Mark Brader:

These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2013-02-25,
and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information...
see my 2022-09-09 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from
the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".

* Game 4, Round 1 - Current Events (excerpt)

Answer these 2013 questions if you like for fun, but for no points.

1. Who was the country music star who committed suicide last week,
at the age of 37? She hit #1 on the country charts in 1996 with
"Guys Do It All the Time".

Mindy McCready. Joshua got this.

2. What malfunction occurred for 3 hours on Tuesday on the
International Space Station, when the astronauts tried to
upgrade their computer software?

Loss of communication with the Earth.

* Game 4, Round 2 - Entertainment - Movies about the Movies

When the movie industry runs out of ideas, it turns the lens on
itself. In each case, name the movie from the date and description.

1. 1995; loan shark Chili Palmer (John Travolta) gets a taste for
Tinseltown when he pitches a movie to Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman),
the producer whose debt Chili has to collect.

"Get Shorty". 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.

2. 1963; director Guido (Marcello Mastroianni) suffers creative
block while embarking on his latest movie and drifts into dreams
and memories.

"8½". 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.

3. 1950; murdered screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) narrates
the story of his meeting with washed-up silent icon Norma Desmond
(Gloria Swanson).

"Sunset Blvd." 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.

4. 2011; when sound arrives in Hollywood, George Valentin (Jean
Dujardin) bucks the trend by filming another silent movie,
the jungle adventure "Tears of Love".

"The Artist". 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.

5. 1994; studio whipping boy Guy (Frank Whaley) bites back after
too much abuse from bullying exec Buddy Ackerman (Kevin Spacey).

"Swimming with Sharks". 4 for Joshua.

6. 1998; the elderly director James Whale (Ian McKellen) recounts
his glory days as a horror director to gardener Clayton Boone
(Brendan Fraser).

"Gods and Monsters". 4 for Joshua.

7. 2004; Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) spares no expense trying
to make his World War I flying drama "Hell's Angels" as realistic
as possible.

"The Aviator". 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.

8. 1980; Sandy Bates (Woody Allen) reminisces as he attends a
retrospective of his work.

"Stardust Memories". 4 for Joshua.

9. 2008; actors Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller) and Kirk Lazarus (Robert
Downey Jr.) are dropped in the jungle to shoot a Vietnam epic.

"Tropic Thunder". 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.

10. 2011; an orphan boy (Asa Butterfield) realizes that the grumpy
toyshop owner (Ben Kingsley) in the railway station where he
lives is none other than the forgotten director Georges Méliès.

"Hugo". 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.

* Game 4, Round 3 - Geography - Most Populous Metropolitan Areas in US States

In this round, you are to identify the most populous metropolitan
statistical area, according to the 2010 census, of a given US state.
This is, of course, *may or may not* be the same metropolitan area
containing the state's most populous city. If the metropolitan
area is named after multiple cities, like "Tokyo - Yokohama", the
primary one, named first, will suffice. If you give additional
cities in the name they must be correct.

So, what """is""" the most populous metropolitan area in (or in
one case just *primarily* in) these states?

Note: The results for the 2020 census are not yet available --
they're expected in December -- so I will only accept answers
based on the 2010 census.

This was the hardest round in the original game.

1. New Hampshire.

Manchester - Nashua. (#129 nationally by population at 400,721.)
4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque. 3 for Dan Blum.

2. Vermont.

Burlington - South Burlington. (#199 at 211,261.) 4 for Dan Blum
and Dan Tilque.

3. Maine.

Portland - South Portland - Biddeford. (#101 at 514,098.)
4 for everyone -- Joshua, Erland, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque.

4. Tennessee.

Nashville-Davidson - Murfreesboro - Franklin. (#38 at 1,589,934.)
"Nashville" was sufficient. 4 for Dan Blum. 3 for Joshua.

5. Texas.

Dallas - Ft. Worth - Arlington. (#4 at 6,371,773.) 2 for Dan Blum.

6. South Dakota.

Sioux Falls. (#193 at 228,261.) 4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque.
3 for Dan Blum.

7. North Dakota.

Fargo. (#204 at 208,777. This is the "primarily" one; it extends
into Minnesota.) 4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque.

8. Montana.

Billings. (#250 at 158,050.) 2 for Joshua.

9. Alabama.

Birmingham - Hoover. (#49 at 1,128,047.) 4 for Joshua, Erland,
and Dan Tilque. 2 for Dan Blum.

10. West Virginia.

Charleston. (#154 at 304,284.) 4 for Erland and Dan Tilque.
2 for Joshua.


Scores, if there are no errors:

GAME 4 ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Ent Geo
Joshua Kreitzer 40 27 67
Dan Blum 28 22 50
Dan Tilque 0 28 28
Erland Sommarskog 0 12 12

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