• RQFTCIWSSSG12 Game 10, Rounds 7-8: earthmaking, CanActors

    From Mark Brader@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 21 03:09:38 2022
    These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2012-07-16,
    and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written
    by members of What She Said and/or of Smith & Guessin', but have
    been reformatted and may have been retyped and/or edited by me.
    I will reveal the correct answers in about 3 days.

    For further information, including an explanation of the """
    notation that may appear in these rounds, see my 2021-07-20
    companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian
    Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".


    * Game 10, Round 7 - Science - How the Earth Was Made

    This round is based on the BBC documentary series "How The Earth
    Was Made".

    1. Name the Scottish farmer who is known as the "Father of Modern
    Geology". He was the first to challenge church doctrine that
    the Earth was only about 6,000 years old. He theorized that
    rock was created by very slow processes that took hundreds of
    thousands of years, and estimated the age of the Earth to be
    over 2,000,000 years.

    2. This Victorian scientist proposed that the Earth was once a ball
    of liquid rock at 8,000°. He used the laws of thermodynamics
    to model the cooling of Earth to propose a new age, between
    20,000,000 and 40,000,000 years. Name him.

    3. Although his theory was sound, <answer 2>'s figure was a colossal
    underestimate because he was unaware of a key source of heat
    in the Earth's core. What was this heat source?

    4. Please decode the rot13 for this question only after you are
    finished with the previous one. Grfgvat fnzcyrf onfrq ba
    gur cerqvpgnoyr fgrnql engr bs qrpnl bs henavhz gb yrnq yrq
    guvf trbybtvfg va 1911 gb cebcbfr n arj ntr sbe gur Rnegu,
    va gur ovyyvbaf bs lrnef, na ntr gung vf fgvyy npprcgrq gbqnl.
    Jub vf guvf fpvragvfg jub vairagrq trbpuebabybtl?

    5. Within 300,000,000 years, how old did <answer 4> finally
    determine the Earth is?

    6. Time on this scale is so long and hard to comprehend, scientists
    refer to it by what term?

    7. For over 1,000,000,000 years, much of the oxygen produced by the
    stromatolites went to oxidizing this substance in the
    primordial oceans, turning our early seas from green to blue.
    The quantities of the resulting compound were so huge that
    bands of sediment are found throughout the world, and are the
    major source of this substance globally. What is this element?

    Please decode the rot13 for the last three questions only after you have finished with the above ones.

    8. 4,000,000,000 lrnef ntb, vapernfrq ibypnavp npgvivgl senpgherq
    gur Rnegu'f pehfg nyybjvat ynetr nzbhagf bs jngre gb zvk jvgu gur
    pber'f zntzn. Guvf zvkgher bs onfnygvp ebpx naq jngre sbezrq ebpxf
    juvpu jrer zhpu yvtugre naq fgebatre guna ibypnavp ebpx, naq jbhyq
    riraghnyyl sbez gur pbagvaragny znffrf. Jung ner gurfr ebpxf pnyyrq?

    9. Ynin ebpxf gung sbez va qrrc jngre nyjnlf gnxr n irel qvfgvapg
    funcr. Svaqvat ebpxf bs guvf glcr gung ner bire 3,800,000,000
    lrnef byq cebirq gung gur Rnegu jnf nyernql pbirerq ol bprnaf
    ng gung ntr. Gurfr ebpxf ner anzrq sbe gurve qvfgvapg funcr;
    jung ner gurl pnyyrq?

    10. Bire 3,500,000,000 lrnef ntb gur svefg yvsr nccrnerq ba gur
    fuberf bs gur cebgb-pbagvaragf, nf pbybavrf bs cubgbflagurgvp
    onpgrevn naq nytnr. Gurve pbybavrf, fbzr bs juvpu pna fgvyy or
    frra nyvir gbqnl va Nhfgenyvn, qrirybcrq va havdhr sbezngvbaf,
    jubfr sbffvyf pna or frra guebhtubhg gur jbeyq. Anzr gurfr
    onpgrevny-nytny pbybavrf.


    * Game 10, Round 8 - Canadiana Entertainment - Character Actors

    Please see: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/10-8/chara.jpg

    This round is about character actors, those indispensible figures
    who are sometimes more memorable than the stars they support
    but whose names we can't always bring to mind. Canadian actors
    seem to be especially versatile when it comes to character parts.
    Given the actor's name and a few career highlights, give the number
    of the photo that depicts him.

    1. Victor Garber achieved such widespread recognition playing
    Jennifer Garner's shady father on "Alias" that the "Hey! It's
    That Guy" web site """describes""" him as "That Strangely Refined
    CIA Black-Ops Agent!" But he made his film debut in "Godspell",
    """has""" appeared in numerous Sondheim musicals on Broadway,
    played the title character in "Liberace", and went down with the
    "Titanic" as shipbuilder Thomas Andrews.

