From: pete.gayde@gmail.com   
      
   Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2024-02-05,   
   > 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 Misplaced Modifiers   
   > 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*)".   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 2, Round 4 - History - Technological Advances with Historic Impact   
   >   
   > This round is about technological advances over the past 150 years   
   > that have had a historic impact on the world.  For each technology   
   > or innovation, we'll ask for the year it was invented, patented,   
   > or launched, as we specify -- in each case, plus or minus 5 years.   
   >   
   > 1. Automobile: The year when German engine designer and automotive   
   >     engineer Karl (or Carl) Benz patented the first gasoline-powered   
   >     car.   
      
   1885; 1891   
      
   >   
   > 2. Phonograph: The year when American inventor and businessman   
   >     Thomas Edison patented the cylinder phonograph.   
      
   1885; 1891   
      
   >   
   > 3. Television: The year when Scottish inventor and electrical   
   >     engineer John Logie Baird demonstrated the world's first live   
   >     working television system.   
      
   1926   
      
   >   
   > 4. The tank: The year when designers Walter Wilson and William   
   >     Tritton in Britain and Eugè ne Brillié in France invented the   
   >     first operational military tanks.   
      
   1915   
      
   >   
   > 5. World Wide Web: The year when English computer scientist Tim   
   >     Berners-Lee invented the Web.   
      
   1988   
      
   >   
   > 6. YouTube: The year when the first popular video-streaming site   
   >     was launched by Taiwanese-American Internet entrepreneur Steve   
   >     Chen, American webmaster and businessman Chad Hurley, and   
   >     American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur Jawed Karim.   
      
   1999   
      
   >   
   > 7. Transistor: The year when American physicists John Bardeen,   
   >     Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invented this semiconductor   
   >     device at Bell Labs.   
      
   1949   
      
   >   
   > 8. Nylon: The year when the first fully synthetic fiber was produced   
   >     by chemist Wallace Carothers while working at DuPont.   
      
   1937   
      
   >   
   > 9. Radio: The year when Italian electrical engineer Guglielmo   
   >     Marconi sent the first wireless signals across the Atlantic   
   >     Ocean.   
      
   1918   
      
   >   
   > 10. Airplane: The year when American aviation pioneers Orville   
   >     and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled and sustained flight   
   >     of an engine-powered, heavier-than-air aircraft.   
      
   1903   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 2, Round 6 - Science - Scales and Measurements   
   >   
   > 1. A tachometer measures the working speed of an engine. In what   
   >     *units* does a tachometer typically measure?   
      
   Revolutions per Minute   
      
   >   
   > 2. What is the ancient unit of measurement oft-cited in the Bible   
   >     that was equivalent to the distance from one's elbow to the   
   >     tip of one's middle Finger?   
      
   Cubit   
      
   >   
   > 3. What is the name of the unit used to measure the height of   
   >     horses?   
      
   Hand   
      
   >   
   > 4. The strongest recorded earthquakes to hit Toronto were of   
   >     virtually the same magnitude and occurred on 2010-06-23 and   
   >     2013-05-17.  Within 0.1, what was the measurement of these   
   >     earthquakes on the Richter scale?   
      
   4.8; 5.1   
      
   >   
   > 5. What is the name given to the most accurate kind of clock,   
   >     considered accurate to within one second in 20,000,000 years?   
      
   Cesium   
      
   >   
   > 6. When we put on a sphygmomanometer, what are we measuring?   
      
   Blood pressure   
      
   >   
   > 7. What does an anemometer measure?   
      
   Atmospheric pressure   
      
   >   
   > 8. Many -- or most? -- members of this trivia league make use of   
   >     an everyday item whose strength is measured in diopters. What   
   >     do diopters measure?   
      
   Strength of corrective lenses   
      
   >   
   > 9. The Bristol Scale is graded from 1 -- "separate hard lumps" --   
   >     to 7 -- "entirely liquid."  What does the Bristol Scale measure?   
   >   
   > 10. What is the name of the system of weights measured in pounds   
   >     and ounces, First used in the medieval wool trade and   
   >     standardized by international treaty in 1959?  Its name derives   
   >     from the French term meaning "goods sold by weight."   
      
   Avoirdupois   
      
   >   
      
   Pete Gayde   
      
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