New Scaratings

Warm-up Round (10 Questions, 500 Points each, No clues):
1. Perestroika is a political movement that began in this country in the 1980s:_______________.
[Choices: China, Soviet Union, Bolivia, Poland, Greece]
2. "Domineering" is a synonym of:_______________.
[Choices: Imperious, Apologetic, Conspiring, Exuberant, Flagitious]
3. Origami is the art form of:_____________.
[Choices: Cutting buttons, Arranging flowers, Trimming trees, Folding paper, Collecting dolls]
4. 1630's "The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest" marks the first stage appearance of:_____________.
[Choices: El Cid, Don Juan, Don Quixote, Carmen, Sweeney Todd]
5. Which country throws a party every April known as King's Day, also called "Orange Madness"?_______________.
[Choices: Norway, The Netherlands, Canada, Wales, Brazil]
6. "Eat Fresh" is the slogan of:______________.
[Choices: Burger King, Macy's, Geico, Chipotle, Subway]
7. Which name was the central one in the 1960 U-2 incident?_______________.
[Choices: Francis Gary Powers, Fulgencio Batista, Kim Philby, Ajita Wilson, Madame Nhu]
8. In golf, when you shoot two under par on an individual hole, you have scored an:______________.
[Choices: Albatross, Ibis, Oriole, Ostrich, Eagle]
9. Nashua is a city of some 87,000 people in the state of:_______________.
[Choices: New Hampshire, Indiana, North Carolina, Washington, Missouri]
10. What kind of powder would you normally find in a powder horn?_____________.
[Choices: Iron powder, Gunpowder, Face powder, Talcum powder, Baking powder]

Countdown Round (12 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease with time and 3 Clues):
11. Brazilian business giant Carlos Ghosn runs three _______________ companies.
[Choices: Construction, Ecology, Automotive, Oil, Pharmaceutical]
12. Which bird belongs to the Auk family?________________.
[Choices: Sparrow, Blue Jay, Herring Gull, Puffin, Albatross]
13. The Vulgate, dating from the late 4th Century, is a translation of _____________ into Latin.
[Choices: The Bible, Plutarch, The Homeric epics, Herodotus, Extant Greek tragedies]
14. Exactly how many U.S. Presidents served during the 1960s?___________.
[Choices: Four, Three, Six, Five, Two]
15. The Carambola, also called Starfruit, is native to this part of the world:____________.
[Choices: South America, North Africa, Antarctica, Caribbean, Southern Asia]
16. The Fitjar Islands are off the coast of:_____________.
[Choices: Norway, Chile, Mexico, Iceland, Scotland]
17. Philip Noel-Baker is the only man to win an Olympic medal and a:_______________.
[Choices: Nobel Prize, Heisman Trophy, Grammy, Croix de Guerre, Ballon d'Or]
18. The Mylohyoid ____________ is flat and triangular.
[Choices: Artery, Muscle, Chamber, Duct, Bone]
19. What bazillionaire has a small role in the 2016 movie "Star Trek Beyond"?_____________.
[Choices: Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Larry Ellison]
20. It's a pressure chamber used in the chemical industry and in medical applications:_______________.
[Choices: Dulcimer, Gonfalon, Harangue, Pachinko, Autoclave]
21. This 1995 novel was written by Iris Murdoch:_________________.
[Choices: Jackson's Dilemma, Polk's Troubles, Arthur's Paradox, Nixon's Quandary, Truman's Plight]
22. Which element gives fireworks its blue color?______________.
[Choices: Neon, Silver, Uranium, Copper, Gallius]