    2. Colm Feore has played Pierre Trudeau and Glenn Gould, and
    Marcus Andronicus opposite Anthony Hopkins in "Titus".
    His fine Shakespearean training """is""" harder to detect as
    the doctor with the innovative technique in facial transplants
    in "Face/Off"; Lord Marshal in "The Chronicles of Riddick",
    and Laufey, King of the Frost Giants, in "Thor".

    3. Saul Rubinek """has played""" various nebbishy characters,
    including accountants, unscrupulous doctors, and journalists.
    In Canada he played the best friend of a cult victim, in "Ticket
    to Heaven", and Howard Engel's popular detective Benny Cooperman.
    In Hollywood he played Henry Kissinger in "Dick" and lily-livered
    writer W.W. Beauchamp in Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven". You can
    """currently""" see him in the sci-fi series "Warehouse 13".

    4. According to the "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site, Michael
    Ironside """specializes""" in "Super-Intense, Homicidal Brutes."
    His credits """include""" the glowering killer in "Total
    Recall", the coldhearted boat owner in "The Perfect Storm",
    and the chilling assassin in David Cronenberg's "Scanners".

    5. John Kapelos's specialty """is""" "All-Seeing Janitors and
    Other Jumpsuited Fellows with Five o'Clock Shadow." He appeared
    in three John Hughes movies, most notably as Carl the janitor
    in "The Breakfast Club". In Canada he is fondly remembered as
    Detective Schanke in the vampire series "Forever Knight".

    6. Matt Craven's specialty """is""" "jumpy, possibly treacherous
    army officers and morally suspect cops." He """has"""
    a recurring role as the Secretary of the Navy in "NCIS".
    """He's been""" in movies since the days of "Meatballs", but
    made his biggest impact as twitchy and treacherous Lt. Zimmer
    in the submarine classic "Crimson Tide".

    7. It seems like you'll see Roger Cross in virtually every TV
    series filmed in Canada. He had a leading role in the sci-fi
    series "The First Wave" and also appeared as DJ and transvestite
    Sunset Boulevard / Sonny Benson in "The L Word". You may
    remember him from "24" as Curtis Manning, a CTU colleague of
    Jack Bauer's until Jack had to shoot him.

    8. Don Francks """is""" an actor/singer who made his movie debut as
    the leading man in Francis Ford Coppola's first movie,
    "Finian's Rainbow" -- a musical that Coppola tends to omit
    from his resume. Over the years Francks """has graduated""" to
    character roles, most notably as Walter in the late 1990s series
    "La Femme Nikita". """Just last week""" he was a guest star on
    "Saving Hope", a Canadian import showing on NBC.

    9. The "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site """describes""" Bruce
    Greenwood as an "Untrustworthy, Two-Timing, Boo-Hiss Husband!"
    In Hollywood he """tends""" to play skunks, such as Ashley Judd's evil
    husband in "Double Jeopardy" and a corporate crook in "I, Robot".
    But he """has also played""" John F. Kennedy in "Thirteen Days",
    and Capt. Christopher Pike in the """latest""" "Star Trek"
    movie, and appeared in several films directed by Atom Egoyan.

    10. The "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site """says""" Henry Czerny's
    specialty """is""" dicks, but in fact he """has played"""
    a wide range of vile characters, including Brother Lavin in
    "The Boys of St. Vincent", the Duke of Norfolk in "The Tudors",
    and the treacherous CEO Conrad Grayson in the current ABC series
    "Revenge".


    Decode the rot13 if you would like to see the picture numbers
    for the 5 decoys and identify who they are.

    11. Ahzore sbhe.
    12. Rvtug.
    13. Bar qbmra.
    14. Svsgrra.
    15. Kiv.
    --
    Mark Brader "One might as well complain about the Sun
    Toronto rising in the daytime instead of at night, msb@vex.net when we need it more." -- John Lawler

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  • From Joshua Kreitzer@21:1/5 to Mark Brader on Sat Aug 20 21:16:33 2022
    On Saturday, August 20, 2022 at 10:12:22 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:

    * Game 10, Round 7 - Science - How the Earth Was Made

    This round is based on the BBC documentary series "How The Earth
    Was Made".

    5. Within 300,000,000 years, how old did <answer 4> finally
    determine the Earth is?

    4,300,000,000 years

    6. Time on this scale is so long and hard to comprehend, scientists
    refer to it by what term?

    geological time

    * Game 10, Round 8 - Canadiana Entertainment - Character Actors

    Please see: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/10-8/chara.jpg

    This round is about character actors, those indispensible figures
    who are sometimes more memorable than the stars they support
    but whose names we can't always bring to mind. Canadian actors
    seem to be especially versatile when it comes to character parts.
    Given the actor's name and a few career highlights, give the number
    of the photo that depicts him.

    1. Victor Garber achieved such widespread recognition playing
    Jennifer Garner's shady father on "Alias" that the "Hey! It's
    That Guy" web site """describes""" him as "That Strangely Refined
    CIA Black-Ops Agent!" But he made his film debut in "Godspell",
    """has""" appeared in numerous Sondheim musicals on Broadway,
    played the title character in "Liberace", and went down with the
    "Titanic" as shipbuilder Thomas Andrews.

