** Final, Round 9 - Science
* Canada and the Nobel Prizes in Science
1. In 1923, the Nobel Prize was awarded jointly to Frederick
Banting and his supervisor. Who was Banting's supervisor?
3. Considered the father of nuclear physics, this New-Zealand-born
scientist earned his Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908, based
on experiments on radioactivity done at McGill University
in Montreal. Who was he?
* The Planets
4. Of the 8 official planets, one rotates "sideways" with its poles
almost in its orbital plane. Ignore that one. Of the other 7,
one rotates "backwards" or retrograde, so that the sun would
rise in the west and set in the east. Which planet is this?
5. All 27 of this planet's moons are named after characters
either from Shakespeare or from the poem "Rape of the Lock"
by Alexander Pope. What is this name of this literary planet?
6. What is the least dense planet, with an average density of just
69% of water? This planet would actually float on water if
only you could find a large enough ocean.
* Physics - Eponymous SI Units
Many of the International System of Units (SI) are eponymous.
The answers of all parts of this triple are also names of people.
(And none of them includes a scaling prefix such as mega-.)
7. What is the eponymous name for the SI unit of radioactive decay,
which is measured in decays per second?
8. What is the eponymous SI unit of energy or work equal to 1
newton meter, or 1 kg m²/s²?
9. What is the SI unit of pressure, which is equal to 1 newton
per square meter, or 1 kg/m s²?
* Insects
10. The Coleoptera are the largest order of insects, containing
about 50% of all known insect species. What is the common
English term for members of the order of Coleoptera?
11. The insect order of Lepidoptera includes what insects?
12. Insects are a class within a larger phylum that also includes crustaceans, arachnids, millipedes, and centipedes. What phylum
is this?
* Acronyms
13. "RA" in the acronym RADAR means RAdio. What three words are
represented by the "DAR" part of the acronym?
14. In the acronym LASER, what two words are represented by the
letters "LA"?
15. What two words are represented by the last three letters of
the acronym SETI?
** Final, Round 10 - Challenge Round
* A. US Assasinations and Attempts
A1. Who attempted to assassinate US presidential candidate
George Wallace in 1972?
A2. Who assassinated San Francisco mayor George Moscone and
supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978?
A3. In 1975, US president Gerald Ford survived two different
assassination attempts. Name *either one* of the failed
assassins.
* B. Seven Summits
The Seven Summits are the highest mountains on each of the
7 continents. We name the continent, you name the mountain.
One of them depends on exactly how the continent is defined;
use the highest of the candidate mountains.
B1. Europe.
B2. South America.
B3. Antarctica.
* C. Science: Greek Alphabet
The use of Greek letters has pervaded almost every field of science, technology, and mathematics.
C1. This letter, the 8th in the Greek alphabet, is very commonly
used as a symbol for a plane angle in trigonometry and
geometry. Which is it?
C2. This letter, the 11th in the Greek alphabet, is used to
denote the wavelength of a wave in physics. It also lends
its name to a phage that inhabits the bacterium E. coli.
Which is it?
C3. In number theory, this letter is used to denote the
Möbius function. It is also the symbol used to represent
the coefficient of friction between two surfaces, as well
as permeability in electromagnetism. The 12th in the Greek
alphabet, which letter is it?
* D. Sports: Championship Droughts
These three questions are about teams in professional sports leagues
that have had long "droughts", or periods without the team winning
a championship. In each case name the team; where necessary, be
sufficiently specific to disambiguate from other current teams.
D1. This NHL team had a drought of 54 years between Stanley
Cup wins in 1940 and 1994.
D2. This Major League Baseball team had a drought of 86 years
between World Series wins in 1918 and 2004.
D3. In the CFL, """the current team with the longest active
drought last won the Grey Cup in 1990""". Name them.
* E. Literary Titles
When a literary work is named after its main character, sometimes
the title is a description, not a name. For example, in John
Fowles's novel, Sarah Woodruff is "The French Lieutenant's Woman".
Here are three such instances.
E1. In "A Man for All Seasons" (play by Robert Bolt, movie
adaptation directed by Fred Zinnemann), name the title
character.
E2. In "The Merchant of Venice" (Shakespeare), name the title
character.
E3. In what novel by D.H. Lawrence is Oliver Mellors the title
character?
* F. Epic Directors
Name the (credited) director of each of the following movie epics.
F1. "Ben-Hur".
F2. "Gone with the Wind".
F3. "Lawrence of Arabia".
** Final, Round 9 - Science
* Canada and the Nobel Prizes in Science
3. Considered the father of nuclear physics, this New-Zealand-born
scientist earned his Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908, based
on experiments on radioactivity done at McGill University
in Montreal. Who was he?
