Mark Brader:

These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2013-04-22,
and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information...
see my 2022-09-09 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from
the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".

** Final, Round 7 - Arts & Literature

* Name the Work from the Characters

We'll give you some characters from a novel; you give us the title.

1. Jing-Mei Woo, Lindo Jong, Waverly Jong.

"The Joy Luck Club" (by Amy Tan). 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum,
and Joshua.

2. Janie Crawford, Tea Cake, Logan Killicks.

"Their Eyes were Watching God" (by Zora Neale Hurston).

3. John Yossarian, Major Major, Milo Minderbinder.

"Catch-22" (by Joseph Heller). 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum,
and Joshua.

* Poets

We'll give you the name of a poem; you give us the author.

4. "Prometheus". (The poem that begins "Titan! to whose immortal
eyes", that is.)

George Gordon, Lord Byron.

5. "Easter 1916".

William Butler Yeats. 4 for Joshua.

6. "The Lady of Shalott".

Alfred Lord Tennyson. 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, and Joshua.

* Canadian Artists and Their Homes in the GTA

7. Born in England in 1869, this artist was raised in Cabbagetown
in the distinctive Owl House. He is best known for his
depictions of Canadian history and early Canadian pioneer life.
As an adult, he lived in a 19th-century farmhouse that was moved
about 20 feet in 1956 due to road construction, but """still
stands""" in its new location on Yonge St. just north of York
Mills Rd. Who was this artist?

C.W. Jeffreys. (Still true.)

8. This artist, born in Ireland in 1810, is best known for his
painting of First Nations peoples of Western Canada and the
Oregon Territory. His permanent address was in Toronto,
at 56 Wellesley St. E., in a house """part of which is still
standing""". Who was this artist who died in 1871?

Paul Kane. (Still true.)

9. This member of the Group of Seven was born in England in 1881.
He and Lauren Harris were the only two members of the group
who painted portraits. He died in 1969, and there """is"""
an art gallery named after him in Unionville. Who was he?

Fredrick H. Varley. (Still true.)

* Children's Books by Writers Not Known for Writing for Children

10. Which British author wrote the children's book "Chitty Chitty
Bang Bang", which was filmed in 1968?

Ian Fleming. 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, and Joshua.

11. What Nobel-prizewinning novelist wrote "The Red Pony"?

John Steinbeck. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.

12. What British essayist, writing with his sister, wrote the
children's book "Tales from Shakespeare" in 1807?

Charles Lamb (with Mary Lamb). 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.

* Opening Lines of Novels (yes, again)

We'll give you the opening lines of a novel; you name it.

13. A squat gray building of only thirty-four storeys. Over
the main entrance the words, "Central London Hatchery and
Conditioning Centre", and in a shield, the World State's motto...

"Brave New World" (by Aldous Huxley). 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum,
and Joshua.

The motto was "Community, Identity, Stability".

14. The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring
fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting...

"The Red Badge of Courage" (by Stephen Crane).

15. In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together.

"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" (by Carson McCullers). 4 for Dan Blum
and Joshua.

** Final, Round 8 - Miscellaneous

* Canadian Signature Sweets

This triplet is about Canadian signature sweets. We will show you
the sweet and tell you where it is most commonly associated with,
and you provide the name.

1. This sweet <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-8/sweet1.jpg>
is commonly associated with Newfoundland. What is it called?

Figgy duff.

2. This sweet <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-8/sweet2.jpg>
is found in Ottawa. What is it called?

Beaver tails or elephant ears. 3 for Erland.

3. This sweet <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-8/sweet3.jpg>
is commonly associated with Quebec. In English or French,
what is it called?

Nun's farts, pets de soeurs!

* Quotations

This triple was badly written, with two apocryphal quotations out
of three in the original game; I've substituted genuine quotations
by the same people.

4. Who said the following? "Striving for peace and preparing
for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more
so than ever."

Albert Einstein (in a radio interview in 1950).

The quote in the original question was: "The significant problems
we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at
when we created them". Einstein did say something similar, in a
1946 fundraising solicitation for the Emergency Committee of Atomic
Scientists, but it wasn't about unspecified "significant problems",
it was about one problem identified in an earlier sentence: "the
unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of
thinking"; and he referred not to levels of thinking, but to types of
thinking and levels that mankind might attain. His actual wording
asked for money "to let the people know that a new type of thinking
is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels".

5. Who said the following? ("They" was another country, while
the country whose name we've deleted was his own.) "...their
generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet,
'In three weeks <country> will have her neck wrung like
a chicken.' Some chicken; some neck."

Winston Churchill (to the Parliament of Canada in 1941; "they"
were the French).

This was part of a speech he made in the Canadian Parliament.
Yousuf Karsh was present and his famous portrait photograph
was taken just after the speech was finished. See: http://karsh.org/photographs/winston-churchill/

The quote in the original question was: "Any man who is under 30, and
is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not
a conservative, has no brains." It's not known who really said this
or what the original wording was; but Churchill actually changed *from
the Conservative Party to the Liberals* just before he turned 30,
before switching *back* to the Conservatives 20 years later.

6. Who famously quoted the following on a historic occasion?
"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

Robert J. Oppenheimer (at the first nuclear-bomb test in 1945).
4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.

* Whatchamacallits

We give you the description and a picture; you give us the
obscure name.

7. <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-8/what7.png> The piece of
plastic covering the end of your shoelace.

Aglet. 4 for Dan Tilque and Joshua. 3 for Dan Blum.

8. <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-8/what8.jpg> The metal band
that connects the pencil eraser to the end of the pencil.

Ferrule. 4 for Joshua.

9. <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-8/what9.jpg> The vertical
groove between your lip and nose.

Philtrum. 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, and Joshua.

* Same Names

This is a triple on famous people with the same name. We give
the description of the two people who share the same name, and
you give that shared name.

10. The wife of William Shakespeare, and the actress who has
"""recently""" appeared in "Les Miserables" and "The Dark
Knight Rises".

Anne Hathaway. No points for first name alone. 4 for Dan Blum
and Joshua.

A version of this question appeared on the TV show "The Million
Second Quiz" on 2013-09-11.

11. The founder of the hamburger chain Wendy's, and a Canadian
comic actor.

Dave Thomas. No points for first name alone -- weren't you
listening? :-) 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.

12. The actor who played Captain Apollo in the original "Battlestar
Galactica" and Tom Zarek in the reboot of "Battlestar Galactica",
and the first winner of "Survivor".

Richard Hatch. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.

* Logos Without Corporate Names

Please identify the corporate or brand name that we have removed
from each logo.

13. <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-8/logo13.png>.

Cisco. 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, and Joshua.

14. <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-8/logo14.png>.

HP (Hewlett-Packard). 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, and Joshua.

15. <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-8/logo15.png>.

Skype. 4 for Joshua.


Scores, if there are no errors:

FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> His Ent Geo Spo A+L Mis FOUR
Joshua Kreitzer 38 40 24 28 36 40 154
Dan Blum 39 12 23 13 32 31 125
Dan Tilque 20 12 20 12 20 16 76
Pete Gayde -- -- 19 24 -- -- 43
Erland Sommarskog 20 4 12 0 0 3 39

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