    5

    2. Colm Feore has played Pierre Trudeau and Glenn Gould, and
    Marcus Andronicus opposite Anthony Hopkins in "Titus".
    His fine Shakespearean training """is""" harder to detect as
    the doctor with the innovative technique in facial transplants
    in "Face/Off"; Lord Marshal in "The Chronicles of Riddick",
    and Laufey, King of the Frost Giants, in "Thor".

    14

    3. Saul Rubinek """has played""" various nebbishy characters,
    including accountants, unscrupulous doctors, and journalists.
    In Canada he played the best friend of a cult victim, in "Ticket
    to Heaven", and Howard Engel's popular detective Benny Cooperman.
    In Hollywood he played Henry Kissinger in "Dick" and lily-livered
    writer W.W. Beauchamp in Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven". You can """currently""" see him in the sci-fi series "Warehouse 13".

    11

    4. According to the "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site, Michael
    Ironside """specializes""" in "Super-Intense, Homicidal Brutes."
    His credits """include""" the glowering killer in "Total
    Recall", the coldhearted boat owner in "The Perfect Storm",
    and the chilling assassin in David Cronenberg's "Scanners".

    8; 9

    5. John Kapelos's specialty """is""" "All-Seeing Janitors and
    Other Jumpsuited Fellows with Five o'Clock Shadow." He appeared
    in three John Hughes movies, most notably as Carl the janitor
    in "The Breakfast Club". In Canada he is fondly remembered as
    Detective Schanke in the vampire series "Forever Knight".

    1

    6. Matt Craven's specialty """is""" "jumpy, possibly treacherous
    army officers and morally suspect cops." He """has"""
    a recurring role as the Secretary of the Navy in "NCIS".
    """He's been""" in movies since the days of "Meatballs", but
    made his biggest impact as twitchy and treacherous Lt. Zimmer
    in the submarine classic "Crimson Tide".

    3; 13

    7. It seems like you'll see Roger Cross in virtually every TV
    series filmed in Canada. He had a leading role in the sci-fi
    series "The First Wave" and also appeared as DJ and transvestite
    Sunset Boulevard / Sonny Benson in "The L Word". You may
    remember him from "24" as Curtis Manning, a CTU colleague of
    Jack Bauer's until Jack had to shoot him.

    2

    8. Don Francks """is""" an actor/singer who made his movie debut as
    the leading man in Francis Ford Coppola's first movie,
    "Finian's Rainbow" -- a musical that Coppola tends to omit
    from his resume. Over the years Francks """has graduated""" to
    character roles, most notably as Walter in the late 1990s series
    "La Femme Nikita". """Just last week""" he was a guest star on
    "Saving Hope", a Canadian import showing on NBC.

    15

    9. The "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site """describes""" Bruce
    Greenwood as an "Untrustworthy, Two-Timing, Boo-Hiss Husband!"
    In Hollywood he """tends""" to play skunks, such as Ashley Judd's evil husband in "Double Jeopardy" and a corporate crook in "I, Robot".
    But he """has also played""" John F. Kennedy in "Thirteen Days",
    and Capt. Christopher Pike in the """latest""" "Star Trek"
    movie, and appeared in several films directed by Atom Egoyan.

    9; 8

    10. The "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site """says""" Henry Czerny's
    specialty """is""" dicks, but in fact he """has played"""
    a wide range of vile characters, including Brother Lavin in
    "The Boys of St. Vincent", the Duke of Norfolk in "The Tudors",
    and the treacherous CEO Conrad Grayson in the current ABC series
    "Revenge".

    13; 6

    --
    Joshua Kreitzer
    gromit82@hotmail.com

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  • From Erland Sommarskog@21:1/5 to Mark Brader on Sun Aug 21 10:52:55 2022
    Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:
    * Game 10, Round 7 - Science - How the Earth Was Made

    This round is based on the BBC documentary series "How The Earth
    Was Made".

    5. Within 300,000,000 years, how old did <answer 4> finally
    determine the Earth is?

    4.5E9 years

    6. Time on this scale is so long and hard to comprehend, scientists
    refer to it by what term?

    Eon

    7. For over 1,000,000,000 years, much of the oxygen produced by the
    stromatolites went to oxidizing this substance in the
    primordial oceans, turning our early seas from green to blue.
    The quantities of the resulting compound were so huge that
    bands of sediment are found throughout the world, and are the
    major source of this substance globally. What is this element?

    Calcium

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  • From Mark Brader@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 21 09:48:01 2022
    Erland Sommarskog:
    4.5E9 years

    First he gives answers in Swedish, now in FORTRAN! (Grin.)
    --
    Mark Brader | "Writing that used both upper-case and lower-case
    Toronto | characters became fashionable many centuries ago.
    msb@vex.net | It continued... until FORTRAN was invented." --Peter Moylan

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  • From Dan Tilque@21:1/5 to Mark Brader on Sun Aug 21 04:12:47 2022
    On 8/20/22 20:09, Mark Brader wrote:


    * Game 10, Round 7 - Science - How the Earth Was Made

    This round is based on the BBC documentary series "How The Earth
    Was Made".

