These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2024-07-15,
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 Smith & Guessin', 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 9, Round 2 - Science - The Skeleton
Please see the handout at:
https://www.vex.net/~msb/tmp/9-2/skel.pdf
This round will see how well you know your bones. The handout shows
the human skeleton viewed from front and back, as well as detailed
views of the hand (inset at lower right) and foot (lower left).
Note that some numbers appear more than once on the diagram.
There are no repeat answers.
1. Which number is the ilium?
2. Which number is the radius?
3. Which number is the scapula?
4. Which number is the occipital bone?
5. Which number is the phalanges ["fal-ANN-jeez"]?
6. Which number is the calcaneus ["cal-KAY-nee-us"]?
Please decode the rot13 for the remaining questions only after
you have finished with the above ones.
7. Vqragvsl ahzore svir.
8. Vqragvsl ahzore guvegl-avar.
9. Vqragvsl ahzore gjragl-rvtug.
10. Vqragvsl ahzore guvegl-guerr (uvag: vg'f guvaare guna ahzore
guvegl-gjb).
No, I'm not going to list all the other ones.
* Game 9, Round 3 - Miscellaneous - Causes of Death
This is not a very uplifting topic, but not all trivia is fun
and games. For each group of prominent names, you'll be asked to
name what cause of death they had in common. *Note*: If they died
of cancer, you must be more specific.
1. Richard Nixon, Josef Stalin, Vladimir Lenin.
2. Author Truman Capote, boxer Joe Frazier, actor Alec Guinness.
3. Actress Bette Davis, singers Olivia Newton-John and Nina Simone.
4. Composer Franz Schubert, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche,
author Bram Stoker.
5. Hockey Hall of Fame star Henri Richard, actors Gene Wilder and
Rita Hayworth.
6. Writer Anton Chekhov, South American leader Simon Bolivar,
actress Vivien Leigh
7. Musical star Ethel Merman, US politician John McCain, NFL
Commissioner Pete Rozelle.
8. Actors Michael Landon and Patrick Swayze, US Supreme Court
judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
9. Popcorn maker Orville Redenbacher, singer Whitney Houston,
beating victim Rodney King.
10. Actor David Niven, Buffalo newscaster Irv Weinstein, baseball
Hall of Fame pitcher "Catfish" Hunter.
--
Mark Brader | In the face of such devastating logic as "despite
Toronto | what you say you mean, you must mean this and you
msb@vex.net | are wrong", I cede the territory. --Truly Donovan
My text in this article is in the public domain.
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