* The Planets
4. Of the 8 official planets, one rotates "sideways" with its poles
almost in its orbital plane. Ignore that one. Of the other 7,
one rotates "backwards" or retrograde, so that the sun would
rise in the west and set in the east. Which planet is this?
5. All 27 of this planet's moons are named after characters
either from Shakespeare or from the poem "Rape of the Lock"
by Alexander Pope. What is this name of this literary planet?
6. What is the least dense planet, with an average density of just
69% of water? This planet would actually float on water if
only you could find a large enough ocean.
* Physics - Eponymous SI Units
7. What is the eponymous name for the SI unit of radioactive decay,
which is measured in decays per second?
8. What is the eponymous SI unit of energy or work equal to 1
newton meter, or 1 kg m?/s??
9. What is the SI unit of pressure, which is equal to 1 newton
per square meter, or 1 kg/m s??
* Insects
10. The Coleoptera are the largest order of insects, containing
about 50% of all known insect species. What is the common
English term for members of the order of Coleoptera?
11. The insect order of Lepidoptera includes what insects?
12. Insects are a class within a larger phylum that also includes
crustaceans, arachnids, millipedes, and centipedes. What phylum
is this?
* Acronyms
13. "RA" in the acronym RADAR means RAdio. What three words are
represented by the "DAR" part of the acronym?
14. In the acronym LASER, what two words are represented by the
letters "LA"?
15. What two words are represented by the last three letters of
the acronym SETI?
** Final, Round 10 - Challenge Round
* A. US Assasinations and Attempts
A2. Who assassinated San Francisco mayor George Moscone and
supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978?
A3. In 1975, US president Gerald Ford survived two different
assassination attempts. Name *either one* of the failed
assassins.
* B. Seven Summits
B1. Europe.
B2. South America.
* C. Science: Greek Alphabet
C1. This letter, the 8th in the Greek alphabet, is very commonly
used as a symbol for a plane angle in trigonometry and
geometry. Which is it?
C2. This letter, the 11th in the Greek alphabet, is used to
denote the wavelength of a wave in physics. It also lends
its name to a phage that inhabits the bacterium E. coli.
Which is it?
C3. In number theory, this letter is used to denote the
M?bius function. It is also the symbol used to represent
the coefficient of friction between two surfaces, as well
as permeability in electromagnetism. The 12th in the Greek
alphabet, which letter is it?
* D. Sports: Championship Droughts
D1. This NHL team had a drought of 54 years between Stanley
Cup wins in 1940 and 1994.
D2. This Major League Baseball team had a drought of 86 years
between World Series wins in 1918 and 2004.
D3. In the CFL, """the current team with the longest active
drought last won the Grey Cup in 1990""". Name them.
* E. Literary Titles
E1. In "A Man for All Seasons" (play by Robert Bolt, movie
adaptation directed by Fred Zinnemann), name the title
character.
E2. In "The Merchant of Venice" (Shakespeare), name the title
character.
E3. In what novel by D.H. Lawrence is Oliver Mellors the title
character?
* F. Epic Directors
F3. "Lawrence of Arabia".
* The Planets
4. Of the 8 official planets, one rotates "sideways" with its poles
almost in its orbital plane. Ignore that one. Of the other 7,
one rotates "backwards" or retrograde, so that the sun would
rise in the west and set in the east. Which planet is this?
5. All 27 of this planet's moons are named after characters
either from Shakespeare or from the poem "Rape of the Lock"
by Alexander Pope. What is this name of this literary planet?
6. What is the least dense planet, with an average density of just
69% of water? This planet would actually float on water if
only you could find a large enough ocean.
* Physics - Eponymous SI Units
Many of the International System of Units (SI) are eponymous.
The answers of all parts of this triple are also names of people.
(And none of them includes a scaling prefix such as mega-.)
7. What is the eponymous name for the SI unit of radioactive decay,
which is measured in decays per second?
8. What is the eponymous SI unit of energy or work equal to 1
newton meter, or 1 kg m�/s�?
9. What is the SI unit of pressure, which is equal to 1 newton
per square meter, or 1 kg/m s�?
* Insects
10. The Coleoptera are the largest order of insects, containing
about 50% of all known insect species. What is the common
English term for members of the order of Coleoptera?
11. The insect order of Lepidoptera includes what insects?
14. In the acronym LASER, what two words are represented by the
letters "LA"?
15. What two words are represented by the last three letters of
the acronym SETI?
** Final, Round 10 - Challenge Round
B1. Europe.
B2. South America.
* C. Science: Greek Alphabet
The use of Greek letters has pervaded almost every field of science, technology, and mathematics.
C1. This letter, the 8th in the Greek alphabet, is very commonly
used as a symbol for a plane angle in trigonometry and
geometry. Which is it?