    1. Name the Scottish farmer who is known as the "Father of Modern
    Geology". He was the first to challenge church doctrine that
    the Earth was only about 6,000 years old. He theorized that
    rock was created by very slow processes that took hundreds of
    thousands of years, and estimated the age of the Earth to be
    over 2,000,000 years.

    2. This Victorian scientist proposed that the Earth was once a ball
    of liquid rock at 8,000°. He used the laws of thermodynamics
    to model the cooling of Earth to propose a new age, between
    20,000,000 and 40,000,000 years. Name him.

    Kelvin


    3. Although his theory was sound, <answer 2>'s figure was a colossal
    underestimate because he was unaware of a key source of heat
    in the Earth's core. What was this heat source?

    radioactivity


    4. Please decode the rot13 for this question only after you are
    finished with the previous one. Grfgvat fnzcyrf onfrq ba
    gur cerqvpgnoyr fgrnql engr bs qrpnl bs henavhz gb yrnq yrq
    guvf trbybtvfg va 1911 gb cebcbfr n arj ntr sbe gur Rnegu,
    va gur ovyyvbaf bs lrnef, na ntr gung vf fgvyy npprcgrq gbqnl.
    Jub vf guvf fpvragvfg jub vairagrq trbpuebabybtl?

    5. Within 300,000,000 years, how old did <answer 4> finally
    determine the Earth is?

    4.5 billion years


    6. Time on this scale is so long and hard to comprehend, scientists
    refer to it by what term?

    7. For over 1,000,000,000 years, much of the oxygen produced by the
    stromatolites went to oxidizing this substance in the
    primordial oceans, turning our early seas from green to blue.
    The quantities of the resulting compound were so huge that
    bands of sediment are found throughout the world, and are the
    major source of this substance globally. What is this element?

    iron


    Please decode the rot13 for the last three questions only after you have finished with the above ones.

    8. 4,000,000,000 lrnef ntb, vapernfrq ibypnavp npgvivgl senpgherq
    gur Rnegu'f pehfg nyybjvat ynetr nzbhagf bs jngre gb zvk jvgu gur
    pber'f zntzn. Guvf zvkgher bs onfnygvp ebpx naq jngre sbezrq ebpxf
    juvpu jrer zhpu yvtugre naq fgebatre guna ibypnavp ebpx, naq jbhyq
    riraghnyyl sbez gur pbagvaragny znffrf. Jung ner gurfr ebpxf pnyyrq?

    igneous


    9. Ynin ebpxf gung sbez va qrrc jngre nyjnlf gnxr n irel qvfgvapg
    funcr. Svaqvat ebpxf bs guvf glcr gung ner bire 3,800,000,000
    lrnef byq cebirq gung gur Rnegu jnf nyernql pbirerq ol bprnaf
    ng gung ntr. Gurfr ebpxf ner anzrq sbe gurve qvfgvapg funcr;
    jung ner gurl pnyyrq?

    pillow lava


    10. Bire 3,500,000,000 lrnef ntb gur svefg yvsr nccrnerq ba gur
    fuberf bs gur cebgb-pbagvaragf, nf pbybavrf bs cubgbflagurgvp
    onpgrevn naq nytnr. Gurve pbybavrf, fbzr bs juvpu pna fgvyy or
    frra nyvir gbqnl va Nhfgenyvn, qrirybcrq va havdhr sbezngvbaf,
    jubfr sbffvyf pna or frra guebhtubhg gur jbeyq. Anzr gurfr
    onpgrevny-nytny pbybavrf.

    stromatolites


    * Game 10, Round 8 - Canadiana Entertainment - Character Actors

    Please see: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/10-8/chara.jpg

    This round is about character actors, those indispensible figures
    who are sometimes more memorable than the stars they support
    but whose names we can't always bring to mind. Canadian actors
    seem to be especially versatile when it comes to character parts.
    Given the actor's name and a few career highlights, give the number
    of the photo that depicts him.

    1. Victor Garber achieved such widespread recognition playing
    Jennifer Garner's shady father on "Alias" that the "Hey! It's
    That Guy" web site """describes""" him as "That Strangely Refined
    CIA Black-Ops Agent!" But he made his film debut in "Godspell",
    """has""" appeared in numerous Sondheim musicals on Broadway,
    played the title character in "Liberace", and went down with the
    "Titanic" as shipbuilder Thomas Andrews.

    2. Colm Feore has played Pierre Trudeau and Glenn Gould, and
    Marcus Andronicus opposite Anthony Hopkins in "Titus".
    His fine Shakespearean training """is""" harder to detect as
    the doctor with the innovative technique in facial transplants
    in "Face/Off"; Lord Marshal in "The Chronicles of Riddick",
    and Laufey, King of the Frost Giants, in "Thor".

