• RQFTCIMM11 Game 1, Rounds 9-10: not Bond, challenge round

    From Mark Brader@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 28 23:30:23 2021
    These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2011-05-09,
    and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written
    by members of the Misplaced Modifiers, 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 1, Round 9 - Entertainment - Bond, Not Bond

    Sean Connery's best-known role is as the suave fellow on Her
    Majesty's Secret Service. But he did make a few other films as
    well, and those are the ones we'll be asking about. In each case,
    name the movie.

    1. Who better to play a Berber chieftain than a very white actor
    from Edinburgh? This 1975 Connery adventure concerns Theodore
    Roosevelt's attempts to rescue an American woman and her children
    kidnapped by Connery's El Raisuli. Candice Bergen is the damsel;
    Brian Keith plays Roosevelt.

    2. About as far out, man, as science-fiction films get, this 1974
    disaster features a savage, far-future Connery dealing with
    the fey immortals who run the Earth. As a bonus, Sean plays
    most of the film in leather pants or jockstrap.

    3. Back when he was just a pretty face, Sean starred as the "himbo"
    opposite Lana Turner in this 1958 romance. She was an American
    journalist; he, her BBC boy-toy.

    4. In one of his most critically lauded roles, Connery stars as
    an inmate in a North African military prison during World War II.
    This 1965 film also features Michael Redgrave and Harry Andrews.

    5. Name the 1970 film in which Connery is the leader of a secret
    society of immigrant coal miners in 1870s Pennsylvania.
    Richard Harris plays the undercover detective sent to infiltrate
    the group.

    6. Right up there with <answer 2> in the Connery weird file is
    this 1959 fantasy-romance in which Sean has to deal with the
    king of the leprechauns. Your bonus here is Connery warbling
    "A Pretty Irish Girl". Thankfully, that was the end of his
    singing career.

    7. In this 1999 caper, Catherine Zeta-Jones plays an undercover
    insurance investigator who joins art thief Sean's attempt
    to steal a priceless object in order to foil it. Or is that
    what's happening? Anyway, an age-inappropriate romance blooms.

    8. Written and directed by Michael Crichton, name this 1979 Connery
    caper about a famous 19th-century heist. Co-starring Donald
    Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Down.

    9. Name the 1995 romantic adventure starring Connery as King Arthur,
    Richard Gere as Lancelot, and Julia Ormond as Guinevere.

    10. In this 1981 sci-fi adventure described as "'High Noon' in
    space", Connery is a marshall on a mining colony on Jupiter's
    moon Io, who uncovers a drug-smuggling operation. He is aided
    by a doctor played by Frances Sternhagen, and opposed by mining
    boss Peter Boyle.


    * Game 1, Round 10 - Challenge Round

    A. Honorary Canadians

    """Only 5 foreigners have""" received honorary Canadian citizenship --
    bestowed by the G-G and approved by Parliament in recognition of
    humanitarian deeds.

    A1. He received Canadian citizenship in 2001, despite the
    fact that Alliance MP Rob Anders called him a former
    Communist and terrorist. Who?

    A2. This billionaire descendant of the Prophet Mohammed was
    the latest to be honored, in May 2010. Harper praised his
    pluralistic view of the world during their meeting at the
    foundation ceremony of his new museum. Who?

    B. Canadian Supermarkets

    In each case, name the parent chain.

    B1. Who """owns""" Foodland, IGA, and Price Chopper?
    B2. Who """owns""" Food Basics and Marché Richelieu?

    C. Eurovision Song Contest

    This song contest has been a TV sensation in Europe since 1956.
    Like most TV contest spectacles, very few careers are ever made --
    but here are a couple of exceptions.

    C1. Member countries are permitted to choose performers or
    songwriters from other countries, even from outside of
    Europe. Which Canadian singer won the competition in 1985,
    singing for Switzerland?

    C2. Still going strong """today""" after their break-up in
    1982, this group won the song contest in 1974 with their own
    composition, which later went on to top international charts.
    Name the band.

    D. Authors Dissing Authors

    D1. Who was Vladimir Nabokov talking when he said this?

    "I read him for the first time in the early forties,
    something about bells, balls, and bulls, and loathed it.
    Later I read... the wonderful fish story."

    Please answer question D1 before decoding the rot13.

