From: pete.gayde@gmail.com   
      
   Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-02-24,   
   > and should be interpreted accordingly.  All questions were written   
   > by members of the Cellar Rats, but have been reformatted and may   
   > have been retyped and/or edited by me.  I will reveal the correct   
   > answers in about 3 days.   
   >   
   > For further information, including an explanation of the """   
   > notation that may appear in these rounds, see my 2022-09-09   
   > companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian   
   > Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 6, Round 7 - History - American Vice-Presidents   
   >   
   > In all cases that ask for a name, if more than one person with   
   > the same surname was *either* president or vice-president (VP),   
   > then you must be sufficiently specific.   
   >   
   > 1. Who was the first US VP?   
      
   Jefferson   
      
   >   
   > 2.  then became president, but when he ran for reelection,   
   >     he was defeated by the man who had been *his* VP.  Who was that?   
      
   Adams   
      
   >   
   > 3. Elbridge Gerry [with a hard G, not "Jerry"], VP under James   
   >     Madison, pioneered the technique of contriving the boundaries   
   >     of electoral districts so as to benefit one party.  What is   
   >     the name of his eponymous ploy?   
      
   Gerrymandering   
      
   >   
   > 4. What Texas city is allegedly named after the 11th VP?   
   >   
   > 5. Upon succeeding to the presidency following the assassination   
   >     of William McKinley, which VP became the youngest president at   
   >     the age of 42?   
      
   Theodore Roosevelt   
      
   >   
   > 6. Herbert Hoover's VP, Charles Curtis, was the first person   
   >     with significant non-white ancestry to rise to that office:   
   >     which non-whites was he descended from?   
   >   
   > 7. Taking office at the age of 40, who was the youngest VP of the   
   >     """last 150 years"""?   
   >   
   > 8. """Two""" VPs have resigned from office.  Name *either one*.   
      
   Agnew   
      
   >   
   > 9. Which president did Nelson Rockefeller serve as VP?   
      
   Ford   
      
   >   
   > 10. Who is the only person in the """last 150 years""" to be   
   >     elected president while serving as VP?   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 6, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - When it's on the Internet,   
   >    it's Everybody's Business!   
   >   
   > A round on Internet businesses.   
   >   
   > 1. We start off with """last week's""" stunning announcement   
   >     that Facebook was paying 1/10 of its entire value for smartphone   
   >     instant-messaging service WhatsApp.  In US dollars to the   
   >     nearest whole billion, how much is Facebook paying for WhatsApp?   
      
   2; 5   
      
   >   
   > 2. In 2008, CEO Jerry Yang of this Internet company turned down   
   >     a $44,600,000,000 offer from Microsoft -- much to the chagrin   
   >     of its shareholders, since the company """has never again"""   
   >     been worth as much.  What company?   
      
   Yahoo   
      
   >   
   > 3. This much-hyped-at-the-time Internet startup is remembered as   
   >     much for being the highest-profile bust of the 2000 dot-com   
   >     bubble as it is for its sock-puppet advertising campaign mascot.   
   >     Name it.   
   >   
   > 4. In 1999, when Yahoo bought this geographically-based online   
   >     community, organized around virtual versions of real   
   >     neighborhoods and regions, it was the 3rd-most-popular site on   
   >     the Web.  It is """now""" defunct everywhere but in Japan.   
      
   Geocities   
      
   >   
   > 5. In 2000, AOL merged with this this major old-school media company   
   >     in what turned out be such a disastrous deal: it destroyed over   
   >     $200,000,000,000 in shareholder value, before AOL was eventually   
   >     spun off again in 2009.  What company?   
      
   Time Warner   
      
   >   
   > 6. In 1998, AOL paid $4,200,000,000 for *which* early fixture   
   >     of the World Wide Web in a bid to free itself of the tyranny   
   >     of Microsoft's Internet Explorer?   
      
   Netscape   
      
   >   
   > 7. Google bought *which* once-leading mobile phone maker in   
   >     2011, only to sell it to Lenovo in January 2014 -- for about   
   >     $10,000,000,000 less?   
      
   Motorola   
      
   >   
   > 8. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. bought this social-networking   
   >     site in 2005 for $580,000,000, but due to bad corporate decisions   
   >     regarding the site and competition from Facebook, sold it just   
   >     6 years later for a mere $35,000,000.  What site?   
   >   
   > 9. It was reported """last November""" that the founders of   
   >     this social-networking app, which features photo messages that   
   >     disappear forever seconds after they are viewed by the recipient,   
   >     had recently turned down a $3,000,000,000 offer from Facebook,   
   >     and possibly a $4,000,000,000 offer from Google as well.   
   >     What app?   
      
   Snapchat   
      
   >   
   > 10. Google's purchase of this website for $1,650,000,000 in 2006   
   >     left many scratching their heads, as the site in question had   
   >     no business model (i.e. no plan for earning money), and risked   
   >     opening up the deep-pocketed Google to copyright lawsuits from   
   >     movie and music studio companies such as Viacom.  """Today,   
   >     though, the site earns billions for Google and is said to be   
   >     the 3rd-most-visited site on the web""", after Facebook and   
   >     Google itself.  Name it.   
      
   Youtube   
      
   >   
      
   Pete Gayde   
      
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