    3. Saul Rubinek """has played""" various nebbishy characters,
    including accountants, unscrupulous doctors, and journalists.
    In Canada he played the best friend of a cult victim, in "Ticket
    to Heaven", and Howard Engel's popular detective Benny Cooperman.
    In Hollywood he played Henry Kissinger in "Dick" and lily-livered
    writer W.W. Beauchamp in Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven". You can
    """currently""" see him in the sci-fi series "Warehouse 13".

    4. According to the "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site, Michael
    Ironside """specializes""" in "Super-Intense, Homicidal Brutes."
    His credits """include""" the glowering killer in "Total
    Recall", the coldhearted boat owner in "The Perfect Storm",
    and the chilling assassin in David Cronenberg's "Scanners".

    5. John Kapelos's specialty """is""" "All-Seeing Janitors and
    Other Jumpsuited Fellows with Five o'Clock Shadow." He appeared
    in three John Hughes movies, most notably as Carl the janitor
    in "The Breakfast Club". In Canada he is fondly remembered as
    Detective Schanke in the vampire series "Forever Knight".

    6. Matt Craven's specialty """is""" "jumpy, possibly treacherous
    army officers and morally suspect cops." He """has"""
    a recurring role as the Secretary of the Navy in "NCIS".
    """He's been""" in movies since the days of "Meatballs", but
    made his biggest impact as twitchy and treacherous Lt. Zimmer
    in the submarine classic "Crimson Tide".

    7. It seems like you'll see Roger Cross in virtually every TV
    series filmed in Canada. He had a leading role in the sci-fi
    series "The First Wave" and also appeared as DJ and transvestite
    Sunset Boulevard / Sonny Benson in "The L Word". You may
    remember him from "24" as Curtis Manning, a CTU colleague of
    Jack Bauer's until Jack had to shoot him.

    8. Don Francks """is""" an actor/singer who made his movie debut as
    the leading man in Francis Ford Coppola's first movie,
    "Finian's Rainbow" -- a musical that Coppola tends to omit
    from his resume. Over the years Francks """has graduated""" to
    character roles, most notably as Walter in the late 1990s series
    "La Femme Nikita". """Just last week""" he was a guest star on
    "Saving Hope", a Canadian import showing on NBC.

    9. The "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site """describes""" Bruce
    Greenwood as an "Untrustworthy, Two-Timing, Boo-Hiss Husband!"
    In Hollywood he """tends""" to play skunks, such as Ashley Judd's evil
    husband in "Double Jeopardy" and a corporate crook in "I, Robot".
    But he """has also played""" John F. Kennedy in "Thirteen Days",
    and Capt. Christopher Pike in the """latest""" "Star Trek"
    movie, and appeared in several films directed by Atom Egoyan.

    10. The "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site """says""" Henry Czerny's
    specialty """is""" dicks, but in fact he """has played"""
    a wide range of vile characters, including Brother Lavin in
    "The Boys of St. Vincent", the Duke of Norfolk in "The Tudors",
    and the treacherous CEO Conrad Grayson in the current ABC series
    "Revenge".


    Decode the rot13 if you would like to see the picture numbers
    for the 5 decoys and identify who they are.

    11. Ahzore sbhe.
    12. Rvtug.
    13. Bar qbmra.
    14. Svsgrra.
    15. Kiv.

    --
    Dan Tilque

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  • From Dan Blum@21:1/5 to Mark Brader on Wed Aug 24 01:47:34 2022
    Mark Brader <msb@vex.net> wrote:

    * Game 10, Round 7 - Science - How the Earth Was Made

    2. This Victorian scientist proposed that the Earth was once a ball
    of liquid rock at 8,000?. He used the laws of thermodynamics
    to model the cooling of Earth to propose a new age, between
    20,000,000 and 40,000,000 years. Name him.

    Kelvin

    3. Although his theory was sound, <answer 2>'s figure was a colossal
    underestimate because he was unaware of a key source of heat
    in the Earth's core. What was this heat source?

    radioactivity

    5. Within 300,000,000 years, how old did <answer 4> finally
    determine the Earth is?

    4.5x10^9 years

    7. For over 1,000,000,000 years, much of the oxygen produced by the
    stromatolites went to oxidizing this substance in the
    primordial oceans, turning our early seas from green to blue.
    The quantities of the resulting compound were so huge that
    bands of sediment are found throughout the world, and are the
    major source of this substance globally. What is this element?

    cobalt

    8. 4,000,000,000 lrnef ntb, vapernfrq ibypnavp npgvivgl senpgherq
    gur Rnegu'f pehfg nyybjvat ynetr nzbhagf bs jngre gb zvk jvgu gur
    pber'f zntzn. Guvf zvkgher bs onfnygvp ebpx naq jngre sbezrq ebpxf
    juvpu jrer zhpu yvtugre naq fgebatre guna ibypnavp ebpx, naq jbhyq
    riraghnyyl sbez gur pbagvaragny znffrf. Jung ner gurfr ebpxf pnyyrq?

    metamorphic

    * Game 10, Round 8 - Canadiana Entertainment - Character Actors

    1. Victor Garber achieved such widespread recognition playing
    Jennifer Garner's shady father on "Alias" that the "Hey! It's
    That Guy" web site """describes""" him as "That Strangely Refined
    CIA Black-Ops Agent!" But he made his film debut in "Godspell",
    """has""" appeared in numerous Sondheim musicals on Broadway,
    played the title character in "Liberace", and went down with the
    "Titanic" as shipbuilder Thomas Andrews.