    D2. Jub jnf Rearfg Urzvatjnl gnyxvat nobhg va guvf yrggre gb
    Furejbbq Naqrefba va 1921?

    "[He] has a most goddamn wonderful book. ...the report is
    that he and all his family are starving but you can find the
    whole celtic crew of them every night in Michaud's where
    Binney and I can only afford to go about once a week...
    The damned Irish, they have to moan about something or other"

    E. Biomimicry

    E1. Named after the animal it mimics, a glueless adhesive
    material is being developed. It's covered with nanoscopic
    hairs, exerting van der Waals forces that provide the
    adhesive effect. This design mimics the hairs on the feet
    of what wall-walking animal?

    E2. Blades of a turbine have been designed with bumps along the
    leading edge, called "tubercles". The result is less drag
    and greater efficiency for wind turbines, hydroelectric
    turbines and ventilation fans. What animal's flippers
    inspired these tubercles? Be sufficiently specific.

    F. The Galapagos

    F1. Although the Galapagos Islands are located around the
    Equator, seals and penguins are commonly found there.
    A cold current that sweeps up the west coast of South
    America provides a corridor of cold water as passageway
    from Antarctic waters. This current is named after a
    European naturalist. Who?

    F2. Red-footed, blue-footed, and Nazca are just three varieties
    of the seabird of the genus Sula. What naughty name are
    they known by?

    --
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    Toronto | It's just minimalistic about weird things
    msb@vex.net | compared to your average language." -- Larry Wall

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  • From Joshua Kreitzer@21:1/5 to Mark Brader on Thu Jul 29 05:22:07 2021
    msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:xpqdnX_m3KFCs5_8nZ2dnUU7- NnNnZ2d@giganews.com:

    * Game 1, Round 9 - Entertainment - Bond, Not Bond

    Sean Connery's best-known role is as the suave fellow on Her
    Majesty's Secret Service. But he did make a few other films as
    well, and those are the ones we'll be asking about. In each case,
    name the movie.

    1. Who better to play a Berber chieftain than a very white actor
    from Edinburgh? This 1975 Connery adventure concerns Theodore
    Roosevelt's attempts to rescue an American woman and her children
    kidnapped by Connery's El Raisuli. Candice Bergen is the damsel;
    Brian Keith plays Roosevelt.

    "The Wind and the Lion"

    2. About as far out, man, as science-fiction films get, this 1974
    disaster features a savage, far-future Connery dealing with
    the fey immortals who run the Earth. As a bonus, Sean plays
    most of the film in leather pants or jockstrap.

    "Zardoz"

    5. Name the 1970 film in which Connery is the leader of a secret
    society of immigrant coal miners in 1870s Pennsylvania.
    Richard Harris plays the undercover detective sent to infiltrate
    the group.

    "The Molly Maguires"

    6. Right up there with <answer 2> in the Connery weird file is
    this 1959 fantasy-romance in which Sean has to deal with the
    king of the leprechauns. Your bonus here is Connery warbling
    "A Pretty Irish Girl". Thankfully, that was the end of his
    singing career.

    "Darby O'Gill and the Little People"

    7. In this 1999 caper, Catherine Zeta-Jones plays an undercover
    insurance investigator who joins art thief Sean's attempt
    to steal a priceless object in order to foil it. Or is that
    what's happening? Anyway, an age-inappropriate romance blooms.

    "Entrapment"

    8. Written and directed by Michael Crichton, name this 1979 Connery
    caper about a famous 19th-century heist. Co-starring Donald
    Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Down.

    "The Great Train Robbery" (?)

    9. Name the 1995 romantic adventure starring Connery as King Arthur,
    Richard Gere as Lancelot, and Julia Ormond as Guinevere.

    "First Knight"

    10. In this 1981 sci-fi adventure described as "'High Noon' in
    space", Connery is a marshall on a mining colony on Jupiter's
    moon Io, who uncovers a drug-smuggling operation. He is aided
    by a doctor played by Frances Sternhagen, and opposed by mining
    boss Peter Boyle.

    "Outland"

    * Game 1, Round 10 - Challenge Round

    A. Honorary Canadians

    """Only 5 foreigners have""" received honorary Canadian citizenship -- bestowed by the G-G and approved by Parliament in recognition of
    humanitarian deeds.

