From: stephen.w.perry@gmail.com
On Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:29:50 AM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2023-11-13,
> 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 one of these rounds and most of the other.
>
>
> ** Game 8, Round 9 - Literature - Shakespeare
>
> 1. William Shakespeare was the author or co-author of about
> 38 plays. 36 of them were published in a single book in 1623,
> the first time this had been done. That's twice as many as had
> been individually published before, and the book also shows
> many variations from those earlier versions, so it's very
> important to literary historians. By what description is the
> book generally known?
first folio
> 2. In , the plays are classified into three categories:
> comedies, tragedies, and what else?
histories
> 3. In which tragedy would you find the characters Benvolio,
> Mercutio, and Friar Laurence?
romeo and juliette
> 4. In which tragedy would you find the characters Goneril, Cordelia,
> and Regan?
king lear
> 5. In which comedy would you find the characters Rosalind, Orlando,
> Celia, and Touchstone?
as you like it
> 6. In which comedy would you find the characters Antipholus of
> Ephesus, Antipholus of Syracuse, Dromio of Ephesus, and Dromio
> of Syracuse?
comedy of errors
> 7. Which character has the most lines in *any one* of Shakespeare's
> plays?
hamlet
> 8. Which character has the most lines if *all* of Shakespeare's
> plays are counted together?
henry v
> 9. In which of Shakespeare's plays are the remains of two of the
> characters served to another character in the form of pie?
titus andronicus
> 10. In which of Shakespeare's plays does one of the characters
> magically transform another character's head into the head of
> an ass, which is to say, a donkey?
a midsummer night's dream
>
> ** Game 8, Round 10 - Challenge Round
>
> * A. Geography: Passes
>
> A1. The original route of the Trans-Canada Highway and the
> first railway across the Canadian Rockies both cross the
> Rockies using the same pass. Name it.
kicking horse pass
> A2. Name the pass on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border that
> has formed a vital part of trade routes since the days of
> the ancient Silk Road.
khyber
> * B. History: Failures
>
> B1. In 1911, while Roald Amundsen's expedition was forging across
> Antarctica to be first to reach the South Pole, a rival
> British expedition began the same journey, with determination
> that in their case exceeded their competence. They too
> reached the pole, about a month after Amundsen, but on the
> way back they all died. Who was the, uh, heroic(?) leader
> of this ill-fated expedition?
rf scott
> B2. The British do seem to love to commemorate their heroic
> failures. Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "The Charge of
> the Light Brigade" celebrates a disastrous attack against
> Russian troops, initiated accidentally by an unclear order,
> during *what battle* of the Crimean War?
balaclava
>
> * C. Science: Batteries
>
> C1. According to its nominal rating, a standard alkaline battery,
> such as size AAA, generates how many volts of eletricity?
1.5 volts
> C2. In etymologically correct technical language that size AAA
> alkaline battery isn't a "battery" at all, as that word
> refers to a combination of two or more of them. Before the
> word "battery" got established as common usage, what were
> we supposed to call just one of the things?
cell
>
> * D. Miscellaneous: Political Terms
>
> D1. What is it called when a party chooses a candidate from
> elsewhere to run in what they think is a safe district?
parachute candidate
> D2. What is it called when one party gets to adjust the
> electoral-district boundaries and uses this power to improve
> their own future chances?
gerrymandering
>
> * E. Leisure: Game Masters
>
> E1. The following people have been known for their mastery
> of what game? Alexander Alekhine, Mikhail Botvinnik,
> José Capablanca, Magnus Carlsen, Anatoly Karpov, Mikhail Tal.
chess
> E2. The following people have been known for their mastery of
> what game? Easley Blackwood, Ely Culbertson, Charles Goren,
> Oswald Jacoby, Alan Truscott, Zia Mahmood.
contract bridge
>
> * F. Literature: Complete the Title
>
> F1. Complete the title of this 1974 book by Robert Pirsig.
> The main title will do; you don't need to give the subtitle.
> "Zen and..."
the art of motorcycle maintenance
> F2. The main title of this 2007 book by Stephen Colbert
> ["coal-BEAR"] is "I am America". Give the 4-word subtitle --
> punctuation marks not required.
and so can you
> --
> Mark Brader | "Some societies define themselves by being open to new
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> --Donna Richoux
> My text in this article is in the public domain.
swp
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