C2. This letter, the 11th in the Greek alphabet, is used to
denote the wavelength of a wave in physics. It also lends
its name to a phage that inhabits the bacterium E. coli.
Which is it?
C3. In number theory, this letter is used to denote the
M�bius function. It is also the symbol used to represent
the coefficient of friction between two surfaces, as well
as permeability in electromagnetism. The 12th in the Greek
alphabet, which letter is it?
* D. Sports: Championship Droughts
D1. This NHL team had a drought of 54 years between Stanley
Cup wins in 1940 and 1994.
** Final, Round 9 - Science
* Canada and the Nobel Prizes in Science
1. In 1923, the Nobel Prize was awarded jointly to Frederick
Banting and his supervisor. Who was Banting's supervisor?
2. Which University of Toronto professor shared the Nobel Prize
for Chemistry in 1986?
3. Considered the father of nuclear physics, this New-Zealand-born
scientist earned his Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908, based
on experiments on radioactivity done at McGill University
in Montreal. Who was he?
* The Planets
4. Of the 8 official planets, one rotates "sideways" with its poles
almost in its orbital plane. Ignore that one. Of the other 7,
one rotates "backwards" or retrograde, so that the sun would
rise in the west and set in the east. Which planet is this?
5. All 27 of this planet's moons are named after characters
either from Shakespeare or from the poem "Rape of the Lock"
by Alexander Pope. What is this name of this literary planet?
6. What is the least dense planet, with an average density of just
69% of water? This planet would actually float on water if
only you could find a large enough ocean.
* Physics - Eponymous SI Units
Many of the International System of Units (SI) are eponymous.
The answers of all parts of this triple are also names of people.
(And none of them includes a scaling prefix such as mega-.)
7. What is the eponymous name for the SI unit of radioactive decay,
which is measured in decays per second?
8. What is the eponymous SI unit of energy or work equal to 1
newton meter, or 1 kg m²/s²?
9. What is the SI unit of pressure, which is equal to 1 newton
per square meter, or 1 kg/m s²?
* Insects
10. The Coleoptera are the largest order of insects, containing
about 50% of all known insect species. What is the common
English term for members of the order of Coleoptera?
11. The insect order of Lepidoptera includes what insects?
12. Insects are a class within a larger phylum that also includes
crustaceans, arachnids, millipedes, and centipedes. What phylum
is this?
* Acronyms
13. "RA" in the acronym RADAR means RAdio. What three words are
represented by the "DAR" part of the acronym?
14. In the acronym LASER, what two words are represented by the
letters "LA"?
15. What two words are represented by the last three letters of
the acronym SETI?
** Final, Round 10 - Challenge Round
* A. US Assasinations and Attempts
A1. Who attempted to assassinate US presidential candidate
George Wallace in 1972?
A2. Who assassinated San Francisco mayor George Moscone and
supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978?
A3. In 1975, US president Gerald Ford survived two different
assassination attempts. Name *either one* of the failed
assassins.
* B. Seven Summits
The Seven Summits are the highest mountains on each of the
7 continents. We name the continent, you name the mountain.
One of them depends on exactly how the continent is defined;
use the highest of the candidate mountains.
B1. Europe.
B2. South America.
B3. Antarctica.
* C. Science: Greek Alphabet
The use of Greek letters has pervaded almost every field of science, technology, and mathematics.
C1. This letter, the 8th in the Greek alphabet, is very commonly
used as a symbol for a plane angle in trigonometry and
geometry. Which is it?
C2. This letter, the 11th in the Greek alphabet, is used to
denote the wavelength of a wave in physics. It also lends
its name to a phage that inhabits the bacterium E. coli.
Which is it?
C3. In number theory, this letter is used to denote the
Möbius function. It is also the symbol used to represent
the coefficient of friction between two surfaces, as well
as permeability in electromagnetism. The 12th in the Greek
alphabet, which letter is it?
* D. Sports: Championship Droughts
These three questions are about teams in professional sports leagues
that have had long "droughts", or periods without the team winning
a championship. In each case name the team; where necessary, be
sufficiently specific to disambiguate from other current teams.
D1. This NHL team had a drought of 54 years between Stanley
Cup wins in 1940 and 1994.
D2. This Major League Baseball team had a drought of 86 years
between World Series wins in 1918 and 2004.
D3. In the CFL, """the current team with the longest active
drought last won the Grey Cup in 1990""". Name them.
* E. Literary Titles
When a literary work is named after its main character, sometimes
the title is a description, not a name. For example, in John
Fowles's novel, Sarah Woodruff is "The French Lieutenant's Woman".
Here are three such instances.
E1. In "A Man for All Seasons" (play by Robert Bolt, movie
adaptation directed by Fred Zinnemann), name the title
character.
E2. In "The Merchant of Venice" (Shakespeare), name the title
character.