    A1. He received Canadian citizenship in 2001, despite the
    fact that Alliance MP Rob Anders called him a former
    Communist and terrorist. Who?

    Nelson Mandela

    A2. This billionaire descendant of the Prophet Mohammed was
    the latest to be honored, in May 2010. Harper praised his
    pluralistic view of the world during their meeting at the
    foundation ceremony of his new museum. Who?

    Aga Khan

    C. Eurovision Song Contest

    This song contest has been a TV sensation in Europe since 1956.
    Like most TV contest spectacles, very few careers are ever made --
    but here are a couple of exceptions.

    C1. Member countries are permitted to choose performers or
    songwriters from other countries, even from outside of
    Europe. Which Canadian singer won the competition in 1985,
    singing for Switzerland?

    Celine Dion

    C2. Still going strong """today""" after their break-up in
    1982, this group won the song contest in 1974 with their own
    composition, which later went on to top international charts.
    Name the band.

    ABBA

    D. Authors Dissing Authors

    D1. Who was Vladimir Nabokov talking when he said this?

    "I read him for the first time in the early forties,
    something about bells, balls, and bulls, and loathed it.
    Later I read... the wonderful fish story."

    Hemingway

    Please answer question D1 before decoding the rot13.

    D2. Jub jnf Rearfg Urzvatjnl gnyxvat nobhg va guvf yrggre gb
    Furejbbq Naqrefba va 1921?

    "[He] has a most goddamn wonderful book. ...the report is
    that he and all his family are starving but you can find the
    whole celtic crew of them every night in Michaud's where
    Binney and I can only afford to go about once a week...
    The damned Irish, they have to moan about something or other"

    Joyce

    E. Biomimicry

    E1. Named after the animal it mimics, a glueless adhesive
    material is being developed. It's covered with nanoscopic
    hairs, exerting van der Waals forces that provide the
    adhesive effect. This design mimics the hairs on the feet
    of what wall-walking animal?

    spiders

    F. The Galapagos

    F1. Although the Galapagos Islands are located around the
    Equator, seals and penguins are commonly found there.
    A cold current that sweeps up the west coast of South
    America provides a corridor of cold water as passageway
    from Antarctic waters. This current is named after a
    European naturalist. Who?

    Darwin

    F2. Red-footed, blue-footed, and Nazca are just three varieties
    of the seabird of the genus Sula. What naughty name are
    they known by?

    boobies

    --
    Joshua Kreitzer
    gromit82@hotmail.com

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  • From Erland Sommarskog@21:1/5 to Mark Brader on Thu Jul 29 10:15:28 2021
    Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:
    * Game 1, Round 10 - Challenge Round

    C. Eurovision Song Contest

    This song contest has been a TV sensation in Europe since 1956.
    Like most TV contest spectacles, very few careers are ever made --
    but here are a couple of exceptions.

    C1. Member countries are permitted to choose performers or
    songwriters from other countries, even from outside of
    Europe. Which Canadian singer won the competition in 1985,
    singing for Switzerland?

    Céline Dion

    C2. Still going strong """today""" after their break-up in
    1982, this group won the song contest in 1974 with their own
    composition, which later went on to top international charts.
    Name the band.

    ABBA

    D. Authors Dissing Authors

    D1. Who was Vladimir Nabokov talking when he said this?

    "I read him for the first time in the early forties,
    something about bells, balls, and bulls, and loathed it.
    Later I read... the wonderful fish story."

    Please answer question D1 before decoding the rot13.

    Hemingway

    D2. Jub jnf Rearfg Urzvatjnl gnyxvat nobhg va guvf yrggre gb
    Furejbbq Naqrefba va 1921?

    "[He] has a most goddamn wonderful book. ...the report is
    that he and all his family are starving but you can find the
    whole celtic crew of them every night in Michaud's where
    Binney and I can only afford to go about once a week...
    The damned Irish, they have to moan about something or other"

    Joyce

    F1. Although the Galapagos Islands are located around the
    Equator, seals and penguins are commonly found there.
    A cold current that sweeps up the west coast of South
    America provides a corridor of cold water as passageway
    from Antarctic waters. This current is named after a
    European naturalist. Who?