    3

    2. Colm Feore has played Pierre Trudeau and Glenn Gould, and
    Marcus Andronicus opposite Anthony Hopkins in "Titus".
    His fine Shakespearean training """is""" harder to detect as
    the doctor with the innovative technique in facial transplants
    in "Face/Off"; Lord Marshal in "The Chronicles of Riddick",
    and Laufey, King of the Frost Giants, in "Thor".

    5; 13

    3. Saul Rubinek """has played""" various nebbishy characters,
    including accountants, unscrupulous doctors, and journalists.
    In Canada he played the best friend of a cult victim, in "Ticket
    to Heaven", and Howard Engel's popular detective Benny Cooperman.
    In Hollywood he played Henry Kissinger in "Dick" and lily-livered
    writer W.W. Beauchamp in Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven". You can
    """currently""" see him in the sci-fi series "Warehouse 13".

    11

    4. According to the "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site, Michael
    Ironside """specializes""" in "Super-Intense, Homicidal Brutes."
    His credits """include""" the glowering killer in "Total
    Recall", the coldhearted boat owner in "The Perfect Storm",
    and the chilling assassin in David Cronenberg's "Scanners".

    1; 6

    5. John Kapelos's specialty """is""" "All-Seeing Janitors and
    Other Jumpsuited Fellows with Five o'Clock Shadow." He appeared
    in three John Hughes movies, most notably as Carl the janitor
    in "The Breakfast Club". In Canada he is fondly remembered as
    Detective Schanke in the vampire series "Forever Knight".

    16

    6. Matt Craven's specialty """is""" "jumpy, possibly treacherous
    army officers and morally suspect cops." He """has"""
    a recurring role as the Secretary of the Navy in "NCIS".
    """He's been""" in movies since the days of "Meatballs", but
    made his biggest impact as twitchy and treacherous Lt. Zimmer
    in the submarine classic "Crimson Tide".

    14; 5

    7. It seems like you'll see Roger Cross in virtually every TV
    series filmed in Canada. He had a leading role in the sci-fi
    series "The First Wave" and also appeared as DJ and transvestite
    Sunset Boulevard / Sonny Benson in "The L Word". You may
    remember him from "24" as Curtis Manning, a CTU colleague of
    Jack Bauer's until Jack had to shoot him.

    10; 2

    8. Don Francks """is""" an actor/singer who made his movie debut as
    the leading man in Francis Ford Coppola's first movie,
    "Finian's Rainbow" -- a musical that Coppola tends to omit
    from his resume. Over the years Francks """has graduated""" to
    character roles, most notably as Walter in the late 1990s series
    "La Femme Nikita". """Just last week""" he was a guest star on
    "Saving Hope", a Canadian import showing on NBC.

    7; 12

    9. The "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site """describes""" Bruce
    Greenwood as an "Untrustworthy, Two-Timing, Boo-Hiss Husband!"
    In Hollywood he """tends""" to play skunks, such as Ashley Judd's evil
    husband in "Double Jeopardy" and a corporate crook in "I, Robot".
    But he """has also played""" John F. Kennedy in "Thirteen Days",
    and Capt. Christopher Pike in the """latest""" "Star Trek"
    movie, and appeared in several films directed by Atom Egoyan.

    9; 8

    10. The "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site """says""" Henry Czerny's
    specialty """is""" dicks, but in fact he """has played"""
    a wide range of vile characters, including Brother Lavin in
    "The Boys of St. Vincent", the Duke of Norfolk in "The Tudors",
    and the treacherous CEO Conrad Grayson in the current ABC series
    "Revenge".

    2

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  • From Mark Brader@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 24 10:28:30 2022
    Mark Brader:
    These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2012-07-16,
    and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information...
    see my 2021-07-20 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from
    the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".


    * Game 10, Round 7 - Science - How the Earth Was Made

    This round is based on the BBC documentary series "How The Earth
    Was Made".

    In the original game, it was the hardest round in the entire season.

    1. Name the Scottish farmer who is known as the "Father of Modern
    Geology". He was the first to challenge church doctrine that
    the Earth was only about 6,000 years old. He theorized that
    rock was created by very slow processes that took hundreds of
    thousands of years, and estimated the age of the Earth to be
    over 2,000,000 years.

    James Hutton.

    2. This Victorian scientist proposed that the Earth was once a ball
    of liquid rock at 8,000°. He used the laws of thermodynamics
    to model the cooling of Earth to propose a new age, between
    20,000,000 and 40,000,000 years. Name him.

    Lord Kelvin (William Thomson). 4 for Dan Tilque and Dan Blum.

