Warm-up Round (10 Questions, 500 Points each, 14 seconds to answer after posting of Question & 5 Choices; No Clues):1. This is a slang term for a person who has had little experience at sea:________________________.
[Choices: Landlubber, Swabjockey, Wormburner, Dippitydoo, Clodhopper ]
2. "My Friend Flicka" is a classic 1943 movie about a boy and a young:____________________.
[Choices: Wolf, Horse, Tiger, Space alien, Beaver ]
3. Which of these would you most likely see at a bullfight?_________________________
[Choices: Briolette, Fennec, Liturgy, Dastard, Picador ]
4. What Southern city lies near the Chattahoochee River?_________________________
[Choices: Santa Fe, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Miami, Richmond ]
5. A person who is wise and careful would best be described as:___________________________.
[Choices: Obtuse, Capricious, Acute, Judicious, Despondent ]
6. The mazurka is one of the national dances of:_________________________.
[Choices: Poland, Ecuador, Jamaica, Indonesia, Bhutan ]
7. In 1808, Rio de Janeiro became the capital of the _______________________ Empire.
[Choices: Inca, Colombian, Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish ]
8. Which color lies between green and indigo in the visible spectrum?____________________________
[Choices: Yellow, Violet, Red, Pink, Blue ]
9. Which person was killed by Robin Hood?_____________________________
[Choices: Peter of Wessex, Raoul of Salisbury, Donald of Lancashire, Guy of Gisbourne, Joe of Berkeley ]
10. Lake Albert is one of the ______________________ Great Lakes.
[Choices: Central American, Australian, African, Irish, Indian ]
Countdown Round (12 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease rapidly from 4 to 16 seconds, and with 3 Clues): 11. Tabes dorsalis is a disease that strikes the:__________________________.
[Choices: Big toe, Nervous system, Bones of the hand, Alimentary canal, Pancreas ]
12. Malta and Botswana are both former colonies of:___________________________.
[Choices: Russia, Great Britain, Italy, France, Spain ]
13. The American dish "Steak Diane" is much like this Continental dish:_______________________.
[Choices: Steak au poivre, Hassenpfeffer, Sauerbraten, Salade Nicoise, Coq au vin ]
14. Which of these is a musical direction?__________________________
[Choices: Focaccia, Beano, Rintolario, Ostinato, Ciabatta ]
15. Which liqueur has a distinctive orange flavor?____________________________
[Choices: Persico, Frangelica, Tia Maria, Midori, Triple sec ]
16. The Caribbean island of Dominica got its name because _______________________ first arrived there on Sunday.
[Choices: Francisco Pizarro, Hernando Cortes, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Ponce de Leon ]
17. Professor __________________ Moriarty is the archrival of Sherlock Holmes.
[Choices: Jayson, Jacob, Joseph, Juju, James ]
18. It is called the math of change and motion:________________________.
[Choices: Sabermetrics, Arithmetic, Trigonometry, Calculus, Geometry ]
19. Which 2017 honor did Colson Whitehead win?_________________________
[Choices: Heisman Trophy, Academy Award, Grammy, Pulitzer Prize, (.....) of the Year ]
20. This "animal" was invented by a marketing campaign in the 1960's and 70's:_________________________.
[Choices: Martenia, Jackalope, Persian sheep, Chupacabra, Nauga ]
21. The Sieve of _______________________ is something a mathematician would know about.
[Choices: Endocles, Euclid, Eratosthenes, Euterpe, Etienne ]
22. The legend of King Arthur takes place during what period in history?_________________________
[Choices: Dark Ages, Stone Age, Cold War, Jurassic ERa, Colonial Times ]
Category Round (6 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease from 4 to 20 seconds, and with 3 Clues; Category chosen by majority vote at each Site): 23.(a) Artistic movements v QUEBEC: Quebec's National Holiday is observed on this day:_____________________.
