From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On 6/8/2024 10:15 AM, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   >   
   > **ATTENTION**   
   > Due to some personal difficulties I will be largely off-net until   
   > later this summer.  I will complete QFTCIMM24 Game 9 but otherwise   
   > QFTCI postings will be suspended until I return.  Please stay tuned   
   > to this newsgroup to see them when I do..   
   > **ATTENTION**   
      
   I'll be around. Maybe the rest of us can write some other quizzes to   
   help keep the newsgroup going steady.   
      
   > ** Game 9, Round 9 - Science - Women in Science   
   >   
   > Please note: none of the answers will be Marie Curie.   
   >   
   > 1. Toronto astrophysicist Ilana MacDonald is going to be busy   
   >     next week.  What Ontario task force is she the head of?   
      
   Marie Curie -- wait, never mind, that can't be right.   
      
   > 8. What did you say?  This wasn't supposed to be a Canadiana round?   
   >     Okay, then... Engineer Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman   
   >     to do what?   
      
   travel in space   
      
   > ** Game 9, Round 10 - Challenge - A Foolish Challenge Round   
   >   
   > * A. Literary Fools   
   >   
   >     A1. The Russian concept of the "holy fool", an eccentric social   
   >         misfit with no filter who can cast light on society from   
   >         the outside, is exemplified by the character of Prince   
   >         Myshkin in which work by Dostoevsky?   
      
   "The Idiot"   
      
   >     A2. Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" introduces the   
   >         character of Robin Goodfellow, who is the magical jester   
   >         to the Fairy Queen.  By what other one-syllable name is he   
   >         better known?   
      
   Puck   
      
   > * B. Fooled by Nature   
   >   
   >     B1. Which mineral is commonly known as Fool's Gold?   
      
   iron pyrite   
      
   >     B2. What strategy do cuckoos employ to minimize the energy they   
   >         spend incubating eggs?   
      
   lay them in other birds' nests   
      
   > * C. Canadian Corporate Pranks of 2023   
   >   
   >     C1. On April 1, 2023, which automaker announced the launch of   
   >         its "Wrangler Flannel Edition" especially for the Canadian   
   >         market, to (quote) "keep you as cozy as a lumberjack in   
   >         the Canadian wilderness"?   
      
   Ford   
   > * D. Foolish Idioms   
   >   
   >     Complete the following sayings.   
   >   
   >     D1. Add 5 words to finish this saying: A man who is his own   
   >         lawyer has...   
      
   a fool for a client   
      
   >     D2. Add 5 words to finish this proverb by Alexander Pope:   
   >         Fools rush in...   
      
   where angels fear to tread   
      
   > * E. Fools in Song   
   >   
   >     E1. This song, written by Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald,   
   >         and performed by the Doobie Brothers, hit #1 in 1979.  A man   
   >         is reunited with an old crush and attempts to rekindle a   
   >         romantic relationship with her, before discovering that he   
   >         never really had one in the first place.  Name the song.   
      
   "What a Fool Believes"   
      
   >     E2. This 1996 song (re-released in 1997) by Swedish rock band   
   >         the Cardigans is a catchy disco-pop hit in which the singer,   
   >         aware that her lover no longer cares for her, begs him to   
   >         lie to her and say that he loves her, so she can continue   
   >         living in blissful ignorance.  Name the song.   
      
   "Lovefool"   
      
   > * F. They Fooled Us   
   >   
   >     F1. An Italian immigrant to the US in the early 1900s, this   
   >         swindler created an investment company ostensibly to profit   
   >         from postage coupon arbitrage, but really just to pass   
   >         new investors' initial contributions to older investors to   
   >         pump up the reputation of the fund and gain more investors.   
   >         Today these types of scams are named for him.  Who was he?   
      
   Ponzi   
      
   >     F2. Victor Lustig passed himself off to a group of scrap-metal   
   >         dealers as a French government official who needed to arrange   
   >         the demolition of a large metal structure and the disposal   
   >         of a large amount of iron.  He took bids and collected a   
   >         fortune, by fraudulently selling iron from -- what, exactly?   
      
   the Eiffel Tower   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
   gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)