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  • Re: QFTCIMM24 Game 1, Rounds 7-8 answers: eponymous places, foody title

    From Mark Brader@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 22 01:00:54 2024
    Mark Brader:
    6. Another British statesman and famous military leader lent his
    family name to a downtown street and subway station in Toronto;
    however, he lent his hereditary title to the capital of a nation
    in Australasia. Name that capital.

    Wellington (New Zealand, after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of
    Wellington). 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Joshua.

    Stephen Perry:
    I protest, my answer was perfectly cromulent. I think.
    albeit not the one you had in mind.

    Bzzt.

    Stephen said Port Moresby, which is named after Admiral Sir Fairfax Moresby.
    A knighthood is not a hereditary title; the nearest Moresby St. to downtown Toronto is in Richmond Hill, and there is no Moresby station on the TTC.
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  • From Erland Sommarskog@21:1/5 to Mark Brader on Thu Feb 22 20:46:11 2024
    Mark Brader ([email protected]) writes:
    Stephen Perry:
    I protest, my answer was perfectly cromulent. I think.
    albeit not the one you had in mind.

    Bzzt.

    Stephen said Port Moresby, which is named after Admiral Sir Fairfax
    Moresby. A knighthood is not a hereditary title; the nearest Moresby St.
    to downtown Toronto is in Richmond Hill, and there is no Moresby station
    on the TTC.

    I have some sympathy for Stephen's answer. "Australasia" was an odd
    thing. The answer clearly points to the south-east - they would not
    say Australasia if the answer had been Kuwait, had they?

    But is New Zealand Australiasia? That's quite a strecth in my ears. Port Moreseby sounds like the perfectly logical answer for something that is in between. Didn't this cause any consternation when the quiz took place?
    I think "island nation" would have been a better hint.

    Then again, three entrants here had the corrct answer, so there is not
    much point bitching about it.

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  • From Mark Brader@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 22 21:54:55 2024
    Mark Brader:
    Stephen said Port Moresby, which is named after Admiral Sir Fairfax Moresby. A knighthood is not a hereditary title; the nearest Moresby St.
    to downtown Toronto is in Richmond Hill, and there is no Moresby station
    on the TTC.

    Erland Sommarskog:
    I have some sympathy for Stephen's answer.

    Not deserved. Port Moresby is named after Admiral Sir Fairfax,
    a knighthood is not a hereditary title, the nearest Moresby St.
    to downtown Toronto is in Richmond Hill, and there is no Moresby
    station on the TTC.

    But is New Zealand Australiasia?

    Yes, of course. Well, the word is Australasia. Which the AHD defines as:

    # 1. The islands of the southern Pacific Ocean, including Australia,
    # New Zealand, and New Guinea.
    # 2. Broadly, all of Oceania.

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