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  • RQFTCIWSSSG12 Game 9, Rounds 2-3 answers: last words and 19th-c. poets

    From Mark Brader@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 5 05:02:35 2022
    Mark Brader:
    These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2012-07-09,
    and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information...
    see my 2021-07-20 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from
    the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".


    * Game 9, Round 1 - Current Events (excerpt)

    Answer these 2012 questions if you like for fun, but for no points.

    1. We're not going to ask you to explain it; just tell us the
    generally accepted scientific name for what the popular press
    has been calling "the God particle", which scientists at CERN's
    Large Hadron Collider announced that they seemed to have found.

    Higgs boson. Dan Blum and Dan Tilque got this.

    2. Bad things can happen when you're away on vacation. While former
    French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni were
    relaxing at a Laurentian cottage, what happened at their homes?

    They were raided by the police.

    It was an investigation of corruption and secret campaign financing.
    Sarkozy was eventually convicted in 2021.


    * Game 9, Round 2 - History - Famous Last Words

    We give you the reported last words (in translation if necessary)
    of a well-known personage, along with their the date of death and
    some more information. You name the person.

    1. Died 0041-01-24; Roman emperor. "I am still alive!"

    Gaius "Caligula" Germanicus. 4 for Dan Tilque.

    2. Died 1945-04-12; American. "I have a terrible headache."

    Franklin Roosevelt. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.

    3. Died 1977-08-16; American singer. "I hope I haven't bored you."

    Elvis Presley. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Erland.

    4. Died 212 BC; Greek engineer/mathematician. "Do not disturb my circles."

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

    5. Died 1793-10-16; French. "Pardon me, sir. I did not do it
    on purpose."

    Marie Antoinette. 4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque.

    6. Died 1882-04-19; British scientist. "I am not the least afraid
    to die."

    Charles Darwin. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque.

    7. Died 1977-05-10; American actress. "Damn it? Don't you dare
    ask God to help me!"

    Joan Crawford.

    Katharine Hepburn was not a good guess. She was still acting until
    1994 and lived until 2003!

    8. Died 1883-03-14; multi-faceted German. "Go on, get out.
    Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."

    Karl Marx. 4 for Joshua.

    9. Died 1967-10-09; Argentinian. "I know you have come to kill me.
    Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man."

    Ernesto "Che" Guevara. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Erland.

    10. Died 1953-11-27; American playwright. "I knew it. I knew it.
    Born in a hotel room, and God damn it, died in a hotel room."

    Eugene O'Neill. 4 for Joshua. 3 for Dan Blum.


    * Game 9, Round 3 - Literature - 19th-Century Poets

    In this round, we give you the titles of three poems by a poet who lived sometime in the 19th century (although the poems may date from another century). You name the poet.

    1. "Hyperion"; "To Autumn"; "The Eve of St Agnes".

    John Keats. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.

    2. "Gunga Din"; "The Female of the Species"; "If".

    Rudyard Kipling. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque.

    3. "The Prisoner"; "Remembrance"; "No Coward Soul is Mine".

    Emily Bronte.

    4. "Sohrab and Rustum"; "The Scholar Gypsy"; "Dover Beach".

    Matthew Arnold. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque.

    5. "The Wreck of the Deutschland"; "Pied Beauty"; "God's Grandeur".

    Gerard Manley Hopkins.

    6. "The Triumph of Life"; "Prometheus Unbound"; "Ode to the
    West Wind".

    Percy Shelley. 4 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque.

    7. "My Last Duchess"; "The Ring and the Book"; "The Pied Piper
    of Hamlin".

    Robert Browning. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.

    8. "Idylls of the King"; "In Memoriam A.H.H."; "Charge of the
    Light Brigade".

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

    9. "Goblin Market"; "In the Bleak Midwinter" (Christmas carol);
    "When I am Dead My Dearest".

    Christina Rossetti. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.

    10. "The Dynasts"; "The Convergence of the Twain" (on the sinking
    of the Titanic); "The Darkling Thrush".

    Thomas Hardy. 4 for Joshua.


    Scores, if there are no errors:

    GAME 9 ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS
    TOPICS-> His Lit
    Joshua Kreitzer 32 28 60
    Dan Blum 23 28 51
    Dan Tilque 16 16 32
    Erland Sommarskog 8 0 8

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