From: pete.gayde@gmail.com   
      
   Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2024-11-18,   
   > 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 What She Said, 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 2024-08-30   
   > companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition   
   > (QFTCI*)".   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 10, Round 7 - Entertainment - Magic   
   >   
   > No, this round isn't about sorcery, but rather the performing art   
   > of magic.  Top hats and rabbits!  Abracadabra!   
   >   
   > 1. Traditionally there are three elements of any magic trick.   
   >     The first is the "pledge", where a seemingly ordinary object is   
   >     shown to the audience.  The second is the "turn", where something   
   >     extraordinary appears to happen to the object.  The third is   
   >     where the object is once again "confirmed" to be ordinary.   
   >     What is that element called?  It is also the title of a 2006   
   >     movie directed by Christopher Nolan.   
   >   
   > 2. Harry Houdini once stated that nobody could be considered an   
   >     accomplished magician if they had not mastered one particular   
   >     category of trick, since that trick involves both the basic   
   >     fundamental skills and effects of magic: for skills it uses   
   >     sleight of hand, misdirection, and audience management, and for   
   >     effects it can utilize vanishing, appearance, transposition, and   
   >     transformation.  What is the common name for this type of trick?   
      
   Deception   
      
   >   
   > 3. Among magicians, a common technique in card magic is a Zarrow   
   >     shuffle.  How does a Zarrow shuffle differ from a regular   
   >     card shuffle?   
      
   Keeps the top and/or bottom card in place   
      
   >   
   > 4. What is the term for using sleight of hand to conceal an item   
   >     within one's hand?  When done properly, the audience believes   
   >     the hand is empty while it is in fact holding the concealed item.   
      
   Deception   
      
   >   
   > 5. What is the term for the branch of magic which makes the   
   >     audience believe the performer has telepathic, mind-reading,   
   >     or predictive powers?   
   >   
   > 6. Many practitioners of , along with psychics and   
   >     fortune-tellers, use a technique to quickly obtain a great deal   
   >     of basic information about a person via visual observations   
   >     about the person's appearance and manner of speech, and then   
   >     "creating" more knowledge via high-probability guesses and   
   >     confirming the correctness of those guesses by observing body   
   >     language.  What is this technique called?   
   >   
   > 7. Although Houdini practiced multiple types of stage magic, he   
   >     was best known for what physically intensive performing art,   
   >     typically either included within stage magic or closely   
   >     associated with it?   
   >   
   > 8. A magician has a long coil of rope on a stage.  The rope   
   >     begins levitating upwards, with no external support, until   
   >     it is out of the audience's view.  The magician then ascends   
   >     the rope.  The name of this trick involves a nationality,   
   >     although it appears the trick does not originate in that country.   
   >     Which country is this rope trick named for?   
   >   
   > 9. Another staple of magic tied to a nationality are the linking   
   >     rings, but unlike the rope trick, this one *was* invented in   
   >     the country they are named for.  What country?   
   >   
   > 10. Finally, a relatively new but very popular field of   
   >     sleight-of-hand magic uses a specific item as its specialized   
   >     prop for magic effects.  What common plaything is that prop?   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - Leaders   
   >   
   > Name them.   
   >   
   > 1. NBA all-time leader in rebounds.   
      
   Olajuwon; O'Neal   
      
   > 2. NFL all-time leader in passing yards.   
      
   Tom Brady; Dan Fouts   
      
   > 3. NBA all-time leader in points scored.   
      
   Michael Jordan   
      
   > 4. FIFA all-time leader in goals scored.   
      
   Pele   
      
   > 5. MLB all-time leader in runs batted in.   
      
   Hank Aaron   
      
   > 6. NHL all-time leader in wins as a goaltender.   
      
   Roy   
      
   > 7. MLB all-time leader in walks received as a batter.   
      
   Barry Bonds   
      
   > 8. NFL all-time leader in pass receptions and touchdowns.   
      
   Rice   
      
   > 9. NHL all-time leader in power-play goals and overtime goals.   
      
   Mario Lemieux; Gretzky   
      
   > 10. International Tennis Federation leader in Grand Slam tournament   
   >     wins (two people tied, name either).   
      
   Navratilova   
      
   >   
      
   Pete Gayde   
      
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