    3. Although his theory was sound, <answer 2>'s figure was a colossal
    underestimate because he was unaware of a key source of heat
    in the Earth's core. What was this heat source?

    Radioactive decay. 4 for Dan Tilque and Dan Blum.

    4. Please decode the rot13 for this question only after you are
    finished with the previous one. Testing samples based on
    the predictable steady rate of decay of uranium to lead led
    this geologist in 1911 to propose a new age for the Earth,
    in the billions of years, an age that is still accepted today.
    Who is this scientist who invented geochronology?

    Arthur Holmes.

    5. Within 300,000,000 years, how old did <answer 4> finally
    determine the Earth is?

    4,540,000,000 years (accepting 4,240,000,000-4,840,000,000).
    4 for everyone -- Joshua, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum.

    6. Time on this scale is so long and hard to comprehend, scientists
    refer to it by what term?

    The expected answer was "deep time". "Geological time" was also
    accepted on a protest. 4 for Joshua.

    7. For over 1,000,000,000 years, much of the oxygen produced by the
    stromatolites went to oxidizing this substance in the
    primordial oceans, turning our early seas from green to blue.
    The quantities of the resulting compound were so huge that
    bands of sediment are found throughout the world, and are the
    major source of this substance globally. What is this element?

    Iron. 4 for Dan Tilque.

    Please decode the rot13 for the last three questions only after you have finished with the above ones.

    8. 4,000,000,000 years ago, increased volcanic activity fractured
    the Earth's crust allowing large amounts of water to mix with the
    core's magma. This mixture of basaltic rock and water formed rocks
    which were much lighter and stronger than volcanic rock, and would
    eventually form the continental masses. What are these rocks called?

    Granite.

    9. Lava rocks that form in deep water always take a very distinct
    shape. Finding rocks of this type that are over 3,800,000,000
    years old proved that the Earth was already covered by oceans
    at that age. These rocks are named for their distinct shape;
    what are they called?

    Pillow lavas. 4 for Dan Tilque.

    10. Over 3,500,000,000 years ago the first life appeared on the
    shores of the proto-continents, as colonies of photosynthetic
    bacteria and algae. Their colonies, some of which can still be
    seen alive today in Australia, developed in unique formations,
    whose fossils can be seen throughout the world. Name these
    bacterial-algal colonies.

    Stromatolites. (Not coral, which is a polyp.) 4 for Dan Tilque.


    * Game 10, Round 8 - Canadiana Entertainment - Character Actors

    Please see: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/10-8/chara.jpg

    This round is about character actors, those indispensible figures
    who are sometimes more memorable than the stars they support
    but whose names we can't always bring to mind. Canadian actors
    seem to be especially versatile when it comes to character parts.
    Given the actor's name and a few career highlights, give the number
    of the photo that depicts him.

    All are still alive except as noted below.

    In the original game, this was tied for the easiest round in the
    game and, if current-events rounds are ignored, it was one of four
    rounds tied for third-easiest in the entire season.

    1. Victor Garber achieved such widespread recognition playing
    Jennifer Garner's shady father on "Alias" that the "Hey! It's
    That Guy" web site """describes""" him as "That Strangely Refined
    CIA Black-Ops Agent!" But he made his film debut in "Godspell",
    """has""" appeared in numerous Sondheim musicals on Broadway,
    played the title character in "Liberace", and went down with the
    "Titanic" as shipbuilder Thomas Andrews.

    #3.

    2. Colm Feore has played Pierre Trudeau and Glenn Gould, and
    Marcus Andronicus opposite Anthony Hopkins in "Titus".
    His fine Shakespearean training """is""" harder to detect as
    the doctor with the innovative technique in facial transplants
    in "Face/Off"; Lord Marshal in "The Chronicles of Riddick",
    and Laufey, King of the Frost Giants, in "Thor".

    #5 and #14. (By mistake he was put on the handout twice; that's
    why there were only 5 decoys.) 4 for Joshua.

    3. Saul Rubinek """has played""" various nebbishy characters,
    including accountants, unscrupulous doctors, and journalists.
    In Canada he played the best friend of a cult victim, in "Ticket
    to Heaven", and Howard Engel's popular detective Benny Cooperman.
    In Hollywood he played Henry Kissinger in "Dick" and lily-livered
    writer W.W. Beauchamp in Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven". You can
    """currently""" see him in the sci-fi series "Warehouse 13".

    #11. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.

    He was also on "Frasier" for most of one season, playing Niles
    Crane's divorce attorney and romantic rival. And, of course,
    in the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "The Most Toys",
    he kidnapped Cmdr. Data, leading to a character-defining moment
    involving a disruptor and a transporter.

    4. According to the "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site, Michael
    Ironside """specializes""" in "Super-Intense, Homicidal Brutes."
    His credits """include""" the glowering killer in "Total
    Recall", the coldhearted boat owner in "The Perfect Storm",
    and the chilling assassin in David Cronenberg's "Scanners".

    #1. 3 for Dan Blum.