    Humbolt

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  • From Dan Blum@21:1/5 to Mark Brader on Thu Jul 29 23:08:10 2021
    Mark Brader <msb@vex.net> wrote:

    * Game 1, Round 9 - Entertainment - Bond, Not Bond

    2. About as far out, man, as science-fiction films get, this 1974
    disaster features a savage, far-future Connery dealing with
    the fey immortals who run the Earth. As a bonus, Sean plays
    most of the film in leather pants or jockstrap.

    Zardoz

    5. Name the 1970 film in which Connery is the leader of a secret
    society of immigrant coal miners in 1870s Pennsylvania.
    Richard Harris plays the undercover detective sent to infiltrate
    the group.

    The Molly Maguires

    8. Written and directed by Michael Crichton, name this 1979 Connery
    caper about a famous 19th-century heist. Co-starring Donald
    Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Down.

    The Great Train Robbery

    9. Name the 1995 romantic adventure starring Connery as King Arthur,
    Richard Gere as Lancelot, and Julia Ormond as Guinevere.

    First Knight

    10. In this 1981 sci-fi adventure described as "'High Noon' in
    space", Connery is a marshall on a mining colony on Jupiter's
    moon Io, who uncovers a drug-smuggling operation. He is aided
    by a doctor played by Frances Sternhagen, and opposed by mining
    boss Peter Boyle.

    Outland

    * Game 1, Round 10 - Challenge Round

    B. Canadian Supermarkets

    In each case, name the parent chain.

    B1. Who """owns""" Foodland, IGA, and Price Chopper?

    Aldi

    C. Eurovision Song Contest

    C1. Member countries are permitted to choose performers or
    songwriters from other countries, even from outside of
    Europe. Which Canadian singer won the competition in 1985,
    singing for Switzerland?

    Celine Dion

    C2. Still going strong """today""" after their break-up in
    1982, this group won the song contest in 1974 with their own
    composition, which later went on to top international charts.
    Name the band.

    ABBA

    D. Authors Dissing Authors

    D1. Who was Vladimir Nabokov talking when he said this?

    "I read him for the first time in the early forties,
    something about bells, balls, and bulls, and loathed it.
    Later I read... the wonderful fish story."

    Ernest Hemingway

    D2. Jub jnf Rearfg Urzvatjnl gnyxvat nobhg va guvf yrggre gb
    Furejbbq Naqrefba va 1921?

    "[He] has a most goddamn wonderful book. ...the report is
    that he and all his family are starving but you can find the
    whole celtic crew of them every night in Michaud's where
    Binney and I can only afford to go about once a week...
    The damned Irish, they have to moan about something or other"

    James Joyce; John O'Hara

    E. Biomimicry

    E1. Named after the animal it mimics, a glueless adhesive
    material is being developed. It's covered with nanoscopic
    hairs, exerting van der Waals forces that provide the
    adhesive effect. This design mimics the hairs on the feet
    of what wall-walking animal?

    spider; gecko

    E2. Blades of a turbine have been designed with bumps along the
    leading edge, called "tubercles". The result is less drag
    and greater efficiency for wind turbines, hydroelectric
    turbines and ventilation fans. What animal's flippers
    inspired these tubercles? Be sufficiently specific.

    bottlenose dolphin; orca

    F. The Galapagos

    F1. Although the Galapagos Islands are located around the
    Equator, seals and penguins are commonly found there.
    A cold current that sweeps up the west coast of South
    America provides a corridor of cold water as passageway
    from Antarctic waters. This current is named after a
    European naturalist. Who?

    Cuvier; Linnaeus

    F2. Red-footed, blue-footed, and Nazca are just three varieties
    of the seabird of the genus Sula. What naughty name are
    they known by?

    booby

    --
    _______________________________________________________________________
    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 Pete Gayde@21:1/5 to Mark Brader on Fri Jul 30 17:18:25 2021
    Mark Brader wrote:
    These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2011-05-09,
    and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written
    by members of the Misplaced Modifiers, 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 1, Round 9 - Entertainment - Bond, Not Bond

    Sean Connery's best-known role is as the suave fellow on Her
    Majesty's Secret Service. But he did make a few other films as
    well, and those are the ones we'll be asking about. In each case,
    name the movie.

    1. Who better to play a Berber chieftain than a very white actor
    from Edinburgh? This 1975 Connery adventure concerns Theodore
    Roosevelt's attempts to rescue an American woman and her children
    kidnapped by Connery's El Raisuli. Candice Bergen is the damsel;
    Brian Keith plays Roosevelt.