E3. In what novel by D.H. Lawrence is Oliver Mellors the title
character?
* F. Epic Directors
Name the (credited) director of each of the following movie epics.
F1. "Ben-Hur".
F2. "Gone with the Wind".
F3. "Lawrence of Arabia".
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 9 - Science
* Canada and the Nobel Prizes in Science
1. In 1923, the Nobel Prize was awarded jointly to Frederick
Banting and his supervisor. Who was Banting's supervisor?
2. Which University of Toronto professor shared the Nobel Prize
for Chemistry in 1986?
3. Considered the father of nuclear physics, this New-Zealand-born
scientist earned his Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908, based
on experiments on radioactivity done at McGill University
in Montreal. Who was he?
* The Planets
4. Of the 8 official planets, one rotates "sideways" with its poles
almost in its orbital plane. Ignore that one. Of the other 7,
one rotates "backwards" or retrograde, so that the sun would
rise in the west and set in the east. Which planet is this?
5. All 27 of this planet's moons are named after characters
either from Shakespeare or from the poem "Rape of the Lock"
by Alexander Pope. What is this name of this literary planet?
6. What is the least dense planet, with an average density of just
69% of water? This planet would actually float on water if
only you could find a large enough ocean.
* Physics - Eponymous SI Units
Many of the International System of Units (SI) are eponymous.
The answers of all parts of this triple are also names of people.
(And none of them includes a scaling prefix such as mega-.)
7. What is the eponymous name for the SI unit of radioactive decay,
which is measured in decays per second?
8. What is the eponymous SI unit of energy or work equal to 1
newton meter, or 1 kg m�/s�?
9. What is the SI unit of pressure, which is equal to 1 newton
per square meter, or 1 kg/m s�?
* Insects
10. The Coleoptera are the largest order of insects, containing
about 50% of all known insect species. What is the common
English term for members of the order of Coleoptera?
11. The insect order of Lepidoptera includes what insects?
12. Insects are a class within a larger phylum that also includes
crustaceans, arachnids, millipedes, and centipedes. What phylum
is this?
* Acronyms
13. "RA" in the acronym RADAR means RAdio. What three words are
represented by the "DAR" part of the acronym?
14. In the acronym LASER, what two words are represented by the
letters "LA"?
15. What two words are represented by the last three letters of
the acronym SETI?
** Final, Round 10 - Challenge Round
* A. US Assasinations and Attempts
A1. Who attempted to assassinate US presidential candidate
George Wallace in 1972?
A2. Who assassinated San Francisco mayor George Moscone and
supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978?
A3. In 1975, US president Gerald Ford survived two different
assassination attempts. Name *either one* of the failed
assassins.
* B. Seven Summits
The Seven Summits are the highest mountains on each of the
7 continents. We name the continent, you name the mountain.
One of them depends on exactly how the continent is defined;
use the highest of the candidate mountains.
B1. Europe.
B2. South America.
B3. Antarctica.
* C. Science: Greek Alphabet
The use of Greek letters has pervaded almost every field of science, technology, and mathematics.
C1. This letter, the 8th in the Greek alphabet, is very commonly
used as a symbol for a plane angle in trigonometry and
geometry. Which is it?
C2. This letter, the 11th in the Greek alphabet, is used to
denote the wavelength of a wave in physics. It also lends
its name to a phage that inhabits the bacterium E. coli.
Which is it?
C3. In number theory, this letter is used to denote the
M�bius function. It is also the symbol used to represent
the coefficient of friction between two surfaces, as well
as permeability in electromagnetism. The 12th in the Greek
alphabet, which letter is it?
* D. Sports: Championship Droughts
These three questions are about teams in professional sports leagues
that have had long "droughts", or periods without the team winning
a championship. In each case name the team; where necessary, be
sufficiently specific to disambiguate from other current teams.
D1. This NHL team had a drought of 54 years between Stanley
Cup wins in 1940 and 1994.
D2. This Major League Baseball team had a drought of 86 years
between World Series wins in 1918 and 2004.
D3. In the CFL, """the current team with the longest active
drought last won the Grey Cup in 1990""". Name them.
* E. Literary Titles
When a literary work is named after its main character, sometimes
the title is a description, not a name. For example, in John
Fowles's novel, Sarah Woodruff is "The French Lieutenant's Woman".
Here are three such instances.
E1. In "A Man for All Seasons" (play by Robert Bolt, movie
adaptation directed by Fred Zinnemann), name the title
character.
E2. In "The Merchant of Venice" (Shakespeare), name the title
character.
E3. In what novel by D.H. Lawrence is Oliver Mellors the title
character?
* F. Epic Directors
Name the (credited) director of each of the following movie epics.
F1. "Ben-Hur".
F2. "Gone with the Wind".
F3. "Lawrence of Arabia".
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