    5. John Kapelos's specialty """is""" "All-Seeing Janitors and
    Other Jumpsuited Fellows with Five o'Clock Shadow." He appeared
    in three John Hughes movies, most notably as Carl the janitor
    in "The Breakfast Club". In Canada he is fondly remembered as
    Detective Schanke in the vampire series "Forever Knight".

    #6.

    6. Matt Craven's specialty """is""" "jumpy, possibly treacherous
    army officers and morally suspect cops." He """has"""
    a recurring role as the Secretary of the Navy in "NCIS".
    """He's been""" in movies since the days of "Meatballs", but
    made his biggest impact as twitchy and treacherous Lt. Zimmer
    in the submarine classic "Crimson Tide".

    #13. (His character on "NCIS" was killed off in 2013.) 2 for Joshua.

    7. It seems like you'll see Roger Cross in virtually every TV
    series filmed in Canada. He had a leading role in the sci-fi
    series "The First Wave" and also appeared as DJ and transvestite
    Sunset Boulevard / Sonny Benson in "The L Word". You may
    remember him from "24" as Curtis Manning, a CTU colleague of
    Jack Bauer's until Jack had to shoot him.

    #10. 3 for Dan Blum.

    8. Don Francks """is""" an actor/singer who made his movie debut as
    the leading man in Francis Ford Coppola's first movie,
    "Finian's Rainbow" -- a musical that Coppola tends to omit
    from his resume. Over the years Francks """has graduated""" to
    character roles, most notably as Walter in the late 1990s series
    "La Femme Nikita". """Just last week""" he was a guest star on
    "Saving Hope", a Canadian import showing on NBC.

    #7. (He died in 2016.) 3 for Dan Blum.

    9. The "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site """describes""" Bruce
    Greenwood as an "Untrustworthy, Two-Timing, Boo-Hiss Husband!"
    In Hollywood he """tends""" to play skunks, such as Ashley Judd's evil
    husband in "Double Jeopardy" and a corporate crook in "I, Robot".
    But he """has also played""" John F. Kennedy in "Thirteen Days",
    and Capt. Christopher Pike in the """latest""" "Star Trek"
    movie, and appeared in several films directed by Atom Egoyan.

    #2.

    10. The "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site """says""" Henry Czerny's
    specialty """is""" dicks, but in fact he """has played"""
    a wide range of vile characters, including Brother Lavin in
    "The Boys of St. Vincent", the Duke of Norfolk in "The Tudors",
    and the treacherous CEO Conrad Grayson in the current ABC series
    "Revenge".

    #9.


    Decode the rot13 if you would like to see the picture numbers
    for the 5 decoys and identify who they are.

    No one tried these.

    11. Number four.

    Percy Rodriguez. (Seen here in the original "Star Trek" episode
    "Court Martial". He died in 2007.)

    12. Eight.

    Kim Coates. (Seen here at the premiere of "Silent Hill".)

    13. One dozen.

    Christopher Judge. (Seen here in character for "Stargate: SG-1".)

    14. Fifteen.

    Steve Ihnat. (Seen here in the original "Star Trek" episode "Whom
    Gods Destroy". He died in 1972.)

    15. Xvi.

    Gary Basaraba. (Seen here at the premiere of "Charlotte's Web".)


    Scores, if there are no errors:

    GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
    TOPICS-> Can Lit Can Can Sci Can FOUR
    Joshua Kreitzer 8 28 18 3 8 10 64
    Dan Tilque 3 8 -- -- 24 0 35
    Dan Blum -- -- -- -- 12 13 25
    Pete Gayde -- -- 0 10 -- -- 10
    Erland Sommarskog -- -- -- -- 4 0 4

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  • From Dan Blum@21:1/5 to Mark Brader on Wed Aug 24 20:56:57 2022
    Mark Brader <msb@vex.net> wrote:
    1. Victor Garber achieved such widespread recognition playing
    Jennifer Garner's shady father on "Alias" that the "Hey! It's
    That Guy" web site """describes""" him as "That Strangely Refined
    CIA Black-Ops Agent!" But he made his film debut in "Godspell",
    """has""" appeared in numerous Sondheim musicals on Broadway,
    played the title character in "Liberace", and went down with the
    "Titanic" as shipbuilder Thomas Andrews.

    #3.

    I got this - he was one of just two actors I actually recognized.

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    Dan Blum tool@panix.com
    "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."

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  • From Mark Brader@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 25 00:13:31 2022
    Mark Brader:
    1. Victor Garber...

    #3.

    Dan Blum:
    I got this - he was one of just two actors I actually recognized.

    Oops. 4 for Dan Blum.

    Scores, if there are now no errors:

    GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
    TOPICS-> Can Lit Can Can Sci Can FOUR
    Joshua Kreitzer 8 28 18 3 8 10 64
    Dan Tilque 3 8 -- -- 24 0 35
    Dan Blum -- -- -- -- 12 17 29
    Pete Gayde -- -- 0 10 -- -- 10
    Erland Sommarskog -- -- -- -- 4 0 4

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    Toronto, msb@vex.net --Mark Leeper

    My text in this article is in the public domain.

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