    2. About as far out, man, as science-fiction films get, this 1974
    disaster features a savage, far-future Connery dealing with
    the fey immortals who run the Earth. As a bonus, Sean plays
    most of the film in leather pants or jockstrap.

    3. Back when he was just a pretty face, Sean starred as the "himbo"
    opposite Lana Turner in this 1958 romance. She was an American
    journalist; he, her BBC boy-toy.

    4. In one of his most critically lauded roles, Connery stars as
    an inmate in a North African military prison during World War II.
    This 1965 film also features Michael Redgrave and Harry Andrews.

    5. Name the 1970 film in which Connery is the leader of a secret
    society of immigrant coal miners in 1870s Pennsylvania.
    Richard Harris plays the undercover detective sent to infiltrate
    the group.

    6. Right up there with <answer 2> in the Connery weird file is
    this 1959 fantasy-romance in which Sean has to deal with the
    king of the leprechauns. Your bonus here is Connery warbling
    "A Pretty Irish Girl". Thankfully, that was the end of his
    singing career.

    7. In this 1999 caper, Catherine Zeta-Jones plays an undercover
    insurance investigator who joins art thief Sean's attempt
    to steal a priceless object in order to foil it. Or is that
    what's happening? Anyway, an age-inappropriate romance blooms.

    8. Written and directed by Michael Crichton, name this 1979 Connery
    caper about a famous 19th-century heist. Co-starring Donald
    Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Down.

    9. Name the 1995 romantic adventure starring Connery as King Arthur,
    Richard Gere as Lancelot, and Julia Ormond as Guinevere.

    Robin and Marian


    10. In this 1981 sci-fi adventure described as "'High Noon' in
    space", Connery is a marshall on a mining colony on Jupiter's
    moon Io, who uncovers a drug-smuggling operation. He is aided
    by a doctor played by Frances Sternhagen, and opposed by mining
    boss Peter Boyle.


    * Game 1, Round 10 - Challenge Round

    A. Honorary Canadians

    """Only 5 foreigners have""" received honorary Canadian citizenship -- bestowed by the G-G and approved by Parliament in recognition of
    humanitarian deeds.

    A1. He received Canadian citizenship in 2001, despite the
    fact that Alliance MP Rob Anders called him a former
    Communist and terrorist. Who?

    A2. This billionaire descendant of the Prophet Mohammed was
    the latest to be honored, in May 2010. Harper praised his
    pluralistic view of the world during their meeting at the
    foundation ceremony of his new museum. Who?

    B. Canadian Supermarkets

    In each case, name the parent chain.

    B1. Who """owns""" Foodland, IGA, and Price Chopper?
    B2. Who """owns""" Food Basics and Marché Richelieu?

    C. Eurovision Song Contest

    This song contest has been a TV sensation in Europe since 1956.
    Like most TV contest spectacles, very few careers are ever made --
    but here are a couple of exceptions.

    C1. Member countries are permitted to choose performers or
    songwriters from other countries, even from outside of
    Europe. Which Canadian singer won the competition in 1985,
    singing for Switzerland?

    C2. Still going strong """today""" after their break-up in
    1982, this group won the song contest in 1974 with their own
    composition, which later went on to top international charts.
    Name the band.

    ABBA


    D. Authors Dissing Authors

    D1. Who was Vladimir Nabokov talking when he said this?

    "I read him for the first time in the early forties,
    something about bells, balls, and bulls, and loathed it.
    Later I read... the wonderful fish story."

    Hemingway


    Please answer question D1 before decoding the rot13.

    D2. Jub jnf Rearfg Urzvatjnl gnyxvat nobhg va guvf yrggre gb
    Furejbbq Naqrefba va 1921?

    "[He] has a most goddamn wonderful book. ...the report is
    that he and all his family are starving but you can find the
    whole celtic crew of them every night in Michaud's where
    Binney and I can only afford to go about once a week...
    The damned Irish, they have to moan about something or other"

    Dylan Thomas; James Joyce


    E. Biomimicry

    E1. Named after the animal it mimics, a glueless adhesive
    material is being developed. It's covered with nanoscopic
    hairs, exerting van der Waals forces that provide the
    adhesive effect. This design mimics the hairs on the feet
    of what wall-walking animal?