[Choices: February 21, April 16, August 10, October 30, June 24 ]
24.(a) SCIENCE CLASS v The wild west: The Tyndall Effect directly involves what basic property?_________________________
[Choices: Water, Scent, Soil, Sound, Light ]
25.(a) THE BIBLE v Broadway musicals: Which book of the Hebrew Bible contains only 21 lines?______________________
[Choices: Jacob, Ezra, Proverbs, Solomon, Obadiah ]
26.(a) THE WILD WEST v Artistic movements: Dave Rudabaugh led the _________________________ Gang on a series of train and stagecoach robberies in 1879.
[Choices: Lincoln County, Pawtucket, Leadville, Tucson, Dodge City ]
27.(a) Broadway musicals v SCIENCE CLASS: Hornworts are:____________________________.
[Choices: Amphibians, Insects, Skin growths, Lizards, Plants ]
28.(a) QUEBEC v The Bible: The socio-cultural movement in Quebec that began in 1960 was called the _______________ Revolution.
[Choices: Riel, Velvet, Angry, Blue, Quiet ]
Lightning Round (7 Questions: 400, 600, 800, 1000, 1200, 1500, 2000 Points, but time to read & answer decreases from 15, 12, 10, 8, 7, 5 to 4 seconds):29. "Plumbeous" is a less familiar term for:_______________________.
[Choices: Golden, Alloyed, Copper, Platinum Leaden ]
30. The prestigious ____________________ Awards are given annually to the best Spanish films.
[Choices: El Greco, Franco, Fellini, Goya, Cordero ]
31. Which sport got its start in mid-19th Century North America?____________________________
[Choices: Lacrosse, Jai-alai, Rugby, Log rolling, Volleyball ]
32. The Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway was opened in this state in 1954:_______________________.
[Choices: South Dakota, Maine, California, Georgia, New York ]
33. What pop princess released an album in 2018 titled "Sweetener"?____________________
[Choices: Megan Rapinoe, Lena Headey, Ariana Grande, Rihanna, Sara Bareilles ]
34. ________________ and _____________________ are the Ice Giants among the planets of our Solar system.
[Choices: Uranus-Neptune, Jupiter-Saturn, Mars-Earth, Mercury-Venus, Deimos-Phobos ]
35. Business entrepreneur Elon Musk was born in this country in 1971:_____________________.
[Choices: Australia, Belgium, South Africa, Canada, United States ]
Dreaded Pyramid Round (5 Questions: 12000, 7000, 4000, 2000, 1000 Points for 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Right out of 5; Time from post of Question & Choices = 16 seconds; No Clues):36. First patented in 1883, the Claus Process is used to get:_______________________________.
[Choices: Amino acids, Sulfur, Uranium, Ethanol, Lead ]
37. Which large river flows into the Atlantic Ocean?_________________________
[Choices: Orange, Murray, Mekong, Danube, Irrawaddy ]
38. The formation of the Confederacy became the opportunity to form this state:____________________.
[Choices: California, New Mexico, Arizona, West Virginia, North Carolina ]
39. Leopardus pardalis is the scientific name of the:________________________.
[Choices: Jaguar, Ocelot, Gereluk, Lorikeet, Hyena ]
40. Which of these studies is a branch of Theology?_______________________
[Choices: Eschatology, Indology, Agathology, Uranology, Onomatology ]
Final Jeopardy Question on WORD ORIGINS (50% Bonus if Right Immediately; Points decrease rapidly from 4 to 20 seconds, and with 3 Clues; 50% Deduction if Final Choice is Wrong): 41. "Tintinnabulation" is a word that was invented in the 1840's by:___________________________.
[Choices: Horace Walpole, Benjamin Disraeli, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Clay, Lewis Carroll ]
Answers:1. Landlubber [Dai (BLADOR) at Whispers Pub, Ottawa ON pre-called "Lubber" and Patrick (MRRED)? "Landlubber"; see
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/landlubber and
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/lubber .]