Category Round (6 Questions, 1000 Points each, Category chosen by majority vote at each Site):
23.(a) WAR! v Meteorology: An army led by the Duke of Alba captured this city in 1580:______________.
[Choices: Minsk, Cairo, Oslo, Lisbon, Havana]
24.(a) WORLD RIVERS v Big business: The Jurua River flows for about 1,500 miles across this continent:_______________.
[Choices: South America, Australia, Africa, Europe, Asia]
25.(a) Current music v NFL PREVIEW: The NFL regular season opens two days from now with the ___________ hosting the Atlanta Falcons.
[Choices: Baltimore Ravens, San Francisco 49ers, Kansas City Chiefs, Philadelphia Eagles, Dallas Cowboys]
26.(a) Big business v WAR!: In which War did the Battle of Malakoff take place?_______________.
[Choices: French and Indian War, Crimean War, Russo-Japanese War, Spanish-American War, World War I]
27.(a) NFL PREVIEW v World rivers: There are exactly _________ games scheduled in the 2018 NFL regular season.
[Choices: 280, 212, 160, 256, 184]
28.(a) METEOROLOGY v Current music: A Hyetograph is used by meteorologists to study:____________.
[Choices: Cold, Wind, Heat, Clouds, Rain]

Lightning Round (7 Questions, 400, 600, 800, 1000, 1200, 1500, 2000 Points, but time to read and answer decreases from 15 to 4 seconds):
29. Sue Scheff's "Shame Nation" is a book that deals with this current issue:______________.
[Choices: Homophobia, Child abuse, Multicolored hair, Racism, Internet harassment]
30. Which part of the cow is used in preparing the Mexican soup known as menudo?_______________.
[Choices: Back, Ribs, Head, Shoulder, Stomach lining]
31. This county in England is home to the famous prehistoric stone monument of Stonehenge:_____________.
[Choices: Cork, Kent, Wiltshire, North Yorkshire, Notts]
32. Dara Khosrowshahi is the new CEO of this company founded in 2009:______________.
[Choices: Uber, Zillow, Google, Reddit, General Motors]
33. "Keep It Comin' Love" was a huge hit for this disco act:________________.
[Choices: K.C. & the Sunshine Band, The Troggs, The Bee Gees, Jethro Tull, Van McCoy]
34. Salt Lake City lies at the foot of this mountain range:_______________.
[Choices: White, Wasatch, Great Smoky, Shasta, Grand Teton]
35. In 1957, the ___________ Nine were the focus of a historic school desegregation attempt.
[Choices: Dallas, Roanoke, Peace Dale, Mobile, Little Rock]

Dreaded Pyramid Round (5 Questions, 12000, 7000, 4000, 2000, 1000 Points for 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Right out of 5; No clues):
36. Which famous work of art was done by the Van Eyck brothers, Jan and Hubert?____________.
[Choices: Belshazzar's Feast, Carnival Evening, The Ghent Altarpiece, The Birth of Venus, Summer Days]
37. Which of these famous people was born earliest?_______________.
[Choices: Pliny the Elder, Cleopatra VII, Charlemagne, Scipio Africanus, Genghis Khan]
38. Which country has the most miles of coastline on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea?_______________.
[Choices: Italy, Croatia, Slovakia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Greece]
39. Henry David Thoreau spent over two years in a cabin on land owned by:____________.
[Choices: Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen Crane, Bret Harte]
40. Most of these animals live in the Arctic Ocean:______________.
[Choices: Risso's Dolphin, Beluga Whale, Krill, Giant Squid, Starfish]

Final Jeopardy Question on THE PLANETS (50% Bonus if Right Immediately; Points decrease rapidly with time and 3 Clues; 50% Deduction if Final Choice is Wrong):
41. Which planet's pale yellow color is due to the ammonia crystals in its upper atmosphere?_______________.
[Choices: Neptune, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Saturn]


Answers:
1. Soviet Union [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika ]
2. Imperious [see https://www.dictionary.com/browse/imperious ]
3. Folding paper [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origami ]
4. Don Juan [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Juan ]
5. The Netherlands [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konigsdag ; the clue was "Orange"]
6. Subway [see the section "Marketing" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subway_(restaurant) ]
7. Francis Gary Powers [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Gary_Powers ]
8. Eagle [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par_(score) ]
9. New Hampshire [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashua,_New_Hampshire ]
10. Gunpowder [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder_horn ]