    E2. Blades of a turbine have been designed with bumps along the
    leading edge, called "tubercles". The result is less drag
    and greater efficiency for wind turbines, hydroelectric
    turbines and ventilation fans. What animal's flippers
    inspired these tubercles? Be sufficiently specific.

    F. The Galapagos

    F1. Although the Galapagos Islands are located around the
    Equator, seals and penguins are commonly found there.
    A cold current that sweeps up the west coast of South
    America provides a corridor of cold water as passageway
    from Antarctic waters. This current is named after a
    European naturalist. Who?

    F2. Red-footed, blue-footed, and Nazca are just three varieties
    of the seabird of the genus Sula. What naughty name are
    they known by?

    Booby



    Pete Gayde

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  • From Mark Brader@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 1 01:21:21 2021
    Mark Brader:
    These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2011-05-09,
    and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information...
    see my 2021-07-20 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from
    the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".


    Game 1 is over and JOSHUA KREITZER wins! Hearty congratulations!


    * Game 1, Round 9 - Entertainment - Bond, Not Bond

    This was the hardest round in the original game.

    Sean Connery's best-known role is as the suave fellow on Her
    Majesty's Secret Service. But he did make a few other films as
    well, and those are the ones we'll be asking about. In each case,
    name the movie.

    1. Who better to play a Berber chieftain than a very white actor
    from Edinburgh? This 1975 Connery adventure concerns Theodore
    Roosevelt's attempts to rescue an American woman and her children
    kidnapped by Connery's El Raisuli. Candice Bergen is the damsel;
    Brian Keith plays Roosevelt.

    "The Wind and the Lion". 4 for Joshua.

    2. About as far out, man, as science-fiction films get, this 1974
    disaster features a savage, far-future Connery dealing with
    the fey immortals who run the Earth. As a bonus, Sean plays
    most of the film in leather pants or jockstrap.

    "Zardoz". 4 for Joshua and Dan.

    3. Back when he was just a pretty face, Sean starred as the "himbo"
    opposite Lana Turner in this 1958 romance. She was an American
    journalist; he, her BBC boy-toy.

    "Another Time, Another Place".

    4. In one of his most critically lauded roles, Connery stars as
    an inmate in a North African military prison during World War II.
    This 1965 film also features Michael Redgrave and Harry Andrews.

    "The Hill".

    5. Name the 1970 film in which Connery is the leader of a secret
    society of immigrant coal miners in 1870s Pennsylvania.
    Richard Harris plays the undercover detective sent to infiltrate
    the group.

    "The Molly Maguires". 4 for Joshua and Dan.

    6. Right up there with <answer 2> in the Connery weird file is
    this 1959 fantasy-romance in which Sean has to deal with the
    king of the leprechauns. Your bonus here is Connery warbling
    "A Pretty Irish Girl". Thankfully, that was the end of his
    singing career.

    "Darby O'Gill and the Little People". 4 for Joshua.

    7. In this 1999 caper, Catherine Zeta-Jones plays an undercover
    insurance investigator who joins art thief Sean's attempt
    to steal a priceless object in order to foil it. Or is that
    what's happening? Anyway, an age-inappropriate romance blooms.

    "Entrapment". 4 for Joshua.

    Then again, maybe it wasn't so age-inappropriate. In real life
    Catherine Zeta-Jones has been married since 2000 to Michael
    Douglas, who is 25 years older than her and was only 14 years
    younger than Connery.

    8. Written and directed by Michael Crichton, name this 1979 Connery
    caper about a famous 19th-century heist. Co-starring Donald
    Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Down.

    "The Great Train Robbery" (or "The First Great Train Robbery").
    4 for Joshua and Dan.

    9. Name the 1995 romantic adventure starring Connery as King Arthur,
    Richard Gere as Lancelot, and Julia Ormond as Guinevere.

    "First Knight". 4 for Joshua and Dan.

    10. In this 1981 sci-fi adventure described as "'High Noon' in
    space", Connery is a marshall on a mining colony on Jupiter's
    moon Io, who uncovers a drug-smuggling operation. He is aided
    by a doctor played by Frances Sternhagen, and opposed by mining
    boss Peter Boyle.

    "Outland". 4 for Joshua and Dan.


