From: pete.gayde@gmail.com   
      
   Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2025-01-13,   
   > 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 Night Owls, 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 1, Round 9 - Miscellaneous - Famous Epitaphs   
   >   
   > Gravestone epitaphs are sometimes as unique as the people they   
   > memorialize.  Here are 10 epitaphs of famous people.  We give the   
   > inscription on the headstone or other marker.  You name the person.   
   >   
   > 1. "Let 'er rip."   
   > 2. "That's all folks."   
      
   Mel Blanc   
      
   > 3. "The best is yet to come."   
      
   Frank Sinatra   
      
   > 4. "There goes the neighborhood."   
   > 5. "Everybody loves somebody sometime."   
      
   Dean Martin   
      
   > 6. "If you seek his monument, look around you."   
      
   Ansel Adams; Abraham Lincoln   
      
   > 7. "I will NOT be right back after this message."   
      
   Larry King   
      
   > 8. "Cast a cold eye on life, on death.  Horseman pass by."   
   > 9. "Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, I'm free   
   >     at last."   
      
   Martin Luther King, Jr.   
      
   > 10. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly   
   >     into the past."   
   >   
   >   
   > ** Game 1, Round 10 - Classical Challenge Round   
   >   
   > * A. Literature - Classical Books   
   >   
   >     A1. Who wrote "Meditations"?   
   >     A2. In what book by Plato would you find the "Allegory of the   
   >         Cave" myth?   
   >   
   > After completing this pair, please decode the rot13: sbe gur svefg   
   > dhrfgvba, gur anzr erdhverq vf gjb jbeqf.  Vs lbh bayl tnir bar,   
   > tb onpx naq nqq gur bgure.   
   >   
   >   
   > * B. History - Rise and Fall   
   >   
   > These two questions are about major historical milestones in the   
   > ancient world.   
   >   
   >     B1. In which century did the Roman empire conquer Greece?   
      
   2nd century BC   
      
   >   
   >     B2. In which century did the Western Roman Empire fall?   
   >         (The term "Western Roman Empire" makes the distinction   
   >         between Rome and Byzantium... which is sometimes known as   
   >         the Eastern Roman empire.  As well, the consensus among   
   >         historians is that the fall corresponds to when the last   
   >         Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus was deposed by Germanic   
   >         warlords.)   
   >   
   >   
   > * C. Sports - Classical Sports   
   >   
   >     C1. Name *any one of the five* sports that were part of the   
   >         pentathlon in ancient times.  Note that there is little   
   >         to no overlap between the ancient and modern versions of   
   >         the pentathlon.   
      
   Discus   
      
   >   
   >     C2. A violent sport called pankration was introduced into the   
   >         ancient Olympic Games in 648 BC.  This a combination of   
   >         two individual modern sports.  Name *either one*.   
   >   
   >   
   > * D. Miscellaneous - The Gods   
   >   
   > These two questions are about the Roman rebranding of Greek gods.   
   > Who is the Roman god or goddess corresponding to...   
   >   
   >     D1. Aphrodite?   
   >     D2. Zeus?   
   >   
   >   
   > * E. Entertainment - Classical Playwrights   
   >   
   >     E1. Which Greek playwright wrote "Antigone", "Oedipus Rex",   
   >         and "Oedipus at Colonus"?   
   >   
   >     E2. Which Greek playwright wrote "Medea", "Orestes", and "The   
   >         Trojan Women"?   
   >   
   >   
   > * F. Science - Early Mathematicians   
   >   
   >     F1. This mathematician is believed to have lived around the   
   >         time of the 4th century BC.  He is known as the "father   
   >         of geometry".  He wrote the treatise "Elements", which   
   >         established the foundations of geometry and dominated the   
   >         field until the 19th century.  Who was he?   
      
   Pythagorus   
      
   >   
   >     F2. This mathematician and engineer is believed to have lived   
   >         around the time of the 3rd century BC.  He is best known for   
   >         an eponymous named principle which states that the upward   
   >         buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed in a fluid,   
   >         whether fully or partially, is equal to the weight of the   
   >         fluid that the body displaces.  Who was he?   
   >   
      
   Pete Gayde   
      
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