11. Automobile [we at Buster's Bar, Ottawa ON split our guesses on this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Ghosn ]
12. Puffin [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffin ]
13. The Bible [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgate ]
14. Four [Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon]
15. Southern Asia [we split our guesses on this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carambola ]
16. Norway [most of us guessed right on this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitjar ]
17. Nobel Prize [more split guesses, losing most of the Points; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Noel-Baker ]
18. Muscle [more split guesses; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mylohyoid_muscle ]
19. Jeff Bezos [more split guesses; see https://www.geekwire.com/2016/jeff-bezo ... nd-amazon/ ]
20. Autoclave [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoclave ]
21. Jackson's Dilemma [more split guesses; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson's_Dilemma ]
22. Copper [I called this, even though the colour of a copper (II) chloride flame is blue-green, not blue; see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SMUW3GPmdE . According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored_fire , the colour of a copper (I) chloride flame is blue, which is a difficult colour to make with fireworks (see https://www.npr.org/template/story/stor ... =198781855 and http://earthsky.org/human-world/how-do- ... ant-colors ). For the detailed spectrum of the Cu+ ion in a flame at high temperatures, see Table A1 for wavelengths from 4000 to 5000 Angstroms (violent & blue) at http://www.mdpi.com/2218-2004/5/1/9/pdf for "The Cu II Spectrum". In spectroscopy, Cu I refers to the electrically neutral copper atom (with 29 protons and 29 electrons), and Cu II refers to the Cu+ ion (with 29 protons and 28 electrons). The Cu2+ ion (29 protons & 27 electrons) in copper (II) chloride is referred to as Cu III in spectroscopy. In order to gauge colour vs. wavelength, see the diagram "A rendering of the visible spectrum" from 400 to 500 nm (4000 to 5000 Angstroms) at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_spectrum (you should click to expand the diagram).
Complicating the youtube videos of various coloured flames is that the burning of hydrocarbon fuels themselves with sufficient oxygen/air produces a faint blue flame (e.g. methane CH4 and ethane C2H6 in a Bunsen burner flame or natural gas stove, methanol CH3OH or ethanol C2H5OH flame, propane C3H8 or butane C4H10 flame, and even the small blue flame at the bottom of an orange candle flame). The blue colour is emitted by C2 and CH molecules, fragments which form when the fuel molecules break apart at high temperature; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_band . The intensity of light from these blue hydrocarbon flames is too low to be useful in fireworks. Even for room illumination at night, gas lamps and kerosene lanterns used metal oxide (e.g. cerium oxide) mantles which would heat up in the flames, and as hot solid surfaces would emit Planck black-body radiation which would peak with sufficient visible light to appear white; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck's_law . In the early days of the theatre at night, gas flames would heat up solid calcium oxide (lime), producing limelight. By contrast, the Swan bands clearly show that only certain frequencies are emitted by individual gas molecules, not a complete continuous Planck black body spectrum, so the total emission (area under the curves) is nowhere near that of the Planck total.
The main diatomic molecules of the atmosphere (78% N2 and 21% O2) do not possess permanent electric dipole moments, and therefore cannot and do not emit any significant infrared (IR) radiation. Therefore the calculation by Sir John Houghton at http://climateaudit.org/?p=2572 is all wrong. It assumes that IR escapes to outer space at 5 km altitude (where the temperature is around 254 K = -19 Celsius, which means a black body emission of 236 W/m^2 which is necessary for energy balance for the Earth; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan-Boltzmann_law ). But N2 and O2 do not emit any significant IR, black body or otherwise (lines or bands). And the CO2 IR emission band corresponding to 220 K at its peak (see the MODTRAN spectrum available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_forcing ) is powered by ozone in the stratosphere which absorbs incoming Solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation; the Stefan-Boltzmann emission at 220 K is only 133 W/m^2 , too low for energy balance, and the CO2 band emission would be only a small fraction of this 133 W/m^2 . I calculate about 16 W/m^2 from a spectrum taken over Antarctica, where the IR emission from the cold Earth's surface is at an even lower temperature.]