2. Horse [Chris (CEEZED) pre-called this, I think. Dai noted that "Flicka" is Swedish for "a girl". See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Friend_Flicka and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Friend ... (TV_series) ]
3. Picador [Andrew C (GRYFON) called this first; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picador ]
4. Atlanta [Dai called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattahoochee_River ]
5. Judicious [a chorus of calls; see
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/judicious ]
6. Poland [Dai's pre-call, with immediate back-up by Chris (CEEZED); see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazurka and for the Mazurka from Leo Delibes "Coppelia", see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sb7gp98wAc ]
7. Portuguese [a pre-call from the other table, by Paul (WLDCAT)?; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_ ... _to_Brazil because of Napoleon ]
8. Blue [Dai called this one, but I (REACH) disputed that Indigo is a distinct colour in the visible spectrum. Indigo is definitely a plant dye, originally used in blue jeans, but see the section "Classification as a spectral color" at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo . Supposedly between 420 and 450 nm in wavelength, see if you can see a distinct color in the 5th Fig. titled "Spectral colors" at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_spectrum (blow up the Fig. to see the scale better). This Fig. shows the 6 distinct colours Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue & Violet, which even Newton first noted. However, Newton thought there had to be 7 (not 6) colours, by analogy with the 7 notes of the C-major scale (Doh-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti = CDEFGAB, followed by a return to Doh=C, the same note an octave higher), or by the 7 days of the week (a week being a quarter of the Moon's cycle of roughly 28 days).
The First Quarter of the lunar cycle goes from New Moon to half-illuminated (as seen from the Earth), distinctly observable over 7 days.
The notes of the C-major scale are not random or arbitrary. Sound frequencies differing by a factor of 2 (an octave) appear to be the same note (the higher frequencies are called overtones, and different amounts of overtones give each musical instrument its distinct timbre when playing the same note). Humans simply like sounds whose frequencies form simple whole number ratios; for example, between C=1 and C=2, G=3/2 = 1.5. If the ratio 3/2 is inverted, we get 2/3 which would not lie between C=1 and C=2; however, the first overtone of 2/3 is 2(2/3) = 4/3 = F.
(3/2)(3/2) = 9/4, which would lie outside C=1 and C=2, but an octave lower would be 9/8 = D. (9/8)(9/8) = 81/64 = E. (9/8)(3/2) =27/16 = A, and (9/8)(27/16) = 243/128 = B.
No such mathematical relations exist for the colours of the visible spectrum, but Newton added Indigo between Blue and Violet. Alternatively, maybe Newton's Indigo was our Blue, and his Blue was our Cyan=Blue-Green which we consider a composite colour, not a primary colour. So much for the mnemonic ROY G. BIV. ]
9. Guy of Gisborne [Dai called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_of_Gisbourne ]
10. African [another pre-call by Dai; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Great_Lakes ]
11. Nervous system [Dai pre-called "back" (presumably from "dorsal"), and most of us got this from the spinal cord; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabes_dorsalis ]
12. Great Britain [Pre-call by Paul (WLDCAT)? at the other table in the room; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta and the section "Colonialism and the Bechuanaland Protectorate" at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana ]
13. Steak au poivre [Sue (SWIFT) called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_Diane and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_au_poivre (Pepper steak) ]
14. Ostinato [Dai called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostinato (an obstinate sound) ]
15. Triple sec [I pre-called Curacao, and Andrew called "Triple sec" once the Choices appeared; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_sec ]
16. Christopher Columbus [I pre-called this as a guess; see the section "History, Pre-colonial period and early European contact" at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominica ]
17. James [called by Paul at the other table?; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Moriarty ]
18. Calculus [pre-call by Dai; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus ]
19. Pulitzer Prize [pre-called by Paul at the other table, saving us all from wild guesses; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colson_Whitehead ]
20. Nauga [we went with "Jackalope", without reading all the Choices. We lost almost all the Points on this one (Paul got 622 Points), but remembered Naugahyde once the Answer was revealed. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naugahyde ]
21. Eratosthenes [I called this one, commenting that the Sieve was used to find Prime Numbers; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes ]
22. Dark Ages [pre-call by Dai; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography) ]
23.(a) June 24 [Deb (GRZLDA) pre-called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Jean-Baptiste_Day ]
24.(a) Light [I pre-called "Scattering of light"; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndall_effect ]
25.(a) Obadiah [Paul from the other table called this one, saving the rest of us (we were ready to go with Ezra). See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Obadiah which has 21 verses, not all of them single lines (see
http://www.usccb.org/bible/obadiah/1 ), and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Ezra ]
26.(a) Dodge City [we basically missed this one, needing all 3 Clues; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Rudabaugh ]
27.(a) Plants [Andrew pre-called this one; I concurred, suggesting a similarity to Liverwort. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornwort (for non-vascular plants) and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchantiophyta (for non-vascular Liverworts). But see also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratophyllum_demersum for vascular plants sometimes called hornworts.
