiction and non-fiction   
   >    and performed classical music with the New York Philharmonic   
   >    under Leonard Bernstein.  He was an early proponent of the   
   >    "Third Stream", which blended classical and jazz styles.   
      
   Gershwin   
      
   > 10. Born in 1910 to a Belgian Romani family, he died in 1953.   
   >    He is regarded as one of the great jazz guitarists and was the   
   >    first European to influence jazz.  Many of his compositions   
   >    have become jazz standards.  His virtuosity on the guitar is   
   >    even more remarkable because he had only two usable fingers on   
   >    his left hand.   
      
   Django Reinhardt   
      
   > * Game 6, Round 6 - Canadiana Geography - Canadian Arctic and Far North   
   >   
   > 2. Within 3°C, what is the average daily *low* temperature in   
   >    in February?   
      
   -35   
      
   > 3. The word Arctic comes from the Greek word "arktikos", meaning   
   >    "near the Bear" or "northern", and what it's referring to   
   >    is one of two constellations.  Give the full name *in Latin*   
   >    of either of those constellations.   
      
   Ursos Major   
      
   > 4. Besides Canada, how many other countries """extend""" -- or   
   >    """have""" territories that extend -- into the Arctic as defined   
   >    by the Arctic Circle?   
      
   Six - USA, Russia, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland   
      
   (It was easier to first type the list and then count.)   
      
   > 5. This lake, which extends north of the Arctic Circle, is the   
   >    largest lake that is entirely in Canada, the 4th-largest in   
   >    North America, and the 8th-largest in the world.  Name it.   
      
   Great Slave Lake   
      
   > 7. Rank the three territories from *highest to lowest population*   
   >    according to the """2011""" census.  If you make two guesses,   
   >    please give two complete lists of three, all on one line.   
   >    *Note*: You may instead answer based on the 2021 census, and   
   >    you need not say whether you are doing so.   
      
   Northwest, Yukon, Iqualit   
      
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