    * Game 1, Round 10 - Challenge Round

    A. Honorary Canadians

    """Only 5 foreigners have""" received honorary Canadian citizenship -- bestowed by the G-G and approved by Parliament in recognition of
    humanitarian deeds.

    A1. He received Canadian citizenship in 2001, despite the
    fact that Alliance MP Rob Anders called him a former
    Communist and terrorist. Who?

    Nelson Mandela. 4 for Joshua.

    A2. This billionaire descendant of the Prophet Mohammed was
    the latest to be honored, in May 2010. Harper praised his
    pluralistic view of the world during their meeting at the
    foundation ceremony of his new museum. Who?

    The Aga Khan (IV, His Royal Highness Shah Karim al-Hussayni).
    4 for Joshua.

    There have now been 6, but one of the original 5 had it taken away.
    The others are Raoul Wallenberg (1985), Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso
    (2006), Aung San Suu Kyi (2009, canceled 2018), and Malala Yousafzai
    (2014, though the actual award was delayed until 2017).

    B. Canadian Supermarkets

    In each case, name the parent chain.

    B1. Who """owns""" Foodland, IGA, and Price Chopper?

    Sobeys. (Still true, but Price Chopper is now called FreshCo.)

    B2. Who """owns""" Food Basics and Marché Richelieu?

    Metro. (Still true.)

    C. Eurovision Song Contest

    This song contest has been a TV sensation in Europe since 1956.
    Like most TV contest spectacles, very few careers are ever made --
    but here are a couple of exceptions.

    C1. Member countries are permitted to choose performers or
    songwriters from other countries, even from outside of
    Europe. Which Canadian singer won the competition in 1985,
    singing for Switzerland?

    Céline Dion. 4 for Joshua, Erland, and Dan.

    C2. Still going strong """today""" after their break-up in
    1982, this group won the song contest in 1974 with their own
    composition, which later went on to top international charts.
    Name the band.

    ABBA. 4 for everyone -- Joshua, Erland, Dan, and Pete.

    D. Authors Dissing Authors

    D1. Who was Vladimir Nabokov talking when he said this?

    "I read him for the first time in the early forties,
    something about bells, balls, and bulls, and loathed it.
    Later I read... the wonderful fish story."

    Ernest Hemingway. 4 for everyone.

    Please answer question D1 before decoding the rot13.

    D2. Who was Ernest Hemingway talking about in this letter to
    Sherwood Anderson in 1921?

    "[He] has a most goddamn wonderful book. ...the report is
    that he and all his family are starving but you can find the
    whole celtic crew of them every night in Michaud's where
    Binney and I can only afford to go about once a week...
    The damned Irish, they have to moan about something or other"

    James Joyce. 4 for Joshua and Erland. 3 for Dan. 2 for Pete.

    E. Biomimicry

    E1. Named after the animal it mimics, a glueless adhesive
    material is being developed. It's covered with nanoscopic
    hairs, exerting van der Waals forces that provide the
    adhesive effect. This design mimics the hairs on the feet
    of what wall-walking animal?

    Gecko. 2 for Dan.

    E2. Blades of a turbine have been designed with bumps along the
    leading edge, called "tubercles". The result is less drag
    and greater efficiency for wind turbines, hydroelectric
    turbines and ventilation fans. What animal's flippers
    inspired these tubercles? Be sufficiently specific.

    Humpback whale.

    F. The Galapagos

    F1. Although the Galapagos Islands are located around the
    Equator, seals and penguins are commonly found there.
    A cold current that sweeps up the west coast of South
    America provides a corridor of cold water as passageway
    from Antarctic waters. This current is named after a
    European naturalist. Who?

    Alexander von Humboldt. 4 for Erland.

    F2. Red-footed, blue-footed, and Nazca are just three varieties
    of the seabird of the genus Sula. What naughty name are
    they known by?

    Boobies. 4 for Joshua, Dan, and Pete.


    Scores, if there are no errors:

    GAME 1 ROUNDS-> 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 BEST
    TOPICS-> Spo Art His Can Mis Ent Cha FIVE
    Joshua Kreitzer 16 36 16 4 12 32 28 128
    Dan Blum 0 35 4 4 20 20 21 100
    Dan Tilque 8 12 8 11 8 -- -- 47
    Erland Sommarskog 0 0 12 0 8 0 20 40
    Pete Gayde -- -- 8 -- -- 0 14 22

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