Dai mentioned that "wort" is a "root"; see the section Etymology: from Old English "wyrt"="root, herb, plant" at
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wort . Someone jokingly mentioned "Hogwarts", and in fact there might be a real connection; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogwarts .]
28.(a) Quiet [Dai pre-called this first; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_Revolution ]
29. Leaden [I pre-called "lead", since the Latin word for the metal "lead" was "plumbum", from which we get the chemical symbol Pb. A person who used to fix lead water pipes was a "plumber". See
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/plumbeous ]
30. Goya [called by Paul at the other table? See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goya_Awards ]
31. Log rolling [I first called "Rugby" because the first American-style rugby football game was between Harvard and McGill in 1874 (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1874_Harv ... tball_game ), but Dai mentioned Rugby was played earlier in Britain (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_union ), so I quickly switched to Log rolling for full Points. See
https://keylogrolling.com/pages/log-rolling-history ]
32. New York [pre-call by Dai; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Thruway ]
33. Ariana Grande [Sue called this one, based on her granddaughter's interests; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetener_(album) and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vay5SgNPpk ]
34. Uranus-Neptune [called by Paul at the other table? See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_giant . We have to go by this definition, but Jupiter and Saturn are also giant planets with ices (yes, they are mainly hydrogen and helium, but these are colourless gases, so what we actually see are the tops of clouds made up of ices).]
35. South Africa [pre-called by Paul at the other table? I concurred. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk ]
36. Sulfur [I called for "Ethanol" as a guess, so we all missed this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_process and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur . 60 years ago when I was in high school, a major source of sulfur was mines near volcanoes, so I would never have guessed that sulfur is now mainly extracted from the stinky hydrogen sulfide in natural gas. All the other Choices were wrong, and in retrospect, ethanol has been produced in beer and wine for millenia, so there would not be a need to produce ethanol by some complicated chemical process. Dai actually changed from his first Choice "Sulfur" because he couldn't remember where he had seen it recently (after the Answer appeared, he remembered an article on removing hydrogen sulfide from natural gas). D'oh!!! My bad.]
37. Orange [called by Dai (and all the other Rivers do not flow into the Atlantic); see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_River ]
38. West Virginia [pre-call by Dai; see the section "History, Separation from Virginia" at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia ]
39. Ocelot [most of us at our table went with "Jaguar"; those at Paul's table went with "Ocelot", as did Dave (YELDOR) and Sue (SWIFT) at ours. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocelot and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar (Panthera onca). The Genus Panthera includes the lion, tiger, jaguar and leopard, so those who knew this would have been able to deduce that the answer was Ocelot (Genus Leopardus). See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera . The mountain lion (cougar, puma) is of Genus Puma. ]
40. Eschatology [Dai and I called this in unison. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology .]
41. Edgar Allan Poe [Dai pre-called "Poe's poem 'The Bells' "; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintinnabulation and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bells_(poem) ]
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