23.(a) Portugal [we missed most of the points on this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alcantara_(1580) ]
24.(a) South American [we missed most of the points on this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurua_River ]
25.(a) Philadelphia Eagles [see http://www.espn.com/nfl/game?gameId=401030710 ]
26.(a) Crimean War [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Malakoff ]
27.(a) 256 [32 teams play 16 games each, so the total number of games is 32(16)/2 = 256; you have to divide by 2 because the first Eagles v Falcons game would otherwise be counted twice (the second time as Falcons v Eagles). Partway through the rundown, I realized that 32 and 16 are both powers of 2, so the answer had to be the only power of 2, namely 256 = 2-to-the-8th-power. ]
28.(a) Rain [we missed this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyetograph for Rainfall Intensity v Time.]

29. Internet harassment [we missed most of the points on this one, going with "Child abuse"; see http://suescheff.com/portfolio-view/shame-nation/ ]
30. Stomach lining [we split the points on this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menudo_(soup) , not to be confused with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menudo_(band) .]
31. Wiltshire [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge ]
32. Uber [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dara_Khosrowshahi ]
33. K.C. & the Sunshine Band [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KC_and_the_Sunshine_Band and for a performance of Keep It Comin' Love, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibvYxe43cCQ .]
34. Wasatch [see the section "Geography" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Lake_City ]
35. Little Rock [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine from 1957. In 1968, the Democratic National Convention was disrupted by the Chicago Seven; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Seven . When Nixon's Attorney General, John Mitchell, was later asked what he thought about the Indianapolis 500, he reputedly said "They're all guilty!"]

36. Ghent Altarpiece [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghent_Altarpiece ]
37. Scipio Africanus [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scipio_Africanus (236 BC-183 BC) for the general who defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama. The only other choice anywhere close was Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD); see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder .]
38. Croatia [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriatic_Sea ]
39. Ralph Waldo Emerson [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden ]
40. Beluga whale [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beluga_whale ]

41. Saturn [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn . Neptune is blue; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune .]

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Fine work, as usual, by LILJOL.

Left dangling is 27(b): NFL Preview vs. WORLD RIVERS. My sieve-like memory proposes that the Pechora River flows from the Ural Mountains into the Arctic Ocean. While that description coheres, I could be wrong in every particular, and if I'm right, have no recollection how the question was phrased.

Congratulations to BWW-Kent for a game well played. I can claim with the utmost confidence that of the 1,000+ Showdowns I've played, I've never whiffed on more questions than I did in playing this last Tuesday. At the end of Showdown, I had so little blood left in me that the waitstaff at the Tailgate had to carry me to my car. (This sounds heroic, yes, but keep in mind, I only weighed 98 pounds to begin with.)

Thanks! It was a team effort, as always.

If you never whiffed more on a game and still ended up with 46k, you are a far better player than I.

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Anon
"He may seem like Mr. Rogers but a dark spirit lies beneath."

Depending on what you do with the last 7-8 questions in Showdown, yeah, you can put lipstick on the pig.

27(b) world rivers. the neva flows into this body of water. gulf of finland

Well remembered. I never did much care for the Pechora.

"remembered," that's funny. if i hadn't written it down it never would have been "remembered." maybe i can remember what happened 40 years ago, but remember last tuesday, impossible.

I know where you're coming from, IDJIT. The question, "What did Gone D have for lunch today?" no longer conveys the automatic advantage it had even five years ago.

My wife's 2 sisters live on Neva in Chicago. 2 different houses.
And I think Teaser's borders on Neva.
(Not sure what that means.)

RAY J.