From: pete.gayde@gmail.com
Mark Brader wrote:
> 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 wrote both of these rounds.
>
>
> * Game 6, Round 4 - Science - Geology
>
> 1. In 1915 Alfred Wegener ["VAY-ghen-er"] proposed that, over
> long time periods, continents had somehow drifted from one
> place on the Earth to another, but nobody believed it because
> nobody could imagine how it was possible. Things changed about
> 50 years later when it was realized that only the upper layers
> of the planet need to move, and in fact they are divided into
> a set of about 20 "plates" that move independently. What is
> the theory related to this concept called?
Techtonics
>
> 2. In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean is a zone where two plates
> are moving apart from each other, and are becoming enlarged
> with the formation of new seafloor, with undersea mountains --
> and half of Iceland -- at the edge of each plate. What is this
> zone called?
>
> 3. Where two plates move toward each other, sometimes one plate
> sinks beneath the other, creating effects underground that lead
> to volcanoes and earthquakes -- for example, in many areas
> around the Pacific Ocean. What is the term for a zone where
> plates move in this way?
>
> 4. Where two plates move toward each other and does
> not happen or is incomplete, mountains are formed. What is
> the highest mountain range of this type?
>
> 5. Okay, enough about . Rocks are divided into three
> basic types according to how they are formed. How is an igneous
> rock formed?
From volcanic lava
>
> 6. A second type of rock is sedimentary, which as the name implies
> is formed from an accumulation of sediments, such as on the
> seabed. But there is also a third basic type of rock besides
> igneous and sedimentary. *Either* tell what it's called, *or*
> how it's formed.
>
> 7. In some places, such as the side of a gorge, you will see
> rock formations made up of visible layers. If the layers
> are not flat and horizontal, but form wavy curves, they were
> affected by what process?
>
> 8. Sometimes those nice horizontal layers are intersected by
> a vertical stripe of a different rock, perhaps the result of
> new rock forming inside a vertical crack in the old. What is
> this vertical formation called?
>
> 9. If you have to identify a piece of rock, you can perform
> various tests. One of them is to hit it with a hammer and
> see whether it breaks along a plane, rather than irregularly.
> If it does break along a plane, what's that called?
>
> 10. Another test is to see how hard it is. *Either* name the
> scale on which the hardness can be reported numerically,
> *or* tell what is the reliable way to compare the hardness of
> two rocks.
Mohs scale
>
>
> * Game 6, Round 6 - Miscellaneous, but mostly History - Monarchies
>
> 1. In some countries monarchies come and go. In England, for
> example, in 1649 Parliament passed an "Act for Abolishing the
> Kingly Office", but in 1660 they essentially declared that that
> had never happened. Name *both* the king who was deposed in
> 1649 and his successor who resumed the throne. Name and number
> required in each case, if applicable.
>
> 2. Another country similarly abolished their monarchy in 1792,
> but at the time it didn't stick, and they had a king again
> by 1814. Today the country is a republic again. What country?
France
>
> 3. In still another country, their monarchy was first abolished
> in 1873, but restored the next year, then abolished again
> in 1931. A law of 1947 officially made the place a kingdom
> again, but they didn't actually get a monarch until 1975.
> They still have one now. What country?
Spain
>
> 4. In still another country, the question of whether or not it
> should be a monarchy was decided by referendum no less than six
> times in the 20th century -- with the successive answers Yes,
> No, Yes, Yes, No, No. The last of those decisions, in 1974,
> is still in effect. What country?
Spain
>
> 5. Another country where their monarchy was abolished by referendum
> was Italy. In what year, within 1?
1870; 1873
>
> 6. In what year was the monarchy overthrown in Russia?
1917
>
> 7. In what year was the monarchy abolished in Germany?
>
> 8. This country's monarchy was overthrown in 1893 by people who
> were seeking to become a US territory. What country?
Philippines; Mexico
>
> 9. Of the countries that still have a monarch today, there are two
> where he's not called a king, but a prince. Name either country.
Liechtenstein
>
> 10. In Andorra they don't have a prince, they have two co-princes
> who rank equally; so instead of a monarchy, their system is
> a diarchy. Name either of the two ways you can get to become
> a co-prince of Andorra.
>
Pete Gayde
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